Revised chapter! The beginning is the same, but with a different character at the end. And I know it's a terrible cliffhanger Jen, but bear with me. I'm still getting my sealegs back to the waters known as fanfiction! XD Enjoy as always!
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(Tabby's POV)
"Are you sure we can't tell McGee or even Abby?" I asked, looking at Aries, and then to Gibbs.
"No, they need to think it's real," Gibbs said, "If they knew…it wouldn't be as believable."
"Exactly," Aries said, looking at me.
I laid back on the pillow, confusion of the plan giving me a headache.
"Are you sure this will work?" Gibbs asked Aries for what seemed the hundredth time.
"I haven't ever seen it happen to a half-vampire, but I think it's just a hunch…you of all people should know what it's like to go off one of those…" Aries said, leaving a bit of venom slip out into his voice.
"Yeah, I do," Gibbs said, giving Aries the death glare.
"Hey, you guys?" I asked, and they turned to look at me with concern, "We won't know what'll happen until the time comes…I'm nervous enough without you two worrying about the outcome of me."
Aries looked at Gibbs and shrugged, "She's kinda right…"
"Ya think?" Gibbs said, still not letting go of the fact that a punk teen used that tone with him. Gibbs then came over to the side of the bed and kissed my forehead, "The trial's tomorrow, I'll be here as your federal escort."
"I thought you couldn't do that if you know me?" I asked, looking at him.
"I'm good friends with the FBI agent on your case, he helped me out," Gibbs said, a slight grin as he ruffled my hair and went to the door, "Get some rest…I don't want to here you complaining about being too tired for the trial tomorrow."
I smiled at him as he left the room. Aries leaned against the wall, shaking his head.
I looked at him with an irritated glare, "What?"
He looked at me, "You know what most likely is going is to happen when you change-"
"Look, I'm about to literally die tomorrow as a never-been-kissed virgin and the last thing I want to hear…is that Dream Wanderer crap…I don't care, and neither should you for that matter…" I growled, and then turned my head to look up at the ceiling.
"That's what you can't stand? Never been kissed? Still a virgin?" he asked, "You have the rest of eternity to take care of that…"
I sat up on my bed, my anger getting the best of me, "It's not like that…I would rather have lived to see a husband…and die like everyone else…I'm not selfish enough to go through eternity! I might just be a nun!"
"A vampiric nun?" Aries snorted, "That'll be the next story to tell to the National Enquirer."
"And what do you have to talk about?" I spat, "You go with women who look 10 years older than you! You like the cougar angle huh?"
Aries face dropped the humor and was replaced with shadowy features, "Don't go there…that was a mistake in itself…"
"Oh, so you can say it but not take it?" I said, not trying to stand, but with one arm handcuffed to the bed it was difficult so I just leaned on the edge of the bed, "I'm not afraid of you…you're just another immature, emotionless, just-care-about-sex kind of imbecile!"
He took a step forward so we were nose to nose…we could probably have stabbed each other in the eyes with the daggers we were looking at one another with.
"You really should back off those petty insults you insolent little girl," he whispered.
My brain – being furious as it was – only registered the 'little' part of that sentence, "Little? Why should you talk? You look the same age as me!"
"That was a flaw in the happening, but no matter…you will look the same as you do by tomorrow," he said, his nostrils flaring.
Okay…that stung…and thankfully it showed, otherwise our argument would have gone no where or it would have ended with a table through the wall, and me in a padded room for the rest of my life.
"Aries, what have we told you?" a curt-toned voice sounded.
I looked over to see a faded-black cloaked figure, and felt my temper cool instantly. The Banished were always able to do that. The pale hands went up and brought the hood down to show amethyst-colored eyes darting from me to Aries.
I crossed my one arm behind my head as I laid back down on my hospital bed. A smirk was playing across my face until something clicked. How did she know Aries by name?
I looked at him, "You never told me you were a part of the Banished."
"He's my youngling brother," the female announced coolly, "Let me guess, he used the assassin story again."
I looked at her, "Straight on he did; how have you been though? Last I saw you was about 14 or 15 years ago."
"I have been fine," she said, her eyes still narrowed at Aries, "Better than you is all I can say."
"Well I was actually doing okay until you brought that up Circe," I spat. I never extremely like Circe, considering she was as much of a bitch toward me as I was to her, I got the idea she never liked me much either.
"My apologies to the brat that shouldn't have the honor to enslave the world," she shot back.
I sighed deeply. I was tired of everyone bringing that up over and over again, "Well…if you want it by all means take it. I make better friends with humans than you leeches."
"By calling us leeches I hope you do know you just called yourself half-leech," Circe said back, in what sounded like a lazy tone.
"I'm tired, and I don't want to put up with your vampiric shit anymore, that is all I'm saying," I said, shrugging, "Now, if you do mind, because I could care less, I would love it if you left."
Circe's face contorted with anger, "Why do you help her brother? All she does is whine and complain! She is more of a human than anything else. Yet you crawl upon the path she makes."
Aries eyes gleamed silver as he responded nonchalantly, "Because…as I've heard something like it once by someone wise: she makes me feel like who or what I'm supposed to be. Nothing more, nothing less."
Circe's anger just scrunched her face up even more. She turned to look at me.
"I hope you die from human ways, just to show you how weak they are!" she said as she left the door in a swish of her cloak.
As soon as she was gone I let out a breath and closed my eyes, "I'm calling you out."
"For what?" Aries asked, intrigued.
"Plagiarism," I said, smiling.
"Technically I paraphrased and changed it a little," he defended. I could tell he crossed his arms without even looking at him.
"Doesn't matter, you got it from me either way," I said in a soft voice.
"You need to rest, leave the petty arguing to the lawyers tomorrow," Aries said, brushing a hand on my arm.
"I hate lawyers," was the last thing I remember saying before drifting off to sleep. My arm feeling unusually warm.
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