Robin my houkounin Chapter XXVIII: Mother to Daughter
I do not own Teen Titans
To: Everyone. The author has just bought his first car! It is a 1983 Mercury Grand Marquis LS. It has 118 thousand miles on it, not bad for a car thats 21 years old! It has a BIG V-8 in it, and the bastard BOOKS. It goes like the hammers of hell, and handles smoother than something this old should. The author has bathed in its used oil (made a boo-boo while changing the stuff, it was 15000 miles overdue! And it looked like MUD) He has urinated on all four tires (wanted to beat his dog to the punch). The car and I have bonded lol. The thing is in excellent condition, the interior is like NEW, literally, and the exterior has about a square foot of rust on the whole thing overall. I'm learning to do 180's in it, and its perfectly safe. The damned things a boat, and very wide. It stayes glued to the road no matter what I do. This car is FUN and I'm gonna have to post pics of it on my site, if I ever update it...
It was a new day in Jump City. The mid october weather had strayed slightly, and offered up another oddly warm day for the time of year. It would be one of the last days of its kind for the year, with the sun shining brightly and the temperature holding in the upper seventys. In another month it would turn colder, and rainy on the upper coast of California. Jinx sat alone in the tower sipping some tea she had snatched from Ravens personal stockpile. The titans were out somewhere, fighting against some type of crime or another. She wanted no part of it, if not for Starfire she would still be on the supply side of crime. She was glad the elder vampire was gone too, she hated being closer to her or Raven than she was to Starfire. She herself didnt know she did it but whenever one entered the room or came near her she inched closer to Starfire.
"So damned bored." She said to no one. She wondered how long it had been since she left the tower. It was starting to feel like a prison. Here she was, in the home of her former enemies and she couldnt think of anything to do. It didnt seem like that long ago that she had moved into the tower for the first time, but that had been differant and short lived. She sighed for the tenth time in fifteen minutes, and cursed that she couldnt go out on her own. Yeah, it was too bad that she was stuck in this damn tower because... because... Because why?
"Hell with this, I'm getting out of here." She said to herself. She knew going out in her regular clothes might garner her no end of attention, which wasnt something she wanted so she dug up some normal clothes. She redid her hair so it was down, and now in a black t shirt and denim jeans she looked a little like a high school kid that was just trying to look like her.
She made her way to the mall easily enough. It was still an odd feeling for her to visit the place without robbing it. Jinx walked the halls going window to window, not interested in anything but glad to be around people other than the towers inhabbitants for once. She walked by a store she had always hated too much even to rob. It was a store called 'as seen on tv' where they sold nothing but the junk from late night tv that never worked. She concentrated on the structure as she walked by and put her hex powers to work, ensuring that none of the merchandise inside would ever work. Several display items fell apart as she walked by, and she reveled in the sounds of the employees paniking, trying to find out why nothing was working, or working even worse than usual. She laughed to herself and only wished Starfire was there. It was even more fun causing mayhem when there was someone who disaproved of it and wanted you to stop.
Robix had been playing mall rat for a few days now. The mall had been her home by the day, and as she had walked by one store everything inside had fallen apart or malfunctioned in some way. Robix had nearly paniced, not liking the thought of losing control of her powers somewhere where she could be squashed by a falling ceiling. She quickly checked on herself. She found nothing amiss with her powers, and her heart sped up greatly when the possibility crossed her mind that her mother might be in the area. Just out of curiosity Robix concentrated on a nearby wishing fountain. The water pump exploded, sending watter everywhere.
Jinx watched the fountain explode and splash, now from the story above her daughter. Just like her daughter she checked on her own powers. She found everything to be in check, but something about the fountain just seemed like it had her signature to it. Out of curiosity Jinx turned her will against a popcorn cart on the floor below her. The wheels fell off, and popcorn seeds spilled out all over the floor as it tipped to the side.
The popcorn cart spilled right next to her. Robix narrowly avoided slipping on some of the seeds. It seemed now that this was a game of cat and mouse, and she planned of being the one to purr at the end of the game. She quickly ran up the nearest escalater and began scanning the bottom floor for her mother. She wanted to be on the higher level, so that she could bring an entire walkway down on her head the instant she saw her. She picked a row of watter fountains nearby and applied her powers. No one noticed her eyes glow pink briefly, and the faucets of the fountains all began to spray wildly at people nearby.
Jinx saw the fountains go off, and moved away from them. She had never met someone with powers similar to hers and she couldnt be sure if this person was friendly or not. Whoever it was, Jinx hoped they didnt find her before she found them. Jinx ducked inside a store and grabbed a pair of sunglasses. She used her powers to make the overhead lights burst, and snuck out as people ducked in the shower of sparks. She put them on as soon as she had the tags off so that whoever was chasing her couldnt see her eyes glow when she returned fire. "What the hells going on?" She asked herself. People all around her were beginning to catch on that something weird was at work. A portion of them ran, and another portion of them stood around, waiting to see what happened next. Jinx had to mingle into this group so she didnt stand out to whoever was out there using these powers similar to hers.
Robix saw the lights spark in the store down the hall and to her right. There was a group of people outside of it, and she realized her mother was most likely on the same floor as she was if she hit a second story store. She quickly ran in that direction, upset that there was not a third level she could climb to and look down from. She watched the crowd for odd pink hair and pale skin, but in the throng of people she couldnt see what she was looking for. Robix decided to disperse the crowd and sent a small hex wave at the glass store fronts nearest to them. The crowd did just as she planned and began to seperate, it was then that she saw Jinx. Her mother looked confused, and a little scared and she was glad to have been the first to find the other. Robix palmed a switchblade in her pocket, and an evil smile spread across her face. She didnt wait for her mother to return fire. She concentrated on the walkway a ways from her and it began to collapse. It didnt collapse fully, but sagged enough to make people panic and run for the stairs. Jinx was the only one she saw to stand still.
If she was right, Jinx was sure that whoever was out there was trying to herd her towards the opposite direction the crowd was going. If that was so, then it was entirely possible they already knew where she was and had found her. She cursed under her breath, and began to fight the crowd, heading for the direction of the slowly collapsing walkway. The only thing that might buy her back the advantage now was to do something so unexpected that it threw whoever was after her off.
Robix ran out in front of her mother, hiding from her in the crowd as she ran. Now she was out in front, and her mother was heading right for her. She hadnt expected her mother to try this, but it didnt matter. Now her mother was walking straight into her death, and Robix played over differant scenarios in her mind. She wanted her to suffer, but she had to be able to get lost and get away in the crowd. She decided to aim for the aorta, right near the heart. It would make Jinx bleed to death quick, and there was almost no way to be saved from such an injury. Robix began to pick up speed and took the swithcblade out of her pocket. She didnt extend the blade yet. She matched the crowd for speed moving away from the collapsing walkway, and her mother was now only a few feet from her. She smiled wider and wider.
Jinx continued moving through the crowd, unaware of the impending danger only a few feet away. Someone ran into her, and Jinx didnt bother fighting them off. She thought the girl that had just bumped into her was trying to flee like everyone else. She began to realize her folly as this stranger didnt bother to step to the side and disentangle herself from her. Instead this person began to push, and push, and soon Jinx found herself against the wall, with her arms pinned. Her attacker looked up at her.
"Get off of me!" Jinx yelled. She locked eyes with her attacker and her blood froze. She reckognized the hair and eyes instantly, and it became clear that this girl holding her against the wall was the one with her powers. The blue eyes looked into hers with a hatred she didnt know was possible, and Jinx was so shocked she didnt even try to fight.
"Die mother."
"What?" Being called mother by a complete stranger who looks almost a year older than you is enough to throw anyone off. The next thing Jinx heard was the familiar 'shink' noise made by a switchblade. Jinx tried to push her attacker away, but it was too late. A terrible pain ripped through her chest, and the world seemed to move in slow motion for her. She looked up and her attacker was gone, dissapeared into the crowd. She looked back down and saw the handle of the knife sticking out of her chest, the blade sunk in to the hilt. Her shirt was already covered in blood, and several people had stopped to watch her. She began to sink down against the wall and the people watching her came at her, they laid her flat on the ground and elevated her legs, but other than the searing pain Jinx felt like she was out of her own body.
"Don't remove the knife." She heard one person say. The pain in her chest increased as pressure was put around the wound. The world began to darken, and Jinx wished Starfire was there. She closed her eyes, meaning only to blink but in that brief instant the darkness claimed her, and they did not re-open.
The titans arrived on the scene just as Jinx was being carted into an ambulance on the other side of the mall, barely clinging to life. They had just finished with a bank robery when the disturbances as the mall were reported to them. It seemed however they had gotten here late, there was nothing here to fight for them. They had been called simply because of suspected meta-human activity.
"Whats going on here?" Robin asked the cop in charge. The man was standing in front of a section taped off with the normal yellow tape that marked a crime scene, and through the crowd Robin couldnt see what was behind the tape.
"Some one took a knife in the chest, lucky day."
Robin decided to put his detective skills to work as long as he was here, and search the scene for any kind of clues. The first thing he noticed was the ammount of blood. He imagined it must have been a fatal injury, he couldnt imagine losing that much and surviving. There was a pair of sunglasses in the middle of the pool, Robin picked them up and found a single pink hair caught in the hinge on the earpiece. He didnt imagine that it could have been Jinx's. "Raven, look at this." He said, but Raven wasnt listening to him. She was several feet away, searching the minds of the crowd for a possible suspect.
Already at the nearest hospital the ambulance that carried Jinx pulled up to the emergency room. The doors flew open, and at the same time the monitor that had been attatched to her began to blip faster and faster. The emt's pulled her stretcher out and one of the crew pumped oxygen into her lungs via a squeeze bag over her mouth vigorously.
Miles away Starfire felt something bad, she couldnt be sure what it was but it made her hurt. It made her shake. The titans around her looked at her as she doubled over and clutched at her stomach. She groaned as pain wracked her body and her sister was by her side in an instant. "Something is wrong!" She choked out as she fell to her knees. "Everyone! Something is very wrong!"
Within minutes doctors had X-Rays of Jinx's chest cavity. They had to act quickly, the girl was going to die if something was not done, and they could not remove the knfie before knowing whether it would cause more damage. Several rooms away other doctors worked to stabalize her. They tried to hold her down as she went into a siezure. She shook violently on the stretcher for a few moments before she settled back down again, her body went limp, and her monitor flat lined. The doctors around her re-doubled theyre efforts now to revive her.
At the mall Starfires pain came to a point, and she felt something that connected her to Jinx being severed. She became light headed, and began to pitch foward. Only a few feet away a chill went up Ravens spine as she realized Starfire was behaving exactly how she herself had when Robin had died. Raven ran foward, and grabbed Starfire and began to drag her through the crowd towards the crime scene. "Raven, what is happening to me?" The alien groaned loudly as another wave of pain rolled over her. Starfire felt dizy, and as she drew closer to the crime scene she began to smell something familiar. As they cleared the crowd her fears were confirmed as the pool of blood did in fact turn out to be Jinx's. It was coagulated now, and she could see the footprints in it, and drag marks where a body had been moved. Starfire collapsed onto the puddle with her hands out in front of her, the thick red liquid running between her fingers. She gasped for breath and tears came to her eyes. This was Jinx's blood, and so much of it. "Raven this is Jinx's blood, its hers!"
"Starfire." Raven started slowly. Raven hated to say it, but it didnt look like Jinx could possibly have survived whatever happened. She remembered what happened to her when Robin died, and she had to find out now if Starfire had felt the same thing. "What did you feel just now?" Starfire ignored her and got up, and ran to the nearest officer. Raven moved to stop her but Starfire evaded her.
"Where did they take her?" Starfire demanded. She grabbed the man by the collar and slammed him against the wall. "Tell me!"
Jinx's body arced on the stretcher as electricity was passed through it. As she fell back onto the stretcher her heart monitor picked up a faint pulse. Jinx's eyes fluttered halfway open, and closed again. Her monitor beeped, and a nurse read the stats to the doctor at hand. "We have no pressure, no pulse, and she's starting to bleed clear fluid." The clear fluid she was reffering to was the many liters that had been pumped into her via an IV to compensate for blood loss. The doctor quickly injected a shot of adrenaline into her heart, and it began to beat again, but only for a short time.
Raven teleported herself and the distraught Starfire to the hospital offered by the cop. She tried to sense Jinx, but Starfire was already ahead of her. The other girl was flying towards the emergency room. Raven followed her, unable to think of anything to say to her friend. "Hold on..." She whispered to herself.
Starfire nearly broke down the door to the emergency room when it did not open fast enough for her. Tears poured from her eyes in a constant flow, making it hard to see, but she could have found Jinx in the dark. She could smell the blood, even here she could smell so much of it. She ran in the direction she smelled Jinx, speaking incoherrantly in a mix of english and tamaranian. She was only a few feet from the curtain she knew Jinx was behind when she heard something.
Beeeeeep
Starfire froze in her tracks. 'Call her' She heard a doctor say. She had seen enough earth tv to know what that sound meant. The sound only lasted a few seconds but she froze for the duration of it. She heard the doctors disconnect the monitor and she stepped foward, but Raven was at her side, stopping her. "I must see her!" She told her friend hysterically through her tears.
"Starfire... You dont know what happened, you might not want to see her like this, I'm sorry."
Starfire pushed Raven aside and reached for the curtain. She pulled it back and gasped when she saw Jinx. There was a knife sticking out of her, and she was covered in blood. There were wires all over her. "Get out." She told the doctors with barely contained rage. The doctors filed out quickly, and Raven was at her side
again. Raven put a hand on her shoulder and Starfire clasped one of her lovers bloody hands in her own, she held it to her face and cried.
"Im sorry Starfire. I'm sorry."
"Please Raven, please help her."
Ravens heart clenched. She couldnt bring back the dead, it was impossible for her to do without more power than she could muster. "Starfire, I cant. She's gone."
"Please Raven! You have to try! Please!"
Death, Raven knew, had differant levels to it, two actually. The first of which was when the body was still fresh, still on the brink of life. This level only lasted for a few minutes. The second level was the beginning of decomposition, hair and fingernails still grew, but rigomortis set in, this level lasted until the body had completely decomposed. Kali had studdied Ravens healing abilities durring her time with her and told her as she grew older she would be able to call people back from the first stage of death, but not for hundreds of years yet. Raven grimaced, and walked to where the knife stuck out of Jinx. She had to try, for Starfires sake or the girl would never find peace. "I'll try Starfire." Starfire made a strangled noise as she continued to cry.
"Help her Raven."
Raven pulled the knife from Jinx's chest and tossed it away. She put her hands over the injury and began to channel her power into her healing ability. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She tried to open them, but found she couldnt. She found herself spiraling in the darkness, and opened her eyes to see she was suspended in some kind of void.
"Hello." Came a kind sounding male voice. Raven tried to find the source but couldnt.
"Who's there?" She demanded.
"I see you want to help her, but if I am not mistaken you lack the power."
Raven growled, angry the voice had ignored her first question. "Who are you?" She asked again.
"Im someone who can help you, a deamon like yourself. I was locked away years ago into this void."
"Then you belong here!" She spat.
"No, my time in this place has given me a chance to change. I want a new chance in the world, you can give me that. I can give you the power to save that girl if you help me get out. I can give you the power to save her, but I will need something from you later on."
"How do I know you can be trusted?"
"The years have given me a chance to change my nature, I was once very evil, but I have changed. I will send you back now and give you the power you need even though you have not promised me anything in return. I will do this in good faith, to show you what kind of demon I now am."
"When will you contact me again?"
"When I feel the time is right, now go! Time is almost up!"
Raven opened her eyes and found she was back where she was. She doubted more than three seconds had gone by since she had been pulled into another realm, but a lingering voice in her mind screamed for her to hurry. She opened the floodgates to her powers and poured them into Jinx via her healing spells. As she did so she felt her spiritual powers grow to heights she never imagined. The normally blue aura that surrounded her healing spell turned white, and Raven could not see through it to tell if the wound was closing. She did however feel a spark of life begin to ignite in Jinx.
Starfire cried into Jinx's hand, holding it in both of her own. Suddenly the hand twitched, and Starfire gasped. She looked up at Raven, who seemed to be struggling. "Raven its working!" She said, but Raven didnt respond.
Sweat broke out on her forehead as she tried to pull Jinx back from death. Death kept trying to pull her back in, but eventually Raven was able to break the hold. The spark of life in Jinx rekindled into a flame and the injury vanished, leaving no trace of itself behind. The power that had been in her moments ago was now depleated, and Raven fell to her knees gasping for air.
The hand she held squeezed slightly, and Starfire could find no words to describe the way she felt as Jinx's eyes fluttered open. They didnt stay open for long, but her eyes focused on Starfire for a moment, and underneath the breathing mask her lips curled into a smile. "You are back." Starfire said quietly. She was still crying, but out of joy.
"What-" Jinx shook her head just slightly and Starfire removed her breathing mask. "What happened?" She asked weakly. The last thing she could remember was being at the mall, everything a few minutes before her attack was fuzzy, too traumatic to remember at the moment.
"That is not important now, now rest please."
Jinx said no, but couldnt fight off the tired feeling. She drifted off to sleep trying to remember what had happened. Starfire heard the titans arriving and covered her loves bare chest with a blanket and laid across it, breathing heavilly and somewhat in shock. Now she wanted to be close to Jinx, she didnt care if the others saw. Being close to her, and hearing her heart beating now was more important.
Raven got up off the ground. Now what had happened to Jinx was almost a non-issue to her. She was concerned about the mysterious demon that had approached her. Why had he never contacted her before? To be honnest with herself she was nervous about letting him out, a dragon stuck in a book had once deceived her, but this seemed differant. This demon admitted to being evil at one point, but claimed to have changed. Any normal demon would have claimed they were locked away unfairly. Another puzzling thing was that he leant her the power reguardless of wheather she would help him or not. Either way she would have to think about it later, her team mates had just arrived.
"Star? You in here?" Cyborg said as he walked by the closed curtain. Beast Boy turned into a dog and sniffed in a few dirrections and lead him to the right curtain.
"Man, what was with my sister?" Blackfire asked him.
"Dunno, weird runs in the familly maybe?" This earned Beast Boy a hard slap upside the head.
Cyborg pulled the curtain aside and peaked in, he was surprised to see Jinx had been the victim, even more surprised to see she had survived that kind of blood loss, and even more suprised still to see Starfire laying across her chest, cying, repeating 'I love you' again and again. Who was she talking to? He wondered for a moment, was she talking to him? No, that was not the case. Who then was she talking to? "I love you Jinx." Ah yes, Cyborg thought. That answered the question perfectly well. So, Starfire was living an 'alternative lifestyle'. Cyborg opened his mouth, to express his opinion on the matter and make his voice heard. Around him the other titans, including Blackfire heard Starfires declaration of love.
"WHAT?" Cyborg bellowed. All of a sudden all the times his computers said there were two people in Jinxs room made sense to him. The way Jinx was nervous that morning of the ladder incident, the way they got along so well, everything suddenly came into focus. He mentally kicked himself, he had known all along and not even known it!
Blackfire felt halfway pissed, and halfway victorious. Starfire was the one her parents wanted to produce an heir, and now that she wouldnt be doing that her parents would be left with her, and she would be the heir to the throne. But this came at a cost, for her to be slaited for the next queen would mean Starfire and Jinx would have to be joined 'properly', by tamaranian tradition, and that would make Jinx familly. Her skin crawled at the notion. Her mind realed with all this new information, and she turned and flew out of the emergency room, heading back for the tower.
Beast Boy looked at Starfire and Jinx on the bed. He noticed Blackfire leave but didnt move to follow her. Starfire was like a big-sometimes-little-sister to him, he couldnt be angry or dissapointed. He didnt know it, but to an outsider the days ahead would be one of those times when he shined as a friend and came through for those close to him. Starfire looked up at him through big teary green eyes, begging for approval. Beast Boy smiled, it was all he could think to do but it was also all that Starfire needed from him. He couldnt object if he wanted to, his team accepted him even though he was differant, in the back of his mind he supposed this was no differant. He turned around and headed for the door, he was out the door and the auto doors had just slid shut when he remembered that the person Starfire claimed to have loved was Jinx, someone he couldnt stand for more than a minute at a time. "Auh damnit!" He cursed. He began the long walk back to the tower, cursing sporadicly along the way.
Robin stood back and tried to make sure no doctors or anyone present heard what Starfire had said. The last thing the team needed was a scandal involving a members sexual orientation. He was lucky, no one had heard. He still stood back though, his face expressionless. A part of him refused to be shocked by the news, for a week or so now he had felt something differant around both Jinx and Starfire. Theyre body language had changed when around each other. For now he stood back, and waited for Raven to fill him in later. She was the only one who didnt seem surprised, he imagined she and Kali had known all along.
From the roof of the tower Blackfire could see the hospital in the distance. She knew he team mates and it as she reffered to Jinx, were probably home, but she couldnt stop looking at the hospital. To her left she heard someone sit down beside her, and promised that if it were her sister she would punch her, and that if it were Jinx she would push her off the edge. She looked, and was dissapointed. It was Kali. "Where've you been the last few days?" She asked bitterly.
"Around." Kali sighed. "Big day huh?"
"I dont want to talk about it."
"You dont understand vampires. If you did you wouldnt care."
"I understand enough! My sisters been one dissapointment to the familly after another, alright? You don't know so just back off!" Blackfire turned again and looked back at the hospital. She was surprised when Kali whacked her across the back of the head. It hurt, quite a bit. "Whats your problem?" She screamed at the vampire.
"My problem is you." Kali said in a cold voice. "You think this has been fun for her? She didnt choose to be a vampire, it was forced on her. Do you know what happened to the last vampire I knew that it was forced on?"
"I dont care, go away."
"He drank hemlock, and at his young age it was still poisonous enough to kill him. He killed himself, AND THATS WHAT YOUR SISTER WAS HEADING FOR!"
"Whats this got to do with my sister loving that thing?"
"She's everything your sister needs, stupid. Can't you see how happy she makes her? She's a houkounin, just like Robin. She's bound to your sister forever now, so get used to it." Kali turned to leave, but Blackfire got in between her and the door. Her hands were trembling at her sides.
"I dont like this." She said through clenched teeth.
"It doesnt matter. This is pretty much the only way your sister was going to survive being a vampire, she needed someone, Jinx just happened to be it. Why not try supporting your sister, or at least stay indifferant to it, and not rub it in her face."
"I dont like vampires, I dont like what she's becoming. She's changing, and your the one changing her!" Blackfire accused. Kali smiled, and began to advance on her.
"I think your jealous." She said, chuckling slightly as Blackfire began to look intimidated.
"Of what?"
"The power, immortality. I think you dont like vampires because deep down you envy us."
"That-Thats not true. Get away from me!" Blackfire took to the air to fly away from her, but Kali kept getting in her way no matter what direction she flew in. "Damnit! I saw you and Raven on the roof that night, if you dont let me go I'll tell everyone!" She was slapped hard by a hand that seemed to come out of nowhere.
"And who do you think they will believe, you, the jealous sister who's upset, or me, the one who has been with them from the beginning?" Kali made sure to let a good amount of her anger leak into her voice, to give Blackfire the right idea that if she said something like that again she would heavilly regret it.
"Just shut up! Leave me alone! I hate you, I never want to be anything like you!"
"I still think that somewhere in there you want to be one of us." Kali came up behind Blackfire and grabbed her in a bear-hug. Blackfire struggled to get away, but for some reason didnt scream. "What do you say?" Kali whispered in her ear. "Do you want to be one of use, you want this kind of power?" She licked her lips as
Blackfire ceased struggling. The girl shivered with fear. "If you want it, I can make you one."
"No. I hate everything you are, you should be eliminated."
"Should your sister be as well?"
"Of course not!"
"Your lying to yourself. Admitt it, you don't hate us, but hate the power we have because you don't have it. You want that power, you want to be one of us."
"NO!" Was that lavender she smelled? She had never noticed it around Kali before.
"Liar." Kali spun Blackfire around and held her tight to her. She used one hand to hold her head, and forced her to look into her eyes. "You want to be your sisters equal again, don't you?"
"Not like this. I don't need your power."
"Your jealous of everything she has that you don't. You hate Jinx, but I think your jealous of her too."
"Go to hell, let me go!"
"Look me in the eye, and tell me your not jealous of your sisters life. Tell me you wouldnt want that power, tell me you wouldnt want a houkounin like Jinx. Tell me, Blackfire, that you dont want everything your sister has and more." Kali stopped, and stared intently into Blackfires eyes. She watched, and Blackfire broke out into a cold sweat, but held her gaze. Kali waited, and just for a split second Blackfire looked away as she opened her mouth.
"No-"
"Liar, you looked away."
"I-"
"Want it all, don't you?"
"But..." Blackfire let her shoulders sag and her eyes closed. That lavender scent, for some reason she couldnt stop concentrating on it. "Please, please stop." She said in a defeated voice. Tears sprung from her eyes, it was true. It was all true, she wanted the kind of power her sister had, she wanted that immortality. She wanted to be her sisters equal again. "Don't make me say it, please. Please stop."
Kali relaxed her hold on her and let her head drop. She removed her hand from Blackfires face and replaced it on the back of her skull. She massaged her skalp with her fingernails. Starfire had always enjoyed that feeling, she imagined Blackfire did too. "Just say it, and I can give you what you want. You have to say it first, and I will make you one of us." Kali set down on the roof and allowed her cape to wrap around them so only theyre heads showed. Blackfire leaned her head against her chest.
For some reason she couldnt get over the scent of lavender, it was having some kind of affect on her. She felt drowsy, and in the back of her mind she was sure it was because of the scent. Half of her wanted to kick and scream, and get away from Kali, the other half wanted to give in to the seductive offer she had made and say yes. "I, I dont know."
"Blackfire, we are not monsters. You can be one of us."
The fingers in her hair felt so good, the lavender scent in her nose made her feel calm and sleepy. Suddenly she didnt care anymore, all she wanted was this scent.
"I will give you some time to think over my offer." Blackfire began to pull away from her. Kali couldnt tell what she was going to say.
"I dont need time." Blackfire looked up at her. "I've made up my mind."
CLIFFHANGER! VOTE! VOTE! Does Blackfire become a vampire or not? VOTE! I have a storyline worked out either way, but I cant make up my mind which way to go, and I need you, the readers help to decide! So review, and VOTE!
The demon that Raven talked to, those of you who are smart know who he is. Name starts with a T This is the beginning of the end of this saga, Howard Smith is fading away for now, he's going to be involved more in the next one. The Howard saga will be pretty short, only a handfull of chapters long. This current one has about 6 or 7 chapters left though, and EVERYTHING depends on what you people want. If you vote for Blackfire to be a vampire, I have the rest of the story made up in my mind sorta and I'll use it. If you want her to stay how she is, I have it made up anyway and will use that instead. JUST LEAVE A REVIEW STATING WHAT YoU THINK I SHOULD DO WITH BLACKFIRE!
