Chapter 53
TW: graphic violence
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Alex wasted no time after Sam and Ruby had left. Immediately she slammed her hand down on the bar, Gayle's puppeteered body flying back inside.
The vampire fought Alex's control, her throat cracking and creaking as she strived to move or even speak.
"How can you move!" Alex spat furious, watching Gayle's fingers twitch.
Gayle cracked out another choking noise or two.
"How! That isn't possible!" Alex raged.
This time Gayle fully managed a chuckle, despite the pain of fighting clear on her face.
"Laugh one more fucking time and I'll!" Alex threatened, with a furious growl.
"You'll what!" Gayle cracked up, Alex's control all but falling apart.
"I! I'll!" Alex slammed her hand on the bar once more, one of Gayle's fangs ripping through her lip, leaving a nasty hole in the vampire's face. "Fuck!" She screamed almost an infuriated howl.
"What!? Uugh! You took my fang! Is that not enough for you bitch!"
"I was trying to take them both!" Alex huffed.
"You are lucky your powers aren't all gone! God, I wanna rip each inch of your skin from your bones right now!" Gayle hissed before Alex's powers forced her back into being rigid and immobile.
"What the hell is going on!" Alex growled.
"You know! I'd enjoy this so much more if I didn't have a damn hole in my face."
Gayle reveled in the momentary lapse of control.
"If you don't shut up you will have a second hole right next to it real soon!" Alex gripped to the bar feeling weakened, her magic seemingly straining her more than usual.
"Whatcha gonna do when the rest of them get here? What if you are all out of juice by the time they come?" Gayle poked and prodded enjoying Alex's weakness. ness.
"I'm not going to be out of juice!" Alex answered through gritted teeth. Pushing herself off of the bar Alex moved to just under the register and removed her silver chains and locks.
"Now that's just cruel!" Gayle shook her head.
"Really? You? You think I'm cruel?" Alex glared, waving her hand as Gayle's body contorted against her commands and lined herself up with a structural column. "You who enjoyed murdering your own children!" Alex grew more worked up with every word, huffing and puffing. "You who threatened my MATE, my CHILD!" Alex roared, punching the cement column so hard that it cracked.
Gayle, feeling some shard of freedom headbutted the necromancer, knocking her down to the floor. The vampire sprinted away to the best of her ability.
"Bitch!" Was the final word Gayle heard before each of her ribs cracked and shattered, collapsing inward, making mince of her innards, her body falling limp to the floor with a cry created simply from the air being forced from her collapsed and torn lungs. "Fuck!" Alex growled, her head spinning violently.
Gayle failed to form words, hopelessly attempting to fill shredded lungs by forcing air down her throat filling with blood.
"Still think only the silver would have been cruel!?" Alex huffed, making her way to her hands and knees, seeing blood from her hand and head dripping onto the floor.
Gayle didn't even attempt to reply, pain overfilling her as her consciousness faded, her body attempting to right itself, but completely incapable of even knowing where to start solving such insurmountable carnage.
The next few minutes were more of a blur than anything else for Alex. She remembered doing something with the silver, and going to clean herself up, but that was completely it before she woke an hour later in her bed. Unsure what had happened the first thing she realized was that her head and hand had been bandaged. She must have fixed herself up and then decided to take a nap to recuperate? Alex concluded she must have been thoroughly out of it given that she had used bandages to clean herself up instead of simply using her powers, even if they were on the fritz. She sloppily tore off her bandages and healed her head with a simple spell which worked fine. Alex took a deep breath full of relief, laying back into the bed, breathing in Samantha's scent. There was no fuller comfort, to have the scent of her slumbering mate so close. Even in this short month, Sam's scent had soaked and saturated the bed, the pillows, and even the newly washed sheets. Alex found herself somehow losing more time just to roll around in the nest that was filled of her mate's odor. She even growled softly into Sam's pillow, missing her mate's warmth, how it was the only compliment to her scent missing. If only Sam's warm arms had been there too. Alex was reminded of the real world and her obligations by her busted knuckles opening back up, and accidentally getting blood on her sheets. Alex gave off a soft huff, turning her attention to her hand, silently regretting allowing her anger to have the best of her and punch a cement column. She muttered a dark healing spell under her breath only to regret it terribly, the spell backfired, amplifying the damage instead of reversing it.
"AACK!" Alex cried, holding her now broken hand. "Fuck… I…" Alex grimaced, fighting through the pain. The pain then reminded her of its origin! What happened to the captive vampire downstairs! Alex swiftly shifted split attention, sprinting straight downstairs, searching! She was shockingly relieved when she saw that the rest of the vampires had not arrived yet, and that Gayle was… safely? Tied up with silver, at least as safe as someone could be without a single intact rib.
"Happy?" Gayle cried in pain, wincing as the silver burned her.
"Certainly happier than I was when you were threatening my child!" Alex instinctually showed her teeth with a low growl.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, precious Ruby this, precious Ruby that." Gayle rolled her eyes, attempting to block out the pain with sarcasm.
"Yeah, Yeah, now shut up, I need you to look normal when they show up, so stay still while I fix your ribs." Alex instructed.
Gayle kept herself as still as she could, watching Alex focus as best she could, meticulously taking her time, putting each bone fragment back where it should be in order to fix Gayle and ensure she would still be of use to her when the others arrive.
Gayle couldn't help but wince and cry as her bones slowly began reforming itself. However, to both of their relief's Alex's powers came through this time and didn't backfire on them. "Did you have to go so slow! I'm not quite a fan of being shattered and put back together all from the inside out."
"Deal with it." Alex rolled her eyes, entirely uncaring to the heartless vampire's pain.
"So? You are just going to use me? Make me kill my family?" Gayle feigned being upset.
"Like you care?" Alex huffed, slowly undoing the silver chains, doing her best to will her magic to work.
"Why I just couldn't stand to see that lil baby vampire Leslie die! And by my hand? Oh! How tragic! I just don't think my poor heart would take it!"
"Shut up already!" Alex forcibly snapped Gayle's jaw shut. She then took her time removing the silver chains, and then sending the vampire out to return later and pretend everything was normal, arriving late as always.
Alex paced antsy, Sam's scent lingering in the air. It was almost enough to soothe Alex, or at least it would have been of it didn't also keep thoughts of Samantha behind her, grabbing at her, caressing her running through her mind. As it turned out, the gossip had been true and wolves truly did become overly horny near a turn, and the two of them had been thoroughly enjoying the moon's effects on Samantha over the past couple days. Alex shook her head, attempting to refocus on her task at hand, silencing the vampires, ensuring they all knew her family was off limits.
Alex didn't have to wait much longer before the two she had been waiting finally arrived.
Leslie barged in first with her patented entitlement, acting as if she owned the place. "Where the hell is Gayle!"
"Calm down!" Eve forcibly pulled her progeny back, tired of her childish acting out.
"No! I told you! Something is wrong! She didn't show up yesterday." Leslie lashed out, turning her attention completely to her maker.
Eve grabbed Leslie by her shoulders, steadying her. "Gayle is late for nearly all of her appointments and misses more than half of them. Now stop worrying! Ok?" Eve softened in a way she rarely allowed to be witnessed by the living, offering a gentle caress of Leslie's cheek.
"I…" Leslie softened in turn from her over-worried disposition.
Alex almost actually felt bad, watching the two, seeing something so human in the creatures she often thought of more as cretins. However, she soon remembered that these creatures were the same who had threatened her family, resorted to using her mate as a bargaining chip, if that wasn't enough to justify what she was about to do… then Ruby was. Alex decided in that moment that Ruby was off limits, that their threatened her pup was the justifiable breaking point! That the two in front of her exchanging such human caring comforts still deserved the grizzly end they may meet tonight.
"Stop worrying. It is fine. She is safe. I'm certain, I promise." Eve soothed softly.
Leslie took in a deep breath calming herself as she pushed her cheek gently against her maker's palm, appreciating the physical contact, clearly still distraught and appreciating the comfort.
"Sorry to break up the pity party, but what fresh hell have you two brought with you this time? None of my family is here for you to use to threaten me. So it must be something new."
"Yes!" Leslie turned, puffing out her chest, attempting to look formidable. "You are going to open another bar."
"Pfft, like hell I am." Alex laughed.
Eve pulled Leslie behind her, taking a more diplomatic approach. "The higher-ups would like to see their reach expand."
"I'm sure they would." Alex rolled her eyes.
"And it is no secret your powers are rare." Eve allowed.
"Rare? Well isn't that the understatement of the century!" Alex felt a newfound confidence, these two were clueless, had no family to threaten tonight, we're asking for far too much, and all but sitting ducks with Gayle under her control.
"You'd be surprised, more than many have similar skill sets to you." Eve corrected cold.
"You are showing too much of your hand my dear. Only one coven was ever cursed like my ancestors were. By my math, that makes there a maximum of seven on this Earth with my skill set. Assuming none of their bloodlines have died off that is." Alex purred with delight in even this minute victory.
Leslie launched herself towards Alex, grabbing her by the throat, threatened to sever her corroded as her sharpened claws of nails pressed into her flesh cutting off her pulse. "You are not so fucking special." She growled, nearly breaking the skin.
Alex only chuckled, using her magic to make Gayle barge in through the side entrance.
"Well, now it's a party!" Gayle gave a pleased growl, while if anyone had paid her enough attention, her eyes told another story.
"That's enough!" Eve ordered Leslie with eyes that threatened to burn straight
through her.
Leslie huffed, pushing Alex away with a swift movement.
"Aww, but it was just getting kinky." Gayle strained, fighting Alex's hold. She had just garnered enough control to cry out, attempting to alert her cohorts that something was wrong when a loud bang from the back behind the bar stole their attention instead.
"The hell was that!" Leslie perked up.
Just as Gayle broke through the wavering control of her captor, there was another louder trifecta of a bang, a crash, and then, a howl.
"No!" The flash of realization flickered in Alex's eyes alerting Eve that something was wrong.
The eldest vampire lunged for Alex, taking her by the neck and holding her up in the air, threatening to break her neck with ease. "What is-"
Eve was interrupted first by the crack of bone and the wet squish of organs being crushed, then by Gayle's sickeningly sweet sing-songy voice. "Nuh-uh ah!"
"Help!" Leslie cried, feeling Gayle's talons threatening to tear her heart and crush
it as she held it gently in her hand.
"Wha-"
"Put me down or your precious progeny is dust." Gayle's voice suddenly. cold and harsh.
"Please!" Leslie held back terrified sobs, aware of her mortality for the first time since she was turned.
Eve was midway to putting Alex down when another howl belted through thudding in their chests like a heavy drum. "Which one is it!"
Alex fought to look behind herself fearful, knowing the turn would be complete any moment now, and under no circumstances could Sam protect her.
"Which one!" Eve roared, tightening her grip.
"Kill me and she dies too!" Gayle screamed for Alex.
Another guttural roar thudded through the air with intensity that could knock any average person over with ease.
"Please Eve!" Leslie sniveled, tears flowing down her face.
Eve's face contorted with fury. "Fucking idiot! You had to be careless! Get caught! Become a tool for her!"
"Eve!" Leslie wailed, feeling Gayle's hand begin to slowly crush her heart.
A deep snarl eliminated from the back room, and Alex instantly knew what had happened, how she awoke in her bed bandaged, that Sam sheltered herself in the basement for her turn, awaiting a ruckus as a signal to come save her beloved mate.
She knew she had to end this, and as fast as possible.
"Put me down or she dies in three!" Gayle announced.
"Eve! Please!"
The growl grew louder and closer.
"Two!"
"Eve!" Leslie screamed.
Eve dropped Alex. "Let her go!"
Alex stumbled backward.
Sam burst through the door, leaping up onto the bar, her wolf form so large she almost touched the ceiling.
"Sam!" Alex whimpered, turning to her mate, almost collapsing in the odor of the wolf. She could feel her grip over the vampire waning, her powers feeling flimsy, fading as she heard an almost indecipherable whisper in her ear 'Môr… O… US'
"One!" Gayle ripped out Leslie's heart with a delighted cackle, reveling in the gore that preceded the body turning to dust.
"No!" Eve cried, looking back to the nothing that was her spawn, her blood, her child. "You!" She screamed, leaping for Alex.
Alex saw it coming as if it were frame by frame, Sam lept from the bar at the same time. "No! Sam don't!"
Sam's strong growl was enough to assure Alex that nothing could stop her, that nothing would ever make her allow any harm to come to her omega.
"Sam if you protect me! I'll die!" Alex yelled as she attempted to regain control of Gayle to stop her. But it was already too late, Sam's teeth were already buried in Eve's torso and she ripped off the majority of Eve's right side. And it hadn't been for her family. Only for Alex. Her sizeable paws held down the remnants of the vampire as she raged and attempted to claw at the muscular wolf.
Gayle watched on, unaffected by Alex's attempts to control her. The only unharmed vampire watched on, her eyes darting between the carnage that was the remains of her leader and Alex as she collapsed to the ground. Gayle was stunned by the speed and agility of the wolf, having never truly faced one before.
It was then that Sam turned to her, at least a third of Eve's torso and her whole arm hanging out of her mouth.
Gayle ran, she sprinted away, beyond terrified. She had seen her death reflected in the wolf's pupils. She didn't care what might happen, that Alex may force her back at any moment, all she knew was that if she stayed still, it would be the death of her.
Sam's muzzle had almost finished dripping with the blood of her enemy when Alex's words processed. 'I'll die' 'Sam if you protect me I'll die' 'I'll die' the words echoed in her clouded mind. She dropped the arm, turning to Alex, collapsed on the floor, on her knees. Sam shifted human, something she didn't even know she could do, it just happened, she was shifted, and then she had lept towards her mate. Sam pulled Alex's limp body into her arms, tears coming fast and hard.
"I… didn't die?" Alex broke her dumbfounded silence.
"Why would you asshole!" Sam sobbed, clinging to Alex on the floor. "That wasn't funny! You scared me!"
"I… It… wasn't a joke." Alex stuttered.
"Still not funny you asshole!" Sam squeezed and shook Alex.
"Sam… I… something is off. My magic, I think it's gone?"
"I don't care! You are safe! You are alive!" Sam snarled deeply.
"I! Baby… you … you are really warm. Not just wolf warm." Alex worried.
"I… yeah... I think something is wrong. Really wrong."
End of Chapter 53
