Hello my lovely readers~ who's ready for another update U this one is cute. kinda? mostly? it's cute. mostly. lol i hope you enjoy it. thanks as always for reading and for your support.
Song Suggestion: Line without a Hook by Rick Montgomery
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Morning arrives and Heisenberg grumbles as the alarm clock goes off, using his abilities to flick the switch... ahem... Using his abilities to flick the swit- he sits up to glare at it. It was made of plastic. he reaches over and turns it off manually before looking over to find Charlotte's bed was empty.
"Not again," He grumbles as he quickly looks around the room to find no one there. He gave a quiet huff as he went to check the hallway having learned from last time to find... no one. She was gone. "Son of a Bi-" he cut himself short as he hurried back into the room to grab his hat and glasses and hurries outside to see if he still had the truck at least. Miranda was going to be pissed when she found out he lost her little pet.
He gave a sigh of relief as he found that the truck was still there. He at least wasn't stranded out here. It's not like he could blame her for ditching but all the same, he grumbled as he slowly made his way back into the motel. There was no way he could track her down if he didn't even know when she left. Sneaky fucking bitch getting him warn out with an all-nighter to slip out into the night.
He unlocked the door and went back inside. She really was in a rush to get away, she left her bag and everything. He thought with a slight sneer and a pang of pain. He was alone again. She was a pain in his ass, she was abrasive when she was determined, had this obnoxious ability to shut down and be methodical and manipulative, and yet she'd choose to be kind and care about others. That was a reason in and of itself to be glad she was gone, she was intermittently stupid when her emotions got in the way. It pissed him off but she wasn't completely awful. It was at least better than having no one to talk to. Not that it mattered now.
Heisenberg gathers up his modern clothes and head over to the bathroom to find the door was locked... "I swear to god if she's in there." he stays as he glares at the door. That little shit. He unlocks it with ease and opens the door to find. yep. there she was. He gives a quiet huff as he sees the woman still in her village clothes curled up in the corner of the room, resting her head on her knees as she hugged her legs with her laptop sitting in front of her.
He puts his spare outfit on the sink before picking up the laptop to see what she fell asleep working on. upon looking it over he noticed it only had one page open which displayed the results for experiments. It looks like the page was last updated 7 hours ago? he checks the last entry.
Avey - 10 years old 4ft 6 in (137cm) - 70 lbs (31.75kg) - brown hair - brown eyes - No known medical issues - arrived physically weak with high fever and slight deliria - Cadou rejected host - Failure
He closed the laptop before nudging her to wake her up. "What the shit are you doing."
Charlotte jolts slightly before looking over to Heisenberg with tired puffy bloodshot eyes. Oh great, she fell asleep in here. She gave a tired sigh as she got up and fixes her skirt. "I just wanted to be alone for a bit..."
"You're still on about the girl?" Heisenberg asks with an incredulous expression. She had to be kidding. "She's gone, move on."
"Easy enough for you to say," She replies in disgust as she takes the laptop, and moves to leave the small room. "What am I going to tell Alex?" she says under her breath.
"Who?" Heisenberg asks with a raised eyebrow as he shifted to continue facing her.
Shit that was out loud. "The girl's father." Charlotte replies with a frown as she avoided eye contact and moves to sit on the bed she abandoned."They didn't deserve this, He trusted me, He asked me to save her, and I couldn't do it."
She's moping, he rolled his eyes at this before leaning in the doorway. "Careful there, the fish freak might get jealous," He replies looking to rile her up for something else to talk about.
Ugh he was doing that dumb thing where he tried making her upset on purpose, she knew it but it was working all the same. "Could you not bring Salvatore into this? He's a genuinely good person." She says annoyed as she glared at him.
"Oh, so you're on a first-name basis with the blob too." He says with a slight smirk as he poked fun at her.
"Heisenberg, knock it off," Charlotte prepared to argue but stopped.
His eyebrows knit together as he heard his last name, Why did that sting?
"You know what. to hell with it. have your laugh. Call me a harlot while you're at it too that's always funny," she says as she shifts to put down the laptop and rest her head in her hands.
"You're doing that thing again where you let your emotions make you stupid," Heisenberg replies as his frustration becomes more evident in his tone. "Look there wasn't shit you could do. She was at death's door and that was shit of him to put that on you to save his kid. She's not your problem."
"It was never about someone being my problem," Charlotte says frustrated. "I wanted to help her. I want to help Them. I want to help you. Hell, I'm actually half considering kidnapping a person so I can keep fighting. It's messed up and I hate this. but it's the only thing I can do to keep up with her in a game of mental chess where she's constantly cheating."
"Then cheat back," Heisenberg replies shaking his head as a small smirk starts to form. "We're not doing multiple rounds of this self-destructive perfectionist bullshit or we're never getting out of here." He says which causes Charlotte to finally look up. "You need to let go of the idea that you're going to get out of this sparking clean and pure of heart." He adds as he pushes against the door frame to stand properly again and move to stand in front of Charlotte and stare down at her. "Are we fighting the bitch or are you giving up?" He asks and offers a hand.
It took a moment as she looked at the hand and contemplated her choices. There would be no turning back... She accepted the offered hand. "Fighting back," Charlotte says and Heisenberg gives the hand a tug to pull her to her feet.
"Good. Now, get your shit together, and go wash up we have work to do," Heisenberg instructs. Frickin took long enough to get through to her.
Charlotte nods and gathers her clothes from her bag. she was grateful she packed jeans for her hiking trip but she'd need to buy a sweater while they were out. the T-shirt was not going to be enough even with a coat. She was grateful for the warm water, it was welcomed and helped her relax and clear her mind to think about nothing for a few minutes. A small moment of normality where if she closed her eyes she could pretend she was home and hadn't witnessed the horrors she's seen. She'd been stuck in this nightmare for almost half a year now and it felt like she was making no progress... She knew she could run it would be easy to slip away into the night but every time her own stubbornness halted the motion. she didn't want to give up knowing there were people that needed help. She could try calling for help but just going off what Heisenberg was capable of she wouldn't be able to get enough of a response to do anything. Donna would be sent to cover everything up. More people would end up dead and nothing would change. Well, Heisenberg would have more scraps to work with... god what if that was how he got those tanks... The thought caused her to pause before she rubbed at her face. she wasn't supposed to be thinking about this she was supposed to be relaxing.
once she finished washing up and changing into her modern clothes she looked at the pile of village clothes and plucks the compass from the pile to put that on as well. She bundled up the remaining clothes and carried those out with her.
"Your turn," She says as she walks out and heads over to her bag.
He raised an eyebrow as he noticed the compass still around her neck. "You're still wearing that shitty old thing?" he points out and gestures to the compass.
"I like it," She admits with a shrug. "it looks neat."
"Why? You realize it's broken right?" Heisenberg asks with a confused expression.
"Really?" She says a bit confused as well now as she looks it over, it seemed intact.
"Yeah, the dumb thing doesn't point north. I'm a walking super magnet remember?" Heisenberg says as her reaction caused his confusion to be replaced with an amused smirk.
Charlotte takes out her phone and opens a GPS-based compass app and sure enough, the two items did not point in the same direction. Her phone pointed at true north while the brass compass pointed at Heisenberg. it took a second but it finally dawned on her. "YOU." She says as her expression shifts to one of annoyance."You're the reason I got lost! I was using a regular compass to save my phone battery God damn it."
upon hearing her sudden epiphany Heisenberg laughs and walks away to head to the bathroom. "Dumbass."
She half-heartedly threw the compass at Heisenberg only for it to reverse direction mid-flight and smack her in the forehead. She grumbles as she looks around to see where it rolled off to only to find it was already around her neck again. She rolled her eyes at that and went back to her computer. She had a doctor to find after all. She frowned at that thought and gave a quiet sigh as she got to work.
eventually, Heisenberg emerged clean and changed as well. "Alright, what's first on the list of things to do?"
"Gather supplies for today, I scheduled a meeting with a house call doctor tomorrow, we pick them up and head back to the village and that's that," she says still clearly uncomfortable with what she said.
He nods in return and gets the keys "let's get moving then."
"Yeah," She says and follows him out of the room to the car. First was a quick stop by an ATM to take out cash so she could shop with Duke, hopefully, 4,150 Lei would be enough(roughly $1,000 USD). The trip to the hardware store went about the same as always. Quarter pallet of 2 by 4's, a healthy amount of roof shingles, nails, screw, Saw blades, chain saws and power tool parts. The Printshop took a bit longer than she was expecting but she did still have to print out paperwork for work.
"What are we doing here?" Heisenberg asks in a bored tone.
"I have to review some documents from the last board meeting," Charlotte says with a frown as she waits for the printer to finish.
He raises an eyebrow at that "why?"
"I'm sorry do you want your supplies? This stuff costs money. I only get money if I do my job," Charlotte says with a frown.
"You're still working as a secretary or something on top of all this?" Heisenberg asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Something like that," Charlotte says shaking her head. She said she had to review board meeting papers and he thinks she's a secretary? Sexist piece of crap. Whatever, she was too tired to point out for the 20th time that she was way overqualified for something like that.
Heisenberg tried to take a peek at the documents but frowned. They were all in English. He shook his head. Eventually, the printer stopped and she packed the papers into her backpack.
"Alright, we should be good to go," She says as she looks at him and walks with him to the truck once more.
"Where to," He asks more so out of habit, knowing full well she'd just put in the address to her phone and he'd follow the directions from that.
"Cora's" Charlotte replies as she clicks at her phone. "huh, guess we're getting more efficient with this shopping stuff" She comments while looking at the time. it was barely 1 PM. they'd probably be done by 3 pm and back at the motel by 4 at this rate.
"Well, it helps when we're not practically walking the whole way," He replies with a shrug as he gets into the driver's seat.
Charlotte takes her place in the passenger seat. "true. I'll have to look into some other locations that might have better supplies that were out of our reach before." She offers and finally makes one last tap at the phone.
"in 300 ft turn left" the phone announces.
Heisenberg follows the directions to the store and follows alongside Charlotte as she shops. Medicine, medical supplies, and food. better food this time. if she had to eat ramen grits or oatmeal for another day she was going to sprint towards a Lycan. She picked up a few cans of soup some microwave meals that she could heat up in a frying pan instead and unfortunately. Oatmeal and grits. Along with some breakfast bars, two little tin oven top popcorn packs and other dry goods, and a bag of soft fish-shaped candies. She smiled at them. Something said Salvatore would like them. A thought crossed her mind before she looked over to Heisenberg "Do you want anything?" she asks curiously.
"What?" he asks surprised by the question.
"Do you want anything? I mean yeah we got supplies for the army and blah blah blah but what about you?" Charlotte asks to explain her question.
"Got 4 piles of scrap, I don't need to owe you any more than that," Heisenberg replies waving off the question.
She shook her head. He was ridiculous. As they walked around she noticed a few large baking sheets and put those into the cart with a smile. That could be fun. More fabric for Donna and Angie since they did, sorta, apologize. Dimitrescu and her daughters wanted more of the skincare products from before so that was added as well. They make their way through the technology section of the store and Heisenberg very quickly gets distracted by a display with the latest and greatest innovation of technology a tiny cube-looking robot on wheels that could learn and react to its surroundings. Charlotte smiles a bit at this as she adds a few movies for Moreau into the cart and some wireless earbuds for herself so she can listen to music on occasions. as she's walking she notices a display with phones and stares at it for a bit before ditching the cart to go find an employee. It takes a bit of talking though but she makes that purchase and hides it away in her backpack before heading back to the abandoned cart and goes to find Heisenberg who was still distracted with the tiny robot.
"Ready to go?"Charlotte asks.
"Finally, thought I might actually die of old age," Heisenberg says as he corrects his posture and walks over to the cart.
"You're hilarious," Charlotte replies sarcastically as she rolls her eyes. "come on." she says and leads the way to the checkout.
"You haven't paid yet? what were you doing this whole time?" Heisenberg asks with a hint of frustration.
"Shopping, It's not going to take that long," she says and starts moving the items over to the check-out counter. Like she said, it didn't take terribly long but it was enough that he was bored and even helped put the bags into the back of the truck to try and get things to speed up. As he did so he noticed the bag with the collection of DVDs and paused for half a second as he put them away.
The two get into the truck once more and Heisenberg goes to put it into reverse. "Do they still have Cinemas or do they only come in those boxes?" he asks as he starts backing out to leave.
"Cinemas... oh movie theaters?" Charlotte asks curiously "Yeah movie theaters are still a thing." She smiles slightly as she realizes why he is asking. "Did you want to see a movie?"
Heisenberg shrugs and starts heading towards the main road. "Eh, was thinking we had a bit of extra time. might be a good way to catch up on what I missed."
That was actually a pretty good point, she caught him up on major historical events and some technology but media and culture had been pretty much untouched. "I'll see if there is one nearby." she typed as quickly as she could while Heisenberg slowly made his way to the intersection. "Got it, take a right."
"I'm in the left lane," Heisenberg says annoyed.
"Then take a left and the GPS will redirect," Charlotte says with a laugh as he takes the right anyways and gets several angry honks for it. "you're going to get us both killed," She says amused as this was not the most dangerous situation she'd been in for the last week even so it was hard to find it scary.
It took a good 45 minutes but they made it to a large grandiose building covered in lights and Heisenberg found a parking spot. Charlotte nervously looked at her bag. that was an expensive item to leave unattended for two hours... all the same she dug out her pocketbook and got out of the truck. "Make sure to lock up?" She requests and Heisenberg snapped his fingers.
"locked," he says and walks with her "so how does this work."
"You go to the front desk and pay for a ticket and they tell you which theater to go to," Charlotte explains.
"So that didn't change at least." Heisenberg replies which caught Charlotte's attention.
"I thought you said you never left the village aside from the whole war thing," Charlotte says confused.
"Hmm. kinda." Heisenberg replies as they make their way towards the building. "With the draft. sometimes we'd get to have a free day to go to town. If I had the spare Lei I'd catch a picture show. it was my first taste of the outside world, I never wanted to go back."
"Oh." She replies a bit surprised. "Why did you go back?" She asks confused. He had a way out.
"Didn't have a choice." He says with a frown. "Got hit by a fragmentation grenade and sent home. The bitch got her hands on me after that and the rest is history." He explains as Charlotte looks away with a frown. That was horrible...
"What about the others?" Charlotte asks curiously.
"The creepy-ass doll's a local too. first of the lords. Miranda was hellbent on getting at least one lord and burned through the whole family line until she finally got the cadou to take to one. after that is when she really started getting her foothold thanks to the freaky brainwashing pollen. The supersized bitch was an 'import' that showed up in the 20's. Apparently, she was a distant relative to one of the original four lords and that got her access to the castle," Heisenberg explained quietly as they waited outside the building to finish their conversation. "as for the freak,"
"Salvatore" Charlotte corrects with an annoyed frown. Heisenberg rolled his eyes.
"The freak's the newest addition, probably 40 or 50 years ago. Showed up saying something about a pilgrimage to his birthright to look for inspiration. The dumbass kept visiting after that to see Miranda. She shot the guy down and he ended up in the drink," Heisenberg says shaking his head. "Pretty sure she didn't expect the Cadou to actually take to him. Fried his brain by putting it on the back of his neck instead of inside him like the rest of us. turns out he was right, he did have a birthright as a descendant of one of the original lords and it cost his mind and free will."
Charlotte remained silent.
"So. Happy with your little history lesson?" He asks with a neutral expression.
Honestly, she was sorry she asked. "It's good to know. Thank you for sharing, that's probably not easy to talk about."
"Shut up," He says shaking his head, she was doing that fake shit again, "Let's just watch a movie."
"Right," she replied with a nod and followed him into the building. The place smelled of popcorn, the various colored screens were blindingly bright and the sound was intense. it caused Heisenberg to wince slightly but he followed alongside Charlotte. "Let's see what's playing," she says as she looks at her phone to check different movie names to see if they were any good as they wait in line to buy tickets. The grudge, no. City of Joel, no. Like a boss, ha. if she was on her own maybe but no. Underwater, no. . Lordy, why was there nothing besides horror and thriller and war movies? They were living a horror movie they didn't need mo- OH. she looked at the list of available movies to find that they had a re-run theater-going and to ask an attendant what is playing. please don't be another horror movie. please don't be a slasher film. she thought while they made their way up the line. "Hi, what do you have going for the Re-run theater?"
"We're doing a run-through of the old transformer movies. That would be Transformers: dark of the moon for the 3:45 showing and Age of extinction after that if you want to wait." The clerk explains
"No that's perfect two tickets for that please" charlote requests with a smile.
"Okay, that will be 103 lei," the Clerk says as they ring up the tickets. Charlotte hands over her card and pays for it. "Thank you. just head through the door to the right. your theater is number 13. the concession stand is right ahead."
"Thanks," Charlotte says as she accepts her card and the receipt before getting a slight hold on Heisenberg's coat sleeve to lead the way. "This way." He allows that for a moment before swatting her hand away. Charlotte rolls her eyes slightly while shaking her head. Whatever. "Did you want any snacks? it's probably going to be 2 hours or so."
"If you're buying," He says with a shrug.
"because you would pay with what money," She replies with a short chuckle.
"Same money I pay Duke with," He says in response with a small smirk. as he waits for the gears to click into place.
"You have money?" She asks slightly annoyed.
"There it is," he says with a laugh.
"Now hold on," she says trying to piece that together.
"You're the dumbass that assumed I'm broke," he says with a shrug. "I've never met someone that is capable of being so simultaneously brilliant and yet so stupid."
Okay, that one was egg on her face. She shook her head "Right back at you, and fine, I'm buying." She confirmed and they eventually made it through the line to get them each a drink and a thing of popcorn before heading into the theater.
"Take your pick," she says as she gestures to the plethora of seats. surprising to no one, a rerun of an almost 10-year-old poorly reviewed sequel film had a very empty theater.
Heisenberg looks around for a bit before picking one more towards the middle of the theater and taking a seat. before long the movie starts and he stares in awe at the mechanical structures on the screen. Charlotte occasionally glances over to see the same starry-eyed wonder on Heisenberg's face that Moreau has when watching a movie. just this was about robots fighting and not a cute rom-com.
Heisenberg leans over a bit to talk to Charlotte without taking his eyes off the screen. "How do we get a few of those for the army?" he asks with an ear-to-ear grin. Technology was amazing.
Charlotte tries not to laugh "There isn't enough money in the world," she says shaking her head "They're not real."
He turns to look at her then back at the screen "What do you mean they're not real, it's right there. are you not seeing that?"
Charlotte bites her lower lip to hold back her laughter. it takes her a second and a deep breath but she composes herself enough to reply "It's called a computer-generated Image. It's fake. that's completely impossible to make in real life." she says as she allows herself the chance to glance over at him only to find he was staring at her as if she just told him Santa wasn't real.
"Fucking technology bullshit," He grumbles with a frown and sits back in his seat while munching on his popcorn. the movie wasn't as interesting now that he knew the robots weren't real. his hand scraped the bottom of the small paper bag causing his frown to deepen before glancing over to Charlotte who was still happily munching on a mostly full bag. He reaches over and helps himself to a handful which causes her to stare at him with a jokingly incredulous stare.
"What are you doing?" She asks Rhetorically, with quiet amusement. she shakes her head before moving to hold her bag of popcorn between the two of them so he could grab from it more easily. He could have just asked.
The movie eventually wrapped up and by the time they exited the theater, to find the sun had long since set. "How can you see with those glasses on?" Charlotte asks amused as they head back to the truck.
"Eh, I prefer it." He says with a shrug. He was light-sensitive after his cadou implant but he certainly wasn't going to admit to an exploitable weakness.
"Suit yourself," Charlotte says with a shrug. "We should probably get back. we have a big day ahead of us..." she says with a frown. she really wasn't looking forward to this.
"Yeah." He agrees with a nod. the two head back and pick up some fast food along the way for dinner. The next morning arrived and the two got ready to leave, changing into their village garbs before packing up the last of their stuff and heading out to the meeting point. A random foreclosure house in the boonies that charlotte selected.
eventually, the doctor arrived and charlotte got out of the truck.
"Misses Everst?" The doctor asks as he stares at Charlotte confused. What on earth was with the get-up?
"That's me," Charlotte says with a weak smile. "Thanks for stopping b-" before she could finish the guy was beaned in the back of the head by a metal scrap that knocked him out. "Heisenberg!" Charlotte says as she turns around to find the guy walking over "are you trying to kill the guy?"
"Relax, it's a mild concussion at best..." He says as he uses a few metal pieces to pick the guy up and put him into the truck. "... okay maybe a severe concussion but to hell with it, got the job done. you were taking too long."
Charlotte frowns a bit at that but nods and gets into the truck as well. she couldn't deny that they needed to get a move on or they'd be late. the meeting was at 10. it would take until 11:45 to get to the rust bucket where they'd need to unload and reload the truck. probably knock out the doc again then go into the village to drop him off with Donna.
The whole way back Charlotte stared out the window and messed with the metal object sitting around her neck. Fiddling with it helped her feel a little less nervous about all of this. when they got back to the rust bucket Heisenberg simply waved his hand and clenched it to get a plethora of nails to fly out of their box, and jab into the wooden planks on both ends to pick them up and move them over to the rust bucket.
"you're in a hurry," Charlotte points out with questioning confusion.
"Sooner we get back sooner I can get to work trying to make one of those robots," he says with a shrug.
"Please focus on the army. You have a good lead for that," Charlotte says exasperatedly as she moves the remaining items and her backpack to the older truck.
"Yeah yeah yeah. Kill joy." Heisenberg says waving off the request. With the truck packed up they start heading back. it would take a good few hours but they manage to make it back before sunset.
"Lord Heisenberg, You've been gone for some time" Luiza says surprised "welcome back" she adds with a smile as both Heisenberg and Charlotte exit the vehicle only for her smile to change to an expression of surprise as she watches the metal lord remove a body from the bed of the truck. "And who is this?"
"A lost soul we picked up along the way," Heisenberg says as he tosses the doctor over his shoulder to carry them. "Gonna drop them off with Lady Benevento. I'll be back in a bit."
Charlotte nods in return, he was pretty clear last time she shouldn't wander and she was not invited to the Benevento manor even if she received an apology. "Alright, I'll help with unloading." she says and Luiza waves that off.
"Not necessary, you went through the effort to gather it all, we can unload it for you." Luiza says as she goes to get her husband. "Dear, they're back with supplies can you get the men together?"
Charlotte watches as the same old occurs leaving her with one last task. One she had honestly been hoping she could put off... She grabbed her backpack and started making her way to the home of the Luthier. Up the stairs and to the door. She took a deep breath and knocked on the door.
it took a while but the door opened to show a worn out, sullen face.
"Can I come in?" Charlotte asks quietly with a sad neutral expression.
"...Sure." He says and moves to get out of the way so Charlotte could walk in. he closed the door behind her before moving to take a seat with a tired plop.
He pauses to look at her "She's really gone? My Avey?" The luthier asks now fully broken.
"I'm so sorry." Charlotte replies not knowing what else to say. he already knew. "I'm so. so sorry. I tried." She says and shakes her head only to stop as he slams his fist on the table.
"What kind of" he cuts himself off. "What kind of person. goes around claiming blessing and prosperity from children and won't save one child?" The luthier asks tearfully as he looks at Charlotte with a mixture of emotions. Sorrow, anger, guilt. She knew them well. "I've been faithful for years. I lost my wife. Now my daughter? Is no one worth saving?" He asks and charlotte lowers her head.
"I promise you I begged. I offered everything I could think of."
"I'm sure you did." he says taking a breath before pushing himself to stand. "but I can't stay here. Not anymore. There is nothing for me here."
"You're leaving?" Charlotte asks surprised.
"Not so loud," he says as he walks a bit closer so they could speak quieter. He thinks it over a moment before speaking again. "Come with me,"
"What?" Charlotte asks more so from surprise. she heard him well enough.
"Come with me. You're an outsider. You owe this place nothing. Neither of us owe this place a damn thing," The Luthier says still upset.
"Alex, I can't go with." She says shaking her head but she shifts to take off her backpack. "But I can help you..." Charlotte offers as she digs through her bag. She sees the phone she bought and reaches past it to grab her map, a pen, and half the money from her pocketbook.
"We can work together. we can get people out. I need someone on the outside who can reach in." Charlotte says with a halfhearted attempt at a smile. She writes her phone number down on one of the paper bills and puts that into the folded-up map which she offers to him. "Let me know when you're safe."
He hesitates but nods and accepts the bundle. "Thank you,"
"Just if you can come back every third saturday. I'll try and keep an ear out for people that want to leave. and send them out that day to meet you."
"Okay. I'll do it." He agrees with a sad smile. He looked at her, ready to say something else before noticing the small metal compass around her neck. instead, he clears his throat. "Stay safe. okay?"
"Same to you... Pack up. head out the back. and travel by daylight. it will be easier to see if a Lycan is approaching. you just need to be careful for a few miles after that you're safe."
"Thank you, truly," he says as he hands her a key. "If you could lock up the place... give the key to the gardener. I don't want people to think you're involved."
"I can do that," She agrees, looking around a bit before stepping forward to give the man a hug. "Good luck," she says after stepping back.
He nods and starts rummaging around the house a bit before long his bag was packed and he climbed out the back window which Charlotte closed up. She walked out of the front door and as she turned to go back and lock it she jolted back. "Heisenberg?" she asks terrified. how long had he been there... he wouldn't tell on her right.
There was that sting again..."I have a fucking name you know" he grumbles.
"That's rich coming from the guy that won't say my name right," Charlotte replies with a slight frown. "Harlot, Scarlette. Oh, you should try Marlotte next. Call me a drunk, that would be a riot." she counters as she goes back to locking up the house.
"you're getting distracted." He accuses with a sneer. "Is this going to be an issue" he asks gesturing to the house "because if it's going to be an issue I'm cutting you loose I don't need dead weight."
Charlotte frowns. "No. I'm just taking your advice." she says while looking away. "she wants me to bring new people in? fine. then i'm taking one out as well..." Charlotte explains quietly. "Dont play by the rules... right?"
"Yeah... Right." With that, he walks away still irritated. why was he irritated? it was a solid plan?
Alex, I can't go with. but I can help you
"Fuck off," He grumbles at the voice in his head.
here we go more Heisenberg cuteness XD what a weird random stinging feeling. his cadou must be acting up. also, I apologize for kinda glossing over the whole stealing the doctor thing x'D I don't really wanna have to explain a kidnapping in detail. I'm just gonna wave a magic hand and say charlotte did all the thinking on that one. my google search history probably already has me on a few FBI lists because researching for this story.
FanNatic Lore:
already said this before kinda but for the sake of working with the most lore possible each of the lords were introduced over time with Donna being the oldest since the hallucinations were kinda integral for her becoming a major religious figure. Alcina being the next since there was that report of her being 44 at the time of her experimentation. her design suggests a 1920's inspiration too so that put her next in line. Heisenberg would be next, this kinda makes sense to me since she tends to refer to him as 'child' so if she knew him when he was a child that would add to the animosity. then Moreau because of the tattoos. If you look at his uncloaked model he also has a leather bracelet and a few chains. to me, it suggests he was probably more of the artsy type so I went with a rocker/musician. stuff you wouldn't see in the village so he was someone whose family used to live there and moved away. he found out his family used to own land in Romania and went to check it out. he was a hopeless romantic even then which got amplified after the cadou messed up his brain.
Review Responses:
Black Moons Daughter - all the emotions /o/ lol glad that you appreciated the addition of the warped memories =v= and cute interactions between the characters before things took a spiral haha. hopefully this one was just as fun for you to read.
nadillaandlaprasthefireandice - thanks so much for commenting on the chapters as you read it has been a blast watching your progression through the story U your reaction to chapter 8 was so pure that I genuinely cackled thank you for that lol
DamnationOfTheDead - Glad you enjoyed the dream sequence lmao XD no puppies were harmed in the making of this chapter lol