Part 1
"I can't believe we have to sit in this rotting jail cell waiting for some damned Daybreakers to rescue us." Lexi shook the wooden bars a last time an turned to glare at Winter who was silently meditating in the dark corner.
"Relax Lexi." She opened one eye to give her twin an exsaperated look, "If we had just shown up on Lord Thierry's doorstep, he would have suspected something."
"So?" Lexi sighed and flung herself onto the single wooden bed in the room. "God, I hope they hurry up."
Winter glanced over at the other girl moments later to discover she was fast asleep. "Figures, she could sleep through an earthquake." She muttered, and glanced at the entrance to the cell swiftly as she heard a slight noise down the hall.
"Well, well...." She muttered, and quickly lay down with her back to the entrance.
"Winter and Summer Quint?" A soft male voice whispered into the darkness around them. On cue, Winter shot up, an looked in the direction that it had come from.
"Whose there?" She whispered, projecting just the right amount of fear into her voice.
"Rhys Harman, and James Redfern. Are you hurt?"
"I don't think so...." Quivering her voice a little would put just the right image of damsel in distress for these would-be rescuers. "But Lexi was knocked out when we were captured and still hasn't woken up. Can you help us?"
"I think so. Stay away from the entrance." There was some muttering between the two before the door was sawed into. Winter smiled sadly as they finally got into the cell.
"Let's get you out of here." One of them scooped Lexi up, and Winter got up slowly with the help of the other.
"The Quint twins." Oisin Bloodthorn at last, Winter thought with a slight smile. She knew him from a picture in her file on this job. He was the leader of this chapter of Circle Daybreak. They were going to odviously test her before implementing Lord Thierry in anything to do with Daybreak.
"Yes. I'm Winter." She wrapped the blanket tighter around her slight frame and shivered. Men always fell for the helpless. Sure enough, his eyes softened as he took in her bedraggled state.
"You were tried by the Night World council and convicted of telling a human male about the Night World. Summer's soulmate, right?" He questioned with a raise of his eyebrows.
"Everyone calls her Lexi, and you're right." Winter looked down at her hands and twisted her fingers together nervously.
"Why Lexi?"
"Her middle name is Alexis. Sentimental parents if you wish. Get it, Winter and Summer?"
"What's your middle name?"
"Karis. We had no choice about telling the human. He was her soulmate, and they killed him after finding out!"
"Why were you also jailed?"
"I would do anything to protect my sister and her feelings. I helped to hide him." She looked up at him with dramatically flashing eyes, "And I don't regret it."
"I didn't say that you did." He looked slightly taken aback at the blazing intensity of her stare. "You are in a safe house owned by Circle Daybreak, and we are offering you, and your sister, a chance to join in return for continuing safety from the Night World. Do you accept?"
"I do, as does Lexi. She has more hatred for the Night World than I ever have." Winter answered, the first truthful words she had spoken all evening.
"Very well." Oisin rose and nodded to a silent vampire who stood motionless in the corner of his office. "You look very tired, and in need of a hot shower. Jaon will show you to your room."
"What of Lexi? Where is she?" Winter asked quietly standing up.
"She is already in her room, sleeping. You will meet the rest tomorrow morning." He left, signifying the end of the meeting.
Winter followed Jaon in silence through the odviously expensive mansion to a large room painted a soft cream colour with a large bed. When he left her there, she pulled off her clothes wearily and slid between the satiny sheets with a sigh.
Tomorrow would be soon enough to start searching, she decided with a yawn before falling into a deep slumber.
Oisin stared at the small girl for a moment in the security camera before turning away. Something about her was a little... off. She seemed too smooth somehow. But she also seemed so vulnerable. An odd mix, but he would need to investigate further.
And yet, everytime he closed his eyes, flashing blue eyes and silky long blond curls were everywhere. He would definetly have to watch out for that one.
Summer, or Lexi Quint would also have to be interrogated the next day, since she had not woken since her release. The nurses at the mansion had said it was simply exhaustion from all she had been through though, so she would probably be okay.
He picked up the file on the Quint's and looked through it again. Upstanding Night World lamia, until Summer Quint had fallen for a human. A familiar story, but somehow a little off in how quickly they had gone through the Night World system.
Pacing, he looked again at the security tv and at the quietly sleeping Winter. She must have really been exhausted. Even from the somewhat questionable quality of the security camera, he could make out the faint darkness that marred the perfect paleness of her skin under her eyes.
"I can't believe we have to sit in this rotting jail cell waiting for some damned Daybreakers to rescue us." Lexi shook the wooden bars a last time an turned to glare at Winter who was silently meditating in the dark corner.
"Relax Lexi." She opened one eye to give her twin an exsaperated look, "If we had just shown up on Lord Thierry's doorstep, he would have suspected something."
"So?" Lexi sighed and flung herself onto the single wooden bed in the room. "God, I hope they hurry up."
Winter glanced over at the other girl moments later to discover she was fast asleep. "Figures, she could sleep through an earthquake." She muttered, and glanced at the entrance to the cell swiftly as she heard a slight noise down the hall.
"Well, well...." She muttered, and quickly lay down with her back to the entrance.
"Winter and Summer Quint?" A soft male voice whispered into the darkness around them. On cue, Winter shot up, an looked in the direction that it had come from.
"Whose there?" She whispered, projecting just the right amount of fear into her voice.
"Rhys Harman, and James Redfern. Are you hurt?"
"I don't think so...." Quivering her voice a little would put just the right image of damsel in distress for these would-be rescuers. "But Lexi was knocked out when we were captured and still hasn't woken up. Can you help us?"
"I think so. Stay away from the entrance." There was some muttering between the two before the door was sawed into. Winter smiled sadly as they finally got into the cell.
"Let's get you out of here." One of them scooped Lexi up, and Winter got up slowly with the help of the other.
"The Quint twins." Oisin Bloodthorn at last, Winter thought with a slight smile. She knew him from a picture in her file on this job. He was the leader of this chapter of Circle Daybreak. They were going to odviously test her before implementing Lord Thierry in anything to do with Daybreak.
"Yes. I'm Winter." She wrapped the blanket tighter around her slight frame and shivered. Men always fell for the helpless. Sure enough, his eyes softened as he took in her bedraggled state.
"You were tried by the Night World council and convicted of telling a human male about the Night World. Summer's soulmate, right?" He questioned with a raise of his eyebrows.
"Everyone calls her Lexi, and you're right." Winter looked down at her hands and twisted her fingers together nervously.
"Why Lexi?"
"Her middle name is Alexis. Sentimental parents if you wish. Get it, Winter and Summer?"
"What's your middle name?"
"Karis. We had no choice about telling the human. He was her soulmate, and they killed him after finding out!"
"Why were you also jailed?"
"I would do anything to protect my sister and her feelings. I helped to hide him." She looked up at him with dramatically flashing eyes, "And I don't regret it."
"I didn't say that you did." He looked slightly taken aback at the blazing intensity of her stare. "You are in a safe house owned by Circle Daybreak, and we are offering you, and your sister, a chance to join in return for continuing safety from the Night World. Do you accept?"
"I do, as does Lexi. She has more hatred for the Night World than I ever have." Winter answered, the first truthful words she had spoken all evening.
"Very well." Oisin rose and nodded to a silent vampire who stood motionless in the corner of his office. "You look very tired, and in need of a hot shower. Jaon will show you to your room."
"What of Lexi? Where is she?" Winter asked quietly standing up.
"She is already in her room, sleeping. You will meet the rest tomorrow morning." He left, signifying the end of the meeting.
Winter followed Jaon in silence through the odviously expensive mansion to a large room painted a soft cream colour with a large bed. When he left her there, she pulled off her clothes wearily and slid between the satiny sheets with a sigh.
Tomorrow would be soon enough to start searching, she decided with a yawn before falling into a deep slumber.
Oisin stared at the small girl for a moment in the security camera before turning away. Something about her was a little... off. She seemed too smooth somehow. But she also seemed so vulnerable. An odd mix, but he would need to investigate further.
And yet, everytime he closed his eyes, flashing blue eyes and silky long blond curls were everywhere. He would definetly have to watch out for that one.
Summer, or Lexi Quint would also have to be interrogated the next day, since she had not woken since her release. The nurses at the mansion had said it was simply exhaustion from all she had been through though, so she would probably be okay.
He picked up the file on the Quint's and looked through it again. Upstanding Night World lamia, until Summer Quint had fallen for a human. A familiar story, but somehow a little off in how quickly they had gone through the Night World system.
Pacing, he looked again at the security tv and at the quietly sleeping Winter. She must have really been exhausted. Even from the somewhat questionable quality of the security camera, he could make out the faint darkness that marred the perfect paleness of her skin under her eyes.
