*************************** PART 9 **************************************
After the discussion on what to do about Thierry and my situation, Thea came up with the idea to call in Mother Cybele and the Maiden Aradia. Hopefully they'll be able to help Thierry and me out.
I'm told that they are two of the Inner Circle, who are a group of powerful witches. If both Maiden and Mother don't know what to do, then the rest of the Inner Circle will have to be called in. And if they can't help us, then both of us might not be able to get our own bodies back.
Thierry and I have spent time together; we are now sitting in his bedroom talking tings over.
"I still can't get over the fact that I'm part vampire and part witch." I mutter to myself.
"I should have known. Should have sensed it in you. It was probably your human side that stopped me sensing it." Thierry says.
"Maybe." I reply.
I lie down on Thierry's bed and start to sing to myself.
"You just got out of school last year,
And all your friends ask "Hey what you doing here?"
Somehow you just can't mix with kids your age.
She knows what she likes!
I know you're looking much older now,
But you ain't figured out life somehow,
You gotta different number on every page.
She knows, she knows what she wants."
"Crazy, crazy,
You amaze me.
Crazy, Lady,
Rearrange me.
Crazy, Baby,
I'm so in love with you right now.
Oh. Oh."
"You're growing up before your time,
You think everybody's saying, "Ooh, but you're looking fine."
You're learning fast, you sure have come a long way.
She knows what she likes!
I know you don't think much of me,
And you got plans on just what you ought to be.
You've got a different face for everyday.
She knows, she knows what she wants."
"Crazy, crazy,
You amaze me.
Crazy, Lady,
Rearrange me.
Crazy, Baby,
I'm so in love with you right now.
Oh. Oh."
"Crazy, crazy,
You amaze me.
Crazy, Lady
Rearrange me.
Crazy, Baby,
I'm so in love with you right now.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
"What are you singing" Thierry asks me after I've finished singing.
"Oh. It's a song that 'Mud' sung. It's called 'Crazy.'" I reply.
"Mud?" He asks, this time it's he who is befuddled.
"Yeah. A seventies band that my dad listens to all the time. They're British." I reply sheepishly.
"Never heard of them." Thierry admits.
"Well, maybe you've heard this song. I'm only going to sing the chorus. It's a Christmas song, but maybe you've heard it." I say.
I clear my throat and start singing "It'll be lonely this Christmas."
"It'll be lonely this Christmas without you to hold.
It'll be lonely this Christmas, lonely and cold.
It'll be cold, so cold without you to hold.
This Christmas."
"Yes. I have heard that one. It's one of my favourite Christmas songs." Thierry nods his head and smiles.
"Mud sung that song as well. I love that song too, I sing it all the time." I reply.
"Do you sing a lot?" He asks.
"Yeah. I sing when I'm nervous, scared or excited. It calms my nerves down." I reply.
That was one of my biggest secrets; I'm kind of embarrassed for him finding out.
"Although I get really self-conscious when someone else is listening." I add.
"Sorry." He says. "I'm sure you have a nice singing voice." He apologises.
"You have a nice singing voice." I reply. "Do you not sing?"
"No." He replies.
"Too much of a man to sing?" I ask, smirking slightly.
"Too much work more like." Thierry replies dryly.
"You know, you should slow down. Take a break every once in a while. Relax. Open up your belt and explode." I tell him smiling.
"Are you trying to tell me I'm fat?" He asks jokingly.
"I never said that. I meant to relax. Have some fun. Stop doing so much work." I explain.
"If I don't do the work, who will?" Thierry asks, lying down beside me.
"Your staff. Or employ someone to do the things you do here." I reply.
"Yeah. But I still have to proofread everything. Correct mistakes, and the lot." He points out.
"So. Employ someone who's good at that. You need some time to yourself, and you need to spend sometime with Hannah." I suggest.
"I'll think about it." Is his only reply to the whole subject.
"Thierry?" I ask.
"Yes?" He replies.
"Explain the whole Night World thing. And about Circle Daybreak?" I continue.
"More or less explain my life story, and how the Night World and Circle Daybreak came about?" He asks.
"Do you always answer questions with questions?" I ask.
"Do you?" Thierry asks in return.
"Now you're just doing that to annoy me. Aren't you?" I demand, smiling at him.
"Yes I am." He replies, smiling as well.
"Go on then. Explain everything to me?" I ask.
"There is no cure for becoming a vampire. Well actually there is." Thierry says after he explains his life story.
"What is it?" I ask him. "Why haven't you cured yourself?"
Thierry gives me a faint smile and chuckles slightly.
"The cure for vampirism is a wooden stake through the heart, decapitation or fire. I was going to cure myself, but I'll tell you why I didn't."
I really stepped into that one. Nice going Nila. I think to myself.
"I didn't kill myself, because when I accidentally killed Hannah she made me promise not to kill anyone, and not to kill myself."
"Maya had a son called Red Fern as I already said. He more or less started the Redfern family. Rowan, Ash, Kestrel, Jade, James, Jez and Delos are all descended from Red Fern.
Thea, Blaise, Poppy, Phil, Gillian and Iliana are all descended from Hellewise.
The Redferns are like the royal family of vampires, the Harmans are like royal family of witches and the Draches are the royal family of the shapeshifters. Galen is the Son of the First House of shapeshifters, that's why he's a prince."
"Delos is a prince because back in the sixteenth or seventeenth century Hunter Redfern had a son called Chervil, whom Hunter didn't know about. Chervil ran away from home and became King of the Dark Kingdom, the castle was called Black Dawn; a secret kingdom in the middle of Washington D.C. Chervil had a son called Tormentil.
Hunter couldn't have children, so he married Maeve Harman the leader of the Harmans back in the sixteen hundreds."
"Hunter wanted a son; an heir, but because he didn't know about Chervil, he didn't have an heir. Maeve gave birth to four daughters, their names were Garnet, Lily, Dove and Roseclear. Garnet, Lily and Dove were raised as vampires, but Roseclear was raised as a witch and kept away from Hunter. Since Garnet was the only one of Hunter's daughters to have children, Hunter let them carry on the Redfern name.
For witches, it's the female who carries the name, if a female witch gets married, her husband takes on her name rather than the female taking on her husband's name."
"Lily was vaporised by Jez four years ago. And Dove was killed when she was in her late teens, in 1639. Quinn had wanted to marry Dove, so Hunter had made him into a vampire. Quinn and Dove went to Quinn's father and told him what happened, and his father killed Dove."
"All modern day Harmans are descended from Roseclear and have a little bit of vampire blood in them. It's the same with the modern day Redferns; they have a little bit of witch blood in them. Except for Delos, so far he's the only modern day Redfern to be free of witch blood. Delos vaporised Hunter about three years ago."
"Whoa." I reply to Thierry's story. "You mean to tell me that you have royalty living with you?" I add.
"Yes. I'm something of royalty myself; I am a Lord. All of the Night People call me the Lord of the Night World." He answers with a sigh. "And Hannah is called 'Lady Hannah' here. But she tells everyone not to call her Lady Hannah. Only the staff calls her Lady Hannah though." He adds with a faint smile.
"Great. I'm related to a Lord and Lady. Just my luck." I mumble to myself.
Thierry grins at my expression. "If Hannah is my cousin, what does that make you? My cousin-in-law?" I ask seriously.
He lets out a soft chuckle at my question.
"Something like that." He replies with another grin.
"So…when did Circle Daybreak start up?" I ask.
"Well. Daybreak was originally the third witch circle. The other two are Circle Midnight and Circle Twilight.
Circle Midnight is for the witches with dark magic, they also think that humans are the lowest beings to walk this planet.
Circle Twilight is for the witches with non dark magic, they are the ones who tolerate humans, but will not let humans know that they exist."
"Then there's Circle Daybreak, we are trying to get humans and Night People to get along, hence the reason why there is humans here.
The three circles have been going on since the Burning Times, but a century later Circle Daybreak disbanded.
I started Daybreak up again forty years ago, we live secretly within the Night World just like the Night World lives secretly within the human world."
"The only thing is, the Night World know that Daybreak has started up again, but what they don't know is I'm the leader of Circle Daybreak.
This mansion here is Daybreak HQ, and all that paperwork you saw on my desk yesterday were files on Daybreakers and assassination files." Thierry pauses and takes another deep breath.
"Who are the humans here?" I ask.
"Mary-Lynnette, Mark, Eric, David, Rashel, Maggie and Hannah. Jez doesn't really come into that category because she's half vampire." Thierry says.
"Who are the witches? The rest of them I mean."
"Phil, Poppy, who is also a made vampire, long story I'll tell you later. Thea, Blaise, Gillian, Iliana, Winnie and Kali are the witches." He tells me.
"The vampires are: James, Poppy, Ash, Rowan, Kestrel, Jade, Quinn, me, Jez, Morgead, Delos, Nissa and Nilsson. Most of the staff are vampires as well.
The shapeshifters are Miles, Galen and Keller. Lupe is a werewolf. Miles was originally human but he was made a falcon shapeshifter. Galen is a leopard and Keller is a panther." He finishes.
"What's the story on Poppy? Why is she a made vampire?" I ask.
"When Poppy was sixteen she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was dying from it. She and James had been best friends since they were five, when he heard about the cancer; he decided to make Poppy a vampire it was the only way to save her life.
They are also soulmates."
"Ash and Mary-Lynnette, Eric and Thea, Gillian and David, Quinn and Rashel, Jez and Morgead, Delos and Maggie, Keller and Galen and Nilsson and Kali are all soulmate couples as well as Hannah and I." Thierry continues.
"I had a funny feeling that all the couples here seemed more than just boyfriends and girlfriends. Now I know why." I tell him.
"That must have been your witch side those feelings were coming from." He says.
"My vampire side must explain why I like my meat near enough raw. I must like the taste of blood, even if it's only a little bit of it." I mutter.
"Must be. Tell me, did you ever feel sick, then after you ate almost raw meat that you felt better?" He asks.
"Occasionally. You think my vampire side has something to do with that?" I ask.
"Yes. I think it does." He replies.
Thierry and I talk long into the night. It is about two-thirty in the morning when I flop down on my bed and fall asleep.
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A/N: I'm currently writing and typing out part 10, but it might be a while because I have writer's cramp in my right wrist. But I'll let anyone know when the tenth part is up.
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