It had been two weeks since Sarah had fought and defeated her mother, something that she knew would remain a secret between her mother, Adianna, and most likely Caryn's mother who would have been the only healer witch that her mother would trust to look after her. Several days ago, Sarah had called her sister on her cell phone and had politly asked if she could bring all of her stuff to SingleEarth so that she wouldn't have to borrow clothes from Jessica. She had asked the same to be done with Caryn's things who like Sarah had been wearing Jessica's clothes. It's wasn't that Sarah hated Jessica's clothes, it was just that she needed to get her own clothing because she hated having to rely on Jessica for clothing. Adianna had agreed to meet both Sarah and Caryn at SingleEarth to give them their stuff, and it was Caryn's idea that they meet at SingleEarth. By SingleEarth law, should Adianna attack Sarah she could be punished as SingleEarth was the only place that vampire hunters could not attack vampires. Sarah trusted her sister, but yet she knew that she was still a Vida witch who you can never turn your back on if you are being hunted by them.
The sun had just set as Sarah pulled up to SingleEarth in her Jaguar, parking the car in the closest available parking space to the main doors. She and Caryn got out and walked inside to wait for Adianna to arrive, the bright lights of the lounge slightly blinding Sarah. There were several vampires and about ten humans scattered about the lounge on the couches or at the tables, sitting talking amongst themselves, laughing as they joked back and forth. Most of the vampires looked up in shock and fear as they felt Sarah's powerful aura, striking them all over as they watched her suspiciously. She gave them all the warning glare to go back to what they were doing as she and Caryn sat down on a bench nearest the reception booth. The human who was sitting behind the reception booth looked up from what she was doing at Caryn, giving her a nod before she continued on with her work. Obviously Dominique had spread the word to all those witches about Caryn and obviously the witches at SingleEarth had told everyone else.
"Well, I guess together, the two of us are racking up quite the attention." Sarah said quietly to Caryn as she unzipped her jacket.
"Well with my story of surviving Dominique and your aura, no wonder." Caryn replied with a grin as she looked around at all the familier faces. A female voice shouted across the lounge at Sarah, who looked up just to see Nissa running over to her. Sarah stood up and allowed Nissa to give her a huge bear hug, smiling broadly as she hugged her friend.
"Sarah, your okay." Nissa started, but her eyes grew wide as she felt Sarah's aura.
"You've killed." Nissa gasped as she stepped back slightly, looking Sarah over.
"Yeah, well I kind of lost control the first time and all the other times it was by my own choice." Sarah said, her face expressionless, a Vida habit she was trying to drop.
"But how can you do something like that?" Nissa asked hurtfully.
"Nissa listen, the way you and Christopher live that's not for me, but neither is the way that Nikolas does. I learned from Jessica and Aubrey that I don't have to live either of those ways but still kill and not as often. I like the way I live now, and I need my strength to be at it's peak, with all those that will be after Caryn, I need to help protect her." Sarah explained honestly, placing her hand on Nissa's shoulder gently.
"I understand Sarah, I'm just glad your okay. Your aura though, it's even stronger than Nikolas' and Kaleo's." Nissa said in awe, smiling once again.
"I am as strong as Jessica and Aubrey now." Sarah commented with a grin as she thought of all the play fighting the three of them had been doing. Even Caryn was stronger now and could make her feel some of the injuries she caused the three of them. Nissa looked at Sarah with shock and disbelief, and Sarah knew that she knew how strong both Jessica and Aubrey were.
"That is amazing Sarah." Nissa said with a grin as she shook her head slightly, changing her attention from Sarah to Caryn.
"I hear that you were attacked by an enraged Dominique Vida and you lived. From the last time I saw you at school, I see that your aura has grown stronger and even more tainted. What's the story behind that?" Nissa asked curiously as she turned to face Caryn. With a quick look over at Sarah, Caryn told Nissa the whole story from Dominique attacking her and her somehow making her way to Los Noches, to the part about Jessica and Sarah giving her some of their blood to her now being stronger and having heightened senses. Nissa stood in shock for the most part of the story and Sarah had to explain with great detail what she and Jessica did with their blood to Caryn in order to protect her. After about half an hour Caryn had finally finished and Nissa had finally overcame her shock and disbelief.
"Wow." she said with a small laugh.
"Sarah, you really beat Dominique?" Nissa asked. Sarah knew that Nissa found it hard to believe, and she herself found it hard to believe. Not many of her kind went up against Dominque Vida and came out victorious.
"Yeah I did, and I might add, she is now harmless." Sarah replied, some pain still lingering in her voice.
"Harmless?" Nissa questioned.
"I stripped her of her powers. That will pretty much drive her insane and I know for a fact that she will not continue hunting after she heals." Sarah stated as she sat down on the bench.
"I see." Nissa said as she and Caryn joined her.
"But on a lighter note, what brings you here Sarah?" she asked cheerfully, smiling brightly.
"We're waiting for Adianna to come and bring our stuff. I called her the other night and she said that she would meet us here with all our stuff seeing as neither of us can go to our old homes." Sarah answered, quickly glancing at her watch. It was seven already, what could be keeping Adianna? Nissa just nodded and looked down at her shoes for a second as if debating whether she should say something that was on her mind.
"Christopher is worried about you. He hasn't set foot outside the house since you were changed. However, he is in somewhat of a good mood." Nissa said, emotion in her eyes as she looked at Sarah. Sarah closed her eyes in rememberance as she thought of Christopher. It had been almost a month since she had saw him and she missed him dearly. Now that she was a vampire she could be with him without worrying about whether or not she was breaking the Vida laws. She knew that the love she felt for Christopher was sincere and the same for with him, but she felt that her home was with Jessica and Aubrey. Would Christopher still want to see her even if it ment coming to New Mayhem to their house? She had a feeling that he would, because she was sure he knew that Jessica and Aubrey were a lot different than the vampires that went to Nikolas' bashes. Sarah opened her eyes and looked at Nissa as she contemplated what to do. She used her mind to telekenetically bring her a pad of paper and a pen.
"Here, give this to Christopher when you go home tonight." Sarah said as she wrote down her address.
"I will but he won't leave the house. He will think that I went and found out where you are staying and am giving it to him so that he will go out of the house and talk to you after all this time." Nissa said as she folded the piece of paper and put it in her pocket.
"Tomorrow Nikolas is having another bash at his house. Christopher will still be there. Why don't you go see him, I don't really want him in that atmoshpere, Kendra's circuit is all going to be there." Nissa said with a shudder.
"Alright, I'll be there, but don't tell Christopher that I'm coming. I want to surprise him." Sarah said as she mentally made a note to remember to go tomorrow night. Sarah felt her sister's presence in the parking lot and she heard the sound of the stereo cutting out as the car was turned off. Getting to her feet she peered through the glass of the main doors and could she her sister sitting in the drivers seat, checking to make sure all her knives were in place.
"Hey Nissa we got to go, Adianna's here. I'd love to stay and keep talking to you, but I'm not sure how my sister will react tonight." Sarah said as she turned to face Nissa.
"Alright, see you later." Nissa said as she zipped her jacket up and dissapeared. Caryn got up and the two of them walked out into the parking lot just as Adianna was getting out of her car. Sarah could feel her sisters tension, it was so thick it could be cut with a knife. Her sister looked like she hadn't slept well in the past two weeks and she still had a slight limp from where Sarah had broken her leg in the fight. Sarah knew damn well her sister was risking a lot coming here and meeting her and Caryn that night. If any of the witches from her mothers circle saw her, she would be punished severly for associating with a traitor and a coward. Adianna had already almost caused Caryn's death by having her cover for her that night when Sarah took off to fight Nikolas, but Caryn had forgiven her, knowing the importance of Adianna not getting caught.
"Adianna." Sarah said as she cautiously approched her sister. She knew every section that her sister had a knife hidden, as well as the way her sister fought should she attack.
"Sarah, Caryn." Adianna replied, moving a loose strand of hair from her face.
"Your guys' stuff is in the trunk and the back." Adianna said, hitting the button on her keys that opened the trunk of her car. Sarah walked over to her car which was parked beside Adianna's and unlocked the doors and opened the trunk. It took them about an hour to unpack all of their belonging from Adianna's car and repack them into Sarah's but when they were done it had only seemed to take ten minutes. Slamming the trunk down with a sigh, Sarah leaned up against the driver side of her car and look questioningly at her sister.
"How is Dominique doing?" She asked, the whole situation was akward, and Sarah only wished her sister wasn't so tense around her. She didn't really blame her, after all she was the same "leech" as her family so fittingly put it, that her sister hunted on a daily basis, so she could she her sister's reason for being tense.
"She's healing, slowly but surely. She has a lot of injuries that are going to take time for her to heal from now that she's human." Adianna said. There was coldness in her voice, but Sarah could still detect the pain that she was hiding so well, her sister always had the most control over her emotions.
"How's she taking it?" Sarah asked quietly. Caryn had come over close to her and leaned up against the car as well, giving her mental support.
"If you mean how is she taking it knowing what you are, she acts like you are dead. I told her what you said, but she never showed any sign that she heard me. She is in pain over it, she hides it well but I know she hurts. As for her being human, it's killing her inside more than you being a vampire. She's always been the most feared vampire hunter that ever walked the earth and now she's just a human. She's lost her will to fight, we've had healers come over and she refuses to listen to them. All she does is sit around and clean her knives or stare out the window." Adianna answered, her control almost breaking. Sarah stood up straight and brazenly gave her sister a hug, something she hadn't done since her father had been killed. Surprisingly she didn't haul back but cried as she hugged her. Adianna never cried in all the time that Sarah could remember, she had always been the stronger one, the one that Dominique was always proud of. Sarah just stood there and let her sister be a vulnerable human for once, something that she was always forbidden to be.
Sarah was uncertain how much time had passed, for Caryn had not once told her, but just stood, leaning up against the car allowing her to have that time with her sister. Sarah knew however that had best break away from her sister now so as to not keep her any longer in case Dominique sent someone out looking for her. Adianna wiped her eyes and gathered her pride once again.
"Well I guess I had better get going before someone comes looking for me. That's all I need, is someone catching me breaking a Vida Law." Adianna said as she walked around her car to the drivers side door, unlocked and opened it, ready to get in when Sarah remembered the package she had in her coat pocket for her.
"Adia wait." Sarah called as she ran around to her sister.
"Here, take this." Sarah said as she hauled the cloth wrapped package carefully out of her pocket. Adianna took it and unwrapped it, her eyes growing wide in surprise at what she had unwrapped. It was one of the two hunting knives her father had gave Sarah right before he died, the same two that had were Sarah's best knives and had saved her plenty of times in bad situations. Sarah had wrapped it carefully in cloth due to the fact that all the knives she had, none of them had a case that they could go into that she could hook on her belt or in her normal hiding spots. She had always worn her knives with the blades up close against her bare skin, but now the metal burned her skin. She would have to wait till she could find the right casing for her knife before she would wear her other one again.
"Sarah, this is your best knife, I don't want to take it." Adianna said stubbornly as she tried to hand Sarah back the knife.
"No take it. I don't need it anymore, take it as a reminder of me and as a peace offering between the two of us." Sarah said, stepping back away from Adianna so she could not try to give it back to her.
"I-I--" Adianna started, dumbfounded.
"See ya around Adia." Sarah said with a smile as she walked back over to her car and got in. Adianna was still standing dumbfounded in the parking lot by her car as Sarah hauled out onto the street and off into the night towards New Mayhem.