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Ash
"Darling niece, how nice of you to pay us a visit," the vampire laughed as Jez struggled furiously with the thugs holding her wrists. Morgead snarled at them, but that didn't do any good, one of them gave him a well-placed punch in the nose while two others held him. It bled, and Jez shook her head, hoping he'd get the message, oh Morgead, please don't do that again.
I wont, he promised, his eyes locked on hers, why is it always this way when we get together with your family?
She bit back the temptation to cry, remembering Lilly Redfern, instead she turned to face her aunt, she didn't say a word, just looked at her with those large, dangerous Jez Redfern eyes. It was enough to make most of her enemies turn away in fear and run yodelling away, but not for this enemy. This enemy reached out one perfectly manicured hand and slapped Jez.
Jez, are you okay? Morgead's voice vibrated through her brain, she could only laugh. She didn't even try to hold it back, "was that supposed to hurt" she gasped out, "I've been tickles more painful than that."
"Really?" the vampire smiled and slapped her again. This time, it wasn't feather-light, this time, Jez felt her eyes being raked out of their sockets, and looked down, she was holding a perfectly small, serviceable stick. Jez had started having blood meals again, she was potentially a full vampire. It hurt.
"You bitch!" she cursed, lunging for the woman, the two thugs holding her kicked her legs and she went flying, hitting her face off the wooden floors, she struggled to get up, but a foot held her in place. The vampire's foot. She wriggled weakly then went still.
JEZ, JEZ, JEZ, the voice was in her brain, and she was used to his excited outbursts, JEZ, ARE YOU OKAY!
Yes, Morgead, I'm just not going to fight a losing battle, she told him irritably. She thought she had a good right to be irritated. She didn't like being wedged from her home with her soulmate, to be dragged only to die. Most likely.
"Tell me where Galen Drache is hiding, and I'll let you live," the vampire hissed. And Jez felt a tremor of surprise go through her body. She didn't know Galen was at Thierry's mansion? Did she think that when the last two raids had happened, Galen hadn't been there? it didn't matter, she wasn't going to tell her that he was just so that she and her thugs could go there and kill everyone she loved. Everyone except Morgead, she supposed they'd kill him there, along with her.
I'm sorry, she told him, knowing he'd know what she meant.
It's not your fault; they wont let you and me go even if you did tell him he was there. it's not your fault.
"I wouldn't tell you, you bitch," she hissed, and the vampire gestured for a woman with raven black hair to step forward, "confine her power. She'll talk later."
The witch came forward, touched Jez's arm, and she was too tired to fight.
"the other one might talk?" someone suggested, the vampire threw them an evil glare.
"No. the other one will die, maybe that will convince my dear niece to cooperate."
It almost did, until Jez felt the woman staring at her arm sigh in exasperation, "I can't block the power, ma'am."
"you what?" the vampire shrieked.
"I can't block the power. Ma'am." The witch repeated, almost in fear. Jez smiled. She could take them all out – right now, if only she had something that cut…
"Fine," the vampire glared at her niece, "take him to the torture cells. But I swear to you, Jezebel, if you even try to use your power, my guards will know about it, and they'll make sure you never see your precious soulmate ever again." She made the word soulmate sound like a curse.
Jez could only watch helplessly as Morgead was dragged away.
I love you, he whispered as he was dragged away, but do what you think is right. You are the only one who needs to get out of here alive.
I'll get out of here alive. With you. She promised. She hoped it was true.
Keller awoke to screams echoing down the hallway; she couldn't open her eyes, it was as though they were soldered together, the pain was exhilarating but terrible. It filled her with adrenaline and dread both at the same time.
"Keller? is that you? Goddess, you're a mess."
It wasn't the right time to be mentioning Keller's now questionable beauty, she turned her face up in something like a frown and snarled, only to be confronted by red hair and a beautiful face. At first, Keller was certain it was the vampire who had been holding her. Then she realised.
"Jez? Goddess, we need to get you out of here!"
"No kidding," Jez smiled, but her face was covered in bruises and her lip was slit, in another room, Keller could hear a male voice screaming out. Morgead. He must have followed Jez to his own death. Now, Keller could see the pain behind the smile, "you, me, Morgead, we need to get out of here," she looked towards the Drache's for the first time, "I suppose they can come too."
"we've tried," Keller sighed, indicating the chains around her hands and legs, "but I can't shape shift, and I don't suppose they let you come here without suspending the blue fire somehow?"
"Nope," Jez shook her head, "they couldn't restrain me."
"Well, that's great, that's…" at Jez's expression, Keller stopped dead, "why do I get the feeling this isn't good?"
"Keller. Morgead's my soulmate," she shrugged sadly, "I suppose you knew that, heh. But I love him and they have him, they say if I use my power, they'll kill him. It's the only reason he's alive right now, because I agreed."
Keller understood, she would have done the same thing in her shoes. She wouldn't have risked Galen for anything, even the whole world. And maybe the people who held Keller didn't even have the intention of killing Jez, she was her niece after all…and they seemed…fanatical…about having as much power as possible. They may try to use Jez.
"How did they get you, anyway?" she asked carefully.
"Oh yeah, you don't know anything about what has been happening, do you?" Jez asked carefully, at Keller's shake of the head, she continued, "Galen's been hysterical, obviously, and Thierry sent out two teams to find you. None of them succeeded, obviously. Delos, me and the humans got left behind, along with half of the rest of Circle Daybreak, one team was sent to spy and find possible locations – and from the quad of Winnie, Poppy, Morgead and Gillian, Gillian went missing," she lowered her head, "the other one went straight to a known warehouse and attacked. That wasn't such a good idea, it was empty – of you, I mean – there were a lot of guards. Me and Delos were trying to escape, so were Eric and David."
"why Eric?" Keller interrupted softly.
"I'm coming to that. Anyway, Ash was killed, so was Blaise, and a few other people who were weren't as close to," Jez ducked her head, "Thea called Eric to give him Ash's last words to Mary-Lynette, that's how we knew something real bad was happening. Thea was stabbed through the stomach, while she was pregnant with twins, one of them died. James was stabbed too, but he's fine now, and Holly was practically gutted in what we think was half-form where Blair was trying to change her."
It was a lot to take in, and Keller struggled over it for a while with her dying brain cells, then she asked the most intelligent question she could, given the circumstances, "what do you mean, think? Why not ask Blair?"
"see, Galen hadn't been going out to find you because we wouldn't let him, he instead had to rule his people to do that for him, they sent a raid party to get him. Most of the top floors were killed, including Blair…a few other people…Oh, and Mary-Lynette, Illiana stopped them from getting Galen, and I stopped them from getting Illiana. This is all after Thierry caught us sneaking out and yelled at us. A day later, there was a second raid, and they got me. Obviously, they didn't get Galen. Because he's not here."
"Oh Goddess," Keller had to gulp down a load of bile in her throat, it threatened to choke her, "all that…because of me?"
"Actually," Jez said, looking thoughtful, "all that because of Galen, he wont give himself up, and he wont stop us looking for you," she blinked, "not that we want to, but if he married…say…Illiana instead, you'd die. None of us want that, I'm not saying that, but technically, it's all because of Galen."
Keller had to laugh watching Jez dig a hole for herself, but it hurt to laugh, it hurt even to smile, feeling as though her face was cracking wide open.
"Jez, do you happen to…?"
"Know where we are? I know exactly where we are. Warehouse, Knight Stock Road, just off Vegas. But that won't help. Neither of us has a cell phone."
Both girls sighed and leaned back against the stone of the cell.
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