Roses Are Red

Summary: Hi. I'm Faith Isabella de Silva. Interesting name, not? Yeah, well, I'm not your average girl. My mom's the most powerful shifter around, and my dad (who my friends allllwaaays drool over-eew!) is pretty high up there on the mediator totem pole. So, what did I get from them? OK, a) I'm a shifter. And b) Thanks to being a mediator/shifter hybrid, I'm a "special" kind of shifter. I mediate vampires.

Disclaimer: What you recognize is either from The Mediator or Boys that Bite.

Chapter Eleven: Charity the Shrink

My mouth dropped open. What the heck...? Then, anger bubbled up inside of me. Now I knew what Nick had felt like.

Except, this was worse.

"Cassidy! Magnus!" I yelled. The two broke apart. Magnus's blue eyes were on me.

"Faith, please-"

"Oooh, no," I snarled, "I've had enough. First, you kiss me. Then, you admit it was a fluke, but are still against Ben and I. Now you go and kiss my ex-best friend?"

"Ex?" Cassidy asked stupidly.

"Yeah, ex, you retard!" I cried, and walked out of the house.

Now, where do I go to get Magnus advice? My mom? No, you should know that by now.

Our resident Goth vampiress.

000

"Sit down," Charity adviced me, gesturing to the tiny sofa.

"Why?"

She shrugged. "I've always wondered what it woukd be like to be a shrink."

"OK."

"So," She asked, "What's up?"

"WellMagnuswaskissingCassidywhousedtobemybestfriendbutnowIhatethem. Got that?"

Charity gave me a sarcastic look. "Oh, yeah."

She then promptly banged my head with a clipboard. Hey, where the heck did she get that?

"Of course I didn't get it, moron! English, please!"

"All right. I walked in on Cassidy and Magnus kissing."

"What?" Charity yelled, "But I NEVER fail with distracting guys!"

"Yeah, well, you did this time."

All I got was a muttered, "But I never fail."

"And now I'm kinda caught in the middle."

"But I never fail."

"So, what do I do?"

"But I never fail."

"Charity?"
"But I never fail."

"YOU FAILED!"

She shot me The Look. "OK, OK." She sighed, "Look. I think you need to figure out what's going on with your feelings for Magnus."

I looked down. "But I don't have feelings for him."

Charity gave me a dry look. "Come on. This is me you're talking to."

"Well..."

Charity calmly took me by the shoulders and began to shake me. "YOU. LIKE. HIM."
"No I don't!"

"This is gonna be a loooong night."

000

"Hey," I finally said about two hours later. "Wanna come over to my place?"

Charity's eyes widened. "You want me to come over? It's been... years since someone asked me that..."

I smirked. "Then let's get your car."

000

"So, Charity," Mom smiled, "Nice to meet you."

Charity gave her the look that she always seems to give nice people.

"Uh... likewise."

We then walked into my room. Charity reached into her bad and pulled out a pair of tong looking things.

"Hey, can you hold my tongue with this while I pierce it?"

"But it's already pierced."
"So? I want another one."

"OK..."

Charity stuck out her tongue for me to use the tongs. After this was executed, she took a needled and stuck it through her tongue. Needless to say, this was slightly disturbing.

"Hey?" I asked, "Why isn't it bleeding?"

"We only bleed when we get staked," She said in a weird voice(considering that her tongue had a new hole in it), "Or for mediation purposes." She looked at me. "Have you figured out what you're supposed to do to mediate me?"

I gulped. "Yeah."

"What?"

"OK. There are different ways for each scenario. First, we get your souls weighed by the Reasoners. Whoever they are. Then, if your soul is pure enough and Slade's isn't, we stake him, and you drink his blood. You... die. And go to heaven."

Charity looked down. "Well... O-OK. What if my soul isn't pure enough?"

"It's messy."

000

Today, Charity was coming to my school. I was still kinda shaken about the Magnus thing, and she was bored out of her mind.

Whispers rang through the hallway as she walked through. People stared at her. I noticed Jen, the most popular girl in in school, snickering. Charity looked at her with those yellow eyes.

"Please control yourself," I hissed. She smirked. "Don't worry."

Charity calmly walked over to her. "How ya doin'?" She asked, then smiled. Revealing elongated fangs.

"Ew!" Jen shrieked, pointing. Charity tossed her blood red hair.

"Yeah, I have long teeth. You like?"

"What are you, a vampire?"

"Vampiress, actually." Charity was glaring at her. No, not glaring... hypnotising... I just remembered that vamps can do that...

She then left Jen in a trance, the other popular girls waving their hands in front of her face.

"I think I like this school."

000

Just let me talk to you, and I'll be a peace.

I passed 'cousin' Charity a crumpled note.

Magnus wants to talk to me.

Oh no. You're turning me into a high school girl.

Gee. Nice advice.

Talk to him!

What do you want?

A chance to explain.

Well?
I kissed Cassidy. But not for the reason you think.

Why?

To... distract myself.

From what?

Things. It's not as easy as you think. Being a vampire.

Who said I thought it was easy?

Faith. Please. You know that you've been thinking about how it would be to be one of us. To have the charm. To have immortality. It's not that way.

What do you mean?

Let's just say... we don't just hunger for blood.

000

Tell me what you thought he meant. R and R!