Diana dragged Paul to what used to be her workshop, she had told him that as D she'd collected a scary amount of "thingamabobs and whozitwhatzits" to take apart and see how they ticked. At the central table she took a seat and gestured Paul to do so too. There weren't actually any other chairs so he found himself a mysterious object to pull up and perch on, as Diana pulled out a mechanical handmade magic wand looking thing.
"What in the world does that do?"
"Oh, it's a laser scalpel, with a few different modes."
"How is that gonna charge my cell?"
It functioned as an electrical swiss army knife but now it felt odd to be hers, it was a piece of kit she had handmade, as D, to take apart, tweak, and fix anything, even the human heart. She wistfully turned it around in her petit pale hands, it was too big for her now, do females need everything funsized? She laid it delicately in front of her, "Paul pass your mobile to me please."
"Why, what are you going to do with it, and that thing?"
Paul had been scanning the room, it was very different to her spaceship, with dirty, possibly cream, unlit walls. It had a gloomy gritty feel and as far as he could see there were just mountains of sad broken things. Maybe Alexa wasn't the only one he should look out for? "Are you a mad scientist? Cause this place is totally giving off the vibes." Diana was studding her scientific tool thing wistfully.
"Pardon, oh sorry!" She snapped back out of her daze and clapped twice. The room was suddenly illuminated and the walls lit up brightly showing the scattered piling system of machines and nicknacks up to the ceiling. "Mad scientist? Probably. Hoarder, absolutely!" She beamed at Paul leaping up to pick up a few things from a pile a couple of foot away. She slammed down an electrical nicknack box, and an empty tool wrap. Using the tool she had she assembled three different far smaller gadgets, Paul watched on in awe. The first one was a three inch Swiss army knife without any knife blades, second what looked like a steampunk vaper pen thing, and finally, all he could think to describe it as would be a magic wand a thin metal stick with a glowing bobble on the end, like a micro crystal ball with a swirling galaxy inside.
Diana apprised her handiwork. She'd have to test which would work best later. For now she pried off the back of Paul's phone with the second one, used the multitool's laser inside tentatively, no easy reprogramming job…
Paul watched on in awe as she pouted slightly and turned to rummage around in the piles, zipping about then finally bringing out a portable victorian looking apothecary. She stood over his cell once more and pipetted a few drops of a metallic liquid onto the battery she'd decided to take out, she zips back and drops a few more drops of a luminous liquid over the first one, then blows it for a second. She put's it back together, placing it in his pale hands. Her smaller hands had lightly brushed his… "There you go, and you won't need to charge it ever again. I changed the make up of the battery to have a small contained nuclear fusion reaction." Having toured the Soviet Union during the Chernobyl disaster he was wary of fiddling about with nuclear power, it had little affect on him but… he thought inspecting his cell. "Thanks, but I was going to upgrade it next week." Diana rolled her eyes at him.
"Whats wrong with your current one?"
"Nothing, there's a new one out next week."
"Everything was new once, see this." She hiked out a large ugly appliance, with dead LEDs incased in a Bakelite coloured sort of plastic,"It will be cutting edge in a million years." She pursed her lips into a small pout and threw it back on the pile behind her.
Diana rattled the automatic 5 egg scrambler and poacher, "I keep most of these items for parts." It had survived over 300 breakfasts, a handy thing.
"Wait, it's from the future? Can I have it?" The taller blond asked in earnest, his eyes were darting around the 5 egger, no doubt trying to work out the function. She sighed as he shook with anticipation, somehow she couldn't deny him anything. Whenever she mentioned the future or space he got so excited, she remembered the times she'd been an excited young man. "Do you know what it does?"
"I'll figure it out!" He disappeared out the room with it, his pent up excitement released. "It's for the kitchen!" She called after the boy.
"I knew that!" Paul had flown it down with it to the kitchen. He couldn't wait to find out what people could do in the future, placing the plug (with a British adapter shoved on the end) in the first socket he had found. There it created a spark. And a loud bang that shook the entire house.
Diana had almost caught up to the supernatural boy, but she was too late, he had gone and electrocuted himself. He was looking decidedly frazzled on the floor of the kitchen, what to do? Her daughter was not helping the issue, she'd immediately run into her beloved kitchen when she'd heard the bang however instead of coming up with anything constructive, upon seeing the charred vampire, let out a snort and started chortling to herself. Diana crouched beside him, rattling through all the first aid assessments she deemed could be useful for a hardy supernatural. He wasn't dust, so applying regular vampire lore he'd be fine in a bit. "I forgot to warn him about the wattage… And well everything I own is broken." She took to tapping his hand lightly. "Pau-l, Pau-l, wake up."
Alexa found it all incredibly funny, she had been calculating ways she could possibly kill him if the time came. "It's good to know electrocution wouldn't work on him." She giggled a little more, whining a tear from her eye, and trying to regain some composure. She kicked him in the ribs, no movement, brilliant. "I'll clear this mess up then." She clasped one of his ankles, turned on the spot and dragged the home invader out of the room. A little Diana rushed after them, "Alexa be careful."
"Why? I don't know how you've tamed him for now, but he will try to kill us both at some point." She reached the stairs and a small smile escaped her lips, as she started up the stairs. Paul's head made a satisfying 'dunk' on every step. "I haven't tamed him." The blonde squeaked from below.
"You have. Have you not noticed his hanging on your every word and following you like a lost puppy? Did you give him something off of D's mountain of spares and he took it, whatever it was?" Alexa questioned with rare feminine wisdom, since her friendship with Sarah she'd seen her share of vampires fixating on teenage girls. Yet Diana was D's niece, she would be far more capable of handling them herself in a fight. D could out whit anyone… that is until Paul does whatever vampires do to make a move. Alexa looked back at her cousin, could she be as romantically dense as D? "I think that he may be changing my mind about vampires and how we should treat them. He's a fascinating opportunity of study. Please don't try to kill him just yet."
From her following position Diana winced in sympathetic pain as she watched as Paul's head repeatedly make contact with the steps of the staircase. The hunters strides were hard to keep up with. "That's easy for you to say, your life doesn't revolve around taking care of them." Her daughter rebuked.
"Oh I was thinking about that too, maybe you shouldn't be doing that as much Alexa."
With that her daughter spun on her heels, and clattering the vampire on the banister. She sniffed haughtily as her eyebrows knitted. "What follow my destiny? Take that up with the universe." She twined back and stormed up the rest of the case.
"But-" Her guardian in a new body tried to protest.
"Or D. He seems to have told you a lot about me. Which is awfully strange since he never mention you. Or any other family. Where have you been hiding?" Alexa stopped to turn and tower over her companion again. She looked as if a predator all sinew and power, looking down at her prey, even though there were only a couple of steps difference, she embodied intimidation.
Diana considered her answer, she didn't want to lie to her daughter, or explain the truth "Our family is an odd one, you never know… who's alive." She sucked in a long breath through her teeth. She had been so alone before she found Alexa, to raise her had been daunting, and had reminded her of her lost biological family members but, when it came down to it having all these years with Alexa was worth it. "He's so proud of you, you know that." She caught her daughter off guard with the heart of her statement. She just had an adorable moment of blobbing like a fish, then scowled as she resumed dragging the unconscious frazzled vampire.
Alexa tossed the lifeless vampire on a smaller double bed, it landed precariously on his front, neck broken with his bottom in the air, in front of two beautiful high windows. The daylight shone in and Alexa was chuffed with her work, that's exactly what blood suckers deserve.
"Alexa honey, won't he burn." her 'cousin' chimed faintly in concern.
"He's been wondering around the house all day with the sun shining." She smiled a toothy grin, and flippantly strode out.
Leaving Diana to tuck him into bed and draw the curtains to shield the slowly blistering young man before her. Finally she kissed him lightly on the forehead, it had been an age since she could do that to Alexa. She'd been such a cute kid when she'd dream.
Alexa was curled up in her favourite spot in the library, sniffed the air and closed her book. Night had fallen and something was amiss. Paul had not awoken yet but the stench of vampire was staring to permeate the house. She left her school books scattered around in her nook in the library to check on Diana.
Her cousin was tinkering along in D's workshop, happy as a clam, fixing things. She may have to have a word with her later about the said fixing things and giving them to Paul to blow up, but it was worth having a nice walk around the whole farm house before, if to only open the windows and let the undead stench out.
She found nothing, as she came back to look over her undead houseguest, maybe she was just imagining it, she was probably due a parol around the surrounding areas. Although she had done a very thorough job yesterday, she should return to studding.