Chapter 13 :We could crush
Salvatore boarding school for the young and gifted, Mystic Falls:
-"Do you think it's true what your uncle has told us about your father being in love with my mother?" Josie asks Hope as they are moving to their next class;
-"He has not said that, my dad was obsessed with her meaning for a vampire: he had pursued her until he had what he wanted, got bored then moved on to my mother then to Cami." She answers curtly but her new friend does not realize how much this was a sour subject for her;
-"Cami?" Josie takes up;
-"A sweat girl back in New Orleans, he will be with her if she wasn't dead too." Hope clarifies sighting;
-"I'm sorry, you seem to have experience you faire share of grief already. " Josie says with true compassion;
-"Like you." The wolf girl replies and they walk in silence for some time after that;
-"I don't know Hope, my dad is still jealous about yours and my mom has not been quiet herself since you dad...you know..., I think they were still something between them..." Josie insists. She always had this side of her who needed to understand everything.
-"You don't understand do you? My father was a King, my mother a Queen and what about you mother hum? The headmistress of a school...Please! She was just one of his groupies, desperate to give him a hand!" Hope practically yells then runs to their biology class. For a split second, Josie stayed frozen as she was chocked by the other girl behaviour then she snapped out of it and scream after her:
-"You seriously need help crazypants!"
Whitmore College, Virginia
-"I have to admit the life of academic is not as exciting as I thought it would be, I have so much free time, I don't even know what to do with it anymore!" Professor Phyn jokes so Ms Salvatore laughs sweetly. "What the name of your school again?" he asks frowning;
-"It's not important, what it's important is, you will translate for me these journals [she stroked the manuscripts absently] every time you are alone and don't have anything to do. You will not be frightened by its content and don't talk or write about it except to me. You will send me the results of your work on this email [she wrote the address on a paper left on his desk] and hide the journals when you don't need them. You will be very careful about it, no one must know. When you have done with your translation, you will tell me so I will retrieve the journals. Once I have done just that, you will destroy all the evidences of your work for me and will forget about everything related to it. What you will remember is an old student who came to say hello. Bark like a dog if you understand." Caroline compels him and the professor does what was expected of him. "Perfect." She says smiling widely.
Inside a unmarked car, Bâton rouge
What they had…it was just an arrangement, a mean to an end so why did she felt so bad when she had ended it.
-"Miria?";
David from the third present had asked her on a date and she said yes. He was a good man, a good policeman and he was handsome, but most of all he didn't condemn her to have a secret affair until the end of time, a secret affair that put her at risk. 'It's better this way' she thought her head against the car window, her aviator sunglass on.
-"Central to Detective Miria Gensö?" Detective Albert Stern called her a hand in front of his mouth to mimic a police radio. Despite being built like a tank, Albert had the sweat face of an altar boy –yes he could get away from everything-.
-"Hum?" Miria reacts;
-"Finaly ! you have to focus partner, we have a vampire serial killer to put down, crime scene to falsify, evidence to temper and beers to drink." He says frowning, Miria was always focused so her lack of attention was alarming and they really had some work to do. Indeed, beside a smug witch, they were the only supernatural beings in the force they knew so that kind of case came down to them. He didn't like doing these illegal stuffs, not one bit but the alternative was being discovered by humans so they had to do it.
-"You know I will have your back, so let me be for now." And it was true; Miria was a godsend. She prevent him from killing himself after he was turned a few years ago, she told him how to control his vampire urges, how to fight with his new abilities...Hell! He didn't know how he managed to live without her before. She was always there when he needed her the most –to grumble, to cry or have his ass kicked-. His wife was jealous but it wasn't like that, she was more like a big sister to him.
-"If I didn't know you I would say that a man broke your heart..." he trails off, pleased with himself. Miria was very secretive and so in control, it was a miracle that she let so much out.
-"Mind your own business, do I ask you if you still know what sex is since you have been married for so long?" she rebuffs him;
-"Outch claws off tiger! I was just about to propose you to compel him to do stupid things but that ship is sealed now, your loss!" he replies feigning indignation;
-"Eyes on the road Albert the teddy bear." She answers smiling;
-"Please I can't be a teddy bear, look at me." He says gesturing to his stature, one hand on the wheel;
-"A black teddy bear?" Miria replies referring to the colour of his skin. Albert chuckled in response.
Ending song: Intergalactic lovers- Nothern rd.
A.N.: To answer your review Claudia you will not know why Hope is so upset until chapter 15 at least sorry! I hope you are not disappointed with this chapter though and thanks you for your awesome review! On other matter, smut and heartbreak are coming for the next chapter but not KC one (you will have to wait for that). Love and peace!
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