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Control

Chapter 7: The First Attack

Hal's P.O.V

The café was completely empty, generally not such a good sign to gather in new customers. No one ever liked to dine in a café alone, but they could at least order take out. Unfortunately as we were cleaning up we found a collection of magazines, the kind that were not suitable for small children and that degraded woman. And then I learnt of Tom's views on woman, he believed they should be courted…

"Do they still use courted?" I asked jokingly, I had been round the centuries that the phrase was still in fashion, but nowadays it was called picking up chicks or something along those lines.

"Well you do." Tom answered crossing his arms as though he was embarrassed, not many men nowadays had the same views as Tom neither did a lot of women. Since all the equal rights for women movements back in the day, women had become a lot more independent and often didn't want to marry or were forced to marry. And since in the modern world sodomy was not frowned upon there were no same sex marriages as well, life had considerably changed around me.

"Yes, but I was around when the phrase was coined." I replied as we continued our little chat, a bet was made the first to get the next woman who walked into the café's number. Though we didn't expect to have to 'chat up' the most annoying girl that had ever entered the café…the gothic writer.

"Why did it have to be her." We both whispered hoping she wouldn't hear us; at least it was someone that wouldn't make Sophie jealous that she would rip her head off. Tom pointed his head over to her in a gesture to tell me to get to it.

"You're outfit is nice." I complimented as I walked over to her, she didn't react like most girls would with an 'Oh really, thanks.'

"What?" she questioned eyeing me suspiciously; maybe I had said the wrong thing. She was wearing rather unique clothing so maybe like some of the younger generation did nowadays; I should insult her which would be taken as a compliment…however that worked just as badly as the first compliment. Now it was Tom's turn.

"I like your tights, they remind me of bees and I like bees." He said rather quickly, more than likely he was nervous…maybe it was his first time at chatting up a girl.

"Urgh, no offence, but, like, I'm into guys that are just a little bit more edgy. You know, a little bit more darkness about them." She replied Tom looked over at me a smile breaking out on his face as we both began laughing, if only she knew what we are. "Are you laughing at me? You'd better not be laughing at me!"

"No, we weren't, honestly." Tom replied trying to calm her down after she got a bit wound up.

"Sorry, it's just, um, a private joke, you see. We're actually both quite dark in our own little ways." I added, a vampire and a werewolf how much darker could you get?

"Yeah, but he's darker than me, I'm only dark occasionally."

Sophie's P.O.V

After the encounter Annie and I managed to lock ourselves back into the house…Regus had been right the vampire community would easily be able to find the Baby, and since it was Fergus who was hunting her down it wasn't going to be easy to avoid her.

"He seemed to know you." Annie stated it was like a question in a way. A polite way as to enquire without actually asking the question, some people simply didn't like to ask questions because they felt it was a bit too nosy.

"Fergus…he travelled with Hal and I for a while…he isn't exactly a vampire I like." I replied, "Have you met him before?"

"He was the one who kidnapped Eve the last time." Annie answered that wasn't good it meant that Fergus would be able to get back into the house…

"That means…" I whispered she nodded confirming what I thought.

"Yes…unfortunately." After we had, had our little chat Annie wanted to go see Regus it was about his whole idea of her leaving Barry with the baby to avoid the Old Ones. But it wouldn't be as easy as that, the Old Ones would find her, they wouldn't stop until they did. It was a couple of hours later when she finally arrived back ranting and raving about how Regus has made her push sex memories into his mind…he always was an odd one. A couple of minutes after she arrived back, Hal and Tom returned to the house, they sank into the sofa and began watching TV, they ignored Annie and I completely.

"Annie! How was your day? Oh, thank you. Thank you for asking, because it was a bit weird." She said frustrated as they completely ignored her. "I got stalked by a vampire in the park and then I pushed my sex memories into another vampire's sad little vampire brain. Ooh, that is weird Annie. Yes, I know. Thank you for asking."

"Is there something you'd like to tell us, Annie?" Tom asked half tuning into what Annie was ranting on about; she sighed and went back into the kitchen.

"Fergus found us today." I stated, both Tom and Hal looked at me with a stern look…I knew Hal didn't particularly like him…well nowadays anyway. And Tom well since Annie told me that Fergus was responsible for the kidnapping of Eve and my default the death of George. "We need to get out of here, before the Old Ones come. Regus suggested the middle of nowhere with the least amount of contact."

"I cannot sleep in a barn, or a tent or a caravan or anywhere without central heating, carpets and Radio 4, and that should be on my list." Hal stated Annie shook her head; maybe she was missing how it used to be with the original household…kind of how I missed Leo and Pearl. "Look, I'm not sure what you were used to when George and, err Tina were around, but..."

"Their names...were Nina...George...and Mitchell. And this was their home. And they were my friends. And they would have listened to me." Annie yelled before she disappeared, Tom hung his head slightly before he went off to see how Annie was.

"Hal…what should we do about Fergus?" I asked as I sat down next to Hal, snuggling in close to him.

"I'll deal with it."

Hal's P.O.V

Another gruelling day at the café, at least I had yet to lose my control and eat the customers. The girl returned once more ordering a burger…however she didn't want to pay in a conventional way, something or other about her poem being worth the café in a few years' time, but since we did not accept paper as payment so she began to throw money at me…something snapped.

"I used to ride a horse once." I stated as I began to tap incessantly on the keys of the register.

"What? What's that got to do with it?" she asked, Tom walked back into the front of the café.

"I had a sword, I was respected. Better than that, I was feared. Peasants had their backs flayed for looking at me funny."

"You alright Hal?" Tom asked coming over and putting a hand on my shoulder.

"It was brutal, but it worked. We had order, we had respect, and now, we have this."

"OK, then, mate. Let's go in the back and have a bit of a chat, shall we? Come on." Tom said shifting me round to face the back of the café as he began to push me towards the back room. "You're not a very nice lady."

"And I had a shield. A red one!" I exclaimed just before we finally got into the back room.

"What was that?" Tom asked I shook my head pacing round the room.

"I'm losing control, I wanted to leap over the counter, but instead I end up rambling." I answered finally feeling myself gain some control slightly. "I made a fool of myself."

"At least you didn't leap." He offered allowing us to laugh for a bit. "A red shield really? Here you can cool down outside."

Just what I needed to sort the rubbish out…cool my head and think about what happened and what nearly could have happened. I just wasn't expecting to see him so soon.

"My Lord…I wasn't expecting to see you here…well to see you ever again, word is that you and the Lady are dust." He sneered walking up to me; he hadn't changed well except for the police uniform. I snapped again pushing him up against the wall but he only laughed.

"You tell a soul and I swear!" I hissed, old Hal bubbling to the surface slightly only making Fergus smile and laugh more. He began babbling about some plan he had to kill Tom and me in my state of anger agreed to not involve myself…was this a good idea? Well in the end it wasn't, Tom and I ended up running from the group with the girl or Michaela as we found out with us.

"Who are they?" she asked as we stopped round a corner for a moment.

"Vampires." Tom and I replied she rolled her eyes shaking her head too.

"Yeah, pick on the weird gothic girl, that's what they always do." She mumbled I looked over at Tom he shrugged his shoulders.

"Look, I'm a vampire." I explained she didn't look convinced so I let my fangs drop and my eyes turn black, earning a gasp. "And he's a werewolf."

Temptation began to grow as she began teasing me…well she didn't believe it was teasing because she didn't know I had been off blood for fifty five years, luckily Tom was there to stop anything from happening. We ran back to the house finding Annie, Regus and a very agitated looking Sophie in the house, Annie was packing…was she wanting to run away with Regus?

"What's going on?" Sophie asked as she spotted are entrance and blocking the door back up.

"Fergus." I answered as Tom began getting stakes ready to fend of this attack. As I went upstairs, it suddenly turned quiet. Had they gotten in? They couldn't have, who would invite them in? As I walked back into the living room my assumptions were correct, Regus was on the floor Annie and Tom were further back in the room towards the front door while Sophie was stood towards the stairs, she was probably trying to get me. And Fergus stood in front of his gang of vampires stood behind him as he held a knife to Michaela's neck. It was rather easy to gain Fergus' trust even easier to dust him, unfortunately Michaela was basically nearly killed by a knife wound to the neck…Regus took the opportunity to make a companion for the rest of his immortal life.

Sophie's P.O.V

After the whole ordeal with Fergus and his rag tag team of vampire brutes, we sat down for a well-earned rest. Annie once more was making tea like she did on the night after Leo and Pearl passed on. Hal, Tom and I sat watching the television, in these modern times there were some very bizarre programs.

"What we watching?" Tom asked I shrugged as I watched the woman in the show explain how to get free drinks off of people in bars by doing random tricks using glasses and cards.

"I don't know something about conmen." Hal answered as we watched the programme with bored fascination.

"Anything else on?" Tom asked as he accepted his tea off of Annie as she joined us on the sofa. Hal switched the channel to the Antiques Road show something we would watch with Leo when the shop was closed. Hal and Tom began to see if they could guess how much each item would get in the auction. It was nice to be able to relax, after all the drama of the past two days.


Author's Notes:

Hi! Extremely sorry that this has taken ages to write! I still had a lot of work to do after exams because my teachers absolutely hate us and give us so much work! But now I've finished most of the fanfics I've uploaded, it think it's only this and The Best Defence Is A Good Offence left to complete, except the joint fanfic written between three of my friends. So I'm focusing on this fanfic before the other one. I've already completed the final chapter and I have I think it's something like thirteen starts to thirteen chapters after this one or maybe it is twelve because I've finished chapter 20 already. I think once the next series comes on I'll continue the story in a new fanfic, but I'll have to see what the plot is for the next series, I will totally miss Annie! Thanks again for the support and sorry for the slow updating! Hope you have enjoyed! Ciao for now! =D