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Control
Chapter 13: Alex and Allison
Annie's P.O.V
I was downstairs cleaning some of the dishes in the kitchen, Allison had stayed with us last night, she didn't have anywhere else to go and it was no problem she was after all a werewolf. Tom was definitely in love with her and it was completely adorable, two werewolves falling in love it was like Nina and George again…though Tom hadn't turned Allison into a werewolf…it would have been the perfect set-up in the house, if it weren't for Emrys. A scream brought me out of my thoughts…what had happened? I appeared outside the bathroom where Hal, Sophie and Tom where waiting, Tom immediately opened the door revealing Allison in a towel and of course Emrys…why oh why did I kill him?
"Who is this guy?" Tom asked looking at me and trying to avoid extended eye contact with Allison.
"Okay, I'm sorry. I should have explained. Everybody, this is Emrys. I... killed him." I replied Sophie shook her head and the others looked between Emrys and I. "Look its fine. I'm all over this. We just need to figure out his unfinished business and then move him on."
"And you think that's haunting our bathroom?" Tom asked sceptically as he tried not to look towards Allison.
"No, Tom. Of course it's not haunting our bathroom. Unfinished business is something good and something righteous." I replied, of course Emrys unfinished business was not going to be haunting a bloody bathroom, no one's unfinished business was to haunt a bathroom.
"Who says?" Emrys asked I sighed in frustration; I'd been over possible things he had to do with him and all he had come up with stupid idiotic things that he wanted to do.
"I knew a ghost whose unfinished business was to castrate her brother-in-law. Something to do with inappropriate Salsa dancing. So it could be anything really." Hal offered, that seriously couldn't be right it wasn't a righteous act that all unfinished business was.
"Is that the girl whose mother was going to make her marry him instead of her sister?" Sophie asked and now they were going to go off with all their memories of the past, it was better to leave them be for a while when they did this.
"See." Emrys said as if he had finally won this debate, but I wasn't going to give up that easily.
"I refuse to believe that." I stated as we left the bathroom leaving Allison to continue her shower in peace.
"Why?" he questioned as we stood in the hallway, this brought Hal and Sophie's conversation to an end as the focused on me.
"Well because I'm still here, aren't I. And when my time comes it will be to do something good."
Hal's P.O.V
Why had I agreed to this? It would have been a lot easier if I had just stayed at home with Sophie and Annie…home I could finally call it that. This was going to be the ultimate test…if it was anything but a date I would have had Sophie by my side, helping keep me calm, helping keep me in control. But she would surely lose it if she knew I was out her on a 'date' with a girl, and I'm sure Alex would love to keep her jugular intact…the jugular…no time to be thinking of blood now, keep control…
"Hal, I found these matches and some of them are the wrong way 'round." Tom said extending his arm that held the packet of matches, a smile on his face. I knew I could count on him to keep me in control, just like Leo…
"We'll soon see about that!" I said as I grabbed the packet out of his hand and began to rearrange the matches, it soothed me, but I knew this 'date' was going to be extremely excruciatingly long, could I keep control that long?
"It calms him down. I knew he'd get like this."
Sophie's P.O.V
Hal, Tom and Allison had gone god knows where, something or other about the werewolf thing and a date, I was more concerned about helping Annie, after all she had to help Emrys and look after the baby and of course she had been welcoming enough to let Hal and I stay here even after all we had been through.
"So you have no friends, you don't owe any moment and you have no regrets. Oh! Have you seen Titanic?" Annie questioned as she pondered exactly what Emrys' unfinished business was; he shook his head to all of Annie's questions. While I rocked Eve gently, she'd been a very welcome addition to the new routine.
"I've enjoyed being dead." He mused after being dead for nearly six hundred years I could kind of see what he meant…well I wasn't a ghost so I didn't have the perk of not being seen by ordinary humans, but there wasn't a lot you needed to worry about like disease.
"I've been dead for a long time…it is sort of fun." I agreed earning a confused look from Annie, maybe she thought I had meant that the years of drinking blood and killing all those people was fun, rather than seeing the change in the ways of life over the years. "Not the killing…"
"You're not supposed to enjoy it!" she argued sitting down on the couch next to Eve and I, sometimes she just needed to accept that she was dead and live her afterlife as best she could until she finally found her unfinished business and moved on.
"That's the problem with you, Annie. Everything's supposed to be like this, supposed to be like that. I'm not supposed to like naked girlies. Unfinished business has to be good. Look, life isn't like that. Mine wasn't. I don't see why death has to be."
Tom's P.O.V
It was at least an hour after Allison and I had returned from the museum when Hal finally returned home looking rather disturbed…how were we going to explain this to Sophie? It was rather difficult to explain to her where we were exactly going without making her jealous enough to rip Alex to shreds, but luckily she was happy to help Annie with Emrys.
"How'd it go with Alex?" Allison asked as he paced in front of us, she was careful enough to make sure that Sophie was not in the room.
"I don't think we'll be seeing her again. She tried to kiss me and..." he replied his pacing increased obviously he was trying to keep in control.
"You killed her?" I asked he couldn't have lost all of his control and killed her in broad daylight.
"No! No, I think the routines have really helped suppress those urges." He replied finally sitting down, it was at this point Sophie had decided to walk in.
"So you chickened out?" Allison asked not spotting that Sophie was now further into the room.
"That's absolutely ridicu— How dare you!" he replied clearly flustered as he crossed his arms like a petulant child.
"What's ridiculous?" Sophie asked as she perched on the side of the couch closest to Hal, but no one seemed to register the question, well I definitely was too shocked at my revelation.
"Oh my god. You ain't scared of killing, you're just scared." I exclaimed which made Hal even grumpier.
"I have seduced several thousand women in my time." He grumbled earning a light smack to his shoulder.
"And they all ended up dead." Sophie added which looked very true considering all the women he met would either have been killed by him, died of old age or in the case of Sophie turned into a vampire.
"What about you?" Allison asked a fair question sometimes people wondered whether you could call a vampire dead or alive, since they still looked more or less like every other person.
"Like I said dead." Sophie replied smiling, with that Allison and I left the two of them alone, Hal hoping Sophie would not find out what had happened today.
"Oh, by the way who's Alex?"
Annie's P.O.V
"That was brilliant!" Emrys exclaimed as both his wife and her new lover ran from the house…it wasn't exactly the unfinished business I had been expecting he would have to complete; scaring your wife…never would I have thought of it.
"But totally unethical." I replied though I had to admit that it was pretty fun to mess with people. A door appeared behind us; surely this could not have been the unfinished business he was supposed to do.
"Maybe not. I knew I was right. Remember, when your time comes, it may not be a good thing you have to do." He stated as he walked through the door, maybe I did have to rethink what exactly my unfinished business was. Just as the door closed behind Emrys, it reopened revealing a blonde woman.
"You have to come with me." She commanded beckoning me to come through the door, but I was not going to fall for this, I was not going back there. "No, Annie, listen to me. There's never been anything more important."
"I have a baby. Um, Eve. I have to look after her." I reasoned as I began to walk back to the front door.
"Annie, I am the baby." She stated, this couldn't be she was not Eve, Eve was just a baby, that was still alive, this had to be some sort of trick or joke or something.
"What?" I questioned stopping in my tracks.
"It's me, Annie. Mum. I'm Eve."
Author's Notes:
Hi! Thanks again for the support! Hope you have enjoyed! Sorry for the slow updating I've had a bit of work to do recently not much, but still enough to keep me from updating as much as I have been doing. Thanks so much to those who have messaged me and such like it has renewed my passion to complete this for you all. And I shall be continuing this into season five when it is broadcast! In the next chapter there will be a lot more flashback scenes, I love writing of past Hal and Sophie it's really fun to do even if there has only been one or two flashbacks. Thanks again! Ciao for now! =D
