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Control
Chapter 16: Blood Lust
Hal's P.O.V
"And then what happens?" I asked, once more I found myself opposite my protégé, Cutler, along with Sophie. Out of curiosity I had sought him out; the first time had been by accident, this time it was to find out exactly what he was planning.
"The reveal. "Who will save us from the Big Bad Wolf?" Bum bah dah dah! It's us. We have created a nightmare and now we will provide the antidote." He answered as he paced around his side of the small white circular table, instead of the warehouse we found ourselves in a modern night-club, much too public for my taste.
"Surely you don't think they'd turn to us for help, if you haven't notice they think of us as monsters." Sophie stated in utter disbelief, she had a point, even in modern times humans saw us as the monsters who drank for pleasure, they had much more sympathy for the wolves, the ones who were 'normal' for most of the time.
"Not once they see what a wolf can do, not when they see who we really are and what we are capable of." Cutler replied placing his hands back onto the table, I looked over towards Sophie, who seemed to be battling the urge to drink the glass of blood he had presented her with. I took her hand in mine momentarily locking eye contact with her and she seemed to calm down once more.
"This is insane." I hissed looking back towards Cutler, who didn't seemed deterred what so ever after, one of the reasons I had originally turned him all those years ago.
"You think the Old Ones would allow you to do this, let alone welcome you as one of them?" Sophie asked, as long as it didn't interfere with their plans then they wouldn't care what he did, but they certainly wouldn't welcome him to their ranks.
"I knew you'd be like this. As soon as you came back I could smell that mercy on you like cigarette smoke." He sighed signalling for his cohorts in the room, he ushered us to follow him, I made sure that Sophie was next to me, so that I could make sure that nothing would happen to her. We were led into the basement of the club…it was eerily similar to fifty years ago when I led Cutler into the basement of that pub…he opened the door into the cellar we stepped in, I questioningly looked at Cutler who simply flipped the lights on.
"Oh God." Sophie exclaimed huddling in towards me, I held her close as I turned to see exactly what she had seen. And there dead with her blood being drained into plastic water bottles was Alex, he'd held onto a grudge for fifty years…and exacted the same treatment that I exacted on him.
"You'd thought I'd forgotten?" he asked as he walked over towards us, kneeling down to our level…when had I fallen to the floor? "When you left me, alone."
"Don't you understand what I've done? I've set you free." I murmured as I gently held onto Sophie helping her stand back up. After this, she would have questions as to exactly what the hell Cutler had meant, but now, now it was time to deal with him.
"You can't do this! You're Hal Yorke! I'm gonna heave." He yelled as he staggered back, as if we repulsed him.
"Remember what you were." I stated hoping that he would at least have a little bit of humanity left in him, that the old me hadn't completely turned him into a monster.
"What I was?! Now you stole that from me! You dragged me into this world, you killed my wife. You turned me into a murderer, an addict. You made me abandon my whole species!" he yelled, I deserved all his rage all his anger, I was the one who made him and left him, helpless and alone, left to fend for himself and he had never properly killed someone before…it was a miracle he had survived and stayed in an area with Fergus none the less.
"I know. And there aren't words to tell you how sorry I…" I began, though I knew he wouldn't accept an apology, who would? I half expected this to come from Sophie at some point, I took away any chance she had at a normal life, I was selfish and had made her to accompany me, she was never able to say goodbye to her family, she never had the chance to have children and see the grow up. But she never complained, never batted an eyelash, she wondered what it would have been like, but never screamed, shouted or yelled at me for sealing her fate.
"No! No, you do not do that and then apologize! No sir." He yelled he was angry and frustrated he now knew that we would not be there to help his climb to power, to help him with his plan.
"I can't let this happen, Cutler. I will kill you if I have to. But I will not let you take their world. We don't deserve it." I stated as he began to back out towards the door of the room the others following him, he was going to leave us here, if we couldn't help him, then we weren't going to stop him. He shut the door locking us in with Alex's corpse.
Annie's P.O.V
"Okay. What is it you want me to do?" I asked we had finished our little 'tour' of the future…well the future that would happen if we allowed the vampires to win.
"Kill me." She answered the one thing I never wanted to hear, I couldn't kill baby Eve. "All my life I've been carried around like a mascot, while the world around me crumbled and burned. I didn't understand. Wasn't I supposed to stop this happening? Then I got the final piece of the scripture. And there it was: in order to fulfil her destiny, the War Child must die. It was too late for me to change my world, but maybe I could stop it ever happening."
"So you sent Hal and Sophie?" I asked, though it sounded weird since they were off blood, and if they had of touched Eve, Tom would have killed them with or without my permission to do so, why send them to kill?
"Hal is a monster in my world; Sophie too, she pretty much follows his orders to the letter. I assumed he'd kill me as soon as he worked out who I was. When that didn't work I sent Kirby." She answered which made a lot of sense, in the past Hal and Sophie hadn't been the nicest of vampires, and if the future them was anything to go by then it made perfect sense for her to send her most feared enemies.
"I can't kill you. All that stuff about the burnt arm, the Nemesis." I stated, she was the child of my best friends, she was like a daughter to me, how was I supposed to kill her?
"I'm the killer. I orchestrated this. You're just the knife." She reassured, but it wasn't so reassuring sure she thought it would be, but was she really expecting me to kill her as a baby?
"The burn…" I said, if she had to die then shouldn't it be by the hands of the Nemesis, not me?
"Saviour and Nemesis. Talk about multi-tasking." She said as she revealed a burn on her arm, a brand of the letter H.
"You were in one of those camps?" I asked, surely the vampires would have known who she was and wouldn't have placed her in one of the camps, wouldn't they have brought her to the Old Ones?
"They didn't know who I was. I always had false papers. I was just rounded up with the others." She answered, but even if she did have fake papers surely the vampires would have known what she looked like. "Look I could send a thousand threats, but Kirby made me realize your love for me would always defeat them. So I had to come to you direct. Show you the world you created."
"Was I a good mother? I'm not fishing or anything, I just want to make sure that you felt loved." I asked if the future was as bleak as she had shown me, the least I wanted was for her to have felt loved, to at least have some happy memories even if they weren't so happy.
"It wasn't a world for children. But yeah, you were the best." She answered smiling, I felt somewhat relieved that she had grown up at least knowing how to smile…but in this timeline she wouldn't be able to live those memories, she wouldn't even become a child. "You make a bloody good cup of tea."
"That's my girl." I stated hugging her, tears present in my eyes…why did I have to do this?
"Remember. A moment will come when you have to choose between letting me live and letting me die. If you want to stop this from happening, you have to let me die."
Tom's P.O.V
"Tom. The Old Ones might be here any day now. To stop them we might have to... do terrible things." Annie stated she had only just got back from wherever she had been and she didn't look happy what so ever.
"What choice do we have?" I asked if we had to do terrible things that would stop the vampires from dominating the world, then we would have to do them and hope for the best.
"It's not fair though." She muttered, but then again when was life ever fair, within a year I had lost the only father I really ever knew, McNair, and then Nina had been killed just after Eve was born and then George was killed. I'd lost nearly all my friends and all my family, what was fair about that?
Sophie's P.O.V
"What are we going to do?" I asked as Hal continuously banged on the door, but Cutler wasn't going to come back anytime soon. The smell of blood was becoming overpowering; I was fighting every urge to just drain the girl's lifeless body. "Is this Alex?"
"This isn't a time to get jealous Sophie." He answered as he began pacing by the door.
"And why should I be jealous. Is there something you want to tell me Hal?" I replied crossing my arms as I stared at him accusingly. He stopped his pacing and walked over to me placing his arms on my shoulders.
"There is nothing in this world that you need to be jealous of." He replied as he kissed me gently, damn this man I could never properly stay angry at him.
"So, you have a wife." A Scottish voice commented that was odd we were in a sealed off room with no one else, but us and a corpse. We turned to look towards the body and standing next to it was the ghost of the girl.
"What does she mean by that?" I asked looking at him straight in the eye; somehow I don't think she knew exactly who he was.
"Nothing." He whispered kissing me on the forehead, before convincing Alex to rent-a-ghost us out of the 'cell'. And slowly but surely after a couple of tries she managed to unlock the door and let us out. "We have to stop Cutler. You don't know what he's going to do."
"Yeah, I do actually. Before he killed me, he monologued the whole thing. I didn't know people actually did that."
Well then. Who's hungry?
Author's Notes:
Hi! Thanks for the support! And I'm really sorry for the slow updating; I will definitely be finishing the fanfic up to the end of series four before the end of this year! Yay! I hope you have really enjoyed reading it, I will be continuing into the next season, although it will be as a separate fanfic with a different title and what-not, depending on how the season pans out and what the main plotline is. Thank you very much for all the support it makes me want to continue and continue writing for you all. Ciao for now ^_^
