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Chapter 30: Larry
Sophie's P.O.V
"You killed him!" I whispered Alex and Tom were still out the house, well they could have potentially come back, but it could take a while to convince Tom to come back home and out of the woods, and Alex wouldn't give up on him so easily.
"He brought it upon himself." Hal reassured placing his hand on my arm, after we had come back from trying to convince Tom to come home, Larry had been lounging about quite happy with himself after all he had done. Hal had snapped and strangled the man.
"How can we explain this to Tom?" I asked after all Tom had seemed so happy to have met another werewolf, he'd spoke so often of McNair the man who had raised him, he spoke fondly of Nina who we hadn't been able to meet as she had been killed by Griffin as revenge for killing Wyndham, before we had arrived in Barry as well as George who she was married to who had also died before we had made it to Barry, he'd died by forcing transformation to kill Griffin and save his and Nina's daughter Eve, the war child. Tom had found another werewolf, one he thought was a successful man even if he was just a crook, and Tom wanted to see the good in him.
"He'll never know he's dead, I'll just explain that after he told Tom that werewolves don't lead successful lives I gave him no choice but to leave." Hal explained Larry had been so cruel to tell Tom such a horrible thing, of course werewolves could be successful just like a vampire…well a lot of the vampires had accumulated money through the hundred years of living unlike werewolves but that didn't mean they couldn't lead successful lives.
"How are you going to hide a body?" I asked after he'd snapped I'd left feeling a terrible thing was about to happen, as if everything the past fifty years we had accomplished, the hard work that Leo had done keeping Hal and I away from blood and away from killing.
"It's taken care of."
"How did you sort this all out?" I had a feeling what his answer was going to be, if there was someone who could have sorted this out, it would have been the other Old Ones like Mr Snow, but since they were now all dead except for us and Hettie, the only other person I could think of would be Mr Rook, the man who had approached us in the hotel asking Hal to lead the vampires. He'd said things about clearing up the warehouse in which the Old Ones had been blown up and the club where Cutler had set up Hal.
"I called in a favour."
"It's that Mr Rook isn't it? You can't be serious Hal; he'll come back asking you to do all sorts of questionable things." This wasn't going to end well, Mr Rook struck me as a man that once he had some sort of a favour hanging over you, he'd use and abuse until it didn't suit him. Hal would owe him a favour for cleaning up the death of Larry and he could make Hal do pretty much whatever he wanted.
"It's done."
"And you don't think Tom will ask questions as to where he's gone, or even try to find him?" I questioned Hal seemed disinterested in this notion, he moved away from me facing away. Maybe his bloody thirsty personality was resurfacing, it always came back eventually no matter how hard he tried to escape it, and he always brought me down with him.
"No he won't, after all the fiasco with Larry's 'werewolves don't lead successful lives' bit, Tom will be happier without him." He did seem to have a point, of course Tom may not be Larry's biggest fan at the moment after all he had tried to strive towards a successful life, a life that McNair had promised him and Larry had shot his dream down with one sentence. But that didn't mean that he would miss the guy, he was another werewolf they always seemed to have more of a connection with each other unlike vampires, I have a feeling it's to do with how difficult it is for them to transform. Of course vampires have the difficulty of trying to deal with blood cravings while living side by side with an ample source of food, but now since all these books, movies and TV shows showing us as sexual and desirable creatures, humans seemed more willing to become food for us permanently.
"And what if he isn't happy about it? Then what?"
"Why should we care so much?" he questioned turning back towards me his eyes seemed to hold so much anger and annoyance but at the same time he seemed apprehensive of something, as if he knew what was going to happen.
"Tom has helped us ever since we came here, ever since…"
"Don't say it!"
"Ever since Leo and Pearl crossed over."
"Enough! We don't need anyone, we never have! It's always been better just you and I, Sophie, can't you see that. All we need and ever needed was each other." He yelled I knew how hard it was for him to hear about the pair, they had helped us so much and after they had left everything hadn't immediately gone downhill but nothing had been quite the same, we'd drank blood and if Leo had still been alive we may never have done that. Hal had inadvertently killed Alex through pissing off Cutler because we weren't who we used to be and Cutler wanted us back.
"So what do you suggest? We just up and leave?"
"Why not?" he demanded he was reverting to his persona that loved the blood and violence associated with vampires, and boy was he much more persuasive and suave in this persona, something about it being so wrong and yet so right.
"We'd have nowhere to go, no money and pretty much everyone we know except Tom and Alex are dead and gone, well except Hettie, but I'm sure she'd have nothing to do with us." I explained after our small involvement with the blowing up of the Old Ones, I'm sure Hettie would reject us immediately. I'd hope she'd be able to forgive us for turning on our kind, after all without us she would have died four hundred years ago as a very young girl alone and without life experience.
"We have each other."
Hal's P.O.V
"We've only ever needed each other Sophie; I've only ever wanted to be with you. Can't you see that everything I have done up to this point is for you." I stated bringing her close to me, one arm around her waist and my other cradled her head. "Your father never wanted us together, but I fought to get you back. I went away to Gdansk but I came back for you, I took you away from that awful convent and gave you the gift of eternal life to spend by my side."
"And I have always loved spending all this time with you."
"And I know how much you wanted at least one child that you could bring up, and that is why Hettie was allowed to join us, why I allowed you to bring strays in from time to time, before they inevitably were killed by Hettie." I explained tilting her head up to look at her, she was always the most beautiful woman I had ever laid eyes on no matter how many other women I had met over the years, no one compared to Sophie. "Our time together doesn't have to end; we can run away from all this and avoid the simpleton killing us for ever drinking a drop of blood."
"Hal."
"We should have saved the others, and then we could've returned to the high ranks and lived the high life, of course Fergus would still have to have died. How I tolerated him for so long, I don't know." I stated I knew that maybe it wouldn't have been a good idea to keep them alive, but I knew Mr Snow was right we'd have come back to them, like we always did. "And we could reunite with Hettie and become our little mismatched family again."
"I'd follow you whatever choice you make Hal, if you want to leave we can leave, and if you want to stay I'll stay by your side." She stated as she leaned forward kissing me lightly she pulled back slowly as if to end the kiss, but I responded bringing her gently back towards me and deepening the kiss. Her hands wrapped around my neck, one threaded her fingers through my hair and the other rested at the base of my head. I pulled her impossibly close to me as if she would vanish from my arms if I didn't. We broke the kiss after a while resting our foreheads together both panting slightly. "I love you Hal."
"I love you too."
Author's Notes:
Hi sorry it's taken a while since the last time I updated there should be more updating soon fingers crossed. There's just been a rather lot of work to get done so I haven't had much time to make sure this chapter and the next couple were up to standard for posting, very sorry but hopefully with the Christmas break coming I should be able to get more done. Thanks again for all the support and hope you enjoy this and the next chapters
