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Chapter 31: Bobby

Hal's P.O.V

Tom had returned to the house after much convincing from Alex, no questions had been immediately raised about the whereabouts of Larry much to both my and Sophie's relief. However there was the one problem of Lady Mary who up until this point had been nearly completely forgotten by everybody, after all we all had much more pressing matters to worry about more than remembering about a dead woman dressed in period clothing. Maybe we shouldn't have overlooked her within setting foot downstairs I was nearly staked, if I hadn't have caught the damn thing I would have been dust.

"How could you tell me all those lies Lord Harry? I wasn't your last victim was I?" Mary questioned from her seated position opposite me, she seemed calm but was certainly enraged. I battled trying to hold the stake as far away from me as possible while she pushed and pushed with her ghostly powers.

"I am truly sorry Mary for any hurt I have caused you, but this is not the way to sort it."

"Sorry, really Harry, you're sorry for all the hurt you've caused me? You made me look a fool, thinking I'd saved you from a life as an evil murderer." She continued the force she was pushing on the stake intensified. "Is it her Harry? Is it Lady Sophie? Is it all her fault? Should I kill her instead of you?"

"No, no don't touch her at all."

"Still defending her? She killed me Harry; she killed me because she was jealous of us!"

"There never was an us, it was always me and her, never you and I. can't you see that, it wasn't just Sophie that killed you, I finished you off." Maybe now wasn't the time to start defending Sophie and throw even more of a shadow on the current situation. But she was deluded, I mean I had led her on all those years ago, but that was what I was like, what I still could be like luring people into a false sense of security before killing them. Before she could answer back to anything I had just stated Alex entered the room at first not noticing the current situation.

"I've got a surprise for you."

"Well there's a coincidence." I muttered pushing once more against a stronger push from Mary. Alex then saw exactly what was going on and turned to Mary.

"Hello Alex, Hal was just telling me how truly sorry he is for this whole business it was really quite revealing." She mused as she pushed the stake harder towards me; it was beginning to get harder to keep it from me.

"You don't want to do this."

"Why do people always say that? When it's exactly what I want to do, which why I am doing it." Mary replied as she glared at me forcing even more pressure on the stake.

"Mary I'm eternally grateful for you, for all the help you given me." I began maybe I could get through to her to make her see that all her years of thinking that she had saved me weren't lost. Of course she hadn't stopped me from drinking all these years but after Sophie and I had killed her there was a time where I stopped drinking and visited her near enough every week. "You were my rock; you kept me clean for so long"

"And then you drink again and then you're clean and it goes on and on. How many lives will you take? How many lives can I save? And when I've killed you I'll kill your precious Sophie." She stated and the pressure increased on the stake, and then suddenly it was lifted and I could let go. I got up off the sofa and walked out of the line of the stake. Alex had been able to hold the stake long enough for me to escape it; at this point in time both Tom and Sophie entered the room.

"What's going on?" Sophie asked as she came over to my side, I immediately pushed her behind me.

"Don't move, stay behind me."

"Oh look I can kill the pair within a minute of each other." Lady Mary exclaimed rather pleased with herself, Sophie gripped my arm now understanding why I had placed her behind me. Mary's attention turned to Alex. "My little has grown up but I've been doing this for a lot longer."

The stake once again moved and nearly plunged into my chest if Tom hadn't have caught it, it was times like this that I thanked whatever God truly existed that Tom was willing to help me.

"I've got it don't worry."

Alex and Mary began to discuss everything while Alex tried to stop Mary from killing us, and Mary tried to explain that it was the only way to stop more people from dying. Tom struggled to keep the stake away from me, while I held Sophie tightly behind me. Eventually Alex convinced Mary to stop this and got her out of the house.

"Are you alright?" I asked turning round to face Sophie who seemed somewhat flustered.

"I should really be asking you that."

Maybe Mary had been right maybe I should have let her kill me, after all Larry was dead because of me, Alex was dead because of me and many more would die because of my doing. But I couldn't die, not yet, I hadn't had enough of this life.

Sophie's P.O.V

After everything that had happened with Mary and Larry, life had somewhat returned to normal, well normal in the sense that there wasn't any homicidal ghost hell bent on killing both Hal and I as well as some free-loading werewolf who didn't care who he hurt. But that all ended when Rook came to cash in on the favour that Hal owed him, like I knew he would, Mr Rook was asking us to look after a werewolf by the name of Bobby.

"Nah, I'm not doing it." Tom stated he had every right to refuse; it wasn't his favour to fulfil so why should he look after another werewolf. The last one hadn't worked out as well as he had hoped it would of and I don't think Tom was eager to take in another werewolf after what had happened with Larry.

"We can't keep in the archives; there just isn't enough staff to take care of him anymore." Mr Rook explained whatever department he had kept this poor man in didn't sound like such a happy place; I know I wouldn't want to be kept away from the world.

"Tell him about the deal."

"We've made a deal to not interact with other supernaturals." Hal explained and that was a fair deal after all the last two we had encountered had nearly ended life her at the BnB.

"Yeah they're all trouble."

"Bobby's no trouble, are you Bobby?" Rook stated smiling down at Bobby who didn't respond he just kept staring at us well more at Alex. "He gets like this sometimes, he's just thinking."

"No he's seen our friend Alex."

"She's a ghost." I explained maybe after years of living locked away from the world he'd never met a ghost before, I mean a lot of werewolves may have never met ghosts unlike vampires who always seemed to wind up having them haunt them for a long time, maybe it was the whole murdering them first that made them haunt us.

"Why can't he go somewhere else?"

"He needs to be in a household which can deal with his condition and after all this household owes me a favour." Rook explained I looked at Hal who seemed well out of it all as if the life had been drained right out of him. Of course the others didn't know about Larry, but Hal quickly responded to Alex's question stating that it was about Ian. Rook then explained that Ian had been quite busy and had gone on a killing spree after adopting the name Crumb…what a stupid name.

"Besides over the years you've cost my department quite a lot of hassle, the both of you, covering up all the disappearances of women, children and the occasional whole household." Rook began of course his department must know an awful lot of what happened back in the day, maybe they held records of each and every kill made by every supernatural being in the world. "So think of it as giving a little back to society. Mr McNair can look after Bobby until I'm back."

"No chance."

"It won't be for long Tom and think about it you could be his mentor like McNair was to you." I stated trying to make this as easy as possible without Rook dragging up the whole Larry business. The quicker this man left the house better, it would even be better if her left our lives permanently.

"What about work? He can't come to work with me look at him." Sure Tom had a point Bobby seemed to lack the most basic social skills, but it wasn't his fault really, he'd been kept away from society for god knows how long. This could be the first time he's ever been let out of the Government facility he had been kept in for so long.

"What job do you do?" Bobby asked Tom looked at him of course he was very proud of his new position as the assistant manager at the hotel now. It was nice of Hal to get him the position after everything that had happened with Larry and everything.

"I'm an assistant manager at a hotel."

"Skill." Bobby said with sort of a blank stare as he nodded. It sounded like a compliment but at the same time it also sounded like the poor man didn't know what the job entailed then again he may not have even seen a hotel.

"Is he being sarcastic?" Tom asked Rook smiled and simply stated that he never knew whether he ever was or not before he showed himself out leaving Bobby in Tom's capable but reluctant hands. At least he'd said he'd be back before the full moon, but maybe we couldn't completely trust the man.

"I'm going to see Ian."

"I'll come with you." I stated following him out of the house, he'd need all the help he could get with this vampire. Younger vampires always were a bit reckless…although Cutler never was he'd tried to control it all, tried to keep his wife alive. Had it been any other vampire that had sired him maybe Rachel would still be alive, a very old woman but she'd still be alive, or maybe if it was another vampire he or she would have let Cutler turn her as well. But he had been sired by Hal the one feared by most of the Old Ones and the lesser vampires, the one who was one of the most blood thirsty and evil vampires that had ever walked the Earth.


Author's Notes:

Hey Hope you have enjoyed this chapter, the next chapter may or may not deviate from the plot as it may be some more flashbacks, but I have yet to properly decide it depends how much of the episode I get written through in this chapter. I may also do some alternative endings because of the ending on the DVD turns it around making it another reality made by the Devil. Anyway thanks again for all the support hopefully I'll be able to get more written and uploaded, more frequently than I have done in the past.