We sat on a bus on the way to Paris. Never have I imagined myself going to Paris. The city of lights, how cool is that?! and the Catacombs, best place for Vampiric people to hide and such. Oh how I cannot wait. The only real problem was we were staying for the weekend if we did not hear anything about the vampire population.
They were not very good slayers. Ten years really messed with their brains.
I looked at Pierre, "I never asked this, but when did you guys find the cure?"
"A few years ago." Pierre said. "There were a lot of trial and errors." he added with a very serious voice.
"I don't want to think about that pain again." I said. "Poor guys." I said, looking at the guys in front of us on the bus.
"They're tough, no worries." Pierre said, rubbing one of my shoulders. I could tell the 'trials and errors' bothered him.
"They are." I agreed quietly.
As we got off the bus a young lady totally tripped into Jason. I stood on the bus waiting for the conjunction to clear up. I watched out of the window to her giggling and trying out her English, I rolled my eyes and tapped my foot.
We finally got off. I bounced over to Jason.
"Oh monsieur, monsieur, I'm terribly sorry. Are you okay?! Oh pour moi, I'm so clumsy." I mocked the girl, as the ditzy blonde I am often referred to, in a fake French accent.
"She was so not like that." Jason said, almost blushing but really mad at me.
"She so was. She did that on purpose!" I accused her.
"I'm ignoring you now." Jason said, walking faster.
I fell back with Pierre.
"Girls." I stuck my tongue out.
"Can we not be liked by girls?" Pierre asked.
"I just have issues with my same sex, who have really bad pick up lines." I said.
"But you don't have issues with one night .. I mean day stands?" Pierre asked raising one eye brow.
I blinked and looked at him as we walked into a square. "I can't believe you just said that! We fell asleep."
"I meant what you said. You sounded just like those girls you are just talking about." Pierre threw at me.
"Did not."
"Did too."
"Did not."
"According to Garren and Scott."
I blinked and fell behind again. Pierre stopped with me. I took up my bag and marched quickly behind Garren and Scott to hit them repeatedly with it.
"Kali, calm down!" Pierre grabbed me and dragged me off. Dragging my bags behind me.
"No more making reference to the past." I said once I calmed down. "Past is past despite that it has been ten years, and you all look so much older than I do." I hissed under my breath staring down at the cobbled stone path.
Pierre shook his head and kept walking with me.
--
We were sitting on a fountain for a break. Garren went for a food run, while the rest of us rested. I was eves dropping on everyone's conversations, a trick I thought I lost until this morning.
The only problem with this was everyone was speaking in French. A language I have not even come close to mastering. But those conversations in English... were of tourists, or something suspicious.
"Caroline, Caroline!" a girl whispered to another. "Ze one is here."
"Jacquelin knows. No worries." the one said.
"But--"
"Do not worry Madeline."
I searched for the two girls, only to find them staring in my direction. They walked away only to trip up Garren and catching his tray and steadying him. I rolled my eyes. European girls seem a little too clumsy or desperate for my liking.
"That was close." Garren laughed setting the food around us.
I looked at the food.
"These are the times I miss rare stakes and everything." I looked at the hot dogs."I will agree with that." Jason nodded.
Pierre just made a face.
As we finished our food some random guy came over and handed us a flyer. "Folie de Minuit" I read to myself, passing it around
"Night of madness..." I said, guessing the black letters on the pink sheet.
"Party?" Scott asked.
"Most likely." I said, not liking raves.
"Want to go?" Garren said.
"Sure." Jason said.
I stared at them.
"Yea!" Scott said.
"You guys can go. I'm going to look for vamps." I said.
"Wouldn't it make a bit of sense, that vampires would be at this rave?" Garren said.
I stuck out my tongue, and mocked him. "Of course. But why would they bite someone at the rave?"
"How do you know if they are vampires or not?" Garren asked, everyone looked at me.
"Because it was a gift I had since the beginning--"
"You didn't know I was a vampire." Jason retorted.
"Did... too!" I said, getting mad.
"You are coming with us period." Pierre said. "You may be right about the vamps so we'll keep an eye on them."
I gave them all dirty looks. Sadly to an extent they somehow became more maturer than I did over the years.
--
We booked a hotel room before heading out to the rave. I wore what I used as hunting clothes... I believe I went through twenty pairs during my travels. Though the guys tried to convince me that I'd die from heat exhaustion.
We entered the building and went down stairs where the rave was being held. Dark, smoky, and colourfully lit. It was already making me sick. Pierre and I stuck together while the other guys split up.
I leaned against a railing scanning the area. I was here to work, nothing else. Pierre joined me, and nodded his head to the music. A few times the room somehow looked a lot brighter than it did when we first walked in. Like everything glowed. I pinched the bridge of my nose and squeezed my eyes shut to get the vision out of my eyes.
"You okay?" I heard Pierre yell into my ear.
I looked at him and flinched. "Yes, fine!" I yelled back.
Some guy walked up to me and smiled, ignoring Pierre who was pretty close to me... though everyone was close to me. "Est-ce que beau, je m'excuse peux avoir cette danse?"
I stared blankly at the guy.
"Dance?" he smiled and jerked his head to the floor.
I stared at him, then looked at Pierre, then at the guy again. "I have two left feet!" I yelled at the guy. Then linked my arm with Pierre's, keeping the dirty look on my face.
"Ah... m'excusent." he looked at Pierre and moved away.
"You don't dance?" Pierre looked at me.
"No." I said, cringing at the already sweaty people around me.
"Well that ruined some of the fun tonight." Pierre said, and looked around the scene.
I rolled my eyes.
It felt like an hour had past because I was so bored. I could feel Pierre's energies still going. I felt sorry I didn't want to do anything. My energies were put into looking for vamps, and standing where I was did not help anything.
Just as I was about to go dance with Pierre a thought past my mind. This thought was definitely not mine. Only because it was about a girl. I stayed as still as possible to look into my mind's eye.
Distorted images came to me. The lights made the girl in front of who ever it was, made her glow... almost an eerie glow. I couldn't see or understand who this was, but it was bothering me. The person's thoughts I saw became clouded and could not function properly.
"Garren?" I said out loud in thought to myself.
Pierre looked down.
I jumped onto the railing and looked out at the crowd and couldn't pin point any of my friends."What's wrong?" Pierre asked, looking at me.
"I don't know..." I said, still searching. I finally found Jason, and ran down the railing guard to get to him. Pierre took off with me.
I pushed through the crowd to get to him, it seemed kind of fast considering I was small and could fit into small spaces. Tapping Jason on the back distracted him from what ever he was searching for.
"Something is wrong." He yelled, standing on his tippy toes and looked around.
"I know!" I agreed loudly.
"What?!" Pierre said.
"I don't know." I informed him.
"Let's go find Scott and Garren." Jason ordered us. "Meet back at the railing."
I separated from Pierre and Jason to go looking. A few minutes later I saw Jason and Pierre with Scott by the railing.
"Did you see Garren?" Pierre asked me when I came back.
I shook my head.
"Maybe he found a girl?" Scott offered.
I stared at him.
"Okay don't give me that look!" Scott said.
"How likely is it that if he did find a girl, that he would not be here?" I asked, explaining my look.
"Good point." Scott nodded.
"I'm going up to phone him. You guys stay here and keep looking." Jason said and ran up the stairs.
"Raves suck." I announced more to myself than anyone else.
--
We came back to the hotel without Garren, as stupid as that sounds. Jason was loathing and yelled at me on two accounts. One for questioning his finding skills, and the other was a random: "Find him." in reference to this 'connection' Garren and I have.
The only problem with going back to the hotel room was we only paid for one room. I dibsed a corner with my sleeping bag, while the others half fought over the double bed.
Jason was outside the room calling Garren over and over again muttering under his breath.
I tried again to see if I could see what Garren saw, but I could not.
"Maybe he's like a puppy and he'll find his way back to us." I said quietly once Jason walked back into the room and sat in a corner putting his head on his knees.
"Kali, he's not a dog." Pierre whispered to me.
"Vampiric instincts then?" I offered.
Pierre pinched the bridge of his nose almost pushing his glasses off his face.
"I still have some." I said. "Why wouldn't he?"
Jason glared at me from his corner.
I rolled my eyes and rested my head on the wall. /Three more to go./
I looked up and around, everyone was exactly where they were five seconds ago.../What?/
"Did someone--" I started to say. /Drusilla will look after him./
"Hmm?" Pierre looked at me from the corner of his eyes.
"I am now confused." I said slowly, before trying to look into my mind's eye which was black.