Authors Note / Disclaimer: See Part 1.
Lockers slammed shut as the trio of girls maneuvered their way out from the small locker area.
"So, what are you planning to do when you get home?" Keira was pulling the purely blonde stunt of twirling her hair between her fingers as she questioned Anna and Cyane. Passing clusters of other teens, they finally made it out the door into the beautifully temperate climate.
"Well, I was planning on dragging Alex to Jack's house to hang out. Where is our friendly neighborhood mascot?" Cyane questioned, turning on the spot.
"Ooh, would you mind if Ronnie and I joined you?" Keira said bouncily. However, Cyane's wide-eyed attention was directed somewhere behind Anna and Keira.
"Who is that piece of hotness?" Both Anna and Keira snapped around to begin their favorite spectator sport, but Cyane and Keira's attention was abruptly switched to their comrade in viewer-ness as she dropped everything she was carrying and sprinted into the waiting arms of the aforementioned hunk.
Watching their normally celibate friend make-out with some random guy produced a small reaction from the pair. "You know, I always wondered why she declined all the dates she was offered," Keira angled her head and produced a questioning glare. "I mean, she had at least four 'silver-platter' offers this week." Cyane couldn't help but catch flies.
Breaking apart at the small outbreak of jeers and clapping, Anna dragged her companion by the hand towards her shocked friends. "Cy, Keira, I'd like you to meet Ian."
"How long have you been dating?" Asked Keira knowingly, pushing closed Cy's jaw as she stared into space.
"Umm… three years," answered Ian, his thickly accented English divulging his British roots.
"WHAT?!" Anna cringed. She knew her friends would find out about Ian eventually. It's not as if they'd suspected anything, it's just she could never keep anything from her two friends, usually not by choice, and was exceedingly amazed that it had taken this long.
"Shush. I met Ian at Michael's college graduation party we had up at the cabin three years ago. He was a new neighbor, and he and I hit it off straight form the start. We've been dating since. Well, dating every time he's in the country." Anna looked toward Ian asking him to explain his heritage.
"I was born and raised in the outer provinces around London, and my father traveled back and forth so often, he decided to set me up with relatives in the Americas. He bought me the cabin a few paces from Amy's, and I get checked up on daily to weekly by my family. Until now." Ian's final words caused Anna to pop the bones in her neck while she whipped towards him.
"WHAT?!" Ian cringed.
"That's a bit familiar. Awe but it's so cute that he calls her Amy, she doesn't even let me do that!" Keira restarted her unknowingly one-sided conversation.
"I transferred here, this afternoon, so I could be closer to you all the time," Ian said pleading for understanding, from Anna, who in turn just tackled him to the parking lot asphalt. From the behind the pair of shocked on looking girls, another trio of shocked boys stood with expressions slightly akin to Cyane's.
"Cy, who's this?" Jack questioned as Ian pulled himself and Anna to their feet.
"Well, why don't you two just go spend some time together as we tell the boys what's going on." One the shock had worn off, Cyane was doing an internal happy dance for her friend, and decided to help out.
"So, the boys, Keira, and I all went to Jack's house, hung out for a bit, and after an unfortunate incident involving a football and the TV," at this Jack interrupted Cy's tale of events with a reminiscent gasp hiding the words "Oh god! My mom is going to murder me!"
Pointedly glaring at her boyfriend, Cy went to finish, but was yet again cut off.
"Ian and I walked to the park across from Dialia's, but I had a lab due the next day that I had completely forgotten about, so I headed home earlier than I'd expected. The only reason I got home late was because Di grabbed me as I was walking past and offered triple overtime to cover for two employees out with the flu," Amy said from between Alex and Keira's heads, surprised she could form words with the pressure exerted from their combined bear hug. With a pleading look in her direction, Anna grabbed Amy's hands and pulled her from between the mascot and cheerleader. Easily lifting her up into the air and placing her onto her lap as she sat back into the recliner, inadvertently warding off any emotional or physical attacks from the rest of the group resulting from the coming explanation.
"I completely forgot about my report in the rush to call in the orders, and Di left before I remembered I didn't have a ride, so I walked home. And…" thoughts of what had happened last night rushed past Amy's closed eyelids. 'Was it really only a few hours ago?' she thought as her expression sidled from contentment to anguish and pure sorrow.
Her younger counterpart unable to go on, Anna wrapped her arms around her sobbing double, and finished the grizzly tale. "Your Northern clan got wind that there was an immortal living in the area," Looking straight into Ian's eyes, she revealed why the world had been turned upside down. "They were originally planning for a sniper to take us out, but the recon team that was sent in yesterday came back with news so disturbing, they decided a personal all out attack was necessary."
"What could have possibly scared the Lycans to such a degree?" Selene, a death dealer her entire immortal life, had never heard of a Lycan destroying something because of fear. 'More than likely because fear was the biggest contributor to Sonja's death' she thought, prompting the startlingly familiar sick feeling that always turned up when thinking about recent events.
"Us," a simple answer that unplugged a straining cork in the dam of questions already about to overflow.
"Hah, very funny. Now, had I gotten wind of any of this, I would have laughed them off. It couldn't have been my clan," Ian said with a slightly pompous air that was very unfamiliar to his attitude.
"It was your clan. How do you think they got wind an immortal was living there?" Pop goes the ego balloon. "Your clan's elder is Dracus, is it not?" A silently shaking head was the only response. "He's the only immortal besides Alexander Corvinus and Amelia deVorjac that has ever gotten wind of one of the Old Ones. One of us." She silently removed her blue contacts, revealing icy blue irises rimmed in such a rich violet, that it seemed to mirror her brilliant black pupils.
At this obscenely odd and silent moment of confusion and utter horror on Ian's part, Selene broke into hysterical giggles.
"Michael," Anna said pensively, one eyebrow disappearing into dark locks, "I want a list of the people you hang out with."
Amy, who was comfortably snuggled into her own shoulder, looked up sleepily. "What happened?" She noticed everyone was either staring at her or the strange woman laughing like mad on the wood-paneled floor.
"Michaeelll… why do have such weird girlfriends? You married the last one, what's next? Lots of gun happy little immortals shooting holes in the cabin? MY cabin?!" All attention was on Michael, who turned beet red under the attention.