ASH AND MARY-LYNNETTE: POPPYNTEROGATION

THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO…

XXRIAHARDYORTANXX

WITH SHOUOUTS TO…

CHACOVILLE

VAMPEYE

DISCLAIMED

-ASH POV-

JAMES put me in a chair in a dark room and placed a lamp so it was pointing toward me. Poppy chuckled and turned on the lamp, it shown strait into my sensitive vampire eyes. I felt my irises shrink to pinpoints.

I squinted my poor eyes and asked, "Is this really necessary?" I could barely see my captor's figures.

Poppy shrugged her tiny shoulders. "we want answers, now."

I snarled. It was a protective and instinctual response to information being sought after my Soulmate. I wanted to rip their heads off for even knowing about her, thus threatening her.

But I managed to choke down the primal urge and put blocks around my thoughts. They were sturdy and strong. James, and even Poppy, wouldn't be able to break them down. I had been unimaginably stupid to even get out of the car with mental barriers down.

"Jamie, he blocked his thoughts," Poppy tattled as she pressed against his side.

His gaze flicked from her eyes to mine. "What are you hiding?" he asked cautiously, trying to choose weather to focus on his better half or the potential threat I posed.

"Only her face and name." I replied honestly. I didn't know if I could completely trust my cousins.

"But why?" Poppy said. Sounding genuinely bewildered.

"He doesn't trust us, Poppy. Frankly, I don't blame him. I wouldn't do anything differently if our situations were reversed. I just want to know why he's here at all." James said from the corner of his mouth, as if I couldn't see, or hear.

"Ah, Jamie, you're so sweet." Poppy all but purred.

Just like the gentlemen he was, James dipped her right in front of me and kissed her, right in front of me.

Not that it wasn't romantic, but I had to avert my eyes, I hadn't been kissed in months. My lips were going to fall off because of disuse. It was more then a little bit pathetic.

I cleared my throat, "Not that this isn't sweet and everything, but not all of us have soulmates here." I pointed out over the kissing sounds.

"Oops, sorry!" Poppy said with a breathless giggle, she fell into James' arms.

"You have a soulmate?" James asked. Then he cracked up, "Oh this is too good! What will Daddy say?"

"Haha," I said sourly.

Poppy whacked James' arm. "Jamie, don't tease," she chided.

"Aw… I'm just playing with him, sweetheart. He deserves it." James pouted, rubbing his arm. For a pixie, Poppy could pack quite a punch. Trust me, I would know.

"Ash has a soulmate!" Poppy shrieked at the top of her lungs. Apparently, the news had just sunken in. "Oh… I bet she's really pretty! What's her name? Tell, tell, tell!" James shut her up with a finger on her mouth.

"He's not going to tell us anything." James said quietly.

Poppy pouted. "How do you know? Why not?"

"Because I wouldn't tell us." James said.

"Why?" Poppy asked, cocking her head like a confused puppy.

"Baby, you have been known to tell Thea everything." James pointed out gently.

"And your point is…?"

"Thea tells everything to Blaise, and well, you know Blaise…" James shifted uncomfortably.

My phone rang. "Jade, how is she?" I answered on the very first ring. James snatched the phone and put it on speaker.

"Hi, Jade, its so nice to hear from my darling little sister, what can I do for you?" Jade groused.

"How is she?" I pressed. "Just tell me."

"How the hell do you think she's doing? You left her!" she shrieked at me.

James gasped, "You left her? He left her?" Poppy angrily stage whispered first to me then her soulmate.

"I didn't leave her-"

"She hasn't eaten in at least three days." Jade snapped.

James shot me an appalled glance, but I barely noticed, my blood ran cold, and I gripped the phone so tight, Poppy had to pry it from my hand, one finger at a time so I didn't crush it.

"Jade," I choked out from between numb lips. "Why hasn't she eaten? I've done everything she wanted, what are you doing to make her eat?" I questioned harshly.

"There's nothing we can do! She's locked up in her room, staring at a wall. She cries herself to sleep every night, and she wakes up crying." Jade cried desperately.

Wave after wave of pain washed over me, I felt my face turn to gray. "But why? She kicked me out on my ass and told me to kill dragons, that's exactly what I'm doing!" I blurted.

"Someone kicked Ash out?" James sounded vaguely impressed.

"Come home, Ash." My sister begged.

"I can't, she'll me!" I pointed out.

"If you don't, I'm scared she'll kill herself."

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