Without my Love
"Not much fun now am I?" I murmured as I looked across the vast ocean. "I don't know I like what we're doing now." David said then kissed my neck affectionately. "I have a good spell for you guys to try when we get back." trying to make conversation "What?" he whispered it into my ear. "You'll see." I loved surprises. David drew back "David?" I turned to look at him unsure what caused him to pull away. Before I could say something more he seized me in a forceful hug. "Paul I do need to breath sometime soon." He released me with the biggest grin on his face "Next time I want to be Marko and how did you know it was me?"
"Next time you'll be a squirrel." He inched forward with a wide perverted grin on his face "Can I get between yours legs next?" he asked shamelessly. I immediately got up I glared at him still sitting on the sand looking all smug. "What did I say?" I looked thoughtful as I answered "Something about between legs.. I wouldn't mind making something between your legs disappear." Threatening him made Paul rapidity get to his feet making me almost fall down laughing. "How'd you know it was me?" His voice like all ways full of humor. "Well the tip off was that David wouldn't try to suffocate me." He grinned "He would do more then that if you let him." great all I need is temp- I ceased my word because David was coming as his thoughts flowed into my head, imprudently comforting. Glad to be of some comfort his voice was calm. David was walking towards us, he looked sideways to Marko and Dwayne who were converging on our meeting spot. "No No Not again.." I felt it coming it was like a electric charge in my brain as pictures forced themselves to be brought forward so that I could see. What I saw was devastating:
His beautiful face was gleaming as his blue eyes fluttered. The power drained from him, he was fading fast but he keep moving his head suffering though the pain of two points stinking out of his chest. His childlike face laid to one side and became still.
David. Paul. Dwayne. Dead. Why was I seeing these things? I saw the future and the future was hell. "Don't touch her!" It was David at least I hope it was David as the images somehow pulled forward, the demise of three of them repeated in my head. "David." I reached out to him I couldn't see. Someone was punishing me for what I had done, Three times Three I was paying for my evil deeds, three of them were going to die. I was in his arms again I cried an endless flow of pent-up tears. "What is happening to you."
"I. I.. I saw .. it was.. ." a sob escaped me, my face pressed into his coat. I couldn't say those awful words. Because it would mean what I saw would be coming true. No matter what I did. Destiny would have its way. It would work around my plans of saving them. David's calming effect made me able to close my eyes and pass out, safe from the deadly images.
Three Words
Claire POV
It was almost morning and I still couldn't bring myself to speak. I was in my bed as David watched me, intent with worry. The sun was rising and the other boys had to give in and go down the tunnel and get some sleep. David though wasn't going to move away from me and I didn't want him too. "Can you stay with me?" I voice was uneven as my throat was sore from all the grief. "Of course I will Claire." he remained at the end of my bed settling to sit their and just make sure I was all right. I moved over and lifted the blanket, he needed to sleep. I heard boots hit the floor and then he shrugged out of his coat and laid next to me on his back, his hands loosely crossed over his chest. "Just keep you feet away from me." my mouth dropped as he grinned. "Like yours are any better." I mumbled as I rested my head on my pillow facing him. How did he do that I was miserable a minute ago and now he had me all blissful. "David?" I asked shyly "Yeah?" his blue eyes settled on mine. "I think I love you." I confessed, a relief fell over me. "You think you love me?" he asked with slight humor. I rested my upper body on his chest. "I know I love you." I closed my eyes as David whispered "I love you too." We were asleep as soon as the sun cleared the horizon. I would remember my last thought forever; I will always be protected in David's arms.
In Reverence of a Crimson Tragedy
Claire POV
David, still out cold when I woke, had his hands like protective traps around me. I bit my lip, how was I going to get out of this entanglement? I ended up doing a teleportation spell because I couldn't break his grip, I disappeared and then reappeared right next to the bed. I had to get to work if I was to have any chance of saving them; I was going to talk to Max but their were two problems one I didn't know where he lived and two he was a vampire and would be sleeping. I sat in the lowering sunlight for hours and what I came up with was a spell to compromise with something that no white witch would ever dare extend their spirit to encounter. I was familiar with the text I would require and from there I wasn't sure what materials I had to have. I needed an occult shop first to find the book and at least $200 in cash.
I didn't notice the sun was down and the darkness spread over me. "We thought you went to town to get into some more trouble." Paul said as the rest of them surrounded me with their bikes. "Trouble seems to follow me doesn't it?" Paul's right you really are a damsel. David thoughts returned to me. "What keeps happening to you?" Marko asked unease was in his voice."A premonition, trust me if they don't get better I'll going to find a way to return the gift." they chucked "what did you see?" Dwayne asked. I sung the Alicia Keys song No One in my head so that David didn't find the truth. I think he knew I was hiding what I had really seen but nodded when I told them that I saw people getting hurt. David knew there was more to it then that but didn't confront me. " I was wondering if you have a occult shop close by?" I climbed onto David's bike letting my arms entwine around him. "Yeah I think there one in the next town over." David replied "Can we go?" say yes David I thought sweetly "sure we can all go we need to get you out of our town because you always end up getting into some kind of danger." Paul's laugh echoed through the night as we sailed over the ground in breaking speed.
It was a thirty minute drive to a town called Lily Bay it was just as crowed as Santa Carla. "You guys can go do your own thing." not really trying to ditch them but I knew that didn't want me around when they ate. "Okay Claire but make sure you don't wander off on us." Paul eyed me teasingly but he did mean it in warning as well. "Sure Paul I'll stay right here until my hero's can find me." my joke made then all take of on their bikes amused. The store was empty as the bell above me told the owner that I was here. The owner it turns out was a teenage girl with long black here with dark blue streaks through it.
"Hello, my names Callie, would you like help with your shopping today." she sounded like she reading off a piece off paper. I knew I didn't have much time to look around the crowded store shelves looking for my book. "Yes I was hoping you have a book called The Shadows of Fate." She wasn't a true believer in Magic or she would be grilling me about the dark text. "Let me ask my sister." she trudged off into some back room. Seconds later a second girl came out with a open-for-discussion kind of look. She was taller by four inches and had the same black hair but with red streaks. Sisters, but she was the believer and if I wasn't mistaken she was a true witch.
"You want the Shadows of Fate?" I looked around their was no one else here. "Yeah." here it comes. "That's a very serious book you do know that right?" she was treating me like a novice. "Yes I know what kind of book it is. Do you have it or not?" I was tired of the know-it-all attitude I sensed from her. "Yes we do have it actually but its 150 bucks." I knew she put the cost to deter my from getting it. "that's fine can you hold it for a couple hours." I had to get the money and their wasn't a legal way to do it. "I guess so, what do you need it for." this interrogation wasn't going to make me tell her the truth. "I collect old magic volumes it's a hobby of mine." She assessed me "Fine but you only have a couple hours to get the money."
"That's okay I just have to ask my daddy and he will give me the money." I thought acting like the spoiled daddy's girl would stop her suspicions." I left the store and found nine punks to hand over their money with a little help from me willing them to. I had 160 dollars when I reentered the occult store she was waiting anxiously by the looks of her pacing. I showed her the money as she handed over the coal black volume the inscription of the title was inblood red. I handed over the 150 dollars to her as she rang my sale in. "Be careful." was her goodbye speech. I couldn't have believed my luck their was only three of these books in existence what were the chances one would be in a medium size place like this. I opened the first page where one line was written in what looked like blood; In Reverence of a Crimson Tragedy. this book was made for wickedness but I needed the God of Dark Fate he was the only one who could help me. The Goddess of Destiny only saved the good and pure, saving my vampires friends wouldn't have come off as good or pure.
The Mealtime Trail
David POV
Claire wasn't telling us the whole story as we dropped her off at the occult store. She was filling her thoughts with some music I wasn't familiar with almost all the way to Lily Bay, a place where my boys and I went for a change of location. We had fun this time as we stalked the five drunken parties down the trail that we called the mealtime trail because it came to a pit where most come to pass out. Always easy pickings came Paul's thoughts as Marko claimed his victim the one furthest away from us. Paul had his eyes on the blond female on the far right and Dwayne who always went for the biggest guy found his in the center. I would take the two furthest on the right by taking them both by surprise. We made plans before we attacked we didn't need anyone getting away or alerting somebody nearby.
I gave the signal and we attacked fast and hard as Paul had the girl by the hair and holding her mouth preventing the screams as he bit into her neck. Marko raced ahead to caught the guy who was already panicked by the sounds of our ambush, Marko took him down five feet from where he first started to run. Dwayne had the biggest male on the ground as he bit the middle of his throat tearing the arteries as blood poured into his greedy mouth. I had two males making one unconscious by hitting the back of his head; he wouldn't be waking up. I drank from the other one as my boys who were down with their own focused their attention to the still blooded filled male. I dropped my victim as we each took a part of the final partier. I held his wrist as his alcohol concentrated blood flowed down my throat. The blood stopped as we made plans to discard their bodies near an abandoned bonfire.
Explanation
Claire POV
I skimmed though the book and found his page near the middle. Complicated would be easy compared to this spell I thought the ingredients alone were problematical enough to get a hold of but one thing was going to be hard to explain why I needed it. I looked through all the materials I required and there were some herbs that I had never used before: Mandrake, Rauwolfia, Belladonna, Ash Leaves, Black Cohosh Root, and Blood Root. Other things were the blood of the unclean that's where vampire blood came into play, and I needed to come up with a lie to why I needed to take some of their blood. I saw the spell casters blood something that I didn't want to think about, something called the Black Night Crystal, black candles, black satin and of course the cauldron. I would come back the next day with the money to get everything. Plus I had to pick up some ingredients for a spell I wanted to teach the boys which was a good cover.
"Claire your okay!" an amused and shocked Paul stared at me. "I can go a day without needing rescuing." I pouted. "this would be the first." Marko pointed out "thanks for pointing that out Marko." David was looking intently at me reading at my thoughts. David your shouldn't ease drop in my brain.. even though he couldn't help it. "What did you get?" he tried to take the book but I pulled it back out of reach. "Nothing just a book I have wanted to get." What is she hiding? I'm not hiding anything just a book. Then why can't we see it? "No reason just a witch with a book of spells." telling them all. "Another prank?" Paul asked suspiciously "Maybe." making myself grin like I had some evil plan. "Can't wait to see what you do next." Paul said he got onto his bike. "You still going to teach us something." Dwayne asked me. "I will tomorrow night I have to get some ingredients, then I'll put you to the test." I put the heavy volume in a cubby so that we could head back to Santa Carla.
The Sexy Guys
Claire POV
We went into a McDonalds and I ordered a number three and a shake; they had nothing since they were full. I greedily ate everything and made David get me more food and another shake. "You can put down a lot of food Claire." Marko said as he gave his trade mark smile. I swallowed my mouth full of shake "I love food.. plus it's nice to have a fast metabolism.. I usually eat every couple hours so Darren and I were always in the kitchen." "Whose this Darren I keep hearing about?" Paul took my shake to take a big sip and gave it back to me, smirking. I pushed the cup towards him "all yours." "Can't drink after me?" he pretended to be insulted. "No because I don't know where those lips have been." I retorted with a smile. David came back with a fresh shake and more food as I ate the question of Darren came back up. "He's my boyfriend from home." simple said but they wanted to know more. "He is going to college to be a chef and-" David put in "won't take advantage of Claire in everyway." a smirk on his face.
Fine we will talk about it I thought. "Yeah it was one of the only things we disagreed about." Marko, Dwayne, and Paul leaned forward now really interested in what I had to say. "I did and he wanted to wait." they understood, men and their dirty minds. "So you're a virgin." Paul said pleased with the whole idea. "Yes." couldn't lie about that. Sex was the remaining topic for the rest of the night even thought I tried to change it multiply times. We went to a concert that was playing some Whitesnake music I danced with David mostly but agreed to dance with the rest of them and ended up almost slapping Paul because he grabbed my butt playfully. He jumped back holding his hands up "Hey just showing you what your missing." "Not missing much am I." a way to crush a guy I thought.
David grinned as he took me into his arms it wasn't a slow dancing song but we swayed against each other. Dwayne was shy, the total opposite of me but whole reserved yet still tall, dark, and handsome thing made him sexy. "Claire thinks your sexy Dwayne." David mimicked. "So I think you all are in a way." one of my famous speaking without thinking moments. "What's sexy about me Claire." Paul challenged as he laughed. "So many things Paul I couldn't name them all." I said sarcastically. "Name some would yeah." needing to have his ego encouraged some more. "I like that you don't have a care in the world and you find the fun in everything that's what makes your sexy Paul." he was happy about that. "and what about Marko?" "His smile is sexy." I saw it as I looked at him. "and David.." knowing that was coming next. "everything." David was smiling like he won the ultimate prize.
Standpoint
Claire POV
I didn't even bother blush when I said this. David took my hand as we left the others behind, he wanted to speak to me. We were in the forests that had I landed in I leaned up against a tree unsure what he wanted to say even though his thoughts ran through my head. "I love you Claire but I want to know where you stand?" I bit my tongue gently trying to find an answer "David I love you but there are obstacles and complications." "Darren?" "Yes but that's not the only thing." "what else is there?" his eyes were penetrating mine as I struggled to speak. "I'm not suppose to be here." "Neither am I." "You're a vampire." "You're a witch." this was getting no where. "where do you want to go Claire." he looked glum she wants to leave "No I don't want to leave!" I stopped to hold my mouth at my outburst. "Then you never have to leave." he told me as if the problem was solved. "It's not that simple" "Why can't it be?" he voice was pressing now. Without forewarning his body was pressed against mine his arms against the tree pinning me. "It can be very simply.." he lips was hovering over mine. "I.. I.." what was I going to say, there was an argument. "just let me show you.." he whispered as he leaned in. I didn't pull away I wanted to see..