Here is chapter 7….hope you all like it…..i'm thinking of ending this story soon. I don't really see it going anywhere at the moment. I might make a sequel. Though I'm not sure yet. I'll just see how this chapter plays out and take it from there.
Disclaimer- I don't own VA though I wish I did…..(wishful thinking)
Chapter 7-
We drove hours before getting to an airport. It was cold outside in the airstrip but none of the strigoi seemed to mind that I was freezing to near death over here. I hugged Paul and I saw to it that Paul was put into the safety of the airplane before getting into a black van that contained my son, Tasha, and five of her minions. I walked up to the van and opened the door getting inside. "Where are we anyway?" I asked her getting a better sense that she might not tell me and that the car was so much warmer than the air on the other side of the car.
"Up-state New York. It'll take us at least three hours to get to court." I nodded glad that she had told me this information. Then fell asleep.
Opening my eyes I still saw darkness surrounding me. I picked my head up from where it lay on the side door and looked to my left where Alec slept all stretched out. Head on my lap. I touched his hair. It was silky, just like Dimitri's-I shouldn't be thinking about him. He ruined your life and left you. He will never be worthy to see my children. Never. I looked up from my son, "Are we almost there?"
The strigoi diving looked at me through the rear view window, "In ten minutes." His voice was harsh and cracked. He seemed in his mid-thirties, dirty-blonde, sleek. He was a Moroi before he was turned. I gently started shaking Alec awake. He stirred a little before opening his eyes and sitting up.
"Are you coming home with me mom? You know to protect us? Like you said you would?" I shook my head.
"I will come home, I promise you that and I will protect you but I will not be coming with you now maybe in a few ten twenty years I don't know." I said to him truthfully. He looked a little disappointed and looked out the window. "I know you might be upset but I need you to do something for me."
He took his gaze away from the by-passing trees and looked at me. "No, not unless you come home with me when we get to court." I sighed and shook my head.
"You know I can't do that." I told him sternly.
He shrugged his shoulders. "I heard in school that you were always one to break the rules and to be reckless, so why does this make it any different?" he asked.
"Being a mother changed me Alec and I have learned that it is better to think things through before committing to them and then getting in trouble." I spoke from the heart. Being a mother had changed me. It made me realize just how important life was to me and that others should be valued not tricked.
"What do you want me to do?" he said. I smiled at him.
"I want you to tell them that I was turned strigoi and not to come looking for me. Tell Lissa especially, I don't want her out in the world looking for me." He thought about it for a few minutes before agreeing to it.
"We're here." The man said. He stopped the car and everyone but Tasha got out. The man put something on Alec's shirt before handing me what seemed to be a computer. "You're not allowed to go with him, but with this," he said pointing to the computer in my hands. "You'll be able to see exactly what is going on while staying here." Blah, blah, blah.
"Do you know Charlie brown?" I asked him he looked confused. "You know the peanuts? That sort of thing?" he nodded his head. "Well do you remember what he hears every time a teacher talks to him?" he growled. I put my hands up as if surrendering. "Hey only stating the obvious buddy no need to fret."
He did pay any more attention to me instead he glance Alec's way and told him to go straight before he reached the court gates. I sat myself on a nicely piece of grass near where the van stood and looked at the computer in front of me.
Alec was running to the gates at full speed. Man, my kid was F-A-S-T, FAST! I guess the awesome genes kicked in for that one. I smiled to myself. As he reached the gates he hollered at the guard in duty. "Let me in! I'm Alec Hathaway! LET ME IN!" he screamed. No more than a few seconds later Eddie came out of the guarding post and opened the gates for him.
"How'd you get away?" he asked as he hugged my son.
"Get everyone together I need to tell al of you once so I don't have to repeat myself." He stated bluntly. Then, after Eddie closed the gates, he left the other guardian in charge and ran to the housing quarters at court and to our house at full speed with Alec. When they got there they nearly blew the door away.
Lissa and Mia were seated on the couch talking about fashion most likely, while, Mason, Adrian, Christian, and Jill were talking about ways to search for Alec and myself. It had occurred to them to not tell anyone that I was missing. That or no one gave a damn whether or not I was ok. Me being me went with the second option.
"Alec?" Adrian was the first get out of the daze. My son got trampled with hugs before letting him go.
"Where's your mom Alec?" Lissa asked him searching behind him as if would sneak up on them and yell 'surprise! It was a just a joke!'
"Sit down." Alec commanded them. They all complied willing to hear what they had to say.
"Where is she?" Jill asked.
"She was taken by a strigoi named Natasha Ozera." At that Christian paled so white I thought he would've died on the spot. "I was taken along with my mom. She gave my mom two options. One was to wait there where they held her captive and then she would take all her children then let her go. Or, she turn strigoi to keep us all safe." Everyone's breathing hitched.
"Which one did she choose?" Eddie said finally coming into the conversation.
"She choose option two of course even with my pleas." They all nodded and began to slowly have tears form in their eyes. I slipped quickly into Lissa's head. She was so sad that she knocked me out of her head.
Refocusing on the screen in front on me I saw Alec tell Eddie he wanted to tell his sister about how their mother will not be returning for some time because she died on a plane crash. Eddie nodded and told him to be ready by nightfall (sunrise- human time). Walking out of the house with tathered clothing still, he left behind a crying house to go meet with his grandfather.
It took him five minutes to walk to Abe's house. He knocked on the door and my mother answered it. At seeing him she enveloped him in her arms and cried. "We thought we'd never see you again Alec, we are so glad you're safe." He pulled away from her and walked right smack into Abe.
Abe's smile widened when he saw his grandchild in front of him. "I need a favor." Alec demanded. Abe nodded.
"What can I do for you Alec, my boy?" they went into the living room and sat down on opposite couches facing each other.
"I need you to make a plane crash happen between here and the academy." Abe looked at him a little shocked by what he had just said.
"Why-"
Alec cut him off, "It's the only gentle way to tell Arlet that mom is for the most part dead." Both my parents stared at him with blank stares. "My mom chose to turn strigoi for us to be safe. I do not plan to tell this to my sister until she is older about what happened so just make the crash happen and we will get through our lives a little bit easier."
The computer closed in my face. "Time's up." Tasha snarled in my face taking the computer away and smashing it on the ground. "Now keep up your end of the deal."
I stood up and punched her in true Rose Hathaway style. "I didn't get my full time to watch what was going on." I growled
"It doesn't matter to me." And with that her fangs connected with my neck. I did my best to get her off of me but her minions held me down. Even though I was most likely stronger than all of them the bite was still fresh and I could feel a trickle coming down from where Tasha had bitten me.
I looked down at my shoulder to see a blood oozing down. My eyes went back up to where I was being attacked by my attackers and I realized I had lost a lot of energy.
They took their chance and Tasha restarted in drinking my blood. I had to say, I never felt so afraid when someone was drinking my blood. With Lissa it was for survival. With Adrian it was for pleasure and to ease my pain. But now? As Tasha is sucking the life out of me I only feel scared. I remind myself of what I live for and what has become of me. For those are all the things I have to hold onto at this moment in time. Probably my last moments in life as a dhampir for a very long time.
'I love my kids. I will do anything for them. I will go to the ends of world if they asked me to. I need to keep them safe. Maybe this was the only way from the beginning. I love Alec. I love Arlet. I love Adrian, I love Mason, I love Rose, I love Adrianna, I love my parents and I love my friends too. I even love Eddie. I love my children and I know I always will. I love my kids. I will do anything for them. I will go to the ends of world if they asked me to. I need to keep them safe. Maybe this was the only way from the beginning. I love Alec. I love Arlet. I love Adrian, I love Mason, I love Rose, I love Adrianna, I love my parents and I love my friends too. I even love Eddie. I love my children and I know I always will. I love my kids. I will do anything for them. I will go to the ends of world if they asked me to. I need to keep them safe. Maybe this was the only way from the beginning. I love Alec. I love Arlet. I love Adrian, I love Mason, I love Rose, I love Adrianna, I love my parents and I love my friends too. I even love Eddie. I love my children and I know I always will.'
With my chanting I fell into unconsciousness knowing I might never see my children again, knowing I would walk among the living dead, knowing I would hate every minute of every day being that creature of the night, but most of all knowing for once I would be able to protect my children at the full extend and keep them safe forever and ever.
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