Author's Note:
Not much to say about this chapter but that it gives some Insight to Luke's and Emma's (more Luke's) character.Not a very long chapter, why because I can't pick a name for Bella's damn cat. I have no idea why i threw her in, it was a last minute desision that i have a feeling that i'm going to regret from time to time. But talking about the naming the cat, on my blog page i have a Poll up with 5 names i like or have come up a couple of times, so please vote for one of the names, then whichever name gets the highest votes, is what i'm calling the damn cat. but if you don't like the names up there, give some others and i'll put them up too, to have votes upon. Thank you and enjoy.
Chapter 10
Insight
Rodriguez
How things had turned out in his favour. And so interestingly, too. Rodriguez really couldn't belief how things had come together so perfectly. A simple thought of them and there she appeared with them. How marvellous! And they didn't seem to understand her at all, even though they seemed so protective of her. Ha, like the child needed protection, she was stronger than even the bronze haired boy.
Hmph, though the boy stills seems to care for her that could be a problem. He thought
"Sir?"
"Emma, Emma, come in, come in, my sweet one." Rodriguez greeted the pretty blonde with cold eyes, who could make those around her burn.
Emma walked into her master's chamber, her narrow face unreadable, but behind the vacant face her mind was trying to pull away from the bonds that had pulled her to her masters chamber.
"Oh, Emma, don't sulk. I still think the world of you." Rodriguez soothed the girl. Emma shot him a cold glare, which he over looked with his grin still in place.
"You called?" she asked, her voice was like her face, dripping with ice.
"Yes, yes, I did. Where is Luke?" he asked looking around for the tall young man, who rarely was out of sight wherever Emma was.
"He's on the mission that you sent him on." Emma muttered, her voice for the first time showing her burning anger beneath her ice.
"Are you mad at me for not sending you as well?"
Emma didn't respond. She would not rise to the bait.
"He will be fine, the vegetarian have nothing." He reassured.
Emma glared at him.
"Which ones have nothing? The ones I've met seemed pretty powerful." She snapped angrily, trying to hide her fear for Luke.
"But they have weaknesses. Their weaknesses are each other."
Emma raised an eyebrow.
"Great." Emma muttered.
"You can use it against them."
"Why? Why are we bothering with them, they have nothing to do with what your planning." Emma muttered.
"True, they wouldn't be an immediate threat, but they will be, in time, so it is better to get rid of the problem before they actually become a problem. Plus they have something I want. No, that is rightfully mine." Rodriguez said, smiling slightly. Emma frowned.
"What? What do they have?"
"My, Emma, I have never seen you so fascinated before. How interesting!" Rodriguez chuckled. Emma glared at him fuming.
"So?"
"They have something of mine that at this moment does not concern you." Rodriguez shrugged. "But, those vegetarian vampires are not the ones that Luke and the young ones are after. They will watch and then strike. You, my dear, have a similar task." He motion for her to come forward, which she did, unwillingly.
Luke
He hated this! He hated being away from Emma. He hated the fact he couldn't be with her, without Rodriguez using each against each other.
He hated being away from Emma and knowing that she was with that Bastard. Above all things he hated Rodriguez!
He hated Alaska too. It was too cold and too much snow. He hated snow.
He then smiled wistfully. Emma loved the snow. Her being around and in snow was one of the rare moments that she would smile with any sort of warmth or serenity.
He sat on a log, watching the young ones move around each other awkwardly, unsure of their own strength, desperate to try it out on something, a tree, or each other. But they knew better than to try and pull something like that off when he was around.
Luke smirked. He didn't mind having the young ones scared of him, as long as it kept order and that he wasn't challenge for leadership, he was fine with letting them do as they wished.
He knew that even though he scared them, he knew that he had their respect and loyalty and that they would follow him to the end. He cringed at that thought. The END. He had cheated death fifty-seven years ago, but it was only a matter of time before death caught up with him again. He didn't want it to though; he wanted to be with Emma. Was that enough to at least keep death away, to let him be with her, for at least a short while. To be with her and be free? Was that so bad or wrong?
He looked around at the trees and snow. There was a reason Emma liked the snow, not because of its pure colour or the fun that was suppose to have in it, but because it reminded her subconscious of home. This place had been her home and that was why he hated it so much. Because she had been taken away from her safe home and family, who had truly loved her and had cried and searched for weeks after her transformation.
He let out a growl of anger and regret. He had been there, the night of her change. It had been her birthday and she had been out with friends to celebrate and had been leaving them to go home to her family when Rodriguez struck. Emma was a gifted with the ability to warm up the air around her, a gift she was unaware of until her change where it was enhanced to amazing levels of being able to create balls of hot air and uses them to burn those around her. And because of this gift, Rodriguez had been attracted to her, cornering her, with him on look out, and letting her scream echo through out the cold night. Of cause those who had come in response to the scream found nothing.
Luke rubbed his face, that had been fifty-two years ago and he could still remember as if it was yesterday.
If only he had the strength to destroy Rodriguez then they could all be in peace. Why couldn't those Werewolves have finished him off?
He chewed the inside of his lip. Werewolves. The wicked, fearful word lead him to another thought train, one that had been nagging him for weeks.
So they didn't finish her off.
Interesting. Maybe she fought them and won … nah, she had cried out more from relief than fear when they appeared. Then again maybe she thought they would end the pain that she was suffering. Though considering the pain she had been suffering, she hadn't screamed that much, just cried mostly, though not from the pain of transformation, more as if her heart was breaking. She kept sobbing names too, all threw the first day and partly threw the second, before those names she sobbed began to disappear from her memory, to then she was only sobbing two names, one more then the other and then she would ask 'why' after it.
He had been rather sad at the thought that she had perished from the wolves attack. But as he had seen she had clearly been spared from their jaws.
He suddenly wondered how strong she was. She was an old one, the second one created after him. His strength was something that Rodriguez constantly kept in check. And Emma was pretty strong herself, so what about the girl? He didn't even know her name. He shook his head, he couldn't dwell on theses sorts of things. He had other, more important matters, to think about and plan for. How was he going to pull this one off?
See how strong they are and how willing they are to join the war, Rodriguez had told him, then wait for your next instruction.
He wondered what exactly Rodriguez hoped to gain from learning how the vegetarian vampires thought. They weren't all that different from the other red eyed vampires, only they had golden eyes and drank animal blood.
He on the other hand a mixture to the two diets, but that was when he actually felt hungry which was rare. He and the others had never had a raging appetite like they had heard the other vampires to have. What a pain, Luke thought, to have to eat every two to three weeks, just so you can hang around mortals.
He senses suddenly flared, something or someone was coming their way and fast. With a quick looked to his troops, they quickly disappeared into the surrounding trees, waiting for is signal.
After a couple of minutes, the smell of a female, vegetarian vampire came to him. He wasn't particularly afraid of the approaching female, despite the fact she was at least hundred and something years older then him, maybe more…yes, it was more years, but he couldn't quite tell how many, though she was definitely younger then the golden hair vampire, that Rodriguez hated so much. He waited calmly for her to arrive in the clearing in which had been his campsite.
A strawberry blonde appeared at the far side of the clearing. Her movements where cautious, she had clearly caught his smell and her instincts where telling her to stay away from him, but clearly her curiosity had gotten the better of her.
She stared at him with hard freshly golden eyes.
"Who are you?" she demanded. She had a lovely sweet voice, sort of like honey but it definitely had a hard edge.
"Miss Tanya, I presume." He said politely, he gave a slight bow, showing his respect for her, being the older vampire, though she, in human years, had been younger then himself at her change.
The vampire woman blinked and looked surprised for a fraction of a second, before her fast went blank once more.
"You'd be of Rodriguez coven, would you not?" she asked coolly. Clearly she doesn't think much of Rodriguez, either. He thought, sighing. Life sure was hard when you where bond to survive a man, who some many people, vampires, witches and werewolves, hated.
"I am Luke, ma'am." He said, still polite as ever. Something he had learnt from Emma. If you treat a woman with respect it can take you miles. And clearly it was doing the trick hear too for Tanya eyes had grown softer and no longer was there a growl in her throat. Compliments also worked brilliantly too, as he had also learnt from Emma.
"What does Rodriguez want?" Tanya asked, but her voice was less hostile then before.
"Merely a moment of your time, ma'am, to discuss plans for the upcoming war, to make sure that all those who wish protection or to help can have a say." He said.
"Well…" the woman thought for a moment.
"Fine, come back with me and we can talk with the others." She said and turned on her heels and stomped back the way she had come. After a moment he followed, sending a signal to the others to follow with care then to wait for his signal. He hoped they got it; he really didn't want to round up nutty gifted vamps.
Author's Note: The TWILIGHT movies is coming out in December on the 12th. YAY! I can't wait. Why so long (sob sob)
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