I finally updated. Yay. I have been busy, once again, (what's new). I actually enjoyed writing this chapter, so I think you will enjoy reading it. :D
But I wanted to tell you guys this in the last chapter but I didn't, (obviously), that this story is far from being over. I have so much ideas, and I can't wait till I write the upcoming chapters. (sooo exciting.)
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I slowly moved onto my side, untangling my legs from the silky sheets. Pain shot through my body causing me to cringe, making me realize that what happened last night wasen't a dream at all. My eyes widened, and I felt a rush of fear flow through me as I noticed a figure lying in the bed next to me, and out of instincts I jumped out of bed, ignoring the pain shooting through me. The figure in the bed slowly turned on its side, which moved the covers, revealing Aidan. His eyes were opened and smile crept upon his face.
"Good morning, Tori." He said with sing-song voice.
I quickly smiled and turned to open the door that was behind me, which I knew was my way out.
"Where are you going?" I turned back around and saw him get out of bed. He was wearing long black p.j. pants, without a shirt. His extremely nice muscles were in plain sight, but I wanted to show no interest so I just shrugged my shoulders and started opening the door. Suddenly, he was in front of the door in seconds, causing the door knob to slip out of my hand.
"Don't you remember what happened last night?" He asked, while protecting the door.
I reached up and felt a cloth covering up the two holes that were in my neck. I sighed, and lowered my head.
"Yes, I remember." I mumbled quietly. He brought up his hand, and from under my chin he lifted my head so I was able to look him straight in his bright ruby red eyes.
"Victoria, don't worry about anything. We are going to have a great life together--" I quickly interrupted. "Please don't talk to me about anything that has to do with me-- or you." I grabbed his arm and pulled his hand away from my chin and added, "Where's the bathroom?" Aidan had a flat expression on his face, and pointed in the direction of the bathroom.
As I reached the black door, a flash of Aidan's sympathetic face from last night, and him stating that he was here for me, crept up into my mind. Why is he caring so much?
"Theres an outfit on the counter that you can wear." Aidan added before I closed the door.
The bathroom was really nice. Everything was a maroon color, with bright lights outlining the mirror. A shower covered up by a black curtain was off to the left, next to a toilet. I picked up the clothes that was resting on the counter which was a green t-shirt and a pair of jeans with some holes in them where the knees would be. As I was putting on my jeans, I felt something clinging to one of my fingers, so I quickly finished putting my jeans on and studied the the thing around my ring finger.
It was a gold band ring, that fit nicely around my finger, with a ruby colored heart shaped stone in the middle, and small diamonds around the heart. It's-- It's beautiful. But... this isn't mine.
I heard Aidan chuckle in the bedroom as he said, "It's a gift from me."
After staring at the beautiful ring for a while, I began putting on the green shirt, which I noticed to be mine, and I slipped on the pair of black socks that fell out of the jeans earlier. As I finished putting the socks on, and turned to head out the door, I got a quick glance of myself in the mirror. I turned to take a second look at myself, expecting the same messy wavy haired girl, but got someone totally different. Staring back at me was a beautiful pale girl, with silky, wavy brown hair that went past her shoulders. I reached up and touched the hair that wasen't mine. I look... pretty. I closed my eyes and leaned in closer towards the mirror so I could study the small features that I wasen't able to see from a far. I'm-- I'm a vampire... now.
The thought of me having sharp fangs and piercing ruby red eyes caused a shiver to run up my spine, but I knew I had to face the facts sometime. So I quickly opened my eyes and saw black irises with only a few speckles of ruby red in them. Relief seemed to wash over me, but quickly disappeared when I knew I had to see the razor sharp fangs now. I slowly smiled revealing the tips of the fangs, but immediately closed my mouth as tears crept into my eyes. My vision became blurry, and I quietly began to weep, and hoped that Aidan wouldn't hear. I'm a monster. My weeping turned into loud sobs. Daniel and Kyle would never accept me. They would kill me...
I wiped the tears that haven't fallen yet, away from my eyes and looked at my reflection in the mirror. Beside my reflection was Aidan standing at the door way, wearing a t-shirt now, and him slowly walking towards me with his arms spread wide. I turned around and he wrapped me into a bear hug as he whispered in my ear, "Shh, It'll be all right. It's not that bad. I'll teach you everything that you need to know." He turned and kissed me on the side of my head. "...I'll accept you."
All of this started to confuse me. A couple days ago he wanted to kill me, well... almost killed me. Now he's caring for me? I thought to myself.
I pushed him off of me and walked into the bed room to go and slip on my shoes. I sat on the bed and slipped on my already tied DC shoes and began walking towards the door. In the corner of my eye, Aidan didn't move an inch since I pushed him.
I opened the door and quickly turned the corner, running into Alaric.
"Oh, good morning Victoria. You are looking beautiful today. How are you feeling?" Alaric's voice aggravated me. It was just too happy, and sing-song like.
"Fine, I just want to get out of here." I began walking around Alaric but someone grabbed my shoulder from behind me. I turned to see the stressed Aidan standing with his one arm on my shoulder.
"Tori, I didn't want to tell you this till' later, but it seems that you want to get out of here faster than I predicted." Aidan paused, taking a deep breath before he continued, "were moving to Italy." The blood in my body seemed to have rushed from my head all the way down to my feet, causing me to almost fall to the ground.
"Were--," I gulped and took in a deep breath. "Were leaving now?"
Aidan shook his head and smiled.
"Alaric already has your stuff in the car. Were taking one of Alaric's private planes, and we'll be living in a castle." He said with excitement in voice. He flipped me around to face the smiling Alaric and pushed me towards him. "Go with Alaric now, I have to finish some stuff with Lucifer."
Alaric grabbed the back of my arm and led me down the hallway and past the stair case. When we reached the main hallway that had all the main rooms, a picture flashed in my head from last night, of all the humans that were waiting to be called. So goosebumps formed on my arm, causing the hair on my arms to stand.
All around me were people, or vampires, that stopped their conversations, or just stopped in their tracks and stared at me. As I walked past them, I could hear all sorts of whispers. All of them jumbled but I was able to pick out only a few. "Wow, she's not dead." "She's beautiful." "Ugh, she's so lucky she gets Aidan." All of the voices inside of my head were giving me a headache, so I shook my head seeing if that would work, and it did; all of it was gone.
When we reached the end of the large hallway, we stopped next to the front door. Alaric released his grip from the back of my arm and turned to face me with, yet again, another smile on his face.
"The castle in Italy is fantastic." He stated before leaning up against the wall.
I crossed my arms before muttering, "Just great." I continued to stare at Alaric, amused at his personality. But the whole 'Aidan being nice to me' was aggravating me.
"I am extremely surprised that you have not pounded me with alot of questions."
Well there isn't anything else to ask about--
"Wait-- there is one." Alaric bounced himself off of the wall and inched closer to me. "Yes?" He asked, excitedly, as if I was telling him some deep dark secret.
This is my chance. "Why is Aidan all of a sudden caring about me?" Alaric's smile disappeared, realizing that my question wasen't that exciting and leaned up against the wall again.
He sighed, "At the times he was mean to you, all you were to him was an annoying human. Now that he has bitten you, you are apart of him, his wife. So he cares about you." I remembered the ring that was wrapped around my ring finger, and I became egar to ask him about it.
"So this ring that Aidan gave me is a engagement ring?" Alaric laughed.
"Not at all. Every vampire gives their human that they change, something. In which this case, he gave you a ring. That ring there, is a one of a kind. The stone is made up of Aidan's scent, which you can not smell because you are a young vampire and not all of your abilities have kicked in yet. But when other vampires smell two scents mixed together, they will know that you have been claimed. They will especially know Aidan's scent."
I was still confused at how the whole ring thing worked so I continued to ask questions. "How did they get the scent on the ring... or whatever."
Alaric rolled his eyes but still continued to answer, "A simple spell, that's all." He shrugged his shoulders as if a 'simple spell' was something as easy as breathing, but I didn't feel like continuing playing twenty questions, so I turned my back to him so I was facing the hallway. Aidan was walking in our direction with Lucifer walking slightly ahead of him towards his office. As they both were going into his office Aidan noticed me staring at him, so he held up one finger telling me that it will only take a minute.
Something was still bothering me but I couldn't quite figure it out. I felt like I was forgetting something, and I didn't know what it was. But then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I have to say good-bye to Grace! I began walking away, forgetting that Alaric was there, but he seemed to notice me leaving.
"Victoria! Wait a minute, there is something that I need to tell you." I stopped in my tracks and slowly turned on my heals. All I wanted to do at that point was see how Grace was doing and to say my last good-bye. I walked back over to Alaric with crossed arms, and waited.
"Umm, I do not know how to put this." Alaric started to look really nervous, and took in a deep breath. "Grace is dead."
My breathing stopped, and my arms fell out of it's crossed position. All of my legs and arms seemed to have become weak, and I felt like I was about to throw up.
"What--what do you mean?" I managed to say, with tears forming in my eyes, but I quickly wiped them away. Alaric stepped closer and put one hand on my shoulder, trying to help me stay standing.
"Lucifer found out that she went into his office and called someone on his phone, so he had her killed.-- I am so sorry." I was speechless, and my legs couldn't hold me up any longer. My knees buckled but someone from behind caught me before I reached the ground. I didn't have the strength to turn my head around to see who it was.
"I'm so sorry Tori. I wish I could have done something." It was Aidan's voice. He was the one holding me up.
Something shot through my body and it caused me to stand on my own. Then something in my head told me that Grace wasen't dead. Maybe it was me going crazy, but I didn't care I ripped myself from Aidan's grip and turned to run down the hallway.
"She's not dead!" I screamed. Aidan wrapped his arms around my waist, keeping me from running any further. "Let go of me! She's alive I know it!" Tears were falling down my cheeks causing everything to be a blur.
"Shh, Tori, theres nothing you can do. Shes gone." Aidan whispered in my ear. My breathing started to calm down, and the tears started to slow, but Aidan didn't let go of me. Instead, he turned me so I was facing him. He pulled my face into his chest and began combing through my hair with his fingers. "Shhh.." He said with calm flowing through his voice. "It'll be alright."
He let go of me so I was able to look at him straight in the eye as a smile appeared on his face. He lifted the black hood part of his jacket over his head, so that it was covering up his face. I looked over to Alaric and he had the hood part of his black cloak up and over his head also. I turned back to Aidan and he leaned in and kissed me on the forehead before he said, "Are you ready to go?" I slowly shook my head 'yes', but didn't bother to make the first move. Aidan seemed to have seen the pain expressed on my face because in an instant he was holding me bridal style. I rested my head against his hard chest, and felt him breathing which seemed to comfort me. Alaric and Aidan were having a conversation to themselves, which I didn't bother to listen. I was too distracted of the fact that my good friend was gone. Grace died all because she was helping me. Aidan's breathing stopped and I felt his eyes staring back down at me.
"What do you mean?" He asked. I lifted my head off of his shoulder as tears started to form once again.
"Grace called Kyle and Daniel and told them where I was. That's why she died..." I stated to myself, forgetting that what I just said out loud should have never been spoken of.
"You mean Grace called your brothers and told them where you were?" Aidan hissed. I didn't answer this time, my body froze in fear. Aidan turned to Alaric and shook his head and Alaric grabbed the door handle. But they were forgetting one thing.
"Wait!" I screamed, I almost jumped out of Aidan's arms. "We haven't figured out if I can go in the sun or not." They ignored me and Alaric opened the front door revealing the dark clouds covering up the sun and the usual bright blue sky.
"Your abilities and weaknessess won't come till like tomorrow. It's not sunny anyways." Aidan stated as we walked down the large stone steps towards Alaric's car. Aidan opened the back seat door and set me down inside. He closed the door quickly and forcefully, and opened his door and got in the passengers seat, followed by Alaric getting in the drivers seat.
Aidan pounded his fist on the dash board. "I can't believe this. They are probably hiding somewhere around here." There was an awkward pause as we drove down the long driveway leading us to the gate.
"Would you want us to go back and get other vampires to help if anything happens?" I froze in place. Please don't hurt Kyle or Daniel.
Aidan grunted before saying, "No, we can deal with two lousy werewolves." Something formed in the bottom of my throat causing me to say something.
"Please don't do anything to Kyle or Daniel. If they do anything, it's only because they care and they want me back. Just please, please don't hurt them."
I heard Aidan softly chuckle and saw his head shake in disgust. When we reached the gate, Aidan locked the doors, and turned around in his seat to face me.
"Don't worry Victoria, I'll make sure nothing happens to you." He turned back around and I just rolled my eyes.
As we were driving down the long road, heading to where ever we were going, rain started to pour down onto the car. The droplets were so big, that when the droplets hit the car it sounded like a loud drum, and we weren't able to see very far ahead of us. I quickly put on my seat belt, and looked out the windshield. I wasen't sure if it was my imagination or not, but a big black dot was standing in the middle of the road. Alaric didn't seem to have notice so I screamed in fear, "Watch out for--" Alaric quickly pressed on the brakes causing my body to fling forward and back into the seat with a powerful force; knocking the breath out of me.
Everything seemed to have happened so quickly. The car was turning off the road and the next thing I knew we were rolling on the ground. I covered up my head with my arms, shielding me from the roof that flattened. As the car was rolling, it felt like it was never going to stop. Until it did, and I felt sharp pains shooting through me like knives, all through out my body. As my body started to shake with fear, my eyes were beginning to roll into the back of my head, but I tried to stay awake. Faint voices surrounded me, and the pounding of the rain on the car caused those voices to disappear. Kyle, Daniel, please help. I manged to think.
As my eyes began rolling back into my head for the last time, a loud bang came from the door next to me. I forced my eyes open and painfully moved my head to the side to see Daniel pulling metal scraps out of the car.
"Do-- --ry I'-- g--- yo-- o-t." His voice was going in and out and I couldn't understand, but I didn't care, as long as he was here I was okay. He reached his arm over and unbuckled my seat belt and caught me in time. He pulled me out gently, but also quickly and started to walk towards the woods.
My head started to pound making me cringe in pain. Also the dark world around me started to spin and my eyes tried to close on me, but I made sure that I wouldn't pass out. My head gently rested against Daniels wet, hard chest, and I could feel vibrations in his chest as he talked.
"Mike you carry her. I need to change into my wolf form. But we need to leave fast, they will be healing soon." I looked up to see that he was staring at me with a smile spread from ear to ear.
"Tori, it's going to be alright. I just need to you stay awake, and I need you to hold onto Mike." He patted me on my cheeks with the back of his hand trying to keep me from passing out, but he then quickly turned me around and set me on top of something hairy and wet. I blinked a couple of times, and noticed how I was laying on Mike's back. He started to move slowly, so I gripped tighter; holding on for dear life.
You made it. You guys came for me... I thought, as I slipped into a deep, deep sleep.
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