Camilla stretched out lazily like a at beneath the sun and was rewarded with several pops. And she sighed as she stared at the ceiling remembering. She had spent the night up with Godric and sadly Eric and about 3am she had barricaded herslef after a very exhausting battle of pranks with Eric. Camilla giggled at the thought, cause seriously. A prankwar with a thousand year old viking? How fucking hilarious. But when he had said she looked 'pretty' Camilla had just simply shut down. She knew she wasn't pretty but there wasn't any need to point it out.
-FLASHBACK-
He had put some strange mass in her hair after she had stolen his cellphone and changed everything. The ringtone was her laughing, the background was a picture of him with the script ' Im an idiot' printed on, and ALL names in the phonebook was changed to something strange. After he had smeared her hair with that disgusting mass of whatever it was , Camilla had been forced to bathe - again. And while she was bathing the arrogant Viking stole her clothing and left her with a dress.
Camilla had refused to leave the bathroom unless someone brought her real clothes and no dresses weren't clothes. Atleast not in her head. Camilla had sat down on the floor in there and refused to wear it. When Eric refused to give her any other clothing, Camilla had been forced to wear it and had wrapped her arms around herself and walked around, staring at the ground and not meeting anyone's gaze. Had quickly eaten and chatted with her family on Skype via Godric's laptop which he had been so nice to let her borrow.
After that she sat under a blanket on the couch watching MTV, chatting with one of Godric's former vassal's human. Not cause she wanted to , but simply cause the woman wouldn't fucking shut up. Camilla had been polite, or tried to be polite until her patience slipped and she snarled at the girl to leave her the fuck alone or she would regret it.
Eric had come into the room just as Camilla had scared of the human and patted the Dane on her head, and commented on how nice she looked in that had stared at him, her face had contorted and then she had left, into the room where she slept and refused to come out. She had yet to leave the room.
~O~ Godric ~O~
He had finished talking to Isabel and when he returned to his suite, he found Eric sitting on the couch looking smug and Godric frowned and asked where Camilla was. Eric had pointed to the door leading to her room and Godric had since then tried to coax Camilla into coming out but she had been adamant.
The ancient teenager had given up after half an hour of coaxing and at last sat down beside his he had something to know with this.
"Why won't she come out?"He inquired.
"How would I know?"
"What did you do, child?"
"Just made her wear a dress and commented on her pretty she was."
"What else?"
"Nothing. I just told her how it suited her and she fled to her room."
Godric frowned and was a bit annoyed that he couldn't get any useful information out of Eric but then he caught the sight of his laptop and tilted his head and the screen.
Apparently she had left everything open and just left. He pulled the laptop up on his lap and raised an eyebrow. Her Facebook, her Skype and a site called 'DamnLoL' was stll open and as he was about to close it down a strange sound broke through the almost silence.
Godric tilted his head and pressed on the blinking name. Lolli? He frowned. Was this one of Camilla's friends?
He pressed on the green button of the call and blinked surprised when a blonde girl poppped up on the screen and she looked just as surprised.
He smiled as the girl waved at him, though she was obviously not liking that she wasn't seeing Camilla.
Then her voice suddenly sounded and if he wasnt a vampire, he surely would have jumped in surprise.
"Who are you?" The blonde girl asked.
Godric frowned and told her his name.
The Blonde known as Lolli greeted him politely though she didn't seem quite satisfied with his answe and then asked where Camilla was.
"In her room."Was Godric's answer.
'Lolli' frowned and looked confused. " Why?"
"She won't come out."
"What happened?" The blonde girl asked, concern now obvious in her voice and on her fairly pretty face. Godric couldn't help but smile. Camilla had a very caring friend apparently. This pleased him greatly. For some odd reason.
"Eric forced her into a dress and the told her how pretty she looked." The ancient teen answered and he raised both eyebrows at the girl's growl.
"What an IDIOT! Camilla HATES dresses!"
"Why does she hate dresses?"
"...Cause"
The frown appeared again.
"Cause what?"
"Camilla isn't all..confident about her looks and...she once mentioned that dresses made her feel fat and just pointed out how ungirly she looked beside everyone else."
"She merely thinks they dont suit her and thats why?"
"Well..Camilla wont belive anyone who calls her pretty.. no matter how true it is. She said ' Two reasons when someone says that to me' - ' Either they are sarcastic or they think Im easy and wanna screw me'. And that just might be cause of the boys in school"
Godric frowned at these news. " How do you know?" Why would she feel like that? Who was the cause of her being so negative about herself and truly she never seemed unconfident. If anything she seemed apathetic about it.
"Im Camilla's best friend. Have been so ever since we stopped hating eachother in 3rd grade when we were facing a mutual enemy. I know more than most people. We've been there for each other in hard times, we were on the same karate team and Ive been kind of adopted by her family.. So you might just say we are like sisters."
"Camilla doesnt seem as one who care abut others opinion's, why have these 'boys from school' made her think like this?"
The pretty girl on webcam flashed a sad look and ruffled her blond hair. " ..Cause brainwashing his hard to ignore."
Eric was now interested and was leaning over to get a look at the girl, he flashed a mischievous smile at her and seemed as though he listened now.
"Brainwashing?" Eric repeated, looking very doubtful. Godric could only agree at his look. He didn't understand either.
"..Brainwashing like when something is repeated over and over and it just become fact?.."
"What do you mean by this?" Godric frowned, not liking where this was headed.
There was long pause and the blonde slumped back onto her bed in what seemed to be her room. "...She was bullied okay... For a very long time by the boys in class. Cause she was chubby but she was the brightest little girl who loved equally and whom I doubt ever thought an evil thought. She lit up the whole room with her she finally got peace for a while. I started Karate in 3rd grade and she joined in 4th grade.. She had immense talent. But she never believed that. At her first tournament she won all matches against very higher graded girl's. After a year she won championship of all 11 year old girls below 55 kg. This made the boys shut up cause it isnt fun getting beaten up, and dragged around stadion by an 11 year old girl."
Eric laughed his hearty laugh and Godric couldn't help but chuckle at it. Camilla beating up people who crossed her? That fragile looking girl?
The girl who was named Lolli smiled lightly before she continued her story. " But damage was already done by then.. She never wore dresses and kept wearing hoodies and such. Stopped smiling that much and the childish innocence faded. Only smiled when she was with our team. Camilla really loved Karate. And she had her best time when I was absent. Funny ended up in a very bad depression but got through it and then we reached 7th grade where all the boys stopped being puny and retrieved the courage to piss her off. "
The blonde stopped and looked up at something out of the picture, said something that sounded Danish but it was too fast for the microphone to get it.
"It restarted slow with them not listening when she told them to shut up in class, she could usually keep them quiet just by glaring at them. But their fear for her faded and Jesper and Simon spend a whole dy with 7 lessons on being after her and i guess she just had enough cause in the middle of math she walked up to Simon and grabbed him by the collar, slammed him against the wall and asked him what the fuck she ever did to him. She scared the fuck out of him cause her being strong enough to slam him up a wall was quite surprising. He didn't dare answer and she just turned around and Jesper was talking to our classmates and she lunged. Tried to choke him and you could just see how angry she was. She really was trying to kill him. Three boys had to work very hard to stop her and then our math teacher calmed her down.. I dont know how though."
Eric raised an eyebrow at these facts, surprised that the young girl who seemed so fragile, so weak had slammed anyone up a wall.
"SO.. When she became a teenager her selfworth dived dramatically and so did her self-confidence. So.. When you say she has locked herself up in her room, she is probably feeling ugly, fat and disgusting by now. When this happens... Errh..Lets just say not even I can get her out of the Im known for being skilled with how to act around the her.. "
Eric frowned and Godric could almost feel the guilt radiating off of the Viking. Cause It wasn't like he wanted to make her sad or hurt her. They were just playing. Something he hadnt done for very even if he would never admit it, he had been having quite the amount of fun.
"..You mentioned something about a mutual enemy?"Godric said and tilted his head. He rather liked that he could get to know things about Camilla like this. She was quite an interesting being afterall!
"Oh yes.. Jonas. A ginger kid who had fun bullying the two of us. Before him we hated each other - ever since kindergarten. But when we both became victims of his cruelty so we joined forces and gave him of his own medicine. Never saw him again after the summer holiday."
Godric smiled and tilted his head. " Didn't you say Camilla had childish innocence once?"
The blonde girl giggled, and nodded. " Believe it or not. The girl who now would laugh while castrating a pervert once went around hugging everyone she could lovingly, greeting them with trust and a big smile."
"What changed her?"
"I guess the cruelty of the world came down on her someday. And she didn't take it well. Damn it the only reason she hates religion is cause it hurts people. Or so she says. Im a christian and after several nights spend with arguing how eil everything is we just agreed not to speak of that she became a femenist cause of boys not treating her well and older boys - young men rather.. didn't realize that she was simply a child in a rather mature body."
"Huh?"
"If you wanna know about that or her depression..Better ask her yourself. This is not my secrets to tell - She never once uttered one of my thousands of secrets so Im not gonna betray her trust and cause her to dislike humanity even more."
Godric nodded, understanding the girl and though Eric seemed to dislike not being able to get the knowledge from the blonde,but none the less he held his tongue.
The blonde whom he found was named Lærke, like the bird Lark - just in Danish, mumbled she had some homework to do and closed the call.
Godric closed down his lap top and left it on the table, then walked to Camilla's door and opened it carefully. He didn't wanna intrude on her privacy or anything but when she wouldn't come out. He stopped in his tracks when he found her sitting her bed, staring at him
- END FLASHBACK-
Camilla dug down beneath the blankets again, " Go away."
"Want me to find ask Isabel for some clothing rather than the dress which you apparently dislike?"
"...Would you ?"
"Of course."
Camilla forgot how terrible she felt for a moment. Marveling in what a darling Godric was. She shot up from the bed and launched at him, wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her lips to his cheek. " Thank you!" She whispered.
He wuldn't understand how much she hated dresses. How they made her feel masculine beside every other girl. Dresses just wasnt her thing. She wasn't skinny enough, she didnt have narrow shoulders which she meant was needed to wear a dress. Thus she always felt ugly.. Unless it was Rikke dressing her in them and that was only cause it was in the confines of Rikke's home. But other than that - Camilla would feel ugly and when she felt ugly and fat.. She wouldn't leave her room. And now Godric had saved her from staying in her until 'Dead Time' which she had dubbed day since vamps were practically dead during it so it fit pretty well.
Godric was shocked by Camilla's 'attack' but also he felt himself relax in her embrace and he couldn't help the smile that tugged at his lips. This little human girl had brought so much happiness into his life or rather existence, made him smile more than he had the last hundreds of years on a few days. She had him laughing! Something he hadn't done for so long that he could barely recall the last time he actually laughed.
This was a perfect end, a perfect end on a long life..existence.
He eased out of her hold reluctantly and went to find Isabel so she could dress the girl.
~O~
It had been few hours since she had emerged from her room, a pout on her face and Eric had mumbled something that probably was the closest you culd to an apology from him and Camilla had been unable to stay angry at him, and after that she had decided to get to know that blonde Telepath whom she believed had been called Sookie, but she couldn't find the girl so Cailla spoend time with Isabel until she realized that it would soon be dawn.
Like half an hour or so and she frowned. Wouldn't Godric and Eric be getting ready for ' Dead time' now? Camilla toddled around, searching the Hotel for them. Why weren't they getting ready for resting? Why couldn't she find them?
Camilla got onto the top floor and raised an eyebrow cause there were like 15 minutes to dawn now and why was Sookie standing here crying? Camilla frowned and when she got the fact that Godric was going to meet the sun from the sobbing girl, Camilla ran as fast she could, fuck that she wasn't allowed to run - she ran and whens she finally reached the roof, her knee was throbbing rather painfully and she was heaving for breath but there she was, standing and Eric was on his knees beside him. Shock ran through her veins and when she finally found her voice, she screamed:
"GODRIC!"
A/N : Im sorry for the time this has taken, but with a shitty computer and stuff.. This has just been hard to get done .' Thank you for waiting and thank you for all your lovely reviews darlings
-Goddess
