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Hermione stared, she had nothing to say; Serena couldn't stop shaking as she leaned against the wall; and Momiji just watched as Abby tried to cower away from the light. Blake didn't move he just stared at his mother; Sarah leaned against the doorframe staring at the wall. None of them made a sound the only sounds came from the creature on the other side of the room.
The creature let out a shrill cry; Serena jumped and covered her ears trying to block out the sound. She couldn't believe that the figure on the other side of the room was her teacher. Abby has been tall, she had been strong, she had been beautiful, and wise. The creature before Serena was nothing like her mentor had been. Its eyes were red, Abby's had been a silvery blue, the creatures skin was a tinted blue color it was sickly and wasted, Abby's had been a healthy peach, it's hair was long and white as snow it was unruly and uneven, Abby's had been black and long but it had always been kept and tidy. The creature was huddled in the corner trying to keep its self from the light streaming from the windows; its face was contorted into a crazed look and black blood was seeping from the wound that Sarah had inflicted.
"How long?" Hermione asked breaking the silence for the first time in what seemed like hours. Serena looked up her and saw that Hermione's stunned look had yet to disappear from her face. "How long has she been infected?" Hermione asked.
"Months," Sarah told her. "You were told that the first infectious vampires were found in the mountains around Los Angeles but that was inaccurate. Abby was the first to be infected, the others were her test subjects. She wanted to see how long until it started affecting full blood vampires."
"Full bloods?" asked Hermione.
"How did Abby get infected? The virus doesn't harm humans or witches," said Serena. The room once again became silent and Sarah looked down. Realization began to dawn on Serena as she saw Blake glance up at her. "No that's not possible, Abby cant….she's not…"
"Abby is the daughter of the previous Vampire King," Momiji said anger shaking her voice. "She is the illegitimate half child of the Vampire King and a human, she is a hybrid."
"No we've lived with Abby our whole lives not once has she…."
"Hybrids don't require as much blood as full blooded vampires and in a house designed for the study of vampires and witches it wouldn't be hard to get her hands on a supply," said Hermione "and there are spells that can hide the vampiric likeness."
"Don't tell me that you're buying this bull shit Hermione this is Abby we are talking about!" Serena yelled.
"Yes Abby who lied to us our whole lives who made us believe that we were doing the right thing when…" said Hermione.
"We were doing the right thing," Momiji said rounding on them. "We were killing vampires."
"Yes to feed her revenge not for the right reasons," said Hermione.
"Wait what revenge?" asked Serena.
"My grandmother wasn't the mistress of the last Vampire King," said Blake making Serena remember his presence. "My grandmother was raped by the Vampire King in one of his blood fevers. He hadn't feed in months and apparently one night he stumbled upon my grandmother, he bit her, drank from her, and raped her."
"So that's why Abby's vendetta has always been against the royal family," said Serena.
"Abby developed the virus to kill the royal family," stated Hermione.
"No Abby developed the virus to kill all vampires to rid the world of them and in doing so she sacrificed herself," Sarah told them. "She is a martyr for all slayers."
"She is responsible for the deaths of innocent people!" said Hermione.
"Vampires are not innocent people," Sarah told her.
"What about the innocent people that the infected vampires have massacred? They had done nothing are now they are dead because of a virus that was created out of vengeance," yelled Hermione.
"Abby started this war," Serena said. "Abby did not the vampires."
"It doesn't matter who started it," Momiji said.
"Yes it does Momiji!"
"No Serena it doesn't matter they are still the enemy," screamed Momiji.
"Serena is right it changes everything all our history everything that we have been taught has to be reexamined from an outside standpoint," Hermione said.
"Why?" asked Sarah. "Because Abby wanted to bring justice to those who created her and violated her mother? Wasn't she innocent when the Vampire King used her? Momiji is right they are still the enemy, nothing has changed."
"You don't get it, we have reexamine our conscience now because all the missions that we have carried out, all our targets were chosen because of Abby's hatred not because there was a justification," Said Hermione.
"Vampires are vampires, we are hunters, it doesn't matter who trained us. I see now all that matters is that we get rid of the vampires. Abby had every right to want revenge," Momiji turned around and looked at Abby.
"If you believe that Momiji then you have kill her," said Hermione. Serena's head snapped to Hermione, as did Blake's and Sarah's. "If you believe that a vampire is a vampire no matter what then you have to kill her."
"Abby is only half vampire," Momiji said.
"Doesn't matter she has vampire blood in her, as does Blake so by your logic you have to kill them both."
Momiji turned quickly she took out her gun and pointed it at Serena, "Then that means I have to kill Serena as well."
Sarah stepped into the room, "What are you talking about."
"Stop it Momiji," yelled Serena confused "you know I'm not a vampire."
"On the contrary I know that you are," Momiji said.
Serena felt Hermione shift away from her enough to look sideways at her. "That's a lie Momiji," Serena said with a deadly tone.
"It's not," Momiji said her eyes cold.
"I am not a vampire!" Serena yelled.
"Yes you are," said Blake breathlessly. All eyes turned to him. "Your mother was a vampire," he said not looking at any of them. "She was a very powerful one and when my mother found you she instantly knew that you were vampire and Wiccan so she took you from your mother and used you to exact her revenge."
"That's not true I would have known I would feel it if I was a vampire!" Serena yelled.
"My mother bound your vampiric nature with ancient magic when you first arrived," Blake told her. "You came first and mother used her magic to make you forget and to seal away the vampire in you."
"That's not true!" Serena said.
"It is Alana told me everything last night," Momiji said. "She told me how you were a vampire, how we all came from the same covens and how Abby was infected."
"That's why you wanted to come here," Hermione said. "You wanted confirmation."
"No I wanted to come and see that it was all a lie, to see that Abby was actually suffering from cancer, I wanted to see that Alana was lying and that she was traitor. That's what I wanted to see." Momiji turned to face Abby, "But instead I get here and I see that it's all true and I have to admit it to myself, I have to admit that Blake is vampyre, that Serena, that Abby, and that I am as well."
Hermione looked up at Momiji, "Momiji…" she whispered.
"My father is Yoshiki Takada the famous hybrid," said Momiji. "So in reality Hermione, I would have to kill Abby, Blake, Serena, and myself in order to stay true to what Abby taught us," Momiji said.
"Put the gun down Momiji," said Sarah trying to calm Momiji down.
"Why you said that it doesn't matter that they are still the enemy so that means that we are all the enemy, and you as well," Momiji rounded on Sarah. "You're sleeping with a vampire so you're the enemy as well." Momiji advanced towards Sarah; Sarah began to move back.
"Momiji stop this isn't what I meant," Sarah told her.
"Then there's a double standard? When it comes to someone we love the rules change?" said Momiji.
"It's more complicated than that," Sarah said.
"But it's not," Momiji said. As Sarah looked into her eyes she saw that Momiji wasn't in the right state of mind. The shock and the anger were clouding her thoughts. Momiji pointed the gun right at Sarah's head; "You were part of the lie." Her finger held the trigger as Sarah stared into the face of Momiji's gun. "You allowed this to happen."
"Momiji…" said Hermione. "Stop it now."
There was a loud bang and time seemed to slow down. Sarah's whole body jumped and she fell back into the hallway, Blake jumped to his feet, Serena covered her ears, Hermione's eyes widened, and a scream came from Abby.
Momiji just stood over Sarah and stood at the hole that she had made just to the left of where Sarah's head had been. The bullet had cut right into a picture that hung on the wall. "I can't stand this house anymore," she said. Then without putting her gun away she walked out of the room and downstairs.
No one moved or said a word until they heard Momiji's car start and pull out of the driveway. Serena stood and looked at Hermione. Blake leaned against the wall and wiped his sweating face with his hand. Sarah lay still in the hallway shaking. Hermione stared at the picture in the hall and then turned to Serena. "I have to get out of here to," she said then she too disappeared out of the room and down the hallway.
Serena watched her go. She looked at Abby once again and then to Blake. "You should have told us," she said "You should have told us everything!" she yelled as she ran from the room and downstairs.
Darien stood outside of his room watching the last of the sunlight disappear. His back was to the ocean but he could feel it on his neck. It was soothing especially since he could feel Serena's conflicting emotions so strongly.
"Darien they are all in turmoil," Kusanagi said stepping out onto the balcony.
"Her pain is like nothing else I have ever felt before," Darien said.
"They have been betrayed by those closest to them all three of them have been damaged. Daniel left a while ago to try and find Hermione." Kusanagi placed his hands on the railing and stared out towards the horizon. "Will you go to Serena?"
"Not at the moment she is lost to herself, she needs time. Will you go to Momiji?" Darien asked.
"No she is full of so much anger and pain that I fear she will try to kill me," Kusanagi said.
"It is the most difficult when we cannot comfort those we love," Darien said.
"I agree."
Serena stood in the middle of the foyer and stared into the darkness. She felt the tears that had run down her face drying but she made no move to wipe them away. She had been driving all day and only stopped once to throw up by the side of the road. She had been trying to make sense of everything since she had left the house with Blake's car but she couldn't. She couldn't make any of it logical. It was all too hard. Serena felt herself moving upstairs, after a few minutes she realized that she was in the bathroom staring at her reflection.
Momiji's and Blake's words ran though her head over and over again. 'Your mother was a vampire.' 'You have vampiric blood.' 'I will have to kill her too.'
Serena saw the tears falling down her face freely again. She felt her legs go weak and she collapsed onto the bathroom floor. She tipped over and just lay on the bathroom floor allowing the cold to seep into her. She didn't know how long she lay there but when she finally pulled herself up all the little light that had been outside was long gone. She flicked on the lights and looked at herself again. She saw it now. Her strange beauty, her silvery eyes, the glow her alabaster skin gave off, slight point to her two fanged teeth. All the things that had seemed normal before now made sense. The more she stared at her reflection the more she hated it.
She suddenly couldn't look at it anymore and without even thinking she brought her hand into the mirror smashing it. The pieces fell into the sink and lay there, some with trickles of blood on them. She had cut her hand and as she looked at the blood seeping from the wound she was mesmerized by it. She had never noticed before but her blood did look a deeper color red than normal.
"Why Abby why didn't you tell me?" she yelled as she once again collapsed onto the ground in tears.
The library was silent as Daniel entered through the back door. Nothing stirred amongst the darkened bookshelves but he knew that Hermione was here. He moved through the building silently; when he reached the staircase he saw that at the bottom of the steps there was a faint light. He slowly descended allowing his aura to find Hermione's and try to calm her.
When he reached the bottom of the stairs he went to the back of the large room passing darkened bookcases. After a while he found Hermione sitting with her back against a bookcase, books thrown around her in chaos. She had one book on her lap but she wasn't reading it she had it clutched to her chest and was staring straight ahead.
Daniel said nothing as he sat down next to her he saw her face was tearstained and that she looked tired. She turned to him after a few moments, "I can't find anything. Nothing on how to cure it, nothing on how to destroy it or stop it. I can't….I can't…..I….." but she couldn't finish through the tears that had begun to fall. Daniel put his arm around her and Hermione let the book fall from her lap. She wrapped her arms around him and freely cried.
"It's all my fault," she cried. "I should have known….I should have stopped her."
"You couldn't have done anything," he whispered.
"I should have known."
"It wouldn't have changed anything."
"I could have…."
"You could have done nothing different."
"All those people, all those innocent people," Hermione said. "All the humans, and all those innocent vampires. We killed them, we never questioned it, we just followed orders and I can't stop thinking of how many we killed just because they were vampires how many died just because of what they were born?"
"You are one of the kindest slayers I ever met Hermione," Daniel said. "It's not your fault you knew nothing more than what you had been told."
"But still all those people," Hermione said tearfully. "All those innocents. It's my fault."
"It's not Hermione. It's not," he said as he rocked her and tried to calm her tears.
Momiji stood on the cliff looking over the sea, the waves crashed against the cliff and the wind blew against her but still Momiji made no move. "Why!" she screamed. "Why did you leave us? Why did you tell me?" she screamed against the noise. She hadn't let her tears fall all day and she was still full of anger and pain. She screamed at the waves once more and then collapsed onto the ground finally allowing her tears to break through.
Alana stared out of the window her arms crossed and a pensive look on her face. She could feel Hermione, Serena, and Momiji's turmoil and she knew she was responsible.
"This is when we should attack those damn slayers when they are at their weakest," said Christopher.
"You think that Darien will allow you to attack them now?" said Alana. She turned to face the ground behind her. Louis lounged on the couch a wineglass of blood in his hand. Christopher lay on the couch opposite Louis his feet propped up on the glass table. "Darien will most likely go to Serena and try to convince her to come to our side, as will Daniel and Kusanagi. You will never again fight those three slayers."
"What the fuck is wrong with this family?" Christopher said. "The Ambrose's were once the most feared Vampire coven in the entire world, they ordered the deaths of hundreds of slayers in a single night. They assassinated the Hunters Association."
"Actually that was Abby," said Alana. "She wanted to raise support against the vampires and the Hunters Association was going to negotiate with the Vampires. She killed them before anything could progress then she blamed it upon the Ambrose family."
"Fuck I like this Abby woman she's kept this battle going and she's kept my pocket lined with hits on slayers," Christopher said.
"Don't you think that we have seen enough bloodshed in this century?" Alana said sitting down next to Louis.
"Not nearly enough" Christopher said.
"Your thirst for blood will be your own downfall," Alana said.
"Maybe but at least I won't sit around moping because of a conscience," he said to her.
Alana stared at him and then stood again moving to the window. Christopher let out a low chuckle and leaned back into the couch cushions. "I can't wait till the King and Queen arrive, they'll order the extermination of that school and then I'll have a shit tone of fun."
"Don't be too sure of yourself. The Queen and King are not going to make a move unless they can see the affects of it," Louis said. "If they do order the extermination of Abby's school it will be because they know that there will be no room for failure."
Alana's head turned so that she could listen to their conversation, when it was through she turned back to the window and stared at her own reflection. "I'm going to burn for this," she whispered. There was a crack of lightning as the storm that had been brewing moved in from over the ocean.
Serena looked out of the bathroom window and saw the dark clouds swirling outside and felt the temperature drop outside. She stood and stumbled into her bedroom she went to the windows and threw them open. She heard the thunder rolling overhead, and felt rain begin to pelt her face.
"Endymion!" she yelled from the window. She needed him, she knew it was wrong, she knew she shouldn't but her overwhelming emotions made her want him. She needed someone who she could trust and even though he was supposed to be her enemy she knew that he was someone she could trust. "Endymion!" she yelled again.
She could feel him react to her call and soon she felt him coming near. She turned around and ran from her bedroom. Her feet pounded against the stairs just like the rain had begun to pound against the roof. She reached the front door and threw it open. She saw him standing in the pouring rain on the sidewalk, even though she had called him he still couldn't cross the barriers that Abby had placed around the house. She ran out of the house not even bothering to close the door and down the steps.
The rain soaked her in seconds but it didn't matter, she was running as fast as she could across the lawn. She stopped at the edge of the lawn and stared at him. She didn't need to say anything, he knew, and she understood at that moment that he knew everything that she did. She understood at that moment that he felt everything she felt and that their bond was present that she couldn't deny and that she didn't want too. She felt her tears mix with the rain on her face as she stared at him.
Darien opened his arms to her and she threw herself into them seeking their comfort and warmth. She didn't need to say anything as he held her. She felt him in her mind trying to soothe her and for the first time she let down all her walls and allowed him into her fully.
Serena felt his arms tighten around her and felt her feet light from the ground. "Take me away from here," she said. She felt his arms tighten again as she buried her head into his shirt. There was a flash of lightning and they were gone.
Momiji sat in the rain unmoving she had long stopped crying but had yet to move. The sea and the rain had soaked her and her hair was plastered against her black and forehead. She sat still as a statue feeling betrayed. She knew that Serena had called out to Endymion and that she was now in his arms. The moment that Serena had opened her bond to him her bond to Momiji and Hermione had weakened. Momiji also knew that Hermione was with Daniel for she had felt his presence trying to soothe Hermione's pain. She had also felt Hermione allow her bond with him to open and her bond with Momiji and Serena to falter as well.
Not since she had been a child had Momiji felt so alone and empty. In a single day Momiji's world had been thrown into the wind and destroyed. Her mentor, the closest thing she had had to a parent was gone wasted away by the disease that she had created. Her two best friends had been taken from her as well, taken by the very vampires that she had sworn to kill. Her entire family was gone in a matter of hours, and once again she was alone.
She felt Kusanagi's arrival and knew that he stood only a few feet away from her. "Come to try and sweep away my pain as well?" said Momiji coldly.
"If you wish me to I will," he said.
She stood and turned around to face him, "I don't want anything to do with you."
"That is a lie Momiji we both know that you love me," he said.
"I feel nothing for you but hate. I hate you and your family and your father and your grandfather," she said shaking.
"Momiji…." He said.
"Don't say my name!" she yelled at him. "Leave me alone, I never want to see you again." She began to walk towards her car.
When she was near him Kusanagi grabbed her arm and tried to stop her. "Momiji…" he began but he wasn't able to finish. Momiji hit him square in the chest with a blast of blue lightning.
"Don't touch me!" she yelled at him.
Kusanagi grabbed his chest trying to calm the searing pain. Her blast had been more powerful due to her emotional state. Momiji's hand was encased in the blue lightning and Kusanagi knew that she was going to attack. And right as he thought of trying to calm her down she ran at him thrown another blast at him. He was able to dodge it easy because her aim was off.
"Momiji stop it!" he yelled at her. She turned and began to run at him again. He dodged her and was able to capture her hand and spin her around. He locked her his arms her back against his chest. "Momiji I don't want to fight you that is not what I came here to do," he said. "I want to help you."
"Help me! How by carrying me off and making me full vampire! Will you take me into your arms and solve all the problems of the previous century like your brothers have done to my sisters?" she yelled at him.
"I don't care about the problems of the world Momiji all I care about is your happiness," he said.
"You want me to be happy then let me go!" she yelled. Kusanagi did let her go and Momiji took her opportunity. She turned around and ran right at him her encased hand heading right towards his head. She stopped just short of his face. "Why? Why don't you stop me?"
"If hurting me will make you happy then I don't mind the pain," he said.
"Don't say that!" Momiji said tears falling from her eyes and mixing with the rain. She stared into Kusanagi's eyes. She wanted to hit him, she knew she should but as she stood there her hand refused to move, her body refused to harm him. She dropped her hand and allowed the spell to dissipate. She stood in front of him staring into his chest neither moving. "I can't, no matter how much I want to I can't hurt you." She looked up at him tears in her eyes, "Everything I know is falling apart!"
"I know," he said, he took her into a hug that he knew she wouldn't return but also knew she wouldn't pull away from.
He let her cry for a few moments and then felt her hands fist in his shirt. She pulled away from him and looked up. She stared into his dark eyes and knew that she loved him. She stood on her tiptoes and kissed him lightly. Then she pulled away from him and turned towards her car not saying a word.
"Momiji?" Kusanagi asked.
Momiji stopped dead in her tracks but didn't turn around. "The next time we meet Kusanagi Ambrose we will be enemies and I will have to kill you."
"Momiji…"
"Don't! Don't say my name," she turned and looked at him tears in her eyes, "I can't bear to hear it on your lips." She blinked once, "Goodbye Kusanagi," then she turned away and ran leaving him standing in the rain staring after her.
As she ran she tried to block him out of her thoughts. 'It doesn't matter nothing matters anymore not who I was born not who I am. He is a vampire he is my enemy.' She reached her car and slammed into the door. 'Serena and Hermione they are now…they too are now the enemy.'
Momiji got into her car and started the engine. She drove towards the highway never once stopping. She looked in the mirror only once and saw as Los Angeles disappeared. 'It doesn't matter now it doesn't matter who they were, now they are my enemies.'
She allowed one tear to fall down her cheek for the two women who had been her sisters and that was it. No more. She would never cry for them again. She would never consider them her sisters again, they were now and forever more her enemies.
Review.....oh and to those of you who are going to ask. It was Darien and Kusanagi's grandfather who raped Abby's mother. So she would technically be their aunt, making Blake their cousin.