Chapter 3

Carmilla continues down to brick hall way and leaves Laura behind her in a daze.

"Wait what?!" Laura yells down the hall way at the shadow of the vampire attempting to escape the awkward situation. The girl previously leaning against the wall is now sprinting toward the girl who just got her all kinds of wet and then left her standing there with a pad against her neck and her shirt ripped off and on the ground.

"What do you mean you can't do this right now? I'm almost positive you were grinding against me just as hard as you were draining the blood from my neck. You were moaning just as much as I was why are you saying that we can't do this?" she finally catches up with the woman that looked a bit like a cat running away with its tail between its legs. Laura reaches out with her unoccupied hand and takes ahold of Carmilla's shoulder and turns her around to see tears in her eyes, on the verge of falling down her cheeks.

"I can't do this! I can't fucking love you when you won't love me back for who I am! I can't fuck you when I love you so much and not be able to have you! I cannot show my passion for you when all you do is tell me that we can't be together!" Carmilla takes a hold of Laura's shoulders and pulls her into an unexpected hug.

"I can't show you how much I love you when I know that you are refusing to accept it." She then kisses the smaller girls cheek. She can't help but notice how Laura's heart is pounding hard against her chest so hard that the girl holding her can feel it. Laura finally gets a grasp on reality and drops her hand from her neck and hugs the older woman back.

"I'm so sorry Carm, I never meant for any of this. I just got caught up in the moment. It just reminded me of when things were so much easier. Everything was good or bad, there was no grey area. I knew what to do to do the right thing and everyone was alive." Laura buries her face into the leather jacket once again but has a whole other thought process. She just wants to be held and have someone who she can actually trust be the one to do it. Tears start to gather on the lip of her eye lids when she sits back to look into the warm brown eyes that have always given her comfort when she needed it.

"Carm, I just… I wish I had listened to you in the beginning… when you told me that there are worse things than Mattie… I wish I had never told Danny how to kill Mattie…" the memory puts a lump in the vampire's throat that causes her to choke up a bit. She missed her sister dearly and the killing spree she went through may have helped with her anger but it didn't do anything to take away the hurt she felt. She had told Laura that information for her safety, not Xena's. She just didn't want Mattie to accidentally hurt the girl she loved.

"There is nothing we can do about Mattie or… Danny…" saying the girls who killed her sisters name causes a jolt of hate shoot right to her heart but before it can take hold of her in this moment she looks back down at the emerald eyed girl in her arms. She can see the tears right about to fall from the girls eyes. She chuckled a little to herself; this must be a sight, a vampire and her human ex-lover crying like children in each other's arms. The funniest part about it is that she just didn't care. She was finally having an actually conversation with Laura for the first time sense the night they first got stuck in this damned library. She wipes the tears from her small human's eyes and then hers from her own face.

"We will move on and we will find out how to fix things because right now sweet heart, they aren't looking good." She pulls the girl closer to her and looks deep into her eyes with a grin on her face, attempting to make the girl smile.

"Easy lady killer or you might end up getting yourself in trouble." Laura giggles at the woman holding her and touches their fore heads together. Her face then falls and she really takes in what has happened in the past hour and realizes that she doesn't mind. She has a feeling for the vampire that she hasn't allowed herself to feel sense she heard about what Carmilla had done to poor old man's ancestors. She really felt like they could be together, that they needed to be together. She starts to lean her lips closer to the pale pink once in front of her when an all too familiar thing happens.

"Hey guys I think I have found something." Laf jogs down the small hall way were the girls are standing there holding each other with their faces only inches apart. They nearly run into the girls as the two try to separate awkwardly.

"I found a backed up version of JP in the system still!" They hold up a laptop with a little icon of JP in the bottom left corner. Words then start to skim across the bottom of the screen.

'Hello again ladies, I see we are getting along better than last time we were all together.' Laura blushes and Carmilla looks away with a frown.

"So wait, if you are here than what is in your human body?" the slightly confused vampire asks the small man on the computer. Very quickly words run down the bottom of the screen again.

'For some reason my body is in some kind of comatose state. So because my mind isn't able to work in that body it is able to work throughout the system now.'

"What is the last thing you can remember?" the curios college student asks.

'Well after drinking blood from Lafontaine I still felt hungry and I didn't want to drink from them anymore because I didn't want to cause any real damage. I ran into the middle of the campus and found Ms. Perry just standing there in the middle of the commotion. I quickly ran toward her and as soon as she saw me she started to say something that I was unable to hear and that is when I blacked out.' The two girls just stand there as they attempt to process what has happened and what it means for them.

"Wait so you saw Perry? Where was she JP we have to go and find her!" Laf starts to scatter to try and figure out what they are going to do to try and get Perry back to them.

"No!" both girls put a hand on each shoulder of them and Laf is taken by surprise by this.

"Wha-What do you mean no?" they try and process why the girls wouldn't want to go and find Perry. Laura and Carmilla look at each other and now are starting to regret not telling Laf about Perry actually being the dean.

"We can't help Perry because she isn't Perry… she is actually my mother…" Carmilla continues to keep complete eye contact so that they understand that this isn't a joke. They stand there for a bit trying to understand what their best friend ex has just told them. Then it clicks.

"The dean possessed Perry and no one thought that they should tell me?"