Chapter 6

The face Carmilla was looking at was not the last face she had seen this soul wear. This face belonged to the girl she had tried to save from her mother; Laura's previous roommate, Elizabeth Anne Spielsdorf. The dirty blond curls belonged to the body but the soul was much older. The hooded girl squeezes the item on the chain again and Carmilla can feel herself faltering, the edges of her vision are going black. She looks down at the girl in her arms and knows that she may not be able to keep her safe anymore. The leather clad woman leans down and goes to kiss Laura on the fore head when she feels her heart being crushed again. She gasps for air and clutches at her chest as she looks up at the woman she once loved.

"Ell, please stop this. I know it's my fault that you died but please just let the girl go." Ell looks down at a seemingly broken vampire and Laughs in her face.

"You actually think that I would help a monster like you. I don't even understand how I am here; I don't know who this body belongs to. All I know is that I will make you pay for killing me." Laura opens her eyes and the first thing she sees is the pain and worry in the woman who is holding her. She reaches up and touches the motionless woman and it was as if her touch caused her pain because as soon as her finger tips touched Carmilla's cold skin the pale woman pulls back from the touch and drops Laura, then scoots away from her like just the two of them near each other hurts.

"Carm, are you okay?" Laura sits up and looks at her hands to see if there is anything on them. Carmilla cries out again and looks up at the woman whose hood was now off. Laura's jaw drops when she recognizes the face of the girl she spent all of last year trying to find.

"Betty? What are you doing here, and why did you have us tied up?" The girl with Betty's face looks at the college student who is still on the floor and gives the girl a gentle smile.

"I'm sorry sweet heart, Betty isn't here anymore. Your little vampire toy back there is the reason I have to be stuck in this damned body." She turns and looks at Carmilla.

"You know back in our day women were not nearly as skinny as the one I am in. We had a bit of meat on our bones and we were praised for how we looked, also not nearly as hungry all the time. I swear to you I have eaten three times as much as I would have eaten back then." She laughs at herself and releases the end on her chain necklace and Carmilla gasps and start to breathe heavily as though she were being held under water.

"Ell leave her alone, she has nothing to do with this." Carmilla speaks in a broken sentence as she continues to gasp for air. The dirty blond girl looks at Carmilla and smiles at her so sweetly you wouldn't think that this girl had just ripped Laura up by her hair and thrown her down.

"Oh but my love I know that they best way to hurt you is to hurt the ones you love. I watched that myself when your mother killed me. After she had shown me what you two were I was almost happy that she was going to kill me because I didn't want to be in love with a monster like you." Carmilla looks down to avoid the look of hatred on the girls face. Laura stands quickly and points in the face of the girl who is standing in front of her.

"Watch your mouth, Carmilla is no monster! You are the monster in this, you are the one who kidnapped us and tied us up, you are the one who tried to freakin' scalp me, and you are the one who is hurting someone who hasn't done anything to you except love you and regret everything wrong she ever did in her life, including involving you in her mother's plans!" Laura was forced silent by a hand meeting her cheek in a flash of movement that she was unable to follow. The only reason she knew she had been struck was because her face was on fire and her cheek felt like a thousand needles were stabbing into it.

"Shut your mouth you stupid little girl, you know nothing of what I have gone through because of that beast over there! I was dead for over hundreds of years and I had no one but that damn fish to keep me company. Do you know what an ass hole that fish is? He cares about no one but himself. Thankfully he is normally only awake when new girls are being sacrificed. I had an amazing life before that demon came into it and murder me." She reaches down and picks Laura up by the front of her shirt and throws her in Carmilla's direction.

"Get out of my sight, both of you, but remember that you owe me one Karnstein and also," she squeezes what looked to be a black pendent on her gold chain, causing Carmilla to scream in agony and hold her hand to her chest. Laura moves closer to her side and puts an arm around her in comfort. "I have your heart still." Laura looks up as Ell in shock and then back at the broken vampire in her arms. Ell laughs at the girls surprise and smugly adds.

"That's right you stupid little brat, you never had her heart. It was always mine, and she is unable to give it to anyone else." Carmilla looks at Laura with tears in her eyes, threatening to fall from her black lashes. She looks up at the girl she once loved with anger.

"Do not speak of things that you know nothing about you stupid girl." Ell looks at the beat down pair on the floor, turns away and starts walking towards the desk in the room.

"Now both of you leave before I decide it would be more fun to force Carmilla to eat you alive right now." Laura stands up and pulls the beat down vampire up with her and they limp away from the evil spirt of a dead girl before they both ended up dead before they even had a chance to think things over. The area around them starts to lighten up as they walk down the hall way, Laura turns around to see that the door was gone. They had just walked through the door and now it was nowhere to be seen.

"She is a demon." Now that she is able to breathe easily she speaks clearly to Laura.

"What do you mean she's a demon, I mean yes she's kind of a royal bitch but I don't think demon is the right word for it." Carmilla shakes her head and chuckles a bit; she watches her feet as they continue walking towards the light of the TV they had left on and she thinks about what Ell had said. She worried about even being around Laura because she didn't want any harm to come to her human.

"No Laura, I mean she is a vengeance demon, she must have been released when I stabbed the angler fish. I'm guessing that her spirit went into Betty's body once the light exploded." They find their way to the pallet they sleep on and Laura places the beaten up vampire down as lightly as she can.

"So you are telling me that your ex is now a vengeance demon because you released her spirit by stabbing the light of a god because you were trying to save your new girlfriend." Carmilla pauses and looks up as though she is in thought.

"Yes creampuff that does seem to be the situation."

I really hope you are enjoying the story. I am trying to write as much as I can but just be patent with me please.