Chapter Twenty Five
Adrian sat with Willow for a little while and managed to get her to finish the whole smoothie before she asked Willow if she wanted to play a song to Brady while he slept. Willow broke down into tears at that, flinging herself into Adrian's arms and nodding her agreement. "So what do you wanna play? What would Brady like?" Adrian asks.
"He always loves it when I sing 'Lego House' in the car" Willow says wiping her tears away
"Ok awesome, I know that one, where's Brady's guitar?" Adrian asks
"In the Den" Willow tells her.
A few minuets later Adrian is playing a tune on Brady's Spanish guitar while me, my Mom and Kim peer around the door. Willow starts to sing and her voice is beautiful. I instantly recognise the song; Willow plays it all the time. Like the first time I saw Willow and Adrian singing together, Adrian lets Willow take the lead and only joins in on the chorus to back Willow's voice with her stronger more confident one.
"And it's dark in a cold December, but I've got you to keep me warm. If you're broken I will mend you and I'll keep you sheltered from the storm that's raging on now I'm out of touch, I'm out of love. I'll pick you up when you're getting down. And out of all these things I've done I think I love you better now" I glance to my left and see my Mom and Kim in tears holding onto each other when the song ends I'm hugging the two sobbing ladies.
"God you're so talented Willow" Adrian tells her
"Thanks, and thank you for singing with me" Willow says. It's then that I realize my little sister isn't so little anymore. At some point while I was still being the overprotective, over bearing big brother she grew up and I didn't even see it happen.
"Don't' worry about it honey, I love singing with you. Do you think Brady liked it? I hope he didn't mind me using his guitar" Adrian smiles and Willow laughs a little.
"Nah he won't mind. Do you think he can hear us?" she asks
"Sure. You don't think so?" Adrian asks
"I don't know" Willow shrugs
"He's gonna be fine Willow" Adrian tells her "He'll be up and about before you know it and then you can kick his ass for scaring the crap out of you" she says and Willow laughs. God I love my imprint, and I love how great she's being with Willow right now. Nobody else has even been able to get her to stop crying.
"Adrian?" Willow says carefully after a while
"Yeah?"
"Duck didn't mean to lie to you about all this stuff you know, he wanted to tell you so bad but he was terrified of scaring you away. He's an asshole but he loves you more than his life" she says and it's true I do.
"I know, and that's kind of scary and intense" Adrian says quietly "It's just a lot to get your head around"
"I know, but don't give up on him he needs you and weather you like it or not you need him" Willow says and turns back to Brady and I knew what she was thinking about. Adrian puts the guitar down and stands up, she touches Willow's shoulder.
"Can I get you anything?" Adrian asks her
"Another one of those smoothies would be great" Willow smiles.
I follow Adrian into the kitchen and the blender is already whirring away, I spin her around and kiss with everything I have so she knows exactly how much I love her. A second later I've picked her up and sat her on the counter. She pushes me away and switches the blender off then pulls me back to her and kisses me once more.
"Let me take this to Willow then you're taking me upstairs" she tells me, I grin and kiss her one more time before I let her hop down off of the counter.
Adrian and I are halfway up the stairs when I hear my Dad howling out in the forest, I freeze and Adrian looks up at me. "Who is that?" she asks
"My Dad" I tell her
"What does it mean?" she asks and I sigh
"It means I've gotta go"
"Vampire?"
"Hopefully, the sooner we find the other one the sooner life can go back to normal" I tell her and she nods, I pull her up by the chin to look at me and kiss her lips gently.
"Riddoc don't go? Please? You were hurt really badly yesterday, you can't"
"I heal quickly" I shrug and she rolls her eyes.
"Riddoc?"
"I'll be ok" I tell her "Besides if this is the Vamp that went after you yesterday I'm not missing my chance to get a piece of him" I say
"Oh God just be careful" she sighs knowing she's not going to stop me.
"Always Angel" I say, I kiss her once more then bound down the stairs three at a time and out into the rain.
I caught up with the pack a few miles from the house with my speed it didn't take me long to get there.
Jake: Riddoc what are you doing here, you should be resting?
Me: yeah well I'm here now what's going on?
Jake: Seth and Embry chased the vamp we've been looking for off the coast
Miles: why does he keep coming back anyway? Wasn't killing his friends enough to scare him off
Jake: apparently not
Me: no it just pissed him off, and now he wants revenge. Who delivered the finishing blow out at Floyd's point?
Embry: I did.
Me: then we can assume me, you and Dad are his main targets, whoever else in the pack he can take out in the mean time are just bonuses
Embry: you really think he's after vengeance?
Me: what else? Miles is right he should be running scared right now but he's not, we have to assume killing his friends made it personal it's the only logical explanation.
Miles: alright easy Mr. Spock
Jake: Miles! Ok even if Riddoc is right this still changes nothing, only now we know he'll definitely be coming back.
He didn't come back that night or next night but the night after that I shot up in bed to commotion downstairs, my hands flew out for Adrian wondering why she wasn't already in my arms but there was only me in the bed. I'd insisted and all but forced Adrian to practically move in with me at my parent's house until the nameless vampire was dealt with.
I quickly got out of bed, getting my foot caught in the sheets and almost falling on my face in my sleepy state then barrelled though the door and onto the stairs. I could hear my Mom, Adrian and Willow screaming and laughing. Wait... laughing?
I skidded on the polished marble of the entryway and all but flew into the kitchen. My Imprint, my Mother and My Sister were jumping up and down in a group hug, smiling and crying. My eyebrows hit my hairline and my mouth dried out as it hung open while I tried to gather some form of words.
What the hell was going on? "Duck!" Willow squealed happily and ran over to me at vampire speed, she catapulted herself at me and hung off the floor while she hugged me. I hugged her back and walked into the kitchen with my sister dangling from my neck like a baby monkey.
"His face is a picture" Adrian mutters to my Mom and bites her lip to keep from smirking, Mom covers her mouth with her hand to hide a chuckle.
"Did I miss something?" I ask and instantly Willow starts to cry.
"Oh Willow sweetie?" My Mom says and rubs Willow's back
"I know" She sobs "I'm just so happy"
"What the hell is going on down here?" Dad says suddenly from the kitchen door, I turn and see him shuffling in rubbing sleep out of his eyes.
"Brady's awake" Mom says, my jaw hits the floor and so does Dad's "Willow came to tell me and I guess we disturbed Adrian" Mom explains
"I was up anyway" Adrian shrugs
"We came downstairs so we wouldn't wake you two but looks like we failed" Mom says with a smile still stroking Willow's hair
"I'm going back up, see if he needs anything" Willow suddenly announces and leaps off of me, she zips out of the room and past our Dad using her vampire speed.
My eyes meet Adrian's and she smiles at me, shaking her head. "I'm never getting used to that" she laughs.
I led Adrian back up the stairs to bed, my hands stretched out behind me holding both of hers. As we reached the top landing I wrapped my arm around her and placed a kiss to her temple. "How come you couldn't sleep?" I ask her once we're in the privacy of my bedroom, not that there was any privacy to be had in this house.
"Who said I couldn't sleep" she brushes the question off
"You said Mom and Willow didn't wake you..."
"You've kind of given me a lot to process lately don't ya think?" she smiles "My brains having trouble shutting off" she says as she climbs back into my bed.
"Ok" I nod "Anything you wanna talk about?"
"No I'm ok, well... do you know him?" she asks
"The Vampire?" I ask and she nods "No, Dad thought he might be connected with the Voltori but Alice doesn't think so"
"Wait" she says then laughs "You're saying a lot names to me... Voltori are like vampire police and Alice is your aunt? Mind reader? No..."
"She can see the future" I tell her
"Right"
"Sorry it's just so much to take in, I bet you're sick of explaining all this shit to me" she laughs and I smile
"Not at all, I'm relieved you finally know and I can be honest with you. And I'm doubly relieve you're not upset about how you found out" I Say
"What do you mean?" she asks and I take a deep breath hoping this won't result in an argument
"Well, I wanted to tell you, have you hear from me not have it dropped on you that your boyfriend bursts out of his skin into a giant wolf then have you crash my car into my mortal enemy, you could have died" i sigh, I didn't want to think about what could have happened that day.
"Sorry about your car" Adrian says and I laugh
"Baby I don't care about the car, cars can be fixed you can't" I tell her, I brush my knuckles over her cheek and she smiles like just a touch could comfort her. "But to answer your earlier question no we don't know who he is" I say realizing I didn't fully answer her.
"What are the chances that he's running and he won't ever come back?" she asks with a hopeful smile. I sigh and settle myself on the mattress so I'm lying next to her.
"Doubtful, sorry Angel. It looks like the other two we killed were part of his coven I don't think he'll let that go easily" I say. She sighs heavily.
"Maybe I should meet the rest of your family, putting faces to names would probably help" she yawns and snuggles into me
"When this is over, we'll take a road trip to Alaska and see everyone, sound good?"
"Sounds great. Riddoc?"
"Yeah?" I ask
"When you were walking up the stairs in front of me before, your back looked really sexy" she whispers, I chuckle and grin. I move much too fast for a human and she screams as I pin her to the bed.
"Is that so?" I say and she giggles.