"Luna, stop!" Eric yelled at her, as she stomped up the stairs.
The bond in Luna that she shared with Eric pulled her to a stop as he used his blood in her to control her from going any farther. Rolling her jaw in annoyance, Luna turned on the stairs and looked at him, dead in the eyes.
"What's gotten into you?" he asked, going up the stairs to her. "You jumped some guy on the street, for what?"
"He was stalking some poor girl, Eric." Luna defended herself. "I couldn't just let him do that. I didn't think he'd fight me. All I did was trip him to start it, he throw the first swing and called me a Bitch. You know how much I hate being called a Bitch."
"You should have acted your age and walked away, Luna!" He scolded her. "You're in your last year of being an teenager before your an adult, start acting like it."
Angered, Luna spit the blood that was pooling in her mouth in his face. "Like you did, when you were my age, Eric?" she hit below the belt. "I distinctly remember you telling me that instead of acting like an adult, you tried living your life between the legs of any women that let you. While your father tried to get you to act our age and get ready to take his place as king and you fucking didn't. So, don't try pulling that shit on me, when you couldn't do it yourself." Luna growled venomously at him, before continuing onto the bathroom to clean up her face. Eric stood on the stairs wordless about what just transpired. Luna had always been the quiet, withdrawn shy girl since Eric met her in Fangtasia with random bouts of courage and wit that made it clear that even though she'd never raised a hand to anyone or come off threatening or like she was about to harm an ant, she wasn't to be messed with. But ever since she came back to Stockholm something in her snapped. It was like a full moon for a werewolf.
"I don't understand, Godric." Eric said still staring up at the bathroom door. "She's never acted like this before. Could it be my blood?"
"No, my Child. If it was your blood, her outbursts would have started after the first time she fed from you. But she didn't. I actually believe she mellowed at even more since starting to drink your blood." Godric assured him.
"Then what's wrong with her?" Eric pleaded looking down at his Maker.
Godric frowned, "It's her life here, Eric." he told him. "Back in Shreveport she's loved and taken care of like every girl and human wants to be. She has you to tell her and show her that you love her every day with words, gifts and things. She has good friends that she can be herself with. She doesn't have to worry about her parents constantly treating her like a baby or trying to control her. But importantly she has a very big demon here, Eric."
"What demon?" Eric frowned. "She's never spoken to me about having a demon."
"I know that, Eric. She's told me about it. Luna never wanted you to know because she knew that you'd commit murder if you ever found out." Godric's whole being hesitated. Luna had trusted him to keep the secret and keep it from Eric with all the energy in his life. But it was starting to destroy the sweet and innocent girl that she was, being with Eric or not, and Godric couldn't let such a thing happen.
"Tell me what's wrong with my Luna, Godric." Eric said softly. But Godric could hear the hurt and desperation in his voice.
Godric took Eric by the hand and led him downstairs to the living room and sat each other on the couch. He sighed, unneeded. "As your Maker, Eric..." he hesitated. "I command you to keep calm as I tell you this and when you confront Luna about it, understood." Godric invoked his Maker command on Eric.
Bond bound to obeying him, Eric licked his lips nodding. Godric nodded in return, looking deeply conflicted. "When Luna was about 8 or so she was touched inappropriately by a family friend. She's only ever told me and another friend that it's happened." Godric watched as his Child's eyes went almost black with anger, but he remained perfectly still and quiet. "But when she was 14, she was inappropriately touched again by her uncle, she was almost..."
"Don't say it." Eric whispered.
Nodding, Godric continued. "but her brother Axel walked in and stopped him from going farther. Her Parents didn't believe them. They said Luna and Axel were making it up to get attention."
Eric sat there, absorbing all the information that Godric had just given him. His insides were raging to get up and hunt down these people and tear them limb from limb for hurting Luna in such ways. But he sat there physically clam, only by the grace of Godric's very smart command. It started to make sense to Eric, now. Why Luna was so shy with first time he tried to bathe her, why she cried after the first time they did it and he thought it was something he had done, but she told him it wasn't anything like that, he had only done what she had asked him to do with her. He understood that now. Getting up, Eric kissed Godric on the cheek and went upstairs to the bathroom, where Luna was holding a cold washcloth to her eye.
"Luna." he said so softly, that Luna did a double take to him. There were red lines on Eric's eyes of threatening tears.
"Eric, what's wrong?" she asked, putting the cloth down and resting her hands on his muscular arms.
"Why didn't you tell me about what your uncle and that family friend did to you when you were younger?" He asked, his voice breaking a bit. "Why didn't you tell that and that your parents didn't believe you? I couldn't have hurt anyone...physically." A red tear fell from his left eye, streaked down his cheek and dripped to the tile floor.
Luna's breath was jerky, shallow and short as she looked up at Eric, fighting her own tears. "Godric told you?" she managed. Eric nodded at her, cupping her cheek in his hand.
"I had too, Luna." Godric said, standing in the doorway. "It's eating you up being here in Sweden. I can sense it in our little bond. I know that's why you've been so destructive since you got here, whether you realized it or not." his boyish face full of sorrow.
"I'm sorry, Eric." Luna said. "I should have told you. But, I couldn't bring myself to do that to you..."
"Bring yourself to tell me?" Eric frowned. "No, Luna. You shouldn't have had that happen to you. There's nothing you have to be sorry about. It's not your fault, do you understand that? It wasn't your fault that it happened." Luna nodded at him, blinking away her tears. "I'm going to take you from here now. Like you asked me too." The rest of Eric's tears fell, staining his shirt and dripping into a little pool on the floor at their feet.
"Okay." Luna nodded, relief filling her. She'd wanted someone to say that to her for years and now the man that she loved more than life and death had said and promised it to her, it was like the weight of universe had lifted off her shoulders, letting her tears fall as they hugged. "Can we go now?" she laughed trying to lighten the mood. Eric laughed with her, as did Godric.
"No, not yet." He said, wiping away his tears. "We have to get whatever you want to bring back with you and tell your parents that you're leaving."
Luna let go of Eric, drying her face. "Just glamor them." she told him. "I don't care."
Eric was a little surprised by that, but still didn't blame her for it. "If that's what you want, I'll do it." he agreed.
"Do it." she gave him her blessing, with a kiss to the lips.
"Should heal her first, Eric." Godric said.
"No," Luna shook her head. "I'm fine. I stopped bleeding."
"But the bruising, Luna." Eric protested. "It's going to be pretty bad." he told her, lightly touching the tips of his fingers to her bruising cheek. Luna shrugged at him.
"I'll let you heal it in a few days. Right now, I want it to stay."
Eric rolled his head to the side and shrugged his shoulder at her, defeated. "Fine, have it your way. We have to leave now anyway." he said heading out of the bathroom, past Godric.
"Thank you, Godric." Luna called to the old Vampire as he turned to leave.
"For what?" he asked turning back to her, a frown on his face.
"Telling Eric about what happened." She told him. "I don't think I would have been able to."
Godric went to the girl and hugged her, lovingly. "You're my friend, Luna and the lover of my Child. You're quite literally the best human I've met since I turned him and if I knew Eric wouldn't kill me, I'd turn you too." he smiled, brightly, making Luna giggle.
"That's sweet." she smiled, kissing him endearingly. "Really is."
"Come one, my teenage lovers!" Eric called from the front door.
Luna and Godric raced each other down the stairs, Luna reaching Eric first and taking her backpack from him and pulling it on, she suck her tongue at him. Godric snapped at her tongue, making her draw it back and hid behind Eric in a fit of giggles. Eric sighed, shaking his head. "Now, I know why I became a Vampire." he said more to himself than them.
"Why's that, Eric?" Luna asked as she and Godric grabbed one of Eric's hands each, heading out of the loft.
"Because we can't have kids." he chuckled. Luna and Godric both laughed at him.
"The way you lived before I turned you, Eric. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't have a few children." Godric teased.
Eric frowned at Luna, who started to sniff around them, "What are you doing?" he asked her as she sniffed him.
"You smell that?" She asked them.
"Smell what?" Eric snapped, annoyed.
"The smell of you getting burned!" Luna erupted in laughter. "Ooooo, hahaha!" Godric hooped with laughter along with her as Eric flushed with anger at them.
"When we get home, I'm bathing you two and then beating your butts into oblivion." He growled stepping off the elevator with them.
"Oh, are these your kids?" A lady with a stroller asked Eric as they walked into the lobby of the building.
"You have no idea, Lady." Luna smiled like the Grinch. "You have no idea."
Eric put his hand over Luna's mouth and gave Godric the eye. "They are. You want them? I'll pay you to take them." he said getting in on the joke. The lady looked at the three horrified, then strolled her kid away from them. The three laughed heading out of building and to Eric's car.
"Luna, you okay?" Eric asked from the driver seat, looking at her in the back from the rear view. Luna nodded at him and continued to play rock, paper and scissors with Godric.
They reached Luna's parents house and she got out of the car and headed inside, the Vampires following behind her.
"Mum!" Luna called walking through the door.
Kia and Kalle walked into the living room, smiling at her. "You came back." Kia said, hugging Luna.
"Yeah," Luna frowned. "You guys can come in." she invited Eric and Godric.
The two stepped in and Luna's parents instantly knew that they were Vampires. They stepped back as they stood behind Luna, their jaws dropped connecting the pieces.
"You're a Fang Banger?" Kia hissed, become upset.
Not having it, Godric stepped around Luna and took influence over the pregnant women as Eric started to glamour Kalle. Sorrow and regret flooded into her face as she watched Eric and Godric glamor her out of their parents lives basically. Filling their minds with lies about where she was going and why. When they were done Eric turned to Luna and back her up the stairs to her bedroom. Stepping into her room, the first thing Luna went for was the Talisman in her desk drawer. Eric took it from her and put it back in its rightful, around Luna's neck. Then she grabbed Mr. Moo off her bed and headed down the stairs.
"Is that all you want?" Eric asked following her. Luna nodded, heading out the front door and to the car. Eric understood her upset and left her to it.