Chapter 9 and it's kind of long…but whatever I never disappoint!
Mary-Lynnette's eyes never left Blaise's.
This is Thea's cousin. Mary-Lynnette thought. Ash was right, they are different.
Blaise walked over to Ash, breaking eye contact with Mary-Lynnette and stared at him, her eyes hiding something, an accusation, and then she turned to Mary-Lynnette.
"Excuse me." Blaise said politely. "Do you think that you could, give us a minute? I kind of want to talk to my friend, in private."
Mary-Lynnette looked at Ash and back at Blaise. "Okay." She stood and walked out of the room, fighting the urge to run back and hug Ash, until Blaise would leave.
As she shut the door behind her, Mary-Lynnette could already hear the conversation, but walked away before she would eavesdrop. As she walked down the steps into the winter wonderland, she nearly crashed into Thea who was walking up the stairs with Cassandra.
"Mary-Lynnette, Thea took a step back and smiled. "I was just about to look for you."
"Likewise." Mary-Lynnette said with a smile. "Um, I think your cousin is here."
Thea's eyes brightened. "Blaise is here?"
Mary-Lynnette nodded. "She's in Ash's room right now. I think she would love to see you."
Thea smiled and turned to Cassandra. "Why don't you head back to the kitchen with everyone else?" When Cassandra nodded, she let go of Thea's arm and while Thea disappeared up the stairs leaving Mary-Lynnette and Cassandra.
"Did you like the snow?" Mary-Lynnette asked reaching out to Cassandra.
Cassandra nodded with a small smile, "I really do its fun." She reached out to hold onto Mary-Lynnette's good wrist and led her down the stairs.
"Is that your bunny's crown?" Mary-Lynnette asked, noticing the golden vines around her wrist.
Cassandra nodded. "It fell off, I need to get it fixed, but for now I'm wearing it as a bracelet."
Mary-Lynnette nodded, "It's pretty."
"Thanks." Cassandra smiled.
"Are you excited for Christmas?" Mary-Lynnette asked, curiously.
"Yes." Cassandra nodded, enthusiastically. "I can't wait."
"Me neither." Mary-Lynnette agreed as they pushed through the doors to the kitchen.
"There you are." Mark said smiling. "Where have you been?"
Mary-Lynnette smiled. "Where do you think?"
Mark smiled wider as Mary-Lynnette sat down next to him, as Cassandra sat by Iliana, clutching her wrist. "I'm not even going to guess."
"Can I?" Quinn asked with a wicked smile.
"No." Gillian replied.
"Where's Thea?" Eric asked Mary-Lynnette, his eyes anxious.
"She's with her cousin, in Ash's room." Mary-Lynnette replied automatically and without an emotion. "I don't know what they're talking about though."
Everyone was quiet for a second, letting Mary-Lynnette's answer sink in and their imaginations run wild.
Somebody opened the door to the kitchen and the three people the group had been talking about, walked in. Thea and Blaise's arms interlocked and Ash walking a bit back, his eyes bitter and unwilling to meet Mary-Lynette's.
"Hey Blaise." Eric said with a smile as Thea sat next to him.
"Eric?" Blaise blinked. "Wow, it feels like forever since I've seen you. How have you been?" Blaise sat down next to Thea and smiled, flicking her dark hair behind her.
"Good, good." Eric said with a smile. "And you?"
"Great." Blaise smiled. "Well not that great, the witches are still grieving over…' Her voice trailed off as most people in the room closed their eyes and breathed deeply taking a group moment of silence for Grandmother Harman, the crone of the witches. Finally Blaise opened her eyes and so did everyone else, one after another and all continued talking.
While mark chatted loudly next to Mary-Lynnette her mind was far, far away. What had Blaise been talking to ash about in his room? Why wouldn't he look at her? What happened? All these thoughts suffocated her as they waited for their answers. And finally they came.
"So" Blaise said to Mary-Lynnette. "Are you Ash's new girl friend?"
Mary-Lynette had to suppress a snort. "No I'm his soul mate."
"Oh." Blaise said absentmindedly. "So you two are meant to be together for ever, eh? How long have you been with him two months?
Thea gasped quietly and turned to tell her sister something but Mary-Lynnette didn't wait for her to speak.
"Actually a bit longer then that. And yes we are going to be together forever, why do you ask?" Mary-Lynnette glared at the girl asking rude questions.
Blaise shrugged. "Because you look like a smart girl and I don't want to see you get hurt? He has hurt a lot of them in the past."
"Blaise." Ash, Eric and Thea hissed in unison, while Mary-Lynnette smiled.
"Thank you for your concern." She said sweetly. "I am smart girl and I know he has hurt some girls in the past, maybe you were one of them? You do look like the type he would have used." What did I just say? Mary-Lynnette thought anxiously. I would never say that!
Blaise blinked and stood, putting her hands on her hips. "Is that so?"
"Yes." Mary-Lynnette smiled. "It is actually. Maybe after he dumped you, you had to go for every boy you could get your hands on to try and fill the void." Okay that is way too far. She thought.
Blaise just blinked, and didn't say a word, then in one quick movement Mary-Lynette was flying through the doorway and out into the piles of snow, in the foyer. Landing quickly into a crouch, she saw Blaise's eyes, glowing with fury and her hands sizzling with orange sparks. Blaise was literally blazing mad.
Standing up, Mary-Lynnette smiled and waited for Blaise to come at her again, ignoring the confused and scared glances heading her way. The change in her was smoother, less noticeable, but defiantly there and now all Mary-Lynnette had to do was wait.
"That all you got Blaise?" Mary-Lynnette called. "Come on, I'm waiting."
Blaise jumped and ran at Mary-Lynnette her hands blurs of orange as she jumped onto Mary-Lynette, tumbling both into the snow. Mary-Lynnette's skin burned but she didn't care, she was filled with to much adrenaline to care. With a swift movement, she kicked Blaise into the ribs and rolled away, getting colder by the moment because of the snow. She stood and instantly fell again, being pushed by Blaise, who was clawing at her hair and burning Mary-Lynnette more by the touch.
She turned back and saw that everyone in the room was frozen literally, frozen where they stood. A spell. Mary-Lynnette realized trying to dodge away from Blaise's fingers.
"Get off!" Mary-Lynette screamed, pushing Blaise of her and kicking her in the face. She stood and turned around; thinking on her feet about what she could use to save her, her first thought was iron. A witch's weakness, like wood was to vampires and silver to werewolves. She turned around in a quick circle, looking for where Iron could be found, and dove to the ground as Blaise shot something her way, burning a patch of fire in the stairs where it hit. She pulled herself up and a thought popped into her head, there were iron bars in a gate behind them, without thinking Mary-Lynette ran up the stairs and did something extremely crazy.
She kicked the window and pushed the broken glass out of the way looking down at the fifteen foot drop. She took a few steps back and waited to see if Blaise was following but she didn't have to, Blaise was right behind her, charging at her with a series of sparks.
Mary-Lynnette took a deep breath and jumped, falling strait down into the yard.
As she fell, she grabbed onto anything she could get her hands onto, window stills, loose bricks, anything to clutch so she wouldn't hurt herself as much.
Finally, she fell onto the not so soft grass onto her hands of feet, looking up as Blaise fell next to her. At first she wouldn't move but then her eye lids fluttered and she was awake, staring up at the sky then piercing her eyes to Mary-Lynette.
Mary-Lynnette took a step back and started running to the fence, desperate to find a loose piece of iron. Finally she pulled a short pole that nearly gave way, but was till stuck into the gate, she pulled but Blaise was right behind her, shooting sparks at her and blasting her away from the gate. Mary-Lynette jumped and ran at Blaise, ignoring the burning sensation she had when she got near the girl and tackled her onto the ground near the gate.
Blaise was surprised but shot spells at the crazy human girl until she was sent flying back over to the gate, again her back smacking against the harsh bars. As she fell, Mary-Lynette changed again, different this time, stronger and she grabbed the loose pole and jerked it free, and standing, spinning it like a master swords man. She pointed the tip to Blaise whose eyes were narrowed into slits as she lunged to the fence, grabbing her own piece of iron to fight with. The girls circles one another then fought, slashing iron against iron, creating a loud, clang as each pulled away and smacked again, dodging narrowly as the other slashed at their sides, and repeating the same move back.
"What's your problem?" Blaise screeched, pushing her iron weapon closer to Mary-Lynette's neck.
"Right now?" Mary-Lynnette yelled back. "I'm fighting a girl I don't even know." She ducked and tumbled away appearing on Blaise's other side. "And I don't know how I'm fighting her for that matter, after I've been away from my soul mate for a week, having just remembered who the heck is he is" She slashed the air against her opponents iron. "After Lily erased me and my brother's memory. And now I'm back, I can fight people like I've known how to for years, and I just want to have a regular Christmas and get to know you."
Blaise smiled. "That really sucks." She spun away and stabbed the air where Mary-Lynnette had just occupied before ducking away again. "Imagine this, your cousin, who's been with you all your life, has to be sent away because her soul mate is a human. And you give her the wrong, memory wiping potion on purpose so she can remember you, but you never see her for two months." Their weapons clanged against each others again as they pulled back.
Mary-Lynette frowned. "I'm so sorry." She whispered lowering her iron. "That's horrible."
Blaise nodded, breathing slightly hard and lowered her iron too. "And you couldn't see your brother for a week?"
Mary-Lynette nodded and dropped her weapon. "It was like when he was a kid, he would never be able to leave this tent, and no one could even touch him because he was so weak."
Blaise's eyes widened and she threw her weapon down next to Mary-Lynette's so that they made an X and a loud clang. "That's really horrible."
Mary-Lynette sighed and sat down against the fence, changing quickly back to her old self. "It was so hard to see him like that. Then he meets Jade and changes into Romeo."
"You're brother's soul mates with Jade?" Blaise asked, sliding down to sit next to Mary-Lynette.
Mary-Lynette nodded, "And I'm soul mate's with Ash…' Her voice trailed off as she looked at Blaise. "I'm sorry, for the things I've said. I know you just wanted to watch out for me."
Blaise's eyes widened and she hung her head. "I'm sorry too. It's just I've seen Ash with lots of girls, and he just stopped all together with that and joined Circle daybreak so I was suspicious. He never really told me much about why he joined it either, just that he had is own reasons and he would be seeing Thea again, and I didn't want to see another innocent girl get hurt." She smiled faintly. "I've got a funny way of showing it don't I?"
Mary-Lynnette laughed. "Kind of. But it could be worse, you could threaten to bite me and hit Ash over the head with a club to try to protect me." Both of the girls laughed. "Werewolves, what can you do?"
Blaise smiled. "That must have been rough, how'd you fix it?"
Mary-Lynnette looked away. "I got free, because I was tied up, a dove into my car, he came after me, I stabbed him and I burnt him in my car as it exploded. The end."
Blaise gasped. "I shouldn't have asked."
Both of them laughed again and finally looked up to the broken window where snow was staring to melt out of the edges.
"When are they going to wake up?" Mary-Lynnette asked curiously leaning her chin onto her bare knees.
Blaise shrugged. "Soon, I guess. It really depends, but considering I did it on a lot of people including Night Worlders, I would have to say…"
A familiar ashy blonde head popped up against the open glass followed by another blonde girl and a boy with dark hair. Each of them looking around anxiously for something then finally resting onto Blaise and Mary-Lynnette sitting against the fence.
"Well." Blaise said standing up. "It was fun while it lasted." She reached her hand out to
Mary-Lynnette who took it and smiled, pulling herself up to stand next to her new friend, with a smile. "Were probably going to get yelled out when we go in there, you know."
Blaise nodded, smiling. "I know, so let's get it over with."
"Let's." Mary-Lynnette agreed, walking with Blaise side by side into the giant mansion stained with broken glass and melting snow.
Chapter 9, over and done with. How'd I do? Good? Bad? Did I fail completely with Blaise's character or did I do an okay job? I crave your opinion.