Chapter 16
Me: Hello dearies
Fang: someone's chipper
Me: sue me, its a FOUR DAY weekend man!
Fang: you arent the one who broke a wing today
Me: oh stop pouting, it's almost healed
Fang: its your fault so i will pout
Me: no, its not, you leaned out of the bumper car and you extended a wing and you made someone crash into you, i wasnt even in the bumper car
Fang: you made me go to the stupid festival!
Me: would you rather go to the big Easter Show or the little Easter festival?
Fang: point taken
Me: thankyou. Anyway guys, this one is a little on the short side but this is my virtual easter egg to all of you lovely people
Fang: way to suck up
Me: shut up you
Fang: no
Me: so anyway, enjoy the chapter
Christians POV
I stood wide eyed beside my brother as we spotted our mother in the direction we were headed with the Swiss coven.
"They said we were helping one of the visiting covens! Mother isn't in a visiting coven!" Chris ranted quietly beside me, though he was loud enough for mother to hear him.
"Oh shut up Chris" I rolled my eyes and continued to walk to where mother was standing, shock and confusion written all over her face. I was freaking out just as much as Chris was, I just leant to internalise my freaking out. Mother wasn't supposed to know we left Volterra, that was the point of sending her away for a few months. Chris walked alongside me, though he was a little slower than I was in pace. We reached mother within the minute and she still hadn't moved from her shocked position. "Mother?" I poked her shoulder experimentally to no result. Chris waved a hand in mothers face and she snapped out of her trance. Though we realised that was a bad thing a little too late;
"What are you doing here?" Mother screeched at the top of her lungs. Chris and I stepped back a few steps and put our arms up in defence. Mother was still seething, furious we disobeyed her constant orders of 'don't leave the castle without telling mum'. We gave it a minute before speaking so we weren't in danger of another ear-splitting shriek.
"We were with the Swiss coven" I thought I'd start at the end and go backwards; I might be able to satisfy her with half the story that way. Mother gave us the 'go on' nod. I could tell her face would be red as a tomato, that is, if she had any blood in her veins.
"We were looking for a friend of Father's, who we found, because dad said he could help us get him back, which he can." Chris finished for me. We recoiled again and waited for the outburst. After about half a minute I stood straight, feeling like I was looking a little stupid when mother just stood there, calm as ever, looking at us.
"You're not mad?" I wasn't prepared for what mother did next and I'm not sure Chris was either; she lept into a hug, dry sobbing and clinging to the backs of our shirts. I looked to my brother who looked just as confused as I was. I brought my hand up to pat mother on the back comfortingly, not used to her being so out of control like this. Mother stopped her episode after a moment and stepped back from us, rubbing her eyes unnecessarily.
"I'm sorry boys and I'm not mad, how can I be mad at you for trying to find your Father? I understand why you would want to help him, but I'm not so sure you will be able to… fix… him." Mother took a few deep breaths before hugging each of us again and beckoning us inside the little shack. It was overly crowded inside and we could barely make it through the door but somehow we managed to fit 18 vampires in the little room; the four remaining Cullen's, the five Denali's, the five Swiss, mother, Dimitri, Chris and myself. I swear you could hear a pin drop in the awkward silence of the room.
"Thank you for coming to our aid." Carlisle broke the ice, horribly I might add. "We can't tell you how much we appreciate your support." Carlisle shook the Danton's hand, recognising him as the leader of the coven. Mavric may not be from the coven but he had apparently been living with them for well over 80 years so he considers himself one of them now, but he told Chris and I he was only coming down for us, and Father.
"We aren't one to leave old friends high and dry in the face of a battle, no matter the scale." Danton nodded to Carlisle in that leaderly way of theirs before addressing the group as a whole.
"The other covens will be here within the day according to Aro, the Alaskan's within the hour, so we need to recon to the other house, just leave a few people behind to send the covens there." Carlisle gave directions to the more typically luxurious Cullen house near-by, but Chris, Dimitri, Esme and I opted to stay behind and send the covens to the house. The hour ticked passed and the Alaskans were still a no show, Esme and Dimitri grew more and more restless with every minute that ticked past and it was starting to infect the air around them.
"I'm going for some air before I choke on this tension" I announced and sauntered out into the cold. I did a lap around the shack to keep my blood pumping and was not expecting what happened when I got back to the front door; a knife was pressed to my neck.
"What on earth are you doing here little half-breed?" The man asked. Esme slammed the door opened, a pissed of Dimitri standing just behind her.
"Anek, leave him alone." Esme demanded, her face showing a rare expression of intimidation. The knife dropped from my neck and the man, Anek, stepped back. "Boys, these are the Alaskans, who are late." Esme raised an eyebrow and I turned around to see eight vampires, five makes, three females, with bright red eyes standing there.
"Our apologies." Why do I have the feeling that we aren't going to be such great friends?
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Me: yes D: i like reviews, they make me smile
Fang: in other news
Me: I want to start betaing more, ive had my beta account for a while but ive only just gotten a story to beta, i can manage another two or three but no more than that if you're looking for a beta
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Me: thats all for now, have a great Easter guys, hope you have a good time!
~Vamp