Time Warped
I know it's been awhile, but have had other things I've been doing, lol. Also hadn't felt any inspiration to do the rest of these stories. This is the last chapter of this story. :}
If I could rewind time, what would I do? I'd go back and tell my mom about Lance, what he was doing to me and Sam, the beatings, that I didn't get that bruise from a fall... Mom had a job back then, when it all started. We could have moved to a new home in Phoenix, our cousins could come over and baby sit us and things would have been good, I'd graduated this year and gone to collage on a sports scholarship, maybe even mom would have gotten child support.
It didn't happen that way, nothing happens the way it should, instead everything is kept silenced, till it boils over and there's no choice, but to move to grandpas since where else could we go with mom not having a job? It was only supposed to be a short time till she got a job and we could move, but that was just a dream, where are we now?
I'm a vampire, I don't even know if I'm myself anymore, Sam doesn't say anything, but I've seen the looks he's given me. I've changed in more ways than one and I don't even know what it is that he sees that I can't... Sam's changed, now, I don't know if he sees his own differences, but he's more aggressive, prone to outbursts... He's also rarely happy. I've never seen Sam sad so much and there's nothing I can do, or anyone. Mom had been in denial, she doesn't change, but... Grandpa's dead, and mom is still... Unresponsive. I want Sam happy, snarking again, I want mom to be her normal cheerful self, chiding me, I don't like these changes.
Sam had been crying earlier. " She's still like last night." he probably didn't sleep any.
" They're outside." I didn't have to say who, they would know.
Howard stood at those words. " What do they plan to do?" I could hear the defensiveness in the mans voice, he's dealt with David already and more than once, which has left him very weary of him.
I shook my head. " Nothing, unless given permission and that I ask... They're going to wipe her memory to try and fix her. David said he'd be able to tell if she can come out of it on her own or not." I believe David, David doesn't want to mess with my moms mind and do so much work to it if he don't have to... Apparently it could take hours for him to try and fix a years worth of memories so that she doesn't have to many blank spots.
Howard sighs." Michael..." Howard paused in what he was going to say and seems to change his mind with on look at my mom. " If she will not come out of it, then... We have no choice.
Sam was silent, I didn't like that at all, no quirky remarks, no witty sarcasm... Just silence with the occasional comment.
**** Deal and the Memories ****
When Howard gave the go ahead, I called David in, though this got me a strange look since I didn't actually get up and call him in. They wasn't aware of the whole, vampire mental speech, well before, now they know... Sorta.
David sits up after staring at my moms eyes for some time. " This is going to be tricky." He sighed. " Great... She's blocked her mind in, she could snap out of this tomorrow, or 20 years from now, or even never. "
"She snapped." Paul snaps his fingers, but his grin drops from his face when me, Sam and Howard glares at him, Dwayne elbows him.
The rest of the guys came in with David when I asked David to come in. David looks to Marko and Marko comes over. " Go get some drinks, cause going to be a long ass night tonight."
:: You will be doing what I asked for this, Michael.:: David states, no getting out of his deal.
:: Yea, I know, I'm to let you mate with me.:: I didn't like this deal, I am not into men, but it's the only way...
:: Oh, it's going to be more than that, eventually you'd want it yourself, I'm just expecting sooner than what normally takes for one of us to mentally adjust to our change.. No, I do this, you will be required to drop your connections to your mortal family. You can no longer see them.:: David wasn't kidding, he seriously wanted me to stop seeing them.
:: Wait, what!? That was not mentioned before, why the hell you want me to cut off my family? You can't just tell me to drop them!:: I tried not showing my anger, but I could see Sam looking my way, he knew something was up
:: Because you're not fucking human Michael! I was willing to humor you before, but it's dangerous, eventually you'd get to attached and humans and our kind don't mix well. You're going to have to learn you are no longer human, you no longer act human in your nature and they can see that. Plus when this is done, your mom can not be around anything that can trigger her memories, that includes you, I can't completely remove them, I have to alter them. If it was only a few days, then I could remove them, but this is a full year Michael, I can't remove that without leaving a complete blank, I can't replace a full years worth of memories in a single night and I sure as hell not going to spend a few months of my time to completely rewrite a years worth of your moms memories.:: David sounded frustrated with me, but it was a lot to ask that I give up mom and Sam.
:: You can still phone them, but you can't see them, maybe your little brother can visit, but that's it, For what I'm going to be doing, you are going to accept what you are, I'm not going to sit by and wait, you will act like one of us, you will stop playing this human part you been trying to play and you will act as my mate when I want it, understood?:: David wasn't going to let me opt out and if I say no... My mom can be stuck like this for years...
:: I'll... Do it, just help her.:: I gritted my teeth, I didn't have much choice here.
**** Drinks, Memories and Coping ****
David started soon as Marko brought in the hard liquor, Howard had given us a funny look, I know I needed something to keep my mind off what was going on. Alcohol didn't really do much, it burned and took a lot of hard alcohol to get drunk. I was;t sure actually what David was doing, just that he was going in to replace certain things in her mind.
Marko sat behind David as if watching what David did in moms head. :: It's simple, David's going to search through and putting a mental block on anything supernatural and putting in a memory in it's place, but he has to do it generally, it'd take months to hunt down each memory, so he's changing your take of visits being due to school and having a job, he self denial kind of helps, because it's easy for her mind to accept this. You moved out and took a room with friends you made, which is kind of true. He's implanting thoughts to cover the truth. He's forced her mind to repress anything supernatural in it. Sams' change will just be teen hormones. Instead of your Grandpa operating on Sam, he went to the doctor that night.:: Marko had answered my thought.
:: I'm catching anything David misses, we're trying to make it as solid as possible so that something will not break the block on her memories easily, this stuffs tricky, because something can trigger the memory and well, that would be bad for her... So basically anything abnormal is hormones and dealing with loss. Max is going to be someone she dated, then he moved deciding to close down his video store here. So you aren't a vampire, just moody with long hour job. Sams not a werewolf, just gender confused.:: Marko snickers in my mind. :: We place enough explanations, any memory that comes up as odd will be attributed to teen hormones, we putting in suggestions that will fill in the blank of anything we missed and will cover pretty much anything weird, she'll just not remember you and your little brother or her dad aren't human. Though leaving in his death, that's not something can get around.
A few hours latter and David takes a swig from the Vodka bottle. " Done, she'll snap out of things and wont remember what happened, she'll just think she's slept all day from stress and exhaustion, but she's going to likely need to leave Santa Carla, to much chance to trigger her memories and trust me, you don't want that to happen." David takes another drink.
" I guess can move back and reopen the Hardware store." Howard says with a sigh, the man really wanted to do as my grandpa had wished: reestablish the Santa Carla wolf pack, but seems like that wont happen.
My worries were that Sam will have problems, Sam had started to get aggressive towards Howard and Sam has been more challenging towards me, like he's trying to push his limits.
" I don't want to move." Sam states. " Already moved once and look what happened? Really, what's next, we move and my cousin turns into the loch ness monster?!" Sam must be feeling a little better since he snarked a bit there.
" You can't stay here, you and your mother will have to move, we can't take care of you and your to young to stay in our den. You'll have to wait till you're grown, Howards going to have to help you through what you are, we can't and your mom isn't going to leave with out you, Michael's 18 almost 19, she can't really do much about what he chooses, but she has to leave or her memories could be triggered and they get triggered it may cause to much damage to fix, cause I can fix memories, but I can do little to fix insanity." David pulls out a cigarette and starts lighting it up.
" He's right, I hate to say it, but he's right, we can't risk Lucy remembering, you'll be fine back with me, everyone knows about Scott there so you wont have to worry so much." Howard put his hand over Sams' shoulder.
Sam eyes David. " What about that kid that was with star? Wait where are they?" Sam started having a worried look on his face. " Why would she go insane?"
David snorted. " Laddie's just Maxs' left overs, you wouldn't want to know why we kept him... We normally kill children, they don't belong as one of us... And they're gone, Star ran with the boy at sun up and have no idea where the fuck she went. When one barrier snaps, they all start snapping, like knocking over dominoes, she'd get flooded with a years worth of memories that contradict what she knows and memories of things she thought were a fantasy. It would mess her up cause she would no longer know what is real."
**** Goodbye For Now****
I sat on my bike at the edge of town, watching Howard drive off with my mom and Sam. Mom had recovered just fine and set up the funeral for grandpa. She was unhappy that I was staying and 'living' with someone in Santa Carla, but gave up... I told her I'd take care of the house and I'd call her every night after work. She thinks I have a job that has a lot of overtime and that I did graduate high school and working to go to collage. Little things to put her mind at ease and give reason why I'll never call before sundown.