Adam was exhausted. He rested for a moment and then put on his clothes. Mimi had finally succumbed, and the medicine had taken effect. Mimi had boosted him with her fury and Adam wasn't at all sure how long it would have gone on without Mimi's help. But now he was in some sort of shape and he would then help Mimi again in turn. Adam went to the front seat and Magnum explained what had happened. They stopped to eat fast food and Adam covered Mimi as best he could. Adam knew he needed calories now and lots of them. He still felt silver inside him. Mimi was breathing slowly and her pulse was slow. Mimi was also chilled, so again, this drug was completely messing with Mimi's thermoregulation.
Adam updated Samuel halfway through the trip. Samuel was swearing generously on the phone. He always loved all the mystery drugs. By the time they arrived, Samuel was already outside. One look at Adam and Samuel said "Downstairs medbay, you're pale and still smell like silver. Mimi may have fished the bullets out, but that doesn't guarantee there won't be a chip left." Samuel then went to the back of the car where Magnum picked up the unconscious Mimi and carried her after Samuel to the medbay downstairs.
Damon ran to the medbay "Where is she? What's been done to her?" Damon asked Samuel. Samuel was tired and he was just starting to get it all together. Mimi had been brought in a couple of hours ago. Samuel said "Mimi is sleeping now, I don't know how long, so far I haven't identified the substance she has in her blood but it has slowed her metabolism considerably. I suspect she needs to sleep off that drug."
Samuel had just had Adam's wounds looked at and put Adam on a blood drip. now Adam should eat and rest for a couple of days and he should be fine. Samuel had cut a silver circle out of Mimi's chest and in its place was a thick bandage because Mimi's healing rate was low because of the medicine. Dresden had been there quickly and assured him that the coin hadn't had time to infect Mimi. Mimi was asleep. Samuel did not yet see the need for an incubator as Mimi was maintaining her body temperature after being covered with an electric blanket provided by Adam. Samuel had put Mimi on a feeding solution and a sugar drip so that Mimi's weight would not drop much.
Samuel said to Damon. "Let Mimi sleep now, how long I don't know if Constantine is to be believed then weeks. Maybe even a month." Damon was silent. He went to Mimi's bedside took his wife by the hand and waited. He tasted Mimi's blood and his teeth couldn't help because the drug was in the tissues from which it always seeped steadily into the blood. This would be one long wait and Damon wasn't always so terribly patient.
"Mimi, come on, wake up already! Come on! Mimi! Get up. Mimi, open your eyes!" Whoever this was was so persistent. Then I felt someone give me an open palm to my face, not in a gentle way. I groaned. " Come on baby, open your eyes, chop chop!" and again. I wanted to sleep. I was so incredibly tired. I didn't want a third stroke though, so I fought my really crabby eyes open. "I'm awake," I thought I was saying, however, my mouth was so damn dry, it was probably just some mumbling coming out of there. "Good girl! Now open your mouth and I'll wet it a bit." My lips felt as dry as dry can be.
Something was sprayed into my mouth, I swallowed, then I felt a straw in my mouth. I sucked on it a little, something sweet, and swallowed. I sighed and closed my eyes, " Don't do that, come on, open your eyes back open. Mimi!" Damon's voice was commanding. He took a warm washcloth and wiped my eyes, I got them open a little better. "Sleepy," I mumbled. Damon said in a gentler voice now "I know baby, I'm sure you're going to be asleep, but you have to try and wake up now, you can't sleep for six months." He called out to someone. "I got Mimi awake."
Samuel came to the other side of the bed. "Adrenaline drip?" Damon nodded. Mimi had been asleep for almost 90 days. The drug refused to leave her system and now its concentration had halved. Damon had been trying to wake Mimi up the whole time. He had had mild reactions but not enough to actually bring Mimi to consciousness. Samuel went to the medicine cabinet and took a liter bag of saline solution. He put in a good dose of adrenaline and Ritalin. Then he came in, hung the bag, and slowly put it on a drip. He handed Damon a syringe full of colorless liquid. Oral Ritalin. It would already be partially absorbed by the mouth.
Damon said. "Open your mouth, baby, I'm gonna give you some medicine to freshen you up." I didn't want to be refreshed. Sleep was just around the corner, if I could just have a minute I'd fall asleep. The syringe was pushing into my mouth, dripping some kind of substance. The inside of my cheek tingled. I opened my mouth and Damon squirted the rest of the medicine on my tongue. I swallowed instinctively. "Good girl, you'll be refreshed soon." The sleep began to fade and I was truly refreshed. Damon helped me sit up. I was still half asleep and completely exhausted and powerless. But no, he lifted me up and started to walk me around the medbay. And again.
He walked me to the kitchen, fed me, gave me Ritalin, and walked me. He said "Now we need to get you up to speed, your metabolism is half of what it should be, that's why you need to try to move and eat all the time. Then Damon started fucking me so well that I fucked him and got back on the bike. He was smug. Oh so I was getting turned on I started to look at Damon hotly and he was naughty and said " Sorry baby but that's not working yet, you're not accelerating in the right way, but don't worry it won't be pleasant, but soon you'll be full of your own adrenaline.
He went off somewhere and then again I felt like I was being chased. My pulse quickened and I felt the adrenaline flooding my system. I was pretty panicked though and then I couldn't find Damon anywhere, I just felt like he was chasing me. The chase went on for a week. The drug had halved in my system again in three days and then decreased again after a week, but Damon didn't stop. Fine. When Samuel said that the drug was no longer in my system in sufficient quantities to cause any symptoms, I decided to change places for good. I would go to Australia and buy a ranch there for myself. I'd put some animals in there and learn to ride horses.
I told Adam my plan and he agreed. He couldn't come with me right away, but he'd come as soon as he could. The only problem was Damon. How the fuck am I going to avoid him? A voice in my head said lazily and dangerously " Baby, that ranch is a good idea, just make sure it's secluded enough so no one can hear you scream." Chills went down my spine as I wondered what he was going to do to me that would make me start screaming. I don't know, I just don't know. I didn't say anything about that sentence to anyone and started looking at different ranches online. eventually, I found the right one. It was a huge, former cattle ranch and had even had sheep in it at one time. Fine, no problem.
Then I bought it and Adam booked the pack´s plane and took me to the plane himself and had first checked the plane to make sure it was empty, that the pilot had eaten Vervaine and had not been composed. Then Adam kissed me and as we were kissing next to the plane suddenly Adam's car exploded. The voice in my head said "I so wanted to wait for Adam to be on board, but I couldn't watch that anymore. Baby, you have no right to be happy with anyone else but me. I'll show you that. You belong to me and me alone." Oh, this was not a darling type.
This was Damon in a rage and I could just imagine the thick smell of that wet dog that he was always defying. Then several times he was still covered in some sort of perfume secretion and left greasy fingerprints. This was the Damon that hurt. What played with the stabber? Which demanded to be asked. The Damon I really didn't want anything to do with.
That's when Adam decided he'd come with me to Australia and take it from there. Just getting a bomb in Adam's car was an incredible thing to do. We chatted on the plane for all or part of the flight while Adam used his laptop to set up security at the ranch, luckily there were fleas you could trust in Australia too. We would buy some animals at some point and now there was talk that the Mimosa was not unattached to me because Damon could not be trusted now not to hurt even the Mimosa. Lady was elsewhere and Australia was a bit too hot for her.
I did some work myself on the flight and we talked about sniper stuff and then I told Adam about the locker in my car and just mentioned that I'd have to empty the bank lockers at some point. There's an incredible amount of them already. Adam asked how many and I gave him a booklet of where they were all put.
Adam flipped through the booklet for a moment, put it in his bag for safekeeping, and said "You must be a pretty damn rich girl. But we'll go through those boxes together sometime then. See if there are any stocks and shares in there and see if we can get Charles to do your finances. I hear he's a genius at it. I won't tell Bran about this, don't worry, but Salvatore is a different matter. I can't predict what he'll like when you're this rich. Do you have a prenup?" I nodded. I had put it in place for the very reason that I was starting to earn more myself and had seen enough lucky women buzzing around men. I wasn't going to finance any of those bitches.
Our trip went off without a hitch and Adam was in as much of a working mode as can be. I was online ordering everything for the ranch and figuring out what kind of horses to get and how to ride. Adam would take a moment to watch my every move and smile to himself. I guess I was pretty focused.
I wanted to learn to ride and I could even ride for school. It's nice to find new hobbies. Another thing I wanted to do was to be a cat show judge. My dream was also to go through quite a few cat shows and well if Adam wanted to go into that business. I hadn't decided yet. Then there was racing, formula racing, actually, but forever is a long time and I have forever to do everything. The plane landed and Adam went out first. He had already booked us a rental car and went through it very carefully. Then we went for a drive to our ranch. It was a lovely place and Adam went to check out the security while I wandered around outside and inside.
After an hour Adam came up to me and said "We're not staying here yet, too big a risk. We'll go to one of your safe houses here in Australia so we can wait there for two weeks whatever it takes to get that ranch completely secure. It took us no less than eight hours to drive to the safe house and we did eat on the way. There were people in the safe house but we didn't mind that.
I went inside and Adam was already talking to people when a man came up to me and said "I know what your room is, Damon was here a couple of hours ago bringing your stuff. He's a damn good guy though." I was quiet and told Adam in my head. "Adam, Damon has been here already, he brought some of my stuff a couple of hours ago. " Adam looked up and came over to me. " Oh fuck, what on earth took him so long. Fine let's go see what he's brought." we went into the room together.
In the room were three tube bags and on the bedside table a big bunch of black roses with a note. It said "Baby, don't think for a moment that Adam can protect you from me. Damon." fine, I can imagine and I do know some things. I don't have a problem. Adam had lifted the first bag to the bed and there were spiked handcuffs, resting straps, a straitjacket, and silver handcuffs.
A platinum silver collar with spikes. Oh, the gentleman is in a jolly mood. In another bag were bottles of medicine, anesthetics, and sedatives. There were even a couple of bags of jelly. Someone's found a new toy. Jelly. Barely a syringe and a needle packet so I'd probably know he already had medicine on him. Even the paralytic for the vocal cords was just short of a packet.
The third bag had my clothes in it. They had holes and tears in them. It's like I'd been in a fight with them. They were smearing all over the wet dog and I threw all the clothes away right away. The smell disgusted me. Adam put all three bags out of the room and took them to the outside storage room behind the locks. He also said if you see Damon, let him know.
Damon is having a little trouble with his alpha supposedly and he would like to get his hands on Damon, Adam also said not to warn Damon about this. I had already called Dresden by then and had him cursing because he wasn't going to Australia. But I explained that this could take some time and he should just be ready when this thing escalates. Magnum cursed when he couldn't make it. A big bunch of demons and bad ones. I get it. I had Adam and myself. Neither one of us was asleep. Both of them were watching hard, and yet every morning now for a week at breakfast, when we went, there was a big bunch of black roses and some half threat always included. Adam couldn't figure out how Damon would get into the house properly and so we decided to go on a road trip for a week before the ranch would be ready.