Blood trickled out of my nose, over my lip, and dripped onto the floor. The force of the explosion knocked me back several feet and into a table. My hip and head throbbed in pain. Hip because of the fucking table, but I had a headache because I tried to throw up some type of protection spell to cover the room. The explosion happened too fast, and I couldn't cast the spell to cover the whole room. The blast fucking demolished the entire front of the house. To make matters worse, my shield did not expand to those closest to the suicide bomber. Both human and vampire blood covered the debris.
"Georgiana, are you alright?" Hector was next to me in an instant.
The room began to spin, and I fought the urge to vomit all over Hector. I shook my head, and I took a deep breath. Don't vomit. Don't vomit.
"Nina-" Hector started.
I turned my body to lay on my side and puked all over the floor. I used too much magic. I began to shiver and continued puke. This was so gross. I wiped the snot and blood from my nose. When I finally stop puking my face off, I pushed myself to my knees to get away from my vomit. I gagged at the smell.
"Hector?" I gasped.
My arms trembled and I don't think I could hold myself up. Thank Goddess, Hector caught me before I could land in my own vomit. If I did, I don't think I would ever get over that. I haven't felt this drain since I first started my training.
"Thanks, Hector."
Little black dots appeared in my vision.
"Hector?" I tried not to move too quickly. "Can you call my mom?"
I didn't hear his response.
I woke up in my hotel room. Dear Goddess, what time is it? I was changed out of my vomit covered clothes, and it weirded it me out. Who changed me into my pajamas? Dwelling on that thought had to wait because I had more pressing matter to attend to. I had to pee, like really bad, then food. I called room service because I needed to get some food. I called my mom next.
"Georgiana, thank goddess." She answered.
"I'm alright mom," I answered. "I just used too much magic. I simply passed out from magic exhaust because I stretched myself too far. There was an explosion at the sheriff's nest, and I tried to cast a protection spell to cover everyone."
"Georgi."
"I swear, mom, I'm fine. Just starving."
"You cannot just tell me you were in an explosion and that say you are alright." She argued. "You were in an explosion. You can't expect me to be calm. You can't imagine the fear I had when Hector called me and told me about the explosion."
"I'm sorry, mom."
"Honey, I'm just glad you're safe. I know the potential dangers, but it's different when it's your own child, Georgi. I just want you safe."
"I know." I smiled into the phone. "I succeed mom. I found the Sheriff."
"I proud of you."
"I do have a problem, though." From this point, I asked my mother about Godric's soul problem.
She wasn't sure what to think of it, but she agrees that it was a curse from the last war. She did advise me to talk to Godric about coming to Safe Haven to be evaluated by Oplina. From my description, she believed he was cursed with 'edax animae necare.' The Soul Eating Curse. It made sense. Why didn't I think of it? What terrible curse to be put under. I do have to admire Godric's strength. To survive this long was nothing short of a miracle. He can't wait that long. He needed the help now; otherwise, he won't last the next coming week. I don't think there has been a more suicidal vampire. No, I need to get this done tonight.
I decided to jump into the shower before eating, but I felt the hunger gnawing at my stomach. In the middle of my brunch, someone knocked on the door. I opened it to find the blonde, Sookie.
"Oh thank goddess that you are alright!"
I stood in the doorway planning on blocking her. I will not allow this Sookie in my hotel room. I had this feeling that she would never leave.
"Yeah." My smile was huge in the hopes to get rid of her. "I'm eating then I'll probably take a nap afterward. I'm really, really tired,"
"Oh," her smile faltered, "I can come back later."
"Yeah," I grabbed the door to close it. "That'd be great."
I slammed the door in her face. Dodge that bullet. I slammed the door in her face. Dodge that bullet. I waited, listening for her footsteps. I returned to my brunch, but 5 minutes later, someone knocked on the door. The first thought that passed through my mind was 'it better not be the bitch.' I glanced through the peephole to see Hector.
"Thank Goddess." I opened the door. "I thought you were that blonde bitch again."
"Why the animosity toward the telepath?" He chuckled walking into the room.
He made himself at home across from my meal.
"You know when you just meet someone, and you just wanna stab them in the face with a spoon?" I sat back down on the floor in front of the coffee table. "That's what I want to her stupid eyeball."
Hector laughed out loud.
"That still does not answer the question, niña."
"She just-"I struggled to think of the words, "she rubs me the wrong way."
He laughed again.
"Don't mock me, sir." I used my fork to point at him. "You will not like the consequences."
Hector held his hands up in surrender.
"Have you spoke to your mother?" he asked.
"Yes," I answered in between bites, I spoke to her earlier this morning, shortly after I woke up."
"Good. We have a few meetings to attend this evening starting at midnight."
"What about?"
"The AVL is sending someone to take a report on the happening of the event, and the king will arrive shortly after the meeting. He would like to meet with you." Hector explained.
"Oh." I tilted my head. "What does one wear to meet a vampire king?"
"I would suggest bare, but I don't believe your mother would appreciate it."
"Pig." I rolled my eyes.
"Eat and get some rest," Hector instructed. "And, Georgiana, I am glad that you are alright."
"It's ok." I smiled unable to resist the urge to tease the vampire. "You I'll keep your secret."
"What secret?"
"That you're afraid of my mother. You wouldn't want to 'return' me injured."
"Oh niña, I am going to miss you when you return home." His smile was bright and welcoming. "As I said get some rest. I'll stop by to escort you at a quarter to midnight."
I watched as Hector showed himself out of my suite. So a vampire king? Vampires are weird. I looked at the clock to see the time. Wait. How was Hector awake? It is like 5 o'clock.
I sat comfortably on a fancy couch in some fancy room next to Hector. The meeting was just getting started. We were waiting for the AVL representative to show up. She did. Almost an hour late.
"Do you have any fucking idea of the PR mess that you've made?" The kinda scary looking Nan Flanagan was sitting in the room speaking to the Dallas vampires. She looked very different now than she does on TV. I have only ever seen her in her nice pastel suits, but now her hair was slicked back, dressed in black, and with a sour-looking puckered look on her face. She looked like he had smelt something bad.
"Who has to clean that fucking shit up?" she continued on with her tirade. "Me. Not any of your fuckers, me. I should have all you bastards in silver chains and drained."
"Stan went to the church on his own." Sasquatch explained. "None of us knew anything about it."
"Seriously?" Nan turned her icy glared to him. "Because anyone who met Stan in the last 300 years knew that he had a kink about slaughtering humans. But you, his nest mates, had no clue?"
"And how were we supposed to know that this time he meant it?" Isobel argued back.
"Not my problem." Nan addressed Godric directly. "Your. Stan was placed here after The Great Revelation for you to watch over, Sheriff. This is your fuck up."
I looked over at Hector. I hated vampire politics. I did not want to come to this thing, but Hector said that I had to represent the Council since we were involved. Hector surprised me by staying silent through this back and forth between the woman and the Dallas Nest. He represented the king, right? Shouldn't he have something to say?
"Don't talk to him that way." Eric threatened.
"Don't talk to me that way." Only Nan's eyes shifted to Sasquatch before returning to Godric. "Now let's get to the point. How did they manage to abduct you? It has the whole vampire world on high alert."
"I offered myself."
Almost everyone in the room turned to look at the ancient vampire with the most flabbergasted looks on their faces. I understood those looks.
"Why?" the scary TV inquired amazed that such a thing could happen.
"Why not?" Godric countered. "They would have taken one of us eventually. I thought-"
Godric's thoughts trailed off, and he didn't complete whatever he was going to say. He shook his head and continued.
"I attempted to make friends with them, but as you can clearly see, I was unsuccessful."
"I'll fucking say." Nan practically sneered. "And what about this traitor?"
"Irrelevant," Godric stated. "I take full responsibility."
"You bet your ass you will." Nan declared. "Sheriff, you're fired."
"You don't have that authority." Sasquatch glared at the vampire who by the way looked nothing like her TV personality.
"Do you want to lose your area too?" She glared back at him.
"I'd like to see you fucking try."
"I'm on TV, try me."
"Well you really can't do anything, can you? Don't have any power here?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Honey, I'm TV. I can do whatever I want."
"Yeah, no." I corrected this ignorant fool. "What is your role within the Authority? What is it you do that gives you the power to take away the appointment of a Sheriff? A Sheriff who is not only well respected but is an Ancient. Do you have a signed affidavit from the King of Texas or the Authority? What proof do you have that you hold that power?"
"Who are you to question me?" Nan turned her whole attention to me. "I am here as a liaison to the AVL."
"Really? So you are here to what? Gather information on what happened? From what I gather you are here to make a report. I'm pretty sure you can't do a thing."
"Who the fuck is this?" Nan demanded and became all pissy. "I suggest you keep your mouth shut, blood bag, or you'll not like the consequences."
"Try something, I fucking dare you. You're just the TV personality sent out to all the different networks to look pretty, smile, and stick to the talking points. Let the real people in charge deal with business." I leaned back into the couch feeling satisfied with myself. "Oh, threaten me again, and I'll have the Authority up your ass so high, they're gonna come out of your mouth to talk for you."
Silence covered the room, and Hector coughed to hide his laugh. I succeeded in pissing off Nan Flanagan.
"Why you little bitch. How-"
The king interrupted the meeting.
"Well said, Miss Raine. I couldn't have said it better myself."
The king of Texas a tall, dark, and handsome type of man. He appeared to be in this late 30s early 40s with a little bit of a dad bod and a brown complexion, but overall still very handsome. I know nothing about the King. What was his name? I had to have read or heard his name somewhere?
"You obviously have no idea who she is or the type of power she wields here, Ms. Flannagan. She is no ordinary human; she is a witch from Safe Haven here to assist in the recovery of my sheriff at my request. You will treat her with the respect that her position allows, or you will find yourself at odds with me, the Safe Haven Council, but also The Authority."
"What?" Nan seemed to be taken back a little bit as if she couldn't believe little old me held all that power. I resisted the urge to wave at her. Well, I mentally waved at her.
"Miss Raine is an enchanter from Safe Haven, and she is here as their representative for this meeting. I suggest that you show a little respect. Godric," the king turned his focus on to the sheriff, "May we speak privately? I have questions and only you can answer them me."
"Of course." Godric replied.
"Hector, child," the king addressed him. "remain close to Miss Raine, for I would like to speak to her after this."
What is this? Is this an update?! It can't be! the world is ending! Everyone run and hid! Take cover!
All joking aside. Sorry for not updating dating sooner, but between graduation collage, moving, and starting my new job, these past few months have been time consuming. Hopefully now that I am now getting settled, I can start updating some what regularly. I don't want to lie to you beautiful readers, but I not sure when my next update will be. I have a goal of thanksgiving, but we shall see. No promises! Thanks for reading!