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“You must come with us! Your line has lasted and ruled our country for as long our country! If your line fails so does Igrida!”
“You haven’t given me any reason to go. Actually you’ve given me reason to stay.”
“How could you? How could you abandon your country, your people?”
“My people! I didn’t even believe in elves until yesterday!”
“How could you not believe in us! You’re an elf too!”
“In this world, my world, elves are fantasy. That’s how. I’m tired. It’s 3 in the morning, I want to go to sleep. Get out of my house please.”
“You cannot get away from your destiny by resisting it!” the head elf spoke her last words as she went through the door.
“Are you okay?” Erik asked her.
“Ya, I’m fine. This is just too much.”
“I know what you mean.”
Karo got up and started to pace. Arric wants to marry me? I don’t even know his real name! She thought.
“Karo, what’s wrong?”
Just then someone knocked on the door. Arric went to answer it.
“Tailor, what do you want?”
“Karo, Carisa is back, outraged. She says something about a Karaline being alive. She wants to see you imediatly.”
“Tell her the deals off. I’m not going to kill my sister.” karo continued to pace. “I’m not in the mood for jobs now.”
“She said that if you won’t come then she’ll come to you.”
“Then say she’s welcome to come and have Erin’s shrunken skull be her last sight. I told you i’m not in the mood Tailor, so deal with her and I’ll talk two her later.”
Tailor walked away and Arric closed the door.
Karo groaned and clutched her head, sitting back down.
“Karo are you sure nothing’s wrong?”
“Arric,”she said between deep breaths “Can I see the ring?” He handed it over without a thought. “It’s beautiful.” she said panting. The ring was beautiful, it was a simple golden band with a magnificent jasper, a red jasper. As red as blood. “I love it.”
“But will you?”
”I don’t know Arric, it’s just, “ she was crying now ”it’s just...”
“I knew it. The moment I let myself love you you’ll get rid of me!”
“It’s just if I marry you you’ll be hunted too, and if we ever,” she sobs “have children they’ll be in danger.”
Arric sat down next to Karo. He’ed never seen her like this. “We can worry about that then.”
Karo stood up and started pasing again, swallowing sobs, trying to stop the river of tears.
“Karo, are you scared? ”She continued passing. “Are you scared?”
“Yes, ever since Erin first tried to bleed me. I’ve been scared for me, I’ve been scared for my family. I’ve been scared for you.”
“You don’t always have to be behind a brick wall Karo. You can show yourself, you don’t have to hide.”
“But what if you get hurt, I’ll never forgive myself-”
“One step at a time.”
Karo walked over and got two dikes. “Just give me some time to think about it Arric.” She said walking out the door.
He followed her. “ Just don’t get hurt Karo.” he said “And come back, you can’t run away now.”
She looked back, sighed, then came over and kissed Arric. “I’ll be back.” She said in her mysteriously calm voice. Then she walked into the forest surounding Burgandy and it’s complexes.
“Karaline please pickup. Please.” Taylor was freaked. Some girl just called her telling her to come to some forest in an hour.
“Hello?” a vioce asked.
“Erik, is that you?”
“Taylor?”
“Ya, i need to talk to Karaline.”
“I don’t think now’s the best time.”
“I need to talk to her now Erik! It’s important!”
“Here, but it’s not my fault if she flips. I’ve been trying to calm her down for almost an hour, she’s furious.” he gave the phone to the pasing Karaline.
“Taylor?”
“Karaline. Oh my God. This girl just calle dme asing her to meet me at some forest.”
“Well now that we know what made your day so interesting why don’t we talk about mine. I was just threghtened by freaking elves to come be their queen! They got outraged when they saw i had a boyfriend and started ranting about haw my mate must be an elf and how could I let my country down and all that s**t!”
“This girl said to meet her in an hour, or she’ll have to come here.”
“And this freaks you out why?”
“Because, I’ve no idea who she is, and there was screaming in the background.”
“Weird. So what forest did she say to meet you at?”
“Blood Forest, where the hell is that?”
“It’s Karo.” Taylor heard Erik on the back ground.
“What do you mean?” both Karaline and Taylor said, astonished.
"Blood Forest is about 300 miles west of here. It’s wer Burgundy is. Burgundy is the name of Karo’s main hunting guild. Only vamps, witches, shifters and any human hunters call it Blood Forest.”
“Well Taylor needs to get there.”
“I’ll drive both of you, but i think it’s really you, Karaline that Karo wants to see.”
“all right with you Tay?”
“Fine just hurry up and get over here.”
Someone has to call her at 4 in the morning and have her come to some Blood Forest, the home of the a freaking hunting guild. Karaline’s life wasn’t the only one getting messed up, her’s was too.
“Why do you think Karolee called me instead of you?” Taylor asked, confuzed.
“I’ve no freaking idea!” traces of Karaline’s previous anger could still be heard in her voice.
“She might have thought the elves were still at Karaline’s.” Erik reasoned. “Finaly we’re here.”
“This is Blood Forest?” Karaline asked “ I mean it’s just a normal forest.”
“Look, there’s you’re sister.” Taylor pointed to the lower branches of a large tree.
“Karo?” Kara was getting out of the car. walking towards her sister.
When Karo jumped out of the tree she was fingering a ring, a small garnet set in a simple white gold band. She looked up and it was obviious she had been crying. “Erik,” she snarled
“I don’t hate you Karo. I don’t see why you have to hate me.”
“Just get back in the car so i can try to pretend you’re not here, or better yet blink so you really aren’t here.”
“Calm down Karo.” Taylor unexpectably started i on the conversation. “Why did you call?”
“I needed to talk to Kara but didn’t want to take the chance of the elves interfering. I knew you would tell Kara who would turn to Erik who would know exactly where to come meet me.”
“What do you want Karo?”
“Come here.” Kara obeyed her sister’s damand. “Do you know what this is?”
“A ring.”
“It’s an engagment ring.”
Kara’s eyes widened. She wasn’t suspecting anything like this. “Did Arric give it to you?”
Karo knodded as her eyes filled with tears.
“Karo, what’s wrong?”
Suddenly the tears stoped flowing and her head popped up. “Somone’s coming.”
“What?” Erik asked “I don’t feel anything.”
“It’s Medea. She’s looking for me, Kara, you have to her out of here. She’s the one who want’s you dead. Drik you better go too. If she see’s that you didn’t die saving Erin you’ll be dead soon.”
“What? What’s going on!” Taylor was starting to freak out.
“Get out of here now!” Karo was in charge again.
“Come on!” Erik said pulling her into the car.
Erik quickly drove the car away, almost 20 miles, then stoped.
“So Karo, you are alone.”
“Back off Medea.”
“You didn’t kill the girl.”
“Did you really think I was so vain to kill my own sister, even for a million dollars!”
“Don’t you realize you can’t protect her and your presious Arric at the same time? It’s one or the other girl, you have no choice. You kill the girl, ot iI kill the boy.”
“I’m not going to be your damn puppet Medea.”
“You probably have the strength to kill me, but if you do I’ll still kill the boy first.”
“Shut up Medea! I’m not in the mood for your threghts.” Karo’s anger was rising. “Why don’t you find another Erin to spend your life with!”
“You ruined my life by killing Erin, now I’m going to ruin youts by making sure you loose those closest to you. It doesn’t matter weither it’s your boyfrind or your sister that goes. Don’t worry, I’m giving you a month to fret about it.” Carisa started to walk off, but then just seemed to disapear.
'Kara, it’s safe now. Karo thought, knowing the messege would reach her sister safely.'
“Erik I think we should go back.” Kara suggested.
“No, not while Carisa might still be there.”
“She’s not, Karo said it’s safe.”
“What? How?” Erik was surprised, Karo shouldn’t be able to project thoughts, it was a traight unique to vampires and certain witches.
“The twins always could communicate with their minds. It was pretty damn annoying, because Kara would answer out loud, or only hear one of the conversations.” What Taylor said surprised Erik even more.
“It’s true,” Kara confirmed. “I always had trouble telling if she was just projecting her thoughts or actualy talking, and if I was distracted i would answer aloud or my thoughts would get lost. My consentration had to be perfect or my message would never reach Karo. ON the other hand, she could do it while multi-tasking, talking to others, reading a book whatever. It was so easy she would accidently project her thoughts, but realize it and stop in an instant.”
“No wonder Erin wanted to change her.” Erik mussed. To Erik it seemed there was no end to her power.
“Who’s Erin?” Taylor wondered.
“Erin was my sister and the one who kidnapped Karo. She saw her power and wanted to change her, but thought that she was too young to turn into a vampire. Can you imagine it, being 13 forever?...Or until you where killed. So she marked her, knowing no one else will take her then. Unbelievibly was killed just after she marked Karo, by the marked one herself, even though she could barely stand from the bloodloss and her arms shouldn’t have been able to move from all the damaged muscles.
“That vampire back there, that’s Medea. She was Erin’s best friend - and her lover.”
“We’re running from a lesbian, that makes me feel oh so much better.”
“Shut up both of you. I can’t here Karo!”
'Get your damn a** over here Kara! I’m getting impaitient and if it takes much longer for you three to get your effing asses down her I’m going to have to kill somebody.'
'Calm down. I’ll be on my way in a second.'
'Now! Get your effing a** her now you b***h!'
“Okay, now we really have to go. Karo’s getting mad and if we don’t get there soon she’ll be in a killing mood. It’s already dangerous enough.
“Are you sure it’s Karo?” Erik asked. Even Karo wasn’t invincible.
“I know very few others with anger issues as sharp as her’s. When she’s angry she uses very colorful language.”
“What’d she say this time?” Taylor asked.
“Just a** thre times, effing twice and b***h once. She’s gotten milder over the years.” Karo answered Taylor as she got into the car.
“You call that mild?” Erik asked. He really didn’t want to see how much it would hurt to get on Karo’s bad side, even before she got into the mood to kill.
When they got there Karo was pacing, clutching her aching head.
“Karo are you okay?” Kara said running up to her sister, worried.
“Goddess this sucks.”
“Karo you need to explain some things, we’re not omniscent” Taylor said, uncharacteristicaly impaitient.
“Medea says I either kill Kara or she kills Arric.”
“Why would she hurt Erik?”Taylor forgot that both the twins where dating guys named Erik, just spelled differnt ways.
“She meas her human boyfriend who just proposed to her and is a hunter and spells his name A-R-R-I-C”
“The Arric who’s life I saved four years ago and whom I’ve been with the last 3. The Arric who probably saved my humanity and my sanity.”
“Okay, okay, I get it. Geesh.” Taylor remembered how much of a pain these two could be to together.
Suddenly Karo just said “Oh damn it, damn it damn it!”
“Karo, I think you-”
“Shut up Erik! Medea just said she’ll ruin my life by killing the ones I love like I killed the one she love! How do you expect me to be calm damn it!”
“So it’s just revenge?” Taylor was, naturaly, too curious for her own good.
“Curiosity killed the cat, Taylor. Be careful around Karo when she’s mad. Unless of course you plan to be leaving this world, then go right ahead.” Erik warned
“Nice and blunt, just the way i love it when people threghten me.” Taylor was being sarcastic, which again was probably not smart in the pressense of a vampire and an elf with anger issues.
“Erik means it Taylor. Karo,” who was still pacing, groaning, clutching her head and cliching her teeth from the pain. “Is dangerous when she’s mad. You don’t want to get her attention whe she’s like this.”
“Damn it! Is everyone looking for me?” Karo said as she noticed someone’s presence coming towards them.
“Who is it this time?” By this time Erik was also fairly annoyed.
“Damn it, it’s Alec.”
“Who’s Alec?” Both Taylor and Karaline asked, each one just as curious as the other.
They got no answer.
“Well?” the two friends faced Erik when Karo just ignored them.
“A hunter. A vampire. I’m not sure where he stands now I haven’t seen him in a few years.”
“Alec is the damn vamp who’s been hitting on my sinse the very day I joined Burgundy. He act’s like an a** though, whenever anyone is in earshot.”
“Is he the one who called me the ‘b***h’s witch’?”
“Ya, that’s the effing pervert in all his ******** glory. And here he comes.”
“Erik! I thought you where dead!”
“No, I’m still here.” he said wrapping his arm around Karaline’s waist protectively”
“Thanks for letting me know.”
“I dissapeared. If I told anyone it would have blown my cover.” Erik’s voice was unnaturaly calm, extremly monotone.
“I’m confused.” Taylor sighed. Bad move.
Alec’s eyes zoomed in on her. “Oh, fresh meat.” he said stepping closer to the human.
Then taylor did something worse. She screamed.
'Sleep.' He commanded her.
As Taylor started to crumble alec caught her, then leaned down almost as if to kiss her.
“Let go of her Alec.” Karo commanded.
“What, are you her mommy now?”
'I know it’s me you want. So come and get me. No one’s going to stop you?'
'What? How?'
'You think it’s hard to project your thoughts. Well maybe it is just me but I’ve been able to effortlessly as long as I can remember.'
“Trust me it’s just you.” Alec said, setting Taylor down and walking towards Karo.
'Sleep'. He thought.
Karo laughed. Doesn’t work. Didn’t work when Erin tried it either. Thats how she came aware of my ‘talents’.
'Then pretend.
'I never was a very good actor.'
'Do it.'
'I never like taking orders either.'
'Do it. Now.'
'You’re in no possition to threghten me Alec.' “If you’re going to feed from me do it now. I’m not very patient.”
This time he listened. He disapeared then reapeared holding Karo like he was kissing her, only his mouth was on her neck, not her mouth.
Faey Master · Sat Apr 12, 2008 @ 07:09am · 0 Comments |
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