Abominations (American Horror AU 3)

Chapter 13

Eleonora and Madison gasped upon seeing Zoe arrive at the academy with Kyle, who was covered in blood, droplets scattered on his skin and soaking his clothing. The girl was clearly horrified as she helped him steady himself, walking into the door. To make things worse, Helen was just leaving for her apartment in the French Quarter for the night when she gasped at Zoe and Kyle coming in; she posed suggestively, a spiteful look in her fiery eyes-Eleonora had her hands over her mouth, and Madison's jaw had dropped.

"Well, look what the cat dragged in!" Helen scolded. "I hope no police thought you were suspicious!"

"Mrs. Mortenson, do you mind?" Zoe retorted. "He just had some trouble!"

"Trouble?" Eleonora asked. "What happened? He's covered in-"

"H-He got attacked," Zoe replied nervously, fibbing to prevent Helen from knowing the truth. The platinum-haired woman lit a cigarette and glared at the girl rudely.

"Oh please," she sneered. "If you're going to lie, be good at it!" She took a puff, and Zoe looked at her with aggravation; Kyle grunted and flailed an arm out mindlessly.

"I'm not lying! I swear!" she replied forcefully. "He was attacked in his home. I was invited by his mother to dinner, and the minute I walk in the door, I see blood all over the place. Kyle and his mother were attacked!"

"And you didn't think to call the police, dumbass?" Helen sneered, approaching her as she blew smoke laced with nicotine in her face. Zoe was getting angry, but Madison finally stepped in and said something.

"Look, you scraggly old-"

"Think before you speak!" Helen spat. "The next word out of your mouths, you'll all be hunks of burning nothing." She looked down at Madison as if she were scum on the bottom of her shoes. "You arenothing. You have no idea, especially since you walk around like the best thing since sliced bread."

"How?" Eleonora asked, her tone unusually forceful. "This doesn't concern-"

"You brought him back to life didn't you?" the woman asked, her tone calculating and piercingly analytical.

"Uh...she did it," Madison fibbed, pointing her finger at Eleonora, whose jaw dropped in shock.

"You did it, too!" Eleonora barked.

"I took a part in it," Zoe confessed. "It was Madison's idea, though."

"Bitch!" the starlet hissed, approaching Madison as if to charge her and begin beating her up. Before this could happen, Helen felt her venomous rage boil inside, and with a single thought, she levitated the three girls apart from each other; Eleonora was in shock, and felt her body tremble in fear as she turned her head to the sides to see Zoe and Madison looking down at Helen wide-eyed.

"STOP IT!" she shouted. "You all fight like a bunch of imbeciles! Shut the fuck up!"

"P-Put us down...p-please?" Zoe pleaded, her voice cracking. In the meantime, Kyle frowned and began to grunt sadly, his mood escalating to anger and frustration. Helen looked back at the undead being and smiled cordially before looking up at the three girls she had suspended in midair.

"Fine."

She stopped concentrating, and the girls abruptly fell on the floor like limp ragdolls; the floor was stone, so it really hurt them all when they fell. Zoe fell right on her tailbone, Eleonora fell on her hip, and Madison fell on her feet with the impact shooting up her lower legs before falling to hit her head. They slowly tried to get up, hands rubbing the afflicted parts of their bodies-Helen's hazel eyes burned down at them, but then looked at Kyle, whose face was expressionless with his intense, dark eyes showing disdain and resentment.