Two Worlds - Choni

Chapter 8

Cheryl slowly walked up to the riverdale sign, keeping her eyes focused on the large wolf lying in front of it. "How did you find me?" Toni asked, not turning around. Cheryl gave a small smile and sat down next to her.


"Tracking spell in the collar, remember?" She said, crossing her legs and leaning back.


"Are you here to put a leash on me and drag me back to your house?" Toni asked, still not looking at her. Cheryl shook her head.


"No. I'm not here to force you to do anything."


"Besides give up my humanity." Toni growled.


"Says the giant wolf." Cheryl pointed out with a chuckle. Toni glared at her.


"Are you just here to mock me?" She demanded. Cheryl stopped and looked back at her seriously.


"No. I'm sorry. I just want to talk to you." She said, sitting up and turning to face Toni.


"What's there to talk about? I think humans are valuable beings with souls and lives, and you think they're dumb animals who only exist to be eaten."


"Don't twist my words." Cheryl snapped. "I'll try and be fair to you, but you have to be fair to me too." Toni stared at her, and then looked away.


"You're right. Sorry." She said quietly. "Go ahead." Cheryl sighed.


"Look, you need to understand that I am not a product of the modern age. I've adapted, but I'm a product of the 1300's." She told Toni. "When I was human, life was cheap. Medicine sucked, and starvation was likely. Life became even cheaper when the Black Death went through Europe. And after the worst of the plague, the Hundred Years War started up. And then we found the New World, and we had more death and war. Really, life has only been seen as valuable as it is now since the late 1800's." Cheryl ran a hand through her hair, sighing again. "I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm old. And when you're as old as I am, you get set in your ways. In short, it's hard for me to change my ways and opinions. I just wasn't raised to put the same value on human life that you were." Now it was Toni's turn to sigh.


"You're right. I'm sorry. It's just that, well, it seems wrong to kill people for food when you have other options. I mean, do you even have to kill people to drink their blood?"


"Well, no." Cheryl admitted. "But it's always risky to leave someone alive after I drink their blood. For one thing, if I don't want to turn them I can't use my teeth, so I have to cut them open with a knife. For another thing, I can't guarantee that when I hypnotize someone the hypnotism will stick. And for some reason, there are Hunters who get more upset about vampires hypnotizing people than they do about us killing people."


"What?" Toni asked, confused. Cheryl shrugged.


"I don't know. They say it has something to do with the 'sanctity of the human mind', or something. Those types of Hunters are a big joke for vampires." She shook her head. "We're getting off track here. Look, let's make a deal. I drink the blood from your raw meat, and you come back home and we start over, okay?" Toni nodded.


"That sounds good." She said. Cheryl smiled and leaned against Toni. "Why do you lean against me when I'm in wolf form?"


"You're comfortable." Cheryl said with a shrug. "Like a giant fluffy pillow." Toni rolled her eyes and stood up. To her surprise, Cheryl clung onto her fur, letting Toni pull her to her feet and not taking her head out of Toni's fur.


"Stop using me as a pillow!" Toni complained, shaking herself.


"And here I thought you liked my hugs." Cheryl teased, letting go and reaching into her pocket.


"Yeah, but not when you're just hugging me because you think I'm comfortable." Toni said. "And besides...what are you doing?" Cheryl smirked and held up her hand, revealing the leash, which she had attached to Toni's collar while Toni was distracted.


"Come on mutt, time to go home, the night's almost over and you'll be naked soon. And I don't think you want to travel through the city naked, do you?"


"You didn't have to attach the leash to me!" Toni protested, reluctantly following Cheryl. "Take it off!"


"No. I paid good money for this leash; I'm going to use it." Cheryl told her. "Now stop whining."


"You're leading me by a leash you attached to my sex slave collar!" Toni protested. "I have every right to complain!"


"No you don't. Now if I was using the riding crop that I brought just in case you proved to be stupidly stubborn, then you could complain." Cheryl told her, grinning. Toni came to a stop and stared at her in horror.


"You bought a riding crop?" She yelled. "Seriously, what kind of stores do you shop at that sell riding crops and sex slave collars?"


"I'm honestly not sure why they had a sex slave collar, but I already owned the riding crop." Cheryl said, pulling it out of her pocket. "I was alive when these had a purpose outside of the bedroom remember. It's a little old though, the leather is starting to crack."


"Okay, how did you fit that in your pocket?" Toni asked, her eyes wide.


"Magical pocket pocket-dimension spell." Cheryl said matter of factly.


"Why do you still own a riding crop?" Toni demanded. "I'm 99.9% sure that Minerva wasn't in to that sort of thing." Cheryl laughed.


"No, Minerva wasn't into that sort of thing. I guess I just kept it out of sentimentality." She said with a shrug.


"I don't want to know, do I?" Toni asked warily. Cheryl laughed again.


"Probably not. The story of my threesome with Reggie of Arc and Heather would probably break your mind." Toni cocked her head to the side.


"How did that result in the use of a riding crop? Who were you using it on, and why did they let you?" Cheryl blushed.


"Actually, Reggie was using it on me." Toni's eyes widened even more. "I lost a poker game, okay? And then Reggie cast a spell on it so that it always shows up in my home when I move or try and throw it away."


"Have you and Rose used it?" Toni asked, sounding embarrassed just by asking. Cheryl looked at her, then laughed.


"Me and Rose? Topaz, let me tell you something. Rose is the most determinedly straight person I have ever met. She'd never do anything with me, because no matter how bored she is, she knows that she can get a guy like that." She snapped. "Seriously, Rose would put James Bond to shame."


"Oh." Toni said, sounding slightly relieved. Cheryl laughed again.


"Toni, were you jealous of Rose?" She asked teasingly. Toni looked away, refusing to make eye contact with Cheryl.


"No." She said, completely unconvincingly. Cheryl just laughed again and bent down to hug her.


"Relax. Rose is like family to me, beside you're all mine, and I'm yours." She said quietly, scratching Toni behind the ears.