Til' Death Do Us Part

Chapter Twenty-Eight

    [Elizabeth's Pov]

     The three messengers came quickly to bring me away into the council's room. The tallest stood behind me with my head tilted upwards and the other two at either side of me. The woman's fingers were delved into my hair to pull and force me to attention.

    Martha was the only woman in the council that stood before me with two strangers to her side. I could easily recognize that they weren't members of the council because they looked so young but in the same sense, they walked in the room as if it was their playground.

    There was a man and a woman, both looking quite similar. They both held their heads high and as they did, the woman looked at me with a softness in her eyes. She had blond hair and green eyes and her skin was paler than mine. I'd seen a fair amount of vampires and they all looked like regular people-some could tan others couldn't, as far as I'd known, it ran back to genetics but these two-their skin was as pale as I'd first imagined when my father had told me the first horror story about vampires. Before I'd even known they were all around me, blended in.

    The man had red hair-more of a light wine colored red but I could tell he'd dyed it because his eyebrows were dark brown. He wore thin glasses over the bridge of his nose and pushed them up before turning his body and his eyes to glance at me. Both of them were both dressed in white and black suits that seemed identically fitted to their bodies.

    The room was silent before Martha cracked a sly smile, "You really aren't a vampire." She chuckled to herself before pacing around me and my three guard dogs in circles, "Do you want to know why what you and your lover committed is so horrendous?" She pressed a padded finger to her lip before she rubbed my lip with the same one before a strand of raven hair slid over her shoulder.

     "Tell me then."

     "Mouthy." She whispered with a smirk before leaning in towards me closely, "It's because no other vampire could tell you weren't one unless they met Romulus first. There's so much of his blood in you that you could pass as one of us. Even to the Council, only I and Westley could differentiate that you were human because of the clothes that you're wearing. They have your sickly, human scent on them." She glanced at the woman that held my hair back before she tightened his grasp and Martha turned her attention back at me with a charming smile, her brown eyes glimmering in the light.

    I only chose to look Martha in the eyes before I drew a smile on my own lips, egging her to continue. I knew it would piss her off but I was better off alive to her then dead.

    "Another confirmation to me that you aren't a Vampire is because you refuse to bow to the representatives of the Royal Family. This-" She motioned to the three people standing around me, "is only a precautionary measure. But don't worry; I'll keep you safe. We wouldn't want to worry."

    The blonde woman finally spoke up with a small smile, "Martha-pardon but it's not very respectful to taunt her. She is our guest and we should treat her as such."

    I glanced at the two from the corner of my eye, the man looked at the blonde and she looked at him as they moved and twitched their eyes as if they were having a conversation. With a grimace, the man took a puff of his cigar and rolled his eyes before catching me staring. I turned to look back at Martha, who seemed to be slowly leaning away from me.

    "Yes, your highness." She finally spoke up before letting go of my chin and backed up for the two with a bow.

    The woman walked towards me with a wide grin and I could see the outline of her fangs when she did. I'd never quite seen fangs before-I'd only ever felt them, so seeing them was different for me and it sent a twinge of anxiety down my spine for a half second. "She looks perfect! We'll take her but get her fluids and make sure she has the proper testing done with the best that your facilities can offer."

    That was when the man walked up. He blew smoke from his cigar before sighing, "After that, we're leaving and she'll come with us for more testing."

    Martha looked at me with a worried expression before she put her head down with a feeble nod, "Yes, your majesty. I will have her ready in the morning and we will send for the results in five days."

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