MAEVE

Chapter 17

CHAPTER 17

                      ELIJAH

One step at a time became my mantra. I now had people willing to fight for me, willing to cross that line, so I went through the motions, took my punishment, proved to all that I was not insane. And I could see my father slowly sinking into desperation.

"Why don't you stop now?" I asked the man I called father. For the first time in a long time I stood tall before my father, shoulder to shoulder, eye to eye.

And I got a small satisfaction from the fact that I was taller and I could finally look down at the man who had tormented me for so many years

"Stop? Stop? You are an abomination, a disgrace, and I refuse to let you walk around when you belong in chains," My father, Azriel Danksworth, Commander of all vampire clans said, with no hint of remorse.

"How can you be this cruel? You made me into this. Into this person hanging on to the barest thread of sanity,"  I whispered to my father, and I watched him screw his eyes tightly shut, as if trying to deny the sight before him.

"You killed more than fifty people in order to free yourself. You are a danger to everyone around you. Was it worth it? Was your freedom worth the loss of fifty lives?" He shouted, looking at me with venom, I just laughed.

"Do you remember the first time you held a trephine to my head?" I paused, gauging his response. "I told myself he is still my father, he would not be able to do this. I said that right until you first drilled into my skull."

"It was your duty to activate your triquetrum triangle, and it was mine as your Sire to help you," He stated with conviction.

Gritting my teeth, I rushed forward and took hold of his immaculate collar, I smirked, right before I flung him so hard he crashed through the wall. He was up within seconds, and slammed my head into the ground.

"I am your commander and your Sire. I made you and you will respect me," He gritted into my ear. I smiled.

"Yes father, after all, I am what I am because of you," I said, and his eyes widened. Before he could blink, I shoved him against the wall, and impaled a stake through his shoulders and into the brick. I could see the surprise on his face, and before he could move, I did the same to his other shoulder, leaving him impaled to the wall.

I turned around to leave, when his next words rang out.

"I should have killed you the very moment you showed up with that infernal mark," He paused and gritted. "Useless, absolutely useless."

"Excuses excuses,"I dismissed walking back. "Yes you probably should have killed me, but you didn't. Instead you left me to rot. You thought you broke me but you didn't, you just made me hungry, for blood and vengeance," I ended right in his face, the face that was so much like mine, and I hated him for it.

"You will get all that is coming to you Father, I promise," I ended, words as sweet as ambrosia and as deadly as hemlock.

I was sent to Jupiter high the next week, I knew he wanted me out of the way, I knew that the school was a form of exile, but I went anyway. I needed more people to launch my revolution.

My first week at the school was downright difficult, I was not used to being around so many people, and I found myself snarling all the time to get them to leave me alone.

It slowly got better, although I never made more friends, and stuck with Ashton and Noah, but slowly my presence was accepted and even respected. Leading came naturally to me as Mr Rhazia used to say. So I led my generation during the day, and fought my volatile nature at night.