Destiny has left its mark (Vampire Romance)

22 ~ So far away

"What's going on?" I ask after Elijah let go of me. We are outside.

"You and Darryn are a yinyang."

"And?"

"In order to bind the gargoyels for a few hundred years more, you have to do a spell to interconnect your dark magic with his light magic and send the combined forces to all gargoyels to make sure they don't wake up."

"And I'm the dark force?"

"Correct."

Neo approaches us. "What are you going to do?" He asks Elijah.

"I won't let them do anything."

"They will insist."

"I know. And with Daniella's dark magic they will try and force me to agree."

"What will happen if I agree?" I ask, both men look at me as if I've grown a third head. "Is that why I can't control my magic? Because I'm a yang?"

"You could loose your humanity and become like us, a vampire." It's Neo.

"Is that a bad thing?"

"You could turn out to be a ripper. Have you ever heard about rippers?" Elijah asks.

My mind runs in a lot of directions as I imagine myself as a ripper. Those almost never become normal, mostly they have to either die or be locked up until they can proof to be normal, or at least as normal as a vampire can be.

"You'll have magic too, and that can make you even more dangerous." Neo shakes his head, "It's definately no option." He asks Elijah, "What are we going to do?"

Darryn is there, "She could be turned before we do the spell. Her vampire-side will then be the dominator over her yang."

Elijah is holding Darryn by his throat within seconds, "No one will even dare to include her in a spell as dangerous."

"I didn't choose her to be my yang."

"She's your sister."

"Don't you think I wish there was another way?" Darryn forces out the words through a restricted airway. "Could you let go?"

Elijah let go and Darryn bends forward, trying to catch his breath. "This is what we were meant to do."

Elijah speaks. "Daniella is meant to be with me." He sounds posessive.
Our eyes lock briefly, before I look away breaking contact. I can't remember him being this posessive where Charlotte was concerned. I fell asleep on the couch last night, he carried me to my bed and tucked me in before lying on the other side of my bed. He was still there when I woke, and it was I who was holding him, my leg tangled with his. I can't say that it wasn't nice weaking up so close to him.
That morning is fresh in my mind. I remember thinking that I'd never be able to fall in love with anyone else but him. He was looking at me as if I was the most beautiful woman he has ever seen... Then my brain kicked in and I was reminded of how he killed Charlotte. I jumped out of bed, grabbed clean clothes and rushed into my bathroom and locked it from the inside. Looking at myself in the mirror I thought, Get a grip on yourself. It was then that I heard the bedroom door, then I knew it was him leaving.

"It didn't look like it when you dragged her out." Darryn is standing now, not afraid to say what he wants to. "You would have been married to another woman by now if I knew where to find my sister a long time ago."

"You should both calm down." I say, because I can feel the tension between the two.

Neo agrees. "We should be coming up with a plan. And we can't stay here. The guardians will come for her if news gets to them."

"Guardian Green already spoke with one of them over the phone. I think they're on their way as we speak."

"Is he really your stepdad?" I ask Darryn.

"Yes, he adopted me when I was fifteen. By then I was living on the streets for four years because my adoptive parents were afraid of me."

"We should go." Says Elijah, seemingly alert as if he knows something we don't yet.

"I'm coming with you."

Elijah looks sceptical at Darryn.

Darryn explains, "I know a few spells. I can help you."

Neo says to Elijah, "I think he should go with us. In that way they can't use him to try and find her."

"One wrong move and I'll end your life." Elijah warns my brother.
I have a brother, how sick is that?

Neo's arm goes around me. "I agree with my brother."

"Relax." Darryn's hands are up showing surrender. "She is my sister, and I promise I won't hurt her. And she has both of you to protect her."

"What do you think?" It's Neo who's asking me.
I look up at him, then nod my head.

"You take her to your hideout by the sea."

Neo sounds surprised. "You know about that place?"

"Of course I do." Says Elijah, then to me, "Darryn and I will come after we've made sure they can't find you."
He touches my face, "Stay with Neo, no matter what happens."

Neo suddenly picks me up and move with me in vampire speed through the inner court, finally jumps over a large wall at the end of the yard and then through a forest.
It's then that we reach a road and he puts me down on my feet.
I am surprised when I recognise the woman that stops next to us.
Josephine?
"Get in." She says with a smile.
Neo opens the back door and signals for me to get in before he walks around the car and climbs in beside her.
"Josephine is a mole that Elijah send because he wanted to make sure you have someone he can trust just in case you didn't want to talk to us. She's a vampire."
"I packed your personal belongings, it's next to you in that bag."
Neo switches on the car radio, then turns down the volum3 so that it's not too loyd,. "We will be there under half an hour."
So the sea is close.
"I'm sorry that I had to lie to you." Says Josephine without taking her eyes off the road, "I had no choice." She adds, "I can't believe you're part of a yinyang. "
"So you two know each other?"
"Yeah. " Is all Josephine says.
"We've been on a few assignments together." Neo switches off the radio.
"Won't they find us easily?"
"Elijah's probably going into a different direction, further away from here. Guardians isn't really fighters, so even if they find him they can't really do much."
"They don't have magic?"
"They do, but I can promise you that they won't be able to hurt Elijah."
'Why would I care? " I mumble, while feeling uneasy that Elijah is one against a few immortals with magic. I've heard what some of the students can do and it's not nothing.