Awakenings - Part One

Hybrid

I followed closely behind Lady Rosetta as we walked through the town for an appointment with a weird sort of destiny.

One of our own was a traitor, someone who I had looked up to and thought highly of.

Could Rosetta be wrong?
Was this a ploy by the catalonia to gain a foothold on the two of us?

We came upon a clearing and I stepped in front of her.
“A moment please”.

She seemed a little impatient but stopped in her tracks.
“Can I ask you something?”
“Fire away”.
“Ive always wondered about hybrids, what is different about you?”

She stopped to look at me, scrutinizing to see if this was a genuine question.

“Of course…..We are both human and vampire, I guess you could say we are rejects as certain aspects of both civilisations are now beyond us”.
“Like?”

“Well we cannot consume human food, we need blood….But we can consume water and if it happens to be holy water then it has no effect on us”.

“Does your craving for human blood become unbearable?”
“No because we are trained to suppress the feeling and that is why I have not drained you”

I had to laugh.

“You wouldnt stand a chance of getting anywhere near my neck”

I was a grand champion with the blade and her head would be separated from the shoulders before you could say nosferatu.

She grinned at me, nodded then spoke.

“What you probably don’t know Is that we have incredible regenerative properties”.

“Regenerative?”

“I know what your thinking, cut my head off and be done with it but if that was to happen then I have conscious thought for about thirty seconds and during this time I can regenerate a replacement head”.

“Nice trick, can I see it in action!!”

*

We found that the talk had gone some way to breaking the ice and our conversation was free flowing, the unease I felt from being in her company was gone and I think we had established a line of respect.
And then I saw the house and suddenly I didn’t feel so good about all this.

“How are we going to approach this?”

“Well I am certainly not walking into that house and getting rid of her, we have a plan and now its time to hide ourselves away and wait for the woman to leave the house and we follow her”.

“This is so cliche, she is a skilled operator and will know she is being followed”.

“Then you best stay here and let me do my job”.

We ducked back behind a tree as the front door opened and we saw Penny.

Just as she was about to leave we saw someone else, I opened my mouth in total shock.

It was Hollys mother and she was naked from the waist up, and then she kissed Penny.

I turned to Rosetta.

“Bloody humans, always have to ruin a good plan”.

“What do you mean?”
“I cant follow her, I need to now find out if she has laid any traps or whether the mother is also an agent”.

We watched as the two of them embraced and then Penny left and walked down the path and into her car.

Once she was gone the two of us followed the same route but this time to the house.
We knocked.
“Just a minute please”.

We stood patiently, in my dirty mind I imagined that she was frantically looking for her bra in an effort to be presentable.

Then the door opened.
She looked surprised.
“Its Carmel right?”

I was glad she remembered.
“Hello Lenora, how have you been?”
“Good thankyou”

Hmmm I bet you have, with that sexy woman between your legs no doubt.

While we were chatting she kept looking over at Rosetta and then recognition hit her and she announced.

“My my, a hybrid on my doorstep…..what brings you here, oh hang on you found out that those filthy vampires were trying to take over and bound over to rescue us mere mortals”.

No love lost between these two.

“I brought Rosetta here because she needs to speak with you about Penny but firstly my sister is dead, she was selected for a mission to draw one of the vampire leaders into a trap,

Rosetta dealt with this person”.

Lenora looked over to Rosetta.
“Who?”
“Erica Menzies”
“Wow very nice, is she dead?”

“Not quite but she would have passed a message to her leader to warn of the threat, this is what we wanted….now we can join you if that is ok”

Lenora softened when she heard about what had happened.

“I owe you an apology, now please come in and tell me about Penny, you just missed her”.

“We saw her leave, to be absolutely honest that was not all we saw either”.

Lenora looked us squarely in the eyes without a hint of emotion.

“So what if she is my lesbian lover”
“None at all, can we come in and talk this through”.

Lenora stepped to the side and we walked in, took a seat and waited for her to sit down.

She took a seat across from us.
“So whats the problem?”
Rosetta didn’t even allow me to open my mouth.

“Your girlfriend, lover, friend, doctor…….whatever you want to call her is an agent for the vampires”.

Lenora stared at Rosetta and then let out an almighty laugh.

“Are you fucking joking, she is one of our most loyal servants”.
I just sat back and waited for the fireworks.

“During the altercation with Menzies it was discovered that a set of texts were visible between her and Penny, one of them spoke about needing to meet and update on current progress”.

“And from this you summise that Penny is deceiving us, but to what end?”

“That we don’t know, right now one of our human agents is following her”.
“The trip to Italy is well documented, Pamela and her cronies cannot gain anything until we arrive in Rome…..It doesnt make any sense”.

“Is your location a secret?”
“Yes, only myself and P…..oh my fucking god…..I cant believe that she would be party to any of this”

Lenora put her head into her hands and began to softly cry.
“What are we going to do?”
“Until the agent reports back then nothing but I would suggest that the meeting place in Rome is changed and only the three of us should know where it is”.

“You want me to keep this from Penny?”

“Have you not been listening, she is working for the enemy….I only hope she is sensible to separate work from pleasure”.
“What do you mean?”
“This is one of the other situations we wanted to talk to you about…….Ive got a very personal request to make of you”.

“How personal?”
Rosetta fixed Lenora with an icy glare.

“I want you to remove all your clothes”.
“Fuck off, what for?”
“I need to check and make sure that Penny has not marked you”.

“We are lovers and mark each other all the time, Im not showing my body to you”.

“Lenora, Im not interested in you sexually…..I need to see the markings and look for a particular shape of one”.

“And where would this be?”
“Close to your jugular, and triangular in shape”.

“Then I will go and look”.

Rosetta stared passively.

“Please hurry, if it is there……then time is of the essence”.