Siren

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"What on gods earth was that?!?!" Sebastion proclaims as soon as our car door closes outside the unity building. Resting his head on the steering wheel, he lets out a long breath which I presume he had been holding since his job position was brought up.

Hastily turning to me, he grabs my hand tenderly, "You don't have to do this for me, in no plausible way is this going to turn out well for anyone and I know you're doing this for me but ill give it up and we-" 

"Stop! Sebastian, please stop rambling. my minds made up. I can handle it,"I finally burst. I hadn't said anything since I agreed to the council's plan, mentally stewing on absolutely everything and nothing at all. 

"I'm sorry," we say at the same time, before looking at each other with determination and love. we were going to sort this out together.

"Love you forever Sebastian."

"Love you forever Drusilla"

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Pulling up to my future high school, I have a bitter taste in my mouth. Kissing Seb goodbye as he leaves the car to run to his first class of the day. I watch his turned back entering the throngs of chattering teenagers. narrowing my eyes, I peel out of the parking lot to get home as soon as possible.

I understand why they would want me to make an appearance in society but I don't understand why they would place what they believe to be a dangerous threat among their children and future leaders. not that I would do anything... 

Thinking back to the alphas speech after he had blackmailed me into becoming a student, he told us that based on my youthful appearance, they wanted to show me as just any other teenager and deserve the right to be out in society. I'm guessing he also wants to try to show my fellow sirens that went into hiding that things were getting better. I'm going to have a tracker on me at all times and for the first week, an armed escort for 'in case I get provoked'. Yeah right. 

At first, I thought if I was going to a school designed to hone the powers of supernatural youth that I would finally be able to use my abilities in public again; to no avail. Based on what Seb has told me about the process of classes at Lux, the students have three academic periods in the morning and three periods in the afternoon where they are taught the ways of the world for someone with supernatural abilities. from the werewolves learning to control their shifting to the vamps learning how to exist with the walking, talking blood bags called humans without ripping their throats out. none of this was available when I was trying to figure out my abilities, just the guidance of those closest to me; like Lena.

Walking into our home, I push all those thoughts behind me until I have one thing on my mind. 

I raid the liquor tray.

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Diving into the water came with a strange sensation. Legs turning to a tail. Eyes adjusting to the salt water. Breath filling me despite the lack of air.

I was a mermaid.

Breeching the water I look up happily at my saviour and flap my arms away in a big wave. Even though I was a while away from shore I could see her eyes light up and her chest fill with air. All of a sudden I felt complete.

Deciding to swim back to my love, I speed through the water and race back on the shore. I had never shifted like that before in my life, but I knew what to do, a silent instinct telling me how to adapt to my new abilities.

"Ahhh I did it!" I yelled triumphantly, pumping my fist in the air.

"I did exactly what you told me and I did it."

"Oh, Drusilla you were amazing! I've never seen any new recruits learn as fast as you, I knew you were incredible but this just proves it,"

Suddenly I'm embraced, I've never felt this safe in someone's arms before; not even my mothers. Pulling away, I look into her eyes and *bam* I'm taken. Is this what love feels like?

"I love you forever Drusilla,"

"And I love you forever Lena."

And with that, we kiss like our forever had come to an end.

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"Dru... Dru... Drusilla..."

Jolting awake for the second time that day, I look up hazily into the eyes of my disapproving husband.

"Its 4 in the afternoon and you're already sleeping off a hangover?" He phrases it as a question but I knew he meant it to be rhetorical.

Looking away with shame, I hang my head. "I dreamt of her again." I sigh, "It was a nice dream though, from when I first turned on the island. I wish you had known her then."

"Yeah me too," he chokes out. 

That's all we needed to say. From the outside looking in, I'm sure we were a sight for sore eyes. Both of us had unshed tears welling in our eyes and were incredibly stressed following the bombshell dropped on us this morning.

Ever since the war, we both became outcasts in society, but I got the brunt of it. my whole species was an abomination, Seb was still a vampire and while he was branded as a traitor, his species are still top dogs. The council has allowed me to leave the house and travel into the community for a while now, but whenever I take up the opportunity I get verbally or even physically assaulted. I've come to resent those who rule us. 

We used to go on dates together at least once a week, but now we can't even leave the house without anxiety from those who wished we died in the war. They say we made the right choice handing ourselves in after the war rather than hiding like the others, but honestly, this wasn't much of a life. We have each other, but we are simply existing right now when all we ever wanted to do was live.

And there we sat for I don't know how long, reminiscing on our lost lives.

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