Translucent (Legacies FF)

23

1 hour later

"Okay, I'm done. I refuse to stand here any longer." I drop the contact and Hope shivers. "I'll be upstairs."

"Taylor, wait," MG speaks through gritted teeth. "Something's wrong." That's when I notice Hope shaking and crying. "Hey man! You're scaring her!"

I reach out to touch her and receive an electrical shock back. "Shit. What now?"

"We need to get help or get her out."

"No. Don't do anything. Hang on, let me try it with my power." I grab onto Hope again and open my mind up. Hope is standing in a black pit as I approach.

"What are you doing here?" She whimpers.

"This is my power. I'm not actually here. How do I get you out of here?"

"Don't do anything. I need answers."

I open my eyes to MG sporting a shocked expression on his face. "So?"

"Leave her."

"Alright, bossy," he chuckles, drawing my body close to his as we exit the dungeon. "Oh, and by the way, you'll be paying for your comment earlier." His right arm snakes around my middle and he bites my shoulder as we crest the top of the stairs. Kaleb looks up and MG pats him on the shoulder.

"Yeah, man?"

"I'm tired of being weak and unable to fight back against our enemies. Taylor and I will do it. We'll feed with you."

"Good. Let's go then."

"Can I change first?"

"Sure, girl."

I vamp-speed in and out to change into dark wash jeans, my French crop too, and a winter/fall trench coat. MG's love bite heals just I exit, grabbing his hand.

"I swear you two mate like rabbits."

"You're just jealous because you don't get any action."

"Yeah, that's true," we enter Mystic Falls cemetery where both my father and mother's grave lay. The vault lies just a few feet away and a tear pricks my eye. "We have the olive branch, seafood diet...." Kaleb's voice rolls out of my range as he grabs a random guy. "I learned this technique called 'snatch, eat, erase'. It's how the vampires before us went unnoticed."

"Yeah....clearly they all were dusted by hunters eventually." I nod my head towards the vault and MG gives me a look. "Chances are my father's in there, but the texts make no sense."

"He still be alive then."

"I really hope so."

"Anyways, snatch, eat, erase. Who wants him?" Kaleb dangles the poor boy in front of MG and I, although I don't have much interest in the boy. "You should feed, Taylor. You look a little pale." MG grabs onto the kid and sinks his fangs into him, clutching him close and tight. I bite from behind and pull away a few minutes later, but Milton keeps on drinking.

"MG, you're going to kill him." I tug on my boyfriend's arm but he slams his elbow into my nose. I whip out my tail and plunge the tip into his neck, the vervain causing him to collapse. Dorian appears with a large amount of vervain in a syringe. "He's going to hate me later."

"What did you do?"

"My tail is laced in vervain."

"I saw that."

"I had to do something," I look down at the boy. "I'll take care of him. You two should get MG into a cell." As Dorian and Kaleb haul MG back to the school, I prop the boy up against a pillar and bite my wrist open, letting the boy suck on it. Looking into his eyes and pouring all my feelings into it, I compel him. "I am sorry you got caught up in my friend's drama, but today was a mistake. Go back to your parent's graves and take tomorrow off school to grieve." I push the dazed boy back into the yard and trudge over to the vault of my parents and his brother; Stefan Salvatore, Damon Salvatore, and Rebekah Mikaelson. "Hi, Dad, Mom. I'm sorry for all the trouble I've caused at school. I'm still figuring out what I am and how to become a better person with the powers. Love you." I exit the building, only to feel cold air rush out my lungs. A hand lands on my shoulder and I come face-to-face with my birth parents. "Holy shit."