The Scarlet Daughter

Plans and Confessions

The woman was smiling at me and i’m pretty sure she said something, but I wasn’t listening. My vision was blurry and my head was buzzing, bleep, I forgot to feed before we left. Suddenly the smiling woman was sideways and she wasn’t smiling. Or maybe i fell and... oh, ow, yeah I fell. Ben had picked me up and his blood was warm and sweet smelling as my face flopped onto his chest. I tried to tell him that he needed to back away before I accidently took a bite out of him. But all that came out was,

“Momph amph pemph.” I’m pretty sure he didn’t understand me because he kept going until we reached a door. He shifted me until I was hanging upside down on his shoulder. If I wasn’t  so hungry and out of it i’d probably be humiliated, but as it is I was barely able to stay conscious. Ben elbowed the door open and set me gently on a bed. He shook my shoulder,

“Danny? Danny can you hear me? Look i’m going to get some blood and i’ll be back in like 3 seconds. Danny?” He sighed and got up, I heard his footsteps heard the door close softly. And then I blacked out.

about 5 hours later...no just kidding it was only 5 minutes.   

I was being attacked. I opened my eyes to Ben viciously shaking me.

    “What was that for!” I glared at him before noticing the bottle of blood so I quickly changed my frown into a smile. “Hey you… whatcha got there?” I batted my eyelashes at him. Ben just rolled his eyes at me and shoved the bottle towards me. I guess he’s still mad at me.

“So who’s the donor of this lovely bottle of deliciousness?” He pointedly looked away as I slurped up the blood. After polishing it off I felt much better, even more so when I let out a belch. Ben grabbed the empty bottle and walked out of the room without another word. So much for conversation,whatever, I sat up and slowly got to my feet. Walking out the door, I headed down the hall towards the voices. Which immediately ceased as soon as I walked in,

“Well hello, what’s everyone talking about?” The smiling woman,who i’m pretty sure was Charlotte, stood up and gestured for me to sit down in her seat. I shrugged and sat down observing the 3 other people in the room. The man next to me turned around and offered me a tight smile,

“Hello i’m Phillip. Ben’s dad.” I immediately stiffened as I realized who I was sitting next to...my Dad’s killer. He must have known I knew because he took one look at me and walked out of the room. Ben looked at me angrily before going after his dad. Frowning slightly Charlotte turned back to face me,

“Are you okay with being near Phillip?”

“I guess, I mean, honestly I really don’t know… I kind of get what he did,but, it was my dad, you know. Just give me time I need to hear the plan and then think this through.” She nodded and glanced at Lora,who was playing with a doll near the TV.

“Alright, let’s talk about the plan. Every year,as you already know, all the important vampires meet to discuss everything that needs to be discussed. That’s not important, what is though, is the fact that vampires tend to gossip about other vampires and things that you wouldn’t learn from the Council…” she paused when she saw me shudder.

“ I hated those stuffy old vampires with their raspy voices and superior attitudes.”

 “I quite agree with you. Anyway,our plan is to get you and Ben into the meeting or at least to the party afterwards.There you will try to get information about the Scarlet Children.”

“Ummm, what are the Scarlet Children?”

“Oh,right you wouldn’t have heard about them unless you had attended any of the meetings. The Scarlet Children are born of two different supernatural...races if you may. They aren’t allowed to have children with anyone in order to keep all the races clean.”