Irredeemably Me

"But I want you more."

"Hit me," She goaded, her eyes never once leaving the woman before her. She knew she was poking the bear, in any instant she could be reduced to nothing more than ash but Camila needed to learn and Lucy was the only one that could teach her.

"I am." The younger girl pounced, her fist slamming into Lucy's face onto for the vampire to brush it off as if it were nothing.

"Mean it," Lucy couldn't quite figure out how to make it any clearer to the angelic creature before her. Camila was holding back every ounce of her inhuman strength and that meant their lessons were for nought. Camila needed to fight Lucy, really fight her, to gain control of the power she held within her.

"I'm trying!" Camila felt her frustration rising and she knew her eyes were more than likely glowing but she also knew that she couldn't release the growing energy inside her because Lucy would surely die. So she attacked the vampire but she held back because she couldn't kill her.

"I assure you, you are not." The vampire scoffed, pouncing at the angelic girl and pinning her to the tree, her hand closing around her neck and pushing hard to stop her breathing. "For if you were, I would not be able to touch you."

Lucy decided to take her threats a step further, feeling her fangs slide out and her eyes beginning to glow that blood red. She could feel the monster within her begging to be freed and for a moment, she considered letting it out. Letting it rip at Camila's throat and soak in every drop of blood in her body because perhaps then she would understand the danger she was in. But Lucy refrained.

She was only teaching, she would not harm the younger girl. But she would scare her.

She allowed her head to dip, her nose grazing along the girl's neck, inhaling deeply and for a moment, closing her eyes to take in the intoxicating scent.

"Lucy-"

"I yearn for just a taste." The vampire spoke as if compelled to do so, as if the words weren't her own. Her tone was coarse and uncontrolled.

Camila felt the wetness of Lucy's tongue touch her skin and merely a moment later, she felt the point of a fang probe at her skin.

And she could no longer hold back the frustration and energy pooling within her. With a scream that she was sure would be heard for miles around them, she pushed at the vampire and watched as she soared through the air only for her body to slam directly into a tree with enough force for it to break. The cracking of the bark was a thunderous sound and it echoed in the wake of Camila's scream.

But once the tree had fallen, once Camila felt her heart adjust back to its normal beat, she was surrounded by silence.

There were no more crickets sounding in the night, no more owls. Lucy was not there to taunt her.

Her very breathing left no noise.

Camila walked over to where she knew Lucy would be, worrying only for a moment whether her friend was okay or not but knowing that Lucy would not be dead. Harmed, sure, but death did not come that easily to a vampire.

Lucy was struggling to lift herself from the ground when Camila found her, blood coating her clothes and her hair in disarray.

"Don't ever do that again." Camila warned, because she knew that Lucy could have ended up far worse. "I'm not your little wind-up toy, I could kill you."

Lucy saw the last remnants of anger dissolve in Camila's eyes as they faded back to their warm, chocolate colour.

"My options were limited," Lucy brushed off the bark attached to her clothing. "I could threaten your life, or I could threaten Lauren's. I assumed, from your perspective, I have picked the lesser of two evils."