Flash
I was walking to Bathory High school when I sent a message to Amare for the zillionth time by phone. William was picking me up after school to have lunch and then more fighting practice. Amare had been a ghost in the house of Dracula since yesterday.
Vlad woke up in the middle of the night last night after having the nightmare again. I flew over to comfort him for a few minutes and I couldn't go back to sleep. I was so tired.
By the time I reached my locker and was walking to first hour, Amare hadn't answered his phone. It was predictable. William told me he was going to make Amare come with him to pick me up and go to lunch. I'm hoping that he succeeds. I reached out and tried to find Henry's mind in the crowds of my fellow teenagers. I heard his thoughts of Vladimir as he told him of the nightmares. They were reaching their lockers and I turned to see them walking toward me.
Vlad gave me a soft smile and I returned it but it quickly faded when I remembered the pink princess. I turned and went to talk to Alice and Amelia who were stationed a few lockers down.
I grinned at something funny that was said from Amelia. Right then, my vampire vision was blinded for just a moment by the flash of a white light. I frowned at Eddie and sneered as he smirked. I turned away from him in disgust as he scooted closer to Vlad.
A wicked grin flashed over my face when I remembered a talk I had with Henry the other day concerning Eddie. I recalled the plan thurally and turned to watch the scene play out as Eddie took another picture of Vlad.
"Eddie, when are you gonna knock it off and leave me alone?" Vlad asked in a bitter tone.
"When are you just going to admit what you are?" Eddie countered and I sighed at the display before me. My friends saw minutes earlier that I was sidetracked and had begun their own conversation without me.
I saw Henry step between the vampire and idiot as he started the plan. "What, a vampire?" The shock on Eddie and Vlad's face was clear. I could feel the pulse of Vlad's heart stop and then rush as if his heart was causing a pulsing pressure against my own skin. "It's not exactly a secret that Vlad's the equivalent of a giant mosquito, Eddie. In fact...he's not the only one."
Henry had taken Eddie by the shoulders and was turning him from Vladimir as he spoke. I saw Eddie's eyes flicker to me for a second as my cousin spoke.
"The whole school is full of them. And you're their next meal." I smiled and stepped closer. Henry threw Eddie into a random classroom and slammed the door. Vlad immediately started to question Henry. I shifted my jaw as I tried to get comfortable in these horrible plastic fangs. My own real ones were much more comfortable.
"What the hell are you doing?" Vlad asked as I stepped closer to them.
"Just trust me, Vlad. Maybe we'll scare some sense into the little weasel. Nobody messes with my friend." Henry told him seriously and I said nothing.
Vlad kept moving his eyes back and forth from Henry to the door. His eyes widened nervously when Eddie's screams echoed through Bathory High. "When did you set this up?"
"Dude, I'm a McMillan. It's not like it takes a lot to get people to help me out. Especially when it comes to messing with a worm like Eddie." Finally Eddie escaped the hold of the students in the classroom. The cold hearted laughter that followed seemed to be what encouraged Eddie to shove Henry with all this strength.
Henry didn't even move a spec. Yet the fact that Eddie tried was enough to anger my kin. "What makes you so loyal to him? You know what he is!" Eddie shouted at Henry.
Every few millennia, Henry gets angry. True anger from him was rare but Eddie pushed it too far. "Yeah, he's a monster. Just like Dracula and Frankenstein. Just like the bogeyman in your closet, Eddie."
Henry's muscles were tense as if he were a rubber band being wound and about to burst. Eddie didn't shrink away as he snarled his answer while stepping closer.
"Why are you protecting him?"
"He bit me when we were eight." Henry stated as a cringing crack came from his knuckles. He narrowed his usually warm eyes and his voice held a chilling cruelty as he spoke. "We bonded."
"So what?" Eddie smiled as he found a way to jump over the edge. "Now you're some kind of vampire's pet?" That did it. I saw the ever so faint pause in Henry as Eddie hit that nerve. But his fury out did his internal struggles as he lifted Eddie and smashed him into the lockers. I sighed lightly as I realized this wasn't what was according to plan for Henry.
I wondered what Henry wanted me to do from here on end...Probably just give him one more scare before he scurried away.
"Listen to me very carefully, you little speck. Vlad isn't the dangerous one here. I am. And unless you back off and stop harassing my friend, you're gonna find out just how dangerous I can be. You got me?" Henry growled at him, his face close enough so that Eddie could feel the anger and danger on his breath. He let him go and gave him one last shove. "I'm nobody's pet. Now get lost before you make me angry."
Eddie began to race away before I caught his arm and he tried to wiggle away from me. He kept glancing at Henry with every blink he took and I used my mind control to force him to look at me.
I narrowed my already penetrating eyes and bore them into his as my nails instinctively dug into his skin. I felt my fangs grow from underneath the plastic fangs which made them more uncomfortable.
"Keep away from Vlad and me. Or I will take you out for dinner." I felt the left corner of my lips curl up as the fake fangs were flashed into his view. "Do you understand?"
Eddie gulped, with that I saw the glaze in his eyes slide away and the terror grow as I released him roughly and he bolted away. I spat the fangs out into a trash can and was about to go to Henry and Vlad when I saw Henry stomping away.
Vlad walked over to me and I saw he was troubled. I shoved my emotions and thoughts away so he couldn't see them and be bothered more.
"Eddie should be gone...for a while." I told him and I saw his eyes staring at my lips.
"Get rid of those." He said. I lifted my hand to my lips and bit into my finger and tasted my blood to rid my fangs. Jonathan's blood made it easier to avoid my thirst so I was glad. "Thank you for doing that...Tell Henry that too please."
I nodded silently. "Anything for you." I told him softly and allowed a short-lived smile. Something caught my eyes behind him and then I looked back at him. He clearly saw the wave of hurt sorrow that panged me hard enough that my mask was broken. I stamped the feelings out and replaced it with anger. "Tell your perfect girlfriend that you're all hers. Bye."
I turned and walked back to Amelia and Alice. We went to class and I talked and put on the face of any normal teenage girl. My last words to Vlad today were layered with ice. I'm not sure what caused that recent outburst of anger at Meredith but I couldn't bottle it in.
Then a flashed image ran through my mind. I saw Meredith, looking as perfect as ever, in Vlad's arms at the Snow Ball. My soul turned dark with jealousy and I nearly growled outright in class at how infuriated I was.
I knew he would go with her. I was no fool, but the thought still brought on that hellfire that charred my soul for nearing three years.
I knew that for the cold words I had said to him that I would hear from Vlad about it tonight. I was prepared... I had much to say about my mortal competition.
