make me

42-Eureka

When we stopped, I got in her lap again and snuggled closer to her. It felt so wrong, but so good at the same time and I couldn't hide the fact that I needed her.

When we finished taking a bath, Raven ordered me to get out of the bathtub while she cleaned the walls like the woman downstairs had asked her. When she finished, she got out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her body.

"Rose!!" I heard Raven scream.

"What do you want again!?" I could tell their relationship was composed of annoying each other while caring at the same time.

"Do you have clothes I could borrow?"

"Yeah... just go in my room, pick whatever you want. Wait, don't take the T-shirt with a cat on it," she corrected herself.

"Yeah, sure." Raven stopped talking, but a couple seconds later I could hear her whisper, "crazy cat lady..."

"I heard that!! Seriously, do you forget were vampires or something?" She asked Raven.

"No... I just loove annoying you, pretty flower." I laughed at the cute nickname Raven gave her.

When they finished talking, Raven got back in the bathroom.

"You think it's funny?" She said smirking at me. I can't lie, I did forget that we were all vampires in this house.

"I- maybe just a little bit..." I hesitated, but I knew she wouldn't get mad with how she reacted before.

"Don't worry about it, I don't think I've ever heard you laugh actually... anyways, come. We're gonna get clothes and after we're going home." She stretched out her arm to me as I struggled to get up.

We walked across the hallway to Rose's bedroom. I guess she really liked her name, because everything in her room was pink. I remember learning from my grandmother that rose meant pink in French, though I don't know why she taught me that.

We started looking throughout her closet which was humongous. We finally chose a hoodie each and some loose pants... we felt like being comfortable after all that had happened.

We went downstairs after getting dressed up and said goodbye and thank you to Rose. Right after we left the doorway, Raven got right back inside.

"One more thing, flower. Can we borrow one of your cars? I'll send people to bring it back tomorrow." Raven asked her with a cheesy smile printed over her face.

"Yeah, sure. Now go away. I don't want to see your face anymore, bird." She mimicked her.

"Thank youu..." Raven said closing the door behind her.

We went in the garage and chose one of the less interesting cars. She had four of them, and all were super expensive. I guess being a vampire automatically makes you rich or something...

We got in the car, Raven took the keys that were hiding up in the sun visor and started the car. We got on the road without talking, but the silence felt comfortable.

I looked around at the landscape passing quickly through the window. At first, it was composed of houses and small condos, but later in became a vast land with nothing in sight. I wondered what had happened for it to be so boring.

"It's gonna be like that for an hour at least..." Raven told me, I guess my face was very expressive at that moment.

"Oh... can I ask you a question?" I honestly didn't even know what to ask her, I just wanted to make up a subject of conversation.

"Yeah, go ahead." She said looking in front of her.

"So hum... were you alone on the mission?" I asked her completely random.

"No... we were four. Two were with me, we had one that was at distance and the other lurking around..." I looked at her and saw her eyes open widely like she had just discovered something.

"Are you okay?" I asked her.

"I- huh... I need to call someone. Can you take my phone and call "loki" for me?"  She said handing me her phone.

"Okay..." I opened it, surprisingly there was no password. I looked for the contact named Loki and clicked on it. The phone rang and soon enough he picked up.

"Raven? You're out? Everyone's been looking for you..."

"Yeah, I am... look Loki, I need to know where King is."

I heard him tap on his computer through the speaker.

"Right now he's... he's at Oscar's hide out... wait, why is he there?"

"That's what I expected... King fucked us over Loki. Polly and Amos are still there from what I know, I just hope they're alive."

"How are we going to do this?"

"I don't know yet... but look, I'll call you when I'm home and we'll discuss this."

"Okay, take care..."

They hung up.

I looked back at Raven with questions written in my eyes and as she notices everything, she noticed that too.

"I'm gonna have to go back, Bee..." she said to me softly, still looking at the road in front of us.

"No... you can't. You said you would stay with me until I finished turning... I don't know how to do this alone, please don't leave..." I pleaded to her.

"I know, but I need to go get the other two... they're probably still being tortured right now. I can't leave them there and I'm the only one who can fight King if it ever comes down to it." She put one of her hands on my thigh and squeezed it a little, a manner to show that she's there and she cares.

I put my hand over hers, "Can I come with you, then?" I knew she would say no, but I couldn't end this conversation without asking it first.

"Bee... you know you can't come. I would never want you to be put in danger because of me and that is going to be dangerous, especially for a baby vamp." I could hear that she was really sad that she had to give me that answer, but I also knew she wouldn't bulge on this, so I stopped asking.

"I can't wait for you forever, you know... so don't get kidnapped again." I looked out the window, attempting miserably to hide the tears that were threatening to fall down my cheeks.

"I won't, I promise." She said looking at me with her brows furrowed just a tiny bit.

I couldn't believe that she was going to go back... after all this, she still wanted to go save her friends. All this really made me believe that she was just in a dark place with me at first. I now had proof that all she wanted was to protect people... If only she had been like this since the beginning.