JASON
Micheal came back before sunrise and I filled him in on what had happened making sure to filter suspicious details such as me holding her for over an hour, he barely let me finish before he was upstairs pushing her door open.
I sit on the couch listening to their heartbeats and breaths, she was still sleeping, I sigh under my breath. What will a demon want in a vampire's house? Creatures of the night kept to themselves, while vampires no longer lived together in a community, wolves still moved in packs and witches operated in covens even demons existed together, there was peace that way as no boundaries were crossed, so why will a freaking demon come to pick a fight with a vamp? It just didn't fit. I had been racking my brain trying to figure out what I was missing, it came after Mirabella and not either of us, it didn't even try to pick a fight with me after I rushed into the room, it just fled, demons are not known for being logical, they thought with there fangs and horns. Christopher and his brothers were in town obviously not on a holiday and now a demon was coming to socialize.
I hear footsteps coming down the stairs and Micheal was sitting beside me in no time, "what do you think?" He asks me "why will a demon be after her, did Cataline have a history with them too? "
" No, definitely not, I'm sure she never crossed paths with the demons, they're not that social, they stay on there own, but I Don't believe it's a coincidence that the Vauquelins are also here at the same time that the demons decided to pay your girlfriend attention"
I say the words 'your girlfriend' with a pang of pain in my chest but I shake it off, now wasn't the time for that.
"So what are you saying?"
"I need to pay an old friend ta visit," I say, standing up
"I'll come with you," Mike says making to get up also
" No, stay home with her, we can't leave her alone" I get to the door, open it and go out but before I close it I look at Mike over my shoulder " be careful, demons can never be trusted" and then I was gone, driving my car at a top speed ignoring every traffic rule. Micheal is more than a friend to me, he is a brother, a son even, I watched him grow from a newborn into the man he has become, I made a promise to his mother to take care of him, and I really didn't feel like I had done much of a good job, I couldn't even keep him alive, I failed him just like I failed her, they both died because of my inability to protect them as I promised. Micheal was now a fucking vamp, the one thing his mother didn't want for him.
I stop the car abruptly in front of the bar I had visited the last time, where I ran into Christopher. I close my eyes and counted to ten trying to calm my nerves, 'calm, calm' I whispered under my breath, I reach for the door handle and open it, I get down and head inside ignoring the stares and giggles I was already getting from the females, hm, sometimes good looks was also a curse, everything just wants to fuck you.
I walk towards a pool table the last one at the far end with only three guys around it, two of the guys were tall and largely built, one of them had a long scar that cut from his right eye to his left chin, he had really short messy black hair and really light brown eyes as he had just fed, I sniff the air and catch the smell of blood, behind the big scar faced man was a petite redhaired lady, she had on a yellow scarf around her neck,' the bastards were breeding' the anger I had tried to suppress came surging back with full force, I look back at the Scarface with my resentment and disapproval clear on my face, he backs up a bit then turns to face the short man standing at the edge of the table with a poker stick in his hands and a big grin on his face like he was enjoying some private joke, he was lean and had his black hair sprayed pink, with a cigar in mouth and his black worn out jeans riding low, Christopher looked like a joke.
"She's pretty isn't she, the red-haired," he says walking towards me " you can have her if you want, she's tame and Banny here wouldn't mind sharing, right Banny"? He says looking at Scarface, but only got a frown in reply as Scarface walked away from us.
" Your brothers know you're breeding human females?" I ask Christopher, he shrugs and gives a loud laugh
" I'm sure they wouldn't mind much, we'll be on our way before anyone even cares to ask"
"You guys are leaving so soon and here I was thinking you were planning a showdown"
Christopher gives a sharp smirk " not everything is about you Jason, we've moved past the war, you should too, we're looking at a bigger picture now, one that would put us back at the peak of power, you should be around for that showdown"
I smiled to myself, same old Christopher with an ego as big as his mouth, a bigger picture that would put them back at the peak of power' what did he mean
"Time and place, and I wouldn't miss it" I reply taunting him
" The fireworks don't hide, you'll come to us, you all will"
He says grinning from ear to ear like a seven-year-old that just got praised for a job well done, who will believe this man was a lot of century years old.
" Still as conceited as ever, the Vauquelins Don't learn, do they?"
In a split second, he was inches away from my face scowling, he folded his palms into fists and says through gritted teeth, "five parts become one, dark and light will make peace, power isn't lacking, hair as white as snow, skin like silk, from the lowest shall the greatest arise"
He steps back and stares up at my confused expression, he smiles almost invisibly " you don't know the prophecy, do you? A hundred years ago you thought we started a war for love, didn't you? Then you all thought we went into hiding, but we've just been waiting, waiting, we were wrong once but we weren't ignorant, the awakening approaches, how prepared are you? "
As he says this, he turns and leaves, Scarface and dude no 2 with redhaired trailing behind him. I knew of the awakening, it was said to be a time when a buried evil will awaken in the form of a being and posses so much power there will only be chaos, but some legends say that with the power to will, the light will rule over darkness and the power can be harnessed for good. But wasn't it all a myth? And what prophecy was Christopher referring to, did it have anything to do with the awakening?
I go outside and into my car, if there was anyone that could help me out it had to be Beatrice, an 'all-knowing' witch, well, I guess we're going on a road trip.