--Dorian--
"Okay, we are officially closed for a private party," Damien said, sealing the door shut. Marcus waved his hand enchanting the door with a spell as an extra precautionary measure.
I looked around apprehensively. I had never realized that all these people that I had known for a year at Hunter's Bar were all, for the most part, witches or Warlocks or other assorted supernatural creatures. I had, of course, known Damien was a vampire, and I smelled Hunter's werewolf's scent the moment I had met him. But it had never occurred to me to wonder at his extravagant boyfriend or their assorted friends.
What a fool I was, and clearly have always been. As my eyes landed back on Cassie, who was not in Mexico City, as per the terms of her banishment. I should've known. "Don't pout Dorian," Cassie complained as she saw me watching her.
"Why shouldn't I pout?" I asked. "Here you are alive and well and apparently in the company of Rina once again," I said pointedly.
"Jealousy is not a good look on you." She said smirking.
I scowled. I had never understood how Cassie and Rina had become friends in the first place. But they were and now it looked like we were being summoned into service.
"We've been to the muses," Hulio said. I turned to look at him with surprise.
"The muses, are a myth. They haven't been around for thousands of years. I know I met them." I said looking at Hulio with disbelief.
"Didn't you date one of them?" Cassie asked.
"I don't see how that's relevant," I said narrowing my eyes at her.
"What did the muses say?" Marcus asked perching on one of the club tables folding his hands underneath his chin.
"That our only chance of survival is to get the star-crossed lovers Dorian and Rina to bring us to the only person who might be willing to help us," Julio said staring at Rina before glancing at me.
I avoided Rina's face, scowling. "And where might this person be?" I asked darkly.
"They are talking about Belmora," Rina said glancing over at me.
"The freezing crave where we found the amulet?" I asked, narrowing my eyes at Rina.
"Yeah. So I may have had to go there shortly after my pregnancy." She said making a face at me.
"YOU WHAT?" I said along with surprisingly Cassie.
"You were supposed to stay in the safety Marcus was going to give you!" Cassie said glaring at Marcus once before turning back to look at Rina.
"Which I did. For the most part." Rina said.
"The most part?" Cassie asked narrowing her eyes.
Rina rolled her eyes. "I sometimes got bored. And I had a lot of babysitters." Rina said smirking at Damien who scowled at her.
"Not my fault, that babies are so cute," Damien said scowling.
"Anyways, Anna of the earth magic asked for my assistance, on a matter of grave importance, and while we were doing that we bumped into a friend of yours that apparently had taken refuge in Belmora," Rina said looking at me.
"What friend?" I said my eyes narrowing.
"His name is Iriel," Rina said. I blinked twice at hearing the name. "Iriel? He's in Belmora?!" I said surprised.
"Actually Iriel is in New York. He sent me a postcard the last time he moved." Rina said.
"Who is Iriel?" Marcus asked his eyes narrowing on both Rina and I.
"Iriel was born in the early hundreds of the earth when the world still lived in huts and was fully aware that demons, Vampires, and werewolves existed throughout the world," I said.
"And during the turn of the century, he was accidentally cursed into living an immortal life," Rina said.
"How do you get accidentally cursed?" Damien asked his eyes narrowed.
"How do you suddenly wake up a Vampire?" Rina said giving Damien a dark look.
I rolled my eyes, Damien and Rina had been fighting on and off since I got called in. I wasn't in the mood to see anyone not after what had happened this morning.
"Can we focus? Please?" I said dryly. Looking at the twins.
"Someone still hasn't mentioned why any of this has to do with me? I'm not exactly one of your people." I said glaring at Marcus who looked at me darkly.
"The muses were extremely specific, and they named both you and Rina. So we need you if we are to survive." Julio said crossing his arms as he looked at me.
"Iriel has been highly distrustful of witches and warlocks ever since he got cursed. The reason the muses mentioned the two of us, is because when I worked with him last, he said the only way he would ever help and witch or warlock that came for his aid would be if the star-crossed lovers came as well." Rina said.
"That's the two of you, to a T." Cassie pointed out.
I scowled, at her. "Guys, let me talk to Dorian alone," Rina said waving me over as she left the bar area and went to sit at one of the many booths that lined the edges of the wall.
I followed her scowling as I did. Even being free from my shackles I still seemed to follow the royal line of Vemos. Rina stared at me expressionless as I walked over and sat down across from her. She sat at the table staring at me her hands folded on the table. "What," I said when she didn't say anything to me.
"What is your problem?" She asked looking at me darkly.
"What do you mean?" I said.
"You've been distant the whole day. And now when people are asking you for help you are acting like you just don't care. This isn't who you are. This is the Dorian I knew that followed the orders of Victor, no matter the consequences. The one who sat back while his sister was murdered by a terrible King." Rina said.
"You mean, your father," I said clenching my jaw as I looked at her.
"Yes, my father. I'm the daughter of the man you hate most of all. But you've never hated me. Have you?" Rina said her voice breaking at the last bit.
I closed my eyes sighing inwardly. "I saw her," I said quietly.
"Saw who?" She said, looking at me searchingly. "Samara? Your sister? How is that even possible? Isn't she?"
"Currently hunting the forests in the mountains of Vemos. Yeah, she is." I said looking at her darkly.
"Which means there is something else going on," I said sighing. "I should probably tell you that I saw Seth."
"Your son?" I said my eyes wide. Seth was Rina's son. I had never met him nor knew that she had a son before she came attacking Terry and cursing us both when Raphael tried to take Vanessa as a sacrifice a year back. Needless to say, Rina's son was not one of the topics up for discussion. Much like my sister.
I leaned forward, clasping her hands in mine. "I'm sorry. It startled me seeing her this morning. I guess it made me think of things I'd hoped to put behind me." I said my voice was filled with the sorrow I had felt brimming at the surface of my thoughts. I had lived a very long time and there were a lot of things I was sorry for.
"We all have stuff we want to put in the past," Rina said holding my hand tightly in hers.
"But because we live so long, we don't always have that choice. But we do have the choice to help those who need our help. We aren't like Victor or Nathaniel, who murder and maim no matter who it hurts, the difference between us and them is we went through horrible things, lost people we loved, and we still survived, with our morals intact. We still care about people. About maintaining the balance of the nine realms and that means something. We can save these twin dragons from a horrible fate. The way we were able to escape ours. Isn't that worth a try?"