Adam didn't pay attention at first when they were partying at the Georgia. He hadn't thought about whether Mimi's car was still in the driveway when they had left in Bran's car. Adam just woke up with a terrible hangover at one point and noticed that his phone was full of calls from fleas.
He went to the shower, made some strong coffee and a couple of different hangover cures, and drank plenty of water. Then he started calling and texting, and the more people he talked to, the more worried he became.
Mimi hadn't answered her phone, then it had apparently gone off. No one had seen her anywhere. She hadn't answered her email either. She hadn't been on the Dark web for weeks, and strangest of all, Bran had tried to call everyone or send a message. Adam sighed as he hung up with Jake and called Jarod. Jarod hadn't heard from Mimi, and Bran had tried to call him too.
Adam looked at the calendar on his phone and cursed harshly. He had given in to self-pity and started drinking, and now Mimi had been missing for eight weeks. Adam had tried to ask Bran if he had a grudge against Mimi, but he had been very vague. When Adam had asked when Bran had last seen Mimi, Bran had not answered directly.
But Adam knew that Bran had done something to Mimi, some kind of revenge, and now he didn't know if Mimi was in a cage somewhere being poisoned once again. Bran didn't tell anyone what had happened. Adam had noticed this incident when he checked the security tapes again to make sure no one from the medical facility had taken Mimi.
The recording of that night had disappeared, and Adam cursed in his mind when he got proof that Bran had done something to Mimi. Only he and Bran have the rights to the tapes and their erasure, and Adam had put a lot of cameras in Chicago.
Bran had his hands full, trying to get Damon to party and fuck. Bran was trying to get Magnum, Charles and Samuel, and him to fuck, and Adam was getting irritated if this. Damon was always going off to gigs or something. Damon could sit in his chair at a party in the evening, but he had fucked nobody. Bran had. A bottle of Jack Daniels in one hand and a girl in the other was how Bran had spent eight weeks.
Adam sighed and scratched his head. He wondered what to do next. First, he thought he would see what was going on with Damon. If this would help and what Bran had done to Mimi? Two fucking months, this pack always betrays Mimi.
Adam was so pissed at himself, Bran, and the whole fucking universe he had to catch his breath before he went to the great hall in the Georgian mansion; this was another one Mimi had bought, but as it was in his name Bran was taking advantage of these places for his fucking parties.
Adam went to the party and saw Damon. He saw that this was clear as day, and something was clearly bothering Damon. Adam suspected that Damon and Mimi had a connection, some kind of psychic link, and through this link, Damon sensed something. It wasn't a sire bond, but these two had a damn strong true soul mate bond, and if Mimi were in distress, something would probably come through even if Damon didn't realize it right away.
He had to be sneaky now because Bran had sobered up a bit and was watching him searchingly as he walked into the room, now showered and fed.
"Damon, come into my room for a moment. I've got some kills for you." Adam said casually as Bran stared.
Damon looked over at his friend. Adam had showered, eaten, and recovered from his hangover. This was also so fucking ready for something, and Damon didn't pry into Adam's thoughts, but he got from his mind a very clear concern for Mimi and anger towards Bran. Damon stood up, a bit surprised, as Adam rarely organized gigs.
Damon suspected that was an excuse to talk to him, and Adam had said to himself that he couldn't trust telepathy because of Bran. Adam was as tuned up as he could be, so Damon followed Adam into his study, which then had a soundproof door installed. Adam spoke, his voice tense with tension, his brow furrowed.
He raked his hand through his hair and gestured to the chair, " You'd better sit down; this is about Mimi. She's been missing for eight weeks. Mimi's vampire side came out more after that wedding of yours. She had a terrible bloodlust. She tried to drink human blood, but it didn't help. Bran wouldn't let us feed Mimi. He wouldn't let us give her blood. Now Mimi has a couple of blood farms, places where the designated naughty supernaturals end up, and they take all the blood they can get, but as there are less than ten and most of them in Europe, the nearest one would have been 18 hours away, and there were only weak succubi."
Damon grunted and said, "I figured she had a bloodlust, but then I didn't see that Bran order, so what happened?"
Adam sighed and sat back in his chair. Crossing his hands and resting his chin on them as he tried to explain calmly and carefully, not letting his emotions and temper take over.
" She went out to hunt with Mirella's help, and that helped for a couple of days until the hunger and heat got closer. Bran came into the house probably because of the heat and, drunk, went to open his head to Mimi. Mimi attacked and drank Bran dry. That night, Mimi disappeared. The security tapes were wiped off just from that night, and Bran just partied and drank. Bran is the only one who has the rights to those tapes besides me, and I didn't think a thing when he demanded that Samuel and I come here to Georgia with him for the party. I know he has done something to Mimi but I can't find out because Bran can stun me with the power of marrok even. Do you have any ideas on how to get Bran to talk? I know Bran takes every vampire attack as a personal insult, and Bran has... He doesn't... oh fuck..."
Adam's voice trailed off as he pondered. Adam's expression went grave, he paled visibly, and swallowed. Could Mimi take it?
Damon frowned. He could see Adam's reaction, his terror or panic for Mimi. It made him steel himself, his own rage seething, as well as his vampire side coming out more. He felt his fangs were so ready.
"What exactly has Bran done to vampires in his time?" Damon's voice was dangerous, cool and there was a threat in it, not to Adam but to Bran.
Adam looked at Damon and asked, " Have you ever been bricked up inside a wall after having all the blood drained from you several times and replaced with vervain? Bran used to heal vampires like this. Two lost their vampire powers completely; they were put in a mental institution for the rest of their lives, and then most were left so weak the other vampires finished when they were released. I've never been in on these games myself, but Bran has his own crew that hates vampires."
Damon was silent, and as he looked at Adam, his rage was at the surface. His eyes were pitch black, there were black veins around his eyes, and his fangs were clearly visible. He felt his vampire side reach out to Mimi with their bond and flinched as he felt Mimi's pain, suffering, confusion, and ungodly bloodlust flood into his mind as well, and he controlled himself completely for a few minutes before he spoke.
"No, but I've saved a couple who have, and none ... I had to kill them. The bloodlust was too much. They hadn't even been in that wall for more than a few weeks, and now Mimi has been in there for at least eight weeks. "
Damon's voice was quiet. Dangerous, and he tried to think what the hell could be done here. His analytical mind and a thousand years of experience told and analyzed the facts in his mind, and a plan was formed. It was going to be intense, and if it had been any normal vampire, Damon would have killed this one.
But Mimi was an immortal, a strong fucking creature, and now she had a bloodlust that was terrible to control, but he might just have the opportunity here to make a sire bond, but Mimi's withered and tortured nature would require more than one creature. Damon looked closely at Adam, wondering and considering if this was what it would take.
Adam noticed the vampire's careful gaze and said, " You already have a plan, some idea of what to do. But add to that, Mimi's rage and heat. We have to find Mimi and try to help."
Damon thought in his mind and smiled wickedly. The rush time would top it all off, and maybe he could help Mimi better.
Damon looked at Adam and said, "Now I'm not entirely sure, Hauptmann, whether you're up to what this is going to take. It will not be easy, and I'm going to be in complete charge of this thing, so if you come along, you won't be asking questions while you're obeying. "
Adam said, "Fine, I have no problem with that, but first, we need to find where Bran has hidden Mimi. I can't go asking questions, or Bran will hit me with the power of marrok to drink or fuck."
Damon said, " Wait here. This is going to be enjoyable."
He got up from his chair, stretched a little, and then walked dangerously out of the room and into the living room next to Bran.
He whispered in his ear, "Bran, actions, and consequences. This is going to hurt, and I'm doing it on purpose. I know you've done something to Mimi, bricked her up, and now I'm going to find out where."
Bran could do nothing as he felt the telepathic vampire drilling into his mind. Damon laughed at Bran's anguished expression. Then he concentrated. He used his telepathy, which was still going strong. It was even more powerful because of the wedding. He'd find Mimi, darling.
Bran complained of a splitting headache, and Damon would show no mercy. It was time for Bran to learn the consequences of his actions. If he attacked Mimi, Damon would have his way. Damon increased his strength. Bran's nose came out in a stream of blood.
Damon got what he wanted. Bran sighed and lost consciousness. Adam, meanwhile, was finishing up the party, briefly told Samuel and Charles what had happened and left them to talk to their father.
Damon got up from the couch and said to Adam. " Let's go now. We need a few things first..."
They first went to the basement, to the blood supply room, and Damon took several sports bags with him, where they packed human blood. Damon explained to Adam what they were about to encounter.
"Mimi will probably be completely desiccated, mummified, but then she'll be safe to move. She'll be unstoppable in her bloodlust, but if I can get a sire bond done on her right away. See now when she wakes up with blood. First, we wake her up with my blood, and hopefully, that will get some sort of the sire bond done. Mimi is about in the same state as any newly turned vampire in terms of her bloodlust, but she's poisoned. So we need to deal with that first."
Adam nodded, and they packed the blood bags into sports bags.
Damon continued his explanation. " We need a sturdy place, a really sound place that will hold Mimi. Then we'll take Mimi to that safe room, or probably a cell. That's where we're going to leave a ridiculous amount of these human blood bags, because that's how Mimi gets the vervain out of her system. It's cleansing for her human blood. And it's going to be painful for Mimi when the vervain goes out. And a lot. She will suffer, she will complain, she will beg, but we will endure the outside world because it's mainly the bloodlust talking. We won't go inside yet. Then, when all the vervain is gone, we'll give our blood, which I'll have drawn by then, in five-liter bags like this. These will be consumed, and a lot of them, so that you may feel faint. We'll stock ourselves with plenty to eat and drink. I'll give her my blood first, sire bond of the strongest, but we'll need your blood, too."
Adam nodded and said, " Fine, that doesn't sound too bad yet; I've seen some moon-crazy werewolves, so yeah, I'm not going into the cell."
Damon laughed as he continued his explanation.
"Once the worst of the blood lust is gone, the rush takes over. And in vampire rush time, well, I can tell you're going to get fucked and violently. Maybe the lady even wants you as a wolf, and then go for it. Let's go. She might drink blood during sex and be insatiable for real. It's going to get wild. How long the rush lasts, I don't know, but here's a potion, Dresden, to prevent conception, so you don't have to worry about miscarriage after the rush—male contraception. I know Mimi had some products, and Bran destroyed them. Are you sure you're ready for this, Hauptmann?"
Adam looked at Damon wolfishly and said, "That actually sounds like a fantastic time. "
Damon said, "We've got quite a drive ahead of us, but that's ok; Mimi is a safe transfer, so we'll be fine."
It took them over 12 hours to drive to Chicago. Adam could feel the excitement in the car rising steadily. The closer they got to Chicago, it would soon be showtime.