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Post by Nessy on Jul 1, 2006 8:08:07 GMT 12
The church was silent. There was no sound. It was a sacred place, even for those who didn't believe in God. However, for all of those who did, it was a place of hope and prayer, where you could make all the questions you needed, where you could think in peace and, who knows, rest. Better yet, for almost all those that did. Because for the figure sitting on a brave and still standing up bench, it was a place of despair. But still, she would dare and occasionally, she would come here. Not that she had that much to face, no-one cared about that place. Not only that, she was a mere Omega. A mere Wildcat Omega. She stood no threat, for she had no intentions on climbing up from that rank.
Guinevere.
The girl was looking at something craddled on her hands. A wedding ring. The wedding ring her lover had given her, as a promise of someday he would stay with her forever. He died.
But in a way, he kept his promise. She had part of his soul growing inside her, gaining life. She seemed to be crying, her beautiful hair falling over her face. Her tunic still did its job to masquerade the belly, but it wouldn't be for long. For now, she could simply be the 'fat girl'. She didn't care, better yet, she enjoyed the stupidity of the superficiality of the teens.
She pressed the wedding ring to her lips and them slipped it on her ring finger, turningit around and around it, looking at the floor. "I wonder if You are there, God. 'Cause, if you are, just so You know, You're a son of a bitch.", she hissed.
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 1, 2006 8:25:27 GMT 12
"Do you believe in God?" came another voice. A female voice that was soft, gentle but yet taunting at the same time. "I think God has left us all a very long time ago"
The flame from a lighter flickered in the shadows and with a cigarette between her lips Mara walked forward. Her usually pale skin seemed almost eerie inside the church, as if translucent and clashing against the pale skin on her hands were dark painted nails. She reached the other woman, tilting her head to the side and curiously studied Guinevere. "Maybe our free will killed God and maybe we're all just damned"
A thick white cloud of smoke escaped her lips and she smiled a great wide smile. "Don't you think a church in a place like this is a bit ironic? Like having a funeral shop next to the Guns and Ammo store"
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Post by Nessy on Jul 1, 2006 8:32:09 GMT 12
Guinevere turned around in her seat, and clenched her jaw. Nervously, she stood up slowly. She knew this person. She was a Vampire Hunter, Snow-White. One of the top Hunters of the Vampires. Just her luck - of all the people that had the slimmest chance to be there, Mara was not one of them. The Vampires had a particular hatred towards the church, but it seemed that she was more daring that the others gave her credit. She glanced to the exit.
"I'm just an Omega. There is nothing I know that you don't. You probably know more than I do. Just... let me go. I don't want any problems.", if there was one thing she feared, it were the Vampires, especially Mina and Sven. Their ways of breaking others would be too dangerous for her baby, and she did not want anything to happen to the life growing inside her. Still, she mantained her postured. "Please."
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 1, 2006 8:46:07 GMT 12
Mara waved her hand lazily, cigarette now resting between her slender fingers. "If I was here to shed blood you'd know already" she spoke while taking in the whole enviroment surrounding them. "Maybe this is our trial now, maybe God is testing us to see who survives, to see who's worthy of Paradise with all its bloodfilled promises"
She once more returned her attention towards Guinevere. "What if that which you call God is really the Devil?"
At this point Mara could have been talking to the shadows since, even though she was looking directly at the other woman, her clear pale blue eyes were glazed over. Her mind was traveling some place else.
Suddenly Mara's eyes cleared up, and her gaze was intense and heavy upon Guinevere. "Why do you pray? Why do you hope?"
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Post by Nessy on Jul 1, 2006 9:05:34 GMT 12
Maybe she won't hurt me, but she might as well capture me.
Still, Guinevere kept her calm and collected demeantor, adjusting the tunic to cover up her pregnancy. She'd thought that maybe, maybe if she answered her questions, Snow-White would eventually get bored and leave her be. Worst case scenario... She'd rather not think about it, or she'd lose her cool.
"I just do.", she replied, still keeping a safe distance. "Just like you seem not to believe.", the girl touched the wedding ring she now wore, as if to comfort herself. "I believe in God. Not the one that the Bible paints, however. I know... He wouldn't... He would consider man and woman equal. He wouldn't perform miracles, he would give the chance for us to do so. I pray for hope, and hope I can believe in my prayers. I pray for... a child. And a dead man.", she smiled sadly, moving the hand over the finely crafted church bench, her long fingers feeling the dust on it wrapping around them.
"I don't believe in Satan. I believe in the Dark inside the human heart.", she looked up at Mara, biting back a stinggy comment she wanted to make about that and how it so well related with the Vampires. But she'd rather not cause troubles.
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 1, 2006 9:19:02 GMT 12
"Just as mother is God in the eyes of a child, all human hearts hold a piece of the Devil itself" she said with a small smile, bringing her cigarette up to her lips and inhaling deeply. "Weren't we created in the image of your God? God's most beloved angel, Lucifer, betrayed him ...what does that say?"
Mara shrugged to herself. "Maybe nothing at all but if there is a Paradise, the road will not be clean from blood of innocence"
There was a moment of silence as Mara finished her cigarette, crushing it underneath her booth heal. "Know what I miss in this shitty place? Aurora Borealis. I miss nights so cold it bites deep into your very soul and I miss blood coloring snow red. This place doesn't do blood justice. Hmm, but I suppose you wouldn't know, would you Guinevere?"
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Post by Nessy on Jul 1, 2006 9:26:29 GMT 12
The pregnant girl glanced again at the exit, before crossing her arms over her chest, rubbing them idly. "That's what the Bible says. The Bible is the work of Man. Not God. God wouldn't approve the hatred written in that sacred book. The church did a lot of wrong things. But I still find comfort in coming to a place where we can assume it is where God is felt the most.", she shrugged a little, taking a step back, to the wall, just to run her fingers against it, looking at the broken altar.
At Mara's next comment and question, she would simply shook her head. "No. I'm American. We don't have aurora borealis here.", she said, glancing at Mara nervously. "Anyway, nice chatting with you. I have to go.", she turned on her heels and ran towards the exit. A little of a panic attack, but she was just a mother to be, protecting her unborn baby.
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 1, 2006 9:33:29 GMT 12
Mara, acting on reflex, the same as she'd done years ago with her first kill, grabbed Guinevere's arm. Not too hard, but hard enough to stop her dead in her tracks. "I can taste your fear around you" she spoke in a low, deep voice as she leaned in, her lips close to the other woman's ear. "I've not given you anything to fear, yet you tremble from my touch, why is that Guinevere?"
"Do you fear for your own sake?" she asked and released Guinevere's arm only to place a skinny hand on top of the other woman's stomach. "Or is your fear concerning something new?"
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Post by Nessy on Jul 1, 2006 9:43:33 GMT 12
Guinevere gasped and stood quietly when grabbed, clenching her jaw. Then, she frowned. She didn't know why someone such as herself, a simple and discreet Omega, could have her name known by a Hunter of some other Tribe. However, when Mara's hand lay over her swollen stomach, she wanted to scream and kick, and cry and beg to let her go, to not to harm her for she carried a child to be born. But she didn't do anything. She remained calm, even though as nervous as a rabbit being hunt down by a sly vixen.
Before she could, however, deny and make up an excuse, both of them would feel something kick, she'd feel her baby move inside her for the first time. She pratically squealed, ignoring everything around her. Her face shined with a smile that could put angels to shame. She grabbed Mara's hand and moved it over her belly.
"Did you feel that?!", she asked, pratically jumping up and down. "Did you?!", she looked up at Snow-White, with such a happy smile that one would think impossible.
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 1, 2006 9:52:20 GMT 12
Mara's blue eyes grew wide in surprise as she felt the kick but then couldn't help but grin. It was something she hadn't felt before. She'd felt life disappear through a body, watched it drain out of people, but she'd never once felt life in the making. "Yes, I felt that Guinevere. I felt your child"
She watched the hand that held her own and arched an eyebrow. "Maybe you're giving birth to your own personal God now" she said gently. "Don't pray for things that will never come, worship that which you get instead"
Once more she mumbled to herself; "Mother is God in the eyes of a child"
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Post by Nessy on Jul 1, 2006 10:00:33 GMT 12
She bit her lower lip, smiling widely, leaning her back on Mara, placing a hand over her belly, still excited. Guinevere was pretty much crying in joy. The girl nodded at Mara's words, too emotioned to talk at that moment. She brushed some hair behind her ear, looking at her belly without even blinking.
She wiped her tears and then widened her eyes, finally remembering who was there with her. Snow-White. "Please.", she whispered, pushing herself away from her, turning around to face her. "Don't... don't tell anyone. Please, please, not even Mina. Especially Mina and Sven. I... I fear they'll hurt my baby. Please, it's not even for me. It's for my baby.", she knit her eyebrows and placed Mara's hand back to her belly, to emphatise her request.
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 1, 2006 10:09:59 GMT 12
Mara brushed a strand of hair away from Guinevere's face. "I won't tell if they won't ask me, but if Mina would ask, I would not lie" she answered truthfully. "But why would they ask me about a Omega wildcat? Don't worry Guinevere, you're of no concern to them"
She inhaled the scent of the wildcat woman while closing her eyes. "Guinevere once caused the downfall of the mighty King Arthur, who will you destroy?"
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Post by Nessy on Jul 1, 2006 10:26:29 GMT 12
Guinevere knitted her eyebrows together when Mara answered, glancing down, biting softly on her lower lip. "But what if they do?", she asked, rubbing her forehead. She then sighed and crossed her arms, rubbing them nervously. She guessed it couldn't be helped. Blinking, she looked up at Mara surprisedly, looking at her face, confused. She fell in silence for a long time, before clenching her jaw and frowning seriously.
"Anyone who tries to harm my baby.", she glanced away, and then back at her. "I don't care if it's Mina, Sven, if it's the Berserker, if my own Mistress tries, if anyone tries. I'll bring them down to their knees.", she clenched her hands in fists and frowned. "Anyone."
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 6, 2006 7:44:12 GMT 12
"I hardly doubt" Mara began and moved in front of Guinevere, her fingers teasingly trailing her jawline. "Your skills when it comes to protecting your baby, it is, after all, a maternal instinct all us animals share. Yes flickan min, we ARE animals right down to the core ..and with your baby on the way, you just connected your deepest animalistic maternal instinct. Feels nice, doesn't it?"
She tapped a finger to Guinevere's lips. "But, I was actually referring to who you'd destroy from the inside. After all, Guinevere tore the mighty Arthur's heart right from his chest with her pretty little hands and left him bleeding while running to her secret lover Lancelot. The man she wanted to die for. Do you have secrets you'd die to protect, Guinevere?"
EDIT: Flickan min, sort of means baby girl. I don't think there's a direct proper translation into English. And yes, it's in Swedish xP
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Post by Nessy on Jul 12, 2006 9:19:26 GMT 12
"I am, and will be, whatever I need to be to protect my baby.", she hissed through clenched teeth.
Guinevere pulled her head back from Mara's fingers, like an unwilling wolf pulling away from unwanted attention. Those eyes of hers followed the Vampire's movements carefully, clenching her jaws softly. She pulled her chin up, tilting her head a little to the side.
"If I had, would I tell you?", the girl asked, frowning softly, her hands over her swollen stomach. "The only secret I carry has been twice discovered, and I can't die for it; it needs me.", she looked down, to where her hands were. Guinevere looked up at Mara again.
"My baby's father is dead. An... accident. I loved him...", she knitted her eyebrows, but clenched her jaws. She would not break down. Not now, not in front of a Vampire. It had been bad enough in front of a Wildcat, even though she felt no loyalty to them. "But, he's dead, and I have to accept that. For him. Or her.", she smiled a little, looking down again. "I have to protect my baby. These are the people I pray for. A dead man, and a child.", Guinevere sighed and brought her hands up to her forehead. "If Mina finds out... I sense something bad will happen. I'm... going to...", she didn't finish her sentence, instead sitting down on a bench, looking at the broken statue of God's child. "I don't know."
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 17, 2006 4:24:21 GMT 12
"Love" Mara stated, picking out another cigarette from her top and lighting it. "Is nothing but a fool's game. There is always someone pulling the strings, someone being the puppet master"
A thick white cloud of smoke escaped her lips as she studied the other woman slump down on the bench. "Why pray for something that will never come back?" she asked. It was a question out of pure curiosity and Mara studied Guinevere like that of a tiger studying its prey. "How can you do that?"
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Post by Nessy on Jul 19, 2006 1:28:49 GMT 12
"I'm not praying for him to come back. Don't take me for a fool. I am... praying for him to be fine, wherever he might be.", she turned her head to the smoking woman. "I know he won't come back. But he didn't die.", she placed a hand over her stomach and smiled, before shaking her head.
"And love exists. Unless...", she sighed. "Unless you don't believe in it. That's the only way to kill love.", she smiled sadly. Then Guinevere turned her head again to the statue hanging on the wall, falling in silence. But her lips parted again. "Don't come over and tell me that teenage angst crap about love not existing. Everyone finds love, at their time.", she clenched her jaws. "Love is real. Mere teenagers are the only that say that don't exist because they never saw it with their own eyes."
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 21, 2006 5:35:28 GMT 12
Mara took another long drag of her cigarette and stared off into nothin-ness in front of them. "I've watched love eat people alive, it starts as a small virus infecting your insides and develops into a deadly disease. Love doesn't do hostages, it kills you when you're at your weakest just 'cause the puppet master decided it was time to leave. But" she said, then stopping a moment, her eyes returning to Guinevere. "The most dangerous thing there is, is falling head over heels with no one in control. The strings from the lost puppet master will eventually strangle both lovers"
"Haven't you heard all the love songs?" she smirked with a wicked chuckle. "Most of them aren't about 'happily ever after', now are they?"
Then Mara did something unexpected, she kneeled in front of the other woman, cigarette in one hand and the other gently trailing the lightly swollen belly. "My mother once told me something" she mumbled.
"Ett enda ögonblick, just när trasten drar upp den ur jorden, märker masken hur vacker världen är."
Mara looked up from her position on the floor, her frozen eyes staring at the other woman's face. "It means 'that for one short moment, when the bird pulls the worm out of the ground, the worm finally sees how beautiful the world is'. You don't know what beautiful is until you've seen it die" she continued, reaching out her free hand and trailing her fingers along Guinevere's jawline.
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Post by Nessy on Jul 21, 2006 5:50:44 GMT 12
She tipped her head to the side lightly, before sighing, knitting her eyebrows at hearing her, listening to that strange girl that seemed to know no love. That she had only taste the bitter and acid taste of love, and never the center of it. That girl seemed quite broken inside. Like all Vampires. All broken and torn apart, as if something had betrayed them so that their heart had sink into a abyss of darkness, and nothing could pull them out of there.
Guinevere snapped her head to Mara when she kneeled down and pet her belly, tensing a little. Vampires were strange, so strange they were unpredictable. Well, most of the time, they were. She watched her with the eyes of an attentive wolf, and lowered her eyes to her hand, tilting her head up when it came to trail the fingers on her jawline.
"Yes and no. I don't need to see my child to know how beautiful he will be. I don't care. I know... my baby will be beautiful. And I don't need to know you... To know you're broken inside. I can feel it. You are... sad. Lost. Alone. Like a child with no-one to take care of you.", she hesitantly pulled Mara's hand away, laying it on her lap, holding it with almost motherly care with her both hands. "Why are you so dark inside?", she locked her eyes with those of Mara. "What did life brought or took away from you to scar your soul so deeply?"
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Post by Pumah Mistress on Jul 21, 2006 6:00:27 GMT 12
Mara's dark soft lips grew out into a big wide smile and her laughter echoed through out the walls. It wasn't a soft and pleasant laugh, it was hard, rough as if could cut your skin if it brazed you. "Aw, but 'flickan min', unless you're my shrink, which you're not since she's dead, I don't do this kind of talk unless it's pillow talk. And darling, we're not having pillow talk right now, now are we?"
The vampire finished her second cigarette and sighed. "Do you ever miss life before this whole mess happened? Do you miss the things you used to do everyday? I do" she paused and stared up at the roof. "I miss the cold snowy wide open spaces with no human life for miles and miles"
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