Maggie:
I stood up so quickly from the desk as if the lightning had hit me.
-"Are you done Manny I really need to go" was so nervous the one thing I could hear was tik tok tik tok. Time was over and I broke a rule and I am thinking now what Jack will say or do. I took my sweater with my shaking hands in not waiting for his answer. I was panicking and didn't know what to do now. When he came from his journey? Does he have eyes on my butt? shit, this is soooo bad. I even not dressed properly and he doesn't like when I'm wearing makeup I can't even imagine what he is thinking when he saw me half-naked by Manny.
- "What's so rush Maggie who is burning?" Manny looked confused but then he sniffed the air and his all body tensed. Slowly he turned around from me and looked through a window where was standing Jack. Manny suddenly changed so much that I couldn't help and stare at him. His grey t-shirts almost tore off when his muscles grew stronger, especially his biceps. His sweet brown eyes changed became misty. He was standing here with his harsh chin which was hidden by a beard, his tattoos which covered from his fingers to his neck now made him scary. I didn't notice how he can look so scary because all the time his gaze was so innocent but now something changed. Even his facial features changed.
-"How much am I owing you?" I tried to sound normal but couldn't pretend how nervous I was. But he didn't answer for a moment. Manny?" I asked again him the price, but for real I am asking about his being. Is he still Manny? Of course, he is Manny but also he isn't. He is confusing me so much something is wrong with him but I don't even imagine, if he would be cold I definitely would say he is a vampire he sniffs the air like a vampire, he listens sounds like a vampire, and he has a dark aura around him as a vampire, but he isn't cold, his skin is worm even hot I would say.
-"It is for free..." His eyes never left the window he stood up very very slowly. "Go to look at mirror maybe my job isn't that good as you wanted. The mirror is in the waiting room" His voice was harsh and it slowly was changing more into a deep and darker snarling. What he is talking about? The mirror is here just by my side... I won't go anywhere I need to take Jack away from this place his is burning with fury and everybody around Jack is in danger now, but I know that he would never touch me or hurt me, but Manny, if he is not a vampire he can't protect himself and the last thing I want to see how Jack is killing a person who I like so much, maybe too much, Jack won't control his anger. He definitely will kill him. I know him too well.
I took my bag and went by the door but my hand was grabbed by Manny "-Don't move"does he really just snared like a dog? "don't do any quick movements" He warned me again but now he controlled his voice like a normal people are talking. At the same time, Jack rudely opened the doors with a huge force that the glass crashed into pieces. It covered all ground under Jack's feet. If he could step inside he would do it and Manny would be dead already. I turned my head from Jack to Manny. Then again to Jack. I was breathing hard almost in panic and tears began to show in my eyes. I didn't know what to do or to say they were just fighting with their gaze at each other. And it seems that they both would be old enemies but I know that Jack doesn't know Manny.
-"I really need to go, Manny, I am sorry for the doors we will send you a check." I told him nervously trying just to get out of here and forget everything quickly. This is so bad I tried to take my wrist from his strong hands but he was holding me too tight. He looked into my eyes and raised his one eyebrow. In questioning why I go to somebody so scary who just broke his doors, but he doesn't know that I love Jack and in some way, he is my family, my father, and when I thought that my love isn't normal that I am his daughter, I felt as blood came to my cheeks for the first time but soon paleness came back: the stress was too big now.
"- You know him..." He said in a whisper as if he suddenly would be won a puzzle in his head.
-"Put off your dirty hands from my daughter! you disgusting Rogue." Jack hissed soo loudly at Manny that my heart jumped almost from my body. He is showing himself in full his from. Is he crazy? and what the hell does mean Rogue? Is it a new insult from his old times? Better words than actions I thought.
-"Daughter? are you fucking serious?" he almost laughed through his snarling. It is not a surprising reaction Jack is too young to have me as a daughter he was 28 when he was turned into a vampire and I am 20, "Common Shadow, I need you" About what shadow he is talking about? Manny whispered almost without moving his lips but I still could hear it as good as Jack's hard breathing and dripping blood from his fists his nails broke his skin, but it doesn't matter to him he all the time do this when he is in huge stress. Especially when he is hungry he is hurting himself. One day I asked if it hurts and why he is doing that. And he answered that it is hurting more than a knife stocked to humans body and it is burning enormously bad but the pain reminds him what he is. And I should be worried when he will not feel pain anymore. I never understood what it meant he never explained or talked about it.
-"Manny I need to go, please ". I said in pleading eyes but he gazed at me with so much hate when I said those words.
-"You are his blood wore arent you?" His words were a knife to me, I don't know why but it hurts more than my friends would say that I am bitch, it hurts so much that I couldn't stop my tears from dropping. I wanted to hit him from anger but he watched my hand and it never touched his cheek. My anger and embarrassment were growing with every second. He knew who was Jack, maybe because he is the same dead one as Jack is. Maybe some vampires look more like a human how should I know Jack forbade me to learn about creatures like him, he is keeping me in a bobble and thinks that it is best for me. But it's choking me too much.
-"I fucking kill you". Jack showed his smile with his fangs suddenly he became relax and it scared me more. He was smiling at Manny and threatening to kill him, it made Manny angrier his breathing became chaotic from it. Manny left my hand and stepped a few steps to Jack. My hand was with bruises from his strong and hurtful holding. But I quickly ran through Manny that he won't come near Jack and we would pass out for his sight. As soon as I was by the door Jack forcefully grabbed my hand and pushed me to himself that I fell on his hard as a stone chest. His smell was so strong when I was near him and I couldn't help but felt goosebumps all over my body, he smelled like winter. As a cold evening with snow, so fresh so toxically good.
He was still looking at Manny and now his eyes darkened, even more, there wasn't left any light in it, any color just darkness, he looked more like a devil without pupils. Jack hugged me for a second in a protective way and I couldn't help but raise my head from his chest to his black eyes. I never saw him so angry so scary. Even his veins around his eyes became black, it was like ink which from where it traveled to his eyes, his skin paler than ever his long hair was flying together with the wild wind. The danger and all his strange stuff were exciting me with lust, I couldn't help but when he was protecting me with his vampire form I wanted to jump on him and made him mine. He looked at me with his gaze as if he would check all my body parts, carefully his gaze traveled up and down and I thought does he see any color on me for now, or just it is white and black for him as for animals. My heart as raising up and down I never saw his full form and this devil was as sexy as hell.
I was overwhelmed by his gaze so protective so angry and soft at the same time. He was tall so my head was raised up a little bit. He took my hand looking straight into my eyes and suddenly turned me around that my back was faced to him, he did it so quickly that I couldn't react in the proper way, my eyes were wide from surprise but what he did next, was the most humiliating action.
He teared up my clothes into pieces with one move. I covered myself with my hands and began to sobbing violently I looked into his black eyes which hadn't have any emotions. Why did he do that? why he ripped my clothes at night in the street? He looked into my back into my new tattoo, I turned my head to him I couldn't help but cry more and more. Then he hit me with his palm to my face. It was hurting so much that my face soon became red. But for me was hurting more my mental state than my physical. To live with a vampire is hard especially with his attitude but he was a gentleman he acted like one and he never humiliated me in past. How could he? How could he raise his hand? I looked to the ground where the glass was laying with my image on it. It was blurry maybe from my tears and when I looked into it something changed. Something really changed. I looked at Jack again no more tears from me just anger from the embarrassment, and his eyes turned lighter, he was also surprised by what he did but soon he took again his cold mask and for the first time it didn't bother me anymore.
-"Are you fucking serious You came here to mark yourself as a slave! " He was yelling at me but I stood there without voice only with gritted teeth. I made a tattoo thinking of him thinking of my secret love, thinking of my dead mother, thinking that I am alone in this world. And he called me a slave because I was healing my heart in the way I knew. I was lost and he wasn't there, he came now and hurting me on my birthday. Can't, he just let me do what I want for one night. Who else I will be tonight? For now, I am whore, slave, and that is my birthday gift from them. Best birthday ever I thought sarcastically. It would be more fun if I wouldn't be born at all. Those two men somehow managed to hurt me. To hurt my feelings, me proud, all me. And all I did just wanted to live. And I was punished because of my life.
Manny steps a foot out of the room. I turned my head to him with shock and huge eyes because of the fear. He isn't protected anymore. He is outside! Jack now can reach him easily. Jack didn't wait and grabbed Manny by his grey T-shirts and opened his mouth widely in trying to rip his throat. Manny struggled but of course, he hasn't any chance. I saw Jacks' saliva and ran to Manny's side. I managed to put myself between them and tried to push him away. They both stopped fighting when they heard how I screamed.
-"AAAA. Stop it. F. A. T. H. E. R!" I said the word with a grudge and disgust. I was never calling him father until now. Some days I playfully called him Jackie or daddy but he forbid me to call him that. It made me laugh how he reacted to my teasing when I was smaller. I liked to do some pranks when I was younger in that time he was softer so I did little stuff or said some words which made him feel uncomfortable, it was only this one emotion from him but I was happy that at least that could be shown from him to me, I knew that it was hard for him to act in a soft way. So I was very patient I knew he loved me just didn't know how to show me. But now, I don't care about him anymore, I care just for a time as I tried to be a good girl and what he did was to distance himself from me. If I could bring my time I would never listen not at least his one word.
-"If you want to kill him then you must go through me. If he dies I will die too!" I screamed to him. and it worked, he stepped a few steps away from us, his eyes again black and wide. I don't know where that courage came to me but the good girl just died today. And he will deal with that.
-" Fucking touch her again and I will rip your fucking fangs." Jack's eyes were pulsing from anger when Manny threatened him. What a prince he wants to save a whore.
-"She isn't yours." Jack hissed through his teeth. And no more yours I thought. "You are nothing here." Jack smiled again "you even weren't using your animal, you don't have it anymore, do you? He laughed and I couldn't understand what they are talking about.
-"The girl stays with me." Manny said in a loud voice in ignoring Jack. if he would able to give some orders to Jack. And Jack's answer was laughing. I never heard so much laughter from him in all years as I do now.
-"Maggie go to the car, now!" Jack ordered me in his eyes a fare just for a moment, I saw it. How he would react if I would say that I'm not going anywhere with him. I turned to Manny looked at him took my hand on his hot chest he was all burning. How the dead one can be so hot?
-"Don't fight with him " I said without any emotions. I won't beg anymore or won't ask anybody for something but also I will not be responsible for his death. He tried to touch my hand but I quickly put it away from him. Nobody will hurt me anymore. "-Don't touch dirty whore you can dirt your hands," I said sarcastically to him and then went to Jack's black dodge. Jack was following me, behind my back.
"-Put your seatbelt!" Jack angrily ordered when opened the door and sat in the driver seat with gritted teeth and his still black eyes.
-"I'm good." I didn't look at him only looked through my door's window and in the mirror, I saw when another man came near Manny, he was the same man whom Manny did a wolf tattoo on his back, they looked familiar but Manny had a blond hair and other man had black and he hadn't a beard as Manny's. But Jack with his quick speed took my seatbelt and locked it with my body. He moved so fast and with so much anger that I jumped in surprise from it. I hate when he is doing that.
- "He isn't even your mate and you are protecting him as he would be your life". Jack murmured silently he thought that I couldn't hear him but I could. He was crushing the wheeling nervously. I knew that Jack was romantic his understanding of love life was soulmates. I knew that he loved my mother maybe he was thinking that she was his soulmate and we are together with Manny.
-"How long you are seeing him?!" Jack's voice was loud and harsh but I didn't answer him.
-" Are you fucking him"? his veins moved around his eyes making them black even more. I turned to him with wide eyes for the first time I heard those words which suddenly now escaped from his lips. I never saw him in that way angry and lost, I forgot what he did to me this night, his suddenly changing emotions made me confused. Was he jealous? He sounded like a jealous boyfriend, no it can't be. I Still didn't say anything to him just stare with a raised eyebrow.
-"He is not worth you" He continued and pushed the car with a huge speed.
"Just a fucking rogue."Maggie:I stood up so quickly from the desk as if the lightning had hit me.-"Are you done Manny I really need to go" was so nervous the one thing I could hear was tik tok tik tok. Time was over and I broke a rule and I am thinking now what Jack will say or do. I took my sweater with my shaking hands in not waiting for his answer. I was panicking and didn't know what to do now. When he came from his journey? Does he have eyes on my butt? shit, this is soooo bad. I even not dressed properly and he doesn't like when I'm wearing makeup I can't even imagine what he is thinking when he saw me half-naked by Manny.- "What's so rush Maggie who is burning?" Manny looked confused but then he sniffed the air and his all body tensed. Slowly he turned around from me and looked through a window where was standing Jack. Manny suddenly changed so much that I couldn't help and stare at him. His grey t-shirts almost tore off when his muscles grew stronger, espe
I couldn't believe what Jack did to Rose. He washed her brains. Did he ever had done that with me too? He could manipulate me whenever he wants and I wouldn't know that... It was so easy to do to him this.-"What is wrong with you today?" Jack came to the house after me, he closed the doors with annoyance. -"What is wrong to me, what is wrong to you?" I asked with a surprised look and my voice with a little bit too loud.-"You don't seem very happy to see me around". Jack crossed his arms on his chest his black eyes were gone, now there were dark blue eyes. He looked almost like a human. In his eyes, I could see hurt. What does he expect? How I should react when he is acting in that way. I didn't know what to say to him so there was left only silence for some seconds.-" You almost are never at home, do you think that all my life I will be waiting for you and crying in a hugging with Hope?" Hope is our cat he is very old but also he is my best friend. I don't re
-" You have sold me."It was the last words I could say to him. -"No I gave you him for free." He said easily but his words were now difficult to understand.I felt as my all hairs on the body stood up in one moment. My eyes became blurry suddenly I felt dizzy and couldn't hear what he is saying to me anymore, but then something changed. Quickly my vision became better, better than ever, my hearing became louder. My mind was working as clear as I remember, I knew that I can control my mind, I felt huge power on me. It made me feel good, strong, powerful. Jack was still talking, he was breathing to my face with his words. It was a knife to me but I understood everything, should it work in that way? soon I should forget everything? But I don't feel in that way as Rosemary was. I feel too good, did she feel the same? I am standing here still keeping his gaze, and feeling the connection to our minds, that power which he is sending through me, but it doesn't scare me anymore, i
The water was burning but it relaxed me. My mascara was all over my face so I reclined my head which was so heavy from my thoughts. When Jack was at home I never did my makeup because he said that my mother was naturally beautiful. He didn't understand why other girls put something on their faces. When Jack was out Mascara was my best friend. I took red lipstick. Yoyo's present for me, I never used it it is so bright. Jack would say that red lips make girls vulgar. I covered my lips with that wonderful color.It was strange now to touch my short hair when all my life it was long. Jack loved my long hair he said that my mother had the same just a little bit darker. He said that she was pure, sweet, strong, smart, and stupid at the same. I don't know why he thought in that way but he was smiling when he talked about her, so I suppose her stupidy was cute for him. All my life I tried to be like her but I never was enough. I never felt too good, too talented too sensitive, or
before 16 years agoJack's point of view:-"How long have you been watching me?" Lilliana suddenly asked me in a calm voice. She looked at me and waited for my answer.-"How long you know that I was watching you?" I was avoiding answering and looked away at the way I was driving. Instead of giving her information about me, I asked more about her. She narrowed her eyes and when she felt uncomfortable she was stroking that thing on her laps. I hate animals especially for those who I needed to rescue and to risk my own safety. This is my first saved animal so I hate as well as care for it because of Lilly. But I can't lie it was fun to kill those men, I can't remember when I had so much fun.- "Do you all the time answering with another question?" I couldn't help and smiled, she was smart.-"Not for a long time." I finally answered her first question. She won't give up until I will answer for her, would she? She a stubborn as well. I don't know why I was so o
Before 16 years.Jack's point of view:Her heart was beating loudly but I almost couldn't hear it from my anger. She couldn't breathe because of her panic attack, but I couldn't leave her. For fucks sake, she has Maggie. I want her pain I want to feed myself with her fear, slowly and patiently I will play with her last seconds of life. I didn't notice how Lilliana came from this women's house with a baby in her arms. I was so concentrated on my anger and didn't notice that she took her opportunity to go inside her room and take a child. A cat was left mewing on the floor. Not so far my leg.-"Jack please leaver her". I couldn't hear her pleading, the grudge was too strong. She threatened them and insulted my Lilliana. I don't want that fat pig would die I want that she would suffer. But Maggie began to cry and my sense came back to me. The grudge couldn't let me see that she was safe now in her mother's hands... The kid was still sleepy, with one hand she sc
After 16 years:Maggie point of view:We drove like we were crazy, we sang, screamed, and just loosed our hair. She had shown me in the car her clothes one after another.-"Cute blue dress, black little classic or as always jeans and t-shirts?" Susan was asking she always prepared for me jeans because she knew that for me what was most comfortable was my perfect zone. I never had listened when she advised dressing more challengingly. But she still carried for me those all stuff, she never lost hope of making change my mind. Oh, she had everything! and always was prepared to look her best. She all the time was caring with her a huge bag full of makeup and other girlish stuff. She even had their hair curling-tongs. That girl could be easily any girl's stylist she loved to make perfect dolls of the girls. I have to agree that she was perfect for what she was doing but she also annoyed me because I didn't care about girlish things which she suggested to me every time...It
The music was so loud that I had to cover my ears my head began to spin. Sus came near me and was putting her hand on my back in supporting me from my pain. I heard too many voices, too much music, too much screaming, even my vision began to blur. But soon everything came normal again. My hearing adapted slowly by all voices.-"Hey are you ok baby?" Sus asked me with worry voice, but still, it was too loud for my ears her voice gave pain to my head.-" Uh, y..es can you...umm just speak a little bit quieter?" I was breathing quickly and hard, my hands became sweaty and they were shaking so I made them into a fist and kept all my strength to keep myself quietly. I tried to keep them steady on a table, my lowered head looked at people; there weren't many of them by this empty table in a corner of the club, but still, some looked, at me strangely. I lowered my head and closed my eyes. Then I opened it, but so many lights made me feel dizzy and some smokes began to b
- I was almost naked, only with his jacket, he even said, I have to take off my bra because he could smell Sus on me. Firstly I hesitated, but after some seconds of his annoying gaze, I did what he said. He was acting like Jack. As a vampire, but I was so sure he wasn't one of them. I was sure he wasn't normal as well too, he was strange and more than that... But I couldn't understand his secrets, who he was, or from where he came. And from where he knows everything... for example how he knows so well how to hide from a vampire... he is acting like a not normal person like he would be crazy, and he looks like a crazy person, well I have to add, smartly scary crazy person. doesn't care what others might think about him. Only a fool could say to him that he looks a little bit stupid but I don't think anybody would have so much courage and say this directly into his eyes.He managed to keep himself calm but still serious, sometimes he looked through the mirror at me bu
Maggy's point of view: -"Where we are going?" I asked with a voice full of worries and anxiety. was it a good idea to go with him? He didn't answer me...His eyes are all the time on the road, sometimes an old man looks at me from the mirror. His gaze travels to me more and more often. I began to feel somehow unsafe. With this feeling, my hands tried to hug me and cover my body from his eyes. Sus's dress doesn't help me at all. It shows my body more than I wish... That confidence which I had when I went to the club is far away what I feel now. What if he is some of old creeper or raper or even worse...one of a psychopath. His look is strange... Nobody is wearing that cap on nowadays, well not in his age...at least not in a city, well maybe in a village, in Texas... Hmm, how psychopath looks? I heard that they look like normal people, maybe one of those quiet persons... You know, those men with glasses and a kind smile, who are slim, and not physically st
Maria's point of view:-"I can't believe she did that. It is officially, Maggie went crazy." I watched her back, she even didn't turn around, not for a glance, she just left so easily. Her friends don't matter to her at all. I am not surprised, she is selfish, all the time was in that way.She was hiding a vampire and we still suggested our help... Especially YoYo. And what she did? she ran away like a coward. She could have stayed, I would have convinced grandma to let her stay, and it seems... after Baba heard Maggie's mother's name, her attitude changed so quickly. Baba knew Maggies's mother. It is so clear. I'm so curious about their prehistory. But it is not time for tales...I looked at YoYo, he was all frozen, angry, with so many emotions mixed in his face. His hand brushed his black hair like he was tired or unhappy because Maggie never listens to him. Sometimes I think this is the reason why he is so in love with her. But when I arguing with him h
After 16 years: Maggie's point of view: -"We don't have time for this, he is fast I already can sense him. We must go, now." Stranger's voice sounded authorial but also with a fear... does he afraid of Jack? Of course, he does. Who wouldn't? Even if he sounds worried and still his voice sends chills down my skin. I looked at an old man, he went off from his shadows through YoYo and stopped near me with Baba. finally, I could see his face. His eyes were directed to me if nobody would exist anymore, not even time or people, just me and an old man. He had a beard of two weeks and grey hair, he looked like 60 years old and still he was very handsome. He wasn't tall or very muscular, but his body looked strong, even if it was hidden by a suit, I still felt, he wasn't weak. -"You better go home, old man." YoYo threatened, he took from his sleeve a knife, it was long, almost like a sword. How the hell he carried it all the time there? And why he carries a knif
After 16 years: Maggie's point of view: -"What? this is....it...it is nothing like that." I was struggling with my words and thoughts, he has that power... to shut me up. My cheeks began to burn. YoYo is talking like a jealous boyfriend, what is wrong with him he began to act so weirdly lately. Sus is his sister, not me." and about what werewolf are you talking this isn't funny YoYo, it is no time to make fun of me." I felt irritated. I know that my world can look funny for him but it is not my fault I grew with a vampire. It is not a joke for me. Yoyo came nearer me his hands touched my cheek. His dark eyes tried to read my mind even without vampires abilities. He is good at reading people's soles and thoughts. -"That man... He sighed." A blond, arrogant, smartass punk," he began and I raised my one eyebrow. Yes, Manny, he left not a very good first impression, but why he is talking about him now? he isn't involved all in this mess? he is just angry be
- " Long, long time ago, when there weren't cars, phones or electricity, in the world there was a land and it was a very dark place to live." Sniff, sniff, she breathed her watering nose. Lilliana brushed her tears with her elbow and at the exact moment, her tears were imbibed by her sweater. She smiled at Maggie in pretending that she isn't sad at all. Was she sad because of me? I lowered my body under her balcony I had to hear her voice. For almost three weeks I didn't see her. It is harder than I thought: to keep my distance away from her. Her skin was so pale. She had circles under her eyes I think she lost some weight too. And still, she is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. But if I have to keep my distance in saving her life I will do it, no matter what pain it costs for me. " There wasn't much food, winters were cold and long, summers were hot and dry. There were more hungry mouths than the land could feed them. Do you know why the world became so dark
This was difficult. I didn't like this new feeling, again. The feeling of heavily. I took one more step away from my Lilliana. One step away from worth to be hers. I watched Vince's face, he was so serious. He didn't know where we were going and what he must do for me. But he definitely suspected that this job won't be clean. I'm curious how strong he hates me? Now he is addicted because of my poison. I noticed how he pressed a wheel in trying not to show me how bad were shaking his hands. I can feel how his soul is calling me. He wants my poisons but he is strong and still doesn't beg me to bite him. I'm curious how strong he can keep... But he will never be as before and he knows that even if he can't understand the power which is keeping to listen to me, to serve me. His all life changed, he hasn't his life anymore. It belongs to me. He can't talk, he hasn't a tongue. And of course, it is also my fault. I never thought that I will
Before 16 yearsJack point of view:Bang! Vince's doors almost broke when I closed them angrily behind my back. I was breathing hard as if I had a marathon, but I wasn't tired. I was furry. How she can act so calm when she sees a death standing by her side. How could I think that I can save her when I am the most dangerous thing for her. How I could think that she can save me.Vince's eyes grew wide when he saw my dark face covered with blood. I took off my black hoody and showed myself to him.- " I need you" Vince, I breathed heavily the words with a husky tone. But I didn't say his name loudly. It sounded more in my head than from my mouth. And I didn't like the way I heard my voice in my mind... Like asking for help, and not as an order.My voice calmed him from the view of my dirty clothes and face. The master's orders are more important than his confusion or his fear of what is happening. Of what happened to me and what is waiting
Jak's point of view:Before 16 years ago:I don't have any doubts that she would do anything to protect Maggie. Lilliana's eyes are full of fire, full of life and confidence. And still, if she would say his name it would be easier to find him and kill him but she doesn't talk about him and blames me for not talking.-"You were saying that you felt different from others. I can't understand. You are human. " She doesn't know what curse of mine made me change into "different" not only physically but also and mentally, I lost all my feelings, I lost almost all memories of how to feel. She sat on her sofa again and put her legs on it too in making her feel more comfortable. I watched all her moves and her dress made to see me more than I should. She has beautiful legs and my demons began to play with my venom. I turned my face in another direction.-"You wouldn't understand." I looked at her, these words irritated me but I must be patient she is just a h