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 Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:43 pm
Ike opened the door, only dressed in his boxers and looking absolutely terrified. He was, as promised, covered in various arcs of green arterial spray, beginning about snout-height and traveling down to become leaked smears in his fur collar. He said nothing. He didn't figure he had to.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:46 pm
"Bugger."
Len seized Malachi by the hand and dragged him out of the room, looking over the stains with intense worry.
"Alright. Can't go to my room, everyone's home and they'd hear the shower...there's gotta be a place we can get this off," she said, thinking aloud. "Oh, Bah, I'm glad you're ********, there's no damned public bathrooms 'round here..."
She looked around the hall at the other doors.
"Maybe if we went into one of the unused apartments..."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:47 pm
Ike shook his head.
"You can hear running water through the walls. There's a hose outside." Without another word, he started for the stairs.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:49 pm
Len followed close behind, eyes fixed on the bloodstains. He might as well have painted it on himself. She badly wanted to ask how it had happened, but couldn't bring herself to ask. He'd tell her himself, or not at all.
"I'll help get it off," she said.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:53 pm
Once outside, Ike somehow managed to turn the hose on and walk a good distance off with it, holding it over his head. The blood was stubborn, only fading rather than removing itself entirely.
He waited for Len to approached before speaking quietly. He knew he shouldn't say it, but he felt as if he had to get such things off his chest.
"I slit his throat," he said, "With this." He opened his palm and an oddly jagged light-made dagger appeared briefly.
"He screamed. I didn't think he'd be able to, but he did." He paused, and then added.
"I liked it."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:00 pm
Lenore's jumbled thoughts suddenly ceased. They simply went out of her head.
He'd...liked it?
Eyes attracted to the light, even though it killed her night-vision and left her temporarily squinting to see Malachi, she felt herself almost afraid to look him in the face. She was afraid she'd see him smiling.
"Malachi," she started, purely unsure what to say. "Bah..."
She tried to put it in perspective, to avoid judging him. He was Vampiric. She refused to delude herself about their natures. He was just going by his. Wasn't he?
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:03 pm
Ike was not smiling. He was nearly in tears.
"It's horrible, I know," he said, shivering under the frigid water, "I think it mighta been my mum, yenno? Maybe murder's genetic." he shuddered again, this time not from the water.
"I'm afraid they'll catch me, Len. I don't want to be hanged."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:16 pm
"It ain't!" Len said, suddenly fierce. "It ain't horrible. You did it and now it's done. Isn't anything else than that. They aren't gonna catch you."
She sloshed some of the water over her hands, getting rid of the faint green that had stained the skin when she'd grabbed Ike's own hand.
"No one's gonna hang you," she said, wiping the water away. "Nobody else saw you do it. Right?"
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:19 pm
"They have cameras every few feet," Ike said honestly, "I knew about 'em, and I did it anyway. He shot me, so I killed him. And then I went and bought drugs anyway."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:22 pm
Lenore felt a very out of place sense of relief sweep over her.
"He hurt you first," she said. "Self defense."
Her feathers rattled in distress at the mention of drugs, however. He couldn't possibly have been using them himself, could he? She just couldn't picture it for the life of her.
"Bah, who were the drugs for?" she asked.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:25 pm
"They don't have self-defense in Mei-V--Liam," Ike said, shaking the excess water from his hair and scrubbing at his elbow-fur, "He started coughing blood last night. That's one of the first things that happened when he first got sick."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:34 pm
Len wiped water from her face and eyes, wishing she'd ducked in time to avoid the shake. Her thoughts were jumbled again, a mess of reasoning. Ike was just trying to help someone he loved. He was protecting Liam. He'd protected himself, killing that man. She realized she couldn't find a bad angle to it, now that she had the full story.
"You did what you had to do," she said.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:37 pm
"Len, don't tell anybody," Ike said suddenly, looking up, "No matter what happens to me, promise me you won't tell anybody. We never had this conversation."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:39 pm
"I'll never say a word," Len said. "Ever. I swear."
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:47 pm
~ Part Seventeen ~
There was a meeting being held in the Vavvian town hall of utmost importance. So important, that English words weren't allowed. The first person to speak one would be sentenced to jail time, oh yes.
"We must find this creature and stop it!" the kind yelled from atop the end of the table.
"Brilliant, your majesty!" a female voice cried out. The king's entire panel was, after all, female.
"It has killed one too many men!"
"YES!" came the uproarious cry.
"When it returns, it shall be apprehended!"
"YOUR MASJESTY!" a rather weasley-looking boy called, also in Vavvian, "I have the tapes!" He shoved a disk into a nearby television moniter and, knowing full well he wasn't allowed to stay, ran from the room.
Immediately, a macabre scene played. A short creature in a tophat and jacket, pulling a dagger from the air and slashing the guard's throat. How terrible! How familiar!
"It must be the Gre'al a Sangrie!"
"YES!" the council agreed.
"Maybe it has bred! We saw it with the male! WE SAW IT!"
"YES!"
"IT WILL BE KILLED!"
"YES!"
"Okay." Ooh, English. Too bad. Three months in jail for Daenis.
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