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Yuurei was furious. Absolutely furious. She didn’t remember ever being so mad in her life. They had just returned from the Nao house where Lucia had ATTACKED Prajna. Again! After telling her that she would be good! After she said she would apologize for the last time! They had gone into the home and Lucia seemed perfectly fine! And then she attacked it! Ridiculous. It was lucky that the guardians were there to interrupt it, otherwise who knows what would have happened. That was it. ”I’m calling Kyou! I don’t know what the hell is up with you this time, but you must be sick or something again.” Kyou would be called. She didn’t care how mad Lucia was. This was something she couldn’t handle on her own.

Finally! How long did it take her? The week of the puppy, another few days of this, and her physically assaulting another raevan, but at least she had a ******** clue now. Brian racked Lucia’s mind for Dr. Kyou. Who the hell was that? He found signs of distrust – but the frei was happy this doctor would be called. This wasn’t acceptable. Well, she wasn’t very useful to him anymore, he thought as he grabbed the nearest heavy item: a old heavy vase. ”Don’t touch - that ******** phone.” Lucia’s face had a snarl that she had never made before. She was staring at her guardian with eyes full of hatred and anger.

Yuurei looked over at Lucia, startled. Her voice was different, huskier, deeper, and very aggressive. What was going on? Well, children weren’t to be listened to. Especially when they spoke like that and acted like she did. The blonde picked up her cell phone and searched for the lab’s contact information, ignoring the veiled threat from the frei.

Lucia was screaming internally. Brian was going to hurt Yuu just as she figured out something was wrong! No no no no no nononononono!!!!!!!!!! Brian roughly grabbed the wrist of the hand holding the cell phone and jerked it up and down violently. The phone slipped out of her hand and onto the floor as the contact rested on Ty and began dialing the phone number. Brian squeezed her wrist harder, with a strength Lucia wouldn’t have been able to possess. Nononononono!!! Yuurei’s screaming cries only made him laugh, but the hand holding the vase was shaking in anger. You’re going to kill your guardian he thought, the strange smile could be seen even through her crazy laughter as Lucia began panicking even more. NO!!! This was great, he thought. Not only did he get to cause panic and hurt in another, but he got to hear and FEEL Lucia’s panic.

The blonde pulled her arm out of the frei’s grasp with a hard jerk. Looking at her wrist she could already see the purple marks forming where her finger had grasped. Before she knew what happened, the woman felt a huge impact against the side of her face and felt splitting pain as her eye immediately swelled up and she looked at the frei to see her laughing more and more. That’s not her laugh…she almost sounds like she’s sobbing. Something was wrong. Something was very very wrong as all she could think as the woman tried to scramble away from her attacker, her charge, as she screamed.

But Luica, with Brian’s strength and agility, was too fast for the woman. Lifting the vase over her head, the kitten’s eyes were narrow, focused, and she was laughing the sobbing sound. Brian tensed the frei’s muscles, feeling the burning sensation as her muscle pulled and he used a strength more than her weak body could take. But this pain only excited him and he laughed more at the frei’s internal whimpering. Without any warning to the owner of his body or his victim, Brian slammed the vase down on Yuurei’s skull and laughed as the woman collapsed on the floor with a soft fading cry.

Lucia began to panic as she felt herself attack her guardian and as she saw Yuurei’s body crumble beneath the blow. The vase in her hands cracked and she watched as Brian turned it over and giggled at the blood stain on it. Tossing what was left of the old vase aside, Lucia wanted to scream as she saw the dark red liquid seeping through blonde hair, staining it and slowly spreading outward. NO! Brian had killed Yuurei! The woman wasn’t moving and blood seemed to be pouring out of her, spreading into her hair and onto the floor. She had killed Yuurei! Good job, Lucia. You just became a murderer.

Lucia knew Brian was asleep, but she couldn’t rest. She had killed Yuurei. Yuurei was dead and it was her fault. What was going to happen to her? She would go to jail. But she didn’t do it! Would Kyou kill her? Would he mark her as an experiment gone wrong? She didn’t want to die; she didn’t want to go back to that world. But maybe, if Kyou could find her, maybe he should kill her to stop Brian, to stop her from hurting anyone else. He had set the alarm for late – 11 PM and it was 10:59. How he had access to her mind and thoughts she didn’t understand, but he was able to emulate every subtlety and reproduce every thought. He knew more about her than she did.

The digital numbers flashed to 11:00 in an instant and her iPod began playing some sort of rap song he had downloaded. She wanted to reach over and turn it off before he woke up, but even when he was asleep she was still pushed into the back of her mind without any control. She was cramped and claustrophobic as she felt Brian wake up. The frei stopped thinking whenever she could. The more silent she was, the less often he taunted her.

Damn straight. And the less you ******** think, the less you ******** bother me. He floated upright, and checked Lucia’s looks. He was getting a bit more used to fixing her hair and makeup, which was definitely awkward at first. This time, he thought, Lucia would remember the events. He pulled her hair out of the pigtails so it fell in soft waves around her shoulders. Heavy mascara and eyeliner framed her purple eyes and her lips were painted a dark red. Brian had used all the padding Lucia had to boost her cup size and enhance her cleavage. Tossing on the leather jacket he had found in Lucia’s closet, he grabbed the switchblade and put it in the jacket pocket as she floated out into downtown Barton for the nightlife.

Friday night and the town was busy, he noted, as he floated down the busy streets. A coffee shop girl was his first kill since getting back in the swing of things. Yuurei was the second. Now he was looking for the next. The stabbing of the coffee shop girl had just fed his desire for blood.

He had dressed the frei as sexy as a bust-up creature could be. He floated along, looking for a hangout he had frequented when alive – a bar full of drunk, stoned, and high people. Some were looking for love, some were looking for sex, some were just looking for the next hit, but all would be easy to lure. The dive was busy and seedy as ever with a half-lit Corona sign and the smell of stale beer, piss, and vomit right outside, he couldn’t imagine the typical sweaty smell inside would be much better.

Pulling open the door, he was surprised at the amount of bodies in the room. The place was packed as the DJ’s music made the bar boom. Those by the door turned to look at Brian as he entered; he, by now, was getting use to the looks he got (both skeptical at the lack of lower body and smoldering with desire at the look of the upper body). He flashed a smile at the bartender and ignored any guys’ calls for getting him a drink. Tonight, Brian had a specific kind of prey in mind.

He danced Lucia’s body through the crowd of bodies moving in time to the beat of the music. Then he saw it. A young couple – male and female – were scoping out her body and watching her dance their way toward them. The guy was fairly good looking, but a little too rough around the edges to be able to get the girl he was with other than having been together since high school or being together for the drugs. The girl was pretty and moved her body against his in a way that showed they had definitely had sex before. She was pushing all of his buttons, but he was calling all of the shots. When he saw Lucia he leaned in to whisper to his girl, his lips brushing against her ear and neck as he spoke, but his eyes never left the frei as she danced.

Brian knew that without hips to roll, an a** to shake nor abs to show off, he had to work the boobs, arms, shoulders and face. In time to the music he would lift Lucia’s arms above her head, slide them down the sides of her breasts and move her shoulders. He would suck one of her long slender fingers into her mouth suggestively and smile at the pair.

With a swift move, the guy was behind the kitten, dancing against what body he could while Brian leaned Lucia’s body back against him. ”Hi, sexy” he said with a giggle as the guy’s girlfriend moved in front of her. The trio danced as a sandwich for a while before the couple began kissing back and forth, and then each began kissing Lucia too. Both of their lips tasted Lucia’s firm ones as the boy’s hands traveled both on Lucia and on his girlfriend.

Inside of herself, Lucia was disgusted. She couldn’t believe these people, this bar, or Brian. She wanted to disinfect her body. She wanted out of her own body, just to get this to end. Kissing like this wasn’t fun. She felt violated as she was forced to feel her lips against the girl’s and guy’s. As both of their hands were on her body she felt like she was being raped. Of course they didn’t know this. For all they knew she was coming onto them and it was all mutual. Only Brian knew how violated the frei felt.

Brian only smiled at Lucia’s complaints. If he wasn’t already planning on playing with these people, he’d give them what they wanted, just to make the frei agonize. Instead he leaned towards the girl’s ear. He kissed her neck, slowly sucking gently as Lucia mouth trailed up to the girl’s ear. ”We should get out of here.” Purple eyes showed with a different kind of excitement than the couple suspected as the girl indicated to her boyfriend and they left, together through the front door. The couple was obviously drunk and high on something, but Brian didn’t care. ”Do you guys live close?” he asked as they nodded and lead her to their apartment down the street.

They were definitely on something, Brian thought as he went through their door and saw pipes and even a few needles. As the girl – Alice – went into the bathroom to freshen up, Brian grabbed the switchblade out of Lucia’s purse and flicked it open. He took the briefest of seconds to admire the shine of the silvery blade before he stabbed the neck of the man and sliced across his throat. He couldn’t have him making all sorts of noise to alert Alice.

He had caught the kid off guard and he just kind of plopped to the ground, blood pouring out of his neck as his jugular was sliced. Wiping off his blade on the kid’s shirt, Brian relished, the situation and began giggling. The knife was sharp so it was so easy. Just a quick stab and a flick of the wrist. The knife slid so easily through the soft flesh. It hardly took a beat as it cut through thick tendons as if they were butter. The blood just began sliding out and down his body as more arteries and veins were sliced until Brian hit the man’s jugular. Then the warm dark red liquid poured over Lucia’s hand as Brian released the man and he fell dead to the floor. Lucia’s screaming only made her giggle more. Shut up, Frei. If you thought that was great, just wait until you get a chance relish it. Oh Alice is going to be such a wonderful plaything.

Lucia floated towards the bathroom after rinsing the blood off of her hand in the kitchen sink. The silvery switchblade was back hidden in her purse. The frei bit her lip around a smile and opened the bathroom door without knocking. There was Alice, standing only in a bright red bra and underwear next to the toilet. In her mouth was a thin glass pipe and she was holding a lighter over the ball of crack at the end of it. Turning to Lucia, she began giggling a high-pitched breathy giggle. ”Try this! It’s the best. And ********’ while high – s**t – it’s the best.” Ignoring the fact that she didn’t have the necessary parts to accomplish that, Brian floated over and pressed Lucia’s lips against Alice’s, her tongue flicking against the kitten’s before he took the pipe between the frei’s lips. Killing will be “the best” while high, he thought so the frei could hear him.

No! I don’t want to do that s**t! No!! Just looking at how shitty Alice looked under the harsher light of the bathroom away from the darkness of the bar. Her eyes were sunken and glassy. She looked like she really needed a shower and a meal. No! she yelled as Alice held the lighter to the end of the pipe and Lucia’s lungs expanded with an inhale.

The frei held in the breath, as long as she could before breathing it out with a sob-like giggle. Nothing could harm her. She could do anything and it would be fine. And she would do everything. The kitten floated forward to Alice and slid her arms around the neck of the crack whore. Alice leaned forward first, pushing her dry lips against Lucia’s. The frei’s hand slipped to the back of her beck as she kissed back, her torso pushing against the brunette’s body. Alice took another hit from the pipe as the small crack and then only residue was left. Lucia was now hyper. Her grip on the girl’s neck got tighter and tighter. But Alice didn’t care. ”Let’s go to the bedroom,” she said leading the frei with her body.

As soon as they were in the bedroom – a quick right once out of the bathroom, the girl got loose from Lucia’s hold as the frei broke into sobbing giggles and Alice lay on her back on the unmade double bed. She was giggling and jumping around on the mattress. Lucia, on the other hand, pulled the switchblade out of her purse and climbed on the bed by Alice.

The kitten didn’t know what was going on. She was happy and giggling and horrified and hyper and indestructible. She knew there was cold metal in her hand, but she didn’t care. She wasn’t focusing on her outside world or on the fact that she had just killed a man and was probably going to kill this woman. Her world was amazing and she could do anything.

It seemed that the frei had gotten most of the high, Brian thought, which was just fine with him. While alive Brian had used all sorts of drugs recreationally, but had never gotten hooked to anything. Maybe because he took everything out in his playtime. But the frei was a much more pleasant host when she wasn’t screaming. He floated up to Alice and took her face in his free hand. The girl still didn’t notice the blade in his hand. He squeezed her face with Lucia’s hand harder and harder until Alice cried out in pain. ”Shut up, b***h” Sparks said as he pushed Alice down onto her back, his hand still squeezing her face.

Lifting up the knife that had just killed her boyfriend, he drew it slowly and lightly across her cheek. A thin red line of blood budded from the thin slice he made and a burst of scream erupted from Alice’s mouth. ”Shut up or I’ll cut out your tongue” he said quietly, threateningly, and a silent whimpering was replaced by the wail. Readjusting his grip on the switchblade in Lucia’s hand, Brian slowly stabbed between two of Alice’s ribs right below her bra and left breast. The knife sunk into her lung and a gurgling sound replaced the whimper. Pulling the blade slowly out, Brian watched the beauty of the warm dark red liquid seeping slowly out of the wound.

He moved the knife below Alice’s sternum and slid the knife to the hilt, right into her liver. Brian giggled excitedly as he pulled the blade out, and again, the blood seeped out of the wound. Alice was trying to scream, but her left lung was filling with blood, so every breath was like she was being stabbed again. Brian moved the knife to the symmetrical location on the other side of her rib cage and pierced the other lung. Alice’s breathing sped up faster and became more and more shallow as her eyes glossed over further.

From the cut below her sternum, Lucia slipped the knife in it again and slid it down slicing through her stomach and into her intestines. The light faded from Alice’s eyes as Brian stabbed her torso over and over again. Lucia was covered in Alice’s blood as he slowly stopped the thrusts of his knife.

Leaning over Alice’s face, Brian smiled that mad smile and giggled. He pressed Lucia’s lips fully against the girl’s and giggled as she got up, quickly took a hot shower, and left the apartment locked behind her. It would be time to move, he thought. Another motel room in another area and then…more fun.

Ty had thankfully gotten clearance for an international flight and, after packing and turning away Hailey, he had flown to Gambino International Airport – the smaller terminal for individually owned jets and planes and got a taxi to Yuurei’s house. Paying with some gold he had exchanged at the airport, Ty pushed his hair out of his eyes and slipped out of the car with his suitcase. She had better have a good reason for calling him screaming and not picking up the phone. It was summer in Australia. And that was the way he liked it. Here it was winter and there was snow on the ground.

Ty stepped up to the front door and put his suitcase down as he pressed the doorbell. He heard it ring, but there was no answer, and Rei’s car was in the driveway. ”Rei!” he called out. No answer. Thankfully half of the main floor was windows so Ty walked along the porch. He couldn’t see anything in the entryway, so he moved to the left, kicking aside the small piles of snow that had been blown under the porch’s roof. He glanced in the study, but it was dark and the doors were closed.

Making his way around the house, Ty wished he had realized just how cold the weather here was. He would have worn jeans without any rips, and more than just a zip-up hoodie. Slipping his hands in his pockets, he glanced at the bathroom window, with the light off, and looked through the kitchen windows at the empty room. Damn this house is big, he thought continuing on. She better ********’ be home.

He glanced in at the empty dining room, but his heart skipped a beat as beyond that he saw a mess of blonde hair on the floor. He broke into a sprint towards the rear entrance – the sliding glass doors. Rei was there, in a pool of blood. ******** ******** ********! he thought as he pulled on the locked slider. Looking around in a panic he grabbed the metal table an empty planter was resting on and didn’t hear the sound of the clay breaking as he pulled back and slammed it against the glass. It began to splinter as he hit it over and over again. Pulling back one last time he slammed the metal table as hard as possible against the glass and put his body into it, going through the slider’s glass with the metal and his shoulder. Ahh s**t, Ty thought as he felt a pain in his shoulder and the warm blood slide down his skin from where the glass pierced him.

Reaching a hand through he opened the slider and ran to his sister. ”Rei! Rei!” he cried out reaching for her neck. There was a pulse!!! But it was weak. s**t. s**t. ********. He ran to the kitchen, where he had seen a phone and dialed the number of Yuurei's private doctor.

A Friendly Betrayal

Who: Delia and Lucia
Where: Old abandoned library in Gambino
When: Morning
Weather: Overcast with scattered spots of sun. Signs of spring are beginning to show with the melting of the snow.

Coming from a recent strangling, Brian wasn't satiated without the use of a blade. Lucky for the man controlling Lucia, Delia was around to satisfy that desire.

He was in a newer hotel room, splurging for the night for a nicer hotel in a better area of Gambino. The money from Yuurei's house would go a long way still, and the cash he grabbed from the druggies -- they obviously dealed and sampled -- supplemented it nicely. He glanced at the list. Vyn was on the top. Pulling the light purple Blackberry out of the bag of phones, Brian turned the phone on and looked through the contacts. Vyn <3. Smiling, he brought up a text message.

Lucia (: : Hey Vyn! ; )

Vyn didn't heard the phone, her ears were far to occupied with the beat of the heavy j-rock that she had recently downloaded. They were a new band on the scene and as she sampled their songs she sound them fairly pleasing. Not contending with her favourites.. But they had potential to be good. Luckily the vibrations that accompanied the text alert were picked up and she glanced at the greeting herfeline friend had sent her with a curve of a smile on her lips. Vyn <3: Hey Lucia. You ok?

Lucia (: : Me? Okay? Of course! =P I was just thinking I haven't seen you since New Years. That party was laaaaaaame!

Vyn <3: You think so? Well, I guess it was a bit quiet.. Our gifts were nice though!

Lucia (: : Meh. But I was thinking we should get together! ^^

Vyn <3: Sure! I've got the necklace. Shall I bring it?

Lucia (: : Definitely! We should just go somewhere. Are you free later? Or tomorrow?

Vyn <3: I'm free today. Where do you want to go?

Lucia (: : Let's meet at the subway station across from the music store and we'll just hop on the first car and go wherever it takes us!

Vyn <3: Ok. What time do you want to meet?

Lucia (: : Umm....Let's go for the night life! Can you meet at 10? =P You're older than me, you should be able to get out that late if I can.

Vyn <3: Ethan might not like that.. But I'll get out for you Lucia.

Lucia (: : Awesome! : ) I'll see you then!

Vyn <3: Ok. Bye. (:

Without replying, Brian turned off the phone. There would be no broken dates, he thought, a sob-like giggle escaping Lucia's lips as he thought about what fun he'd have with the freis later tonight.

A little anxious yet at the same time excited Vyn looked at the phone. Ethan certainly wouldn't be happy about her wandering the subway... But he wouldn't have to know where she went. She often took night time strolls to eat. Tonight should be good fun having Lucia for company!

The Pull of the Chain

Who: Vyn and Lucia
Where: Gambino Subway Station
When: 10 PM
Weather: A cool night and almost new moon.

After Brian contacted Vyn, the pair meet up, but Brian didn’t want the happy playdate he arranged. He wanted to kill Lucia’s best friend.

Ty sat on the edge of his sister’s bed as she lay there, finally awake after a week of being in a coma. She was about to die of blood loss when he got there and called her doctor. He called the doctor just in time. He was a private well-paid physician who promised discretion in writing. He hated to admit it, but he had worried. Rei was his only sister, even if he didn’t really meet her until they were teenagers and only saw her every few years at weddings and funerals. The last one had been their father’s.

But his sis needed to get away from here. He could see she was still paler from blood loss. She didn’t explain what happened. But from what he could tell someone broke in, attacked her smashing their great-grandmother’s vase on her head, and stole everything of value, leaving his sister on the floor to bleed to death. The vase was fragile, so it didn’t break her head or anything. But it did cut a larger artery by her temple. If Ty ever found the guy who did that, he’d kill him. But in the mean time, Rei had to get better. Ty was going to look after her, but needed to go back to Australia for a while. And what better place to recover than in the southern hemisphere where it was Summer!

”So I was thinkin’, Rei. I need to get back home to do some work. But you should come with me and chill. It’s summer down there and you can hang at my place ‘till you get better.”

Yuurei shook her head. She was determined not to tell her half-brother that Lucia had attacked her, but she knew she couldn’t just up and leave the frei. Something was obviously wrong, but she didn’t know where the catty frei was. And while bedridden there was no way to find her. ”I have Lucia…I can’t-” she took a breath as her head burst into pain. Shutting her eyes tightly and holding that breath in, the blonde waited until the throbbing stopped pounding her head. She felt and looked like death. She was tired and half-dead. ”I can’t leave her on her own.” But she knew she couldn’t take care of the frei on her own. She needed to get better. And she couldn’t take care of anything as she was.

Ty frowned. ”Come on, Rei. Are you ********’ serious? She’s not even around right now,” he said, finally understanding that “raven” didn’t refer to a bird when he had the week to look around the house. ”Besides isn’t there someone…wherever you got it from that can help you out? I mean, it’s not like you can freaking do s**t as you are now. You need to get better. I wanna help you, but I gotta go home and arrange s**t with work.”

As Ty spoke her thoughts, Yuurei glanced at the phone. She’d have to arrange it, but…maybe she could get away for a little. Like he said, it wasn’t like she could do much for the frei while confined to the bed. And every time she moved it was like her head was going to explode. Lucia would NOT like taking care of her. Sighing she smiled slightly at her brother. ”Give me a few days to arrange it.”