Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2014 18:38:21 GMT
All right: New camera so the pics are iffy in places, the ISO was set WAAAAAAAY to high
Also if you need a refresher on the twins and Haji's antagonism (beyond the fact that it's a vampire in front of him) Check out:
Tias Shot: cat-ate-mymouse.dreamwidth.org/26113.html
Eli arrives at The Smithy: cat-ate-mymouse.dreamwidth.org/27461.html
A figure steps onto the porch
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A white and black face seen in a memory
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Haji leans against the door, arms crossed, he looks very relaxed but the air fairly crackles with power
Stop demon
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Yes, I was warned there was a fierce guard dog here
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I have come to see my brother
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I know why you are here, vampire.
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And?
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Surely you don't believe the old canard about vampires not entering a home if they aren't invited?
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Of course not, I know better
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And don't think you can glamour me either, I live with a basilisk, I am immune to glamours
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But I still won't let YOU enter, Elias.
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Me hmmm?
I've recently eaten so I'm quite full
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The young vampire studies the somber face in front of him
He told you
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He didn't need to, that one wears his pain like a suit of clothes
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He does, doesn't he?
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Elias looks away
I didn't mean to, you know
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Well I suppose that doesn't really forgive me
He is silent a moment
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Elias looks back to Haji, one hand curls reflexively at the memory
Had I known that a newly fledged vampire goes blood mad and attacks anything that crosses it's path
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I would have gone to the State Legislature rather than my home
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I hear his voice when it's quiet "Elias stop... No Elias... Why oh why, Elias, why?"
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Not all punishments are physical, I stand anything but that "why?"
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"Why?"
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The newspaper's opinion was that you took him somewhere else to kill.. though we know that's wrong.
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Him!
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Hmph
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He stopped me from ripping out my out throat
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Maybe he just didn't want to be left alone
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He loves you
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You think I don't KNOW that?
He swings a clawed hand toward Haji
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Elias stops, who know what might have happened if he hadn't
Dammit he does
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But why, why is what I ask myself when the night goes on to long, why?
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When there is much much blood on my hands...
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Haji pushes off the door
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Perhaps the same reason you are here...
You know the danger to yourself that coming here presents
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Lions. tigers and bears
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or rather shamans, dragons and basilisks
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The basilisk is away as is the Ice Demon, but the Firedrake is in residence
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*Bitterly*
And I have no doubt if I so much as touched you, he'd be on me
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No doubt indeed
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So we're at an impasse
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No, not entirely
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Haji crosses the space between them and cups the young vampire's chin. He suppresses a shudder at the cold skin and lack of pulse in the slender neck. Surely the blood must get around the body somehow.
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Show me
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Elias stiffens
Show you what?
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Your love
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Whispers
My love...
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Images of two boys playing flood from one to the other. Images of laughter, shared smiles and shared secrets whispered under the blankets at night.
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I couldn't stop it
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The blindess, that is, and yet he still kept smiling and telling me to show him, show him
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So now we both dwell in darkness
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Maybe that's justice
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Or just fate
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Fate
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Fate exist to keep us humble
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Elias laughs an ugly laugh
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Someday he will leave you
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I'm all too aware of someday
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What will you do? Will you let him go?
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I sent him here didn't I?
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I plan to let him go
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The thought of being alone is too horrible to bear, so perhaps I will follow him,
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If I am allowed to follow him
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I think you will be...
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Come then, I will take you to him