Ella watched the fight between the guys. Having seen and been in maybe fights over the centuries it shouldn’t have been anything new to her but the atmosphere, the buzz of the crowd and note to mention the way it was making Lara happy just fuelled Ella’s passion to keep watching. At some stages of the match she even shouted advice and tips to Jack like he could hear her in the sea of background noise. Everything was fun and for a first date she couldn’t think of anything better.
That thought was short lived when Lara stepped into the ring. A twist of fate she didn’t see happening she fully supported Lara’s abilities to make her own choices but didn’t like the fact the dome prevented her from saving Lara should she get in trouble. And that is exactly what happened. As she watched Lara take blow after blow, Ella felt her heart sink in her chest and anger burn through her veins. She launched herself at the dome only to be blown backwards and land on top of the crowd behind her. She didn’t care for the pain regardless of the electricity nearly paralysing her in shock. Ella went to launch again but some of the crowd held her back. They must have been a mixture of supernatural to stop the force in which she was trying to get to Lara.
The next few minutes were the most painful to watch. Ella eventually stopped struggling and watched Lara barely able to watch out the cage. The second that door opened, with speed unmatched she shot to where Lara was and caught her just as the arms flung around her neck. For Ella, Lara was weightless. She held her up and looked past her shoulder to where Lilly was fuelling her victory and wiping the blood from her nose. If it wasn’t for Lara making the vampire promise, Ella would have killed her by now.
A few minutes later Ella felt Lara’s legs give way and she was unconscious. She used this time to get Lara out of the venue and back home to her apartment as soon as possible. A few of the bouncers made the comment of getting Lara to the hospital and want to call an ambulance thinking they were helping but Ella protested against it and instead asked an old friend to meet her back at her apartment.
In record time Lara was placed on the bed, Ella stepping back to give Adrienne enough space look at the girls wounds. Adrienne was older than Ella. The vampire didn’t know her exact age as both of them looked barely twenty-five visually but Mattie once commented on Adrienne’s people and their history. Ella had never asked as the two of them had an unlikely friendship. All she knew was that her species, male and female were always tall, slender and bald. They had a slight blue tone to their skin and Ella often compared them to the human version of monks. They sat somewhere between light and dark, excellent with magic and knowledge and rare to find.
“She is stronger than she looks.” Adrienne’s yellow eyes caught the vampires as her hands were held out just above Lara’s ribs. “I can speed up the healing but it will take time. The bruises are the least of the damage but she will recover.”
“Fix it now.” Ella snapped. “I don’t care what you have to do.”
Adrienne tilted her head, curious to Ella’s reaction. “I can use light magic to speed up the healing.” Her hands started to emit a white light from her under her palms. “But the rest she will have to recover herself. For me to heal her instantly will take dark magic and will be at the cost of someone else. Do you wish for me to do that?” She blinked, leaving the choice up to Ella who knew at any moment Lara would wake up, if she wasn’t listening already.
“If the cost was me could you heal her?”
Adrienne smiled. “A human for a human. I would need to transfer her damage to someone else. You are not human Ella, you know this.” It never failed to amaze Ella how calm Adrienne always was, even when Ella was clearly angry. “Make your choice and I will do what I must.”
Ella was fuming, pacing at the end of the bed knowing Lara would wake up at any moment. “Light.” She eventually barked, annoyed at herself for her choice. “Heal the worst and I’ll keep her here until she recovers.”
“As you wish.” The light from her hands got brighter and the creature worked on easing the pain, she smiled to herself.
Ella caught that smile and crossed her arms. “Is something funny?”
“You never choose light. She is changing you.”
Ella was too furious at that comment to answer. Instead she morphed into her giant black cat form and as if cats could sulk, she sat the other side of the bed, facing away from her friend with her back towards Lara. It was almost as if she was guarding the bed. Eventually she dropped onto her front paws and curled up, occasionally letting out a large sigh or letting a whimper escape as she exhaled. Even curled at the side of the bed Ella was big enough that when Lara woke she wouldn’t be able to miss seeing the large black fur shoulders of the panther beside the bed.
Adrienne did what she needed to do and told Ella that Lara would wake in her own time and just to wait. She knew Ella didn’t like the response when she got a growl in return which was her signal to leave.
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Date: 2018-04-11 10:07 am (UTC)From:That thought was short lived when Lara stepped into the ring. A twist of fate she didn’t see happening she fully supported Lara’s abilities to make her own choices but didn’t like the fact the dome prevented her from saving Lara should she get in trouble. And that is exactly what happened. As she watched Lara take blow after blow, Ella felt her heart sink in her chest and anger burn through her veins. She launched herself at the dome only to be blown backwards and land on top of the crowd behind her. She didn’t care for the pain regardless of the electricity nearly paralysing her in shock. Ella went to launch again but some of the crowd held her back. They must have been a mixture of supernatural to stop the force in which she was trying to get to Lara.
The next few minutes were the most painful to watch. Ella eventually stopped struggling and watched Lara barely able to watch out the cage. The second that door opened, with speed unmatched she shot to where Lara was and caught her just as the arms flung around her neck. For Ella, Lara was weightless. She held her up and looked past her shoulder to where Lilly was fuelling her victory and wiping the blood from her nose. If it wasn’t for Lara making the vampire promise, Ella would have killed her by now.
A few minutes later Ella felt Lara’s legs give way and she was unconscious. She used this time to get Lara out of the venue and back home to her apartment as soon as possible. A few of the bouncers made the comment of getting Lara to the hospital and want to call an ambulance thinking they were helping but Ella protested against it and instead asked an old friend to meet her back at her apartment.
In record time Lara was placed on the bed, Ella stepping back to give Adrienne enough space look at the girls wounds. Adrienne was older than Ella. The vampire didn’t know her exact age as both of them looked barely twenty-five visually but Mattie once commented on Adrienne’s people and their history. Ella had never asked as the two of them had an unlikely friendship. All she knew was that her species, male and female were always tall, slender and bald. They had a slight blue tone to their skin and Ella often compared them to the human version of monks. They sat somewhere between light and dark, excellent with magic and knowledge and rare to find.
“She is stronger than she looks.” Adrienne’s yellow eyes caught the vampires as her hands were held out just above Lara’s ribs. “I can speed up the healing but it will take time. The bruises are the least of the damage but she will recover.”
“Fix it now.” Ella snapped. “I don’t care what you have to do.”
Adrienne tilted her head, curious to Ella’s reaction. “I can use light magic to speed up the healing.” Her hands started to emit a white light from her under her palms. “But the rest she will have to recover herself. For me to heal her instantly will take dark magic and will be at the cost of someone else. Do you wish for me to do that?” She blinked, leaving the choice up to Ella who knew at any moment Lara would wake up, if she wasn’t listening already.
“If the cost was me could you heal her?”
Adrienne smiled. “A human for a human. I would need to transfer her damage to someone else. You are not human Ella, you know this.” It never failed to amaze Ella how calm Adrienne always was, even when Ella was clearly angry. “Make your choice and I will do what I must.”
Ella was fuming, pacing at the end of the bed knowing Lara would wake up at any moment. “Light.” She eventually barked, annoyed at herself for her choice. “Heal the worst and I’ll keep her here until she recovers.”
“As you wish.” The light from her hands got brighter and the creature worked on easing the pain, she smiled to herself.
Ella caught that smile and crossed her arms. “Is something funny?”
“You never choose light. She is changing you.”
Ella was too furious at that comment to answer. Instead she morphed into her giant black cat form and as if cats could sulk, she sat the other side of the bed, facing away from her friend with her back towards Lara. It was almost as if she was guarding the bed. Eventually she dropped onto her front paws and curled up, occasionally letting out a large sigh or letting a whimper escape as she exhaled. Even curled at the side of the bed Ella was big enough that when Lara woke she wouldn’t be able to miss seeing the large black fur shoulders of the panther beside the bed.
Adrienne did what she needed to do and told Ella that Lara would wake in her own time and just to wait. She knew Ella didn’t like the response when she got a growl in return which was her signal to leave.