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Carmilla Karnstein ([personal profile] countess_karnstein) wrote2018-05-28 10:18 pm

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The campus felt like an entirely different place. Students were buzzing with gossip and rumours surrounding both the Dean and Lara. Some of the favourites Ella had heard were along the lines that she was brain washing students and hypnotised Lara. The rumours of her being an evil witch always made her laugh. Some believed that Lara was the evil one, bribing Ella somehow to get good grades. No one was really one hundred percent sure, except for the students that crossed the Supernatural world and knew what happened that night.

It was both a blessing and a curse that both Lara and Ella had stepped into the light and revelled their relationship. Rumour after rumour piled up but Lara’s blog had become an overnight blast of fame. Ella watched through the security cameras as her girlfriend couldn’t go anywhere without crowds of people staring or asking her questions.

The students that had revealed themselves as wolves were now following her like lost puppies, protective of the witch that liberated them. The witches both light and dark divided into the jealous and admiring of Lara’s abilities. She had never been so popular.

LaF and Perry as best friends of Lara and also present the night everything happened, had also gained the fame and flock of questions that came with that. In the end they had to take their lunch to the far side of the tables in the hall and sat away from the groups and whispers.

“Have you messaged her? You did message her didn’t you?”, Perry stopped stabbing her mash potato with her fork and looked across the table at LaF who was barely eating.

“Back of the hall.” LaF nodded. “I messaged Danny but I haven’t seen her since the night, you know.”

Perry looked up and noticed all the students whispering and talking. “Maybe we should have picked a quieter spot to interrogate her?”
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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-03 11:56 am (UTC)(link)

Lara hugged Fliss tighter before letting go. "The more I see of the Mountain Wolves, the less I like them. And if I'd had thirty seconds before the match I could have helped? But he's not channelling properly.

She swallowed, looking at Michael. "You use Royal Rumble rules for a ring out? Feet touch the floor." Lara was prattling, stating the obvious, leading to Fliss frowning even if Ella knew this tone possibly better than Lara herself understood it; there was the edge of a plan poking Lara's subconscious but she wasn't fully aware of what it was yet so was talking and stating the obvious to sort out her own thoughts. "And he's just the sort of swaggering jock who will go for the full overhead throw."

Leo was a lot better at dodging than Michael, obviously, but his hits were nowhere near as hard and the difference could be seen. Lara, far from calling advice was still prattling. "He's never going to win like that. Not enough power. But his claws are sharp enough he could take the lunk down by a thousand cuts pretty easily." Over the far side of the ring the alpha of the Mountain Wolves could be seen, purposely making sure he couldn't see the ring so he could jump in to defend any 'unjustly accused' wolf.

And then her face lit up even as Leo flinched from a heavy blow. Two hits to one and four to one through the guard didn't mean much when one fighter was so much bigger than the other. "We can win this. Fliss, Ella, I need you both. Fliss, taunt him. I need that overmuscled idiot to throw Leo out this way. Early for preference. And to draw his claws so Leo doesn't draw first." Her smirk grew. "Ella, I need your speed. He needs to land on a table with no one touching him at any point and his feet not touching the ground. That will give him the time I need with him even if I can't touch him without him forfeiting."

She knew she was playing a dangerous game here, but had never learned to back down and thought Leo would prefer a more than fighting chance even if he lost to the fight ending in a whimper.

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-04 11:12 am (UTC)(link)

Lara moved immediately over to Leo. "What sort of wolf has a vampire helping him. A young lion far too honourable to want to humiliate an opponent twice his size!" With that her voice dropped low enough that Ella would struggle to hear her; her words were intended for Leo only.

Michael laughed at what sounded like an empty threat, beckoning, claws extended, as Lara kept whispering and Leo forced himself to his feet, looking shaky. "Come and get it, lion cub."

Fliss responded by trying to lead the crowd in a chant of 'Leo! Leo! Leo! Leo!' that was only partially successful; most of their pack watching joined in, but it wasn't enough for a critical mass even with some support for the obvious underdog as Leo psyched himself up, took two steps, and lept.

He flew through the air, Michael smirking confidently as he reached for Leo's throat, claws extended.

There was a bright spray of red.

And Leo was twisting sideways, blood covering his claws as Michael's hand flew to his wrist, holding it together until it healed. Lara's tone was dry. "Second claws, but first blood to Leo."

The two werewolves circled, exchanging blows over the now blood spattered arena. But this time, as their claws were out, Leo's speed meant that he was inflicting slashes far faster to the back of Michael's arms and his side than they were coming back, and Leo's wounds were closing faster. For all the moves were the same, this was a very different fight from the previous one.

Michael, losing his temper, snarled and rushed Leo who, instead of dodging, met the tackle head on and tore into the larger wolf's shoulder and rolling so he was on top. And then kept hitting Michael in the face, seeing in him the previous Alpha and every other person who'd bullied him or the pack, and he wasn't even thinking to stop.

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-07 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)

"Leo. Stand down." Lara put one hand on his shoulder, raising her voice. "And this is why we don't draw claws or threaten lives in the ring. Sparring is one thing, but fighting for real is something else. And this is what happens when you change one to the other. Someone needs carrying out" Lara, helping Leo out of the ring, entirely missed Sylys' frown at her words as she started to escort Leo out, one arm round him and barely noticing as Michael was thrown out of the ring bodily by his Alpha, landing in a heap.

"So. You don't want to mix sparring and combat, little girl." Lara didn't even realise he was meant to be speaking to her as she was helping Leo out. "A human who wouldn't dare get in the ring with a normal werewolf, let alone me. I'm going to challenge anyone who dares fight me, and if the cowards of Sylys don't try to stop me I'm going to tear people apart.

Lara's eyes widened, starting to catch on to what was going on behind her. And then tumbling forward as a thrown rock hit her between the shoulderblades. Beside her Fliss snarled and Leo squared his shoulders.

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-10 01:54 am (UTC)(link)

"Make him tap, love." Lara's tone was soft and confident as she lined up with the vampires and werewolves, and there was a low whistle from some of the neutral wolves who were chatting to each other before standing up in a triangle and walking towards the ring.

"The local alphas are all here." The smile directed at Ella was full of needle sharp teeth. "Which means if you kill me you're in trouble."

"Oh, no, Max. You got yourself into this." The smile from the leading one of the three werewolves was positively malicious. "And think yourself lucky. If either of your wolves had won you'd have been in a feud with an ice wolf pack."

His eyes widened, and there was muttering from everyone about ice wolves; even Ella's mother had recommended not fighting ice wolves, although watching them from a safe distance could be entertaining and to most werewolves ice wolves were a mix of what went bump in the night and what they hoped to be if they didn't individually want to be an alpha, but none had heard of an actual ice wolf pack in living memory. There was also a murmuring and the wolves and even the vampires stepped back as the three alphas headed for Lara.

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-13 01:55 am (UTC)(link)

Lara rushed into the ring at the tap to haul her lover out with the plan of kissing her senseless, but just as she'd started to pull Ella out and twisted Max off she blocked a pair of claws on reflex, the cut going bone deep into the back of her forearm rather than into Ella's face. A roar came up from all the watchers on her side as they saw the low blow, and more importantly Lara's blood being shed. Lara, of course, was keyed up, and her other hand clapped hard over Max's ear, using the werewolf's enhanced senses against him and a minor twist of magic she'd practiced for that attack meaning he'd take a long time to recover from the tinnitus. There wasn't that much she could do to an Alpha but she could make one wary.

She could however do things for Ella, especially with Max's attack on her leaving her wolves baying for blood, claws drawn, and almost launching themselves at the ring with the vampires not far behind. "Come on, Love." She'd find healing power flooding into her, courtesy of the pack's current good thoughts for her, and Lara's channeling the healing of all the wolves to augment Ella's own healing, closing her wounds.

Seeing Max's eyes flash as he pulled himself to his feet, Lara knew something was up. A split second later Leo launched himself at Max, growling.

Max sneered, alpha claws extended. Then blinked in shock as the ice wolf's diamond edged claws cut straight through his and deep into his hands.

Lara screamed, redirecting the healing but not in time as Leo's previous humiliated opponent's claws tore straight through his kidney and spine. Even werewolf healing couldn't cure a severed spine.

The three visiting alphas all howled, eyes wide, as the carnage erupted, and at their howls all the visiting non-mountain wolves retreated, not wanting to get in the way. They'd seen the offences from both sides and that this wasn't going to end

Lara's eyes flared visibly with magic, and the flow of energy between the ice wolves stabilised. Each wolf, other than Sylens and Lucya shifted so their claws were almost pure diamond, and each wolf in the pack knew instinctively where every single one of their pack mates was. Also each wolf had the strength of their blows and leaps augmented by the power of the pack. The mountain wolves were all individually bigger than any of the ice wolves, and four of them drew silver bladed swords with glowing runes inscribed along the length of the blade, one intended for each expected alpha that would be there. But they'd seen the diamond claws, glinting like ice, and knew that their blades could be parried. And knew that even the smallest wolf could attack at any time with the speed and strength of an alpha. And they also knew drawing those swords in sight of other packs was effectively admission they had planned to assassinate the alphas, but that was less of a priority than surviving the next five minutes.

Lara swallowed as she helped Ella up to her feet. "Let's get out of here, love. You strong enough to teleport us?"

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-14 02:25 am (UTC)(link)

Lara was immediately moving to the fridge for Ella to get blood bags out before casually tossing three over to her. "For our next date, love, can we make sure that there isn't a fighting arena nearby. Or one of us will step in it, which reminds me I should work with you on your form. And I'm fine." She wasn't quite, but she was better off than Ella and healed fast even if not at the speed of the wolves or the vampires.

She frowned. "I hope Leo will be all right. And that none of the rest of them will be hurt? But I'm not sure how many of the mountain wolves are going to survive?"

She then wrapped her arms round Ella and smiled. "My hero."

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-17 12:23 am (UTC)(link)

"Ella I saw that fight." Lara smiled as she approached her lover for a hug. "And you might not be a hero, but you're my hero. And my hero deserves a reward." She kissed Ella lightly, not wanting to think about Leo right now. "What does she want?"

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-19 01:29 am (UTC)(link)

"Max is an idiot." Lara shrugged. "And really didn't know how to use his strength and speed." Lara frowned. "And will you stop asking me that. Yes, I want you and this." She reached out, one hand burying itself in Ella's hair to draw her in for a kiss.

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-24 02:10 am (UTC)(link)

Laura's voice was pouty. "I suppose I'd better." She reached for her phone with magic, checking the messages even while staying curled up with Ella, snuggling in deeper, and frowning before shooting a message to Fliss and one to LaF saying she was fine. And then another to Fliss saying she was about to do something for Leo.

Ella would see her frown, and then collapse against her as she redirected some of the pack's healing energy to Leo, the blood draining from her face.

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-25 01:44 am (UTC)(link)

Lara smiled slightly tiredly. "Just us. And the wolves are going to live and can wait. And I'm all yours."

She took Ella's hand with a smile. "Shouldn't we take my clothes off first?" She could at least kick her shoes off

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-25 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)

Lara moaned at the teasing, gladly relinquishing her phone; she didn't want distractions any more right now than Ella did, and moaning again at the bite.

"As you wish, Mistress." Lara's smirk and Ella's speed might give the vampires enough time to work out what she was up to as Lara wrapped her arms round her lover. And the threw her over her hip, rolling so she landed on her back in the bath with Ella on top of her. She was still in her skirt while Ella was still fully dressed. In a couple of seconds she'd want to come up for air, laughing, unless Ella decided to play rough.

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[personal profile] lauronica_mars 2018-07-26 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)

Lara smiled when she came up for air, splashing back. "You should laugh more often!" Just seeing Ella carefree and relaxed was extremely worthwhile.

"And I'm really scared that my vampire's going to take revenge." Her tone implied she was anything but as she wriggled under Ella's touch, her smile teasing. "And I'm sure I can manage without leashing you for a while. Although we will have to get you a real collar and leash. Probably one with a very cute padlock so you can't take it off by mistake."

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