Aftermath Part 2 With lauronica_mars

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With everything that had happened that evening; the discovery of Laura’s small heart now appearing to grow in size, her super ability to heal, Carmilla’s strength becoming so out of control she not only broke a door frame and kitchen counter but her loves wrist, LaF having an eye regrow on its socket which happened to activate the cybernetic implant they were working on...

It was a lot to take in and Perry concluded they were no further into discovering what was going on than when they first started. A bit of a mood killer but it didn’t stop the gang from hauling up downstairs and taking it in turns to research any book they could find which might help understand Laura’s condition. They would work all through the night if need be. LaF was that determined. It also meant someone to be on watch in case anything else happened to Laura.

Carmilla on the other hand, was determined to distract Laura and herself from thinking about what was going on and possibly blank out the memory of her friends seeing her naked. Of course the distraction came easy while Laura was wearing her clothes. With all that leather Carm could barely keep her hands of her.

The following morning all books were off the bed. Clothes were tossed either side and black thread was hanging from the headboard. Carmilla was curled up behind Laura, her arm across her stomach and head resting softly next to hers. Laura had one hand on top of Carms and the other on the pillow, sheets ruffled and pulled up around them.

It would have been perfect had it not been for the tranquiliser dart sticking out of Carm’s arm, a heart rate monitor on the end of Laura’s finger and several pads stuck to her face and chest. LaF had hooked the readings up to the laptop and was trying to monitor Laura’s heart and symptoms. The best way to do this is when Laura was asleep so they could get accurate readings but that meant sneaking and making sure Carmilla didn’t wake up. Best way to do that? Tranquiliser darts. For some reason Callis had a handy supply. No one seemed to question where she got them.

With Laura left monitoring overnight eventually the gang downstairs had all passed out. Perry asleep on LaF who had a laptop stuck wide open on the monitor screen, head hanging down. Callis by herself on the couch, book resting on her chest. And finally Kirch who was surrounded by empty packets of food and the odd thin book.

Carmilla groaned and lifted her hand up to nurse her head. She felt like she had been hit by a train or on the worst hangover of her life. She hadn’t felt it this much since the break-up with Laura where Mattie took her out for the night. She rolled back, away from Laura and collapsed onto the pillow. Curled black hair falling around her face. “What the…” Carm mumbled, eyes becoming wide as she noticed the dark in her arm.

“Laura…”, She shook her back, trying to wake her. “Laura, wake up.”

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[lauronica_mars]

Laura blinked woozily. "Carmilla?" She frowned then blinked as she looked round owlishly. "LaF? Callis? And Kirsch." She'd seen Perry, but Perry was asleep and probably not part of whatever this was.

She then pinched herself, checking the obvious although not sure whether it actually worked to check it was a dream, and then noticed the tranq dart sticking out of her girlfriend, and suddenly things like what she wasn't wearing were a whole lot less important. Pausing to pull it carefully out of Carmilla she turned, stood, and glared.

"Which one of you shot my girlfriend?" Not caring that she was tiny and naked she glared at the people who'd been watching her sleep, putting herself between them and Carmilla. LaFontaine audibly gulped.

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“When I get my strength back I’m going to kill whoever shot me.” Carm was clearly a lot slower at getting her sentences out but felt a lot better when Laura removed the dart. There was shape pain in her arm as the barbed spikes came out connected to the needle but once it was out Carm instantly felt better.

Callis opened her eyes, not bothered to move from where she’d slept and why would she? She wasn’t scared of Laura, not for one second and Carm wasn’t exactly at full strength. “Cool it PowerPuff, I did what I had to. You should be thanking me. There’s no telling what she could do if her strength gets out of control. LaF also needed to run some tests. Two birds, one stone.”

LaF gave the signal of don’t bring me into this and turned to look at Laura.

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Laura glared at Callis, a comical sight to those who didn't know her, and her voice became quiet, another warning sign from her that caused LaF to visibly flinch. "PowerPuff? Assaulting my girlfriend was what you had to do? And I know LaFontaine's relationship with medical ethics is tenuous." LaF just shrugged; she'd never denied it.

And Laura, frowning, because the words were merely memorised, switched to the Ancient Greek of the Summer Society's more formal rituals. "Callis. You have offered offence to me." A frown creased her face as she tried to remember the right formulation. "And harmed my beloved. I demand satisfaction, here and now, using only that which we have on us. Accept or be known as a coward."

Callis' response was derisive. "You do know what you are doing, Laura? Wearing only a t-shirt? And who taught you that? Danny?"

Laura rolled her eyes. "Of course she didn't. You think she'd tell me how to put myself in danger? But I am a reporter and can find things out. Now stand on your feet or kneel and beg my forgiveness. And Carm's." Which she knew Callis would never do.

"It's time someone taught you that you can't just hide behind your vampire when playing in the big leagues, Hollis." Callis' tone was exasperated as she stood up. "I'm going to take you over my knee. And Carmilla if you try to save her her life is literally owed to the Summer Society."

Laura rolled her eyes. "Strong words from someone who shoots sleeping women."

Callis tried to slap Laura hard and there was a blur of motion and Laura was rolling backwards as Callis was flying through the air through where Laura had been, hitting the wall hard upside down by the only section of wall that had no bed, bookcase, or paintings to hit.

Laura looked at her as she fell, protecting her head with her arms and gasping for breath. "You want to surrender now? Or you want to try again when you've got your breath back and are taking me seriously."

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Carmilla, who had her hands pressed over her eyes laid back into the pillow trying to stop her head from spinning. “Why doesn’t anyone knock?” She said out loud but more to herself than anyone else. This was the last thing she needed to wake up to. She also wondered how long the troop had been in the room considering the fun her and Laura had last night. Did they honestly wait till she was asleep to shoot her with that dart?

Feeling the movement of Laura getting out of bed Carmilla reached out from the sheets and searched for some of their clothes on the floor. The first top she pulled fell apart in hers. Clearly that was Laura’s from the previous night. Eventually amongst the pile of books she found some clothes and while Laura and Callis spoke she kept herself covered and got dressed. Carmilla might not be one hundred person but one of them was going to pay for shooting her.

That’s when she saw how angry Laura was. Something she hadn’t fully seen yet. It was no secret Laura was more than capable of looking after herself. She didn’t need to hide behind a vampire, that comment from Callis flared Carmilla up but the way Laura was reacting kind of made her proud. “Well this should be interesting.”, She smirked, laying back down on the bed but on her front. Both hands propped her head up like she was about to watch a movie.

As soon as the fight between the broke out LaF, Carm and Perry watched as everything happened so fast. The smack of Laura hitting the wall caused Perry to flinch and cover her eyes. “I can’t watch. I can’t watch.” She muttered over and over refusing to see Laura get hurt. LaF, in between watching the fight break out was scanning their laptop for further developments on Laura’s healing factor.

Callis, “You’re defending her? I think I’m going to be sick in my mouth. Your girlfriend is a vampire Laura. You’ve come back from the dead with whoever knows what happening to you. You made LaF’s eye grow back and Carmilla is jacked up enough to break your bones. I was doing you a favour.” Ever being the woman to have an unlimited supply of weapons hidden in places that always made LaF scientifically curious, Callis pulled the tranq gun from behind her back where she kept it tucked into her belt.

“Untill we work out what’s going on with you this is for your own safety. You’ll thank me in the end.” She turned her gaze to Carmilla and pointed the gun directly at her. Carm wasn’t about to be hit by one of those darts any time soon but she was backed into a corner. With nowhere to hide that smirk of watching her love take down Callis started to fade and was replaced by a very predatory glare.

Callis smiled, not tearing her eyes from Carm. “Time to surrender Laura, it’s over.”

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Laura picked herself up with a very thin smile. "You know I've watched you spar before, Callis. And you're intensely predictable in terms of what moves and weapons you'll use. It doesn't do much good to threaten Carmilla with that without these."

Laura's hand opened, holding the clip of tranq darts that had been in the handle of Callis' tranq pistol before tossing it to the side. "Now. I believe your drawing that allows me to use any weapons. Like these." She picked up a couple of pens that Carmilla knew from experience would not easily wash off skin in the shower.

"A pen? Laura, even by your standards that's ridiculous." Callis did however take her eyes off Carmilla just in time to see Laura cartwheel into her and the pair of them go down in a tangle of limbs, Laura seemingly attempting a scissors hold on Callis.

A couple of seconds later Laura was thrown off hard again and Callis climbed to her feet, reaching them before Laura. "Your grappling game is weak, Laura. It's time we finished this."

Then the half-dazed Kirsch spoke. "Laura? Why did you write 'Fights like a zeta' on her forehead? What's wrong with fighting like a Zeta?"

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The disappointment and disgust in Callis’s face was apparent. Not only was the gun completely useless but now the vampire knew she was semi defenceless. Still, Carmilla didn’t interfere. Only if Laura’s life was in danger would she step in.

“That’s my girl.” A wicked smirk spread across her face when Laura showed the clip and then the fight broke out. LaF moved out the way, clutching the laptop in one hand and dragging a Perry in the other.

Callis wasn’t taking any of this lightly. Her intention to help protect Laura was being taking the wrong way and of all the people to understand she thought Laura would have got that by now. If not, so be it. She was determined to win and stubborn enough to not go down so easily.

When Kirsch spoke, which instantly fuelled Callis with rage at the best of times, she stopped her fighting stance like a wave of fear washed over her. “What?” Callis ran to the nearest reflective surface she could that wave of becoming a mixture of hurt, anger and shock. “You know…”, She turned to face Laura and ignored everyone else in the room. “This isn’t over. Not by a long shot. I’ll get you back for this.”

Callis picked up her things and headed for the door. Her pride was more than wounded. “Sleep with one eye open.”

The silence was deafening after the door slam. Kirsch went to follow Callis convinced he could calm her down and that they could all talk this through. LaF on the other hand pulled Perrys hands from her eyes showing her the fight was over. “Well that went exactly how I thought it would. Yep. I warned her shooting the vampire wouldn’t go down well.”

“The vampire has a name.” Carm snapped. “And can everyone just get out so I can talk to Laura please? God..” She was clearly angry.

LaF and Perry headed for the door as fast as possible. “We’ll be downstairs making breakfast.” Perry shut the door behind them. Now it was just Laura and Carm who possible just at the worst morning wake up they could have asked for.

“What was that?”, Carm stepped off the side of the bed and stared at her.

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"Fine. As long as you stop behaving like a Zeta Dudescort." Laura's tone was flat.

"What was wrong with the Zeta Dudescorts?" Kirsch's tone was hurt as he tried to follow Callis. And loud enough to reach Callis, as Laura was hoping for. Calming Callis down was one thing. Aggravating her in the right ways was another thing entirely.

"See you soon probably." Laura smiled "And what was which about? Callis was being a Zeta Dudescort. I was protecting you because it works both ways. And I was showing Callis that I don't need protecting anything like as much as she seems to think. She's worse than Danny was! And didn't even notice which of us was the big spoon."

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Saying that Laura was getting on Callis’s last nerve was an understatement. Callis was beyond the realms of angry and now looking for all-out war. All because she wanted to protect her friend from being hurt. The last comment Laura made got under her skin so much so she nearly turned back around for another fight. If it wasn’t for the fact LaF and Perry were tumbling down the stairs not long behind her she might have done. Eventually Kirsch caught up which instead of making things better, made them worse.

She pinched the bridge of her nose, taking in a deep breath. “I get your friends are trying to help you but sneaking in the middle of the night to do experiments? Shooting me? I’m locking the door next time.”

Carm was trying to be mad but being shot in the arm and nursing what felt like the worst hangover on the planet wasn’t exactly easy. “I gotta admit I like the way you kicked her ass.”, She wanted to add that if those rules weren’t in place Carm would have killed her by now but that was a given. Laura knew exactly what Carmilla was like.

She started to search for her boots only to pause at Laura’s words. “You think you’re the big spoon?” Now Carmilla was smirking.

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"Believe me. I mean to talk to her about it." Laura was almost as angry as Callis right now. "And LaF has a lot of talking to do or she's about to lose access to research subjects."

She shrugged then glared. "And why does everyone think I can't protect myself against anything? Just because I had a little trouble with Mattie and your mother and wasn't willing to take Will on in a real fight without knowing more about him?"

And she smiled. "You're the little spoon at least a third of the time Carm. It's about as often as I top you rather than the other way round."

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Carmilla started to do up her boots. She wanted to argue the little spoon comment but couldn’t. She’ll take that for now and maybe prove Laura wrong on that later. “Not everyone. You being able to take care of yourself is one of the things I like about you. Danny couldn’t see you were capable of it and Callis has just been proven wrong. That’s two people. Three if we include how protective your father is but he’s just being your dad.”

Carmilla ran her hands through her hair and fluffed it up to give it more some volume. “If we go downstairs and LaF has found anything new about what’s going on with you I won’t hurt them. If they haven’t I’m removing their other eye.” She headed towards the door. An angry vampire annoyed at her girlfriends friends.

“If I were you’d stay up here. LaF might scream.”

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"Carm. I'm coming down with you." Laura's voice and face were both set. "And you're not going to remove LaF's eye. You aren't going to do anything worse to her than stick her with a tranq dart." Laura held them out. "No maiming her. She's human and we don't recover from that. But I don't mind you discouraging her a bit from doing it again."

She blinked. "I'd just better get dressed first. And I'm going to have to borrow your clothes again."

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Carmilla took the pack of darts half wondering how many a human could take as it would be nice to stick LaF with more than one. Obviously she didn’t want to kill her. Not without an explanation and maybe Laura’s permission depending on how much it annoyed her.

On the way out the room she paused only to look back with a wicked smile. “My clothes again huh? The more revealing ones are in that wardrobe.” She nodded just to the left of Laura then vanished down the stairs.

LaF and Perry must have been feeling guilty about earlier. Carm walked into the living room to find it had been not only cleaned spotless but a table was laid out with pancakes. How did they make pancakes in such a small amount of time? “Well this isn’t weird.” She blinked, taking in not only a few different types of pancakes and syrups but they even filled Carms cup with blood. She could smell near the edge of the table. It was hard to be mad at the two of them when they both sat opposite all this food waiting for her and Laura. “How long was I upstairs?”

“You’d be surprised what Perry can do when she puts her mind to it.” LaF said while Perry took the compliment with a proud beam of a smile.

“So…” Carm quickly hid the pack of tranq darts behind her back and took a seat. She thought about several ways to try and be delicate with approaching them but Carm in the end she gave up. “Look, I don’t know whose idea it was to stick me with a dart but you can’t come into our room and run tests on Laura.”

Perry sighed a little ashamed. “We know but LaF saw Laura’s heart is growing and we weren’t coming up with anything. It was a quick decision to get some fast results. We did disapprove of shooting you with dart though.”

LaF nodded. None of them touching their food till Laura turned up. “I don’t regret watching Laura kick her butt though.” They smiled but when Carm didn’t LaF snapped back into deadpan serious.

“Three days ago she had her heart ripped out and died. I’m lucky I got her back and you think I would want to hurt her?” Carm picked up a fork, playing with it to try and distract her temper.

It made Perry nervous.

“No.” LaF said. “But as we didn’t know the effects of her blood in your system other than the fact you are able to break her bones, Callis made the call to tranq you so we could get stable results. Not that we agree with that.”

Carm left the fork stabbed in a pancake. “Well you can explain that to her then. I’m done.”

And with that Carm sat back and waited for Laura to come down. The tone in her voice made LaF’s stopped churn. Annoying a vampire, she can just about handle but the thought of her friend mad at her. Even Perry looked nervous.

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Laura rapidly picked clothes from Carmilla's wardrobe, wanting some dignity when talking with her friends. And nothing too distracting - just some of Carmilla's short shorts and a t-shirt. This took just long enough for her to hear the last exchange.

"You didn't agree with that, but you didn't do anything about it. Instead you just stood there and let Callis attack and drug Carmilla. I thought Carmilla was a friend of yours, LaF?"

She stepped forwards, too angry to pay attention to pancakes right now. "And then there's medical ethics. I know you've always had an uneasy relationships with them. But one reason to have them is you get more and more willing medical test subjects more easily."

She turned to Perry. "And you. You're normally the voice of common sense? Were you the deciding vote in shooting Carmilla? Because it wasn't Kirsch. And Callis is less scary than either of you."

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Carm heard Laura coming down the stairs and gave a little pout of disappointment on the lack of revealing. She did however like seeing Laura with her legs out so pout quickly faded. And with how the morning went down she gathered Laura was too mad at her friends to care about what clothes she had on. The next minute of talking confirmed just that.

She stabbed a pancake a little harder that recommended and pulled it across to her plate. Combined with the fact Laura was laying into her friends, LaF and Perry clearly felt uncomfortable. Carm just kept quiet.

As if Carmilla wasn’t in the room LaF waited till Laura had finished before they spoke. “Laura sit down at let me explain.” Even if she was too mad to sit, LaF just carried on. “I’ve spent months trapped in a library with the two of you figuring out your issues. I’ve helped you every way I can and of all the outcomes of last night I didn’t want Carmilla to get shot. She is my friend.”

That surprised Carm to hear out loud. She stopped destroying her pancake to look at LaF who didn’t break eye contact with Laura.

“I admit my experiments can cross some lines and maybe I should have told you about monitoring you sleeping but we were running out of time and I wanted to make sure I could get accurate readings.”

Perry interjected. Her voice calm hoping Laura would listen to them. “None of us sided on Carmilla being shot. Callis felt doing it was for your own good but we didn’t back her.” Perry pushed some blueberry pancakes across the table towards Laura. “Please forgive us.”

Carmilla rolled her eyes. Half wanting Laura to ask her to kill one of them.

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"So you didn't back her. You just watched Callis shoot her. And didn't do anything." Laura shrugged. "I'll know what to expect from her next time." Laura shrugged. "I wouldn't have minded the non-invasive testing. I mean you're LaF and you were looking out for me."

She frowned. "But watching over me doesn't include letting a wannabe Zeta Dudescort shoot my girlfriend while you're watching me sleep. That's the sort of thing I want people watching me to stop from happening."

She shrugged. "But that's not the final episode. You're friends even if Callis right now isn't." Laura then offered both the redheads a hug, confident they wouldn't let that happen again.

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“Ugh.” Carm made vomit sound at the three of them hugging. “Well that’s one way to lose my appetite this morning.” She got up and headed to the kitchen, leaving the Scooby gang to have their moment of sunshine and rainbows.

Carmilla didn’t do hugs.

“We wanted to stop her but it was too late by the time we caught up with her. We did try.” Perry wanted Laura to know that.

When the hug ended LaF was about to sit down and eat when they felt a pain in their eye. Blinking a few times, they suddenly started to notice their vision was blurry. Blurry and getting worse. “Uh guys.” The implant that was allowing LaF to see through walls flickered and glitched before completely dying. If that wasn’t enough the eye denigrated in the socket and leaving the hole that was there before.

LaF deadpanned but was surprisingly calm. “I’ve lost my eye again haven’t I? Ha eye, I, get it?”

“This is hardly the time for jokes Susa…LaFontaine. Whatever Laura did it’s not permanent. She pulled LaF’s eyepatch from her pocket having kept it just in case this situation happened.

“Laura are you still super healing?” LaF asked but wasn’t staring at Laura. Their remaining good eye was getting used to doing all the work again.

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Laura swallowed. "Only one way to find out? LaF? You've got a surgical scalpel? But my hair and nails don't regrow when I cut them?"

"Of course?" LaF pulled one out of her jacket. "Where do you want me to cut?"

"Back of my arm please?" Laura held her left arm out only to be gashed by LaF with a cut deeper than it needed to be. Laura winced, then brushed the blood off with her thumb. "Seems to be working still. So the question is whether it only heals me in a lasting way, whether there wasn't enough blood, or whether it's because eyes don't normally regrow? Or is it that you can't have the cyborg and the normal eye?"

She turned to Carmilla. "Vampires sometimes lose eyes, right, Carm?"

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She has only gone to the kitchen to warm up a cup of blood which was then poured over a tower of pancakes like it wasn’t a big deal or gross for that matter.

“I’ve seen vampires recover from just about anything. An eye regenerating isn’t hard. Might take a few hours to grow.” Ironically for the one that didn’t need food to live she was the only one eating.

After a few bites Carm watched Perry look at her. An expression that made mortified look like an understatement. “What? What did I do now?”

“Type-O pancakes kinda freak her out.” LaF pulled a carton of orange juice across, trying to block Perry’s vision. As far as they were concerned Laura’s changes were far more important. “So we know you haven’t got vampire blood in you. That’s a good thing. We also know that your blood does crazy things but it’s only temporary.

Are you sure you’re not a vampire?” LaF was girly joking, trying to lighten the mood. “Open your mouth. I’m doing a fang check.”

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Laura was too used to Carmilla's dietary habits by now to be seriously put off, and took a couple of pancakes of her own and took a bite. "Good pancakes, thank you, Perry. But I'll have sugar on mine. And no fangs." She smiled at LaF to demonstrate.

"The other obvious test is whether you have any physical scars you want to get rid of. Whether they get rid of them. Or whether the blood ran out before the healing was finished."

She turned to LaF. "What do the readings from your bionic eye say about what happened?"

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“You mean mean my super cool bionic eye that now doesn’t work? LaF’s sarcasm was crystal. “Before it went the readings were strong around you and your blood. I could see your heart growing. I got the same readings when from Carmilla once she fed from you but overnight that seems to have faded.

My guess is you seem to have healing effects on yourself only but they are temporary on humans and from what happened to Carmilla I’m guess some sort of power boost for vampires.” LaF went to grab one of the books Perry had found. “If your healing factor keeps up there’s a good chance this means you won’t age. Technically you could be immortal until we figure out what’s going on. I say that…don’t go doing anything stupid. This is just a hunch.”

With that LaF handed a book to Laura with one of the pages marked. “Perry found this. There is some information on how having a heart magically returned to you can be a blessing or a curse. Maybe a bit of both. You should take a look.”

Carmilla left her fork stabbed into another pancake and sat back to look at LaF. “You think she is immortal?”

LaF waited for Laura to look at the pages Perry had marked. “I’m saying it’s a possibility. It’s not like this has happened many times before.”

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"It's worth checking. And I don't want to age much more than I am." Laura shrugged. "But is the healing I can give temporary, or was it only trying to heal LaF's eye temporary?"

She took the book and frowned. "Which language was this book written in? Because I don't think they knew whether they meant cursed or blessed? Carmilla? You were telling me that something you read uses the same word for both blessed and cursed? It wasn't Sumerian? But possibly they used the same word because they meant it? I think it was Saucer? Sacer?"

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Perry was surprised to hear Laura didn’t want to age much more than she was but when her girlfriend was a vampire it makes sense. She wanted to point out age isn’t a bad thing but felt she should bite her tongue. At least in those moments of thought it distracted her from Carmilla’s blood covered breakfast.

“I don’t know how it works. I could do with a sample of your blood at some point but for now I guess we just wait and see. Maybe your blood will cause permanent healing once it’s finished growing your heart.” LaF shrugged. “Who knows at this point. As long as you’re still you and feeling okay then that’s all we have to work on.” They tried to put on a positive face but the truth was both LaF and Perry were worried about what they found in that book. “I would read that book though. What happened to you is extremely rare.”

When Laura spoke Carmilla got out her chair. She quietly moved up behind Laura, resting her chin on her shoulder and pacing hand gently to waist. “Sacer. It does depend on how the words used but.” Carmilla read some more. “It doesn’t make it clear. Could be either blessing for one could be a curse for another or equally both blessing and curse for one person. I’m not sure.” Carmilla stopped reading and pulled away. “But you have to remember it’s all about perspective. Immortality could be considered a curse but some people have never wanted anything more.”

“I wouldn’t like it.” Perry chimed in. LaF just tilted their head thinking about how they would create the ultimate list of things to do.

Carmilla left the two of them in their train of thought, placed her hands over Laura’s and closed the book. “How do you feel, right now?” she asked feeling that LaF and Perry were going to spend ages researching this and no one had stopped to consider that Laura might feel fine.

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"When was the last time a seal broke?" Laura shrugged. "Fifteen hundred years ago? As far as science is concerned I might as well be the first person ever to be like this." And she could see LaF trying not to react to that."

Laura shrugged. "And of course different people see immortality differently. I'm more Hob Gadling than Connor McCleod or Dorian Grey. And Angel broods eeven more than Carm."

And she smiled at Perry. "Pretty good. And a lot less exhausted than I was yesterday. I think I feel less tired as my heart grows to its normal size? And the weird thing is that physically I don't feel any more tired after doing things than before. So it's not quite tired?"

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“Hey I don’t brood that much.”, Carm looked at LaF who gave a shrug and a nod that pretty much agreed with Laura. “Being put in the same sentence as Angel. A notable low point of the day.” She went to get her cup of blood from the table.

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Callis hadn’t lost a second of anger since Laura used permanent marker on her forehead. What made the situation worse was having Kirsch follow her around like some lost puppy and a bad reminder of that day. But while the four of them stayed in The Deans old house Mel hadn’t stopped thinking of a way to get her revenge. Not just on Laura but all of them. She was hurt her now ex friends couldn’t see that tranquilising the vampire who broke her wrists and also had super strength was actually an act of protecting her.

She thought they trusted her more than that.

Having had a day to try and cool down and scrub off the pen. Mel stared into the bathroom mirror mumbling something about hating annoying bloggers. Those mumbles quickly turned to anger.

“You know, you should really learn to control that rage. Someone might get hurt.” Mattie appeared in the reflection of the mirror standing behind Callis with a smile. Clearly knowing who she was she whipped around to see if Mattie was real.

She was.

Within seconds she had a blade out and paused at Mattie’s throat. “Give me one good reason.” She pushed the blade, forcing Mattie to raise her head higher. Mattie didn’t flinch. She didn’t even care.

“I’m already dead Cherie but I’m here to help. Wel helpl for my own amusement.” Mattie slowly pulled Callis’s hand down and the blade away. “You want your revenge don’t you? Why not have some fun while you’re at it.”

Mel folded her arms, unable to resist that offer. “Two minutes. I’m listening.”

“You know death has a plan for everything. You want revenge? Go to them, read these words out loud in their presence and both Carmilla and her…pet..will become vulnerable. You aren’t strong enough to kill them at the moment but at least this way you stand a chance.” At that Mattie held out her hand and old piece of parchment appeared. The words were magically shifting on the page, some of them even swapping places and making it hard to read.

Callis wasn’t buying any of this, she frowned at the scrape of parchment but took it anyway. “Why would you help me? I know you and Carmilla are friends.”

“Maybe it’s not me who wants it done. Maybe I’m just a mouth piece who has been told to give you hand. Never the less I have my reasons.” With that Mattie vanished in a cloud of black smoke.

A wicked smile spread across her face.

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With breakfast out the way Carmila had left them all downstairs to take a shower. LaF and Perry would no doubt be researching or trying to conduct experiments. Laura probably recording her latest video. She eventually emerged, clothed and roughly drying her hair with a towel.

“Can I make them leave now?” Carm huffed at Laura, clearly talking about LaF and Perry who were thankfully in the other room and out of ear shot.

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"Only because I'm getting better at distracting you, Carm." Laura smiled and gave her girlfriend a peck on the cheek. She might pay for her teasing later, but paying for teasing her girlfriend was never a bad thing.


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"Be nice, Carm." Laura frowned. "And is that Callis heading this way? She'd better be coming to apologise. Unless she wants round three." Laura cracked her knuckles, not spotting Kirsch appearing as well.