Ever After

Chapter 2



Complications



I could hear raised voices down stairs, jolting me from my sleep. It was two in the morning, but that meant nothing in a house full of vampires. They all slept very little and someone was always awake at any hour, of the night. I was getting use to that, slowly.

“You can’t expect him to stay away from her Doc, she is his child. He will demand to see her, and if we don’t allow him, he will call the authorities.” Lydia’s voice sounded strained, not light, and soft as usual. “You know it only took William three days to recover from Vincent’s attack, and I never left his side. You take Mr. Whitmore’s only child off for some medical treatment, he’s probably not even sure of, and you think he will not demand to see her?”

I could hear Lydia talking, and her words were very true. I knew my dad; he was not going to be put off much longer by Doc.

Lydia went on.“I don’t blame him for being irate. His child is deathly ill, and he naturally wants to see her.” I could hear other members of the coven down stairs also. They seemed to be having a meeting about me.

I felt guilty bringing this on them all, the followers were peaceful vampires and never wanted to draw attention. My relationship with William, was definitely giving them more contact with humans than I figured they wanted. I worried the other coven members might be mad at me. I strained to hear the rest of their conversation.

“Well we will have to move her to real clinic, won’t we?” I heard Roth asked.

“It’s too dangerous to move her Roth; she’s much too fragile right now.” Doc replied firmly.

“What about the clinic in Shelton, we could use it just for a few hours, while her dad visits.” Riley added, he was the youngest vampire and vey soft spoken. I hadn’t realized they had all come out to Doc’s home in Maine, until now.

“That’s a good idea, but we have to keep her away from all human doctors or nurses, if they were to examine her.” Doc sighed loudly. “It could expose us all; it would only take one nurse checking her pulse or temperature, while one of us was not looking. It would be all over CNN, she would be a medical headline in no time, a freak of nature. The simple fact her body temperature, alters between 81 degrees and 109 is enough to rule that whole idea out. That’s hard to hide from human medical staff.”

“We need to stage a clinic then, that’s the only way.” William’s smooth voice calmly announced.

“Good Idea!” Roth agreed.

“We could do it; he would never suspect a thing!” Riley added his voice excited.

“Yes, well I think that may be the answer.” Doc smiled as he looked around the room. “I think we can pull it off, and get some medical equipment up here. We could stage some patients, and medical staff. It would only be for a short time and I can work up some medical documents to show Corrine’s progress.”

I had to smile now, it was a brilliant idea, and it would be so wonderful to see dad again and maybe Gran if she could make the trip. I felt so disconnected from her and dad, it made me sad. I knew it was just the ways things had to be for now, but it still made be cry sometimes. I was happy to know they had a plan to get us all through this, nice thing about vampires they have a lot of experience at covering up weird things.

“Let’s set it up then, and get this done so we can focus on getting Corrine better.” I heard Lydia announce. I could hear the other coven members talking and agreeing with her. The coven was very large but many of the members did not all live together, but in typical single-family homes as “normal” people. They gathered when the coven faced problems and always came to agreements together as one unit.

William came in later and kissed my forehead, and smiled at me. “Well we have to get you ready to see your father.” I smiled up at him losing myself in his deep blue eyes.

“Can we see if Gran can come up too? I miss her so much.”

He nodded and smiled. “I’m sure we can see if she would like to come up.”