Ever After

Chapter 14



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Back to Corrine’s point of view



I was so happy to be pain free and feeling better all the time. Doc and Pratt were confident the serum was stopping the cancer, and letting the venom slowly complete the changing process. I knew soon, all this would be over, and I hoped life would settle back to some form of normal for all of us. It was a nice break from the usual drama; we had all been stuck in the past few months.

The next few weeks though, found us all right back into the drama big time. The Dark Coven contacted doc. One of their many elders, named Trevor demanded to know why Vincent had been killed. Doc told Trevor the story and how he was going to kill Will and me. He had no option; this did not appease Trevor at all.

Doc warned him that any threat or violent action against any Follower would not be tolerated. I was shocked to learn, that the chief elder, of the Dark coven could possibly be Doc’s brother Leo. I was told the story, by Will about Doc and his only brother. I was absolutely speechless that Doc could be related to one so evil.

It was not known yet if Leo was the leader. Trevor refused to tell Doc when they spoke. I could tell by the tone in Will’s voice that if Leo was in fact the chief elder we were all in serious danger. It seems Doc and Leo, had a deep hatred of one another, setting the scene for a war between the covens.

I had prayed Will would be fully recovered by now, but he was not. I was seeing no improvements, but Pratt said he was not getting any weaker and had no illness recently. Will was on guard with me at all times now. He watched everyone and everything around me. The main reason he did this besides the possible Dark coven attack, was that Roth swore he saw Todd Downs in the area.

This was just more bad news; it was bad enough we had to deal with a coven of evil vampires. Todd my insane ex boyfriend, who attacked me, and nearly killed me two times, was the last thing I wanted to worry about. Not to even mention the entire emotional trauma he gave me. The last attack, on me Todd set it up to look like a suicide.

That night still haunted me to this day, but now the nightmares had become less frequent. I could never forget the way he looked into my eyes when he ran that knife across my wrists. The look was pure evil, no compassion and no remorse at all. I could not believe I had ever had a relationship with a guy like that.

Then there was Will, my tragic angel, the love of my life. He was all I could ever have dreamed of. He was kind, caring, and so in love with me. It was hard to believe how happy I was right now, even with all the health issues and Dark coven stuff. He never tired of being with me, even in the difficult times. The connection we had was so deep and strong; everyone around us could see it in our eyes.

Lydia who in her spare time loved researching history and astrological things, told me Will and I were soul mates. She had told me each and every person has a true soul mate, one person they were meant to be with and truly connected with. I had heard of it, and seen it in movies and read it in books, but now I was living it.

Lydia told me she had never seen Will so happy in all of the many years he had been alive. I was what he needed, and he was what I needed in this crazy messed up world. I only hoped my stupid body would hold up until I could complete the transformation to a vampire. I prayed I could, but still worried I wouldn’t.

Will was still attending classes, despite the fact he hated it, and he was so insanely smart he knew more than the professors did. Doc told us we had to keep up appearances until we went back to Maine, or we made the trip to France. It was looking like we would remain in Cambridge now, at least until I was ready to go to France to complete the change. Doc, as we all did had a “human” life to maintain.

He was a doctor after all, and despite the fact he had partners in his medical office (they were human doctors) they could not take over care of all his patients any longer. Doc had to stay in town and work; it was his passion to heal humans and in order to maintain the appearance of normalcy he needed to be here. He worried I would not want to stay home, but I assured him I was fine being here, at least I could spend time with Gran now.

I started to resume my classes, I had too. Dad was bugging me, seeing as I was recovering he worried for my future, if he only knew! I eyed the stack of books on my desk. I was doing correspondence courses again, and had enough work backed up to choke a horse. I had two essays on human behavior to do, how ironic I thought to myself.

How odd to get that assignment, now that I wasn’t even fully a human anymore. I was a bit annoyed to have to stay to tell you the truth. Sara made me nervous, always watching me, she even commented on my pale coloring yesterday. She told me I needed to go to the tanning beds or get a spray tan, I looked half-dead. I nearly laughed; I so wanted to say, “Well you know what I am half dead if you want to get technical Sara”. I behaved, I shrugged my shoulders and left the room and said nothing.

The other reason I was bothered by staying in town, was Roth’s mention of thinking he saw Todd in town the other day. Could he be alive? Was he here waiting to get me? The thoughts were getting hard to ignore. If he came back and tried to kill me now, it wouldn’t take much. I was recovering, yes but I could still only walk a very short distance, like uh to the bathroom ok! I couldn’t get away from him if I wanted to. I was basically helpless her in my room.

Will was with me nearly all the time, but he too would be no match for Todd right now either. I hated being so vulnerable and seeing Will the same. I knew it grated on his nerves, having to rely on the coven, and namely his cousins for protection. It was the whole macho guy thing I guess. Will liked being my protector, my knight in shining armor and right now, it was hard for him to be that.

I could see his eyes get dark when Doc told him to let Roth be the one to guard my room at all times. He and Roth were as close as brothers, but Will wanted to be the one able to keep me from harm not Roth. I assured him it didn’t matter to me, but it did not help, he was still annoyed big time.

I smiled at Will. I watched him sleeping on my love seat, a pink Hello Kitty throw blanket covering him, it looked funny. I decided to read, but first I flipped up my laptop to go over my emails. I had been chatting with Beth and Kara a lot this week. It was easier, I didn’t want Sara hearing what we were talking about, and she seemed to be always around.

I was trying to keep in contact with them and a lot of my “human” friends. I was told being a half blood, maintaining my human friendships would be easier even during the changing process. Half bloods did not thirst to the point of uncontrollable behavior as “new” full-blooded vamps often did. Many new full bloods had to be isolated until they learned self-control around humans.

I wanted to invite Kara and Beth over one evening for a movie night, as we use to do, soon. I knew I could never tell them what I was, or becoming right now. I was a member of the Follower coven now. I had to live by the code set centuries before my existence and that meant never revealing what we were.

I decided to watch TV for a while I couldn’t sleep again. I was having more nights like this. Will would drift off easily, and I would be wide-awake. I walked around the house a lot, trying to get stronger and trying to avoid boredom. I knew I was going to need less sleep when I changed fully into a half blood, so I needed to get use to long nights.

Tonight I found a movie, Father of the bride, one of my old favorites, so I curled up to watch it. I looked over at Will again; he was still curled up on the love seat. I admired him as he slept. I was still amazed at how damn good-looking vampires were, especially my William. Will’s thick black hair was ruffled, his long eyelashes fanned out against his cheeks.

Will always would appear normal compared to full-blooded vampires. His skin tone was darker, even than my former human coloring. I just wanted to kiss his full lips, and be close to him but he needed his rest even more than I did now. I tried not to start worrying about his health again. Doc and Pratt swore to me they would watch over him and make sure he recovered, and I knew they would do just that.