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Melody blinked, "H-how did they find out?" She frowned a bit, "Holden can't fight them Seth..he'd die..." Where was Solomon when you needed him? Oh right...getting the shit beaten out of him by his sister.
Seconds later, Mystic had appeared, looking rather peeved, "How did they find out about this Seth? You guys, Serus, and Jaelynn are the only vampires who know of this. Solomon and Hayden would not be so careless to let some filthy French vampires glean that from their minds." He turned to Seth, "So it was one of you three..." Serus appeared seconds after Mystic was done speaking, slapping up hard upside his face, "It wasn't us Mystic! Jeez. You demons always throw the blame to someone. Are you sure it wasn't your 'precious Acera'? She's obviously out to get you..look at what happened to Azriel.." She narrowed her eyes a bit. |
"We didn't say jack Mystic. And the only one who can get into my mind is her." Seth pointed to Serus as he crossed his arms.
Holden sighed and put the plate on the tray, "Seth, how long did they give me? Before they forcibly come?" He looked up at Seth. Seth looked down at Holden, "Five days. And they wont take any substitutions." He sighed. "And I have tried talking Jean-Pierre out of this but he wont budge. And since I don't control the world council, I can't force him to not do this." He pinched his nose. "I see Seth." Holden rubbed his legs with his hands. "I need to talk to Solomon. Seth will you take me to him?" He slowly stood up. He looked at Mystic, "Can you stay with her while I'm gone? I know Alicia is here, but if the stupid French go back on their word, Alicia wouldn't be able to handle a lot of vampires." He sighed looking at Melody. "Don't worry I will do everything I can do." Holden smiled as he walked to Seth. Seth nodded, "After I drop you off I will go back and try to get them to stop." He grabbed Holden's shoulders and disappeared. |
Serus crossed her arms over her chest, "And I'm no longer apart of the American Council..I have no pull either...Yes Melody, I know that's what you were thinking. Either way, I will talk to Kitra..she's World Head..maybe she will help us." She disappeared shortly after Seth and Holden.
Mystic nodded, "Of course. I will take her to Acera actually..there's no safer place than with her." He covered Melody's eyes, teleporting her to Acera's manor. He sighed, shaking his head, "Poor girl can never get a break." And with that he vanished. |
Seth and Holden appeared in Solomon's house. "Well Holden, I will go and see what I can do. If you need anything to use our link." He nodded and disappeared.
"Thanks.." Holden sighed at Seth disappeared. He looked around but he couldn't see much because the light's were out. He stepped forward slightly and heard a squish and a crunch. He bent down and noticed he stepped on a finger, and it was Solomon's finger. He quickly stood up and started to search the wall for a light switch. He let out a sigh of relief when he found one, but he quickly started to panic because the lights wouldn't turn on. "S-..Solomon...?" He turned around and squinted his eyes to try and see. "Hay..." Holden trailed off as he stuck his hand in a massive amount of blood... |
Hayden paused, mid swing of her sword as she heard something downstairs, "The hell..oh it's Holden..." She lightly kicked the body before her, "Solo..wake up..your stupid boyfriend is here ruining my revenge." Not getting a response, she looked down, prodding him with her katana, the blade cutting a few inches into his already destroyed flesh, "Oh my..maybe I went a little too far. Bye~" As soon as she disappeared, the lights flared on, revealing just what carnage the darkness had hid.
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Holden jumped when the lights flared on, "Oh...My...God..." His eyes went wide as he saw body parts scattered all over the room. "S-..so much blood..." He slowly walked around the pools of blood. He noticed that the body parts and blood went up the stairs. He gulped and slowly started up the stairs, he listened for any sounds of movement. He finally reached the top of the stairs, "Solomon?" He started down the hall. He saw the blood covered door to Solomon's study. He quickly ran to it and opened it. "Oh my god! Solomon!" He ran to Solomon, and slipping a little along the way. He quickly got on his knees and turned Solomon over and laid his head in Holden's lap. He noticed Solomon's chest was still moving up and down. "I'm sorry Solomon." He pulled the knife that was sticking out of Solomon's shoulder. He dragged it across his wrist, he opened Solomon's mouth and put his wrist to it. "Please Solomon, I just got you back. I can't loose you again." Holden cried a little as he looked down at Solomon.
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Hayden perched herself in a tree, holding her bloodied Katanas as she watched Holden, "Oh don't cry Holden...You know I could never kill him."
It wasn't long until Solomon was at least half conscious. His eyes flickered open, his vision blurry at first. When he realized it was Holden that was giving him the blood, he quickly moved to push Holden's wrist away..but..wait. Where were his arms. Suddenly he bolted upright, his mouth hung open as he realized he was missing more than just limbs. "There's witch-blood in the fridge Holden...you should give that to him instead. Much more powerful." |
"Solo-..Solomon, just relax." Holden tried to calm Solomon down as he getly made him move so he was leaning up against a chair. He quickly cut a piece of his shirt off and tied it around his wrist. "Just stay right there." "Not that you can move." He quickly stood up and ran down to the refrigerator. He grabbed all of the blood he could carry and went back up to the study. He popped a top from one of the bottles as he kneeled down, he put it to Solomon's lips. "Ok, Solomon... I need to talk to you about something." He looked down as he started to open another bottle. He sighed, "Why don't you just read my mind." He took the empty bottle away from Solomon. He gently laid his forehead on Solomon's.
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Solomon sighed a bit as Holden left. He quickly assessed himself while he waited. He was currently missing both arms up to the shoulder, his entire left leg, his right leg from half way down the thigh and down, he was pretty sure his feet and hands were off somewhere along with his fingers, and..wait..was he missing an ear? I am... he thought after a moment. He couldn't help but chuckle at all of this; Hayden really had an imagination. As he moved a bit, he noticed something else..he was missing a few organs! His left lung, kidneys, half his liver, and about 60% of his flesh was gone or sliced. He sighed a bit as Holden came back; poor boy had to see this.
He became extremely worried when Holden said they needed to talk. Why couldn't things just settle down for once? With a sigh, he looked to Holden as he placed his forehead on his own. "I don't have enough power build up for that," as he spoke, his voice was rather raspy. |
Holden nodded as he removed his forehead, "We can talk when your better." He smiled slightly. He grabbed a bottle of blood, and opened it. "Now be a good little patient and open your mouth." He gently bit his bottom lip. "Look at it this way, at least you weren't thrown through a table and had you back broken." He chuckled as he finally fully looked at Solomon.
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Solomon rolled his eyes a bit, "I'm actually missing two vertebrae now that you mention it." He let out a quiet sigh, "Forget the damn blood Holden and find my legs and arms....I can regrow the rest after some fresh blood."
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"Don't get snippy now." Holden sighed as he stood up. He walked out the door, he shook his head as he saw all of the blood again. "You are a freak Hayden..." He sighed as he grabbed Solomon's hand off of one of the stairs. "Just his hand?" He sighed as he watched every single step as he walked down them. He searched through any room that had blood in it, he picked up the finger he stepped on earlier. "This is going to take forever." He sighed as he walked into the kitchen. He cocked his head, "Well this is interesting. You really had to stick his arm in the sink drain..." Holden pulled out the arm.
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"Well when you're missing half you're body then you talk to be about being snippy." He sighed, using what little power he had stored to repair his skin and organs. He listened contently as Holden moves about downstairs. Hayden really did have an imagination.
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Holden noticed blood all over the fridge, "Well..." He trailed off as he opened the door. "One foot." He sighed. He closed the door and shook his head. He searched the rest of the kitchen and found another finger. He walked into the living room, "Wow...." His eyes were slightly wide when he saw how much was done in here. He quickly ran around the room and picked up two more fingers, his other arm, and hand. He couldn't carry anymore of Solomon's body parts. He went back to the stairs, and quickly went back to Solomon. "Ok I found both of your arms, hands, four fingers, and one of your feet." He gently kneeled down next to Solomon. "What do you need me to do?" Holden looked at the body parts he had and then looked up. "There is your leg."
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Solomon sighed, "You think the aftermath is bad..you should've been there during it." He looked to his arm, "Remember what we did for..Amanda?" He didn't want to bring that up, but too late. "I need you to hold my arm up to my shoulder and I'll do what I can with the power I have left."
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Holden nodded, "Yes I do." He moved some on Solomon's shirt and put Solomon's arm to his shoulder.
Alicia walked down the stairs, "Ok... Where is everyone?" She peered around the corner. "Holden? Melody?" She noticed the full bottle of wine on the couch. "Well something went down, Holden doesn't leave a full bottle of wine, well laying around..." She sighed. She disappeared, and landed in Solomon's blood soaked house. "Oh...Dear...God..." She covered her mouth slightly and disappeared again. "Hi Alicia... Bye Alicia..." Holden shook his head. |
He chuckled a bit, "She couldn't handle it." When he felt the arm against his shoulder he carefully reattached it to his body; only attaching what was absolutely necessary first. He'd take care of the minor blood vessels and muscles later; for now, tendons bones and large blood vessels. When he was finished, he nodded to his hand, "Which hand is that?"
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"That's sad, I'm human and I can handle it." Holden chuckled. "I think this is the left. But I did find 'em both." He sighed as he compared it to his. He gently lifted Solomon's reattached arm, and looked at it closely. "Yep it is the left." He moved the hand closer to Solomon's arm.
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Solomon nodded, "Okay..any idea about the fingers? It doesn't really matter though..those I can tolerate regrowing.." He waited until he could feel the hand against his arm then worked to reattach it in a similar manner, closing the joints where the fingers would attach. He suddenly felt weak, his head falling back against the couch as he fought for consciousness, "Blood.."
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"I only have four of them right now." Holden nodded. "I still have to find your other foot and leg." He sighed slightly. He nodded and quickly grabbed a bottle of witches blood and put it to Solomon's lips. "It's kind of a nice change of pace, me taking care of you." Holden smiled slightly.
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He narrowed his eyes slightly, quickly drinking down the blood, "Oh shut up. It's bad enough that my sister kicked my ass..." He nodded his head to his legs, "One more bottle then we do my legs."
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Holden stuck his tongue out slightly, "I'll have to go and find your other leg." He sighed as he took the top off of the bottle of blood. He put it up to Solomon's mouth, he started looking around the room more to see if there was any other body parts in the room. He sighed, "Let me go find your other leg." He put the empty bottle on the floor and walked out. He raised his eyebrow when he noticed a one leg foot print. He shook his head as he followed it. He made it to the door and opened it, "Oh my god..." He trailed off when he saw Solomon's leg coming out from the toilet bowl. He gagged slightly when he noticed that there was urine in the toilet. He took it out and rinsed it off in the sink. "You are so disgusting Hayden." He sighed as he kind of shook Solomon's leg. "He is not to know about this..." Holden trailed off as he went back to the study.
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"About what Holden..." He lifted his arm a bit, turning a few times as he worked to reattach the rest of the nerves. He made sure to stretch out every bit of power used to make sure that he would have enough for both legs later on. "No wait..you're probably right...don't tell me."
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Holden shook his head as he entered the study, "Ya it's best to keep it unknown to you." He sighed. "It's still disgusting." He sighed again. He kneeled down and put the right leg up against the rest of the leg. He stood up and went to the corner and picked up Solomon's left leg. "She is so weird." He chuckled and walked back over to Solomon. He bent over and grabbed Solomon's left foot. He put them 'together' and put them right up against Solomon's hip. He noticed blood on Solomon's face, his mouth dropped open slightly. "She cut your ear off?" Holden said slightly flabbergasted.
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Solomon shook his head, rolling his eyes slightly, "She's definitely creative." He worked to reattach his legs, then the foot. "Yeah..I think she has it actually...she did it right before I passed out." He raised his hand to gently touch where his ear should be, and winced, "God dammit! She could've at least destroyed the nerves while she was at it."
Hayden giggled tossing the ear up and catching it; repeating this a few times a she watched from her tree, "So was half the shit you two did." |
Holden suddenly gasped, "That was my favorite ear..." He pouted. He sighed, "Do you want me to go and find your other fingers?" He picked up the last bottle of blood. "Wanna drink this, or do you want me to have Alicia find you a human?" He waved the bottle of blood slightly.
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He stared at the bottle, "You expect me to hold that?" He grinned a bit, "I will require both, unfortunately. While you're at it, see if you can get her to convince Hayden to divulge where my ear is."
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"You can do it darling." Holden chuckled slightly. "I can try.." He nodded his head as he opened the bottle. He put the bottle to Solomon's lips, "Alicia~" He said in a singsong tone.
"I already know what your gonna ask Holden." Alicia crossed her arms. She appeared holding a young male, "You owe me." She tossed the boy at Holden and disappeared. She landed under the tree Hayden was in, "So did you have fun?" She looked up to Hayden. Holden was knocked over as the young man hit him. "Thanks." He grabbed they boy's wrist and put it to Solomon's mouth. "She didn't have to throw him at me." He narrowed his eyes slightly. |
"No, but she could've done worse I suppose." He sighed a bit, biting down hard onto his wrist. "Unfortunately for him..he's not going to live through this." Once he had drank all the blood from the boy, he sat back with a slight sigh, "It might take a few days for my fingers to come back..this'll just be easier than trying to hunt the damn things down."
Hayden looked down with a smile, "I did actually. It was a shame you couldn't join me. I'm sure you would've thrown in some pretty good ideas." |
"Sadly, and he was kind of cute." Holden chuckled as he kind of threw the boy to the side. He sighed as he sat down next to Solomon, "One reason I'm glad I'm gay, women are evil creatures. Another is those damn..." He trailed off with a shiver. He gently leaned his head on Solomon's shoulder, "You owe me big time for tracking down your limbs." He chuckled as he gave Solomon a kiss on the cheek.
"I would have." Alicia sighed and chuckled. "Your lucky though, I couldn't do to much to Holden. He refused to have me turn him." She leaned against the tree. "He was always holding out hope that Solomon would forgive him and turn him." She sighed as she picked Holden's dried blood from her fingernails. |
She jumped down, landing silently next to Alicia, "Aw that's so cute~ Solomon on the other hand..I really couldn't get a read on him. He's very good at lying."
Solomon smiled a bit, letting his head rest on Holden's shoulder, "I will make it up to you, don't worry about that love." He winced a bit as a few of his bones reset and began to heal, "Ah I forgot about those..." Most of his organs were restore by now; his lung was still growing though. "What is it that you needed to talk to me about Holden? You seemed awfully upset about it." |
"Ya, but it would of been easier on me in the long run. Melody is always breaking his bones." Alicia sighed. She put her arm around Hayden's neck, "Solomon is good at that, as well as many other things." She shivered. "You should probably give Solomon back his ear." She chuckled.
"I never doubted that darling~" Holden chuckled. He sighed, "It's the French council..." He leaned his head on Solomon's. "They want Melody back, and they are challenging me." He closed his eyes. "I can't do it as a human..." He trailed off not knowing how Solomon would react. He opened his eyes, "I'm not pressuring you to turn me Solomon, but I can't just let them have her." Holden sighed looking to Solomon. |
He sighed, lifting his hand to pinch the bridge of his nose, but realized he had no fingers. He let out another sigh and lowered his arm, "I know Holden..but..there's no way you'd be strong enough even if I were to turn you right now. Where's Melody right now?"
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"I have to answer them in five days..." Holden sighed. "She's at Acera's, which I don't like that either. I'm not saying that she will corrupt Melody, but I don't want Melody to get anymore anger." He brushed the hair out of Solomon's eyes. "I may not have magic anymore but I still feel peoples emotions." He kissed the top of Solomon's head.
"Serus what does Kitra say? I was able to get two more days for Holden." Seth leaned against a wall in the French council house. "Since Holden and Melody are under my jurisdiction, the French are quite pissed." He sighed. Alicia chuckled, "I could use a drink, wanna join me?" She tightened her hold around Hayden somewhat giving her a hug. |
Hayden clenched the ear tightly, shoving her hands up her kimono sleeves, "I'm good. You go have some fun. Maybe you'll meet someone and get out of my hair." She chuckled and disappeared.
"She's going to talk to Jean-Pierre tomorrow. Even if he doesn't agree with her, he has to listen to her. She has jurisdiction over him." Solomon sighed, "Acera is probably going ot get very mad at Jean-Pierre if he does not decide to back down. Personally, I would want nothing ot do with Acera..good or bad." |
"Maybe." Alicia smiled and disappeared.
"Ya, but who knows if he will do it 'on the record'." Seth sighed as he disappeared. "Me neither. But then again next to Mystic and Azriel I hate demons." Holden ran his hand through his hair. "Let's go, we need to make sure you did a good job reattaching you legs." He smiled as he smoothed out his blood soaked shirt. Seth appeared in front of Holden and Solomon, he looked around slightly confused. Holden put up his hand, "Don't even ask, what did everyone say?" He sighed. "Well I got you two more days, and Kitra will talk to Jean-Pierre tomorrow." Seth shook his head. "But just to warn you, the French might do this 'off the record'." He ran his hand through his hair. "The French are quite stupid." He sighed. Holden shook his head, "I can never have peace. Even as a human." He pinched his nose. "I even got thrown in twenty-four hour lockup in Peru because I snorted coke from that man's navel. I should of never listened to him when he gave me a sombrero and said 'Vas a necesitar esta. (Your gonna need this.)' " He threw his hands down slightly. "Goddamn lying bastard." Holden crossed his arms in a small huff. |
Solomon shook his head, "I don't want to go anywhere right now Holden.." He listened quietly as Seth and Holden spoke, hardly even noting what was going on. After a few moments, he sat up looking at his hands; little nubs were starting to form where his fingers would eventually grow, "I could use a few more meals."
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Holden stood up, "I'll go and get you a few. Will you take me Seth?" He stretched his back. He leaned down and placed a kiss on Solomon's forehead. He put his hand on Seth's shoulder and closed his eyes.
Seth nodded, "Sure." He sighed and disappeared. He quickly blocked all human's from seeing him and Holden, mainly Holden since he was covered in blood. "You should really get cleaned up." He sighed as he noticed a couple walking. He stuck up his finger and quickly went to them. He knocked them out and threw them over his shoulders. "Here we go." He nodded to Holden, and waited for him to close his eyes. "That was fast." Holden blinked. He closed his eyes. When they landed he opened his eyes. "There you go. Now I have to go and see if there is anything else I can do." Seth put the girl and guy down and disappeared. Holden smiled at Solomon and dragged the girl to him. "Here you go sweety." He held the wrist to Solomon's mouth. |
Solomon waited patiently as Seth and Holden left. "Go get cleaned up Holden, I can handle this on my own." He bit down on the girl's wrist, diverting all power he gathered from her blood to regenerating his fingers. By the time she was drained of blood, his left hand was almost completely reconstructed. He let her wrist fall from his mouth, flexing his fingers to test the nerves, "Go. I'm fine."
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"Fine, is it ok if I take a few of your clothes? Since I can't get a hold of Alicia." Holden crossed his arms. "If you need me I'll be in your shower." He winked slightly and walked out of the room. When he made it to Solomon's room he quickly picked out a outfit. "I think I'll wear one of his ties." He chuckled as he went through the array of ties. "Well this is interesting." He laughed. He pulled out a hot pink tie, "I would love to see him wear this one, but I think I will wear it." He laughed again. He sighed and gathered up the clothes he picked out and went into the bathroom. Holden placed the clothes on the sink and started the water.
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