The Vampire Warrior And Her Werewolf Lover.

A plan

Scarlett's POV

“ You shouldn't be here, young lady? Get lost ” one of the soldiers orders and it sure brought me back to consciousness.

“ s**t ” I mumble as I cart myself away drowned in embarrassment

“ Wait! ” the sweet baritone voice speaks again and I am at the brink of stopping when I remember that I'll be dead meat if I dare turn back. What will I say I was doing with poisoned weapons?

I painfully sprint back to the dungeon still wondering what just happened

I stop to catch my breath and I turn back hoping to see him again

That wasn't the Alpha, was it? I ask myself as I recall the afore witnessed event

No it can't be, that can't be him. I argue with myself so much on the way back, one would think I'm mentally ill

With shame and whole nine yards humiliation, I drag my feet in through the gate with all soldiers' eyes on me

“ I'm damn sure, I'm in some hot mess ” I mutter angrily as they bore holes in my body with those disgusting eyes

“ Where are you coming from? ” the head soldiers ask and I know them too well to know that I can't try stutter so I try to collect my story well before uttering a word

“ I went back to pick my axe, I left it back at the field, Clumsy me ” I say confidently not flinching even though my heart's been swallowed up by my intestines already

“ You ran in here panting, care to explain? ” he asks again

“ The king was threading that same path so I was scared I'll be in the way so I decided to run instead ” I reply calmly

“ I'm done with you ” he concludes and turns back and I almost s**t myself

I walk to Andy with so much shame bracing up for whatever she has prepared for me

“ Scarlett ” she squeals as soon as she sees me

“ What did you use it for? ” she asks as she hurriedly pulls out the portion from my cloak

“ No one ” I reply and I feel a twinge of pain run down my spine

“ What do you mean? ”

“ Exactly what I said ” I say not wanting to go into details because it sure would hurt me more explaining the fact that I had my target right where I wanted and I couldn't f*****g shoot

“ We both know I deserve more than this shitty answer you're giving ” she persists and I know she won't let it go

“ I couldn't go through with it ” I mutter

“ Go through with what? ”

I give her a dead face hoping she gets the message- I don't want to talk about it

“ Don't give me that face ” she warns sternly

“ Who did you go to kill? ”

“ No one Andy, for gods sake ” I shrill

“ But who was it you wanted to kill? ”

“ The Alpha ” I mumble and her face turns completely sour and her eyes fall in fear

“ Scarlett! ” she gasps

“ It didn't work. That's all you should know ” I end the conversation and stomp out

I already feel bad about this, she shouldn't make it worse

“ Did you meet him? ” Annoying Jeff appears at the wrong time again

“ Yes I did. Thank you ” I force my lips to say with a hundred percent fake smile to push him away

“ Oh Alright. You're welcome ” he replies grinning from ear to ear

God! He should leave now please

“ Do you know- ”

“ Jeff, please no. I'm not interested ” I couldn't continue the fake act

For a split second, I feel for him as I watch him walk away bummed out

I rarely stay outside my corner but I'm too pissed to be in the same place as Andy right now

I continue wandering around because luckily for me, today's sort of a free day for the slaves to honour the death of their god forsaken idol, I think it's the first Alpha to rule, not that I care though

“ I suggest we sell some of them off at the ceremony ” I hear a conversation going on in one of the soldiers quarters and I tip toe closer to hear better

“ Yes, I agree. They are more than we can handle at the moment ” another voice I can't recognise speaks up

“ You're never here so how can you be so sure of that ” the head soldier attacks him and I didn't know when I whisper “ Exactly ”

I put my hand over my mouth quickly before I get caught

“ That is not the point here. The point is there are respectable people in the pack in need of servants so it'll be advisable you sell them off before the Alpha looks into it and gifts them away leaving you dry ” That voice speaks up again and I cringe as I listen to him.

Who the f**k does he think he is to make decisions around here when he doesn't stay around?

“ We have heard you, we'll put it into thoughts as you have our best interests at heart. So in the absence of any other thing, this meeting is adjourned ” the head soldier says and everyone disperses

Shit! s**t! Where do I go now? I'm definitely gonna get caught

As I hear their footsteps closer, I know that I'm surely in a deep mess because this is a no zone for slaves so there's no explanation I can give that'll convince them

The only thing I can do is jump off, how did I even get up here in the first place?

Okay, here goes nothing. I know it's not difficult for a vampire to jump high but for weird reasons, I don't have that ability that's why I trained so hard in the past so I could level up with my peers that got those abilities through genetics but right now,my legs are sure gonna break in pieces if I jump from this height but I've got no choice

I place my hands over my mouth to prevent myself from screaming out and I lunge myself out into the wind. It's weirdly soothing, feeling the wind run through my hair, I feel as light as a feather but I open my eyes to see that I'm really close to the ground.

Is this the end? Am I gonna die here? In a matter of seconds I see myself standing on the floor, no bones broken. So I have the ability after all, huh?

I couldn't stop the smile splitting my face, an odd surge of confidence running through my body, giving me the zeal to take over literally everything

The distant conversations of the soldiers brings me back from my unhealthy ecstasy. I scurry back to my corner to meet Andy sleeping or pretending to

“ So why couldn't you kill him? ” she asks totally startling me

“ God! Can you let it be? ”

“ Just answer, it isn't so difficult, is it? ” she fires back

“ I don't know, I just couldn't ” I finally reply

“ That's strange ”

“ You think? ”

“ I laid there waiting patiently for him to pass by and he did, perfect. Everything was working according to my f*****g plan. I just got stuck, I saw him and I couldn't, like I froze or something ” I explain already feeling my veins throb

“ This is hilarious ” Andy mocks, laughing like some fool

“ When you're done, let me know ” I snap at her

“ C'mon, I deserve this laugh. You left as though you were about to kill an army and you couldn't even shoot ” Andy continues, grinning in satisfaction, she's definitely enjoying this moment

“ There's nothing funny about it. Can you stop already? ”

“ You're lucky you weren't caught. You keep taking irrational decisions and you think it's gonna help get the revenge you so much want. I really hope the next rash resolution you take won't get you killed ” she gives one of her totally unrequested advice again

“ Yeah yeah, whatever ” I bluff

“ You aren't eating again I guess? ” Andy asks afore hand before she gets another lunch I won't eat

I nod in reply and I go on to lie on my little woody bed, it makes its usual creaky sound as I spread my fatigued body on it. I've feared severally that it would fall apart and give up on me but it keeps beating my imagination, that's good

“ You know they are planning to sell us out right? ” I ask Andy who is walking back with a plate of whatever garbage she is served

I know fully well that she doesn't know but I still asked if she did to rub in her face that I know more than she does

“ What do you mean? ” she asks with a flushed face

“ I over head the soldiers talking with some strange people about selling us off during some ceremony coming up ” I reveal to her

“ Scarlett ” she gasps wide eyed, her eyes already tearing up

“ Why aren't you afraid? They might separate us, you are the only person whose trouble I can manage and you without doubt won't survive without me ” Andy laments

“ If we play our cards right, we might end up together in the palace ” I try to comfort her

“ Not even in your wildest dreams darling ” she laughs off the idea and I won't blame her, it's a hilarious idea but it's possible, I hope.

“ I'm serious Andy, it's possible ” I say doubting myself almost immediately but I shove the thought away

“ How do you plan to do that? ” she asks, her eyes show a flint of hope

“ Um, I don't know ” I mumble and her face drops again

“ For now, Andy. I don't know for now. But I promise I'll figure it out ” I keep saying whatever I can to keep her hope alive

“ I won't hold unto your word ”

“ I'll surprise you. You don't know the exact date this crazy ceremony would hold, do you? ”

“ After the full moon I guess ”

“ So that's in like a week right? ” I confirm

“ I guess ” she mutters

That's perfect for my plan to work out, not that I have it now but I know something would come up

“ Hey, just a random question, you wouldn't know the criterion to be a slave in the palace, would you? ” I ask a black haired witch as we clear off the feces in the stable

“ Well that's a really random question indeed ” she replies. I never knew she had a sharp intonation, I like

“ Yeah, was just thinking about it ” I try to wade off further questions

“ Or you wanna work at the palace? ” she asks. Nosy much, I take it back, I don't like you

“ Do you know? ” I ask again so she could focus on the matter on hand

“ I think, blameless, no scars. You've got to be clean like a hundred percent. You have to sparkle if you can, because they pick only the best. ” she informs

“ Hm, okay ” I mumble

“ Yeah and I guess, you can't be a liability ” she adds

I'm tempted to ask how she knows about it but I stab the thought and say a thank you as I focus on cleaning off this totally disgusting place.

We finish taking care of the stables, almost a hundred thousand acres wide, and I dash out to meet with Andy at the pigs pen, somewhere I'm so grateful I wasn't selected to clean up, not that the stables are any better

“ Andy ” I try to call her with my palms closing my nose so tight as I try to block the stench from entering my nose

“ Andy ” I call again. Please answer, I'm about to pass out, I can feel this stench mess with my brain already

“ Scarlett? ” she confirms if it is actually me

“ Of course it's me ” I snap at her as soon as I get sight of her

“ What are you doing here? Are you done in the stables? ” she asks in worry

“ Yeah. We had more hands today lucky for me ”

“ So what's up? ”

“ Oh yeah yeah ” I stutter as I try to remember why I came to see her

“ I have a plan ” I say beaming from cheek to cheek expecting to see a similar reaction on her face but what I get is a confused face

“ What plan? ”

“ Oh how bad you tiny brain is, please keep up ” I say in frustration

“ Plan to get us to the palace, together, remember? ” I try to remind her

“ Oh that dead plan of yours? ”

“ I don't know why I keep adding you to my plans when it's clear, you don't wanna be a part of it ” I say as I attempt to leave hoping that she would stop me and she f*****g doesn't! She doesn't! She really thinks this plan won't work, I'm not sure it would too but it won't hurt to have a bit of faith

“ Andy! ” I squeal in disbelief

“ What? I've got real work to return to ” she answers flatly

“ C'mon, I promise it has a high probability of working, trust me ”

“ You don't even believe it yourself. Let's stop wasting time, if what you heard is really true, then we'll part ways to face whatever comes in the future ” she doesn't want to be involved but I love her too much to let her stay here or be carried away to a worse place

After so much repetition and going over everything a million times over, Andy partially comes on board with my plan, it's something at least

The day is here and I was right, they're gonna sell out, now we just wait and see if our plan works, hopefully it does