Mixed Worlds

Chapter Seven - Safe Word

    Jack walks into the back room and sees Christian, still chained to the chair. He looks around, and sees Ally crouched in the corner taking her socks off. She’s always had to feel the vibrations on the ground. Her oddly heightened senses have always come in handy.  He walks over to her and says in a hush tone; “Are you sure you’re ready for this?” He hands her the vervain as she stands up to stretch. 

    “Yep. Thank you. I grabbed another chair for you. Please give me as much time as you can.” She walks over to the table, sits down and sets her feet up on the table, and starts to grind up the vervain. She grabs a spray bottle, already filled with water, and puts a decent amount of the herb into the bottle. As she seals the bottle and starts to shake it, she stands up. She walks over to Christian, passed out from a hard blow to the temple, and sprays his face. Christian, startled and in pain, jumps in his chair and yells out.

    “What the f**k?!” He spits in her face. “Go ahead. Have your fun. Won’t bother me at all.” He wipes the water off of his face with his shoulders.

    “Oh don’t you worry, I’ll have plenty of fun.” She walks over to the table, grabs a knife, and slices down the middle of his chest, cutting his shirt and flesh in one drag. She sprays the wound, and laughs. “Would you like to establish a safe word for when you’ve had enough for today?”

    “f**k you.” He spits again.

    “Oh that’s too easy. How about ‘please’ or ‘stop’?” I feel like you’ll be cussing me out quite a bit and that just wouldn’t be fun at all.

    Jack laughs. “Choose wisely man, she won’t give you another chance to pick.”

    Ally looks over to Jack, and smiles. “Going once, going twice,” she pauses for him and chuckles. “three times? Gone.” She turns around, picks up her boxing wraps, and begins to wrap her hands up. Her hands are still a little bruised from her fight with him, but she’ll never admit that to anyone.  Soaking her hand with the vervain spray, she glides over and crouches in front of Christian. “Are you ready, babe?”

    “Try your best, bitch.” Ally stands up, and gracefully lands a hard blow into his jaw.  She heard a crack, and a slight ‘f**k’ from Christian. Fifteen minutes later, Ally is still landing punches to his face and chest, often making his cut bigger, and sees him becoming more irritable from the vervain.  She takes a small break, only to pick up a glass of vervain water and holds his mouth open as she pours it down Christian’s throat. Seeing his mouth smoke from the burn, he chokes and rips his head out of her grasp, spitting the remaining water out of his mouth.  Ally walks back over to the table, and takes a wooden stake, and a pair of scissors back with her. She cuts the rest of his shirt off, leaving his entire chest bare. She cuts him five times, and with each cut, she says a name.

    “For my mother.” She pulls the stake across the left side of his chest. “For my sister Jamie.” Another cut, on the right side. “For Marcus.” Slicing his arm. “For my dad.” Another drag down his other arm. “And finally, for what you did to me.” She tosses the piece of wood, and watches it flip in the air, catches it, and aims for his stomach. It’s small, but sharp, and she leaves it in his abdomen. 

    “For f**k sakes woman.” He says through his teeth. “How long do you plan on doing this for?” He says with a smirk.

    “For as long as I damn feel like it. If you have a problem with that, you can take it up with the stake in your gut.” She grabs his face with her left hand, and says quietly, “you will never hurt anyone ever again. The amount of pain I will cause you, will never make up for the lives you’ve taken from others.”  And with that, she winds up her right arm, and brings down a hard blow strong enough to knock him out again.  She removes the stake, and allows the little amount of blood pour out, as he heals up enough to close the wound.

    Covered in Christians blood, she looks at Jack, who has an impressed expression on his face. “So? What did you think?” She smiles at him, waiting for his approval. 

    “I think you did a pretty good job. If it were me, I would’ve left a tooth pick hanging in his cheek.” He gets up and lets out a laugh. Ally starts laughing too, but it eventually turns into a light sob. “Hey, what’s wrong?”  He begins to walk over.

    Ally takes a step back putting her hands up. “I’m alright. I’ve just been waiting for this for so long. It’s starting to heal the mark he’s left on me since he... since he took my family away from me. I needed this.” She wipes away her tears, forgetting her hands are covered in blood. “Oh yeah. Oops.” She laughs. Saying nothing more, she opens the door, and walks out of the room with the vampires blood still on her face. Before he leaves, Jack turns around, an walks towards Christian. He checks his chains, and hits him hard in the jaw, hearing a small crack. Saying nothing, Jack turns, and locks the door behind him.

            Ally walks back into the kitchen, fixing her ponytail, and forgetting again about the blood on her hands. Her hair is light enough that it looks like she has patches of bight red hair-dye on her head.  Lucas is in the fridge, and he turns around to see Ally standing there, covered in blood.  “Ally, are you okay?” No response. “Ally please,” He begs. “Why won’t you talk to me?” Ally goes to walk past him, but he grabs her arm, and as she turns around, punches Lucas in the chest, knocking him into the fridge and making him drop the beer.

    “Don’t touch me.” She storms off to the bathroom, where she washes off the blood as best as she can with just a cloth. With a sigh, she walks to the library sits next to Caspian, and says “What’s on the agenda for today?” She opens her journal, and writes the date on the page. It’s been exactly six months since she’s been with Lucas and Jack.

    “We’re not going to learn anything new today. We’re getting out of the bunker for a few hours.” And before Ally can respond, Caspian snaps them out to an old farm. A small yet homey house just off the road, and a huge live stock barn in behind.

    “Cas I want to-“ the view had made her lose her train of thought, and she spins around, and gives Caspian a hug. “Let me guess, Jack’s idea?” 

    “You guessed correctly. We’ve got three hours, then Jack wants you back. Is that alright?” He said, still hugging her.

    “That’s okay. Mimi doesn’t talk much, and there’s not much I can tell her. Can you clean me up? Put on a green dress or something?” She pulls away, showing him her blood-stained clothes.

    “Yes.”  With a light touch to her forehead, a bright light shines through, and soon enough, she has on a green dress that flows just above her knee, and has lace half-length sleeves. Her hair is tied back into a French braid, and she’s barefoot, as she likes it. Skin wiped clean from her face down to her toes, she gives Cas a thank you, and walks up to the front door. With a light knock, she opens the door.

    “Mimi? It’s your Allycat.” She doesn’t hear a response, which is normal. Her grandmothers dog, Blue, greets her at the door, tail wagging, and her tongue sticking out off to the side.  “Hey girl, where’s your momma?”  The Australian heeler takes off into the living room, where her Mimi is sitting on the couch, reading a book. “Hey Mimi, how are you?”

    Her grandma looks up, takes her glasses off and smiles. “My how you’ve grown. I’m better now that you’re here. Your father would be proud of you. I see you’ve been fighting monsters. How’s that going for you?” She says as she looked at Ally’s hands, still red from earlier. 

    ‘Gee, thanks Cas. Of all things you could’ve missed, my bruised hands were the one you decided to skip over.’ She sighs. “I’m sorry Mimi. Ever since everyone passed away, that’s all I’ve been doing. I’m not alone though, six months ago I was saved by-“

    “The Foster boys, and an angel? Why don’t you invite this Caspian in. I’d love to see him.” Ally’s shocked she knows so much. Before she can think of him to call him in, he’s standing in the doorway.

    “Hello Violet, how are you these days?” He walks over, and sits on the chair across from them. 

    Ally is even more shocked than before. “Hold on, you two know each other? How in the hell...?” She looks to her grandma, confused. “How did you guys meet?”

    “When we first met you, Jack had asked me to look around to see if you had any other family, and I found Violet up here. I told her who I was, and I showed her everything that has happened since you and I met. She took it rather well. Turns out your grandfather was a hunter too, and knew Jack and Lucas’ grandfather Samuel very well.” He gives a reassuring look to Ally. “I thought it would be nice for you to have someone to talk to outside of Jack, Lucas and myself.”

    “Thank you Cas. Means a lot, considering our past.” She looks to her Mimi. “Do you have any questions? Ask me anything and I’ll try my best to answer.” She leans into her grandmother, and lets out a sigh of relief. 

    “No need for that dear. I am well aware of what roams around this world.” She wraps her arm around her granddaughter. “We don’t have to talk about that at all. Caspian came here earlier and told me you needed some time off. Let us enjoy this time. Maybe take a walk out to the barn and saddle up the horses.” She stands up and picks up her cane. “Hopefully one of you can help me up.” She lets out a small laugh.

    “Good idea Mimi.” She grabs ahold of her Mimi’s hand, and they walk out to the barn. After getting all saddled up, they ride for the rest of the time that Ally is at the farm. After two falls off and getting soaked, and they call it a day. 

    “It was good to see you both. Please don’t wait so long to come see me again. You’re all welcome here. That is, if Lucas smartens up his act.” She looks down her nose, above her glasses.  Ally turns to Caspian and shoots him an aggravated look.

    “Don’t look at me, I didn’t tell her anything.” She looks over to Violet.

    “Psychic, right. Thanks Mimi. I hope he does too. I love you. I’ll try to visit as often as I can.” She leans down, and gives her Mimi a long hug. “Take care of yourself okay?”

    “I love you too bug. Try to relax a little. But after you’ve given that Christian boy what he deserves.” She pats her granddaughter on the back. “You get going now, Jack must be waiting for you.”

    Ally says a quick good-bye to Blue, and in a split second, she’s back in the bunker. “I don’t know how you did that, but thank you.” She said as she looked at Caspian with a smile. With a brief wipe of her feet on the doormat, she walks past the living room, passing by both Lucas and Jack, wiping her face.