TrueBloods: A race against Time

Airport mayhem

Desmond grabs all of our suitcases, placing them in a car I bought him for his work with the new vampires. The shirt he chose to wear was making me think about the past few days of non stop lovemaking, his pecks exposing through his tight shirt. When he closes the hatch I was snapped back into reality,

"Are we ready to go?" I place my hand on my chin thinking deeply, is there something I am forgetting? 

"Ahem." I look up at desmond,

"They're behind me aren't they." I say bluntly,

"Yepp." I put a smile on my face and turn around seeing Gabe, Majika, and Amalecitae. I open my arms wide and walk to them, bringing them all into a group hug,

"I'm just going to michigan, it's break and I'm being summoned by the mayor." I roll my eyes, my mother grabbing my face and giving me kiss on the forehead. 

"You have no idea what michigan has in store for you my sweet girl. It is no place for a true blood-" She brings me over to Desmond,

"Make sure the both of you hide the blood line mark. Desmond, you've been working with newborns right?" Desmonds nods his head, he grabs a hold of my hand, my mother is being extremely cautious;

"Do me a favor, there is an epidemic of newborn vampires spreading across each state-"

"How is that possible, the only vampires that are able to turn are true bloods, as far as we know I was the only true blood- but then..." 

"Gabe and I have our suspisions but we believe that the people who took the both of you last year are trying to recreate the dawn of the blood red moon." 

...*.. 

The ride was quite, I'm sure desmonds thinking about what my Mother had to say, I mean the people could quite possibly create the very thing that destroyed his blood line- his parents, and the person behind all of that was my Grandfather. How could someone wipe out their friends family- killing everyone that he ever loved, including his wife. If the specualtions are true wouldn't that mean they were close with Jeremy. How do we know Jeremy actually died? What if he just stopped, if he didn't die that means he is going to kill everyone that gets in his way. The airport is pretty far from the school, which makes this ride more tense.

"Desmond, are you okay?" I ask. He didn't hear me because he is so intrigued with the words, or he is remembering his parents mauled. I lean my head against the seat belt, my eyes slowley falling under the spell of human sleep. I haven't actually slept in what feels like forever...

The world around me is black, am I in the verge again? I have to be, this is what it's always looked like, right? I look around to see if I can see anything- even with vampire sight, I can't. I look over my shoulder at the scent of blood, it smells extremely sweet. I walk in the direction of the blood when I light comes on- that's when I notice a girl lying on the ground in a yellow sundress, another vampire is here, sucking her dry.

"Hey! STOP!" I yell, I begin to panic because he isn't listening, if he doesn't stop he'll kill her. I quickly run over to him, grabbing his hand, throwing him into the darkness. I bend down to make sure the young woman has a pulse, she does- thank god. 

I look around, I can still smell the mixture of the blood roaming around me. 

"Show yourself! This place isn't made for you. Why are you here?" This place is only for true bloods so that doesn't explain why this young woman is here, or even why this disgusting vampire is here.

"Boo." The vampire says behind me, I scream. I fall on the floor looking up at the vampire- he's old. He bends down pointing at my birth mark.

"That's my blood line mark. What's your name?" He guides his finger down to my chest when I slap him, I slim him so hard it makes him bleed. 

"Alright fine." He quickly places his hands on my head breaking my neck. 

*Gasp* 

My eyes wide open, I struggle to breathe while looking at desmond, my heart racing. Desmond slams on his breaks, quickly grabbing me from the passenger seat, pulling me out, he bends me over- almost like a heimlic, he puts his hand together and pounds his fists into my back. That's when blood comes out of my throat, almost vomiting, but this was my blood. I take in deep breaths, resting my hand on his shoulders; I begin to cry while holding onto him, I'm terrified. He pats my back, before looking in my eyes seeing the terror. 

"What happened." 

"Jeremy's living in the verge!" I cry. His hands fall down to his sides in disbeleif,

"Alannah, right now- you and I are going to go to michigan without a care in the world, we'll stay with your family for three days, we'll come up with a game plan at the house. Okay." I nod my head in agreeance, he's right I can't worry about anything right now. Our current goal is to make it to Michigan, then we'll figure something out then. 

..**..

Desmond and I make it to the airport, we laughed, he even let me drive which was exciting- I've driven multiple times but I haven't in awhile. 

Desmond and I get into the airport, we place our bags on the scales. They take our bags, with extra cost of course because I do not want to carry a bag on the plane. Desmond Grabs my hand and I grab his. 

"Want something to eat?" Desmond asks. I thought he was joking, vampires don't eat, I find eating disgusting actually- but the steak we had a few days ago was deliousous because desmond laced his own blood inside of it- lets see if I can bring it in a way that doesn't sound gross- he marinated the steak with his own blood, he knew I wouldn't eat it unless it had some blood so he chose his own. I chuxkle at the thought of me eating human food-

"Might as well practice now, keeping down human food is important to hide your identity, your parents can't suspect anything." He's right, I have to be able to do this, If I don't then someone will suspect something, besides the family that's back at school, and desmond; I can't trust anyone. Desmond takes me to the small cafe located inside our gate- COFFEE! I run up to the counter, I'm excited, I haven't had a decent coffee in FOREVER! 

"What can I get ya?" The girl smells so sweet- it's her perfume, when she talks I can smell m*******a coming from her mouth. I look down and see mints- sugar free, excellent. I grab one of those and look up at her, 

"Just because you put perfume all over your body doesn't mean it isn't on your breath, I hope I didn't over step. But I would like a vanilla frapp. two pumps of caramel, half & half milk with a 3 to 1 ration of coffee. Oh, make that a venti." I smile, both Desmond and her are suprised, this is what I used to get all the time. 

After two hours of trying different types of human foods that I actually have never tried, for example, fried twinkies?! Who knew someone even wanted to come up with that, nasty! 

*gluuurrrppp* 

I look down, my stomach is not happy with my decision of trying all of these foods. 

"shit." I look around for the nearest restroom- it's too far away, I look at desmond then I look up at the ceiling to locate the cameras, then I feel him poking me. I look at him and he points at a trash can, I quickly walk to the trash can throwing up everything I just ate. But, I feel extremely nauseous. Desmond stands behind me protecting me from others judgement, once again. When I'm finished desmond hands me a tooth brush because I forgot mine. We walk to the bathroom, desmond holding my hand. When we turn the corner I see the sign, I walk into the bathroom shutting the door, locking it too. I take the tooth brush and paste, I begin brushing my teeth, I stare at myself in the mirror, I'm pretty pale and clamy. I look in my eyes, am I sick? 

*glurrrpp* 

here we go again, I throw the toothbrush in the sink, I place myself in one of the stalls, throwing up the rest of the food I'd eaten feeling worse than before. I flush the toliet, I grab one of the seat covers and rest my head on it, I am not putting my face on something multiple people sit on. 

I throw up three more time when I'm finally emptied out, I am so exhausted. I slowly walk over to the lock, twisting to the left,

*click*

"Desmond." I say walking back to the sink brushing my teeth and washing my face, I'm practically yellow. Desmond opens the door, locking it behind him. He looks dissapointed, 

"You've been a vampire for an entire year, but yo uare still learning. It'll take time. We'll try again in Canada." he brings his wrist to his mouth biting into it exposing his blood, my eyes want to glow but I hold them back, I walk over to him, biting in the same spot he did. I draw blood, drinking to restore my health and energy, my stomach begins to make a different sound, somewhat like a hunger sound. I drink a little harder, when I let go desmond licks the left overs on my mouth. 

"sense we're here-" Desmond looks over at the stalls, I raise my eyebrow and bite my lip, I giggle and nod my head yes. 

Desmond grabs my hand pulling me in one of the stalls, we did it right there. It was absolutley amazing, my energy regained by his blood. 

I fix my hair and clothes, we unlock the door and peak to make sure no one is looking. I grab desmonds hand and we exit. 

The flight is broken up, what's supposed to take 8 hours is taking 12, I don't have enough money on my card to do one way tickets, so we have two lay overs. When the plane takes off the turbulence makes me nauseous so I find myself throwing up twice on the plane. But this time it wasn't as harsh, desmond grabs a plastic cup from one of the flight attendants, he reaches in his pocket to grab a flask pouring red juice- blood, animal blood into it. He hands it to me, I begin to drink just because it's blood. i hate this, it's disgusting. 

I was fine the rest of the flight. I didn't feel nauseous or anything. Desmond and I get off the plane and into the terminal, he looks at me and I sigh. He gets me to try more foods that I like and know, like McDonalds and Cinnabon. We waited before I began to eat more food- nothing happened, I didn't throw up; so I had to eat more food before we ran out of time, desmond needed to use the bathroom so I waited outside the bathroom,

*Crying* 

I look around and notice a child sitting on a seat alone, crying. 

"desmond, hurry. I think a child is lost- we need to help him." Just a few moments later Desmond walks out and heads toward the child- I follow behind him, my arms crossed.

"Hey bud, what's wrong?" Desmonds pupils are growing bigger and smaller,

"Mommy and Daddy left me." He says rubbing his eyes- Desmond looks around, I'm assuming to find the scent that matches this child. He looks back at the child, 

"excuse me? What are you doing with our son?" Desmond and I look at them, the kid smiling, Desmond puts his hands around my waist, I look at the man behind the woman, he looks familiar but I can't put my finger on it.

"We noticed he was crying, he said you two left him." The woman scoffs and looks at her husband in disbelief, 

"What are your guys' names?" The woman asks, that when it hits me, in the verge, the face of the woman lying on the ground was her, the man was the vampire. I didn't notice until now, but I was tightly squeezing Desmonds hand, that when desmond sees the fear written all over my face. I feel like throwing up again, I need to escape.

"This is Emily, my name is... Oliver. We're married, expecting a child ourselves; we just wanted to make sure he was okay. But since you guys are here, we need to catch our flights. Nice meeting you." Desmonds saves me, again. When we leave I look up at desmond, he knows who that man is- Jeremy; his non blood related uncle.