TrueBloods: A race against Time

A little surprise

After training for the last three days, we're ready. I put on a white tank top and put on the watch Gabe supplied me. I put on my jeans along with a good pair of tennis shoes. I put my hair up into a ponytail, I'm ready to help stop this nonsense now. 

I look at myself in the mirror and notice the bump showing through my tank top. I wonder if it's going to be a boy or a girl, I've always kind of wanted a girl- but I might not live past the C-section. I look down at my stomach, 

"I promise to be there for you little guy- I haven't died yet and I don't plan on doing so." I laugh and take one last look in the mirror. 

"Where do you think you're going?" Desmond smiles. 

"With you," I smile. 

"Oh no, you and I are going to stay right here." He places his hand on my stomach- I can feel my feelings growing in anger.

"I did not just train with the newbies for three days to sit here and pray that my friends and Mom are going to be okay." I retort. 

"Well that's just what you're going to have to do." 

"No. We're going- this baby is not going to be affected. I will not argue about this with you, we're both going and that's final." Desmond laughs and throws his hands up in surrender. He pulls out a necklace, the one my mother wears all the time. It's a pendant with a sun and moon engraved on it. 

"What's this for?" I ask. I wipe my thumb across it feeling the details of the engraving. 

"It's a gift- from you mother to me and now me to you." He put's his hands into his pockets and begins to rock on his feet in nervousness. 

"Thank you" I croak. I give him a giant hug and kiss.  

It's time, we're going to finish Jeremy and that witch. 

"GABE!!" Majika yells from the front doors, I quickly run to her, helping her off the ground and inside,

"MOM!" I yell, I notice blood all over her dress, her form back to the real majika. Gabe runs to me, well, really Majika. 

"What happened!" he yells, 

"There coming." She says trying to catch her breath. My Mom is at the desk grabbing the med supply, Gabe starts brushing her hair as he sees his sister passing out. 

"I am not going to have another sister die- you heard her everyone. Jeremy and his crew are coming here, if Majika made it here before them that means-"

"Oh Alannah, i know you're in there! You know you are a very clever girl using a clone to delay my plans. But you're going to pay for that- you and your baby." My heart sinks to the floor but anger rises as well. But No where near Desmond's. His eyes are glowing with a deep red. I turn behind me and look at the vampires, there eyes glowing too. 

"Everyone that was with me, grab two MA grenades and two firewood guns. We're about to blow up a lot of shit." I smile. Desmond uses hand signals to call his group, Gabe's group hurries up the stairs grabbing there supplies and waits at the windows. My Mother and her group already outside. I look at Desmond and give him a nod. We already had a plan before we even started training. 

Three Days Ago

Before we start we discussed the game plan we would have four groups of vampires on each side of the field where Jeremy was holding Majika. I would be the team that got s**t blown up- because I'm not a fighter. I would walk into the middle of the field drawing every single vampire out on the field and Yona would shoot the first dart of my blood in the neck of three vampires. Then we would throw 6 MA grenades at each corner, already killing 24 vampires would lower the chances of our people being killed. Then once we reduce the number of bad vampires, my Mothers group comes out and minimizes the number even more. That's when Desmond's team erupts from the shadows, hand to hand combat. Gabes team was in charge of setting up 'just in case' routes. We would extract Majika and find Lauren and Jeremy. Desmond doesn't want me to fight on the battle field, in fact he doesn't even want me close to that place but I can't stay here and watch everyone else doing what I messed up. 

Present time 

I open the wooden door, Desmond standing next to me, we are holding each others hand. I could sense the anger in Desmond and Jeremy, honestly this sight is making me terrified but I need to stand by Desmond. I see Lauren hiding her face from me, I count each of Jeremy's men- roughly the same amount but he has a bit more. Lauren has blood on her clothes, Majika's blood, so Jeremy has her doing all his dirty work. 

"You're not going to lay a finger on her Jeremy." Desmond grumbles- his voice filled with anger. Jeremy laughs and walks around in his little space. 

"I won't have to, you see- there is someone in that building that I had sent here, she was of course under a spell, so she had no Idea."

"You wrong!" Gabe yells from behind us. Desmond and I look at gabe walking from the wooden bay doors and joining us. 

"My sister is more powerful than twenty of your witches, you were fooled, not us. The first thing she said when she got here was 'there coming'. So you see, your the only i***t here." Jeremy just continues to laugh,

"You *laughs* think you have me fooled-" He continues to laugh hysterically. He holds up his arm, I drop to my knees and start to scream when I feel the worst pain in my life, 

"my baby" I try and let out. I wrap my hand around my stomach,

"What are you doing!" Desmond yells. I can't give in to this pain but I can't move either. 

"I'm making her as weak and feeble as possible-"

"To the point the baby has to kill her." I hear my Mothers voice come from behind them, the pain subsiding for a moment.

"Amalee?" He says. Desmond helps me up, his attention drawn to me.The baby is still gnawing at something inside me, I hold on to Desmond, I pull his neck down to my level and pierce it with my fangs, this I know is how we can share strength. 

"NOW!" I yell. Red crystal ball with and orange strong are being flown into this direction, I grab my Mom and Desmond and quickly run inside before the MA grenades hit the ground. We hide for cover when we hear *boom* followed by lots of groaning, I look out the window, only half of them are still standing,

"AGAIN!" 

The next load of MA grenades are thrown, then Desmond yells attack. When Gabe starts his team launching Anti-vampire materials Desmond takes me up into the bedroom, laying me down flat on the bed.

"Desmond what are you doing?" 

"Your bleeding." I look down at my waist and notice the blood through my jeans. I place my hands over my face to cover the tears, I feel Desmond removing my pants, revealing the blood- then I hear my Mother racing into the room with warm water- which I was told we didn't have. 

"What's the situation?" She asks Desmond. 

"I think the baby has bitten something, was that what Jeremy wanted to happen?" I can feel the tears strolling down my face, I'm more worried about the baby than me at this point. Mom grabs something from her bag, she places it on my stomach followed by a bunch of clicking. 

"DESMOND WE NEED YOU!" Gabe calls from down the stairs, Mom looks at him,

"Go, quickly, I've got this, I won't do anything without you; I promise." She looks at the little device, 

"Good news, the baby is fine, a healthy kid growing normally. Bad news, it tore threw a bit of your wall- majika can heal it when she comes through but for now, you can't get up or the bleeding will not stop." She grabs a few blood bags and tells me to drink- she had me scared that I might have to die a lot sooner and not get to see my baby, or live with Desmond for that eternity. I open the blood bag and drink it quickly, I feel rejuvenated once again. But I need to fight, I need to save my friends, my family. Jeremy is to strong for them to take on by themselves. I place my hand on my stomach, this baby is so strong already- what's going to become of it when it grows up? What will become of all of us? Majika is lying on a table healing from the wounds that witch did to her. Desmond is out there fighting with Gabe, Mom, and the rest of the vampires. I drink the rest of the blood bags, I sit up, feeling a slight pain still but I believe that the baby knows I'm taking care of it. Of course I'm weak, I've only known this vampire life for a year. I look at the little camera my mother was using on me- it works like an ultrasound but it doesn't show an image it just shows details like the sex... oh my god. 

"Alannah?" I look over my shoulder and see majika with little to no color in her skin, she looks exhausted, she's been using all of her magic since she got here I'm sure. 

"What are you doing up?" She sits down next to me and tells me that she wants to help, but I tell her she has done more than enough. But she knows there is something else. 

"It's the baby isn't it?" She looks at me waiting for an answer and I nod my head. I tell her what happened and what's happening, she buries her face into her hands; I know how she feels- helpless. 

"I can heal you Alannah!" She looks happy and I don't mean to break that for her but I can't,

"So he can do that again?" I retort. and she knows I'm right, she knows that If I go out there he's going to do something, and it's going to be worse than the first time. We both just sit in silence, just listening to the faces clashing with fists and the bones cracking- fire crackling. Then it all stops, everything goes dead silent. that's when I look at Majika, hoping for her to agree of me getting up.

"I healed you five minutes ago," I smile, and get up-slowly. I walk over to the window and see Desmond and Ama standing face to face with Jeremiah and Lauren. This is the worst combo that you could come up with in the universe. I can see Desmond fighting with anger, Ama with intelligence and I'm just standing here. The sky has gotten really dark and the stars aren't shining as bright as before- the air around us is cold.I have a really bad feeling about this. 

I see a woman approaching Jeremy- she's wearing a purple cloak and her eyes are glowing white- a vampire?

"A hybrid. A witch and a vampire." Majika stand next to me, Desmond and Ama have no match against two witches and two vampires. 

"That's the one that was turned just before I left wasn't it? That's the sired vampire- the strongest one he had." Majika nods her head. Now they really have no chance- 

*Rumble* But that wasn't the only problem, a white giant dog follows her, Jeremy and Lauren part and let her through and my heart begins to race- werewolf have no effect on true bloods but they do on regular vampires. The girl removes her hood and I can see the face but not clearly, I walk behind me and shuffle through my bag, I grab my binoculars and look through them-

"Oh my god. I know who that is. We have a very bad problem- not only is she a witch/vampire she is also a foreseer. Cerina annabella has just joined the game." I walk over to the drawer and grab a pair of yoga paints- so if I begin to bleed Desmond won't be able to see it. 

"Where are you going?"

"She's the reason I am a vampire, the reason Desmond starved, and the reason I was left with many unanswered question- I'm going to kill her." I slam the door shut, I'm still hurting from Jeremy's stupid trick. I walk down the stairs, gabe tries to stop me but I'm too enraged. I open the doors- everyone looking at me. I reach behind my back and unpin the MA grenade I'm holding behind my back- the only one zi don't have to light, this better work against the werewolf. 

"DUCK!" I yell while throwing the grenade in the face of the werewolf, shooting the firewood gun at Cerina, I can feel myself growing in anger but I stop myself. 

"You think you can hurt me, starve Desmond- creating the most powerful true blood in the universe and prepare to kill the only mother I really have and get away with it? Not over my dead body- bitch." She lights up in flames screaming and the dog whimpering, he won't die from a small dose, but she will. now I'm faced with Jeremy once again. 

"Now that I'm pregnant you're terrified- of what?" I smirk. 

"Alannah stop, don't get cocky!" Ama yells. I'm not getting cocky, I'm buying time. I tell Desmond and Ama through a 'private line'.

*Boom!* 

Lauren falls with a single blow of Majika's magic. Jeremy's look goes from overly confident to terrified, just as I thought. Jeremy is maybe 5 millenniums older than Desmond- meaning- after the first blood red moon he lost most of his powers- a sacrifice to killing true bloods. He was using Lauren as a disguise. Within 5 minutes Jeremy disappears. A smile flashes across my face, I jump up and down- which was a mistake, but I hold down the vomit and hug Desmond, this means we get to go home. But it also means is a delay in this blood red moon thing. My Mom walks into the woods, probably checking up on the injured vampires that have fallen once again. Desmond looks at me and gives me a giant kiss, he then places his hand on my belly, 

"is everything okay?" I smile and give him another kiss, 

"More than okay," He raises and eyebrow, 

"what does that mean?" 

"I know the gender of our baby." I whisper. He smiles, he's excited to know- we both really haven't thought about names or genders really. 

"Wanna know what it is?" He nods his head yes. I get on my toes and whisper it into his ear.

"Are you kidding!?" He yells. He lifts me up and spins me around. I knew that was going to be his reaction. We both laugh and embrace each other for awhile.