TrueBloods: A race against Time

Let a sleeping dog Lie

"Sorry Majika." I say helping her off the floor. 

"A vampire baby with powers, fascinating." Ama says. It is fascinating, but terrifying at the same time.

"How is that possible?" Alannah and I created something stronger than me and herself, how?

...

"I may have been keeping something from you for awhile," Alannah says sitting on a bench. I look at her, what could she possibly be hiding? I sit down next to her and grab her hands, prepared to listen. 

"There was something last year at the facility that happened to me- it happened super quick. When I heard you screaming I was terrified that they were going to kill you. I felt this... this emotion that I'd never felt before and I," She shakes her head and places her hand on her forehead- she doesn't want to sound stupid, she could say the stupidest thing in the world and still sound smart. 

"My hair began to float, like gravity was pulling me upwards, I felt... powerful, like I could kill everyone in that facility for hurting you- I broke the door off it's hinges Desmond... With my bare hands!" I remove my hands from hers, I was shocked- it's not like I was mad she didn't tell me but I didn't think she was capable of that. I get up and rub my chin,

"Do you have any control over it?" 

"I wouldn't know, it hasn't happened since then. What I do know is that it only occurred when-"

"I was in trouble." I nod my head. This could work into our favor- into my favor. I kiss her cheek and she waves goodbye. 

I lift my head from the kitchen table, I notice Majika starring at me-

"Were you just sleeping??" s**t, no one knows about me seeing Alannah- but Vampires don't sleep.

"uh,-" I shake my head and wave her off,

"It's been a little tough- so maybe I did take a nap." Majika cleans up the counter, Ama exits the room Alannah is in- I still don't understand why we're just letting her rot there- she should be cremated,although- I wouldn't be able to see her in the- I look at Ama, she's doing that on purpose; she knows about the void doesn't she? I grab her arm when she passes by once more,

"You know." She looks at me confused, then I look at Gabe playing with Magnus and majika- they all know? I let go of her arm and grab the keys out of the basket,

"where are you going?" 

"To the school. I need to be alone for awhile." I grab Magnus' car seat and place him inside it. I walk out the door with Magnus and head to the car.

"wait Desmond!" I turn around, Majika has a bottle ready for Magnus. I smile and run to it then back to the car. 

...**...

I walk into the room, Alannah's scent still in it.

"Mamy" Magnus laughs. I look down at him, placing the car seat down,

"What did you just say?" I ask,

"Mamy" He's barely two days old and he already says mom- hell he doesn't even know his Mother.

"yes he does." I roll my eyes when I recognize that voice- Ama. Why does she always read my mind? I'm more powerful than her, she shouldn't be able to do that. 

"You shouldn't be here desmond." She invites herself in and starts touching things like she did when she first got here. I can hear her high-heels clicking against the floor- not a fan of that, at all. Her brown hair hits her back as she walks- What is she doing here when I specifically said I wanted to be left alone. All I want is to be alone, how can I be happy if I don't get the chance to grieve my fiance. I hold Magnus close to me, I need to protect him even though he clearly doesn't need it. 

She has walked a full circle before she stops in front of me, crossing her arms. 

"why not?" I say. Patting Magnus' back trying to get him to burp- because I think it's cute and it makes me laugh. 

"Sometimes you just have to let a sleeping dog lie." She smiles and I raise an eyebrow- I'm a thousand years old and I still have no Idea what that means. Ama extends her hands and motions 'gimme' for baby Magnus. I let her, she baby talks to him and makes him laugh. It get's hard sometimes taking care of him- I always have to keep an eye on him, it doesn't matter which one.

Magnus doesn't grow insanely fast like some novels do but most vampire babies learn extremely fast while they're developing things like the lungs, and the heart- since vampires don't need those organs they focus and developing skills. Although Magnus, these powers, if anyone knew about them- they'd want him for themselves.  

I take off my jacket and set the keys into the basket- I stare at the picture hanging on the wall. I remember the picture as clear as day, I smile- this is just what I needed. I know I can't spend to much time here, knowing Jeremy he probably has this place rigged with vampires on watch. I lay myself in the bed the sheets are wrapped in Alannah's scent- the bed unmade. I heard magnus laughing with Ama, I'm glad, sometimes I think he feels what I am. 

For hours I just lay in this bed listening to Ama and Magnus, I listen to the sounds of the school, 

*knocking* I quickly get up from the bed- I walk to the kitchen and hold up my pointer finger to my lips, telling Ama to be quite. I can never be too cautious, especially when my family is being targeted. I slowly walk over to the door, I grab the door handle and prepare my hand to take the head off any vampire that I don't know. I c***k open the door and take a big sigh of relief, it's one of my vampires that I was teaching before I left. 

"It's true!" He brings me in for a bro hug, I return it. Ama leans her head out the corner with Magnus,

"Whoa, what happened to Alannah? Did you ditch her- that vampire is FIRE!" He says keeping constant eye contact with her. 

"Alannah died- giving birth to my son." I say with a pinch of ice to extinguish his fire. You can see instant regret all over his face. He face me, finally realizing what I said. 

"Son?"  I nod my head,

"Yeah- his name is Μάγκνους- Magnus for English folk."

I invited Rick inside as we chatted for awhile, told him what's been going on- Jeremy and how much Alannah being gone has effected me- I never considered myself a sentimental, or a wimp. But her being gone has, I don't know what to do other than wait for Jeremy, wait for my death- Majika and Gabe can take care of Magnus. 

"So you'd rather have your Son live like you did?" he pulls me back into the real world, he's right. I've truly never thought about that, do I want magnus to live without his Father? I had to learn things from scratch, asking vampires I couldn't trust- but I don't know the first thing about being a parent, I'm not even sure how to be a parent to a vampire- let alone a baby.

"Desmond, I need to take Magnus back to the cabin, are you okay with that?"' I nod my head, Rick left awhile ago- I truly need that time. Without further question Ama takes magnus out of the room, closing the door behind her. I get up from the table and walk to the book case, grabbing a book from off the shelf. I set it down on the table when a paper falls from it and onto the ground. I bend down and pick it up, it was folded up into a small square. I unfold it. It's a letter- Alannah's handwriting. It was titled, 'In case I'm gone.' I stand up and stare at the note, do I want to read this? 

Dear whoever reads this, 

I write this because of the vision I saw, well, more like given to me. Ben showed me how I die, how everyone is going to be without me- I saw Desmond living without me and he won't stop thinking it's his fault that I got pregnant, but this was supposed to happen. My death was supposed to happen, everything is falling into line- If I were to be alive, my Son Magnus, would eventually kill me out of Anger. An anger driven for more power; an anger not even his Father would be able stop, eventually he would become more powerful than his Great Grandfather, Jeremy. But If I die, Magnus won't know what being a true blood really means because he won't see what he could become. Desmond won't like what I have rolling up my sleeve which is why he can never find this letter, and if he's reading this, if you're reading this Desmond... Stop. I can't have you knowing what I was doing in the last weeks of my life, why I died. Please, don't Read on- if you do you're going to hate me, Majika and Gabe. They all know, if you trust me- if you trusted me, you'll know that the void is where you and I can communicate but only for a short time. Soon enough Magnus will be able to turn to the void which is why you HAVE to defeat Jeremy. He will use the void to his advantage and take over our son and then my death will be in vain. That's all I can share, I know you desmond. I know you would continue to read, so I hid the real letter somewhere you will never know it would be. I love you.

 I had tears hitting the paper, she saw everything? She made me believe she couldn't even see her death, she made me believe that she could only see the birth but not the fight? 

"I thought I told you to let a sleeping dog lie." I turn my head, my tears still falling. Ama is sitting on the side of the bed, that's when I felt her hand resting on my shoulder. She's right. I can't snoop for answers- but she said in her letter, 'I can't have you knowing what I was doing in the last weeks of my life, why I died.' She died by the birth, isn't it.

...**...

I look up into the black hole of the void. It's been there for centuries maybe even millennium, that's where a true blood goes through the first time. It's almost like a test, sends them through certain trials to see how they deal with things- how they deal with the smell of human blood. It rotates around fully every 600 days, basically every two years.The next rotation is in 18 days. It's a pretty big deal for true bloods, the void and the black hole that is. I was hoping to show Alannah, but now that she's apart of the void, she won't be able to see it like I do. It'll be just like a black hole to human eyes, nothing special. I remember the first time I saw it I was going through murderous vampire stage. I was grieving my parents, that's how I coped- killing innocent people to drink the blood my parent's never wanted me to know. I took one of my victims to the void with me because I was hungry and wanted 'popcorn' as I watched the black hole complete a rotation. 

*BOOM* I heard, I thought the black hole was starting early but I was wrong. About eleven minutes from the exciting rotation I noticed a glowing figure being spit out from the black hole- never seen before I decided to investigate. I ran as fast as I could to the spot I I speculated this glowing figure would be. When I stopped, this glowing figure caused a...

"Massive crater? I just found that the other day." Alannah interrupts my thoughts. I was irritated by her, but it was because of the later not because of anything else. 

"I found your letter... The decoy one." She nods her head, and sits next to me. 

"I knew you would eventually. I hid it in your favorite book on purpose. But part of me hoped you wouldn't go back to the apartment- but I knew it would happen." I looked at her, my hands intertwined resting in my lap. 

"Why wouldn't you tell me that you saw everything? Why did you keep from me?" 

"I knew If I told you what was going to happen you would do everything in your power to change it. You just have to let a sleeping dog Lie. Okay Desmond?"  I raise my eyebrow, 

*snap* I quickly raise my head from the kitchen table in the cabin. 

"Sleeping again?" Majika laughed. I look around, 

"how did I get back to the cabin?" 

"Ama said you were about to leave the apartment when you passed out, so she brought you and Magnus back here." I freak out. The letter, where did I put it? I search my pockets but I can't find anything. I get up from the chair and begin to search my front and back pockets- still nothing. Was that all a dream? 

"You feeling better Desmond?" Ama asks, with baby Magnus holding her tight.