Bloody Kisses, chapter 7
~Natars on the Loose~
Simon banged the gavel again "For the crime of ignorance and unwatchfulness, you Natar Sistine second female offspring of Myra have been sentenced to silence effective immediately." The court of Natars had bee called as soon as Kit and Kat had been discovered missing. Sistine had been their keeper and in Simon's eyes she was responsible.
How was he supposed to know that Kat would become a Natar, she was already too powerful, even as a half vampire. She could out smart Sistine and break brand new chains.
"Simon what good shall silence do her? We need to get them back before we punish." Kira wished that Simon would listen to her that he would be kind to her. She was his latest mate and a forced one at that. Later that day she planned to tell him that she was carrying his child.
"Natar Kira," Simon said being formal and cold "We have already ruled." He wouldn't know, he never could and now wouldn't. Kira was leaving her coven that night, she already knew. She had thought the rules necessary, no Natars should reproduce because the offspring may be more powerful or try to over throw. Sistine bowed her head to the court she had given in.
"Kira don't fight for me. I will take my punishment." Kira let the tears stream freely down her face, Simon and Kenton came down from the pedestal. Simon held Sistine least she try to escape. Ken forced the tongue out of her mouth. He took out a golden dagger, which was what they had used many times before to punish.
"Silence forever more is the price you pay Natar Sistine." Slowly the blade through the tender flesh that was Sistine's tongue. Sistine's screams filled the small roomed, the rebounded off the walls causing a spine chilling effect, a never ending scream. Blood streamed down her face, Ken now held Sistine's tongue in his hand. Quicker than most, Simon had an iron poker that was heated red-hot. He placed the almost liquid metal on Sistine's tongue. The smell of burning flesh filled the room. The blood stopped flowing and Sistine had been silenced. Kira's stomach lurched and she ran from the room. She made it to her room before she vomitted on her Persian rug. She wiped her mouth and got her suitcase. Gathering some of her favorite possessions. Kira shrunk it down to a very small size turned herself into a bat and flew away.
~Unexpected Visitor~
Kat was staring up at the ceiling, Billie was sleeping beside her. His unruly black hair tickled her chin and his steady breathing called her back to sleep, but something was keeping her awake. Climbing out of the bed so as not to wake Billie, Kat went to the grand window. She wrapped her arms around herself; goosebumps covered her arms. She inhaled the crisp night air and found herself standing face to face with Kira. Kat opened her mouth to scream, but Kira covered her mouth.
"Please... Please Nata... Kat. I need to see Billie right away..." Kira's voice was soft and pleading but still loud enough to wake up Tre. Tre rushed to Kat's side holding up a curved dagger.
"Kira you are not welcome here." Tre said in Latin with venom in his voice. Kira bowed her head and when she looked up she had fire in her eyes. It made Kat want to cry out in surprise.
"I have no where else to go... They call you Tre now?" Kira said (in latin) with a bit of spite mixed in with her pleading. Tre spat on the ground.
"Why, they going to cut out your tongue? Make it so you can have anymore of those things you raise that used to be children?" Tre had a fierceness that Kat had never seen, she walked in the shadows away from both of them, listening to them whisper back and forth in Latin to each other.
"Tre... Simon killed her after she was born remember his laws 'No Natar shall breed with another Natar or vampire. ' That's why I have no where to go... I can't afford to lose another child..." She looked up at him, tears running down her cheeks. Instantly Tre softened and took her into his arms. In English they both began again.
"A fledgling? Kenton's..." Tre asked Kira turned her head. She mumbled something and Tre sprang back from her.
"Simon? You let him touch you? After what he did to Angel you still let him touch you?!?!?" Tre yelled. This of course woke Billie and Mike, Kit and Kim staggered up after them. Billie's eyes glowed through the darkness, as did Kira's when they met. Mike never took his eyes off Kira and continued saying 'Traitor' under his breath. Kira collapsed into sobs.
"I had to, he made me. He told me that it would clear his head and do both of us good," She looked up at Tre "He said you had moved on and I should too." Tre nodded and took Kim into his arms.
"I have, I am going to have a bride instead of a treacherous women who can't decide between feelings and obligation." Kira flung herself at Billie's feet he moved away.
"Please Natar Billie, I will not cause trouble, I will stay out of the way, I ask protection from the Natar Council until my child is born." Billie stared at Kira with shocked eyes, no one called him Natar, most just said Billie or sir.
"Natar Kira, your request is granted on the condition that you stay with the Midwives at all times, and return to your coven after the child is born, it will stay with us to make sure it is safe from it's father." Kira clasped her hands together in thanks.
"You are welcome to have my bed Natar Kira." Mike said, with clenched fists. Billie waved his hands.
"She will take my bed, I will have no further use for it tonight." Kira nodded and Billie lead her to his bed, she laid down wearily. Mike and Tre went back to bed, calling for Kit and Kim soon after.
"Oh, Tre I have to go now Kat." Kim said after Tre had called, moments later a squeaking mattress was heard.
"Kitty, hear Kitty." Mike called. Kit laughed and changed into her cat-like form.
"You understand Kat, I must keep him happy." Kat didn't see how they changed so much. Before this Kit would have told him to wait, anything to be with her sister. Kim would have never dreamed of actually having sex, without her parent's permission.
Kat looked out the balcony; Billie had one into the bathroom. She didn't want to be like them, completely dependent on Billie; yes she loved him and would stay with him but she refused to come to his beck and call. She walked to the iron bars, and looked at the city below. It was quite at night, there were only a few bars and they were so scattered that they caused no dent in the darkness with their lights. Kat held out her arms almost screaming 'I'm queen of the World! ' She waited for a breeze and fell.
Feeling the wind whistling past her made her laugh with joy, it cooled her warm skin and cleared her head. She felt that she'd never fall, pictured herself soaring above the city. She opened her eyes, and she was.
The town seemed so far away from where she was, 'flying'? She raised herself higher and landed on a cloud. It was so soft, so perfect and it was cold. When she put her hand through it, it became wet. Laughing nearly shrieking with joy she jumped off the cloud. She soared past her old house, and then went back to it. She went to her parent's window, they slept peacefully, no idea that they had once had two twin daughters. Kat opened the locked window and floated inside to their room.
They smelled the same, and looked the same. Kat extended a cold finger and touched her mother's face, it was still just as smooth. She touched her father's and he was still scruffy, still smelling of peppermint and tobacco. Her mother smelled like spring. Did Kit remember them or had she forgotten in her new life that she had once been a loved daughter, instead of fiancé. Kat smoothed her mother's hair and she shivered. Slowly she opened her eyes, you could tell that Vicki was related to Kat, they had the same face and same hair.
Vicki's eyes opened and she saw the girl from her dream. The girl she had dreamed of every night for eighteen years. When she had first started dreaming of the two babies the doctor had told her it was because she had just miscarried, two baby girls. At first the dreams hadn't been real, she was still in a hospital, watching them weigh and measure her dream babies. Then as the years continued the dreams were more vivid. She wasted countless rolls of film to record the holidays.
She remembered every birthday with perfect clarity, every Christmas, every hug and tear, laugh and frown they were all in her head. When it had been a few years in Chris (her husband) had taken her in and gotten her medicine to help with the 'depression'. 'She still sees them doctor, every night. And then every morning I have to here her yell for them to come down and eat their breakfast, to get dressed for school... T-to give daddy a kiss. ' He had told the first of twenty. He told them all, in time. Eight different pills from twenty different doctors and still the dreams came. Now this, here was one of them standing in front of her crying.
"Mommy..." Kat started but Vicki had thrown the covers over her head. She was sobbing; Kat rushed to her side trying to comfort her mother.
"You aren't real, you never were, just a fantasy. Leave me in peace, I'm not crazy." Kat was taken back. Billie said that he'd taken care of her parents, but this isn't what she expected. Her mother thought she was crazy. Kat ran to the photo albums in the closet grabbed Kit and Kat's first year and looked through the pictures. Blank. Every single frame was devoid of a living person, just toys and blankets. Franticly Kat looked through the others, all of them blank. She looked in the back of the closet for more and found dozens of wrapped presents all for Kit and Kat '95, and so forth. Kat wanted to rip her hair out, this wasn't what they had wanted.
Vicki was still crying in her covers, now Chris was awake, trying to comfort his wife. "I told her to go away and she ran into the closet." Chris got out of his bed, picked up his baseball bat and went to the closet, to reassure his wife that the girl wasn't real. 'Daddy... ' Kat thought, but when she saw him raise the bat she saw he was different. He had no twinkle in his eyes, he was heavy he had nothing to live for.
"What the devil?" He said seeing Kat, in his mind she looked just like the pictures his wife had drawn of his 'girls'. Kat rushed up gave him a peck on the lips, mumbling I love you, and then ran to her mother. Vicki screamed in fright, but Kat just kissed her and jumped out the window.
She wanted to go so high that when she dropped herself she would die, along with her parent's hearts. By the time she was high enough her tears began to freeze. She forgot about Billie and about why she was crying, all that mattered was that she killed herself. With one final good- bye Kat released herself onto the wind. And she fell towards the end of her new beginning.
Many miles below the Earth surface the three remaining Natars let Simon control Kat. He twisted her emotions, made her forget her reasons for living and then making her fall. Then laughed, well except Sistine who hit the table to show her laughter.
"This will destroy Billie, completely and the other twin will be devastated that she is now alone." Ken said, Sistine nodded and wrote on her pad of paper.
'This is good, we will dominate and when Billie is gone we can find that traitor Kira... ' She passed the pad around the table and they nodded. They rather enjoyed her silence.
Simon banged the gavel again "For the crime of ignorance and unwatchfulness, you Natar Sistine second female offspring of Myra have been sentenced to silence effective immediately." The court of Natars had bee called as soon as Kit and Kat had been discovered missing. Sistine had been their keeper and in Simon's eyes she was responsible.
How was he supposed to know that Kat would become a Natar, she was already too powerful, even as a half vampire. She could out smart Sistine and break brand new chains.
"Simon what good shall silence do her? We need to get them back before we punish." Kira wished that Simon would listen to her that he would be kind to her. She was his latest mate and a forced one at that. Later that day she planned to tell him that she was carrying his child.
"Natar Kira," Simon said being formal and cold "We have already ruled." He wouldn't know, he never could and now wouldn't. Kira was leaving her coven that night, she already knew. She had thought the rules necessary, no Natars should reproduce because the offspring may be more powerful or try to over throw. Sistine bowed her head to the court she had given in.
"Kira don't fight for me. I will take my punishment." Kira let the tears stream freely down her face, Simon and Kenton came down from the pedestal. Simon held Sistine least she try to escape. Ken forced the tongue out of her mouth. He took out a golden dagger, which was what they had used many times before to punish.
"Silence forever more is the price you pay Natar Sistine." Slowly the blade through the tender flesh that was Sistine's tongue. Sistine's screams filled the small roomed, the rebounded off the walls causing a spine chilling effect, a never ending scream. Blood streamed down her face, Ken now held Sistine's tongue in his hand. Quicker than most, Simon had an iron poker that was heated red-hot. He placed the almost liquid metal on Sistine's tongue. The smell of burning flesh filled the room. The blood stopped flowing and Sistine had been silenced. Kira's stomach lurched and she ran from the room. She made it to her room before she vomitted on her Persian rug. She wiped her mouth and got her suitcase. Gathering some of her favorite possessions. Kira shrunk it down to a very small size turned herself into a bat and flew away.
~Unexpected Visitor~
Kat was staring up at the ceiling, Billie was sleeping beside her. His unruly black hair tickled her chin and his steady breathing called her back to sleep, but something was keeping her awake. Climbing out of the bed so as not to wake Billie, Kat went to the grand window. She wrapped her arms around herself; goosebumps covered her arms. She inhaled the crisp night air and found herself standing face to face with Kira. Kat opened her mouth to scream, but Kira covered her mouth.
"Please... Please Nata... Kat. I need to see Billie right away..." Kira's voice was soft and pleading but still loud enough to wake up Tre. Tre rushed to Kat's side holding up a curved dagger.
"Kira you are not welcome here." Tre said in Latin with venom in his voice. Kira bowed her head and when she looked up she had fire in her eyes. It made Kat want to cry out in surprise.
"I have no where else to go... They call you Tre now?" Kira said (in latin) with a bit of spite mixed in with her pleading. Tre spat on the ground.
"Why, they going to cut out your tongue? Make it so you can have anymore of those things you raise that used to be children?" Tre had a fierceness that Kat had never seen, she walked in the shadows away from both of them, listening to them whisper back and forth in Latin to each other.
"Tre... Simon killed her after she was born remember his laws 'No Natar shall breed with another Natar or vampire. ' That's why I have no where to go... I can't afford to lose another child..." She looked up at him, tears running down her cheeks. Instantly Tre softened and took her into his arms. In English they both began again.
"A fledgling? Kenton's..." Tre asked Kira turned her head. She mumbled something and Tre sprang back from her.
"Simon? You let him touch you? After what he did to Angel you still let him touch you?!?!?" Tre yelled. This of course woke Billie and Mike, Kit and Kim staggered up after them. Billie's eyes glowed through the darkness, as did Kira's when they met. Mike never took his eyes off Kira and continued saying 'Traitor' under his breath. Kira collapsed into sobs.
"I had to, he made me. He told me that it would clear his head and do both of us good," She looked up at Tre "He said you had moved on and I should too." Tre nodded and took Kim into his arms.
"I have, I am going to have a bride instead of a treacherous women who can't decide between feelings and obligation." Kira flung herself at Billie's feet he moved away.
"Please Natar Billie, I will not cause trouble, I will stay out of the way, I ask protection from the Natar Council until my child is born." Billie stared at Kira with shocked eyes, no one called him Natar, most just said Billie or sir.
"Natar Kira, your request is granted on the condition that you stay with the Midwives at all times, and return to your coven after the child is born, it will stay with us to make sure it is safe from it's father." Kira clasped her hands together in thanks.
"You are welcome to have my bed Natar Kira." Mike said, with clenched fists. Billie waved his hands.
"She will take my bed, I will have no further use for it tonight." Kira nodded and Billie lead her to his bed, she laid down wearily. Mike and Tre went back to bed, calling for Kit and Kim soon after.
"Oh, Tre I have to go now Kat." Kim said after Tre had called, moments later a squeaking mattress was heard.
"Kitty, hear Kitty." Mike called. Kit laughed and changed into her cat-like form.
"You understand Kat, I must keep him happy." Kat didn't see how they changed so much. Before this Kit would have told him to wait, anything to be with her sister. Kim would have never dreamed of actually having sex, without her parent's permission.
Kat looked out the balcony; Billie had one into the bathroom. She didn't want to be like them, completely dependent on Billie; yes she loved him and would stay with him but she refused to come to his beck and call. She walked to the iron bars, and looked at the city below. It was quite at night, there were only a few bars and they were so scattered that they caused no dent in the darkness with their lights. Kat held out her arms almost screaming 'I'm queen of the World! ' She waited for a breeze and fell.
Feeling the wind whistling past her made her laugh with joy, it cooled her warm skin and cleared her head. She felt that she'd never fall, pictured herself soaring above the city. She opened her eyes, and she was.
The town seemed so far away from where she was, 'flying'? She raised herself higher and landed on a cloud. It was so soft, so perfect and it was cold. When she put her hand through it, it became wet. Laughing nearly shrieking with joy she jumped off the cloud. She soared past her old house, and then went back to it. She went to her parent's window, they slept peacefully, no idea that they had once had two twin daughters. Kat opened the locked window and floated inside to their room.
They smelled the same, and looked the same. Kat extended a cold finger and touched her mother's face, it was still just as smooth. She touched her father's and he was still scruffy, still smelling of peppermint and tobacco. Her mother smelled like spring. Did Kit remember them or had she forgotten in her new life that she had once been a loved daughter, instead of fiancé. Kat smoothed her mother's hair and she shivered. Slowly she opened her eyes, you could tell that Vicki was related to Kat, they had the same face and same hair.
Vicki's eyes opened and she saw the girl from her dream. The girl she had dreamed of every night for eighteen years. When she had first started dreaming of the two babies the doctor had told her it was because she had just miscarried, two baby girls. At first the dreams hadn't been real, she was still in a hospital, watching them weigh and measure her dream babies. Then as the years continued the dreams were more vivid. She wasted countless rolls of film to record the holidays.
She remembered every birthday with perfect clarity, every Christmas, every hug and tear, laugh and frown they were all in her head. When it had been a few years in Chris (her husband) had taken her in and gotten her medicine to help with the 'depression'. 'She still sees them doctor, every night. And then every morning I have to here her yell for them to come down and eat their breakfast, to get dressed for school... T-to give daddy a kiss. ' He had told the first of twenty. He told them all, in time. Eight different pills from twenty different doctors and still the dreams came. Now this, here was one of them standing in front of her crying.
"Mommy..." Kat started but Vicki had thrown the covers over her head. She was sobbing; Kat rushed to her side trying to comfort her mother.
"You aren't real, you never were, just a fantasy. Leave me in peace, I'm not crazy." Kat was taken back. Billie said that he'd taken care of her parents, but this isn't what she expected. Her mother thought she was crazy. Kat ran to the photo albums in the closet grabbed Kit and Kat's first year and looked through the pictures. Blank. Every single frame was devoid of a living person, just toys and blankets. Franticly Kat looked through the others, all of them blank. She looked in the back of the closet for more and found dozens of wrapped presents all for Kit and Kat '95, and so forth. Kat wanted to rip her hair out, this wasn't what they had wanted.
Vicki was still crying in her covers, now Chris was awake, trying to comfort his wife. "I told her to go away and she ran into the closet." Chris got out of his bed, picked up his baseball bat and went to the closet, to reassure his wife that the girl wasn't real. 'Daddy... ' Kat thought, but when she saw him raise the bat she saw he was different. He had no twinkle in his eyes, he was heavy he had nothing to live for.
"What the devil?" He said seeing Kat, in his mind she looked just like the pictures his wife had drawn of his 'girls'. Kat rushed up gave him a peck on the lips, mumbling I love you, and then ran to her mother. Vicki screamed in fright, but Kat just kissed her and jumped out the window.
She wanted to go so high that when she dropped herself she would die, along with her parent's hearts. By the time she was high enough her tears began to freeze. She forgot about Billie and about why she was crying, all that mattered was that she killed herself. With one final good- bye Kat released herself onto the wind. And she fell towards the end of her new beginning.
Many miles below the Earth surface the three remaining Natars let Simon control Kat. He twisted her emotions, made her forget her reasons for living and then making her fall. Then laughed, well except Sistine who hit the table to show her laughter.
"This will destroy Billie, completely and the other twin will be devastated that she is now alone." Ken said, Sistine nodded and wrote on her pad of paper.
'This is good, we will dominate and when Billie is gone we can find that traitor Kira... ' She passed the pad around the table and they nodded. They rather enjoyed her silence.
