Bellatrix Voda's Story

Bellatrix was scanning the crowd, looking for someone friendly she could talk to. Most of her friends had left the academy the last year, and she really had no friends near her own age. Sipping on her rum and coke, Trix wandered aimlessly, looking from group to group, trying to decide where she would fit in. Her eyes, normally filled with a mischievous glimmer were serious and focused, and her usual half smirk that made her look constantly sarcastic was a thin line of emotionless lips. As Trix wandered back toward a set of tables to sit down, she noticed a girl dancing and singing, begging someone to dance with her. Usually, Trix would have stayed where she was, but not tonight.

Bellatrix continued, sipping her drink, making small talk with the others around her. Most of them she recognized the last name of, but others he just smiled, pretending she knew who they were. Being from Italy herself, she really should know who they were, but she hated social events, so she really didn’t know as many names as she should. As she made her way through the crowd, some faces caught her eyes, most of them very attractive. There was definitely a potential mate in this corwd.

As she moved through the crowd toward where the dancing girl was, she took another drink of her drink. She approached the singing girl, dancing near her instead of with her at first. "Nice singing," She called over the crowd, leaning a bit closer to the girl. "I'm Bellatrix, but you can call me Trix," She introduced herself, smirking her usual half smirk and taking another drink. As she looked around at the others, she realized she didn't really recognize anyone, and that worried her. Of course, she would meet new people, but she really wanted her old friends, too. Trix finished her drink, keeping the cup just to get it refilled later, but right now she was interested in getting to know this girl who was singing and dancing. Might as well start making friends somewhere, and this girl was her start.

Darius walked slowly through the crowds of the party, it wasn’t his place but he didn’t really have a choice but to be here. Brylen had an odd way of pulling you in and making you want to do whatever she said, it was a real pain. He had to admit though; Brylen wasn’t his only reason for being here. More than a few people said hi to him and he just smiled back and gave them each a little nod in return, he wasn’t very talkative most of the time and in all honesty he had no idea who many of them were. It was always interesting how people had this illusion in their minds that just because he was in the same class with them he was there friends, he had only a few people that he counted as a friend in honesty.

He had three reasons to be here, the first was that Brylen always tried to drag him to these types of things partially because he used to enjoy them so much before he’d returned. That was of the past though. The second reason was to keep an eye on his sister, the guy she was with wasn’t exactly the most trustworthy when it came to girls and he would most certainly be keeping an eye on him. The third reason was perhaps the most expected, he was here to meet a girl. A girl that he couldn’t understand fully and who always confused him but an amazing girl the same. Darius scanned the crowds slowly as he sought out Andrea, he could see her just off to the side of the crowd. He didn’t know if she saw him or not but a small smile came across Darius’ face as usual, she always seemed to make his day a little better. It was sad though that she had a crush on someone else, she was really a good girl. Darius moved towards her slowly, moving around the small clumps of people as he closed the distance between the two. He was behind her, a few yards away still but behind her. He pulled out his phone and sent a quick message to her.

why don’t you turn around



Randall moved around the party with his normal smile on his face, he seemed relaxed and as though he was having fun. He was laughing at jokes, smiling at girls and making sure to who off whenever he could. Inside he was a coil of snakes worming around, looking in every direction for danger and problems. His training had made it so that it was hard for him to be in groups of people without freaking out a little bit, he couldn’t help but have his eyes constantly roaming as he looked for weapons or dangers. He was a good looking sort, more than a few girls came up to him and tried to entice him, he even thought about giving in more than a few times.

A cold sweat was on the back of his neck, the only sign of his nervousness or that he was bothered at all. It was more than a little reassuring that he could feel his two knives pressed against the small of his back, they were in easy reach and he would be able to access them without having to worry about anything. Of course he probably wouldn’t need them today but he couldn’t help but have them on him, it was part of his training. He swung around a few girls and picked up a drink, making sure to poor it himself just to be safe. He let the alcohol go down his throat and it settled his nerves a little. He smiled and milled around a little more, mingling with the girls mainly and the few friends he had here. Most of them were from the gambling tables but they were still pretty cool.

Randall drifted through the party, leaving laughs and girls in his wake. As he moved around a little he had to turn quickly and swing away from two figures in the party. One was a smaller girl named Angel and next to her was a guy named Mace, or at least he thought that was his name. He didn’t know either of them all that well but he’d seen Angel end someone’s chance of ever having children so he couldn’t help but not want to get near that. He turned another way and drew closer to the dance floor, his eyes spotting Brylen easily and another girl that he didn’t know. Brylen always seemed to have a dozen friends gathered around her. Randall kept moving though, not stopped for long other than to talk a little and make conversation with the people he knew. As he moved though one thing caught his eye, a small group of late arrivals. He glanced up towards them and his eyes settled on the pretty girl leaning against the tree. Something was oddly familiar about her but Randall didn’t bother thinking about it for long before turning away, she was probably just someone from the school. After spending a few more minutes wandering Randall turned and headed back towards the large group of dancers and did his best to join in, dancing with a couple of the hotties that he knew and mainly just trying to let loose a little bit.

Marcus

Marcus sat in the back of the van, dressed in a disguise consisting of a black obey hat, jeans, converse, sunglasses and a blue and white raglan shirt. Marcus squirmed uncomfortably in his seat. Marcus watched the scenery flash by in blurs as the van took speed, heading to the party. Soon he'd have a girl in his arms, him draining her slowly until she had just enough blood to live. Marcus licked his lips in delight. No one would get in his way tonight. Tonight was a feast. A feast of blood. Marcus felt the car roll to a stop and he hopped out. He breathed in the scent of young vampires and the outdoors and smiled merrily. He decided to scope out a victim. He laid his eyes on a girl with fiery red hair that looked like a feisty one, possibly a good meal?

Cherie

Cherie was sitting next to Marcus in the van. Cherie was dressed in a blue and black checked plaid shirt, jeans, purple doc martens, glasses and a grey beanie. Cherie sat silent as they continued along the road, heading for the party. Cherie moved her gaze to Wini and leaned over to reach Wini who was sitting in the front seat. She gave Wini a reassuring squeeze on her hand to signify that whatever happened this morning was behind us. Cherie didn't move her hand though. Wini's hand was soft and warm, giving Cherie a peaceful state of mind. Cherie sighed softly and looked out the window. Cherie felt the car roll to a stop and she hopped out of the car along with everyone else. Cherie breathed in the scent of the outdoors and smiled. She looked around and saw Wini leaning against a tree. Wini smiled and stood behind her for a moment, following her gaze to 2 students. "Are those your siblings?" Cherie said suddenly, walking to stand next to Wini.

Andrea

Andrea sighed as she arrived at the party, she twisted the fringe of her cardigan between her thumb and index finger scanning the crowd. Andrea sighed, the sky was nice and dark, just the way she liked it, with the moon shining on the lake it made Andrea sigh. She needed to go for a swim. Andrea started for the lake when she got a text. Darius!

why don’t you turn around

Andrea whipped around and saw Darius just a couple yards away. Damn she wanted to kiss him but not this early into the party... It needed to be quiet and there couldn't be a crowd. "Darius!" Andrea smiled and ran over and threw her arms around him. "How are you?" Andrea asked as she unwound her hands from his neck and placed them in her pockets. Andrea glanced over at the lake... "Hey come on lets go somewhere where its not too loud.." Andrea said as she grabbed his hand and led him to the lake where she sat down on the grass. "C'mon, lets talk!" Andrea smiled and patted a spot next to her, motioning for him to sit next to her.

Trix looked down at the ground, shrugging. “There’s nothing to talk about, Lupe. Just another school year, just another party I don’t want to be at,” She attempted a smile, looking up at her guardian. “I was just admiring how well you can dance. Admittedly, I’m a little jealous. I look like a spastic tree branch when I try to dance,” She laughed at her own joke, trying to lighten the mood.

As Trix looked for someone to pull her out of this situation, she knew Lupe could tell the mood she was in. That was another thing she loved/hated about Lupe. She always knew when Trix was angry or upset or sad, and Lupe could talk to her. But on days like today, when she missed Wini, she wanted to be left alone.
“Do you realize,” She started, looking back at Lupe, “That Wini and I would only be a year apart at school? We would be leaving at the same time. We could move in together, and get married to twins, and have kids who would not only be cousins but best friends,” A small, sad smile spread across Bellatrix’s lips. “I know you try, Lupe, but nothing can keep me from seeing her one more time. We never got the chance to say goodbye. She won’t hurt me, Lupe. She’s my best friend, and best friends don’t hurt each other, even if the matter of race separates them,” She looked at her guardian.

“Please, Lupe, if I die it’s my own fault. I need to see her…If I see her one more time, maybe I’ll get over the fact that we can’t be friends anymore. And maybe…I don’t know maybe I’ll be able to accept the fact that you have my best interest in mind and heart, and be able to see that my real friend is right in front of me,” She was playing the pity card hard, and keeping her eyes just slightly watered so that she looked sad. Lupe usually, usually being the key word, fell for this look, and she was hoping the pattern would continue. “Lupe, please I am begging you,” Trix begged softly, looking at her feet again.

Brylen


Brylen was letting herself sway to the music when she saw a girl with reddish hair coming towards her ”Nice singing” she heard the girl yell over the crowd and Brylen smiled to the girl and when the girl got closer she could here her say “I’m Bellatrix, but you can call me Trix” . Brylen grinned, she was always up to making new friends and she has seen Trix around the school “Hey im Brylen!!” she yelled over the music as she danced. She watched as Trix walked off to Lupe and smiled to the dhampir and waved yelling out “Nice dancing Lupe!”

When Nat got up and sung she let her body moved to the music sort of going into a trance like state most likely because of the drinks but the drinks where helping her depressed feeling from being a spirit user go away which always made her to be in a better mood. She watched as Darius and Andrea walked off to the lake and grinned, she did hope those two would get together. Maybe they need more of a push, or maybe I just need to give Darius some pointers she thought to herself.

She continued to dance and was glad her guardian Lulu hasn’t come over to tell her to slow down on the drinking, since she has started having guardians most of them told her to not drink so much and she was most likely to tell them to fuck off. She saw Angel come up to her and she hoped the girl was coming to dance but then heard Angel yell "I'm going to go get you a drink." “Okay hun come back and dance though!” she yelled out to the girl as she walked off. Brylen then felt someone, most likely a guy, come up behind her. She grinned and danced against the mysterious guy not looking back to see who he was, she was just going with the flow but then felt him move in front of her and saw that it was Randall “Mind if I join in with such a pretty lady?” she was about to respond when she saw Alec come out of no where and tell the guy to ”beat it”. She saw the look in Alec’s eyes and she knows that look. She looked to Randall “sorry hun but Alec here needs me in his arms right now” she then turned herself so she was looking up to Alec’s face. Putting her hands against his chest “you know you could of let him have once dance” she grinned slurring her words a little as the liquor started getting to her head. She looked around with her eyes as she dance with Alec, her eyes found Angel….over near a tree with a girl she hasn’t seen before and the weird boy, Adrian. She kept looking over there as she leaned her head against Alec’s chest.


Mace

Mace smiled to Angel watching her every move then heard her say in a very low voice "Okay, go have some fun Mace.." “Ill try Angel, you too”[/b] he watched her walk away and he looked over the crowd he wasn’t one much for partys but he came for Angel. He walked around the crowd keeping his eyes open for anything then went down to the lake. He noticed Darius and Angel and waved to them both then went a little ways past them and took a seat on the grass and started flinging rocks out to the water letting his mind wander.

Wini

Wini kept thinking about Cherie’s hand that was on hers the whole car ride to the party. Her mind then went to Marcus, she was sure she was going to kill that boy someday, though she wasn’t sure when but she really wanted to. She watched Angel go into the crows and Darius go off with a blonde girl to the lake. Her eyes scoped the crowd once more and she noticed one of her old friends Trix, god she missed that girl so much but she knew she couldn’t go over and say hi. They where suppose to be staying somewhat on the down low for now. She heard Cherie come up behind her, she knew the smell and the sound of the girls footsteps. "Are those your siblings?" she nodded “yes they are” she looked to Cherie when the girl came and stood next to her “im hungry” was all she said before she moved quickly to the first person nearest to them, a girl (npc) with black hair, and grabbed her quickly pulling her over to Cherie. Before the girl could scream she quickly snapped the girls neck in a very swift way then bit down on the girls next. She sighed feeling the warm blood go down her throat. After a couple minutes she let her bite go and pushed the girl over to Cherie “here I left some for you” she grinned her lips where stained with blood but as she turned around there was now a boy near them. She grinned when he said "Um hi,this tree seems pretty awesome so you wouldn't mind if i sat here either would you ? she couldn’t help but laugh. Did this boy know what he just got himself into, she thought to herself but before she could say anything she saw Angel walk over, her little sister she hasn’t spoken to in years.

She watched Angel tell the boy to leave and Wini couldn’t help but laugh again, her little sister sure has grown up “I would listen to her you don’t know what could happen to such a pretty boy like you” she snorted and then looked to Angel then looked to Cherie “have fun with your snack” she then quickly took her sisters arm and walked swiftly farther away from the crowd. “Ah my dear little sister, it has been years and you have grown up so much….there isn’t a day that I have not thought of you….I saw one of your friends earlier. She was in the garden I used to go during my stay at St.Vlads. Her father is actually one of my good friends now” she then pulled Angel into a tight hug “you should join me Angel, its amazing you never have to worry about anything any more, join me. I want to have my baby sister with me always”.


Brook

Brook grinned to Eliza when she said the party was kick ass. Everything was going good, she then watched as Eliza grabbed a beer “don’t drink too much I don’t want to have to be the one carrying up those god damn stairs at the school, ya know how I am with those stairs, they always make me fall.” She kept her eyes gazing the crowd. Seeing some of her friends hanging out others drinking. "Oh i'm sure it wont be hard to fine her at all." “Ya got that right wherever there is the crowd she is there.” She then started walking with Eliza around the crowd and spotted Brylen dancing with Alec “theres your sister now gotta find Lulu”. She scanned her eyes around the crowd wondering where Lulu was, there was just something about the girl that she liked and really wanted to spend more time with her and maybe do something more, who knows. She pulled out her phone and sent a text to Lulu ”Where are you girl? Been looking for you thought u be near Brylen”. After she sent the text she looked to Eliza “Ok sent a text to Lulu asking her where the hell she was.”

Bellatrix stood, frozen, unable to move. She knew the smell as well, and it still frightened her. Instead of running for the car as Lupe had told her to, she followed her outside. However, as she walked outside, she saw the car she was supposed to go to and decided that, since Lupe had just agreed to the one thing she had always wanted, since the day it happened.

Bellatrix didn't move to quickly to the car, wanting to see what was happening, and even once she got there she didn't get in. She sat, silently, on the roof of the car, and looked around, looking for anyone else. She was a little scared, but nothing she hadn't experienced before. Bellatrix knew what it was like to live in fear...she was constantly afraid.

As she scanned the darkness, she saw the figure of someone she never thought she would see again. The only problem was, she was running away. Shit, Trix thought. She looked back at the car, knowing she should wait for Lupe, but Trix wasn't thinking at this point. She slipped off the roof of the car, silent as a mouse, and tiptoed to the tree she had run away from. Once she got a closer look, Trix knew it was Wini. She gasped, slapping her hand over her mouth, and smiling.

Trix looked at Wini, trying to keep up with her running, eyes watering up as she looked at her old friend. As she looked at her, she remembered the night it had happened...

"Wini, why can't I go with? Sure, Lupe doesn't want me to go, but Rexy will be there, we'll be fine!" Bellatrix had whined, begging her friend to take her with.
"No, Trix. Lupe would kill us both! We can't risk it!" Wini had smiled, hugging her friend. "I'll be back in a few hours. You won't even know I was gone,"
"But..." Trix was cut off by Wini. "We're going to live together, Bells," Wini was the only one who ever called her that, "It's not like I won't come back. I promise i'll come back!" And with that Wini had left.

Trix had never forgiven herself for not following Wini anyway, she had always thought that she could have protected her and saved her, even where Rexy had failed.

She managed to catch up, finding her in an alley, cornering some helpless human. Trix knew she had to stop her friend, so she gathered as much courage as she could, and stepped between her one time friend and her would be victim.

"Wini?" She said, so quietly she didn't even believe it was coming from her lips and possibly only in her mind. "Wini?" She asked again, a little bit louder than the last time, smiling brightly. Forgetting their differences, and the fact that she was attempting to kill the person behind her, she ran up to her and wrapped her arms around her friends neck, tears brimming in her eyes. "Oh my God Wini! I missed you!" She knew Lupe was going to kill her, even if Wini didn't, but right now she didn't care. She wanted to hold her friend, hear Wini tell her they would always be together, and have her say that they'd never be alone, because it'd always be them against the world. Bellatrix held her friend tightly, scared and excited.

"How are you?" She asked in a whisper, not even really believing that she was holding her friend once again. It was unbelievable for her. She was holding her friend in her arms, probably about to die, and she didn't even care. She was with Wini, and that's all that mattered.

Brook

Brook watched everything happen and then it ran threw her head once more. She looked to Eliza knowing she must be having a hard time with what was going on. She reached her hand over to Eliza’s and squeezed it trying to give her an assuring look. “Yeah. We need to get ahold of someone. Fuck. Looks like the party's over." She nodded in agreement though she looked to Eliza “How about you go over to Bry I think she will need you” she then watched to make sure Eliza went over there then followed Lulu. “Fuck this isn’t any good, and my stress is going way high I might need to borrow a cigarette from you” as she was talking she looked up to see a women ahead of them. The women didn’t look familiar to her at all though she looked liked she was dressed up for something. She felt Lulu stop and then move off to the side hearing “shh” . Brook then felt something click in her mind. Strigoi. Of course they had to be all over the place.

She walked silently next to Lulu but then heard the women laugh "Think you can get away from me baby cousin?" Brook eyes went wide and looked to Lulu “you know her Lulu?” her eyes went back to the women in red "Thought I was dead didn't you? No... That's not it. You knew I was alive. You merely forgot about me." she heard the women, she didn’t have a good feeling about this at all. As she was about to reach for her daggers in her leg sheaths when she felt herself get slammed against a house. Her eyes went wide as she now was looking at the female strigoi up close. Brook felt the women’s arm pushing against her throat and she put one of her hands over the strigoi‘s arm and squeezed digging her nails into the women‘s arm. Her other hand was struggling as she tried to reach for one of her daggers. The women’s words where going through one ear and out the other as she dangled there struggling to breathe but once sentence did catch her attention "Did you know our Lulu here had a fiance? I'll bet she never told you that. Feel hurt now?" she coughed, she wasn’t going to let the female get to her. She finally was able to reach one of her daggers and quickly pulled it up and went to slice against the females arm but she was started to fade in and out from the lack of oxygen she was getting. She looked to Lulu with pleading eyes for help not able to choke out any words as she felt her eyes start to close.



Mace

Mace was skipping rocks not really paying attention to anything when he heard a “eep! He looked up to see Andrea and tried to hold back a laugh when she said “damn you mace! What's a boy like you doing here all alone?” “Sorry Drea wasn’t paying attention….and I am just out here thinking…” before he could say anymore he heard a scream and quickly got up. He noticed Andrea heard the sound too. "Quick Mace! I think Angel's..." Mace just ran and then he saw Angel laying there, Brylen passed out in Kitty’s lap. “What the fuck…!” he looked around and also saw a man carrying Adrian’s limp body into the lake. He couldn’t think straight…angel….Adrian. His body started shaking and he let out a scream, Mace never let his emotions get to him but he felt he was going to explode.

He ran over to the man that put Adrian’s body into the lake “What happened to him! Tell me what happened to him!” his eyes looked wild then looked around once more and then back to the man “please just tell me what happened” his voice got softer and his eyes where now having a pleading look. He wanted to go over to Angel but he knew he needed to find out what happened to Adrian.


Wini

Wini felt like she was ready to explode and attack her victim when she saw someone jump in front of her then say “Wini?” The voice sounded familiar as her eyes went over the girl that stood in front of the helpless person she was ready to feed off of. Her eyes went wide…Bells.. “Bells…Bella...” she said in a low voice, she never called her Trix always Bells or Bella. She was shaking, she was still in attack mode but she held herself from attacking her old friend. “You shouldn’t be here Bella. Im a monster…” she then felt herself being wrapped into Trix’s arms. Wini stood there motionless. Her arms to her side, she hasn’t felt a hug like that since she was turned. She for one didn’t allow any of the others to really touch her except for Gabe and Cherie at times.

"Oh my God Wini! I missed you!" she tried to hold a straight face as she heard Bells “Bella im not who I used to be. I am a killer. Your crazy for coming out here. I am not the same Wini…” she then heard in the background someone yelling her name…then recognized the voice, Cherie. Shit…she need Bella to go before Cherie came around. Then she heard another noise, someone else was nearby she looked around and spotted a teen girl then noticed it was Lupe [I] “fuck fuck fuck fuck these two needed to go” [I] she thought to herself as she heard Lupe "Wini, Don't hurt her."

Wini hissed at Lupe “For fuck sake lupe I wouldn’t hurt Bella, now you two need to go because there is another strigoi that will be here soon and if you want to live then leave” she pulled away from Bella and looked to her “I am sorry I broke my promise and never came back” and with that she gave a small kiss on Bella’s cheek and she fled to find Cherie. She never told Bella her feelings for her, before she got turned she was starting to feel more for Bella then she thought she could but everything changed after she got turned. She fled the streets and saw Cherie and run up to her “im here but I am going….im a fucking monster that needs to die. I killed my fucking baby sister!” she screamed out finally all of what happened that night was getting to her and she fell to her knees in front of Cherie ready to just give up.

Bellatrix stood, scared, and watched her friend retreat into the alley way. She knew she was in trouble by the look on Lupe's face.

"See?" She said, turning to her protector. "I told you she'd never hurt me!" Trix smiled brightly, touching her cheek. "I knew she wouldn't hurt me..." She whispered, smiling. As she walked back to Lupe, looking at her. "Look, Wini said we're in danger, so we should leave. I'll beg for your forgiveness later, and for you not to tell my father, but right now, we need to go," She looked back over her shoulder, sighing.

As Trix walked out of the alley, she looked at the people all around them, and figured they could disappear into the crowd. "Come on," She said, looking down both ways of the street. "They'll find us if we go directly back to the school. We need to find a longer way," She looked back at her protector, and realized she was taking to much of a lead. This was Lupe's job, not Trix's. "Sorry if I'm being bossy," She said quietly, walking quickly down the street, weaving in and out of the crowd. She was swift, moving along the earth with no worries...until she realized that she couldn't sense Lupe near her anymore.

"Lupe?" She asked, whipping herself around. "Lupe!" She yelled, suddenly freaking out. What if she had gone straight back to the school? What if they had gotten separated? She could feel peoples eyes on her, and she was frantic with worry. No no no...If you're teaching me a lesson, this is so not funny! She thought to herself, hyperventilating and turning in circles.

As she tried to find somewhere familiar in this area she didn't know, she just got more and more nervous. Bellatrix picked up her floor length dress, kicking off her shoes, and trying to find something familiar in the Earth. She tried to focus, trying to pick out Lupe's quiet, soft footsteps in the crowd, but either she was to far away, or Trix couldn't focus. Whatever the case was, she was seperated from her protector and she was surrounded by Strigoi, she could just feel it...