Darcy, Jessamine and James
(part 2)
Jame's heart fell into his boots when he realized what happened. Jessamine had rushed the vampire. She had knocked one down and stabbed the other, only to be backhanded away. James bolted on the male vampire when he was recovering.
With knife in hand his fist crashed against the Vampires face, it was like punching a wall that wasn't built very well. Caught off guard by james the vampire lept back from his attacker , but james was right there with him.
Swinging upwards the tip of the knight caught the vampire in the thigh and raced upward over the groain. Shocked, he tried to evade again , but James second blow was already coming down and there wasn't enough time for him to move.
The knife slid between the callor bones, sinking down into the chest cavity, James had severed the main nerve colum in the vampires left arm and only by sheer luck missed the beings heart.
The vampire recovered his footing and landed a fist in james gut sent him sprawling. Gasping for air james rose to his feet to catch a glimps as the vampire landed another blow. James tried to deflect it but wasn't fast enough and took the brunt of the blow with his face. 'fuck!' he stayed on his feet but his eyes were blury. The vampire struck at him again, going for the throat, but james could see it comming and moved in. The point of the knife found it's way between the vampires ribs before either of them had any real idea of what was happening. The vampires momentum had carried them both to the ground. James was under the corsps panting trying to calm down. He rolled the body off of him the pulling the knife from the wretch's chest. The body convulsed a few times but otherwise didn't move. James didn't either for a second.
It took a while before Darcy even realized what happened. First the woman had attacked on her and next she was on top of her. After that she had attacked on the vampire failing miserably and now she was crying. Darcy come up with the new plan quickly. If they stayed there, the woman would get killed by the vampire. She couldn't help the male human now, she trusted he was good fighter enough to survive on his own. She walked next to the her target and while this was unarmed, Darcy lift her up and walked towards the forest half carrying, half dragging the girl. It wouldn't matter if she tried to escape. That would just seem more believable in case the vampire was one to survive. Besides as a demon Darcy had enough strength to hold one girl back.
When she was away from the vampire and the guy fighting with him, Darcy placed Jessamine to the ground offering her knife to her. "Now stab me as hard as you can and then run for your life."
His mind snapped back into place.
'Jessamine!' He looked around but she wasn't there. Neither was the female demon. "Jessamine!" He shouted. He strung his bow quickly and knocked an arrow seeing two silhouette in the darkness, they were back lit from the little moon light there was. "Jessamine!" He shouted again running twords her. He wouldn't loose her. He wouldn't be the one idle while the one person in this world who made sense was taken away from him.
"Now stab me as hard as you can and run for your life."Jessamine's eyes were already wide, still gasping, she couldn't verbalize her confusion but it didn't matter. She snatched the knife, stabbed the knife through the girl's arm and stumbed ahead, only to be stopped dead by an arrow that narrowly missed her throat. Dropping to the ground, she gripped the grass and dirt under her.
Get it together.... She repeated to herself, trying as hard as she could but failing.
"Jessamine! That was enough to get her moving "Ja-" She gasped between shuttered breaths.
She darted for him, collapsed against a tree. Her breathing was labored, her heart racing at an unnatural speed, her shaking grew worse as she slide down the tree and lay in the dirt.
Darcy gritted her teeth as the woman stabbed her arm getting ready for the pain. She watched as her target had troubles to run away. Next thing she realized was an arrow hitting on her left shoulder. "Aarg!" she fell down, gasping from pain. She wouldn't be able to use her left hand for a while. She reached the arrow and pulled it of gritting her teeth again, trying not to shout. "Fuck. Fuck!
Fuck!" The arrow was now in her right hand and for a second, she just stayed there, sitting on the group, trying to calm down a bit.
"Jessamine!" The male was shouting, looking for his friend.
"So, he did survive, good" Darcy thought in her mind. She rose up and held her bleeding arm, walking slowly towards the girl. "Listen," she said quietly. "I'm not here to kill you. I'm sorry for the rough act" she kneeled next to the girl. "Try to calm down. Look, your friend is still alive and if I was going to kill you I would have done it already." she said in relaxed tone.
Jessamine lay there, she barely heard the girl but it didn't matter, she was will into her panic attack and all she could to ride it out until James arrived.
Tears streamed down Jessamine's face, cleaning her dirt and blood covered skin as it traveled down her temple and into her hair.
"....Not....Kill....Done....Already." Only a few words broke through the panic but all she could do was lie there, rational thought was far from her at this point, as she stared at the girl, with wide panic filled eyes and all she wanted-needed was James.
James halted seeing Jessamine on the ground.
" Jess!" He readied his bow and took aim at the female demon who was kneeing beside his love. " Back off!" He loosed an arrow that would strike the demon in the chest if she didn't do something fast.
When Darcy heard the shout she quickly moved further away from Jessamine, avoiding the arrow just in time. βI'm not going to kill her.β
"Last time I heard that I nearly got killed my self." he knocked another arrow deftly and took aim again, this time aiming where she might jump rather than directly at her.
Darcy walked slowly further away. "I have no reason to kill her. I just had to act a bit. I don't want to be killed myself. And Seth would kill me if he ever hears about this."
"Give me one reason I should even consider trusting you?" He said.
' if I can get her talking maybe she won't be so quick on the jump...'"I want to help you. I...I still remember my past. I know humans aren't prey...We all were just like you" Darcy answered quietly.
that caught him off guard..."Not helping your case." He said, his arm was getting tired of holding the arrow back.
"Wouldn't it be good to have someone inside? I work for Seth and Lillith. I can try to find out their plans. I want to help you." she was determined. This was why she was here.
He let his arm relax a little , lowering the tip of the arrow. " I'm listening..." He said keeping the arrow only a hairs breath away from his target.
He had delt with enough people in his life to know that when someone offered something to good to be true , it usually was. Though he had no idea who Seth or Lillith were.
She sighed quietly for relief when she saw the arrow going at least a little lower. "As I said I remember my past. I want to help you to survive. It's why I'm here. Humans don't deserve to die. I want to earn your trust. This might not be the best way to do it, but it was only way to get close to you."
"Because waking someone up is always the best way to get someone to listen... let alone how you woke us up. " He said moving closer to Jessamine, She was still having issues. 'just breath Jess...' he willed calmness to her. He knew it wasn't going to help, but he had other things to worry about that posed a much more imminent issues to deal with. " Why us and not some other group ?" He prodded, taking a knee beside Jess.
Darcy sat down on the ground. "You can kill me, if you don't believe me. My life doesn't mean anything to me. And answer to your question...You're only group I have heard of."
Jessamine's heard James' voice and her eyes went wide. She scurried to her feet and behind him.
"He's here, everything's alright." She told herself, as her shaking subsided.
"She-She...I think....she's...telling the truth." Jessamine managed, between ragged breaths. "She....could have....ki- but she didn't...She told me to run. I think she is trying to help."
He lowered his bow the rest of the way. He trusted Jess, even though the hair on the back of his neck stated otherwise sometimes: this being one of those times, he tried to relax a little.
" Fine , I guess we can figure this out later...we have to get the others someplace safe before we can talk again. You deal with your people and I'll deal with mine, fair?" He asked feeling exposed , out in the open like this. 'I'll make sure to keep something to kill you with on hand...' He made that mental note as his eyes bore holes into hers, not in a mean way, just a ' I'm watching you...closely.' way.
Darcy nodded. "We can do this your way. Maybe that helps you to trust me at least slightly."
Suddenly she collapsed to the ground. She had seen it. Darcy was gasping, her whole body was shaking.
βWhy? Why now? I'm not asleep.β She had seen one of those dreams of hers. Dreams that were too realistic to be just dreams. She had seen the blonde girl running away and then....
βShe surrendered?β She looked at the humans. βF-find...your...fr-friend...β She could barely talk. Then everything went black. She went unconscious.