Vincent Crane's Story

Ofelia woke up the next morning still laying in the tree. She yawned and climbed down, still feeling numb from the night before, and sore from sleeping in a damn tree. She wandered home and opened the door. Jane asked where she had been all night and all Ofelis said before slipping into the bathroom to shower was. "With Nasir" It was a lie, but Jane believed it and didnt ask any more questions. Ofelia got ot of the shower and threw on a pair of shorts and a tank top that was nearly long enough to cover the shorts. She but on her boots and headed out to tend the dragons.





Vincent had finally made it back to the Islands, he had heard word of Ofelia Taryns father passing away and coldnt have been more pleased. He was the only thing standing in the way of Vincents need to torment the woman who dared to say no to his face. Now that he was gone there was nothing to stop him from checking up on Ofelia. He wanted to see how she was and what she looked like and if she had said yes to anyone offering to court her. He remembered where she lived so thats where he went first after he was settled into his new job as a financial adviser. He walked to the ranch and stuck close to the tree line where Ofelia wouldnt see him if she was outside. It didnt take long to find her, she always was a busy body who had to be up doing work. She was even more beautiful than he expected her to turn out, she looked delicate and womanly now compared to the tom boy he was used to seeing, though she still dressed like a boy. He admired her new curves, noting that she still had an innocent looking face. He stood watching herwork for a while, hiding in the tree line, wondering if she had found a man or gotten married. Surely if she hadnt he might have a chance with her, he knew shed be too afraid to say no a second time.

Lorelei couldn't wait for her materials and got dressed to go out herself. She made it to the property line and saw a figure moving towards the property and just stood behind a tree. She snuck closer a bit, watching him watch Ofelia. She thought it was weird, but she wanted to see if he would do anything. After a while she got bored and asked, "You know... it isn't nice to stare. If you are too scared to go talk to her I can do that for you. Or I can call her here." She said. Her face emotionless.

Vincent was nearly ready to turn around and go home, Ofelia wasnt doing anything worth his attention really, but she looked troubled, which made him very happy. He was about to turn around when a voice came out of nowhere, saying he shouldnt stare. He turned to see a little girl, a creepy one at that 'oh great, just what I need' he thought to himself. "No no, I'm not afraid to talk to her. We're...Old friends...But you see we had a falling out some years ago. We dont talk so I decided to check up on her with out actually talking to her, thats all.Heard her dad died awhile back. Just making sure shes okay, no need to bother her right? So lets pretend i wasnt here okay, little girl." He spoke in a friendly way. Vincent had a tone to his voice that could trick most people into believing the things he said. He pushed away from the tree and glanced back to where Ofelia was, but she had left. "And If staring is rude you should take your own advice. How long did you think you could watch me before i noticed? If you're going to watch people at least learn to do it properly." He said with a slight sarcastic tone.

Lorelei blinked, "Well seeing as you are on my family's property and no one knows you... I have every right. Now if you will excuse me, I am going to tell her you are here." She looked him up and down before starting to climb the fence to get to the otherside. "Your aura... it is dark..."

Vincent sighed and lifted the girl off the fence, setting her back on the ground quickly. " How about we dont tell her huh? Keep this our little secret, for now anyways. I'll talk to her in due time. So...Whats it going to take to keep you quiet until then, kid?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. She was a weird little girl, and a troublesome one too. It was just his luck that she happened to stumble upon him. She didnt seem like the kind he could threaten either, so he didnt try that. The only option was to do whatever it took to keep her quiet until he felt like making a move. He had more observations to make before then though, so this little girl staying quiet was crucial.

Lorelei looked up at him. Well that was a first for her. She thought about, she didn't need to worry about money. "I would say never smile, probably scarier than your look now... but I need a test subject for some of my stuff. Also you are going to need me if you want to come and watch Ofelia... though Nasir might not like you just staring at her, so I advise I be with you. Or Roshia might shoot you in the back of the head. Honestly, you lucky I am the one who caught you. You look smart, but dear lord you sure are stupid. So... what do you say? I keep quiet and you become my rat?" She smiled and for a moment almost looked as evil as he did.

Vincent nodded at the girl in front of him. "Sounds like a deal. And Yes I assume he would take issue with me observing Ofelias actions. But hes not around now is he?..What is he to her, anyways?" Vincent has known of Nasir and Ofelia knowing each other, but from information he had gathered he couldnt yet tell how the two were involved. "So, miss Lorelei, when do I start lab rat duties, Ive seen all I needed to observe today, so I'll hold up my end of the bargain." He said, his expression never changing from what it was previously.

Lorelei walked passed him and started picking the planet she needed and turned back to him. "It is obvious you are free now. So we can go now. If you break out in a rash or die... that is seriously not my problem. Rats die all the time in the name of science. Also... I know by that look in your eye you plan on doing something stupid... I advise against it." Her face and voice were emotionless. Before taking his sleeve and bringing him back to the village. Roshia was just walking out of her house when she saw the two walking of out the woods.

She looked down to see her holding his sleeve. "Uh, what is this?" She asked.

"This is a man. My boyfriend is what people normally call it. I can't really talk right now we have educational stuff to do." She started walking to her lab.

"Excuse me, he is like thirty!"

"I'm aware of the dangers of experimental medicine. Isnt everyone?" Vincent said as she took his sleeve and led him to what he assumed would be her work space. As they walked along a brown haired woman came out of her home asking what was going on. Vincent knew who she was. She was Roshia Keavaris, recently wed to that pesky Rowan Todd, the majors son who previously meddled in Vincents affairs. Vincent didnt bother playing into or against Lorelei's apparent joke, instead just standing while Roshia commented on his apparent age.

Lorelei ignored her sister and kept walking. She opened the door to her lab and started setting things up so she could make the medicine. "I need you to take your shirt off." He heated up the pot and crushed the leaves she gotten from the plant then poured in a light pink potion. Lorelei was focused on the materials, not worrying about the man in her lap. She put some blood of a creature that had once lived in the woods near her home and stirred. While waiting for it to boil she decided to take notes on him, "Name... Rat 1... Brown hair... hazel eyes. How tall are you? Have you had sex recently? Do you get sick with certain foods? She asked, never looking from her notepad.

Vincent didnt fight Loreleis orders and removed his shirt. She was precise and to the point and he appreciated it. More people needed to be that way. "I'm six feet and five inches tall, I had sex three days ago, and no foods make me any kind of sick that I am aware of anyways. " He thought her second question was a strange one for a child her age to ask but assumed she had a legitimate reason. He stared at some glass jars filled with random things as she wrote in her little notebook.

Lorelei wrote everything down then she drained the potion into a long pan so it could cool off quicker. She decided to make some kind of conversation. Her mother said people would rather that then sit in silence staring at each other. "Oh... I forgot to answer your question earlier. Didn't really think it was any concern of yours, but since we are sitting here. Nasir and Ofelia are courting. From what I observed she likes the... manlier types of men. They seemed to get along really well. I see her laughing with him a lot and kiss... caught them a few weeks back over by the peak cliff... look like things were getting heated. My mother says I shouldn't watch people do such acts... something about it being personal. I call it education." She said nonchalantly and held her hand over the potion, it was still too warm.

Vincent was rather fine not having any kind of conversation while he waited to his possible poison elixer to be finished, but apparently lorelei thought it was best to speak. She said Ofelia and Nasir we're courting, which nearly made Vincent smirk. It would only crush Ofelia even more, when his plan was finished playing out, now that she had a man she liked in her life. He was ticked off about it though, more that he would even admit to himself. Vincent showed no change in emotion or expression despite the thoughts in his head. "Ah I see, well good for her then. I thought shed turn into a lonely old dragon lady." Was all he had to say on that matter. "You like watching people do you? For educational reasons anyways?" He asked only to keep the conversation going as she had started it.

Lorelei didn't look back at him as she got her needled filled with the potion. "Sure... it helps read body language. Did you know that despite people's lack of facial or vocal emotions... their body tells a different story? But what would a city boy know about anything like that? Now stand." She ordered and pushed a little of the potion out before flicking her finger lightly on it.

"Yes, I'm afraid I did. People are often too concerned with facial expression and vocal tone to realize their bodies end up betraying them. Most people dont pick up on the subtle changes or tells different people have with their body language though, so it goes unnoticed by the masses I'm afraid. Most dont realize he speed at which they speak is a tell tale sign of a change in emotion either." Vincent spoke as he stood up and watched Lorelei flick the tip of the syringe she was holding.

Lorelei nodded and looked up at him before stabbing him. "This is going to hurt like a bitch... and most likely burn. Unless you are into that sort of thing." She dabbed a cloth in alcohol and wiped the spot on the right side of his abs. Then she pushed the needle in and pushed the potion into him. She didn't watch him if he flinched, she personally didn't care. Lorelei went back to her potion and stared at it for a second. "Oh... I guess you could have just drank it. Maybe I have a things for stabbing people." She said with no emotion and shrugged.

Vincent didnt so much as wince when Lorelei stabbed him, he wasnt afraid of needles and he didnt really mind the pain of the injection anyways. It did burn though like she had said which made him uncomfortable enough to notice. "Well then, I'm begining to think that you only stabbed me because you dont like me" He said as he waited for the effects of the medication to kick in. He didnt really give a hoot if she didnt like him, he didnt intend on being friendly with her in the first place.

Lorelei looked over her shoulder and smiled innocently. "If I didn't like you I would have poisoned you. I don't see you bleeding from your eyes yet. You should feel something within ten to twenty minutes. I won't say what, don't need to contaminant my experiment." She looked over her report, biting her lip before thinking over if she should give something just in case, but she decided against it. "I expect you here tomorrow... I don't care when."

(Time skip forward one full week cuz I said so. ~xoxo GM)

Vincent

Vincent had been careflly watching ofelia for about week now, learning her habits and her routine, memorizing it carefully. He unfortunately still had to deal with Lorelei's 'tests' as her guinea pig, but that would soon be over as well. It was finally time to see Ofelias reaction to his coming back to the Island. He wondered if she'd try to run from him to her little boyfriend who was oh so conveniently away. The timing couldnt be more perfect, Jane had gone into the city with the kid and no one would be around to save Ofelia this time. Vincent waited outside the ranch, out of view of Ofelia. He waited while she finished her morning chores and headed out to a large field out deep in the woods. He watched her for a little while, she had visited the field nearly daily watching the butterflies like a child. Once Ofelia had done the predictable and sat at the base of the same tree she always did to watch the clouds pass, Vincent decided it was finally time. He walked out of the forrest, coming from behind her to stand next to whereshe was sitting. He stared down at her, eager to capture her expression. "Good morning love....Miss me?" He said, an amused tone to his voice as a terrible grin spread across his face.

Ofelia had nearly drifted off to sleep, her eyes closed as she listened to the sounds of the late summer, enjoying the cool shade for a minute. She had tuned out to the world for a few seconds when a familiar and sinister voice snapped her back to reality. Her eyes shot open, staring forward, too scared to look up. She knew who it was, her heart nearly pounded out of her chest and her mind screamed at her to run when she had the chance, but her legs wouldnt move. She could feel him staring down at her, watching her every breath as she shook in utter terror. He was cocky as usual, knowing very well he was the person Ofelia feared the most. Vincent knelt down in front of her, grabbing her chin and forcing her to look at him. “Whats wrong, love? Surprised are we? You poor thing, you’re trembling even...I told you I’d come back remember? When your father used those god awful dragons to drive my family out of town...How cowardly...But he’s gone now isnt he Love? No one to drive me away now is there? Its just you and me now...” Vincent spoke, his voice dripping in a cruel tone. Ofelia shuttered and slammed her eyes shut. There was nowhere to run, and no one around to hear her if she tried to scream. Vincent already had a hand on her and she couldnt run even if she tried, he towered over her and was much stronger, she’d never get away fast enough.

Vincent watched her for a minute, enjoying the terror in her eyes, her inability to speaking making things so much more enjoyable for him. “Maybe now you’ll reconsider my proposal, huh? Ditch your little boy toy, you’re used goods my dear, did you think you could be a proper wife for him? When you’ve been used already? Thats cute love...Real cute…” He paused, pulling her up to stand, pushing her roughly against the tree. His hand trailing down her side and waist. “But I dont mind keeping you for myself anyways...You know better than to deny me a second time...Be a smart girl this time Ofelia. You will be mine forever.” He leaned in to kiss Ofelia.

“No…!” She yelled, her voice shaking. She used all of her might to push Vincent back away from her. Vincent, filled with rage struck her across the face hard enough to knock Ofelia to the ground. “You bitch! You dare deny me again!? I would have thought you learned your lesson the first time….I’ll teach you to disobey me again…” Vincent took a step forward, but not before Ofelia brought three whistles, attached to her necklace, to her lips and blew them. They didnt make a sound. Vincent stopped and laughed. “Really now? As If a broken whistle would save you! Thats rich love...I-” Vincent took a step forward and pulled back his hand to strike Ofelia again, but was met with the crushing pain tugging his arm. He yelled in pain, looking back to see a massive dragon had a hold of his arm. It was Fleurdon. He dragged Vincent by the arm to the middle of the field and held him there as Ofelia picked herself up off the ground. Vincent screamed as his arm was nearly ripped from its socket as the dragon tugged him along. Two more dragons showed up as well, surrounding Vincent. Vincent stared at Ofelia, fear obviously displayed on his face. Fleurdon let go of vincents arm, leaving it a limp and mangled as he slumped to the ground, groaning in pain. Ofelia stepped out of the shadows. “Oh, come on now, It cant hurt that bad...Just grin and bare it like a good little boy.” She said, taunting him with words similar to what he had said to her years ago. Vincent stared up at her in terror, begged her not to kill him. Pleaded for his life and groveled like the worm he was. Every move he made was carefully kept in check by the dragons surrounding him, as they snarled and snapped their jaws at him, the newer two circling him like hungry sharks as Fleurdon breathed hot breath down upon him, his teeth dripping in blood. Ofelia wiped her tears away, she wasnt afraid any more. The tables had turned and now vincent was at her mercy, and she wanted nothing more than to make him pay for the things he had done.