Awoken Anger
"Whose blood is that?" Danny asked her gaze locked on the blood still dripping down Carmilla's arms, onto the floor. It probably said a lot about the situation that she no longer cared for the blood, it didn't disgust her as it once may have. Although there was a sinking feeling in her heart that it was Laura's blood.
"Why do you care chick-a-dee?" Carmilla smirked licking along the trail of blood trickling down her wrist, akin to how Mattie had done just hours before. The fluttering eyelids of Carmilla however seemed less out of pleasure and more of spite.
"If you dare to have laid a hand on Laura I swear it won't only be Mattie dead on the floor!" Danny hissed out standing, to tower over the vampire, in a brave attempt to intimidate her.
"Oh I've laid many hands on her, in all the places you wanted to." Carmilla spoke, smirking again when she saw Danny flinch "But no, I haven't seen her yet to kill her. If that is what you are asking."
"You haven't seen her." The broken whisper slipped past Danny's lips before she could stop it. She had half hoped Carmilla would have seen Laura if only to let them know she was still alright.
"Of course not. She's to cowardly to go out at night alone, and I like hunting best at night." Carmilla rolled her eyes at the stupidness that the amazon warrior seemed to show, after all, Laura knew how angry she was. She was smarter than running into the path of the beast.
"Then you really don't know Laura! She's left, and if you killed her on your rampage-" Danny screamed shaking her head desperately. Could Carmilla have killed her without knowing it? What had happened?
"I have seen none of your little gang of idiots!" Carmilla huffed leaning down to pick up her sisters body, in such a surprisingly tender way that Danny paused. Carmilla smiled wistfully at Mattie, blinking back tears before making her way across to the door to leave.
"I had thought you'd gone on a killing rampage!" Danny yelled, desperate to stop the vampire. Hoping that she would be able to pause Carmilla going out, pausing anything that would happen once Carmilla had dealt with Mattie.
"Oh, I had Xena, I returned to take care of the sister you killed." Carmilla turned showing Danny again the body of the best friend Carmilla had ever had, gently stroking the hair of her dead sister.
"Can you both shut up! Yes your sister is dead, but she killed Danny's too. We have bigger problems to deal with than your temper tantrum!" Laf stood between the pair, hands up, their eyes wild as they tried to calm the atmosphere. They had been trying to ignore the yelling but it was stopping them from writing all of their findings on Laura down. That was something that Laf could not deal with. A scientist had to have accurate records.
"Oh yes, tweedle-dee? I didn't think you were up to much since tweedle-dumb went missing." Laf had to be held back by Danny as their arm came back to throw a punch at Carmilla, who merely laughed at the pathetic display.
"Yeah well Laura is dying as we speak so I kind of have a big problem and you need to leave!" If the gloves were truly off then Laf was going to make sure that they had the last punch, even if Danny was too strong for them. Carmilla paused, all her snark disappearing from her face for a moment, before she shook her head, smirking at them again showing her teeth menacingly.
"Aw, is that your attempt to calm the beast? Using the betrayer against me?" Carmilla growled through her teeth, glaring at the pair of gingers, her grip tightening on Mattie.
"You don't care! Leave now! Leave! Just like you always wanted to! Run!" Danny yelled throwing a chair at Carmilla, or rather the space that Carmilla and Matty had once occupied. She screamed as she slumped back down shaking her head. Laf clenched their fists for a moment, blinking back everything that they had felt since Perry's disappearance before turning back to their friend and patting them on the back lightly.
"We need to sleep Dan, you take Laura's sofa. Encase she comes back." They knew there was no way that Danny would leave the room, but the girl was of no use if she didn't sleep. At one last glare Danny made her way over to the sofa, pulling Laura's blanket over her, tears already prickling her eyes.
"Fine. Fine." Laf sighed at Danny's tone before turning off the light and making their way upstairs.
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Carmilla returned when she sensed that there was no awake life in her mothers apartment, after all, her things were still in there, and she didn't want them being burnt when she tore the place apart brick by smouldering brick. There was also the point of the longer she left it the more they would be watching their backs, and she wanted so desperately for them to fear her. There was no way she would let them really get away with claiming Laura was sick, after all, Laura told her everything. All it was was some pathetic attempt to quench her thrist for revenge. Well, the plan had failed.
Carmilla made her way swiftly through the apartment, picking up her blood bags, clothes and any other things she needed, stopping by the desk to pick up a pen, turning to walk away when she saw a flash of something. It seemed the ginger crew were writing out theories again. Was it fairies or werewolves this time? Or maybe it was how to be best friends with the evil things? Carmilla wouldn't put it past them.
"Oh, you really did start a new project...Who are you planning on killing now?" Carmilla moved back to the desk, tempted to know what her enemies were up to, and rather than the expected plot to kill, she found the evidence they had stacked up on Laura. She glanced over the cursory list, and the printed pages from facebook, grimacing at the pictures of Laura and another girl.
"Why investigate her?" Carmilla turned over the pages, reaching the notes that had been scribbled quickly on Laura having been in hospital. Carmilla growled low, spinning round and lifting a now awake Danny from her bed by the neck, nails digging into the soft skin "Are you doing this to torment me! Laugh at Carmilla! Let's make Carmilla suffer! Haven't I suffered enough?! You think a few fake words will make my anger die!"
"What?" Danny asked half bleary, half breathless from Carmilla's choke hold. Her lack of answer only made Carmilla hold onto her tighter, angry tears falling from her eyes. Carmilla hissed picking up the notebook and shoving it into Danny's face, and suddenly it dawned on Danny and her demeanour softened. She tried to speak, to comfort her attacker but was interrupted.
"Laura's sick Carmilla, don't be mean to the sick girl!" Carmilla yelled shaking Danny, as more angry tears streamed down her face, flexing her hand tighter around Danny's neck, watching in glee as she twitched and gasped in pain.
"It's not faked!" Danny shook her head desperately and there was something in her broken voice, or the fact that Danny wasn't fighting back, that made Carmilla finally believe her, and it was as if her world was clattering down around her once more.
"No!" Carmilla screamed throwing Danny to the floor, and running back to the desk sorting through everything they had written down. Not even noticing when Laf and JP turned up staring at her as if waiting for an explosion "How dare she!" the scream caused all of them to fall to the ground as Carmilla's body was wracked with emotion once more.
"We haven't had chance to ask her, she might be getting better." Laf tried, no longer scared for themselves in regards to Carmilla. It seemed that she had more important things to worry about.
"If she was it wouldn't be hidden, I had to disclose my past! How dare she keep this from me!" Carmilla hissed out throwing the notes onto the floor, and furiously typing at the computer, trying to get any inclination on Laura's condition. She only paused when she finally got into the medical records, staring at the screen dejectedly.
"It was not done to torment! An old friend of hers believes her dead, we think she came here to perpetuate that." Laf tried walking forwards and gently placing their hand onto Carmilla's shoulder, reading over her shoulder.
"She's dying and came here to die alone. That is what you are suggesting?" Carmilla asked, pointing at the last line, her voice no longer holding any anger, rather an abject brokenness that could have broken any stoke hearts. Danny sat down beside Carmilla, reading the page again and groaning at the new information which Carmilla had gotten in only a few minutes.
"Only she can answer that..." Laf whispered, not sure who to comfort the most out of the dejected pair. It probably wasn't best to have them so close together, but there was not much that could be done. It was only when Carmilla slumped onto the table that they decided she needed the most comforting. They began to rub her shoulders carefully, hoping it was helping.
A bright light flashed through the campus, and bulbs blew in every lamp and light, as a huge wave of energy crashed through the Campus. Causing them to be thrown to the floor, Carmilla breathing rapidly as she sat up eyes wide. She had only seen that light once and a smile split across her face, even as tears continued to fall.
"What was that?" Danny asked, holding her head, as Laf groaned from their position sprawled across the floor
"Mattie..."