Summertime fabness

If only she knew that today was the day she would encounter another damned vampire, as if her existence was a fucking joke, pulling them all towards her. Going from Kaz, Mort and Isabella to that damned Triumph she had encountered the other day. And today, she would meet another immortal. Something that would have disturbed her far more a few months ago, but with Kaz being one… It merely caused her to overthink things. Did she still hate them? She knew she disliked Edmund, for he reminded her of one of her greatest fears. His humanity was long lost, a man that had learned to think like only an immortal would. And she worried that one day, Kaz too would lose that. That she would truly lose the man she loved, while his remains still walked the earth.

The words the giant spoke caused the woman to raise a brow and it was for the best that she had no idea that he wasn’t just a giant, but also immortal. You know how when you meet someone strange, you look around for a second to see if there was anything that still made sense? Your eyes darting from left to right and back again? Because that was exactly what Allison looked like right now. Soon enough, however, she smiled again. Don’t call him Giant, Allison. Don’t do it. “I’m sure it is,” she calmly agreed. Because what else could she say? “Please, tell me who you are.”

Achilles was his name. It sounded unfamiliar, with a ch-sound as if he was going to puke, rather than pronouncing it the way she would have thought to pronounce it. An interesting one, for sure. Perhaps he wasn’t from here, or perhaps his parents had just never learned how to read, saw the name somewhere and decided this was how it was going to be pronounced for the rest of his days. Who knew. Either way, she wasn’t fond of it. But, that didn’t matter. She didn’t respond to it, as she hadn’t quite decided if it was a pleasure to meet him. And something told her that it wouldn’t be.

It was when he asked for Kaz, that her suspicion grew. She narrowed her gaze, looking at this giant of a man as if he instantly became the enemy. “I am afraid to tell you that it is impossible for Kaz to come meet you right now,” she told him, forcing a smile on her face again. “So any business you have, will have to go by me.” It was unusual for someone to come into the throneroom and ask for Kaz, especially if it was about security measures. She had been the one arranging everything. This man was up to no good.

The more time she spent with this man, the more became clear that he was not one to be trusted. Quite the opposite, even. He was an enemy. Maybe not directly of hers, but the plans he had were against hers and she was not going to change any more of her future plans. Because her bright future had already taken some hits because of idiots ruining it. She wasn’t allowing any more of that. She needed some goddamn positivity.

Avanti. It was a name she had read in her books, causing her to frown softly. Never had she known what the hell an Avanti was, but now that the words his bloodline were added to it, it started to make a whole lot more sense. Avanti. She stood up and took a step closer to the man, to show that she was not impressed by his threat. Not because she thought she could win. No, his words made quite clear that she was dealing with a vampire. There was no way she could ever win from that. But there was one thing she could do. “If you lay as much as one hand on my husband,” she calmly told him, her brown eyes piercing his, “I will make sure that everyone is going to start looking for Avanti.” Would that do the trick, she wondered? Because her books had made clear that to cure a vampire, she needed him. That man. She wondered how, she wondered why. But maybe Achilles was, unknowingly, going to admit this.

“I’m not talking about my people,” she calmly corrected the man, everything about her screaming how unamused this situation had her be. His threats weren’t empty - she knew that much. But, he was after toying with her head. He was bored, like Isabella clearly had been. It was this kind of vampire that needed to leave this world for good. And it was exactly this kind of vampire that she was going to end. Because Kaz was still human. And maybe not forever. Maybe one day, he too would be like this. But for now, the husband she loved was still in there. While with this vampire, the man he once was, was probably long dead.

“I’m talking about every vampire in these lands and perhaps from even farther away,” she calmly went on, still the same look in her eyes. She did not know yet, what the link was between the two names that were mentioned in her books and everything else, but there was one. And she was going to figure it out. “Because he is where it all started, isn’t he.” And he would be where it would all end.