Chapter 5 #3
“I’ll talk to her tonight.” He knew that he would, but it worried him that she was still trying to trust him. “I’ve explained about David, but I’ll have to tell her the entire story. Perhaps she’ll understand it better if I were to tell her about his parents.”
“I’ll have Calla Lily give her those books, too. That’ll help her to understand better what she’ll be up against when he comes after her.” He asked if he was sure that he would. “As sure as I am of my love of Calla Lily.”
“I have a lot of making up to do. I didn’t treat her right when I first met her.
I told her that I didn’t want her and discovered that I can’t live without her.
” He asked him if they were all right now.
“Well, she’s living at my house until she decides if she likes it or not.
The only way now is that she lives with me until we find something else or make it our forever home.
Having her place burnt to the ground didn’t help anything at all. ”
“No, it wouldn’t.” He asked about how she was taking it.
“As well as can be expected. She lost everything but her computer. The only reason that she had that was because when I brought her to my house to look around, she asked for it to come along with us. When I think about him doing what he did, Brew, it’s all I can do not to find him and kill him. ”
“You’d be justified in it, too. I’d make sure you were.
” Rance looked so dejected that he wanted to do more for him.
What was it? He didn’t know, but there had to be something he could do.
“When the two of you come up with a plan, let me know about it. I’m sure she’s devastated right now, but she’ll have to get over it soon.
She needs to focus on what David could do if he’s going to find her. ”
“I’ll talk to her once I get going home.” He looked at the clock. “I said I’d be home by six. It’s nearly that now. I’ll go and talk to her tonight and take those books to her. She might like reading them while she’s at the house. We’ll take good care of them.”
“I know you will.” After gathering up the books that Calla had had, he sent him on his way.
Brew wanted to do something more to David, but until he brought him before him in a formal setting, there was little he could do.
He was going to send a few faeries to watch over him, but to make sure they weren’t hurt too.
So many lives had been taken by the monster that he found that even the smallest creatures made his heart hurt because of what he’d done to them.
Brew called the ex-councilmen to his home. He wanted answers, and the only way he was going to get them was if he used his power to get them. As they sat in his office, the three of them looking none the worse for wear, he asked them about David Smith.
“Oh, he’s from an old family. He’s been in trouble before, but we were actually thinking that it was high time that he had his magic back.
But then you came along and fired us.” The second one huffed at him, and he had to smile.
They had no idea what he was capable of.
“David is the younger brother of Rance Smith. His parents are both gone now, but they were good people, too.”
“No, they weren’t. They allowed him to get by with everything that went against our kind, and you indulged him.
” The first one huffed this time and said that they, like the others, couldn’t be watched all the time.
“Yet I’ve been able to do it with just a couple of faeries.
I know for a fact that you had access to the faeries to use when you were working. ”
“They were too flitterly. We couldn’t stand to be around them because they were just flying around all the time and using their magic.
Why should little creatures such as them have more magic than we do, I ask you?
” Brew asked them if they ever used them in the capacity for which they were there for.
“No. As I said, they were just too much to be around. Besides, we watched over him for a while. He was a good boy when we were watching him, and that should have been enough.”
“Did you know that he killed his parents?” They said that they’d heard a rumor about that but never believed it. “Did you ever check in on them to see if that’s what they did or not? I’m asking this because I’ve read his mind and I know for a fact that he did.”
“We aren’t allowed to read vampires’ minds.
” He asked him where he’d read that. “David told us. He said that he was up on all the rules, and we were just too busy to look into it anyway. As we said, he’s been a good boy and hasn’t caused us any trouble in a long time.
If you’d allow us this one job, we could give him back his powers so that he can live a better life. ”
“He’s killed more people in the last six months than any other vampire living or dead.” He said that couldn’t be right. “Yet it is. You only saying that he could use his fangs for feeding did little good when he’d kill the people anyway when he was finished feeding. Did you know that?”
“No. And as we have said several times now, he’s been a good boy and deserves to let us give him a second chance.
We’ve had no trouble with him since his parents were dead.
” Brew pointed out again that he killed them.
“That can’t be right. There is a rule that says one cannot kill his parents. Or any relatives for that matter.”
“Did David tell you that one, too? It’s true. However, he was able to keep them alive for three months before they begged him to end their lives. That’s the only way that he could do it.”
“I remember that now. He told us that they were sickly and needed to have their lives ended. Something about bad blood. He told us that the only way to end their suffering was to remove their heads while they were still alive so that they’d be able to rest in peace.
Yes, I remember that rule now. And no, before you ask, we did not check on them to see how sickly they were.
None of us wanted whatever they had to come back on us, so we stayed away.
David said that it was better that way.” Brew felt his anger getting the better of him and wanted to kill the lot of them.
“There are a lot of rules we weren’t aware of until people started telling us about them.
David was kind enough to teach us a few so that we’d not look foolish when the time came to enforce the laws that we had to abide by.
It was hard enough keeping up with the easier things brought before us. We didn’t want to die because of them.”
Brew waved his hand at the three of them, and they were nothing but ash.
While he knew that his power could kill them, he had no idea they’d turn to ash like a vampire did.
After having the staff deal with the mess, he went to find Calla Lily.
He needed her to calm him down before he took down a mountain and ruined their lovely home.
Christ, he was pissed off and knew that she’d be the only one who would calm him down. Thankfully.