Welcome to Caldwell, New York, where there is a war going on between vampires and their evil counterparts, the Lessers. Lessers are a group of soulless humans that are set on killing off all vampires. The Black Dagger Brotherhood is a group of warriors that have been fighting Lessers for hundreds of years. These warriors fight hard, party hard, and love even harder. They have finally found love and seem to be happy. While still fighting the Lessers, a new enemy has appeared, an enemy of their own kind. The Band of Bastards is this enemy. The Band of Bastards has gone so far as to try and kill the King, Wrath. The Band Of Bastards leader Xcor, is set on taking over as King of the Vampire world. A death sentence has been handed down for Xcor, and secrets are about to come to light that are going to change everyones' lives forever. The Scribe Virgin is about to reveal a secret so big that it will not only effect the Black Dagger Brotherhood but the Band Of Bastards as well.
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Brinn smirked as she looked at herself in the mirror and she had to admit she liked her outfit for the night, but she was getting tired of living out of this small selection of a wardrobe she had managed to fit in the two bags she had brought with her. With a smirk she finished up accessorizing and checking her make up before heading into the bedroom to find her phone. Maybe the girls would want to come, they could get to know one another do what girls did, or hell whatever they really wanted to do .... shopping, dancing, drinking, movies, popcorn, drive around in the limo talking . She just wanted to get her life started, make some friends and for the first time in a long long while not have to watch over her shoulder with worry.
She looked to her phone, what if's playing in her head. What if they didn't like shopping, what if she offended them by calling and asking if they were into driving in a limo and just seeing where the night took them... what if... She forced herself to take a deep breath, she was nervous it had been a long time since she was allowed to make friends, real friends who could know who she was, not an alias with restricted information, so she guessed it wasn't that big a surprise but with the deep breath she pulled her phone up and started searching through the contact list. Mary was the only one she had the number for at this moment so she would double tap the name before moving it to her ear listening to it ring.
Mary's phone started ringing just as she was making her way back from the Park with Rhage. They hadn't stayed long, just because Rhage still needed to head out, he had taken a break for a couple hours after Mary had texted him how sad the new family was at Safe Place. He knew what he had to do, which always made Mary feel better, even if it was just an hour, it was the two of them. Mary clicked the green icon and pulled the phone up to her ear as she kissed Rhage goodbye in front of the Mansion. "...See you later. Hello?"
Mary smiled as she held the phone up to her ear, walking into the Mansion.
Brinn heard the line get picked up and she she smirked to herself, this was a good start to not only making this place a home for herself with friends and making herself feel better since she learned the news about Darius! Both of which she needed to do. She would give the line a moment before speaking.
" Hey Mary, It's Brinn." she paused for a moment " I was thinking about doing some shopping just to go out and have some fun. So I thought I would call and see if you and the girls, or just you would like to join in and we could make a whole day out of it. Maybe shopping, food, dancing, driving around in a limousine since I don't drive I figured I would rent one and we could yeah just I don't know have fun with it? do whatever comes to mind at the time?"
She was nervous and she could tell because she was rambling but she was worried that she might offend some people since not everyone liked the same things. She personally loved to shop and listen to music and go dancing but she understood some were more into the movies at home which she liked to... but then she was easy to please that way.
" I also heard a couple of the guys talking about going to the club... I've never been to a club before and I thought it might be a nice way to end the day with the guys?"
Mary laughed when she got to the club idea. She'd never been to the clubs the guys went to, and she heard they were pretty dark. But, it might be funny to surprise any of them that might be there. She'd have to find something dark, black, and short. "Sure! I'm not a big shopper, but I definitely don't have any dancing clothes. I tend to stick to the more comfortable stuff. I've never gotten too girly. I'd need some help picking stuff out. I'll throw a text to the girls, when were you thinking?"
Mary was starting to get excited. She would have never gotten excited about anything like this in her past, but she was living in a whole new world. She walked up to her room while she was talking to Brinn. Mary opened her closet and looked at all her drab clothing. She suddenly felt so inadequate, so unwomanly. Would Rhage appreciate some more skin showing? Some more feminine outfits instead of slacks and sweaters?
Brinn laughed "Well then we will just get what we need for tonight, I am not above going back another day to do my addiction to shopping" she didn't really have an addiction to it but to the outside world it would look that way she was one of those girls that had a wardrobe full of clothing and still had more in another closet so she couldn't really say she wasn't a girly girl either.
" I've never been either but I love to dance and I figured if its where the guys go why should us girls not interrupt or distract them a little bit, maybe we will even meet some new friends along the way" she chuckled and she thought about it " well if you want to meet me here or I can meet you there and well I will get the limo to pick us up from wherever works best?" she would grin a little looking at the mirror one last time to make sure she was ready.
" And you don't have to dress up and down, I mean really as long as you're comfortable and can have a great time, thats what counts... besides once people see you with that hellren of yours, they won't question what you're wearing just what you have underneath it"
Mary just chuckled. Brinn had no idea about the type of atmosphere of Zerosum, or even the Iron Mask. This was going to be interesting. "If we go to the clubs, you'll want to wear something black at the Iron Mask, or if we go to Zerosum... just something very expensive looking and sexy. Just warning you."
Mary looked around her closet. She needed something to change into that she didn't look like such a lame woman for the shopping. She had to have a skirt around here or something! "I'll throw a text to the girls, how about you meet us here? If you want you can text me when you'll be here with the limo to pick us up? I can't guarantee how many of us will be there. We could always just get one of the big SUV's and have Fritz drive? I know he'd love it."
Brinn smirked " I think that's a good idea, the SUV I think it would be nice as long as he isn't too busy...I keep forgetting this brotherhood sect has the doggen" she would think for a moment " I will right over, and even if its just us I am sure we can make a great time of it, see you in a few " she would click her phone shut before looking at her attire she was hoping she wasn't going to make mary feel uncomfortable she seemed more of a girl next door dresser which she thought was great it took all types but she found she looked better in the high end fashions oh well either way they would look great and go out!
Brinn dematerialized over to the brotherhood compound and she would smirk taking the stairs two at a time up to Mary and Rhages quarters knocking on the door " don't stress too much about what you wear I care more about you having a good time then you trying to dress for what other people might light' she called through the door hoping she wasn't stressing too much about it. When she answered the door Brinn was leaning against the wall across from the door and she would smile the tip of her fangs showing through since she wasn't trying to hide em " Hey" she smirked " did you let your hellren know you are coming out tonight so that he doesn't get mad at either of us...I mean I am all for being a bad example but he's much bigger then I am, and in heels I am not that fast a runner " she winked so that she knew she was kidding and waited for her to be ready " Shall we fritz already agreed....a little eggerly ...I guess he doesn't get to help out as much as he likes"
As soon as Mary hung up with Brinn she opened up a new message to the girls. She put in Riona's number, Rhaine's number, and Beth's number. "Hey ladies! Brinn wants to go out shopping, and then possibly surprise the boys at the club. Want to join? If so, meet us at the 24 hour Mall!"
Mary then walked over to the phone on the wall and called Fritz. After asking him about the keys to the SUV outside she heard a knock on the door. Shortly after she had the keys to the vehicle and was getting even more excited! Mary was so thankful that they had one of the 24 hour malls here. She knew it was one of the special things that brought people to Caldwell, well, the only thing. She searched every nook and cranny inside her closet but she couldn't find a skirt. What happened to them? Surely she had one?! Instead she whipped out the only outfit that really matched one of her only pairs of heels. She had one brown, and one black. Surely she didn't need more then two pairs of heels right? That might change tonight.
As soon as Mary was done slipping into the clothes and putting her fancy sweater over her white top she heard a knock on her door. Was it one of the girls that got her message? She slipped into her heels and wobbled to the door. She needed more practice in these suckers! She opened the door and it was Brinn, already! She smiled big and held out her arms and set out a foot. "I found some clothes that aren't my usual drab!"
She laughed when Brinn mentioned Rhage. Truthfully, she hadn't said anything to him. "Actually, I didn't get to talk to Rhage before he left. I thought we'd surprise him later. I know he usually goes out with the guys afterwards if he's out with me earlier in the evening."
Mary pulled out a key fob from her back pocket. "I also had Fritz bring up the keys to the black SUV out front. I'll drive us!"
Brinn smirked shaking her head at Mary's comment, though she took the moment to look over the outfit since she present it and she grinned " VERY very nice... and I do no think you dress drab ever...okay maybe the sweat pants but it was early" she winked laughing as she did a small little twirl " see outfits are what you make of them and if you feel good in them then that is where the sexy comes from, not the clothes themselves...at least I think so... its why paris hilton always looks like crap".
" Sounds good, I don't know anything about the clubs they go to I just heard them talking about them and figured how bad could it be ... though not really into these fetish ones they talk about on the ...the..." she would stop to think " television that's the word i'm looking for "
she smirked at the keys." I guess I should learn to do that eventually, never saw the point since traffic was always a mess where we moved...that and I enjoy walking" she smirked and when they were ready she would nudge her head to the side " alright let's get started and hopefully the others will be able to join us " she smirked looking at the shoes Mary was wearing " You realize we are wearing the same shoe's pretty much, I guess its true great minds think alike"
" So what are the clubs like here? " she was really excited about the idea of going out with the girls, she had been living with guys and the odd girl that came and went for over 100 years at this point... it would be nice to feel like she wasn't the freak in the room or have a bored guy following her around shopping!
Mary laughed as she looked at Brinns shoes. "Yeah, except yours are the brightest pink I've seen in a long time! I had to wear heels at the place I used to work, I'd kick them off as soon as I got in the car though. Law offices, such fancy places."
Mary took Brinn's arm and walked out of their room. They made their way outside and Mary hopped into the drivers seat. They were on their way, and she was getting even more excited. Soon they would park and make their way inside the building, which of course wasn't very packed. She enjoyed going at night for this exact reason. She wasn't one for lots of attention, although tonight was going to be different. She was going to shock and awe.
They started walking down towards the major clothe shops when to Mary's left was a little cute nail salon. She turned to Brinn and smiled big. "What about nails? Is that something girls do when they get ready?"
Mary realized how excited she sounded. She tried to calm herself. She couldn't stand the fact that she sounded like a thirteen year old girl going on her first date.
Brinn laughed and she would look to the nail salon " It is, but even if it wasn't we could do it anyway because really who cares this is all about having fun ...course fashionable feet and hands never hurt anyone" she grinned and made a line of the nail salon and she put the cash down first " order whatever you like, tonight is on me"
She picked out a deep purple for her toes and a pink that went well with her clothes for her fingernails " oh and sparkles please, I would love them to glitter like a disco ball, both sets toes and fingers" she chuckled sitting down in one of the seats. She would glance around making sure everything was okay more out of habit from always looking over her shoulder but for the first time she didn't expect to see anything and she would smile to herself feeling rather content.
" So would it be too early to ask to hear the story of how you met your hellren?" she always liked hearing those stories but then she was a sucker for a good story.
Mary could not believe her eyes as they walked into the nail salon. It went so far back, nothing like what it looked like from the outside in the hallway. She was completely shocked. Mary watched Brinn put money down. She smiled and thanked her as she watched Brinn pick out her colors. Mary couldn't decide what to get. It had to be something, different. Black! Mary knew black would be perfect. Black, with lots of glitter like Brinn had said. Mary walked over to the lady doing her nails and smiled, handing her the bottle. "I'd like black, with lots of glitter if possible. This one looked like the most glittery kind."
The lady started on Mary's hands first that way they could dry as she worked on her feet. Mary sat back in the chair and let her arms lay on the little table that was wheeled in front of her. They had started the water for a foot massage while her fingers were getting done. Apparently it made it easier to do the pedicure later. Mary took this time to tell Brinn about Rhage.
"Well, it was kind of a odd meeting. I brought John to the-"
Mary looked at the lady doing her nails. She was obviously listening, and she knew the race was a secret.
"Compound. He was so excited to talk to someone in Martial Arts. He was very young then, unlike now. Anyway, I was curious about the building and was in the hallway when a very large man came staggering down the hallway. Even though he was staggering he was fast. I couldn't believe all his muscles, or his size. Suddenly I was pinned against the wall, being asked to speak. He wanted me to say anything and everything. It was so strange! And it all went uphill from there. It was very... different."
Mary laughed. "Before he introduced himself we went on our first date, TGIFridays. I couldn't believe he wanted to go out with little drab me, but he did. It took me a while to believe him. Especially after he revealed the kind of life he led. I couldn't believe it. It took a while to take that all in too. But, I soon fell in love. I had cancer at the time, so I was very cautious. I knew it was coming back, and I wasn't going to be able to make it through. He prayed to the Scri-God and while I was in the hospital, falling fast, a miracle happened. I was saved. I suddenly woke up, and I swear I dreamt I had met her-I mean God. So bright, it was amazing. They ran some quick tests and the cancer was gone. I came back to him, and found him on the ground, his knees bleeding, dressed in all white, pale. I almost fell to my own knees seeing him in such pain. I had no idea what he was doing!"
Mary sighed and then smiled. "But then he got up and backed away from me. He wouldn't come near me, kept telling me to leave, until sh-God appeared, and no joke, God appeared right there in the room. Such a bright light. Told him that I was healed, and that we could be together, his sacrifice was not needed because I could not bare children of my own. He was going to give me up, as long as I could live. That's what he promised... in prayer."
Mary looked at the lady doing her nails fast. She acted like she wasn't listening but something told her she was. "And that's been it. We've been together ever since. We were mat-married so fast. I can't believe the life I live now."
Mary realized that was a very long story. She looked down and the lady was almost done with her nails. One hand done, only one more to go. Either she was very fast, or Mary was a slow talker.
Brinn looked to Mary as they took their seats, and she was more than a little enthralled by listening to the story of how they met and she would sigh " that is awesome, but you really shouldn't call yourself drab" she wasn't going to harp on it she just thought she was too good and interesting a person. She looked down to her nails since she was almost done her fingers and she grinned a little " it has been far too long since I have gotten to do something like this, it's hard to get brothers into doing something like this ...although I managed to get the odd one to agree to let me go and they would stand outside." she smirked picturing it in her head " though the males here would look really odd in these charges" she glanced to Mary before going back to looking at her nails her mind drifting.
Brinn smiled thinking about it " Darius and I went on a date once, we thought it would be a great idea and we were such close friends that surely it had to mean we would make a great couple " she laughed tipping her head back a little rolling her eyes.
" looking back now it was such a joke but literally everything that could go wrong went wrong even the kiss.... he tried to be romantic and sweep me off my feet instead he headed up hitting my head on a cast iron rung to hang your light source off of and then over corrected and ended up dropping us both off the stoop... into the mud" she laughed so hard she snorted and blushed as a result.
She thought back since it was long ago " we tried a couple times but when the luck continued he was smart enough to realize it was a sign that we were just good friends and more was not something that was going to work for us.... it was a while before I met my deceased hellren. And he seemed perfect, not Darius perfect but perfect.. He went around the world making sure people were fed while I was making sure pregnancy wasn't a death sentence as much as possible, we were like the perfect match. I thought most his jokes were funny, he always made me feel like a beautiful woman" she sighed, looking at her fingers. She couldn't believe how much live changed from where you thought it would be, and she was glad though that there was people in Darius's home it is what he always would have wanted.
" But Darius saw it, and warned me but I was stubborn and refused to see it, as a result my son grew up in hiding, but I also got to travel the world so their is a silver lining also."
Mary didn't want to pry, but she had to know. It was the therapist in her. "...did he hurt you Brinn?"
Mary tried to stay straight faced, she knew the pathetic look in people's eyes when they felt bad for someone. Since she had cancer, she got pretty good at not having that look in her eyes, ever. In case she didn't answer Mary leaned over and looked at Brinn's nails as both of the ladies moved to their feet. "I love that! It matches your outfit perfectly! Are you going to find something to match that for tonight? Oh, you probably already have club clothes. I don't know why I asked that."
Mary laughed and eased back into her chair. "Oh that tickles!"
Brinn smiled and she tapped her arm " don't worry about keeping a straight face, it doesn't bother me anymore ...at least enough that those expressions bother me anyway" she would nod though " he did, he end up costing me several young in the process."
She would look down to her nails, her mind going back to the day she ran away, the day she had to apologize to Darius and her smile wilted a little, she felt horrible about the day she tore into him like he was nothing to her... and it was her truest regret and she would never be able to take it back or make up for it now. No, she told herself she wasn't going to let herself getting down that way she was going to live because that is what he would want.
" He was fine at first, but the longer we were mated the worse he got. If he got mad it didn't matter if I was with child or not it was taken out on me and at first I made excuse for it, and in part because I was too proud to admit to Darius that he was right. And I knew that he would take me in without ever saying I told you so, but still I couldn't bring myself to come back. It wasn't till my fifth needing of our mating was approaching that I realized he would likely cost me that one to that I got the courage to leave...and I did I ran asking Darius for help" she shrugged " the rest you know really "
Brinn looked down to her toes they were done one foot and she grinned a little looking to Mary " thank you, I love yours to... I have done that one several times, I think its my favorite one overall" she thought about it " I have clothes that would work but then I have nearly enough clothes to fill three closets depending on how its set up and you space it"
she laughed a little " I am a bit addicted to clothing in that I have to have something I love to wear " she giggled shaking her head a little bit " I have probably over 100 pairs of shoes so if you ever need anything my closets open for borrows"
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