Jan '08 Topic - Drama!

[ilikejourney]

I didn’t know what I was going to tell Lucy. Her sister was alive and living with Kennedy? That was if her sister was still there. Helena didn’t want to see Lucy because she didn’t want to be a burden on her. It was a situation that I knew that I never wanted to be in and hopefully - I wouldn’t be. These days though, I never knew what was going to

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[darkersideofyou]

The sound of his voice worried me. He needed to talk to me about something? Weren't conversations that started with that never good? At least that had been my experience. Now I didn't know what to think. Maybe he had something to say about Volchok. The offer still stood to feed him to a vampire. As far as I was concerned that guy was a murderer and murderers deserve to get eaten by vampires.

"Yeah, sure. I can sneak out." I said to him. "Meet me around the corner by the park. I'll be there in a few." I finished before I flipped the phone shut and looked around. No Molly to cover for me. If she got back before I did then she'd think I had just wondered off maybe downstairs to train or something. I wasn't really worried about it. And it was stupid that we weren't allowed to leave at all. I knew it was dangerous but I was sure I could take care of myself for a few hours. I always did.

Changing into a pair of jeans I slowly slid my window open, hoping that nobody else would hear it. So far so good, I listened hard and didn't hear anyone coming so I took that as a good sign. Holding onto the windowsil I climbed over the edge, one foot at a time until I was perched on the roof. Slowly again I slid the window shut and looked around. I'd never had to sneak out of school before. Usually we came and went as we pleased as long as we showed up for classes.

Once I was out I managed to jump my way from tier to tier until I was close enough to the ground to jump for it. As soon as I was on the lawn I turned around and started walking down to the park. It was less than a minute until I was standing in front of Ryan.

"Hey," I said to him with a slight smile as I leaned in and kissed him. I missed him.

[ilikejourney]

I parked the jeep and got out, heading over to the park. I was nervous, I didn't exactly know how to tell her besides just ... well, spitting it out and even then, it didn't seem like a good idea. I shoved my hands in my pockets and just walked until I got to the meeting place and waited. A few minutes later, I watched her as she made her way toward me and I just stood there. She had no idea. None at all and I was going to be the one to tell her. Letting out a breath, I tilted my head toward the side and smiled slightly before giving her a kiss.

"Hey," I said, then swallowed as I pulled away.

Looking past her, I stared at the school, then looked back at her.

"What's with the lockdown. Did you girls get in trouble?" I asked and pushed some hair back behind her ear. Anything to stall the sister coming back from the dead thing. Yeah, I can uh ... stall for a little bit.

[darkersideofyou]

"No." I said to him when he asked if we'd gotten in trouble. I mean, we did get in trouble from time to time and Kennedy usually punished us with push ups, not getting grounded. Which was more than okay by me. I wished it was that simple though, that we were only being punished for something and not hiding from who even knows what.

I shrugged sullenly because it wasn't exactly a happy topic. "Five of the girls. I don't know exactly what happened. They went out for the night and then Kennedy found their bodies in the gym at school the next morning. Something killed them and I guess it's after us or whatever because Kennedy and Faith are completely freaked out. Hence not getting to go anywhere or have any visitors." It was nice to talk about it with someone who wasn't grounded with me. Not that I'd hardly even seen Molly longer than to know she was home and she was really the only one I talked to there on a regular basis.

"Something big is coming. They're making us train day and night which means they probably expect us to fight something big and bad soon. I just wish they would tell us what." I admitted as I folded my arms over my chest and looked up at him. "I hope it's soon. I hate being cooped up in there all of the time. Even if it is...gigantic." It was true, our campus was enormous. Not as big as most colleges probably were but it was still big.

[ilikejourney]

I frowned when she told me what happened and then I felt bad because I had her out here. Reaching out, I rubbed my hands along her arms and pulled her a little closer. I remembered trying to do this to her before, but it wasn't her. It was Helena and she flinched. Shaking my head a little, I stared at the ground before looking at her again. "Maybe you should get back inside, then," I said, but I didn't let go. Five of her friends were dead and there was something big coming up ... The whole world it seemed rested on her shoulders and it was alot to handle for someone who wasn't even holding the world, but her ... I didn't know how she did it.

And I still didn't know how to tell her about Helena.

"I'm sorry about ..." the five girls. I didn't finish, but I figured she knew what I was talking about.

"I need to tell you something. I'm not sure how you're going to ... react, but it's big. And I don't want to ..." I swallowed.

"I uh, saw your sister. Helena."

[darkersideofyou]

I smiled at him a little when he said he was sorry, immediately wanting me to go back inside. Didn't he get that I could take care of myself? I knew that they had locked us all inside because they were worried about us, and I didn't blame that but that didn't mean I had to follow all of the rules. I generally did everything Kennedy asked me to and never complained, I was allowed this one thing.

Then he said....what? I just stared at him puzzled for a minute, wondering if I was dreaming or something. Like that weird dream I'd had about the cat named Helena and the roast beast that had killed her. Once I finally realized I wasn't dreaming I took a step away from him and just gave him a hurt look.

"Why would you say something like that?" I asked him. I'd told him about Helena before. Not a ton of details, just that she was my sister and that she had died. Why would he use it against me now? It wasn't like him at all. "She's dead, Ryan. I watched her die." I said, calmly trying to reel my emotions back into check as I watched him for one sign, any sign that he was lying.

I didn't see any.

[ilikejourney]

The look on her face broke everything that was inside of me, but I had to tell her. Helena was right, this would crush her and why wouldn't it? She died and now she was back and Lucy ... God. She stepped away from me and I just stayed where I was at. I didn't want to go near her, not right now. I didn't want to overcrowd her.

"Lucy, I'm not just saying this. The snowstorm, I ... I followed Molly because I wanted to check on you. I was wondering how you were doing and the snow started and she stopped and I stopped and we went to Kennedy's and she opened the door. I thought it was you ..." I stopped talking because every word I said, the more and more upset she got. But, she had to know.

Helena couldn't have been right about this. I couldn't have not told her. What kind of person would I have been?

"Lucy, I'm ..." Closing my eyes for a second, I was wishing this wasn't happening, but it was and I couldn't even imagine what Lucy was going through right now.

[darkersideofyou]

"Kennedy?" I asked him incredulously. She was at Kennedy's place? For how long exactly? She was my teacher I was supposed to...trust her. Not that it mattered. My sister was dead, had been for over a year now. There wasn't any way he could have seen her.

But the thing was? I'd seen her. The night I met Ryan I saw her. Always seem to catch a glimpse of her in the crowd and then she's gone. I thought I was going insane or hallucinating or something. Was he insane too? Probably not. Besides his issues were all wrapped up with Marissa and Volchok.

Closing my eyes I shook my head for a second, it was kind of hard to process what he was saying. Do people just come back from the dead? Buffy did once.

"You have to take me to Kennedy's." My lips felt numb when I said it. Everything from before came rushing back so fast I sort of felt like I was outside of myself. Like I was just watching all of this happen and not actually in my own body. I'd only ever felt like that once before.

[ilikejourney]

I ... she couldn't leave. Well, no, yeah, she could because I just told her something - like this and she had to. She had to go and see her. If she was still there. I hoped she was still there. I didn't say anything, just nodded and led her to my jeep that was near the sidewalk.

We both got into the car and I headed off, toward Kennedy's. I hoped I still remembered where she lived. I kept on glancing over at Lucy, but she just looked out the window the whole time.

"I'm sorry, about having to tell you this, I just ... I couldn't keep it from you." I reached my hand over to hold her hand, only I stopped halfway and put my hand back on the steering wheel. I didn't know how to act toward her, at least not right now. I didn't want to be pushed away, mostly.

Pulling up beside Kennedy's house, I turned off the engine and looked toward it before looking at Lucy.

[darkersideofyou]

I barely nodded at Ryan when he said he was sorry. If it was true than he shouldn't be sorry at all. The thing was, I couldn't really believe it until I saw her myself. I didn't really know what to think about it and I wasn't totally convinced that this wasn't some kind of dream. It had to be, right?

I knew that Kennedy was still at school so I didn't have to worry about finding her here. But who knew which was one of her girlfriends was shacked up here. Hey, I'd heard the rumors about Kennedy. It practically sounded like she had a lesbian brothel running out of her apartment.

God, I hope that's not why my sister's here.

Getting out of the car I walked to Kennedy's door and pushed it open. It was locked but that wasn't really a problem. "There's no lights on." I said to Ryan as I wandered through the living room. I'd never actually seen her house before but I wasn't really looking at it now.

"Helena?" I called out as I looked around before I ran up the stairs. Peeking into each bedroom I didn't see her anywhere. "She's not here, Ryan." I said to him once I was back downstairs and in Kennedy's living room.

[ilikejourney]

The whole house was dark, which meant that she set out what she said she was going to do which was run. I remembered her gathering up a passport and her belongings in her room and that was pretty much the last time I saw her. But, it wasn't that long ago, so ... I don't know.

I watched her as she called out to her sister, and there was nothing in return.

She probably thought that I was messing with her, but I wasn't. She was here. She could even ask Molly and if she asked Kennedy straight up, Kennedy couldn't lie to her. Not about this.

"She ... she must have left. She said that she didn't want you to know that she was here because she didn't want you to ... she had a passport, I saw her packing that up. Maybe she's at the airport?" I asked her and watched her face for any sign that she'd want to know. I'd take her anywhere she wanted to go at this point.

I just wanted that look off of her face. I hated that I was the one that put it on her face in the first place.