The return of Coraline
[x]Title: Can't choose your relatives, part 2
[x]Author: hildekitten
[x]Rating: all ages
[x]Warning: none
[x]Pairing: Mick/Beth, Josef/Simone, Benjamin/Ophelia
[x]Genre: General
[x]Spoilers: Bits and pieces of season one. Some references to episodes 8 and 11.
[x]Summary: what happened after the door closed on Beth and Mick in Sonata? Well as there won't be a season 2 by the looks of it we need to make up our own story, and generally characters get added, so I made one up and added that.
Mick has found his sister, and they now share his appartment. Talbot turns out to be werewolf with the hots for Ophelia, and Mick struggles to balance out everything his life and finally coming to terms with being a vampire.
[x]Disclaimer: Not my toys, I'm just borrowing them, no infringement is intended!
Previously...
1. Reunion
2. Really no such thing as vampires
3. On the prowl
4. Fresh from the vein
5. Busted
6. Can't choose your relatives, part 1
Ben’s apartment
Give me the first taste
Let it begin, heaven cannot wait forever
Darling just start the chase
I'll let you win, but you must make the endeavor
Oh, your love give me a heart contusion
Adagio breezes fill my skin with sudden red
Your hungry flirt borders intrusion
And I'm building memories on things we have not said
Full is not heavy as empty, not nearly my love
Not nearly my love, not nearly
Ben is sitting in the sofa, watching the news whilst absentmindedly stroking his fingers through Ophelia’s hair. She’s sleeping with her head in his lap.
Suddenly she stirs as she dreams.
“Beth no! Please don’t die, please no.”
Mick is kneeled down, Beth in his arms. Blood everywhere. She’s not moving.
“You belong with me Mick.”
Coraline is smiling, looking over them.
With a shock she sits up, her eyes jet black.
“What did you see?”
“Coraline… she’s come for my brother. She’s come to murder Beth.”
A sharp rapping on the door nearly makes them both jump.
Ben motions Ophelia to stay where she is, whilst he opens the door, sighing with relief when seeing its Mick and Beth.
“Hey, can Beth crash here? I want her to be safe and this is the only place Coraline doesn’t know about.”
“Sure, come on in.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Find Coraline.”
“I’ll come with you.” Ophelia is standing up, reaching to grab her boots from the floor.
“No Ophelia you stay here, I need you to keep the family in check, go to that dinner date.” He looks at Beth. “You’ll be safe here, Coraline doesn’t know where this place is.”
“Forget about that, I’m going with Ben and Ophelia.” It’s clear Beth doesn’t want to stay alone anywhere.
“Beth you can’t go near Lance and Cédric, they’re insane! And they hate my guts, it’s not safe for you.”
“Oh don’t worry, they won’t harm her as long as I’m there.” Ophelia minimizes the situation at hand.
Mick grabs his sister by the shoulders and shakes her whilst speaking.
“Do NOT let Beth out of your sight if she does come along. Do NOT.”
“Jeez calm down, I’ll make sure she’s safe!”
Mick kisses Beth. She strokes a hand over his cheek. “Be safe Beth, I love you. I’ll be back as soon as I can.”
“I love you too Mick, please be safe.”
*fade at Mick leaving the apartment*
The poolhouse, Coraline's old party house
“THIS is where they are staying? Coraline’s old party house?” Beth sounds upset.
“You wanted to come you know.” Ophelia retorts.
“We should have asked them to come to my place instead.” Ben seems ill at ease, he can sense the elders inside, their raw power, and it doesn’t please him one bit.
Ophelia sighs and rings the door, to everyone’s surprise it’s Cédric himself opening.
He frowns and when he sees Beth a dark flash going over his eyes.
“You’ve seen it too! The vision.” Ophelia sounds almost hopeful.
“Oh no little one, I’m not going to watch over your friend.” He smiles at Beth radiantly whilst extending a hand. “Welcome, I’m Cédric Duvall, the patriarch of the Duvall family.”
He kisses Beth’s hand when she shakes his and leads her in, not letting go of her.
Ben takes Ophelia’s hand following them in. Lance is standing next to a sofa, a glass of blood in his hand.
“Ah, and this is my eldest son Lance.”
Lance nods politely “pleasure to meet you.”
“She’s NOT a freshie you know.” Ophelia sounds agitated at the behaviour her relatives are displaying.
“Shame. It has been a long time since I’ve tasted AO negative.”
“You could just bite one of your 7 children.” Her agitation is obviously not subsiding one bit.
“Ah but mortal blood and vampire blood just do not taste the same as you well know. Of course, I’m sure you have developed a taste for something else by now.”
Ben suddenly decides that the walls are incredibly interesting at Cédric’s words.
Beth, forgetting the elders and getting over her own shock at their hunger gawks at Ben “You let Ophelia drink your blood?!”
Ophelia glares at her grandsire “Your fault you know! I’m going to have to hear about this for weeks. And what about poor Ben, he shares an office with her, Beth will never have him hear the end of it.”
Cédric, ignoring his granddaughter, looks at Beth “Are you sure we can’t change your mind?”
“Grandfather you cannot invite people to eat from them here, we’re not in Europe!”
“Right, I keep forgetting. Well shall we then? We have made sure to get mortal food for Ben and Beth.” He smiles charmingly.
Ben can’t help but think that this is how a shark must smile if it smiled.
“Wait, you knew I was coming?” Beth’s voice is full of surprise.
“Yes my dear, Ophelia and I share more than you would think, we are both oracles.”
*fade at Beth’s look of amazement*
Mick’s apartment
give me a potion to make me love you
give me a potion to make me care
give me a potion to make me love you
make it a double
make it a double
Mick is packing weapons in a cross body bag. Picking up Ophelia’s kukhri swords from next to his own and studying the Duvall family crest when there’s a knocking on the door.
Pulling it open he faces Coraline.
“Hello husband.” She reaches up to kiss him and does not bother to hide her disappointment when he pulls away.
“We’re divorced remember. What are you doing here? Your father and brother are in town looking for you.”
“Are you going to help them?” She sounds suspicious, as if it’s hard for her to comprehend Mick would turn against her.
“That depends entirely on your intentions Coraline.”
“Last time we saw each other you tried to keep them from taking me. I allowed myself to be captured. For you. You could not seriously expect I would not find a way to get back to you!”
“Coraline, I am with Beth now, it’s over between us. Try to understand that once and for all.” Mick tries to plead with her, as calm as composed as he can.
“It will be over when I say it is.” She sounds matter of factly, cold.
“Don’t you dare going after Beth.” Mick vamps out, angry.
Coraline glares at him pulling open the door. “Just you try and stop me.”
She slams the door behind her, and when he opens it to go after her she’s gone.
Ben’s apartment, the bathroom.
It all goes away, it all goes away, it all goes away,
It all goes away, it all goes away, it all goes away,
It all goes away, it all goes away, it all goes away,
Mmmmmm …no
Mmmmmm …no
Mmmmmm …no
Ophelia is sitting on a chair, her long red hair soaking wet, a towel wrapped around her.
“Do it Beth.” She sounds determined.
“You’re crazy, it’ll never work.” Beth is clearly against cooperation with any sort of plan Mick’s sister has come up with.
“Just do it!” The same grim determination.
“No! Beth’s right, it won’t work.” Ben almost sounds panicked.
“It’s just hair, it grows back! Either you do it or I’ll do it myself!” It’s clear that she means it.
Ben throws up his arms in defeat and wanders out.
Beth sighs, picking up the scissors “If you regret this afterwards, don’t blame me you crazy girl.”
*fade out to the next scene*
Beth's appartment, the outside hallway
Beth is standing outside her apartment, key in the lock. Suddenly she’s thrown down by Coraline, her throat slit in one swift move.
Mick just turns into the hallway “Beth no!”
He runs down, sliding on his knees next to Beth, crying, lifting her to him, “Beth no! Don’t die! Please don’t die!” He knows it’s too late, but refuses to believe it, begging for it not to be true.
“You belong with me Mick.” Coraline sounds incredibly pleased with herself.
Mick looks up, his face tear stained. “How could you Coraline? How could you?”
She kneels next to him “it was the only way to make you see we belong together. Come with me.”
“Actually, you will be coming with us sister.”
Coraline turns, seeing Lance stand there together with Cédric, Beth and Ben, all stepping from the shadows.
Mick looks surprised. “Beth.”
Before Coraline can run Lance and Ben grab her arms and force her down to kneel for her father.
“You have been a very bad girl Coraline.”
“Father …please…”
Before she can beg more the stake pierces her heart and she falls to the ground, Lance picking her up in his strong arms.
Mick looks down at the girl in his arms, wiping the blond hair from her face.
“Ophelia… but how, how didn’t we notice, we should have sensed her?
“She took the mortal cure…” Beth whispers.
“But… that means she’s dead.” Mick sounds panicked.
“No, she’ll revert in a moment, do not worry cousin, she will be fine.” Lance smiles down on the scene, arrogantly.
“She… she has the cure?”
“She always did Mick, I insisted she take some to LA in case of exposure. She was told to keep it a secret, and unlike my daughter, she can obey an order just fine.”
Cédric kneels down next his granddaughter and wipes bloody hair from the wound, inspecting it.
Ben kneels down too, slitting his wrist with his fangs and letting his blood pour down the wound.
Coughing Ophelia comes too as the wound heals, she looks pale, her eyes jet black.
Mick holds her up so she can drink from Ben’s still bleeding wrist, the werewolf groans softly, hugging his gf tightly to him, taking her from her brother gently.
Cédric nods approvingly “werewolf blood has extraordinary healing properties. During the reign of terror my wife saved us many a time.”
Mick hugs his sister to him again when she’s done and Ben let’s her go again carefully, watching the cut on his wrist heal.
“NEVER do anything as crazy like this again!” Mick sounds relieved more than anything else, and wraps his arms around her tighter.
She coughs and hugs him back weakly before looking at Beth. “Told you it’d work.”
Beth smiles weakly before bursting out in tears, sobbing quietly and sinking down to her knees to hug Mick, who holds her in a tight embrace.
“I’m so glad you’re ok Beth.”
LAX airport
Cédric and Lance are standing next to a private jet.
Mick and Josef are standing with them. Josef’s Ferrari parked within viewing distance.
“What will happen to Coraline?” Mick asks.
“Hopefully she won’t escape again.” Lance shrugs, it’s obvious he doesn’t want to go into details.
“I’m surprised you came down yourself elder Duvall.” Josef is polite.
Cédric smiles. “I wouldn’t have, had my granddaughter not been here, Ophelia is very dear to me. And I must say I have grown fond of my grandson too now that he has shown loyalty to the family.”
He extends a hand to both gentleman, and pats Mick on the shoulder.
“I have high hopes for you my grandson.” He says with a smile before getting on the plane.
Lance smiles mischievously before speaking “Welcome to the family cousin.” and closing the door behind him.
Josef and Mick watch them leave as the plane takes off.
Josef shakes his shoulders loose in relief “hopefully that’s the last I ever see of those two.”
“If I never see them again it’ll be too soon.” Mick agrees.
“At least you’re in their good books now.”
“Yeah. I just hope it was the last we saw of Coraline as well.”
“I’m sure it is. How’s your kid sister? Still blonde?”
“I think she keeps it up just to annoy Ben.”
“I’m surprised you know, I thought you would have jumped at the opportunity to turn mortal again. Now you know she has the cure.”
“I’ve finally come to terms with what I am I think, thanks to Beth.”
Josef smiles, earnestly. “I’m glad to hear it, and it only took you about 55 years too! Good job.”
Mick voice-over
I now finally know that I can be as much alive a vampire as a human. I am finally happy, thanks to Beth.
*fade on them both walking to the car*
Song List
Fiona Apple “The First Taste”
Morphine “Potion”
Deathboy “Against it all”
[x]Author: hildekitten
[x]Rating: all ages
[x]Warning: none
[x]Pairing: Mick/Beth, Josef/Simone, Benjamin/Ophelia
[x]Genre: General
[x]Spoilers: Bits and pieces of season one. Some references to episodes 8 and 11.
[x]Summary: what happened after the door closed on Beth and Mick in Sonata? Well as there won't be a season 2 by the looks of it we need to make up our own story, and generally characters get added, so I made one up and added that.
Mick has found his sister, and they now share his appartment. Talbot turns out to be werewolf with the hots for Ophelia, and Mick struggles to balance out everything his life and finally coming to terms with being a vampire.
[x]Disclaimer: Not my toys, I'm just borrowing them, no infringement is intended!
Previously...
1. Reunion
2. Really no such thing as vampires
3. On the prowl
4. Fresh from the vein
5. Busted
6. Can't choose your relatives, part 1
Ben’s apartment
Give me the first taste
Let it begin, heaven cannot wait forever
Darling just start the chase
I'll let you win, but you must make the endeavor
Oh, your love give me a heart contusion
Adagio breezes fill my skin with sudden red
Your hungry flirt borders intrusion
And I'm building memories on things we have not said
Full is not heavy as empty, not nearly my love
Not nearly my love, not nearly
Ben is sitting in the sofa, watching the news whilst absentmindedly stroking his fingers through Ophelia’s hair. She’s sleeping with her head in his lap.
Suddenly she stirs as she dreams.
“Beth no! Please don’t die, please no.”
Mick is kneeled down, Beth in his arms. Blood everywhere. She’s not moving.
“You belong with me Mick.”
Coraline is smiling, looking over them.
With a shock she sits up, her eyes jet black.
“What did you see?”
“Coraline… she’s come for my brother. She’s come to murder Beth.”
A sharp rapping on the door nearly makes them both jump.
Ben motions Ophelia to stay where she is, whilst he opens the door, sighing with relief when seeing its Mick and Beth.
“Hey, can Beth crash here? I want her to be safe and this is the only place Coraline doesn’t know about.”
“Sure, come on in.”
“What are you going to do?”
“Find Coraline.”
“I’ll come with you.” Ophelia is standing up, reaching to grab her boots from the floor.
“No Ophelia you stay here, I need you to keep the family in check, go to that dinner date.” He looks at Beth. “You’ll be safe here, Coraline doesn’t know where this place is.”
“Forget about that, I’m going with Ben and Ophelia.” It’s clear Beth doesn’t want to stay alone anywhere.
“Beth you can’t go near Lance and Cédric, they’re insane! And they hate my guts, it’s not safe for you.”
“Oh don’t worry, they won’t harm her as long as I’m there.” Ophelia minimizes the situation at hand.
Mick grabs his sister by the shoulders and shakes her whilst speaking.
“Do NOT let Beth out of your sight if she does come along. Do NOT.”
“Jeez calm down, I’ll make sure she’s safe!”
Mick kisses Beth. She strokes a hand over his cheek. “Be safe Beth, I love you. I’ll be back as soon as I can.”
“I love you too Mick, please be safe.”
*fade at Mick leaving the apartment*
The poolhouse, Coraline's old party house
“THIS is where they are staying? Coraline’s old party house?” Beth sounds upset.
“You wanted to come you know.” Ophelia retorts.
“We should have asked them to come to my place instead.” Ben seems ill at ease, he can sense the elders inside, their raw power, and it doesn’t please him one bit.
Ophelia sighs and rings the door, to everyone’s surprise it’s Cédric himself opening.
He frowns and when he sees Beth a dark flash going over his eyes.
“You’ve seen it too! The vision.” Ophelia sounds almost hopeful.
“Oh no little one, I’m not going to watch over your friend.” He smiles at Beth radiantly whilst extending a hand. “Welcome, I’m Cédric Duvall, the patriarch of the Duvall family.”
He kisses Beth’s hand when she shakes his and leads her in, not letting go of her.
Ben takes Ophelia’s hand following them in. Lance is standing next to a sofa, a glass of blood in his hand.
“Ah, and this is my eldest son Lance.”
Lance nods politely “pleasure to meet you.”
“She’s NOT a freshie you know.” Ophelia sounds agitated at the behaviour her relatives are displaying.
“Shame. It has been a long time since I’ve tasted AO negative.”
“You could just bite one of your 7 children.” Her agitation is obviously not subsiding one bit.
“Ah but mortal blood and vampire blood just do not taste the same as you well know. Of course, I’m sure you have developed a taste for something else by now.”
Ben suddenly decides that the walls are incredibly interesting at Cédric’s words.
Beth, forgetting the elders and getting over her own shock at their hunger gawks at Ben “You let Ophelia drink your blood?!”
Ophelia glares at her grandsire “Your fault you know! I’m going to have to hear about this for weeks. And what about poor Ben, he shares an office with her, Beth will never have him hear the end of it.”
Cédric, ignoring his granddaughter, looks at Beth “Are you sure we can’t change your mind?”
“Grandfather you cannot invite people to eat from them here, we’re not in Europe!”
“Right, I keep forgetting. Well shall we then? We have made sure to get mortal food for Ben and Beth.” He smiles charmingly.
Ben can’t help but think that this is how a shark must smile if it smiled.
“Wait, you knew I was coming?” Beth’s voice is full of surprise.
“Yes my dear, Ophelia and I share more than you would think, we are both oracles.”
*fade at Beth’s look of amazement*
Mick’s apartment
give me a potion to make me love you
give me a potion to make me care
give me a potion to make me love you
make it a double
make it a double
Mick is packing weapons in a cross body bag. Picking up Ophelia’s kukhri swords from next to his own and studying the Duvall family crest when there’s a knocking on the door.
Pulling it open he faces Coraline.
“Hello husband.” She reaches up to kiss him and does not bother to hide her disappointment when he pulls away.
“We’re divorced remember. What are you doing here? Your father and brother are in town looking for you.”
“Are you going to help them?” She sounds suspicious, as if it’s hard for her to comprehend Mick would turn against her.
“That depends entirely on your intentions Coraline.”
“Last time we saw each other you tried to keep them from taking me. I allowed myself to be captured. For you. You could not seriously expect I would not find a way to get back to you!”
“Coraline, I am with Beth now, it’s over between us. Try to understand that once and for all.” Mick tries to plead with her, as calm as composed as he can.
“It will be over when I say it is.” She sounds matter of factly, cold.
“Don’t you dare going after Beth.” Mick vamps out, angry.
Coraline glares at him pulling open the door. “Just you try and stop me.”
She slams the door behind her, and when he opens it to go after her she’s gone.
Ben’s apartment, the bathroom.
It all goes away, it all goes away, it all goes away,
It all goes away, it all goes away, it all goes away,
It all goes away, it all goes away, it all goes away,
Mmmmmm …no
Mmmmmm …no
Mmmmmm …no
Ophelia is sitting on a chair, her long red hair soaking wet, a towel wrapped around her.
“Do it Beth.” She sounds determined.
“You’re crazy, it’ll never work.” Beth is clearly against cooperation with any sort of plan Mick’s sister has come up with.
“Just do it!” The same grim determination.
“No! Beth’s right, it won’t work.” Ben almost sounds panicked.
“It’s just hair, it grows back! Either you do it or I’ll do it myself!” It’s clear that she means it.
Ben throws up his arms in defeat and wanders out.
Beth sighs, picking up the scissors “If you regret this afterwards, don’t blame me you crazy girl.”
*fade out to the next scene*
Beth's appartment, the outside hallway
Beth is standing outside her apartment, key in the lock. Suddenly she’s thrown down by Coraline, her throat slit in one swift move.
Mick just turns into the hallway “Beth no!”
He runs down, sliding on his knees next to Beth, crying, lifting her to him, “Beth no! Don’t die! Please don’t die!” He knows it’s too late, but refuses to believe it, begging for it not to be true.
“You belong with me Mick.” Coraline sounds incredibly pleased with herself.
Mick looks up, his face tear stained. “How could you Coraline? How could you?”
She kneels next to him “it was the only way to make you see we belong together. Come with me.”
“Actually, you will be coming with us sister.”
Coraline turns, seeing Lance stand there together with Cédric, Beth and Ben, all stepping from the shadows.
Mick looks surprised. “Beth.”
Before Coraline can run Lance and Ben grab her arms and force her down to kneel for her father.
“You have been a very bad girl Coraline.”
“Father …please…”
Before she can beg more the stake pierces her heart and she falls to the ground, Lance picking her up in his strong arms.
Mick looks down at the girl in his arms, wiping the blond hair from her face.
“Ophelia… but how, how didn’t we notice, we should have sensed her?
“She took the mortal cure…” Beth whispers.
“But… that means she’s dead.” Mick sounds panicked.
“No, she’ll revert in a moment, do not worry cousin, she will be fine.” Lance smiles down on the scene, arrogantly.
“She… she has the cure?”
“She always did Mick, I insisted she take some to LA in case of exposure. She was told to keep it a secret, and unlike my daughter, she can obey an order just fine.”
Cédric kneels down next his granddaughter and wipes bloody hair from the wound, inspecting it.
Ben kneels down too, slitting his wrist with his fangs and letting his blood pour down the wound.
Coughing Ophelia comes too as the wound heals, she looks pale, her eyes jet black.
Mick holds her up so she can drink from Ben’s still bleeding wrist, the werewolf groans softly, hugging his gf tightly to him, taking her from her brother gently.
Cédric nods approvingly “werewolf blood has extraordinary healing properties. During the reign of terror my wife saved us many a time.”
Mick hugs his sister to him again when she’s done and Ben let’s her go again carefully, watching the cut on his wrist heal.
“NEVER do anything as crazy like this again!” Mick sounds relieved more than anything else, and wraps his arms around her tighter.
She coughs and hugs him back weakly before looking at Beth. “Told you it’d work.”
Beth smiles weakly before bursting out in tears, sobbing quietly and sinking down to her knees to hug Mick, who holds her in a tight embrace.
“I’m so glad you’re ok Beth.”
LAX airport
Cédric and Lance are standing next to a private jet.
Mick and Josef are standing with them. Josef’s Ferrari parked within viewing distance.
“What will happen to Coraline?” Mick asks.
“Hopefully she won’t escape again.” Lance shrugs, it’s obvious he doesn’t want to go into details.
“I’m surprised you came down yourself elder Duvall.” Josef is polite.
Cédric smiles. “I wouldn’t have, had my granddaughter not been here, Ophelia is very dear to me. And I must say I have grown fond of my grandson too now that he has shown loyalty to the family.”
He extends a hand to both gentleman, and pats Mick on the shoulder.
“I have high hopes for you my grandson.” He says with a smile before getting on the plane.
Lance smiles mischievously before speaking “Welcome to the family cousin.” and closing the door behind him.
Josef and Mick watch them leave as the plane takes off.
Josef shakes his shoulders loose in relief “hopefully that’s the last I ever see of those two.”
“If I never see them again it’ll be too soon.” Mick agrees.
“At least you’re in their good books now.”
“Yeah. I just hope it was the last we saw of Coraline as well.”
“I’m sure it is. How’s your kid sister? Still blonde?”
“I think she keeps it up just to annoy Ben.”
“I’m surprised you know, I thought you would have jumped at the opportunity to turn mortal again. Now you know she has the cure.”
“I’ve finally come to terms with what I am I think, thanks to Beth.”
Josef smiles, earnestly. “I’m glad to hear it, and it only took you about 55 years too! Good job.”
Mick voice-over
I now finally know that I can be as much alive a vampire as a human. I am finally happy, thanks to Beth.
*fade on them both walking to the car*
Song List
Fiona Apple “The First Taste”
Morphine “Potion”
Deathboy “Against it all”