Australia PG-13. ttm. #53 - Ayers Rock.
Fandom: None. My own world. ;) Silent Wish.
Prompt: #53 - Ayers Rock
Warnings: umh, vampirism? :p
Rating: PG-13 (Some blood)
Summary: Renée and Marigold are on a vaction in Australia.
A/N: I had this thing written like on the last Sunday but man it was kinda bad so I decided to re-write it. That took a while and all, but it turned out not bad so I do hope you like it too. :D
Banner credit: Photos from here and here. Fonts are Fely and High Tower Text.
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Renée Wolfe was visiting Australia with her best friend, Marigold Watson. This was a kind of vacation after her work trip to Spain with her brother Aidan and Jay. They were staying at a cute little hotel which had some postcards for sale at the reception desk in the lobby.
Not that Renée was interested in the postcards. She really didn't need to send anyone one of those. She could just as easily send an E-Mail and it would get there earlier than something sent using snail mail.
"Oh, this place is beautiful. Where is it?" Mari asked the woman behind the reception desk while handing her one of the postcards. Fae's and their nature is what crossed Renée's mind as she overheard her friend.
"It is called Ayers Rock by most, but it has been known to be called Uluru by the Aboriginal people. Personally I like that name much more." The black haired lady told Mari, while she fixed some brochures on her desk and grabbed a pen that had fallen to the floor.
"That's cool. Can you tell me something more because I'd love to hear it." Mari told the woman and she looked really interested which Renée just did not understand. She was hungry, she needed to find something to eat. but she hadn't seen any other patrons around since they showed up last night. Mari is not nocturnal like Renée.
"Well, Uluru is a large magnetic mound located on a major planetary grid point." The black haired lady told Mari, who was all ears and still holding that damn postcard that started this whole damn thing.
"Wow, that's really great. But we've got to go now. Come on, Mari. Pay that postcard and let's leave." Renée told the woman and then turned to Mari, who was not amused as she paid the postcard before they headed for the double front door, Renée not noticing at all the annoyed look that her best friend throws her while she follows her to their rented car.
"Renée, can we go see this mound? I bet it's even more beautiful if we saw it with our own two eyes. Come on, why did we come here if you don't want to see any landmarks?" Mari asked her best friend, as they got in the car and Renée only grunted while she started the car. It was her turn now since Mari had driven the whole day before.
"Are you kidding me? Hello, vampire here. It's not like I could go out in this weather. Just thank we parked under a shade and that I can handle the sun if I run for cover. Vampiric sun burning is not fun at all, hurts even more than regular sun burns. Let's just keep going with what we planned." Renée told Mari who was staring at her with a murdering look.
"You don't have to leave the car. Just drive me there so I can see it from afar. I've never heard you use your newfound vampirism as an excuse before." Mari bit out to her grumpy friend who was driving the car and thinking about her stomach which was starting to complain a bit.
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"Admit it, we're lost. I knew something was fishy when we took that last turn." Renée told Mari who was battling a map of the surrounding area that they had purchased when Renée had finally been talked into driving to that mound/rock thing.
"Yeah, yeah. Let's just find someone who can help us get back on track." Mari mumbled when they stopped at a what looked to be a small, sleepy farm. There was a scruffy looking dog lying down in front of the main house and only raised it's head as she stepped out of the car before lowering his head back to the ground after he thought she was no threat or maybe he was just a crappy guard dog. She wondered how he would have reacted if it was dark and renée had also stepped out of the car, because as a rule usually dogs didn't like vampires at all. It was just something that bugged the hell out of them, maybe it was the smell of them or that sixth sense they have.
"Can I help you, miss?" A woman with slightly grey hair asked Mari as she looked her over and patted the dog who had gotten up and walked over to where she stood, holding a bucket of something which Renée just so did not want to know what contained.
"Yeah, umh. Me and my friend kind of lost our way when trying to find Ayers Rock. Could you perhaps help us?" Mari asked her, as she pointed at the car and Renée who was leaning back in her car seat with her eyes closed and her shoe less feet on the dashboard. It looked a bit weird since she had to go over to where Mari sat since the steering wheel was in her way in her seat.
"Sure, sure. You won't believe how many people come through here and ask for my help. So, it's no problem at all. I assume you have a map." She told Mari and she only nodded before handing over the map before glancing over at Renée in her weird position. Probably trying to get some shut eye for the driving ahead.
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"So, where are we headed?" Renée asked Mari when she finally opened the car door on the passenger side with a final wave to their savior and brushing away Renée feet from their slightly awkward looking position on the dashboard.
"We just get onto his road and then take this here turn before driving straight forward." Mari explained to Renée, as she spread out the map again and pointed to places which Renée was not really following because she was looking out the window at the old woman with her dog. She was really hungry, she had to stay in the car which was boiling hot and she could totally go for the old lady or even just her mutt.
"That's great. You just let me know when to turn and all that, just don't mix anything up this time. let's just get going before I do something I'm not going to regret." Renée half-muttered, as she started up the car and they pulled away from the farm house. Mari gave her best friend a weird look before noticing that Renée's reflection was next to nothing in the rear-view mirror.
"Renée are you hungry? Because I can't really see you in the mirror anymore." Mari let her know, because when you can't see a vampire's reflection it might be a cause for concern. She had really never been around Renée when she had been really, really seriously hungry before in her new state so she didn't know what to exactly expect. It's not common that a Fae has a vampire friend.
"Yeah, so? You know I'd never go for you. Not even my fading reflection will make me hurt you." Renée told her, but she was saying so through clenched teeth and gripping the steering wheel a little more than she had to.
"I told you that you should have had some breakfast before we left the hotel. Maybe next time you'll actually listen to me." Mari told her, as she pulled her curly blond hair into a messy bun and went back to looking over the map which had now some marks made by a blue ballpoint pen to get them in the right direction.
"Oh, yeah and how was I going to do that? It's not like they offer any blood on the breakfast menu." Renée bit out at her best friend who just rolled her eyes and folded the map together.
"You could have just yanked one of the maids or something into a shady corner and had a nip. Your the vamp after all, not me. Don't they teach you kids anything these days?" Mari told Renée, with a playful smirk on her face since in all reality she was far older than Renée even if she looked younger than the young vamp.
"But we don't do that. I've never done that. It's just not done without permission... at least in my family." Renée told Mari, who just looked at her with shocked eyes.
"You are kidding me, right? You've never bit anyone, gotten the blood from the source? wow. I did not see that coming and please, your family doesn't do that. All I ask is since when?" Mari asked a shocked Renée who was wondering about her best friend's reaction to this news.
"Well, that's what my parents told me and I believe them. So, stop being a bitch." renée told her, frowning because Mari had unfurled her wings (and made them visible) to protect herself from any vampire-related harm.
You don't want to touch her wings. Sure they are the most beautiful things you will ever see with their aura-colored thing going on but touch a feather and your pretty much dead. Fae wings are tricky. When they are younger they are more like butterfly or dragonfly wings but as they get older they start to get feathers on top. Those are lethal to anyone not a Fae themselves. They kind of curl them up and make them invisible since they are the color of a Fae's aura and that's not something they want to advertise.
"Bloody fairy." Renée muttered to herself but Mari heard it as well and glared at her.
"Don't call me that. It's Fae. Fairy is just rude and human." Mari told her before she turned her back to Renée and looked out her passenger seat window. They drive in total silence until they see that orange hunk of rock called Uluru.
"Well, we're here. Aren't you going to go out and bask in the sun while looking at your rock?" Renée asked Mari, who just glared at her before ripping open the car door and stepping out into the Australian wilderness.
But it was just the Fae's luck that she was so pissed of that as she slammed the door somehow she manages to slam it on her fingers. She quickly opens the door again after the initial shock has worn off slightly and with the help of Renée who was all wide eyed and shocked as well.
At least one finger was bleeding and dripping down onto her car seat, which was bad since this was a rental. But then the seats were quite dark so maybe no one would notice a few drops of blood. That problem solved, but another just popped up. The reason that vampires and Fae's don't run in the same circles that much is the fact that Fae blood can be seriously addictive for a vampire also luring in it's own right.
It didn't help that Renée was so hungry that she was seriously considering going for her friend, which was something she had sworn she would never do. But you can't really blame a vamp for having a lick or two of the Fae blood. It's brilliant, awesome and it's true, euphoric.
She had grabbed Mari's hand, not even looked up at her friend who was so shocked and just waited to see what would happen because Mari knew not to piss of a real hungry vamp. She'd lost relatives like that before.
Renée wanted a bite, a tiny bite. Just a little nip and it wouldn't hurt. She was just about to bite down on Mari's hand when Mari yanked her hand away and cradled it to her chest. Seeing her best friend like that, looking at her with fear in her eyes but protected by the sun kind of snapped Renée out of her hungry haze.
"Were you going to bite me?" Mari asked her, even though they both really knew the answer to that question.
"Maybe..." Renée whispered and biting her lower lip almost till it bled, looking at her best friend forever (seriously, since forever) with guilty eyes.
"Oh, my god! You are just like all the others. My father was so right about you. As soon as your turned, you want my blood! Dammit." Mari yelled at her, totally ignoring the fact that she was yelling at a hungry vamp who had just had her first taste of Fae blood. What about those lost relatives of hers!?
"No, no! I'm not like that. We all have a weakness. I'd never hurt you. You know I'd never do it! Never ever. Mari, please forgive me. It was only a lick and a fleeting idea. It's only my nature. I'm fighting my nature because you are my best friend and you have been since forever. Why would I give that up for a quick snack? Pretty please, forgive me." Renée pleaded with her, using the so called doe eyes and all pathetic looking which made it really hard to hate her.
"Man, I hate when you do that. You know I can't stand it when you do that. Dammit, let's just get out here and you better not even think about snacking on me." Mari told Renée, before she got back in the car and glared at her friend because she had off course not completely forgive her even though she got back in the car. She didn't want to be left behind, though she knew that was an unreasonable fear, which is the main reason for why she got back into the car.
"So... should we got back to the hotel?" Renée mumbled to her best friend who she might have just have damaged her friendship with. All because of her stupid stomach and new nature.
"Okay. You need to get some food and I might need a stitch or two. Let's just forget this whole thing happened and try to get back to normal. That's all I want." Marigold told Renée who just nods and turns the car around. It'll take a while to get back to where they were staying but Renée had the feeling it would be a quiet trip back.
This was all that damn mound's fault. If only Mari hadn't found that stupid postcard. They could have had some fun, but instead they have a trip which has a put a serious dent into their friendship.
"Sure. Whatever." Renée told her, before she sighed and slumped down in her seat as she drove them back to civilization. Maybe when they got back she'd have herself a snack of a certain reception desk employee. There's always a first for everything and if she was going to survive without her family, she need to take care of things like food by herself.
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The End.
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