Liliya Kennedy (evenindeath) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2011-06-04 21:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | #solo, 2009-08-16, liliya |
Fall in the same routine
Who: Liliya & Allison Kennedy (NPC)
Where: Gardens at her home
When: Late evening
Tonight Liliya was alone only because she had wished for it to be that way. Or at least for that precise moment in time she wanted for it to be that way. Once, before Via had come to Scarlet Oak, her evenings had been the time she set aside to be alone. Where other vampires were usually just starting to come to life - as it were - she was instead preparing to go to her bed. Spending time in her office or at the kitchen table going over papers and addresses, graphs and charts while exchanging words with her assistants or superiors. Or those who thought that they were superior when in truth they were no such thing. Unless they were the elders or Maureen. Liliya couldn't think of herself as better than her very own sire. If that day came then she fully expected that she would be well over a century old at the least, and more accomplished. Juts because she had been changed for this didn't mean that she yet deserved to be classed above the one who had chosen her.
Except, truthfully, she did believe that she could be better than Maureen. A rather strong part of her just believed that she'd have gotten higher quicker if she had still been mortal.
Sipping from the glass of Naoki's blood that she had taken from the fridge, Liliya moved off the bench that she had been seated on to kneel on the ground by her rosebushes. Even out here, buried at the roots of this one particular bush, was a bit of the dirt that she needed to continue keeping herself alive. Or undead. Her fingers brushed against the damp earth - these plants were kept perfectly watered whenever there was not snow on the ground - and she shook her head. Even here in her garden there were reminders of how she was different from most of her fellow politicians. Yes, Liliya felt pride for her Family but that was because they were hers. If she could make the choice again then she could not say one way or the other what she would have chosen. Had she declined, told Maureen that no thank you she was fine alive, then what would she be? Married to Alex, probably with children and a typical career in an office. Her family would've been content with that and she might have been too.
"Oh don't lie," she sniped at herself, breaking off a dead leaf from the plant. "Second-rate couldn't ever be enough." Liliya had always wanted to be the best at everything that she had done. And if she had stayed human then the Light of May wouldn't have changed everything for her. Now she was a member of the family that had practically been created for this purpose and she couldn't deny that she loved the rush and the knowledge that things happened because of her and what she did. Which strings she pulled, the buttons she pushed... it was a delightful rush that she didn't even need a beating heart to appreciate. Nothing else in life had compared to that moment in time after she had killed that troublesome vampire attempting to make trouble between weres and vampires in Chicago. Not because she had taken his life but because she had put a stop to interference that had no right to be there. Oh wait, something had compared - crushing Calvert and kissing Via out in the streets of New York City.
That was another thing that had Liliya questioning why she continued to question allowing herself to be changed. Had she stayed alive, a human, then she would never have met Sylvia Cohen. And that wouldn't do at all. Fangs dug lightly into her lip as she worried it, eyes gazing past the roses she had been focused on while she tried to wrestle her mind into accepting that she didn't want that old life in anyway. Being a vampire had been difficult for her no matter how good she was at it. She didn't suffer from that sentimental drivel wondering about whether she had a soul - she was a politician and hadn't cared one way or the other a moment in her life - but just from the knowledge that she was, in fact, dead and different.
Her phone ringing at her was a welcome relief. Even if the name on the caller ID wasn't so much. Phone conversations with her mother weren't her favorite thing by a long shot. Liliya answered anyway. "Hi mom."
"Liliya, I cannot believe you didn't call and let us know that this was happening before it did! Everything's been all hectic." And she continued on with that vein, going on about demons and angels and fae as though they truly cared that they had caused a moment of inconvenience to one Allison Kennedy. Or her daughter. From the way that Allison was carrying on one would think that a demon or fae had actually set itself in front of her car and made all of her tasks nearly impossible.
"If I told you that I didn't know it was happening would you believe me?"
A brief pause. "No."
It was flattering, really, that her mother thought that she was so in the know. What Allison seemed to forget was that her daughter was only thirty-three and just a vampire. She could not possibly know everything and why was she supposed to pay attention to what every other race was doing? "Well, then you have my most sincere apologies." Telling her mother she had not known would just lead to questions she did not what to answer. Better to let her think that she had just decided to keep it to herself. "Besides, that was a week ago. Why are you only now calling to complain at me?" Let it never be said that Liliya did not speak to her family just the same way that she did everyone else in the world.
"Because I've been busy, Liya, and I knew that you'd be as well. But now that I know that you haven't managed to get yourself killed I'll let you get back to whatever it is that you're doing right now. Oh, one more thing - Carol's pregnant."
That caused a bit of a jolt. Liliya had known that her sister was trying for a child but she had not really expected her to succeed so soon. "Recent news?"
"Oh yes, very, but I'll let her tell you about it herself. She's so very excited."
"I imagine so."
"Good night, Liya."
"Be well, mother." Not 'I love you' because the Kennedy's were not the sort of family to say that, but it was as close as they got. Then the phone clicked and Liliya was left alone in her garden with her thoughts again. Thoughts she did not even particularly care for.
And there were several ways that she could get rid of them. One was to go find Naoki to entertain herself by taking the blood straight from the source, or pretend to care about him talking of his day. The other, far more appealing, was to discover what Via was up to. Her fingers danced lightly over her Blackberry as she debated whether or not she should go ahead and call the other vampire. Her other hand came up to toy with her earrings and she knew then that ever since she had settled down and begun to think that she had actually been building up to that. Well, or to going back to Ann Arbor to work through the night. But hearing that her sister was pregnant somehow elevated her desire to see Via. That and she was far more pleasant to look on than Naoki had ever been.
Hearing Snowball bark from somewhere in the house, which forced her to acknowledge that yes, Naoki was there, Liliya decided that if she went back into that house tonight then it was not going to be alone. Even though it was her house. Everything in that house is mine. Which did include Naoki.