When you feel like you're breaking down Who: Kristen and Missy Where: Peloe home When: Afternoon
Missy had no idea what was going on with today. Not only had she been woken up far earlier than she was used to, but it had been to a terrified and crying Kristen who was holding an obviously injured Mitzi. Only Kristen had not been able to tell her what exactly had happened, she was far too distraught. Missy had taken that in, gotten dressed far too quickly, grabbed an energy drink she was grateful her sister had not buried in the backyard, and driven the girl and dog to the vet. Kristen had not wanted to leave the puppy alone, but Missy had seen the darkening bruise on her cheek along with the trickle of blood coming out of her mouth and there was no way she was not taking her to a doctor. Which had turned out to be a good idea because the little girl had a hairline fracture in her cheek. Missy was extremely relieved about that. She had been dealing with doctors and minor injuries for long enough to know that something like that would heal on its own so long as nothing else happened. Oh sure, it still hurt, but it was not as bad as it could have been. But who would hit a little girl hard enough to do that? It angered and frustrated Missy and yes, she had called off of work for the day and the only thing that would see her in the next day would be if Kristen decided to go to school. And if she could find out what had happened so she could go about seeing it taken care of.
After stopping by the vet to check on Mitzi, who was going to be okay though she needed to stay there for awhile, Missy had swung through Kristen's favorite restaurant to pick up lunch. Only lunch was now sitting on the table between them growing cold because neither of them was eating it. Missy's reason was the worry that was turning her stomach into a roaring, empty pit. Kristen's probably had something to do with the sedative that she had been given to help her calm down. She had been oddly hysteric and even angry. Which Missy was not saying she could not be, it was possible for everyone, but she hated to see it happening to her little sister. "Something wrong with your lunch, Kris?" She made her voice light and smiled when she asked it, hoping to keep the worry off of her face for at least a while longer. Kristen had heard her shouting at the doctor earlier, she knew she had. It was not that he had been doing anything wrong, none of this was his fault, but Missy was frustrated with the whole situation. Who could blame her?
Kristen was glad that the doctor had given her something to calm her down. Ever since she'd come across Eloisa, ever since the vampire had slapped her, it'd felt like there was a slow rage seething beneath the surface and it'd been coming out in clips that mixed with the worry that she felt for Mitzi. She didn't even care about the hairline fracture on her cheek, she was more worried about the dog. Mitzi shouldn't have been hurt, it was Eloisa's fault that she'd bit her and Kristen was starting to think that the red-eyed vampire had really deserved it. Or worse. Yeah, she deserved worse. It was a vaguely angry thought that only managed to slip along the top of her thoughts before fading away. The medication was making her too mellow to actually care about these things. She still didn't want to eat though and it looked like playing with her food wasn't going to fool her sister. Who she saw was doing the same thing. "No, I'm just not hungry. I'm worried about Mitzi." Which was true. And she was still afraid of that image she'd seen where Missy was all dirty and she was crying. Was that going to happen? The vet had said that Mitzi was going to be fine. "And my face hurts." The doctor had said that she wasn't supposed to talk a lot so she was trying to listen. She just knew her sister well enough to know that she wasn't going to settle for not knowing what had happened to her.
"Mitzi's going to be fine, the vet wouldn't lie about that." Missy wanted to know if there was anyone in town who would lie to her when she would bear witness to the truth, or could just find it. She doubted that anyone was stupid enough to tell a lie to a reporter. "We'll be able to go and see her tomorrow after school if you'd like. If you want to go to school. If you don't then I think everyone would understand." She was just going to put her money on Kristen insisting on going. She had never known her sister to want to stay home from school, not even when she was obviously sick. Taking a drink from her cup, the energy drink had been gone before they even reached the doctor, Missy slid it back and forth between her hands while she tried to figure out the best way to ask Kristen the question she wanted so that she could get an answer. With Kristen being a little out of it thanks to the sedatives it might be best to just come straight out with it. "Are you going to tell me what happened this morning?" Until she found that out and had dealt with it she was not even going to touch on the fact that Kristen should not have even been outside for something to happen to her.
The vet said it and Missy said it, but her vision had said something else and Kristen didn't know who was right. She hadn't ever been wrong and that was what scared her. When she knew that something was going to happen she knew. But I didn't see Mitzi... It was too hard to even reason with herself right then so she shrugged and let it drop. So long as they really did get to go and see Mitzi after school tomorrow it'd be okay. "I want to go to school. Can't miss the first day back." She hated missing school. Sure the kids she was in class with weren't really her friends and she'd probably see Silvia on the playground and that would be very awkward, but she still wanted to go. Staying home would just mean more time to think and she didn't need that. Missy's question made her tense and she dropped her eyes down to her lap, biting at her lip. She didn't want to tell Missy. She knew what her sister did now and if she told her that a vampire had done this, then Missy would go looking for her. And Eloisa had been scary and she'd made her feel all angry. What if she did the same to Missy? What if she hurt her as bad as she had Mitzi? Kristen didn't realize that tears were forming in her eyes until they started to leak out. "N-no..."
"Okay, then you can go to school tomorrow." Missy did not want to force Kristen into staying home if she was able to go to school. The doctor had said she would be fine by tomorrow and the fracture was nothing that could be helped by staying home or in bed so there was no medical reason. Unless you want to count shock, which it looked like she had pretty bad. Missy just needed to know why. She had run through the list of things that could have hurt a dog that bad and hit her sister so hard it fractured the bone and she had come up with were, demon and vampire. Though if it had been the middle then would it not have killed Kristen instead of letting her go? That one in the backyard had made it pretty obvious that that was its intent after all. And weres were not really known for being violent, but vampires... Missy was willing to believe anything about vampires so long as it helped solidify the view she had been given by her family and their deaths. "Kristen, you know I don't want to push you, but something bad happened and I really need to know what it was. It's not only your safety that's at risk here. If there's someone dangerous out there then people need to know." Kristen had always been a responsible kid, usually worried more about other people than herself, and Missy hoped that would shine through now so that she could get her answers. Because whoever had done this? Needed to be stopped. No one messed with her little sister.
A victory on the school front that wasn't really a victory because they hadn't been arguing, but Kristen was counting it like one if only because she felt like she needed it today. All she'd wanted to do that morning was go for a walk with Mitzi without getting in trouble and what had happened? Mitzi was hurt and at the vet while she had a cheekbone hairline fracture and was probably going to have even more issues with the dark then she had before. She might even start asking Missy to check outside her window and in the trees for monsters too, now that she'd seen another one that looked just like everyone else. No, that was wrong. Eloisa'd had fangs and insanely red eyes. Tears still falling, Kristen looked up from her lap so that she could see Missy. "I don't want you to get hurt. You'll get hurt if you... you'll go looking!" Just like she knew that that vision, whatever it was, would come true she also knew without a doubt that Missy would go searching for Eloisa. She'd say something about it on the news. She'd run herself into the ground every night looking for the vampire who'd hurt her little sister. These were just things that Kristen knew.
Oh, she was crying. That alone was enough to make Missy feel like her heart was breaking and she was up and moving around the table to kneel beside her chair before she had even registered that she had started to move. Her arms came up around Kristen and she tugged the girl close, hand coming up to rub her back. Whatever had happened it had been bad and she had wished from the moment she realized what was going on that it had not. And Kristen was completely right - all Missy wanted to do was find the person responsible and make them pay for it. Forget the police, they would hardly do anything. She wanted to put them through some sort of hell for daring to lay a finger on her little sister. And it was really just better if they were a vampire because then she could go a step farther and make sure that they never terrorized anyone ever again. If they were just a human then she would definitely see them in jail for abusing a child and animal cruelty, but vampires really defined 'fair game' in her eyes. "Kris, sweetie, someone else will get hurt if you don't tell me." Maybe even if you do. There's no guarantee I'll find them. "I'm very careful when I go out. Have you ever seen me come home hurt?" Of course not, she went to every length possible to see that her wounds were taken care of before she went anywhere near Kristen. Worrying her was right at the bottom of her list of things to do. "Please, Kristen, I need to know what happened to you so that I can make sure it never, ever does again. You know I just want to look after you." She was not going to point out that if Kristen could just learn to listen and not go out alone that early in the morning then this would not have happened. It was hard, though. Not because she wanted to embarrass her or anything, she just wanted her to be safe. That was not so much to ask for.
Kristen hated the idea of anyone else getting hurt by Eloisa, she really did, but she hated the idea of that person being Missy even more. She didn't know those other people, but she knew Missy. Her big sister and the one who'd been there for her for as long as she could remember. Sure she'd kept what she really did a secret, but Kristen could almost understand that. She could even understand why she hadn't wanted to tell her what really happened to their family. It was really traumatizing knowledge that had contributed to her own nightmares more than once since. Sometimes she'd wished that she'd left that alone. Then she wouldn't have had all those images flashing through her mind of what could happen to her after she saw Eloisa's fangs. "Do you promise me that you won't get hurt if I tell you?"
"I promise." Missy did not like having to break promises that she made to her sister, but she had a feeling that this might be one of them. If whoever it was fought and hurt her while she was trying to teach them just how bad of an idea it was to hurt kids and animals then that was just what would happen. Missy was willing to put her own well-being on the line for multiple things and Kristen was the top of that list. She would forget vampires and hunting them to put herself in the way of anything that threatened Kristen. Like that demon. Missy leaned back enough so that she could look at Kristen, smoothing back a piece of her hair before she tried to wipe away the tears. "I want to keep you safe, Kristen, and that includes from whatever is out there that hurt you for absolutely no reason."
Even though Missy was wiping her tears away it wasn't happening because Kristen was still crying. Missy could make promises but she couldn't actually guarantee that that one could be kept. How could she? Eloisa was scary, she was strong and she was dangerous. Kristen didn't want Missy getting hurt because of her. There were only so many ways she could say that before she just accepted that Missy wasn't going to listen. If she didn't tell her then she'd go looking and might get hurt worse than normal if she came across someone even worse. If there were people who could be worse. The sedative had to be helping because Kristen didn't even start to shake. "S-she was a vampire. Her name was Eloisa and... and... she had red eyes. L-like blood." She said that she'd take me home if my blood was just a little different. She said that I'm fae-blooded. Are we that too?
Missy sucked in a sharp breath when Kristen said it had been a vampire. Then she gave a name and an eye color. And that eye color made Missy's blood run cold. She was not going to ask if Kristen was sure because that would make it sound like she was doubtful, and besides that where would she have even gotten the idea that vampires could have red eyes if she had not seen it for herself? Missy only knew of one sort of vampire that had red eyes and that was... no, please not here. She had never actually come across that type of vampire but she had known hunters who had. Hunters who had only just managed to get away and who had lost partners to them. The Four Horsemen were hated by the living and undead alike and if that did not say levels for what they were like then Missy had no idea what would. Red eyes meant a Rider of War and that would explain the anger that Kristen had been expressing when she came home. "God..." Missy pulled Kristen to her in a tight hug, more grateful than she could express that her little sister had gotten out of that mess alive. She pressed a kiss to the side of her sister's head and just held her, her voice stolen by the whir of thoughts that had started. They were playing all the ideas of what could have happened over and over again. There was a lump in her throat that had not been there all day. She had been worried, but now... now she did not know what she was. "You know that I love you more than anything, right?"
It was Missy's reaction that worked through the sedatives and really scared Kristen. Missy said she was a vampire hunter, that it ran in their blood, and that had to mean she knew a lot about vampires. So to have her react to what this one looked like so suddenly was off-putting. Kristen returned the hug she was given, clinging tight to her sister before pressing her undamaged cheek against her sister's should. "I love you too." And then she really started crying. The draining sort of crying that meant she'd be going to bed early, but she didn't care. She just wanted to cling to her sister -- and crawl into her lap -- and let her hold her. Missy exuded safety. "I'm sorry I went out," Kristen managed to get out between sobs. "I'm so sorry."
"Shhhhh," Missy soothed, shifting so that Kristen could move into her lap. This was usually the part where Mitzi would come up and make it a huge tangle, but there was no Mitzi. Stroking her sister's hair soothingly, Missy did her best to keep from letting her own fear come out in the form of tears. She did not need to let Kristen know just how much it scared her to have that sort of vampire be in the same city, much less go that close to her sister. "It's all going to be okay." It would. She would do her best to make sure of it even if she had to stay out all night every night. Although tonight she was going to stay in the house. Just to be that much closer to her sister. Just in case.