Veronica Thomas + Vicki Donovan (screwedupone) wrote in thereincarnates, @ 2011-06-24 09:32:00 |
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Entry tags: | simon undelman, veronica thomas |
Who. Veronica Thomas and Simon Undelman
What. Simon and Veronica have a talk
Where. The front desk at the Agency
When. Friday evening, June 24th, 2011
Warnings. None?
Veronica had been working at the Agency for long enough that things had stopped phasing her. Even the every day chaos and upset that seemed to follow the reincarnate community around here like a plague was easy to get used to after all, not to mention the big disasters. At a certain point you just started to expect the insanity, even when it came in the shape of Ryan Macintosh's heart wrapped up in newspaper. The cycle of life wasn't always very fair. Between that and already being dead, Veronica was more or less numb to the subject of death by now, especially after Reggie was murdered. It was getting harder and harder for her to care about anything after that, and not because she'd turned it off. Because her brother had been the one good thing in her life and the grieving process had left her feeling emptier then she had since her own death.
It was one of the reasons she'd signed on to work at the Agency all those months ago, for years she'd felt completely and utterly alone. Ever since that fateful morning, the night after she turned eighteen waking up in the woods with no pulse, she'd felt left behind. An outcast among the living, she hadn't meant to die but looking back on who she had been before Vicki, she'd been going through her life with a death wish. Sooner or later her hardcore partying lifestyle was going to bite her in the ass and it did. Hard. But unlike most teens who took too many drugs and never woke up, Veronica was different. She always had been, but in this case, she was very different. She was the reincarnate of a vampire and when she OD'd, she woke up a vampire. Ever since she'd been trying to make amends for her selfish ways, with only a few slip ups here and there... Being a vampire when you were already an addict was not the most easiest combination, something Vicki already knew to be true.
Working for the Agency had grounded her a lot more then anything else could have at the time. At first a lot of people in the place had been uneasy about working so closely with a vampire, though over time even her coworkers began to accept her as one of them. Still human. So much that most of the time Veronica even started to believe it herself, but it wasn't until the reincarnate of Jeremy Gilbert showed up that she really felt like she wanted to change. Before and after her brother's death she'd just been going through the motions, faking it. But Travis was more like Jeremy then he probably even realized and he made Veronica feel like she was better than her blood lust. For the first time in her life she honestly felt guilty for the things she'd done, and things weren't simple anymore but in a way that she welcomed.
She even put more of an effort into her job, which for Veronica was really saying something. She'd always been that typical receptionist who filed her nails during phone calls and glared at small children from behind the front desk but lately, she'd been making more of an effort. If only for the Agency, because vampire or not she did feel a certain loyalty to the place. She was even more patient with the thousands of rude callers every day. ... Well. Sort of. "Like I said, Mrs. Williams, I'm the receptionist. Not a psychic. I only know what they tell me so when I have more information for you, I'll let you know. Okay? Okay. You know the screaming really isn't necessary, you're only hurting yourself here."