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Suzanna has known about vampires since the second grade, when Leo her very best friend in the whole wide world told her in confidence that his daddy was a werewolf and his mommy was a vampire. And then they went home from school and Leo's parents showed up at her parents' house and said they were just here to bring Leo over for a playdate ha ha ha, and his mom Nessie had brought Leo into the living room to play with her and had crouched down and told her all about the vampire world. And then she smiled and patted her fondly on the head and whispered, "If you tell anyone, then your bones will never be found." And she slid off into the dining room in that liquid way she had and told Mrs. Richardson she was awfully sorry, she'd totally forgotten that Leo had a doctor's appointment, and she'd try to bring him back some other time.
Suzanna was afraid of Mrs. Verona after that, but she wasn't afraid of vampires. She loved vampires. She wanted to turn the second she turned eighteen and could get away from her stupid parents and this stupid town and not get attention from the stupid cops. She waited with bated breath for her eighteenth birthday. Leo waited with her, though she knew he was afraid that when she was a vampire and he smelled like wet dog all the time she'd drop him like a used tissue. She told him she'd never do that because if she hurt him then his mother would hound her to the ends of the earth with a wolfpack by her side. He acknowledged the point.
And then, the month before her eighteenth birthday, the fierce urge to turn in her still-beating heart and a plane ticket to Italy in her purse, Tessa showed up and it all went to hell.
Tessa took her out for coffee and told her she'd just been passing through, but when she noticed how utterly beautiful Suzanna was she couldn't look away. She told Suzanna that she was dangerous, that she should stay away, but that she could never resist. Suzanna licked it up with a spoon. Then she made a mistake.
She said, "Yeah, you're a vampire, right? My friend's mom is a vampire. I'm turning next month, I'm taking a trip to Italy to see the Volturi and do the whole "hey Aro how's it going here's my memories" thing. Which is, like, mandatory? I think?"
How exactly was she supposed to know that Tessa was under the impression she was Aro's archenemy? How was she supposed to know that Tessa was super paranoid and thought him seeing her in Suzanna's memories would make him scour the continent on some crazy womanhunt? And how the Hell was she supposed to know that she had fucking mind control powers?
Okay, it wasn't actually mind control. Just sort of, "this lady is crazy hot and you should totally do what she says" hypnotic thing. But it was still freaky as shit. And it made something inside her say hell fucking no and her brain pulled some kind of trigger and BAM, Tessa was minus one head. And while she was lurching around like some crazy-ass zombie looking for the pieces and the coffee shop was losing its collective shit, Suzanna was puking and having the worst migraine of her fucking life and stumbling out into the street looking for Leo.
He was near enough she could find him, and she found him and said, "We have to go right fucking now."
And he said "where do we have to go?"
And she said "away."
And now they're away and Tessa's looking for them and it's a week to her birthday and she is not having fun.
Zanna and Addy
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girls-just-wanna
girls-just-wanna
"We stole some beer from his dad's fridge when we were twelve. He took one sip and declared it disgusting, I downed the whole bottle to make fun of him and then threw up on his shoes. I have learned to appreciate beer. He has not."
taste_tester
"Well, neither of you are ever going to have this particular synesthetic experience, although if I find a beer that seems like it'd match I'll recommend it to you."
girls-just-wanna
"Hopefully by the time you find one I'll have no more reason to drink it than you will. Leo could, but I'm sure he'd be repulsed."
taste_tester
Addy shrugs. "Was your would-be mate your first exposure to the concept of vampires?"
"Nope. We've known for a few years."
There's a subset of information that Mrs. Verona has impressed on her son must be kept secret from everyone. The first, that she is a vampire; the second, that the rest of the family are shapeshifters. A vampire raising children is profoundly illegal. A vampire coexisting with what appear to be werewolves, even worse. A vampire raising children who are themselves werewolves is possibly the most illegal family unit possible without involving immortal children.
There's a subset of information that Mrs. Verona has impressed on her son must be kept secret from everyone. The first, that she is a vampire; the second, that the rest of the family are shapeshifters. A vampire raising children is profoundly illegal. A vampire coexisting with what appear to be werewolves, even worse. A vampire raising children who are themselves werewolves is possibly the most illegal family unit possible without involving immortal children.
taste_tester
"Huh. How come you weren't turned already, then, if you're so keen? Hoping you'd grow another inch? Wanted longer hair? Couldn't find anybody who wanted a witch in their coven?"
girls-just-wanna
"The... vampire we know... told us that you had to be eighteen."
taste_tester
"...Blaaaatant lies. They won't execute you for turning anybody fourteen or up, and you can make a case for twelve if you get caught with one of those and the twelve-year-old is well-behaved and the Volturi like you or want you to work for them or the kid's a witch. The problem is out-of-control immortal children who charm the pants off their keepers and wreck architecture like little Godzillas and drink entire barbershop quartets in front of the media, not the modern day age of majority."
"No, you will yell at her and I will help you yell at her."
taste_tester
Addy snorts. "And now you have a mate you don't want when you could have been all mutually infatuated when she lays eyes on you. Very inconvenient."
taste_tester
"What was she trying to whammy you about, anyway?"
girls-just-wanna
"I mentioned I was going to visit Volterra. She's apparently under the impression that Aro is her archnemesis, which is obviously not true because she, you know, still exists. She tried to tell me I couldn't go because if he saw her in my head he would hunt her down and burn her alive, I took offense to her tone, and she blasted me. And I blasted her right back. And if I'd been told about vampires by someone who hasn't hated me since I was six years old, that wouldn't have happened."
taste_tester
"What were you going to do in Volterra? Fancy being in the guard? If they can get you working for them by finding and killing your mate they will find this very unconventional, but I don't think they'd blink. Bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy on her part..."
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