Twisted Destiny

[Sweetp4u]

Lily

I exploded within a wild rainbow of lights and misshapen pictures within my mind. I felt like Eric was with me, touching me, longing for me. Where it came from I had no idea, but it was there. Tugging from my memory and stealing away my breath and heart. I tensed around him just he erupted, my own orgasm washing over the both of us as I held him to me. Eyes tightly shut, heart hammering, for a brief moment I could almost hear Eric's words in my head, Longing for me.
It was silly and not reality but it had felt that way. I cradled him to my breast, his body bent over as we both tried to regain some composure. Tomorrow was a different day and different life style for me. This was probably the last meeting I would have with him for a long while.
I wanted to tell him who I was, and see what more we could give each other, but being a vampire had it's disadvantages. And deep down I had only turned one person.. Eric.. I wasn't sure I could do that again and not feel something profoundly deep and wrong in it. As much as my new lover pleased me, it was Eric I longed for.
He mentioned the upcoming dawn and I knew I had to go. I hadn't enough strength to battle the sun this day, but soon if I fed enough I could move within the sunlight. Who knows, maybe it would happen after thousand years and maybe it wouldn't?
"Yes, I best get going and get some rest." I mumbled quietly.
I dressed myself, both of us lost in our own thoughts, neither really speaking to the other.
Hailing a cab, he saw me to the hotel and stood outside with me on the sidewalk.
"Perhaps soon we can see each other again?" I was hopeful he could help mend my heart some what. I tiptoed up, not waiting for an answer and kissed him deeply.
"Until then mystery man.. Be safe.." I smiled, blew him one more kiss and moved quickly within the building and up to my room. I needed rest for tonight I hunted a hunter.

 

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Phoenix

"Until then mystery man.. Be safe.." The words stayed with me as I watched the sunrise...Yes I was a vampire, one of the walking dead..Feared by mortals and also by my fellow blood sucking sisters and brothers. I had a "gift" that made me powerful, not in the sense of time or strength, there were stronger vampires...

But I could walk in the daylight, and not feel the need to hide or to rest, a curse that had come from my second reincarnation...

The file was thorough the targets name, no...the operative's name was Violet and she always stopped at the Midnight Cafe when she came to town, I would be waiting with the rifle and the silver...all she had to do was bring her body...I'd do the rest.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Lily/Violet

The sun had set and it was time to dine before hunting my prey. Reading the file I found the name was Pheonix. Odd name but it was an ICI operative.
So it must be a code name like mine was. They had no picture in the file only a vague discription. Packing my briefcase with my hand gun, loaded with silver, I headed to the Cafe for a light dinner before I would prowl the upper east side at some ritzy upper crust club.
Walking outside, I had on shades, a wrap over my hair and all black cat suit on. Inside my briefcase was also a face mask, it would suit me well when it became time to hunt.
I walked to the cafe and entered the building, taking a seat by the window. Ordering myself a hot java and some light salads, I sat and waited, my eyes reading over the file of information.
He liked sexy women, he was always seen with the classiest of the classy. This would work in my bennefit rather nicely.
Smiling, I sat back and waited for my dinner, wondering what he had done to piss off ICI?

 

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PHOENIX

The Ruger Model 77 Mark II Magnum is now chambered in .458 Lott and features a 1.5-4.5x20 Nikon scope The thought went thru my mind as if it were a sales pitch as I snugged the stock against my cheek and watched the dark dressed figure at the window.

"It also carries an excellent trajectory when firing a silver bullet" I whispered to no one..."Long distance death"

The woman named "Violet", sipping at a cup as she munched on a salad, her face nearly obscured by the file she was intently reading.

"Better for me...The more she holds still the easier this will be"

I slowly squeezed the trigger, applying pressure....the percussion echoing over the rooftops and I moved, not looking back...

 

[Sweetp4u]

Violet

I felt a presense long before I spotted him or her, but I knew someone was coming for me. I jumped quickly, stuffing the file into the open case and pulling out my nine. Grabbing the case within a millisecond it was shut and I was moving.
So.. Some was coming for me heh? Wondered if this Pheonix knew he was my target or some other enemy had found me. I heard someone behind me, but I moved quicker, out the back and into the darkened alley. Jumping up three stories to the roof, I paused panting for air as I listened. He was here, on the roof and had followed me. Stepping from around the building side we stood face to face and gun to guns.
"Ah ha.. A stand off." we both had our guns cocked, aimed and ready. If he shot he would die as well, if I shot I was dead. This was one of the comical things that wasn't too funny.
"Who are you and what do you want?" I would give him a minute to tell me before i made my choice. Die or not to die? Hmmmmmmm..

 

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PHOENIX

"Who are you and what do you want?"

She was good, I gave her that as she stood facing me a 9 millimeter pointed at me, the barrel steady, unwavering as her cold, professional eyes blazed at me.

She was good enough to bring it up close, where the advantage of a rifle was useless, though it took only one bullet from either gun to end this...Close enough for me to let my powers flare...expand and wash towards her, wrapping her in my senses as I felt her barriers and began to break thru them, feeling her mind, her emotions...as I pushed into her, feeling her resistance as I answered and her eyes flared open, loosing the cold control for the briefest of seconds...

"Death...I am death"

It amused her, I could tell as she heard the words...To think someone was sent after HER, to assassinate the assassin...And as the thought crossed her mind and spread to her lips, I pushed a bolt of my energy into her...jolting her and moving like the wind...coming around behind her as I pushed my etheral self further into her, my arms knocking her automatic from her hands and pinning her arms to her sides...

She had brought it up close....I was making it personal as my lips open, fangs extending as I moved for the kill...my mind tearing through the barriers of hers...feeling her memories, past emotions...and finding?

My nostrils flared as I held the woman...Her kicks striking me as she squirmed and I drew in her scent...IT COULDN'T BE

I released one hand, freeing her arm and feeling it instantly drive backwards into me, ribs cracking and tissue tearing in my chest as she struck me...And I responded in turn, pulling my psyche from her mind and driving my fist into the back of her neck, stunning her but not killing as I stepped back and willed myself into the nights air...

It couldn't be...Again I told myself as I moved thru the air, looking down at the stunned vampire on all fours, shaking her head...But the memories I found inside of her? The sheer power and emotions?

Concentrating I pushed my bodt thru the air, willing it to move faster and faster as I headed for a safe connection and answers, my mind filled with confused questions and a growing anger...

"Give me Control, NOW" I hissed over the phone, my anger flaring, expanding and making the voice gasp on the other end.

And then the cool, contained voice of Control coming on..."Finished with your contract already, We're impressed"

"I don't give a DAMN about your being impressed. TELL ME WHO VIOLET REALLY IS" I growled, demanding...

"You know that answer is restricted for good reason, Phoenix" Came the smooth reply...But did I hear just a flit of worry tinging it?

"Then I will find out myself...And when I do and don't like the answer....I WILL BE COMING FOR YOU"

I slammed the phone down, breaking the connection and moving into the nights air again..I needed a few things and then I had to stay on the move, my target was another assassin and she would be coming for me as well, kill or be killed...*I needed answers and a small amount of time to clear my head* I reasoned and heading for the apartment.

*It couldn't be...her*

 

[Sweetp4u]

Lily

I stood there in amazement he tricked me so easily! Fuming mad, but still impressed I again wondered.... Why?
Why would the ICI kill an agent as gifted as he was? I wasn't bragging when I said I was one of the few best in this profession. And the fact he would keep up with me was impressive all on it's own.
I turned, rubbing the back of my neck as my eyes narrowed.
"Oh no you don't!" I began to move, following. Only one weapon on hand now, but he was mine! I followed over roof tops and through alley's, moving further and further away until his scent ended.
I paused looking at the old warehouse, my senses expanding, seeking him out. My target was here.. Somewhere. Smiling, I pushed open a barely hung door and stepped into the darkened interior.
I could hear mice scampering, I could hear an owl somewhere making his call, watching his prey. And I felt My prey watching me.
"Do come out here.. I will find you eventually.." I smiled, though the mask hid my face, my mouth and eyes were visible.

 

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PHOENIX

I felt the now famaliar touch of HER as I gathered what I needed, the clothes on my back, the unlimited financial power of plastic in my pocket and feel of silver blades and cold steel in the holsters at my back and hip.

And then surprisingly, I heard HER voice...



"Do come out here.. I will find you eventually.."

And for a perverse reason of my own it pleased me as I touched the mask I too, now wore.

"Then we should be able to end this quickly, as does one professional in the presence of another?"

I had moved again, blanking myself, withdrawing into myself, containing the energy that would give me away...and stood next to her, smiling softly at her...

"Or do you wish to explore the questions that dwell within both of us...What good reason would pit one ICI assassin against the other?"

I stood waiting...One hand outstretched, the other on the knife at my hip...If she turned with the pistol to kill me, she would have to turn around and towards me...and I would meet her with my blade...

 

[Sweetp4u]

Lily

I turned only my upper body, paused and thinking. He definately moved familiarly to me? But why?
"Yes.. I would like to know why the ICI has us as targets.. if I am indeed a target?" I turned, putting my gun down and turning to face the assasin behind me.

 

[BLACK BART]

PHOENIX

Her gun down she faced me and I too in turn took my hand off the hilt of my knife, raising it slowly so no threat was taken, to her face...

"You are my target Violet" I told her using her ICI name to let her know I was indeed assigned to her.

My finger traced the outline of the mask and with a flicker of my wrist I untied the leather string, letting it fall to the ground as her hand reached for and took my wrist in it...

"Or should I call you Lily?" I said sadly, now knowing my suspicions were correct...”I think we have much to talk about”

I pulled the knife and pistol out, my eyes watching hers closely as I lowered them to the floor beside hers, my hands moving to my own mask and pulling it free…

 

[Sweetp4u]

Lily

I gasped in shock as his mask peeled away to reveal the guy I had met the night before.

"You're?" I stumbled over the words, my eyes searching his face.

"Yes, we have much to talk about don't we?" There wasn't much of a choice really. If neither of us did our jobs, more would come for us. And sooner or later we would be dead or running for eternity.

"I am a target aren't I?" It wasn't him trying to stay alive, I was hunting a hunter, who was hunting me. A viscious circle one that almost had me laughing, but instead I was confused.

"That means... who ever is head of ICI ha put us against each other.." I backed up a step, unsure what to do now? I longed to reach out to him, yet knew not why? And I wanted to end my job, but not really. This was ONE messed up situation!

 

[BLACK BART]

Phoenix

"Then for this evening I suggest we declare a truce?" I suggested, seeing the look in her eyes "A period of time where we can talk and be with each other without worry, tonight"

A nod and yet is was not enough, we were after all...assassins?

"Give me your word on what is holy, or of value to you" I asked gently "Let me feel the truth be spoken"

Hands outstretched I offerred them to her, just the touch of her skin to mine and we would be able to feel if we spoke the truth...

Lily accepted slowly, her eyes wide open as she moved to me, the tips of her fingers gently caressing mine...

"I will not harm you tonight" I told her carefully, being the first to let her feel enough to know I spoke the truth...

I

 

[Sweetp4u]

Lily

I moved forward, it was a little unheard of trusting one of my own kind and better yet one in the same profession as I was, but I indeed wanted to solve this one and badly.
I did not like being a target or someone's play thing!

I extended my hand, a slight shiver running up my arm as our fingers touched, sliding against the other and finally my hand fully encased in his own.

"I swear on all I hold dear to me.. Truce." I spoke, holding his gaze with my own, letting him in just enough to feel I meant it. Feather soft a name flittered over my mind, eric...

I wanted to remain alive long enough to find Eric..

 

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Phoenix

I pulled away as the shock hit me...No, tore thru me would be more accurate. It wasn't the fact Lily spoke the truth and I knew it...It was the emotion behind it I felt...the LONGING for someone she had loved so dearly in her past...It overwhelmed me, bringing moisture to the ducts that hadn't felt tears in too many years, making my heart stop beating as it gripped me, and after it started again leaving an empty, hurting whole...Behind it all I saw a face and a single, unspoken word...

I realized suddenly my eyes were staring at my hands, the tears pouring off my cheeks and onto them as I looked up to hers and nodded.

"Yes, I too have felt that emptiness, the painful abyss of losing someone"

And then a sense of purpose filled my mind and my heart, a clarity in my thinking for perhaps the first time since....Lillian...

"The only one that would have a reason for killing us both would be one who in the past was able to control us" I spoke thru the tears, shrugging them off as the clarity came to me.

"Someone who was powerful enough to control us one at a time, but now feels themself losing that power...Someone you know as well as I do, from our pasts...and yet in our present day as well..."

A feeling began to grow in me, telling me something was going to happen I had to face...But would curse as I did..A premonition I was about to meet both my past and my future...

"Tell me Lily, Tell me who is strong enough to control you in the ICI, but have reason to fear and hate you?"

 

[Sweetp4u]

Lily

I was stunned by his reaction to holding my hands but said nothing, merely looked away and gave him time to right himself once more.
What had he seen inside me? I couldn't fathom what it was that made him hurt like that? Perhaps it was my thoughts of Eric? that would hurt someone who not more than twelve hours ago you made love to.. Well it wasn't love but it was nice.
"I am.. uhhh. Not too sure.. They change their identies, you know that.. The only one I know of who ever had a vendetta against me was..." I paused, no that was just a little too far fetched! Wasn't it?
"Calerma.. He had a vendetta against me, but he is rumored to be dead. So there is no one else I can think of.. Perhaps I know something or you know something they fear?" I paused, turning back to face him now.
He looked at me strangely but said nothing for the longest time.
"Did you think of something? I wished I knew who headed ICI it might solve alot of this for us both.." I paused, my hands on my hips as I paced back and forth, head down, thinking over and over in my mind.. Who? Who else would have it in for me and was alive!?

 

[BLACK BART]

Eric

Calerma...It took everything I had not to snap my head up and let the raw hatred escape me at the mention of HIS name...

Calerma...The name of the man who betrayed me, lied to the woman I loved and forced my exile...

Calerma...The name of the vampire who was my FATHER...


"I know the name" I spit the words out between gritted teeth, my jaw nearly aching from the effort not to scream "And I know that he is still on this earth"

It had taken me years and I was unable to completely block his presence from me...and in times of extreme blood lust his thoughts still came clearly to me, mocking me for my weakness in losing her to him.

The fact he was the head of the ICI, the CONTROL that directed each member of his elite assassins, was ironic and I laughed.

"If he is Control, I will enjoy removing his head from his body." I hissed, the fire and hate still in my voice "And it makes more than enough sense, he has no soul, no concern of right or wrong. His only worry is of himself and when threatened he removes the threat"

And the idea that he was threatened showed only one thing, he was afraid of both of us...Alone we rivaled his power...Together we could easily destroy him...

"He will check your progress tonight, correct?" I asked gently and knew the answer before she nodded, her eyes questioning me in a way I couldn't understand.

"Then let me take the call, I can guarntee he will consent to see me"

It was Lily's turn to grit her teeth and nod...I could feel the tension building in her as a plan formed in my head...And I began to explain it to her, watching her eyes instantly understand and then add to the plan, polishing it to a sharp killing edge...

 

[Sweetp4u]

Lily

The cell phone rang as I lay near death, or so it would seem. So slow were my reflexes from this dangerous move, I could not hear what he said without concentrating on his voice.
It did not matter, all was set.

The phone was shut off and I was hoisted up on Pheonix's shoulder, tossed over like a sack of potatos, I grinned at the picture this would present when we finally all met in one location.

All was set, yet I was still a little nervous. A vampire 'playing dead' was good, but I had to be DAMNED good to pull it off. We would meet the ICI leader, he would proclaim to be there to collect his bounty and we, him and I would finish off this leader and take command.

It was a solid good plan, and so there I was, hanging over his back as he entered a warehouse. The coldness crept over my body as I was laid out on the cold cement floor, my ears tuning in their conversation as I lay as still as death......

 

[BLACK BART]

Brent

The tiny phone had wrung and i answered it, the words spoken working as I promised...I now stood over the nude and lifeless form of Lily, looking to the dark figure that I had sensed.

"You can come out now and meet your destiny" I spoke the words clearly as I looked towards him "I have a present for you"

The figure glided silently to the center of the room, his face appearing and it was the same as I had remembered in all my nightmares...

"Calllll rrrrr maaaa" I hissed slowly, still surprised despite knowing who I would be facing...

"It has been a long time, but not long enough" I sneered at him, letting the hatred seep out of me with each word.



"And you are still bitter for me stealing your whore, correct my son?" Calerma tossed back at me with his own venom tainted voice

"You stole her only because you knew my love for her and with your lies she became your toy" I shouted, nearly losing control..."I would have gladly given my life for hers, I stayed away as you wished to guantee her survival"

"And you have done me another favor in removing the tiresome whore from this planet" He smoothly retorted, pulling his ace in the whole out as his eyes looked to the figure that lay unmoving in front of me...

The words stunned me...Lillian....Lily?

"Lilly?" I voiced the word, marveling at its feel on my tongue and my...soul...

"You never even knew it was her until after you killed her, did you?" He gloated and I fell to my knees, mind spinning and yet...

"You arranged the death of Lillian by MY hand?" I hissed, my hand on her bare shoulder, touching the nude figure and rolling her towards me...

"I should kill you for that, since our bargain is off now"

 

[Sweetp4u]

Lillian

The words spoken sent shivers down my spine!
Calerma? Eric? Pheonix!? I felt his hands touch me, rolling me towards him and my eyes came open, my heart thundering loudly now once again allowed to beat and I gasped in a deep breath.

I watched in horror as calerma moved behind Eric's bent for, my hands reaching for Eric as if in slow motion as the gun slowly rose up and the lazer red dot moved up his back and to the back of his skull.

I knew what was coming, I felt this premonition race through me. I reached with one hand and grabbed the nine, Calerma's fingers tightened on the trigger, his smile spreading as he aimed, closed his eye and pressed the trigger.
I pushed Erika hard out of the way, sending him onto his ass and to the side of Calerma, the bullet peirced my heart just as mine peirced Calerma's forehead. Crying out, the gun fell, discharging another round into the stunned Calerma's face.
He fell, I fell and the world spun crazily out of control.
"Eric!?" I cried out, coughing once as I went to move. The force of the wound so great I fell back down. His face came over me, concern in his eyes.
"I didn't know.." His words. My heart bled for him as I tried to speak, assure him, but nothing came out at first. It was all true!? He had left to save me, he hadn't wanted to, I hadn't wanted him to but Calerma played us both.
"my love.... I will return..." I felt hazy, like I was floating, I kept getting little clips in my mind, minature movies in a sense. "Colorado." I mumbled, where my home rested in the hills above the town I found him in.
"Little town....why...... Wyoming.. Look for me!" I grasped him to me, this drama was too over played, but I couldnt draw air into my lungs and I was losing blood quickly.
"I love you Eric.... Find me? Promise? I will... Come back!" His lips touched mine, tears in both of our eyes as I slowly left this plane of exsistance and began to whirl through a worm hole....

For what awaited me in this final act was a chance. One chance to set things right, to be whole, to be with him. And I only hoped I could get my new body and new spirit to awaken to my knowledge and this once in a lifetime love..

 

[BLACK BART]

Eric

Within minutes I had found the love I had given up on, found the woman who was my lover, my creator, my soul mate. And within those same minutes I had lost her.

I sat holding her body next to mine, willing her to live, wishing that it was I that took her place instead for I was afraid. And in her final breaths she tried to ease my pain, asking a promise of me to find her...give her what she had given me...

I kissed the blood off her lips, this time not to satiate hunger or lust, but to see her for a final time, to hold that image...forever if need be...until the time I looked into her eyes...again...

Dawn found us that way, her body crumbling, turning to ashes and as if by cue the wind came, pulling the last of her from my grasp as I lay and wept...Wept for myself and the empty years I faced, the lonely memories I would carry until the time she returned. I stumbled onto the street, clarity gone as I brushed off one mortal and then another, excusing myself as words of concern were heard.

"Mister? Are you OK? Where you going in such a hurry?"

"To Colorado, to the hills where my love will be, to wait for our final destiny"

 

[BLACK BART]

Thank You

Sweetp...

You've taught me so much, your words and your thoughts, the genius and the feeling behind them all, coming from your heart.

You've amazed me again, surprised me in your ability with words to pull at my groin...my head...and my heart.

Thank You

 

[Sweetp4u]

*Blush and a smile*

Thank you BB, as always it was a pleasure writing with you! And guess what.. It's not over just yet!

Thanks for the wild ride and the naughty fun! You make writing here an enjoyment. (well a few others do too )

Sweetp