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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 21:09:39 GMT
Aisha had flown and followed around France for as long as she could before finally apperating back to London. She had been distraught for three days now. Her pain was beyond belief at not being able to find the love of her life. Renee seemed to have taken David and vanished. She had gone through all her means of looking for him and she couldn't find him. Even her tracking spells seemed to not do the trick. Finally after a day of crying, she picked herself up of her floor and made her way to Mary's. It wasn't the first thing she had wanted to do and therefore this was one of her last chances. Her other choice was going to the Tremere but she figured that would be bad on her's and David's part. She represented him in his world and she couldn't take the chance.
She sighed as she stood on the door step. For once in her life she looked like a complete mess. Her hair wasn't brushed, her clothes looked rather out of place and her eyes were red and puffy. She wasn't up for games and she wasn't up for even maintaining herself. She had only eaten enough food to keep herself alive the last few days and even then the thought of eating made her sick to her stomach. She was a complete and udder mess which was why she was standing at the door to Mary's completely distraught. She held back the tears as she knocked on the door. She didn't care who answered. Whether it was Mary or Exo at this point or even Erskine. She just needed someone to answer the door.
She stood there fighting with her fingers trying to smooth herself into some type of semi presentable form but it held no luck for her. "Please, please answer, someone." She knocked again at the door. This time the rap on the door sounded like a pounding of her fists on the entrance way. She didn't care that the sun had only just set she needed someone to help.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 21:26:26 GMT
The sun must have only just set, and Maria could hear banging as she opened her eyes.mshe leaned over and kissed Exo good morning, and climbed out of bed. Throwing on a robe, she shadowstepped to the front door. Definitely banging. Someone was either angry, or desperate.
Maria opened the door, setting Aisha off balance as she went to bang again. She stood there and looked at the witch. Mary had changed since Aisha last saw her. There was no softness here anymore, no weakness, no lack of confidence. No humanity. What stood before Aisha was prows, powerful, the beast leashed just below the surface.
"Have you come to threaten us again, little bird? Where is your Siren?"
Maria brings the distraught witch inside, closing and locking the door behind them. Something was wrong. And the doorstep was not the place to find out what.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 21:36:52 GMT
Aisha lost her balance as she brought her hand back to her side. She didn't want to actually hit Mary. That wouldn't bode well. She noted the different way Mary seemed to stand but had yet really had the mind set to take it all in. She was ushered inside and looked at Mary with her red and puffy eyes. "What? No!" She wasn't here for that. How could she think that? Oh right, the last time I was here.
She fought her sobs back as the tears began to flow freely once more, having trouble finding words when she mentioned David. "Gone." She whispered out, her voice sounded cracked, strained even. As if she had lost it and only found simple words easy enough to speak. "He." She took a breathe. "He took him." She wanted to collapse on the floor and curl up again but that wouldn't find her David. Wouldn't bring him back. She stood up, trying to straighten herself some.
She was mentally, emotionally and physically a mess in all the sense of the word. "Renee, took him. On our honeymoon. We got married. It was wonderful, then his sire appeared. He used his voice, then David commanded me away. I can't find him. My magic won't work. It won't track him and bring him back. Please Mary! You have to help me!" She dropped to her knees and cried in her hands, she was all but begging this woman for help, she would do anything at this point. She needed David safe, home, with her.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 22:22:41 GMT
Exo had been waking up when he heard the knocking himself. Mary kissed him and took off to go find out what was going on...so Exo took his time to find his jeans and drag them on. Grabbing his black bandanna, he covered up his forehead and ran fingers through his hair before heading downstairs.
Hearing Aisha, he blinked. She was crying. Upset. David was gone. Exo's eyes narrowed as he thought for a long moment, reaching through his blood...
He came downstairs completely and looked at the two women. "Good evening..." He moved to sit and stretched out, not seemingly worried that David had left. "Can you feel him Aisha?" was all he asked as he picked up a book.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 22:36:44 GMT
Aisha looked up as she heard Exo speak she didn't move from her knees as she was still in front of Mary but her head tilted to look at Exo and his black inky eyes. There wasn't any anger there when she looked at him, she would of though at one point there might have been when she confronted him again, but alas her mind was else where and she didn't have the energy to place in something she couldn't do anything about.
She sniffled and tried to wipe the tears away that still fell to no avail did it really help her. Between a sob she answered him. "Yes, I can feel him. I know he is out there. I.." She broke down again. She didn't know what to do. How to help. She just wanted him back. "Please. He needs to come home." She took a shaky breathe. "Renee will change him. His voice..." she exhaled and tried to steady herself but she was doing a really poor job. "it controls David. and...and.." more tears ran down her face. "Renee made him drink from him." She had seen that before she had flown to far.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 22:58:11 GMT
Maria cups Aisha's face in her hand, looking down at her.
"Come, sit. Try to RELAX. You need to collect yourself, and tell us everything and you cannot do that while crying." Mary's conditioning of Aisha may not have been complete, but her command was designed to calm the witch so they could speak without her blubbering. She looked st Exo as she sat herself, leading Aisha at least to the floor before her chair, though offering her one of her own.
"Start at the beginning, married, you say?"
She glances up at Exo, one eyebrow raised, before looking back to Aisha.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 23:02:48 GMT
Exo shrugged. It was David's business...as long as he didn't fail the Sabbat or his pack. But...who was this Renee? They needed more information. The Siren was from a clan that was sparse in numbers...and had even less if they only counted the males. So...this was interesting...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 23:03:54 GMT
Aisha took a breathe and looked at Mary. She was right of course the woman was beside herself and her crying mess wasn't help the situation at all. She walked with her to the sitting room and thought he chair was offered she didn't take it, she didn't seem to register the chair really she went back to he knees and wiped her eyes.
"Yes, after the whole thing with Miss Penrose and the Tremere, David proposed. Then we went away to Saint Malo. He found some records of his family. We married there, then Renee showed up." She spurted on about everything that had happened, though she was sure there wasn't much detail in anything she was saying, but she was doing the best she could with what ability she had to try and clear her mind somewhat.
"When he showed up at the graveyard, he sung to us both. David was more effected than I was. Then we went back to the hotel, and Renee and him started talking about something else. I wasn't fully aware of the entire conversation though I heard most of it. I got lost in my own head for a bit there" She was really fumbling over her words talking about things that had happened but not giving full detail as she probably should of.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 23:12:06 GMT
Maria looked from Aisha to Exo.
"Can you find the whole truth in her mind, my love? It would be so much quicker, and less prone to ... faults of conscious memory."
She looked at Aisha again. Whatever had happened ha delft it's mark.
"Breathe. Calm yourself. Tell me what you remember of Rene."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 23:15:58 GMT
Exo nodded and moved. Standing, he stepped forward quietly and stood next to Aisha, laying a soft hand on the top of her head. Nothing threatening, nothing malicious...just the need to be connected as he closed his eyes. He felt himself push through into her mind and started diving through memories...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 23:21:59 GMT
Aisha took a breathe and looked form Mary to Exo and then back to Mary. She felt Exo inside her mind. It was odd, different from when Mary had done something similar. She didn't know what was going on to b quite honest. She was still wrapped up in her own head.
"Renee, he is David's sire. The one that turned him. David thought he was dead, it seems that he isn't. He looks all like he belongs in a costume party with the way he was dressed. His voice works on David. He commanded David with it. David sent me away. I think it was to keep me from Renee which makes sense, except I didn't want to leave him there. Though I was a foolish woman to think I could do anything." She felt helpless in this world between everything that had transpired in her life over the last few weeks.
She sighed and took another breathe trying to calm herself as Exo sifted through her mind. There was probably quite a number of things in there he wasn't going to like. There wasn't anything she could do about it now though, was there?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 23:29:57 GMT
Mary holds Aisha's hand, but she watches Exo as Aisha talks. When both are done, she looks at Aisha again.
"You mentioned looking for him, trying to track him with your magic. What exactly did you try, and what was the result? This is important. I need to know if it is you who is compromised, or David. Do I need a stronger wizard, or do I need something else."
Briefly she thought of Ambrose, and his book, but she didn't want to go there just yet. She wasn't sure if she could trust herself in the Fae's presence again so soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 0:19:20 GMT
After a long few minutes, Exo moves his hand and steps over to Mary. Leaning in, he cups her cheek and gives her a sweet kiss before whispering something in her ear. Once he's done, he turns to Aisha. "Renee...seems like someone that was torpored, buried...and somehow released. Someone did something...wrong." He glances at Mary for a long moment and then looked back to Aisha.
"Tell me Aisha..." he says quietly, "why didn't you go to the Tremere?"
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Aisha still had eye contact with Mary while Exo was busy inside her head. She had a sliver of fear run up her spine. She could only wonder what he would find in there.
"I have tried every magical means I have at my fingertips. I even started to go through muggle means via their technology. All I could find was that he was a motivational speaker on hiatus currently. He has gone off grid from what I have gathered. Which is probably why I can't find David either. I even thought of using the Taboo spell but seeing as that was tied to Voldemort, I didn't think it wise, not to mention there are many David's all over the world and many I am sure with his last name. I figured it would be a sore spot to say the least."
She had calmed to a degree though her breathing was still heavy her tears had stopped. Her vision wasn't blurry from the tears anymore though her heart still felt ripped in two and she wanted to just hug her knees she made no effort to move. When Exo took his hand off her she felt the retreat from her mind, it was a harsh pull but she shook it off. When he leaned in to say something to Mary she bite her lip. How far back did he go?
Aisha didn't gawk but her eyes did bulge for a moment. He had gone back quite a bit in her mind. "Because in the end, David isn't with them. Why risk more harm to him? Do I not represent him in your world? Would it not look bad on him if I didn't come to his Bishop first? Though of course, I went to Mary and not you. It goes without saying that you would of been involved somehow. I won't hurt him Exo and if I had done that, not only would I have been the problem, he would of been punished for my actions. What Renee is doing isn't connected to either sects, at least as far as I could tell." She wasn't angry or frustrated when she spoke. It was a matter of fact voice she had used as if she was teaching a lesson.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 0:40:10 GMT
Maria nods to Exo at his whisper.
"Aisha, do you know anything else about Rene you can tell us? Had David told you anything? Anything he said that might help? I know Daivd was a privateer at one point, and a ship wreck left him sleeping a great many years. Is this Rene, his sire, his captain from that time? Was he also sleeping? Do you know how long he has been awake?"
When Exo asks about the Tremere, Mary looks from Aisha, to Exo, and back.
"The Tremere? What about them?"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 1:06:05 GMT
Exo nods his head towards Aisha. "David told her to go find the Tremere as soon as they heard Renee's singing. Suppose they would have given her sanctuary." He tilts his head. "Also...what is it with you and teacups?" He glances at Mary. "That's the shape she wants to turn us into." He shrugs before turning back to Aisha. "You were commanded to go there but you came here. Threatened Renee with the same threat you came at me...and told him how you threatened me." He crosses his arms. "Yet...here you are, on your knees, begging us for our help. Why? And don't give me some cookie cutter answer. Tell me the truth..."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 1:16:48 GMT
Aisha looked back to Mary. "He has a hook for a hand. David cut it off when he was still mortal. David was captured by Renee and his crew, turned because of his voice. They sailed the seas as pirates before the wreck. David did mention that Renee hadn't been awake quite as long as he was. David kept calling him captain and from the story David told me prior, I know he was Renee's first mate back in the 1700's after he was turned. I don't know how long Renee has been Kindred though. We never discussed that."
When Mary asked about the Tremere, Aisha looked down at her knees, fidgeted with her fingers. She wasn't sure what to say to that part. Then Exo spoke again and she looked up at him, her eyes bulging once more. What she wanted to say was Teacups are pretty and functional. but she didn't. She wasn't about to throw that into the mix. There were more pressing matters to attend to.
"Yes David did, then other things transpired. I wasn't sure where to go, what to do. I.." She looked down again and tears started to fall again. "Between the singing and bond, I couldn't make out what to do. I had two different pulls. It was like being stuck in a tug of war and I was the rope." She wiped her tears again though more followed. "Yes I made him the same promise because I don't want him hurt. How can you not see that!?" She looked up at Exo and Mary again. "I love him. I don't want anything to happen to him. Hell we got married! How could I go to them? Cause more pain, more hurt? I don't care that you think it is the bond! I know it is more then that." She looked down again, her voice was rising and so was her heart rate. She didn't know what was up or what was down. She just wanted David back.
"What more of an answer can I give you then the one I already gave?" She hung her head down in defeat, she might never see him again. They might not help. After everything, she finally was having the realization that he could be gone forever. She wouldn't stop looking. She stood to her feet. "If you can't help or won't I will go. This isn't your issue to deal with. It is mine. I will find him. I have to find him. I don't want him lost to some man that thinks he has the right to own him! He isn't property and he sure as hell isn't Renee's!" She growled and shook. She was angry, hurt, desperate and quite utterly a mess but she was bound to do whatever it took to find him.
"I will fly my wings over every ocean if I have to. I will cast magic at every corner if I have to. I will go to any side that I must to bring him home. If you don't understand that, how am I to explain it to you? What would either of you do to find each other if one of you ended up taken and held captive? Would not you want to move the earth itself to find the other?" She threw up her arms, exasperated.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 1:26:19 GMT
Maria was all ready to hush Aisha's rantings, tell her to be calm. Then Aisha throws at her what would she do .... her memory went back to her and Diego facing off, both backed by darkness more true than anything natural, and Maria ready to destroy the world to save a Exo if need be. Her beast rises, and Aisha would feel it, see it. The shadows around Mary darken and take physical form. Then she looks at Exo, and they calm slightly. She looks back at Aisha.
"I would do the same, and more. And I do not dispute that your love is real, nor his for you. But sit. And let us think and reason this. High emotion will get you nowhere right now."
She looks to Exo. "Most magic has been tried. Which means some sort of ward or shield .. or he is torpored. Though, if he still wears his cross, perhaps that can be tracked? It sounds like Rene does not want him dead. Which is a bonus."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 1:39:04 GMT
Exo raises a hand to calm her. "That is what I wanted to hear. We believe you.." He looked at Mary. "Possibly. Though the best people to talk to first would be his pack. They should be closest to him and might have a way." He looks at Aisha. After a long moment...he nods to himself. "Maria...can we get a room ready for Aisha? I think it would be best if she stayed with us while we start exhausting resources to find him." He catches her eyes. "You did right by coming here. David is one of us. We will do what we need to do. We will find him..."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 1:42:48 GMT
Aisha watched Mary and Exo. When Mary changed in front of her the sudden realization that Mary had undergone something sank in. She was different. The shadows spread and took form around the room and though she didn't want to fear the results of what could happen, her heart raced for another reason now. She watched the woman look at Exo and somehow seemed to calm to a degree. It seemed that Exo was Mary's balance something she would of guessed on her own with the previous question she had already asked.
Aisha sat down and looked at them. "I don't think he is warded by magic, I checked everywhere that I could in the English Channel and over in the New York port. I think it is something else. Could be I am not looking in the right places. I went up and down the entire coast of France, Spain and all of the England. He isn't here. Unless there is magic Kindred posses that could cause a shield or ward of some kind. Or maybe Renee has a witch or wizard or a Fae. I don't know." She sighed.
"I want to help. I want to search with you. I don't care if I have to crawl through sewers. Don't leave me out of the details. Please." She had a beg to her voice again, desperation at wanting to find her husband.
"I can contact Darren. I didn't think about that. I can use the network. Then apparate there and see if he has heard anything. I should of done that when I was looking in their harbors. I didn't that is on me. But I can go now. They still have some hours before they awake but I can be there when Darren does come to."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 3:08:42 GMT
Mary nods to Exo.
"The front room on the second floor is set up for use, after Dmitry chose not to stay. She can sleep there. Safer than her place, I agree. They may look for her."
She turns to Aisha.
"Do not worry, little bird. You will be of help. Once you are calmer, we will work out how you can search wider, for longer. Yes, contact Darren, but do not go to him. Tell him to meet Exo and I in the Castle. He will know what you mean."
Mary knew, that if necessary, if David really did love Aisha, a threat to her might be the only thing to drag him from his sire's control. But she would not mention that to the witch just yet.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 4:06:03 GMT
Exo nodded and kneeled in front of Aisha. "You have to trust us. I know that's hard for you. But you must. Trusting us means that we can count on you...and you can count on us." He tilts his head. "You still have the vial, yes?"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 4:15:58 GMT
Aisha pulled out her phone and sent Darren a text immediately and then put her phone away. She looked down at Exo. "It is hard to trust you. But I am here am I not?" She held up her wrist and the vial showed. "It is here, has been since that night." She said quietly.
"I need my things from my place if you are keeping me here. I won't argue or fight about it. I just want him back." She needed her books that was pretty much all she needed. She didn't care about her clothes or anything else for that matter, not even her shrine mattered in this moment. She hadn't even prayed in nearly a week to her goddess and it was the farthest thing from her mind.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 4:22:05 GMT
Mary nods. "Very well. I will accompany you. While unlikely at this point, it would be fruitless if they were to take you now just as we really began to solidify our efforts."
She looks at Exo. "We will return promptly. If we are gone more than an hour, something happened." And I will fight the world to return to you, she thinks to herself as she takes Aisha's hand.
"My way or yours?" She asks the witch.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 4:28:37 GMT
He stands, gives Mary a swift kiss and then stands back so they can go. He moves on back to the stairs. He needed to get dressed. This was going to be a long night and he couldn't very well do this night topless....no matter how much he wanted to just go relax and enjoy the evening with her.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 4:33:55 GMT
Aisha stood and took Mary's hand. Watching Exo give her a swift kiss felt like a kick to her gut thinking about David and his kisses. She tried her best to push it down and focus on what needed to be done.
"My way is fine. It won't send the spells off." She said looking at Mary. With the next moment they were standing in her living room. Her home had never looked worse. Dirty dishes, old food, empty wine bottles and several tea kettles covered her counters and sink, cups all over the table mixed with several types of books from magic to muggle rituals in Hindu. Notes scattered everywhere. It would seem that she was defiantly busy tracking David through any means necessary. She quickly gathered her notes and shoved them into books, holding pages where that were open, stuffed them into her bag along with several different types of potions.
"I have everything." She said looking at Mary.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 4:38:36 GMT
Mary knew what was coming when she took Aisha's hand, but it was still disorienting. She looked around the flat, then at Aisha as she packed.
"Clothes, and personal items. You can't live in what you are wearing until he returns." Mary insists. That, and she needed another moment to get her balance back. She holds out her hand for the bag Aisha is holding and shoos her off into the bedroom,
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 4:42:32 GMT
Aisha huffs as she hands the bag to Mary. She didn't care for anything else. She really didn't but she wasn't about to argue. She sighed and sulked to the bedroom like an adolescent child. She grabbed some clothes and a few personal items and shoved them into a different bag, tossing in the last shirt David had worn. She wanted his scent. Even if it was fading quickly.
She walked back out with another bag in her hand. "A few things. Not that they are needed." She said quietly. She really could care less about the material things at this point and it showed.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 4:49:50 GMT
Mary nods, and takes Aisha's hand. This time there is no pop, no dizzying turning inside out, but a sense of being enfolded by darkness, and a blackness so complete it almost - but not quite - obliterates all other senses. And the cold! Something stirs in the blackness as Mary walks, pulling Aisha with her. Something soft and cold brushes against Aisha's leg, then they step into a tasteful bedroom. Mary sets Aisha's bag of books and potions onto the bed.
"There is a bathroom outside in the hall. I'll be downstairs when you have showered and cleaned yourself up. Then you will eat. Then we will begin again."
Mary steps into a shadow and is gone again. The light switch looks very good to Aisha about now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 5:16:24 GMT
Exo was in the room, getting dressed and sighing as he re-wrapped his forehead. He then sat on the bed and waited. He didn't run...meaning David couldn't...and possibly believed that Renee was that strong. Maybe he was. Exo wasn't sure but he would soon find out...
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