{"id":4117,"date":"2015-01-03T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2016-04-09T01:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T01:39:16","slug":"picking-up-the-pieces-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/picking-up-the-pieces-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Up The Pieces, Pt. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amroth tried to stop her. He knew his wife was controlling, manipulative, and worst of all violent. The complete opposite of him.\u00a0Esme ran up the grand staircase with Pandora in tow and I trying to grab at her, make her stop.\u00a0 As soon as she got to the top of the stairs, the master bedroom’s doors flung open… and there they stood:\u00a0 Va’lis Razele and Esmeralda Plinius, face to face.\u00a0 Ruby who had been sitting on the chaise outside the bedroom instantly stood up.\u00a0 The collective gasps from Ruby, Cherry, and Pandora told us everything we needed to know.<\/p>\n

A burst of flaming rage entered Esme, she lost her shit and immediately flung him out into the hall against the stone wall.\u00a0 The deep\u00a0indentation on the wall told us, yeah that hurt. Cherry screamed! “Va’lis! Mother, no. Please, I beg you.” She tried to stand in Esme’s way and found her own body flung towards the end of the hall shattering the window.\u00a0 There was nothing that could calm Esme down.\u00a0 The pleadings of her daughters, for Ruby also begged her to stop, fell on deaf ears.\u00a0 She immediately lunged at him, pinning him to the wall before he could even recover.\u00a0 Fangs out, she dug into his neck.\u00a0 She meant to drain him.\u00a0 And Pandora felt it!<\/p>\n

Cherry managed to stand back up but she stood there in complete disbelief as to what was happening, her emotions locking her in place unable to act.\u00a0 Amroth moved in to try to peel his wife off of Va’lis, and as he did everyone could see her mouth full of Razele blood… dripping from her chin… she meant to kill him right there, right then.\u00a0 Va’lis sprung to his feet, now pissed\u00a0off at some stranger fanging him without his consent, went in for her pushing both Esme and Amroth through the wall into the bedroom.\u00a0 The entire palace shook.\u00a0 Va’lis clawed at her, ripping skin with each strike.\u00a0 He meant to kill her.\u00a0 And Pandora felt it!<\/p>\n

Pandora went straight into what she does best and that is react when others cannot.\u00a0 She moved so quickly that no one even saw a blur.\u00a0 She pulled Va’lis off of Esme using her Mind Gift, pinning him to the wall on the other side of the hall and at the same time locking Esme in place, lifting her slightly to allow Amroth to slide from underneath her. Esme’s anger could not be quenched now, there would be no calm discussion.\u00a0 Cherry had had enough, “STOP!!!! All of you fucking stop! This is bullshit!” Hysterically she continued as tears were falling down her face, “We’re supposed to love each other, not be at each other’s throats… LITERALLY!”\u00a0 Ruby moves towards Cherry trying to soothe her sister, “She’s right. This is no way for the Spyer family to be acting!”\u00a0 She puts an arm around Cherry’s waist.\u00a0 Amroth agrees, moving towards Cherry to also offer some comfort.<\/p>\n

Pandora let’s Va’lis go, because she can feel how bad he feels looking at Cherry in this moment through their bond.\u00a0 Whatever anger he felt was replaced once again with guilt.\u00a0 “We should go,” he said to Pandora, but looking at Cherry. Pandora agreed.\u00a0Just them Esme managed to get enough control to scream at Va’lis.\u00a0 “You… you get out of my house this instant! And take your trash of a mother with you!”\u00a0 The entire room gasps. Va’lis’ eyes instantly flicker with fire, insulting him is one thing but Pandora is off limits. He turned around, but saw that Pandora had it under control.<\/p>\n

Pandora moved Esme to her slowly at the same time moving toward her, setting her face to face with her.\u00a0 Amroth pleaded, “Pand… please. Mercy.” Pandora wouldn’t hurt Amroth that way, no.\u00a0 She knew she wouldn’t kill her in front of him. But she meant to ensure her position in this family.\u00a0 “Let this be the last time I ever… ever… say this to another member of my court.\u00a0 There is only room for one matriarch here. One.\u00a0And that’s me.”\u00a0 She then digs her nail into Esme’s face creating a deep gash,\u00a0Esme squirms. “Do not disrespect me again, for I will not be this kind and I won’t care that your husband is present, that your sire-daughters are present.”\u00a0 Fear finally entered Esme at that moment for they all know just how diabolical Pandora can be. “We understand each other?”\u00a0 She asked.\u00a0 Esme could only nod. As the blood from Esme’s\u00a0face pours out, Pandora slowly licks it.\u00a0\u00a0The entire room was silent.\u00a0 But Va’lis… Va’lis\u00a0had a smirk on his face, watching Pandora.\u00a0 He thought to himself, “That’s why I love her.”<\/p>\n

In a flash, Pandora grabs Va’lis and using her Flight Gift dashes out of the window that Cherry had shattered when Esme threw her landing softly near a very worried Carrie, who had heard the window shatter and felt the grounds shake.\u00a0 She ran to Va’lis to hug him.\u00a0 He returned her hug.\u00a0 Not a single word was said in the ride back to the Romanus Chateau in Berlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amroth tried to stop her. He knew his wife was controlling, manipulative, and worst of all violent. The complete opposite of him.\u00a0Esme ran up the grand staircase with Pandora in tow and I trying to grab at her, make her stop.\u00a0 As soon as she got to the top of the stairs, the master bedroom’s … Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4],"tags":[96,98,175],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amroth","category-character-journals","tag-charlottenburg-palace","tag-cherry-spy","tag-valis-razele-2","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6035,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}