{"id":4379,"date":"2015-02-13T18:34:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T22:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2016-04-09T01:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T01:38:53","slug":"the-aftermath-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/the-aftermath-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aftermath, Pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"learjet-85-pandora-skybird-int\"I\u00a0loaded our\u00a0car up; Merida changed to\u00a0the back seat, she was holding Astoria’s head in her lap trying to soothe her. Astoria had been beaten and\u00a0then nearly drained. We had our medic trying to\u00a0infuse her with\u00a0transfusions of human blood but nothing was working. Her mortal body was just too weak. She was hemorrhaging internally from her injuries. Merida was now caressing her face and\u00a0hair while she let out a tear or two. She loved Astoria for her kids loved her just the same.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0got into the car on the other side in the back and\u00a0closed the door. The car was now moving. “We can’t let her die, not like this. this is our fault. Mine really, they took her to get me to talk. Had I not been so stubborn—” Merida broke down. Watching my\u00a0wife’s sad heart was too much for me, I\u00a0pulled Astoria to me\u00a0without a word, carefully holding her on my\u00a0lap. “This is not your fault, let it be me she hates for condemning her to\u00a0this life,” I\u00a0told my\u00a0wife before I\u00a0bit into Astoria’s neck and\u00a0drained what little she still had. I\u00a0ripped into my\u00a0wrist and\u00a0pulled it up to\u00a0Astoria’s lips, letting my\u00a0blood spill into her mouth. Astoria roused a bit, just enough to\u00a0latch on and\u00a0drink fully from me. Merida watched, crying still feeling so guilty for it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just as Astoria had her fill of my\u00a0blood, the car came to\u00a0a full stop and\u00a0we were loading into the planes that waited for us to\u00a0take us back to\u00a0Paris. The transformation was starting as Astoria was writhing and\u00a0wrenching from the pain. I carried her in my arms into the plane, laying her on one of the seats. Lestat and\u00a0Louis opted to\u00a0come Merida and I\u00a0to offer any support they could for their old friend. Marius stood and\u00a0watched me as I\u00a0was the last one to\u00a0close the door. We\u00a0caught eyes and\u00a0stared at each other. Would I ever be able to forgive him? My hatred burned in him, he turned to go in to his own plane.<\/p>\n

As we took off into the air, the mortal death started to\u00a0happen. Merida cried through it but held strong to\u00a0her conviction that this was the only option she had. Then Astoria slept the dead sleep and\u00a0the physical changes started to\u00a0happen. Her skin became pale, porcelain like, her hair glistened a brilliant shade of platinum blonde, not blue like her witch self a sign of the change in powers, her nails became translucent, her facial features perfected themselves, and\u00a0surely her eyes would be different when she woke but for now she slept. The dead sleep. Would she still see the spirits that haunted her in this different world she belong to? Maybe she would see\u00a0them more vividly now, now that she was not living… not dead… but not living. Would that make her closer than ever to them?<\/p>\n

The plane landed in Paris and\u00a0before long Astoria woke to\u00a0her new world and\u00a0she was hungry. Being around vampires most of her life she knew the deal, so I\u00a0took her to\u00a0our blood bank and\u00a0showed her how to\u00a0sustain herself with\u00a0preserved blood. She was a quick learner. I\u00a0was not going to\u00a0have much trouble with\u00a0her in this sense. Soon we\u00a0were heading down under ground to\u00a0go back to\u00a0Sosaria and\u00a0there they would be reunited with our\u00a0kids, with\u00a0Isonu and\u00a0Venora. I\u00a0longed for a bit of that peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u00a0loaded our\u00a0car up; Merida changed to\u00a0the back seat, she was holding Astoria’s head in her lap trying to soothe her. Astoria had been beaten and\u00a0then nearly drained. We had our medic trying to\u00a0infuse her with\u00a0transfusions of human blood but nothing was working. Her mortal body was just too weak. She was hemorrhaging internally from her … Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,17,42],"tags":[81,83,138,160],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armand-de-romanus","category-character-journals","category-storylines","category-draconians","tag-armand-de-romanus-2","tag-astoria","tag-merida-douglas","tag-the-aftermath","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\/4379","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6026,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/6026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}