Blood Secrets: Tales of the Children of the Moon

Chapter Eight: Memory-Nightmares...

Vixen sighed but didnt lower the Colt. Midnight walked up beside her and looked back and forth. Marilyn did the same, standing next to Faith, rolling his eyes. "Do you two really need to do your protocol thing again? I mean there are two telepaths in the room." Faith glanced over at Marilyn and shook her head. "We'll make it short," she whispered, glaring at the second Black wolf that stood in front of Vixen protectively. His blue eyes gave him away as not being Midnight so Faith had no idea who this new wolf was. And she wasnt taking any chances.

"I'll go first this time," Vixen said and took a deep breath. Time for another shocker. "My daughter wasnt the only kid I lost. I became pregnant at seventeen with Michael's kid once more. We were going to have a boy. Alexander was going to be his name. I lost him when I was seven months pregnant."

Faith's eyes widened at this and the wolf in front of Vixen whined, glancing back at her and bowing his head. Vixen smiled down at the wolf and Faith caught a glimmer of emotion in her eyes that she couldnt place. She returned her gaze to Vixen, who cocked a brow before whistling. Midnight looked up at Vixen before nodding and returning to his home on Vixen's tattoo.

Faith nodded before returning her sword to its sheath. "Alright, it’s you," she said, keeping one hand on the handle of her sword. She still didnt know this new wolf and she wasnt taking her hand off her weapon until she did. "As if you didnt already know it was her," Marilyn grumbled, rolling his eyes once more.

Faith glared at the vampire before returning her gaze to Vixen and the black wolf in front of her. She took a breath before she spoke her own small tale. "When I was sixteen, about a month before I met Marilyn, my brother was attacked by a werewolf while we were hunting together. He was dragged off by the dog after he pushed me out of the way to save me. I found him three days later. The werewolf who had attacked him had turned him, thinking it would be a blow to me to kill one of my own kin."

Vixen didnt move as she spoke, her colt still trained on Faith. "Did you?" she asked. Faith shook her head. "No. My brother retained his humanity and who he was. After the incident though we did part ways, me continuing with my path, and Jarreth becoming one of the more skilled and deadly werewolf hunters."

Vixen stared at Faith for a moment before lowering her colt. She nodded. "Alright," she said, then walked up beside Andy who had relaxed his stance slightly. She threaded her fingers through his fur and his head turned towards her, a silent question in his blue eyes. Vixen nodded. "She won’t be satisfied until she knows who you are, hence why she hasnt let her hand off her weapon yet." she said to him mentally.

Andy nodded before shifting once more, coming to stand in human form in front of Vixen, protectiveness still gleaming in his eyes. Faith gasped and started to unsheath her sword, only to have Marilyn place a hand on her's, stopping the action. "Its just Biersack, Faith. Calm youself," he whispered in her ear and Vixen and Andy watched as Faith visibly relaxed. Her eyes still gleamed with anger though and Vixen knew she was probably in trouble.

"Faith..." Marilyn whispered as Faith opened her mouth to say something. Faith glared at him before looking at Vixen. "He is out of here by morning." she growled barging past the two. Andy just barely moved Vixen out of the way in time before Faith ran into her as she walked by, which in turn made her run into Andy himself.

Vixen glared at Faith. "So what you can have a vampire stay over but I cant have one of my own kind-" Faith whirled around and before Vixen knew it, she had slapped her.

Vixen's head jerked to the side and a seering pain filled her cheek. She heard Andy snarl in rage before Faith grabbed him by his shirt and slammed him against the wall, a silver knife against his throat. "FAITH!" Marilyn yelled taking a step towards her. Faith ignored him.

"You are not a filthy dog Vixen Marie," she growled, glancing over at her aprentice. "And you...I want your filthy mutt ass out of here by morning. Clear?"

Andy's blue eyes burned with anger as he stared Faith down. "Clear as Crystal, Hunter." He snarled. Faith nodded and released him, Vixen coming to his side and checking his neck, which had begun to bleed. Marilyn walked up to the pair as Faith walked up the stairs toward the attic. "I'll go talk to her. You two just...get some sleep or something," he said placing a hand on Andy's shoulder. As he did Andy felt the vampire's presence in his mind before hearing a low chuckle.

"You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into boy. But tell me, how's your wolf handling the little fury?" andy looked at Marilyn completely clueless. The vampire shook his head and patted his shoulder before releasing him. "The young ones always take the longest to learn..." was all he said before Andy felt him slip from his mind and make his way up towards Faith's attic.

"What was that about?" Vixen asked as she stared up after Marilyn. Andy glanced at her before shrugging. "No idea."


Vixen and Andy stayed in the kitchen for a while after, Vixen making him something to eat before she lead him back down into the basement and to a door he again, hadnt seen before. Andy raised a brow at her as she opened the door that was made of solid dark walnut and had some kind of runes carved around its edge. "My room," she said as she walked inside. When she flicked on the light switch Andy couldnt help but grin.

The room was large, and in the middle of the room, sitting against a wall, was a large king sized bed with black sheets and a black comforter that had, funny enough, his bands symbol on it. But that wasn't what was making him grin. The thing that was making him grin was the headboard she had. It was made into the Batman symbol.

Vixen saw Andy staring at her headboard and couldn't help but smile. "You alright there Batman?" she asked, seeing if he'd catch her joke. He did.

Andy looked at Vixen, and raised a brow, his grin not fading. "Alright, you got me. You found out my true identity," he joked. Vixen giggled and shook her head. "Yeah if your Batman then I'm Harley Quinn," she chuckled walking over to a closet at the other end of the room. She opened the doors and pulled a t-shirt off the hanger before walking into the large bathroom to change. "Feel free to take a seat Biersack. Cause this is where your sleeping tonight," she said through the door.

Andy looked at the door Vixen was behind quizically. "What?" he asked, confused. Vixen walked out of the bathroom a moment later, her red and black hair tied in a pony tail with two strands, one black, one red, hanging loose and framing her pale face, and wearing nothing but a black t-shirt that had the Batman symbol on it. Andy smirked at this. Vixen really seemed to like Batman, just like himself. "I said, your sleeping here tonight. I may trust Faith with my life but unfortunately I dont trust her with yours, so sleeping in the guest room is out of the question." Andy couldnt argue with that Knowledge. So he shrugged. "I guess I'll take the floor then," he said getting up off the soft bed. Vixen rolled her eyes. "Andy seriously," she said coming to stand before him. He gulped audibly. The t-shirt only went down to mid thigh so he got a good look at her long pale legs. And he could feel his skinny jeans becoming tighter because of it. "Its a large bed. We can share it."

Andy gazed into Vixen's eyes and he saw fear there in those stormy blues. Immediately he was on his feet and had her in his arms. "Whats wrong babygirl?" he froze as he said this. Did he just call her babygirl? Why? He had no idea, but she didn’t seem to notice as she wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him tight. "I have night terrors. I dont get much sleep because of it," she whispered and Andy just nodded in understanding. He let her go and she crawled up on the bed and under the comforter, but not before he got a peek at her ass when the t-shirt rode up a bit. He gulped again. There was only one way he knew he could trust himself enough not to put his hands on her. And that was if he had paws instead of hands.

He backed away from the bed for a moment before looking into her confused eyes. "Honestly Vixen, I cant trust myself to keep my hands to myself if we do this," Vixen chuckled at this. "So my best option is to sleep as a wolf. Is that...going to be okay?" he asked her, concern that she may wake up in the middle of the night and freak when she saw him running through his mind.

Vixen shook her head. "Its fine Andy. If you feel more comfortable as a wolf, dont let me stop you," she whispered, smiling warmly at him. Andy nodded before shifting into his wolf and jumping on the bed. "Besides, now its like you have a giant furry teddy bear to sleep next to," he added mentally as Vixen pulled back the covers so he could burrow into their warmth. Vixen giggled and snuggled up next to him, threading her fingers in the scruff of his fur. "Very true," she said aloud, before kissing his black nose.

Andy twitched his nose as her lips left it before reaching up and giving her cheek, the cheek Faith had slapped earlier, a gentle lick. She giggled and hugged him closer to her. "Good night Andy," she whispered, her eyes closing and her body relaxing. Andy sighed and laid his head on the arm she had stretched out, his own eyes closing. "Good night babygirl," he whispered into her mind, not caring that he'd used the nickname again this time. It took both of them maybe moments to fall into a comfortable sleep after that.

But that comfort wouldn’t last long for Vixen...



It had been a couple of hours since the pair had drifted off into sleep when Andy was awoken by a noise. Lifting his head to look around, he immediately found the noises source. It was Vixen.

Small whimpers were escaping her lips and her whole body was twitching as if she were trying to run...or as if it were spasming in some type of pain her nightmares were causing. Andy whined and nudged Vixen under her chin with his nose, trying to wake her but nothing worked. The whimpers got louder and suddenly she began to whisper. "Michael please...dont do this...dont make me..." she whimpered again and Andy knew she had to be reliving some part of her past with Kuza.

Thinking quickly, Andy shifted back to human form and pulled Vixen into his arms. His wolf was screaming at him to protect her, to comfort her from whatever was ailing her, and although he didnt understand it, he knew he was going to.

"Vixen," he whispered into her ear, hoping she would wake. It didn't. He tried a couple more times before growling. Then a thought came to mind. If she could hear his thoughts, then she'd be able to hear him now, even if she was sleeping. So he did just that, opening his mind to the link they had created earlier, and slipping inside her own.

As soon as he'd slipped inside her mind he saw flashes of her memory-nightmare. And he didnt like what he saw...

He saw Vixen chained to a wall in a warehouse building, saw people coming into the room, vampires mostly it seemed, and sinking their fangs into various arteries on her body, drinking their fill, as well as having their way with her. He saw Kuza, a guy he'd only met once when his band was on warped tour, snapping a whip at Vixen, the silver thorns embedded in the leather rope ripping open the skin on her back. He saw Kuza screaming at her, telling her that she would do as her master commanded. It was all horrifying.

The only flash of memory he saw that didnt seem to truly hurt Vixen was a memory of a woman, a woman who shared the half black half red hair style like Vixen, coming up to her as she was chained to the wall, sitting next to her and just talking. Until that is, when Vixen moved her head to the side and exposed her throat to the woman. Andy guessed then that this was another vampire. But this one didnt seem to want to feed from her. Just talk.

It was in that flash of memory that Andy took his chance to get Vixen to wake up. "Vixen," he whispered into her mind and he saw the memory Vixen look up and around, trying to find the source of his voice. Andy pounced on her moment of Clarity. "Vixen its Andy."

"Andy?" the memory Vixen croaked, her voice hoarse and Andy suddenly realized that she had placed herself in the memory and therefore he was speaking directly to her. "Yeah babygirl, its me. Your having a night terror. Your not really here," he said, trying to coax her out of the memory. "Your laying in that king sized bed of yours, in the basement. The one with the Batman headboard that I'm super jealous of."

Vixen giggled lightly at this and he knew he had her. "I'm right next to you, right now. Remember the giant furry teddy bear you were cuddling up with? That's me. I need you to wake up babygirl. Wake up for me. I'm right here. No ones going to hurt you again. I promise." He stretched out his hand and he felt Vixen's essence take hold. As soon as she did, Andy slipped out of Vixen's mind, pulling her with him.

Vixen jolted up in bed, gasping for breath. Andy was there immediately, taking her in his arms once more and holding her close as she sobbed into his t-shirt. "Shh, its okay babygirl," he whispered to her, rubbing his hand up and down her back soothingly. "They can’t hurt you anymore, I'm here, your safe. I'll keep you safe I promise." He had no idea why he was making such a promise. He barely knew her. But he felt the need, the want, to do exactly as he said. And when Andy Biersack made a promise, he kept it.


After a short time, Vixen's sobs died down and Andy felt her body relax in his arms. He turned onto his back, pulling her against him, where she laid her head on his chest, her hand placed over his fast beating heart. And thats the way they stayed for the rest of the night, Vixen falling into a deep dreamless slumber and Andy joining soon after, his wolf staying alert for any changes that may happen to her.

Notes

Authors Note:



Well we got to see another glimpse of Vixen's past here. And Andy is so sweet :) I wonder who that once vampire was in Vixen's memory that didnt drink from her? Anyone wanna guess on who? She plays a big part in Blood Secrets and will also pop up now and again on here so be on the look out for another half black half red headed chick! Haha Also that little nickname Andy gave Vixen, “Babygirl”, my boyfriend Jon actually calls me that. Same spelling and everything. I thought it would be cute and sweet and all that kind of stuff so I put it in there lol (Jon doesn’t know haha so it’ll be our little secret xp)



Until next time guys! See you on the other side and Blessed Be!



- Vixen Biersack =^.^=