Mothers & Daughters
All she did was hop in a cab, and all this had begun. The
day Clayton arrived in Bon Temps was the first time she had ever even seen him.
Warren was just a cab driver and everything seemed so easy. Girl meets boy and
girl likes boy, nothing was complicated. Lena soon found that nothing comes
without baggage. Warren was a Mermaid and Lena didn’t quite know how to handle
it and then soon enough, he was gone forever. Warren left Lena with the most
beautiful gift, a daughter. Athena gave Lena’s life purpose; she never felt
special like the others, she didn’t have abilities and she was not
supernatural, believe it or not this actually set her apart from her friends.
She was a brutal alcoholic for years until she met Jordan and she fell in love
for the first time but just like most things in Lena’s life, he died, twice.
Athena was the only shred of life she had left in her and she was gone.
Evelyn and Ericka stood in front of Laurens house; rain
began to pour as if the heavens were upset about what they were about to do.
“Let’s do this” said Evelyn as they moved towards the house. Just then Mitchell
and Kyle came speeding down their direction. On top of the truck was a small,
not quite developed Critter. One of its pincers had gotten stuck in the roof of
the truck. Mitchell slammed on the breaks sending the critter flying in the
girl’s direction. It quickly stood up and swiped Evelyn clean in half. “Did you
mean to do that?” asked Kyle “nope” replied Mitchell as they both stepped out
of the truck.
Ericka blasted the Critter into bits; she glared at Mitchell
as if the death of Evelyn meant nothing to her. “Hello again, Mitchell” she
yelled, “Welcome to Bon Temps” he replied. Mitchell could see Ericka’s hand
begin to light up “Kyle go get the others, make sure their safe!” he yelled as
his hands began to light up. Ericka and Mitchell both send beams of energy at
each other at the same time causing some sort of magnetic pull in the form of a
giant ball of light. Ericka was strong, Mitchell was stronger. He began forcing
more energy into his beam but he was weak from earlier. His began to weaken as
Kyle ran past them to the house.
Kyle turned to Ericka who was facing Mitchell, it was then
he had an idea. Kyle closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He then sunk to
the ground and through his clothing came a long snake. The Jararacussa snake
was the deadliest snake in all the world, Kyle learnt about it years ago from
his science teacher. It had piercing yellow spots with a river of black flowing
through its body. Its eyes are big, black and empty. As if it’s life only
serves one purpose, to kill. Kyle slithered in snake form towards Ericka’s
legs, he felt the power of the bones in the snake’s torso, he was able to pick
himself up and prepare for an attack. The power of the venom flowing through
him was like nothing he had ever felt before. It was then that he snapped.
Jararacussa venom takes up to 12 seconds to sink in, first the body is
paralyzed then 15 seconds later the heart stops. There is enough venom to kill
over 600,000 mice. Things weren’t looking good for Ericka.
She fell to the ground immediately and so did Mitchell, he
was gathering himself as he stood back up. He looked towards Ericka, just then
Kyle shifted back into himself. He ran to grab his clothes “what did you do?”
asked Mitchell “took care of it” he said “she’s not coming back from that”. The
front door of Lauren’s house swung open “GET IN HERE!” yelled Logan. Kyle
helped Mitchell up and the two of them headed for the house. Mitchell walked in
to see Lena on the couch with a blank stare, her eyes puffy from tears. Rachel
was consoling her with her arms wrapped around her. Lauren stood up from the
table “where’s Ashley?” she asked. Mitchell’s expression was all she needed to
know that she didn’t make it. “What happened?” she asked “I couldn’t save her,
he got to us” he said as a tear brewed. Lauren ran to him with a hug “I’m so
sorry Mitchell” she said. Rachel heard the news and began crying, “where’s
Clayton and Kelly?” asked Mitch “we haven’t seen them since the party” replied
Logan. “Look, we don’t have much time, we need to find somewhere safe, those
things are coming” Logan added.
Mitch looked around the room; all he had left of his friends
and family were standing around this very room. He was going to fight until
each and every one of these people was safe. “Maybe this is it for us” said
Kyle “who knows, maybe we all deserve to die” he added. Mitchell leaped across
the table and grabbed him by the shirt “say something like that again and
you’re on your own, understand?” Kyle nodded “Listen up! We ARE NOT going to
give up this easy, these things have no idea who they’re messing with! We are
all extraordinary people! We have survived so much!” Mitchell chanted, “We need
to get out of this house, we stand no chance in here. One thing for sure, we
are leaving Bon Temps! First things first, we need to find Clayton and Kelly.
Rachel stood up and walked towards the group talking around
the kitchen table “I think Clay said something about the peer, they were headed
down there with the other Mer’s” she said. Mitchell began thinking of how to
say what he had to say next “things are different this time guys, I have a
feeling that there are greater powers at work here” he said “she glitched” the
whole room turned to Lena as she whispered these words over and over “she
glitched” she said again “Lena, who glitched?” asked Lauren “my daughter, she
flickered and then she was gone” she explained “how is this possible?” asked
Mitchell “Dayna mentioned the glitching to me, right before she died” he stood
up “she told me that when you glitch, it’s because you don’t actually exist,
and it’s the universes way of getting rid of you, forever. That’s all she got
out, and then she was gone” he explained. Just then Rachel let out a scream,
the critters were surrounding the house.
Lena sat on the couch as her friends panicked and began
leaving through the back door “Lena let’s go!” Lauren yelled as she grabbed her
arm and pulled her off the couch. They began running toward the back door, but
Lena heard something. It was a cry, a baby’s cry. She swung around to the
direction of the cry. She ran to the window to see outside, she heard another
cry. It sounded just like Athena “Athena! I’m coming!” Lena screamed as she
swung the front door open to follow the screams. Lauren turned to her friend
who was running in the opposite direction toward the Critters. “LENA!” she
yelled “What are you doing?” she said as she ran back to get her friend. Lena
ran down the porch, she could hear the screams all around her. Lauren ran to
the doorway but Mitchell grabbed her and held her back “Lauren no! You can’t go
out there!” he yelled as hundreds of Critters began flooding through the tree’s
“NO LENA!” she yelled tears flew from her face as she cried for her best
friend. Lena stopped when the crying stopped; it was then she heard laughing,
but not Athena it was Ericka “Where’s my baby” Lena said “You’re no mother,
you’re nothing but property” Ericka was chocking, the venom had caused vomiting
“let’s not forget, he calls the shots and if he wants you, he’ll take you” she
said as she choked out her last breath.
Lena then looked around her, she could see the creatures
running at her in every direction, she looked over at the house where Lauren
was trying desperately to blast away the critters. There were too many. Lena
knew she was going to die, so she looked up at the sky, it would only hurt for
a second, she thought, and then she would be with her family “I’ll see you
soon, baby girl” she whispered as the critters took yet another life.
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