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The Contract Valley Chronicles Part II	By : vampyrevidia Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > Panic! At The Disco Views: 901 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chloe heard whimpering and someone whispering an apology over and over and over again. She thought she was dreaming and groaned, trying to shut the whimpering up by moving. Pain shot up through her arm and the whimpering grew into soft sobbing.

“Someone shut him up. He’s giving me a headache.” She wasn’t sure who was speaking, but she knew that she didn’t know the voice. She fought to open her eyes and frowned as she looked up into a face she didn’t know.

The blue eyes smiling down at her were the color of spring skies after a thunder storm, turbulent and calm all at once. Her obviously over curly, white-blonde hair was pulled back into a loose ponytail that hung over one shoulder and lay on the bed beside Chloe. Her face was kindly, but there was something ethereal about it, like she wasn’t meant to be in this life, this world. “Welcome back, Ms. Bryar.”

“Who are you?” She could speak, that was a plus, though why couldn’t she move her left arm? She tried lifting her arm again, sobbing slightly at the pain that shot through her body.

The ethereal woman shook her head and laid a hand gently over Chloe’s hand, sending a soothing wave of warmth through the arm, easing the pain. “You might not want to move for a moment. I’m healing the wound as quickly as I can, but vampire saliva isn’t helping make it quick. That and you cut yourself pretty deep, Ms. Bryar.”

Chloe frowned and leaned back. It was obvious that the woman before her was a healer, but she had avoided her question. “You never did tell me who you were.” Her smile could light up a room and it instantly cheered Chloe’s heart, which caused a small frown to form between Chloe’s eyes. “Stop that.”

Confusion went across the beautiful face and she looked up into the room, speaking to someone Chloe could not see from where she lay. “Am I doing anything?”

“She’s not used to your kind, Naida. It’s not something she’s used to. She likes to be angry and instill fear. I don’t think she’s ever met anyone who spreads joy, happiness, and calm, as you do.” It was Bill’s voice, but he was far away. Where were they?

“Talk to me, not Bill. Who are you, what does he mean about your kind, and where am I?”

“I am Princess Naida Poole. My kind are the merpeople of the deep as well as the water nymphs of legend. We’re in my office on the lowest floor of the building. It’s actually more a cavern below the building that allows access to the ocean, but I use it as my healing practice. From what I understand, there was an accident with one of the vampires upstairs and they couldn’t stop the bleeding. You were brought here.”

Naida was so calm that Chloe couldn’t help but feel relaxed in her presence. She now knew that it wasn’t some sort of trick but her nature so it made it all the more bearable for Chloe. But what accident? Chloe frowned deep in concentration and then tried to sit up, pain shooting through her arm and making her cry out.

When she caught her breath enough to speak she looked up at Naida and, clutching her arm, begged with her eyes. “Ryan! Where is he? Is he okay?”

Naida looked up and gestured with the hand that Chloe didn’t have a death grip on. Ryan came into view, but his face was tear streaked with blood tears. He looked as if he had gone to Hell and back and barely survived. When he saw Chloe’s face, he fell to the bed and started to cry louder. “I’m sorry, Chloe, I couldn’t let go. I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

“It’s ok, Ryan. Ryan! Ryan! Stop crying and listen to me.” Chloe released Naida and slapped Ryan hard enough to leave him stunned looking at her. “It’s alright, Ryan. I knew that you wouldn’t be able to stop, that’s why I made sure there were others around. Obviously, if you are showing remorse for your actions, my plan worked and you are you again.”

Ryan nodded and took her uninjured hand, kissing it gently. “I thought I had lost you there, Chloe. I would have not been able to survive knowing that I had killed you.”

“Well, I guess it’s a good thing they have a healer in the basement, huh?”

Ryan laughed and nodded. “Yeah, Naida was a lifesaver.”

Chloe frowned and, with Ryan’s help, sat up and looked around the room. It was only her, Naida, Bill, Ryan, and some unknown male that looked like a guard of some sort. Where was everyone else? More importantly, how did Ryan seem to know Naida so well? “How long have I been out?”

“Four days, six hours, and twenty-one minutes.” Naida glanced at the clock on the wall and smiled at Chloe. “But who’s counting?”

Chloe returned the smile, knowing that it was what she was meant to do, and turned back to Ryan. “Is that why you seem to know Naida so well? Your comment made it sound like the two of you know each other rather well.”

“Let me explain, Chloe.” Bill stepped away from the wall and moved behind Naida, putting his hands on her shoulders. She leaned back into him and allowed him to wrap his arms around her. “Naida is kind of a recluse. She seldom comes out of her hole to see the outside world, finding new and miraculous ways to heal people. When I told her that you were hurt, she would only allow myself, you, and Ryan into the room, Ryan because he was the one who harmed you. When he wasn’t crying, she was telling him things about himself that he has yet to learn. It is one of her gifts.”

“Like Spencer’s?”

“Far greater, Chloe, far greater.” Bill said it like he was scared of the woman he was so affectionately hugging. Something flashed across Naida’s eyes close to regret at his words, but it was gone just as quickly, back to that tumultuous calm.

“Can I see the others now?”

Naida nodded and moved away from Bill. She moved around the bed, long ponytail hanging to her ankles, and nodded to Bill. “You know where I will be if you need me.”

“You don’t have to leave, Naida. This is your home.” Chloe looked at the woman who had saved her life and felt an unseen sadness in her. She didn’t know why, but she knew that there was something more to healing that kept Naida away from the outside world.

“It is fine, Chloe. I must get some more water weaves for your arm. I shall return shortly.” Naida nodded at Bill and Ryan before slipping behind a curtain of stringed pearls. There was a sound of splashing water and then silence filled the cavern.

“I’ll go get the others, though we cannot stay down here for long. We will see if we can’t get you moved upstairs into your own room.” Bill walked toward a far door and opened it, speaking into the hallway.

After a few moments, Spencer came through the door followed closely by Alex, Brendon, Ray, and Nia. Their faces instantly lit up when they saw Chloe sitting on the bed, awake and aware of her surroundings. Without preamble, Spencer flopped onto the bed beside Chloe, kissing her deeply. “We were worried about you, Chloe.”

Chloe returned the kiss and smiled. “I was a little worried too, Spencer, but I’m okay, really.”

“That’s good, because I don’t think I could attend another funeral of someone I love this week, Angel.” Nia leaned against the back wall, looking more forlorn than Chloe had ever seen her.

“Don’t worry, Auntie. I don’t think you’ll have to attend my funeral for a while.”

“Good to know, Angel.”

“Enough with the depressing. Tell her the good news, Nia.” Brendon broke the awkward silence that had begun to form. Chloe frowned and turned to Nia, waiting for her to say something.

“Hold your horses, Brendon. I was getting to it.” Now Nia seemed excited. Either Chloe was going to enjoy what was about to be told to her, or she was going to hate it. “A few years before you were born, a child was born to the last of the Slayers. He became the greatest bounty hunter ever to be known. He disappeared a few years back and it was thought that he was killed by one of his targets. He’s upstairs right now! He’s here to help us defeat the new threat to our world. How amazing is that!”

Help … it was something Chloe could have only dreamed of hearing about after their last let down in Contract Valley. She sighed and leaned against the headboard, smiling at the news. “That is indeed great news. We shall need as much help as we can get.”

Splashing from the pearl curtain behind them let them know that Naida was back. The curtain opened and she walked through, looking as fresh as a daisy. She stopped and looked around the room, slightly shocked look on her face. “I’m sorry; I didn’t think everyone would still be in here.”

She moved to Chloe’s left side to bandage the arm again. Naida ignored all others in the room as she started to wrap the water weaves around the wound. “Naida, what are you doing down here?”

Naida’s hand movements stopped as Spencer spoke. She finally looked up and then shook her head, looking back at Chloe’s arm. “I live here, Spencer. I have for years. If you had actually paid attention to me, you would know that already.”

“If you hadn’t cut me off from your life, I would have been able to pay more attention to you.”

“Did I miss something?” Chloe looked between the two and didn’t know what was going on.

“I think we all missed something, Chloe. Please, Spencer, enlighten us.” Alex spoke from against the wall, beside his mother, anger across his face. Chloe knew that he was thinking that there was some kind of personal relationship between Spencer and Naida that would ruin the relationship Spencer had with Chloe. Alex would not allow Chloe’s heart to get broken.

“I wouldn’t have cut you off if you could accept me for what I am. If you could accept yourself. I cut you off because you were killing me. I couldn’t stand to hear you tell me that I wasn’t human enough for you. I couldn’t take hearing that Mom wasn’t human enough for you.” Naida got up to leave and Spencer grabbed her arm. “Let go of me, Spencer.”

“Do you think I could honestly accept myself as what I am, Naida?”

“I don’t care if you accept yourself, Spencer! Don’t you get it?!” She yanked her arm out of Spencer’s grip and turned to him with angry blue eyes, skin going translucent and feral. “I don’t care if you accept yourself! That’s your decision, but your mother and your sister? We’re your family! You shouldn’t care what we are!”

Alex, Brendon, Ryan, and Ray looked stunned, like they had been slapped. Collectively, they took a step toward her before Spencer and Chloe realized what was going on. “What’s wrong with them?”

“She’s what’s wrong with them, Chloe. She’s a Siren. Her voice calls to them.” Spencer’s voice held hatred as his eyes turned to Naida. “She calls to them, uses them, and then releases them into the world, their sanity gone.”

Naida felt the salt water tears begin to flow down her face and shook her head. “I am not my father, Spencer. I have been with one man my entire life and he called to me. I am not my father.”

Spencer opened his mouth to say something, but Naida was having no more of it and disappeared behind the pearl curtain, a loud splash following her departure. Chloe grabbed Spencer’s arm as he moved to follow her and shook his head. “Stop it, Spencer. Let me get this straight. She’s your sister and you’re fighting with her because you can’t accept that she’s a mermaid and possibly dangerous?”

Spencer nodded and Chloe felt the anger well inside her. She couldn’t resist the urge running through her and slapped him as hard as she could, sending him falling onto the floor. “You asshole! I’m a vampire! I’m a hell of a lot more dangerous than her. If you can’t accept your own sibling, what chance do you think you have with me?”

Spencer looked up at Chloe, stunned. “I … She’s only my half-sister. If you could see some of the things her father and her did, you wouldn’t accept her either.” He stood, but didn’t get too close to Chloe. “I love you, Chloe. I know what you’re really like on the inside. You’re not evil. You wouldn’t purposefully harm people.”

“And do you honestly think Naida would?” This came from Ryan, sitting on the opposite side of Chloe. He leaned over her body and looked into Spencer’s face, angry. “Have you spoke with her lately? No, you haven’t! She’s not evil, far from it. She only wants to help others, not hurt them. I honestly believe that was her father making her do it. Yes, I’ve spoken with Naida in great length over the last four days. She’s nowhere near the evil that you yourself are, Spencer.”

“I am not evil.” Spencer’s voice dropped low and his eyes began to bleed to red, but he was still there. Chloe moved towards Ryan, unknowing of what was going on, and looked between the two as Spencer continued to speak. “I am merely the product of an unholy union. It reflects nothing of my personality.”

“You tried to kill me the other day, Spencer. You were the reason Chloe had to turn me. You are a demon. You are evil.” Ryan’s voice was calm, but it held an edge of anger. Chloe didn’t know how, but she knew that there had been several similar arguments over the last few days and Spencer had found it a useful way to harness his demon.

Spencer flew over the bed and took Ryan to the floor before Chloe could even blink. Ryan managed to get out from under him and throw him hard into the wall, coming up with solid brown eyes and translucent skin. “Haven’t we done this enough in the last few days, Spencer? Back the fuck off!”

Spencer responded by diving at Ryan and taking a demon bite out of Ryan’s shoulder. Ryan shoved him hard into the wall and then jumped onto him, sinking vampire fangs into Spencer’s neck and ripping a hole in Spencer’s neck. They flew across the room together, barely missing Ray and Nia, a pile of blood and thicker things.

Chloe didn’t know what was going on. Had they been doing this since she was knocked out? It was unreal to think that her sweet Ryan and kind Spencer would find something they could fight over. She had hoped that they would be the best of friends, not this.

A cool wind blew through the cavern and the two bloodied boys stopped moving, looking up at the pearl curtain with a look of dumbstruck awe on their faces. Ray, Brendon, Alex, and Bill had the same look on their faces. Only Nia and Chloe seemed unaffected, but that wasn’t exactly true. Chloe felt something drawing her gaze to the curtain as well.

Naida walked through the curtain with purpose and glided toward Ryan and Spencer where they lay bleeding on the floor. She knelt in front of the two and held a herb out to each of them. “Eat and be well.”

Without hesitation, they took the herb and ate it quickly. They came back into their own personalities gradually, as their bodies began to heal, and she merely sat there, watching the blood stopped flowing from the wounds. It was Spencer who broke the silence after he had healed. “How? Why? After all I’ve done, why not leave me to bleed to death? And why entrance us all just to make sure that Ryan and I ate?”

“I have cut myself off from the power. I am not sure that I can remember how to just entrance one. Yes, it takes more power to entrance a group, but you cannot be bound to me if I entrance a group. I didn’t not want you or Ryan mad at me, so I did not try.” Naida looked down at her hands, ashamed of what she was saying. Her father had taught her to entrance as many as possible on a one on one level. She now refused.

Spencer lifted her face, avoiding all others in the room, though he was faintly aware of Chloe’s eyes on him. “Is what he said true? Did your father make you do it all?” A nod. “Oh, Nay, I am so sorry. All these years, I thought you had enjoyed that. Can you ever forgive a dumb demon?”

Naida started to cry and he gently wiped the tears from her eyes. “You haven’t called me Nay since you were three.”

“I am sorry, Nay. You’re my sister, and I do love you. I just needed a while to think about myself and what I am. I am getting better. Can we start over? Be like when we were kids.” Spencer wrapped his arms around his sister as she started to cry harder, though she nodded and wrapped her arms around him as well.

“I have the oddest feeling that I should say something like ‘it’s about damned time’. How off am I?” Chloe spoke from the side of the bed, standing on her own two feet with the help of Ray and Bill.

“You are very on target, Chloe.” Spencer stood, pulling Naida to her feet. He turned around and held his hand out to Ryan. “Thank you, Ryan. You’ve helped me embrace a little of my demon in the last few days with your arguments. Shall we start over as well? I am Spencer Smith, half demon and head of Research and Development at Bryar Enterprises.”

Ryan took the offered hand and was pulled to his feet. He shook the hand and smiled. “I’m Ryan Ross, vampire and dancer at Midnight Passions.”

Spencer turned to Brendon and Ray as well. “I believe that I should start all over with all of you.”

He held his hand out and Ray was the first to accept it. “Ray Toro, werelion and chief liaison between Bryar Enterprises and the CIA.” He turned to Chloe. “I’ll explain the lycanthropy thing at a more appropriate time, love.”

Brendon took Spencer’s hand next. “Brendon Urie, half faerie and I taught kindergarten at Contract Valley Elementary. I am actually still qualified to teach if there’s any need for me here.” He turns to Chloe with a puppy dog look on his face. “Do you have a daycare, Chloe? I’m dying to teach again.”

Chloe smiled and gestured to Bill. “Talk to him later and he’ll get you set up with something, I’m sure. Anyway we should …” Banging from outside stopped her mid sentence. “Answer the door.”

Bill opened the door and a few of the agents from upstairs fell through. “Ms. Bryar, Bill, Spencer, you have go to get upstairs.”

“Why?” Bill leaned against the wall, calm as Christmas, but Chloe could see the tension and worry in his eyes.

“You just have to come see. There are hundreds of them.”

The messengers looked around nervously as Chloe nodded and started toward the door, everyone behind her. “I guess we should see what’s going on. And pray it’s not more emotional shit. I don’t think any of us need any more of that.” With nods of agreement from everyone, they headed up the stairs to see who had shown up on their doorstep this time. Maybe it was something good, maybe they were walking into another trap. It seemed the second was more likely.
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