I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Chapter 9/?
Carmilla fanfriction | also on AO3
Pairing: Hollstein
Wordcount: 2.801
Rating: M
Warning: physical violence
Chapter: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A/N: Chapter 8 revised for continuity, additional chapters will be posted soon
Kirsch gently laid Laura down on the nursery bed, while LaF searched the room for towels.
“Uhm, is it like normal that her face is the color of white frosting?” Kirsch asked with a concerned voice.
LaF just grabbed everything they thought could help stop the bleeding.
“We need to put her on her side. Grab her shoulder and move her slowly. ”
Even though Perry had shown them a million times how to bandage a bleeding wound, Laf sure wished they had paid more attention to the emergency response officer classes.
Ok LaF, come on. This isn’t rocket science. You got this, they thought.
They slowly lifted the shirt, exposing Laura’s back and cleaned all the blood off with towels, before bandaging the large cuts the dean had left with the whip.
During this whole procedure, Laura didn’t make one move.
“Ok, she’s lost a lot of blood and her pulse is weak. Kirsch, hand me over those needles and the small tubes that are laying there. And grab a blood bag from the fridge. A positive.”
Kirsch hurried to the counter and grabbed whatever he thought that LaF would deem as needles and small tubes.
After handing it to them, he started panicking.
“Dude-bro, is she like going to be alright? She’s not looking like her hottie self and hasn’t moved since we brought her in.” Kirsch said with a trembling voice.
“She will be fine, we just need to keep an eye on her the coming few hours. Boy, am I glad Perry forced me to take these training sessions.”
LaF swiftly inserted the needle and tangled the tubes and bag at the side of the bed.
“Come on, Laura. Stay with me.” LaF whispered desperately while holding Laura’s hand.
There was no movement coming from the tiny brunette.
Suddenly, the door to the nursery barged wide open. Perry was standing in the doorway, holding the Sumerian book under her arm.
“LaFontaine, I know what we have to do.”
Will tried to bury his large canine teeth in Carmilla’s neck, but Carmilla scratched his face with her claws and threw him off of her. Will growled from the pain, but recovered fast, leaping towards her once again.
Will might be bigger and stronger than me, but he’s slow. I need to stay sharp.
Carmilla jumped out of the way at the very last minute, leaving Will surprised.
They danced around each other for a while, with Carmilla jumping away from his attacks every time, taking advantage of her speed over his bulkiness. Will started to get annoyed and his movements started to become erratic.
“What’s wrong, kitty? Not in the mood to spar with your brother like old times?”
His voice was unrecognizable from the Will she used to know. But it was still him in there.
He lashed out at her with his giant claws, but she swiftly avoided him, scratching his face in the process, harder this time. She heard him scream in pain and saw she had hit his eye, three massive red lines going over his now closed eyelid. He backed away from her, his face grimacing from the pain of losing his eye.
Carmilla felt like she had the upper hand. She could hear his breathing getting heavier, meaning she was wearing him down.
“Oh please, like there was anything to spar. You haven’t learned anything, have you, little brother?” Carmilla said mockingly.
Will let out a beastly growl.
“Shut up!”
He circled around her first before jumping towards her. Carmilla anticipated the move, but was caught off guard when he jumped higher than she expected and she couldn’t move away in time. He jumped over her and Carmilla rolled away swiftly. But before she could get her balance back, Will buried his claws into her right hip and Carmilla growled from the pain. He laughed menacingly and dug even deeper. Carmilla could feel his nails scraping against her bones.
She bit the front leg buried into her skin and Will let out a growl, but he would not let go, curling his giant paw inside her gaping wound.
“Try worming your way out of this one, kitten!” Will spat mockingly.
Even in his disfigured form, a victorious smile was visible as he kept digging his claws deeper into her.
Carmilla growled again and tried to get free from Will’s grip. He looked even more menacing with his left eye shut and covered in her scratch marks. It didn’t seem to faze him anymore as he now had her squirming under him.
Carmilla felt her strength lessening and her vision started to blur.
He put all his weight on his front leg buried inside Carmilla and she thought she was about to pass out from the anguish.
She could hear his menacing laughter getting softer and she just wish she could lay down in Laura’s arms and-
“Hey hotdog, over here!”
Danny’s voice felt a million miles away to Carmilla and before Will realized what happened, he felt an intense pain go through his chest and howled. He let go of Carmilla and squirmed on the ground.
Danny had watched intently at the fight between the two beasts and when seeing an opening, had plunged the spear right through Will’s back without hesitation. The pointy end of the spear was sticking out of his chest as his movements were slowing down.
Carmilla shifted back to her human form and Danny ran over to her. As she did, the redhead felt a slight sting on her back.
She knew for a fact that Will didn’t touch her, so it must be a scratch from the rocks.
The blood was seeping out of the vampire’s leg, which was gaping with an open wound, bones clearly visible and she couldn’t stand on it.
“Come on, fang-face. We’ve been through tougher patches than this.”
Carmilla leaned on one leg and clung to Danny’s neck as she lifted her up.
“Well Xena... I gotta... give it to you... You do... put the warrior... in the princess...”, she said, her voice barely audible.
Carmilla tried to laugh at her own remark, but winced as soon as they tried to walk.
“Yeah, cut the smartass shit and save your strength. Let’s get you out of here.”
As Carmilla tried to stand up with Danny's help, she immediately fell back down. Danny was about to carry her out of the cave, when she saw the enormous pool of blood practically oozing out of her leg.
“Wait, you're still losing blood, why aren't you healing?”
"As it turns out Xena, vampires can't run endlessly on a drop of blood for weeks and I haven't exactly fed during all this mauling.", Carmilla said as sarcastically as possible without trying to give away the weakness in her voice.
“You idiot vampire.”, Danny mumbled.
She quickly shoved her tank top to the side of her shoulder and looked impatiently at Carmilla.
Carmilla’s smug face was gone and any retort died in her throat as she stared, hypnotized by Danny's neck.
Eventually Carmilla tore her gaze away. She could see her veins clearly, hear the blood pumping through it now.
"Wait, Lawrence... No…"
Danny pulled a knife from her belt.
"Don't flatter yourself. You take one drop too much and I'll drive this knife right through your smug face. And besides, I’m not doing this only for you."
Danny gave her a determined look.
Carmilla still hesitated.
Danny sighed and practically shoved the vampire’s face in her neck.
Carmilla growled.
“Drink!”
“Stop!”
She tried to push her away, but was too weak. As she smelled the blood going through Danny’s veins, it was like time was slowing down and her environment closed out around her. All she could concentrate on was Danny’s pulse point. After what seemed like forever, she felt her impulse control slip away.
Before Carmilla realized what she was doing, she bit, harder than she intended to, and Danny let out a grunt.
Carmilla tasted the warm red liquid entering her mouth and felt all her senses come back to life.
She put her arms around Danny’s back and gripped her tight, sucking harder at the seeping blood coming from the redheads neck. She could feel her trembling.
Carmilla’s healing started to kick in and she knew she should stop.
Just a little more...
“Alright that's enough.”
Carmilla just hissed and didn't loosen her grip on the redhead, so Danny yanked her off by her hair and pointed the knife at her neck.
“That’s enough.”, Danny repeated with a low voice, giving the vampire a death stare.
Carmilla looked back at her, some of Danny’s blood dripping down her chin. She licked it off, then gave the redhead a smirk, the knife still at her throat.
"Never imagined a Summer girl could taste like this."
Danny just gave her a menacing look and Carmilla backed off. Her leg was closed up and so were the wounds in her back.
Danny put the knife back and they both got up. Danny felt dizzy and lost her balance for a second, but Carmilla held her up.
They both looked at each other, their expressions now different.
"Thank you, Xena.”, Carmilla almost whispered.
Danny just nodded.
“...Mother...”
Carmilla looked over at Will. He had shifted back to his somewhat human form. He was barely moving anymore.
Danny must’ve pierced his vital organs.
“...Mo-ther… help… me…”
Carmilla looked around, but the Dean was nowhere to be found. O fcourse, Carmilla thought. The Dean had fled to save her own sorry ass, leaving her precious “son” to rot. Of course Will, always thinking highly of their so-called mother, expected her to stick around still.
Poor weasel.
“Wait.”
Carmilla lowered Danny to the ground and got closer to Will. She slowly ran her hand through his furry hair. It was softer than she had expected.
“There. It’s ok. It’s over.”
Will eased into Carmilla’s touch and seemed to relax. Then Carmilla tore her hand through his chest and yanked his heart out.
Danny let out a gasp.
His breathing stilled and Carmilla dropped it on the ground.
She pulled the spear out of his back and gave it back to Danny to hold. She lifted her back up and put one arm around her.
“Let's get out of here."
“Perry, thank god, you got my text.”
“How’s Laura?”
“Her heartbeat is stabilizing, but we had to leave Carmilla and Danny behind. I hope they are doing ok. What did you find in the book?”
Perry looked at LaF, hesitantly.
“Well? What’s going on?”
“Ok Su- LaFontaine, since I can’t really read Sumerian, I didn’t really find anything.”
LaF just stared at her blankly.
“But someone else guided me through the pages.”
“Quick, there’s not much time. The Dean is searching for Laura.”, Ell’s voice echoed through Perry’s head.
“Yes, yes, I’m getting there. So it turns out, Carmilla’s… ex… knows exactly what’s going on, so she explained it all to me, of course with pictures from the book. And had me look for a spell to undo the spell that the Dean has put on Laura.”
“Ok Per, that's amazing. What’s been going on?”
“It wasn’t the spell we thought it was at first. The Dean actually used two different spells and disguised it as one. One spell she used was the Bloodlust spell, putting it on Laura and Carmilla. It’s a spell between lovers and amplifying their weaknesses for each other. In this case, well it was Carmilla’s bloodlust for Laura that triggered it. The part where they both… felt the same things, in this case, pain, was just a small adjustment to it. The Dean lifted this part of the spell after she tortured Laura in front of Carmilla. As she didn’t want to hurt Laura’s body more before taking it over.”
“Oh right, so they weren’t really doing that kinky stuff to each other then? It was the bloodlust controlling Carmilla.” Kirsch said enthusiastically, proud of himself for understanding that bit.
“Yes, well in this case it was. Ofcourse, we don’t really know what they do in their own private personal space and time, nor should be judge them for it, obviously-”
“Per, back to the point, that’s one spell, what is the other one?”
LaF was starting to get impatient. They felt Laura squeeze their hand faintly as they heard Perry continue her explanation.
“So the other one is the Sumerian binding spell. The Dean used this to bind her and Laura’s soul together. This was done before Carmila killed her in the pit. She used the amulet, the possession and a drop of blood to do this. Had Carmila killed Laura during her bloodlust stage, then Laura’s soul would have been gone and the Dean’s soul would have taken over her body and her supernatural powers would return, as the Dean is now human. In any other situation, if one of them dies, the other dies too. This is how the two spells come together.”
“She’s coming. You need to go and take Laura to safety.”
“Wait, but we already undid the binding spell?”
Laf and Kirsch just stared at Perry as she was talking to herself.
“Is Carmilla’s ex talking to you?” Kirsch asked hesitantly.
“It doesn’t matter, the Dean still wants Laura dead and Carmilla is hurt.” Ell said in a panicking tone.
“No. I’m not running anymore.” Laura said with a weak voice.
She had come to and had heard everything that Perry said. She could also hear Ell speaking.
“Laura, you’re ok!” LaF said relieved, but their face turned to worry soon after.
“No wait, Laura, you’re hurt really bad, you can’t get up yet.”
Laura ignored them and got up from the nursery bed.
“I’m fine.” she said firmly.
To LaF’s surprise, she actually was. It turns out her wounds had healed when Perry did the unbinding spell.
“Where is Carm? And Danny?”
“We… had to leave them. To get you out.” LaF said. They didn’t have the courage to meet Laura’s gaze.
“We have to go back for them, right now!”
Before anyone could answer her, two figures were standing in the doorway.
“Easy cupcake. I’m right here. Glad to see you’re up and about.”
“Carm...”
Laura couldn’t stop herself from lunging herself at Carmilla, crying from relief.
“Hey Laura, it’s ok. I’m ok. Just a few scratches from Willy boy.”
“What? Will? But I thought he was-”
“Me too, cupcake. But it turns out Mother doesn’t know when to stop using puppets. Luckily it was still silly old William in there, so no real challenge.”
Carmilla gave a quick glance at Danny, who had covered her neck with a bandage.
Laura slowly turned and her eyes met Danny’s. She gave her a thankful nod and Danny smiled in return.
Laura pulled back and looked at her vampire girlfriend. Both their clothes were covered in blood, mostly in the same places.
“Look, matching wounds and scars. We really turned out to be the couple you hate.”
Carmilla just smiled and kissed Laura. She was tearing up, thinking back on how the Dean tortured her right in front of her. How she still managed to stay so strong. The vampire pulled back and cupped the brunette’s face.
“You turned out to be everything I love and so much more.” Carmilla said sweetly.
LaF scraped her throat.
“So, when you two are done reuniting, maybe we should come up with a plan now?”
“Will is gone, but the Dean got away before we could do anything.” Danny said. She was holding the spear she pulled out of Will after stabbing him, ready to take the old hag down.
The annoying stinging in her back wouldn’t stop though.
“The Dean is human. Which means without spells and magic, she can just easily be killed. She ran out of minions to command, but that doesn’t mean she’s stupid. We need to still be careful.”
Laura looked around and before she could call her name, Ell spoke to her.
“She’s back in the pit. You will find her there. But please, be careful. She managed to get a talisman to cast spells.”
“Thank you, Ell.”
Laura looked surprised at Carmilla.
“You can hear her too?”
“Yes.”
“Please, keep each other safe. You are so strong together, Carmilla. I’ve always been proud of the person you were and who you’ve become. I’ve never blamed you for anything. Maybe, we will meet again someday. Until then, goodbye my love.”
“Goodbye.” Carmilla replied softly.
“Wait, what did she say?” Laura asked her.
Carmilla looked at Laura. She brushed a strand of hair out of her face.
“Just something I needed to hear many years ago.”
Laura just smiled.
“Alright, let’s take down this old witch, once and for all.”
Carmilla led the way back into the pit, followed by Laura, Danny, Kirsch, LaF and Perry.
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