For the Love of Lana
Copyright© 2015 - 2016 by Pars001. All rights reserved.
Chapter 9
Lana met him at the station this time they had arranged for the train to come in at night, Vidon would have enjoyed the trip more but well at least Lana was a welcome sight.
“Hello father I trust you had a pleasant trip?” she asked though, he could see that she knew.
“As pleasant as is possible in these primitive conditions.” He answered her; he could also see that she was at her wits end about the whole situation, good that meant there was hope after all.
“We have set up a number of rooms for you and mother; she is set to arrive tomorrow.” Lana replied.
“Good I have a good many things to discuss with her, inform me when she arrives,” He ordered then went to the family’s building.
Across town Jonathan was awaiting the arrival of his father along with a few trusted cousins. Sighing Jonathan wasn’t sure he was really ready to see his father; he had managed to avoid him for almost 200 years now.
The wind started to blow a little in the room Jonathan back up as his father’s party started to appear, just like father he thought always making a scene even when it wasn’t necessary. Tom Timmins appeared in front of Jonathan with a flash, then several of his court then the cousins.
“Ah!” stated Tom Timmings, “I see you are finally sticking to protocols, meeting the leader of the clan.”
“Uh, no dad,” Jonathan replied, “I’m just here to blanket your arrival from the norms, you are kind of loud when you arrive.”
One of my dad’s court stepped forward in a threatening manner, “you young pup! You’ll show the proper respect to the clan...” Looking at him I just waved my hand and stared hard at him, “you had better realize who the fuck you are dealing with before you open your mouth!” Growling I started to squeeze, as the man started to choke my father put his hand on my shoulder effectively saving the man’s life. “Next time you might not be so lucky, remember that, I was rated a few weeks ago higher than my father, much HIGHER!”
My father could see this was about to explode into a dangerous situation plus the fact that he’d probably have no staff left when I was through. Quickly he escorted his staff out the door, I just hoped that he talked to them; I wasn’t really in the mood to explain shit, especially to cocky young idiots. Excusing myself I went to inspect the buildings and how they were going, suddenly there was another whoosh of air and my mother was standing in the next room. Shit! I thought I’d have at least a day to avoid them before the full force of the family was brought to bear on me.
“Welcome back mother,” I said between clenched teeth.”
“Ah! I see your father has arrived!” She announced to her sub-mages as well as me.
A quiet went through all of them, mother looked at me almost with a look of pity, and then moved on to her set of rooms.
Everything was proceeding as I had planned actually better than I had planned, hmmm suspicious. Scanning the new additions to the town I soon discovered why, so the bastards were putting in their own crap huh? One wave and everything was gone increasing my wards I would make sure, this time, no one tampered.
Slowly but surely all the next week they started to arrive drifting in, appearing always in front of me. Hey, they might be a bunch of dust collecting magic users but this was still MY place, common courtesy always got you more than a strong stance. Well, at least in my case, then I realized that they just didn’t want to piss me off, huh, go figure. Thankfully 1 of the 3 buildings were ready with a second almost there. Breathing a sigh at least they wouldn’t be bitching constantly about their accommodations, then again as I said this was my place and the asses could sleep in the street for all I cared. The hardest one was going to be the meeting place; I had it set for the day before all this was to come to a head. Shaking my head I saw more and more clams of both the vampires and the mages marching into the buildings each day and night. Mother arrived 2 days before all this was supposed to happen, thing is she had the oddest look on her face, so mother had been up to something while she’d been away.
The day before I had to meet with the leader of the mage council, along with the regular bull shit questions, some were asked that I thought, had nothing to do with this at all. Hours later still a little pissed off, I was summarily brought before the vampire council. I actually expected all the questions they asked, and then they dropped the big one on me.
“Mr. Timmings,” the leader started, “exactly what is your relationship with the daughter of Lord Vidon?”
Blinking a moment I thought where in the hell was this coming from? “Excuse me,” I asked, “what business is it of this council whether or not I even know Lord Vidon’s daughter?”
“Evidence has been brought to this council that you and Lord Vidon’s daughter have intimate knowledge of each other,” the leader stated.
Ah! I was beginning to see just what the Pompoff’s were attempting to do; they were actually trying to invoke THAT 3000 year old rule? Thinking rapidly, I knew that this next answer would determine a fair amount of the questions from now on.
“Sir,” I began, “I am without my counsel, to answer any questions at this time, would violate several rulings on the rights of magical beings.”
I saw several of the vampire lords smile, for once most of this council was on my side. “Yes, Mage Timmins, I wouldn’t wish to violate the rules just to satisfy the desires of certain accusers,” the leader said as he slightly indicated the elder Pompoff seated at the end of the chamber. I had to hide a smile myself as I saw that Pompoff had lost his temper, I could also see that many of the council were enjoying being human for the first time in a few centuries. “Please Mage Timmins, confer with your counsel, we will convene tomorrow night to start ferreting out the lies from the truth. We hope to decide this quickly being out of the old country is somewhat distressing.”
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