I miss the light the night has stolen [Past]

Location: Cecilia's house
Date: September 2nd 2020
Time: Late afternoon
Outfit: Link
Topic for: @Mono <3
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Between only having a few weeks to manage around this world, this new way of seeing life. She was suddenly drowning in Jasper being a werewolf, having visions from the future, being able to summon an archangel, having a siphoner breaking in and Maeve having her car-crash. To say August had been filled with surprises was an understatement, and she wasn't sure how she was even standing right now. The claw mark on her shoulder was almost healed from when Jasper had grabbed her, Michael had stopped him. Sebastien had stopped the vampire who had left a mark of teeth in her neck. So much for saying welcome to the supernatural world. Since Joseph had broken in, Cecilia had been on the edge of paranoia. She hadn't felt like leaving the house nor actually being in the house. But this house was her safe space and Joseph had made her feel unsafe in her own home. So, she had texted Mono to come over. It was only around what five months since he had moved out, one month since he had thrown all of Jasper's stuff along with Jasper out as well. Cecilia was sitting in the couch all tugged up with a tube of chocolate ice cream. "The door is open," she yelled just before Mono opened it. Oh yes, a part of her new reality was realizing she had powers - one thing she also had to tell him. Cecilia wondered if he knew, no Mono couldn't know about the supernatural? That was just crazy. Cecilia turned her tired doe eyes up to Mono, clearly she hadn't been sleeping lately - one could say she looked rather stressed.

He flew by her side like a worried guard dog who had missed his watch, but she couldn't really blame him. She would have reacted the same way if their roles had been reversed. She held her breath for a short second, not knowing where to start or how to even begin to think about all of this. How did you explain all the events that had happened over the last weeks? "Everything is wrong Moe," she confessed and held her breath for a while putting the ice cream on the table. "The world is wrong - every bloody things.. is.. just.. wrong," Cecilia took a deeper breath in and ran her cold hands over her face and ended by her neck. Her neck still sore which made her pull a face of discomfort. The vampire bite was still itching when touched, even if she did care for it to not leave a scar. Cecilia let go of her grab on herself and looked at him. "On a scale from one to ten, how insane would you think I was if I told you.. that I think Jasper is a werewolf?" Of course she had learned Jasper was a werewolf, but by throwing this theory in the air, it could only give him a chance to laugh it off as her putting out a joke - but if he knew, it was possible that he would think that Jasper had hurt her again - which was off course also true when you collected the pieces. However her dark brown eyes looked completely serious, there wasn't any teasing spark or sign of her joking around.

But I already know about the supernatural her world stopped spinning for a while. And she just took a deeper breath in and starred blankly at him. How long had he known? How long had he been keeping it away from her? Why hadn't he told her the second he knew? And here he stood and wanted to know how and who? "Kak razbrakh? Da ne si poludyal?" She raised her voice a bit in Bulgarien, and got up from the couch. "How long? How long have you know about this and you didn't tell me?" She lashed her arms out to the side. The fact that she was already stressed and paranoid, made her whole reaction way more dramatic than she liked - but she didn't have any energy to not lash out. Cecilia ran her hands over her hair and took a deeper breath in. "невероятно!" She sighed annoyingly to herself in Russian as she kicked the coffee table a bit. "Fucking hell," she sighed out and let herself fall back down into the couch. It wasn't really just him she cursed and yelled at. It was everything, the whole mess and she was so good at just boiling up her emotions to the point where they just exploded.

Cecilia took a deeper breath in, trying to stop the world from falling apart around her. The frustration didn't leave her system, it had still too much work to do here. "Yeah.. you should," she added and thanks to the frustration she did come of a little harsh. When your best friend had covered up something like this, and he had known since he was a kid - unbelievable. The next round off questions made her take a deeper breath in and let herself fall down into the couch, but it was the last question that made her look up at him again. Did a monster hurt you? Monsters. They were real now, not just a product from a novel, tv show or a movie - they were living creatures dressed like humans to fit in. Cecilia rested her elbows above her knees while letting her head fall down to her hands an let her face run over it in a sigh. "I was talking with a guy down town when Jasper came by," she took a deeper breath in. "That man is unable to understand a simple hint, and he grabbed my arm - I'm fine, really - the guy I was with turned out to be a quite powerful angel, so he got Jasper to back off," she told before sitting more up and leaning back into the couch looking at Mono. "We walked back here after, and he told me.. he basically showed me his wings in the dinning room to make me believe." She chuckled a bit by that memory.

"He gave me a book about the supernatural, so I've been studying quite a lot-" she nodded towards the bookshelf, where you of course couldn't see it from all the other books, but the older book was standing there for whenever she felt like reading it. "I also apparently have powers," she clicked her tongue a bit before another sigh left her lips. "You know how I usually have a pretty good or bad feeling about things.. my whole.. I knew it - yeah turns out there is more to it, I actually see glimpses of the future," she yet another breath in and shook her head a little bit. "Oh.. and I summon people - how? I have no idea, I just know I can summon things like. .watch this," she closed her eyes for a second and brought her attention to summon his car keys. Cecilia opened up her hand and showed him them. "No wonder why I always find lost items so quickly," she snorted a bit to herself as she handed him his keys again. "What has the world become.." she whispered looking slightly pained. "Do you have powers?"

"Yeah I've been doing nothing but read in it since I got it last month," she replied and shook her head a little bit. Cecilia walked over to her bookshelf and took the old book out, and walked back to Mono with it. She was about to hand it to him as he mentioned that her powers were amazing. Cecilia raised a brow a little bit clearly not agreeing with him. "It's a curse there is nothing good about them," she mumbled on the next exhale. The power to heal. She frowned a bit. Her mind search back, ages back to when she first had arrived Gaia. Her knee had been so bad back then, and all doctors had told her she never should count on walking around like she used to. It had been her breaking point, but Mono had helped her train it up and one day the pain had been gone - like the damage was nowhere to be found in other than the scar. "Healing, like yourself or? Because you should have thought about going to the medical field then," she chuckled a bit. It was one of the things she had wondered about, in a world where people had powers why were so many natural healers not working in the hospitals to help others?

Why? Cecilia frowned and narrowed her eyes for a second, as if it was the most stupid question he could ask. Not an expression she meant to give off, but it happened so she could only just deal with it. Her emotions were raw at the moment, and she wasn't happy about it. Not because she was the type to not speak up if something was wrong, but because was already so paranoid and freaked out by all of this - that everything that seemed scary or out of the ordinary was too much. Everything was too much. So, even through she wanted to bring to the table reasons why she should hate this - she didn't have the words - which was even more odd.

Instead she focused on him telling about his healing ability. She still didn't understand why so many people had powers, but didn't use them in fields were they could be useful. Imagine the world if people used their powers for what they were meant for? Her left eyebrow lifted slightly as he confessed he had healed her knee back in the day and she took a deeper breath in. "You healed my knee?" She repeated his words more or less breathlessly. See, Cecilia's greatest trauma from the car accident back then had been the knee injury she had along with the heart break. Not being able to walk like a normal person, feeling restrained and like she couldn't do anything. All the times she had been told she would have to find something else to do with her life, because she couldn't work with a leg like that. She had been about to throw all her dreams and hopes away, because of that. If it hadn't been for the miracle of her knee suddenly being able to function like nothing had happened, she would never had become a doctor, never become a surgent and she couldn't imagine where her life would have looked like now. "Wow, I mean thank you -- I don't even know what to say to that," she said almost breathlessly thinking about it. She had always thought it was just herself being stubborn and training it hard enough till she could move around again. But in reality he had healed it. "You basically saved my future, and I haven't even been able to thank you for that. Stupid," she jabbed his upper arm gently.

Of course, she was thankful for him. When she had met him he had been with this other girl, Victoria if she remembered correctly, and even through their relationship ended it was on good terms and perhaps for the best at that time. She remembered the days back then, when her knee had been her biggest struggle and worst fight. "Still," she added on the next inhale. It was always funny how some things you did for another person, you never really knew how much it was valued - at least not till it was told. Let´s call it even, to the fact that you have given me a family, she smiled brighter. It was true, they were one little family, especially after Evelina had joined the small gang involving Mono and Cecilia back in the middle of 2017. Evelina had been the right fit for the group, no doubt there - it was natural chemistry in the entire group and they had been stuck with each other since. Through ups and downs. "I know, and I love cheesy, so be as cheesy as you want - just bring pizza next time," she pointed out and tilted her head a little to the side, keeping the spirit up was one of her greatest strengths. "Speaking of that, and do tell me to shut up if I overstep - what did happen, with your family and stuff?" She asked and took a deeper breath in. It wasn't like finding a few strays was new to Cecilia, she still recalled the first time she had found out Lucas didn't have a home back in the day - or a proper home, and she had offered him her couch, and that was before they got together or at least they were dating back then. Mono and his family story, she wasn't sure how much of it was a cover up from the supernatural world, or if it was just mundane. Either way, she trusted Mono with her life, even seeing things in different colors, she knew she could trust him. So why not ask. "Please, don't try to hide anything - you don't have to anymore, I'm ready for all of it."

When you had known someone for as long as Cecilia had known Mono, you started to pick up the small things. Their silent screams and you just somewhat knew when things were off or they tried to play it tough. Even when you didn't say anything or they didn't say anything, you knew - a part of you always knew. Cecilia did what she was best at the second he started to talk, listen, she listened to him. She couldn't even imagine how heavy it must have been to carry that around not able to rely on your best friend for support, knowing it was his own choice, but in this moment that didn't matter. He had only been ten, ten years old and having your entire family and childhood ripped from you like it was worth nothing. Cecilia couldn't imagine. She had the most normal childhood, always been a happy kid able to do whatever she wanted in life. Learning her best friend didn't have the same - it was heartbreaking. It wasn't like she didn't know he had a rough go, and people often suppressed a lot of their childhood if they needed to adapt to something else - it was easier to forget the good stuff along with the bad - then you didn't have anything to hold on to. Trauma did always work in mysterious ways, she had seen lots of cases at work. Being dragged to a clan. It seemed like a story she could read in one of the novels on her bookshelf, not something that should happen to her best friend - and yet here she was stuck in a supernatural world, a would she stumbled around in and it had only been less than a month. They trained him? She frowned a bit and did a slight tilt with her head, inclining she didn't completely understand, yet she waited till he said the words.

Vampire hunter. She remained silent for a little while. If it hadn't been for the already serious tension in the room, she would have thought of him to make a joke. But even if they goofed around most of the time, and joked about a bunch of stuff - they also knew when each other were cracking a joke or being serious. Cecilia must have looked like her eyes was about to roll out of her head for a split second, till she took a sharper breath in. "A vampire hunter?" She repeated his words while looking into his light eyes. "So, you are saying.. that you go around killing vampires?" She clicked her tongue while looking away trying to process the information. "Hunting them.. like they a hunter hunts deer or pheasants?"

Only the worst ones. She thought a lot about that sentence, reminding her of the night where she had went from work only to be attacked by three vampires. Luckily she had been on vervain so her blood had been anything but delicious for the vampire to drink. It still didn't made her feel less comfortable about the entire supernatural part of life. "Well," she took a deeper breath in. "Some of them are just acting without a care in the world," her hand found its way up to the left side of her neck she gently messaged. "I actually had an encounter with a few not long ago. -- Clearly, I escaped with the scare." Cecilia breathed out in a small sigh. She scratched the back of her head a little bit, before wrapping her arms around herself not knowing what to do with her arms. She looked at Mono. "I take vervain.. and I always have holy water in a flask with me.. I'm fine," she wanted to point out on the next inhale. "But you say there is something in you?" Even through he said he couldn't explain it. She wanted him to at leat give it a go, because otherwise Cecilia would just start imagining stuff and her thoguhts could run wild at this point.

She chuckled a bit. They sure did hate that. "Yeah, it's funny because my mother and her side of the family has always been extremely religious and all that, you know - so she always gave me and my brother some holy water with us from church and gave me this bracelet," she looked down at the bracelet around her right wrist and chuckled a bit. "Of course she has no idea vampires are real, but she believes in angels and demons - God, all of that, which I by now has gotten confirmed was right as well, even despite my small doubts," Cecilia took a deeper breath in and licked her lips. Mono knew she was religious, not extreme, but she had grown up in a religious family.
Her attention switched to him in a second. Cecilia frowned a bit as he explained to her how he had this need to kill him. He was chosen. "You are basically Harry Potter, but in a vampire hunting community," she chuckled a bit to herself, processing everything with a sense of humor had always been her way to go. "You said you've been trained since you were ten Mono, no child should get that kind of habit manifested in their head as normal." Cecilia pointed out a bit more seriously. This was a serious matter. Cecilia wasn't fond of the idea of him walking around staking vampires, yes, perhaps if he took out the ones who killed with no care for others. She could get by that, because she also lived by a moral compass that lead her to protect innocent people. "You are not a sociopath Mono, perhaps just a little misguided." Cecilia still didn't know a lot about this world, but she knew it wasn't painted in black and white. There were colors when you looked outside the box, but first you had to climb a little to see it. Cecilia placed her hand on his shoulder and gave it a little squeeze. "I've seen sociopaths and you aren't it," she reminded him. Yes, Joseph Blackwood was one of them, but at work, she had dealt with all different kinds of people - from people who didn't deserve her help to people who did.

"Yeah, and the world isn't always black and white. What we are taught is wrong isn't always wrong, just the other way around, what we are taught aren't always right," she wanted to point that out for him. It was important for her that he didn't put himself in a situation where he protentional could get himself killed. "Just be careful okay, I would hate to see you get hurt," she confessed with a small genuine smile. What sociopath have you met!? Cecilia held her breath for a while and took a deeper breath in. "This half witch.. vampire Joseph Blackwood broke into my house a few weeks ago while I was sleeping. I woke up to a vision and luckily I managed to summon a friend that hunted him away.. but I know in my gut he is not done playing games yet." She looked down at her hands that locked themselves together on her thighs. Of course, she felt uneasy and unsafe when someone like Joseph was out there, not knowing what he would do next, knowing he most likely was enjoying this mouse and cat game. And Cecilia didn't like playing the role as the mouse."I don't know if your.. clan.. has taught you anything about siphoners, half breeds."

"You better because, now that I can see the future more clearly - I can summon you here and kick your ass if you aren't careful!" She pointed her finger at him, looking serious for about five seconds before she cracked a smile, yet he knew she meant it. Cecilia took a deeper breath in by the thought about Joseph, what reasons he had for tormenting her or why he had chosen her - she didn't even want to know. Michael had sent some angels to her brother's house to guard over him. Ethan was looking after Maeve, whom still had yet to even learn about this aspect of the world. Just in case if he gets back? Her heart skipped a few beats ahead, yes Cecilia did have a security system in her house, but it didn't stop someone like Joseph from breaking in. "You could stay over, just like old times - I mean I'm busy at work most days either way, if I'm not working nights, but it would be nice - not to be alone." Cecilia took a slightly sharper breath in. "This guy looks way more normal, but I feel like all these creatures around the world .. just look normal most of the time."

"Actually I don't, I dropped it in the toilet and had to throw it out," she made a face shortly before just laughing. "I'm messing with ya, of course I have one," Cecilia chuckled a bit. However, the scenery of Joseph was enough to simply just move the smile from her face for a few seconds. Was Joseph Blackwood here to hurt her? She simply didn't know the answer to that question, which made her shrug a bit. "I honestly have no idea, who knows, maybe I was lucky and he just wanted to see how awesome my house looked. Not everyone has talent for keeping so many plants alive," she replied trying to cover her fear with sarcasm as usual. "So, pizza and extra chips?" Cecilia asked licking her lips a little bit, "oh and we will be watching something old school," she pointed out trying to change the subject into something that didn't involve the supernatural, at least for a moment.