Archive of Our Own

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Chapter 1

She only looks towards the horizon, not understanding what just happened. They should be dead but instead they are walking through this strange landscape, it is as if this was all a dream. Or maybe they are both dead and this is purgatory or even heaven.

"What the hell was is going on, Raelle?

"I don't know, I just felt great power emanate from me and then a great explosion."

Raelle and Abigail wander in what used to be the mountains where the Tarim were hiding but now the landscape looks completely different.

Abigail clenches her fists, "We have to keep walking, we have to get to some town, those of the Camarilla could still be close."

Raelle just nods and the two continue walking without knowing where they are going.

"Your daughter?" Scylla is still trying to process the words she just heard.

"That's right, your mission was to bring my daughter back, safe and sound."

"But ... you should have told me that, you should have told me she was your daughter."

Willa approaches and stares at her saying, “That information was not essential to your mission. But tell me, where's Raelle? ”

"She ..." Hesitating a bit, Scylla continues, "The only thing Anacostia told me is that she and her unit had accompanied Alder on a mission, but I swear I don't know anything else."

Willa turns around to continue cooking, but asks, "Why didn't you take Raelle to the beach as I ordered?"

Scylla tries to think about her answer well, she cannot tell her that she fell in love with her daughter and that is why she decided not to give her up, she cannot tell her that that day while they were dancing she thought of running away with Raelle and forgetting everything to be happy, so she breathes deeply and says, "Anacostia stopped me before I could do anything, apparently one of the girls in Raelle's unit saw me talking to you and gave me away."

“You were very careless on this mission, Scylla. You made many mistakes that could cost us a lot, luckily we are still in the game and I know that soon we will be able to bring my daughter back, for now, you can go to a room and rest a little, the food will be ready soon. ”

Many doubts go through Scylla's mind right now, she would like to ask so many things but she knows that this is not the time. She just hopes Raelle finds herself well.

Anacostia watches as Alder descends from the helicopter but no matter how much she searches she doesn't see Abigail, Raelle, and Tally anywhere.

So she quickly approaches Alder and asks, "What happened?"

"After rescuing the Tarim we were attacked,"

Anacostia quickly asks, "Did the Spree follow you there?"

"It was not the Spree, all this time our enemy has been someone else, the Camarilla has returned."

"It can't be," And just as Anacostia is about to ask something else, she feels a hand on her shoulder.

"Hello."

Turning to her right she sees an old woman, and suddenly realizes “Tally? What happened?"

"I had to, the General was about to die."

"She saved my life, now she is a Biddy."

Still trying to get out of the shock of seeing Tally, Anacostia asks, "What about Raelle and Abigail?"

"They didn't make it?"

Anacostia is left speechless, and tears begin to pour down her face, in a single day she lost her best cadets, who were almost like her daughters.

Scylla is sitting on her bed thinking about everything that has happened in the last weeks, it is as if everything had been a dream. She still remembers the first day she saw Raelle at training camp, she seemed so innocent and full of life.

She still remembers how nervous she was as she approached her the first time. When told that her mission was to approach a girl named Raelle, she never thought that she would be so beautiful.

At first, everything was a mission that seemed very simple, to make her fall in love to take her to the Spree. But little by little and without realizing it, it was she who fell in love with the blonde.

But now it seems so complicated, she may have lost her forever.

Suddenly, someone knocking on her door awakens her from her thoughts.

"Scylla, are you there?"

Scylla recognizes that voice, it is the voice of Zima, the girl who received her the first time she joined the Spree.

"Yes, what's up?"

"News has just come in about Willa's daughter."

Quickly, Scylla stands up and runs to the door, almost running down the stairs of the house along with Zima, just in time to hear how Willa is talking through the mirror with someone else.

"Didn't she come back?"

"Negative, she and Abigail did not return from the mission."

Scylla watches as Willa can't hide her anger and frustration, but tries to stay calm so she just says, "Okay, please keep me informed."

In the room there are three other people besides Willa. James, Elena, and Arthur are the ones who are in charge of controlling this cell of the Spree along with Willa.

Seeing that everyone is silent, Scylla asks, "What happened?"

"Raelle didn’t return from the mission in China, apparently Alder and the other witches were attacked by the Camarilla as we had anticipated," James responds.

"That damn stupid bitch Alder must have listened to our warnings," Willa is now furious, after clenching her fists, she looks at Scylla and says, "This is all your fault, you should have brought my daughter back to me! "

"My fault? You were the one who didn't tell me it was your daughter! ” Scylla raises her voice for the first time, "If you had told me that from the beginning, I wouldn't have hesitated to bring her to you." Scylla's voice begins to break, "Right now she and I could be together ..." Tears finally begin to flow from her eyes, "She and I could be ..." But her voice breaks and she can't go on.

Trying to soften the mood, Elena intervenes, “We still don't know what happened to Raelle, she may still be alive. We have to mobilize our resources and know what happened in China. "

Scylla climbed the stairs once more without saying a word, she is so furious with Willa that she preferred not to speak to her again. While lying face down she cannot stop crying, all this could have been avoided if that day at the wedding they had gone to the beach as ordered.

But since she didn´t know that they were not going to hurt Raelle, everything seemed so complicated. If only they had told her that Raelle was Willa’s daughter she would not have hesitated to take her to the beach.

But more than anything, Scylla is frustrated by how things are handled in the Spree, so much secrecy and so much mystery have not helped her on this mission.

As she falls asleep from crying, she keeps thinking about her beloved blonde. If she could only see her one more time she would try to explain everything that has happened to her, maybe Raelle would forgive her.

"I think I see something in front of us.”

"What is it?" Abigail asks confused.

"It appears to be a checkpoint, but ..."

Suddenly, several people begin to come out from under the ground, yelling at them in a strange language that seems Chinese.

Surprised, Raelle and Abigail raise their hands and kneel down. The first thing Raelle sees is that these people are also military, which reassures her a little, at least she knows that they are not from the Camarilla.

Everything is confusing until one of them begins to speak in English, "Who are you?"

Abigail immediately responds, "We are from the American Army, we are asking for help."

"From the American Army? And what are they doing here? You don,t have permission to enter our territory. ”

"Please we just want help, we were attacked and ..." But before Raelle can finish her sentence she is hit on the head and falls to the ground, little by little her vision begins to blur until everything is black.
























To be continued…