Just when we were thinking we were safe till we gathered our forces, the Magister, via his agent @Nikita_Steel issues us another surprise, blowing up the front gates of the Russian Embassy. Determined to protect @Alexei_Romanov and myself, @Irina_297 ushers us speedily up to a safehouse complete with a panic room and armory in the hills around Los Angeles.
We made two excursions out from it, the first to pass on a packet of evidence to @NanVFlanaganX who had gone into hiding to be of aid to me out of @FyodorGlazunov's observation. She has returned back to Dallas with the evidence packet in hand of everything we've gathered on the Vampire Magister so far. It should be enough for Godric to move on him and we're working on bringing more.
The second excursion was after my SUV, which @Viktor_Chenko had brought in from AZ had been returned to me, via trip to the police station. He was chased across their lot, shifted, went up onto the building and leapt on my SUV's roof, doing damage that would cost us later.
Seeking help to remove the curse of seeing ghosts of his former victims, Alexei and I go to a witch in Los Angeles to see if she can break the spell. She tries hard but fails but does give us a clue... that the ring Alexei is wearing, his father's cannot be removed or given up unless it is his will. ... We now have an explation for why the second vampire killed at the Arizona safehouse was so determined to get it and we know that Fyo knows this, too.
Leaving however, we discover that Fyodor's psychopatic agent Nikita Steel knows where we are, too. She attacks us without reservation, and we engage in a terrible firefight on the streets of Los Angeles that requires extensive cover ups to conceal vampire business playing out so dramatically. The witch who we went to see captures my attention as she steps out into the midst of it to cast wards and protect the innocent.
We flee, dragging our firefight with us, but are joined by Irina and are able to escape. What escapes me, however, is the damage to the tracking scrambler on the roof of my SUV. Nikita has attached a double rigged tracker to the bottom of it, one of which drops at the safe house.
A few nights later, as Alexei and I leave to greet his incoming forces and Irina goes to check our armory, Nikita slips in, poisoning the blood Irina and Alexei are to drink and setting a bomb on the car we have been forced to steal. When we finish greeting the troops, however, Alexei, safe in their escort, and I part company, he to take care of business at the Embassy and I to visit family. Irina returns shortly before I do to the safehouse and the bomb goes of moments later. To protect me after I'm stunned when the gas tanks blows, Irina takes me into the panic room and locks me in... and injured, needing to recover quickly, partakes of the poisoned blood.
Weakened despite her vast age, she is taken and I remain trapped. Alexei returns with a small number of his guards to the bombed out car and signs of the battle Irina gave before being taken. Hearing me call for help, he frees me from the panic room. I tell him what I have seen through the panic room monitors and try to calm him reassuring him that Irina will survive but be used as bait, not to let Fyodor into his head in this state.
However... in that regard, I am too late. Fyodor calls him, well aware of the situation at the safehouse because of the cameras that Nikita has left behind for his pleasure at our distress and when I am out prepping my SUV to leave, Fyodor calls and offers a deal... my life and my freedom from his fixations and Irina's life in exchange for the ring to control all the jewels. Hoping against hope, Alexei agrees, and calls Miranda to aske for a sleeping draught for me. Emerging he tells me he would like to go to her as he's called and she believes she has a means to help us. I share with him what I have found, that we were tracked here but that I've removed the device that allowed Fyodor to do so.
We set off to Miranda's shop. Alexei asks me to go get him a blood from the store nearby and trusting Miranda, I leave. When I return, Alexei suggests that he drive and. still aching from my impact with the wall that stunned me, I agree and he slips into my coffee the sleeping potion Miranda has provided. I realize its effects before it can take me out completely, realizing what Alexei intends. As he explains he is doing this to return my life to me, I vow I'll find him and with a final kiss fall to rest in his arms.
He's taken me to my mother's home, where his guard is keeping a watchful eye. I wake to find myself home and listen coldly to the pleadings of the guard captain, speaking for Alexei, not to follow him. I ask if he's done, thank him for the attempt, and knowing Alexei would never let me be held against my will, leave, going to Miranda to ask for her help. Climbing in my SUV I see a blood stain and the blood is Alexei's which give Miranda a means to begin searching for him. We get a partial beaing northeast and recognizing her usefulness, I ask her to joing me. She agrees, understanding that she will be recompensed for her troubles and for closing her shop and we set off for Dallas, my new home, there to rejoin forces with Godric (@SheriffArea_9) and his wife (@Ari_RP) and Nan Flanagan (@NanVFlanaganX) and their powerful ties to the AVL.
TBC...
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