The first time Lori ever felt powerful, she was four years old. Four years old and she had been playing with a Barbie doll. Local charity organizations were always donating toys to her orphanage and she had her eyes set on the Barbie doll. The long golden hair, the pretty white dress and heels, Lori wanted it so bad it hurt. She grabbed it first. Playing with it, enthralled with it. She ran around the yard with it. Then a big bully called Billy had come over and dragged it from her. Naturally she cried for him to give it back but he just laughed and tore the head of the Barbie from its body. The rage Lori had felt, she had never felt it before... She stood up and walked up to him and slapped him. She was only four, he was seven and weighed at least twenty five pounds more than her, but her slap had sent him flying across the yard and hitting the wall. He had to get eight stitches. One of the workers showed her Billy before he left for the hospital. The woman practically shoved Bi
"He's alive... The Fullers kept that knowledge away from you."No. Lori could not believe her ears. Could not believe the lies the woman in front of her was spewing. She was lying. It was a blatant bold faced lie. Why would she lie about something like that?! Sabine saw that Lori didn’t look convinced and she brought out her phone. "I have a picture of him with the Fullers. Maybe this will make you believe."She said as she showed Lori her phone. Lori took cautious steps towards her. Walking closer to her but staying at a respectful distance in case it was a trap.She froze. Her hands shaking slightly as she looked at the family portrait. Was it another baby?Could he really be her son?"You know why he didn't die?"Lori looked up to Sabine.Confusion etched in her blood splattered face."He didn't die because he's just like you. He is half nephilim but he still inherited your powers. Super fast healing... among other abilities..."Sabine said as she ran her eyes all over Lori a
Astra Barlow. That was the name of the nephilim woman that was given to her.Astra Barlow lived in a dump, the dirty long streets deep in Denver and Lori was too tired to care. She had to see the woman, she needed her help one way or another. Sabine had been right about two things. That Jack was alive and that her powers were dangerous. She still couldn't fully believe it. That her son was alive, she couldn't even find the appropriate emotion to describe what it was she was feeling. Her mind was all muddled up and she knew it was directly linked to her newly found powers. She felt like a ticking time bomb, occasionally having to keep a stoic face to keep her powers from going off at the slightest provocation.The random bursts of power that came with an emotion was unbearable. And it had only been a few hours! She could not, she would not live with this forever. She couldn't even think about Gabriel. It hurt too much whenever she tried to. She didn't accept Sabine's offer. She
Elliot had made many mistakes in his lifetimes and the past few days there seemed to be no shortage of the wrongs he could do. He just kept making one horrible mistake after the other. Turning Lori was a bad idea and he has realized it immediately after his fangs dug into her flesh.She passed out immediately, her slow heart rate was the only indicator that she was alive. He tried to rouse her but she didn’t wake up. And he had sat there in utter panic, so scared shitless that he couldn’t even turn anymore, the Super moon influence wore off so fast it was almost as if it was a regular night for him. Until he saw the most bizarre thing, right in front of his eyes the bite started healing. The flesh melding itself and becoming smooth and good as new. The only indication that something happened was the blood that was left on her skin. He tried to rouse her again and he had pulled away when a soft white glow covered her whole body. It was almost as if she was covered in light and Ell
"I knew your mother...""What?"Lori asked as she stood up slowly. "That's a lie."She retorted and Astra nodded."It's been years but I still remember...""What do you remember?"Lori asked and Astra shrugged."A pregnant nephilim on the run. She was in some sort of trouble with the father of her baby... she was avoiding everybody, even our kind.""Why? What did she do?!"Lori asked as she gripped the edge of her seat. Astra gave her a pointed look."Calm down. That sofa is new."She murmured and Lori relaxed. Astra walked back to the window to check on their spy, he was no longer in the location he was before but Astra could bet that he was still around. "She didn't tell me much. But she did tell me her name and you look a awful lot like her.""Her name was Ione."Astra answered and Lori furrowed her eyebrows."Ione?"It was the first time she was learning about her mother... anything about her. Lori didn't realize how curious she had been about her until Astra had mentioned her.
"Why are you calling?"Sabine asked and Lori scoffed."Why wouldn't I?""Not only did you send me on a wild goose chase with the ridiculous promise of me getting help from a woman who wants nothing to do with me, you also had me followed.""None of this is part of our fucking agreement! None at all!"Lori shouted into the phone. The kind stranger who had lent her her phone looked at her weirdly and Lori murmured a string of apologies to the nice woman.There was a short pause before Sabine replied."You must understand... I'm merely trying to protect myself.""From what?"Lori retorted. "I thought you were winning.""Are you not?!"She fired back and Sabine sighed. "I would be... but now your mate is after me and you know that doesn't bode well for you. Or your son."Lori contemplated Sabine's words, she wondered if she was truly capable of hurting her son to spite her."You wouldn't hurt him. You wouldn't dare."Lori warned and Sabine laughed."Try me."She answered in a serious to
She had arrived in front of Astra's door. Bloodied, tired and with no shred of hope left in her. She thought the pain would take her away. She wanted it to. She had even risked going up to the penthouse. But no... she couldn't risk Gabriel seeing her like that. Not in that condition. Especially when she wasn't sure if she was still being followed by Sabine’s men. She wanted to make sure she was as safe as possible. Sabine had her ways... and she didn't want to put all of them in jeopardy. So she had cleaned up herself as much as she could in the bathroom and rushed out.She took a taxi to Astra’s place. Despite feeling uneasy about going back to the woman’s place. After everything she had told her and how she had rejected her, Lori wanted nothing more than to stay far away from her.But she was nephilim. And she was just like Lori and Lori couldn’t avoid or deny the fact that she would be better suited to helping her than Gabriel ever would. She had to at
Elliot had given everything he could. Said his piece, told them all he knew, yet it still wasn't good enough for Gabriel to let him out of the cage he was in.He wasn't complaining. At least he wasn't being tortured, or being starved. They had been treating him fairly well and he almost didn't mind that he was in a cage. Gabriel believed that Lori was alive. Draco was still skeptical. The two of them were scouring the city, with Gabriel barking demands on the phone to Draco running helter skelter. In the midst of all the drama Elliot wondered where his brother was, what he was doing and if he had the good sense to at least flee the country before Gabriel focused his full attention on him. At least Gabriel's attention wasn't on him anymore, even though he didn't know his fate, Elliot didn't worry endlessly about it.Whatever came to him, he probably deserved it. He wasn't hoping for a death punishment, but if he was banished from the pack for treason, he coul