[sakari09]

“Well if I’m soo slow, then maybe I should turn back into a vampire! Then I’d be able to kick you ass from here to Antarctica!” I screamed back at him.
This time it struck a nerve somewhere deep in Will’s brain. He turned away from Yiichi and myself, “I don’t want that. Let’s go see the council. We’ve wasted enough time.” Without my agreement, Will picked me up and threw me onto his back.
Yiichi raised one eyebrow, “You want to carry her like that? I could always go back to the Pegasus form.”
“No.” Will replied flatly and took off in an unknown direction, that I had to guess, would lead us to the long-forgotten airport.
Yiichi shrugged and followed along without any complaints. I guess she knew better than to piss off a vampire high upon the nobility board. We were quiet the rest of the time we took getting to Barcelona.
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Sometimes Kari could be such a pain but I can’t abandon her now. I promised my father a long time ago that I wouldn’t. Being the family heir wasn’t as cracked up as it was supposed to be.
“She’s fallen asleep, I believe.” Yiichi pointed out from behind me. She knew that I had known Kari was asleep on my back the whole time; she just wanted to break the silence.
“I know.” I replied, trying to keep up the unnecessary conversation, “We should be reaching the airport soon right? She’ll have to wake up then.”
Yiichi chuckled, “Not really. I have a private jet waiting to take us ‘home’ as you call it.”
I snorted, “I guess you’re running the backstage show now, Yiichi?”
It took her a few seconds to come up with an answer; “Well…I don’t plan on doing this for much longer. It’s Kari who will take over governing her people. I’m not a vampire—”
“She hasn’t crossed over the line yet. As far as I’m concerned she’s still fey like her grandmother.” I retorted.
Yiichi sighed, “You’re going to have to get over the fact that she will eventually change. Her family has known this since the day she was born. You were intended to be her mate after that; you were meant to be her guardian William.”
Father drilled this into my brain already, but I keep hearing it over and over. Facing the facts will come eventually, I know that, but for now I just want to keep Kari safe. I thought glancing over my shoulder at Kari’s sleeping face. Losing her would mean losing myself.
“The airport is up ahead through those pines. I’ll go ahead and alert the pilots. You stay here and get the princess up, ok?” Yiichi scampered off through the trees ahead of us.
I stopped and strained my neck as far as possible so I could wake Kari, “Hey. We’re here. Yiichi said get up.”
Nothing. I knew this would be harder than Yiichi made it sound. I loosened her arms around my neck and bent down so I could slide her off my back onto the grass. She still wasn’t awake when I turned around to look at her; the morning dew would wake a normal person, even a vampire! This girl slept like a freaking rock.
“Kari! Wake the fuck up!” I said in a loud whisper. She grumbled something and went back into a coma, “Oh my God…”
I bent closer—I didn’t want to resort to doing this because she would kill me later—and kissed her softly on the lips. I’m sure the last thing she wanted was my tongue in her mouth.
Her reaction was to be as expected. I got a scream and a good, solid hit to the face. I shrugged it off and thanked whoever’s in charge upstairs, that it wasn’t a bullet.
She was still yelling a few minutes later, “What the hell were you trying to do? Didn’t you try screaming in my ears or something.”
I covered her mouth with my hand, so we would attract anyone else to our little scene, “I did actually; you were sleeping like a rock. I had to do something because Yiichi wanted you awake when we got on the jet.”
Her mouth dropped open in amazement, “A private jet?”
I nodded, not wanting to explain all of the details, “You should make Yiichi your personal secretary or something. That woman can do almost anything, I swear.”
“And what should I make you? My man-whore?”
I tried not to let my temper get out of control again, “although I do value your sarcasm Kari, I don’t think now is the time for it. Yiichi is heading our way.”
Before she could retaliate anymore, Yiichi showed up behind her, “Hello from Planet Bitch, this is Earth calling for landing.”
“Is everything prepared?” I asked innocently.
She nodded and pulled Kari up from the ground. I got up and brushed off the grass on my knees. It would be a bitch to get out the next time I did laundry…wait…I didn’t do laundry. I took it to the drycleaners. Why was everything so hard to remember?