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[evalon]

what a strange and bizarre month this has been. Ralph and i have moved on to the cleaning up part of our lives, him with the bar and me with Michael's house. i've sent Peregrine back, it's one of the saddest and oddest things i've had to do lately. i still get the feelings of dread and despair when i'm around him, but i also love him so it's hard

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[cristoff_eleni]

When the sedative wears off I realize how uncomfortable I am, Yuffie must have been good to his word as I am now chained tightly to the damn statue. I do not think I will get out of them this time.

I stir and open my eyes to see Eva which makes me jerk at the chains a little since she is alone. "Drabarni?" then the million little differences hit me, including the feel of her which tells me this is not Eva.

"My pardons Ev."

[evalon]

i've been sitting down reading about some of the demons Yuff has narrowed our list down to while Cristoff's slept. i hear his pulse increase slightly and know he's waking up. i have to smile a little when he first mistakes me for Eva and then apologizes, at least he's calm right now.

"it's quite alright, Cristoff. how are you feeling after your nap?"

[cristoff_eleni]

"Sore, stupid. I believe those are the two I mainly feel right now." it is strange how as much as they look alike they are not. "I am tired of being drugged but as I asked for it I cannot complain I believe."

I wonder if it's a spell or something else that Dracula did that we recognize his blood.

[evalon]

"Eva's not too amused that they keep drugging you either, i assume from her yelling earlier that you told her you didn't want any drugs." i'm waiting for him to start acting crazy like they say he has, but so far he just seems like Cristoff to me.

however, i'm not fooled. perhaps the drugs have made it harder for the demon to talk to him, or maybe he's not fully awake yet. either way, i know he could start with the crazy at anytime. it would help if he'd think in english, though. "do me a favor and help me help you, Cristoff. think in english, please."

[evalon]

i look around again, some of it starts to make sense to me. "there's so much death inside of this house, Cristoff. i don't know if she thought because you lived in this house...did i ever thank you for killing him?"

[cristoff_eleni]

"I know that much has happened here." I look around thinking of the apocalypse and the fact we have the statue of a hell god in our basement. It is probably not a very nice house in some ways.

"Do not thank me."

[evalon]

i doubt very seriously he knows how much has happened here. "you and Eva have changed it's feeling some with all of the love you've brought into it, but there's a lot of badness left from it's previous owner."

"why not?" frowning, i look at him sincerely. "you made my life better when you did that, you made all of our lives better. Julian would've made you're current issues seem like a fairytale compared to what he'd of done. i am sorry if it's cost you guilt, though."

[cristoff_eleni]

"He is not the one I feel guilty over. Although killing to save Eva, to save my family makes a weakness she can get to me through. She already did twice." I sigh, I am bad at this, either being bad or good, I seem to not be enough of either side to be one or the other.

"I would kill Julian again for what he did, but that is the problem I see nothing wrong with killing to protect."

[cristoff_eleni]

"That is the price of having a sister I am told, they get to annoy and anger you. We will get around to it, but I would not be too impatient. I am sure my being like this has set that back a good deal." Yes, she was worried about the responsibility of a child and my being a crazed lunatic was not helping I was sure.

And I am ashamed for having listened to the girl. I cannot understand why it seemed to be a good idea at the time. She is still going on and on and every once in a while I slip and I hear what she is saying but then Ev will bring up a subject that turns my mind from it.

"And is it right to even think about it on the hellmouth?" my mind goes back to the dream I had, the one that came from the house and seeing Eva dead without our child unborn. "I would not wish to miss seeing a child grow as my parents did."

[evalon]

"you did marry my sister, right? you should know by now patience is not a strong Covault trait." i smile at him, he really does seem rather like his usual self if you take away the being chained to Acathla part. "and you haven't been a crazed lunatic that i've seen so far." shit, hopefully he missed that i pulled that from his thoughts, but just in case he didn't i try and cover. "Eva on the other hand is a crazed lunatic most of the time and i wasn't thinking that would set it back any."

um yeah, probably not a good way to cover but oh well. he should expect me to make smart ass comments about my sister. i'm quick to pick up his question about raising a family on the Hellmouth, though. "to think about it? yeah. to actually do it? i don't know. lots of people are raised here and are oblivious for most of their lives to what they're living with, but i can see where you'd think it was a bad idea."

[cristoff_eleni]

I give her a look not wanting to say it out loud so that the girl knows what Ev is doing but I caught the crazed lunatic reference.

I think a few pointed things at her for reading my mind but they are humorous as well.

"Rom are raised in danger their whole lives. It meant when my parents died when I was very young it was expected. Here it would be the same I think. And yes I have noticed that none of you are getting along with patience."

[evalon]

i can't help but smirk when he directs a few thoughts at me, but at least he isn't pissed about it. i don't do it often, it's so invasive in my opinion, but in situations like this it's also a very good thing.

"really? like expected in the same way you expect you'll die someday or expected in the way you know someone with a fatal disease is going to pass soon?"

[_eva_c]

I hear Ev yelling up at me to bring Cristoff some food. I'm a little surprised she's letting me down there while he's awake, but I'm not going to argue with her.

As I reach the bottom of the stairs though, I almost drop the plate of wings when I see him chained up like that. I notice Ev is looking at me and somehow I'm able to keep from doing that, but I'm not entirely sure I caught it before he saw it. I do my best to keep my face calm and my voice normal when I walk over towards him. "I think Ralph's making lasagna if you'd rather have that."

[cristoff_eleni]

It was not nice for her to see me chained up, this hurts her but she is covering it well. It is so good to see her I can barely stand it, it takes all my willpower for a moment not to try to reach out to her...it would only end in me tugging on chains after all.

"It does not matter as long as it is edible and you bring it Drabarni."

[_eva_c]

He sounds so normal despite being chained to the damn statue that I smile for real at him. What did Ev do to get him this way? For a moment I'm disturbed again at how she was able to do this but I couldn't, but I'm just grateful he's not asking me to let him out right now.

"It's very edible, Ralph knows how to cook."

I stop at the end of the bed and look back at Ev, wondering if she's going to tell me I can't get too close. She doesn't, though, so I sit next to him and put the plate on my lap. "Um, I think I'm going to have to feed it to you."

[cristoff_eleni]

I can feel the smile tugging at me again. "Well you had no issue with feeding me while we were in Europe." I have a vivid memory of that and am truly despising these chains right now.

"It would be difficult for me to do it at the moment." I hold her eyes as she helps me take a bite, yes in some ways the girl is right, I would do anything to protect her but I am learning to seperate out who I should protect her from.