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Mercedes woke in a little shack buried deep within the bayous of the Mississippi.She had been buried deep underneath the earth where the bed should have been. She dug her way out thinking she had just fallen into a pit and hit her head momentarily knocking herself unconscious, as she stumbled outside she had a slight sense to wonder how she got there but all her senses were tuned to the sounds of the small town Lafitte, her only thoughts to ease this hunger within her and something about getting to the Barataria Swamp to meet Corte', she aimlessly walked toward the sounds ,as a male child ran into her he looked up to say excuse me. As he saw her ashen face devoid of human recognition he began to scream but it is cut off by Mercedes sinking her newly acquired fangs into his soft white flesh.Once done and her hunger still unabated, she walked further into town and found a woman sitting on a bench in front of a mom and pop candy store .Mercedes walked over and sat down and began to feed of her. To those that pass by it looked as if "Sheila" had taken another lover that night, noone realized that her life was being ended to sustain anothers.Now her "hunger"satisfied she began her search for Corte'. |
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She notices a paper saying 2002 but yesterday it was just 1998..and Corte' was not there. She took a chance and dialed his home number a strange woman answered and said her husband was not there,Mercedes told her,"No she was looking for Corte' De Valde."The woman again said her husband was not there and asked for the callers name so she could tell him who called and return it. Mercedes quickly hung up the phone and decided that she would go to Corte's house. The night was young (which if she stopped to think of it was odd in itself as it was near 10.45p.m the last time she had checked her watch and a clock she had passed read only 10 p.m.). She made her way from the swamp and once she was in front of Corte's chateau, she noticed a slim muscular built gently tanned man that was leaning down kissing this beautiful blonde woman.
She thought to herself "This must be one of Corte's brothers I haven't met yet." He looks older and alot like Corte' but it couldnt't be, Not her beloved...as she neared them the man lifted his eyes toward her and the shock in his eyes brung back flooding memories of a time long forgotten .He stammered the words"Mers"(which is what he used to call her)Mercedes began to rush to her beloved arms when a glint caught her eye and she looked at the wedding ring on the woman's hand and Corte's .He followed her gaze and looked up at her and said"Its been 5 years , we thought you were dead?" |
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"5 Years???",Mercedes replied, "It was just last night that you ..you.., she turned and ran to the only place she felt she could..her older sister Paige's house.When she arrived at Paige's little apartment located on Rampart way and found it empty. She had no idea what could have happened in a night how could it be empty just last night she sat on Paiges' lavender colored sofa and was talking of her fathers' decision and what her and Corte's plans were,(The thought of him brought back memories that stung her deep within , then she remebered something he had said,"Its been 5 years"was he trying to cover his deception by treating her as if she were a crazed girlfriend that had sought him out and mentally erased time in her own mind?)This was impossible she felt as if she had fallen and awoken in an alternate universe.... she closed her eyes crying and slumped down the nearest tree and just thought of her beloved sister holding her making all seem better. |
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