Tara's Complex

[BassPosaune]

"Do you really think this will work?"
"Course it will work, are you kidding?"
"Well... I don't know I've never seen you actually cast a real spell before."
"Well luv it's going to take more than a few hocus pocus alakazams to get you and Azure and Carmen all back to normal but hell, I know it works. My uncle George had it done to him. He suffered some misery when it came to bowel movements, but that--excuse the pun-- passed soon enough."

Tara pulled a face and paused, watching Lily maneuver through the park trail. It was promising but it all seemed a little far-out for her tastes. If it worked, however, she, Azure and Carmen would be free to live their lives as they would if they had never been vampires to begin with. Tara would be cured of the disease that made Patrick change her, and when she turned into a shapeshifter Azure would return to a human. That was the plan anyway. Then they could leave this awful place and live their lives in peace. With Azure a human again, Tara would have immunity through marriage, and so would Carmen. They could legally get passports, and own their own club or...a dance studio, or something. Somewhere safe.

Lily took Tara to a secluded area in the park and began setting up a fire and a cauldron and some ingredients. Tara smirked, "No eye of rat?"

"Actually no. But, I do need a sample of pubes from you...plucked not snipped."

Tara blinked, looking horrified, "Um..."

"Just kidding. That would be for the aphrodisiac spell. And its eye of newt, toe of rat. FYI."

"You're a perv."

"I know, that's why you love me. Now I do need something from you, luckily it is less humiliating and less painful than the other option. I need some venom from your fangs. So if you'll just bite on to the covering on this bottle, like a snake."

Tara obliged. Her venom trickled into the bottle and when it was full up Lily took it and sealed it, then placed in a sack. "We'll need it for later. So what it will end up being is a broth you drink, and over the next few months you'll have a few doses. You'll take some now, and again in a month. Sound good?"

"And you're sure it will work?"

Lily nodded. "And if it doesn't, it wont hurt you or Azure or Carmen. Well okay... bowel movements might suck. But then you don't have any anyway as a vampire, right?"

Tara nodded. It was still a gamble, but one she was willing to take. She wanted the best for her family.

"Does Azure know about this?" Lily asked. Tara nodded,

"Of course."

She wasn't going to tell Azure. Tara snuck into the house late that night, trying to be as stealthy as she could (as a vampire, that wasn't too hard) to avoid waking the baby. Sasha was still there... maybe Azure was at work? Tara skirted around the sofa, past the gently snoring young woman. Tara giggled slightly... Sasha swore up and down that she didn't snore. If only Tara had a recorder. She walked into the baby's room and peered into the cradle. "There's my sweetheart..." Tara reached in and stroked Carmen's forehead gently. The baby sighed and snuggled into the blanket, obviously soothed by her mother's touch. Tara grinned, "Mommy's fixing it. Everything will be normal again. You're going to have the best life possible....I promise." Tara sat in the corner of the room and settled in to watch the little baby sleep.