SPEC: INTO THE NIGHT (RPG)
Part 5, Posts 74-89


POST 74/Gabrielle
Gabrielle was on her room, she was packing all her things, she was going
right then to Africa, she didn't want to stay there a minute more, and then
she heard it, the soft whisper in her mind...it was Pandora, her beloved
Pandora, a message so tender, so understanding, that made Gabrielle feel
the most guilty vampire in the earth, Pandora had awakened for her! She
loved Gabrielle! But then, in her message she was saying she was going
underground again! No, no, no, no, no, no, no...
"Pan, I love you...whatever I said, it was my fury talking, not my heart I
love you...PANDORA!!!" that scream would have been heard even in China, she
hoped Pandora heard that, but now, Gabrielle had to look after Pandora,
that woman was crazy if she believed Gabrielle would let her go so easily,
no, no, and Gabrielle knew who was the trouble-maker.
'ARMAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
Now, that was another big scream. She ran towards his room, she found him
with Daniel, but now she didn't give a damn about the young fledging.
Armand was suddenly tensed, he must have heard a message from Pandora.
"You red-haired imp! You are a death man if you donīt help me!"
"Hey Lioncourt! What the hell is bad with you? I mean, besides the
attitude."
"Oh, funny!" Gabrielle gathered all her force and took Armand by the collar
and threw him against the wall.
"Gabrielle!" Daniel held Gabrielle and apparted her from Armand, who had
stood up and wanted her blood.
"Cīmon Armand! Come on! And then you'll explain Daniel what you did to us!
Pandora has left! You heard her message?"
"What is she talking about Armand?"
"Ahh....mmmhhh..." Armand was getting nervous and took Gabrielle out of the
room at once "Wait for me Daniel, OK?"
"But Armand..."
Armand closed the door in his fledging's face and guided Gabrielle towards
the living room.
"Look Gabrielle, nothing happened between Pandora and me..."
"Look you russian idiot, I don't care just now, the main thing is that
Pandora has gone underground."
"WHAT?!!!!!!!! I heard her message, but...I failed in locating her."
"But you must find Pandora, Armand you must."
"What on earth did you did to Pandora?" Gabrielle had now a trace of red in
her cheek and let the images flew towards Armand's mind.
"Oh...Gabrielle! You are mad! You know Pandora is a maniatic depressed
and..." Armand closed her mouth when he saw Gabrielle's phantom like
expression.
"Armand...please, I'm begging you, you are the only one able to find
Pandora, do it. You have the faintest idea of what I'm feeling? Pandora
raised up for me Armand. FOR ME! And I had sent her back to kumquatness,
I'm in despair Armand and I swear I will walk into your room and I'll tell
Daniel what happened with Pandora and you and if it's necesary I'll stay
out for the day and I'll see the sun, after leaving a letter to Lestat
saying this all is your work, and then only God knows what he'll make to
you."
Gabrielle stopped suddenly, Armand looked in her mad face for an instant,
he saw the desperation and the love.
"There's no need to threaten me Gabrielle, I'm as guilty on this as you.
Come here, we'll find Pandora. Besides, I know you'll do what you have said
if I don't"
"You understand perfectly."
Armand smiled and he closed his eyes, he stayed scanning with his mind for
something about half an hour, Gabrielle tried to do the same but she was
too nervous to do anything right. Suddenly Armand oppened his eyes.
"I found her."

POST 75/Pandora

Pandora knew they had received her messages, and that Armand's scrying
attempt had failed, but she didn't have the energy of motivation to see
what was happening next. The last thing she saw was Gabrielle packing her
bags, and then she let herself slip into eternal darkness.

POST 76/Armand

"I found her" Armand's voice was soft.
"Then let's go and dig her up!" Gabrielle was already pulling Armand
outside the house. But Armand didn't move a step. "What's the matter with
you Armand?"
"I can't help you Gabrielle, if Pandora decided to go underground I cannot
help you dig her up. It's not the correct thing to do."
"But she went underground because of me Armand, didn't you hear anything I
told you?"
"Yes, and I helped you to find her. I will do no more."
Gabrielle looked at Armand with rage. "O.K. Armand. I will not beg you."
In that moment Lestat entered the flat and Gabrielle ran to his arms. "Mon
fils, you have to help me!". Gabrielle led Lestat to the balcony but before
that she turned to Armand. "We will talk later petite."
Armand stayed in place, his mind whirling. Pandora! Was it his fault also?
The he remembered Daniel. "He must be furious" he thought. He entered the
bedroom looking for him "Daniel?"
"I am here" came the cold answer. Daniel was lying in the bed and his face
told Armand there was no easy way out of this.

POST 77/Lestat

On the balcony Gabrielle turned to Lestat and told him everything, "So you
see, mon fils, you have to help me!"
He turned to his mother "As much as I love you and as much as I want to see
you happy, in this I dare not intrude. The only thing I can suggest is that
you go and talk to Pandora's Father, he is the only one who will dare help
you. And probably the only one who can help you."
"So where is he?"
"All I can tell you is to call out to him and hope he answers."
With this Lestat went to the phone and contacted his agent, the last thing
Gabrielle heard Lestat say before she started to call out was something
about a street child who sang like an Angel......

POST 78/Gabrielle.

Armand had always been so applicated to the rules and that was why he
always managed to get her mad. And then Lestat, why couldn't he help her?
Why should he be afraid of Pandora? Well, at least now she knew where she
was, and calling Marius wasn't a bad idea at all, but what could she said
to him? 'Dear Marius, your fledging who woke up for me is now underground.'
Marius was going to kill Gabrielle, but she was capable of anything for
Pandora, so she made a try:
'Marius, hi mon chere, it's me, Gabby. I need your help ami, Pan came and
we were very happy together, but then we had a fight thanks to your beloved
Armand, and she took it very...very...bad. She went undeground. I'm so
sorry Marius! We are in love, I swear it. Now I'm going to find her, if you
can, please...join me.'
Well, that was it, she hoped Marius heard, and though no one in this house
was in the helping mood, she decided to help herself. First she had to find
Pandora, Armand told her she was in some place out of the city, she was
going to find her very easily, she had to. Then now...how would she get
there? She wasn't in the mood of walking and the airport wasn't near, and
though she couldn't fly, she decided to take a car. Lestat was talking in
the phone to his agent about a singer of something like that. She didn't
care if he noticed, so she took the keys of his new porsche out of his
pocket and went right to the car, it was purring like a cat, gee, she could
understand why he loved that car, she was in a hurry so she gave the damned
thing all the speed, with luck, she would be there in less than two hours,
but now she had to think, if Pandora was already asleep, she would need to
do something great to made her up, something intense enough...would a
streep tease made it?

POST 79/Daniel

Daniel leaned back on his elbows on the bed just looking at Armand. After a
moment Armand took the chair opposite the bed and looked at the floor.
"Hmmm....can't even look at me, eh?" Daniel asked.
"It's not that I can't" he replied and pointedly looked up at Daniel. "But
I don't want to see your disappointment, lover." Daniel snorted. He got off
the bed and started to leave....then turned back to Armand. "You know, if
you don't want to see me
disappointed...you could stop causing it! You could take time to explain
why your leaving every time you do...or..or..." he was reaching. He didn't
know what else to say. He put his hands to his face as he felt the tears
come. He heard Gabrielle calling for Armand....she was angry with him.
Gabrielle understood Daniel. She cared about him. He turned the knob on the
door and walked out of the room without another word. He decided to go for
a walk. Get some air. maybe after he fed he'd feel better. He couldn't talk
to anyone now, not even Gabrielle. He had to decide what to do.

POST 80/Marius

Marius heard Gabrielle's desperate plee, yet was unsure how he could help.
*I can't hear her thoughts, Gabrielle, I am her maker. Wait, there may be a
way* he added, as he heard Gabrielle's diappointment. *Pandora and I have
such a special bond, I can sense when she is near me. I will come to you
and try and help as much as I can.* Marius closed his eyes and
concentrated, and within minutes, he was at Gabrielle's side.

POST No 81/Pandora

Pandora was dreaming. She was back in the doorway of Those Who Must Be
Kept, feeding from Marius, and then, there she was, the beautiful Akasha,
her blood was so warm......then, she was with Gabrielle, entwined
together.....
And then there was darkness......

POST No 82/Myst

Melisande had been telling me a bit about herself and how vampires had been
feeding off her family for years. At first I was facinated by her story and
was enjoying my meal. Expecting a long night I had asked for a flask of hot
chocolate, the first time I had done this I had got a lot of dirty looks,
but over the years and a lot of shift work they had gotten used to my
request, and through the years with a lot of coaching from me they could
now make an almost perfect cup of hot chocolate. I was on my second cup
when I heard Pandora telling the others that she was going underground,
well that was her choice and I respected her decision as she had respected
mine, when I had decided to shut off my memory. I opened my mind to her and
received the position of her resting place, good, I will pop around every
now and again to make sure her resting site is not disturbed.
I was just getting back to my meal when I heard Gabrielle call out to
Marius asking for help in locating Pandora, fine girl call all you want.
Then I heard him answer, damn him, he was going to help her. I excused
myself from the table, paying at the till and collecting my flask I headed
out Into The Night. In the old days I would have flown, but it had been a
while since I last had risen to the skys, anyway I was a block from my old
work, I headed there, picked up my car, it had been searched when I had not
pitched up for work, but at least they had not yet moved it. I got in, it
took a couple of times to get it started, then I headed out to Pandora's
resting place.
She had ended up in a cemetary, I went over to where she had entered the
ground, how many times in the past had I done this, how many times had she
fled into the earth after being hurt by one or more of her lovers, NO more.
If she wishes to return I will be there for her, otherwise I will do
everything in my power to protect her resting place, for it was because of
me that she was tempted to the dark side, I was not there to protect her
from that fiend Marius. I took one last look at her entre point and then
headed towards the exit, I did not want to give her resting place away by
my presence, anyway she could call me anytime she needed me, I would not be
far away. There was a building opposite the cementery, yes that would do
nicely. I may not yet be good enough to fly long distances but I could
definitely manage to get to the top of this building. I closed my eyes and
started to rise.

POST No 83/Armand

He sat motionless staring at the door after Daniel had left. Alone. He was
alone. He had seen the dissapointment in his fledging's eyes and the pain
he felt now was unbearable. Armand wanted to follow Daniel, to force him to
stay, but it was useless. He saw it in Daniel's eyes... it was over. It was
always like that for him, and that was the reason why Armand was always so
afraid of giving himself. He had bared his soul to his fledging and
everything seemed to be right until Gabrielle, damn her!, stormed into
their bedroom screaming about Pandora. The thought of Pandora sent a new
wave of pain into his soul. She had saved him and he... he had been
careless not shielding his thoughts... and now Pandora was underground
again. He stood up feeling his limbs heavy as if he were going to sleep for
the day, he walked drowsily to the bed and collapsed on it burying his face
in the pillows. Nothing mattered to him now, he could understand Pandora
just so well. Maybe he ought to go underground also. But no, he was afraid
of not rising again, of the weakness that came before the sleep. Armand's
mind drifted and for about an hour he did not know where he was. When he
opened his eyes a blonde vampire was peering at him, eyes full of concern.
But it was not Marius, it was not his Padrone. It was Lestat.
"Are you alright Armand?"
"I'm fine" - he said, but his voice faltered.
Lestat studied Armand's face for a moment. "Well, then let's go out and
hunt. You seem to need it..."
"No... I'm not hungry" - his voice was monotonous, no inflection there.
"And Daniel? - Lestat pressed - "where is Daniel?"
Armand's face paled even more. "Daniel is gone" - he said and closed his
eyes again.

POST No 84/Daniel

He walked for miles.....the darkness covering him like a blanket. But it
couldn't keep out the chill. The sting of losing a lover was all too
present. He fed on a drug dealer. Man, they were getting younger and
younger. Somehow he ended up at that same cafe, where he had found Armand
the other night, with all the others. He looked in the big window in the
front of the building. She was there! The mortal girl who had gotten away
from them. He waited for her outside the building. 'Not very smart coming
back her, Melisande' he said to himself, shaking his head. Crazy kid. He
was going to find out what she knew about Armand. Even if it killed her.

POST No 85/Gabrielle

CRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oooops, hope Lestat wasn't very fond of that porsche
'cause now it was stamped in a wall, but she didn't care about that, though
Marius obviously do.
"You madame are two hundred years old and you have never taken driving
lessons?" he was muttering something of a bone out of place, the main thing
was that they were in the place Armand had told her Pandora would be, but
it was very hard to scan her anyway, it was very late, the few people that
were still in that street were very interested in the accident so no one
was paying attention at the cementery, she could feel Pandora's presence.
"She is here Marius, I can feel it."
"Exactly were?"
"Here." Gabrielle said walking towards one of the groves "Right here."
"Well, if you are sure of this, then there is only one thing we can do."
and while Marius said that he began digging, Gabrielle joined him at once.
They remained on their work and then she finally found something, a
moonlight like hand. That could have been an scene from a horror movie, but
it didn't scare Gabrielle at all. She continued untill she digged up the
rest of the body, it was all dirty and deathlike, but it was so
lovely...Gabrielle held Pandora in her arms 'Gabrielle' Marius called
'Let's go, here.' They went into some old long ago abandoned house, a house
which surely children would say was full of ghosts, well, now it was at
least full of vampires, she had Pan in her arms and there was Marius. She
laid the beloved body of her lover on the floor.
"How can I awaken her Marius?"
"You have to find it by yourself my friend, I'll go out of the house to
check no one finds you two, if you need my help, just call." and then
Marius left, hoping Gabrielle could be able to find a way to return his
dear fledging back to life.
"Pandy..." she called "Pan, my love it's me, Gabrielle" there was no
answer, Gabrielle was about to despair, she could feel Marius reassuring
and silence pressence around the cementery. "Pandora...please. forgive me,
rise to life, I need you, I love you." Gabrielle was shaking the other
woman's body but still Pandora wasn't responding. Gabrielle made the only
thing that she thought could help, she bit her lip so hard that the blood
began to flow, hot sweet blood, she closed her eyes and reclined until she
was almost kissing Pandora, the blood falling in her mouth "I love you too
girlfriend, and I would never let you go." And then she was kissing Pandora
passionately, letting the blood fall in her motionless lips, feeding her
with her own blood, and hoping that would work.

POST No 86/Lestat

He returned the receiver to its place, stood up and headed out the door
towards the balcony. As he was passing one of the rooms he heard some sort
of crying comming from within. He went to the door and slowly pushed it
open, as the light shone on the bed he saw Armand with his head in his
hands, out of the corner of Armand's eye he saw a single tear role down his
cheek, Lestat could see the trail of red it had left behind on its way
down. He did not want to make things worst than he already had, but he had
to do something, two of his best friends were in trouble and he did not
want to see it go the way His and Louis's had gone, it had taken his book
to bring them back together. He sat on the bed next to Armand and placed
his arm on Armand's shoulder then just sat and did nothing, he knew Armand
would talk when he was ready, this was not a time to rush things. They had
sat like that for perhaps an hour, not doing a thing, when Armand started,
"He hates me "
"Why would you think that?",
"Because Gabrielle thought I was playing with Pandora and he heard her"
"And were you?"
"No, she had saved me when I was too weak to save myself."
"And did you tell Daniel this?"
"No."
"Then find him, and tell him."
"It's not that easy."
"It never is, never, but it is always worth it."
With this sage advice he started to stand up, he turned to Armand and said
he would call Daniel for him. He left the room and went outside on the
balcony, he looked to the sky and rose. He slowed down and came to a stop
about 300m in the air. Floating there he reached out with his mind and
called to Daniel, asking him to return to the flat. Next he opened his mind
to the others and got a fright, oh the silly girl had called Marius to help
her with Pandora, now the sparks were really going to fly. Nearby he could
see Myst rising to the top of a building, so the little squert could fly,
but that was not what interested him the most, it was the fact that the
other two were heading in that direction, and what he could tell, they did
not know he was there. Nor would they as Myst was screening his mind from
them, though he left it wide open to all others, as if he was waiting for a
call from someone. Now anything that affected his mother interested Lestat
almost to the point of obsession, it was perhaps because since he had
created her he had had such little influence in her life, hell sometimes it
could be a century between visits. Well it was time he became an active
part in this affair. He commanded his body towards the roof of the
building.

POST No 87/Lestat & Myst

Myst looked up as Lestat landed on the roof behind him,
"Mind if I join you?",
"Please do, Mr.Lestat of the Clan de Lioncourt",
"So tell me, am I in time for the main act?",
"You just made it, though you missed a great preshow warm up",
"Who was the act",
"A bunch of lovers who kept on getting themselves into hillarious
situations",
"I see you have brought your own snacks",
"Yes, but where are yours, or have you already eaten?",
"I had a bite earlier. Enough of this ", he grabbed Myst by the neck
"what are you doing here?, Why are you watching us?",
"I am not watching you, I am only enjoying the scenery, great view from up
here you know",
"Don't fool with me boy, I could kill you in an instant, NOW tell me why
are you here!",
"One, I am not a boy I have lived longer than you could ever imagine. Two,
you could never touch me unless I let you. And three, it is I that could
kill you."
"That still does not answer my question, I may or may not be able to kill
you, but I can tell the others that you are here, and I do know you are
trying to hide from them. Now tell me",
"OK, chill dude, first I think you had better sit down ".
At this Lestat took his place next to Myst on the ledge, during this
procedure, Myst poured himself a cup of hot chocolate from the flask he had
brought, took a deep breath and ........
"Pandora is my daughter. There, I have said it. Now what are you going to
do about it?"
"..............."
"I see you are shocked, it was nothing like the shock I got comming home to
find my beautiful child a creature of the night, a monster that fed off
humanity, a vampire",
"You can't still hate us, that was near Two Thousand years ago
".........................

POST 88/Pandora

The dreams were getting worse, she was now remembering how her father had
left her when she was young, how he had just walked away, left everything
to join the Talamasca. She remembered how much she had cried as he turned
his back on her and walked out the door. He didn't even turn back. It
frightened Pandora to know that he had found her with the other vampires,
that her father was near her once again. Her only comfort was she didn't
know who had come into the cementery. Then the darkness engulfed her again.

Voices......"Pan, my love it's me, Gabrielle" it was Gabrielle, but was she
dreaming? She felt Marius around as well......then Gabrielle was talking
again. She was getting more desperate.."Pandora...please. forgive me, rise
to life, I need you, I love you." And then there was blood......Gabrielle's
blood.......she was trying to wake up Pandora. Pandora wondered if
Gabrielle knew the only thing that could awaken her was if Pandora *wanted*
to be awake. Marius should have known that. He had tried so many times to
bring Pandora out of her sleep, but everything had failed. Gabrielle was
kissing Pandora know, but Pandora resisted. Then she heard another voice in
her head **Pandora, it's good to see you again** It was Myst, her father!
The fury that rose within Pandora was enough to bring her back. Gabrielle
looked shocked when Pandora sat up and pushed her away. "Pan?" Gabrielle
whi