Forbidden (Fallen 2)

She was very obviously a vampire.

She marched towards us very slowly and in a trance-like way. And then I realized that Gabriel was forcing her against her will towards us.

If I hadn’t just experienced the pain she put me through I would feel sorry for her. I knew what it was like being forced to do something you very much did not want to do but at this moment I couldn’t bring myself to feel any pity for her.

She was so pale as to appear translucent. Her eyes were such a bright silver that they almost seemed to glow. Her long, waist-length hair was so blond it was nearly white. She moved as if she were floating or gliding across liquid. She wore a wispy white dress that may have been a night gown.

Jonathon stood up, pulling me with him, and held me as close to him as he could. It was as if he thought if he held me tight enough I would melt into him and be protected from everything.

The girl came to a stop in front of Gabriel.

Gabriel turned to Jonathon and said, “I’ll have to ask the questions. She won’t reply to you,” and turned back to the girl.

“What is your name child?” Gabriel asker her.

“Millie,” she replied in a high-pitched childlike voice.

“How old were you when you were changed?”

“Eleven years old,” she said, not blinking.

“How long have you been changed?”

“One-hundred and fifty-two years.”

“Who is your master?” Gabriel said, walking around the girl and assessing her.

“I serve no one,” she said.

“Who are you working for?” Gabriel growled.

She didn’t answer.

“Come on my pet. Don’t fight me. Just answer the question. I repeat, who-are-you-working-for-?”

“Her name is. . . Selena,” she said. I could see how hard she was trying to fight answering these questions and I almost felt sorry for her. She was just a kid. Even if she was an undead one.

An intake of breath came from our collective group.

Gabriel looked thoughtful.

“Why has Selena hired you?”

“To penetrate the human girl’s mind.”

“Which girl?”

“I do not know her name?”

“Describe her then,” Gabriel said. His eyes seemed to bore straight through her.

“Dark hair. Green eyes. The one with the curly haired blond vampire.”

“What was it Selena wanted you to do, specifically, with the human girl’s mind?”

“Confuse her thoughts,” the child-vampire Millie said.

“Confuse her thoughts in regard to what?”