Fairy Blood | By : Antarprince04 Category: G through L > Glee Views: 2647 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1 |
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Puck watched the angry red tail-lights of the black navigator that he knew held his friend and that Kurt guy until they disappeared from view. It almost seemed like it had faded from sight, he thought, swallowed by the night shadow. “Oh get a grip Puckerman,” he laughed at himself as he made his way across the nearly abandoned parking lot toward his truck. There were maybe two, or three other vehicles besides his own, and he moved a little faster across the lot in spite of himself, scoffing at himself all the while for acting like such a chick.
It wasn't as if he was actually afraid, he told himself – it was Finn for god sake! His bruises seemed to throb in contradiction to his thoughts, reminding him exactly what his friend was apparently capable of, but was he afraid? Puck really considered that for a minute; he though about all that had happened that night, and compared it to what he knew of his best friend, as well as what he thought he knew and what he remembered the vampire chick on TV saying about their kind. He had no illusions about what they were. Vampires were predators and he knew that. Anything that feed on living blood was a natural predator; even Finn had admitted that he still had issues around people, but did that make Puck afraid?
No... Well, OK, maybe a little, he admitted to himself. Maybe he was afraid on a purely instinctual level, he wasn't stupid. Like it or not, Vampires were higher on the food chain, and Puck did have a survival instinct, but no, he wasn't really afraid, he decided. The trick to dealing with predators, he knew, was to be assertive, dominate. You had to look them in the eye and not back down; you had to be the Alpha – show them that you were the boss, because if a predator sensed fear it would rip you to shreds. So, no, he decided, slowing his pace to a confident stride. He wasn't afraid, he was Bad ass – definitely an Alpha.
Still, Puck was a little shocked. His best friend since elementary school was a vampire, obviously. He didn't quite know how to respond to that; on the one hand, in concept, being a Vampire sounded awesome! At the very least he knew it was a total chick magnet, the Gossip he remembered among the female population of McKinley was enough to tell him that. He'd make a totally kick ass vamp, no question – not that he needed any help in that department, he smirked.
On the other hand, that was like necrophilia and that was just gross. You could justify it how you wanted, but the stone cold fact was that Vampires were very dead, and that thought depressed him more then anything else. Finn, his best friend of nearly fifteen years, was inescapably dead. As he reached his truck, he swallowed back the grief that drudged up, into a tight little ball down his throat. God, that was just gonna kill Mrs. H.
Puck remembered the woman's reaction when her son had first vanished – she had been frantic, which wasn't a surprise. It wasn't anything at first. Finn being sixteen, Mrs. H had just assumed that Finn had snuck out of the house to go see his girlfriend Quinn. Oh he would be grounded when he did come tip-toeing in, but she hadn't been concerned. After all, Finn was a good boy, but he was a boy, and she knew what that age was like. It may seem odd, but she didn't want to be one of those parents – something Puck had always liked about the woman. Realistically, she knew that if they really wanted to do something, a teenage boy would probably do it. All she could do was prepare him, minimizing the backlash when it bit him in the ass.
As the evening came; however, she had begun to worry. At first she had called Quinn, promising not to be angry, but was Finn with her, and the young girl had seemed genuinely confused, not having seen the tall boy all day. Puck had gotten the same call a little while later, around seven-thirty. At first he was going to answer that he had heard from the other boy, covering for his friend, simply assuming that Finn was out somewhere with Quinn trying to get lucky. Finn was his friend, but he had to admit that the other boy wasn't the sharpest; the Irish boy had probably forgotten the time, but he could tell by her tone that she was actually worried.
As soon as they had hung up, Puck had dialed Finn himself, and the phone had just rang and rang before the automated voice mail picked up. He just growled in frustration when it beeped. “Dry it off and call your mom dumb ass,” he'd said before hanging up and calling Quinn.
The Mohawked teen had been surprised when the cheerleader answered on the second ring, answering his question when she picked up, asking Finn's name. He had actually thought the other boy might be with her, but he could tell he'd been wrong. If Finn had been with Quinn like he'd thought he doubted she would have answered either. Puck had shaken his head even though the blond couldn't see him. “Have you seen him,” he had asked. “He's not picking up.”
“I know...” She sounded equal parts annoyed and worried to Puck. It wasn't the first time that Finn hadn't picked up the phone; the idiot had probably left his cellphone in his room when he'd left again. “His mother just called me.” Puck had 'hmm'd' in acknowledgment, the worry made more sense then.
He had thanked her absently, starting to think, before hanging up, telling her to keep an ear open, which she said she would. A little ticked buy that point he started to call the guys on the football team, absent Karofsky and Azimio. They would just laugh and make some half-ass joke. After that he'd called the other gleeks. Maybe Finn was off 'practicing some duet' with Man-hands.
He frowned at that, having no clue what his friend saw in Berry. Well, that wasn't true; she was likely to put out for him a lot faster then the president of the Chastity club. Of course, if all Finn wanted was to get laid he could have gone to Santana. Of course, Finn was a sap, Santana would have ripped him apart. Still, Rachel Barry? He'd rather join a monistary first.
Puck had shaken his head after that and gone back to his calls, trying to track down his wayward friend. Trying to understand Finn's brain made his head hurt, but he'd called Barry first all the same. When that came up a bust, he said his goodbyes quickly, having no desire to speak to her longer then necessary. He was on the phone for nearly an hour, but no one had seen or heard from the boy all day.
Around midnight, when no word had come he started to worry a little. He'd briefly thought about calling Azimio or Karofsky. He knew Finn was capable of taking care of himself, but if the jocks had gotten twitchy and grown more then the two brain cells between them... Well, height only went so far when brute strength was involved, and if they ganged up on him, but he had no proof yet. So he hopped in my truck and made my way to the Hudson house.
It was late yeah, but Puck hadn't been surprised at all when Mrs. H. had opened the door before he'd barely even knocked. “Hey...” was all he'd said to her, in a quiet, awkward voice that didn't suite him at all; absent was that confident, bad ass bravado that the boy always wore like a second skin. He'd never admit it in front of anyone else, but the woman standing with him then, was like a second mother to him, and at this point even he was starting to worry. Finn may be dense, and have the short term memory of a goldfish, but disappearing like he had wasn't like him, even to avoid punishment.
He didn't even bother to ask about Finn. His Surrogate mothers tousled hair and haggard appearance told him all that he needed; she'd greeted him in her bath robe and slippers, a cup of coffee that had no doubt long since gone cold in hand. The dim lamp light that shown from the open door illuminated her face. It was tight and drawn with worry; there were dark circles under her eye's like she'd stayed up long past her tolerance, waiting on Finn he knew, which explained the coffee. “Hello Noah,” she said tiredly, stepping aside to allow him in without prompting.
It had gone way beyond rebellious teenager, Puck decided, taking a seat on the couch as Mrs. H. went into the kitchen to refresh her coffee. He grimaced as he watched the late night news play silently on the muted television. He didn't want to think about the connotations behind such an innocent action. Just then it was some sap-story about the homeless that stayed in their tents down by the riverbank; it was muted, but the footage told him all that he needed to know. It was the implication that put the Pit in his stomach – Mrs H. was watching, waiting for the headline that said they'd found her son's body.
Puck called his own mother on the urgings of Mrs. H. when she came back in with two cups, handing the unasked for cup over without a word. His initial reaction had been to protest. Granted, it wasn't as if his mom was some low-rent welfare junkie who didn't take care of her family; it was only that Puck was used to taking care of himself – he had never been very dependent on others.
He found himself relenting; however, at the look from Mrs. H. He had his phone in hand calling his mom before the protest even gave voice. She was right anyway, no way did he wanna put his own mother though this, he had thought looking over at the TV with a sinking feeling. “Hey Ma,” he said when she picked up after a few rings. She was probably just settling down for bed, he knew. “Listen, I'm gonna stay over at Finn's tonight – I just wanted to let you know,” he told her gentler then he normally would. “I know it's a school night Ma, but the situations a bit complicated,” he retorted a bit irritably despite the circumstances.
He went silent for a minute when his mother inevitably asked about these special circumstances, looking at Mrs. H. as if she could hear the other half of the seemingly one-sided conversation, trying to decide, and silently asking what he should tell her. If he told her they both knew that it would be all over town by the next evening, but they both knew that it really wasn't a choice. “Finn's Missing Ma,” he said. “I'm staying with Mrs. H. tonight.” It wasn't a question, and he missed the sad but appreciative smile she shot him.
His Ma was predictably shocked, Finn wasn't as close to his mother as he was to Mrs. H., but Puck and Finn having grown up together, the older woman was quite familiar with the Irish boy. He rolled his eyes when the Jewish woman said that they should call the police; like they weren't gonna do that, he thought, but then looked guilty and a tad embarrassed as she nagged him, like she'd seen him roll his eyes. “Don't you roll your eyes at me Noah Isiah Puckerman!” She scolded and he winced at the pronouncing of his middle name, how did she do that! “All those demons walking around at night these days, anything could have happened to the poor boy...”
He paled at the mention of Vampires. He didn't hold the same opinions as his mother, mainly because he'd never met one, but he'd never even considered that. “I know Ma,” he relented. “I just wanted to check in.” They spoke a few minutes longer before his mom went up to bed, saying goodnight. He reciprocated before hanging up. “Goodnight Ma.”
There wasn't much conversation after that; they just sorta sat there in a tense silence. He should probably have said something, he knew, but what could he say that wasn't some false hope? Sure, he could tell her that everything would be alright, that it would all work out, and that Finn was gonna be fine; but they both knew it would only be pointless platitudes. He thought briefly about mentioning the possibility of Vampires, but he wasn't sure whether that would make matters better, or worse for the woman.
It was two hours later when Mrs. H finally broke and made the call to report her son as missing, and twenty minutes after that a squad car pulled up in front of the house, lights flashing silently. They were fortunate in that Finn was as old as he was; because, legally a person was forced to wait a minimum of seventy-two hours – three days – before a missing persons report could be filed, but since Finn had been just shy of seventeen he was still a minor, and people took that deathly serious, which Puck never understood. Who suddenly decided that children were more important then adults, and more important, why? Yes, OK they had their whole lives ahead of them, but life wasn't some Tribe episode, children just could not survive without an adult. He wasn't about to complain, though, because it worked in their favor this time.
Another thing, he decided, that was in their favor was that Lima was....Well, it was Lima, a relatively small place. It was no Mayberry, where everybody knew everybody and their mother; but it wasn't New York, or LA where people went missing as often as they changed outfits. Lima was a more tight-nit suburban city, and that was definitely likely to yield more in terms of cooperation, if only because everybody else was worried that the same could happen to them just as easily.
Additionally, the boy couldn't remember the last time he'd heard tale of an actual murder in Lima, which was encouraging at least. Sure there had been a couple of work related deaths, and one freak accident that he knew of; a bargeman had fallen overboard during his shift and been found the next morning, having decapitated himself on the rutter. It was with that thought that Puck got up to answer the door, squeezing Mrs. H's shoulder comfortingly.
As with all things, though, Finn's case inevitably went cold: Weeks went by turning to months, those months into a year; and the people around her became quietly sympathetic, giving her pitying looks. They never talked about it, but the people of Lima Ohio quietly accepted that Finn Hudson was dead, even if there was no proof. Finn became “That poor dead boy” and Mrs. H. was relegated similarly, but she never gave up. Choosing to believe that one day Finn would come home to her.
Puckzilla You'll Never Guess what I just saw...
Puck added that as his new status in a Facebook Post, and he wondered idly as he sat there, alone in the dark if he should worry that he was gossiping like some old yenta at a Temple social. Personally he blamed his mother, damn genetics; but he grinned when a reply came, not two minutes later.
Troutmouth If the next words out of your mouth are “Donkey Show” I am So logging off.
TheFury Dude that is so wrong lol
Puckzilla Rolls Eye's* One show and you're labeled for life!
Lonely Dancer So what'ya see, yo?
Puckzilla ...A Vamp.
Lonely Dancer No way, seriously? Where – what was it like?
Puck actually laughed out loud at the rapid-fire succession of the questions in his friends response to his answer. Actually, the boy's – Puck knew all three of these guys personally – interest in vampires, and by extension his personal interaction with one made since, but it was still funny. He could practically hear the eagerness that the questions conveyed as if he were talking to the boy in person.
He'd known that that boy would be the one with the most Justifiable interest in Vampires, probably in the whole city. Puck didn't like the term Hick town, it reflected badly on him, but he could guess the general attitude toward the Vampires and their rights movement – small religious towns were like that – and he knew that the boy in question wasn't likely to get a lot of reliable info. So, taking a second, he recalled what he could of his brief encounter with the vampire Kurt, including it in his response.
It was obvious to Puck that the Feminine boy, cause he certainly was that, was trying to blend in preferring to observe those around him. He held himself with a sort of snobby superiority that Puck wasn't sure was out of place. After all, he could have torn him and the teacher apart. Remembering that, and the boy's – even though it was obvious to him Kurt was old, at least eighty if Puck read between the lines right. The Dainty boy had been in Germany during World War II, he was probably older then even that. - interaction with Finn he shivered. Kurt was obviously gay, and had turned Finn....
Puckzilla Dude put the Wammy on Mrs. McClellen! ...Not that I like the old bitch much.
Troutmouth You mean he did that glamour thing everybody says they do? Awesome.
Puckzilla Yeah, it was weird. I don't know how to explain it; like all the heat drained from the room, and everything went deathly still. It felt... Well, dead, but thats not all...
Lonely Dancer What is it?
Puckzilla Finn was with him.
TheFury What? Shit man...
Lonely Dancer Dude, that's not Funny, yo...
Puckzilla Does it Look like I'm Fucking joking?
Troutmouth ...Do you think he's been...
Puckzilla I don't Think.
Puckzilla I Know he has. Dude almost ripped my throat out! Said he still had issues with Ppl.
Lonely Dancer Makes sense. I mean Finn's not that old. In terms of Vampire age he'd still be a New Born, considering how old Vamps can get. If he viewed you as any sort of threat to him, or his maker, who for all intent and purpose is like a parent, his instinct would be to defend.
Lonely Dancer Imagine if someone threatened you, or your Mom and Sister.
TheFury How do you know all this crap?
Lonely Dancer Some of our reading comprehension is higher then “See Spot Run.”
TheFury Fuck You Fairy boy!
Lonely Dancer Oo Throwing Stones now? I don't think that pretty bot of yours would appreciate that. What'a ya think Sam? :)
Puckzilla Right Im out...
Lonely Dancer What, don't wanna know how many balls he can put in his mouth now? Lol
TheFury Wait! Dude, what are ya gonna tell Quinn?
Fuck, what was he gonna say to her? He'd forgotten all about her. Should he even bother, he wondered? She would find out soon he knew, but she was just starting to move on. On the other hand, if he didn't tell her, and she found out some other way... He could always just let her run into Finn on her own. She was bound to at some point, but the fallout could be worse, and Finn would probably mention seeing him before hand and then he'd get bitched at for not saying anything...
It would probably be better to prepare her.
Fuck!
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