Circle Interrupted Chapter 9: Runoff Trap
Fandoms: Bloodlines & Vampire Academy Canon Divergent Fix It Fic - Post Silver Shadows Longfic: 82,000+ Words so far Rated T - Hurt/Comfort, Whump with a Happy Ending, Heavy Situations, Mental Health, PTSD, Guns, violence, (see tags on Fic) Sydney & Adrian Alternating POV , Sydney/Adrian, Jill/Eddie, Trey/Angeline, incidental Lissa/Christian, Incidental Rose/Dimitri
Chapter Summary:
Sydney, Eddie, Jill, Trey and the children find their way out of a maze and away from the Warriors and Alchemists. Jill gets to do a lot of magic, Sydney gets to combine Magic and Science, Eddie gets to do what he loves doing best, and Trey is a little bit of a contortionist.
Also I am sorry for this one... You've been warned.
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Excerpt:
“I thought moroi couldn’t compel other moroi.”
“Usually they can’t. Unless the compulsion is really strong,” Eddie said.
“Maybe kids are more susceptible,” I reasoned.
“Have either of you ever seen anyone use compulsion that causes a full-blown brainstorm?” Trey asked.
“No,” I said. Eddie hesitated.
“Once. Just one time,”
Jill, who had seemed lost in her own head until now turned to listen to Eddie with us.
“I’m sure you were briefed about the battle at St. Vlad’s, Sydney.” He glanced towards Trey. “Basically, the strigoi teamed up – largest group we’d ever seen – fifty, I think. They attacked my school after convincing some humans to weaken the wards. We were holed up in the moroi senior dorms. Last line of defense. I think I was the only one of my classmates who’d ever seen a strigoi before, and I had quite the chip on my shoulder after… my first encounter with one.
“Our teachers were doing a good job of holding them back for a while, but eventually we needed to evacuate through a utility tunnel to the next dorm over. There was a weakness though – an egress hatch,” Eddie scoffed, indicating to the escape ladder above our heads.
Another reminder that we really needed to get going. But I was engrossed. Eddie rarely talked about his time in school.
“We’d almost gotten everyone through. I was towards the back, but not quite. I turned around to do a quick check, and when I did, I saw one of my classmates, Moira, get pulled into the shadows where the stairwell was. So I followed. When I turned the corner, I interrupted her talking with the strigoi. I don’t know why they were talking. No idea what was even said… But he’d already ordered her to ‘Go,’ – go to their base, maybe – but when the strigoi saw me, he reversed course – told her to stay, to fight. To attack me.”
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