The Gemini and The Wild One

Chapter Eight, Marcel's Ball

Chapter Eight, Marcel's Ball

Evie and Davina were excited as they looked around the transforming compound. Marcel, Kol, Kai and several other vampires who were under Marcel were setting up for the Ball later that night. With the courtyard being open to the sky they were wrapping fairy lights around pillars, the balcony railings and the stairs which would look beautiful when the stars shone in the night sky. Several round tables were dotted around the edges of the courtyard draped in white tablecloths, and leaving a section by the fountain bath as that would be the dance floor, and just under the balcony a little platform was being set up for the live band.
"It's going to look amazing." Evie muttered, looking around at everything coming together.
"It really is." Davina agreed. "Come on, we need to get ready." She grasped her friend's hand leading her towards her room where the pair would get ready for this evening.

Davina was wearing the one shouldered, sparkly rose pink dress that Evie had picked out for her with nude heels, rose pink nails, and a nude fluffy wrap. Her makeup was a smokey eye with glittery rose pink eyeshadow with a darker pink, black mascara and eyeliner and a taupe lipstick and her hair in a braided bun.
Whereas, Evie was wearing the gorgeous high neck burgundy dress that had sequins and diamantés at the top and flared out in the skirt that Davina had picked out for her. She paired it with a white fluffy wrap, silver heels and nude nails. Nude eyeshadow, black eyeliner and mascara, burgundy lipstick and a curled and braided bun.

As Evie made sure she and Davina looked amazing, she felt a tingle on the back of her neck. She could tell it was Kai who was attempting to mind link her.
'It's been years since I've been free, I don't know if I'm ready for this, Sorella.' Kai spoke to his little sister in her mind. Evie had been so excited about the masquerade ball that she had forgotten just how much everything had changed since Kai had been locked away in a pocket dimension.

Of course he would be anxious about his first ever social event since the 90s. And especially since it was a formal event as well.
'I'm going to be with you, fratello, I won't let you be shamed by some nobodies. You know, you and Marcel are quite similar in that way, you both despise your fathers, biological and adoptive, respectively, everything will be fine. If you feel like you can't go on any longer then I'll join you for some sibling bonding time.' Evie reassured her beloved older brother.

'Thanks, sorellina.' Kai murmured telepathically as he helped Kol tie his necktie correctly.
Evie then cut their telepathic connection as she held out her arm for Davina who linked their arms together.
"Everything alright? Was it Uncle Kol again?" Davina asked softly as her sky blue irises gleamed with mischief.
They had been lucky that Evie had soundproofed their houses and especially made sure that they never caught her and Kol in a compromising position.

"No, it was Kai, he's a bit anxious. The last time we had any social event, if you could call it that, was back in 1994 and only a few months later, that bastard imprisoned him. Plus this event is formal and he's not used to having to look sharp or as Marcel calls it, aristocratic." Evie explained, as they made their way downstairs. Kol immediately excused himself from his conversation with Josh, in order to offer his arm to his beautiful mate.

"Evie, my darling, you are absolutely ravishing this evening, I could just eat you up. Just wait till we get home." Kol grinned naughtily as his mate blushed prettily.
"Oi, back off my baby sister, she's still my sister before she became your mate." Kai scowled playfully at his would-be brother-in-law who laughed loudly.
"Sorellina, you are beautiful, you're gonna make me cry, you've grown up and I regret that I've missed it." Kai embraced his little sister and kissed the top of her head.

Marcel had been in awe of his own daughter as she glowed all on her own and her joy was vibrant and just as beautiful as she was.
"Vina, I'm so honored to be your father, I could not be prouder of you and I just know Evie is the reason we're now a genuine family, however, I was blessed as soon as you came into my life, my little Vina." Marcel stated as his adopted daughter kissed his cheek and hugged him tightly.

Davina had fully embraced her true nature as a Harvest witch, thanks to Evie and she blossomed under Evie's understanding guidance. Evie linked her arms with her mate and her older brother while Marcel and Davina linked their arms as well. Together, they made their way to the foot of the elegant staircase and thanked their guests for coming to their first ever Gerard-Mikaelson Ball.

They had decided that they would be known as the Gerard Coven but they also wanted the other supernaturals to realize who they really were. That way, should they attempt to interfere, they would be reminded of whom to be afraid of. Especially as Kol, known as the Reckless or Wild One of the Originals, was much more terrifying than the Noble Original and the Original Hybrid put together. For Kol would burn the entire world without a sliver of remorse in order to keep his beloved mate alive. And everyone in attendance knew it. Not only that but she was an extremely powerful Gemini witch and would easily burn the world to a crisp for her mate, her beloved brother - known as the Heretic and would burn the world if you so much as looked at his baby sister wrongly - and her new friends.

Along with Marcel and Davina they made up a truly more powerful coven then the Originals did back in the day, and far more fearful. It wasn't the daily fear that had gripped them when the other Originals had ruled New Orleans, but a fear of retribution if they upset the two females of the coven, and god have mercy on those that did for Marcel, Kol and Kai would not give it to them in their vengeful wrath as they rained hell down on them and they certainly did not want to rock the boat.

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Italian to English translations:

*Fratello = brother
*Sorellina = little sister