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The Case of the Murdered Witch Doctors | Chapter 9

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Pairing: Ride or Die | Ellie x Colt Summary: “It was worth a wound--it was worth many wounds--to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask.” - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Word Count: 2k+ Warnings: PG-18 (blood, injury, wounds etc.) @rodappreciationweek @lovehugsandcandy

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“Damn, who the hell is her friend? Kamilah Sayeed?”

Colt looks up at the giant mansion in front of him as Ellie hops off of the Cavalieri and stands next to him. She sighs when she realizes that, once again, she was tricked by Ana.

“She didn’t say. Said that they were some rich werewolf she met in the 70’s. I didn’t even question it and just believed her like an idiot.”

Colt grins as he slings his arm on her shoulders. “Yeah you’re an idiot but you make up for it with your pleasing personality.”

Ellie glares at him but it doesn’t last long when she realizes that he’s doing it all in an effort to make her feel better, maybe to even comfort her. This is an unknown and dangerous situation after all.

She steps away from him and she regards him seriously, her voice commanding and final. “Colt. We don’t know what we’ll be facing. I want you to promise me that if things get bad, you need to leave and call the Agency.”

Colt raises an eyebrow. “No.”

“Colt!” Ellie glares at him as she steps closer. “We’ve never fought against an albularyo before, we don’t know what to expect. Plus, I have the authority to be here. You don’t. If things go badly, you could get implicated and arrested—worse, you could die!”

“And what? I’m just gonna run and leave the girl I like behind? Fat chance that’s happening.”

Ellie falters as she takes a small step back and a fiery blush takes hold of her cheeks. “Uh…uhm. The girl you…like? You mean me?”

Colt chuckles wearily as he looks down to the ground and mumbles under his breath, “Lucifer why do I like this idiot…” before he looks back up at her with a piercing gaze, his eyes lighting up in a brilliant gold. “Yes, you Ellie. Do you know of any other half-witch detective’s I’ve been hanging out with lately?”

“I guess I didn’t think you’d be into me…in that way,” Ellie sighs when she realizes that this is the worse time and the worst place to have this conversation and they’re burning valuable minutes right now talking about this. “Anyway. Let’s talk about this later. We have more important things to do.”

“Noted.”

She quickly turns around and makes her way towards the massive front doors of the mansion. Colt jogs up next to her with a confident and cocky smile before he leans down and whispers into her ear.

“But I don’t think we really need talk about this. I know you like me.”

Ellie stops walking and whips her head to weakly glare at him. Colt merely grins as he raises his hand and hovers it near her heart.

“Or should we both check again just to be sure?”

Ellie opens her mouth, her retort already so close to the tip of her tongue, when the double doors of the mansion slam open. She whips her head to look at the person walking out of the doors, her body and senses in high alert.

“Woah Ellie, what are you doing here?” Ana walks out with a big grin as her eyes land on Colt. “With your vamp beau too. Something up?”

Ellie is aware of Colt moving closer to her, almost shielding her away from Ana, but Ellie moves away from him and regards Ana seriously.

“Ana. We need to talk.”

Ana blinks confusingly as she gestures to the inside of the mansion. “Sure, come in. I’ll get us something to drink. Sorry vamp beau, I don’t have blood on tap.”

“Ana we know,” Ellie steps forward and lets her magic pool in her palms as he manifests the cuffs she’ll need to restrain Ana. “I’m putting you under arrest for the murder of Ernesto Kilat and Malina Kilat. You will be put under magic repellent cuffs for the mandated twelve hours. Anything you say, cast or manifest can be used…”

Ellie drones on as she goes around Ana, pulls her arms back and begins to lock in the cuffs around her wrists.

Colt observes the scene silently, his golden eyes alert and ready, and suddenly he feels it. In the air and on the pinpricks of his skin. The energy that vibrates so low in frequency that magical creatures would rarely be able to pick it up.

But he does.

And his eyes widen as he looks to Anna and sees the red glow bubbling underneath the surface of her eyes. Ana looks back at him, tilts her head to the side as a wide and knowing smile pulls at her lips.

“Shit—!” Colt moves fast. Faster than he’s ever moved before and he tackles Ellie to the ground. He tucks her head to his chest and shields her from the oncoming blast. His eyes squeezed shut.

Ellie only has a second to respond as she puts her hand out. Blue sparks crackle in the air as she forms a shield around them. It takes some of the hit but it shatters at the impact of explosion, filling the space with a loud boom.

“Colt are you okay?!” Ellie takes his face into her hands, her eyes full of fear and panic.

“I’m fine.”

He’s definitely not fine. His whole back stings and hurts. But it’s okay. Better him than her. After all, he has healing abilities and she doesn’t.

“I can’t believe you figured it out Ellie!” Ana laughs as strings of red lights with jagged edges hover behind her. “Shame that you did though. I really do like you.”

“You don’t want to fight this Ana,” Ellie says as she pushes Colt off of her and he sits up with a wince. She tries to keep her attention on Ana while glancing at Colt to assess his body for injuries. Her heart lurches when she catches sight of his ruined jacket.

“But I gotta Ellie,” Ana steps forward and the red lights behind her shoots out at them. Ellie quickly blocks it with her magic but the recoil sends her arm back. “I genuinely thought you’d give up or the Agency was going to bury this case like they usually do. But you didn’t! That was a shock.”

Ellie stands up and gathers her magic in her hands as she thinks of the best way to approach this. She thinks of her training but she’s never fought an albularyo before. So she knows she needs to observe and adjust accordingly to Ana’s attacks. She lets her magic seep to the ground. The blue sparks gather the rocks and earth and moves it to incase Ana’s body in a cage to keep her immobile.

“Why did you do it Ana?” Ellie asks as she tightens the cage around her body. “They were your parents. You cried for them.”

Ana looks at her with a bored stare. “And? I kept asking them to hand over the business to me but they kept saying no. I gave them plenty of time to change their minds. A decade in fact. I think that’s enough time, don’t you think?”

Ana nudges her head to the side and the red light easily demolish the rock cage around her. Ellie takes a step back. Her heart pounds hard against her chest in apprehension. Colt steadily gets on his feet and grips her arm tight in his hand. His vision is blurry but he pushes past it.

“El start fighting her like you mean to kill her,” Colt says as he reaches around his back. He pulls his hand and looks at the blood and pieces of burnt skin on his palm. He let’s out a curse. Shit. It’s bad.

Ellie sees his palm and she panics. He’s half-vampire. That’s half the healing speed. If he gets hit with another blast he’s not going to make it. He’s right. He’s right. She needs to fight like she means to kill. If not, they’ll both die.

“I’m surprised the vamp still stuck around Ellie,” Ana coos as she sends forth a string of sharp of red lights towards them. Ellie blocks it with a flick of her wrist while she formulates a plan. “I thought he’d drop you the moment Toby got arrested.”

“You did that?” Colt grits his teeth as he bares his fangs. His eyes taking on a menacing gold.

“Yeah, fun wasn’t it?” Ana cackles as she moves closer. The red lights moves to surround them in a circle that traps them inside. “Josh fucked up though as he always does. I told the idiot to leave the fang marks of Shaw or Toby and he left one of each on them. Take out the competition while I’m at it, you know?”

Ellie moves her body closer to Colt. Their arms pressing against each other. The red lights closing in like snakes ready to strike.

“Colt keep her talking. I have a plan,” She whispers to him.

Colt briefly flicks his eyes to Ellie and gives her subtle nod. He steps forward and shields her away from Ana’s line of sight.

“Yeah? That’s what you get for using a vampire addicted to Libation. They mess up.”

“Right?! It’s soooo stupid!” Ana sighs as she lazily flicks her wrist. The red lights slices the skin on Ellie’s ankles and she winces in pain but keeps herself steady. She places a protective barrier on the back of their thighs as she pours her magic all around her while she focuses on staying undetected. To be invisible. “I mean of all the things he could mess up! Damn and I dated that idiot!”

Colt grits his teeth in a panic when he sees how close the red lights are now. He glances at Ellie. She gives him a look.

A look that says continue. Colt reluctantly agrees.

“What did you do with the blood anyway?” He winces when a red light slices the skin on his leg. But he recovers easily. Those wounds will heal faster.

“Oh that?” Ana laughs before she coughs then thumps her chest. “I gotta drink it everyday for a year to become a true albularyo so it’ll continue to give me the anito’s power to control this,” Ana gestures dismissively to the red lights around her as her face suddenly furrows in confusion.

“You’re…drinking your own parent’s blood?” Colt looks at her in disgust and Ellie momentarily pauses to look back at Ana in horror.

“Hey don’t give me that look,” Ana coughs harder as sweat gathers on her forehead. Confusion now fully taking hold of her face “How can you judge me? You’re a fucking vamp-pire! I had to…I gotta…gotta get it some other way since the-ey didn’t wanna gi-give it to...me.”

Colt narrows his eyes and observes her. Ana’s breath comes out short and she’s coughing harder now. He glances at Ellie in shock and alarm but she doesn’t pay him any attention. She clinches her fist. Willing her magic to work faster as the red lights now lash and lick their legs and leave gashes of red on their skin.

“At least I’ve never killed anyone for their blood.”

Ana lets out a roar of laughter before she clutches her chest. Air is difficult to take in now and she’s gasping. “You should—should try it vamp beau. It’s su—surprisingly fast,” She wheezes and drops to her knees. The red lights flicker and writhe on the ground before they slowly start to disappear. Ana looks up at Ellie. She tries to glare but her eyes glaze over. “What’s—what’s happening?”

“Sudden drop in atmospheric pressure,” Ellie explains before she raises her hands with a wide grin. “You are now currently experiencing what it feels like to be 13,796 feet above sea level. Altitude sickness as some people call it.”

Ellie keeps her hold on Ana as her eyes start to roll back into her head and she drops to the ground with a muted thud.

She lays unconscious.

Ellie quickly manifests new cuffs with her magic as she runs towards Ana. She kneels in front of her and pulls the unconscious girl’s arms behind her back. She links the cuffs on her wrist before she rolls Ana over, places her hand over her nose and mouth, and quickly starts the oxygen therapy.

“Colt come here,” Ellie looks towards the dumbfounded Colt. “I need to keep her on oxygen therapy so she won’t die but I need to see your wounds.”

Colt sluggishly moves towards her before he sits with his back facing her. Ellie moves one hand to lift up his jacket and shirt and she winces when she sees the burns and blood spread out of his back.

“Take off your shirt and jacket. I’ll try to heal it as best as I can, okay?”

“El if you wanted me shirtless all you gotta do is ask,” Colt chuckles as he painstakingly takes off his jacket and shirt. Each movement accompanied with a groan. But the pain minimizes when he feels her magic start to spread out and coat his back and it surprises him how soft and warm her magic feels on his body. Despite the pain still taking hold of his senses, he can’t help but feel the sense of comfort spread out through him.

“I can’t believe you took that blast for me,” Ellie sniffs a little as she moves her hand to a particularly bad burn on the back of his shoulder, he hisses at the pain. “You could’ve died you idiot.”

“Hey, don’t call the guy who just saved your life an idiot,” Colt teases with a wince when she moves her hand to his lower back.

She chuckles wearily as her eyes land on the unconscious Ana whose breathing is now, thankfully, back to normal.

“Thanks Colt…I would be dead without you.”

“Doubt it El,” Colt chuckles as he looks down at Ana a little uneasily. “When I said fight her like you mean to kill her, I didn’t expect you to literally cut off her oxygen. You’re terrifying when you want to be.”

Ellie laughs a little as she finishes her ministrations on his back and finishes Ana’s oxygen therapy. She takes the time to assess the damage on his back and, thankfully, it looks a lot better now and with his vampiric healing it shouldn’t leave too much of a scar.

“And all this time, I’ve been holding back on you.”

“Thank Lucifer for that,” Colt chuckles as he turns around to look at her. His eyes immediately gravitate to the slashes on her pants all over her legs and the blood and wounds beneath it and he grits his teeth and lets out a curse. He can’t quite make out if they’re deep or shallow cuts but he knows it’s going to be painful once the adrenaline wears off.

Ellie tilts his chin to force him to look at her as her blue eyes bore into his golds. “Hey, they’ll heal. I’m fine.”

“Yeah but they’re gonna hurt like hell,” An idea comes to him and he smirks. “Let me help,” He says as he motions for her to sit. She does so confusingly and he takes her right leg and raises it up to his mouth.

“Colt what—”

“Vampire saliva remember?” He smirks at the wide eyed look of understanding she gives him. “You can look if you want.”

She’s definitely not going to do that. She doesn’t think she has the will power and mental fortitude to look him in the eye while he does it. So she looks away and muffles the soft moans that threaten to tumble out of her lips when she feels his tongue press against her skin. The sting of pain is instant but momentary and she tries to think of something else—anything else—to distract herself.

“Done. Give me your other leg,” Colt looks at her and smirks when he sees the blush practically covering her entire face. He raises her left leg to his lips and licks the first wound he sees. “You know Ellie, I change my answer.”

“What? Answer?” She glances at him just in time to meet his eyes as he’s about to lick one of her wounds. Her eyelids drop halfway as she bites the bottom of her lip.

“About how your blood tastes. I have a better answer.”

Now she’s curious. She looks at him fully and his golden eyes hold her darken blues. “How does it taste like?”

He licks one more strip of blood just below her knee before he delivers his answer with a wicked and devilish smile.

“Addicting.”

#rodaw #choices rod #colt x ellie #colt kaneko #vampire au #detective au #witch au #murder mystery #ns*w #cw: magic-drugs #cw: police #cw: injury #cw: blood #my writing

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