the girl in the woods (Hadley)

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard just looked at Hadley for a moment after she suddenly slapped him and started taking offense to his attempt to settle things peacefully. She wanted to be this way, fine by him. He was just going to let her cool off on her own out here in the woods with no idea of how to get back to the mansion of the festival. He didn't say anything to her and just started to walk away silently into the woods, avoiding the direction that the somewhat hidden path to this spot was at. If she tried to follow him then she was going to have a very rude awakening, since as soon as he was into the trees he vanished into without a trace.

Alucard hadn't really vanished when he hit the trees so much as he quickly used his powers and jumped up into the higher branches and just walked up there where someone was less likely to look, and even harder to see with it being dark. He was just going to leave the girl there since she was having a bad attitude and slapped him for no good reason. He was going to, but he just couldn't stand the idea of her ending up lost in the woods and not finding her way back. He quickly turned around and found her again. He just stayed up in the tree tops and watched her silently. If she found her way out on her own then that would be fine and let her be independent, since he had a feeling she was the type to refuse anyone's help, but he was ready to do what he could to help her if she couldn't get out on her own. He would guide her either silently or actually jump down and show her, he wasn't sure which to do yet.


( This is a continuation of the thread from the festival since it is about to go and might as well not cut the thread short if we don't have to)

[Hadley Van Horn]

What a complete and total jerk. Hadley decided that she just hated the guy, absolutely hated the guy, and it took a lot for Hadley to hate someone but boy this guy and had done it and then some. Who kidnaps someone, especially a girl, practically orders them to calm down, even though it was entirely there fault, and then, when things don’t go your way, abandon them in the middle of the forest you dragged them into to in the first place.

It wasn’t like she had any say in this he had just thought, no wait he probably wasn’t even thinking when he brought her here. If you asked her he was the one who was an idiot.

Picking a random direction Hadley started to try and make her way toward the school with intent to make sure this guy got into so much trouble, and if that didn’t work Hadley was bent on making this kids life at school a living hell. He deserved it after all since he was a class a jerk.

Hadley wasn’t really caring which way she was walking at the moment, she was to busy plotting the demise of the jerk.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard just followed Hadley as she walked aimlessly through the woods and farther away from the mansion. She obviously wasn't paying any attention to where she was going at all and wasn't familiar with the woods. She had been walking for some time and had yet to notice how deep she was getting. It was looking like he was going to have to come out and take her back to the mansion himself. He was going to give her just a bit more time to figure out she was lost before he did anything.

Alucard watched her for longer then he had intended to and she had yet to realize how lost she was. He was kind of amazed at how focused on whatever it was she was thinking about she was. He sighed to himself and dropped down near her. He walked over to her before seeing if she had noticed him or not when he had. He looked at her.

" Your getting more and more lost and you don't even realize it." Alucard said to her. " Say whatever you want, but it is for your own good you just follow me back to the mansion before you spend the night out here. So does that sound fine or shall I let you wonder around lost longer before you decide you would rather have your own bed then a pile of leaves to sleep on?"

[Hadley Van Horn]

Because Hadley was so busy concentrating on how best to ruin Alucards life she didn’t even notice when he actually came back to her until he started to speak to her. When Hadley first heard Alucard speak to her she jump, she really hadn’t expected him to come back. It just didn’t seem to fit his character. Or at least it didn’t fit the character he had been up to that point.

Folding her arms Hadley just glared at him. “And whose fault would that be? Yours or the person’s who you forcibly dragged out here and then proceeded to abandon?” She then unfolded her arms and proceeded to follow him. She really didn’t want to but the faster she got back to the school the faster she could hopefully get this expelled. “I just want to know one thing. What the heck were you thinking? Or were you even thinking at all? Because if it were my choice I would say it was the second one.”

After she got all of her ranting out Hadley proceeded to follow him in silence, going back to her musing on how best to destroy his life.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard stopped walking the minute she started talking. She was trying to say that everything was his fault and making it out to were she had done nothing wrong and he was some kind of evil jerk who's only goal was to make her angry. He just stared at her after she had finished for a time. It was like she was asking for him to just leave her there in the woods even though he was trying to get her back.

" Mind watching your attitude? I know your upset and all, but why don't you stop trying to blame me for what happened? I was going to show you how you could get to the spot from earlier so you could practice with your ball and not end up hitting people's stands, but you decided to slap me and get an attitude instead of listening to me." Alucard said to her. " What would you have done if someone suddenly slapped you and didn't listen to a single thing you said and just stood their obviously thinking of how to get back at you even though you actually cared enough to make sure they didn't get too lost and guide them back to the mansion after everything? Would you still lead them back or would you decide to just leave them for themselves after all?"

Alucard was really getting tired of this girl's attitude. They got off to a rough start, but she wasn't even trying to think about the way she was treating him or even that he was still willing to help her after the way she was treating him.

[Hadley Van Horn]

Hadley just scoffed as she too stopped so she didn’t to run into Alucard who had suddenly stopped walking. “Oh yeah, I should watch my attitude since your mister perfect. I mean you already given me such a good reasons to listen to you. I mean we have only known each other for like what? Fifteen minutes? And already you’ve called me an idiot, said everything you say is right and everything I said is wrong.”

Hadley paused for breath then proceeded to continue. “But oh no it gets better. You then proceed to forceably kidnap me and take me to a secluded area where it just happends no one knows where i am where you proceed to abondon me!

Hadley then looked Alucard straight in the eyes. “So tell me where am i wrong, or how stupid i am, and please tell me why I should listen to anything you have to say?”

Hadley was dead serious when she said all of this to Alucard, he probably didn’t think what he was doing was so bad, but he also wasn’t seeing from her prespective. “Now let’s just get back to the scholl where you’ll do your thing and I’ll do my thing and we’ll hopefully never have to see each other again.”

Hadley then started to push her way past Alucard.

[Alucard Nightshade]

Alucard listened to her sit here and try to tell him off again. She was lucky that she was with Alucard since most people would have struck her and left her out here by now. He was running out of patience with her though since she just wouldn't calm down. When she went to move past him, Alucard grabbed her arms and then quickly pinned her to a tree. He looked her dead in the eyes for a moment.

" Why don't you try calming down for a moment and get yourself to where you are not thinking out of anger? I will tell you something right now, if you do not calm down or try to at least, I will leave you out here in the woods and it will take you days to get out." Alucard said to her in a stern voice. " I do not want to have to do that, but my patience are running very thin right now."

Alucard waited for her to reply, since he was sure she had something to say to him. He let her say what she was going to say and just waited for her to calm down. He waited as long as it took for her to.

" It seems your calmer now, that's good. Now listen to me and don't say anything until I am done." Alucard said to her. " We got off on the wrong foot and emotions ran high and kept building on each other, so both of us are just going to have to calm down and forget about what happened or else who knows what might end up happening. Now then, I brought you out here to show you a spot where you could kick your ball around while the festival was going on and not disturb anyone. The spot is large enough for you to do that easily. I was going to explain how I was doing that as a way of apologizing for over reacting some back at the stand and going to show you how to get to here following a trail, but you decided to just slap me and give me attitude. Obviously there was problems on both sides, but your refusal to calm down and wait for me to explain what was happening was only making things worse. I'm not about to abandon you out here in the woods, but if you keep acting out of anger and continue with this attitude, then I might start thinking about just leaving without you. So will you be willing to just calm down and start over or would you rather we keep this whole situation going?"

Alucard was giving her this chance now and it would be the last one he gave her for the night. He was seriously ready to just leave her out in the woods if she kept acting like this and just go back to reading at the stand. He just waited for her reply so he knew what to do next.

[Hadley Van Horn]

As Hadley passed Alucard she suddenly felt Alucard grab her arm and closed her eyes as he pinned her to a tree. She lifted her head and gave Alucard a defiant stare, though it was somewhat ruined by the unshed tears that were glittering in her eyes. Though Hadley would never admit that she was, she hated to cry and it took a lot for her to cry, but Alucard had pushed her to that edge. Lifting up her knee Hadley quickly brought it up to the boy who was pinning her to a tree. Feeling his arms loosen Hadley quickly got at least ten feet away from Alucard.

“DON’T ever do that again!” She shouted at Alucard, tears streaming down her face, though they were being ignored in favor of the boy in front of her. Quickly Hadley turned to run into the woods, not caring what Alucard was saying. The only thing she was focusing on was to get as far away from that spot as she could.

As soon as Hadley thought she was far enough away she slowed to a walk. It was then that she brought her hand to her eyes to wipe away the tears. Just great now the jerk had seen her cry, she hoped beyond anything that after she got to the school she never saw him again.