Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository (8 page)

Her hand is on the door handle. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry I lied to you al this time,” she whispers.

“GO!” It is a roar from my throat. I cannot contain myself. I am transformed. I am Abbadon. Transformed into the demon I am. What does she see?

What am I doing?

I see the fright in her eyes, taste her fear, revel in it, and with brutal effort I catch myself before I get carried away. I am dangerous and flailing. It is I

who needs to leave. I am gone before she can close the door.

From the street I watch as she leaves the building. I need to go back. I want to destroy that place. I want to destroy every memory it brings. I want

it obliterated from the landscape. But when I return to the apartment, I am not alone.

Mimi is here.

When Schuyler left the building that evening, she thought she would feel at peace. Instead she felt more conflicted than before. The lie she told Jack

had worked because she had wrapped it around the truth of her love for Oliver. Because it
was
a lie. She stil loved Jack. She loved him so much that

seeing him sitting there alone, in the dark, waiting patiently for her, made her love him even more.

She almost hadn’t gone through with it. She didn’t know what he would say or if she would be strong enough to see it through. It hurt her so much,

seeing him look at her that way. She had never seen him so lost or confused.

I take it back!
she’d wanted so much to say.
I take everything back. I love you. Let’s go away. Just the two of us, together.

But she’d had to do it. She had to let him go. Or give him a reason to let her go. It was the best choice for the two of them.

And it had worked.

She should feel relief—maybe even victorious.

So why did she feel so dead inside?

As if she had kil ed the best part of herself.

She walked slowly up to the avenue to catch a cab. She was moving back to Riverside Drive. She would not return to that town house on Fifth

Avenue ever again.

FAMILY RECORDS:

LLEWELLYN

Due to the sensitive information contained in this file, most of it speculative in nature, this record is classified CONCLAVE LEVEL ONLY.

The Llewel yn family has risen to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful in the Coven. They amassed a great fortune by their monopoly

of the New York and New Jersey seaports. A branch of the family moved to Houston during the oil boom during the late nineteenth century, and the

majority of the family has been based there since.

BLISS LLEWELLYN

Azazel, the Darkling, Lupus Theliel, Angel of Love, Wolfsbane

Birth Name
: Bliss Eugenia Llewel yn

Origin
: November 9, 1991, Houston, Texas

Known Past Lives
: Margaret Stanford (Newport), Mary Brewster (Plymouth), Giulia de Medici (Florence)

Bondmate
: Unclear. Bliss has no heavenly past, but she does adhere to the cycles and the earliest record of her existence is
{DATE REDACTED}
.

Assigned Human Conduit
: None

List of Human Familiars
: Morgan Shriver (2007)

Physical Characteristiscs
:

Hair
: Red

Eyes
: Green

Height
: 5’11”

It is the Repository’s belief that Bliss Llewel yn is Gabriel e’s first trueborn daughter, born from a union with Lucifer in
{DATE REDACTED}
. Bliss was

believed to have been destroyed by the Regis upon her birth in
{DATE REDACTED}
. The Repository is stil piecing together its information, which

has not yet been verified, but it appears that the child survived through a betrayal by
{NAME REDACTED—FL}
. We are also tentatively able to

conclude, given the information gleaned from various sources, that for centuries Al egra never had any knowledge of her child’s existence.

The House of Records lists Bliss Llewel yn as carrying the spirit of the angel Yura, an angel of the Light. Yet a cross-reference on the history of the

angel Yura revealed that Yura also appears on the List of the Finished, for whom reincarnation is no longer possible.

It is the Venators’ belief that Forsyth Llewel yn, recently revealed to be yet another traitor Silver Blood on the conclave, has consistently used his

elevated status to tamper with the birth record of Al egra’s firstborn daughter, al owing him to cal up her spirit in every incarnation and foster her in his

home while keeping her true identity a secret. However, commendable work by our Repository scribes have brought forward the original birth record

for Bliss Llewel yn for this cycle which was signed by then-Regent Nan Cutler. In this record, it lists her spirit as Azazel, angel of the dark, which we are

now assuming is Bliss’s the true name and one that was given to her by her father, the Morningstar.

Bliss grew up in Houston, Texas, and arrived at Duchesne her sophomore year. Texas Committee regional reports indicate that Bliss had a

fierce and fearless personality, and was famous as the only cheerleader in the state who could execute a tumbling leap off the top of a fifty-person

pyramid. She moved to New York when her father won the vacant senate seat, along with her stepmother and her younger half sister. It is the

Venator’s belief that BobiAnne Llewel yn was Bliss’s birth mother in this cycle, a fact that was kept from Bliss for reasons that are stil unverified.

A few months after moving to the city, Bliss was discovered during a Farnsworth scouting session at the school, and soon launched a very

successful modeling career. Until recently, she was the face of several jeans campaigns, and her photographs were splashed across the bil boards of

Times Square and SoHo. Duchesne intern reports state that Bliss’s early friendship with Mimi Force has since cooled and that she gravitated toward

a friendship with Schuyler Van Alen, Oliver Hazard-Perry, and Dylan Ward.

Her rocky and ultimately tragic romance with Dylan Ward began with a chance meeting in an al ey behind several nightclubs. He was her date to

the fal Informals, and our sources suggest that she had planned to make him her human familiar (not knowing he was also a Blue Blood), until he

disappeared after Aggie Carondolet’s death. (See Dylan Ward file for more information.)

From the late Warden Dupont’s files, we found a note to Lawrence Van Alen that was never delivered:

Maggie Stanford was a sixteen-year-old Blue Blood who disappeared from the home of Admiral and Mrs. Thomas Vanderbilt during the

1870 Patrician Ball; foul play was suspected. Miss Stanford was the daughter of Mrs. and Mr. Tiberius Stanford of Newport, Rhode

Island, the founder of Stanford Oil. Maggie was engaged at the time of her disappearance to Alfred, Lord Burlington, Earl of

Devonshire.

Maggie was a patient at St. Dymphna Asylum, in Newport, for suicidal tendencies, delusions, and nightmares. The Red Blood

doctors thought she was schizophrenic, but it is my belief that her symptoms were a sign of Corruption. Maggie tried to kill herself by

drowning, but failed.

Lawrence: I think this is the clue. I think Maggie was Al egra’s missing girl—Please come see me as soon as you are able to come to

the Repository.

The Committee notes that this document was dated the day of the Silver Blood attack that kil ed Warden Dupont.

From Dr. Patricia Hazard’s examination files on Bliss Llewellyn:

—Patient reports having blackouts and nightmares since Transformation.

—Patient sees a crimson-eyed beast and a man in a white suit who cal s her “daughter.”

—Patient’s parents have been told of situation. Senator Llwel yn promises to look into it.

—So far, no update from Senator Llewel yn on patient’s mental health.

Reprinted from a journal found in the Llewellyn’s storage unit:

Venators report it is Bliss Llwel yn’s handwriting, but again, this is stil unverified.

Oh god, oh god, oh god. What can I do? He’s in me. Father. Visitor. I’m part of him. I can’t get rid of him—he’s in my

mind, he can hear everything and he takes over— during the blackouts—that’s what I’ve come to understand—I am him. He

is me. I did it—I killed Dylan and so many others. I want to die. I am dead already. He’ll come back soon—I have to go

—he can’t find out I can . . .

It is the Repository’s conclusion that Bliss believed her “visitor” and the “father” she speaks of was none other than Lucifer, the Dark Prince himself. If

so, it would explain why every trace of her birth was extinguished/manipulated in the House of Records.

During the attack at the Cathedral (for more information see Repository Record #404:
The Van Alen Legacy
), an eyewitness reports that Bliss

took a blade from her bouquet, a “shard of glass that shone like gold fire” and plunged it into her chest. It is our belief that this was in fact the archangel Michael’s sword, which has been missing for over a year. Bliss disappeared from view and has not been seen since; however, the

Venators believe that she is stil alive.

From the Venator report upon the visit to a studio apartment leased to one Jane Murray, who has since disappeared:

All signs point to a visit by Gabrielle. It is our belief that Allegra, once awakened, acknowledged Bliss as her own and gave her a new

name: Lupus Theliel, Wolfsbane. The glom memory shows that while there were definitely three people in the room, only two were

vampires; the other glom signature is distinctly human. We were also able to piece together a message that we believe was from

Gabrielle: Find the Hounds of Hell. The demon fighters. Bring them back to the fold.

Bliss Llewel yn is a puzzle. She should never have been born, and her survival is a mystery. Lawrence Van Alen believed that Al egra’s firstborn

would be the death of the Blue Bloods, which is why he cal ed for her destruction upon her birth. It remains to be seen whether Lawrence wil be

proven right in this matter.

Current Status
: Missing. Location unknown. Believed to be searching for the “Hounds of Hell.”

FORSYTH LLEWELLYN

Malakai, the Steward

Birth Name
: Augustus Forsyth Llewel yn

Origin
: November 14, 1959, New York, New York

Known Past Lives
: Tiberius Stanford (Newport), Wil iam Brewster (Plymouth), Duc Patrizio de Medici (Florence), Naevius Macro (Rome)

Bondmate
: BobiAnne Llewel yn

Assigned Human Conduit
: Loel Salomon (recused from service, 1981)

List of Human Familiars
: Tierney Scott (1973–1977), Evelyn Smith (1978–1983), Glory Cason-Thrash (1985–1987), Samantha King (1986–1992),

Margot Pearson (1993–1999), Ashley Wel s (1998–2002)

Physical Characteristics
:

Hair
: Brown, speckled with gray

Eyes
: Brown

Height
: 5’10”

Forsyth Llewel yn was once one of Charles Force’s most trusted al ies in the Conclave, but recent events have since revealed that far from being an

al y, Forsyth was most likely Charles’s greatest living adversary and a traitor to the community. Forsyth grew up in Manhattan but soon joined the

family oil business in Houston, Texas. He moved back to New York when he won a vacant senate seat, an action prohibited by the Code of the

Vampires, which states that Blue Bloods should not take political office. (It must be noted that the rule against entering Red Blood politics has always

been weakly enforced, if at al , and through the centuries many Blue Bloods have held positions of authority in the human world.)