1st Chapter (Awakening)
It's dark. Her body hurts, but her eyes are still closed. She lies on a couch, that's for sure, because she feels the backrest on her right. Then she remembers what happened. Suddenly a man stood in front of her, when she took a walk in the forest. She usually do that to relax; just music and the nature. She stops thinking, her eyes wide open. She has been kidnapped by some psychopathic guys.
The woman sits up and looks around. A small room with older furniture, which are full of dust. The window is also small, but big enough to climb out and escape from here. The door is in front of her. Closed, but apparently not locked. She stands up but falters, so she has to rest at the couch again. She walks forward, slowly but straight to the door. It's silent; no voices, no footsteps, not a sign of living in this house. With a beating heart she moves closer to the door. What if those psychos stand behind the door, just waiting for her to walk in their arms? Only a few steps and she could reach the door. Suddenly she stops, her heart beats heavily in her chest. Someone is also in the house, she hears voices, just a whisper. The woman goes backwards. More tripping than going actually and with a scared glance at the door. They know that she's awake. Step by step she goes backwards and when she stands at the couch again, the door is opened. But not slowly and with a squeezing sound like in all the horror movies. No, the door crashes into wall; a bit more and it would have been broken.
Then a brown-haired man enters the room and the woman recognizes him directly as the man in the forest. Her heart keeps beating heavily when he smirks at her and walks to the side. Then another man enters the room with the same amused smirk and the fearsome charisma. But his hair is blond, nearly white. He carries a tray with some pieces of bread and a bottle of water on it. He stops next to the other man.
The woman stares scared at the men in front of her. She doesn't know what they want from her, why she has been kidnapped and where she is. "Who are you?" she asks them in a low voice. Actually too low for human ears to hear, but no problem for vampires'. The smirk on their faces gets wider. "Well, young one", the blond man starts. "My name is Stefan", the other one continues. "And mine is Vladimir", the first man finishes. The woman looks much more scared but also confused to the man. The way they talk and their strong accents; it doesn't make them any nicer or friendlier to her.
"We want to be honest to you, human", the brown-haired man starts with a grin. "You're part of a bigger plan. Our long-awaited vengeance", the other one continues. The woman frowns and tries to keep more distance between her and the door. "None you know, of course, but you'll have an important part, young one!" Stefan looks at her and his grin gets wider. The woman frowns, she doesn't understand what they want of her. What vengeance and what part. She doesn't really want to know that, but she is also confused about one thing.
Why do they always call her 'young one' or 'human'? They look just four or five years older than her, so that doesn't really make sense. They say it like you're talking to your grandchildren. Are they really psychopathic; escaped from a hospital or something like that? She doesn't notice that she whispers: "Young one? Human?" But then Stefan starts laughing. He looks from the woman, who twitches immediately, to his companion. "So young", he says. Vladimir smirks and looks at him. "And so ignorant." He puts the tray on the desk next to him. "We're vampires!", he says with a grin. The woman looks at them in shock. But then she is sure that those men are psychos. No normal human would believe that one is a vampire.
The elder look at the woman with an amused glance. "What is your name, human?", Stefan asks. Now she is even more confused. They kidnapped her for a stupid plan and don't even know her name? How useful could she be then? She gets more scared. If they really believe that they are vampires then she would die for her blood. These thoughts make her shiver and she goes a step back again. "Amanda", she answers them lower than the first time. Nevertheless the Romanians understand her very well.
"So, Amanda", Vladimir starts after a short time. "You still don't believe us." He looks to his friend; still smirking. Then he looks back to the woman. Amanda breaths heavily, her heart beats fast and her look switches from Vladimir to Stefan and back again. She hasn't recognized the changing of their eye color from red to black. She hasn't even noticed that their eye color is different from normal humans.
Suddenly, within a blink of an eye, the blond one disappears. Amanda looks around nervously and the big smile on Stefan's face doesn't make it even better. "You should believe us, when we tell you something!" Amanda twitches. From the corner of her eyes, she sees that Vladimir is standing right behind her. His words are just a whisper, but it makes her shiver. She gets goose-bumps over her whole body. How can that be? How is that possible?
Suddenly she is pulled out of her thoughts. Vladimir grabs her shoulders, so that she can't get away. He leans to her neck and takes a deep breath. "You should stop that!" For a moment he doesn't move and looks like he's petrified. Amanda feels unable to do anything. Then it seems that Vladimir comes back to life. "Otherwise I might won't be able to spare you. Your blood smells great." The Romanian growls and appears next to Stefan; leaving her alone. She gasps and falters when his hands left her shoulders. The elder look at each other, they need to hunt. "You should eat", the brown-haired man says and points at the tray. Then both leave the room and close the door, but without locking it. They don't even take a last look at the scared woman.
"It was easier when we ruled", Vladimir says when they run through the forest. "Everyone knew what we are", Stefan continues. "And we didn't need to show any proofs!" Then they change the direction to follow the smell of blood.