Title: Someone Like You
Author: alienangel19852003
Summary: It's been five years since Ethan left White Chapel, he went to college and never came back. Sarah never admitted that she shared his feelings, and remained as the guardian of White Chapel protecting the townspeople from the unusual goings on in the town. When Ethan returns for the holidays to introduce his parents to the girl he's engaged to it opens old scars for both him and Sarah.
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters or the show in which they are affiliated. This is a work of fiction.
Chapter I
Crawling Back to You
I have no idea why I've never left White Chapel. Being it's Guardian is a full time gig however, I can't have any distractions. I don't allow myself to want for much. Being a vampire I still crave certain human wants I allow myself the comfort of a good book and a hot bath after work, I read gossip magazines in the checkout line at the grocery store, I do mindless chit chat with my bestie. I kick the crap out of Benny and Rory at X-Box Live, and I miss the boy loved like crazy.
I stuck around White Chapel after high school, attending community college fast tracking a teaching program and getting a degree in education. So now I was a babysitter to about thirty third graders. Erica hung around after high school we got our own apartment in town, she was well behaved to be Erica. She always went for the bite not the kill leaving her victim missing a few pints and a not being able to remember what happened to them the night before.
Benny went to UCLA Film School for a year and Rory followed. The series of events that occurred spawned a TV movie, that surprisingly Benny didn't write but was hilarious. When Ms. Weir married a retired Marine and took off for Boca Raton Florida and she gave her house to Benny who'd taken over the basement.
Erica and I moved in along with Rory and Ethan who had been kicked out of his parents house after turning down a full ride to MIT to play around in the Mystery Machine with the rest of us. Ethan was too good to stick around White Chapel and I spent a good deal of my time trying to convince him of that. I tried keeping him out of the fray during most of our adventures protecting him more than I did Benny, after he'd gotten bitten and I'd sucked the poison out letting go of my last foothold on humanity.
But Ethan was way worth it, I couldn't admit to him when he lived in White Chapel, but I love him as more than just a friend. Even though it's been five years since he left I still do. There has always been this energy swirling between us, I'd always passed it off as the little crush he had on me when we first met, but as I got to know him and as he grew I found myself starting fall for him. I've risked my life too many times on his behalf, like I'd do for any of the White Chapel towns people but I always got this pounding in my chest where my heart should beat, as if would break in two if something happened to him.
I saunter into the Weir house at two in the afternoon on a Saturday a floppy fedora covering my face and dark sunglasses over my eyes and I take a seat the breakfast bar. Erica is over the stove preparing a meal for Benny, and she doesn't seem too happy about it. I know that he's exhorted her into it without even having to see his smug smile.
"Where have you been lovely creature of the night?" Rory purred peering over a copy of US weekly with a giant picture of one those Kardashian sisters on the cover, from where he sat at the island.
"You know where she's been," Erica snarled flipping over the French toast in the pan.
I shoot her a resounding glare, "If you all know where I've been then why ask?"
Rory shrugged, "How is he?"
"Good," I smile tightly, I don't want to think of Reagan the girl who'd been all over Ethan when I went to check up on him this time.
"You saw Reagan didn't you?" Benny said.
"She's alright, she treats him well," I say placing my hands in my lap, "I'm happy for him."
"Yeah right," Erica said, "The girl is a total dog, you know and he knows it. If you were to be honest with him, he'd be back here and a second and that sham of a relationship would be over."
"Reagan isn't ugly, she's actually kind of cute," Benny defended, "she's got curves, just because a chick has got some junk in the trunk doesn't make her any less pretty. It gives a guy something to hold on to."
"I forget that you're the number one chubby chaser on the block," Erica chuckled.
Benny shrugged, "Making love to a big woman changed my life."
"Word," Rory agreed.
"Whatever," Erica rolled her eyes at Benny before glaring at Rory, "Like you've ever made love to anything but your fist."
Rory flipped her and climbed off his bar stool, "I'll be upstairs readying myself to webcam with Claudette. When you cyber with someone it counts as actual sex."
"Keep telling yourself that pal!" Erica hollered after him after he'd left the room.
"Erica, you know I love you girl, but you've got to tone down the bitch," I said.
"I know I'm getting antsy," Erica said, "My last two guys haven't worked out and I'm a little tense and their lame sex talk is pissing me off. I could have any guy I want, but meaningless sexual encounters are just trashy."
"Agreed," I said, not that I'd ever had sex but totally beside the point.
"You need to get back out there," Benny said, "Open yourself up a little more."
"Open myself up? In a few years I won't be able to go back into the community," I said, "People will start noticing that I'm not aging."
"The citizens of this leafy little hamlet don't notice much," Benny said, "Why don't you tell Ethan the truth? He should know, you should tell him before it's too late."
"Why are things with me and Ethan suddenly public knowledge?" I asked.
"We've lived together, Sarah, for almost ten years," Erica said, "We're bound to notice you and Ethan pining for each other. How he didn't see your puppy love faces from three miles away is beyond me."
Benny was gulping down French toast and sausage, "Iwa ha," he said around a mouthful of food.
"Huh?" I asked.
Once he'd chewed and swallowed.
"I thought it was sweet," Benny grinned, "Now, I'd love to chat more about this but work beckons."
"I'm gonna have a hot bath," I decided.
"Don't use up all the hot water playing with the shower head," Erica said, "I know you just spent the night watching Ethan sleep and it's got you all hot and bothered but it's whites day for heaven's sake."
If I could blush I would have but vampires don't blush and you'd barely been able to see me blush when I was human. I flipped off Erica who laughed. You wouldn't believe how many times the brash blond was flipped off in a single day.
Seeing Ethan always affected me, it had been hell for me when he lived here. You would have thought I was the hormonal teenage boy. It was a combination of the way his blood smelled, something I found completely addicting the first time I'd smelled it after he'd been cut it had a similar effect on Erica and Rory but it continued to affect me after that it seemed to call to me within his veins.
It was perfect torture, as I was the one who had to suck the poison out after the last incident with Jesse the vampire who made me. I didn't know I had so much restraint though I applied more in the years that followed. Ethan started to grow up and fill out in all the right places summers at the lake where his swim trunks were low on his hips, and his chest and six pack were just right, he'd never be overly muscular but he had a nice build with milky pale skin that I was dying to touch.
Since he left deciding to take MIT up on their scholarship, the college continued courting him after he'd turned them down. I knew he'd turned them down because of me, everyone knew how he'd always felt about me. I'd shook it off because if I allowed myself to be with him I'd be putting him in danger, because I don't know if I could be close to him like that without him getting hurt either by my hands or by the hands of an enemy and you don't became a town's guardian against supernatural foes without making a few enemies.
I kept him at arms length growing colder toward him everyday until we had a fight after a mission wherein he'd saved my life, and got himself severely injured after that I'd sidelined him for about six months. He told me he loved me and I lied and said, I didn't love him back. Hearing that reality he left, he said he couldn't be here with me right now. He packed his things called his parents and told them he'd be going to MIT.
After he'd left I'd go up pretty regularly to check on him, I wouldn't let him know I was there. Though he might have known, but sometimes I just needed to watch him for a little bit, and I can admit that I've watched him in some pretty compromising positions before and after he left. Thankfully this trip I didn't get to see him make love with his girlfriend she actually left his apartment early that night.
I hadn't been up to stalk him in a few months so I had no idea about their relationship and Benny wouldn't offer me any details. I wondered if Ethan was still a virgin, and would he touch her differently then he would touch me?
Thankfully I was in the bath when I started pondering those things. I'd left he bathroom door cracked, and I figured what the hell Rory was across the hall making a hell of a lot of noise rubbing one out with his online girlfriend and I'd walked in on Erica having relations more than once, sometimes with her on again off again boyfriend Calvin with whom she was currently off again with, sometimes with fruit, sometimes with her toy collection. Benny was working so I didn't have to worry about him coming in on me. Unlike everyone else who lived here I could be quite quiet when I was getting off.
I work myself over with the shower head and enjoy at hot bath that seems to steam the whole house, I wonder when my resolve is going to finally break and he's going to make me crawl without asking.