A Vampire Romance
Non Beta version for now/ Beta needed!
Disclaimer; I do not own the lost boys or any of the characters of the movie! I merely wrote this to amuse others and myself with it; this is fan fiction, nothing more!
Description: Someone else here that noticed the look Dwayne gave the cute girl in the video store too? I was wondering what could have become of the two, a little warning, I was in one of my romantic moods so beware of this when you read this story (Sweat-drops madly)
Rating; M
Warnings; My bad grammar and spelling. Several killing moods of the actors, blood, vengeance, murder, mention of murder, gore, blood play, crime and murder scenes, cursing, sexual situations not suited for minor aged people, male to male relationships female/male relationships, violent scenes, and other I cant think of it now.
Other, I hope I have made a halfway god job with Dwayne´s character in this. From what I saw in the film and read in the book, he was more the silent watcher type of a person. Maria is the employee of Max in the film and the book. I really wonder why they cut her part out of the film! She is a formidable actress that plays her role and a beautiful one too (pouts)
Pairings; Several different but in this the main pair is Dwayne / Maria.
An important note from the authoress, please read!
I am native German so please bear with my English before you go ballistic and flood my reviews box with flames and such. How is that? Instead of grumpily state out my errors all the time, you could help me and do Beta for me. I still need a serious person for this story of mine and I would be thankful if someone wants to do this for the others and me. But please, only if you really mean to do this! I had this experience several times before and the most never kept up with the task…it seems I am all in all told, in the search for a Beta with muuuuch time. Because I have many stories running and could really need a friend here who wants to beta them all for me. O.O
I write now for nearly one and a half year and have gotten tons of better in time…still; my English is not good enough. Please, if you really and honestly want to help me out with more as 20 stories I have running in several fandoms, I offer to write you one for the help. Whatever you want, I will write it.
To everyone else, have fun by reading my stories and I hope I am not too bad in my writing skills.
A begging for help, Suryallee OO (Sits in her chair and cries)
(For the people who wants to help me, please send a mail to the following address. suryallee yahoo. de, Please put the spaces out.)
Never trust your friends! Especially not if their name is Paul!
Dong!
„Ouch, Shiiit! "
This was the third time this night Dwayne stumbled over his own clumsy feet and hit his head in the process!
The poor vampire cursed his Blood Brother, Paul currently to hell and back inside of his thoughts….the very same little maniac was responsible for the poor vampires current state of…Uhm…clumsiness?
To think that this night begun so harmless in the beginning….
Dwayne awoke from their daylight sleep like usual by dawn. They bickered around for a while and then separated in two parties to join later again at the boarder walk for their usual feeding on their way back. Paul had given the dark haired vampire one of his joints with an unusual smirk on his lips…Dwayne's mouth escaped a heavy curse; he knew his brother had something in his sleeve when he gave him the joint! Why had he taken the cursed thing and puffed it away?!?...Never less, he did it and soon afterwards, Dwayne found out that the stuff was stronger then usually.
And that in the hard way!
Since then, Dwayne had the creepy feeling that every stone that lay on the ground felt the sudden desire to trip him and his feet did the cursed thingies the favor all the time!
"Fuck!"
Again one stone had gotten under his suddenly so clumsy feet and brought him nearly to fall over and down again. Dwayne's line of curses took up to a new level after he did barely catch his body from falling down again. Only…only to flare wildly with his arms a second later to stop the next stone trap attack. Now he was sure that Paul did that to him on purpose!
Meanwhile the poor vampire tried it hard not to fall again; Maria watched the entire event from the side of her car. She was on her way home right now and had just intended to open the driver's side of her car to slip inside the seat to drive home…there then she spotted the clumsily moving Dwayne on the boarder walk!
The raven-haired native looking Lost Boy was her secretly favorite out of the bunch of four troublemakers. Why this was so, not even Maria could tell, it just was this way since she worked for Max and knew the four boys now.
The always came inside the video store at night, harassing poor Max and his dog Thorn. Always gave her winks and suggestive comments when they did come…but never did they harm her really. Often, Maria had met them outside of the shop doors on her way home, but they always let her be. She wondered why, well knowing that these boys where known to make nothing but trouble and that they where dangerous. She was not dump; she heard the rumors about them taking girls out for a ride with them…girls that never came back!
Sure, they always had explanations for the why but Maria did not believe David and his boys their excuses for one second; there was something predatory in the four boy's eyes that she could not really place.
Dwayne always smiled slightly when he was with them and when they teased her. For him a rare thing to do, Maria knew this already from others. She could not help it; the native of the bunch had something on him that lured the Latino girl practically to him as the fire lured the moth to it. He was at least a good head taller as her and always had that cute boy with him when she saw him on the boarder walk later. The boy was the cuteness incarnate Maria thought.
As far she knew it, his name was Laddy. She did not like the girl that was always with David and them but the boy, Maria did adore! He reminded her so much of her lost little brother…Joshua…she had left right after the incident that caused the boys dead.
To leave New Orleans was the wisest thing in Maria´s opinion that she had ever done. Her family was a family of drunks and the only thing that had held her there had been her little brother and her grandmother. Both of them where gone now and she had moved on.
Another thing that always stopped the girl from taking one of their offers to ride with them was that her grandmother always told her old tales and stories. Stories, that sounds very familiar with the stories, which she was constantly told about these boys.
Maria became told from her about werewolves, vampires and other nocturnal creatures often as bedtime stories and these stories warned her now to trust this Lost Boys, too much. Of course, it gave no such a thing as vampires, but honestly told Maria did not want to find out if she was wrong or not! After all, she came out of town where voodoo was practiced on each corner and she did not want to push her luck.
Some things on the boys where too strange…they came out only at night, she never saw them eat or drink something, they always staid together and so on…
The list was endless!
He could not look cute enough in Marias opinion to risk it to find out more then she wanted!
Now…this!
She could not help it to blush brightly at the new string of curses that left Dwayne's lips when his head meet again with the concrete. Face forward, of course. The dark haired male let a string of dark promises, all centering around Paul, escape his lush lips that could have made a wore blush! To her wonderment, he did it without to catch even new air!
Whatever the crazy blonde gave him to smoke, that much Maria had already figured out of his ongoing string of muttered curses, he was in for it right after the black haired native was ok again! Warring against her better judgment, she finally gave it up and went over to the almost comical looking man to help him to reach at least his friends in one piece.
Dwayne just hoped that no one he knew saw him stumble around like this! How humiliating! If he ever got his hands on Paul again, his brother was soo dead!
Suddenly the sound of a soft female voice asked him if she could help him somehow to reach his gang…
Oh nooo, let it be not her! God! Everyone else, even Max, but please, please, please, let it not be she! was all what the poor vampire could think. His lips escaped a groan…from all the masses of humans on this fucking boarder walk; it must be the cute worker of Max that found him looking like a fool right now…dam!
A questioning look upwards from his embarrassing position on the floor told Dwayne all too clearly that god currently did not listen to him and that it was indeed the beautiful employee of David's sire Max. That stood there next to him with a look of concern and a cute blush on her face.
His head meet the pavement again with a muttered curse about his lack of luck.
Soft hands helped him slowly up until he was standing again. Embarrassed beyond words, Dwayne muttered thanks, and tried to hurry away from the female that he secretly wanted to bed since a while now.
However, no avail, Maria turned out to have a much stronger grip as he ever thought she could have. She let not go of Dwayne and soon the vampire found out that it was easier to let her drag him with her towards the boarder walk as to try to reach the others there alone.
Even leaning slightly onto the small body beside him, Dwayne was at least a head taller as the dark tanned female that helped him to walk at least halfway normal.
He could not help it as to smell the nice perfume of the girl or to cast sideway glances at her features from time to time; she truly was beautiful! All of this helped the poor man not much now, it made it even more badly for Dwayne!
Besides, a certain part of his body seem to choose this moment to tell him all too clearly how much he wanted to bed Maria…gulping Dwayne tried to will his body reaction down and to concentrate on it not to trip again.
"What in the name of heaven have you taken that could have this kind of affect to you, Dwayne?"
Her question told him volumes about her curiosity and surprisingly, care about him. Dwayne found it was ok to risk a glance at her and tried to find out what she exactly had in her mind. Her eyes told of nothing other as real concern and worry. A sudden warm feeling spread through Dwayne after he realized that she truly meant it… when was the last time someone had truly worried about him?
The tall man looked away and tried to hide his slightly pink face with the movement.
"I wish I knew! Really, I don't have a clue; he gave me the joint without to tell me of the side effects…just let me get my hands on Paul!" Dwayne's eyes held a deadly glint inside of them and for a second they seem to have turned in color. From dark brown to a strange red yellow…but before Maria could catch the strange color change it was gone again.
Maria shock her dark brown tresses with a silent laugh, his friend was in for it! She did not really want to know what the tall male would do to the always-hyperactive blonde when he was better again. Somehow, she was sure it was nothing nice that was currently running through Dwayne's head!
He regarded her for a second before she could her him star to chuckle along with her; both continued their strange amusement walk for a few more minutes. When she reached the area in that she knew the boys mostly parked their bikes, she found the bikes there but nobody else of his friends with the machines.
Maria figured that they where somewhere on the boarder walk and helped Dwayne to sit down on his black and red machine.
"Thanks chika, I don't know if I could have reached it on my own any time soon." The normally more quite member of the gang sighted and went his dark eyes upwards to the young woman that stand next to him and his bike. Oh, how much Dwayne wished now that he could simply snatch her under an arm and then race away! Nevertheless, no such luck for him! At least not as long his body reacted this extreme and not to mention, alien.
She wearied a dark denim miniskirt tonight and a green blouse that snuggled nicely against her curves. A pair of green pumps finished the picture. He knew, mostly she dressed up in pink or such colors, to see her like this meant she was on her way home. Dwayne had seen her many times before when she went home from her work, mostly she then changed her stile to something more descent. He figured that it was max way to entertain his customers with a dressed up employee in the shop.
He did not like the way some of the male customers sized the girl up and he hated the thought that one of these pigs could dare it one day to try to go after the cute and nice female. A low growl, not to hear for Maria, escaped Dwayne at the thought.
"Well…Uhm…I think you can now wait for your friends alone, right?" she bit nervous on her bottom lip and tilted her head a little to aside to look at Dwayne out of the new angle. At his short look, Maria nodded back at him with a friendly smile and turned half around.
"Good night, Dwayne, see you around." Again, the handsome male nodded at this and Maria turned fully to walk away from the sexual fantasy of her sleepless nights to hurry back to her car.
Dwayne could only dully look after her back retreating, literally tongue-tied. What had ridden him to let her go? This time his growl scared some of the people that walked around the bikes away from the brooding male.
Slapping his head in frustration, Dwayne vowed silently to kill his brother a little, right the next time he got his claws on Paul!!!
This second choose a well-meaning god to let Dwayne hear a voice say;
"Did you not tell me that he would probably talk with a fishes by now, Paul? Well, to me he looks rather normal." David's voice held pure amusement when he told this to the blonde that walked beside him up to the bikes.
Marco, who saw the short reddish glint appear in Dwayne's eyes just in time, made a hastily retreat from his two brothers and walked out of the beginning war zone: To look at the upcoming spectacle from out of a safe distance.
The blonde, rocker like type looked somewhat bewildered at the dark haired member of their family.
"Yeah, he should, at least that was it what the dealer told me!"
This second chose Dwayne to attack. With a growl, he was at Paul's collar and nearly shocked the blonde unconscious. David's laughter runs through the night when he and Marco tried it to pry their enraged brother from the other. Even with their combined strength, it turned out to be impossible to get Dwayne off Paul before he had not placed a black eye on him.
Then he simply passed out and dreamed of mermaids with the face of Maria for the rest of the night and the following day…
The next night found Maria again after her work in front of her car.
This time the girl took her seat without interruptions and soon she was on her way home.
From out of the darkness around the parking place, a figure watched her step inside the car and then drives away. The tall dark shadow followed the woman quickly and quietly but it did not take the normal way to follow her. The shadow took up into the air and flew behind the car!
She could not shake the feeling off her that someone was watching her! Several times Maria turned around to look out for a follower but never had she seen one. Strange, the young woman thought, then she shock the feeling of and concentrated on the road before her.
As soon she reached her house, Maria hurried to close and lock her car and to get inside of the house she lived in. somehow, the brunette still felt the strange feeling of being watched. When she finally reached the door to her room and after some seconds closed it behind her, Maria was nothing more then glad. What ever had followed her, here she was safe!
Living as a runaway has teacher the girl soon to believe in more as the normality. Before max gave Maria a job, she had lived on the streets and seen a lot more as still to believe that all what her grandmother told her was just myth. When she got the flat, Maria had put up the spell wards her old lady had told her to do, to keep her out of trouble. As long she did not invite something in, Maria was safe.
This also recognized a silent figure who watched the girl fast move inside of the safety of her flat. Softly uttered curses sounded through the night and the being sat down on the roof to think over all a little. How could it get the girl to invite it inside her home? To it, it was clear that the woman knew enough already to be cautious and wary against it.
The being that normally appeared as a young man, maybe in the age of 18 or 19 years old normally under the name, Dwayne, reminded in nothing anymore to his normal appearance. His cheekbones stood out more prominent and the bulbous forehead looked more as that of a hunter as a humans. Animal alike and strangely different, still it was the same being that sat now on the rooftop of the neighbor house.
His brothers had hurried to apologize to Dwayne when he awoke again. They had wanted to make a joke…a joke that turned out badly for the Lost Boy and could have cost Dwayne more then only an embarrassing moment!
He took this as his chance to tell David about his obsession with the girl. After some discussions, his leader agreed to it to let him have her. Now, here he was and she was it too…just out of his reach! So near and yet so far, Dwayne could have howled in his anger and frustration!
Why could not go one thing for once, smoothly in his live!
As far he knows Maria, she would probably close the door even more if he tried it to open it. Not to mention, that Maria now never would speak a word with him again. The girl took never offered rides from them, always staid away from his group and talked not much to them. She was a clever one.
The most humans were not that clever and smart enough to stay away from the predators that the Lost Boys where, the even begged practically at them to be killed! Maria had caught Dwayne's interest because she did nothing like that. It made the silent thinker wonder about her motives and a few carefully placed peeks in the girls mind told him about her grandmother's stories and Maria´s memory of them.
Now the young woman did her best to stay out of trouble…that she seems to like Laddy was a plus for her in Dwayne's line of thoughts. The youngster was the only living being that Dwayne felt attached to and familiar with. It was mostly him or Paul who took care of the homeless boy since they found him on the boarder walk one night, running from the sorry excuse of a father of him.
The guy had beaten the living shit out of the now 8 years old boy! With both of the two coming out of a similar childhood milieu like Laddy, they had taken the youth in and killed the drunken father of the boy. Now Laddy lived with them all and Star was normally supposed to take care of him when the males where on their hunts or otherwise occupied.
Only, the gypsy girl of his leader often lost the boy in the crowd and Dwayne did not like that!
When he took the responsibility for something or someone, he did that completely and with care. Star just did what she was told from David. Sure, the girl seem to love the boy but her careless way made it sometimes hard for Dwayne to not break her neck…one day she would be the dead of them all, he was sure.
Maria, well the Latina was caring and smart, somewhere in his mind Dwayne was sure that she would take a better care of the boy as Star. At least she would not cry at every second when something got rougher or did not run, as she wanted it.
Now, how could he get inside of the girls flat? Suddenly a thought hit the vampire on the roof and he was gone in a flash. He had to get some things…and Laddy!
Maria tried to distract herself from the still there feeling of being watched. She wished the watcher would make itself known at least! That would make it easier for her to turn him or her down. Maria hated nothing more as stalkers!
A sudden ringing of her doorbell brought her out of her musings…at this time. She thought and hurried over to the spy in her door to look through it who that could be in this late hour that rung her bell. She knew not much people here in Santa Carla. Only a few Maria held a slight friendship with…she did not take the risk that someone found out that she was 17 and not 18 as she told Max! Someone could have called the police and that guys would bring her back to her father and her so-called family!
The spy showed her the picture of the most unlikely persons Maria would have thought of that would stand there, Dwayne and Laddy? What did the dark man and the boy do here at this hour?! The boy should sleep already, what did Dwayne thinking that he was doing?
Wary now, she answered through the door at first.
"Yes?"
Dwayne cursed silently and tried to look as harmless as a vampire in human disguise could look. If you did not thought about it more closely that he had not feed already tonight…
He even managed it to smile a little to make his sudden appearance at her door more harmless looking. Dwayne hoped inwardly that she would take the bait and let him in. instead to answer her directly he held a bouquet of flowers right in front of the spy and hoped against hope that she would open the door at least.
Beside him stood Laddy who Dwayne instructed before to be the nicest little brother replica he could be. The boy was curios about it why his brother figure took him with him to meet this female but did not question it. The boy wondered also about it what Dwayne could want from the woman that was so important that he had to meet her too!
He loved the dark vampire as a big brother and hoped he would always there for him. The youngster questioned himself, if Dwayne could want her, as David seems to want Star. The girl, that Laddy saw as a kind of elder sister to him. Suddenly the door opened and Laddy could see the dark skinned Latina that owned the voice from just before.
The young woman was beautiful and seemed nice to the homeless boy. She smiled down at Laddy and kneeled even down to him on eye level when she softly greeted him. Laddy liked her from the start.
Right after, Maria stood again and gave Dwayne a glare that could have frozen the hell over!
"Really! He is a child that belongs in a warm blanked and brought to bed already…what did you think to bring the young boy here at this hour, Dwayne?"
The man in question gulped at the look and felt relieved when she took the flowers from him with a tiny smile.
"They are beautiful, thank you Dwayne!"
He smiled a little clumsily and scratched his head; inwardly the, oh so cool vampire was a nervous wreck! He had forgotten how late it already was and human children where supposed to be asleep already…dammed! Both, Laddy and Dwayne shared a nervous glance at each other when Maria stepped back inside her flat.
From her point of view both looked as if they wanted to run away…"come in already, will you? The doorway is no place for the cute boy to stand in." with that, she turned around and searched for a vase.
She never got it in fully that she did just invite the two in…
The half vampire child and the full vampire at his side shrugged silently and did just what they where told. Dwayne closed the door behind him silently.
Finally! He was inside! With a slight smirk, Dwayne went to the living room of Marias flat and looked around in it. The room was small but comfortable. Many cushions on the floor invited to sit down and lounge there. A small TV and a game station in one corner, a couch with more cushions on the opposite side, all here looked clean and comfortable. A place Dwayne did like to be in.
Laddy soon busied himself with the games and Dwayne could worry less about the boy for now. He noted the thick curtains on her windows in a rather inspection like way, the girl seems not to like the sun when she was asleep and to judge from her job times, Maria slept mostly into the later hours of the day. Also, they shut the people's eyes out in the nightly hours, perfect, Dwayne thought. A short inspection of the curtains made sure that they leaved not much light through them…his mind toyed with an idea soon.
Then the woman came back and placed the vase in front of a picture of an elderly woman with a boy at Laddys age sitting in her lap. "My younger brother and my grandmother…this was made shortly before…" here she ended her tale and took the picture in her hand. Dwayne did not need it to hear the rest; the black ribbon on the picture said it all. The two must have died.
The elderly woman looked slightly Mexican native and the boy much like a younger copy of Maria. Only, the youngster was male and she was female, the family resample was strong between the two different persons. Dwayne got suddenly the feeling that there was more behind it as that Maria gave away but he let it slide for the moment.
"These two were your only family members?" Dwayne sounded casual and chooses his words with care. She shocks her tresses in denial but said nothing more to him afterwards. Again, the vampire let it slide. When she suddenly answered him after a few minutes, Dwayne was surprised.
"No…I still have another brother. He is older then me. My mother and my father still live but I would rather found dead before I will go freely back to my so called father again!" her voice quivered with barely restrained fury and hate. Dwayne was surprised to hear the normally so pleasant and calm woman talk so hatefully like this!
"I do not even know why I tell you this…normally I don't talk about them at any cost. It could place me in danger. Somehow I do not think you would bring me back to them…however, my father were the point, why I left my family and came here. He drunk always too much and one night he set fire in the house by accident…or so the police thinks! He did it on purpose and grandma and Joshua died from the smoke and burned down with the house…"
Here Maria lost it and begun to weep.
She set down on the cushions next to Laddy who fast took the woman in his short arms and held her. Soon after, Maria felt suddenly two stronger arms wrap themselves around her frame and hold her to a broad chest. For minutes she simply cried her heart out then the arms gave her free again and she cleaned her face up.
It had felt nice to be held like this. More then nice Maria thought she liked the feeling Dwayne gave her when he held her like that. She felt secure and protected; as if nothing could harm her meanwhile he did hold her close.
Her smile at him was brilliant; Dwayne gulped and turned his head to the side to avoid it that she caught his slight blush. He let her go only because he did not want to do something stupid. Dwayne had liked it to hold her small frame like this, immensely!
"You do hate him." It was not a question and her nodding head told Dwayne, that Maria knew this too but she choose to confirm his suspicion like this.
"Yes! With a passion! He wanted to kill my grandmother that night in order to get on the money of her bank account, to finance his drinking more. Even my own mother, her daughter, did nothing to stop him! My brother was there on surprise…they did not know and so he died in the fire. His friends and he are too strong for me alone to take…and the police did not believe me…I choose to flee and came to Santa Carla."
Maria stopped for a second and tried to get her hurt and hate back under her control. She did not want to scare Laddy with her way to talk. To her surprise the youth just looked at Maria with eyes that seems so much older to be, as they should… suddenly she asked herself how old the boy really was. He looked nothing older then 8 years at age. Making a silent decision to take the risk, Maria went on with her tale.
Her former thoughts came back to her memory and she stored them away in her mind for later use.
"If I could, I would have killed him already. He is not a father or else, he just a drinking monster that lusts after money and would kill me first if I would let him. I am the only heir of my grandmother's money that is still alive; my mother got only the legal money and nothing more. Since my brother is dead and my other brother got only a part of her money, the rest goes for me when I turn 18. That's why I hide here, that is also why I never make friends and normally never tell a soul about this all."
Her look was defiant and questioning all together; Dwayne just answered with an open and honest look and nodded at her tale. She had the feeling, he understood her perfectly well.
The silent man gave her a thoughtfully look, she could not figure it out. What ever run through his mind, Dwayne was a master in it to conceal it from discovery and Maria got more as before the feeling that there was more true on the tales as she always had believed in that it where.
Her gaze drifted to his hands meanwhile she hugged Laddy closer to her body and she looked more closely at his nails…or what she had always believed to be nails! Right at this moment, they proofed to be the only indicator of the raging anger inside of the vampire. Without Dwayne's knowledge, his sharp nails had turned into his vampire claws. The young woman gulped; so Maria though, I was right with my musings about you and your friends, he is not an average human.
She made her mind up quickly and closed her eyes for a second, and then she looked the male beside her, directly in the eyes.
"You are not human!"
This simple declaration brought Dwayne quick out of his silent anger at the man that was supposed to take care of Maria. Her gaze did not weaver nor did she remove it from his surprised one. He saw Laddy tense in her arms and wrap his small limps even more around Maria´s body. The young boy senses the danger she had just placed herself in and reacted instinctively. Dwayne was pleased, he now was certain to have found someone he could not only spend the rest of his un-life with, more so, he had found someone that Laddy accepted too.
"No, I am not human. Don't freak out, ok? Promise?"
When she nodded at him to continue and told him an almost not to hear, I will not freak out, he nodded his head and then looked away from her again.
"I …I am a vampire. Laddy is also nearly one…"
Dwayne waited.
He waited for the scream and the other stuff that would come now surely. Strangely enough, he never thought about it that she would laugh at him. Tell him that it gave no such a thing as vampires. Why, he could not tell but he was certain somehow, that Maria would believe him.
He still waited for her to throw Laddy away and then run away from them, screaming.
It never came.
"So that is it then why I always had a strange feeling around you guys. I was beginning to believe that I needed mental help." She gave a short laugh at his unbelieving look. "What? Did you really believe it that I would try to run away from you?" At his almost hesitant nodding Maria did snort and then she shock her head, "I did not ask you because I do know nothing, Dwayne, and there…there are many stories out about you and your friends, on the boarder walk!" Stories, involving you guys with missing people. Mostly, after they took the offer for a ride from one of you.
I am not blind. I see things; maybe it is because of my grandmother who told me so many stories, maybe it is because I come from New Orleans where some things still exist in the shadows. I really don't know but one thing is for certain; I did not ask you because I wanted to be noisy or such."
She gestured at his hands and Dwayne took a sharp intake of air. His nails where replaced from his sharp claws and the vampire suddenly understood her sudden question much more. Of course, a person with her back round would put one and one together after a while!
He concentrated a little and the claws did vanish, nails looked again like nails and Maria watched the change with interest. That in return amused Dwayne. Her surprised look made him nearly laugh. The woman did her hardest to pout at him when she got it that he tried it to suppress his mirth.
Idly, Dwayne mused about it, if Maria did have the slightest idea that she practically just gave him the permission to take her as his, well, more or less. In fact, if he was following the rules of his kin then she gave him a clear invitation without to know it even.
These rules where made for vampires and the mortals became often too late aware of them. Mostly when vampires confronted them with the rules and then it mostly ended with the mortals dead. Even for their hunts, it gave some rules. Like to never go for children…how the humans came up with that fixation was beyond Dwayne!
No one ended up as vampire food without a point.
If the mortals took their offers and did not pay the old tales enough mind, they were theirs to bite…literally.
And so on, and so on, and…it gave even rules for the turning of a mortal. It was not enough to bite someone. If that would work like the humans thought, there would fast more vampires as mortals walk around in this town! It was hard work to turn a mortal being into an immortal! It took time and needed even more work after the turning.
No one was born so, or with the desire to be one. The most where turned without their wanting and had to adapt. He had been lucky that Max handpicked them all and then let it to David to turn them as his childe.
Instead of doing that himself, as Max could have done it, Dwayne shuddered at the sheer thought. He was ok with it to be David's childe and to have the blond as his sire. However, he had not much to say in the matter in the beginning or the end and turned from David on Max command. Afterwards, David guided him through the following time and son Dwayne adapted to his new life.
Males to turn was one thing, females a completely different other.
Star was a good example. She belonged to David, to no one else she could go to and no one else ever would question any of David's decisions for her. She could not leave him nor could she go against his commands, Star had to obey as long she staid half turned, as she was it now.
If she instead would come to her senses and would feed already, Dwayne knew she could be a fully member of their group. A powerful one even, the first female of their pack, that status along to be David's mate was something others in the shadows would kill to reach! Oh no, not Star, she choose it to stay halfway mortal and made herself the life harder as she had to have it.
He wondered if he could get Maria to it to let him turn her and if she would choose it too, to stay half-mortal then. The only thing Dwayne knew was that he wanted this female and that he wanted her to become a fully member of them and not only a scared half!
Suddenly the slight inwardly pull of the warning that the sunlight would come out in half an hour brought Dwayne out of his reverie and the vampire rose suddenly and brought Laddy up with him. Much to Marias surprise.
"What is it?"
"The sun comes up in a short time; I have to get him into safety before that happens and myself too. I don't think you would want to have a pair of undead hibernate in your flat."
She thought about that for a minute. "You would trust me enough to stay here with Laddy?"
Now Dwayne looked confused. "Uhm, yeah...I would…but I thought…me…" He scratched his scalp, caught in a sudden loss of words.
"Then stay here if you want it. I do not mind the company and besides, I usually sleep into the most of the day too. Therefore, it is nothing big for me to hold the curtains close for the rest of the daylight too. You do not have to worry about me to try to stake you, Dwayne. It is not my kind of method to take someone out of the picture and I would never harm the child. Half vampire or not, I will not harm Laddy or you, ok?"
He regarded Maria for a few silent minutes with a look that made her uneasy. Then Dwayne suddenly gave his agreement with a short nodding of his head and a slight grin.
"Don't you worry about it that I could take hold of you in your sleep and then bite you?" Only his eyes did laugh at her. Maria huffed at this and gave him a mock hit at the shoulder what seems to entertain Dwayne even more.
"Of course not! Because that would fall under groping and then I would find a table in my flat that could life without one leg!"
This time he did laugh! A rich and warm sound made her happy in return. That her strange new friend was not even human was no longer important to Maria. She had only problems with the most humans anyway. Dwayne, he seems to understand her without a word and she found it surprisingly easy to figure him halfway out. He was not the grumpy thinker as she had thought before all the time that he was.
She found it rather soothing and nice to banter around like this with the tall dark haired vampire. Not to think of it that she liked the unrestrained view of his shirtless chest and parts of his belly. That guy had a well-chiseled body and she was not a virgin! Slightly blushing, Maria suddenly realized it that she had stared at him…she fast turned around and fuzzed over the sleepy boy in her hold. What a ….!
Maria let it to Dwayne to cover his sorry ass from the upcoming sun alone and took Laddy with her to her bedroom. She was still brightly blushing on their way in the room.
When Maria finally closed the door, Dwayne heard her tiredly wish him a good rest through the door. Amusing how she did avoid it to say good night instead… the vampire settled for a place on the floor that the sun could not reach after Dwayne had closed the curtains with care.
This was much more as he had hoped for to reach in one night! When his body found a suitable position to sleep in, his already tired mind went out to his sire to tell David where he and Laddy settled in for the day. The older vamp seem not to mind him this, David gave only his surprise about the events of the night away. Dwayne told him everything; he let not a single detail out.
David seemed pleased with the turn of events and wished his childe and brother good luck. The mental links to the others of their little clan told Dwayne soon of Paul´s roaring laugher and Marco´s more silently cheers at him. With a snort, he cut the two out of his thoughts and went his mind back to David who currently seems to kick at Paul and Marco back in their resting cave.
David told him to bring her to him as soon Dwayne could manage it. That he would deal with Max and his dammed dog but that he wished to speak with her. Then he cut off the line and both fell silent.
Outside the sun made her way in the morning sky.
Ok, I wanted to write a one-shot…needless to say it will be a two shot. (Grumbles) it run away with me again, ack! I really need to write not so much…or should I say; to hold my imagination in checkbetter? However, have a nice day and I hope you liked my Dwayne story so far!
Suryallee