Don't Fear the Reaper

BLB- This is something I wrote a weekend after finishing one of my college papers. In some ways it is crazy and very plot bunny-ish. In short, a AU where Sally actually became a sort of Reaper. I edited this minimally and plan on doing it a little after this goes up but I digress. I do not own Being Human US, I just love Sally and Aidan.

1

Aidan remembered everything; there were many things he wished he could forget but were burned into the back of his eyelids like a curse. It was Sally, a girl he had befriended for a few months and her closeness to him had cost her everything. The thing that haunted him most was the thought of her, screaming for his help before being shoved to the ground, drained of life and completely out of his reach. When he thought her lifeless body, how she stared blankly back at him; every time saw her like that, it made it harder to believe that Sally was ever alive.

It started with Sally wanting to go to the bar. He didn't think much of it until the girl was gone and would spend the next day or even a few days sobering up. Aidan planned on walk her home, just to know that she was safe inside but Sally told him over and over again, that unless he wanted to walk her home in piss-drenched clothing that he would let her go to the ladies' room before they headed out. He stood outside of the restroom waiting for her, twenty minutes passed and Sally was still nowhere to be seen; Aidan was beginning to panic and as another five minutes ticked by, the vampire couldn't wait any longer since the silence on the other side of the door was not a good sign. He pushed open the door and looked in each stall, when he couldn't find Sally, Aidan ran out of the room and out of the bar. He needed to find her but he didn't know where to start.

"Sally!" Aidan shouted as he turned around frantically searching his immediate surroundings.

"Aidan!" She screamed in response from her quick gasps, he knew she was fighting someone off.

"Baby, I'm coming," He yelled in response, running towards the sound of her voice, "Just hold on."

The only other sounds he heard from her were a pained scream and her strangled cry. That is when he found her, down an alleyway in the direct light from a streetlamp. Sally looked terrified and when the girl tried to run to him, she was pulled back roughly.

"Aidan, run! Get out of here," She shrieked, hoping that he would get away safely. A hand covered over her mouth to keep her quiet and Bishop finally stepped forward, wanting Aidan to have a full view of what he was going to do.

"Let her go," Aidan pleaded, "I'll do whatever you want me to do, just let Sally go."

"Why should I do that?" Bishop mused holding the girl tighter against him, when Aidan took a step towards them Marcus revealed himself. That was when Aidan understood how hopeless the situation was.

"She's my friend," Aidan growled at his maker.

"Friend? Did you ever tell her our little secret?" Bishop questioned before his eyes changed to black. The police chief looked into Sally's eyes and she thrashed, trying to scream even though his hand was still holding her mouth shut. "We're your worst nightmare."

When Bishop sunk his fangs into her neck, Sally cried out, trying to get away from the most dangerous person she would ever meet. "Aidan, PLEASE!" She screamed. As the minutes ticked on the color drained from her skin and her motions became more strained and weak. Aidan was stood there in shock; he hadn't realized that Marcus and another younger vampire were holding him back until Bishop had let Sally's corpse hit the ground with an audible thud.

Once Marcus let him go and Bishop got out of the way, Aidan ran to the girl and held her tightly. He was crying, his face in her hair, taking in her scent. For a minute, he wanted to beg, tell her and whatever deity was listening to fix this because it was not supposed to happen; not to her, anyone but her. Bishop killed her and he couldn't help but feel that he was responsible for what they did to her. The vampire kept looking around, wondering if she'd come back as a ghost and if she did the last thing he wanted was for her to wake up in an alley alone.

It was then, when her body was cold and there was no hope of reviving her that Aidan realized something that caused his unbeating heart to break even more. "I love you. Sally, it wasn't supposed to be this way; I hope that wherever you are that you can forgive me, because this is my fault."

Aidan stayed with her until Bishop's cleanup crew came to take her away. He tried to stop them from taking Sally from him, insisting that he be the one to lay her on the gurney and close her in a body bag. Aidan even considered taking her to the funeral home himself, but thought against it because he did not want to see the satisfaction on Bishop's face.

So instead the vampire went home, deciding that lying in bed and wallowing for a couple of days would help him recover. He knew that Josh would not press him for information at first, the werewolf may not even realize that he was home till the next day. The only thing Aidan would get out of bed for is a blood bag, work could wait for a few days and the full moon was a week or so away.

His plan worked for a few days, Aidan had avoided Josh and called off of work telling them that he had a bad case of the flu, explaining that he would pick up extra shifts next week. While Josh was at work, Aidan decided to sit at the table, read the newspaper and drink a mug of his bagged blood. What he did not expect was that Josh had left early from work, panicking like it was a family emergency and charged into the house like he meant business. The vampire looked up at his roommate as he came into the room but decided to keep reading the paper and taking another sip from his mug. It was only when Josh ripped the newspaper from his hands and slammed a flier on the table in front of him that Aidan understood his urgency.

The slip of paper looked like it was tore off of a tack board and crumpled up, a missing persons flier and when Aidan read the name and looked at the pictures, he nearly choked on his blood. Sally Malik, the girl that Bishop killed outside of a bar, smiled at him in her pictures. Along with her information, her family gave a phone number to contact them if there were any leads to the woman's whereabouts.

"Care to explain that?" Josh demanded. Aidan shook his head in response. "Did you kill her?"

Aidan shook his head again, "I didn't. I wouldn't, she was my friend Josh and I never wanted her to get hurt." He got up from the table, dumping the rest of the blood down the drain and rinsing out the cup, feeling sick to his stomach, with blood being the last thing on his mind.

"Then what happened Aidan? People have come forward saying that Sally was last seen with you at the bar," Josh argued, "They are going to start asking questions and the last thing we need is to draw attention to ourselves. The police were at the hospital looking for you today, it won't take them long to come here to get your version of the evening."

"I didn't hurt her but," Aidan began, pausing to figure out how to tell Josh the truth.

"But what?" Josh pressed.

"Sally is dead," Aidan explained, "Bishop killed her. Marcus held me back as he did it, Sally was terrified, crying for my help until she succumbed to her weakness."

"Maybe it is better, safer for everyone involved for us to keep our distance," Josh began, "I told you that befriending that girl was an awful idea from the start and look where that left her! You've been hiding in your bedroom for days, I'm sorry that it happened but it would have eventually and that time you may not have been able to blame Marcus or Bishop."

"You're saying that I would have killed her? That I'm the reason she's dead," Aidan scoffed, "I already feel guilty for what happened, I loved her and there wasn't anything I could do to stop him! I don't know what me and Sally could have become, but I do know that I would never have slipped and hurt her. She made me want to be better and because of knowing me, she's dead."

"The important part is that you didn't," Josh realized that he took it a little too far and decided silently that comforting the vampire would be better than making him feel worse, "Her blood isn't on your hands, it's on Bishop's. I know she helped you, I could see the change in you from the moment you two met at the hospital, Sally brought out something more in you and I think that even now she would want you to do better."

"I know she would, but I'm a monster and everything I touch turns to a disaster and I brought her into a world she should not have encountered," Aidan rambled as he paced the open part of the kitchen.

"And you want me to bring Nora into mine?" Josh countered.

"It's different," Aidan answered, "You only have to worry about the night of the full moon, the rest of the time you may still be a monster but you are more human than wolf. Meanwhile I'm a walking blood junkie, who slips more than he stays clean."

After that they kept the conversation to lighter subjects, what was going on at work and even how Josh was doing with Nora. Aidan was glad to get the subject off of Sally, realizing that at some point he would have to apologize for the thing he said to Josh but at the moment he did not want to bring the subject back to the forefront of the conversation.