"Hurry up Gabe, bring the little bitch down here."
"Stop it, let me go…damn it. Why are you doing this?"
The girl kicked and screamed as Reverend Newlin and his hunky guard Gabe, drug her down the stairs of the church basement. When they got down to the bottom and in front of a very large cage door she managed to break free by kicking Gabe in the face. Newlin accidently dropped her, not being able to handle her struggling alone. She landed on her ass and managed to scramble to her feet. She turned to run back up the way they came but was abruptly grabbed by her hair and flung into the cage. It was Gabe and he continued to hold her there. She stopped struggling for a moment because she thought she saw something move within the cage. She peered around it and noticed a boy sitting in the far corner on a mattress. He sat there staring at her. He had been lying down but he had risen to better see who it was his captives were fighting with.
Her attention was brought to the extreme weight being but against her. She closed her eyes and summoned up what strength she could. She went still again and the next second Gabe was being sent flying across the basement into the far wall. There was a blinding white light that still lingered and Newlin found himself unable to say anything or move. When it finally hit him that this girl was going to get away if they didn't act fast he immediately charged after her.
"Gabe come on hurry up, she'll get away from us."
Gabe rose from the floor and sped back to the girl who was backing into the cage.
"What's the matter little girl? Are you all out of your magic spells?"
She didn't say anything. The two men watched as a smirk to over her mouth. They didn't see the red light emitting from her hand, it wouldn't have mattered because the next second they found themselves being engulfed in what appeared to being a giant flaming cocoon. They fell to the floor and were knocked unconscious.
She didn't waste any time, she turned back to the boy who was now standing up and watching her most intently.
"I'll get you out of there okay?"
The boy didn't say anything he just watched as she turned back around and frantically tried to dig in the pockets of the two unconscious men. After a minute the boy figured that the girl had found what she was looking for because she sighed loudly in relief and ran back over to the cage door. She unlocked it and opened it up.
"Come on hurry, they won't stay like that for much longer."
The boy just cocked his head to the side. The girl turned back around as Gabe and Newlin began to moan and come to.
"Come on what are you waiting for?"
"You shouldn't waste your time, their waking up. I'm fine here."
The girl turned back to the boy surprised that he had said anything. She was beginning to think that he was a mute.
"You don't want to know what they are going to do to you, or the awful things that they are thinking right now."
"And you do?"
The boy questioned her taking a few steps closer. The men were awake now and were flying after her. She felt her body go flying into the cage when Newlin slammed into her, shoving her in. She braced herself for a fall to the ground that never came. Instead she felt herself falling into something soft. When she opened her eyes and looked up she realized that it was the boy, he had caught her.
"There you go. This is where you will stay until morning. Then you will be burned right alongside this blood sucker."
She heard Newlin speak but didn't bother turning around to look at him, none of it was new. She had heard it already. Their thoughts were a bit more harsh then their actual words. Then she heard Gabe ad din his two cents.
"You filthy demon, I hope that he drains you, it's what you deserve."
The girl heard the cage door being shut and the padlock snapped back into place. Then the two men took their leave. After she heard the basement door shut and lock she turned back to the boy.
"So I guess that means you are a…"
The girl hesitated for a moment taking in the way he looked. He was a little taller than her, short brown hair, grey eyes, and very pale skin. He was wearing a white, almost see through shirt that caught her attention more than anything else. For some unknown reason she had an urge to rip it from his body. It angered her that it teased her by showing the outline of his chest and the color of his skin from beneath it. Her eyes landed on the top part of his neck. She could see the rim of a tattoo of some sort. A tribal marking from her knowledge but she couldn't for sure.
Her physical look over was interrupted by the boy as he bent his head down to capture her gaze. She slowly followed it back up.
"You were saying?"
She tilted her head to the side this time with a look of puzzlement on her face.
"I don't remember."
The boy burst out in laughter.
"I'm glad you can find humor during all of this."
"Yes well, you are very unique, and to refresh your memory I am a vampire."
"Oh that's right. Well then I guess that settles that. I figured there was always time to escape from this place before morning but I don't think I can escape from a vampire."
The boy smiled at her antics. She was serious but yet she had this sense of dignity to her. Like dying wasn't really a problem to her.
"What are you?"
She turned to the boy and gave him a smile.
"I don't know, just some girl I presume, nothing really out of the ordinary with me. In fact I find myself to be quite boring."
The boy gave another soft laugh.
"So far you are far from boring and far from ordinary."
He paused for a minute taking her in. She had long curly golden brown hair, green eyes and a petite frame. She was dressed like a dancer. She was wearing a peach dress that ended at her upper thigh with little fly away strands of fabric. Her body had a sparkle to it and it.
"You are quite beautiful too might I add."
The girl didn't blush like he had expected her too. He figured the reason to be was because she got that compliment all the time.
"Yes well, beautiful doesn't mean that I taste good."
She was silent as she watched him watching her.
"But I hope that I do, it would be absolutely horrifying if I died by a vampire who was starving to death and I didn't even please his taste buds."
This threw the boy through the roof. This girl was absolutely wonderful. The irony of it all, a beautiful girl thrown in a cage to be fed to a vampire and here she was small talking with it.
"I think I like you."
The boy moved to where she was now sitting. He got on his knees and knelt in front of her.
"There is something about you that makes me want to live again."
"Why don't you want to live?"
This brought the boy back into reality. He allowed the regret and guilt of his past to come flooding back into his mind.
"I don't deserve to."
"How come?"
The boy surprised himself. If this had been anybody else he would have completely ignored them. He would still more than likely be over in his dark little corner with his eyes closed and lost in his own deep dark thoughts. But this wasn't anybody else, this was someone very peculiar, someone whom had been able to catch his full and undivided attention when no one else had in two thousand years.
"I have done a lot of bad things."
The girl nodded her head and smiled as if she already knew of those things.
"Like murdered, pillaged, and raped?"
The boy nodded his head in bewilderment as the girl spoke to him as if the things he just listed were simple everyday activities.
"That doesn't scare you?"
The girl shook her head.
"I know that there natural acts for a vampire."
"It's not natural for you to be so forgiving though."
"True, but it's not natural for you to be so remorseful either."
The boy laughed and ducked his head to try and suppress the largest smile he had had in a while. When he looked back up the girl reached for his hand and squeezed it reassuringly.
"Are those bad things the only reason you don't want to live?"
"No, and it's not the horrific crimes I've committed that keep me from wanting to live, but rather the inability to find interest in continuing to commit them."
The boy watched the girl who watched him and continued to show no sign of fear.
"Well, I'm not sure how you can regain your thirst for blood. But maybe you can find another reason for living."
"Like what? I know nothing else."
"Like…well…I heard that love is a good one."
The boy laughed out loud.
"And whom do you presume, could love a monster like me?"
"I could."
The boy studied her. He was searching her for any signs of a joke. Was she serious? Did she know of the things that he had done? She was no longer giving him her reassuring smile but she wasn't laughing either.
"You don't know what you are saying."
"I don't, but like you said, you know of nothing else, so I will show you love."
The boy didn't say anything, he slowly began to rise to his feet again but was stopped from walking away by the girl grabbing his hand. She stood up and moved in front of him. They were face to face, almost nose to nose. He could smell her, she smelt of flowers and the sun. She reached up with her free hand to caress the side of his face. He closed his eyes to savor the moment. He felt her hand moving slowly to his neck, where he felt her tightly grasp it and pull his face to hers. He felt her lips brush past his own, not hard but lightly. It was a nonexistent kiss, if there was such a thing. He felt her sigh and felt the warmth of her breath on against his cool face. She was absolutely other worldly. She moved her face to the nape of his neck where she planted another one of her nonexistent kisses. Then she moved to his ear and gave the lobe a real kiss. It was soft still but sent a shiver through his entire body, followed by a small electrical current. She wasn't human, this much he knew. Nor did he care, he wanted her. She was to be his and with or without love, she would be his reason for living.