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A/n – I am so gutted that Aiden is no longer with us :( but he lives on in fanfic..gotta love fanfic! If you enjoy this fic, please feel free to leave a review. Thank you.
Just turn it off, turn it off! Josh sobs to himself, the pain of losing the love of his life, Aiden is too much for the this vampire to make. He knows the risks of Vampires who turn off their humanity, but he needs for his heart to stop aching. He can't take the pain and guilt any more. He can hear his cell phone vibrating in the other room, he knew it was Davina, doing her best friend duties, checking in on him. He ignores it. Josh inhales the air in Marcel's loft and closes his eyes. With one more breath, his eyes open..
It been almost an hour and Davina and Marcel are heading to the loft across the river, Davina has told her plans to the old vampire about bringing back Aiden, But Marcel wasn't sure if that was the best way. Davina explains that she doesn't want to see her best friend in so much pain, with that Marcel smirks. As they get closer to Marcel's loft, they can hear rave music pumping through the walls. Davina is confused to why Josh would be playing music like that in his him of grieving. But Marcel knew exactly why, and knew this wasn't going to be pretty.
The young witch and the older vampire walked into the loft, the music loudly in their ears. Davina turns it off by using her magic.
"I was listening to that" Josh appears with a cocktail in his hand.
"Josh? What's going on? Why are you acting like this?" Davina asks concerned.
"Should you tell her or shall I?" Josh smirks at Marcel.
Davina stares at her mentor, wanting answers.
"Uh, he switched it off, his humanity"
No!" Davina sobs and walks to her friend. "Josh, please don't do this!" she begs.
"Too late, who is up for a bar crawl?" Josh smiles, showing off his white teeth.
Davina rushes out the door, Marcel follows her. "There must be a way" a spell, there must be a spell to make him turn it back on!" The witch cries.
"Davina, this is something Josh has to do on his own, trust me"
"What? Become a heartless vampire that will kill anyone who gets in his way? No! That's not him! That's not who he is! I can't stand by and let him do this to himself!"
"what other way is there?"
"Aiden! I can bring Aiden back, if I bring him back and Josh sees him alive, that could turn his humanity back on, right?"
"It's a possibility that it could work but there's also-"
Davina cuts Marcel off, she didn't want to hear the other way it could go if she brought back Josh's lover, she just wanted to know if there was a chance it could work. That's all she wanted to hear.
After Davina leaves, Marcel goes back to his loft. As he enters, he sees Josh walking down the stairs with a bag back on his shoulder.
"Josh, what are you doing?" Marcel moans. He has too much on his plate already, he can't deal with all this too.
"um, leaving? I think the luggage was a give-away?" Josh states sarcastically.
Marcel now in front of him. "Look I get it, you switched it off because you couldn't deal with the pain, I'm not judging you, you don't need to leave"
"So, I'm just to stay here and wait for that witch to bring back my dead boyfriend? Yeah, super vamp hearing remember?"
Before Marcel could fully blink, Josh was gone. He cared about Josh and saw him as his family, but maybe it's what Josh needs at the moment? All vampires turn it off at some point, right?
It's been a week since Josh left New Orleans and turned off his humanity. He noticed he wasn't being very discreet with his killings and would lead Davina right to him. So he decided to calm things down for a bit and settle somewhere. Now in the middle of nowhere in Virginia, he notices a dive bar, as he drives up to the place, the hunger for more blood over powers him. All eyes now on him, as he walks up to the bar.
"can I help you?" the bartender asks, unfriendly.
"do you guys do food? I'm starving" The vampire smiles.
"No, we don't!" one of the rough necks answer.
"There's a small town just 10 miles from here, they have a food joint" The waitress smiles.
"Thank you" Josh smirks.
Josh walks back to his car, wiping the blood from his face. As he drives through the dead road, no cars in sight, he notices a sign. "Welcome to mystic falls" he reads out loud. "this will be fun"
