Genres: Romance, Supernatural, completely AU(alternate universe)
Couples: Reid/Tyler, Chase/Caleb, Aaron/Pogue
Main Couple: Reid/Tyler
Summary: Reid is a 109 year old vampire. Chase, Caleb, Pogue, and Aaron are his best friends and consider them to be brothers to him, and are also vampires. His friends all have mates, Reid still being single, tries to find his mate, his true love, but just can't seem to find him and gets doubtful. His friends try to help by taking him to a town he's never been: Ipswich. They say that a ton of hotties roam here and there might be a chance to find a potential mate. Before he knows it, he does. And damn, his friends weren't kidding about people here being hotties because his eyes just happened to stumble upon the most beautiful boy he's ever seen in a century. Reid Garwin was finally in love.
The Vampire's Mate
A Covenant fanfic
Chapter 1: Beauty in Twilight
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In the middle of Massachusetts, in the dense forests of the Quabbin Reserve sat a three story house made of dark wood that looked to be centuries old. It housed five vampires; Chase, the oldest; Aaron, the second oldest; Caleb, the third oldest; Pogue, the fourth oldest, and Reid, the youngest. Caleb and Chase are together and Aaron and Pogue are together. Reid, however, is single. He's been longing for a mate for many decades now and still hasn't found one. He hasn't found anyone he's interested in and it's making him frustrated and hopeless. His friends have noticed it, too. He would mope around and act depressed from time to time, just like now and it drove his friends crazy. Reid was sitting on the roof of their house midafternoon staring out through the trees to the sparkling water not too far ahead, just thinking when one of his friends from down below on the ground spotted him and jumped up on the roof to sit next to him. Reid didn't visibly show acknowledgement of the added company but he obviously knew they were there.
"Come on, man…you gotta stop moping around like this, it's getting old." Aaron stated next to him.
Reid turned his head to him and met his eyes before resuming his gaze to the view in front of him.
"Kind'a hard not to when one has tried and failed countless times to find a mate." Reid replied.
"You will find one; you just haven't been looking in the right spots." Aaron said knowingly.
Reid looked back at him in interest. "And what spots are those?"
Aaron grinned at the perk of interest he caused in him. "There are…a few I know of but the one closest and the place you should start is Ipswich."
Reid lifted a brow. "Ipswich?"
"Yep, haven't been there, have you?"
"No."
"Which is why you shouldn't mope. Your mate is out there somewhere waiting for you, and you're sitting here moping when you could be meeting them instead."
Reid rolled his eyes at his friend and sighed, not that he breathes or anything, he's just used to faking for the sake of blending in with the humans. "…Where is this Ipswich?"
Aaron smiled. "I'll take you there."
They then journeyed a few miles to the east on foot with inhuman speed, which made them get there in only four minutes.
"We're here." Aaron stated when they got to Ipswich.
Reid looked around. "This is it?"
"Yep, a ton of hotties roam here, you're bound to find someone you like. Now, I'm gonna head back. Tell me if you find anyone."
Aaron left after that. Reid gazed around his surroundings then started walking aimlessly around the small town hoping to finally find a mate.
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In another part of Ipswich, Tyler was sitting under a large tree with his two best friends Kate and Sarah at a park. A rectangular pond with three small geysers lining the middle was in front of them. Tyler and the girls were having study group, which they arranged together every time they had homework from school that they could help each other with. It was an hour after school. Tyler and the girls haven't been at the park long, only got there half an hour ago. They had their books and papers out from their eleventh grade classes and were discussing and working on them together.
"The Southern Colonies developed an economy based on…?" Sarah read aloud from her worksheet. They were doing U.S. History, which they had together.
"Oh! Found it! It's agriculture." Kate stated while pointing in a certain place in her text book that sat in her lap. All three of them wrote down the answer then moved on to the next question.
"The British brought temporary peace to the colonies after the Boston Massacre by repealing most of the…?" Kate read.
"Quartering Acts." Answered Tyler without even looking down at his book. Kate and Sarah were a little surprised and looked over at him in wonder.
"Wow, how'd you know that?" Sarah asked in amazement.
"You didn't even look at the book." Kate stated also in awe.
Tyler gave a sheepish smile and looked down; not thinking it was a big deal.
"I have ancestors from these times, remember? They left behind diaries that had this stuff in them, since they were around while these events were going on, and I read through some that had these things in them, that's all."
"Oh, well, excuse me Mr. Son of Ipswich, our deepest apologies." Kate playfully teased.
Tyler mock glared at her with a smile and lightly punched her arm. Kate laughed as she rubbed her arm, Sarah laughing along as well at the silliness. Once they wrote down the answer, they moved on to another question.
"The revival of religious feeling in the 1700's was called…?" Sarah read.
"Wouldn't that be like…Enlightenment?" Kate ventured.
"Mmm, no….that would be the Great Awakening." Tyler said in thought.
"Oh…that was going to be my second choice, so I was close." Said Kate while they wrote it down.
Sarah sighed in relief. "Finally…done with history."
"Yeah, no kidding, I so hate history." Kate stated.
"Can't say I'm much of a fan either." Tyler agreed as he closed his history text book and put it and the now finished worksheet back in his shoulder bag, the girls doing the same.
Sarah and Kate gazed at him. "But you're so good at it." Said Sarah.
"Doesn't mean I like it. And besides, I only know a lot of the subject because of my ancestors' diaries. If it weren't for them, I would be just as lost as you on it."
They picked up their bags and got up to walk around the park a bit while talking about things.
"So I hear Kira Snider is pinning for you and wants to go out with you." Sarah stated to Tyler as they walked.
Tyler looked puzzled by this. "…Uh…does she know I'm gay?"
"Yeah, she does, but she doesn't care, apparently. I overheard her talking to her friends about you, talking about how she's so skilled and attractive that she can convert you into liking her." Sarah informed.
Tyler huffed and rolled his eyes. "She wishes. No girl is ever going to convert me to be straight. I was born gay and will forever be that way. The sooner she realizes that, the sooner she can stop herself from humiliation."
"Agreed." Both girls said.
"Speaking of people wanting to go out with you; why do you turn every guy down that asks you out…even the really attractive ones?" Kate asked Tyler.
Sarah nodded. "Yeah, everyone thinks of you as one of the DTDs."
Tyler looked at Sarah oddly. "DTD…what's that?"
"It stands for difficult to date." Sarah elaborated.
Tyler looked surprised. "Difficult? I'm not difficult to date. They're difficult to commit. I've seen and heard how they date people, and mostly every guy at our school either dates for sex or for something to do. I don't want to be a sex object or a pass time. I respect myself and deserve much more than some love game that's set to expire. I want to date someone that's genuinely interested in me and is looking for a soul mate and a future husband in me, real love, you know?"
"Hmm…yeah…I do, too." Sarah mused dreamily.
"Me, too." Kate added. Sarah snapped herself out of her daydreaming and halted her walking, making the other two stop as well.
"I better get going. I gotta help my mom make dinner today." Sarah stated.
"Oh, right, and I gotta do a couple chores before dinner." Kate remembered.
"Okay, I'll see you guys tomorrow."
"Kay, bye." Said Kate.
"See ya, Ty." Said Sarah before she and Kate walked off and parted ways.
Tyler was now by himself in the park. He looked at the view of all the beautiful plants and occasional squirrels, butterflies, or birds that passed by around him and the happy chirping the birds made before moving on out of the park and walking down the sidewalk, his mind set on going to his house.
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Reid sighed tiredly; he had been walking around Ipswich for an hour and a half and still has come up with nothing. Though, he wasn't expecting to find a mate today, it still would've been nice. He has seen a few attractive male vampires here and there but none of them caught his interest. He just passed a park and was crossing a street to carry on down the sidewalk. He was about to call it a day and head back home...until he looked up ahead of him. And that's when he found him. Across from him on the other side of the street a ways further up was the most beautiful boy he's ever seen in a century:Short straight hair that was dark brown and had the bangs standing up, bright light blue eyes that were as pure as the ocean below and the sky above, cream colored skin, and a nice body. Overall…a damn hottie.
Then the hottie disappeared behind a corner. Reid blinked and eagerly followed the boy, not making a sound. He followed him to a nice two story, dark gray bricked house that was surrounded by plants, a few trees here and there around it. The front yard was outlined by a little white fence with an arched arbor with pink and white flowers growing on it. The garage was to the left of the house, which was empty, meaning either the car was inside the garage or the people that live here weren't home. The house had a nice little lake beside it, too. It looked like a cozy, peaceful place to live. The boy walked over to the front yard and passed under the flower covered arbor and walked up the nine step staircase that lead to the front door and dug in his bag for the key. Reid was hiding behind some bushes that grew to the right of the arbor. It was the beginning of twilight outside, so that gave him good cover from the boy's eyes. Reid left from behind the bushes when the boy went inside the house.
Reid zipped over with inhuman speed to the right of the house where two long white windows were and carefully peeked inside. He saw the boy in the living room with a woman that had to be his mother. She had the same hair and eye color as he did and looked a bit like him in a way. Reid watched the boy all day from outside through the windows with adoration, longing, and wonder; watched him interact with his mother, interact with his father when he came home half an hour later, watched them eat dinner together, converse with each other, then Reid moved up to the second story of the house to follow the boy, who had gone upstairs.
He peeked in to the right window, which was the boy's room and watched him as he watched T.V. and sent text messages on his phone, and then watched him as he got ready for bed, and even watched him when he was fast asleep. Reid got an idea and checked the window to see if it was unlocked…it was. He snuck in soundlessly and walked over to his bed to stand next to it and gaze down at him. He was so beautiful. And he smelled amazing, too. He had an urge to touch him, to see if he was real and not a part of some dreamed up fantasy, which he's had many times before. He reached out his fingerless gloved hand and lightly brushed the boy's hair, and then ran the tips of his fingers down one of the boy's cheeks slowly in a loving caress. Reid knew this was going to be difficult. He's never seen any examples of a vampire with a human before through all of the years he's lived. He and his friends don't drink human blood, so they were okay on that but the other things such as the inhuman abilities, drinking blood, unable to eat food, and oh yeah, the overall concept of him being a flipin' vampire will be hard for him to understand and he might even think of him as some evil monster like human society has made them out to be so many times. God, he surely hoped not. He can't even picture this beautiful angel thinking something so bad and negative as that.
Then, just as Reid was caressing the boy's face one more time, one of the boy's eyebrows twitched then his head moved slightly. At this, Reid immediately drew his hand back and darted with inhuman speed in the far corner of the boy's room that was the darkest and disappeared right through the wall with only a little bit of his face sticking out of it to see if the boy was going to wake up but then he noticed he left the window open. Thinking quickly, he turned his eyes black and telekinetically closed the window quietly so the boy doesn't get scared that his window was open when it was closed when he went to sleep. Reid watched as the boy shifted on the bed, now on his side and was facing Reid's direction. He didn't seem to wake, so Reid carefully came out of the wall and walked silently back over to the boy on the bed, just looking at him this time. Reid knew he had to go sometime, so he bent down and very lightly kissed the boy's forehead before straightening back up.
"I'll be back soon, beautiful." Reid whispered before opening the window and leaving the house where his precious future mate laid asleep and went back to his own home to get some rest. Tomorrow he would attempt to talk to him. He had to remember to thank Aaron in the morning. If it weren't for him, he wouldn't have ever found the beauty in twilight. Reid Garwin was finally in love.
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End chap. 1
