By JasperHaleXOXO
I don't own ANYTHING. Though I wish I did.
Please R&R
It was an over cast day. Perfect for any vampire trying to stay out of the sun. And good for two vampires imparticuallar. Mary Alice Brandon (Alice) and Jasper Whitlock. Jasper was sitting in a diner for no reason. Waiting for the next bus to get away probably, Alice was there on a mission. Ever since she could last rember she had seen herself finding this man. And she would. Alice had walked miles trying ot find him. She knew she would, she walked everywhere with a smiling, most people would be sad and exausted from this, but she knew there would be a great reward. And a story to tell. And so this is Away From The Sun.
JPOV
It had been 30 or was it 47 or maybe 37 days, oh well it had been a while since I tasted human blood. It was getting harder to find food in such a barren town. I order a coffee' just to get the lady at the counter to leave me alone. I got the feeling like something was waiting for me here. Every since Peter and Charlotte told me of new life up north I had the feeling something grand was going to happen, but everytime I got close it was tured to shattered glass. No matter. I would eventually find hope. Then a girl, kinda pixxie like almost, came right up to me. As if she knew me. And I could sense she did.
"You've kept me waiting a long time." She said
"Sorry Ma'am." I said, playing along. She reached out her hand and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt Hope.
"I'm Alice, I'm just like you," She said as we walked out the door together into the woods, "Only I can forsee things like a psychic! I saw you here and just knew I had to find you. You may already know this, but there's a life for us outside killing and war, and I saw someone who can help us. Help you. They are traveling towards the Olympic Peninsula and I think we can follow and catch up with them." She said, she must have planned this all out. If there was any hope for us at all I would follow her. I felt a conection with her stronger than with any other girl.
"Okay. So you've forseen us with these other people. How would they know a life out of killing and war. We're hunters, how can we live like what your telling me?" I was confussed, all my life I hadn't heard of any other way to keep strong but by human blood. She just smiled at me and said, "I'll show you." She led me off into a forest, there was a small stream with a few deer. 'Did she want me to eat the deer?' I asked myself. Alice turned and nodded as if she knew what I was thinking, she headed towards one leaping gracefully like a gazzelle, prancing towards the deer waiting for the right moment and then, like a lion preying she lunged at the deer hitting a vein perfectly on the neck. She drained what seemed to be the blood and life out of the deer. I was thirsty, no doubt about it, but I perfered richer blood. I perfered human blood. The thirst began to burn, watching the blood come from the animal. And if I wanted to get away from war and killing. This would have to be a start.
I tried to follow a bigger deer, trying to copy the movements she had made. It wasn't easy, I was used to luring a human close by and just being able to drink. These creatures we're smarter. They seemed to know what was comming for them. That I was comming for them. I saw it stop to get a drink, and then I lunged. I missed the vein at first but I took another bite and hit it. I warm flow tasted okay. It didn't satify my thirst though. It may never satify my thirst. I just knew if there was any hope, I had to do whatever it took. And even if it meant draining a herd of deer, I would try, not only for me, but for the girl that watched me. She seemed to know I didn't like it too well. She walked over to me and told me it was time to go. We couldn't stay in one place for too long. I began to think I was falling for her. I might actually have found a reason to exist. I knew that I liked her, more than a conection it was a love. And I hoped she felt the same way too. The sun began to set over the horizon, and we walked off, knowing there wasa brighter future ahead. The first taste of new blood, and not the last taste of old.