Two Lives, One Dead and One Alive.
Chapter 1: Prologue
They were running, Katherine knew but she never let the other know what they were running from. It was hard to trust Katherine these days because all they had been doing was running. But they had been together for a long time.
"Just a bit longer." Katherine uttered to her.
"That's all you ever say, 'just a bit further, just a bit longer.' I am so tired of this." Teaghan said to Katherine as they kept going further into Europe. They were somewhere outside of St Petersburg, Katherine had insisted that they leave Italy as soon as possible because as vampires they had to continuously keep moving, Teaghan knew this but still every time she had built a life for herself, it would be on limited time.
They would always be stopping and starting, but Katherine never really cared about the people that were involved in their lives from the minute they stopped, because they were just a means for her to whatever end she required, she was over 500 years old so Teaghan had to be respectful as she was frequently told.
"It will be just a while before we can start over again." Katherine answered as they drove towards the beautiful city, looking ahead on the road.
"Yeah." Teaghan uttered before staring out at the cold afternoon sky, it would bother her if she was human. But being a vampire had its advantages, it disadvantages were more evident if she was to fall in love with a human. She had loved and lost a few times and it never stopped hurting, even if she could switch it off and Katherine encouraged this, but Teaghan needed to feel it because it was the only part of her that could still be considered human.
But as Katherine also reminded, that had ended 143 years ago, but she still needed to be involved with humans, because vampires could be a bit more one sided, killing people and having sex. Sometimes they met more interesting vamps but the humans were more of a plethora of emotions and made her entranced by them.
Katherine had basically slaughtered her entire family when she was just a child of 5. She spent the next 7 years under Katherine's compulsion, believing that this was her mother and that everything else had just been a bittersweet dream, a life beyond being awake.
When she was 12, Katherine disappeared and left her all alone. But she reappeared when Teaghan turned 17 years old.
"What do you want to do this time?" Katherine asked Teaghan, sick of the girls' closed off behaviour.
"What do you mean?" Teaghan asked, they had this conversation on rare occasion.
"What kind of thing do you want to learn? Art? Dance?" Katherine retorted, she kept driving and focusing on the road.
"I never know what I want to do, we'll just play it by ear normal. You only care what kind of hot guys we might attract and can use for our amusement." Teaghan answered back, showing a smile.
"Well you never know." Katherine smiled back, her dark eyes gleaming with mischief as they drove to another short lived new life.