This is set five years after the last scene I wrote. Let me know what you think, even if you hate it.
Godric's Heart
Volume Two
Chapter One
"At no point did I ever stop loving him…but sometimes love is just not enough." – Sarah.
The streets were dark in the gloom of the city and he walked quickly, sticking to the shadows of the towering buildings and feeling the heavy sheets of rain slowly drenching him to the bone. He was cold, so cold, but he didn't care, if he even got a glimpse of her this time he'd be happy. He glanced down at his watch, realising it was an hour or so before dawn and quickened his pace to a run seeing the time. The city was on lock down again and it was amazing he'd gone this long without being detected. He rounded the last corner, looking up breathlessly at the tall building outlined against the black sky.
He climbed the stairs two at a time, nearly slipping a couple of times but carrying on upwards towards the top floor. His lungs were burning by the time he reached it and he flung the door open, standing in the doorway and straining his eyes to see if he was too late. She didn't turn and instead kept her back to him, her eyes surveying the city below them. He felt his heart wrench seeing her, a relieved smile breaking out over his lips.
"You shouldn't have come." Her voice was its usual sad, tired tone and he entered, his fingertips dripping and leaving pools of ice cold water on the floor. He shook his head with a frown
"I'll always come." He said with a slightly angry laugh at just how stupid her suggestion had been, "You know that." He said shortly and she turned this time looking over her shoulder.
"Mark…this is stupid." She said shaking her head, her long, slender fingers playing with the necklace around her neck.
"I don't care."
"You're shaking." She said bluntly,
"…It's cold rain." She smiled a little at that and he knew he was warming her slightly,
"You telling me you didn't miss me?"
"You already know the answer to that." Back to stone cold, she walked across the apartment, her bare feet sticking to wooden surface, he looked down to the floor, his hands clenching as he controlled his anger.
"Would you rather I left?"
"You can do what you want Mark." He closed his eyes in frustration
"Sarah-!"
"NO." she said loudly, suddenly turning to look at him "I told you already, I am not some girl you can mould into loving you. I am not that kind of person, I am cold and I am brittle and if you still think you love me then you are a fool! I already told you the score, I am a vampire. I cannot love you." He exhaled gently and then walked towards her,
"I think you can, you just won't let yourself!"
"Is there a difference?" she whispered,
"Yes." He suddenly pulled her into a passionate kiss, he was well aware she could crush him with one movement and he knew she didn't like to be manhandled but as he backed her up against the window he knew she wasn't going to challenge him, not this time anyway. She latched onto his affection gripping onto his muscular back and feeling how warm he was in contrast to her. She wrapped her legs around his waist and he carried her easily to the bed, unzipping the back of her dress and laying her onto the bed. He pulled off his coat revealing the shirt underneath, both were sodden with rain and she sat up, her hands pulling off his shirt to get to the skin underneath and using the speed which span his head every time she pulled him onto the bed, straddling his hips and beginning to kiss his chest. She looked up at him, her eyes flashing in the gloom and he brought her face up to him, kissing her again and letting his hands travel down her back, removing her dress from her body with such care that her hairs stood on end. It was then that she arched her back, baring her fangs and looking down at him, he closed his eyes, laying his head back and suddenly felt the strange pain of her bite.
He woke just before dawn, finding it surprising that she was still there, her head resting on his bicep; he felt a small smile grace his lips and he looked to the window, feeling the dawn light on his skin. He felt a jolt of fear realising how close the sun was to rising and leaned across her, punching the button and shielding her from the first rays until the blackout curtains had robotically closed.
"I don't understand." He looked down under his arm to see that she was staring up at him, he moved back to his place, looking at her, she moved so he could have his arm back be was still facing him.
"…You don't understand what?"
"Why you love me the way you do. It's insane." He smiled at that
"Thanks."
"You're welcome." He shrugged, his hand cupping her cheek as he looked at her, his dark eyes fixing with hers,
"How could I not?" She sighed gently
"You are so young…" she closed her eyes again, rolling over,
"I'm thirty-" He began to exclaim but she cut him off,
"A hundred and three." She heard his teeth grit, she laughed, a proper laugh this time and turned her head to look at him "You're young to me." They lay in silence for a while, not speaking and she was beginning to lose herself in sleep again, his warmth was amazing, before he spoke,
"Can you tell me about him?" She opened her eyes, looking at the blackout blinds. She knew exactly who he was talking about.
"…What do you want to know?"
"Was he really that old?"
"Yes. He really was."
"…That's got to do things to a person..? How can it not?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, being alive for over 2000 years…you'd see the world change so much, people change so much…how would you deal with that?" She didn't answer for a while but she knew he was waiting for her to say something
"He wanted to die."
"What?"
"He wanted to die. Many times."
"Vampire's can be suicidal?"
"Of course. Anything can be." She felt the silence for a moment, knowing what he wanted to ask, she wondered for a moment if he'd just leave it but then she knew him better than that.
"…Have you ever been?" She turned to look at him and he did the same, his eyes looking strangely naive and innocent.
"Everyone has a time in their lives when they contemplate it…and Vampire's can live hundreds of life times so I guarantee you every vampire you ever meet would have done." He suddenly clashed her face in his hands, looking at her as if she'd said the worst thing she could have done.
"Promise me you never will," she smiled at his expression "No I'm being serious. Promise me you never will." She ran her hand down his large arm,
"Not in your life time," she whispered kissing him gently on the lips "Now, let me sleep." She turned around again, pulling his arm with her. He gently kissed her shoulder, closing his eyes, she could feel him frowning
"I-I can't ever lose you…you know that."
"Mark…" she whispered lifting his hand to her lips and kissing his fingers gently "Go to sleep." She felt him grudgingly lay his head down, relaxing into sleep and she closed her own eyes, she'd never promise him a thing because they were promises she couldn't keep.
She woke up suddenly, the blinds were opening automatically due to the disappearance of the sun and she looked to her side. Mark was sleeping soundlessly, he'd probably had another couple of days without sleep at the agency and this meant he'd be out cold for a couple more hours. When she'd first met him he'd been very alert and jumpy, almost unable to get a proper nights sleep but with her, he always seemed to be able too, whether that was because he felt safer with her or was just becoming even more tired due to his increased work load she didn't know. Mark was one of the British Royal Families personal guards and he could easily look after himself, he'd met Sarah when they consulted her over an attempted assassination of the King by a 'terrorist vampire group' named 'The Court' which Sarah had inside knowledge on.
For a while he hadn't trusted her at all and he'd wanted nothing more than to drop her from their informant team. Mark had a problem with vampires and he really didn't like them. But then there had been a mission and he'd gotten shot, seriously wounded and on the brink of death. She'd saved his life.
She got up from the bed pulling on some underwear and a top before walking across the room to the kitchen area,
"How long have you been here?" She asked as she opened the fridge, her voice was neither angry nor happy but the person she'd directed the question at appeared from behind the bathroom corridor, leaning against the counter top.
"How did you even know?"
"Because I'm not an idiot and you're bad at hiding."
"Is that any way to speak to your brother?"
"You aren't my brother." She said shutting the fridge and putting a bottle of true blood in the microwave.
"I forgot you don't view us as your family…" She looked up at the man leaning on her counter top, he was late twenties, a swarve grin on him that would piss off any intelligent woman and a finely cut suit.
"My family died with my mother." She said bluntly opening the microwave as it pinged,
"WOAH…hold the phone, do we not class Godric as family anymore?" Her eyes flashed up to him and he smirked again "Guess that ship sailed…"
"What do you want Jed?" She said bluntly taking a sip of the dark red liquid,
"Not me, Alexander wants an update,"
"On?"
"You obviously, he checked a while back to see if you were still with lover boy and was quite surprised to find you'd abandoned ship."
"Please stop with the sea faring metaphors, ten years and they still aren't funny." She said turning and walking towards the table and chairs,
"Ouch…" He followed, leaning on a chair as he watched her, "What's up your skirt?… apartttttt from the meat bag in the next room?"
"Very funny."
"No seriously Sarah, what happened? Alexander fully expected you to be with Godric, that was the plan to keep him in check and then he turns his back for five minutes and suddenly your gone and shagging some human? I just don't get it."
"Do you honestly think I'm having this conversation with you?"
"Well I have to have something to tell Alexander, so you better come up with something good or he'll be seriously pissed and you know it."
"He can be as angry as he likes, this is my life, not his."
"At least give me something…"
"Fine." She paused taking another sip and placed the bottle back on the table "It didn't work out."
"…Because?"
"Because." She finished bluntly and Jed knew he wasn't getting anything else out of her, "Now I'd like you to leave." She added raising her eyebrow.
"Sarah you are on dangerous ice." Jed said in a low tone,
"So are you." Jed looked up to see that Mark was standing in the door way pointing a gun at him. He laughed, smiling at the weapon
"Oh honey bullet's won't kill me!"
"No? What about ultra violet ray bullets? Or as we call them, bottled sunshine." Jed's expression suddenly changed and he glared at Mark
"…Didn't know you had a guard dog Sarah." Mark went forward with the gun outstretched but suddenly felt Sarah's hand wrap around his wrist holding him back.
"I want you to go Jed or I seriously don't stop him from shooting you."
"Fine." He said shinning on his heel and walking towards the door "One more thing though, Alexander won't be happy with this…I'm pretty sure he'll pay you a visit and if I were you meat bag I really wouldn't be here." Jed was suddenly gone shutting the door behind him and Mark exhaled loudly lowering the gun.
"Next time Mark don't be so stupid." She said standing up and taking another drink, Mark looked at her with a frown,
"…What?"
"Don't hold a gun on him, there isn't any point because he'll rip your throat out before you even have the chance to fire, the only reason he didn't was because I'm older than him."
"I don't like vampires Sarah." He said bluntly, she laughed then
"Don't have issues with sleeping with them though?" she said as she pulled herself up onto the work surface.
"You are an exception to the rule." He ground out switching the safety back on his gun and putting it on the table. "You know that."
"Yeah…" she trailed off looking back at him "You have work in about an hour,"
"I know…I always hate leaving because I'm worried about you not being here when I get back," she sighed heavily, closing her eyes in irritation,
"You have too much of an attachment to me you know that don't you?"
"I do." He nodded "But I wouldn't change it for the world."
"Then you're an idiot." He was suddenly standing in front of her, his hands either side of her hips on the counter so he was leaning into her,
"…Haven't got to be out of here for another thirty minutes you know." She looked at him then, raising an eyebrow,
"Good to know."
"So...?" The voice asked as Jed closed the car door behind him
"Doesn't look good, she wouldn't tell me why she left him, maybe if you give it a shot it'll be different." Alexander laughed a little
"Perhaps...did you tell her he was in London?" Jed smirked and shook his head,
"I was going to but after she was down right rude I thought it'd be a nice little surprise for her to find out on her own. I'm sure both Sarah and Godric will be thrilled to see each other again...if they bump into each other that is." Alexander smiled again,
"We might have to make sure that happens."
Soooo that's the first chapter up, it took me so many times to start this, I was going to go so many different ways but I finally found one I liked, what do you think about Mark? And don't worry, Godric will be back again very soon and then things are going to get shaken up.