Vamp Bars & Stupid Deals

Most of the time I was cautious around other vamps, but tonight I was at ease, swaying gently with the elders and not caring whether they knew I was a young-blood or not. They could think whatever they wanted to about me but I was not there for a party, I was there to kill. He was watching me intently and I paid him no mind at all. Jaxon was getting mad, I could tell, he wanted my attention and I wouldn't let him have the satisfaction of getting it. I just stormed right past, not even looking in his direction, grinning with self-satisfaction.

He knew why I did it and had all intentions of following me. I don't know why he couldn't just leave me alone like all of his other fledglings. NO! He just has to follow me like a lost puppy, when clearly I do not want to speak with him. It was a bit ridiculous that he being an elder was following anew blood around. It's his loss since he knows that I have never been the kind of girl to fall for his idiotic type of charm.

I stopped walking and sat down at an empty table. He considered this an invitation because he too sat down. Grinning at me like an idiot across the table was a dumb move on his part, if you ask me. Since he probably knew why I was there. There were very few reasons I would enter a vampire bar, the main one was the reason for right then.

Jaxon could not stand the thought of Xand and I being together. He never had been able to. Jaxon wanted me all to himself; he thought that because he had changed me he would have me forever. The thing is I cannot stand Jaxon, or the thought of being with him. He ruined my life and the lives of everyone around me.

"Hello Meli. Long time no see."

"Well Jaxon, I was hoping you'd catch on and realize that I don't like you!"

He laughed! Not just a chuckle though. It was an outright laugh! I looked at him with so much hatred I was hoping he would leave. "Jaxon what do you want? And do not call me Meli like you know me you know nothing of the hurt and hatred I have harvested toward you! But tonight is the night for you to find out about it!" I grin evilly, content with the look of slight fear on his face. Then he just sat forward a little, causing me to move further away. "You know that I know more about you than you think I do. I know so much about you it pains me to admit that I love you. I want you to know that I have had a claim on you since I changed you and now that Xand is dead I…" I cut him off there; he had messed with the wrong nerves tonight. "What do you mean he's dead?! I just talked to him before coming here to kill you!"

He just smiles slowly looking at me like I was a small child or an idiot I cannot decide. And says, "Yes you did talk to him I thought that you were an idiot though. I thought that you would think it was true. Because I didn't know you had talked to him until right before you said that and I read your unprotected mind."

I laughed in his face. "You are the idiot for thinking that was unintentional. I knew that you would try to make me think he was dead and that you would realize your mistake after you had already said it. Because you are a little slow in reading my thoughts. I hate your guts and you know that. I wish that you would stop saying that you love me, that makes my stomach queasy and I think I may barf on you if you say it again."

Again with the laugher, I mean doesn't this guy know that I hate him so? Apparently not because he just keeps on coming like there is no tomorrow. I mean seriously if I had any attraction don't you think I would try something with him? So obviously I don't even like him.

"Zerra I do care for you greatly. I must if I would change you so you would be here for all eternity. I mean if I didn't care for you I would have just killed you all those years ago instead. I will not say it again because I have told you more than once and I do not wish for you to upchuck on me. But know that I do. Onto other events, I wonder would you like to come to my next rave? It is to be viciously fun. I know you would love to if you could. And you can even bring Xand he is after all the love of your life. I won't bother you anymore if you promise to come to every rave I ever invite you to and you are to linger near me all of the time and pretend to be deeply in love with me."

He grins slowly thinking that this will end all of the hatred I have toward him. I grin slowly making him think I will agree to his idiotic deal.

"No I will not agree to that. I will come to all of these 'raves' but I will not pretend to feel something I do not feel in front of Xand even if he knew the deal. I will go and bring him and I will do as I please within reason with him while I am there. So deal with that."

I stand slowly going around to his side of the table, I hit the small button on the wrist blade I always wear and press it into his side, sliding it in cleanly.

"That is a taste of what I will do to you if you try to harm me or Xand ever again. Jaxon I know what you tried to do to my sister. I know that is why she killed herself. I hope you know that is why I hate you so. I hate you for that and all of the other things you have done to ruin my life. You knew that if I tried to blood bond him to me he would die and the only way to save him was to change him. But you changed me anyway knowing I was in love with a witch. You knew I would try to blood bond him to me so you knew he would die. I hate you for so many things but those top them. So just know that if you ever do anything like that again I will kill you."

I don't know how he can still smile at me. But he just looks at me and says, "I want to be the one that haunts your dreams at night. I want to be the one that you never forget. I want you to love me the way I do you-I did not say it mind you. I want so much from you and I know you want to kill me and you hate me, but with hate there have to be some sort of feelings toward me so you know there is something else in you that wants me too because if not you wouldn't be able to hate me you would disown even hearing my name. So don't tell me you don't care at all for me." I scowl at him. Not knowing what else to do I stand up and walk toward the door. "Don't even think I won't be back to kill you Jaxon, because I will. I will be here everyday contemplating ways to kill you." I grin evilly and walk away muttering under my breath. I cannot believe that he still cares about me even though I told him I would kill him. He doesn't stop for even a second. I still feel things like I am living yet he is as unchanging as a high school teachers lectures.

As I walk away I can hear him laughing, this just makes me angrier. I wheel around right at the door and throw a dagger missing him by only two inches. I smile coyly, open the door and exit. I walk down the street unhappy with the way today's mission went. In all my many, many years of being a vamp I never thought that anyone would get to me like that, but he does and it just sticks with me for hours. I know that I will be angry for a while and don't want to face Xand that way so I just walk trying to figure out someway that I can beat Jaxon.