Well... this story sucks. I did it more than one year ago and m writing abilities were so lame... You see, English isn't my first language.
Understand please that I will only post if someone reads this. If no one does, I really don't think why should I keep it up. This chap is for TREE1112, the only reviewer. Keep reviewing dear!
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I made a smile when the tall and slim Vampire left the Ratway, ready to take the money that three merchants where owning us. The man started in my thoughts as an easy prey, a strange man that looked tired, he was probably going to sleep like a stone, so I thought as I was going to stay in the Inn for some time, I could simply take some of his things and go happily away.
I was toyed as a child that still believes that their parents are the source of all the true of the world. When I closed the door he threw one Ebony axe in it that I thought he was going to cut of my ear. He was fast and had an aim that didn't failed, it was to almost hit me, it was a treat.
When I turned he already had me against a wall and another axe in my throat. So fast, I couldn't almost see it. I had experience with it and managed to change the places, but he was prepared to anything, and when I had him against the wall he had a dagger, a stupidly sharp dagger, one that I knew that wasn't made to let survivors. I wanted that dagger, but sadly I couldn't see it.
But then the stuff started to get weird. He was without the hood, I could see his face completely, a sharp face with features almost of a dark elf's, skin pale as the snow, almost blue, the dark hair was long and touched the shoulders, but I could see that he managed to hold it in a braid, but our fight had released it.
The sharp features could make me talk of it the rest of the day. Sharp but soft lips that made a straight line when he was serious, the longest eyelids I ever saw, dark as night, eyebrows that was in a cold and darkly formation, I couldn't describe it well. His eyes, big eyes with dark eyeliners, they didn't need tint, and his iris, oh that red iris. He was exotic. Dark, cold and exotic. Never the red looked so cold to me.
A Vampire, I once knew a Vampire, and she was beautiful like an daedric princess, beautiful and dark in a way that made pain, yes, a beauty, an goddess herself, and now I was starting to ask if all the vampires were surprisingly beautiful. No, I wasn't attracted to him, no, he was a man, just a strange man that I tried to steal and it got so wrong that I felt shame.
His eyes shined and he slowly came closer, in slow movements, like if he fought with himself, he made me froze, I couldn't move, I swear I tried, but when he got me I didn't move an inch. I felt him in my throat, soft and cold, deadly in all the ways. I felt subjugated and flaccid in my way, he hold me and when he released I fell on the floor. Gods, I had forgotten that I needed to stay up for myself, but when he held me I forgot everything about that.
When he released me and told to me to pick my things and go out my brain just released the arrow that it have held for all this time, as I grabbed my daggers faster than a hare and ran like Oblivion to out of the Inn, leaving just dust behind and running the faster I could. Just when I was about to jump down the stairs to the Ratway I stopped in the cold rain and thought in my actions.
The poor guy didn't have a fault in anything, he would be okay and his nature keep hidden if I didn't invad his place. My brain started to stab me with thoughts, and if the man got himself discovered with all this? The people wasn't very good to supernatural beings, I knew that perfectly, and the mages where the worst if they catch a vampire, I hated mages, they were awful to many things and even besides this, they still were more awful if they got a Vampire, if mages were what I knew one could gladly open him in a table to see how he worked in the inside.
Uh, and there wasn't a mage inside the Inn? The so well knew Marcurio? He wasn't a curious and challenging mage by what I have listened? Oh no, I didn't wanted anyone to die. I hided myself behind the wall, gods, those were the worst five minutes of my life.
I thought so many things, I didn't know if I should enter and se by myself if he was okay, or waited to see what happened. I choose to wait, and minutes after I saw the door opening, and the Vampire in his dark shrouded armor got off, holding his hood so the wind could not lift it away.
He walked to the gates with some hurry, and I ran just behind him. When he put his finger in the gate I managed to catch his attention with the light of my dagger. He came closer, jumping that fence with so much skill, was like he was used to do this every single day. I dragged him to the Ratway, where I made my propose, and if I was right he could be a great thief, one good addition to our business, and in this way my brain wouldn't torture me with guilty. He was going to catch money, wasn't a hard task, and I prayed he was made of the good stuff that the great thieves were made. He looked he could do it.
"Brynjolf, where were you? It's raining I guess?" Delvin said and I smiled, catching in the air the towel he threw at me. I smiled and started to dry my hair and face.
"Yeah, it's raining a lot." I answered, before sitting in the bench close to the tavern's table and asked for some Black Briar's mead. Delvin smiled and asked for the same.
"So, you was searching for a new thief, did you found him? Or her?" He asked and I made a confident smile, I wished Delvin didn't see it, but the thief did.
"Oh you found him! Or her! Ah, I know that smile Bryn, tell me, who you picked is good?" Delvin asked and I smiled.
"That's what he are going to see." I answered and the thief laughed before poking my ribs and telling me I should take a bath. I groaned and walked to the bathroom, taking a hot bath and using my second armor, as the other was so watered that I feared that I would need another.
I blinked when three leather bags where put in front of me. I raised my eyes and meet the lips of the dark man, I could see his face from the end of the nose to the chin, only that, the rest the hood covered. He was so wet that I thought that he had fell on a river, maybe there was a fish in his armor, this strange dark and red armor that I never saw before.
"How you did it that fast?" I asked and he didn't move an inch, his coldness and emotionless state was always there, the world could be burning and he would be with this same face, calm and cold expression.
"People don't like wet people in their stores." He said and like if the Gods made this to prove his word Tonilia appeared in the corner and crossed her arms angrily.
"Are you going to water all this place, get out before I kick your ass out of here." She roared but I made a sign with the hand and she rolled her eyes, before letting it be and going to her way. The lad had impressed me, I must admit.
"I can see. Dry yourself a bit and come with me, I'm going to show you what we are made of." I said before grabbing a towel that he kept close to the entrance of the Ragged Flagon for thieves that came wet and threw at him, his reflexes were fast as a feline's, and he grabbed it in the air, before starting to dry his armor quickly.
I opened the hidden door at the cabinet and walked to the cistern. His look didn't look impressed, not even a little, or maybe he was impressed but didn't show. Well, he could be feeling anything, I couldn't read him, he was cold and dark, looked like he didn't felt a thing.
Nothing at all. We walked to Mercer Frey, and after his speech of rules and treats I rolled my eyes and waited for him to jump to the matter that I wanted to him to go. The welcomes. Well, the welcomes that Mercer Frey could give, they were the nicest welcomes that you could have, but still were welcomes. When the so waited word came I smiled and started to talk about the jobs and Mercer shoot. He would send the Lad to the bee farm.
My protesting was useless, and the Vampire in some minutes was at the bath, drying his armor and preparing to go to The Goldengloom. I furrowed my eyebrows, even the little Vex weren't able to enter the place, how he was thinking that the lad was able to enter in the bee farm and go out happily? It was madness, but all that I could do was pray for the Vampire.
"Lad, I know that's bit odd, but I don't know your name yet." I asked and the vampire halted and stared at me. At his back was an Ebony Bow and a lot of Dwemer arrows. I had never seen those before, did he had them for all this time?
"It isn't important." He said, and with that I furrowed my eyebrows.
"Of course it is important, everybody have a name, you have one to, doesn't you?" I asked and he nodded lightly, Gods, he was confusing.
"I have, but I don't use it." He said and I crossed my arms around my chest, in the way of the Vampire to the outside, apparently someone already told him about the coffin's gate.
"Okay, so how your friends call you?" I asked and he crossed his arms to, he doesn't like this talking stuff, does he? He surely wasn't enjoying it.
"Can I answer that later?" He asked and I shook my head lightly, definitely I was going to kill him if he didn't answer it now.
"No. Oh come on, maybe a nickname, a childhood nickname?" I asked and he looked a bit less confident than before, like if he thought if telling something like that was good or not, but it faded away in the same second and the cold mask came again.
"Fox." He said and I furrowed my eyebrows, what he said, fox? What in the hell was fox? Fox was an animal, that I knew, but why he said it was a mystery to me.
"What?" I asked and he stood angrily in front of me.
"Once a friend called me fox." He said and I stopped a bit to think on it. Fox, a sneaky animal, sharp and silent, untrustworthy and an animal that could bite from your back. I skilled a bit, yeah, he kind of looked like a fox, long and sharp nose, sneaky and treacherous. I liked it, weird but I liked.
"It's exotic I think. Okay, go on, I believed I already said what you must do, so just what out for the mercenaries, they won't have mercy, and try not to kill the owner of the bee farm." I said and the Vampire nodded lightly, before taking the bow from his back. I asked myself if he was good with that bow as he was with the ebony axes.
"Don't worry about me." He said, his bow looked dark and bloody, but it hadn't blood on it. Yet, it didn't have blood in it yet. For a moment I feared for the Mercenaries' lives.
"Just watch yourself in there." I said he went away, climbing the stairs like if it was nothing. Maybe for the Vampire it really wasn't.
I didn't hate vampires as everybody did in this world, if the vampire acted normally and didn't do anything awful to me or to the Guild, I could live with it. I turned around and my heart stopped, just behind me was Delvin, the thief didn't have happiness in his face, and the way that his eyebrows were furrowed kind of worried me. He could be there all the day, because I didn't really knew when he arrived here.
"You look like you put to many trust on him, tell me, do you know something about his past, what he did for a living?" He asked, and his face didn't have even a slice of happiness.
"Ugh, no, he didn't want even to tell me his name, I believe he have some problems with his past. What's up Delvin? We have a lot of people like this in the Guild, Sapphire as an example." I said and the older thief furrowed his eyebrows, cold as night and the suspicious almost spilling in the floor.
"He didn't said anything? You don't know where he came from, what he did, don't trust him if I was you." He said and I furrowed my eyebrows, crossing my arms. How could Delvin tell such thing without even knowing the guy?
"Do you know him?" I asked and the older thief uncrossed his arms, he was like my best friend, and receive such warning from him made me tremble, I was going to trust in a stranger or in my best friend?
"No, I don't know the guy, but you know me, know that I can read some people. And I warn you again, do not trust in the man." He said and I nodded lightly, without knowing what to do, it was so unexpected.
"Alright, I will keep one eye open if is that what you wish, but know that I won't do or accept any discrimination to him, listened?" I said and he nodded, before turning around and taking his way, and leaving me with a sea of thoughts.
I was so sure that Delvin knew him, I could even swear that he knew, but Delvin never lied to me, so I trusted on him that he never saw Fox before. Fox, an odd nickname, but to think a bit, he didn't had much creative names in the Guild, like Vex and Sapphire. He could be our Fox, I didn't care.
I won't stand any suspicious to the Vampire and would welcome him with open arms, but for the happiness of Delvin I was going to stick one eye in Fox. Just to make Delvin happy.
It's done. The door is locked now, but it is open if you're true. If you can understand me, then I can understand you.