Live forever. Travel the world in a million different ways. Know every lover that you could possibly want. Immortality. What's not to love? There's just one thing they leave out of the pitch...Time…that endless, sucking time. No closing bell, no quarter. No measure but memories, those haunting memories. Slice 'em, dice 'em, rue 'em. Do it again. And realize…there's only one true thing. It is impossible to live forever perfectly. So, go ahead. Live forever. Forget what you have forgotten. But they won't. They never do.
-Aidan Waite
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"So, vampires brush their teeth, but they don't eat?" Sally asked as she sat on the bathtub. Aidan and I shared the sink as we brushed our teeth, getting ready for work.
"Uh, not for sustenance, no, but maybe for appearances every now and then." Aidan said, muffled by the toothbrush in his mouth.
"And the whole sunlight thing, like, shouldn't you explode when you go outside?" Aidan and I turned to her to give her a questioning look. "What? I don't know! Vampires and throw up scared the crap out of me as a kid." Aidan and I turned back around to finish brushing our teeth.
"Um…let's just say that we evolved. We used to be nocturnal. Now we're photosensitive."
"Excellent choice of word." I mumbled sarcastically, tilting my head back so toothpaste wouldn't drip out of my mouth as I spoke.
"Why would he come all the way over here and then not stay?" Sally wondered. "Is my energy or whatever so awful?" Aidan finished and turned to Sally.
"Who?" He asked.
"Danny." I rinsed my mouth and turned to Sally, too.
"Ok, how did we go from vampires to Danny?" I asked. "Just curious."
"It's been bothering me. I mean, is he such a pansy ass that he can't handle a little spookiness?"
"Maybe it wasn't you who creeped him out." Aidan said.
"Yeah, maybe it was Josh's smell. I mean, he smells pretty nasty for a mutt." I said. Sally gave a light laugh.
"Ok, um…you want closure, don't you? You want resolution. Well, maybe Danny not staying is your closure."
"That doesn't make any sense." Sally said. "Closure is satisfying, indefinite. This is murky and depressing."
"Look, maybe the key to you moving on is moving past Danny. Like, what if you met someone else? Someone more like you."
"What does that mean?" Josh came into the bathroom.
"It's…" Josh's voice trailed off as he glanced over at Sally. "here."
"What's here?"
"Nothing. But it's downstairs. You told her, right?"
"Maybe if you didn't interrupt with your stench, Aidan would have." I scowled.
"Guys!" Sally yelled at us, standing up.
"Hey!" A guy misted into the bathtub behind Sally. Sally screamed and stood up and ran to us. The guy screamed with her.
"Why is Axl Rose standing in my bathtub?" Josh wringed his hands together and I looked around the bathroom, pretending not to notice the guy. "What aren't you killing him?"
"Sally, this is Tony." Aidan said.
"He's a ghost." Josh added.
"Shut up!" Sally repeated the reaction that Josh had given when Aidan told Josh that Sally was a ghost. "You're a ghost?"
"You're a genius." Tony scoffed. I let out a chuckle.
"He's a smartass." I laughed. "I like him already."
"When did you die?" Sally asked.
"'87." Tony answered.
"Why are you wearing makeup?"
"Why aren't you?" I let out another laugh.
"Oh, man, why can't I find a friend like that?" I said. "Oh, that's right because all my friends end up becoming dinner."
"Let's start over." Tony said, stepping out of the bathtub. "Tony DiPaulo! Nice to meet you." He held out his hand towards Sally and she looked towards us. We shrugged our shoulders. She reluctantly took his hand and she smiled as she realized that she was touching him. She started laughing.
"I can't believe it!" She exclaimed.
"So, we're good here?" Aidan muttered to us.
"We're just gonna…" Josh said.
"Yeah…" We turned and headed out the bathroom. I turned around to Aidan and walked backwards down the hallway.
"Why nurse?" I questioned. "You should have become a guidance counselor at a high school or something." Aidan laughed and turned me around before I tripped down the steps.
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I walked into the house and locked the door behind me. I set my bag down and hung up my jacket. I turned the corner to the living room and almost ran into Aidan.
"I need you to come with me." Aidan said, grabbing my arm gently and turning me back around to the door. He opened the door but I closed it back.
"Uh, why?"
"Please?"
"Ok, Aidan, I just had to work a double so I am really, really tired. Not to mention really, really thirsty so unless you want me to grab some blood and go upstairs to bed, I suggest you tell me what's going on." Aidan sighed.
"Ok, about…"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Give it to me in a nutshell."
"Officer Garrity believes I killed his father. I need him to forget that but you know I'm no good at compelling…"
"So you want me to do it?"
"Yes." I threw back my head and groaned. "Please, Glacey."
"I'm no good at it either, Aidan."
"You're better than me." I sighed.
"Fine. You owe me."
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"Just wait out here." I told Aidan once he showed me the house.
"You don't want me to come in with you?"
"No. No, I think it would be better if I go in alone. More concentration."
"Ok." I walked across the street, hands stuffed in jacket and walked up the steps to the house. I knocked on the door and a few minutes later, the door opened and a man appeared.
"Officer Garrity?"
"Yes." The man said. "May I help you?"
"I understand that you're looking for information on Aidan Waite." He looked at me questioningly. "Um, tall, dark and handsome? You met him in the bar the other night." Something clicked in his mind as he remembered.
"Yes, I know him. What about him?"
"I think I may be able to tell you where to find him." Garrity stepped back to allow me to come in. I felt the invisible wall in front of me. Who the hell came up with the rule vampires had to be invited in? God, it's so stupid. "May I come in?"
"Please do." The wall disappeared and I walked in. Garrity closed the door behind me. "Do you want something to drink?"
"Coffee would be great." Garrity disappeared into the kitchen. I let out a deep breath and relaxed my mind. "Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye. We caught onto something. I hold onto the night. You looked me in the eye and told me you loved me. Were you just kidding cause it seems to me. This thing is breaking down we almost never speak. I don't feel welcome anymore. Baby what happened please tell cause one second it was perfect now you're half way out the door." I heard a thud in the kitchen. I walked in and saw Garrity unconscious on the ground. Most vampires had the ability to compel, meaning they could make someone do anything they want or make them forget anything. I had that ability along with the ability to sing anyone to sleep. Not something I liked doing since it's making they go to sleep against their will. Same thing with compelling. Never liked it. Never had, never will. I knelt down next to Garrity and gingerly placed my palm on his forehead. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes as pictures of Garrity's life flashed in my mind. I traveled through that tunnel, picking out anything that had a connection towards Aidan before I picked out the memory of me being here. Once I was done, I pulled my hand back and quickly stood up. I couldn't just leave him like this. I sighed as I thought of a spell. "Trouble blood with sleep's unease. Remove the cause of this disease. Sleep eternal nevermore. And shift this source of illness borne. To this puppet whom none shall…mourn." Garrity stirred and his eyes fluttered. I ran out the door in two seconds flat and raced across the street to Aidan.
"Did you get it?" Aidan asked. I shifted weight on my feet uncomfortably. I felt like I just killed someone. I glanced nervously over at the house. "Glacey?"
"Can we just go home? Please? I'm thirsty. I'm probably going to kill someone in the next minute if I don't get some blood soon." Aidan noticed how uncomfortable I was.
"Yeah, we can go. Come on." We turned and headed down the street. I burrowed my fists deeper and stared down at my feet as I walked. Aidan pressed up against my side. "Thank you."
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I walked out an examination room and set the clipboard down on the counter at the nurse's station.
"Well, I'm done for today." I sighed.
"See you tomorrow, Glaceon." The reception said. Just as I was about to leave, Aidan came up to my side with a yellow folder in his hands.
"Are you busy?" He whispered to me.
"No, I'm just about to leave to go home." I said.
"Do you think we could sit down outside for a moment? There's something I need to show you." Something was off about him so why the hell did I say yes? I followed him out into the little garden behind the hospital and sat down on the bench. He reluctantly handed me the yellow folder. I gingerly pulled the containment out and noticed that they were pictures. The first one was a picture of a gun next to a hand. I looked at the second picture and the energy drained right out of me. My breath hitched in my throat as I stared at the picture of Garrity's dead body. "He committed suicide last night." How did this happen? How could this happen? I did every thing right. I phased and ran out of the garden, not caring if any human saw me phase.
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I sat on the couch, my knees pulled up to my chest, my cheek becoming red from my knee digging into it. The front door opened and closed and there was a heavy sigh. The other side of the couch sunk.
"We've been looking everywhere for you." Aidan said. "Josh and Sally are still out there."
"Sorry." My voice barely came out as a whisper. "I just got back a few minutes ago."
"You just need to forget about what happened."
"Like I made Garrity forget about you?"
"It wasn't your fault."
"I probably took too much out. Or I left too much in. Or maybe I took out his reason for living. Maybe he had a girlfriend and that was his reason for living and maybe I took her out. Maybe…" Aidan took my hand in his hand.
"You think too much. It wasn't your fault. Ok? Just like that guy in the alley wasn't your fault. It was your instinct. You're still new at this and still learning."
"I'm a hundred and sixteen years old."
"Yeah, and I'm two hundred and forty seven and I still make mistakes." I looked up at him and smiled as he gave my hand a squeeze.
"Like I said before, guidance counselor."
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A/N: The song that Glaceon sang was Forever and Always by Taylor Swift.
