Don't own.
I need to work on my other stories, I know but this is my darker outlet story so when I'm down Adam's Story/Vl-Adam-Ir is the go to.
Anyway, on we go!
-VAI-
Sitting through dinner with George was still strange, making him think of his family and Erin's growing baby back up at the castle and how he was going to juggle the two halves of himself, the two halves of his life. In just over a year, he would be a transformed vampire and he had no idea what he was going to do afterwards with regards to explaining to his mother why he had to drop out of school, and probably move out if he didn't want to suddenly see his mum and sister as a late night snack. Pushing the thought away as he sent George for her bath, Adam cleaned up the kitchen and smiled until George looked away to let him smooth out her hair. Ignoring the twinges of his healing shoulder, Adam once again denied he was dating Erin to his little sister and sent her off for bed before their mum came home and told her off for staying up late on a school night again.
Pretending he was suitably exhausted, Adam stole away to his own bedroom after informing his mum George had enjoyed her visit to the castle, and that Robin was coming over after school so he wouldn't be seen to be neglecting his friend. Pushing open his window and stripping down to his boxers to enjoy the breeze on a warm spring night, Adam flicked through another of his vampiric study books as he waited for the sun to finish sinking down below the horizon. Getting up to lock his door when he realised it was still able to be opened by people he did not want to catch him sleeping with Ingrid, Adam couldn't help smiling when he turned back to find said girl already there.
She raised an eyebrow at his lack of clothes, smirking when he complained it was warm and then again when he bit his lip to stifle sounds as her cold hands mapped his bare chest. Knowing his mum was still getting ready for bed, Adam pressed a finger to his lips before indulging in hers. Ingrid's clothes hit the floor quickly and he pressed her into his bed, reveling in the way her body fit against his perfectly. "So, Erin tells me you have a date with Jonno? I know you bite for both teams, but really?" Chuckling against her shoulder as he held her close, Adam shook his head. "Jonno tried to ask Erin out to the museum at the weekend, she dragged me and George and Chloe into the conversation to both agree to go, and to wind him up. I promise Jonno is not my type." "Staying with us must already be rubbing off on her, how deliciously sneaky." Grinning in spite of himself, Adam nodded.
"Either that or my latent Dracula tendencies have slowly corrupted her, I've already got her giving up staking vampires and living with them." "Which reminds me, you missed a great fight after you left on Sunday." Tilting his head to look at Ingrid's smirking face, Adam raised a questioning eyebrow. "Who was fighting?" "Me, my mum, dad. Dad thought she came back to see him, she came back to try and marry me off to her boyfriends brother." "A werewolf? Ew." Ingrid looked at him as though he'd grown a second head for a moment. "Right, I'm in bed with my brother and a werewolf bothers you?" Conceding her point, Adam gave up conversation in favour of kissing her. "You said no, right?" Adam was suddenly worried.
"I'm here aren't I?" "Fair point." Words became unimportant as their bodies twined again, Ingrid's razor sharp fangs piercing his already bitten shoulder again as she came and lighting Adam's whole body on fire with pain and pleasure as he followed. "Fuck, is that going to stay when I do actually change?" Adam managed to pant out as his heart raced, fighting for control of his body again. Ingrid, who didn't actually need to breathe or worry about thudding heartbeats, moved to whisper against his ear, her cool words on his heated skin making him shiver. "If anything, it'll feel better." Unsure if he was more surprised by the idea, or that Ingrid was all but admitting that they weren't going to stop before he turned sixteen, Adam could only nod blankly as Ingrid straddled his hips again. The dreams were back again tonight, his few days respite clearly over as he woke up shaking. "Dreams?" Adam nodded, shaking his head when she asked if he wanted to talk and returning to holding Ingrid tightly as he fell back to sleep.
Ingrid woke him earlier than they needed to, his body catching up to her intentions before his brain had woken fully as she pressed against him. Breathless and fucked out, Adam could only whimper quietly when Ingrid kissed him again before bat-flapping out of his window with a wink. Checking his watch, he realised he had time to shower before he had to dress in time for Erin to come over and felt more alert for it as he returned to his uniform. Remembering his concealer this time, Adam had just finished his first coffee when Erin arrived, grinning when he offered her tea as George came charging down the stairs. "Are we still going to the museum on Saturday? You didn't forget did you?" Both teens smiled fondly at the surprisingly-awake George before promising they were definitely still going. "Though not if you get grounded for being late for school, uniform munchkin!" George looked down, realising she was still in her pyjamas after her hasty appearance when she heard Erin.
The moment they were alone again, Erin was casting appraising eyes over him as he ate his porridge quietly. "Sleep well?" Checking his mum wasn't about to walk in, Adam winked as he said no. His body still shuddered when Erin heavily implied she planned to attack him again at school, suddenly feeling more awake as his mum came in. "Maybe George should go live next door and Erin can take her room, you're becoming something of a morning fixture dear." The smile on his mums face put paid to any idea it was a negative comment, offering Erin a quick squeeze around the shoulders as she passed to make George breakfast (George didn't eat porridge if she could help it). "Told you my mum likes you." Adam teased Erin as they walked to school, Robin checking in that Adam still wanted him to come over that afternoon. "Of course mate, I know I've been a bit absent lately but things are kind of coming together now."
His cheeks flushed when both Robin and Erin burst out laughing, realising the double meaning of his words and steadfastly ignoring them both as they reached the school. George hugged him goodbye and dashed off with Chloe, leaving him with his two friends who were clearly being mean to him. Class kind of blurred past, Erin clinging to his body tightly when they hid in the art classroom again and Adam professed great thanks for Erin opting for the skirt rather than trousers option of their uniform. She giggled breathlessly against his shoulder, pushing him away to fix their clothes and they both had to be pretending to check on progress of their work when a teacher found them in there. Erin's flushed cheeks and Adam's dopey smile probably completely gave them away, but they both fixed innocent eyes on the teacher until he left. They fell about laughing as they headed out to eat lunch, Jonno casting them both glares in a very poorly hidden way when Erin asked if he was still coming to the museum Saturday.
He still agreed, so Adam smiled politely as the boy left and resumed eating his sandwich with a grin he shared with Erin. "How long has he been trying it on?" "Since pretty early on, I think he expected the slayer thing to bond us together but he didn't stand a chance when I started falling for you." "So he stood a chance before that?" Erin giggled, shaking her head. "He's not my type, despite everything I think he's just too... nice. You aren't a bad person but I can't lie, your dark side is hot." Choking on his bottle of fruit juice, Adam shrugged. "I have no idea what you're talking about, I still don't get what you or Ingrid or Robin see/saw in me." Casting a glance round to check nobody was listening, Adam checked his watch. "Bell is going in five minutes, finish your... whatever that is. I need a spotters guide for what Renfield cooks, blimey my birthday party should be interesting." Erin chuckled, nodding.
"I don't even know what to get you." Adam shook his head then. "The best thing you can do is take care of yourself, you're already giving me a pretty incredible gift." Erin smiled softly at him then, her eyes clearly telling Adam she wished they were alone as the bell called them back to class. "Plus, I don't need another toy vampire slayer kit." "I'm sorry, that was Ryan's idea. I just made you the dreamcatcher, I thought it might help." They reached the classroom then, sitting with Robin and smiling at their friend. Erin kissed him on the cheek before heading down a side street to hide that she was heading back to the castle, Robin saying he and Chloe would be over once they got out of their uniforms. George tossed her empty lunchbox at Adam before hurrying off to change, leaving him smiling at her energetic behaviour before going to change out of his own clothes. The bite mark on his shoulder was interesting, even though Ingrid bit him pretty hard there was no bruising around the puncture marks, though she bruised him without her fangs plenty of other places.
Adam was just making drinks when the Branagh youngest two appeared, Chloe handing him a chocolate cake from their mother and joining George on the sofa to watch Indiana Jones (again). Adam gave the girls lemonade and a slice of cake each, warning them not to get it on the sofa while Robin set up the chess game and practically inhaled his own cake. Putting some safely away in the fridge for his mum, Adam chugged a couple of mugs of coffee while Robin kicked his ass all over the board. Robin tried to teach him different strategies but Adam couldn't seem to last more than ten minutes a game before he had to tip over his king in surrender. They chatted about Adam's new family lightly, Robin clearly able to see there were things he either didn't want to say, or at least wouldn't say where George could hear.
The girls eventually commandeered half of the table to do homework, prompting Adam to do his own while Robin pretended to do his. "Ghost face, do you know where mum put the jigsaw board?" Looking over at his sister, Adam nodded. "Sure, why?" "So we can go put together Tutankhamun's sarcophogus in the garden, duh!" Chuckling at the young girls, Adam went to retrieve the board that helped keep completed jigsaws together and laid it out on the grass. George came dashing out with one of the jigsaw puzzles the Branaghs had given her last year, Chloe following at a more sedate pace but otherwise just as excited. "You wouldn't know they were best friends if you just saw George running around like she's on speed while Chloe tries not to trip over the book she's reading." Adam nodded, taking drinks out to the girls before sitting with Robin over hot drinks. "When did we turn into our mothers Adam?" Chuckling, Adam sipped at his coffee. It was quite true, his mum preferred coffee and Robin's mum preferred tea, much like their drinks now.
"We have to grow up some day, this is the easy part." Robin scowled at his drink but sipped the tea anyway, checking the girls were fully absorbed in their puzzle. "So, how are things with Erin?" Given how little Adam could actually admit to, he shrugged. "I think Ryan getting ill hit her hard, and for now what we have works. What did you call it, friends with benefits?" Robin smirked, nodding. "Hard to believe you've only been in Stokely about a year now, and you found your father! How mad is that?" "Very. My birthday party should be interesting, given how I'm a brother I should probably warn the twins off Ingrid. You too, if Delilah ever realises you're crazy." Robin stuck his tongue out at that, then smiled softly as he thought of his girlfriend. "Why warn them off? It's hilarious to watch!" Adam wasn't really jealous, he knew Ingrid wasn't interested in them but thought he should make some kind of 'brotherly' remark to stop anyone (else) knowing he and Ingrid weren't exactly acting like normal siblings.
Robin took Chloe home for dinner, barely prying her away from the jigsaw until they pointed out the reason for the board was so they could come back to it. Carefully placing the puzzle on the living room table, Adam ushered George to sit down while he made her favourite - burger and chips. She smiled brightly when he lined up the different condiments in the order she always rearranged them, the order she piled them onto her burger until Adam wasn't sure how she could taste the meat itself. Tossing a napkin at her so she could clean the ketchup off her face, Adam set her loading the dishwasher while he made their lunches for the next day. "Are you sure Erin isn't your girlfriend Adam? You're always smiling at each other and she's friends with your new sister and she's really cool!" Ruffling George's hair affectionately as she hugged him, Adam smiled. "You're growing like a weed munchkin, and yes, I'm sure. Though I agree, Erin is very cool. It was her idea for us to go the museum this weekend, and she pushes Chloe when we take you rascals to the park."
"She should be your girlfriend, anybody who can look at your ghost face so much must be worth hanging on to." "George, that's not very nice!" George giggled, still clutching Adam's side tightly as their mum came in. "I was only saying Adam needs to man up and ask Erin out, she's awesome!" Adam felt his cheeks flush slightly at his mums knowing look, since she thought Erin was the one to give him the lovebite before. "Erin is a lovely girl, yes, but you can't make Adam and Erin date just because you want to see her more you little terror!" George pouted, standing in front of the fridge. "Why is George withholding the fridge son?" Chuckling, Adam relayed the information about leftover chocolate cake before dragging George out of the way. "You can't withhold chocolate cake from mum, that'd be like withholding bats from Robin!" George mock-gasped at the idea, clutching her chest and pretending to faint onto the sofa. "He'd never survive that!"
"You two are mad, I swear!" Both he and George turned to grin at their mum, having answered the same way countless times before as they both said "You love us though!" Already starting on her chocolate cake, she nodded. "I do, but you're still mad. Anyway, off to bed George!" Adam bribed George to go quietly by promising her a story, making up one about her going on adventures as an archeologist and she was asleep in minutes. Smiling fondly as he closed the door, Adam returned to his mum. "George is right, you could do much worse than Erin, she's sweet and she makes you smile. And she doesn't complain about doing homework as much as Robin." Smiling and chuckling, Adam nodded. "I know, but funnily enough I cannot solely base potential for a relationship off how willing she is to do homework." Wiping the icing off her mouth, his mum looked at him for a moment. "Just think about it son, you two have been friends for ages now and she doesn't seem to have... lost interest." Looking pointedly at where the bruise had been on his neck, Adam felt his cheeks heat up again. "Alright, I'll think about it. First Robin, then George and now you, everyone seems to be pushing me at Erin."
"I just want you to be happy Adam, this time last year I would never have thought things could go so well." Feeling the all-too-familiar guilt rise in his chest as Adam thought of all the things he was hiding, he nodded. "Me too, I can't believe it's been a year. Anyway, I better get to bed. Love you." "Love you too son." Adam bid his mum goodnight, hurrying to the bathroom to brush away the remnants of burgers and chocolate cake. His face was starting to slim down, losing the roundness of youth and the inherited bone structure of his father was becoming more clear. The nose and the ears were all his mum, the two moles on his wrist identical to George's even though their mum didn't share them. His eyes still gave him pause, practically a sign of his Dracula family - his mum and George had more hazel-coloured eyes, not the bright blues Adam had. Turning away from his reflection, Adam washed the concealer off his face and headed to his room. Flicking through one of his blood test books until the sun went down, Adam heard the voice that always made his heart skip a beat. "You're getting into those, aren't you?"
Flipping the book shut, Adam moved to wrap his arms around Ingrid. "Gotta pass the tests if I want to be able to keep up with you, and not get found out as a half-breed of course." Ingrid shut his window while Adam locked his door, conversation halting as Adam took the opportunity to replace the bruise on Ingrid's thigh. Pride he knew he shouldn't feel glowed in his chest as Ingrid let him mark her skin, clothes falling away and bodies twining in his bed. Ingrid lay over his chest after, listening to his heart slow down beneath her. "Did I tell you my mum thinks I'm dating Erin because of you?" She looked up at Adam, face utterly perplexed. "Remember when you bit my neck, not in the park, the next time?" Ingrid nodded, still looking a little confused. "Well, after you left Erin came over to do homework and stuff. Shut up, you know what I mean." Ingrid was giggling against his shoulder, but waved her hand as a signal to continue. "After the next night, when we had that... would you call it a fight?" Ingrid shrugged, again gesturing for him to go on. "Anyway, after that I was a little bit broken and forgot to put makeup over the bruise the next night after my shower, and my mum saw. Given that she doesn't know you sneak in through my window most nights, her only assumption was when Erin came over the day before."
Ingrid's shoulders were shaking with suppressed laughter, her joyous sounds muffled against his skin and Adam mock-scowled at her. "I hate you." "No you don't." "Ok, true. I don't. Still shut up." Ingrid smirked, the sight of her in the moonlight never failing to make his heart speed up. "It's going to be strange, not hearing your pulse race when you look at me after you change." "Well, you know it would if it could, fuck you're beautiful." That won him a rare, genuine smile from Ingrid as she kissed him, twisting in his arms to let him spoon up against her back so he could sleep. "Maybe you should publicly date Erin, it would make explaining why she's always at the castle when you are easier at least." Rolling the words in his mind, Adam thought on it. "I guess. Does it not bother you?" Ingrid sighed, turning to face him. "Do you want it to?" Adam shook his head. "No, of course not. I just, I don't get it. I'm some weird kid who landed in a strange little village, and somehow I ended up with the two hottest girls in school, and they somehow don't seem to mind." "Honestly, I could think of better people to end up sharing you with than a slayer girl who was originally sleeping with you to find out if you were the chosen one. But let's face it, even if it were just the two of us we'd need someone else eventually. I can hardly publicly carry your heirs, and Erin's already pregnant." "And Erin?"
"I think she's glad to be alive, and that you didn't reject her. Plus, she loves you. Love makes you do stupid things." Cupping Ingrid's cheek to push her to meet his eyes, Adam felt his heart skip again. "What stupid things have you done then?" Ingrid smirked at him, though the depth of their conversations true meaning was clear in her eyes. "Erin's alive and I'm in bed with my brother, neither of which are typical behaviours for a vampiress of my standing and evilness." Closing the distance between them, Adam felt her melt into the kiss. "I love you too." Ingrid smiled softly, then pinched his arm and told him to 'vamp up' again, she was fond of doing that. "Come on, sleep. Enough mushy stuff." Adam agreed, letting Ingrid nestle tighter in his arms and falling asleep with the reassuring weight of her body against his.
-VAI-
It isn't all going to be day-by-day stuff, but the whole aftermath of the Chosen One thing kind of needed addressing, things will start to move along again soon.