Two new chapters have been added today... before reading this one I recommend to read the previous one Chapter 5 Vampire Ghost...
Chapter 5.5. - Moving thru Time
William´s Point of View
Life with Maya during this pass one hundred and thirty five years have been if anything interesting. We have seen the world pass right before our eyes and I am amazed of what the humans have been able to progress during all this time, we are witnesses of some of the greatest achievements and at the same times of the worst things that humankind has done.
For Maya and me it feels that time has frozen for us, and I don´t mean it just because our bodies never change, but like we are at a dormant state, never moving forward, just making sure that we stay alive.
We decided some time ago that we needed stay in touch with the human world and "not hide under a rock" as she put it, in order to guarantee the secrecy of our specie. With the new developments, technology, machines and even weapons, things aren´t so easy like in the good old days.
We have come more and more in contact with the humans but at the same time keeping our distance afraid to give Maya a reason to run away from me, because of a moment of weakness.
We created fake identities that allowed me to perform small jobs, especially on constructions sites at nighttime or at dangerous sites for humans, these last one I am usually on my own without a crew and those are the ones that Maya enjoys more because she can tag along and help me as much as her impediment allows her.
Those small jobs together with the identities, allowed us to create a savings account and thru the years, the account is no longer small, at all. Not that we really need the money, we can pretty much steal anything we want, but Maya has been adamant that we need to earn our own living, just as any human has to, if we want a nice car we need to work for it.
She keeps constantly surprising me. I would have thought that after all this time I would have known her every move, her every thought, but if anything it usually occurs the opposite.
She has a good heart and she is quite smart, she can learn at an amazing speed, even for a vampire. I can easily imagine her going to school and getting herself in trouble, not because of bad grades, but because she already knows the lesson, and gets bored and does something else, like annoy the teacher.
She is very observant, I have seen her following humans with her eyes and then she tells me the story behind that specific human, most of the time she is 85% right.
She is an avid reader, which means I am now also, considering that she has trouble changing the pages of the book and outsources that job to me. I thought when we discovered computers that she would like to read the books electronically, but she is reluctant and honestly I am glad about that, this has been something that we can share and spend time together.
As far as I am concern regarding how much she remembers of her life prior to waking up in that brothel, she has none, which is strange considering how she knew how things worked in the world, what things were for, even how society worked; but some of her attitudes or things that she says make me think the opposite.
We´ve become very good friends, and I think she has been happy, that doesn´t means that we haven´t had our confrontations, as smart as she is, she can be stubborn as well, and is hard to change her mind once it's made up. One thing that we haven´t been able to surpass is her clothes. I can see how much it pains her when she see the human females, all dress up according to whatever fashion statement exists at that moment and her having to wear baggy clothes, but I already told her, she can only wear what she can put on and take off on her own. I am using enough of my self-control with the call of the human blood as it is, I don´t want to test it having her so close, especially on that specific activity.
The more I know Maya the less I believe that she deserved the punishment that Aro gave her, whatever is the reason that she got it. Which now puts me at a split road; in one side the Volturi have established laws that have made our lives as vampire go by without the humans noticing us and trying to destroy us, giving us also as a society a guideline and a reason to follow them, which is a good thing. On the other side of the road, I am questioning some of the methods that they are using to achieve it, Maya being my best example.
How much longer does she need to be in this situation so that she can learn a lesson?
Each day I feel like hanging by a threat expectant to know if at some point they will call upon us to return to Volterra or not. When I was assigned to this job it never cross in my mind that it would be this long, maybe a decade or two tops, but the William that I was when I was appointed to the job and the William that I am now, are completely different.
So far I haven´t heard any news from the Volturi, not that there is any way for me to get information, considering that I have avoided contact with any vampire. We disappeared from the vampire world, as they have disappear from ours.
My greatest concern and hope at the same time is that they are no longer in charge of our world and that we are just on standby. I am happy being with Maya I no longer wish to be a Soldier in the Volturi Guard, and I want to be with her. The biggest question that I have is, if she was free to choose, would she want to stay with me?
Author´s Note:
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Next chapter is going to be posted on: August 13th, 2013.