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Chapter 7:
Revelations All Around
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After they had all enjoyed the sumptuous breakfast that had been laid out for them, Bobby and Gordon politely took their leaves, each giving Sam parting smiles. Both headed back down the stain-glass filled corridor and split up once inside the main house with a nod to each other. Bobby headed off towards the Manor's grand library while Gordon headed for the elevator to go downstairs to one of the levels beneath the house. In the Library was also the sealed vault where the coven's most cherished and centuries old books of lineage were kept under the tightest guard, only the royal family and the royal Records Keeper had access to this area. Bobby was headed there now to fulfill his duties as royal Records Keeper and put Samuel Colter's name besides that of Dean Winchester, future ruler of the clan in the ancient book that contained the names of all the blood mates past and present who belonged to the clan that John Winchester now ruled. The couple would later sign the books after Sam was turned and completely bonded to Dean. In the levels beneath the house was an intricate maze or corridors and chambers that housed the Manors secret arsenal of weaponry that spanned the centuries that had come with its immortal inhabitants. Gordon was headed for one of the training rooms to preside over the morning workout of the manor's security agents, of whom he was the most capable and experienced leader. This left John and Doc with Sam and Dean. The Vampire King smiled at the young mortal as he spoke.
" So Sam, how did you enjoy your first meal in your new home?" He asked.
" It was great, thank you." Answered Sam, reverting back to the shyness all of the vampires he had shared his first breakfast with had found so endearing.
John smiled and nodded before turning to Doc and Dean as he spoke.
" Well then we're gonna have to thank Ellen for yet another delicious meal." He said with a small grin.
" Yeah, that woman sure can cook." Agreed Dean with a dreamy smile. Doc just chuckled quietly where he sat beside John, then he noticed that Sam looked a little lost. He leaned in a little and spoke to the mortal.
" Ellen Harvelle, she's the Mansion's head chef and resident mother hen. She'll stop at nothing to fattened you up if she thinks your too thin. She's got a daughter here too by the name of Jo, full name's Joanna-Beth but she only gets called that after she's gotten herself into trouble. Which is pretty often around here. And don't worry, you'll meet them later when you and Dean have dinner with everyone tonight" Said Doc.
Sam smiled and nodded now eagerly anticipating when he would meet Ellen and Jo, along with everyone else like Doc had said. There was another beat of silence before John nodded and spoke.
" Alright, now that we got breakfast out of the way how 'bout we all head up to the Solarium where we can sit and talk?" Suggested the Vampire King.
There were nods of agreement from all around so with a simple nod of his head John rose from his seat at the head of the table. Doc, Dean, and Sam all rose from their seat after John. Doc stepped closer to John, the two of them sharing a look with each other as they walked out of the small dining room. This didn't go unnoticed by Sam who turned to Dean with a questioning look as they followed after the older men. Dean met Sam's imploring gaze with only a fond smirk and a quirk of his eyebrow. Then after a few seconds Dean's smirk turned into a radiantly warm grin as he reached up and gave Sam's shoulder a playful punch.
Sam was stunned for a moment by what Dean had implied without saying a single word and then he found himself smiling at Dean's antics . Now he was more interested than ever to see what would happened when they all got up to this Solarium John had mention and got to talking. The four of them made their way through the stained glass corridor into the main house. Then John led them to the lobby area where he gracefully cut across the marble floor to a hallway on the left. This hallway like the rest of the place was richly decorated, Sam taking in all that he could as he walked beside Dean. It was all quite stunning and then Sam's hazel green eyes grew wide as John finally led them all into the Solarium.
" Wow." Whispered Sam in awe as he took in the place. The Solarium was truly magnificent like the rest of the Winchester's home. It was a perfect crescent shaped room filled with the soft still morning light from outside. There were arched glass panels everywhere letting the light in, some with intricate designs etched into them. In the middle of the room stood a small circle of plush looking couches.
" Shall we?" Asked Doc as he looked at Dean and Sam while gesturing to these chairs.
Dean and Sam nodded and dutifully followed after John and Doc as they all took up their seat. John and Doc sat facing Dean and Sam. There was another beat of silence before John sighed and then spoke to Sam.
" Now I am pretty sure that you have a whole bunch of questions you would like to ask us and have answers for, so fire away kid." Said John with a smile.
" Uhh... Well... I really don't know where to start with all this, it just seems so unreal." Said Sam with a nervous smile.
" I know, believe me. I felt the same way after I met John here and he told me who he really was and what I was to him." Said Doc with a fond look at John as he said it.
Sam smiled at the two of them, now clearly revealed to be bonded mates. Then he turned to Dean who was looking at him with warmth. It was John who spoke them.
" Well, since you are having a hard time figuring out what to ask, I'll just go ahead and explain things in plain and simple terms. Sam, I am not just any vampire, I am a Vampire king, I rule over an entire clan of Vampires and am Supreme Head of this house." Said John seriously.
He was met with stunned silence and Sam looking completely in shock by what had been revealed. His mouth worked soundlessly for a few seconds before he finally blinked and got his voice to cooperate with him.
" H-Head of this house, K-King?" Was all he could get it to say.
" Yes Young One, I am the ruler of this clan of vampires. Those who reside here with me in this house are only a small portion of the whole clan over which I am King, the rest are stretched throughout America in smaller groups and are governed by Vampire lords and ladies who answer directly to me. Doc here is my bonded mate and therefore he serves as co-ruler over all that is within my power, along with being the mansion doctor." Explained John.
" Okay... But then if your the King then Dean is..." Sam trailed off and turned to gawk at Dean who sat beside him for a moment before turning back to John in time to see the Vampire King nod.
" Before I myself was turned many centuries ago I was a simple man who had a wife and three children, after my turning I knew that I would never have been able to return to them, so at a distance I have guarded them and there descendants throughout the many centuries since my mortal death. Dean is one of my full blooded descendants and I have been the one to raise him since his birth and when he reached the age of thirty I was the one to turn him, he his my son in every way which makes him my successor. If I decide to step down or God forbid, anything were to happen to me then it is Dean who will take my place." Said John as he sent a loving look to Dean.
Sam let this all wash over him in silence and indeed it was a lot to take in, but then a new question formed in his head.
" What does this make me?" He asked.
" You already know that you are my future bond mate, but in addition to that you are now going to be the future co-ruler of this Vampire clan." Answered Dean.
" Oh my God, are you freakin' serious?" Asked Sam in pure disbelief.
" Absolutely serious." Said John, Dean, and Doc in perfect synchronization.
" Holy shit." Breathed Sam like he was in a daze.
" Yeah it's a lot to take in I know." Said Doc with a sympathetic look.
" But wait, if something happens to you then how come Doc can't just take over?" Asked Sam suddenly.
At this all three vampires paused in giving him an answer, but it was John who finally spoke. He leaned forward and met Sam's gaze with a quiet intensity.
" Sam, when a vampire finds their mate and bonds with them, they just about give everything they have to that mate. We Vampires, when we find the one for us we love them hard, we love them like everyday is a life-time. Yes we are immortal, in every way save for one method. That method is decapitation. If a vampire ever looses their head they are nothing but a pile of smoldering dust to be swept up and scattered to the winds with last rites. For bonded mates like me and Doc, if one of us dies in this manner than the other will follow regardless." Said John somberly as his hand sought out Doc's.
" So what you're basically saying is that bond mates literally can't live without each other?" Asked Sam.
" Yes Young One, that is exactly how it is." Said John while Doc and Dean nodded silently.
There was a beat of contemplative silence and then Dean slowly slid closer to his future bone mate and spoke.
" Are you alright Sammy?" He asked softly.
Sam turned to meet the concerned and deceptively human eyes of the vampire sitting next to him and nodded mutely before he spoke.
" Y-Yeah, a part of me is still expecting to wake up to all of this being some sort of alcohol induced dream but I'm okay. Just trying to wrap my head around it is all." Said Sam shakily.
Dean nodded in agreement and then he sighed and spoke.
" Sam there's something else I need to tell you now." He began.
" What Dean, what do you need to tell me? Asked Sam with feelings of trepidation.
" I know why you were all the way in Seattle and not with your family in Lawrence, Kansas." Said Dean now waiting for Sam's reaction to this revelation.
Sam's eyes immediately widened and his whole body went rigid when Dean's softly spoken words registered in his mind. John and Doc felt concern and slight unease from the way Sam was reacting. They both leaned in close and offered silent support for the two younger men sitting across from them. The silence seemed to stretch out for a life age of the Earth until Sam swallowed convulsively and finally spoke.
" H-How do you know this?" He asked slowly and softly.
" Your blood Sammy. You see, when a vampire drinks blood of any kind they have a vision of the entire life of the person or animal they taken that blood from. When I bit you that night in your bedroom I basically got your whole life in a nutshell from the moment of your birth to the moment where you woke up to find me in your room. I saw your life and the way your family treated you was absolutely wrong Sammy." Said Dean softly, reigning back the wave of anger that rushed up inside of him at the very mention of the ones who had hurt his future bond mate so terribly.
" Dean... Dean you..." Sam whispered, his throat was closing up from the emotions of shame and sadness that came hand in hand with the memories of how his family had treated him.
" Young One, what did they do to you?" Asked John and his tone held no room for argument, he wanted an answer and he was going to get one.
Taking in a deep, rattling breath to steady his nerves Sam opened his mouth and began to tell his story.
" Growing up, my parents kinda made it already clear that they didn't expect much out of me. My older brother Lucas was the favorite, I was the runt, the simple back up plan in case anything ever happened to the first born. Nothing I did was ever good enough for my father and my mother she, it was like she could'nt seem to care less about whatever happened to me. But Lucas, I think he started hating me the moment my mom found out she was pregnant with me. I don't know what I did to make all of them feel the way they did towards me but it was like I was already living in Hell. The only somebody in the world who ever loved me was my Grandma Jenny in Seattle. I was always a disappointment to my father for not being more like Lucas, for not playing sports or having tons a friends like he did. I was just different, I liked other things like reading academia or whatever you call it. I just learned to deal with it all from my Dad's disappointment in me, to my Mom's indifference, and yeah, my older brother's down right cruelty. I just dealed with it all. And then I realize that I'm not like everyone else, that I liked guys more than I dis girls. I did my best to keep it all a secret cause I knew that if my dad ever found out, he'd probably kill me. It was during my senior year in high school, I was eighteen when my brother caught me and this guy I was seeing behind the bleachers. I begged him not to tell anyone and he said that he wouldn't, like a fool a trusted him because I thought that he wouldn't be so cruel as to go and tell. I hoped that as his brother he would do this one thing for me. Shows how much of an idiot I was back then." Sam paused here as the painful memories of what happened next came flooding back. Blinking his suddenly sting eyes Sam continued telling his story.
" When I got home that day, my dad and mom were waiting for me in the living room. They just had this look in their eyes that had me feeling scared, more scared than I had ever been in my whole life. I see Lucas standing in the corner with this... evil little smirk on his face. It was then that I knew that he had told them everything, he'd lied to me and now I was all alone to face the consequences. I tried to run but it was no use, my Dad was on me. He started punching me in the face and kicking me wherever he could till I was nothing but a bloody mess on the floor. I reached out to my mom and begged her to help me, I kept asking her to please help me. She just looked at me and then she came closer. I thought she was gonna actually help me cause I was her son. She didn't, she... she spit in my face and said that she wished she had aborted me the second she found out I existed. She said she didn't want no fucking queer for a son and then she reached down and slapped me across the face. After that my dad pounded into me some more before he and Lucas grabbed me up and dragged me to the front door and threw me out of the house. I managed to stand up in time to see my dad through out this big duffel bag with all my stuff in it. His exact words to me were " You ever dare show your face here ever again I will empty all the buck shot I own into you. You aren't any son of mine I wish you had never been born you filthy abomination against God." After that he and my mom went back inside the house and before he went with them Lucas smirked at me again and just waved goodbye before he went inside, looking like he was the happiest man on the planet and shut the door behind him." It was here that Sam paused once again in his awful tale so that he could scrub at his tear filled eyes.
" Jesus H. Christ himself." Whispered John who looked paler than a sheet, beside him Doc had tears flowing steadily and without shame down his face. Dean's face was a mute mask of rage all directed towards those Sam had been unfortunate enough to have to call his blood family. How could people do something so cruel to their own son and brother.
Taking in a deep breath to calm his own chaos of emotions John spoke.
" What... What happened after they kicked you out Young One?" He asked with some difficulty.
" After all that I just picked up my duffel and walked away. For a while I just didn't know where I was going but I somehow ended up at one of my friends house. David and his mom took one look at me and wanted to take me to the hospital. But I insisted that I could just clean myself up and that it wasn't as bad as it look. David's mom was a nurse so she patched me up. When she asked me what the hell had happened, I just broke down and told her. I thought that after she knew all this she was gonna throw me out to, instead she pulled me into a hug and said that none of this was my fault." Said Sam and it was here that Dean piped in.
" That woman was right Sammy, none of this was your fault, you hear me?" He said vehemently.
Sam nodded and sent Dean an appreciative look before continuing.
" After that David's mom wanted to call the police but I told her I didn't wanna go through all of that. So I asked her to call my Grandma Jenny. I told her everything that had happened and the next day when I woke up she was there at David's house ready to pick me up. That was the last time I was ever in Lawrence, Kansas. My Grandma went through all the court stuff and seeing as to how I was eighteen I got to decide where I wanted to live. Naturally I went with my Grandma and never looked back. I thought I was in Heaven for all the years I lived with my Grandma Jenny, I even took up her last name, Colter. And then last year she umm... She didn't wake up one morning and... It felt like I'd been thrown into Hell all over again. I just... I couldn't... She was..." Sam trailed off as the sadness and deep despair he had been keeping at bay finally broke through all his defenses and washed over him like a tidal wave. With a small sob he buried his face into his hands and let the tears come free.
Not being able to stand it any longer Dean reached out and yanked Sam to him, crushing the mortal to his chest and holding onto him seemingly for dear life. John and Doc both rose from their seats and made the short distance across to their future successors. John took up the remaining space on the couch next to Sam while a tearful Doc opted to kneel on the floor beside the crying boy.
Battling to keep his own voice steady and also feeling a wave of hatred towards Sam's horrible family, John reached out and gripped Sam's shaking shoulder tightly as he spoke.
" Sam? Young One look at me." He ordered gruffly.
After a long while Sam let out a final sob and then turned to face the Vampire King.
" Y-Yeah?" He croaked painfully.
" I am so sorry for what happened to you Samuel, God I am so sorry. But know this, you are ours now, you belong with us. I swear to you that you will never be treated the way those bastards treated you. What they did made them loose any right to calling themselves human beings and any right to the privilege of having you as a son or brother, do you hear me?" Asked John forcefully.
Sam merely nodded and his breath hitched as he sank further into Dean's arms.
" Forget about them once and for all Sam, because here you will be cherished like you always deserved to be. You are safe here and with time these wounds in your heart will heal. As my King said, you are ours now, and we will never let you go." Said Doc, meaning every words of it as he placed a gentle hand over Sam's knee.
Then Dean finally spoke.
" But above all Sammy, you are mine and I am yours. We were meant to be together Sam and with time we will definitely get to what I told you about earlier in my room when we were taking. But I promise you here and now that I will guard you with my life, till the very end of time itself. I will guard you always, my mate."
As he lay with Dean's arms around him, Sam knew full well in his heart that everything Dean, John, and Doc had just said was the truth. He knew that every promise would be kept. He felt all of his fears dissipate to nothing because he knew that here he would be safe and protected.
He knew that here in this place of grandeur and power with time, he would be loved and he would love in return. Only with time.