A Blood Tablet a Day Keeps the Bloodlust Away

By Helbaworshipper

Chapter 10: The motives for murder

I see nothing but annoyances when that family is involved. She should never have been found alive...

Vord Bloodmire was sitting inside his room, taking a look at a number of his forces. The erasers were something he had from the Sumire clan a long time. Even before he had been married to Luvia. Yet now they were something that would have to pull off something much more amazing. Thanks to that little spat at Cross Academy.

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"Father, it's terrible here. I absolutely hate how mother says we have to go here." Thorn spoke, having a chat while off the campus during a weekend. Rose had refused to come because of a few assignments. "I don't get how there could ever be any peace in this place."

"Are the blood tablets that terrible?"

"They taste worst than the sick blood we had that one time by accident. I have to constantly consume it and hope that nothing terrible happens to my taste for true blood."

"I understand that much, but you know that I've tried to change your mother's mind." He spoke with a sigh, gently passing a vial of real blood to his son. "She will hear none of it, and insist that her will is followed."

"Why are you not the one in charge of her?! Is it all because she's a Bloodmire and more powerful than you?!" Thorn reached over, grasping his father's collar and pulling him close. "Why can't you have had a say into our coming to that academy?!"

"I could not make her budge even when she made the decision. She insisted it was her will. Before she would give me any say in how to raise you unless it totally interfered with her will." He forcibly pushed Thorn back a bit while sitting back down himself. He straightened his collar while calming himself from yelling at his son. "This is something I could not fight for either of you. It would seem that she's not even allowing me to bring it up anymore."

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"Is that true?" Luvia asked, looking at Thorn and Rose in the headmaster's office in the academy. Vord was beside her, not sure how to stop his wife from saying what she would. "That you would refuse to try and have blood tablets while here?"

"Mother, I have been having them. They just aren't enough at the moment and we thought..."

"We hate you mother! We hate that you can't even allow us to be with our father!" Thorn called out, drowning out what Rose said. "You're just selfish and don't want us to be with him, don't you?!"

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Luvia Bloodmire sat down in the chairman's office, her hands in her lap as she remained silent. Vord had left awhile ago, but she had decided to wait, to calm what she would have said to her own children and around Vord. She was about to stand up when a hand touched her shoulder gently. "You're tired, you should just sit down a bit longer."

"Chairman Cross..." She spoke with a soft, grateful voice as she allowed the man to sit beside her. "I can't believe they said they hated me you know. I birthed them, along with others...and they said they hated me. I should have slapped them like mother would do if Maria and I ever did something like that."

"They didn't know what else to say. After all, they need to get used to how things are around here. It's not your fault for trying to give them more to do than be with their father." The woman nodded, seeing that a glass was being handed to her. "You're not on your cycle, right?"

"Of course not. Still...to give me it wouldn't be right if others need it. I can last until-"

"I insist." She chuckled, taking a sip of the glass as she seemed much more calm than before. "You were amazing though. To hold back those personal feelings, those tears in front of them. I can imagine that it was harder to hold it back than to express yourself."

"I'm quite used to it." She spoke, finishing the glass only to offered another one. "You'll make me get too full."

"It would be better than sending you back into that loneliness. Also, you have to decide who is getting that...don't you? I wouldn't want to hurry you to do such things yet." She nodded, taking another sip of the glass, beginning to lean against him as the glass was half finished. "I still remember how you were then too."

"I didn't know what to do, I just didn't want to see her get injured or anything. After Maria died...I promised that I'd do everything to make sure they could live like good pure bloods. Ones that knew they had to coexist." She took the third glass with a less steady hand, drinking it while her eyes began to shut. "All I ever wanted...was for them to be happy. Even if I could not be the proper mother I should have been..."

"You are. You are doing what you can as a parent to them. To all of your children, even your niece." She smiled at that, the third empty glass falling to the floor as the woman was finally asleep from being given a meal. He gently moved, letting it be so that she was laying on the couch in the office, placing a small blanket over her.

"Chairman...was that really wise to do?"

"Ah, Kaname." He smiled. "We're friends, it's quite alright to do. After all, even you could tell she was starving. You've seen it yourself, that loneliness she would be returning to. Also, you know full well it will get to the point she can't really do much."

"You seem to be the one she trusts the most though. I'm amazed someone like you befriended such a woman so easily." He spoke, looking a bit serious at the other.

"There's more to it than you might think." The other spoke and shrugged as he looked Kaname. "There's such a strong friendship born of a mistake made long ago."