Night Walker
Ch.10
THE TRUTH
Dayan looked down at the sleeping Ashley and frowned. He hadn't liked what had occurred last night. One minute they were walking out of the café with Ashley jumping, laughing, smiling and then the next minute he had a vampire around the neck and Ashley on the far side of the brick wall. The way she had looked at him was heartbreaking. Fear was in her eyes as she had witnessed what had conspired. When he had finally reached the mansion he had went up straight to his room and laid her down on the bed. When he had examined her he saw that her right arm was broken and a few bruises on her body when he had removed her clothing. He had immediately called his doctor and told him what had happened.
Thankfully the doctor had bandaged and wrapped her arm up in a sling and told him what needed to have done to help her recuperation. Dayan stood up and went to stand by the blazing fire. What she had said to him was disturbing. She had asked him what he was and all he could do was look at her and freeze. He hadn't known what to say to her because he had been too shocked to think. Dayan laid a hand on the fireplace and stared deep into the blaze. He had a lot to think about and he couldn't do it with her there.
Next day…
Ashley thrashed around in the bed until she crashed to the floor with a loud thud. Then she felt a pair of arms around her waist and her eyes shot open. She couldn't see who it was because it was pitched black in the room and so she started to panic and when she panicked she started to scream.
"AHHHHH, DAYAN," she screamed as loud as she could. "DAYAN HELP!" she screamed again and when her mouth got covered she bit into it hard. She felt blood gush into her mouth and instead of gagging like most people would do she found herself swallowing it. What the hell is wrong with me? she thought as she fought off whoever it was.
"Ashley stop thrashing around," Dayan said as he tried to keep her from fighting him any longer. Dayan saw that she hadn't heard him because she kept on fighting him. So he did the only thing that he could think of doing at the time and that was swing her over his shoulders and drop her on the bed with all the pillows and blankets. Ashley finally calmed down after she thrashed her way through all the blankets and pillows. She looked up and screamed out Dayan's name when she saw that it was him.
"Dayan," she screamed as she lunged herself at him. Dayan wrapped his arms around her and smirked "You're here." She said hugging him tightly and not even realizing that she was naked.
"If this is how you're going to react every time I try to wake you up then it's all worth it." He said as he held her and felt her snuggle up closer to his body which was driving him wild now.
"I'm hungry," she said. Dayan laughed and hugged her again while he placed his lips to her ear and started to nibble on it. He felt her body shiver against his and smirked. "I hate to even mention this because it'll mean me not seeing it again but…you're naked," he said. The last thing he expected from her was that she started to laugh and that was what exactly she was doing. Dayan looked back at her and grinned ruefully.
"I seem to be in a state of undressed ness every time that I'm around you." She said and then laughed again as she saw his face expression.
"How are you feeling?" he asked nervously
"Fine. What about you? I bit you and you're bleeding," she said taking his hand in hers. "And I accidentally swallowed your blood." She said as she tried to turn his hand so she could see his palm but he wouldn't let her.
"Well, it's nothing really," he said taking his hand away from her and framing her face with both hands instead He leaned down and gave her a kiss. It was short but sweet none the less and when he opened his eyes he saw that she had a smile on her lips. "What is with you today?" he asked
"What do you mean?" she asked keeping her arms around his neck and playing with his beautiful curly hair.
"You're usually not this cheerful and you would have immediately shrieked at me to let you go and call me a pervert for even looking at your beautiful naked glorious body." He said as his eyes gazed down her body and he grinned. He had this devilish idea to make love to her all night long over and over again into the morning. Ashley looked at him and smirked.
"I don't know either. I'm just suddenly happy to be alive and free…well semi-free really," she said hugging him once again and nuzzling into the crook of his neck like a kitten would. She felt him shudder as she nibbled on his ear lobe and then he began to laugh.
"Come on put some clothes on before I do something that you wouldn't like," he said as he let her go and went to the closet to get her some clothes. Something is really up with her today, he thought as he pulled out a pair of black Polo Jeans and a black long sleeve skin type shirt that had on the front "If you touch her you'll die" on it. When Ashley saw the shirt she smirked up at him.
"Are you serious Dayan?" she asked as she looked back at the shirt again.
"What?" he replied looking back at the shirt and then to her with a smirk on his face.
"Don't you think that it's a bit too much?" she asked as she grabbed the clothes and went straight to the bathroom to change. "And don't even think about peeking your head in the bathroom when I'm not done yet." She said as she closed the door and locked it.
If she only knew, he thought as he sat on the bed and went into deep thinking about how he was going to explain his situation to her. After all, she did want to know what he was. Before he could even think anymore Ashley burst threw the bathroom all dressed and with an angry look on her face.
"Who are you?" she asked as she stared at him from the bathroom doorway. Dayan looked like he was about to have a heart attack.
Shit, he thought as he looked at her. She didn't look like the type to be dissuaded by anything.
"And don't you try using your mind tricks on me Dayan Dubinsky." She said sternly. Dayan couldn't help it. He could feel the smile breaking out onto his face. "And what is so damned funny?" she asked as she walked up to him and placed her hands on her hips and glared at him.
"Nothing," was all he said and then he grew serious again.
"Well? I'm waiting." She said.
"I think you should sit down for what I'm about to tell you." He said as he patted the spot next to him. Ashley looked at him like he was crazy.
"No thank you," she said while taking a step backward towards the door, "I want to stand up just incase you give me an excuse to bolt through that door, down the stairs, out the front door, and to the local police out here." She said and then took a deep breath to keep herself calm and from fidgeting.
"Suit yourself," he said, "Did you have anything in particular that you wanted to know other then who I am?" he asked her
"Yeah…what the hell are you?" she said pointing at him, "I mean, I admit that I didn't remember what the hell happened to me last night cause my moment of amnesia had forbade me from remembering but now I remember it all too clearly." She said as her thoughts unwillingly went back to the scene of last night. Ashley shivered when she thought about the snapping of the guy's neck.
"Well…what if I told you that I was not the same as you but the same still." He said as he stared at her for some kind of reaction but all he could see was that she was really curious and confused.
"I don't get it. It's like your talking in riddles or something." She said.
"What if where I come from my people are way different from you mortals." He said.
"Then I'd say that your people are either quite gifted or then…are just plain weird," she said then a thought struck her, "You're an alien aren't you!" she screamed as she pointed at him and started to back away.
"Don't be stupid Ashley?" he said sighing
"What? Hey, it could happen," she said, "Didn't you ever read "My Mom Married an Alien?" She asked smiling childishly now. Dayan looked at her and then started laughing. "I didn't mean it to be that funny you know." She said as she saw tears rolling down his face as he laughed even harder and then that's when she saw it. The tears that she saw on his face weren't like any normal water like tears that people usually had.
When she took a step closer to him she could see that they were red. It couldn't be, she thought as she finally stopped and stood in front of him. Dayan had by this time stopped laughing and was just staring at her cautiously to see what she would do. Ashley had the craziest sensation and craving to taste it. And that's what she did. Taking her thumb she wiped the tear off his cheek and stuck it in her mouth. She didn't react at first but noticed that it had this metallic taste to it. Kind of like… No it couldn't be, she thought as she looked at him with wide eyes that she knew would have been popping out of its socket if she was in a cartoon right now.
"Ashley," he said in a warning voice. She looked like she was about to bolt for the door any moment now. Ashley looked at the door and weighed her options at how fast she could reach the room door and be out the front door before he caught up to her. But if she was right in her knowledge then she wouldn't even make it to the room door before he got a hold of her and probably…kill her. Ashley gulped and found it suddenly hard to breathe and swallow correctly. What would he do to me? She thought as she looked back and forth to the door and to him. He looked like he was about to snap any minute now. So, she started to think about whatever it was thoroughly. Whatever it is seems important and if he had wanted to kill me then he would have already done it, she thought, but then again if I'm right about what he is then he wouldn't even have to break a sweat to even kill me. Snap my neck like a twig and I wouldn't be his problem anymore, she thought and then gasped when she saw him move with an unnatural speed. Unlike a human being.
"If you ever think about things like that again then you'll have something to worry about. And it won't be about me killing you. My wrath is worst then my bite." He said and then let her go as he went back to sit on the bed. Ashley took an involuntary step back and tried to calm the frantic beating of her heart to stop pounding so hard before it popped out of her chest. She looked back at him and was about to say something but he beat her to it. "I would never do any harm to you in any way. I would rather die then to see you hurt or get hurt by someone else. You are my concern, as well as my people and that is all. You are my family. Not some stranger on the street who is willing to go as far as to kill you. Let alone lay a hand on you." He said soothingly. He hadn't meant to scare the hell out of her but it looked like he had failed in that department.
A moment of awkward silence met up inside the room and Ashley could feel the tension level rising and falling, like a roller coaster. Dayan got up from the bed and walked towards her. He grabbed her hand and led her to the bed. Ashley didn't dare do anything to get him started up again so she complied with his wish and sat down on the bed and watched him pace back and forth in front of her.
"Look I didn't mean to react the way that I did just then," she said to him.
"What are you apologizing for? It should be me, not the other way around." He said as he came back to the bed and sat down next to her. He placed his hand on her cheeks and stroked it slowly. Ashley took his hand, turned it palm face up and laid a kiss in the center of it. She then looked up and leaned forward to kiss him. Dayan wrapped his arms around her waist to draw her closer until there was no distance between them at all. Damn these clothes! he thought and then smiled on her lips when she moaned.
"So you're a vampire huh?" she asked against his mouth
"We do not refer to ourselves as vampires." He said straitening up but also keeping his arms wrapped around her waist so she wouldn't go any where or try something.
"What do you mean?" she asked looking up at him curiously
"We are not like our brethren. We are just like you mortals but different then vampires," he said, "We could eat human food if we wanted to but we prefer to blood instead. And it is true that we cannot stand the sun but not like our brethren the vampires." He said
"Explain this to me please." She said
"Well, vampires despise the sun and cannot rise when it is up but when the sun has fully settled and is completely dark in the sky. But my race can in fact rise when the sun is setting and before then but the problem is that when we awaken our body is like lead and weak. Our full strength is not with us until the sun I fully over the horizon/" he said and then looked down at her. The last thing he expected to see from her face and eyes was pure fascination.
"Cool." Was all she said and shut up so she could hear the rest.
"We have our soil to replenish us and…" before he could finish she cut in
"What do you mean soil? Like dirt?" she asked
"Yes, but this soil comes from are homeland. Which is in fact here in the Carpathian Mountains," he said to her, "When we travel it is vital that we have it. It replenishes are body and the feel of something from our homeland makes us happy." He said.
"So what about the vampires? Any more differences between the two of you?" she asked curiously
"Well, unlike us vampires lust for blood and kill whomever they have to get it. They have no moral code or anything." He said
"But how does one become a vampire and can you guys have kids or what?" she asked while removing herself from him because her back had started to hurt from the weird angle she was in. She laidback on the bed and placed both hands behind her head. That action caused her tank top to rise and show her belly button (It's an inny just in case you guys wanted to know). Dayan saw and cocked an eyebrow at her. All Ashley did was grin mischievously at him.
"Well, the thing is" he started to explain, "All Carpathian mails are born to be strong and protect our loved ones. We are also born with these ritual words imprinted in our minds to say when we have found our lifemates," he said, "We go in search for our lifemates all over the world. But in a matter of hundreds of years that we do not find our other half we loose our will to love. We cannot see in color but in black and white and we can only remember how it felt like to love one another and to feel friendship towards others." He said
"So this lifemate is like your other half?" she asked
"Yes exactly," he said, "Our lifemate is our other half. The Light to our darkness and the warmth to our cold." He said with a grin
"What about the kid's thing? Can you guys have sex or what?" she asked and then blushed when he grinned down at her. Her heart did a little flip and her stomach felt like it had butterflies in it.
"Why don't we find out and see to both questions." He said and then leaned down to where she lay and kissed her. Ashley couldn't lie to herself anymore. Somehow she had fallen in love with Dayan. How in the hell did this happen? she thought to herself as she kissed him back. Dayan moved his hand to her waist and brought it up under her shirt. Her skin was as soft and smooth as a rose petal. He felt her shiver as he laid a rain of kisses down her chin and towards her cheek.
He grabbed her by the waist and brought her up to the pillow at the head of the board. Her head hit the pillow and she moaned as he deepened the kiss. He gently nibbled the bottom of her lip for access. Ashley opened her mouth and gasped when he thrust his tongue in. He explored the deep warmth and crevices of her mouth as he got on top of her. He removed her shirt and dropped it on the floor and her bra followed.
Continues in next chapter…Coming Soon!