Sheldon stretches his muscles they taught and strong. Like he could hold the world in his hands like Atlas. Unlike Atlas however he would not feel crushed under its weight. Sheldon felt like if he wanted to he could crush the world to dust between his fingers and not feel any guilt. It is a dangerous feeling, and he knows it. In the thousand years he has walked the earth this is the first time he has felt alive. Even when his heart pumped blood through his veins he never felt like this.
After their transfusion was complete they both felt the affects. Looking at each other with a sense of wonder. All the colors seemed clearer, like they could see colors that were invisible before. They could hear each other's thoughts clearly now. Sheldon had almost apologized out loud when he heard his salacious thoughts about her. His desire to rip her out of her clothes. To taste every inch of her porcelain skin. Far from being offended. Amy had attacked him like a lioness on the prowl. Sharing her thoughts of him, how strong her desire for him ran. They were like wild animals in heat.
There was not surface in his room they had not had each other on. They made love on the bed until the wood splintered beneath them. From their they had moved to his book shelf until the boards broke. Spilling the comics he had carefully preserved for decades all over the floor. He didn't even care, he was beyond them now. Before he had even met her he was willing to give up everything for her. There was nothing in the world he wouldn't sacrifice for her now.
Then they had moved to the ceiling, to the Howard and Raj had barged in they had been relatively tame. They had walked in with him standing behind her. Amy's hands wrapped backwards around for support as he thrusted into her. His mouth biting into her neck tasting her blood that was like the nectar of the gods to him.
For a while he wondered how they would know when to stop. They never tired and their energy was on high. Not even the wreckage around them was enough to make him stop. How shocked Raj and Howard must have been to find after years of jabes it was he who was the master of carnal relations. They were constantly seeking out what they couldn't even enjoy on the level he could. Their sticky fumblings with faceless girls were nothing compared to what he had with Amy. He doubted anyone living or dead had ever shared a connection like they had.
Sheldon looks down at her in there was nothing they couldn't accomplish. With Penny they were unstoppable. With a little more planning they could take back what was theirs. They could rule over the rest of the vampires without question. Under their rule humans and vampires would walk the earth together as equals. No more hiding in the so called coffin. The thought of something so close. Yet still so far away was almost painful. He was never known for his patience, he didn't know how long he could wait before he tried to overtake Kripke. Show him once and for all who was the better vampire.
Amy can feel his agitation,hear his dark thoughts. So she tries to draw him out of it. There was nothing to be down now. As strong as they were they couldn't just go barge in and take down Kripke with just them and two untrained newborns. A successful coup would take time and planning. Kripke would see a direct attack a mile away. What they needed was to get someone on the inside. For now all she could do was try and get him to focus on something else. Tonight they had to indoctrinate Leonard into their world.
"Why did they run out of here like that?" Amy asks lounging on Sheldon's chest like a contented cat.
"Who knows they have always been odd." Sheldon tells her distracted.
"Were not going to have to turn them now are we?" Amy jokes knowing that will get a rise out of him and she is rewarded when he looks at her like she is crazy.
"Them? They would make the sorriest bunch of vampires to ever walk the earth. I would not inflict them upon our race." Sheldon huffs.
"I was kidding! Of course I would never suggest those two for the transformation. Our kind is at a crossroads we need to only turn the best and brightest.." Amy says rolling her eyes. "Speaking of sorry vampires should we check on our wards?" she asks getting up and going to his closet to select a new outfit. Her previous one had been ripped to shreds.
"I suppose so. I can't hear his heartbeat anymore. Transformation should be complete by now." Sheldon agrees joining her to get dressed.
"I would love to see her try and glamour me now." Amy says and Sheldon pulls her face towards his.
"Yes darling. I would love to see her try." Sheldon says kissing her softly. She smiles at him coyly watching him dress. Contemplating ripping the new set of clothes off his body too. "Don"t even think about it. This is my best robot shirt." he says looking at her warningly having read her thoughts and she pouts at him.
"It's safe for now." she says winking then walking out of the room.
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All he remembers is waking up with Penny all over him. Everything else is just snippets. His hand covered in blood. Sheldon's pale concerned face. His deep voice filled with remorse. Saying he never wanted this for him. That he wanted him to have a choice. Then the hours he had spent in agony. His body being raked over hot coals. Being stuck in the worst asthma attack of his life and not being able to reach his inhaler. Waking up next to Penny wrapped around him like a vine.
"We have to get out of here." She told him urgently in a hushed whisper.
"Why?" He asked confused.
"Sheldon he isn't who you think he is. He is a evil killer. His little girlfriend too. I saw them murder Kurt. They murdered me! They murdered you!" Penny tells him. Pulling his a to make him sit up. He feels strangely conflicted. The urgency in Penny's eyes are telling him he needs to move. Yet he feels rooted to the spot. Like even if he wanted to leave he could'nt.
"Penny we're right here. How could they have murdered us?" He asks her.
"Think about it Leonard do you feel any different?" She implores. He did feel different. His asthma is gone, his sinus feel clearer than they ever have. He feels healthy and strong which are two things he never felt.
"Very different actually." He agrees. Feeling his head to check for a fever. Oddly his head feels cool to the touc. More than cool, it's ice cold like he has been sitting in an ice bath. He looks at Penny, who if it is even possible looks more beautiful than before. Her face is perfect pale and poreless,her topaz eyes shine like stars in her face. The dark roots that peek out are gone and her hair is a bright platinum blonde. "Whhat's going on?"
"Like I said they murdered you. Well they would say the opposite. They would say they gave you eternal life or something like that." Penny says rolling her eyes.
"Eternal life? You mean being immortal? Like a vampire or something? Penny you know that is not possible vampires don't exist." Leonard says dumbfounded.
Just then Sheldon and Amy walk into Leonard's room. Finding Both him and Penny sitting up on the bed. Penny stands up and walks over to Amy. Her blonde hair wild around her head from lying beside Leonard for so long. Penny turns her hazel eyes on Amy.
"We are leaving now." In a commanding tone. Sheldon wants to interfere lest Amy be glamoured again by this she devil.
"I don't think so." Amy says and without raising a finger Penny is flung backwards against the wall. "Did you see that!" she says turning to Sheldon excitedly. " I did that with my mind!"
"I knew you would be magnificent once you had your rest." Sheldon agrees walking closer to her with a haughty expression on his face.
"Can.. can I do that too?" Leonard asks looking between Penny and Amy stunned.
"Hardly." Sheldon says walking up to Leonard. "Your human blood is still coursing through your veins so you may retin a little strength for a few days. Other than that you are as unremarkable a vampire as you were a human. Mediocre in every way, not to say that is bad! The world needs mediocrity to make the exemplary shine all the more." Sheldon says sympathetically Leonard puts on his glasses to look at him then takes them off shocked.
"I don't need glasses anymore? I have worn glasses since I was a year old." Leonard asks setting them back down. Amazed that he can see clearly without them. That his thick prescription lenses make the world more blurry.
"No, not anymore your eyesight is improved by being a vampire." Amy tells him.
"Why do you wear them?" he asks dumbly and she shrugs.
"Vanity? I like the way they look on me. Don't they make me look cute?" She says flipping her glasses up and down seductively.
"Very attractive." Leonard mumbles confused. Still unsure if he is in some elaborate dream. He looks at Penny who is just starting to rise again.
"You can't keep us here. " Penny says turning her eyes on Sheldon.
"Oh honey, that isn't going to work on me." He tells her condescendingly. Mocking the way Penny talks.
"Can someone just please explain to me what's going on?" Leonard asks standing up. Still struggling come to terms with the fact he is now a vampire. "You keep saying I am a vampire, you guys know that is not possible. This isn't an Anne Rice novel or a HBO show. This is real life."
"Then how do you explain, your clear vision? Your keen senses. Can't you smell it Leonard? As a human you could barely smell things right under your nose. Now tell me what do you smell?" Sheldon asks and Leonard takes a deep breath. Then finds the breath is unnecessary his lungs can function without it. It is an odd sensation not gasping and struggling for air. To inhale through his nose with no blockage.
"I smell Penny, her perfume that always makes me sneeze. Only now I don't have to sneeze, I can just smell jasmine, and vanilla. I can smell Mrs. Vartabedians cooking down the hall, cabbage." Leonard says almost gagging the smell of food making his stomach roil. "Something else that I can't place, it is sweet and it's making my mouth water."
"That would be 's blood. You are craving her." Amy says in her flat voice and Leonard looks at her shocked.
"I don't want to eat Mrs. Vartebedian." Leonard says horrified.
"Excellent! First day and you are already a star pupil." Sheldon says patting him on the back. "I myself have never had a drop of human blood. Amy has only done so on a few occasions. Now your girlfriend here the first thing she did was race down to your room and attempt to suck you dry." Sheldon says and Leonard looks at her shocked.
"You said Sheldon killed me." He says and Penny looks guilty.
"You might not have died." She says looking down.
"In the end you begged Sheldon to save you. To give you eternal life. Without his gift you would be a corpse at the bottom of the elevator shaft." Amy says casually examining her nails.
"So I don't have to drink blood if I don't want too?" Leonard asks again.
"No, in fact we are embarking on a battle that would free us from being slaves to blood forever. I have developed a synthetic blood substitute. Right now it has to be infused. However, I think that I may have discovered the key to an ingestible version. Until then you can survive on infusions or bagged blood. Without ever taking a life."
"I don't want to kill anyone. I couldn't live with myself knowing I'd taken away someone's mother, or father, sister, or brother." Penny snorts derisively annoyed with Leonard.
"Speaking of families ask them what will happen to yours now." Penny says wanting Leonard mad at them.
"Sadly, you will not be able to communicate with them anymore. Until we defeat Kripke and gain or right to be out of the is not safe for you to communicate with anyone from your former life." Sheldon tells him.
"So I can never speak to my mother again?" Leonard asks.
"Afraid not." Amy says sympathetically.
"This day keeps getting better and better." Leonard says happily, then his smile fades." I will miss my dad though."
"Sheldon! I think your little friend here has a gift. I missed it before because I just thought Penny's signal was so strong. I can see now Leonard as the gift of empathy and human compassion. Two traits mostly lost in the transition from human to vampire." Amy says walking up to Leonard and scrutinizing him closely.
"Two traits that will be most helpful to our cause." Sheldon says agreeing with the assessment he hears in Amy's head.
"You keep mentioning Kripke and a cause. Can you please enlighten me on what that's all about?"
"Certainly." Sheldon says.
Then he launches into a lengthy explanation of the rivalry between them. What he and Amy are fighting for. What's at stake if their side is to lose. Leonard listens closely. Asking intelligent questions. At the end he is fully committed to the cause.
"So what do we do to defeat this Kripke guy?" Leonard asks.
"Hang in a sec! They say this Kripke guy is the bad guy. How do we know that? They could be lying to us!" Penny accuses. Still mistrustful of Sheldon and Amy. Ever since she found out she had been living next to a vampire for almost four years with never knowing it.
"Penny they are the good guys we have to help them." Leonard tells her. "How can you not see that? What these other vampires want to do is eradicate humankind. In a few years all humans will be killed or turned. Then what would they do?" Leonard asks Sheldon.
"The last we heard they were looking into finding ways to harvest humans. Keep them just for a blood supply. Not unlike a farmer with a herd of dairy cattle." Amy says.
"Fine, that does sound pretty bad. How do we stop the bad dudes?" Penny asks.
"We need to infiltrate their lair and take out their leader. Without Kripkes poisonous influence I think the rest of his lackeys will scatter. That is why we needed you Penny. Most vampires have the ability to glamour humans into doing their bidding. You however have the ability to also convince vampires into doing yours." Sheldon tells her.
"Great any ideas on how to do that?" Penny asks snarkily.
"A few, and we will need you and your crazy eyes to do it." Sheldon tells her.
"Why was I afraid of that?" Penny sighs.