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John started to wake up at first thinking he was still dreaming when he felt a weight draped across his chest & a faint warmth near his back. slowly he moved a hand to feel the source a small smile on his lips. "Taker?" He whispered still worried it was a dream.
"Yeah?"
"Just making sure." He tried to moved even closer to the larger man feeling Taker's arm wrap around him tighter.
"And who else would it be?"
"No one…I assure you no one…I just wanted to make sure it wasn't all a dream."
"A dream or a nightmare?" John turned in Taker's hold to bring himself face to face with him. His face a look of confusion in contrast to Taker's calm facade.
"Why a nightmare?"
"You know why…"
"Guess we have a few things to talk about don't we?"
"Where do I begin?"
"How often do you drink blood?" John tried not to have his stomach turn as he said it.
"About once a week…longer then that it starts to affect me."
"Affect you how?"
"I get weaker…tired…frail." Taker takes his arm from around John a moment to brush his cheek looking into his blue eyes in the dim light. "Before you ask no."
"What…can you read my mind?"
"A times I can…more often then not ones I am contacted to I can speak to more then read theirs. I know though you are wondering if I could do so just from you weren't you?"
"Yes…why not?"
"To take that much blood from one person would start making them weak. It may not kill them right away but in time it would." Taker brushes John's cheek again before resting their foreheads together "Even if the blood loss didn't kill them their bodies would grow weak prone to illness & injury. You have to strong of a future ahead of you for me to place you in that kind of risk." He moves his head to kiss John's forehead before moving back a little placing his hand back near John's waist. "Now I know at least one that will offer if I ask."
"And you still waiting to hear from Edge & Christian?"
"Correct."
"So that would be four including me…how many would be idea?"
"Perfect idea would be close to ten…but to accomplish that at least some would be charmed sources."
"Charmed sources?"
"People I would feed from that would have no memory of what I did to them. Sort of a stronger version of what I did to you the first time. With you I left a faint trace."
John's eyes shifted a little breaking contacts with Taker's. "I can't change what I am John."
"I know…just trying to take it all in…so some people you would bite against their will?"
"I don't have a choice. Even if Edge & Christian agree that would mean each of you about once a month…it might be doable if I try to limit the amount I take…it would still be pushing each of you. Just like you the brothers still have a strong path ahead of them. Before you I may of not cared so much…but I don't wish to place them at risk either."
Taker gave a low sigh rolling onto his back moving his hand away from John's side. John watched him a moment before moving closer resting his head on Taker's chest. "When did you last?"
"A few days ago…I can still go a few more."
"That isn't why I asked…earlier & even now…you feel warmer then the times in the locker rooms."
"It may sound corny John…but I truly feel you are brining it out in me…I felt so cold & alone for so long…even surrounded by people…followers…I was still alone. Something about you began to warm my cold heart. That is beginning to translate into my physical being even if I may not of wished it to. I am sure you can faintly hear or feel the other slight change."
John places his hand first near the middle of Taker's chest before placing his ear next. "Your heart?"
"Yes. Just as I normally don't need to breath the same can be said for the beating of my heart. Now unless I focus on it to make it more normal…it is still slower then a normal human…but it is still beating all the same." Taker lightly runs a hand through John's hair. "Even with you as we were my lungs feels the need to bring in air…you have brought new life into this old body John."
"Are you glad for that?"
"I believe so…I am still getting used to these changes. Things long forgotten, buried deep, needing to learn again."
"How long have you been this way?"
"Roughly?"
"Well I guess."
"You sure it won't freak you out?"
"If I can learn to deal with the thought of you drinking other people's blood I think I can deal with you being older then you look."
"You just want to know how long I been a vampire…not factoring my age before."
"Yes."
"I have seen half a millennia come & pass."
John couldn't help to blink as his mind tried to wrap around what he said. He had to hear him wrong didn't he? "Half a millennia? As in 500 years?"
"Correct…actually 550 this year…I was changed in 1453."
John lightly draped an arm over Taker's midsection a faint sigh. "You said before you didn't love anyone that whole time?"
"Not as I do you…I realize now I had a few here & there I loved one way or another…but not that same as you. The last person that made me feel pure love, real love was before I was changed."
"Sean?"
"Yeah…Sean." Taker gave a slow sigh rubbing John's back.
"What happened? To the two of you? How were you changed?" Taker's eyes closed John felt him shiver faintly under him. "It's ok if you don't want to tell me."
"No…it's ok…just a bit painful to remember that far back. Sean was my lover, we would even say the other ones other half. We had to hid our true selves from the rest of our village. Such things thought sinful, unnatural…a bane against god. For years we shared a home, we both were widowed…our wives taken by illness during the bitter cold. So at lest for a time the rest of the village thought nothing of us being under the same roof for company. They did not know it had become physical company as well as emotional."
Taker stretched his neck a bit before going on. "I do not know how long they suspected more…one night though while we were together…a group of villages entered our home arresting us." Taker cringed shivering again. John slowly lifted his head looking at Taker unsure why as the room was dark he really couldn't see anything himself. He took a and brushing Taker's face feeling it damp.
"Sorry." John faintly gulped. "You were barged in on while…being…while in the middle of…"
"Yes." Taker's voice faintly numb as he turned onto his side bringing his knees up just a little feeling his stomach tighten into a knot. "I can still at times hear their voices as they pulled him from me…ho-how empty I suddenly felt." His voice sounded almost as empty.
John was trying to process the words. "You want me to stop asking?"
"No…I never talked to anyone about it…the only one who knows is the one who changed me…because they read it in my blood. Just after all this time...feeling again…hurts." John reached over lightly rubbing Taker's arm sadly feeling some of the coolness to his skin return.
"I don't want to seem dense or dumb."
"You won't…go ahead."
"You said him from you…you….um well…"
"First time…and last time…" John tried not to sigh him mind even in this dark moment couldn't help but think of what it would be like to have Taker moaning for him as he thrust his hip against him as he had Jacob in the past. It lasted just a moment though as Taker spoke again. "If I had not allowed it good chance it would be him in the position I now am."
"Why?"
"Since we were caught in the act of course we were found guilty…his punishment was worse then my own. I was placed in the gallows to hang…While Sean was burned alive. We both plead for mercy for the other. Sean wished me to live as his last request…we were both viewed as demons…carriers of a sickness that needed to be purged. The last sounds in my human ears was his screams of agony & the snap of the rope going taught around me neck." John shuttered himself almost feeling the tightening to his own neck. His breath hitching from fright he moved against Taker's back resting his head on Taker's shoulder.
"I am so sorry Taker…"
Taker bent his arm to lightly pat John's head as he sighed. His voice a faint rumbled whisper. "That is why I lost my tempter when you started to yell about what I did to you in the locker room…At times I still fear being founded…being discovered…I had already escaped death once only to be brought into an unnatural life. I know times have changed…loving another man is more accepted now by some…but there are also those that would persecute us…shun us…I am sure you know that in our business there are those that would wish us punished how ever they see fit."
"I understand…I'll try to be more careful. There are others like us though aren't there?"
"Yes there are a few. Most in couples already…just hide it as travel partners."
"So that what we gonna be…travel partners?" John tries to lightly joke.
"I guess so…just know I need space…" He closed his eyes in thought. "Like when we reach Ireland I have a side trip I need to make."
"Oh?"
"Best you don't ask." Taker gave a sigh. "How about we go grab something to eat."
John nods "Yeah I think I am due for something in my system."
"I think your shirt is still in the sitting room."
John couldn't help but chuckle "Yeah I think you're right. I'll wait out there while you get dressed." John turned his head kissing Taker's shoulder before getting from the bed. After he left Taker moved his legs sitting on the edge of the bed thinking over the next day or two before getting up to get dressed.
