Slight realization hit Evey harder than she thought it would. She starred into the emerald green eyes that had become forbiddingly familiar to her.
"He's your what?" she asked, frowning as her voice cracked in fear.
Mark sighed as he watched Evey's frail body shake in apparent fear, "He's my brother Evey… and the bond we share is inseparable"
"How so?" Evey asked, now having moved further away from Mark.
Evey watched as Mark's green eyes flickered with an unsaid emotion, "It-It is something that I cannot share…"
Anger flared with anger as she turned on her heel toward him, "Then why confuse me so? Why are you doing this to me?"
"I never meant to hurt you"
"Well you are, don't you understand? How can I sit here and act calmly about this situation… Trellen said you were a mad man... a ruthless killer".
"He just says that to cover his own self… he-"
"No stop! I can't take this anymore, you act like you want to kill me the first time I ever meet you, and then you try and tell me your are someone else?"
Evey lowered her heard, "I can't do this, I fell in love with Trellen…I can't fall in love with you".
At one point in his life Mark knew he had a heart… now the pain was throbbing in his dead chest from Evey's words. She would never understand his secret, he just wanted to protect her…. and he didn't know how to express that.
Mark went to step closer to her when Evey raised one hand in front of her, "No… please just go away, I don't want to see you again".
Mark recognized these words, she had already told him once that she didn't want to see him again… and now she meant it. She was seeing him in his true form and was rejecting him.
Evey turned her back to him, knowing that she had to look away or she wouldn't be able to go through with her banishment. She didn't understand why she was upset that she wouldn't see Mark anymore… it wasn't mark she fell in love with… was it? Had he deceived her this whole time? Wanting nothing more than her sweet nectar that she called her blood? Nothing made sense, especially since he wouldn't tell her.
She gasped as she felt warm breath strike her ear, "I leave you with only memories"
His warm breath lingered on the delicate skin of her neck for a moment more and then it was gone.
Evey turned swiftly, fresh tears falling down her cheeks. Why was he doing this? She was so confused and so…tired.
She looked toward her bed, knowing it was still to early to sleep… but she needed it.
She undid her coverings and fell into her oversized bed, where sleep soon claimed her.
Evey's dream during the night where exactly what Mark had told her he would leave her with… memories.
She saw everything over in her mind, like she was watching a movie. She saw her meeting with Trellen again, saw their first kiss…time spent together in his cozy underground home… and then…
He was a vampire, she rejected him… damp and cold tunnels and she was crying… a voice like no other had lured her softly to his safety. She felt drawn to the voice, wanted nothing more than to follow it, when Trellen appeared in front of her. She had been so relieved to see him that she shook with fear from the mysterious voice.
She remembered his rejection, the hotel… he was there with her. His calm voice helping her sleep, not anything like the one that had been in the tunnel.
Evey shifted in her sleep as she recalled those haunting green eyes, luring him to her ever so gently… asking her to come to him.
Trellen appeared then as well.
She found herself locked in the dream of his green eyes, piercing though her. The green eyes drew her to him… she knew comfort and love in those eyes. As she neared closer, she noticed the green began to darken… to a foreboding color.
Hellish black… the same color that had attracted her in the first place. Now in these eyes she found no comfort… only fear. A dark fear that she nothing of. She tried to run, tried to escape… but all she could see was darkness, surrounding her like a dark veil… foreshadowing her death.
She screamed as loud as she could, but she was stuck… never to be released from his hold.
Then, as from the depths of hell themselves a voice spoke, "Looks can be deceiving dear Evey".
Evey was awoken by the sound of her scream, still resounding on the walls in her room. Was Mark trying to tell her it was….
"Trellen…"
A deep voice sounded in the room, "So it seems".
Evey strained her eyes as she made the shape out of the vampire she knew so well. Her body began to shake slightly with fear as he neared closer to her.
"It seems my brother had made an alteration to your dreams".
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Mark Decourti sensed Trellen was in the same room as her, he could smell her fear… and smell his brother's hunger.
He didn't want to alert Trellen of his presence, so he stood outside his homes massive gates, starring into the house that held Evey captive. He needed to tell her… he should have earlier. Now he could do nothing, he was forbidden to see her again and forbidden to enter Trellen's home… unless she gave permission.
His blood line with Trellen granted his access into the home at all times, not even a barrier could keep Mark out… blood was stronger. At one point in each others lives, Trellen and Mark had been the closest of brothers… being gifted with the fact of being bit by the same vampire, and having the same blood line, both men could change their outer appearance.
It had been a game at first… each impersonating each other, until…
Betrayal was the lowest level in hell… and the one where the ice in Trellen's heart lied.
For many years the identity of both vampires remained hidden to the world.
Mark closed his eyes at the bitter memory…. His family, how he missed them so… and it were his own fault they were dead.
He had been feeding near the village one night when he had been spotted by a group of men. Mark, being a new vampire wasn't aware that he was seen… the next night when Trellen and he emerged from their underground home, their parents home was alit. The screeching sounds of their dying mother had been heard from the depths of the burning wood and neither one of them could do a thing…
Mark tried to stop Trellen as he made his way toward the village… the memory washed over him as he starred at his brothers home.
Both men stood their, helpless….
Mark could make out the sound of his brother calling for help… the screaming of his mother… and the scream coming from his own mouth as he called out to her. Tears clouded his vision as he tried to make his way into the burning house, knowing he could do nothing… nothing but watch in agony. He watched his brother attempting to move objects, stumbling over as his cries for help filled the silent night… and then her scream stopped. Mark could smell her death…. Their father had been dead from some while, the coppery scent of his blood filling his nostrils.
Trellen turned toward him, his fangs barred, "You! You did this! You killed them!"
"No! I-I never meant to…"
Trellen lunged at his brother, his fangs gashing a mark across his arm, "I curse you for life, if it's the last thing I do… I curse you!"
He watched his brothers body transform into his own, "I shall seek revenge and it shall be you that dies for the consequences".
Mark had gone to run after him, he lunged at him… but was taken aback by the sharp pain in his neck. Trellen has bitten him…making his self stronger in the process.
Blackness clouded his vision as he watched his brother run off in the direction of the village… he looked once at his hands… noticing they weren't his hands… but Trellen's.
Mark blinked away his memory… Trellen had killed that night… 234 people to be exact… the size of the village… all dead.
"In my name" he whispered to himself.
He shuddered at the memory. Trellen hadn't gone through in his plan on killing him; although Mark knew him though, Trellen had already tried more than once. Mark smiled bitterly, these days it was not easy to defeat a man like Mark Decourti… he was one of the more powerful vampires in existence.
If only he could explain this all to Evey… all he thought about was her.
He closed his eyes and listened for her heart beat when he heard a small whisper in his head.
"Is that what you wanted to tell me?"
I'm really sorry for the wait! I've been doing seminar at my university and gah... I hate being a reporter sometimes because it's mad crazy.. anyway!
I had a difficult time writing this chapter... I wanted to say a lot and I'm not sure if I got everything out that needed to be said. Basically in short form, Mark is the one evey met.. Trellen killed a lot of people in Marks name and as Mark...
Mark impersonates Trellen because it's eaiser for him to get around without word getting back to his brother. Since Mark took evey's blood... it wasn't trellen (thats where it might be confusing, it was mark in disguise) he can speak telepathically with her. His mind is linked to hers. Anyway if anyone thinks any part of this is confusing I will write it over, edit it etc...
Thanks for the reviews!