I was quiet the whole night after the incident of sorts.

Eric kept trying to talk to me, but I didn't register what he said each time. Eventually though, he did get through.

"Freyr, this doesn't matter. I'm fine now... look at me."

I looked to him now as he knelt down before me as I sat on the chair in the main room. "I'm sorry." I just said now, feeling like I wanted to cry. Eric groaned and put his head into my lap now, saying with a sigh. "We need a talk, a big one... don't we?"

"Mmhmm." I admitted, and he sat back, looking at me with almost like sad eyes. Eric stood up now and took my hand. "Come on-" I hesitated, then got up and walked outside into the night with him.

"We've had our disputes, haven't we?" Eric asked quietly now, and I nodded. "We have." we were both silent again, but then Eric just said out of the blue.

"You know I love you, don't you?"

I stopped and frowned. "Of course I do. Why do you ask?"

"Because I've hurt you so much over the years... and it wasn't my intention. I love you, I really do."

I was quiet, then I just said. "But why did you do it? All this?"

Eric sighed, then turned to me, taking a hand. "I think... because I could. Because I was a vampire, and... all the sudden I had this sense of freedom. I had too much fun."

There was a slight flinch from me at that, and I just said. "You hurt me for so many years... because you just wanted to have fun-? That doesn't even make sense!"

"Freyr-"

"No. Do you even care about me? Or am I just one of those one night stands that's been extended?"

Eric scowled at that. "How can you say that? You know how much-"

"If you say 'I love you' I'm going to flip. I really am." I hissed now, running a hand through my hair and just added. "I'm bloody stressed here Eric! I don't know what's going on with you... and I don't know what's going on with me! We don't even know what I am-!"

"Freyr... I do love you. Just-"

"Old habits die hard?"

"No. Frey, I've not slept with anyone else since we got back together."

"Mmhmm..."

"I love you Freyr. How can you believe that I don't?"

His words were sincere, and I knew them well- he was telling the truth. A thousand years I'd loved that man, all the way from our childhood. I knew he was capable of both good and bad, and being a vampire just bought out the bad side in him more. But I did still love him, of course I did.

"I need to think." I just told him now, walking off and leaving him stood there watching me leave, probably thinking I wasn't going to come back... like I used to.

I walked through Shreveport now, the streets dark and dawn well away. What was I? That was the question that I wanted to know really...

There were footsteps now, and I didn't hear a heartbeat, which led to me turning around and sighing in relief as I saw someone very familiar.

"Dorian." I smiled now, and he just stood there and said. "You really want to know?"

"What?" Was all I could say, and he chuckled. "You want to know, don't you?"

I understood what he meant now, but that just made me frown. "How would you know?" but then it hit me- I knew nothing of his human life, for he always kept it secret.

"We're more alike than you think." was all he said, then Bianca walked forwards and I asked quietly. "What am I then?"

Dorian sighed, then said. "A Siren."

"What the hell-?"

He chuckled, then said. "No need to be so shocked. There's quite a few of us." My eyes flickered to Bianca at that, and then I asked him. "You're one?"

"I am. You really think I found you by accident all those years ago?" Dorian chuckled, and I felt shocked. "What do you mean-?"

"You're one too." he just said. "And I found you."

"I'm a fucking mermaid?"

They both laughed at that, and Dorian chuckled. "That's a misconception. No, we don't have tails."

"Well could you Google it then? Because I'm bloody clueless-!" I hissed and he was silent. I thought I knew him... but actually, I didn't know him at all.

"Come with me." he said now, and I didn't move, so Dorian sighed. "We won't hurt-"

"Like you could anyway." I snapped, then walked on.

We ended up at a flat now and I sat down on the sofa while Dorian went in the cupboard and bought out a book that he gave to me. "Here-"

I looked at it suspiciously, then took it. The book was dark with shades of blue, and runes littered the front. "And?" I asked, then Dorian said. "Nothing's changed. You are who you are. Just... there's another side to you that you need to know about."

Sirens... weren't they like the ultimate seducers? They sat on rocks and enticed the boats to crash... how the hell could I be one of them-?

Was this all a joke?

"I see Eric has found out one of the downsides." he chuckled now, and my eyes narrowed. "What are you on about-?"

"Your blood. It poisoned him didn't it?"

"But-? It never did before..."

"Were you in water at the time?"

I frowned, but then nodded. "Yes... why?"

"Out of water, you're who you are now... but in water, its who you truly are; Your blood is poison to a vampire, and you can seduce anyone you want."

I scoffed now, shaking my head. "I've had it with this crap now Dorian. Why are you saying these things-!"

He was silent, then he said. "Because I know about your father."

That shut me up in an instant, and I just said. "What-?"

"Your mother never said who was your father, did she? Only that he was a monster... and he was in his own way."

"What are-?"

"Your mother was raped by one of our kind. A grave offense and he was punished severely for it."

I was shocked into silence at that, then I felt tears in my eyes. "How-? What-? How do you know this-?"

"I'm older than you think Freyr."

"But when I met you, you had just been turned."

"Oh, that's true. But our kind-"

"Stop saying that! I'm not one of you!" I snarled now, getting up and Dorian chuckled. "You don't have to be a vampire to live forever. Out of water, we're as mortal as a human. It's possible to change into a vampire out of water, as we've both seen. Same principle- just a mix when you touch water, but essentially the same."

"This is beyond ridiculous."

"But you saw it yourself. Eric was proof enough earlier."

"How old are you?" I asked now, and not his vampire age. He was silent, then said. "I'm one thousand six hundred at my last count... and I lost count years ago."

How the hell was this possible-? I was this... Siren thing? This had to be a bad joke, a really bad one. My father was one, and raped my mother which resulted in me?

"Show me proof then." I said darkly now, and Dorian sighed, taking off his jacket, then pushed up the short sleeve of his t-shirt and showed me the back of his left shoulder... and the mark that was exactly the same as my own.

I just backed up now and was out the house in a flash. It was all true... there was another side to me that I didn't know, didn't know how to control either.

I went back to the bar and just pushed past Eric as he went to stop me, but I went into the bathroom and switched on the shower, yanking the door open and stepped into the cold stream of water.

"What the hell are you doing?" Eric asked me now, but I just said. "Is there anything different about me?"

"What are you talking about-?"

"Is there anything different about me!" I demanded and he raised an eyebrow. "No. Why?"

I walked out the shower now, shivering a little. "My life is so screwed up..."

Eric was probably thinking me insane as I walked past him and out the bathroom... and he wasn't far off wrong.

But... what exactly did this other side of me mean exactly?

It was a world of monsters and demons...

And a little update for tonight. Reviews lovely thanks.