"Allen? Allen?! Are you alright?" Kanda asked watching as Allen twitched in pain.
"Hey, Allen? Wake up. You need something to eat to make that stop, it's been a while since you last ate. It's not my job to feed you." Kanda continued, poking Allen in the forehead until he woke. Allen sat slowly in bed and rubbed the sleep from his eyes with his shaking hands. Kanda sighed and pushed him back down.
"You idiot. I'll, once again, go get you the first retard that comes my way." Kanda stated as he stood and stretched. Allen nodded and pulled the blankets back up. Kanda unlatched the window and let it swing outward before jumping down into the gardens below.
Allen rolled on to his side and tried not to bite his tounge as his body twitched violently. Allen held back his scream of pain as every muscle in his body reacted to the withdrawal.
It hasn't been that long, has it?' Allen thought as he rolled on to his back, sweat covered and tired once again. He stared at the warm light that came fromt he bare bulb that hung in the middle of the small room. It swung back and forth in the non-existent wind, the chain to turn it on clicked against the glass bulb. Allen closed his eyes slowly and rubbed them as his vision began to blur.
"What's going on?" Allen asked nobody as his vision failed and recovered slowly. The blurry vision flickered out leaving him in the pitch black nothingness and Allen reached up to grasp at something, anything...anyone. Allen let his hand fall to his side and blinked rapidly to try and see once more. Getting nothing but the dark, Allen sighed.
"How long has it been?" Allen again asked nobody and after getting no response besides the pitter patter of the rain on the roof.
Allen growled in hunger and his left arm twitched at his side awkwardly. He closed his eyes slowly, having no need to keep them open when he saw nothing but dark.
And to think in my first year of being an immortal vampire I'll die once again because I didn't eat for a day or two.
"Al...Alle...Allen?" Kanda's voice broke through his thoughts and Allen sat up slowly in response. He growled in hunger knowing that there was something to eat within a few feet of his shaky hands.
"You're back." Allen stated with a smile, glad about the warm body that probably laid slumped on the floor. The thought of murdering someone each time he got hungry had left his mind. Every once in a while, he remembered that he was indeed biting into the flesh of a human being and draining the blood from small wounds in their neck.
"Here." Kanda said, grabbing the unconscious man by the arm and dragging him across the floor to Allen's side. Allen growled even more as he smelt the drops of blood the ran to the corner of the man's mouth. Kanda set the man in Allen's arms and turned the man's head to the side for Allen.
Allen bent low and sunk his teeth into the muscle and smiled in content as he drank the warm liquid greedily, the thick, red blood streamed down Allen's face and on to the shoulder of the door behind the pair flew open, whacking against the wall loudly. Allen opened his eyes as he drank and smiled as he regained his sight slowly.
You know all those legends and other folk lore that talk of vampires, well they hold nothing but lies sprinkled with a truth or two. The truth is, nothing is really different between humans and vampires is the obvious never ageing and blood drinking as well as their weaknesses. Besides the given only three things separate the normal human from the immortal vampire is their quick movements, ability to heal quickly and the ability to see in the dark a bit better than the average person. Now, as Kanda's descendent stood watching Allen drink hungrily and Kanda who sat trying to remember the damn kid's name. Once the memory came to mind and he snapped out of his trance, Kanda stood quickly, whacking Allen on the back of the head to tell him to stop.
"Kazuhiro, this isn't what it looks like." Kanda stated, fairly certain that that was his name. Kazuhiro's eyes never left the crimson trail of blood that flowed down Allen's chin.
"What could it be besides what it looks like? What are you doing? Stop drinking that man's blood right now!" He demanded, stepping forward and grabbing Allen, who growled in response to the touch.
"You stop that right now!" Kazukiro demanded, grabbing Allen from behind and forcefully pulling Allen away from the last drops of blood.
"He's already dead, though." Allen replied wiping his mouth and sadly looking at the body. Kazuhiro looked from Allen to Kanda wide eyed and unsure of what to do in a situation involving two vampires.
"Kanda, I still feel sick to my stomach." Allen whined, still starving. Kazuhiro backed away slowly from the two, his back soon coming into contact with the wall.
"Don't you dare touch me!" He yelled as the pair closed in, Kazuhiro grabbed the small table that was wedged into the corner of the room and bashed it against the side of Allen's head before either vampire could move. The iron wrungs made a sickening bang as the hit and broke Allen's skull.
"You piece of shit!" Kanda yelled as he grabbed Kazuhiro and proceeded to beat his face into a bloody pulp as Allen fell to the floor unconscious.
There it was, the familiar darkness that occupied the space in his mind when he didn't dream of the future. And there was the familiar voice of Lenalee saying his name. She seemed sad, and all Allen wanted to do was grasp her hand that was placed next to his.
"Please wake up, Allen." She pleaded and Allen felt a tear fall on his face. He opened his eyes slowly, wanting them to adjust to the dark. The beeps of machines began to resound in the darkness that was no longer dark, but instead a clouded room that resembled a hospital room of sorts.
"Allen?" Lenalee smiled looking down at Allen with a large smile that was filled with concern. Allen managed to smile back even though his body ached.
"Lenalee...I thought you were dead." Allen said through labored breathes. Lenalee giggled through tears.
"We all thought you were going to die, Allen. I'm so glad you're alright. I should get the head nurse now." Lenalee said before standing. She leaned in and gave Allen an awkward hug before going to leave.
"Hey Lenalee?" Allen called just as she stepped out of the room.
"Can you get Kanda for me?" Allen asked from his place on the bed, the favor caused Lenalee to step back in surprise.
"Sure thing, Allen." Lenalee managed to say.
Within the minute, a handful of nurses were bustling about Allen, changing the bandages that covered most of him and another making Allen drink as much as he could, all while a grouchy woman stood by his side observing the others. Once the bandages were cleaned and Allen was fed like an animal, it had been over an hour and Allen expected Kanda to show up at some point.
Allen sat and waited for another good hour after that before Kanda decided to show up.
"So you're awake, we were about ready to dig a hole." Kanda greeted and Allen frowned.
"How long was I out, BaKanda?" Allen asked ignoring the absence of feeling in Kanda.
"Three months." Kanda stated after a long moment of silence. Allen looked down at his bandaged arm and sighed.
"You know, I had the strangest dream while I was out." Allen commented and Kanda grunted in response, sitting down on the chair beside Allen's bed. And so, with that statement, Allen somehow convinced Kanda to stay and listen to his story. Allen told about the vampires, the Noah and the magic. He told of how he and Kanda were in a relationship and they almost had sex except Allen stopped him because of something he couldn't remember as he retold the tale. And by the end the sun had set and with a small smile Allen looked up at Kanda who was to Allen's surprise smiling as well. Kanda leaned forward and kissed Allen gently before leaving the room without a word , leaving Allen tailing his fingers gently over his lips.
