I'll be ending the story, for now, in the next chapter. Chapter 50 will be the last, I don't think I can upload more than that to one story. The last story I did I barely made it to 45. Don't worry I'll be making a sequel, but only if you guys would like one. If it turns out this story is actually too boring, then I'll just permanently end it with Ch. 50, if not then I'll make planes to wright a sequel.
Paul managed a small laugh right before he realized what Charlie was implying. "That would be apocalyptic; I've always imagined the end of the world before, but never like this."
"Yeah, I think I know who can stop her." Charlie says not yet giving up what little hope he had still been harboring ever since his transformation into an immortal being.
"Her?" Paul says incredulously, "You do realize that Claire is no longer human, or female. Clair is a creature of myth, a Leviathan."
With a shake of his head and a crossing of his arms Charlie shook his head in denial, "Somehow I can't believe that, Paul. Somehow I cannot believe that SHE can't be stopped. Clair can be saved."
"And we can't? Ha!" Paul laughs in Charlie's face, "You really want it bad don't you? You're getting old; you still want to be 'America's hero'? Don't be ridiculous Charlie; no one I've ever, ever heard of can repeat happy memories of the past. Chew on that!"
"You're viscous aren't you?"
"Charlie! I'm a fucking vampire!" Paul yells, and then lowers his voice to a more threatening growl, "My entire life from the moment I was bit was forever changed. Yours too, don't you get that?"
"I get it, but I don't accept it!" Charlie says defiantly.
"You, just. Don't. Get it." Paul growls, "YOU'RE A MONSTER! And what makes you think Bella would get involved in this? You think she's going to be the 'good' daughter and come save her father from damnation? She hardly knows you!"
"That's not what this is, I can't accept this Paul, and I just can't."
"You make a horrible vampire, Charlie. You really do." And with that Paul faced away from Charlie, "If I have to make sure LEL doesn't get out, I'll do it while NOT looking at you."
"Oh really, and what am I to you?"
"A sorry excuse for a vampire, that's what you are." Paul growls, and then falls silent. It now looked like the man wouldn't be speaking to Charlie anymore, and with that Charlie turned his back on Paul. The two men stood 5 feet apart, facing away from each other, for several hours.
"Do both of us need to watch this thing?" Charlie asks, now that he realizes it, he is damned to be a vampire for the rest of eternity. 'I might as well try and be an adequate one, ha. A vampire, no one could have predicted this…'
"I was just about to say the same thing, I'm not thirsty. But you are? Yeah you leave and try to be a good vampire, while I stay here and delay the end of the world long enough for someone to come along who can stop it. And don't give me that shit about, Bella's the chosen one. I don't believe it; I've lived no closer to her than you did. I don't think anyone has lived close enough to Bella to really know her. But I still know enough to know this, Bella's not normal." Paul says in reply.
"And a hero's normal?" Charlie states.
"What would she be saving? Huh?" Paul counters, "Her race? You think Bella's human?"
"She's my child." Charlie says his voice shaking.
"And you are not human, so what does that make her?" Paul asks.
"Don't be ridiculous, I'm pretty sure she's my kid." Charlie says.
"Pretty sure are you?" Paul says, "You starting to have doubts?"
"That's not it; I guess I've always known. I just never wanted to admit it to myself." Charlie sighed and confessed to Paul what he had kept hidden for the majority of his adult life, "I'm Bella's father, but Renee isn't her real mother."
"Ah so Bella gets her humanity from you, but her non humanity from her real mother, whoever that is?" Paul guesses.
"That's exactly it, I've known because I was the one…"
"Who had sex with an alien?" Paul laughs bitterly, "Yeah, doesn't it suck? Betraying your race like that?"
"How would it be betraying?" Charlie asks. Paul had noticed that Charlie hadn't left.
"You obviously are, by getting in good with a female alien, spreading the word that humans are great to mate with. I can just see the alien newspapers now, come fuck a human!" Paul laughs again, this time it sounded genuine like he actually thought it was funny, "Earth's likely to be invaded, and its human inhabitants? They're most likely to be impregnated by aliens."
"God that sounds horrible. And you think it's my fault?" Charlie asks.
"Oh I know it is; no other human has ever mated with an alien. You're the first, and apparently it was good enough to merit a child. Well others might start thinking." Paul says.
"Don't be ridiculous! There are no aliens; the only 'odd' things in this universe are here, on this earth." Charlie says giving a frustrated sigh, "I can't even begin to guess what oddities actually are on this earth, much more than vampires, werewolves, golems, and whatever the fuck those Hive Minds really are."
"I don't believe that's what they really are." Paul says.
A great howling rumbles through the air, after a few seconds it is apparent that the sound is not coming from below where the LEL is buried. The sound continues steadily growing in volume, it masks unknown to Charlie and Paul the sounds of hell's drums and its demons howling for blood.
