A/N: Hey, there everyone! It's me, MBAV fan66! And guess what time it is? Thaaaat's right! It's time for another chapter of BOM! Lol! :D
So, in that last chapter, we got to see how Jesse became a vampire. Or rather...a fledgling, that is. :P But in this chapter, we'll find out how he wound up getting his first taste of human blood, thus completing his transition fully over to being a vampire! :D Also, I warn you. Your hearts might break a little at what's to come afterward, though. You'll see! Lol! ;P
And if little 3-year-old Ethan sounds a bit too intelligent for his age, then I apologize. It's been a while since I've been around kids that young. So, I kinda forgot how bright and smart they can be at that age, but at the same time still have much to learn, though. The same goes for any of the previous chapters that little Ethan was in, too. I sorta wanted him to still have that curious and somewhat clueless mindset of a child, but at the same time be a wee-bit smarter than most kids his age, too. Yah know? How little kids are like, "Ooo! What's that?!" or "What does this do?" or "What does that mean?" And yet, at the same time, they're also smart enough to figure things out rather quickly on their own, too! Lol! XD
FYI, the events that happen in this chapter take place about 2 months after being placed in foster care. Making Jesse 17 and Ethan 3 (but almost 4 in another month or so). If my timing/math is wrong about that in any way, then I'm sorry. I suck at keeping timelines straight. So, sue me! ... *gives you my stern/"I dare you" face then quickly fades to a more nervous/worried one, now* Please, don't, though. I really don't have that kind of money to be giving out if you do win. :/ Lol! ;P
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the chapter! :D
Shout outs to these lovely people!:
collegestudent34- I don't know if you've been following along with this story or not, but I just wanted to say thank you for adding my story, The Origin Of Ethan Morgan, to your favorites list! I very much appreciate it! :D
TiredOfBeingNice- *dramatic/fake gasp* You having sympathy for Jesse Black?! That's...*shakes head disbelievingly* Well, that's just...SHOCKING, to say the least! Lol! ;P But I'm glad you enjoyed it, nonetheless. :D That's actually what I wanted readers to feel. Sympathy for a bad guy, who's done nothing but terrorize the gang in the past before. Well...he actually terrorized Sarah and Ethan more, than he did the others, though. But um...yeah! :D Moving on! Lol! :P I'm glad, though, that the Jesse in this story makes you want to pity the poor guy after learning more about his past. I think all he really needs is just a hug. Then maybe he'll stop being so darn evil all the time. Or at least, if he had one earlier on, then he probably wouldn't have turned out the way is now. Am I right? Lol! ;P That Ethan is! Such a pure soul, indeed! :) He's like torn between his friends and family. He's like, to his friends: "Guys! Please don't kill my brother! He's the only blood family I have left!" And to Jesse, he's like: "Big bro! Please stop with all the evil stuff and being such an ass to my friends and everyone else in town! Alright?!" Lol! XD
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Filipinagirl04- Those are all very valid points and questions, my friend. *nods knowingly/intelligently* ;P For the questions in your review, here are my answers: (Point Number 3/First Question) His plan on his reasoning for being there will be revealed soon. Just not in this chapter, though. ;P You'll just have to wait and see, for now! ;D (Point Number 4/Second Question) Unfortunately, Erica's not very present in this story of mine. But I do plan on her making another appearance here soon, though. Once the big battle with Jesse and his vampire minions begin, that is. ;P (Point Number 5/Third Question) Yes, you will be seeing Rebecca again in the story. As well, as finding out what happened to her, too. Hopefully, that all makes sense on how I listed/answered them. And by the way, you might be surprised (or not) by something that's about to happen to this chapter, too. That has something to do with something that you said, earlier. ;D
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Regular- in the present time frame/in non-flashback mode
Italics- flashback mode
Bold Italic- voiceover/someone (Jesse) in the present speaking while still in flashback mode
Underline Italics- words/sentences in flashback mode, that would normally be italicized if they weren't in flashback mode (example: thoughts or words with emphasis placed on them when read/said)
Jesse just stood, still wearing that same smug look of his at their endearing loyalty in wanting to protect his baby bro from him. "My! My! My! Such loyal friends you all are! I can't believe how great of friends you all are when it comes to keeping my sweet baby bro safe. I'm so glad that he's found, such wonderful friends. It makes a big brother so happy." mocked Jesse in a slightly sarcastic sorta way while pretending to wipe a tear away from his eye. But in truth, he actually did mean it, though. He really was happy to see that Ethan had made some great friends over the years, who would do anything for him.
Ethan knew that his big brother had meant it, too. Because he knew that all Jesse had ever wanted for him, was to be happy. And having such wonderful friends was part of being happy in life. He just wished that Jesse didn't have to say it all smug and arrogant like. As if he was toying with them, which he was.
"Big brother. Please, stop teasing my friends. It's not funny." lightly scolded Ethan to Jesse, giving him a serious/unamused look, too.
Jesse simply smiled and threw his hands up in surrender. "Alright, lil' bro! I'll stop! I'll stop!" complied Jesse easily enough in amusement. "For now, at least." he then said mischievously with a glint in his eye, as he looked at Ethan's detained friends with a sly smirk.
Sarah just rolled her eyes at her dumb evil ex, deciding not to pay his little witty comment any attention. "So, what happened next?" asked Sarah a bit impatiently/annoyed.
"Yeah! What caused you to abandon your little brother and leave him in the care of an abusive jerk like Bill, if he was so precious to you?" wondered/asked Benny curiously with a slight bit of resentment in his tone as he said it. Not liking the thought of his best friend being left to fend for himself against their abusive foster father like that. In his opinion, if Jesse really did care about Ethan as much as he said he did, back then, then...why not take him with him? Why just leave Ethan there after getting what he wanted all along, which was the power to protect him better?
Benny glared spitefully at the evil vampire after his question but then dropped it after Jesse threateningly hissed at him with his fangs and glowing eyes.
"I didn't abandon him!" hissed Jesse angrily at Benny, with his fangs out and glowing eyes. Then his eyes stopped glowing and returned to normal, again. As his fangs disappeared, also. "I left because I had no choice BUT to leave." he said more calmer, now. Then he smirked. "And who said I left him in Bill's care, anyway?"
Now, the spellmaster was confused. But before he could say anything, Rory piped in with a question of his own.
"What happened to that Rebecca chick? If she was your mentor and you two were as close, as you said you were, then...where is she? Why haven't we seen her before? Surely, she must've been helping you with all your dirty evil schemes, then? Right?" questioned Rory curiously.
Jesse chuckled darkly with amusement. "Wrong." he said in a very serious and amusing manner, as he grinned at him. "But I'm getting to that part of the story here soon, my blonde young and idiotic friend." elaborated Jesse casually in a devious like tone.
Rory scoffed bitterly at the 'friend' part of his reply, though. Knowing very well that they weren't friends in any shape or form. Far from it, in fact! Not after all the crap, he's pulled on him and his real friends, that is!
Jesse then tilted his head up and placed a finger on his chin. Tapping it, as if pondering something. "Now...where was I?" he wondered falsely before a look of realization/remembrance then struck him. Also fake, as well, as he knew very well where he had left off at already. "Ah, yes! Now, I remember!" he exclaimed gleefully, before continuing with the rest of the story about his past.
After my turning, about 4 weeks had already passed since becoming a fledgling vampire. I'm not gonna lie, but it was tough at times in trying to keep my emotions and bloodlust under control. But thanks to Rebecca's training and lessons I was able to. Somewhat, that is. Anyway, she would have me meditate for about an hour each day. Focusing my thoughts and feelings only on things that brought me joy. Which was mostly you, Ethan. And Mom, too, from all the happy memories I've shared with her. Doing that every day was what helped me keep my emotions in check during intense and stressful moments in my life.
Jesse in a dimly lit room all by himself, somewhere in Rebecca's mansion. There were candles lit everywhere, along with a burning incense not far from him that gave off a relaxing scent to help calm one's mind.
He sat there on the floor with his legs crisscrossed and his eyes closed, as he meditated. Taking in relaxing and shallow breaths while never moving an inch. Enjoying only the calm and quietness that surrounded him as he cleared his mind while his meditative like pose. Focusing only on all of the positive things in his life.
I was able to get a pretty good grip on my bloodlust, after a while. Meaning, the smell of human blood didn't affect me as much as it used to in the beginning. I was able to hold my own against the tempting allure of it, pretty darn well. If I do say so myself. Or at least...I thought was able to, that is. But I'll get into that, later.
Rebecca had an opened vile of human blood in her hand, that she uses for when they're working on Jesse's bloodlust control.
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Jesse trying to resist the urge to vamp out and go after it by closing his eyes to concentrate on just ignoring it.
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Rebecca smiles, satisfied to see him not going after it, and instead is remaining cool, calm, and collected.
After my 28 days were up, I had wondered why I was still alive. That's when Rebecca told me that it was because I was taking the blood substitute. Apparently, the blood substitute not only holds off the hunger but it's also able to prolong a fledgling's average lifespan, as well. Which would've been helpful to know to begin with, rather than me constantly fretting over how long I had left before having to choose to either drink human blood or die. That woman always did love playing games and tricks on me.
Anyway, Rebecca did test me on whether or not I could do glamouring at an early age in my vampirism, like she said she would. Turns out that I was able to do it, after all. But I still had a long road ahead of me, though, before I could perfect it. At that given time, I was only able to glamour those with really weak minds and even then it wasn't always able to stick for very long. A lot of the times the victim's memories would quickly return to them, soon afterward. Thus, remembering everything that happened to them during the glamour. It would take many more years before I could finally be able to master it, sadly. Like with any vampire. But it was a start, nonetheless. And Rebecca was a very good teacher, too. So, of course, I had no worries about getting it right, eventually. Besides, I was still just a beginner, after all.
Rebecca working with Jesse during one of his training sessions on how to properly and successfully master glamouring. But like before, he failed on properly doing it, once again. Then Rebecca came up to him and gave him some words of encouragement, which made the fledgling feel better about his current failure, again.
Everything was going great until one day...the one thing I had been so worried about, happened.
It was about 5 in the evening on a Saturday. Jesse was just now getting home after another one of his vampire sessions with his mentor, Rebecca. Since on the weekends he does them earlier on in the day than he does on the weekdays. Bill is normally off on the weekends which means he's able to watch Ethan during this time, while Jesse is at Rebecca's place for his daily training lessons (or rather, his job doing household chores at some old lady's house according to Bill's knowledge, that is).
As Jesse walked in the dining room area of the house, he stopped dead in his tracks at what he saw.
Bill was standing there roughly grabbing ahold of both of Ethan's arms, yelling at him furiously while slightly shaking the poor kid. Ethan terrified as tears came running down his little face, apologizing profusely to the man for what he did. Which was accidentally knocking over and breaking one of Bill's more expensive bottles of liquor, that he had sitting out on the dining room table. So, that meant the man must've been somewhat drunk a little, right now. He never did understand that Ethan was just a little kid, who didn't know any better and that accidents do tend to happen more often among small kids like that.
"I-I-I'm sorry! I didn't...I didn't mean to, sir! Please! Let go of me! You're scaring me!" apologized/pleaded Ethan fearfully, as he cried.
Even though Ethan kept apologizing to their foster father, Bill wasn't having any of it. As he kept on shouting and screaming hurtful things at the frightened 3-year-old.
"I don't care, you little brat! Watch what you're doing next time! Do you have any idea of how much that bottle of liquor even cost?! More than your pathetic little life, that's for sure! You little ingrate! You're nothing but a clumsy little brat who needs to be taught a lesson on how to be more careful next time! And this time, your brother isn't here to save you from being punished properly, either!" yelled Bill furiously at his youngest foster son.
Then Bill suddenly shoved Ethan back away from him harshly, as he let go of him. Causing Ethan to fall backward slightly with his forehead catching the corner of the table as he fell. Luckily, though, Ethan's head didn't hit it hard enough to cause any serious injury or anything. But it did scare the poor kid even more, though, as Bill kept yelling at him which made him cry even harder in fear. Then Bill quickly took off his belt and was about to strike the poor child with it as punishment.
Bill's hand that held the folded up belt, then swiftly came down. Striking the frightened and trembling child with the belt. Little Ethan cried out in pain when the leather belt made contact with his skin. Tears came streaming down his redden cheeks then.
Bill raised his hand in the air about ready to strike Ethan again with the belt, but suddenly right as he was about to strike the poor kid again, something had stopped him by forcibly grabbing his arm.
"What the-?" replied Bill in confusion, but before he could say anything further the person who had grabbed his arm suddenly broke it brutally with just their hand. "AAAHHHHH!" screamed out Bill agonizingly then, as he dropped the belt. Then he was forcibly thrown up against a wall at lightning speed that was considered inhuman to be normal. When Bill looked up to see who was doing all of this, he was surprised to see that it was his other foster kid, Jesse, doing it. But what terrified the man, even more, was the way the teen had looked. With glowing yellow eyes and two very sharp looking fangs that didn't look to be fake, either. And the expression on his the teen's face was not only frightening to look at, but also very menacing, too.
Jesse was beyond furious at Bill for ever daring to hurt his little brother. After witnessing the vile man not only shoving his little brother into a table but also whipping him with his belt was enough to drive the fledgling vampire over the edge. He had seen enough and before he even knew it he was in the living room standing behind Bill, preventing him from striking Ethan with the belt for a second time. All wile vamped out, too. Jesse had lost control of his emotions.
The fledgling hissed at the man before speaking. "How dare you hurt him! We had a deal, Bill!" stated Jesse furiously at Bill, as he had him all pinned up against the wall using his vampire strength. Not enough to crush the man's spine, but enough to keep him in place, though. Jesse looked at Bill with nothing but complete rage and hatred in his yellow eyes. Which fueled his dark emotions, even more, thus allowing them to take over.
Bill was too terrified to even speak at what he was looking at. Instead, all he could muster out was a pathetic whimper of a single word. "M-m-m-monster!"
Jesse darkly scoffed at his feeble reply, amusingly. "I'm the monster? Ha! Maybe you should take a look in the mirror then? Because as I see it the real monster here is YOU. Terrorizing and abusing the kids that you're supposed to take care of and love as if they were your own. Only seeing us as nothing more than cash cows and an easy way to get more money without even having to do a goddamn thing, hardly! You're the real monster here, Bill. Not me." stated Jesse bitterly and spitefully.
Then Jesse grinned at the man. "I think it's time that someone finally put you in your place. Foster father." he said smugly, while emphasizing 'foster father,' contemptuously. "You won't be hurting me or Ethan ever again. You piece of scum." threatened Jesse sinisterly, as his strong emotion of hate and anger continued to takeover. Normally, Jesse would never think about or even take pleasure in hurting others. He wasn't a violent person, after all. But right now his vampire instincts were in control of his thought process, currently. Causing him to act this way and to do something he would never have done if he was still human. Which was to kill someone on purpose. "Consider this your punishment for hurting my little brother." he said wickedly with enjoyment in his voice, as he smiled widely at the petrified man. Showing off his pearly white fangs in the process, right before sticking them into Bill's neck.
Bill cried out in pain as Jesse bit into his neck and drank his blood. Taking all of it until the man was left motionless and dead.
As Jesse drank every drop of his blood, he felt a wave of relief and great joy wash over him. As if a weight had finally been lifted off his shoulders. The last time he had felt like this was when their father, Richard, had decided to walk out of their lives for good and never turn back. Jesse was elated to finally have Bill out of their lives for good. Knowing that he could never hurt him or his little brother ever again. Or any other future foster kids that might have wound up here, too.
Once Jesse realized that Bill was dead, he pulled out of the man's neck and let his lifeless body fall to the floor. Freedom. Was all Jesse could think about right now at seeing his foster father's dead body lying there on the ground. After drinking human blood for the first time, Jesse felt even more powerful than he did before, now that he was officially a full vampire. But at the same time, he also couldn't help but feel a twinge of regret and guilt for what he'd done, too. Sure, he had planned on becoming a full vampire at some point, but not at the cost of someone else's life, though! He had originally planned to just take enough blood to satisfy his hunger and for it to complete his transition fully over into becoming a vampire while still leaving the person alive and breathing at the end! Or maybe just get it from a blood bag even! But not like this! Not by killing someone in the process!
Jesse had realized that he had momentarily lost control of himself and had snapped when he saw what Bill had done to his little brother. He had lost it and had let his emotions get the better of him. All he could think about then was protecting his little brother from this cruel man and making him pay for what he did to him, as well. Cause nobody hurts his sweet baby brother, like that.
As Jesse stood there staring down at the man who was supposed to care for them, he felt no remorse for the bastard. Sure, he took someone's life away but the guy was a piece of shit who deserved it. Just like his birth father did. They both deserved the same fate for their vile and terrible actions in life.
"I hope you burn in Hell for what you did. Along with our birth father, too." thought Jesse spitefully.
Ethan and I were finally liberated from that man. I felt no pity or sympathy for that jackass, as I stood there looking down at his corpse. He was lucky that I didn't decide to rip him apart, instead. The bastard got off easy, in my opinion, now that I think about it. I should've just gave him a slow and painful death, instead, rather than a quick one. But it was in a heat of the moment kinda situation, back then. The moment I saw him hurt Ethan like that, was when something in me snapped at that very moment and completely lost it. All I could see was red when I attacked him, like that.
Bill should count himself lucky that I was still weak as a vampire, back then, compared to how I am now. Now, I have way more better control over myself when it comes to my emotions and bloodlust. Or else I would've tortured him and made him suffer first before then finally killing him. So, yeah...back to what I was saying. I might've had a pretty good grip on my emotions and bloodlust back then, but I still had work to do before I could master those things to the point where they hardly affect me in more dire or extreme situations. Like seeing my little brother being hurt at the hands of a violent man who should've been dealt with a long time ago, for example.
Anyway, I had thought it was all finally over with. Until something reminded me that I still had a lot of training to do as a vampire. Especially, now since I was a full one. Something that would lead me to do something that I never wanted to do, but had to for his own safety. Something that was the hardest thing for me to do, in my entire life.
As Jesse stood there staring down at their dead foster father, an overwhelming and delectable scent came wafting across his nose suddenly. The smell was breathtaking and alluring to his vampire sense of smell. It was like nothing he's ever smelled before and it only made his mouth water in anticipation and want, as he took a deep breath to take in the heavenly smell again. His fangs tingled with delight at the smell of it, while his taste buds itched at the chance to be covered in whatever it was that was making that magnificent order.
It was like Jesse's entire mind was in a trance at smelling the delectable scent. His body went on autopilot and started to move on it's own accord, it felt like. As he slowly turned around with his eyes shut and his nose slightly pointed upward in the air to follow the heavenly scent's direction and pinpoint it's the source of it. Once he turned completely around, he opened his eyes again. Jesse's eyes still retained their vampire color and glow, as his fangs remained out at the ready to sink into whatever was making that wonderful smell.
All Jesse's mind could think at that moment was wanting to devour whatever that alluring smell was. It was intoxicating, as he slowly crept towards the source of it. Jesse was no longer in control of himself again. This time it was his bloodlust that was driving him, as he had no control over his thoughts and body because of the alluring order he smelt. It was like...it was calling out to him or something. And he couldn't stop himself from going after it, either.
Once the scent had reached it's full strength in potency, Jesse stopped walking as he knew he had reached the source of the smell. He stood there staring directly at the source with his unblinking vampiric eyes. It was blood. Blood was making that intoxicating smell that was driving his senses to go wild and for him to so desperately crave and yearn for a taste of it, too. But not just any blood. No. This was human blood. The best damn smelling human blood that he's ever smelled in his entire undead life, that is! And he wanted it, too. ALL of it.
He stared at the source of it with anticipation, as he licked his lips hungrily at it. Focusing only on the crimson liquid before him and nothing else.
That is...
Until he heard a small sobbing like cry that made him pause.
"B-big...b-brother?" came a small feeble child-like voice, suddenly. Followed by a sniffle or two, afterward.
This caused Jesse to blink a few times, as he snapped out of the strange trance-like state he was in just a moment ago. As he recognized that small hurt and innocent little child-like voice, anywhere.
"Ethan." mumbled Jesse, as he looked down and finally took notice of the little boy sitting on the floor looking up at him with his big doe brown eyes, sobbing slightly. It was like the tunnel vision he had earlier had finally grown wider so that he could see everything around him, once again.
When Jesse took in Ethan's appearance, he saw that the poor child seemed frightened still. Of what? He didn't know, exactly. But he could tell that Ethan looked scared of something, though. Jesse figured that it must've been him that was scaring the poor child after he realized what all he had just done right in front of him. Then it just hit him when he saw the small trickle of blood that was coming from a small open wound on Ethan's head. That the amazing and intoxicating smell was coming from him! It was Ethan's blood! And he almost attacked his little brother for it, too! Jesse felt sick to his stomach immediately, right then, after realizing what he almost had done.
"I...I...I almost attacked my OWN little brother for his blood. I...almost FED off of him!" thought Jesse horrifyingly to himself in shock. Not wanting to believe what he almost had done. "I really am a monster!" exclaimed Jesse in his head, terrifyingly in disbelief. He didn't even want to think about what might've happened if Ethan's voice hadn't broken him out it! He was grateful that he had decided to speak up when he did. Or else...
No! He wasn't gonna think about that! But...still, though. The thought of it repulsed and disgusted Jesse. How could he even think or let alone want to ever feed off his own little brother, like that?! He hated himself for even ever considering it!
What was worse was that his sweet little brother had to see him like this, too. In his vampire form. "He probably thinks I'm a monster now, too." thought Jesse sadly. He's look then turned to more of a sympathetic and sad one, as his eyes stopped glowing yellow and returned to their normal color. Along with his fangs retreating back up into his gums properly to look like normal human teeth, again. He was about to turn and run away at that very moment, hating himself for what he almost did, but then...something stopped him from doing so.
The moment Jesse had turned and was about to walk away, he felt a pair of little arms wrap around him suddenly. Holding him tightly and seemingly wanting to let go.
"Big brother! Please, don't go! Don't leave me!" cried Ethan upsettingly, as he hugged onto his big brother tightly with tears in his eyes, again.
The desperation and hurt in Ethan's voice broke Jesse's heart a little when he looked down at the pleading child around his waist. Then he realized that the fear that he saw in Ethan's eyes wasn't because he was scared of him or what he just saw his big brother do to the man who was responsible for their care. No. Ethan was scared of losing his big brother! That was why he was so scared earlier! Ethan must've known that after he had killed Bill that he would've been in big trouble with the police, then. And they would arrest him and take him away to jail. Just like with all the bad guys he saw on tv in those cop shows he used to watch with their mom sometimes. And Ethan didn't want his big brother to go to jail.
"He must have known that I was in big trouble with the authorities now for what I did to Bill and that I was about to go on the run to avoid being arrested and sent to jail for it." theorized Jesse thoughtfully. "That kid was always a smart one. Even for his age. I'll give him that." he thought fondly, smiling on the inside. Jesse then turned completely around to face him and kneeled down to Ethan's level, embracing him in a comforting hug.
"Please, Jesse! Take me with you! I don't wanna lose you, too!" cried/pleaded Ethan desperately, as kept crying but this time on Jesse's shoulder rather than on his lower back.
This surprised the vampire a little, but then he realized that of course, Ethan didn't want him to go because it would be like losing another family member, all over again. And Jesse was the only family he had left. Even though it's been a while since their mother's passing, Ethan was still traumatized by it and was still grieving in his own way, too. Whereas, her death didn't hurt as much now, anymore, as it did back then when it comes to himself. "It's alright, Ethan. I'm still here, aren't I? I'm not going anywhere. Ok? I'm not going to leave you. I swear." comforted Jesse calmly in a reassuringly way, as he rubbed gentle and soothing circles on the crying child's back.
"Promise?" sniffled Ethan meekly, as he remained in the hug.
But before Jesse could give his answer, the smell of Ethan's blood hit his nose, again. This time, however, he was able to keep it together. But just barely, though. Since being this close to it only made the intoxicating scent more stronger to his vampire nose and more alluring to him, as well. That's when Jesse realized that there was no way that he could go on the run with him. Not if he's having such a hard time controlling himself around Ethan every time he gets a whiff of his blood. He may be able to keep it together for now, but who's to say that's the case next time? Or the time after that? And so on. There was no guarantee he would always be able to keep his bloodlust in check every time he got a whiff of Ethan's blood. At least...not right now there isn't. Not until he's able to fully gain control over himself and his drive for blood, that is. But it would be even tougher for him to work on his bloodlust control if Ethan was around, though. Being around a hungry vampire, who's trying to work on their bloodlust control, wasn't safe for Ethan. If anything, the scent of his blood would only be a distraction to him during that part of his training. So...that meant he couldn't take Ethan with him. Not until he can master his bloodlust control to the point where NO type of blood would be able to make him lose it like that, so easily, ever again! Not even Ethan's blood!
Plus, Jesse realized, too, that being on the run from the police was no way for a 3-year-old to live. It would be a crappy way of life for him to live and Ethan deserved better than that. He didn't deserve to be constantly on the move. Or having to constantly be careful when out in public (looking over your shoulder), hoping that no one would recognize you and would call the police. That was no life for a 3-year-old.
"I promise." replied Jesse reassuringly while still hugging the boy. But there was a sullen frown on his face when he said it, though. Meaning that he didn't mean it and had just lied to the little boy he loved so much, to make the child feel happy and secure, again. Jesse knew that Ethan wouldn't understand and would refuse to let him go so easily (not without a fight, that is), regardless of the risks and horrible life they would have to live if he did take him with him. And Jesse couldn't put Ethan through that. So, he made the difficult choice to leave him. Which wasn't easy, considering how attached he was to the little guy and had he's always been there for him, no matter what, also.
Jesse took a deep breath, knowing what he had to do after quickly coming up with a plan on what to do next. There was only one way that he was going to get out of this without Ethan fighting him tooth and nail about leaving him behind. And there was only one way for him to be able to escape from being hunted down like a dog by the authorities for murdering Bill, too.
Jesse gently pushed Ethan back a little so that the little boy was now looking at him. "Ethan. Listen to me." stated Jesse seriously to the boy, as he looked him dead in the eyes. "I want you to know I love you and that I'm doing this for your sake, not mine. This isn't easy for me to do, but...I have to. For you." he declared wholeheartedly, as his gaze softened a little.
Ethan listened to him attentively, as he looked at him in confusion. Not getting what his big brother was talking about or why he seemed a little bit sad, too.
Jesse did his best to fight back the tears that wanted to fall from his sad eyes, as he got a bit choked up. But try as hard as he may, a few of them had managed to fall without permission. He wiped them away with his arm and then smiled fondly at the child, as he clasped Ethan's shoulders with his hands, firmly but gently.
"But I promise you, Ethan...That once I figure everything out and get a much better grip at being a vampire so that I can safely be around you without giving in to my vampiric impulses and nature so easily, that...I'll come back for you. No matter where you are, I'll find you and then we can be together, again." promised Jesse sincerely in a caring and loving manner. A promise that he meant with all of his heart.
When he heard that and saw the deep earnest look in his big brother's eyes, Ethan quickly understood what was happening. At that moment, little Ethan realized that his big brother was about to leave him. Maybe not forever, like their mommy did. But he had this funny sense that it would be a long time before he ever saw him, again. Which would've felt like forever to him, though. And Ethan didn't want to go days or months or even years without his big brother around! He loved him way too much for that! His big brother Jesse was the only, one constant thing he had left in his life! Jesse was always there for him whenever he needed him and had always looked out for him, too! Ethan knew that his brother promised that he would find him someday and Jesse always kept his promises to him, too. But it still broke his heart, though, in having to say goodbye and let him go for now. He wouldn't, either! He wanted to stay with his big brother no matter the risk to his own safety because he loved him! And brothers always stick together, just like his big brother had always told him before, too!
Tears started to well up in the child's eyes once again, as he began to shake his head no rapidly. Refusing to be left behind. "No! No! No! I don't want you to go, big brother! Take me with you! Please! You can't leave me! Brothers always stick together! Remember?! That's what you always say! So, can't go! You just can't!" cried Ethan frantically and desperately, now. As he ran into Jesse's arms, crying harder now while gripping the teen's shirt tightly with his hands and refusing to let go.
Jesse let out a sullen sigh then, as he wrapped his arms around the child and let him cry into his chest. "So, much for doing this without breaking his heart and having him fight me tooth and nail about it, too." thought Jesse to himself disappointedly, hating how upset and unhappy Ethan is right now. He had to tell him the truth, though. He just...couldn't lie to him, like that. He's never lied to his little brother before. Well...except for maybe the usual harmless little childhood lies that most kids grow up believing in, that parents often tend to tell them, that is. Like the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Santa Claus. Only to eventually grow up and realize the truth, that they weren't real. But other than that, he's never really lied to him before, outside of those little white childhood lies, though! And he wasn't about to start now, either!
"I'm sorry, Ethan. I truly am." apologized Jesse sadly with guilt and regret, as he gently stroked the boy's head with one of his hands.
They stayed like that for a minute or two longer before Jesse pulled the boy back away from him. He placed his hands on either side of Ethan's face and wiped away the tears from the heartbroken boy's weeping eyes, with his thumbs. The child looked at his big brother with sad and pleading eyes, which only made this much harder on Jesse. As he frowned apologetically at the boy while still holding his face in his hands tenderly. The vampire attempted to give the hurting child a big comforting smile, but it was more of a weak one before it fell back to a sullen grown again.
Then Jesse's eyes started to glow yellow, as he stared deeply into Ethan's. Placing him in a trance.
"I don't know if this will work or how long it'll even last if does work since I'm still new at this. But...I have to try. I can't leave him like this. I know he's hurting now, but he'll understand once he's a bit older. He knows that I never break my promises to him and that I will come back for him someday, too. Deep in his heart, he knows that. And I do, too. Our bond is just too strong to break entirely and I know it will lead us back to each other again, someday, too. I just know it will." thought Jesse to himself, earnestly and wholeheartedly.
He was unsure about how well the glamour would work since he wasn't powerful enough yet for it to be as affected as it should be. But he figured that since Ethan was still a small child and children at that age have weak minds anyway because they're still developing. That the glamour should work. But as for how long, though? He wasn't sure. It might have a more better chance of sticking more longer with a child's mind rather than with an adult's, considering the developing differences between the two. He just hoped that it lasted long enough until he was ready to find him. He didn't want Ethan to wind up remembering everything before he was ready to return for him. No telling how Ethan might react if he does! Especially, if they come back to him while he's still so young, too! He can see how this is already affecting the poor boy, as it is. He'd hate to think what might happen if his memories came flooding back to him so soon! He'd...probably try and run away to go find his big brother! And at that age, it would be dangerous for a child to be out on the streets on his own! Or worse...Ethan may wind up, growing up to resent and hate him, even! He couldn't bear for that to happen. Although, Jesse doubted that he would wind up hating him over it, though. But you never know. People can change when they feel hurt or betrayed by someone close to them.
I glamoured Ethan into forgetting everything he just recently saw that day. Bill's abusive actions towards him. Me losing my cool over it and vamping out. Me attacking and then killing Bill. All of it. Including, forgetting that I ever existed or that he even had a brother, to begin with. I couldn't risk him still remembering me because if he did I knew he would come searching for me.
I knew, though, that glamouring him at my beginner skill level and hoping it would stick until my return to undo it, was a long shot. But I had to do it. For myself and for him. I couldn't risk attacking him like I had done Bill, that day, in the future. I was lucky then, that I was able to snap myself out of it in time before I was able to do anything to him. But that didn't mean it would always be like, though. I was still just a newbie when it came to being a vampire, which meant I still had a lot to learn and work through at that age. It would be a good few years probably before I would ever be in more control over my urges. I hated it, of course. But it had to be done. I had no choice but to leave Ethan for that long, if it meant in the end I could someday return in his life again with a better chance of not losing it whenever I got a whiff of that amazing blood of his. So, that we may be brothers again and be close to one another again like we used to before I ever became a vampire. Without the urge of wanting to drain him dry. And instead, I could just simply blow off the alluring smell of his blood with ease and continue with whatever it is I'm doing without a care in the world. As if I wasn't even a vampire in the first place. Then those few little years spent apart would be worth it, then.
Little Ethan stared blankly into his big brother's glowing eyes, ready to listen attentively to whatever it is he had to say to him. Once Jesse saw this, he then started to give his commands to the now glamoured child, while slowly removing his hands from the child's face.
"Now, listen carefully, Ethan. Everything that you just recently witnessed here today, I want you to forget all about it. As if you've never seen any of it happened. Ok?" ordered Jesse calmly to him in a gentle and comforting tone, as he concentrated on glamouring the boy. While also trying his best to hold back his tears from how much it hurt for him to have to be doing this, in the first place.
Ethan dazedly nodded without saying a word, while never losing eye contact with Jesse's intense glowing yellow eyes.
"I also...want you to forget...all about me. Everything. Who I am. That I'm your brother. All the memories that you have with me in them. All of it. It'll be as if...I never existed to you. Alright, Ethan?" requested/commanded Jesse softly and gently to the boy, with a hint of sadness in his tone as he said it. He hated the thought of having his little brother forget all about him, but it was for the best. Besides, it wouldn't be forever, though. Only temporary. Until he's able to come back for him once he's better at controlling his more dangerous urges. But that still didn't make it easy, though.
Ethan nodded dazedly, again. Which brought a small smile to Jesse's face.
"Good." said Jesse. "Now, you won't forget these things forever, though. Instead, they'll only be temporarily blocked from your memory, is all. Until I'm able to return to you one day and lift the blockade that I've placed on your mind. Allowing all those locked away memories to finally come back to you and be remembered, again. Until then, they'll be locked away and forgotten. Got it?" explained Jesse to his still glamoured little brother. Who simply nodded, again.
"Ok, then." replied Jesse simply in approval, with a slight nod himself. "Now, everything that I had just told you to do, will immediately take effect the moment I snap my fingers. Until then, you'll wait here patiently until I give the command. Ok, Ethan?"
Ethan nodded.
Jesse then stood back up again, as his eyes returned back to their normal color. He sighed in relief, thankful that that part of his plan was over with. Glamouring wasn't easy for a noob like him and having to glamour your little brother into forgetting you, was even harder. Emotionally, that is. Now it was time for him to move on to the next part of his plan. Trying to cover his tracks to make it look like he was never there to being with so that he could make a clean getaway. But to do that, he would need help. Especially, with the glamouring part. Glamouring a little kid was easy, but glamouring an adult wasn't. He needed a vampire experienced enough who could do it with ease and could create longer-lasting glamours, too. And he just so happened to have the one vampire in mind, who could help him with everything, too.
Not wasting any time, Jesse quickly raced over to where the phone was at and started to dial the said vampire's telephone number, too.
I knew just who to call. The one person who could help me with everything and could turn to when in trouble. A vampire who had way more experience at being one than I did, at the time.
When he left Ethan's side, the boy just simply stood there staring straight ahead with a blank expression on his face, still. Obediently following Jesse's orders, which was to wait there patiently until he gave the signal to snap of it and for certain memories of his to be forgotten.
A minute later, Jesse returned to the room where his little brother was still standing like a statue in. He was a bit surprised to see how well his glamour appears to be working, so far. It pained him to see his little brother like that, but he couldn't dwell on that, right now. Right now, he had to erase his very existence from this house. Along with anything that showed him living there, as well. There could be no traces of him left anywhere if he hoped not to be tied to Bill's murder by the authorities. Including, anyone who knows him. Thankfully, there weren't very many people who actually knew him, to begin with. The only ones were Ethan, the CAS worker who handles their case, his teachers at school, a few minor friends of his, and Ethan's pre-school teacher. He wasn't sure how he'd be able to make all of them forget about ever knowing him, but he hoped that maybe the person he asked to come over and help him, would, though. Jesse figured that surely they must have connections somewhere that could help with that part of his 'getaway clean' plan.
Jesse paced restlessly around the room as he waited anxiously for their arrival. It didn't take long, though, as about 10 minutes later the doorbell rang. Of course, it wouldn't take them all that long to get here considering they were a vampire and vampires have super speed and could fly, as well. Jesse quickly rushed to the door and opened without even bothering to ask who was there or even checking through the peephole or window.
"Thank goodness, you're here! I need your help!" said Jesse exasperatingly in relief and gratitude at the person standing at the door on the porch, waiting to be invited in. "Come on in!" he then said, inviting the person into his foster father's home.
The person simply smirked at him before waltzing on into the home. Jesse quickly closed the door behind them once they were completely inside. He then anxiously walked off to where the problem was, which was the dining room where a glamoured Ethan still stood and a dead Bill still laid...well dead, on the floor. The person followed the teen into the room and saw the unresponsive child (who they figured must've been a trance) just standing there like a statue and the dead man laying on the floor. Needless to say, they were a bit surprised at what they saw. Even if they didn't really show it on the outside, though. All they knew of the situation was what Jesse had told them over the phone, which wasn't much. Just that something very horrible had happened and that he has a plan on how to fix it but he needs their help to do it and if they could get here in a hurry. So, of course, they agreed to help the frantic sounding teen over the phone.
"My! My! My! This really is quite the situation you've got yourself into, huh Jesse?" teased Rebecca playfully with a mocking grin on her face, to the young and anxious-looking vampire.
"Rebecca was the only one who I knew would help me out of this. And thankfully, she was willing to do so, too." explained Jesse. "She really was the best mentor that anybody could ask for. She always looked out for me. Like in a...motherly figure or big sister, sorta way. I really respected that about her, too. She didn't have to help me that day, but she did."
This part of the story interested Ethan now. He remembered the glamouring part and his big brother's promise to him in coming back for him someday, but after that Ethan didn't know the rest of what had happened, since he wasn't present during some of it. Either mentally or physically. He never knew what had happened to Jesse after they separated or why he had pretended to be their 4 times great grandfather, Horace Black, back at the beginning of the school year.
Rory, Benny, and Sarah weren't all that surprised that Jesse mentor, Rebecca Vaile, was the one who he called up to help him cover up the murder of their foster father, Bill Marlow. She was the only person he knew that knew about vampires and that he was one, too. Heck! She was the one who turned him into one, to begin with! But what they didn't know was just how exactly they managed to cover it all up and get away with it scot-free, though? But they had a feeling that Jesse was about to tell them, anyway.
A/N: I hate to do this, but...yup! You guessed it! This is the end of part 4 of The Past Of Two Brothers chapter. Meaning...that's right. There will be another part of it. Making the next chapter be part 5. I'm so sorry for having to give you guys' another part to this very long part of the story, but I thought it would be best to end it here for now. I didn't want it to wind up like the previous chapter did. Meaning, it being a hella long chapter. *awkward/nervous laugh* That chapter was a doozy of a chapter, though! With it originally being 23 thousand and something words in total before I went in and added the line breaks in it. Which, afterward caused it to jump to 24,431 words as it's final word count result. Yikes! It's been a long time since I ever wrote something THAT long before! I think? Lol! ;P
Anyway, I hope you all are still happy with the chapter, nonetheless, though! :D And in the next chapter we'll learn just how it is Jesse and Rebecca managed to pull off getting away with murder. Oh! And what happened to Rebecca, too! :D I apologize to all of you who I told in the last chapter, that you'll get to learn all about Rebecca's current whereabouts in this chapter, here. I had hoped to be able to have that in this chapter, but...you know things tend to go sometimes. Never as planned. *sigh* So, I hope you all can forgive me on that one. But this time, without a doubt, I promise you it WILL be in the next chapter! Author's honor! *does the three-finger scout salute thing* ;D
Until then, I'll be seeing you all around! Toodles! ;)
