**Ok, I lied. I was going to have Eric in the chapter but I can't for the
love of anything find what he looked like. If anyone knows, email me. This
chapter is in Jager's pov. Enjoy*
"I don't know Ash," I said as I looked over the agreement. It was somewhat hard for me to figure out what was a good agreement considering that I was never really interested in politics. They didn't have much politics 3000 years ago.
"What is there NOT to know?" She playfully teased as she took the agreement out of my hands and signed her name. "Basically it says that they don't steal any more humans," she glanced at me with a twinkle in her eye," within a 100 mile radius of our boundary's, even if they are runaways."
"Kinda like the Underground railroad thing with the slaves," I thought aloud when she finished her quick explanation. "Which means if a slave escapes and comes to Ramsa, they can't be touched? Unless they come back by their own free will, right?"
"Exactly" Turquoise replied as she watched me fiddle with the pen in my left hand. I could write with my right hand if I wanted to, but I really didn't feel like it.
"So they'd be safe in Ramsa?" I asked as I put my pen down below Ash's name. If I could bring Nada to Ramsa...Ash seemed to be reading my thoughts, which she couldn't, and smirked.
"Right," the human answered me, her eyebrow arching just slightly. She hadn't been at the dining room so she didn't know very much about Nada, but I wouldn't be surprised if Jaguar had filled her in.
"Sounds good to me," I sighed as I swept my name across the line. Jager. There. I was done. I could go home. I had wanted to leave as soon as possible when I had first came here. The humans called me milord and sick names like that, their eyes never meeting mine. Hmph. What was the fun in that? Spiritless humans didn't taste as good as the ones that had their own thoughts, did what they wanted to. Free will adds a bit more.I cant really describe it in words really.to the blood. A human without free will is like a tiger who had been caged after a beautiful young life frolicking in the giant pastures in Africa. You actually pity the creature, knowing that you still had free will and they did not. Spiritless humans were like robots, and their blood tasted like iron. Yuck.
"Well, it's settled then. We won't leave these certain boundaries and you don't give us a second glance." Turquoise seemed much relieved as soon as my pen left the paper. She had been taken far from Midnight, so it would only make sense that she would strive to make sure other humans like her had less chance of that happening. "You can go about the building if you please, or you can start home. Vampires can't leave the boundaries of Midnight using their minds, incase you haven't noticed." There was no point hiding the small smile that picked at the sides of her lips. She was happy about that.
"Well, I'm tired. All this politic hokie pokie has tired me out." Standing up, Ash walked slowly out of the room, as if she had barely enough strength to do that. I knew where she was going on her way to her room. Her pallor showed that she needed to feed, and both Turquoise and I knew it.
"Nada is being moved to a simpler room," she said almost casually, but I was smart enough to know that she was waiting for a reaction. I tried not to give her one. Of course, if my expression goes from relief to completely unreadable, that is a reaction. Only after I did it did I remember. "She has slept in Jaguar's room for several days, and he doesn't want Eric to get jealous of her." Ah yes, Jaguar's other pet, I remembered. He was only..15, 16 now? He had been 14 when Turquoise had taken care of Daryl. What a scum he was.
"I'm going to bed," I told her simply as I left the room without another word. She had seen that the girl meant something to me even now, after only a few minutes of contact with her. I hated Nada for it. But she intrigued me as well. Oh Aubrey, I thought desperately as I continued down the hallway, what have I gotten myself into?
"Nada Nada Nada.." I heard Jaguar's voice from far down the hallway and I stopped instantly. Was he talking to her? What was he telling her? "You are too much for in here," he continued talking to her although I only heard his footsteps. Only after I turned the corner did I see that he was carrying her. Her hair had been washed again, and now even from the other side of the hallway I saw that her maroon hair color had been washed out. Plain dirt colored hair stuck damply to her head and her eyes were shut. Boy, I thought to myself, Nada was about as plain as they come.
"Oh, Jager." Jaguar saw me looking at her. What did my face give away this time? "Could you open that door right there?" Nudging his head towards the door next to me, I nodded. My hand touched the cold metal of the knob, but something stopped me from turning it.
"I plan on staying here for awhile," I informed him, my hand not turning the knob. He couldn't prevent me from staying, after all, he had invited me to stay for as long as I wished. Nodding, he stopped walking and watched my face carefully. He knew I had told him right then for a reason, but couldn't really place it. Personally I was just about as curious as he was. What was I doing?
An older but still rather young woman came down the hallway and stopped instantly when she caught sight of me. No doubt she could tell that I haven't fed in awhile and from her perspective it no doubt looked as if Jaguar had been feeding off of Nada. "You miss," I heard myself saying as I turned fully to look at her. "Could you have another bed brought into my room?" Behind me, I heard Jaguar's habit of breathing cease.
"Yes milord," she responded and turned quickly back the way she came, gone within a second. Now, I only had to tell Jaguar what I had figured out what I was doing.
"Nada will stay in my room," was what I told him. He did look surprised but the surprise was replaced with a suppressed smile. This was all confusing to me, but he seemed sympathetic. About what? Oh yes, I remembered, he had fallen for a human as well. No, I haven't fallen for a human either, recently. I had changed Fala because I had loved her and I still do, but she could really burn the nerves sometimes.
"Alright, but you will have to have more than just a bed in there," he responded as we headed towards my room. What else would Nada need? I thought to myself. I haven't had to care for a human in quite some time. "Katie, the girl who is getting a bed sent over, should also bring over some other clothes, soap, towels, and shoes."
I nodded simply. All of this reminded me of a time when I was walking through Ramsa and saw a small boy carrying a puppy to a car, and the petstore owner instructing the mother. I felt like the mother. Oh god, I yelled at myself, what am I doing? "She will need to be under constant supervision," Jaguar continued as I opened my door. My room did look quite unlived in, but gorgeously decorated. Wait, I joked with myself, I do unlive in here don't I? "Which means that either you or Ash is going to have to watch her."
"Sounds as if your instructing me on a pet," I commented truthfully as he set Nada down on my bed.
"Until you leave here with her, she is a pet. Humans are pets here, and that is how you shall treat her." I smiled. He wanted me to take her with me. Was she too much? Turquoise and Ravyn had at least remotely listened, I reminded myself.
Nada stirred. I held my breath. Jaguar laughed. "She won't be waking anytime soon," he assured me. "She took enough drugs to knock her out for a week." I bit my tongue against a comment that had formed in my throat. But I guess the second best way to get a human to shut up rather than beat them silent was to drug them. I preferred mind control, but not all vampires are like me.
"Right. Thank you." Luckily, he noticed that my thank you was a signal for him to leave. How amusing it must be for him to be ordered around by another vampire. Maybe I reminded him of Daryl a bit. He had been too cocky, and he didn't respect humans in the least. I guess I did, I admit that without them a vampires life would be hell. It was never really satisfying to feed off other animals.
Once Jaguar had left me and Nada alone, I got somewhat curious. How would she respond to this? Had Jaguar given her to me? I don't really know. Maybe he was trying to. Or maybe he was getting her used to being around vampires so that..NO. I told myself firmly as I sat carefully down on the bed next to Nada's sprawled body. She was so young, only 14 years into a long life and she was here, in this place. I don't remember ~I cant remember, I reminded myself~ being 14 years old. It was hard to even remember being 18, the year I was changed.
Slowly I bushed a strand of hair from her face, and a sickening impulse hit me as my eyes fell to her throat. I could see her blood pulsating in her vein, and I leaned closer to her, fascinated by it. The next thing I knew, I had her head cradled in my lap and my lips at her throat.
I begun to kiss her neck softly, just in order to find the perfect spot. When I did, my fangs extended and I pierced her tender neck. Her hot blood rolled over my tongue and I let myself see flashes of her past : a young Indian looking woman sitting by a lake watching a small girl feed the ducks; the same woman fighting with a man and the little girl huddled in the corner; many more pictures flashed in front of me until one caught my eye and I stopped paying attention to the others. Adrian and the now older Indian looking girl keeping eye contact. She was a very beautiful woman, with silky black hair and gemstone green eyes, like Ash did when she was human, but she was rather tall and her skin was very tan. The way she looked at Adrian was..surprise? That was an odd look to get from a human when we can influence human minds as easily as a human breaths or blinks
"Jager!" A voice caught me completely off guard and I pulled away to see who had caught me. I personally never had seen the boy around before. No, wait, I have. He was working in the garden when we had arrived. How he knew my name somewhat surprised me, but then I realized who he was.
"Hello Eric," I said joyfully as I set Nada down, very carefully I must add, and wiped off some of her blood from my chin. I could taste the drugs that Nada had taken, but they didn't effect me.
"I came here to drop off some extra clothes for Nada. The bed will be assembled in about half an hour." He looked at Nada for a brief moment and an emotion flickered across his face. Jealousy? No. Curiosity. Yes, that is what it was. Of course a boy his age would be curious about a girl around the same age. What amused me was that he seemed not the least bit unnerved by the fact that he had caught me feeding off the person I was in charge of taking care of.
"Well thanks Eric," I responded, and was going to add more but a group of slaves began carrying in pieces of the bed.
"Where do you want it Jager?" the boy asked me. Considering the only place where there was enough space was by the bed that I was sitting on now, I pointed to the empty spot next to me. The slaves began right away.
"Eric, about.." I didn't really feel like apologizing but I didn't want to upset the boy either. Even though he was 16 now, I doubt that he didn't understand vampire nature. Being with vampires 5 years can really teach you something.
"Don't worry about it," he assured me with a blank face. He was about to turn when I caught him looking at Nada again. "When you don't want her to be around, send her to the garden alright? I still haven't gotten any help for out there."
"Will do," I responded as he was already exiting the door. Now, I looked down at Nada, who seemed to be dead. Of course she wasn't dead, I knew that. Sighing, I pulled on new shirt, thinking that the black one I wore would be too melodramatic. Thinking quickly, I figured that grey was a good color. Just as I was about to leave the room, I had the compulsion to turn back and look at Nada.
She was shivering. Damn, I cursed at myself, that is going to be a problem. Before I knew what I was doing, I had lifted Nada up out of the bed and slipped her under the covers. I even had the guts to tuck her in and kiss her cheek.
As I left the room, I knew that I would need to talk to somebody about this. One vampire can kill hundreds of humans, but it took only one 14 year old girl to make that one vampire go insane with feelings that he hadn't felt for many years. Damn her.
***ok ok I did put Eric in a little bit, but I didn't describe him. Its just he found himself in there.***
"I don't know Ash," I said as I looked over the agreement. It was somewhat hard for me to figure out what was a good agreement considering that I was never really interested in politics. They didn't have much politics 3000 years ago.
"What is there NOT to know?" She playfully teased as she took the agreement out of my hands and signed her name. "Basically it says that they don't steal any more humans," she glanced at me with a twinkle in her eye," within a 100 mile radius of our boundary's, even if they are runaways."
"Kinda like the Underground railroad thing with the slaves," I thought aloud when she finished her quick explanation. "Which means if a slave escapes and comes to Ramsa, they can't be touched? Unless they come back by their own free will, right?"
"Exactly" Turquoise replied as she watched me fiddle with the pen in my left hand. I could write with my right hand if I wanted to, but I really didn't feel like it.
"So they'd be safe in Ramsa?" I asked as I put my pen down below Ash's name. If I could bring Nada to Ramsa...Ash seemed to be reading my thoughts, which she couldn't, and smirked.
"Right," the human answered me, her eyebrow arching just slightly. She hadn't been at the dining room so she didn't know very much about Nada, but I wouldn't be surprised if Jaguar had filled her in.
"Sounds good to me," I sighed as I swept my name across the line. Jager. There. I was done. I could go home. I had wanted to leave as soon as possible when I had first came here. The humans called me milord and sick names like that, their eyes never meeting mine. Hmph. What was the fun in that? Spiritless humans didn't taste as good as the ones that had their own thoughts, did what they wanted to. Free will adds a bit more.I cant really describe it in words really.to the blood. A human without free will is like a tiger who had been caged after a beautiful young life frolicking in the giant pastures in Africa. You actually pity the creature, knowing that you still had free will and they did not. Spiritless humans were like robots, and their blood tasted like iron. Yuck.
"Well, it's settled then. We won't leave these certain boundaries and you don't give us a second glance." Turquoise seemed much relieved as soon as my pen left the paper. She had been taken far from Midnight, so it would only make sense that she would strive to make sure other humans like her had less chance of that happening. "You can go about the building if you please, or you can start home. Vampires can't leave the boundaries of Midnight using their minds, incase you haven't noticed." There was no point hiding the small smile that picked at the sides of her lips. She was happy about that.
"Well, I'm tired. All this politic hokie pokie has tired me out." Standing up, Ash walked slowly out of the room, as if she had barely enough strength to do that. I knew where she was going on her way to her room. Her pallor showed that she needed to feed, and both Turquoise and I knew it.
"Nada is being moved to a simpler room," she said almost casually, but I was smart enough to know that she was waiting for a reaction. I tried not to give her one. Of course, if my expression goes from relief to completely unreadable, that is a reaction. Only after I did it did I remember. "She has slept in Jaguar's room for several days, and he doesn't want Eric to get jealous of her." Ah yes, Jaguar's other pet, I remembered. He was only..15, 16 now? He had been 14 when Turquoise had taken care of Daryl. What a scum he was.
"I'm going to bed," I told her simply as I left the room without another word. She had seen that the girl meant something to me even now, after only a few minutes of contact with her. I hated Nada for it. But she intrigued me as well. Oh Aubrey, I thought desperately as I continued down the hallway, what have I gotten myself into?
"Nada Nada Nada.." I heard Jaguar's voice from far down the hallway and I stopped instantly. Was he talking to her? What was he telling her? "You are too much for in here," he continued talking to her although I only heard his footsteps. Only after I turned the corner did I see that he was carrying her. Her hair had been washed again, and now even from the other side of the hallway I saw that her maroon hair color had been washed out. Plain dirt colored hair stuck damply to her head and her eyes were shut. Boy, I thought to myself, Nada was about as plain as they come.
"Oh, Jager." Jaguar saw me looking at her. What did my face give away this time? "Could you open that door right there?" Nudging his head towards the door next to me, I nodded. My hand touched the cold metal of the knob, but something stopped me from turning it.
"I plan on staying here for awhile," I informed him, my hand not turning the knob. He couldn't prevent me from staying, after all, he had invited me to stay for as long as I wished. Nodding, he stopped walking and watched my face carefully. He knew I had told him right then for a reason, but couldn't really place it. Personally I was just about as curious as he was. What was I doing?
An older but still rather young woman came down the hallway and stopped instantly when she caught sight of me. No doubt she could tell that I haven't fed in awhile and from her perspective it no doubt looked as if Jaguar had been feeding off of Nada. "You miss," I heard myself saying as I turned fully to look at her. "Could you have another bed brought into my room?" Behind me, I heard Jaguar's habit of breathing cease.
"Yes milord," she responded and turned quickly back the way she came, gone within a second. Now, I only had to tell Jaguar what I had figured out what I was doing.
"Nada will stay in my room," was what I told him. He did look surprised but the surprise was replaced with a suppressed smile. This was all confusing to me, but he seemed sympathetic. About what? Oh yes, I remembered, he had fallen for a human as well. No, I haven't fallen for a human either, recently. I had changed Fala because I had loved her and I still do, but she could really burn the nerves sometimes.
"Alright, but you will have to have more than just a bed in there," he responded as we headed towards my room. What else would Nada need? I thought to myself. I haven't had to care for a human in quite some time. "Katie, the girl who is getting a bed sent over, should also bring over some other clothes, soap, towels, and shoes."
I nodded simply. All of this reminded me of a time when I was walking through Ramsa and saw a small boy carrying a puppy to a car, and the petstore owner instructing the mother. I felt like the mother. Oh god, I yelled at myself, what am I doing? "She will need to be under constant supervision," Jaguar continued as I opened my door. My room did look quite unlived in, but gorgeously decorated. Wait, I joked with myself, I do unlive in here don't I? "Which means that either you or Ash is going to have to watch her."
"Sounds as if your instructing me on a pet," I commented truthfully as he set Nada down on my bed.
"Until you leave here with her, she is a pet. Humans are pets here, and that is how you shall treat her." I smiled. He wanted me to take her with me. Was she too much? Turquoise and Ravyn had at least remotely listened, I reminded myself.
Nada stirred. I held my breath. Jaguar laughed. "She won't be waking anytime soon," he assured me. "She took enough drugs to knock her out for a week." I bit my tongue against a comment that had formed in my throat. But I guess the second best way to get a human to shut up rather than beat them silent was to drug them. I preferred mind control, but not all vampires are like me.
"Right. Thank you." Luckily, he noticed that my thank you was a signal for him to leave. How amusing it must be for him to be ordered around by another vampire. Maybe I reminded him of Daryl a bit. He had been too cocky, and he didn't respect humans in the least. I guess I did, I admit that without them a vampires life would be hell. It was never really satisfying to feed off other animals.
Once Jaguar had left me and Nada alone, I got somewhat curious. How would she respond to this? Had Jaguar given her to me? I don't really know. Maybe he was trying to. Or maybe he was getting her used to being around vampires so that..NO. I told myself firmly as I sat carefully down on the bed next to Nada's sprawled body. She was so young, only 14 years into a long life and she was here, in this place. I don't remember ~I cant remember, I reminded myself~ being 14 years old. It was hard to even remember being 18, the year I was changed.
Slowly I bushed a strand of hair from her face, and a sickening impulse hit me as my eyes fell to her throat. I could see her blood pulsating in her vein, and I leaned closer to her, fascinated by it. The next thing I knew, I had her head cradled in my lap and my lips at her throat.
I begun to kiss her neck softly, just in order to find the perfect spot. When I did, my fangs extended and I pierced her tender neck. Her hot blood rolled over my tongue and I let myself see flashes of her past : a young Indian looking woman sitting by a lake watching a small girl feed the ducks; the same woman fighting with a man and the little girl huddled in the corner; many more pictures flashed in front of me until one caught my eye and I stopped paying attention to the others. Adrian and the now older Indian looking girl keeping eye contact. She was a very beautiful woman, with silky black hair and gemstone green eyes, like Ash did when she was human, but she was rather tall and her skin was very tan. The way she looked at Adrian was..surprise? That was an odd look to get from a human when we can influence human minds as easily as a human breaths or blinks
"Jager!" A voice caught me completely off guard and I pulled away to see who had caught me. I personally never had seen the boy around before. No, wait, I have. He was working in the garden when we had arrived. How he knew my name somewhat surprised me, but then I realized who he was.
"Hello Eric," I said joyfully as I set Nada down, very carefully I must add, and wiped off some of her blood from my chin. I could taste the drugs that Nada had taken, but they didn't effect me.
"I came here to drop off some extra clothes for Nada. The bed will be assembled in about half an hour." He looked at Nada for a brief moment and an emotion flickered across his face. Jealousy? No. Curiosity. Yes, that is what it was. Of course a boy his age would be curious about a girl around the same age. What amused me was that he seemed not the least bit unnerved by the fact that he had caught me feeding off the person I was in charge of taking care of.
"Well thanks Eric," I responded, and was going to add more but a group of slaves began carrying in pieces of the bed.
"Where do you want it Jager?" the boy asked me. Considering the only place where there was enough space was by the bed that I was sitting on now, I pointed to the empty spot next to me. The slaves began right away.
"Eric, about.." I didn't really feel like apologizing but I didn't want to upset the boy either. Even though he was 16 now, I doubt that he didn't understand vampire nature. Being with vampires 5 years can really teach you something.
"Don't worry about it," he assured me with a blank face. He was about to turn when I caught him looking at Nada again. "When you don't want her to be around, send her to the garden alright? I still haven't gotten any help for out there."
"Will do," I responded as he was already exiting the door. Now, I looked down at Nada, who seemed to be dead. Of course she wasn't dead, I knew that. Sighing, I pulled on new shirt, thinking that the black one I wore would be too melodramatic. Thinking quickly, I figured that grey was a good color. Just as I was about to leave the room, I had the compulsion to turn back and look at Nada.
She was shivering. Damn, I cursed at myself, that is going to be a problem. Before I knew what I was doing, I had lifted Nada up out of the bed and slipped her under the covers. I even had the guts to tuck her in and kiss her cheek.
As I left the room, I knew that I would need to talk to somebody about this. One vampire can kill hundreds of humans, but it took only one 14 year old girl to make that one vampire go insane with feelings that he hadn't felt for many years. Damn her.
***ok ok I did put Eric in a little bit, but I didn't describe him. Its just he found himself in there.***