AN: And here is CHAPTER 2! ^_^

Otogi: she doesn't own it, which she just realized she forgot in the last chapter so yeah….  No one can sue now…

Pietro: Please review… and tell her if she got something on the vamps wrong… just is case…

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"Again Daniel?" asked his elder as Virgil paced the living room of the large house. When he'd gotten there with Ritchie he explained his family was very eccentric and that it was for right now best he didn't talk with them or be near them. Most of them are rather territorial… They just don't like strangers around them in their home, but if Ritchie was with Virgil, nothing would happen to him. Ritchie believed him. "A mortal… You want the past to happen all over again, don't you?!"

"Shut up!" Virgil hissed. "And you know they're after us so we assumed other names! I'm Virgil."

"But he is a MORTAL," his elder repeated. Virgil stayed quiet as he wiped a bit of blood that trailed from his mouth. "Waiting till you're down from the high? How long was that sleeping spell supposed to last?"

"Till I called it off… And you know as well as I do that two of the others in Erick's house have mortal lovers!" Virgil declared.

"But you are still young…"

"Still young?" he laughed. "Still young? Will I still be young at a thousand years old man?"

"You never will learn…"

"I was a slave in the fields of Africa when you decided on your jaunt there with the queen to 'look for a new slave'! I was the one you chose and this life is what I have to show for it, Dark One!"

"This is still about Richard isn't it?"

"How dare you!" Virgil yelled tears in his eyes before backhanding his companion.

"My poor African flower…"

"Duzell," Virgil said blinking. "I'm sorry!"

"No, I understand… Had I been in your shoes and my father brought up Yujinn or Philios, I'd have struck him too…" Duzell said putting a hand on Virgil's head. Virgil fell to his knees sobbing. Duzell sat on a footrest and allowed his youngest to cry in his lap for a few moments. "Virgil, I understand your need for a companion… You did well when we had you blended in at Gotham… And had that damned Batman and his little companion Robin not found us out, we'd still be there… You are old enough to make the choice of who you want your companion to be but you have to understand this."

"Understand what?"

"That no one, in any city, country, or time can ever be Richard… Richard died protecting you and this family Daniel… He was a good choice and had I gotten there sooner, the spell would have resurrected him as one of us… Now, that it has been over nine hundred years, I have to tell you that he's not coming back…."

Daniel, Virgil, nodded before drying his eyes and going back to his room.

"Was that wise?" asked a female voice from behind him.

"Well my little Krywl, I don't know…" The cat jumped into Duzell's lap and nodded.

"Would you like me to keep an eye on them for you?" she asked.

"That might be wise, Ishtar…" (Those who have recognized the extra characters from Vampire Game, no that isn't Lady Ishtar, that's a pet with the ability to speak named after her since you know, hundreds of hundreds of years have past since then and he's reincarnated for the third time that Duzzy-Wuzzy is! ^_^)

Virgil climbed in next to Ritchie and murmured something causing the blonde to wake slightly and smile at him. "What time is it?"

"About six," Virgil said looking at the clock only a moment before returning his focus to the blonde. Ritchie made a noise in the back of his throat as he shifted closer and into Virgil's arms. He had never felt so, comfortable in his whole life. The room was enough to make him gawk when he first came in. Virgil had giggled at him before pulling him into a very heated kiss, which he was told, was a last resort in getting his attention. They were lying in a huge canopy bed with dark blue velvet colored silk curtains hanging around. The windows, all six of them, had a different colored rose at the top of them with two sets of tapestry. One of lace and another of a very lovely forest emerald velvet. Every piece of furniture was made of intricately carved wood. He felt like he walked into a bedroom in some sort of castle or something.

"What?" Ritchie asked basking in Virgil's gaze.

"Just admiring the beauty I came across on walk I took because I couldn't sleep," Virgil answered, earning a blush. He leaned down and captured lips with his own in a kiss pulling the blonde close to him before settling down to sleep.

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"Two days! Our son hasn't been home in two days! Report this Rick! You're a cop for the love of God!" a woman yelled at her husband.

"You know as well as I do that he's probably at that club sleeping there with some guy he doesn't know!" Rick answered.

"Richard is so much smarter than that Rick! Please! I want my baby to come home!"

"He'll probably come home when he's out of money or is starting to get sick because he caught some STD!" Rick ran a hand through his dark, almost brown, blonde hair. "Look, Sarah, I'll ask around if any of the guys have seen him but I can't guarantee you anything right now," Rick said trying to calm down his wife who was clutching a photo of Ritchie.

"Sorry I'm such a damned bother to you Father," Ritchie said from the kitchen doorway.

"Richard!" Sarah said tears spilling down her face as she hugged her son who looked very guilty. "You had me so worried!"

"I'm sorry Mom… I got caught up with something…"

"You mean at that bar?" Rick asked pouring a cup of coffee for himself.

"For your information, Father, I've only been there once since you hit me over it!" Ritchie said harshly before pulling away from his mother and going upstairs to his room.

"See, he's probably been there this whole time…"

"Rick… He smelled like that expensive cologne that they sell at the store I work at on the weekends…" Sarah whispered. "It costs four hundred a bottle… and they're very small…"

"What are you saying, he's been out stealing?"

"No… But no one at that club would have that kind of money, and you know the security of Spica's Emporium… No one can get in there to steal…"

"SO what are you suggesting Sarah?" Rick asked before Ritchie opened the door.

"I'm sorry did I interrupt another conversation about how I'm sick and twisted because I'm gay?" he asked his father.

"Ritchie, darling, please… Show your father some respect…." Sarah whispered.

"Next time I'll come in and bow, Mom…" Ritchie said sarcastically before slamming the door shut followed by the front door. Sarah sighed.

"Rick… Stop doing this to our son!"

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"I've got to head home…"

"Why?"

"Mom's probably really panicked by now… I don' want to give her a heart attack or something," Ritchie said putting his few belongings back in his bag. Arms slid around him and pulled him back into a firm embrace causing him to drop them.

"Please tell me you're coming back…" Virgil whispered against his neck. Ritchie arched his neck, showing off the very tempting white skin as well as a pulsing vein under that tempting skin. Virgil placed one kiss there before turning his attention more towards Ritchie's face. He didn't want to loose control and, because of it, loose Ritchie.

"Of course I am… You've given me this feeling that I can't describe… I have to come back…" Ritchie said leaning in for a kiss.

"You can wait a little longer can't you?" Virgil asked as one of his hands slid carefully under Ritchie's shirt to find a nipple and tease it.

"I'll be back in a few days," Ritchie said frowning as he pulled Virgil's hand from under his shirt and laced their fingers.

"Too long, but if that's your wish so be it," Virgil said kissing each of Ritchie's fingers before kissing the palm.

"I'm sure I'll see you around, right?" Ritchie asked in his once again optimistic voice.

"I think I'll see more of you, but you might see me… Just look in the shadows… I never liked to be around a lot of people," the mocha teen explained.

Right before Ritchie left Virgil had grabbed his hand and pulled him into one last goodbye kiss, slipping something on his wrist.

"What?"

"It's supposed to protect the one who wears it," Virgil whispered against Ritchie's red lips. "Just keep it… Use it as a reminder of me or something…"

"Thank you Virgil," the blonde whispered kissing Virgil's cheek. He felt something like a pinch near his ear. Figuring it was like a love bite since it was followed by a kiss, he smiled slightly not knowing he was marked as the property of a vampire.

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"Ritchie! Glad you could come again," said a boy his age that hugged him before pulling back quickly and staring at the bite mark. "Did you get laid?" he asked excitedly.

"Come off it," Ritchie said with a grin. "I didn't get laid I just met someone is all…"

"Really?" asked a girl who had her hand in another girl's back pocket. Said girl had her arms wound tightly around the waist of the one with her hand in her pocket.

"Yeah… I think he's new in town," Ritchie said taking a seat at a table. "So someone fill me in."

"Well, he's still playing hard to get," said the teen that had hugged Ritchie with a pout.

"We keep telling you Pietro," said the darker of the two girls.

"That he's not sure if you're like, messing with his head or something ya know?" asked the slightly pale brunette.

"Kitty, please, no more like ya know comments," Ritchie said with a groan. "I get enough with Frieda."

"That's right, Kitten… He has that girl chasing him," Kitty's girlfriend said with a snicker.

"Tabby!"

"What?"

"Anyway," Ritchie said turning back to Pietro who responded with a fake sob-fest on Ritchie's shoulder making the blonde look rather uncomfortable and lost, seeing as Pietro had a 'thing' for him but it wasn't reciprocated. Kitty and Tabitha were getting a kick out of it.

The person to whom a watching pair of eyes belonged to wasn't as thrilled when the paler arms of Pietro latched tightly onto what was marked now as his property. They narrowed dangerously but he kept his anger in check because soon Ritchie was laughing along with this group and shoving the boy off him.

 Ritchie was lying on his back in the room he was borrowing from Kitty's aunt and uncle. They were the place that their little group stayed when they got together since they lived in Dakota and were comfortable with the groups' choice in lifestyle.

"Come on Ritchie," Tabby said from the door. "Food time!"

"I'm not that hungry… Is it okay if I stay here?"

"Of course it is son!" Kitty's uncle said.

"Thanks Mr. Pryde," Ritchie said as he was left alone to think.

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"Richard… I'm sorry, but I can't stay here with you for much longer…" said someone who looked like Virgil only this was taking place in medieval Europe.

"Then take me with you!" he demanded. Ritchie was seeing this through Richard's eyes.

"Richard, there are rules… It's just not accepted…"

"What's not accepted?" Richard demanded tears forming. The Virgil look-a-like wiped his tears away. "Daniel please!"

"Richard… I love you too much to make you go through what I do," Daniel said desperately trying to get Richard to understand.

"If you loved me, you'd let me stay with you!"

"Richard I'm a vampire! I can't turn you! It would be as if something were stabbing through my heart through the rest of eternity! You should just forget about me, love… It's what best…"

"NO!" Richard said latching tightly on to Daniel.

"If I turn you Richard, the only way out of being a vampire is DEATH! I can't watch you die!

"That's why you're leaving me? You don't want to turn me and thus you'd be forced to watch me grow old and die? Daniel! You promised me forever with you!"

"And you will always be in my heart… You know that my father has his rules for a reason… You're a mortal-"

"Then turn me Daniel!" Richard said pulling off his shirt and pulling his lover on top of him and lightly kissing along his demonic lover's sensitive neck.

"Richard!"

"Please Daniel… I don't even want to try to go back to living without you by my side…"

"Richard…. God Richard," Daniel whispered kissing roughly all over the area that concealed the vein.

"Daniel… Take me before you… Before you turn me," Richard said pulling his dark lover into a kiss.

"As my master wishes," Daniel had whispered seductively into Richard's ear.

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"Ah!" Ritchie sat up panting and drenched in cold sweat. Virgil watched from a tree through the blonde's window. Pietro dashed in through the connecting bathroom and over to the blonde who had tears streaming down his face.

"It's all right! I promise! It's all right," Pietro whispered to him rocking the terrified boy back and forth. Ritchie outlined what had happened and Pietro's first reaction was, "Well Hell! If my lover in a past life was a vampire I'd be pretty freaked out myself!"

"What do you mean in a past life?"

"You kept saying it was so real and stuff… Evan was into that kind of stuff when were younger… I guess when I figured out that I killed myself because I couldn't be with him in a past life, I retained everything he ever said on it…"

"You killed yourself over Evan before?"

"Amazing huh?" Pietro asked sitting on the bed resting against the wall. "I had stabbed myself before throwing myself into the garden my balcony over looked. We'd been together, but I was to be married the day after I killed myself... Evan, he well, he went insane I think… I mean, I dug up the records on the family and a month later they killed Evan because he went insane and tried to kill my fiancée who was there in grieving."

"Probably yelling the entire time that it was her fault you were dead?"

"Yeah…"

"So. Who was this mysterious lover?" Pietro asked eyes lighting up like a schoolgirl receiving gossip.

Ritchie blushed. "I don't know… he looked like someone I know… But his name was Daniel…" Virgil's eyes widened. He'd had several lovers over the years. The one he loved was Richard. All others were so he had a warm body in his bed, some only for a night…

"Wow… So, tell me some details!"

"It stopped after he said he'd take me…" Ritchie said blushing harder when he realized what he said. Pietro was off in a lala land. "I'm going back to sleep…"

"Of course! Tell me about more dreams!" Pietro said before leaving.

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Daniel had gone home after hearing that he was in one of Ritchie's past lives. "Damn… My luck I find one who has memories," he muttered pacing his room. A glinting something caught his eye near the floor of his bed. He reached down and picked it up. There was a picture of Ritchie and the people he'd been with along with another African boy and four other people. All but Pietro, Ritchie, and the African boy were with a significant other.

"Emanuel?" he murmured remembering the boy who was shipped out just after he was turned. He was killed about a year after… Evan must be the reincarnation of his cousin Emanuel.

"Found something that interests you, young Master Daniel?"

"Ishtar, you were around when I was turned right? I mean you were always with the master…"

"I've been with the master alternately for many a hundred years, yes…"

"Then, do you remember when I was turned?"

"You were terrified, young master… Of Master Duzell and of yourself for at least a month… You only wanted to be able to say good bye to your family, which was partially granted. That slave trader bought your cousin… You saw him ship off and yelled after him. He was allowed to yell goodbye to you before he was dragged away. You turned and cried so he couldn't see. Master Erick comforted you…"

"Doesn't this look like Emanuel except blonde?" Daniel asked showing the picture to the cat.

"It is him! The aura is captured, not like stripped from them but it was frozen in time like the picture…" Ishtar explained as Daniel smiled.

"Then my cousin is alive again!" Ishtar smiled sadly to the boy. Most of the family was orphaned when Duzell turned them or were turned by another member of the vampire family but this boy had a sister, father, and cousin… The poor thing many times wanted to see them but pictures were not invented yet and now that they were, a picture with his Ritchie with the reincarnation of his cousin made him happy and Ishtar wasn't going to take that away from him. Ishtar leapt back down to the floor and left the boy to reminisce of old times and soon fall asleep. He could go about three days without getting a bite and usually waited until he was frigid and starting to weaken before giving in and leaving to hunt. That only happened after Richard…

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"Richard… I'm sorry, but I can't stay here with you for much longer…" Daniel said quietly to his lover. Somewhere in the back of Daniel's mind he was praying for this dream to end now so he didn't have to remember.

"Then take me with you!" he demanded.

"Richard, there are rules… It's just not accepted…"

"What's not accepted?" Richard demanded tears forming. The Virgil look-a-like wiped his tears away. "Daniel please!"

"Richard… I love you too much to make you go through what I do," Daniel said desperately trying to get Richard to understand.

"If you loved me, you'd let me stay with you!"

"Richard I'm a vampire! I can't turn you! It would be as if something were stabbing through my heart through the rest of eternity! You should just forget about me, love… It's what best…"

"NO!" Richard said latching tightly on to Daniel.

"If I turn you Richard, the only way out of being a vampire is DEATH! I can't watch you die!

"That's why you're leaving me? You don't want to turn me and thus you'd be forced to watch me grow old and die? Daniel! You promised me forever with you!"

"And you will always be in my heart… You know that my father has his rules for a reason… You're a mortal-"

"Then turn me Daniel!" Richard said pulling off his shirt and pulling his lover on top of him and lightly kissing along his demonic lover's sensitive neck.

"Richard!"

"Please Daniel… I don't even want to try to go back to living without you by my side…"

"Richard…. God Richard," Daniel whispered kissing roughly all over the area that concealed the vein.

"Daniel… Take me before you… Before you turn me," Richard said pulling his dark lover into a kiss.

"As my master wishes," Daniel had whispered seductively into Richard's ear. Richard shivered to his core as Daniel pulled his own shirt off and was leaning down to kiss him when the light of torches filtered through the window and shouts could be heard.

"In there! The tracks of the Demon end here at the Lord's son's house!" someone yelled.

"Swiftly then! Before it kills the young lord!" shouted another.

"Daniel, they'll kill you!" Richard said at the feral growl emitting from his lover's throat, as he stood ready to kill anyone who dared touch his lover.

"I can't leave you here now," Daniel said touching Richard's face softly.

"Daniel you must! Get to Duzell; make sure they don't find your tracks… I'll be there by sundown tomorrow and you can turn me then," the blonde insisted.

"Richard…" Daniel breathed pulling the blonde to him again and kissing him deeply conveying love that would last forever. Richard engrossed by his lover and the kiss, carelessly allowed himself to forget about the mob outside his doors.

"The last room is the Young Master's!" said one of the men from the village.

"Open it! Quickly make haste before something tragic befalls him!"

Richard and Daniel leapt apart. Daniel grabbed his shirt and was about to disappear out the window when the door was burst down.

"Kill the demon! Now farmer!" was yelled and before Daniel could blink Richard had stepped between him and the oncoming arrow.

"Richard!" Daniel cried dashing to his side, sobbing as his vision was tinting red with rage.

"Daniel…" Richard whispered touching his face with a slight smile while the townsmen were amazed. They'd just killed the young Lord, not the demon. "I'm sorry… I guess we don't get forever." Richard offered him a weak smile.

"No, Richard please… Please don't… God above take anything you wish but don't take my love…" Soon though Duzell was pulling an enraged young vampire off the townsmen who had killed its lover. He had arrived only ten minutes too late to revive and save Richard. The vampire king was carrying home his youngest son who was completely broken and sobbing. He handed him off to some of the others to take care of and calm. Daniel refused and lashed out several times each just less violent than the last. He still lashed out on occasion only when the memories of Richard ran strong and the wrong words were said. 

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"RICHARD!" Daniel sat up calling out for his love. In their own rooms, Duzell, Catherine, Isabelle, Takato, and Jenrya each looked up and sighed. He had to watch his lover perish before his eyes and one could only become numb from emotion to get over that…

Across the city, Ritchie sat up in bed and breathed out quietly into the wind of the night, "Daniel?"