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"Sleepless Slumber"
A short story.
(PART 2)
The ravishing hunger overwhelms me. I feel the change quickly take me from human to beast with a mere catch of her tantalizing scent. Her life force pounds in my ears like the rushing tide of any ocean. My throat constricts with parchment, eyes becoming pools of desire, a lust for blood. I am beyond seeing. I feel it, feel her, sense her desire for me to do as I am so longing to do. I want to take from her the sweetened life that keeps her living. Does she trust me so much? No! Not with that, she can't! I won't allow it. I try in angered vain to regain my control, but that which I have become, what I am, pushes all rationale aside. I can't hold it in, I feel them growing. My teeth, no they are not teeth anymore. Instead they are more feline in shape, coming to sharp, tiny points resting upon my gluttonous lips. I am horrified to think, think, think what I want more than ever to do to her, take from her. Still I sense her love for only me, despite my dark thoughts, my foul darkness, and still she offers up to me the forbidden. I stare up at the glassy mirrors of her soul; only love reflects. Mind, heart, and soul, and there is only love. For me. Only me. Her love that has spanned time, waited for all time, only for me.
She reaches to caress, guide my face, hungered mouth to just above where her heart lies. Tears, could I only blessedly weep, in my eyes, my heart, at her request. I thirst as a lost man in a desert, not for water, but for life. She offers me her life. I cannot take-no love please! Oh how badly I want to, but, but. I look into her face, so full of love and permissive assurance that all will be well. No longer can I restrain the beast, the hunger inside of me. I put to use my newly restored-knives, they are as knives to flesh. And so I taste her life, essence, love, blood. Despite my revulsion it is sweet to my tongue and filling to my hunger. I am filled with warmth from my head to my toes. Once sated, I lift my mouth from the puncture wound I have left as testimony to hated hunger. Her eyes are closed; barely a breath left in her chest. With shallow beating heart I realize I have irreversibly brought her to the brink of death, nearly siphoning her dry. With a hitch in my throat, I know now I have no choice; she no choice. With nail, growth unhindered by time, I slice my revived skin just above my heart; blood trickling slowly. Drink, I tell her; drink and live. She obeys trustingly, without thought of consequences. I watch despairingly as she falls into the same dreamless slumber that has for so long plagued me.
Ruefully I think upon my actions. When she awakens as I have, did, she will be as I am; what I am. Air, sleep, food and water, the warm caress of the sun-oh, the sun!; for these she will no more be in need of. Blood lust is her satisfier, thirst quencher, from now till forever more; as it is mine. Somehow in that cramped space we manage to lay side by loving side. She sleeps for now and soon I will follow suit. The star that once warmed my heart, and now fills with fear, slowly brings light and life back to the world my lover and I can no longer be a part of. As the mortals awaken, I ready for sleep; to reawaken at the rising of the glorious moon-oh hated midnight sun! I am together happy and sad, joyous and remorseful. Wrapping my old, youth cloaked arms around my love, I bask in my own joy and happiness. Just as quickly I sadden. I have killed her, sentenced her to an unholy unending life in the darkness. I have made her a monster, though she could never be the like, as I am.
Slowly, gratefully I drift once more into that horrible, dreamless sleep. I cannot help but be happy all over again as nestle in tight with my love, stroking her long, maple sugar hair. My love and I together, forever again and always. When she awakens we will roam the darkness of the changing earth together, for all eternity. Together, she and I. I no longer have a reason to sleep away the seasons. Though now I can truly be at rest, my love at my side.