Legolas had not moved, he had watched the sunrise from beginning to end he had a feeling it would be the last time he saw it, he didn't know what mad him think that, but the feeling was there. He thought of all the vampire had said, "the dark gift" what did it mean? The dark gift, if he was given it, what was the catch? The catch was there somewhere. The vampire had said he had killed those people, but they were found bloodless, then his mind went back to the conversation, he repeated the words blood drinker, needed blood to survive. Then it dawned on Legolas he had to kill without reason other then to keep himself alive. Legolas was in a panic he couldn't kill that's when he decided to run. He ran for hours, using a break neck speed he was exhausted, he couldn't breathe and his hart was pounding and his muscles were screaming for him to let up. Legolas knew where he was going, he was headed to the caves of the dwarfs, he was well known so he would be granted admission without quibble and the dwarfs had nothing to do with the outside world so wouldn't know of his death sentence. But he also knew it would take him 3 days to get there on foot, even at this pace. His legs gave way under him without warning and he collapsed. he couldn't breathe and he tried to stand. when he got to his feet he was sick from exhaustion, his body screamed for sleep but Legolas knew he had to keep going, but he had left a marker for the vampire to find him so he kicked leaves and soil over the mess he had made and carried on at a ground eating trot. Come evening Legolas was far from where he had started and realised that he hadn't eaten for over 24 hours and was quite hungry, he scanned the area around him but found nothing. Legolas gave up and decided it was probably safer for him to be above ground so asked the nearest tree if he could sleep in its branches. As soon as the tree gave its permission, Legolas scaled the tree until he could see nothing of the floor and watched the sunset before falling asleep. After a few hours Legolas awoke feeling the presence of the vampire and felt his panic set in, he heard the vampires voice above him exclaim so you thought you could run? The vampire was on him instantly, he bit into legolas' neck and legolas let out a yelp. They were both knocked off the tree and they fell and hit the ground hard but the vampire kept on drinking as if nothing had happened, legolas had his eyes closed and his teeth gritted in pain to him it seemed an eternity that the vampire drunk from him. The vampire finally stopped and got up and said what is your choice then legolas? Death, or a life with me? Legolas was panting and drew his hand up to touch the wound the vampire had made and when he drew his hand away and looked at it he saw it was covered in blood. He said he wanted to die just walk away and leave me to die I don't want this. The vampire started towards legolas and said, so I worked so hard for you to say just walk away, thanks for killing my friends, but I don't want to know? I don't think so. The vampire bit down into legolas, drinking to the point of death and then drawing up and telling legolas to stay focused keep your eyes open and drink from me legolas just whispered a hoarse no. The vampire just replied we shall see and bit into his wrist and placed it on legolas' mouth. legolas tried to resist but he was too weak to move and as soon as the vampires blood touched his lips he couldn't resist the hot blood. as soon as he could move he clamped his hands onto the vampires wrist and pulled on the blood trying to get as much as possible. The vampire started to show sighs of pain and pulled his wrist free legolas lunged at the vampire trying to get more of the sweet hot blood but the vampire moved so swiftly up the tree to avoid legolas and announced I thought you didn't want it legolas?