Title: Acquaintances
Genre: General and Romance
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing, and these characters are not mine, except the one I created.
Authors Note: Complete note at the bottom of the end of the chapter. Thanks for reading.
Acquaintances
Chapter 4
Abigail, King and Blade walked into the hospital room in which the body was being looked after. It had been three days since they had found her, well, more like three days since she had been found by Blade and Whistler. The vampire continued her state of unconsciousness, as seen and believed by the unaware crew.
" Do we have a name?" King asked, sitting down on the chair positioned next to hospital bed. " I mean, if we don't we might as well make up one for her." he looked over to the body, more recognizable now that feeding tubes had been connected the second night to keep her from dying out and leading their cause to extinction.
" No, but we've seen were Dracula marked her." Abby said, pausing while King waited expectantly for an answer, and finding that Abby's mind had recently left the room, he whistled a little tune, breaking the tension that was building up in the room.
" Were exactly is that? I don't see it anywhere." King gestured with his hand at the sheet clad body on the stretcher. He looked over the body once more, taking in the pale color which had progressed into a more pinkish color. He took in the face, the once sunken eyes normal and without dark circles, for it seemed this women had gotten more sleep in these days then ever before.
" How 'bout Mary? Or Lila!" King shut up when he saw the look Abby was giving him.
"Right then, I'll just shut up now…" Abby sighed and thought again before speaking to Blade, ignoring King all together.
" It seems that she'll be ready to start her process in a few days, we haven't heard much from the vampires in the last couple of days and I think we'll be able to get this done. Sommerfield is getting everything ready so we can start the process." She took a breath then, seemingly done with her speech at the moment.
King was about to speak up as Abby continued on with a heavy sigh. " We need a way to wake her up and not have another World War in our hands. This is especially important because even though the vampires and their zombies have been suspiciously quiet, we really need her to tell us what she knows."
Taking a deep breath and looking first at the women with an expression that could only be described as pity, and then throwing King a pointed look ( which King should had taken notice of if he was not still trying to think up a name for the 'body' and poking the 'body's' arm ).
"King, we need… King…KING!" King turned startled as he heard Abby screaming his name and nearly going into hysteria.
" Listen, do you really think you should be calling out my name like that babe? Not in front of Blade for sex's sake!" King winked at her and added " But, if we must, and you must, I will willingly sacrifice myself…" King said slowly, pulling at the hem of his t-shirt.
" You ,my friend, are full of crap, " Abby glared at him as best as she could while trying not to laugh at the angry face Blade had pulled on since King had started talking, which he seemed to always do, no matter what King was talking about.
" Hm, I'll wake her up, then you can fix her up, and then she will tell us everything she knows. King will shut up and get the fuck away from here since he has no purpose." Blade cut it short and simple, while walking out of the room and heading into the kitchen were would grab an apple or two and sit outside making sure to take his 'medicine'.
"You'd think he would get used to me, after all, I mean look at me…" King said making gestures at his biceps and running his hands through his short hair. " I'm hot hot hot!"
"Hey King, you seemed to have missed a spot there, it looks like your trying to grow a circle of hair on your cheek." Abby held back laughter as King's eyes went wider.
" What!" King rushed to the mirror that was beside the little bedside table next to the stretcher, he then straightened his back slowly, and turning towards Abby he said, " Very funny Abs, if killing vampires doesn't go over too well, you can start your own comedy club." King sat down again and waited for Abby to start talking again.
Abby gave him a look and waited until he was done glaring at her from across the room. Abby looked down and thought about Blade's words. They were wrong about one thing, they did need King for something, a lot actually. King and King only had gone through what this seemingly innocent young women had gone through. The fact that she was Drake's plaything and that she had refused what she had become to the point of death was what they , nay, she looked for in a source and maybe even one day as a team member. No matter how much she tried looking past the fact that King had once been in this situation, she was reminded as she lay in her bed, the insomnia kicking her in her gut. She vaguely, but surely remembered when she had found King, wounded and pale much like the woman she was looking down on. She had managed to bring him to the honeycomb hideout by herself, and Sommerfield had told her to clean him up and insert the necessary tubes and IV's, considerably hard since she hated needles. The point was, because getting him into the right side, the side against vampires, needed his consent, she made the mistake of waking him up at the time he was needed. He had opened up his eyes, closing them again as the lights in the room was too much for him to bear. He reached out then, she had noted with a smile, and grabbed her wrist. She had felt right, oddly, as he ran his hands up her arms and back. This, was short lived as he let out a growl, small at first and then let out a series of loud growls while grabbing her by the neck and squeezing, it seemed, as hard as he could. She had managed to get out of his grasp, and also managed to avoid him the next couple of days while Sommerfield bravely began with his transformation. After everything was done with, and he was recovering from his last phases of his conversion, he had requested from Sommerfield to see her. She had a tough time wanting to actually go anywhere near him but after a few days she noticed how silly she was being, she was stronger than him and could bend him like a pretzel if she wanted. She went then, to his room were he was resting and went in without knocking, why should she after all? He was there, lying and looking at her through hooded eyes. He had apologized then, saying it must have been a reaction for he must have thought that Abby was Danica, coming to ask him to please her again. He smiled then, and Abby had known that they would only grow stronger as partners one day, and that he was forgiven for something she knew he had no control over.
This, this is why she did not want to have any part in the awakening of this women, even though she had not admitted it, King was stronger for some reason that day and no matter how much concealer she had dabbed on, it could not be covered. What worried her was that if King had had that much power after only been half gone and only bitten by Danica, this women who was fully vampire and then some and was bitten by the oldest, purest vampire, what would save her then? King would come in handy, because she felt he would better deal with this than she, and Blade was not up for crap and would probably end up breaking her neck in two, making their hard work turn into a big pile of crap.
" Abby?…Abby?" King was looking at her with a worried stare, making her know that she had blanked out for quite a bit while looking down at the vampire on the stretcher.
" King…remember the day you woke up?" King nodded, with a flinch at the memory, he had hated hurting her, but how could he have known the difference? For all he knew Danica was asking for more hide- and - go - suck pleasure from him. " I need you to wake her up King, you would be doing a better job and may even handle her better, if worst comes to worse…" King nodded halfway from what was going to be another long speech. For even though Abby seemed like a small talk, straight to the point girl all was put to shame once she became impassioned talking in long sentences. She could got even longer then King, which was a hard concept to consider at first.
"Don't worry Ab, I wouldn't do that to you. I'll have her up in no time." King added his trademark smile, and then added with gusto, " how 'bout that hot chocolate woman!" He laugh and slapped her ass as he made his way out the door, with a laughing Abby following him.
Meanwhile, the woman slept quietly, actually sleeping this time as she zoned out after catching their whole exchange. A small smile hung on her lips. Although this motion hurt, for smiles were rare to come from her, no matter how much he tried. Dracula, or Drake as he was being called now, could never nudge one from her, and she was glad that she was able to keep herself under control. She wouldn't have wanted to give him any idea that his form of love was her form of love. Somehow she thought that maybe just a couple of roses on his part and chocolate would have her melting in his arms. She erased all thoughts about Drake and the team that was helping her as she was filed with memories of her time with Dracula.
Maybe sleep wasn't the answer after all.
Authors Note: Thanks to:
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