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A/N: I apologize for not updating this story sooner, but I was trying to get an update up for Someday. Thanks a ton to those who reviewed, and here is the next chapter.
By the time I had finished with the first part of my tale, it was time for us to leave for the next arena. I volunteered to let Amy sleep while I drove, and with some reluctance, she finally agreed to. This arrangement was probably for the best; since it allowed me time to think about everything that had happened in the past 12 hours.
I'd experienced more excitement in those 12 hours than I have in the past century or so.
I shook my head. I swore to myself that I would never get involved with another female, and what did I do? Got involved with another female. Of course. It's like when you have a friend who keeps saying that they will quit smoking. They might for a while, but then, before you know it, there they are, lighting up again. It seemed like it was hopeless to stop. As much as I care for Amy part of me wants to shove her away. Wants her to back off and be afraid so that she won't be in danger. After all, if it hadn't been for me, then she would still…not be alive today, but she wouldn't have been burned at the stake either. I sighed.
"The tests I ran on your blood, something else showed up in them…" she choked out. "I wanted to tell you sooner, but I forgot. The tests showed…sh-showed…" she fell limp against the post. I trembled with rage as the fire finally consumed us. The crowd that had gathered around us was cheering. Little did they know how they would pay later. Oh yes, they would pay…
Again the memory haunted me. I shook my head a little to clear it, and knew that I shouldn't be thinking of these things while driving. I looked at the clock to see that we had been on the road for an hour already. I glanced over at Amy as she started to wake up.
"Hard time sleeping?" I asked her. She yawned and stretched slightly.
"No, I just wasn't tired." She said. She looked at the clock as well. She sat there for a moment, located her bat again, and leaned back.
"I know how you feel." I said. She looked at me.
"I guess you would." She said. She turned on the radio and flipped through the stations. I knew that winning her back over was going to be a hard task. It hadn't been that way with her, though, she had been naturally curious about vampires and the thought of being in love with one just excited her. I never could figure out why, it's not that great.
And as that thought completed itself, my cell phone began to ring.
I honestly don't know why I wasted the money on the thing, but I figured that it might come in handy sooner or later, plus when you have a job now days, it's almost mandatory that you have one.
"Hello?" I asked, as Amy turned down the radio.
"Chris? This is Vince. I just wanted to let you know that the first meeting with the whole creative team will be happening in a couple of weeks, I'll let you know when exactly. Until then, I might just call you for your opinion on certain things." He said.
"All right." I said.
"Talk to you later." Vince said, and hung up. I soon followed suit.
"Who was that?" Amy asked.
"Just Vince." I told her. She nodded. A silence passed between us again.
"So," she said. I smiled.
"So." I echoed.
"Do you ever miss being human?" she asked suddenly. I thought about this for a moment.
"Occasionally. I miss having a normal life, that's for sure. I think I'm just to the point now where I just want things to end. I'm just tired of being here." I said. "I know that makes me sound suicidal, but so what? You try spending five thousand years on this godforsaken planet and see how you like it." Amy nodded.
"I don't know what I would do if I lived that long." She commented.
"The same thing the other vampires did, try to survive. Enjoy yourself when you can, but most of all, just survive." I told her.
"Have you ever been to Europe?" she asked. I turned my gaze back to the road.
"Once." I said; my voice clipped.
"Touchy subject." She said. I sighed.
"I appreciate the curiosity, really, I do, but………" I trailed off. "Some things just haven't healed yet, and probably never will."
"You told me about your wife and daughter." She pointed out.
"I told you because I felt you needed to know." I said.
"And I don't need to know anything else but how you became a vampire? I don't get to know anything else but that?" she asked. I signaled to pull the car over. She grabbed her bat again as I put the car in park. I tried to calm myself down so that I wasn't yelling at her when I tried to explain my views with her.
"Look, I will tell you more when I think that you are ready to hear it." I said.
"Why don't you let me be the judge of when I ready to hear it and when I'm not ready to hear it?" she asked.
"Because I've seen more horrible things than your mind could ever imagine!!" I yelled. She recoiled back slightly. I sighed again. "I'm sorry." I said. "That wasn't fair. Look, I promise I'll tell you more about me, but you're going to have to wait until I'm ready to tell it, okay?" She nodded.
"Fine." I signaled to get back onto the interstate.
"I never meant to upset you." She said. I nodded.
"I know." I said, before getting back in my lane.