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Forever in a Coffin Chapter 6: Abies Demun Arbitratus(The Final Choice)
RecapI decide to go and get something to calm my nerves, and hopefully help me sleep. As I walk down the stairs to the kitchen a shadow approached me from behind and suddenly I'm against the wall.
It all happened in less than a blink of an eye. I was pinned to the wall by my own spitting image. The sight I saw was of a man with the same unruly black hair and shocking green eyes. If I hadn't know any better I would have said it was me, but this man was older and has a sense of complete darkness about him.
After the initial astonishment wore off I realized that I was looking strait into the face of something inhuman. Two fangs were being bared at me in an intimidating way and the arm that held him was all too strong to be human.
"Where is she!" The man yelled at me in an insanely loud voice.
"Who are you taking about?" I asked in a soft voice comparing to that of the other man's.
"You know who I'm taking about, now answer me where is she!
"If I knew who you were taking about I wouldn't be asking now would I?
"Raven, where is Raven?"
"Why? Who are you to want to talk to Raven?"
"I know more about her than you will ever hope to know! Now where is she!" He demanded, lifting him up higher by the collar of shirt to emphasize his point.
"Against my better judgment I'll take you to her. Now let me go." I said in a forced calmed voice, I didn't want him to know he intimidated me.
So there I was leading a complete stranger to the one most important person in my life. Why I was doing it I can't really say but something was telling me to just do it and that it would be all right that he wouldn't harm Raven.
(James is recalling what happens (before & after)
All had gone well on my first night traveling. I had gotten half way there and then found a nice graveyard to rest at. But during my sleep that day something was bothering me I couldn't fall into that deep sleep I am so accustomed to during the day. Instead my instincts where telling me something horrible was about to happen, and I powerless to stop it.
So when I awoke full that night I want about my business as fast as possible and finished about a quarter to one in the morning, and began the journey back to my beloved Raven. I traveled all night until I could no longer travel. I then took shelter in one of the abandoned mansions along the way.
I awoke the next night to an awful throb in my head. With great difficulty I arose from my 'grave' and began the last bit of my journey. When I arrived within the city limits I was overcome with a cold sensation and it was then that I felt someone touch my marks.
Now I should tell you what these marks are, they are my fang marks, they represent that she is with me and no other vampire may feed off of her. They are basically a bond between us they enable me to sense danger that could kill her. It's primal instinct basically. All she has to so is touch them and I can get a snapshot what's going on with her.
This is how I was able to know she was in danger even when I was miles away from her. I could tell she was panicked and although she won't admit it she was afraid.
If she felt threatened enough for it to be able to let me feel her panic them it was something to worry about. In all the centuries I had known her she had never once contacted me. This told me it was serious, and I had to get there as fast as possible.
I set of as fast as I had ever and arrived within the tower within moments. I felt out for her aura and couldn't find it so I took the one closest to me.
I found a boy about 16, wearing what appeared to be a traffic light suit. I approached him as fast as I could before he could escape. He was stunned and I was able to see glimpses into his mind and all I could see was the one thing that made my blood run cold. There in those snapshots was my dear Raven on the floor in a pool of her own blood.
I was more afraid them I had ever been and I couldn't stand it so I used every trick I had learned to intimidate him into taking me to my precious Raven.
I led this mysterious man to the med lab and stiffly entered the password to open the door. Then the door opened to reveal Raven on the bed in the same position I had left her. She looked so venerable and so small.
The man made to move to her and I was snapped back to reality. I quickly stepped in front of the man to stop him. This action gave me the fist real look at him.
He was a man of tall built almost six feet, black hair, green eyes with pale, pale skin and dressed in all black. He had a simple tux like shirts with the elegant black pants a long trench coat and then shinny black shoes. He looked very refined and intellectual. But he was not human, the way he held himself and the manner in which he looked at things, it was far too focused.
He looked at me like I was mad for standing in his way, but then his eyes held an amused glint in them at the fact that I dared stand in his was even when I knew he was not human, and could probably snap me in half without even trying.
"Out of my way, boy." He said a silky smooth voice, just as mysterious as him.
"No I want answers before I let you get anywhere near Raven." I demanded in a somewhat strong voice.
"Very well if it will leave you at peace of mind. But it will have to be fast the longer she is left like this the less chance of surviving as a mortal she will have. I guess I will begin as close to beginning as possible. My name is James and Yes I'm not human, although I was long ago. I am a vampire and Raven is my partner in the cold, dark wasteland of eternity (Yes that was a quote from the Queen of the Damned, said by the vampire Lestat). Now when I first met Raven I was immediately entranced by her mere presence. So I of course being naïve began courting her like any other gentleman at the time. What did get to me was she never asked why I would never appear during the day.
After a couple of years passed and neither of us changed, I began suspecting that she was not entirely human. She had too much grace about her and she was just so perfect in everything she did. So I set about find out, I followed her everywhere, after having mysteriously 'died'. I followed her for two more years in the same place until one night I awoke to find she had left without a human trace. There was no trace of her ever being there but the memories she had left behind. No one was too shocked, thinking she just couldn't bear the place's memory anymore. They thought she had left to get rid of the memories of me, after being broken hearted for so long. I left the city and followed a familiar scent, her scent.
I found her in the middle if the woods. Where she was basking in the glow if the full moon. She looked absolutely breath taking, the full moon reflecting off of her pale skin, her flowing dark brown hair and big brown eyes. Yes, her appearance was different; she can change her appearance by will. The only things that don't change are the big eyes, pale skin, and her body shape. She is just the way I remember her, she hasn't age over a day.
But that's beside the point, I arrived just in time to see her be incased in blinding white light. I afraid for her life, for I had yet to see the death of someone near to me, I ran to her and caught her as she fell from the sky. But when I looked at her I realized her appearance had changed to one of a woman with black hair and when she opened her eyes they revealed dark green eyes the same as mine. She was of course shocked to see me there. But she later revealed to me she was only shocked that I had appeared to her again, for she know what I was and she had hopped that we could have 'lived' as an ordinary couple out in the country.
But it was then that we began to bond, I was very suspicious of her for a time never let her near me within time of the sunrise. She only gained my trust after about five years after the incident. We had been living together for sometime, trying to act like a regular couple. She told people that I worked in a casino and that's why I was never out and about during the day.
I had never fed off of her until one night I had come back from my little 'business trips' I was wounded to the point where I couldn't do much for myself, would live but in the worst way, vaunerable without protection from the people or the sun. I didn't want to take her blood but it was near dawn and she threatened to leave me out for the sun to get me if I didn't take her blood.
So without another choice I did it. And let me tell you she had the best blood out there. From then on I never prayed on anyone else, over the centuries when I wasn't asleep we traveled as young lovers and for once in my immortal life I was free I had life. She taught me everything I could ever need to know she was my companion, my lover, but most of all she was my best friend." Here he fell silent lost deep within his memories. He recalled all those times together with this vivacious girl, and now she lay on the bed within and inch of deaths cold embrace.
"Now are you satisfied? Now will you let me save her life?" He asked in a seemingly sincere voice.
I listened to his story a little on the skeptical side, but as I began digging in my memory I realized that yes infact Raven hadn't changed one single bit in the last three years she had been with us. Whereas everyone had either grown length wise or in width. (Hehehe get it they got fat, there meant to stay skinny because of all the crime fighting they do)
Yet Raven had stayed exactly the same never changing but consistan as a pond. With a single nod I let him know he could now approach Raven without my interception.
I watched him slowly approach Raven and carass face with the delicacy of a lover. I felt jealous arise in me how could she be so close to him and just so cold to us? I didn't want to believe that someone else could have gotten further than me with Raven or that she could love someone else know them longer.
I move the moment he gave his consent, I don't know why I told him all of that or even why I cared about him giving his consent, I guess he struck a nerve in being the first mortal other than Raven to stand up to me and act like I was normal . I approached her bedside and lifted my hand to her face and when I touched her I could feel that she was in a coma and no matter what I said or did I couldn't get her back. All but one thing would work, the one think I never wanted to do to her.
Without a choice I ripped open my wrist and let the blood flow I lowered it over her mouth and placed it on her lips. Letting it pour into her mouth.
Her eyelids then began to flicker as she opened her eyes. She was overjoyed to see me, so that she pulled me into a big hug. However in a few moments her grip started to losen and I could tell that the sudden high had worn down a little and she could feel the wounds of her body. I only gave her enough blood to insure she could talk to us.
"What happened?" she asked in a frightened voice.
"Amor you are dying and you know that there is only one way to ensure your survival. You must chose before you fade." I gave her the cold hard truth I wouldn't sugar it up for her, she hated it when you tried to protect her. That's when it hit me. She was so beautiful to me because she was mortal… her frailty… her short year… her heart… even when she thought it was breaking. All that seems suddenly more precious than anything I have ever know (paraphrased from Queen of the Damned).
I didn't want to take away her mortality but if she wanted it then I would give her what she wants. Even if I would hate for it to happen. I love her to the point where I would give anything for her to be happy, even if it kills me. And so I will give her the dark trick if she will accept it.
T.B.C.
A/N: Well the next chapter will be the ending(s) of your choice so don't' forget to vote! You can also reach my by my email if you have any comments/concerns/suggestions anything. Ok and sorry for the delay but there maybe more I can't tell I am a bit unstable health wise but nothing serious. But as for the delays I just wanted to give you a reson and a heads up incase I don't update but someone will keep you up to date if I don't post by next Sunday.
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