to anybody waiting on the next WTC ch.: it's coming. I just haven't decided what's going to happen... I don't want the next chapter to be "just another chapter" like last one. (for anybody who is still around from when I first started posting it on ff know that I have had alot of chapters. (In fact if I hadn't started to combine my old chapters I would probably have over 100.) So I'm taking my time to think about it. Sorry for the long wait, but it will be coming.
My computer's getting worse! It seems I cracked my motherboard this time…
Who wants to live forever,
Who dares to love forever,
When love must die.
But touch my tears with your lips,
Touch my world with your fingertips,
And we can have forever -Queen (- a classic)
They told me to hurry back to Harry, to not make any stops.
I wish I had listened.
But when I got on close to Hastings, I felt it. My vision went red with lust as she beckoned me closer. I wasn't sexually interested in the little wench, but that wasn't what mattered to me. It was the blood running under her skin that enticed me.
I found myself smiling at her, a feral smile. She does not see the fangs getting ready as I motioned for her to come closer; surely she would have run if she had. I know what she wants from me, maybe I'll give it to her... /Harry.../ I think of the formerly human boy as I wrap one arm around her waist, pulling her from plain sight. She smiles teasingly and leans in for a kiss, guiding my other hand between her thighs, close to moistness. I massage the soft flesh as she kisses me. But her body isn't what I want... I move my mouth from hers, listening as she pants. I lick my way down her throat; I'm so close!
I hear the girl gasp in surprise, when instead of giving her kisses, I give her pain, probably worse that anything another male has ever done to her. My nails slash the flesh of her thigh and the other grips her hip tighter; something cracks. My teeth latch onto the tan skin, as she shrieks, hitting me to let her go. I refuse.
Instead, I hold on tighter, loving the taste. I know I'm killing her, but it just makes it sweeter. I know there's something missing, but I can't... think of what it is. I feel myself become confused, as I lap up the last drops, the girl now lying limp in my arms. I drop to my knees, holding her.
I wonder if she past out, for a moment, but no, I hear no pulse. No breath coming from her.
I drop her and it comes back to me, what I had forgotten. Harry. My heart squeezes shut, when I think about him, I forget to breath. Frantically, I drop her body is disgust. I take in the mess I've made of her; her lower body would have been covered in blood, had I not taken it all. Where my hand had kept her still, her pelvis was crushed under the strength of my hand.
/I have to get back to Harry/ I scream to myself. /He can make it all better.../ I tell myself. I know it's true. I just have to see Harry and it will be better.
I burn the body to get rid of any evidence. As I did, I don't look back at the fiery corpse until it's gone.
Harry's P.O.V.
I didn't know what to think when I finally saw it. There it was, as plain as day. Just as my father had mentioned, I don't see how I could have missed it. I raised my fingers to rough outline of it, the image of the dragon covering my back. I seriously had forgotten after I first found it, but now it had changed. Before, all I could do was make out the basic shape etched into my skin, but it's now painted in vivid detail. Every scale is visible, in shades of green and sliver. It's piercing green eyes stare back at me in the mirror, its tail coming down around my hip. I vaguely wonder if it's alive, it looks so real, but no. as my hands further trace it, I'm reassured that it isn't.
/Where did it come from/ I begin to ask myself.
Harry jumped as if he was stunned when he heard a bang from downstairs. He hurriedly pulled him shirt back over his head and raced for the noise. /What happened/
The last thing in the world he expected to see was Draco, kneeling in the open doorway. His hair was matted with sweat and coloured red with blood. /someone else's blood/ But Harry dismissed the thought, when he saw the look on his love's face. As Draco met his eyes all Harry could see was intense pain and longing, as Draco sagged against the doorframe.
/Harry/ The thought was oddly weak, but Harry heard it. He shook himself from his stand-still, rushing forward to help him to the couch. Harry sat himself up against a cushion, pulling Draco into his lap. Draco immediately turned towards him, curling up with his head under Harry's chin, oddly submissive.
/I miss the leather.../ Harry thought in passing, before his thoughts returned to Draco. /What happened/ He then caught something weird, a smell. /What have you been doing/ Harry asked, almost suspiciously.
Draco said nothing, only letting his hand wonder on Harry's chest.
/Come on, I can't help until you tell me./ Harry felt his parents enter the room. He slightly motioned them out, knowing that Draco would not like to be seen like this.
/Would you leave me if I did something bad, Arris/
/Why would I leave you? You have openly attacked my own cousin several times and I didn't think any worse of you for it. You attack your own family for my honour and I still love you./ Harry idly stroked the other boy's hip as he spoke.
/This was worse. I killed her./
/Her/ Harry just shrugged. /If my dream was true, then you've killed many people. Why is this time different? Was it someone you know/
/No. She wasn't anyone. A whore./ "Harry." He spoke aloud this time. "I may have been around for a long time, technically, but, physically and mentally, I am still only slightly older than you. Vampires have extraordinary memories, normally, but, I did not live that life! It's nothing more than a distant memory for me, Arris. Half of it I've forgotten. Everything, except you."
Harry didn't know what to say. Technically, this was Draco first human kill. /What about the elf. I was told about that; you didn't seem to broken up over it./
/I don't know why this bothers me and that didn't... Maybe it's because now I have you; I didn't care who or what I hurt before you. I wanted to kill her. I enjoyed killing her almost as much as I find myself wanting you./
Silence. /Why haven't I felt it, I'm not any more human that you are/ Harry asked. /I want to understand you./ Harry had no idea how to handle this; he had never actually harmed another person in his life.
/Harry you've been a full vampire for barely a day. I've been one all my life! You haven't been one long enough to understand everything./ Draco argued, raising his head to look Harry in the eye.
/But I want to try. I need to help you, Draco./
/... I drank it all Harry, every drop of her blood, then destroyed the body. As I said, Arris, sometimes it's too damned hard to resist./ his mental voice trembled slightly, worrying Harry.
/"You are rather important to his sanity."/ Harry now remembered Lucius' words. /So you really do need me/ He reached up a hesitant hand to Draco's red hair.
/Yes. It seems I really do. I thought that I could handle the blood-lust, now that you're in my life, but once I got away from you it became worse./ Draco frustration clearly showed on his face. Harry reached under the other boy's shirt to rub his back in comfort; the contact seemed to work, but only slightly. /It was worse than anything I've done in this life. I've drank from others, my mother and father included, but I killed none. I thought I had control./
/Just stay with me, if it helps./
Harry got the opposite reaction to what he had been expecting, when Draco suddenly grabbed both his wrist, wrenching them off his body in anger. /I also fantasized about other things, but I shouldn't tell you about those thoughts Arris, now should I. You don't really get how much I liked killing in the past/ he sneered, his teeth clearly extened. /I love have these, and I enjoy being a vampire. I don't think I've changed. I don't want you in involved in this. I might just kill you one day Harry./ Draco silver eyes glared into his eyes for a moment, before he pushed off him and went the stairs.
"I'm already involved, Draco!" Harry hissed through his teeth before following.