Grey – Chapter 17

Cassern

Julian's POV

A week went by since I became a vampire. I have gotten a handle on some of my abilities but the bloodlust is going to take some time. It doesn't help that I am living with witches whose blood smells like the sweetest honey ever made, maybe it will help me build tolerance to human blood. Who knows? Wayland's been weird ever since I kissed him, he's been avoiding me. Everytime I enter a room with him in it, he leaves… if my emotions weren't so heightened it wouldn't bother me so much but it does. The old me… the human me would've left this alone until it resolved itself. The old me wouldn't be doing what I'm about to do, which is to confront him. I find him in his Brother's Study, he sees me and starts to leave but I vamp-speed in front of him "Why are you avoiding me?" I ask him.

Wayland looks away eyebrows furrowed I gently grip his chin so that he is looking at me "Why?" I ask again. Wayland exhales through his nose and gently takes my hand from his chin "I… uh, there's something that I've been meaning to tell you since you became a vampire. My Brother told me that Hybrids have sire-bonds to whoever made them." He starts to explains, "Sire bonds are rare but not so much with Hybrids and the blood I fed you belonged to that vampire." He adds. My eyebrow furrowed confused "So, your saying—wait, what are you saying?" I ask him. "I'm saying that the sire-bond makes the person have undying loyalty to whoever sired them, meaning you." He explains. Okay… so, I'm sired to an unknown vampire that I'll probably never meet… "Is there a catch?" I ask him. Wayland sighs deeply and sits on a couch in the study "I-I did something to the blood… to the sire-bond. I mixed my blood with the vampire's blood using blood magic in order to transfer the bond from that vampire… to me." He explains, "I didn't know any other way to get rid of it." He adds. "So, you're saying that I'm bonded to you, that I kissed you because of some undying loyalty to you. Because your wrong, very wrong." I tell him. Wayland scoffs, I vamp-speed towards him and grip him by his throat lifting him up to me "I could kill him you right now." I threaten. Wayland gives me a hard look "No… you can't. Let… go." He demands and I do… what the hell? "I told you. You can't kill me even if you wanted to, your bonded to me." He states. I punch him in the face "I can't kill you but I can hurt you. Dick." I say then vamp-speed away out of the mansion into the middle of the woods. Wayland, that freaking idiot! All these emotions that buried deep inside of me… I can't seem to keep them, under control. I take huge deep breaths until I am calm enough.

I take a walk around town to test my tolerance for blood, I pretty much smell everyone's blood but it's okay… I don't have the urge to drink from everyone that walks by me, so far. I decide to go to the place where I died, the school library… they cleaned up all the blood but the damage to the floor is still there. I sniff the air and for some reason it smells like dog "Julian?" A familiar voice calls out. I turn around and see Liam and Mason… the dog smell is coming from Liam, right, he's a werewolf and so is Scott. Great, that's gonna be some getting used to. Liam's shoulders tense up and he starts to growl… at me, his eyes flash amber. Mason looks between Liam and I "Uh, Liam, what's wrong?" He asks concerned and confused. "I-I don't know." Liam growls, "Something's different, about you." He adds glaring at me. I look around, no one else is here and I hear no other heartbeats but Liam's and Mason's in the library "I am different, Liam." I say as I slowly walk towards them. Liam stands protectively in front of Mason and starts to growl more intensely "A week ago, I died here in this library but I came back to life. I came back different… I died a witch and came back as… a vampire." I tell them. Both, Liam and Mason look at me shocked "Whoa, vampires are real?!" Mason asks excited but Liam doesn't seem to share the same sentiment. Liam continues to growl at me and it's getting on my nerves "Liam, could you please stop growling at me?" I ask politely. Liam doesn't listen, he's all instinct… I sigh "Fine, have it your way." I say. I show them my vampire face, Liam wolves out ready to pounce me but I vamp-speed towards him and push him away with some force. He falls onto some bookshelves I turn to Mason who back us slightly as I walk towards him. Mason swallows a lump in his throat "A-are you going to drink my blood?" He asks both excited and afraid. I scoff "No." I say, Mason looks disappointed weirdly.

Suddenly, I'm pulled from behind and thrown across some tables onto the floor. I hear Liam roar, I quickly get up to my feet "Yeah, that's it. Come on." I taunt. Liam leaps up and slashes at me with a clawed hand, I dodge him. He keeps slashing at me with his claws and I continue to dodge him. I catch both of his wrists, Liam growls as we have a sort of tug of war. Either Liam's the strongest werewolf ever or I've overestimated my new found vampire strength. Liam pulls me in and headbutts me then grips one of my wrist and bites into it. I push Liam off of me "Ahh! What the hell, Liam?!" I cry out in pain. Me crying out in pain takes Liam out of his stupor "J-Julian… Oh god, I'm sorry!" He says apologizing, I look down at my wound… it's not healing, what the hell? Liam suddenly screams out in pain I look up, it's Wayland, he's giving Liam a magical aneurysm as he puts Mason to sleep "You stupid Puppy! You just killed Jules!" He exclaims angrily as he increases the strength of his spell. "I'm sorry!" Liam cries out "Stop!" I shout canceling out Wayland's spell on Liam. He passes out from the pain. I glare at Wayland "What did you mean when you said that Liam just killed me?" I ask him. Wayland's eyebrow furrowed sorrowfully "Werewolf bites… are lethal to Vampires." He tells me, "Oh." I say in realization of what he meant. I sigh deeply, I had to pick a fight with a werewolf today, huh "Wake them up." I say, "What?! Why?!" Wayland asks. "Wake. Them. Up." I demand. Wayland sighs and wakes up both Mason and Liam, Mason wakes up first then Liam "Julian?" He says and sees my wound. He starts to make a sad puppy face as he looks at my wound "I'm sorry…" He says again sincerely, "I know, Liam." I whisper. Weirdly, I'm not angry at him… I don't know why? I groan as I feel pain in my wound, I'm starting to feel a little feverish. I wonder if I can siphon the pain away, I concentrate and start to siphon. I don't feel any pain… in fact, I feel ten times better. I check my wound to find that there isn't one anymore "What the—" I say out loud, "Your wound, it's gone." Liam says surprised. I nod "Yeah, it is." I say still shocked. Wayland laughs "Of course, your siphoning ability. I should've known." He says like he should've known all along. I stand up "You sure your all right?" Liam asks, I nod "Yeah." I tell him smiling a little. "Where's Stiles?" I ask Liam, I haven't seen him for a while and I don't even know if Scott's alive, because he looked pretty dead that night. If he's alive then he's a tough werewolf "Uh, I think he's with Scott." Liam tells me not sure. I guess, he sort of conformed that Scott is alive "Well, when see them you can tell them what happened to me, okay." I say. Liam nods "You can decide whether or not to tell them about our sparring match, that up to you." I add, Liam looks at me sheepishly and nods again.

I left the library with Wayland, we walk together in silence "So, how did you know about wolf bites being lethal to vampires?" I ask him. "My family's Bestiary, they have an entry on werewolves. There strengths and weaknesses, and that their bite is lethal to vampires. Also, there wasn't a known cure for it, until today." Wayland explains. I stop walking standing in front of Wayland looking at him directly in his eyes "So, you still think this sire-bond is the reason I kissed you." I state. Wayland looks away "It's not, you've read up on wolves but I read up on vampires. Especially on how emotions become heightened as a vampire. So, whatever feelings I had for you when I was human are now coming out to the surface like a slow-moving whirlwind as a vampire." I confess. I pull Wayland in and kiss him again, full on the lips and he kisses back. We pull apart after a few minutes "So… you've had feeling for me before you were turned into a vampire? Before you wanted to kill me?" Wayland asks. I smirk "Yeah, I still have those feelings too." I tell him, Wayland smirks.

The next day, I go to school. My first period class was canceled for some unknown reason. So, I head to the library and, see Liam and Mason. They're sitting at a table and they seem to be staring daggers at someone I see who they are looking at… it's Theo and one of his Chimeras. I sit next to Mason and Liam "Hey, guys." I greet "Hey, Julian." Mason greets back. Liam continues to glare at Theo and his Minion "Liam, staring is rude. Stop before your shirt suddenly catches fire." I say in a thinly veiled threat. Mason looks at me shocked and Liam growls at me "Hey easy, I'm not looking for round 2. You Demon Puppy." I chastise, Liam goes back to staring at Theo and the other Chimera. I look to Mason "What's his problem?" I ask. Mason tells me the chimera with Theo is Hayden. Liam's former dead girlfriend, who is alive and apart of Theo's pack of Chimeras. Theo and Hayden leave the library, Liam starts to get up but I stand in front of him "Woah, easy." I say trying to prevent him from doing something he may regret. "You said, Scott told you not to do anything." Mason says, "I know." Liam growls "Liam, you said you weren't going to get involved." He adds worried, "I know." Liam growls again. Liam calms down a bit "Where are Scott and Stiles, anyway?" I ask trying to change the subject, "They uh, they went to New Mexico to help Kira." Liam tells me. The bell rings, time for my next class "Let me know when they come back, see ya." I tell them and leave for my next class.

I get to class, Theo's here… I forgot that I share this class with him. I smirk making my way towards him and sit next to him. Theo starts to shake uncontrollably he grips his hands together to stop some of the shaking. I chuckle then sigh a little bored "Meet me after class." I whisper low enough for him to hear. After class, I wait for Theo, he's the last one to leave class. His hands are clenched into fist to stop from shaking "What do you want?" He asks steely. I smirk "I can undo that, if you want." I say, gesturing to his shaking form. "What's the catch?" He asks, I shrug my shoulder "No catch. I'm just bored of seeing you like this." I tell him honestly.

We go to the Boy's Restroom I check around to make sure that it is just us in the restroom. I look Theo in his eyes "You no longer have to shake in fear when you see." I compel. The second I lifted my compulsion Theo goes to attack me with his clawed hand. I dodge him and push him away hard he goes flying into the restroom wall. I shake my head and chuckle, I speed towards and grab him by his throat lifting him up. Theo tries to pull my hand from him his throat to no avail, I laugh out loud "I'm starting to believe that you are not a real werewolf at all. You're a Chimera, aren't you?" I ask rhetorically. Theo just glares at me struggling in my grip. I look him in his eyes again "Think twice before you decide whether or not to mess with me. And you still fear me just without the shaking." I compel. Then I let him go, Theo rubs his throat glaring heatedly at me, I smirk "See ya, Chimera." I taunt and exit the restroom.

After School, I get a text from Mason that Scott and Stiles are back from New Mexico. I go to Scott's House and knock on the door. It opens to reveal Stiles "Hey…" He greets awkwardly, "Hey." I greet back. There's a weird silence before either of us speak "Did Liam tell you about…" I say not finishing my sentence. Stiles nods swallowing a lump in throat "Yeah… he told me and Scott about what happened to you." He says. Stiles eyebrows furrowed "I'm sorry… that it happened to you." He says, "Thanks… but it's okay, I guess. I've embraced it so far." I tell him. Stiles shake his head "So, you're with being a… vampire?" He asks, "Of course not but, what am I going to do?" I say back. Stiles sighs "Well, I'm tired from my trip but tomorrow I'm gonna have question." He says. I chuckle nodding "Sure." I say, "Night." He says "Night." I say back. Good to know nothing has really changed between Stiles and I. He has questions which better than shunning me, it will probably take some getting used to for him, me being a vampire now but this can work. I'm sure of it.