Chapter 10:
Lucifer was sitting on the couch with Dan's head on his lap for over an hour, his fingers running through, Dan's short hair. The more minutes passed the more worried he became that his boyfriend would stay dead.
He was about to give up when a gasp startled him. Dan bolted upright, "It was all a dream." He sighed before his instincts started focusing on the one human in the room. Elena saw his face and jumped in front of Chloe.
Damon had been prepared though, "It wasn't exactly a dream."
"You... you mean I died for real?" Dan asked with a gasp.
"Yeah, but my blood in your veins made you turn into a vampire, now the choice is up to you. You feed or you die again." Damon explained.
"I don't need to think long about that. I want the life of a vampire." Dan said without hesitation.
"Are you sure, love?" Lucifer asked softly but worriedly that his lover didn't know what he was getting himself into.
"Yeah, I am sure, Luce. I don't want to leave you again and if I have to live as a vampire to have that so be it." Dan said with a lot of love in his voice.
"Love, think about it, if you die you won't go to the Heaven or Hell humans go too but to the supernatural version of it. I don't know if I could ever enter that world." Lucifer sighed, "So don't do it for me."
"Babe, if I go to Heaven you can't follow either so it doesn't make any difference to me. I take this chance to be longer with you than a normal mortal life." Dan smiled while he caressed Lucifer's cheek.
"Alright, love, it's your choice. I do want you to listen carefully to Damon though." Lucifer said.
Dan nodded while trying to suppress the instinct of attack Chloe, her being the only human now.
"Here let's start with your first blood in a bag, I know it's cold and not really tasty but it will help you control before we will go for the warm good stuff. That's why Chloe is here to help. Don't worry you won't hurt her." Damon reassured him.
Dan took the offered blood bag and started to drink from it. There was no way back now. It tasted cold and a bit metallic. The transformation was complete.
"Does all blood taste like this?" Dan asked when he gave Damon back the blood bag.
Elena shook her head, "No, only the blood bank stuff. When you feed on the living it's much more yummy."
"That's why we brought, Lucifer's partner here with us, she is willing to help us teach you," Damon said. He tried to be as polite as possible, which wasn't always his strong suit.
"I would have done it myself, love, but first of all I am invulnerable, and second, we don't know what angel blood will do to vampires, I am not willing to test it with you." Lucifer sighed deeply.
"Chloe! Are you nuts?" Dan asked with shock, "Maybe I can't control it! Who knows I have the same disease as Damon's brother."
"That is a rare disease among vampires." Damon answered, "I am here, and you're no match against me, Lucifer and Elena."
"Daniel, love, look at me," Lucifer said softly. Dan looked up to watch him straight in his lover's eyes, "You remember the mass murder at the yoga studio?"
Dan thought for a while and then nodded, he remembered most of it, "Yeah, except one black hole."
Lucifer nodded, "I know why you can't remember that part and that's also how I know that you will make a fine vampire."
"How so?" Dan asked confused. He never told anyone about the black hole he had since that day.
"Well, the murder weapon was my sister's blade, in human hands it gives you the urge to kill. Humans aren't made to be able to control the blade of the angel of death. You on the other hand were able to resist the whispers inside your head. You were able to hand me the blade. That only means you have massive control." Lucifer told him.
"That's why we never found the weapon, it was celestial," Dan said a bit shocked.
Damon cleared his throat, "All nice and fine but I think it's more important that he learns to feed now. Chloe, why don't you step over here?"
Elena let Chloe pass but stayed near, for the reason that his control wasn't what his boyfriend thought it would be.
Dan stood up and took place in front of Chloe.
"First, you need to compel her. Look into her eyes and repeat the following sentence, you will not scream, you let me feed, you won't feel pain or remember a thing afterward." Damon said.
"Just do what I always do," Lucifer added.
Dan nodded and looked Chloe straight in her eyes. It was like he had done it many times before and felt himself pull his ex-wife into a trance. He repeated the sentence Damon had told him. Chloe didn't move so Dan moved towards her neck and placed his fangs inside her.
Damon listened to the beating of Chloe's heart, from the moment it quickened he told Dan to stop which he did without problems.
Both vampires were shocked, when nobody needed to pull him off Chloe, "Lucifer was right you do have iron control." Elena said.
"Now you look here into the eyes and tell her this: You will go on with your day and you don't remember what just happened," Damon said.
Dan nodded and did as he was told. Chloe looked around, "Well, I am ready to help you, Dan."
"Great job, Dan." Elena smiled cheerfully, "This is going to be a piece of cake."
"It's already done, Chlo. Thank you for helping me." Dan smiled.
"There is something we made, just in case something would happen. Your lover here asked us just to be sure." Damon said and gave Dan a ring similar to Lucifer's but with a deep red stone, "This will make sure that you can walk in the sun without burning up immediately."
"It's a daylight ring," Elena added.
"Give me that ring," Lucifer said with a smirk. He had talked to Damon and Elena about this. Of course, he hadn't been sure that this would happen but he wanted to be prepared for this.
Damon gave Lucifer the ring.
"Dear Dan, love of my life. I had another ring prepared to do this." Lucifer bends down on one knee.
"Sweet love, you accepted me from the moment you knew who or what I was. You never feared me. I want to be yours for now and for as long as you will have me. Do you want to be my husband? Do you want to marry me and make me a happy devil?" Lucifer asked in a soft voice.
Dan smiled, tears sprung into his eyes, "Yes, of course, as long as you can accept who I am now?"
"Of course my sweet little vampire." Lucifer grinned, "Nothing will change my feeling for you."
"Then yes, I will marry you, my devil." Dan smiled with a grin.
Lucifer slid the ring around Dan's finger. It fit perfectly. The devil stood up and pulled Dan into his arms, he kissed his newly fiance softly.
"This deserves a drink," Damon said while Elena and Chloe had tears in their eyes out of happiness.
"How much do I need to feed?" Dan asked suddenly after the kiss had ended.
"We go on a feed once a week but the first few days it will be once a day for you," Damon said trying to be patient. He had to admit though, it never had been this easy.
"You can feed off my customers, but without hurting people and killing people." Lucifer sighed, he didn't like to do this but his boyfriend had to eat.
"Having the boyfriend of a nightclub owner has his perks." Damon grinned.
As promised Damon, Elena, Jeremy, Jenna and Dan partied at Lux, they fed discretely. Nobody ever found out. Dan's control never slipped.
It took several weeks for Stefan to desiccate. That was the moment the torture could begin and who else than Hell's best torturer was right for the job. The only thing Lucifer and the vampires asked was that Stefan was to be kept alive and in one piece.
Damon knew Stefan would be a hard nut the crack. He clearly underestimated Mazikeen though. It took her several more weeks to torture him bad enough that he put his humanity back on.
Chloe volunteered to help him with the guilt he had built up over all his killings. She was allowed from the moment Stefan had enough animal blood inside him that it was safe for her. Damon stayed close though.
Stefan hid in the basement for several months only coming out to hunt for animals. He did appreciate the help Chloe gave him and soon they fell in love with each other. Stefan didn't trust himself any longer to be on human blood so he did what he had always done before, he only drank animal blood.
Nobody outside them ever knew who the ripper murderer was. The case turned cold. Damon was convinced that Stefan's guilt would punish him enough as it is.
Lucifer and Dan married a year later, it was the most expensive wedding Los Angeles had ever seen. Even Lucifer's Father came to wish them the best. Hoping that one day they could talk again like grown-ups.
The vampires had eaten the human meals so that they wouldn't stand out. With the promise that they could snatch later that night. Dan on the other hand didn't need to snatch strangers anymore because now that he had married Lucifer he was able to feed on him, although it took some pursuing from Dan's side to let the vampire try some devil's blood. Lucifer allowed it and when they noticed that the only thing Dan had from the blood was less need of it, he was allowed to do so. Dan was the only though.
Stefan and Chloe married two years after Lucifer and Dan. The couple had bought a few farm animals which they compelled to let Stefan drink. The animals, a few cows, and few horses were large enough to survive.
No ripper murder was ever made again in Los Angeles.
The End.
