Waking up from a slumber which I apparently needed, I found the covers over me. Feeling warm, too warm I pushed them back and swung my legs over the side of the bed. Standing up and looking around the room yet again, I found it to be the same as last time, except for a few differences.
A change of clothes had been laid out for me, next to a chair just outside an adjoining bathroom. Hesitantly taking the clothes, I showered in cold water, which felt normal and weird at the same time as I usually preferred warm water. As I dried off and changed, Marcus's words came to the forefront of my mind, about him changing me. He had to be lying.
Leaving the room again, which still wasn't locked, I made my way through the endless hallways. This time my feet led me to an office. Standing outside the door which was cracked open just a bit I heard Blade was arguing with Marcus.
3rd person POV
"You had to change her now?" Blade yelled.
"I did not have a choice."
"Bullshit! She's just a kid."
"I am aware of the consequences of turning her at a young age," said Marcus.
"Didn't seem to affect your decision."
"She was dying," said Marcus. Pulling some papers from a desk drawer, he showed Blade. "Her blood levels have been abnormal for a time now."
"I didn't realize it had gotten that bad." Said Blade.
"You knew about her condition?" asked Marcus.
"I knew her mother was killed by Danny when Alyssa was a baby, because her mother was a vampire and tried to eat her. She kept her thirst under control for a while but it got to be too much for her." (A/N: Let's just say vamps can give birth) Shaking his head, Blade looked at the papers Marcus handed him. "If you didn't change her, how much longer would she have lasted?"
"3 months at most."
"She would have died?"
"Yes," said Marcus. "It would have been painful."
"Then I guess I should say thanks."
Alyssa pushed open the office doors. "You knew?" she yelled at Blade.
"Liss-
"You knew he was going to turn me?"
"Yes," said the Day-Walker. "I didn't like the idea-
He was cut off when Alyssa punched him, sending him to the floor. "You knew and you didn't say a word." Blade had gotten up from the floor and Alyssa made a fist, about to hit him again, when he grabbed her and forced her to sit down. She struggled against him, but he kept her in the chair. Not being able to move away from him, she turned her face, not looking at him.
Once Blade knew she was going to stay put, he handed her the papers that Marcus had handed him. She reluctantly took them. Looking at them, she didn't see anything out of the ordinary. "So I'm anemic. Big deal." She said, throwing the papers back on Marcus's desk.
"Liss, that's not just anemia. Since Danny was a Day-Walker and your momma was a vamp…well the day I met you, I knew you had some vamp in you. I just wasn't sure when it would surface."
Then Marcus chimed in. "Your blood levels might show up as anemic to most medical professionals, but to us, it registers as you needing blood. An extreme need, a thirst if you will. As Blade said, your 'vamp' would surface, but neither of us were sure when it would become fully developed. We thought it would show up slowly, but instead it came out all at once. This would have killed you if I hadn't stepped in."
Alyssa didn't want to believe this. "No," she whispered. Then she screamed, "NO!" as she stood up and flung the chair she had been sitting in away from her and it broke into pieces. Then she hit Marcus and knocked him to the floor.
Blade then restrained her, until she quickly broke free from his grasp, strong with anger. As she broke away from him she knocked him to the floor as well. Then Marcus got up from said, "ENOUGH!"
She hissed and growled at him, fangs bared. That's what shocked her enough into calming down. As she put her fingers to her mouth and felt her fangs, Marcus picked her up and sat her on the edge of his desk. Blade, who had already stood up from being knocked down, took a step forward, but Marcus put his hand up silently telling him to not come any closer.
As Marcus kept an eye on Alyssa, he poured her a glass of something from a decanter nearby. As he handed her the glass and helped her drink, she had barely taken a sip before guzzling down the rest of the liquid.
Only after she had drank it, did she realize what it was. "I just drank blood didn't I?"
"Yes, sweetheart, you did."