Vampires

Requested by crowncelestial: "I want a TRC!Watanuki&Doumeki, and the whole 'soulmates' thing. :D And I'd be very happy if there are vampires."

No soulmates as it turned out, and I don't know that there's anything particularly TRC in here either. But I got the vampires, and that should be what counts, right?

Doumeki had heard that it wasn't unusual for people to panic a bit after they woke up. It wasn't unusual for them to panic a lot. Even so, this particular newly-reborn boy seemed to be taking things a bit hard.

"I'm a…you're a… I'm a… you made me into a WHAT?!"

"I could always have let you die instead," Doumeki pointed out. He'd thought that would be more of a clincher on the matter.

"This is your idea of rescuing someone?" Watanuki protested. "Instead of being dead I'm Undead?! That's supposed to be better?"

Doumeki thought this was a slightly unfair assessment. "You still get to move around," A lot, he couldn't help but notice. He wondered if he should mention that even vampires couldn't actually fly, so there really wasn't any point in Watanuki waving his arms around like that. "I could still kill you. If you'd prefer."

The newborn vampire hesitated, then his mouth snapped shut with an audible click. Doumeki took that as a 'no'. Good enough, he hadn't ever expected to get a thankyou out of this.

"It's not all bad," he said, aiming his voice for 'comforting', but unsure how close he was getting.

"I'm going to have to drink blood, aren't I?" said Watanuki, as though he had a checklist he was going through and this was the item at the top.

"Sometimes."

"Blood from people?"

"That's the idea."

His new acquaintance considered this for a minute, and made a face. "Well I'm sorry but I'm really not seeing the upside here yet," he complained.

"We don't age," said Doumeki. "A lot of people would consider that an upside."

Watanuki's eyes widened in horrified realisation. "You mean… you mean I'm going to have to spend – eternity – with you?!" Without even waiting for Doumeki to reply, he let out a wail so loud that people blocks away would probably be wondering who was being murdered.

Doumeki wondered briefly whether he had actually made the wrong decision back there, but found he didn't have it in him to regret this yet – even now.

He'd have to be the first to admit that eternity can send you a little odd. Immortality was all very well in principle, but it did tend to get a bit dull after the first few centuries. You spent so much time waiting for nothing much to happen that when something did catch your attention, you sometimes got a little impulsive. Particularly if the only alternative was to let the most fascinating person you'd met in longer than you could remember die in an alleyway.

Anyway, Watanuki was bound to see things differently after he'd gotten over his initial panic and had some time to adjust. Doumeki could wait – he had all the time in the world.