Disclaimer-I own nothing, I often dream of owning Jason, but I always seem to wake up...Damn...
Tonight you're mine completely
You give your love so sweetly
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes
Will you love me tomorrow?
Is this a lasting treasure
Or just a moment's pleasure?
Can I believe the magic of your sighs?
Will you still love me tomorrow?
-Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow by The Shirelles -
"Sanura, what are you doing here?"
I finally found Beth at her work station at the news room. I gave her a smile. "Looking for you, I was wondering if maybe we could have lunch..."
Beth smirked. "Lunch?"
"Oh well, um...I mean, you have lunch and I watch wishing that I could taste whatever you choose to order."
"Yea, give me a few minutes."
-30 Minutes Later-
"I don't care where we sit, as long as it's inside."
Beth smiled at me. " I know, don't worry."
I shielded my face from the hot sun with a grimace. Even before I was turned I wasn't a day person, I hated the sun. So being a vampire just made my distaste for the sun even stronger.
Beth ordered a hamburger and the smell made me hungry, one of the many things I miss about life, the food was so damn good. Vampires really don't have a big menu to choose from.
"So, what did you want to talk about?"
I smiled at her and continued to stare at the french fries she was absentmindedly picking at. "Oh you know, I really haven't been around, and I'm just wandering how Mick and everyone has been."
"Well I can tell you how Mick as been, but as for other vampires...I only know Josef..."
I bit my lip. She smiled at me. "You two have a history don't you?"
"What gives you that idea?"
"Because, Mick told me about your relationship, how you two argue all the time and there was just something about the type of arguments he said you guys had...it makes me think you two were a little closer than Mick knows."
"Oh Deiu! Mick doesn't suspect anything does he?!"
She smiled. "No, Mick is clueless as usual..."
I nodded. "I really don't want to talk about what happen...but I will tell you something did happen between us..."
"Understandable, you don't know me or anything..."
I bit my lip again. "I just want to know how Josef's been, I mean, not in the stalker way, just you know, the basic stuff."
She smiled. "He's the same as he's been since I've met him, I haven't known him to long so.."
"Just happy to see he's still alive..."
"Yea, he's still paranoid...even more so if possible."
I laughed. "He'll out live us all."
"So how old are you? I mean, I know Coraline turned you..."
"50, I think I look pretty damn good for my age don't you think?"
She smiled. "Most vampires do."
Me and Beth's conversation varied, but we mostly talked about Mick. Whenever his name was mentioned her eyes would light up. It was obvious the affect he had on her, and I knew Mick felt the same.
I dropped her off back at the Buzzwire office, she hadn't pushed me to much on the whole Josef issue, but something told me she was going to be talking to Josef pretty soon.
Thirty minutes later I found myself in the small parking lot of Fautes bar. When I was turned in the seventies, this was one of the 'hippest' bars in town. It was more of a jazz bar now, I hadn't been here since I met Josef all those years ago. I walked through the doors, a woman in a white dress was singing on the stage, 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorow' echoed from the speakers. To say she had a beautiful voice was an understatement.
But she had nothing on the woman that had been singing 33 years ago.
I sat down in a corner booth, and closed my eyes. All I wanted to do was go back 33 years, to what I thought was going to be the best night of my life.
I remember that night perfectly. Tonya leaning out the window of her sports car, telling me to hurry up. I ran out of the house without giving my mom or dad a kiss goodbye. Something I've regretted everyday since then. Me and my little sister had gotten into a fight earlier that day, the last thing I told her was that I hated her. That bothers me more than anything.
The car was packed with girls, I ended up sitting in the back on my friends laps. They let me choose the bar we would be sneaking into. I chose Fautes, another thing on my list of regrets.
Josef looked perfect that night, he was surrounded by women, but yet he kept looking at me. Finally, after ten minutes of eye contact, he came over and asked me to dance. There is a point in every girls life where lust takes over and all logical thought comes to a screeching halt. This was mine.
To say he seduced me was the nice way to put it. He had in his mind what he wanted, and he wanted me. Though I still haven't figured out why. He took me back to his house and after hours of sex, I was dead. Then after nearly thirty minutes of pain, I was a vampire.
I shook my head, trying to clear my mind. I shouldn't be thinking about things like this, it just depresses me.
"Aren't there other holes you could hide in?"
I jumped at the sudden sound of his voice, he laughed at me. I raised my eyes to meet his. "I could ask you the same thing."
Josef smirked. "Yes well, I like the music here."
"Maybe I do to."
He sat down next to me in the booth. I glared at him. "What the hell are you doing?"
He smirked. "Well, this is called sitting, something you normally learn early in life."
"Yes, but why are you sitting next to me? There are plenty of booths in this place."
He stared at me for a bit. "Can we just pretend for a while, that you don't hate me?"
I bit my lip. "Why, so we can get all nostalgic and stupid enough to think something could happen between us again? I personally have no desire to be kicked out of your bed again."
"How do you think I feel knowing how much you resent me?!"
I turned in the booth so I could get a better look at him. "How did you expect me to be Josef? You took my life, you killed me, and gave me a new one that I never wanted...still don't want...I mean, you can't even give me a reason as to why you chose me that night!"
He sighed. "Please Sanura, just for a little while..."
I bit my lip, he was being that wonderful, amazing Josef that I had fallen in love with all those years ago, and I hated it.
I stood up and he looked up at me, his eyes showing a hint of sadness I knew no one else would ever see. "Come on love, let's dance." I took his hand and we walked out onto the dance floor.
Being in his arms did exactly what I said it would, it made me wish for what I had. It made me want what I knew we could never have again. When the song ended I pulled away from him, his eyes were back to their normal emotionless state. I knew our moment of peace was over.
I gave him a small good-bye smile and walked away.
