Chapter 6 – Protection
"Hunter? How the hell did you find me?"
"Can we talk inside? I can sense people headed this way"
"Um, sure, come in. But I have company if you'll respect that"
"Of course, she must be delicious. I smelt her blood when I got within 500 yards of the place" he said with a smile as Quinn shut the door behind them.
Rachel turned round hearing the footsteps; Quinn offered her a reassuring smile.
"Rachel this is Hunter, the one I told you about"
"Of course, it's nice to meet you"
"It's nice to meet you too; I can tell by your relaxed nature that you're aware of us"
Rachel nodded. "Quinn is my girlfriend and though I obviously don't know absolutely everything, I know quite a lot now. Can I ask you a question though?"
Hunter smiled as he and Quinn took a seat, "sure go ahead"
"Why did you choose her?"
Quinn actually looked surprised at the question, as she realized she'd never asked him that herself.
Hunter laughed, "Y'know Quinn's never even asked me that herself. But I will answer, for you both. Two reasons, the first obviously being hunger. I hadn't fed for almost a week. But the main reason I chose Quinn was because I sensed that her strength and abilities could make her a very powerful vampire. One of my supernatural gifts, if you will, is being able to sense a person's emotions and thoughts. When I sensed Quinn coming in my direction, the pain I felt was unbearable. Her pain, now I'd already been a vampire a good number of years but feeling how hurt she was really got to me. And so I thought that making her what I was would be so much better for her, because she'd come out on top. Which after what she'd gone through, especially with her child, was what I thought she deserved"
Rachel somehow understood his reasoning completely, but she hated knowing Quinn had been in so much pain. She gently placed her hand on top of Quinn's.
Quinn smiled, "all this time and I never really thought about it like that"
"You forget you are still fairly new at this, but you did settle into the lifestyle ten times quicker than I did. I had such trouble with bloodlust and lack of control whereas you, you were barely affected. You seemed to sense right away when you were full enough, you chose wisely, hell you only ever killed 2 people and felt so bad about it I thought you were gonna go on some kind of suicide mission. That's the good thing about you Quinn; you have your humanity and don't feel compelled to kill people. You're every bit the strong vampire I thought you'd make, and look at you now. You two seem very happy with each other and I can tell that Rachel is as protective of you as you are of her. Now, to the reason why I'm here"
"Yes I was wondering when you'd get to that" Quinn said, "How did you find me?"
"When I turned you, I chipped you. You were my companion for a while and as a 'newborn' I just wanted to look out for you, you know? Anyway, I'm here because there's been a string of killings. Somehow the humans have found out that staking does nothing but really piss us off. A bunch of bodies were found in woodland in another state, headless"
"They were decapitated?"
"Yes, while they were still alive. Well not alive but, yeah you get it"
Rachel looked mortified. Hunter sensed this and felt the need to put the poor girl at ease.
"Don't be frightened Rachel, there's only a very small percentage of humans that believe we even exist. And most 'believers' are admitted to mental institutions before they can do anything about it, don't worry. Besides you have Quinn and I'm going to be around for a while so I can keep you updated if there's anything.."
"Why did you stop?" Quinn asked.
"I can sense a third vampire pretty close to here"
Quinn's heart sank, this was exactly the kind of thing that she'd been worrying about since the beginning.
"What do we do?" Rachel asked anxiously, tightening her grip on Quinn's hand.
"Well we don't know that they are a threat, but not all vampires are as humane as Quinn and I. So we'll need to play it safe. Quinn, I'm guessing you've fed from Rachel?"
"Since the night we came back into each other's lives" she replied with a weak smile.
"Rachel, you need to drink from Quinn"
"Excuse me?" Quinn exclaimed.
"Quinn we don't have much time but you know how beneficial our blood is to those that aren't our own kind. And she'll only need a small amount seeing as from your reaction I can tell she hasn't yet drank from you"
"How will it work?" the blonde asked concerned for her girlfriend's welfare.
"Because the other vampire is so close if Rachel drinks from you it'll temporarily mask her own blood's scent throwing him or her off so they'll go play elsewhere" Hunter replied.
"Rachel I'm so sorry"
"Quinn its fine, just, let's do this"
Quinn sank her fangs into her own wrist and held the inside of her arm to Rachel with a sigh.
Rachel took Quinn's arm gently and lowered her mouth over the bleeding wound, her tongue licked nervously at first. The taste was alien to her, slightly metallic but after a while her mouth had adjusted to the taste and she lapped quite eagerly. Her grip on her girlfriend tightening slightly, Quinn blinked trying to convince herself that a human drinking from her wasn't supposed to be sexual; it was supposed to be the other way around. But somehow, it was. Hunter watched with a smirk as the two girls' chest movements seemed to mirror each other. He may have failed to mention to Quinn that the act was satisfying either way around, but now wasn't the time to mention it as she seemed to be discovering that fact hands on.
Using the power he'd been gifted with, Hunter sensed that the plan had worked and the vampire had retreated to go find someone else to feed from.
"Well done ladies, whoever it was has retreated"
Rachel pulled away reluctantly, licking away the leftover blood on and around her lips. Quinn just looked mesmerized as she stared at her already healing wrist.
"Well, I was not expecting that" she said softly, Hunter simply smiled.
"I was right" Rachel announced, the blonde simply smiled at her with a knowing smile.
And Hunter had no clue what they were talking about. But sensed that the two would possibly appreciate some alone time.
