"Wake up" ugh the pain. "Wake up"
I slowly opened my heavy eyelids to find that I was in some sort of room, a brightly lit room. I closed my eyes again then opened them. It was them, the vampires that captured me. The male's face was inches from mine, a fake smile spread across his lips.
"My aren't you interesting looking" He laughed. "I mean you have such a unique face" I felt cold hands find my cheeks. The coolness felt wonderful against my feverish skin.
"Please" I began to speak, my throat was sore and dry. "Please let me go, I have done nothing to you"
Both vampires laughed.
"Oh its what you did to all of us" The Vampire Eric spoke with a sweet voice. "You along with your little group called The Silver Sun, you were just an easy captor"
"So why am I here" I questioned, blood began to trickle down my leg from my knee, I needed to take a shower badly. I need to clean my cuts.
"It was a compulsive move" Wined the the woman vampires. "He is like that"
"Pam shut up" Eric shouted. "Oh there is a motive, I think the vampire queen would love your company, you seem like her type, more than just a meal type of thing"
"Fuck you" I shouted again.
"Oh please that could be arranged" He smirked.
"You are probably too old for me anyways...what are you one million"
A cackle escaped Pam's lips. "That was a good one"
"You are a smart one, she will adore you, a great pet you will become"
"I rather die"
"That could be arranged"
"Then DO IT" I cried bracing myself for fang. "Do it like you did to my father"
"Great we have another Newlin on our hands" Pam sneered.
Suddenly another person entered the room. Slowly walked toward Eric.
"Godric" Eric calmly greeted.
It was a boy.
"Eric, what are you doing" Asked the voice. It was a soothing voice, it calmed my fast beating heart and allowed me to breath. Tears still streamed down my sliced cheeks. I was so tired and thirsty and that voice was so refreshing.
"Godric, its Vivian Kingsly, the Silver Sun member who exposed our secret to the public" Eric was angry.
"Eric what are you going to prove by kidnapping this girl, you are proving everything the fellowship of the sun says is right, that we are monstrous creatures, let her go"
"I will not, the girl deserves so much pain"
"I believe she has been though enough, with her losing a father, and recently a friend"
"Please" I cried.
"I will not"
"Then I will take her"
"But Godric its too late"
The voice walked in front of me. The first thing that made contact with me was his eyes. It was the dark eyes. I couldn't look away.
"I'm going to untie you, but you have to promise me you will not try anything, this is for your safety not mine" He spoke to me quietly.
I nodded slowly, I was scared of him, why? I don't know. I wasn't really scared of Eric, but I was scared of this vampire. Scared in a strange way.
The Vampire named Godric kneeled down onto his knees to get to the ropes around my ankles. His finger tips slowly touched my ankles sending shivers down my spine. I jumped. It was so odd, his touch.
"Your knees are wounded badly, they need to be cleaned" he stood up trying to make eye contact with me again.
Ah gee really? I said to myself. Because I wouldn't know.
"I know" I spoke quietly.
"Of course" He replied. Was that sarcasm or just a statement?
Suddenly he took hold of my wrists and quickly grabbing hold of the rope pulled it apart. Vampire strength. He walked to the back of the chair and untied the the knot releasing the rope around my stomach.
"Thank you" I quietly stated. I stood up quickly and to my surprise my knees gave out sending me landing on the ground.
"No" I started to cry.
"Here let me help you" Godric offered kindly.
"I don't need anymore help from a vampire, I might seem weak at this state now, but I am not like this always" I hissed gently pushing myself up from the hard ground, but I fell back down. I was frustrated.
"You do need my help, please let me help you" Godric kneeled down and scooped me off the ground one arm under my legs the other under my back as if I weighed nothing.
"I didn't say you could pick me up did" I was angry. "put me down now"
"No" his voice was calm.
"I can walk out of here fine on my own " could I?
"you can not leave, not now anyways" The Vampire began to walk out of the room and up stairs.
"Why?"
"For my nest's safety"
"Your nest? I guess that just gives me a even better reason to try to escape"
"Yes, and I would like to see you try"
"you will, once I recover in the morning" I laughed.
"You wont be able to escape here even if you are a member of The Silver Sun and you wont be recovered in the morning"
"Don't underestimate a member of The Silver Sun, I tricked your Vampire friends, I was running and hiding for hours, if I hadn't had stopped I probably would have gotten away, you see its so close until the sun will rise"
"I see you are strong" was that a smirk. "Perhaps, you would have gotten away"
"Put me down now and let me go!"
"You can't even walk" The hallway stopped " and I am not going to let you go"
The vampire began to lead me to another room. It was a nice room, nicer than my bed room anyways. Something told me it was going to be my new room, I didn't like that idea so I did something stupid. Moving my body in all sorts of ways I some how managed to get out of the vampire's arms and fell to the floor. As quickly as I could I tried crawling to the door, but at a blink of an eye the door had shut and Godric was standing in front of it, his fang slid out from beneath his lips.
"I don't like showing my fangs, but knowing you are terrified by my kind this would be the only way to control you"
I moved as far away from him as I possibly could, the fear, it was strong. I needed Zach. I needed grow a huge pair...
"Control" I sarcastically laughed trying to pull myself together. "That you will never do" I continued to slowly crawl backwards, my knees were killing me, I stumbled a bit. Something pop causing more pain.
"Yes of course" Godric walked toward me, I froze in place. Not even thinking about making eye contact with him, Glamour is a vampires best friend. "I am someone that you can trust, I will not harm you in anyway, Now please will you let me help you get cleaned up, you must be miserable"
"Thats not even half of it" I hissed. "I am stuck in a room with a vampire, the sole creature who devoured my father and killed my best friend's brother"
"I am not that vampire" He calmly.
"Does it matter?"
"To you I guess not"
I felt my self being lifted, Godric with out my permission scooped me off the floor once again.
"Put me down" I ordered. "Please I don't like you touching me"
He began to walk to a door opposite from the one we entered and quickly opened it. It was a bathroom, he sat me down on the floor gently. I began to try to get up, but his strong hands gently pushed me down.
"Don't try anything" He ordered, but still in his calm voice. "I wouldn't want you getting hurt anymore"
He stood up and walked to the porcelain tub that sat to right of me, I heard water, he was filling to the tub.
"You can look at me" He randomly stated. "I know you rather not, but I will not glamour you"
Steam filled the air. Reaching his arm out he grabbed a small hand towel from a wooden shelf above my head. He dipped into the hot water and sat down before me. I turned away from him painfully.
"Please face me" I didn't want him to clean me up, I for sure as hell didn't want him touching me anymore, and I didn't want to look into his dark eyes, dangerous they were, his eyes. "Please, you can trust me"
Might as well, my whole body was a mess and the dirt was now burning my cuts. I slowly turned to face him wanting to roll my eyes. How mature I was...not. With the hand that was free the vampire gently touched my face pushing it up so he could wipe it clean of dirt and the smeared make up around my eyes. A wave of embarrassment washed over me causing my body to warm up and probably become red.
The towel came upon my face gently, swiping over my cheek bones, my eyes and nose. Letting my face drop towel left my skin, it was covered in blood and black make-up, he dipped it back into the tub to drenching it and cleaning it.
"Your left cheek is bruising" He calmly let me know. "It will need ice"
"No thanks to the blond vampire" I finally spoke.
"Eric did this" It was a question.
"Yes I believe that was his name, any way to knock me out of struggling"
The vampire grabbed my left wrist gently pulling it toward him, I jumped from pain.
"That hurt" he stated, his eyes locking with mine. "I'm sorry, forgive me, its been a while since I have touched a human, I almost had forgotten about how fragile you are"
"I wouldn't say fragile, we don't have the unnatural built of vampire"
He began to clean my arm gently, going over the cuts and scrapes caused by the bushes and tree limbs. I lifted my right arm to him, just to be fare and so he wouldn't have to pull on that arm. He cleaned the arm.
"Please sit with your back against the wall, I am going to clean your knees next"
I moved backward until my back was against the wall, I stretched my legs out slowly. His finger tips went to my knee.
"ahh" I screamed loudly. "Please don't do that again" Tears began streaming down my newly clean face.
His fingers went to my ankles, trailing up my chins and calves, up to my knees, to my thigh.
I sucked in a great deal of air, no one had touched me like that before. He grabbed the towel out of the tub, and rung it out on my legs. I hissed with pain.
"I'm sorry, but these cuts need to be cleaned"
"I know" I cried quietly. "Just please hurry up"
He rubbed the cloth on my legs getting rid of layers of dirt, there were many layers, I had to rub as much dirt on my skin, I had to cover the scent of my blood.
"You were smart"
"Excuse me" I asked, what was he talking about.
"You were smart to rub dirt on your wounds" His eyes left my legs and found mine, red with tears and exhaustion. I began to feel embarrassed again, because of how I looked and the situation I was in. "It does cut off the scent of your blood somewhat"
I just nodded in agreement, I felt my eyes drooping.
"This is going to hurt you" He warned. The fabric hit my knees quickly and aggressively, I had placed more dirt on my knees than on any other place on my body. For some reason I didn't jump, it hurt, yes like hell, but I didn't jump.
"If you would like, I will place you in the bath tub so you can soak in some hot water" He was being so kind. "It will sooth your pain for a bit and clean your wounds better"
I just nodded. Why did I agree to it? I wanted the pain to go away, I wanted to be left a lone.
"I know you will need a change of clothes, while you are in here I will get you some, it might not fit, but it will do until Eric and I get a chance to go out an purchase you some clothing"
I reached for the zipper on the back of my dress, I cried out in pain. I was helpless, I was weak and needed sleep. I was in deed a fighter, but being a fight comes with it's consequences...pain and wounds of all sorts. I couldn't unzip my dress and for sure I didn't want this vampire to undress me, but it was my only choice.
"Could you" I began to mumble. "Help me with my dress" How could I trust him, this creature, the same creature I have hated for years.
I Stood up slowly hoping I would not fall and turned my back to him. Suddenly I felt his hands on the zipper. I was glad I wore a bra with the dress, I didn't really need it because I have a small chest, but It was great that I did. I felt my hair being pushed aside and his hands pull the fabric off my shoulders and down my back. His hands were so soft. My body began to heat up again with embarrassment, no one has stripped me of my clothing before.
"You have nothing to fear by me, I have been around for many years and have seen many with out their clothing, so you do not need to feel embarrassed"
he has seen many nude women meaning what exactly?
My body heated up even more.
"You are so warm, possibly sick" he informed me whispering. "Would you like to keep you under garments on"
Well should I? I asked myself. I would need them of course.
WIthout my answer he unclasped my bra. The air hitched at my throat, I was topless and with a man, I mean vampire I had never met before, why go through all this trouble, why help me, why not kill me.
"Why didn't you kill me" I asked leaving my back to him, I didn't want to show him my chest or anything.
"I don't kill anymore, in fact I haven't for two hundred years"
He was old, an old vampire.
"Then how do you live?" I asked realizing it wasn't the best question to ask.
"Now in modern times I drink true blood, but in the past I fed from the willing, not killing them"
"Willing?"
"yes of course, there are many willing humans today"
He pulled the dress down farther to the point where it was draping onto my feet.
"How old are you exactly"
"Older than you think" He laughed. "And probably wont want to know"
"I want to know"
"I'm probably going to be the oldest vampire you will ever meet" He smiled looking at me, I had faced him still in my underwear and arms around my small chest, but I turned away when he smiled at me.
"okay" I was starting to feel uncomfortable.
"I'm 2000 years old"
What, I was shocked, 2000 year's old. Well this guy could come in handy with my history home work.
"would you like me to place you in the tub"
"but please look away when you pick me up, or look somewhere else other than my body"
He picked me up, strange still to be naked in his presence. He didn't look at my body or me. He placed me in the warm water and turned the water off.
"I will be outside the door" he said opening the door. "The room will be locked, so please don't try to escape"
Once he left the room the tears came down again, I was angry and in pain. Why me? Why here? Going under water I began to relax, I had to. If I wanted to escape I had to not panic, I had to think straight and clear. I would no longer struggle or go against what the vampires said.
After what felt like an hour I heard a nock at the door.
"Vivian" It was Godric. "I have a change of clothes for you are you ready"
was I ready to see him, be in the same room as him.
"Yes" I shouted.
He walked in and grabbed a towel.
"Don't stand up" He ordered. "The porcelain is slippery when wet"
He reached in and drained the water from the tub, I crouched up covering up as much of my body as I could even though it hurt my body. Holding the towel up he wrapped it around my body, then picked me up, then placed on the floor.
"There is a change of clothes laying on the shelf, I am going to assume you feel better enough to dress yourself, I know you are feeling uncomfortable with me being here, but please when you are dressed please come out"
He left the room and I found the change of clothes, it was a pair of cotton loose pants and cotton long sleeve shirt, I quickly placed them on my body, not even worrying about wearing the bra, I didn't want to sleep in it. I was already feeling a bit better than I was about two hours ago or so.
I quietly opened the door and walked out. He was sitting there, on the bed that was going to be mine. With the speed of a fast wind he was before me hands around my neck and face looking at my wounds seeing what would need ointments and grabbed the end of my long sleeve top and pushed it up looking at the cuts, they would heal faster than the wounds on my legs and the bruise on my face.
"I would have offered" He broke the silence. "You my blood, something I have not done in centuries, but I knew you would refuse it"
"Yes I would have refused" I shouted ripping my arm out of his grasp. "The sun must be up by now."
"Yes it is day now"
"They will be looking for me"
"I'm sure they will, but they wont find you"
"They will" I said disagreeing. "how is there no sun light in here"
"Thick curtains and sheets of metal cover the windows" gesturing to the bed he spoke. "Come, I will bandage you up now. After that we both will finally get some rest and you wont have to see me for a while"
I slowly made my way over to the bed and sat stretching my legs, he pulled the pant sleeves up. laying beside me was gauze and antibacterial ointment, he grabbed the ointment and squeezed a good amount onto his finger tips, it made me curious, why did he have all of these items, did humans live here?
"Why do you have all of this?" I asked curiously.
"Some of the vampires here have human mates" His finger tips came into contact with my knees, he spread a good amount on both.
"Human mates?" I questioned, feeling my body heat up, his eyes drifted to my inflamed cheeks.
"Yes" He grabbed the gauzed beside me hand accidentally grazing my side.
"But" I began to speak, but didn't finished.
"But what?" He asked. "Vampires are capable of loving"
"Humans"
"Yes, we are not all monsters" He frowned, the first foul expression I had seen on his face since I had met him. "I'm going to wrap this tight, so it wont start bleeding during your sleep, in the night I will re-bandage it"
He tightly wrapped the gauze around each knee.
"There, I am finished"
"I have another question"
"Yes"
"Do those vampires and humans, do they um" I paused, should I ask this question? Was I going to look stupid.
"Do they make love?" He looked at me like I was a child, to him I was a baby. He did not smile or frown.
"Ugh yes" My cheeks were at it again, going red as ever.
"Yes" Godric got off the bed and began to walk toward the door. "There is water on your night stand along with a box of pain killers, if you need more water there is a cup in the bath room"
And with that he left, I heard a key lock the door.
"What did I say?" I asked myself out loud. "Why did he leave like that"
more like why did I care? I fell back on the bed and crashed. Falling a sleep was so simple right now even though I was locked up in a room, in a house surrounded by vampires.