A/N: I have been wanting to update this story FOREVER. Seriously. I went on kind of a DSS mental vacation and really didn't have the desire or time to write anything, even my other story, OFL went kind of off the map for a little! But guess what, you're here and I'm here and underneath this little rant is an update! I'm going to try my best to update this once a week and if not that at least once every two weeks. But as anyone would and should know, if you REVIEW I'll update a lot faster! So, here we go!
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The sound of the door opening awoke me from my deep sleep. I was more tired than I had ever imagined, and I don't even remember falling asleep now that I think of it- the second my head hit the pillow I was out. I decided to keep my eyes closed, because I didn't want to get out of bed just yet- and mostly because if they were going to talk, I wanted to hear what they had to say. I heard a trail of footsteps, and someone following behind. They hadn't spoken yet, so I focused on keeping my breathing long and even. I felt new energy surging through my veins, that sleep really must have given me energy and gave back everything the cancer had taken away from me in the long months of fighting it.
"Wake up!" Lare said suddenly, I jumped- the sudden presence of his voice almost caused me to jump out of my skin. I heard Mika snort in the corner as I let a small groan escape my lips as I stretched my legs and sat up in the bed. My hair fell in front of my face, and I pushed it all back in one swift movement, surprised at how limp it didn't feel. Lare was sitting on the corner of the bed, a soft smirk present on his lips and a look in his eyes as he examined me that I couldn't put my finger on, something about it made me feel uneasy, so I wadded up the covers and pulled them close to my chest. Mika was standing at the farthest corner of the room leaning into where the walls joined together as if he couldn't get far enough from me. "We brought back some food-" Lare motioned over to the table in the corner which was now covered with food.
"How many people are you feeding? That could feed an army!" I exclaimed, looking at the table and just realizing how hungry I was. Lare just nodded as I stepped out of the bed, the ground came faster than I had expected and I fell right towards the ground.
"It's going to take a little bit to get used to your new senses and abilities," Lare nodded, not even offering to help me up. I just grumbled something under my breath and reached over to the bed to give myself a little leverage to stand, but the second my hand touched the side I heard a large tearing.
"Be careful, your fingernails are the strongest weapon you have." Lare added. I didn't understand why he couldn't just tell me this from the beginning instead of having me fall and shred up mattresses. I sat down at the table and Lare followed sitting down in front of me as I began to scarf down pieces of toast, and a bagel. I was always a person who loved bread, but I hadn't felt this hungry in, well I've actually NEVER felt this hungry in my whole life.
"This is why we got so much food," Lare chuckled, I just hummed in response as I continued to stuff my face.
"I didn't get anything, if it were up to me, she would go and get the food on her own." Mika grumbled as he walked over and grabbed a piece of bacon off of my plate and biting it ferociously. I wiped my mouth with my ivory napkin and then threw it down on the table.
"What is your deal?" I snapped, and Mika just laughed in response.
"I do not have a deal. I'm just not happy at the fact that we have to drag along a little girl everywhere we go, that can't even walk. I don't know about you-" Mika motioned to Lare, "but I'm not going to dote on her and try and make things easy when they're the farthest thing from easy."
"What did I ever do to you? Do you really think that I want to be here right now?"
"Well if it was up to me, you wouldn't be here right now, you'd be dead."
"Who the hell do you think you are?"
"I'm a Vampire Prince."
"You're a dick."
"Listen here, Kat you imbeci-",
"Enough!" Lare thundered, his eyes flaming with fury. I was taken back by this, because he had been nothing but soft and gentle with me- even Mika seemed in a state of shock. "You two cut it out! Mika, I am not going to dote on Katherine or even come close to try and make things easy for her, because I cannot. Being a vampire is tough, and there's no way to make things any easier. Getting her BREAKFAST right after she had been BLOODED isn't making things easy for her. When I blooded you, until I taught you enough that you could walk on your own two feet, I helped you. It has been a long time since then, but you need to remember how difficult it can be."
"I apologize." Mika said, his gaze aiming down.I smirked to myself, feeling like I did when I would fight with my brother and my mom would yell at hi-
"-and Katherine, you will treat Mika with respect. He is a Vampire Prince, which means he has the ultimate authority over you and even myself- if he was not my assistant, I would have zero authority over him. You treat him and myself with the uttermost respect, and Mika as a Prince you need to understand that everyone isn't a warrior, they need some compassion. Do I make myself clear?" Well, mom never did that.
"Crystal." Mika and I groaned in unison, eyes on our plates and shoveling breakfast into our mouths to try and make the conversation come to a halt.
"Now, Katherine," Lare began, regaining his composure faster than I'd ever seen before, "about killing you-"
"What!" I exclaimed, almost choking on my large orange juice that I had been gulping.
"Yes you have died, but they need to find your body. Do you think your family is going to just forget about you?"
"We cannot carry around a missing person, then we'd have police on our case. No one goes looking for someone who is dead," Mika informed, speaking to me as if I was a complete idiot and this was something I should already know. "Why anyone would be looking for you anyways is against me." he mumbled as he stabbed a piece of sausage on his plate. I rolled my eyes and Lare shot him a glare, which he ignored and responded by curling his lip into a small snarl and stabbing violently at pieces of food on his plate. God, he was repulsive, I couldn't even stand to look at him.
"Anyways, finish up eating and get ready to die."