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Jerry was sitting on his couch again, legs up on the table, and reading a paper when she walked down the stairs after taking a shower. They had spent so much time together that he knew just what she liked to eat so he had ordered her a grilled chicken sandwich and chicken noodle soup while she was in the shower. He couldn't cook and he knew it.
" I ordered you something to eat. Should be here in ten minutes. It's paid for, just sigh the slip and tip him 5 dollars." Jerry said without looking at her. " Your pills are set out here." Winter sighed but walked around the couch. She sat down and picked up her pills from the table. When she didn't take them right away, he flipped the page of the paper down and looked at her. She was frowning as she started at her hand. " What?" He asked. She closed her hand and looked at him.
" I'm tired." He nodded.
" Yeah, I know. It's the blood lost. You will be good as new by tomorrow." He said. Winter shook her head.
" No, I won't. I'm dying. This pills are just prolonging it." Jerry frowned as he set the paper down.
" What are you getting at?" He asked.
" Why didn't you just drain me? Why don't you just drain me?" She asked.
" And waste the money I just spend on your lunch? No." He laughed as he stood up.
" Jay, I'm serious. I'm not getting better, I'm getting worst. You know it, you smelled the cancer. It's moving through me, eating me alive." She said.
" I'll eat you. I have offered I don't know how many times." He said without looking at her.
" I'm not talking about sex." Winter said softly. Jerry stopped walking and looked at her. He forced his smile.
" Me either. I'm talking about oral sex. Although, I'm offering sex sex too." He said. Winter shook her head slowly.
" Jay, please." She asked, making his shoulders sag. " What is the point of this?"
" You know what the point is. You have to wait until your house is sold and your will is made up. If you just disappear then the cops will get involved." Jerry said. ' And I need some time to figure out things out.'
" My will is done." She said. Jerry frowned.
" What? Since when?" He asked.
" Since last week. Everything I have comes to you in the event that I die before you have a change to kill me. If you kill me, after I have been gone for three months, everything comes to you, all my stuff and everything in my bank account." Jerry shook his head as he started pacing.
" It's not time yet. You still have time. Your house isn't even sold." He muttered.
" It's the last thing left to do." Winter said as she watched him.
" Move in with me." He said suddenly, shocking them both. Jerry recovered quickly. " Look, if something happens to you or you need help during the day, I can't get to you. If you start to die during the afternoon you will be alone. If you are here with me, you will never be alone. If your time comes during the day, I'll be here to take control of it."
" I don't know." She said. Jerry moved to the couch where he sat down beside her.
" It's safer. I can take care of you. I will always be where you need me, even during the day. We could move all your stuff in here in one night. I can carry it all and I have spare rooms with nothing in them." He said. She nodded.
" It does make sense." She said softly. Jerry felt his heart lighten up.
" It's smarter really." He said as a knock came to his door.
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Another month went by and Jerry started to really see a change in her. She had moved in with him and he had made her sleep in his bed. He knew he how comfortable his bed was and he wanted her comfortable. She was losing weight no matter how much he forced her to eat and he forced her. He had increased her pills and she hadn't even realized it. He was giving her three iron pills a day and two vitamin pills. He increased her vitamin pills hoping it would help keep her body going, help give her body what she was missing from not eating and he was giving her more iron because he was drinking from her two to some times three times a week when she couldn't sleep.
She'd laid in his bed, running her hand lightly up the back of his neck and into his hair as he drank. She did it every time he drank. She always gasped at the first bite then settled into soft moans that drove him crazy. Taking blood had always been sexual for him but having someone who willingly let him do it, touched him the way she did and moaned how she did, was almost too much for him. He wanted her so bad he was having a hard time thinking.
She slept a lot and he wasn't sure if that was from the blood lost or the cancer. When she slept, either in the bed or on the couch while he watched TV, he'd laid with her without her knowing. He'd crawl over to her in bed and gather her close, holding her until she right before woke. If they were on the couch he'd rub her legs or play with her hair while he stared at her.
He had tried not to drink from her as much as he did but she would beg him because she was so tired sometimes and he had to give into her. She had a pull on him like no one had ever and through their blood bond, he felt everything she was going through. He could feel the pain she was feeling. He had learned to control the bond so he didn't feel it all the time but when he moved down the line to her, he was always surprised at how much pain she was really in. From the outside he would never have guessed how bad she was. She didn't let the pain show on her face when he looked at her.
One night he had helped her climb the steps of his attic and they stepped out onto his roof. There was a flat part so he spread out a blanket and they laid down to watch the stars. He had made her wear one of his long sleeve shirts and a hoodie because she was always cold and he didn't want her to get sick. As they laid on the roof, she curled up next to him. He had no warmth to give her but she didn't seem to mind. He put his arm around her shoulders and rested his head against her.
" What do you miss most about being human?" She asked. Jerry sighed as he watched the stars.
" I don't know. It's been so long." He said softly.
" I'm going to miss the smell of the rain in the summer." She said when she closed her eyes. " And the smell of coffee." He smiled as he rubbed his cheek against her hair.
" You don't have to miss it." He offered again. She laughed and picked her head up to look at him. He noticed the dark circles under her pretty eyes. She was almost as pain as he was.
" You never stop, do you?" He shook his head and smiled.
" You will give in to me. One of these days, you will. You will let me turn you then we are going to have amazing sex. We'd have it now but I want you so bad I'm scared I'd break you." Winter laughed and rested her head against his shoulder again.
" It's nice that you say those things about me." She said.
" I don't say it to be nice, Winter. I'm a vampire, I'm not nice by nature. I say them because I mean them. I want to have sex with you. I wanted to have sex with you since the first time I saw you, I told you this all before." Jerry said.
" Yeah but that was before I started wasting away." She said with her eyes shut again. Jerry frowned.
" You aren't wasting away so stop saying that shit." He snapped softly.
But she was and they both knew it. The cancer was in her other lung and she was starting to have a hard time breathing. He had brought an oxygen tank that night and it was being delivered to them the next night. He was so lost in his thoughts that he hadn't noticed that she had stopped talking completely and wasn't moving. He shook her lightly and said her name. When she didn't respond to him, he reached down their line and felt...nothing.
" Winter!" He said as he turned. He took her by her shoulders and shook her as her head fell back. " Winter, open your fucking eyes right now!" He ordered. " You open your fucking eyes or say something to me right now so I'm going to bite you and make it hurt!" When she still didn't respond to him, he scooped her up and jumped to the ground, not caring who saw him. He used his vampire speed and took off for the hospital.
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Jerry was sitting in a chair in her hospital room the next night with his head in his hands. She had been admitted when he brought her in and he had stayed as long as he could with her. He spent the day in his house, pacing, terrified she'd die without him. He had kept their bond open and that was how he knew she was still alive during the day. He felt every pain from the cancer and the test they where running.
" My son." A wave of relief swept over him as his maker's voice filled her hospital room. Jerry's head snapped up to see Raphel standing in her room. The tall, blond hair man was born a Viking and still looked the part. " I felt your pain so I came. How is your human?" He asked as he closed her door. Jerry stood up and moved to her bed.
" Dying." He said as he took her hand. She was hooked up to a heart monitor and had an oxygen mask on. There were a few different IV's in her arms. Raphel came forward.
" Have you made up your mind?" He asked as he came to her other side. Jerry shook his head.
" No. I thought I had more time. The doctor's notes said she had a year, it's been four months." He said. " It's spreading so fast." Raphel nodded as he stared down at her.
" I can smell it. It is all through her." He said.
" Jay?" Winter asked with her eyes closed. Her voice was weak and softer then usually.
" I'm here." He said as he squeezed her hand. He brought it to his mouth and kissed her knuckles.
" Someone else is here." She said.
" It is Raphel. He is my marker." Jerry said. Winter slowly opened her eyes and looked to her right to see the young looking man standing there. She closed her eyes again.
" Tell him that I am dying." She said to Raphel.
" He knows, my Darling." Raphel said as he took her other hand.
" He tells me I'm okay." She said.
" Even Vampires have a hard time accepting the death of those we care for." Raphel said a second before she fell back to sleep.
" She has but hours left. You need to make a choice, my son." Raphel said. Jerry shook his head as he watched how slow her chest rose and fell. The sound of her heart monitor filled the room.
" No. It's not time yet." He said.
" It is. Inhale her. Death is knocking and you have no choice but to answer."