The Hidden Side
A/N: Just a short Oneshot I came up with, don't ask me how. . .
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It was nearing six o'clock, and Willie was cleaning the Old House Library. He walked over to the old piano and began to polish it with a wood cleaner when he felt the longing to play. Something he hadn't done in a long time. He threw a cautious glance at the door, and listened to make sure Barnabas wasn't up, then sat down on the stool, and began to softly play, 'Moonlight Sonata' by Ludwig Van Beethoven.
As he played, memories of his mother, sitting with him at their small piano, teaching him in her kind way. Teaching him pieces such as 'Fur Elise' and 'Waltz in A Minor' . . . he remembered the night she came home, and told them all she was pregnant. The night that she told Willie that he would be a big brother. They were all so happy, just as a family should be.
But a week later everything changed. His mother came home from a doctors appointment and found out that the baby had miscarried. He remembered his father had been so devastated that he started drinking, and was becoming violent . . . Willie shut his eyes and breathed in deeply, letting the music fill him and drown all other thoughts from his mind.
As he played the song's final notes, there was a voice behind him, "Well now Willie, you never told me that you played the piano."
Willie jerked his hands away from the piano and whipped his head around. He shakily stood up, "B-Barnabas, I-I'm sorry. I shouldna touched it."
Barnabas ignored Willie's comment, "What else can you play, Willie?" he asked
Willie looked at him with a perplexed look, "Huh . . .?"
"You heard me." Barnabas snapped
"W-well, Ma taught me alotta things, I-I can't rememba the names of 'em all." Willie replied
Barnabas' voice was unusually quiet as he spoke, "Play me something."
"W-what?"
"Play me something Willie, anything." Barnabas growled back
"Alright, alright." Willie said, sitting back down. He thought for a moment before playing, 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring' by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The Vampire sat down in one of the chairs and closed his eyes, allowing the music to fill his senses.
Willie had begun to feel a little more nervous, playing in Barnabas' presence, but he ignored it and music once again began to take over.
All the while, the song seemed to float through the room and seemed to bring for the first and only time, a peace between Master and Servant . . .
Fin
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