Chapter 2

"What "

I said staring at him.

"All of my friends, they are always going on about their moms, and what can I say to them, she staked herself to save me, I can't tell them how great or awful she is, because I don't know how great or awful she is"

"Conner I, I don't know what to say"

I really didn't know what to say to him, how to tell him... how to tell him his mom was a monster... a monster who despite everything, I think I loved.

"Dad I'm telling you what you what to say, you've got to tell me about mom, it's all I'm asking, don't I at least deserve that?"

"Conner... It's complicated... and it's a long story... It's hundreds of years old"

"Well I'm not going anywhere; I'm a big boy I can take it"

I sighed.

"What do you want to know exactly?"

I said still not sure how to explain Darla.

"Well I want to know all of it; I want to know where you met, where you went over the years, the highlights of your travels"

I sighed again as I began my story.

"When I first saw her she was in the most lovely dress, and her smile... oh her smile was amazing, her eyes, her eyes where just glowing, it was in a bar surprisingly enough, I was drunk getting into fights with the other men... and she was just their smiling away"

"So she was a looker"

"Yeah, she was beautiful, she's got the most amazing blond hair, it was in golden ringlets, when I first met her.

I looked at lap; I didn't want to tell him about when I was turned, but I promised him I would tell him everything.

"And um, she lured me into an ally, and she uh you know.. Sired me"

Conner did a little nod, as if to say I understand.

"I remember when I rose from my grave... she was their waiting for me, a smile on her face, there was a man who saw us, he came over to us, and I uh you know fed on him; my first feed, after that me and Darla raised havoc together all over the world, I killed my family one by one I drained they're blood, but in my defence, my father wasn't the nicest in the world-"

"Did you have any brothers or sisters?"

He asked I simply replied "Yes a younger sister"

I suddenly had a flashback of my sister.. My sweet sister Callie.

The flashback ended and I shook my head

"Sorry dad, memory buzz right?"

"Yeah, it's ok"

I continued my story; I thought that he would eventually get bored and go away but he didn't.

"Me and Darla cut a bloody swath across Wales and England, and then she brought me back to her sire, the master.

"The Master of what?"

He asked I replied "The Order of Aurelius"

"What's that he asked?"

"It's just really some big gang of vampires"

"But I had no interest in the Master or the Order of Aurelius, all I wants was to wreak havoc with Darla by my side, and that's what happened, she choose me over the Master"

"And now our conversation comes to the man Daniel Holtz"

"Well who is he"

"He's a vampire hunter, and no he's not a vampire or demon, just ordinary, just human"

"We bumped into a few times, when we were running from him"

"Did you finish him, did you kill him good and proper"

"No, we should have, Darla had the chance, but she said "he's like part of the family now"... we were both twisted that way"

"Uh, back in London, our family as Darla called it grew bigger, as she showed me a young girl, but she wasn't an ordinary young girl, she was a psychic her name was Drusilla, I was supposed to kill her but I killed her family instead, that made her insane, and then I turned her into a vampire"

"We were like a gang, then Drusilla sired a young man called William, who later renamed himself, spike, in Romania 1898 Darla brought me a gift a young girl, a daughter of gypsy's I fed on her, and her family then cursed me with a soul. In 1900 Darla took Spike and Drusilla to China not telling them what had happened to me. And that's where I found her I tried to convince her that we could still be together but she soon realized it wouldn't work as I couldn't bring myself to hurt innocents .

"Dad you have told me about you and Darla now can you tell me what she was like? Her personality"

I looked yet again at my lap and said "She was.. "She was smart, she was helpful she wasn't like your ordinary girl; she wasn't shy or stupid or cared entirely about her appearance, well she did care about how she looked but not like the other girls, she didn't care about what people thought of her, she was brave, she was the bravest person I have ever met"

"She sounds amazing"

"She was, she was my Darla, and I was her Angel"

"Dad I hope you don't mind me asking, and I want the truth, but did you love her?"

I hesitated before answering

"I think so"

Darla pulled herself up, she was shivering, she remembered this was the ally where she died.. Oh god she thought, "then that means this is outside that karaoke bar, run by that demon!" she then realized that she was naked, ah well she thought, she slowly walked around onto the streets, she was walking slowly because her muscles were stiff and she wasn't use to using them, she knocked on the bar door, I heard shuffling from inside and an ok ok, from the demon.

The door opened and the green demon was standing in front of her,

He didn't know who I was at first

"Wow... what you're.. Not wearing is pretty revealing you should cover up...

But then he looked at me closer. "Darla?"