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Disclaimer Deuce: Sorry this took a bit longer to get out but I couldn't get Alexis's part down in a way I liked it so it was like pulling teeth to write Ulrich's POV.
Felix's POV
I've never heard of anything like this; a newborn refusing to feed. Granted there were always the more spirited ones who thought they would resist. They never did. Ulrich was like that, he'd been the longest hold out I'd seen in decades. This new one, Alexis, hadn't cracked yet and it'd been three weeks since her transformation. From the reports that were sent to me we were seeing deterioration in her mental state. I didn't see how it was my problem until they told me since she was Ulrich's new vampire she was my problem. Amazingly she kept her wits about her most the time. She would rarely feel the effects of her lack of feeding unless there was a human near, though more and more there were signs of change. For all intents and purposes she was going mad. She did enjoy moments of clarity though.
I had memorized the report and filled Ulrich in on it. He didn't know what he was supposed to do. Alexis had requested him repeatedly, it seemed to be the only thirst of hers we could quench.
We were walking at a human speed and now near Evelyn she closed the rest of the distance between us. I knew with Ulrich here he worked as a sort of buffer. She would keep it professional for the time being.
"Hello Dr. Anderson." I said curtly. She seemed slightly taken aback but she hid it well.
"Felix? You haven't called me Dr. Anderson since the day you met me, no need to stand on formalities." She said trying to calm the situation.
"I thought it'd be better to be professional."
"Fine, Felix the red reaper." She said with a smirk and I sighed rubbing my forehead.
"Felix the red reaper? Are you serious?" Ulrich said with a chuckle.
"That's not an official title, Dr. Anderson." I said holding tightly to my professionalism.
"We have more important business to attend to." I said referring to Alexis. Ulrich nodded in response to me and walked past us in to the city. Evelyn and I followed behind him. We weren't worried he was going to crack at the smell of a human, he'd grown very strong and fed not too long ago. Evelyn walked calmly next to me, but the calmness was a façade, just as mine was. She was too close to me. It wasn't any closer or further than any other Vulturi guard would be, but at this proximity I could feel her. Not physically but I just knew she was there. My feelings of longing for her were so thick at this point I swore it could be cut with a knife.
Ulrich had taken a faster pace leaving me with Evelyn which isn't where I wanted to be. I tried to ignore her focusing on the objective at hand, pretty soon I was barely walking at a human speed. A familiar hand on my arm warned me of this.
"Hey Felix, slow down man you're going to grab attention." Afton said grabbing me. my eyes shot from his to Evelyn's quickly without her seeing.
"I see the dilemma, let's get moving." It was dusk so we could travel through the city without any pretenses or worries, so long as we were under control. Many of the Vulturi went out at night just to get out of the palace that was our home.
I briefly stopped by to report to Caius what had happened since our last visit, he was disconcerted to say the least. He said he'd discuss it with Aro and Marcus. I made my way to the Cell I knew was Alexis's. Before I turned the corner I heard a sweet voice that called to me. It was soft, and smooth as silk.
"Just go in, she's in there." Evelyn said. Apparently Ulrich had waited outside, too nervous about going in to talk to this girl. I didn't blame him, it was an odd situation they were in. inevitably Evelyn saw me turn the corner, there was no walking away for fear of running from her. If I was to keep this guise of control one thing I couldn't do was run away. I was at Evelyn's side as the door open and Ulrich stepped in. Alexi's eyes lit up in happiness. Why Can't Evelyn look at me like that. I was jealous of those two honestly. And thinking about Evelyn again only brought me more awareness that Evelyn had slipped away to a bench on the end of the hallway.
Her face was in her hands, she was showing emotion, which was unusual for her. I couldn't help myself I was at her side almost immediately. She knew I was there but made no attempts to move closer or further from me. I sat down next to her wanting to comfort her but didn't say a word, didn't move. I sensed this deep seeded frustration inside her and I wanted to touch her, pull her to me, tell her everything would be alright. But I didn't… I knew it'd be a mistake. One thing would lead to another and we'd be in bed again, she would win. I knew it was cruel to think of it in that callous of terms, but I wouldn't waver in my wants. She was right I did grow emotionally attached to her. I just never saw that as a bad thing, apparently she did.
The only thing keeping me from holding her right now is her choice. She is the one who made the choice of Demetri over me. I would not be her second string lover. That fact alone kept me at my distance.
"Are you just going to sit there?" She asked angrily with her face in her hands. Then she moved to sit up and slowly turned to face me.
"What would you have me do?" I said coldly. Truly I wasn't comfortable doing anything for her. I couldn't reaffirm her, so I changed the subject.
"Ulrich is in with her now, I hope he can convince her to feed. Basically I'm useless right now." She rolled her eyes at me and shook her head. Obviously she decided to turn the conversation back to us, a topic I wasn't too comfortable with.
"No, you're not useless. You being here helps me. I'm glad you came." Out of the corner of my eye I saw her hand twitch closer to mine but retracted quickly. It was as if she was fighting it.
"No. No you're not useless. Simply, just your presence is enough to help me though this. I'm glad you came." She said softly and I saw her hand twitch in the direction of my hand but she quickly retracted it. It's as if she was battling her instincts. I was about to smile but remembered Demetri and stopped myself.
"Why isn't Demetri here?" I asked bringing us down from this happily ever after fantasy. Reality sucked, and it struck a chord.
"He's useless, he caused all of this and he's not ever here to clean up his own mess." She said with obvious frustration seeping in to her voice.
"I don't understand you. I don't see it. Why do you think he's better than me?" I said finally letting the words come out of my mouth even though I didn't remember thinking of saying them like that.
"It's not like that, he's-"
"Don't bother trying to explain, I don't want to hear it, obviously I wouldn't understand." I said cutting her off. I sighed as I stood up quickly. Without looking back I turned and walked away.
Ulrich's POV
What was I supposed to say? Oh by the way, sorry about biting you and turning you in to a vampire… your blood tastes good by the way. Yeah, not the right thing to say, don't say that one. I wasn't kidding myself. There was no way to go about this.
"Just go in, she's in there." Evelyn said finally interrupting my inner argument that could have raged on for days. Nothing I could say would make what happened right. I stepped in the door and saw her. She looked amazing. Her eyes danced like little orbs of fire, and they glowed with a certain amount of beauty. I couldn't look away. She leapt at me and I caught her and took another step back. I'd forgotten she was a newborn.
"This is a hell of a first date." I said. She slid out of my grip and wrapped her arm around mine and leaned her head on my arm standing straight up. She barely reached my bicep in height. I sighed and led her outside of her cell.
"So what's this about you not feeding?" I asked her in a tone that was slightly too fatherly. She recoiled and released herself from me. I was immediately hurt. I grabbed a hold of her shoulders but she pushed me away. She was only a month old and had no problem breaking my grip. Her hands struck my chest and I was sent flying in to the wall behind me, breaking half way through it. some of the bricks fell on me shattering. I shook my head trying to whip the dust off, in an instant Alexis was at my side.
"Oh! I'm so sorry I didn't mean to I just." I put my hand out to stop her and got up dusting off my body from the bricks.
"I'm fine… don't worry." Her face didn't look fine she frowned and at that time I knew I wanted to stop her frowning.
"I didn't mean to I just don't want to eat humans, I don't understand how anyone can do that."
"Well it's not exactly eating so much as…" I said fading off she swung again but this time I caught her arm. she looked at me for a moment then calmed down.
"I'm sorry I haven't been able to control myself that well lately…" she said not quiet knowing what to say next. She was having troubles controlling herself because she was starting to go mad, she needed to feed, but I didn't know how she would.
"That's it!" I said out loud remembering a conversation I had with Abhash. I knew how to 'cure' her. Alexis stood confused at my side.
"Come with me." I said before leading her out of the complex.
I lead her out of the city and to the woods. She followed behind me tentatively. I laughed to myself. She looked like she was genuinely afraid. It was humorous, there was nothing in these woods that could so much as scratch her, much more harm her.
"Don't worry, you're basically indestructible, come on we're going hunting… you ever been hunting?" I asked
"No… I don't like killing things… I try not to." She said as if afraid of me. she was too innocent, hadn't even killed woodland creatures… that would change. I lead her deeper in to the forest. I spotted a fawn in the distance.
"Kill the fawn, and drink its blood." I said almost in a commanding voice to Alexis. She shook her head.
"No that has a face and a family!" I rolled my eyes then gave chase. Before long I had it pinned under me. I lowered my lips to it and started drinking its blood. It didn't have nearly the taste of human blood. Really there was no comparison, but it was sustaining.
I drank half of the blood then wiped some out of my off of the body on to my dead animals body on to my finger tip. I slowly approached Alexis. I softly touched my blooded finger to her palm, leaving a small amount of blood on it. She looked down at her palm. She licked it but didn't get much of a taste since it was so faint. I led her to the fawn which I could see in her eyes was tempting her but at the same time she was resisting.
"It's this or humans, take your pick." She moved over to the recently killed fawn and knelt beside it. she lowered her head to the body and started drinking. I turned away and waited until she was done. Hunting down a deer she killed and drank its blood… it was over… she'd be okay.
I sighed heavily. It was much harder than I thought it would be. She came up to face me with a bit of blood on her chin. I smiled as softly wiped it off with my index finger, my hand was softly warped around her chin. I wanted to kiss her but it was all too fast. I didn't want to push her, and I still felt guilty for changing her. It would have to wait, there was way too many things going on right now to complicate it with a relationship. It would have to wait for now. For now my mission was done, it was time for me to get back to training.
Well I didn't really like how that POV worked out but it did finish so it's all good, still working out how it's all going to work out but it'll all work out… maybe… as this story continues I keep thinking of big twists and how to work big ideas in to the story… you've seen a couple of them already. Regardless of how I feel about the chapter I hope you enjoyed it. if you did, please text comments to 68687, (okay don't do that really) just leave reviews, thumbs up, knucks, and the ever prevalent roll of twenty dollar bills.