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• authors note:
Thanks again very, very much to everyone who has read my story and given feedback and encouragement. This is the first story I have written not read by my family or close friends and my first fan fiction.
Suggestions are always welcome and a massive edit will be done at the end, BUT not until then.
:p
Part four
Saya stands barefoot on the cool pink tiles that cover the floors and walls of the bathroom. This sink in running steaming hot water and one of the white towels Ami has given her is tinged a soft pink despite several rinses in the scalding water. She is reluctant to dirty another towel so she runs it across her face and neck again, before rubbing chunks of her hair with it as well. Her head was fending off the beginnings of a dull, thumping headache. She needed to feed. It would have to wait until later, everyone was waiting on her…
The house was quiet save the soft murmuring of voices. Kai, Ami and Haji are in the family room. She sits next to Haji, leaning her shoulder into him and tucking her feet under her.
Kai's face is masked as he leans forward to hand her a color photograph, framed in a heavy silver frame. The picture is of Kai and Ami and two young women. They are at the beach and the surf is surging behind their heads in a sea of fluffy white. Ami is looking at the girls, while the girls and Kai smile crazily at the camera. The girls were mirrored images of each other, save their eye color and the lengths of their hair. The one with darker eyes has cropped her hair in a blunt cut just under her chin and the lighter eyed one has hers long and soft nearly to her waist. While Kai and Ami have their arms around the girls, the sisters are held tightly in each other's arms. Ami's voice was light as she spoke, but also careful. "This was taken last year when the girls turned 29. We spent all day at the beach…" Saya continued to stare through the glass at the girls, not responding. She felt something inside of her twist as the understanding that the girls were close, that they loved each other. Every line of their bodies reflected that. The familiarity in their embrace, and their smiles. 29. The girls had celebrated an uninterrupted birthday. Looking critically at the image she noted the softest of lines in the corners of the girls eyes. Saya looked up at Kai gauging his expression, waiting for the answers she already knew. "Saya, we didn't know what the girls we would be like. We raised them like… like I remembered it was having you here." Kai had his palms up opened towards her, like someone asking for penance. Saya felt her mind go still as Kai continued on, explaining the lives of the girls. They were living normal lives, aside from the weekly transfusions they needed. To everyone who knew them, this was simply something they had been born with. Something genetic, something that thinned the blood, something that had to be managed. For all intents and purposes they were normal girls. They celebrated normal birthdays. They aged. The girls had only ever been given transfusions to stay alive. They had never fed off live blood or a Chiropteran bonded to them. And while still beautiful their appearances was older, physically older than that of Saya. They were aging normally.
"We all saw what happened to the Chiropteran you killed tonight", Kai's voice pulled her back into the living room and on the couch. As Kai spoke again Saya saw that Ami had reached over and taken his hand, "When the girls were 10 and we started hearing the whispers of something in the city, of people going missing and of the way the bodies were found."
Haji's voice was soft behind her ear but she trembled slightly, realizing she was now leaning fully against his chest. "We wondered if they were the result of something left of Diva, I wondered if it wasn't one of the girls. Saya's eyes didn't miss Ami's hand tighten over Kai's as Haji spoke. "But I had Kai take samples of the girls blood when they were infants, they don't even react the way yours and Divas did." Saya was looking down as she spoke, "And mine was the same… I can kill these Chiropterans but they share no blood with me." Kai leaned forward in his seat and spoke her name. "Saya, what do we really know of your family history beyond Diva." Saya felt a pressure beginning to build at her temples. She knew nothing… Outside of the bloodline between her and Diva, she had no knowledge of any other of her kind. Before the understanding of who and what she was, all comprehension had stemmed from the knowledge that it all began with her and her sister. The possibility that… Saya's hands formed tight fists as she spoke, "What about these modern Chiropterans, you all seem familiar with them." Turning she risked a glance at Haji, whose eyes remained a soft gray. When he spoke it was with equal calm. "They appear to be bonded to nothing, since you have slept there have only been a dozen or so to surface. Our concern is over the number of bodies being found, they don't match up to what were seeing." Kai spoke again, his words rushed. "They don't appear to be able to achieve a full transformation. Of the handful we have killed, only one has been a problem." Saya stared him down, waiting for him to continue. When he didn't she felt her impatience burn against her eyes only fueling her headache. It was Haij's words that cut threw her anger, "Saya there are many things none of know, things we can't tell you." He paused a moment, "You need rest, it is late and I am sure that everyone else is tired as well." Saya's response was a heavy nod.
The car ride back to Haji's apartment was fuzzy but she was aware of Haji as he picked her up, cradling her against her chest. Her legs hung limply, swinging slightly with the movements of his steps up the stairs. When she felt his arms begin to lay her down on the bed, she arched her face towards his neck and hung onto his shoulders so that he followed her movement down on the bed, tucking himself against her side. She let her lips track the landscape of his shoulder pausing at his neck, she felt the slight tremble of his body as she moved more forcefully against him and slid her teeth into his skin…