Chapter Eight

NOTES: Must be your lucky day people! Lol. I have had some fun with the last two chapters, hopefully I can flesh the characters out more, try not rushing things in the next few chapters after, get more time in each one. Just you all have been waiting so damn long for this XD lol. COMMENT!

View of Nile

It was now ten at night, and after letting Angelique dress, and her father arrived, and made her as depressed as the other night before I found her dieing on the floor of the hospital. And the tension that ran between both me and her father was feral and obviously both wanted to display dominance. I could see it play on his face, I couldn't use the spells to see into the thoughts of Angelique, but I could see into his, and those made me want to rip him limb from limb, not the ones that had me in them, those did not do anything to effect me, but the images of memories and fantasies of what he wanted to do to Angelique was sinking in to deep, and I was much to hungry, and thank god he left when he had, I was ready to throw caution to the wind and murder him on the spot, not something that made me feel sorry, or revulst. I knew now it would, in the end, come down to me, or him. And only a fool would bet on him. I was a vampire, a creature of the night, a seasoned killer…

But he left now, and I wouldn't chase him, I would remain with his daughter, my beautiful angel dove, my beautiful 'Cheer bear', and also, in this moment, I was sure I would make high school shows with all the mushy nick names and love-e-dove comments sick with what I had in my arsenal… Well, okay, I am an ancient being, old as father time; surely I could control my urge to be cliché boyfriend… Ugh, boy isn't what I would describe myself as usually, scary thought. Dr.Wilcox had come in, after insisting she stay at least tonight, and potentially tomorrow night for observations.

God bless the man. But here, again, I was watching her sleep, and feeling a little tired again, enough to sleep, for the second time in three hundred years, when I heard the eerily quite footfalls, turning sharply from the sleeping angel. And there, I saw my affliction. Not her father, but rather, my wonderful strange-present giving brother who had caused Angel pain, standing at the doorway, his eyes looked weary and unsure as he approached me. Usually he would have a army of curses charging him, but I said nothing, at least his antics had finally come to do some good, made Angel laugh.

"Hi Nile, Uh, god, I think you have just got everyone off guard, you haven't slept about as long as you haven't found a girl interesting, let alone one you would risk so much for. Nile… I want you to know I am happy for you, I'm sure once everyone has gotten used to the idea, in a day or so, if that, they will be happy to. But you have to understand; this is dangerous to us, to her, Nile… You cant let her know what, we are. You know that Jericho would have her either murdered, or changed by himself… And that… That is agony we have been lucky not to feel… He's a good leader, a good father to all vampires, but he is ruthless in punishment, and very, very strickted about keeping our secret… I don't want to see you getting hurt Nile… And how bad she was when you last contacted us… She might not even make it long," I listened as Ewan ranted at me, I knew he loved me as family like I did him, but he didn't understand. He couldn't understand what I felt with Angel, I couldn't even understand it, it just… Was.

"Ewan, she's going to make it, she has been completely healed. Not a blemish on her," that was all I replied with, it was simple, and I looked back to my sleeping beauty, brushing hair from her entrancing face. Smiling as she nudged my hand and released a satisfied breath. She even had a peaceful look again to her, as if what her father did wasn't haunting her, as if she was to trusting of me… What was I kidding; I couldn't hurt her, not physically, but being a monster… or when I kill her father… I almost forgot Ewan until he came out of his stupor from what I said, and in a blink of an eye he was hissing into my ear.

"You bloody fool! You fool! You turned someone in a hospital! You are mad! You lost your mind! Jericho will truly dismember you for this! And her! He will kill her in front of your very eyes and keep you in chambers for a hundred years and then slowly kill you! Oh, brother what have you done," His voice could be heard by only me, or another vampire if they were in the room, but non other. And I had to reply, my brother ranting on about the first vampire, the great almighty Jericho. If I had done, as Ewan suggested I had done, I knew both the vampire lord Jericho, and his werewolf brother Viscous would be on me like hounds of hell. But I wasn't a fool, as Ewan thought. And the idea made me sick to my stomach.

Growling at him and speaking in the same tone, "I am not such a fool. I did nothing, I found her near dead on the floor, in her last moments, and she bit me Ewan… She broke my skin, drunk my blood… And yet, she is not vampire, she seems… So… Human. Angel is… Angel just healed. The doctors have found nothing… Out of place, other than her healing faster than anyone else in the world…" I paused, calming myself, as my voice was rising almost to a level humans could hear to easily, "I love her, but I love my family, I also don't wish to subject her to our world of monsters… Of werewolves, vampires, dragons… These things humans no longer believe in… I don't want to subject her to what I am, what I have done… I love her…"

I looked back to Ewan, shock still in his face, he was hesitant, careful as he looked over Angel, sniffing the air.

"She smells… like non other brother, human… yet, to good for human, not like an elf… But… No vampire. I believe you." He said quietly, and I looked at him.

"She smells like angels…", I replied.

"Brother, that is one thing we know doest exist," With that, he left, left me alone to look and wonder how I would protect her from everything I knew was there, that humans didn't.

The wonders, and horrors alike.