Tim didn't know quite why but he knew Dante waited for him at the edge of the graveyard after work. The graveyard where they had first met.
Dante found himself smiling as he saw Timothy pull up in his car. It was the first time he had tried to send a specific message to him. All the hours they had spent linked by mind had resulted in an unexpectedly strong bond.
It was an unexpected but excellent start to their relationship.
Dante found he approved greatly of the Boy he hoped would consider becoming his companion. He was honest and true and he had an educated innocence which delighted Dante's jaded senses. He laughed rarely but smiled often and when he threw his head back to laugh it seemed as if the stars were re aligning themselves just to see it.
Dante made himself visible and was pleased when Timothy didn't jump with alarm.
"You knew I was here didn't you?" Dante s voice was soft and running through Timothy's head like a vapor
Tim nodded "I don't know how but I wasn't scared as I knew… I knew you were there and that you wouldn't hurt me."
Dante smiled pleased.
"Come Little One, sit beside me. There are things I must show you."
Tim turned and cocked his head. He couldn't describe it but he could feel Dante in his head, in his mind as if he was looking for something.
"What are you looking for?" Tim found he wasn't scared just excited and a bit nervous as if he needed to pass a test.
Dante was impressed. He thought his touch had been light but the Boy had still felt it.
"I was looking for Vampire lore…in your mind. I wanted to see what you knew. Or thought you knew and if you had any reason to be afraid of them."
"It's because you are one of them. Isn't it?" Tim whispered.
"Yes Timothy I am. Come. Walk with me for a bit." Dante walked beside Timothy and allowed him to adjust to the truth. There were some minutes of silence as they both walked side by side further amongst the gravestones.
"Are you going to ….to…drink from me?" Timothy's voice was soft but unwavering.
Dante turned to him in surprise. "I expected your first question to be whether I was planning on killing you or not."
Tim smiled wryly "If you wanted to kill me you have had a thousand chances to do so. So it must be something else you want."
Dante inclined his head "Clever Boy"
Tim turned back to Dante assessing him "I am no boy. I am 30 years old, a Federal Agent and I too have taken lives when it has been required of me"
Dante just quirked an eyebrow at Timothy's spirit and continued walking.
"And I, Timothy am generations older than you could even conceive."
"So what do you want from me then?" Timothy continued to push trying to understand.
"I wish for you to consider becoming my companion"
"Your companion? What is that exactly" Tim could feel an excitement unfurling in the pit of his belly. To become the companion of an immortal?
"To put it simply Timothy I am lonely. I am fractured and disjointed from this world. I feel almost nothing..except when I am with you. I see and experience the world through you. I wish you to share yourself with me and I will share what I can with you. I can show and teach you many things. Wonders few mortals have ever seen. And in return you spend time with me, talk to me, argue with me, and help me feel what it is to be alive again."
Tim frowned "Sounds like marriage"
Dante laughed "In a way it is. Once you accept though you cannot go back. You will be changed through sharing with me. Already simply sharing dream worlds we have created a bond that enabled me to tell you where I was."
Tim looked up as Dante stopped and he realized they were standing beside the large crypt where they had lain and watched the stars all those weeks ago.
"Come with me Timothy" Dante leapt up in a single flawless bound and then leaned down to reach for Tim.
Tim could feel his strength as without effort he bodily lifted Tim up to sit beside him. Dante smiled.
"There are many things I can show you now that you know who and what I am"
Tim nodded his mind spinning as he sat beside his first actual vampire…..on a crypt…..in a graveyard….at night.
"I wonder who this crypt belongs to" Tim idly wondered as he searched for something mundane to consider.
Dante smiled "Actually it's mine."
Timothy turned and stared at him and Dante grinned.
"Well its one of mine. I had it made when Washington and this graveyard was very young. I have them scattered across the world from my travels. You never know when it is a good idea to have an empty crypt waiting for you at the other end."
Timothy just shook his head in amazement.
Dante waited although he knew the Boy too well. The decision had already been made. His curiosity and his desire to learn meant he couldn't turn down knowing what few others in human history had seen.
"Yes. I'll do it"
Tim looked at Dante and watched as Dante's eyes flared and actually seemed to throw out color. Dante smiled his delight and allowed his fangs to grow as his full lips thinned. He could feel the boy's heart racing and hear the blood pounding through his veins and he could smell his excitement and the hesitation at what came next.
Dante smothered the cry he wanted to make to the heavens knowing it might terrify Timothy at this delicate stage.
"Now what?" Tim suddenly felt nervous as Dante loomed over him and he actually felt a sense of power emanating from him. Wings? Could he see a shadow of wings??
"If you would allow it I would like to seal our bond. I would taste you. Taste your blood, feel your true thoughts and you feel mine. It would weaken you slightly but I promise I would not take much."
Dante felt unexpected delight as he pushed Timothy back pinning him to the crypt and looked into his eyes at the wonder he saw mirrored there.
Tim felt like a mild electrical charge was being run through his body at Dante's touch on his chest. Dante had him pinned. Trapped by his beauty and his majesty and his wonder.
Tim knew there was no going back now. Otherwise he would live out his life despairing at the lost opportunity, everything tasting incomplete compared to the chance he once had and threw away.
Tim didn't trust himself to speak and he only nodded.
Dante's eyes widened in lustful delight and he pounced on the helpless man before him and quickly sank his teeth into the tender flesh at his neck.
Tim cried out in pain and then moaned in pleasure as he felt the vampires power enter his body. It felt like every atom in his blood was being re written and he tingled agonizingly from the tips of his toes to the ends of his hair. He arched under Dante's touch and wept salty tears as Dante dug his claws into his flesh and held him firmly in his embrace as he deeply drew a draught of Tim's pure hot blood.
Abby screamed in her sleep as a riot of images flashed into her brain. Pain, lust, endless loneliness, desire, amazement, confusion, fear, black soullessness, white hot purity, desperate eternity, truth, conviction, completion, purpose.
"No McGee! No!" Abby cried for her friend's soul as she felt him alter inside her heart.
Dante held back a scream as the pure blood of an innocent given to him willingly burnt its way down his throat. He had never tasted anything like it. It was like the forces of nature re wrote themselves where his fangs entered Timothy's flesh.
The Boy tasted of light and happiness and truth and it seared his body of darkness and despair and loneliness. He was champagne instead of water. Dante felt Timothy's blood fizz in his mouth and sucked desperately for more. Emotions so thick it was like golden honey wrapped there way around Dante's trembling molecules. He felt himself filling with light as if the blood were transforming him.
Dante had heard some of the ancient ones speak of a chosen few companions. Ones who were 'fairy touched' or 'angel guided'. They held a power all of their own and were whispered of only in ancient tales.
Dante knew at the taste of him and by the force ripping its way through his body that Timothy was such a companion.
His heart if he ever had one now belonged to Timothy McGee.
Dante had been soulless before but now he was bound hopelessly to a mortal.
He was damned.
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