Chapter 2

50 years later

I was now living in Paris. I love this city, even I have to stay half of the year in the house or in tight lanes so that no sun can reach me. I made I really good friend here, here name was Marie and she had a lovely son named Antoine. He was 15 when I first met him, now he was 17, and he is against the biases of the youth really lovely and helpful to his mum. And he was a great person in general, he was able to see if somebody lies or is saying the truth, somehow he just notices. So if I talk to him about my past I sometimes get trouble because he can feel when I'm saying something wrong. But he never minded because I was a good friend to the family. Well, you can really say that he's a very nice boy. He had a little sister, who was really really sweet and I loved babysitting her. But I knew that I had soon to leave. Someday she would notice that I was different.

One day I was walking through the snowy Paris when I smelled something not human, it was a vampire. I looked around as a reaction of defence. I saw a man standing at the next edge of the street looking at me, so he had recognised me as well. I kept going till I was at his level. He looked at me with interest, especially at my eyes. Of course they were different than his ones. Than he started to speak to me.

"Bonjour Madame, moi je m'appelle Andrew."

I recognised that he had an English accent so I answered in English.

"Hello, nice to meet you, but I'm really in a hurry so would you excuse me?"

I didn't want to talk to him, I didn't want to make any contacts to vampires right now, I was absolutely fine with my human ones. And by the way, I had enough vampire friends. After the couple of years I met a lot of nice vampires and I had a huge circle of friends and I didn't want to make any new ones right now.

"I that's a pity, but I really would like to get to know you." He had something forceful in his voice, I had the feeling he would always get what he wants to.

"Well I'm sorry for that but I really have to go now, so enjoy yourself."

"No", he replied. "I want to get to know you now and I don't accept a no, so would you please come and talk with me for some while?"

Now I was a little bit feared, of course I learned to defend myself after al those years and my shield, already as a human it had been very strong and now I could cover myself from physical and mental attacks and even others. Moreover he couldn't really attack when all those witnesses could watch us. So what was his intend, why was he so self confident that he would get what he wants? What power could he has that would convince me to come with him? I was really confused. But I decided to be self-confident as well.

"I think I won't come with you, I'm jus nit in the mood of talking." With that, I started to walk away from him. But he grasped my arm and held it tight.

"I said you come with me, so if you don't want me to do any more to you, you join me now."

"And I said I don't want to come with you, and what could you probably do to make me go with you?" Now, I was really curios.

"Well, you didn't want different.", he simply said.

Than I noticed that he was concentrating on something, and than I noticed something hit my shield. Well, whatever he tried, it wouldn't work.

"What the hell?", he was really shocked.

"Sooooo, what did you just try? I must tell you, that it won't work."

"Well, I'm definitely confused, normally I can control the motions of people, I can force them to hurt themselves, or to laugh even if their mother just died. But for some reason it isn't working with you."

"Well, that's because of my shield. You can't come in my head. So if that was all, I will go now." , surprisingly he let me go than, perhaps because he was too confused that his power didn't work with me. So I hurried away from him, released that I hadn't to fight and I was once more thankful to my shield.

Some hours later I visited Mary. We had a chat about Antoine having a girl friend and about the new teeth of her daughter. I liked this normal chats with her, it reminds me always of my human life, and the talks of my old friends, like Angela, would have had as well.

When I finally want home, by feet of course, I sensed something behind me. It was strange, a little bit like the feeling I had the day back in Port Angelas when these guys where following me. So I turned around to see if I was just confused because of the incident that afternoon. But when I finally looked over my shoulder, I saw I figure right at the corner. I tried to figure out why he was standing there and for one moment I thought to smell the vampire from the afternoon again, bit than he was away. So I kept going to my place.

The next couple of days I had always the feeling to be followed. But I never found the proof, however hard I tried. But the one day I found finally the proof. I went to the university I was just visiting when I went through a small alley. And there he was again. He watched me carefully and waited until I was in the middle of the alley, I stopped I thought about my possibilities, but there were no, I had to face and probably fight him. He came to my level and started circling me.

"So, I followed you a couple of days to find out more about you. Well, I found some interesting stuff about you, your just hunting animals, your studying medicine and you have nice human friends.", At this point I got really scared, If he would, or better could harm me in any way it wasn't as bad as if he harm my Mary and her family. But he continued. " You know, I followed you because I wanted to know more about you, so that I have something to talk to you. SO, will you talk to me now? You must admit that I showed a lot of interest to you."

"Yeah, you did, but that's not really comforting me. I still have no interest in talking to you. Please accept that as my answer and stop following me.", I begged that he would give up, but after al those years I was sure that he wouldn't, he did always get what he wants to, and I wouldn't be an exception for him. I know I could just talk to him and comfort him in some way, but I don't do those things, not after, or before him. He was the only one I wanted to date, to talk to in detail about me, and not that vampire forcing me to.

"I'm really sorry but I don't want to talk to anyone about me, this ended a long time ago. I'm sure you'll find someone different to talk to."

His reaction was just like I thought it would be.

"No, I want to talk to YOU, nobody else, so will you talk to me now or will you make me do more forcing things?"

"What would that probably be? You can't make me do anything I don't want to do." And with that I passed by and went out of the alley. But I could swear I just heard a laugh behind me.