Forbidden Sunrise

The Tenderness 2.0

A/N "With Beck's Abilities clearly on another level than Tori's, what other secrets will be revealed"

Chapter 18: What's in The Bag

The Woods, Tori and Beck

Beck passed Tori by a few hundred yards before coming back down to the ground, Beck didn't know how to fly or hover yet, but that wasn't going to stop him. Upon hitting the ground, Beck climbed up a tree and went all the way up to the top of it. Tori hovered smoothly in the sky, Beck held on like an orangutan staring at her. He had a smug look on his face, like he already knew Tori was doing more than just competing- she was giving it her all.

"What you thinking about Tori…Is that all you've got? Or are you going to teach me how to fly like you too" he told her.

Tori would have loved to teach him how to hover- but she was a bit scared at what kind of power or outcome would come of it if she did that. She descended back onto the ground where Beck was waiting for her. Beck dusted snowflakes off his shirt and sat down on a downed tree, Tori sat down on the same log and stared at her feet.

"So are you going to teach me how to fly like you Tori? Or are you chicken, afraid I might fly like a jet and-"

"BECK!" she yelled, his gloating was really getting to her.

"I would love to teach you how to fly but I'm actually concerned at what kind of power you'll have. I don't want to end up teaching you how to fly if it means you will be able to fly through walls or be able to travel thorough time. I don't know why your so different Beck, but I don't want to continue until I can figure out why. For now let's return back home, there's something I want to share with you- it's about blood."

Beck sat still and stared at his fingers, he made them change into steel claws and changed them back to normal, he thought about it also and wondered what made him different. Tori and Beck must have spent hours just 'competing', yet Beck didn't feel the least bit tired. Tori began to walk back down the road they came from, Beck hopped off the log and went to walk by her side. He grabbed and held her hand the whole way down, her hand felt different this time around- it didn't feel cold like last time. It actually felt warm, he thought since he was now a vampire like her it would naturally feel warm unlike if he was still human where it would feel cold.

"So Tori tell me…why do you think I'm different, or maybe I'm not special at all and I'm just a different species."

"you can't be of a different species Beck, I was the one that bit you- and besides there's only one species of vampires…at least from what I know. Anyway let's worry about that tomorrow ok."

Lakeside Chateau, 3:00pm

After an hour's walk from the woods, Tori and Beck were back home. Beck looked at the time on their living room television cable box, it was only 3 in the morning. Beck took a seat in their living room as did Tori, she held his hand and looked him in the eyes. The time was coming when he too would have to kill to survive, it just hasn't hit him yet.

"Beck…do you remember when I asked you back at the picnic table, "you would kill if you could…right? And how did you respond" she asked him.

Beck looked down at her hand that laid on top of his own- he knew how he responded but kept from answering right away. Tori stood up out of her chair and went towards the freezer in the kitchen, she opened it up and took out a plastic bag that had two frozen things in it. She closed the freezer and came back to sit at the living room table, she placed the bag down and opened it up. It's frozen contents gave Beck a shock that made him back up in his chair, it looked like two frozen globs with a lot of ice on it.

"what the heck are those things Tori!?"

"These Beck, these are human hearts. Apart from draining them of their blood, I've learned to take their hearts too." she replied to his outburst.

"What the Hell for!? Isn't it bad enough that their already dead? You got to take their hearts too?" he said to her, he knew that Tori had to drink blood to survive, but what on earth could she use hearts for. Just one out of so many questions he had in his head.

"Bad enough?" she said, repeating his own words, "Beck…whether you like it or not, you're going to get hungry. And when that happens, you'll attack any living things around you to satiate your hunger. Your first target will most likely be a small animal, like rabbits or rats. Then when they can't satisfy your hunger, you'll target animals like deers, moose's and even predators like pumas and wolves. But I must warn you against drinking the bloods from animals like those predators, choosing to drink their blood will make you wild and irrational. You'll slowly lose your humanity and gain more animalistic traits."

"That's all nice Tori, but you just completely went around my original question. Why did you take two peoples hearts" Tori grabbed a frozen heart and ran it in some warm water of the kitchen sink so all the ice and stiffness could go away. She held it up to his face and told him,

"One little trick I learned from someone Beck is, if you eat a human heart…you can go traveling in daylight for 24 hrs. but after taking it and it's effects wear off, you won't be able to do it again for another year." with that, Tori handed Beck the warm soft heart. Beck held on to the heavy organ, he looked at it with wonder and anger. He grabbed the other frozen heart and crushed both of them.

"Beck! What The Fuck!" she screamed out in an almost pained tone of anger and confusion.

"You're going to hear me out now Tori, I've heard everything you had to tell me and now let me tell you what I'm going to do about this little problem of ours…hopefully It won't require blood or munching on human hearts." with that, Beck threw the hearts into their kitchen trash can and spoke.

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