I wanted to add a little humor to this chapter, just to sort of break it up a little its a little tid bit of Near not being too sure about Mello's gender.
I placed the lamp on the large table and sat next to it and waited for Lawliet to inform me of his concerns
"I hadn't ever thought that the time and place I would be turning you would be in the basement and for nothing more than to get some answers. I feel as if I am constantly letting you down, first with the interruption last night and for my own selfish reasons not returning to you and now I am having to turn you because yet again for my own selfish reasons. I am struggling with all of this Light, mentally and emotionally I feel that I have been wasting the last two millenniums. I am putting your life in danger and I do not know if I can deal with that" He said to me almost in a panic
"Lawliet I do understand your frustration but aside from declaring war what else can we do? I trust you; you know that I don't believe you would ever cause me harm on purpose. I realize that this is not ideal and you wanted a more romantic setting for such a thing to take place but this is not you being selfish. I know you and you have never done anything that would suit you and you alone. You are doing what you can to protect your kind and human kind also" I replied
I myself wasn't exactly impressed that I becoming a vampire was going to be taking place in a dreary, damp, dark basement and I wasn't exactly happy that L was not going to be himself when it was going to happen but I knew that it had to be done this way. I couldn't back out and cause a disruption to the plan and especially not to the man I loved.
"I have to be someone that I am not. I have to be aggressive and angered and I have not been like that since I was first turned I do not want to frighten you, I do not want the last memories of your human life to be of me in a state that is purely for show"
He had walked up to me and he stood directly in front, his eyes on mine. I could see the pain and the frustration and I needed to ease his mind although this was fueling is fire of what was to come once night had settled in I needed to try and calm him so he didn't continue to feel the guilt that he was riddled with.
"Lawliet, don't you think that of all people I know who you truly are? Surely you can't honestly think that I would not be able to distinguish the difference between the real you and a person invented purely for show?"
"I do not think that at all Light" he replied
"Then you have nothing to concern yourself with, ideally speaking no it isn't the perfect place to have you turn me but it doesn't mean that it will have any less value to me, you could do it a vat of animal excrement and it would still mean the same to me as if we were in the bedroom or outside under the moonlight. I wanted this because it is you Lawliet, a time and place do not concern me. You are what matters to me, nothing else and I know you would take the utmost care of me after the fact" I replied staying as calm as possible
I could see him suddenly relax. The fear and pain slowly evaporated and he was his usual self again.
"I am sorry I hadn't asked this sooner but are you alright after last night?" He asked in the deep monotone voice I had come to love so dearly
"Yes Lawliet I am perfectly alright, although I must admit I am rather quite looking forward to being with you romantically and sexually speaking. I have been exhibiting pain since last night, just not from the bites"
His lips turned up into a smile. He stepped forward again to me and very softly brushed some of the chestnut brown hair away from my forehead. I placed my hands on either side of his waist and my fingertips tingled with the excitement of holding him.
"I will make a promise to you that I will not break. I promise I will take care of you, you are going to go through a lot of pain as your body transforms but tonight, if you wish after all is said and done I will take that pain away from you, you will still be human if that is what you desire then I will go to any lengths needed to do that for you, you only have to say and I will give you my word" Lawliet said
I could see the honesty in the obsidian orbs staring into me and completely taking over my body, I had wanted him and if said he would take what pain I was going to be exhibiting through as I transformed from human to vampire then I believed him.
"It is what a want L" I replied
"Then that is what you will have, I will not let you down my love. You are mine and as mine I will protect you"
He pressed his lips to mine gently. Although cold as ice they were as soft as a feather and his breath somehow incredibly warm. We embraced in each other for a short time before exited the cellar to go forth with proceedings once Matt and Mello had returned. Lawliet had gone into the library and met with Near so they could start their training and I had gone into the basement to remove all of L's books and make it look as dreary as possible. We all wanted the Romanian to have as much fear bestowed upon him as possible. If Mello was right and his ultimate fear was being turned then he truly was going to be frightened as he was going to watch Lawliet take my life. I wasn't entirely sure for certain what was going to happen to me but I had read some about it and from what I knew it was going to involve a lot of pain and a lot of me expelling blood from my system by the means of regurgitation. He would be truly terrified.
I had slowly removed all the books from the basement and placed them in the library I smiled every time I walked past hearing both L and Near trying their hand and being terrifying but the voices that were supposed to sound dark had sounded nothing more then humorous. I placed down the last of the books and walked over to the table and stood next to L
"If you don't mind me making a suggestion. You both have very deep monotone voices you do not have to force yourself to sound frightening. You have more of a chance of sounding terrifying if you simply lower your natural voice only slightly. If any kind of voice scares a human it is a deep one spoken softly simply because he would be in constant fear that you are going to suddenly take a turn and become violent" I said
"How do you know this Light?" Near asked me
"It's just a basic principal, if you have a beast who looks as if he can rip you to shreds and yet makes no move would you not be in constant fear that with even the slightest movement or wrong word spoken that you could become said beasts next meal?" I replied
"I quite like this successor of yours uncle he seems to have a brilliant and logical mind" Near said
"Yes, I am quite fond of him myself" Lawliet replied and looked back up at me
"This basement is done is there anything else you require, perhaps I could get you both something to drink?" I asked
"That would be nice, thank you Light" Near responded
I looked at L and he shook his head gently
"I am sure I will have more than my fill tonight" He replied
I smiled and disappeared from the room to retrieve a glass of blood for Near.
I collected the blood for Near and returned to the library. I placed down the glass and Near took a sip and pulled a face somewhat resembling disgust
"I much prefer the blood of a human, it is so much more complex than that of an animal, it has more...depth" He remarked
I wanted to ask more about it but I wasn't wholly sure that he would be comfortable with me inquiring.
"You can ask me about Light, I am not exactly shy when it comes to answering curiosities, actually I quite like allowing people to hear that I am not a simple creature. I also know that you thrive for knowledge so if you like you can ask me what you want to know, I respect those with a thirst for education" Near said looking at me
I knew very well that vampires couldn't read minds, it was a false assumption about them but they were quite advanced at reading facial expressions and body language and a slight crinkle in ones face or a quick bodily gesture and they could tell straight away so I wasn't surprised that Near was able to pick up on it.
"Thank you kindly Near, I greatly appreciate it. How long have you been feeding off of humans for?" I asked him
"Since I was turned, I was converted when I was seventeen it was fifty years after uncle L had been. But I never kill nor I do not simply choose a random person, you never know where they have been or what diseases they may be carrying. I have always had a willing donor, someone who expects nothing in return. Unlike my uncle I have not found anyone suitable for my successor nor do I think I ever will. Even though a vampire's bloodline is their ultimate pride I have an inability to become connected with people simply because I consider myself to have a superior mind and unlike L I have not been lucky enough to meet someone who is on par with me in intelligence" Near replied somewhat bigotedly
I nodded my head to let him know that I had understood what he meant and that I could relate somewhat to his statement.
"Did you have a choice in being turned?" I asked him
"That is somewhat of a complex question. I had known of L's transformation a short time before I was turned. I was greatly intrigued by vampirism much like you are simply because it challenged my intelligence; it was a topic I knew nothing about so of course naturally I wanted to know. The more I learned the more it intrigued to the point where I knew if I truly wanted the greater knowledge I craved for then I would have to become one myself. I suppose you could say that I had flirted with the idea and was comfortable with either living as a human or as a vampire but I had not expected to be turned when I was by a stranger he hadn't asked if I wanted eternal life, in fact he hadn't said anything to me and like most newborn vampires I was left to discover what I had become on my own, those kinds of vampires that abandon their offspring are nothing more than monsters who deserve to be burned alive" He replied
After listening to him for quite some time he had laid to rest quite a few questions that I had. Lawliet and Near had discussed a little about their family line and eventually had got back to the task at hand and had resumed trying to become the type of vampires that would be able to frighten someone. They were becoming quite good, they didn't sound like the Lawliet I had known and the Near that I had the pleasure of coming to know.
"Well Light do you have an opinion about our progress?" Near asked me
"I must admit it is rather remarkable that you have managed to appear fearsome. I probably am not the best person to ask because I do know Lawliet rather well and I do know his true nature. But I think you have both made quite great progress, and it does sound very believable" I replied
"Do you have any suggestions to add?" Lawliet asked me
"Well it is not exactly a suggestion as much as a statement but I think to find out for a certainty on the depth of your progress you will need, I suppose you would call it, a test subject. Someone that doesn't know either of you very well, someone who may not realize that it's possible for you to have a dark side to your existence" I replied
"That is not such a bad notion, it would prove to be rather helpful" Lawliet responded
"But we cannot simply pull someone aside and sit them down and interrogate them, especially since the villagers hold you in such high regard the last thing we would want is to frighten them and ultimately decide to side with your enemies" Near said
Just as Near had finished his sentence we had heard the front door open and then Matt and Mello discussing what appeared to be a personal matter. They came in and found us in the library
"Alright, well we know where the Romanian is going to be tonight, we thought it would be better to retrieve him after dark, nobody likes being apprehended it pitch darkness and can't see who is detaining them. You vampires have no idea how much people seem to like you it's fucking peculiar if you ask me. We thought we would…why are you looking at us like that?" Mello rambled and then paused
"Is this about last night? Cause I told Mello to be quiet but he never listens to me" Matt responded
Mello turned and looked at Matt with daggers, clearly not happy with what the red head had said
"Perhaps if someone could learn that I cannot handle too much stimulation at one time I would not have been loud, it's your own damn fault that you don't listen to me"
"Well excuse me for trying to make you feel good and besides I know you liked it you always do and how am I supposed to keep myself calm when you become a wild sex demon in the bed, if you hadn't started talking in such a filthy manner perhaps I would have been able to control myself" Matt barked back at him
It was rather humorous listening to them argue and I noticed the peculiar look on Near's face as he listened to the two man argue.
"That's no excuse I told you it's either my cock or my ass, not both at the same time" Mello growled
"You're a male?" Near asked looking at Mello
"What? Of course I am a male you stupid vampire, what part of me looks feminine?" Mello asked
"Your ass" Matt said
"Your eyes" Lawliet added
"The length of your hair" Near responded
"Your fingers" I spoke up
"Oh that's just…fuck you guys, I am retiring to the bedroom, and you, you can stay here and think about what you have done" Mello said looking at Matt
"And there is your test subject" I replied
The vampires looked at Matt and both somewhat smiled
"Test subject? Hey I didn't sign up for being having anything being tested on me" He replied looking rather nervous
"It is just a conversation Matt, we would not do anything that would cause you any harm, it's detrimental to the plan and its success" Lawliet said convincingly
"Goddamit, what's the deal with you blood suckers, you could charm a homeless peasant into giving you their only clothing, where do you wish for me to be?"