The sound of the four voices that I had heard a lot of the past couple days is what bought me out of my sleep. I sat up and rubbed my head trying to remember everything that had happened. I could feel a hunger I had never felt before in the pit of my stomach and then the sudden realization that before the intense and wild animalistic ritual of being made love to by Lawliet he had drained me and given me his blood. I reached up and slowly hesitantly pressed my left index finger against my teeth, no not teeth fangs. I had woken up just as Lawliet had said as a vampire. The excitement rushed through me and I felt like a child on a sugar rush. I pulled the comforter off of my naked body and raced to dressing table. I kneeled on the floor and there in my reflection I saw it, my youthfulness paused by time and those fangs, I couldn't quite believe my eyes but most of all the agonizing pain I had been in the process of turning was completely gone and I felt invincible. I rushed to pull some clothes on but in the midst of my excitement I had started to become weak, I needed blood. I needed blood, the thought constantly ran inside my brain my first reaction would have been I needed food but the moment I heard the demand in my head for the silken crimson fluid I knew I was most certainly no long human, I was a creature of the night and not only was in my own blood running through my veins but Lawliet's as well, I was truly a part of him and he a part of me.
I became sluggish as I pulled the clothes on so that I could seek out Lawliet. I listened and even though the door was closed I could hear every word clear as day. They had been discussing the triumph of their success with the interrogation and even though I could hear Lawliet was not overly pleased Mello had told him what he had done to the Romanian but made a valid point to back up his execution.
With what strength I could muster I pulled open the heavy door and made my way to the stairs. I still watched my feet as I softly padded down each one, slowly whilst gripping hold of the polished rails with one hand and the other wrapped around my stomach. The only pain I was in was hunger pains but I knew I would soon be feed. I reached the bottom of the stairs and made my way to the voices. It was strange I had read that newborn vampires were the worst, unable to remain calm, starving to the point where they didn't care whom they killed but I didn't feel like that. I was happy at the thought of drinking the animal blood that Lawliet stored and I felt as if I was my usual self.
I entered the study and the moment I looked up and met Lawliet's eyes with a smile he rushed to me and held me in his arms as he could see that I was weak.
"Oh thank the heavens, you're alright, I was so worried about you my love" Lawliet said in a panic and he stroked my hair and put a gentle kiss on my forehead.
"I wouldn't die that easily, L I am feeling extremely hungry" I replied
"Of course, I will get you something to drink" He slowly eased me into the chair and sat me down, I lazily reclined into it and hang my arms weakly over the arm rests
"Matt and Mello, thank you for taking care of me and Near thank you for educating me about your life as a vampire I greatly appreciate what you three did for me" I managed to say to try and rid myself of the need to regurgitate once again.
The hunger pains were so much similar to humans, the feeling of wanting to be sick because I was more or less starving. Lawliet quickly returned, thank god for the speed of the vampire. He placed the glass to my lips and slowly tipped it up, allowing the red liquid to slowly pool into the curve of the glass and gradually trickle down the lip and into my mouth. The taste was not pleasant it was metallic, pungent and I felt I could not drink anymore
"That looks like the most unpleasant thing I have ever seen anyone consume, look at the poor guy he looks like it's going to make him hurl" Matt said as both he and Mello cringed at the sight of me drinking the blood.
I had managed to get it all down, but the moment I swallowed I stood up placed my hands over my mouth and rushed to the large copper wash tub that was in the kitchen and lost everything that I drank. I could feel the pain coming back to me and then something else, anger. I was furious at myself for not being able to keep down the blood I had to try again, I had to get it into me and keep it there. Lawliet had come to me and placed his hands onto my back.
"Light, I am so sorry my love I didn't mean to tip it so fast" He said
"No L, it's not your fault it's my stomach, I can't seem to hold it down" I said panting from the pain in my abdomen
I looked at the basin filled with the blood and reached in with my hand and cupped it bringing a handful back to my mouth and tried drinking again. The moment I swallowed it had come back up again
"NO!" I yelled in anger at myself
"Is everything alright Uncle L?" Near asked as he entered the room
"Light can't seem to keep the blood down, He is going to need human blood. I can't let him starve" Lawliet said in a panic
I pulled away from the sink and looked up at him
"No L, no. I won't hurt a human I refuse to. It was part of our agreement I was never to drink from a human" I said faintly
I could feel my body heating up and the hunger was become intense. I tried desperately to cling onto sanity and the hunger seemed to begin to feel my entire body and with two humans in the house I was worried I would not be able to control myself, I would not kill Matt and Mello I refused to. They had helped when they didn't have to, I considered them my friends
Lawliet placed his hands on my shoulders and bent down so his eyes met mine whilst I hunched over quite severely
"Listen to me Light, you need to drink or you will die and will not be able to bring you back, please I cannot lose you. I will find you a willing donor, there is a few hours of darkness left, I will not be long" He said to me
"Do not worry Light, I had not accounted for this, if you need human blood then you will have it I do not feel any anger or disappointment towards you. Please I cannot lose you now. I need you" Lawliet continued.
"Here" Matt said and came towards me rolling up his sleeve
"Take mine" he continued
"Matt? No I won't hurt you" I said angrily
"Stop being such a big baby and take it, Mello has already offered to be Near's donor so I may as well be of some use" He placed his bare wrist under my nose
The smell, the aroma was orgasmic, so sweet and so strong. It made my mouth water and my entire body tremble.
"Matt are you sure you want to do this, it can be quite painful" Lawliet asked the red head
"Yeah I am sure just hurry up and don't get too greedy, I have a knife in my pants and I won't be afraid to use it"
I heard Mello burst out in laughter across the other room and Near looking at Mello like he had lost his mind.
"Knife in his pants…that's funny" Mello stopped laughing and wiped the tears from his eyes
"Go on take it, I know you want to. Don't be so ridiculous you don't want to die do you and besides I have been through worse than a vampire bite" Matt replied
I brushed my lips against the light pink flesh and trailed my tongue against the blue vein that popped up just under the surface
"Hey there vampy don't get too friendly that's quite the turn on just bite me" Matt said
I smiled against his wrist, opened my mouth wide and punctured his wrist
"AHH HOLY FUCK!" Matt yelled loudly
"Who's the baby now princess" Mello said laughing at Matt
I pulled in his blood, it coated my entire tongue and somehow on my own accord I pulled away when I felt I had enough. It was more a surprise to myself than anyone else. I had heard that vampires often could not stop themselves when they first drank from a human, I wasn't sure it was because I had spent six years controlling myself around Lawliet that I had simply grown accustomed to control or if it was because I considered Matt a friend that made me stop either way I was quite pleased with myself. I stood up straight and wiped the remains from my mouth.
"Well that was quite unusual, Light? Did you stop because you had enough or did you stop because of your concern for Matt?" Near asked me
I stretched my body and Matt had gone back over to Mello and Near, gripping his wrist.
"Both, I didn't want to take any more then I needed from him. But thank you dearly Matt"
"It's not a problem, I suppose I'll eventually get used to it" Matt commented
"Matt? Are you offering to be Light's willing donor?" Lawliet asked him
"Sure I mean we are friends right, it's the least I could do after the pain he went through, if he hadn't agreed to it we would have never got the confession" Matt said
"Thank you dearly Matt, I will make sure that you are compensated and you and Mello are free to live here for as long as you please. I will make sure that you both have everything that you need" Lawliet replied
"Hey where's my compensation Near?" Mello turned and barked
"I will provide you with reimbursement also Mello, it is the least I can do" Lawliet said
Once I no longer felt hungry and I was feeling my old self again we reconvened back into the study and Lawliet went over what exactly happened. He had told me that once the Romanian had watched what had opened to me and the blood I had expelled he quickly confessed and had given the name of the man that had come into power in the last week. A man none of us had heard of before Alezander Lycan, it was rather ironic that a man who was after the vampires had the name associated with a werewolf. He was notorious for travelling the globe, finding heavily populated vampire areas, somehow coming into power and threatening the lives of those he wanted to rule over. He had hired the slayers to take out the vampires and because of his threats to the Royals they had been unable to stop him the Romanian said that he had something over them but he hadn't known what it was exactly. But once he gave the confession and Lawliet and Near had let him go he had threated to kill them and Matt and Mello and of course that didn't sit too well with the trained killers so Mello had cut his throat from ear to ear and took the body down to the closet cemetery and he and Matt buried him.
Everyone had been rather impressed with the results but once again the plan of what to do next arose. We had the person responsible for the deaths name and we knew he was in the Royals and somehow had something over them.
"If he truly does have something over the Royals then would it not be then safe to say that we could arrange to meet with some of them. If this Lycan fella is the only reason why these vampire deaths have occurred then surely the rest of the Royals want out and we may be able to offer a bargain we will get rid of Lycan providing they keep to the treaty and no longer involve themselves in the humans or vampires lives" Mello said
"That isn't such a bad plan, however we don't know for absolute certainty that the Royals are being forced to deal with this man's decisions or if they are gladly letting him do what he see is fit. We all know that the Royals have had a problem with vampires for many centuries, they may be glad of his presence if he is eliminating the vampires" Near responded
"That is true, We are going to see if we can find out more about Alezander Lycan, I do not wish to waste any time but we cannot defeat an enemy we know little about, it would be like going to war without the use of your eyes" Lawliet said
"I think I know how we can find out who he is. If Alezander is a man who thrives on power then most likely he is going to want to have tie in's with anyone in power. It may be as simple as writing to him, posing as a hierarchy asking him to meet at a certain place at a certain time. Even if it is just to get to know him so we know who we are dealing with." I had said
"I could go back to France and write the letter from there, it will seem a lot less suspicious if it come from a different country. I live in a home of great prestige, I will take Mello with me and disguise him as royalty and ask that Alezander meet with his, Mello will explain that he wishes for the vampires to be wiped out, we will make up some sort of convincing story and we will come to understand him and it could turn out that we could end up gaining access to the Royals"
"Whoa hold your horses what makes you think I am going to be able to convince some loony tune that I want the vampires dead, I am not actor in case you haven't noticed I am only good a killing people, if you want him dead, fine I will execute him there and then but I am not going to sit there and try and act through this. Would it just solve all our problems if we just annihilated the source then everything will return to normal" Mell complained
"He's right" Lawliet replied
I couldn't quite believe what I was hearing. Lawliet would have never agreed to bloodshed. He looked at me as if he was asking me for forgiveness and not to think of him any less then I had for six years.
"The last thing I have wanted is bloodshed and I have tried always to make sure it doesn't happen but I am reaching my tether on this. He has been responsible for the deaths of vampires and he clearly doesn't care for the humans either. He was the first to spill the blood of my kind and no less than the those that look to me for protection. If we do not rid our country of our greatest enemy then not only will we be expecting a war but we would be fighting alone as those who look up to me for protection will lose hope. We need to do this now before it is too late and if the death of this man is not well received then we will have to prepare for a war, but I see no other option to have this done as soon as possible" Lawliet replied
I understood perfectly where he was coming from, he was running out of time and patience and if we had waited any longer and more vampires ended up murdered we would be faced with not only rebellion from those who look to L as their protector but a war with the Royals and five people against thousands was not a promising outcome.
"L is right we need to do this now before we face uprising and war, we would not stand a chance" I replied and rested my hand on Lawliet's shoulder.
He smiled at me and placed quick kiss on my hand.
"I agree also, we need to end this now, I do not want to end up being killed by a bunch of pissed off villages with pitchforks and torches" Matt commented
All five of us smiled at his reply
"So we are in agreement, Mello and I will proceed to France, we will request the presence of Alezander and once he has agreed to meet with us, Mello will ensue with the execution and Matt, Light and L will prepare for war incase his death is not well received and we will join you back here once he is dead" Near said
We all nodded
"Then Mello and I will leave once dusk has settled in tomorrow, I understand the urgency but I am of no use if I am dead and I quite like my life. It is nearly dawn and I wish to get some rest for tomorrow night, Mello would you mind joining me, I am rather famished" Near continued
"Yeah alright, just no funny business vampire, we all heard how rough vampires can get, right L?" Mello smiled and left the room with Near
I was sure that if Lawliet could blush he would have.
"I'm going to hit the hay to, I gotta tell you it is rather peculiar living in a house of vampires, my internal clock is all off" Matt replied and made his way to his and Mello's bedroom
Lawliet turned and faced me
"How are you feeling?" He asked me sweetly
"I feel perfectly fine Lawliet I don't honestly feel much different than I would if I were still human"
"I am so glad that you are alright Light, I was concerned that maybe because it was so rushed it hadn't worked properly. Also I am sorry if I cause you any discomfort during the interrogation, it was not my intention" He replied
"I am sorry that I swore at you and proceeded to spit in your face I thought it would be believable"
"It was rather the performance Light, I do not hold it against you. I hope you understand why I have come to the conclusion about executing Alezander Lycan"
I smiled at him, I could feel my fangs against my bottom lip, it was going to take some time to get used to them.
"I understand perfectly my love and I do not think any less of you, this cannot go on for much longer as I am concerned about your mental wellbeing. I am constantly worrying it will have a bad effect on you" I replied
"As am I Light, this is why I want this over and done with"
I grasped his hand and laced my fingers in with his and pressed my forehead to his whilst I stroked the back of his ink black strands
"I have to get some writing down tonight but will you come and sit with me in the library for a short time? I would very much like you to be with me"
"When have I ever said no to you" I replied
He smiled at me and pressed his lips against mine, his kiss soft, slow and sweet. My existence was nothing short of perfection.