I Love You Both

by angelsinstead

Marty has been waiting impatiently for her vampire lover to come and take her away from her unhappy existence. She would provide him with sustenance and sex, and he would provide her with safety from the abuse and unhappiness she had known in her life. How could she have known it would be so complicated? How could she have known that HE would want her, too?

42. Cryptic

Cryptic

Todd drank Marty to the point of death. He didn't have to take much because she had already lost a great deal of blood. After her breathing slowed and her heartbeat was nearly nonexistent, Todd withdrew his fangs from her neck. He stared down upon her pale face as he told her how much he loved her and how he could not bear to lose her.

"Just do it, Todd," Victor insisted. "She's slipping away from us."

Victor held Marty's hand in his as his fingertips rested over her wrist. Her pulse was ebbing away. She would die within moments if Todd did not bring her over.

"Marty, I have no other choice..." Todd murmured as he pierced his wrist with his sharp nails. He pressed the bleeding wound to Marty's lips.

"Drink, baby," he urged.

He waited to see if Marty would drink from the warm spray he had pressed against her lips. Her eyes didn't open, but her mouth did. She was drinking from Todd's wrist like a hungry babe.

Tenderly, Todd caressed her hair as she drank and drank. Once she had taken her fill, she fell back against the pillows, completely exhausted. Lovingly, Todd wiped the blood from her lips.

"Will she be alright?" Todd asked Victor. "I've never turned anyone before."

"We'll know when she awakens," Victor answered. "But I have a strong feeling she'll probably hate both of us. She wasn't ready to be turned."

"We had no other choice," Todd said as he covered Marty with a blanket.

"That's right... we didn't. It was the only means we had to save her. So I hope she will forgive us."

~*~o~*~

Hours passed and finally Marty woke up. She awakened to new and strange sensations. It was as if all her senses had heightened. She couldn't make sense of all the sights and sounds.

"Wh- what happened?" she asked as she opened her eyes.

"Where's my baby... and why- why do I feel so strange?" she asked Victor.

He hadn't left her side since the birth of their child. Todd was in the nursery, seeing to the needs of their children, but Victor had chosen to remain with Marty.

"It's okay, Marty," Victor said as he comforted her. "Everything's alright."

"No it's not," Marty stated. "Something's different... and I demand to know what it is..."

"I will tell you everything..." Victor promised.

As she looked into Victor's eyes, Marty was troubled by the cryptic message she saw reflected in his sapphire depths. Something had happened after their baby's birth and she was very afraid.

"Tell me now," Marty urged.