AN: Standard disclaimer applies. Meet on the ledge…
Creating a Mate: Chapter 3
Edward was a vampire. He had been in his current state of being for over a century and no amount of blood, sex or magic could change that fact. He had been bitten by his Sire in order to create a companion. Edward lay, dying of the Spanish flu that had already claimed his parents.
His Sire, Carlisle, abstained totally from drinking human blood. The centuries of loneliness, combined with an impassioned plea from Edward's Mother to save her son led to the decision to bite a human. This way of life had always seemed an easy choice for Carlisle, a Minister's son and now a practicing physician. Edward, however, was not one to discriminate if his dinner walked on two legs or four. It was all a matter of what was an available menu choice of the moment. His greatest thrill lay in what was the greatest challenge, the discernment of scent and flavor. He once went a month without feeding, waiting until he found a human that was thinking a certain thought, merely for the amusement.
Edward was also a mind reader. This fact was discovered by Carlisle when Edward answered his thoughts rather than his spoken words.
Their time together had been educational for Edward in more ways than one. The conventional morality that governed the world that Edward had grown up in no longer applied. He was a vampire and that meant that his kind ruled the world.
Carlisle was his first lover, teaching him not only the ways of the flesh but the rules of their kind: how to blend in with the humans around them, controlling the bloodlust, and above all keeping the secret.
AN: Short but sweet. Real life is heating up. Props to KerrionCullen, hope you're feeling better. Thanks for all the reviews and alerts! - Dra