Revelations Part II
Lacey took in a shallow breath as she glanced at the gravestones in the Green Grove cemetery. She closed her eyes feeling the breeze of the night kiss her cheeks. The wind burnt slightly due to the chaffing of her cheeks. She had shed so many tears the night prior that her skin was slightly damaged.
She didn't know why she wanted to be in such a eerie place. Perhaps, it was to try to understand the mortality of herself or others compared to Danny.
"I'm glad you're here, Ms. Porter." A deep voice echoed behind her.
Lacey jumped startled. She started to run but found her body paralyzed with fright. She mustered up all the courage she could find when she saw the male figure approaching her. The male was in a long hooded cloak alerting Lacey that she was meeting another immortal. It wasn't every day that men wore cloaks in Green Grove.
"Do I know you?" She asked with a shaky voice.
"Don't fear me, child." Amar tried to sound less menacing than he was. "I need for you to go to Daniel. He needs you very much."
Lacey inhaled as she crossed her arms over her chest. The whole atmosphere seemed to drop at least 20 degrees. "I don't know..."
"You doubt his love for you." Amar smiled slightly as he thought of his son's love for the lovely girl. He stepped closer but still didn't allow Lacey to see his face. He knew he looked too much like Danny for that to happen. "Do not."
Lacey bit her bottom lip as she tried to calm her shaking body. "But he loved so many like me. How do I know Danny loves me and not some memory of the past?"
Amar chuckled at her insecurity. "My son has always only loved you, Laceana."
Lacey glanced up quickly. She exhaled causing a puff of air to form a cloud as it wafted in the air. "Your son?"
Amar pulled the hood from his head. He stepped into the moonlight revealing himself to her. Lacey gasped at the resemblance he had to Danny.
"Yes. However, Daniel doesn't know this. It is a long story. However, know that his best interest is in my heart." Amar stated with certainty. "Daniel's best interest has always been the sole reason for my happiness. You, my dear, are his best interest."
Lacey licked her lips nervously. "I don't understand. Why do you call me Laceana?"
"Think, my dear. Think about your earliest thoughts. You are not a descendant of Laura or Kayliegh. They are descendants of you. You are the best of them. Each moment that brought them strength came from you. Each moment that caused them thoughts of Daniel came from you. They were drawn to Daniel because you were drawn to him first. Daniel was drawn to them because he fell in love with you first." Amar took her hand in his. He stared at her as he spoke. "Close your eyes and allow yourself to think of your earliest memory."
Lacey started to take her hand from his. However, she felt that he would not harm her. Perhaps she was being foolish. Perhaps it was the fact he looked so much like Danny.
"How do I know that you're not hypnotizing me?"
"I can't." Amar laughed. "You were born with the resistance to that power."
Lacey closed her eyes as she tried to think of a time of her youth.
Her cheeks were squeezed together with anger by a woman's hands.
"Take the medicine, Laceana!" She stated angrily. "Or I shall kill your mother and brothers."
Lacey opened her mouth as the woman stuck a wooden spoon full of bitter tasting liquid in her mouth. She swallowed as tears streamed down her small cheeks. "Ms. Tara, the medicine hurts my stomach. It hurts my head as well."
"Do as I say." Tara Desai turned away from the child. "And your family will survive."
Lacey curled into the corner of her room in a fetal position. She rocked back and forth as tears moistened her face. She sang to herself. "Mama's baby. Mama's girl. Mama's baby. Mama's world."
"Laceana!" Lady Porter's voice echoed as she called her daughter's name. "Come, child. I want you to meet someone."
"Don't tell I was here." Tara stared down at the frightened child. "Do as you always do. No one must know about me or many will die."
Lacey shook her head in agreement as she stood up to run down the stairs. She bounded down the stairs hoping to get away from the strange female with an angry frown. Lacey stopped suddenly when she saw a beautiful little boy smiling at her.
"This is Daniel Desai, Laceana." Her mother reached for Lacey's hand. However Lacey made her way past her mother. She felt drawn to the little boy.
"Will you be my friend?"
Lacey's eyes opened up suddenly. She swallowed as she looked around the graveyard. The man was gone. Lacey touched her chest due to her heart racing rapidly.
"Am I Laceana?"
Lacey ran from the graveyard to her house. She ran upstairs despite her mother's questioning of why she was upset. Throwing herself on the bed, Lacey pounded the pillows angrily. She was confused and frightened. She needed to think through all the cloudiness in her thoughts. She didn't want to see Danny, cloaked strangers, slutty vampires, or graveyards. Lacey wanted to be a teen girl with a normal gorgeous boyfriend. Was that too much to ask?
Amar had left Regina laying on the cold floor sobbing without mortal tears before he had made his way to the cemetery. It wasn't his fault that the young man that he had bitten killed Sarah. That young immortal paid for his lust for blood with death. Amar killed him once he found out about Sarah.
He wanted Regina dead but knew that Tyler would try to kill Danny if he killed her. Amar knew if he killed Regina, a chain of vengeance would keep going as each immortal pitted themselves against Danny due to their allegiance to Tyler. They feared Danny therefore his death would mean more if Tyler was killed by Danny's hands. Amar would NOT allow his son to die. Danny would probably kill them before they had a chance anyway. However, Amar knew that Danny didn't know his own strength yet as an immortal.
Amar hovered in a tree at the Desai home. He watched his son staring at a photo of Lacey and him at the dance before all the chaos. He remembered feeling as Danny felt with being in love. He too had fallen for a human, who he chose not to make his immortal beloved.
Being a born vampire, Amar was not really permitted to make love to a mortal without taking of her blood . However, he fell deeply in love with a female of his village named Katerina Kenthrow. Amar was to marry his betrothed of the immortals. Before he did, he chose to make love to his mortal lover one last time. During that time together, he planted his seed in a human. During that moment, he had created a forbidden child. This child was a link to both mortal and immortal.
Amar knew what he was as did Katrina Kenthrow. Yet, they still chose to make love one last time before his last day of being a single man. Thus, Daniel was conceived to a female mortal and a centuries old immortal. Daniel was to be the first of his kind. A product of a forbidden love was to be born. It was a mystery of how Daniel was conceived. It was considered impossible. It never happened before nor had it after.
A born immortal had the ability to procreate even when other immortals did not. However, the born immortals only created a child with other born immortals. The born immortals were becoming scarce. Female born immortals were very rare. Most born immortals were male. However, even those born immortals were not being born for the past few centuries.
Amar hid his lover away from others as her womb swelled with child. He fed off of many humans to keep alive. Yet, he had no way to keep his lover alive. If he changed her, she would die and the baby would as well. After all, the child was human in her womb. The child would only become an immortal later in life if he was like his father. If Amar's and Katrina's child were to become immortal, it would not be known until the babe's eighteenth year. Christopher's attack made Daniel's passage into immortality come quicker than it should have. Yet caused him to have a thirst for blood more than if he had waited to be changed at his due age of eighteen.
The day his son was born was both the most joyful day and the most sorrowful. That day when Daniel took his first breath, Katrina Kenthrow took her last. Legends had spoken of the destroyer of immortals would be both human and immortal. It was a tale that many scoffed at. After all, it was unheard of happening. No one knew if it was a rumor told to keep immortals and mortal separate or if it was true. However, Amar knew that his son would be put to death by the immortals if he was ever found out about.
Amar had to protect his son from his forbidden birth. He made a decision to live without his child for his child's safety. He took his child to Katrina Kenthrow's older sister, Victoria. Victoria was married to his own descendant, Rajesh Desai.
"Please take him as your own, Rajesh." Amar begged. " I am unable to keep him."
"Where is my sister?" Victoria asked as she watched Amar hand his son to Rajesh.
"She died in childbirth." Amar hid his immortal life from them. He was fearful that if Rajesh or Victoria knew of his child's heritage, they would not keep him.
Rajesh handed the baby over to his wife. He looked at Amar questioningly. He saw that Amar was heartbroken to be giving up his son.
"He is beautiful, Amar." Victoria held the babe close to her chest. "Rajesh, he is part of your family and my sister. We have a part of Katrina in him."
Rajesh stooped down beside his wife. "We will raise him. I have only one request."
"What is that?" Amar raked his hand through his thick black hair.
"You allow me to be his father. You must stay out of his life. There are rumors of our family, Amar. Strange rumors; I find troubling. Perhaps, they are not true. Stories, as such, rarely are. But our family is odd none the less." Rajesh raked his finger over the babe's cheek. "Katrina wasn't permitted to see you. She disobeyed. She is dead due to her disobedience."
"I will stay my distance from him." Amar swallowed. "I ask you call him Daniel Vikram for me. Katrina wanted her son to be named Daniel and I wanted Vikram. I ask that you treat him and love him as your own child."
"We shall." Rajesh shook Amar's hand. "He will be our son as is John."
Amar sighed as he stooped to kiss his son's forehead. "Be safe my son. I love you. I leave you with good people."
Victoria held the babe tight to her bosom. "I promise that he will be loved."
"He is to be betrothed to the Porter's first born daughter. They do not know why but I told them that Victoria and Rajesh's son should be their first daughter's betrothed." Amar smiled as he studied his son. "It is imperative that he marries into that family. It is a good bloodline."
Victoria frowned as she stared over at Rajesh. She then whispered softly. "Amar, they are in a class above ours. We have nothing to offer them. Why would they agree to this?"
Amar smirked as he stood up from kissing his babe's forehead once more. "I have a way of convincing them."
Amar left with those last words. He knew that the bloodline of the Porter's was a pure bloodline of witches. If Daniel were to marry into this family, he'd have wife that lived an eternity as he would even without his blood thirst keeping them alive. He would make her his beloved immortal . Together, the couple would rule the underworld.