When Arianna started to wake up she heard several voices in her heard that sounded an awful lot like her new friends.
When is she going to wake up.
Hopefully she doesn't freak out.
It's be fine. She's stronger then Star was.
What the hell was going on? Was what she was thinking. She opened her eyes and groaned in pain.
"The fuck?" she hissed and covered her eyes with the blanket. Wait blanket. She tried to remember what happened. She went to the cave, drank some strong ass wine and passed out. Now she had one hell of a handover.
"Arianna." She heard a male voice speak to her right and she peeked her eyes opened and saw David was standing to her right looking at her with great concern on his face. No one had ever been concerned for her before. She turned her head around and saw all four boys were standing around her bed with the same look on their faces.
"As gorgeous as you all are, it's a little freaky to have you all standing over me like this." She commented in a horse, parched voice. Paul and Marko snickered at her comment and Dwayne gave her a smirk. David on the other hard was still looking her over with a very serious look on his face.
"What?" she ask him and he sighed before sitting on the edge of the bed facing her.
"How much did you drink out of the gold bottle?" he ask and she frowned and just stared at him. Was he mad she drank some of their wine?
"Arianna?" he ask in a firm voice and she jumped having flashbacks of her father storming through the house yelling her name. Shaking her head she missed the looks of concern from the boys when they heard her thoughts filter through their new bond.
"Um, like four of five swallows." She said pulling her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them, trying to ignore the pounding in her head. She watched as David sighed pinching the bridge of his nose. Before looking back at her again.
"You drank enough to jump start the change." He said more to himself then her.
"What's wrong. Are you mad that I came here and drank your wine? I can replace it." She told him and he shook his head.
"I wanted to wait until you trusted us more before bring you in fully but since you already drank from the bottle I have no choice now." He told her lighting a cigarette and she had the strong urge to ask for one. She felt like she would need it with the way he was talking.
Before she could even open her mouth and ask one already lit was pushed into her hand by Marko who just smirked at her. How the hell did he know?
She watched as they all sat on the edge of the bed surrounding her, all except Dwayne who stood at the foot of the bed with his arms crossed watching.
"Just spit out whatever you're trying to say David. I'm a big girl I can handle it." She said getting impatient again and David rolled his eyes. All of his children were so pushy.
"Ok. Here it goes then. Were Vampires all of us expect Laddie who is half. And now you're a half vampire pending your first feed to change you into a full Vampire since you drank from the bottle which by the way was not wine but my blood." He told her and she stared at him for a moment before busting out laughing. They knew she didn't believe them so they all morphed their faces into their vampire face. When she saw them her eyes widened and she scrambled up the bed trying to get away but was blocked by the wall the bed was against.
"What the fuck." She said staring in horror and disbelief at the boys. They changed back and waited for her to speak. She hadn't screamed so that was good. She was freaking out a bit but that was a normal reaction. Hell Paul has passed out when David had showed him all those years ago.
"Oh my god." They heard her whisper. She searched around on the bed for the cigarette she had dropped and gave a very small squeak with Marko handed her another one and tossed the one she broke to the floor. They let her smoke it in silence, watched as her hands shook for a while until they felt her start to slightly calm before she spoke.
"I think I need more of an explanation on all this, please." She whispered and David nodded.
He explained to her about who they were, how Max was the head vampire and how it was just the four of them for a while until Max fell in love and added to their family. How they were each from broken homes when they were found and jumped at the option of leaving it all behind for immortality. How David had saw something in her the night they met that made him want to turn her but that they had every intention of waiting until she was ready and trusted them fully before springing this on her.
She listened to them in silence never once interrupting them and took in all in. Marko continued to supply her with lit cig and lit cig when one was finished and she gave him a smile each time in thanks.
Once he stopped talking Arianna ran her hand over her face wondering how in the hell she got into this mess.
"So what happens now?" She ask David.
"Well, if you accept and want to continue on to becoming a full Vampire then when the urge to feed appears which won't take long then you need to feed and then your fully one of us. You'd live here with us from now on." He said and she nodded.
"And if I don't?" she ask and he sighed.
"You'll die." He told her and she nodded. Figures that was just her luck.
"What is it you want from me?" she ask him after a few moment of thought.
"What do you mean?" David ask her and she shrugged.
"Why did you want to turn me? What was my role to be in this group." She ask waving her hand around indication the three other boys.
"We want you to be with us. Apart of us in whatever way you want." David told her.
"What are you to each other?" she ask looking around at all four handsome guys.
"Were closer than anyone could be. Brothers, friends, family, lovers. Each others everything." David told her and she snorted.
"That's kinda hot actually." She said blushing and they chuckled at her.
"Are you that close when the others you talked about?" she ask and they cringed in disgust at the thought.
"No. There family and nothing more. Same with Laddie. He stays here most of the time because he wants to. But he's closer to the others too and getting closer to Sam, the other half Vampire we have." David said.
"Wait. How long can you be a half Vampire?" she ask.
"Well, normally we wouldn't let someone be half vampire for too long. It's too dangerous. But Laddie and Sam are too young to let turn yet so we just supply them with blood to hold them over until they reach an older age." David told her and she nodded.
"Can I have a moment alone to think?" she ask and they nodded, standing.
"Were going to go feed. Please don't leave the cave but take your time. If you need us just call us in your mind and we can hear you." David said and she gapped at him.
"Wait. So that's was you all I heard in my mind. You can read my thoughts?" she ask and he smirked and she groaned.
"Yes, we are all connected that way and with time you can learn to control your thoughts." David told her and she rolled her eyes but nodded and agreed not to leave while they were gone.
Arianna spent the few hours they left her alone pacing back and forth, bouncing around everything in her head and she briefly wondered if they could hear her from that far away.
Yup. Sure can hot stuff. Paul answered and she mentally flipped him off. Man that was going to be annoying for sure.
Was she ok with what was happening? Well it was done now so no use crying about it. Was it really that bad? Not really. She had a shit ass life up until now and at least now she wouldn't be weak anymore. And Life would not be boring that was for sure. Could she kill people to survive? She thought about that for a while. Yeah probably could. She didn't care for people to much so she'd get over any issues she may have about that. Does she want to live with a group of guys that she finds totally hot? Oh yeah she could. She adverted those thoughts quickly hoping they didn't see that. All in all it wasn't a bad deal she just wished she was able to get to know them better before becoming a blood thirsty vampire.
When they returned they found her sitting on the couch, an ashtray full of Marko's cigarettes laying on the table and she was tapping her fingers in thought.
"How goes the thinking kitten?" Marko ask her and she rolled her eyes but smiled at him. God they were to good looking for their own good.
"Thank you." Marko told her with a wink and she blushed. Damn she needed to learn to block her every thought.
"I have a question to ask?" she said and David waved her on to continue as he sat in his chair.
"Is it possible for me to stay a half Vampire for a least a couple of weeks. Not too long just enough for me to get to know you guys better and get use to the idea?" she ask. The boys looked to David for his reply. He thought it over for a moment.
" Two weeks tops unless your hunger becomes too much to handle. I won't have you in pain 24/7. You stay here with us and don't go anywhere alone where we can't protect you. You tell no one about this and when it's time to feed you don't object and you get to know us with an open mind and let us get to know you. No secrets." David said. Arianna thought over his rebuttal and nodded.
"You got a deal." She said and held her hand out for him to shake. Shaking his head in mirth he shook it as the others cheered and David just knew life was going to get interesting now.