Freaks DM x J3T

Supernatural AU – I've added new rules to suit my world that I am creating.

2012 – Unknown p.o.v

I sneak out of the bus, hoping that no one else would be awake and notice that I have left. God knows how many questions they would ask if they saw. I could use the excuse that I can't sleep, and I need to tire myself out a little, but I could only use that so many times. I had almost been caught before, but I lay down on the couch and pretended to sleep until they had left. I don't like doing this, but I would die if I didn't and I know what it feels like to get to that point. I had come to close to dying from my condition before and I know I am not about to make that same mistake especially not with so many people who could see me for who I really am. It's not someone who I am proud of, but someone I have no choice in that matter.

I walk to the town, find someone unsuspecting to be my target. In order to keep up my disguise I must do this. I could drink animal blood, like most other vampires I know, but I would have been discovered by now. I have had over 100 years to perfect this and I would say I am doing it pretty well thus far. I found him, a man that no one would suspect to have a vampire just take some blood from him. It is not a homeless man; they are being monitored by the police after a vampire in Nevada wasn't careful enough and got caught. It did not mean that they would do anything to solve the issue of homelessness in America, but it means that we have to be more careful if we go out hunting. The guy who did it died.

I completed my hunt successfully and managed to get back into the bus and to my bunk without anyone noticing that I had even left. That was my desired outcome and I was happy that I had managed to achieve it. Most of the guys sleep with the curtain slightly open so that their faces can be seen, and I am not sure why. Maybe it was a way to easily check on them when they are asleep without waking them. I do the same and crawl under my covers to attempt to get some sleep because with the power I have I am almost perfectly human. I would not be able to do this if I had not drank human blood and it is a power that all vampires possess. Only few know about it and fewer chose to use it to keep up the pretence of being human.

My father is one such man, he knows about the power which is how come I know it. He does not use it though because he cannot bring himself to drink the blood of a human. My sister turned me when the time came. My father hated it, until we reminded him that I would pe permanently dead if not for my sister. He hates that even more, but I often travel back home to visit him when he least suspects it. It makes him really happy when he spends time with me, and it makes me being a vampire all the more worth it to him. especially when I come during a time where he is struggling with work and needs a hug from me. We will be passing through my home town in a couple of days and I cannot wait to see my family again.

I fall asleep and end up being the last one awake for once. I stumble through to the main living area rubbing the sleep from my eyes. "Up late partying again?" Matt teases, and I just flip him off and sit down next to one of the others. They wrap their arm around me, and I naturally snuggle in while I try and wake up properly. I hate being the last one awake, because I don't get that time to lay in my bunk and wake up properly before having to be social. "Just give him half an hour to wake up will you? You know how long it takes for you to do your hair in the morning and he doesn't tease you," the guy hugging me says.

I find it funny how much the other men defend me, of course I would do the same for them. It just feels weird knowing how much older I am than all of them. They are never to know that of course, but to them I am just a young man in my mid-twenties trying to find my place in this world. That is all they will ever know until the day I have to move on from this life I have made for myself and recreate myself again. That is one of the reason why I have stayed away from any relationships while I have been building this life. I can't bear to break their heart if they don't know who I am then I suddenly have to leave then it is essentially time to move on to a new life once again.

I look at my phone while no one is paying attention to me, so I can check my notes for the life that I have created so that when they start asking more questions about my background the more comfortable they feel with our friendship. It slowly gets more and more personal the more we get to know each other obviously so my story needs to make sense and not have giant holes in it that they can bring up. It feels weird to say something and you sound as truthfully as possible, even though you know it is all a total lie and at any point in time and they will uncover everything. It also depends on who you are with if they want you to create any more vampires, my father doesn't want any more after my brother's wife was turned.

Then again, it is not a no means no forever deal. If I can find the perfect one for me then my father could be persuaded to add another vampire to our large clan. Mother has always been talking about when I was going to settle down and find a woman or a man. There is no rush for me to find a partner though, they know I am waiting for the right person and we have all the time in the world. I put my phone into my pocket as one of the guys gently pushes a freshly made coffee towards me. "Thanks," I tell him and just go straight for a big gulp while I wake up a little more. The guy who has his arm around me laughs as I basically chug the coffee in a few short gulps. I don't really drink a lot of coffee either.

It tends to happen mornings after I have been hunting and come back in the early hours of the morning and have to get up at 7.30 am to do a whole day of interviews of the same or similar questions over and over again to different people and try and make the answers a little different each time. "How do you not burn your mouth doing that?" Matt asks, they always ask me that when I chug my coffee down in basically one go. "We know his preference enough now that we put enough milk in so he can chug it in one go," the guy who made me the coffee says. We have a list which has our names on, and our hot beverage preferences tapped onto one of the cupboards which we use if we do decide to make someone else a drink.

Interviews are boring as hell and I don't get why they don't all communicate with each other, so we don't have to suffer with the same type of condescending person asking us the same type of questions with just another company brand slapped on the top. I think I have answered my name and role in the band at least 5 times this morning and afternoon alone. Surely people know who we are by now. It wouldn't hurt the team behind the interviews to do some actual research to see which questions we are becoming tired of answering by now. It would certainly make me feel less bored when I have to sit in the room and go through the whole interview. I know some of the others are tired of the interviews now too.

"I think I want another coffee," Jordon says once we were given a fifteen minute break between the interview we just had and the next one which is going to be on our tour bus. "I think we need something stronger than a coffee at this point Jord," I reply. They all chuckle as Jordon makes us both coffees instead of the beers I was suggesting. Then again, I don't think we want to get wasted during the interviews or the show that we have after this either. Not that I could get drunk even if I wanted to. It was a perk of being a vampire which I enjoyed very much. I went to acting school at one point, so I know how to act like the perfect drunk man which means the guys kinda end up leaving me alone because I act like a very sentimental drunk with the purpose to get them to leave me alone. That way I don't have to keep up the pretend game for very long.

1 month later – Danny p.o.v

Thank the gods for whichever vampire made synthetic human blood powder which we can add water too and it acts just as if I am drinking human blood straight from a human expect it is a bit colder than straight from the vein blood. Hey, beggars can't be choosers especially when you have people now watching you at night when you suffer from insomnia as well as the need to feed so I have to come up with more excuses that would be believable to the others which is surprisingly difficult when the other guy keeps making up things like I was going to have sex with a local prostitute or something like that to make them believe me less. It's not worked because George has been backing me up every time and I am not sure why.

I honestly thought he would take someone else's side. Considering I have only been in the band for the last 3 years and the others have been in for so much longer than I have. He said he was going to come over today to discuss some things with me and it was making me nervous. I was due to go hunting, but I made up some synthetic blood in my shaker and took a gulp of it while I waited for George to knock on my apartment door. I so wish I could drink alcohol and feel the effects of it, but I can't. It would help with how nervous I am and how I could deal with whatever George has to tell me today. It could be him coming to tell me that they think that my behaviour on tours is too suspicious and I need to leave.

I finally manage to watch some television whilst checking my emails. George didn't give me a specific time which is making my anxiety go through the roof. I wish he would have given me a time to work with, so I was not waiting so long. I think I waited another hour before George knocked on the door. I calmly walked over to the door and opened it. George lifted me up and hugged me whilst he walked in, so I guess some of my fears are squashed a little bit. "Hey Dan, you okay?" he asks me. I had a can of beer on the table for him while I drink my blood like a weirdo. "Hey George. I guess I am okay all things considering," I tell him. I was still nervous as fuck while I sit a little further away from him than I usually do.

"You're nervous about why I'm here aren't you?" he asks, immediately picking up on my body language and how I am sitting further away from him than usual. "Just a bit yeah. My brain has a nasty habit of overthinking things without any knowledge of stuff," I tell him, very badly explaining my current thought process. I think George can kinda understand where I am coming from though. He didn't exactly give my overthinking brain much to go on for our little hangout/meeting. He pulls me closer to him and I try my best to relax a little bit. He wants me to relax so I am going to try my best to do that. "Yeah that's kinda my fault. I just wanted to talk to you about something not band related. You don't have to worry about your place in the band," George, says and chuckles as I sigh in relief.

It's not my fault that my anxiety spiked when he sent me a text message asking if I was home today and that he wanted to have a chat with me about something and it was really important. "So if it's not band related, then what is it about," I ask, then take another sip from my bottle of blood. He looks to that bottle then back to me and my anxiety levels slowly start to creep back up again. "I know that you're a vampire. I noticed it from the very first day I met you. You don't have to worry your secret is safe with me because I have a secret to tell you," he tells me. He said don't worry after I gasped because he knows who I am. He has got to be some kind of supernatural being himself otherwise he would not know that kind of information.

"I am glad that you're going to keep my secret safe. I was quite worried someone was going to find out. Especially after Matt started staying awake on tour to keep an eye on me when I would go on my night walks," I tell him. I don't want to be mean and demand that he tells his secret, but I think he will tell me today. Otherwise there would be no point to his visit other than to tell me something that I already know about myself. "Yeah I am working on him to get him to stop that, because it could be dangerous to you that you don't get a feed in during tour even if you have synthetic blood now," George tells me. He could obviously tell it was not the blackcurrant juice I have been telling people it is.

"Yeah, I mean this stuff is good but not as good as fresh from the vein, but I will take what I can get these days. I have been alive since eighteen oh one so with this being so new I had to at least try it," I tell him, and it felt good to vent to someone who wasn't family and instantly understood my struggles. There was something different about George and I like it. "Fair enough Dan. I have been alive for roughly about the same amount of time so I can understand that part of it. I however am a Cambion so the way that I feed is different to yours," he tells me, and I gasp again. I NEVER thought I would meet a Cambion in the flesh. My father had told me about them because the council was working with the Cambion council on a vampire Cambion alliance.

"That's amazing. I think my father mentioned the vampire high trio working with your council on getting an alliance worked out. We could probably help both councils out by just being friends," I tell him, and it was his turn to be surprised. I was guessing that he wasn't accounting for his little vampire friend having a good rapport with the vampire council and knowing what his kind was without even asking. It was awesome either way though. I now feel a lot more comfortable and cuddle up with George on the couch. We've had enough shocks today, so I don't need to shock him even further with a confession of love for him just yet. That can wait a long time I think. Considering he is a Cambion there is plenty of time for us to work these feelings out.

George probably doesn't even feel the same way about me that I do for him. That's why I am too afraid to ask him. There is a huge chance of me being rejected and then I probably will be kicked out of the band because it will be too awkward for me to still be there with feelings for a man who probably doesn't even feel the same way. "Danny are you okay there? I was asking if you wanted more help covering up for hunts on tour and you didn't reply," George tells me, bringing me back into reality. I look at him and then consider my answer. "Yeah I'm fine George I guess it's a lot to take in knowing that you're a Cambion and you know that I'm a vampire. I'd like some help covering up going out to hunt on tours," I tell him.

I try my best not to think about how much I love the man I'm sitting next to and try and concentrate on the TV. "How do you perfect the heartbeat and stuff? I thought vampires couldn't do that," he asks. It's a perfectly reasonable question, not every vampire he will come across will be like me. "It's a power that we have from drinking human blood and synthetic blood. We basically get to be our former human selves for at long as we want. One of the downsides is that you have to drink human blood more frequently if you want to keep it up," I tell him. That was how my father explained it to me back when I first turned, and he was telling me everything I need to one about my new life. I'm sure I probably ended up butchering that explanation, but I hope George can understand where I was going with it.

"Makes sense to me. It's kind of like us and using essence to do the same thing. It is handy when you have humans who stick their nose into other people's lives. I'm sure Matt only moved into the same apartment block as me so that he could spy on me," George says. Come to think of it, Matt has just moved into my apartment block to be on the same floor as me. "Yeah I get that. Matt has just moved into this block like a week ago and is on this floor. I need to go on a proper hunt soon though. This just doesn't hit the spot," I tell him. It's weaker then if I was drinking it fresh from the vein so I need to drink that more frequently than I normally do as well which is driving me crazy. George gets up and leaves my apartment for a moment.

"When I leave come and spend the night with me. That way you'll have a peaceful hunt because Matt won't be lurking around like the lunatic he is being right now. I just saw him outside," George tells me. I think he might be part of that anti supernatural group or something. I'm not one hundred percent sure though because I know he is interested in Alien documentaries and stuff like that. "Yeah, I couldn't sleep last night so I was going to go for a walk and then I saw him there just standing outside like a weirdo, so I went back inside. This is driving me insane," I tell him. My parents are coming up from Washington state in a couple of weeks and I will be staying with them in their rental home to spend more time with them and less with Matt.

"Yeah that makes sense. Pack a bag as if you are going away for a night or two. That way Matt won't question it when we leave together in a little while. We can also just be our normal selves at mine, no need to pretend to be human or anything," George tells me, and I feel so grateful for another supernatural in the group that I can relate to somewhat. Obviously we have differences, so we won't relate 100% to each other but it is nice to have an ally regardless. I go into my room and just throw some random comfy clothes into my backpack and some other stuff as if I was going to spend the night somewhere which I am, I just don't need to sleep for once this night. I don't usually sleep at home either because I know I am safe to be myself there.

I just go back to the human form power when I know I have people coming over. The only people I don't do it for is if my parents or siblings come over. I know I don't have to pretend for them, and I also don't have to pretend for George now which I instantly switched, and I noticed George did the same. "And our comfort beings now," he says, and I chuckle. Our drinks have long since been finished so now we can just relax and leave around 6 pm to "go out for dinner" then I will spend the night at George's house where I will be going with him to hunt. He does not need to drink blood like I do but we can find some people to be our feeding vessels. They will never notice what has happened to them either.

"You have no idea how good this feels," George and I say at the exact same time as each other which made us burst out laughing. We both know how good this feels to be ourselves around each other. It has been a long time since we could do this with people outside of our own clans and kind. "The councils will be so happy with us when they find out how well we can get along with each other," George says. He is right, we need to let the councils know soon and they will be happy because we have proved without knowing that Cambions and Vampires can live side by side in peace. Vampires and werewolves however is a different story. Especially after one broke our peace treaty and almost killed me.

The look on Matt's face two hours later when I walked out with George with the little backpack on my back and George announcing that I am going to spend the night with him, and we are going to enjoy it. We were back with our powers keeping us appearing human as much as we can. It was nice to get back to George's and feel like I could completely relax. I have never felt this relaxed being around the guys. I have always been on edge because I am worried about accidentally revealing myself and being killed or kicked out of the band. Luckily with George by my side I feel as if my place in the band is more secure. He won't say anything to the band that would get me kicked out of the band because he would be at risk too.

Our hunting session went amazing as well. I never thought that I would get along with George as well as we are going now that we know each other that little bit more. He was amazed by how much self-control I have especially with human blood. We were talking about it and I have the control because when you drink animal blood, especially in my home town then you won't worry about the body left behind because it will naturally decay before anyone really finds it. If you kill a human then everyone will know about it by the time 24 hours has passed and your DNA will be all over the body so you will be found and murdered by the council for being so stupid and reckless. That's if the police don't get to me first.

"I don't think I have ever met a human blood drinking vampire who has as much self-control as you," George tells me when we get back to his. To be fair he has a lot of self-control as well. We've had a lot of time to refine our skills and practice. "I could say the same, it's amazing," I tell him. I had already excitedly filled my father in on this and he was so happy. There is some pressure for the friendship between vampires and Cambions to happen already. I think it is because there is a huge stigma around the different occult types and them not getting along with each other. If George and I can prove that we can get along with each other then it will be good. "The look on Matt's face when we left yours was priceless. I don't know if I have ever seen him that pissed off," he tells me, we had been watching TV for a while now.

"I know, it was amazing. I bet he was all prepared to make a huge post like Danny is a creep and a vampire and he leaves the apartment at ridiculous times at night even though I could disprove it," I tell him. I always take my phone with me and whip it out after a hunt to do a little vlog clip to be like hey it is 3 am and I am walking around because insomnia is being a pain and walking in the middle of the night wears me out so I can at least get a couple of hours of sleep. I didn't do it tonight because there was no need. George was with me so he would back me up regardless. "Yeah, like I said he did it with me and I managed to get him to back off eventually," he tells me. I then tell him about my plan to prove him wrong.

"That is a good idea Dan, like when you think it is getting too much for you post the vlogs as a collection of life as an insomniac," George tells me. I chuckle at the idea, but I also think it would be really good. I also feel like a lot of the fans would relate to me with my insomnia struggles as well. "I might do it anyways because it would be something that fans would relate to and it would make me seem more human," I tell him. It would probably not be necessary because they don't suspect anything is different about me. I have already hinted at having insomnia issues before now on my Instagram. It is fun having random people on the internet telling me that I should be in bed already and asleep when my brain won't allow me too.

"Right sit forward you little stress head. I am gonna be cambion and you human but don't worry I won't hurt you," he tells me. I do as I am told and let George sit behind me. It was weird to have me breath and him not, but it will not be the first time that he will probably do this with me. He started off very gentle, like he was barely touching me. "Just let me know if I start hurting you okay? You know what the strength of a Cambion is like," George tells me, as I give him the go ahead to push a little harder on my back. It felt so nice and relaxing as he worked from the neck all the way down my back. It was very intimate yet at the same time platonic which saddens me a little bit, I want it to be a little bit romantic.

Maybe we will work our way up to romantic massages. Right now it has been a long day with a lot of ups and downs and shocking revelations which I would not have expected in a hundred years. "Oh my god this is amazing," I tell him as I feel my body relaxing and a brief pain from the tension, but it quickly goes away. George smiles at me when I look at him. I could have this done more often for sure. "You're welcome buddy. Maybe we should do this more often," he tells me. Oh how I would love for that thing to be real. It would send me straight to sleep, in fact it actually was a little bit and George chuckles at me. "Goodnight little bear," George tells me, just as I am about to fall asleep and he thinks I am asleep.

3 months later

"Best first date ever," I announce when George and I get back to my apartment. It had been something that George and I had been building up for the last three months ever since we discovered the facts about each other. Matt had backed off now which allowed me to hunt in the peace I had before I had met those crazy fuckers that I call my band mates. "Yeah, and I hate to tell ya buddy but that is the last first date you'll ever go on," he tells me. I look at him with a huge grin on my face because I think I got the gist of what he says. "Does this mean what I think it means?" I ask him, feeling hopeful for what is about to happen. "If you want it to mean that then yes," he tells me, and he wraps his arm around me.

"I want it to mean we are boyfriends," I tell him. I know I was taking a huge risk by saying that. He did ask me out on a date and that was what the last three hours were about, but that doesn't mean that he would want us to be boyfriends. He pulls me onto his lap, so I am facing him, and he rests his hands on my back right at my hips. It send little electric shocks up my spine. "Then that is what this means," he tells me, and we both grin at each other. I could not wait to tell my sister who has been desperate, and I mean DESPERATE for George and I to get together. She'll probably text me later on tonight and ask if we have gotten together already or not yet. She has seen us together as friends a few times and seen things that we obviously hadn't at the time.

Perfect timing because my dad was requesting a face time call with me. I almost fall off George's lap trying to reach my phone, but he keeps me on. I hit answer and my dad's face appears and he instantly raises his eyebrows at me. "Was I interrupting something? I could always call back later," My dad asks, and we look at each other. We laugh, because we both know what he is insinuating. "No dad, we both have all our clothes on," I tell him, and I hear my brother spit out his drink in the background. Dad shows me my brother before showing himself again. I showed George and I in the position I am in. Just so he knows that I was telling the truth even though he knows I would never lie to him. I have no reason to.

"So uh when did this happen? You know your sister will ask," Dad asks, I had his approval to get with George for about a month and a half. He was never homophobic even though he was raised through the entirety of the 1800's as a human where homophobia was very much a real problem. "Today, about half an hour ago," I tell him, and he grins. He might have won a bet on when George and I were going to get together. He smiles and I smile back. My father and I talk for about an hour and George adds a few comments here and there because we are going to be like a huge family soon enough, we have a very long time to allow feelings to develop in strength. We are both going to enjoy ourselves.

Even if we don't need to sleep because of our gifts, we still go and lay in bed together. It's some of the little couple things that we still find ourselves enjoying. We still have the right to enjoy those kinds of things. Living forever can be very lonely and if you are too scared to find a partner then it gets even lonelier. "You're the best thing that ever happened to the band Danny," George tells me. I blush and smile at him. I am pretty sure he is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am not about to tell him that though, because it might be creepy. "I'm glad that I am the best thing that has ever happened to the band. I would never have met you otherwise," I tell him. He grins and pulls me closer to him even though we are pretty close already.

And that is the end of another one shot! Hope you enjoyed! Let me know what you think and stay positive in these rough times!

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