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"I know it's confuzing, it's been years since my last girl friend, and lets just say I killed a vampire for her, but not before he drained her of blood." he said. "Take your time." he didn't want her to feel rushed on thinking.
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"That sounds tragic... That girl... Did she survive?" Her mind was telling her not possible however as a concerned look came to her face even though it happened before she was even born. "I didn't think vampires could die either except with a wooden stake... Though most people here just say it's a myth..." She was still trying to figure out her feelings at the same time. Maybe they'd come together to make sense the next day.
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"No, she didn't survive, it crushed me." he replied, not wanting the memory to resurface. "I went into a rage and tore the vampire apart and burned the pieces in a pile, tht is one way to kill a vampire, well, just tearing them apart works, but the fire is just a precaution, and I wanted him to suffer in hell." he shakes his head to get the memory out of his head. "Perhaps when someone likes someone else it takes a bit to unconfuze the feelings and thoughts."
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"I've heard it helps... I've read a few damsel in distress books a few years ago... Made me wonder." She thought back to the tree she recently fell out of earlier that day. That scene would have come straight from one of those books. She'd even blushed. Maybe there was something there... "Those books pretty much described what you just told me. Saving someone in trouble..." She tried to remember what else... It was helping her mind. She may not have had someone yet, but she read enough about that sort of thing which helped in a way.
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"Yeah, it makes sense to me too, that is what would be in one of those, I've read a lot as well, I try to every other day at least, helps me stay out of the way." he says. "Now that think of it, there was a witch at that time that I did have feelings for, she was average looking, but I loved her personality, well, okay, she looked amazing, as do you, and I did lose her as well, I was found out at one point, and they tried to get me to stop, they threatened to kill her, I didn't stop, they took her captive, and when I still didn't stop they started torturing her, I can still hear her screams, one night I tried to save her, but they tricked me into draining her of blood, and I couldn't stop myself before it was too late, on of the reasons why I refuse to drink blood for living humans." he explains the memory wanting to come up, but he forced it back into the mental draw of that part of his life.
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"Stay out of the way... I remember those days... I've never been in the town since that day. Reading helped me overcome that. Anything occupying helps usually."
She thought back to what her grandmother may have said, but couldn't remember anything. Some witches apparently lived a long time and stayed youthful, but if they're killed... Reincarnation maybe. "That also sounds horribly tragic... There's a chapter about that in the book, too, but it sounds worse when you tell it." She felt sad at all these mishaps and thought back to her parent's death. Her grandmother's, she couldn't remember... |
"Yeah, it was, that day I vowed I'd never hunt live humans." he says. "And eversince then, I've been looking for someone who made me feel the way she made me feel, and now that I think about it you look a lot like her."
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"I do? Hmm... How long ago was this? She might have been related to me or something..." She wondered about that herself. She always wondered about her family tree of long ago. "I actually tried drinking blood one time... It was quite bad to be accurate..."
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"It was about acentury ago." he answers. "Blood is something I got used to, and eversince I've been a vampire, it's been like, almost like sweet tea i used to drink."
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"A century..." Couldn't be her grandmother... Unless she'd been one who could live a lot longer and still stay youthful. If not her then her great grandmother or cousin of her... "Do you by any chance remember her name or would that be too painful?" She had a family tree pamphlet somewhere in the cabin if it was needed. "As for blood... Could be a good substitute since tea is rationed here."
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"Well...." he tries to remember her name. "I know it, but knowing that it......" he couldn't finish the thought. "I thought I could say it, but it is too painful." he answers. He tries to lighten up. "I think that it was a cousin of your grandmother though, if I remember correctly."
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"Cousin huh?" She searched for that pamphlet and found it in a drawer of her bedside table after a bit of struggle with it as it got stuck easily. After a small scream and thump, Tejina returned with the folded family tree. She opened it up and looked for herself at the names before setting it down on the table. "Any of these familiar? It's quite faded..."
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He looked at them and pointed to the one that hurt the most. "This one." he says, holding back the non-exsistant tears.
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"So cousin Gina... I don't know much about her." Her name and Gina almost sounded similar except for one letter changed and two missing. Maybe Tejina was named after her... Though maybe not as Gina meant 'well-born' and from Greek, but it could also be short for something... Tejina's own name was one of the various words that was used for 'magic' in Japanese. Made her wonder again.
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"Yeah, that's her." he says, letting the memories he had of time with momentarily flood his mind. "I really miss her sometimes, and I know she doesn't begrudge me being tricke into killing her." he adds. "I hope."
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"I'm sure she understood in that situation... It sounded like a rough one with no escape. Especially since it was against another vampire. I wonder if it was maybe because of jealousy or something..." It was a thought. Jealousy... Maybe even double love if it was possible. She didn't know. "In any case, you were very brave it sounds like..."
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"Yeah, and I did do terrible things after she was drained, seeing her like that made me want to kill the ones who tricked me, and I did, I cut there throats and hung them by they're pinky toes in a tree, right in the middle of the village, but the villagers now don't even believe that there's a vampire on this island."
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"I don't blame you. I'd probably counter attack if someone I knew, friend or not, was being attacked as well. I'd pretty much use as many long range spells as I could, though. My own way of fighting back. When I learn some... Shouldn't take long." She looked through the book again for another chapter if it existed. "It's probably a good thing they don't know a vampire is on the island. They'd probably bring out weapons without hesitation just to rid the town of what they call evil." She wouldn't say, but it's happened to her.
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"Yeah, I've seen what comes of that, I've helped good people condemned because of what they are escape from it, and after the stunt I pulled with the ones who tricked me, I was hunted for a bit, I hid in my cabin, in the basement's secret room, where ther's a good blood supply, still, might taste stale, but it's better than nothing, when I need to hide." he says looking a Tejina.
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"This cabin is my hiding place. It's far away enough from the town. There's also a secret within it for me to escape to. An underground tunnel no one knows about that leads to the forest. They've stopped hunting for me as they probably figured I'd drowned somewhere after they hired someone to do it. When that guy couldn't find me I guess he gave up and told the town I was gone... Maybe... Unless they're thinking of a new plan..." She was worried about that but it's been six years since then so maybe they forgot after all.
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"Maybe, you know, one guy did almost kill me, he had me down and was ready to beat the stake into me, but one of your other ancestors saved me, knowing that I was tricked into killing Gina she forgave me, and your family and I have helped each other ever since then, and it felt like a was always a welcome guest to them, it felt nice, closest to a family I've had since I was turned."
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"That's interesting. I remember stories about that time. It had been passed down from generation to generation. My grandmother told my mother about it when she was young and she told me, but neither of them could remember the whole story. I remembered something now... Gina was my grandmother's cousin twice or thrice removed actually and yet she somehow knew her despite the big age gap. Gina would have easily been 40-60 years older than my grandmother." She paused trying to say something that may be shocking. "You see... There's this myth in my family that seems to skip a generation... That is... Uh... Well... My grandmother... She couldn't die... In other words... She could probably live forever... Unless she was killed. Kind of how like you are... Gina might have been the same way..."
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"I believe she was, she looked to be about 20ish, and when she told me how old she really was, I was intrigued, and then I understood, all the time I spent with her, she didn't change much either, I saw her get stabbed too, scared the hell out of me, then to find out she couldn't die, I was thrilled to have found someone that wouldn't die on me." he says. "Then I was proven wrong on tht horrible night, it still haunts me to this day, but it hurts less than it used to, it used to make me incapable of even drinking blood from a bag, but I've gotten over that, and she would want me to know that she forgives me, and to move on, not forgetting about her completely, but being happy."
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"Yeah. My parents told me if anything were to happen to them I should try my best to be happy and not think about any bad memories. But... Bad memories stay longer than the good ones it seems. Can't forget them no matter what, but I'm still happy somehow. Just as long as I keep myself occupied I guess. After what happened, I went almost a week without food and water as the depression grew..." The thought haunted her now as it was the worst thing she could have done. She felt she couldn't live after that. "I got over it, however and kept myself from dying at the last minute..." She had a saviour back then.
"I'm glad Gina would forgive you for what you were forced to do. It was an accident or a thriving moment. Something like that maybe. Probably no way out of it without both ending with death either..." |
"Yeah, it was like that, they set up a trap, they provoked my pure vampire instinct, as I might of said, and then they put her into the same room as me, waiting for me to kill her, and they told me if I didn't they'd kill me as well as her, I'm glad she would understand, and sometimes I think that her spirit visits me at night, or goes to my cabin looking for me, maybe I'll find her spirit some night, I think if I go to her favorite place I will." he says remembering that certain place by the edge of land, it was a nice simple clearing, peaceful and quiet, he still went there to read at times.
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