“Shadow,” Angelo shook him harder. He did not know what to do other then he did not want to think this was the end of the dream. Something bad was going to happen and there was no way for Angelo to stop it. “Shadow you need to wake up. It’s just a dream they can’t hurt her now.”

Shadow shivered, and then opened his eyes. He blinked for a moment, and then sighed, sitting up. He rubbed at his forehead, wordlessly. He didn't know what to say.

“You were dreaming.” Angelo sounded worried. “It did not look like a nice dream, who was she?” he really did not want to pry too much but she had seemed important in some way.

"My sister." Shadow stretched himself out, hearing a few vertebrae in his back pop. "My elder sister..."

“she was pretty.” Wrapping his arms around shadow he lay back down on his chest. “what happened to her?”

"She died of sickness. She was human. I was attacked--that was how I was changed. He or she, whoever it was, meant to kill me, and didn't. I changed instead...my sister, she...she wouldn't let me change her. She died of sickness...terrible sickness. She was almost completely bedridden for the last year of her life..." Shadow sounded sad talking about her.

“Well if I ever become that sick or am near dyeing I would like you to change me if you can.” Angelo sighed and laid his head on Shadows chest. “I don’t want to go before I am ready. Only time I don’t want you to change me is if I am dyeing of old age.”

"Seeing you as an old man sounds funny, but...I really do not want you to grow old and die." There was a strange tone to Shadow's voice. If Angelo did die, Shadow would be alone again.

“Then promise you will never let me age beyond what you enjoy.” Sitting up Angelo leaned in and kissed Shadow passionately.

"That is a promise I can make. Not a day over thirty," he warned, just before he responded to the kiss with just as much fervor.

“I will keep you to that.” Burrowing into Shadow he sighed and started to doze again. “Tell me of your sister.” He said sleepily.

"My sister was a wonderful woman," Shadow murmured, also drifting off. "She protected me. From everything. Our parents thought we were monsters. I was born looking the way I do. Azure hair...golden eyes. My sister was born with multi-toned hair...blue and silver...sapphire eyes. Our parents tried to kill us...ran us out of our home. We lived on the streets...and in the woods. She protected me from everything..."

“How could anyone think you were a monster?” Angelo fell asleep before he could get an answer to his question.

It wouldn't have mattered. Shadow was already asleep, before him.

((Time Skip to morning?))

((Sure.))

Waking up Angelo sighed and looked down at Shadow. He had not known that he too had lost a sister, it now made a bit more sense with the way he acted when Angelo had found her. Gently he brushed Shadows hair from his face.

Shadow was sleeping peacefully, his eyes closed and his breath even. He looked completely relaxed when h e slept.

Covering shadow up just in case he had forgotten his herb Angelo walked to the kitchen. He would start breakfast then take the herb to Shadow. His fingers worked quickly on a new mix of food before setting it on the burner and grabbing the jar. Quietly walking back he sat down on the bed next to the lump that was Shadow. “hay sleep head, you going to wake up soon?”

Shadow grunted, then rolled around under the blankets. "I'm up...I'm up. Oh...Lampshade..." He poked his head up out of the blankets, cringed, and then dove back under.

Pushing the container of Lapmshade in to Shadow, Angelo smiled. “I thought so; we really should find a way for you to stand the sun without this. One of these days someone is going to find you and uncover you to the sun without you having taken it.” Reaching out he petted the area that should be Shadows head.

Shadow took a bit of the powder, and then came up above the covers, sighing. "I suppose...I don't know any other way, however...perhaps we should seek out others of my kind. See what they do about it..."

“Yes some time we should go searching for others of your kind. Maybe there is more out there that you don’t know about what you are?” standing back up Angelo turned to walk away. “Breakfast will be ready in a while. It is a slow cooking dish.”

"There are very few of us, Angelo...so techniques to shield ourselves against the sun are few and far between." Shadow sighed, sitting up. "All right."

“But could there be other things you do not know about Vampires that the others would know? You said that you were attacked and made this way but then the one that made you disappeared, could there be something that you were not taught?” reaching out Angelo ran a hand along Shadows jaw before walking back to the kitchen.