Outcast

Chapter II

Hellen had been missing for two weeks. And within that time she figured her family had written her off as kidnapped or dead. The two boys that she had been with last she didn't know what happened to them. She figured that they hadn't been contacted by police seeing as how nobody had come down the old drainage ways looking for her.

David had been true to his word and had kept her out of trouble. He had been kind enough to fetch her food and keep her alive.

"So, you're all vampires?" Hellen questioned looking at David across from the dining table. He gave a slight chuckle.

"Yes. All of us." Hellen drew back slightly as she looked at the man. She was still trying to wrap her head around everything. Her so called friends had dared her to come down here to try and find ghosts or get scared. But nobody could have ever guessed that what she would end up finding would be even more terrifying than ghosts.

"I thought vampires only existed in fables?"

"That's good." David's reply followed with a raised brow from Hellen. He smirked.

"If you believed it any other way, we'd be doing a pretty piss poor job at staying hidden." Hellen blinked looking at him. Over the last few days she noticed the man had seemed to ease up to her. He didn't great her like an outsider like the rest of them had done and certainly not like how his father treated her.

Thomas, as Hellen had learned he was called, was the Elder vampire who had allowed her to keep her life that day she had stumbled upon them. Had it not been for David, she was sure she would have been killed.

Thomas was cold and mysterious to her. She didn't fully understand why, but she figured it was because not only was she an outsider, but because she was human as well.

"Well, I guess so." She said biting into her banana. She chewed it up looking at David. Their eyes meeting while she ate.

"So, when did you turn into a vampire? How old are you?" She asked. David was silent as he looked at her. She swallowed and sat there not moving. Had she said something wrong? Then he snorted and glanced around the room at various things while he rubbed his hands around.

"I wasn't turned, I was born."

"You were… born?"

David gave a half c****d grin as he glanced back at Hellen.

"Yes. My mother and father were lovers. Both vampire. My mother gave birth to me, then she was killed."

"I-I'm sorry I asked." David gave a shrug. He sighed deeply. His outward emotions didn't reach his eyes which caused Hellen to feel worse.

"It was a long time ago. Come on finish eating. You need to run some things to my father once you're done." David said standing from the table causing Hellen to rise as well, eating the rest of her fruit on the walk to his father's office.

"You're very odd." The sudden conversation starter caused Hellen to glance behind her. Thomas stood directly behind her. She was startled, she hadn't even heard him enter the room after he left to leave her to cleaning his bookshelves.

"Normally humans would fear us. Scream and beg to be let go. Fight us even." He said watching her standing there. Her arms were full of books she had removed in order to clean that part of the shelf. Thomas hummed a bit looking at her.

"But not you. You staid here and didn't fight us. Why?" Hellen blinked slowly. She pressed the books closer to her chest. Inhaling softly she parted her lips.

"Curiosity mostly I guess?" Thomas arched a brow and looked at her with an amused expression.

"Curiosity you say?" Thomas reached out and plucked one of the books from her arms. He let his lips turn up when he seen her expression to his action. Confusion.

"Surely you wish to return home?"

"Yes. Yes of course I do. But you could easily have me killed before I get anywhere even close to home."

"You're smart, I'll give you that." Thomas said as he moved away from her and over to his desk. He sat down, glanced at her once, and then opened the book he had plucked from her arms. Hellen watched him for a moment. It was almost like she was watching a movie – as if she wasn't standing right before him.

As if this was just all make believe.