the Vampire Identity Journey to California

Chapter 7

    He would never know; shaking his head while smiling and had his eyes closed to himself, for over a year of being turned from his old maker no one had ever surprised or any other kind of emotions that he had ever felt till he met his new maker KC.

“I’m gone a miss that family.” Even though it surprised me to say those words which had come out of my mouth for only myself to hear, but it’s true getting attach to those two was a shocker for me and I don’t usually let anyone into my life or vice a versa, only so no one would get hurt by me, or anyone who would become my enemies who would want to hurt any of the innocent I have had saved from their own enemies, but being with Mr. McCain and his cute little boy Mickey, they somehow changed me and I don’t even know what it is, or why I’m feeling this way or for that matter what should I do with this feeling that’s inside of me, -what it is? what is this feeling, should I be worried, or just let it fly, let it spread everywhere in my heart and soul? Would this feeling hurt me? destroyed me? wish I could see the future that way I would be able to know if I need to be worried or not with these people that I’m gone a be around, all the families with their own children who were still a life, wanting to make sure that their younger children won’t go through the same fate as the fifteen girls who are now up in heaven, the same ones who asked me, including Father of us all, to come down to earth and saved their families.  

           So, as I said this out loud to myself in my head -man what is the matter with me, I-I’m not supposed to have these things, I need to stay focus on my work, not get distracted, or feel like this from anyone of my how do people say the words: charges? No that’s not it, savers? No, no, no, not that either; that’s me to them, saving their lives from all the bad who were, or even are going after the families, so what is that word called I’m looking for; well man I’m getting old or my brain is not working right anymore, I really need to get out more and learn everything, experience what everyone has been doing in their lives and other things that’s been going on around them, how to speak, move, everything, including having some fun, but not the type of fun to get every people around me hurt or even killed; maybe I’ll do both, not the killing part, while I’m working just like most of these humans say, ‘kill two birds with one stone’ though not really kill two birds, but do two things at the same time, that way I’ll be able to understand the culture in this time and age. Learn every style that every person liked, loved, maybe try it too. that is if I find, or buy a house that I could call home, then do my own decoration all the things I like or even love to put into my own front yard, back yard, even to my interior and exterior of my home, the tricky part of that would be trying to find a house that screams ‘my house’ where I would call it home wonderful home.  

          Though nothing’s changed when it comes to war zone in all the areas, North side, South side, East and West side. It’s all the same thing from different types of traffic rings in every corner from in different places, (where you don’t want to get involve in or you’ll pay the price for it later), from all around the world some selling animals, women, children, guns, and drugs that are illegal, including selling almost everything to the black market how sad.

Catherin’s house was not bad for a two-story home different colors than the last house I went too, but still the same wood work only this house had a swing on the front porch, -hmm I should do the same thing for my own place when I find one, ok KC back to work now, mmm should I just go up and introduce myself as I am, or do the same thing as I did with Mr. McCain and his son Mickey? well either way I’m saving this family no matter what so I’ll just go as myself, just to see what they would do, and if anything went wrong than I’ll just pretend to be Catherin; hmm though keeping their memories erased was one hard work from last time I tried to erased Mr. McCain’s mind, and every time it always back fired on me whenever someone kept mentioning or saying Cara’s name, and what had happened to her, let’s just hope I won’t have to do that, or I’ll be getting a migraine from all of these erasing minds; and even would weakened me for who knows how long;  so here I go, breath in and then out, then walked up to the front door, pausing to take another inhale then exhale, then knocked on the door.

          -I hope this family would like me as the same thing and hopefully the same way as Cara’s family- as I waited for someone to opened the door I checked around to take a glance at the porch and the front lawn, it is lovely when it comes to every person’s taste, what they would want to picture to create a life for the outside world and on their own property, the more I looked at their property, the more ideas that’s been added into my own head of what I could do for my own home. They had every Bushes in particular of course, and whichever types of trees they would want on their lawns even added different kinds of flowers as a garden, or beds. The house had a two-parked garage with the same color as the house, creamy yellow with white seashell trim, the whole time I was checking the property, the front door was opened, I turned my head to the front door and saw a man standing there before me, wearing a white t-shirt and navy blue pants with white socks, he also had red hair and green eyes, he looked to be in his early to med thirty’s and had a med size facial for a beard and a mustache; this must be Catherin’s father, well I made it this far, it’s too late to turn back now.

“Good evening Mr. McKnight, I’m here to inform you that you and your family are in danger from the ones who killed your daughter, so I’m here to protect you till the very end, or should I say I was sent here to protect you and your family, so, can I come in?” I asked him politely.

“who are you? And who sent you to tell me. no, no, no, warn me about the danger to my family and I?” Mr. McKnight bellowed at me, before I could get the chance to explain to those two questions, well it sounded like a bellowed, but I was hoping he was asking me, oh well, I had hope he would see me with recanting what I had to say to his questions until

“Darling, who’d that at the door, who are you talking too. oh hello, who are you and what is it that you want from us?” asked the woman.

“My name is KC Yesterman. Mrs. McKnight, I don’t want anything from you excepted to protect you from the danger you are in from the same people who murdered your daughter Catherin; both she and our Father in Heaven sent me here to do my job.” I confronted them hoping they both would understand.

          Mrs. McKnight is lovely in any way that you could imagine for a singer, an actress, or even a model with long strawberry blond hair, light blue eyes with a tint of green in them, small nose, and wearing a white cream blouse and a matching skirt; if all the women in Crandall deer creek California wears the same clothing, but in different colors, as her than I really need to do some meager shopping to do ASAP.

“if you say is true KC than yes, you may come in.” Mrs. McKnight said, Mr. McKnight didn’t think it was a good idea, but rethought of it, then nodded his head to me in agreement with his wife “Question, do we have to pay you for your services or?” she asked.

“No Mrs. McKnight, you don’t have to pay me anything, I have enough money to last ma in my life time, so you and your family don’t need to worry about it.” Calming her and letting her to understand, so she wouldn’t have to take care of me for any reason at all.

          Mrs. McKnight began to relax from what I told her with a smile giving to me with a nod, I could relate from her half, they only have each other now so they only have enough money to take care of themselves and their only child, their son Christoff McKnight, who had the same color hair as his mother and the fetchers like his father, for a ten-year-old boy, and adorable little guy he was.

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After I settled in their home, I thought as well to check the place out from the outside world here in Crandall deer creek, and like Mr. McCain’s place. Mr. McKnight had a good set of trees for a forest or woods for the wild animals, the birds, and a good place for me to hunt for any poor creatures, while being on full alert for the family and myself; ‘cause you never know who would be coming after the family, you won’t even know it till it’s too late, and well that goes for me too.

          There are about twenty to forty-five percent where almost all the creatures of darkness, the supernatural, doesn’t know who or what I am and I tend to keep it that way as much as possible even though the other half of the percentage would not let me be alone till it says I can be alone, so whoever is next who I have or gone a meet, might or might not be friendly. Either want something from me or just want to kill me... though I don’t have any weakness that would get myself killed, except maybe a few things here and there, but I don’t want to be tested out any time soon, I don’t want to know what can kill me when I just started learning everything I needed to know, without my maker, of how to survive.

          For me being an Identity vampire for fifty years give or take, I intend to see everything changing every decade or so, every people, dogs, cats, and everything else who is old and new come and go every time of every day, every month, and every year.

-Ah I see- Mrs. McKnight had made herself a vegetable garden for her and her family, nice, my guest so they don’t have to go to the store to buy their veggies and fruits over there since yeah, they are a little bit more expensive than from my home town, which I’m not gone a get any more detailed right now she bought every kind of veggies that she could think of: Carrots, Potatoes, Peas, Broccoli, every one of them had nothing else excepted veggies. And in the other garden had her fruits: Strawberries, grapes on vines, Tomatoes, and any other fruits that are in bushes or crossing the wire fence.

(Maybe I should try these fruits and veggies, too see which ones’ I would like and don’t like, so when I get my own place; I could build a garden bed for my favorite veggies and fruits as well, just like Mrs. McKnight did with her back yard, and it goes for the same thing with the flowers, like she did in her front yard as well as her back yard, checking out all different types and kinds of flowers; then grow the ones’ I like or love the most. “Hahaha.” Chuckling to myself liking the ideas already, I could see all of it now, but I must be certain first before I go to a*****e that would have all the stuff I would need to get my work started, hmm maybe when I’m done with my job I’ll do just that) Though of course she would have had to buy the fruits and veggies that she couldn’t grow here in California, and that would be the same for me too, but I couldn’t think of it right off hand, but I’m sure there are some fruits and veggies that can’t grow here, heading my way to the woods behind the McKnight’s house to take care of my thirst and the pain which I could feel from one of the deer who is hurt from one of the hunters, and of course every deer that is hurt has to be male only well if it was a female; her baby would starve to death and I don’t want that to happened to the poor thing, so the ones I go after are the males between two to seven-years-old.

          Standing still of twenty-five miles from the house calling any deer who is hurt to come to me so I could help him, that’s odd, no male deer coming to me, I’ll try it again maybe I haven’t reach out far enough yet, I know a deer is hurt, I could feel him, I could sense he’s not too far from me either, walking up farther away from the McKnight’s house was not what I liked, but there’s nothing I could do about it even though, I could sense the family were fine and there’s no danger coming, so I might as well fine the deer who’s hurt and in a lot of pain, so I could save him.

          Twenty-five miles went to twenty-six miles, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, to thirty miles away from McKnight’s house, but close to the creek where the deer come to drink that’s about a few more miles away from where I’m standing and away from the deer creek close to five to ten feet away from it was a deer and what looks like it was caught on something and with the smell in the air, it’s bleeding as I drew closer to it, I could see that the deer was caught by a bear trap for grizzlies, and jaguars on its back lower leg on its left poor thing and (I can’t believe this, and I did hoped it was the male who’s hurt) she’s been pulling her leg where now her leg got worst.

“easy girl, I’m here to help you, and I’m sure you have a baby to get to, don’t you?” Calming her was the less I could do for her, scared, maybe even terrified, she was the most beautiful Ringtail deer that I had ever seen; I slowly bend down to the trap, putting both my hands on each of the mouth, then pulled it open and away from her leg. The ringtail deer moved away from the trap and I let go so the mouth could snap together, -there- I thought, as I slowly got up to my feet, the ringtail deer looked at me for a moment; and judging from the way she was looking at me with her beautiful brown eyes, it almost looked like she was thanking me for helping her.

“it’s ok now girl, but let’s see if I could fix that leg.” walking to the deer creek, I glanced back and saw the poor girl walking slowly behind me; bending back down closed to the creek, I brought out my handkerchief to get it wet, as my handkerchief was fully damp, I glanced back to the ringtail girl while twisting the cloth to get some of the water out.

“All right then, come here girl, let me take care of your leg for you.” I said nicely to her.

          The ringtail deer came up to me slowly and limping, when she got close to me, I wiped the blood off her lower leg and hoof, put my handkerchief back into the creek to wash off the blood, then ring the water out of it so I could wrap the handkerchief around her lower leg and tied it.

“there you go girl, now you better drink some of the water so you’ll put more fluids back into your system, so you could be strong again for both you and your baby, and speaking of baby, you better go find it before your enemies find it first.” I got back up off the ground and headed back to the woods to find another prey to save and it still won’t be any females, only males who I need to feed and help.

I scanned farther out to find another wild animal who needed my help, so I could take care of my thirst once and for all, well at least tonight anyways, till is strikes again, yeah sure, we vampires feed off from humans only when we need to or if it’s only for emergence like if we’re out of bag of blood, or if we’re in the wrong place at the wrong time without our bag blood to help us if we’re really thirsty, we get our bag blood from the blood bank, it helps us protect the innocent people from us so we don’t have to go back to the dark nights from our past, but to the rouge vampires, they would feed off the humans all the time and wouldn’t care about anything else except their thirst for power for eternity, but I already told you all that from the beginning of my story and almost of my life; maybe I’ll tell you the rest of my life story in another time if you like, but enough about me for a moment or two, at least for now, don’t worry; I promise to let you know, you have my word. And I do take my word very seriously.

Few moments later another ringtail deer came up to me and thank the Lord from up above, it was a four-year-old male, yet I have a feeling I’ll be seeing the female soon, I’m just hoping not too soon, or I’ll have to find someone to raise her baby for her, the world was never fare when it comes to life and death even if your time’s up than it’s up, doesn’t matter if your too young, or too old; we all have to follow the ways of life, no matter how hard you tried to change it death would always find a way to find you, both human, animal, and even supernatural, we all have to pass on sooner or later. To most people, it’s depressing when it comes to leaving your families behind, not knowing what would happened to them, or how it would affect them, the only thing that the ones who are leaving the earth would just pray and hope someday they’ll see them again.

          The male ringtail deer bend down to the ground to lay on his right side with his head laying on the ground of my left side, I bend down to him, comfort him as much as I could, then as he finally calmed down, I took cared of his pain and his life while took care of my thirst, till next time, ashes to ashes, dust to dust till there was nothing left of the poor thing, and I’m sure he had made some offspring’s with one or two females when he was alive, time for me to get back to Catherin’s family, but as I started to leave the woods, I felt something in the air and from what my sense were telling me, I’m not alone in the woods, well this is just gets better and better, if my smelling his scent was correct, this happened to be the same vampire from the few nights ago, while I was caring for Mr. McCain and his son Mickey, (hope they were ok; I would hate it if this vampire did something to them); well this is just perfect, now I have a stocker who’s been following me this whole time; wait does he know, who I am? (sniffing the air) no he doesn’t, who knows what these vampires want from me, either he’s rouge or not and just by the scent from him tells me he was, I don’t see myself with anyone any more, I rather be alone than get hurt; like I promised to myself from up heaven and I wasn’t kidding when I said I meant to keep it that way ignoring the vampire stocker, I headed back to the McKnight’s house to do my job of protecting this family till it’s time to go.

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(sniffing the air) “who are you my dear? what are you? I will find out, everything about you, all of it, when it’s time to finally meet you my dear, you can count on it, I will find out, then when I do, you would be mine.” Whispered low to himself where she won’t hear him, but he didn’t know was that she could hear him; like he whispered the words to her ear but only several miles away from each other.

 *****                  

-who are you my dear? what are you? I will find out, everything about you, all of it, when it’s time to finally meet you my dear, you can count on it, I will find out, then when I do, you would be mine- all right that tells me he really doesn’t know who and what I am; I have a feeling I’ll be seeing him soon than I like and I’m sure he’ll know only half the truth of who I am, but I won’t tell him what I am, if he wants to live, he better leaves me alone, but that feeling tells me that’s not gone a happened, fine. walking out of the woods while thinking or more like planning any type of strategy to protect this family trying to guest whose were  Catherin’s enemies, and when would they finally show up so I could get this over with, but like everyone else kept saying ‘patience is a virtue’ fine I’ll wait though I don’t have to like it, waiting would be the most; cruelest statuses to add into your life, I’ve already done that when I was human, and let me tell you, it was BORRRING as hell, sure I did tried to be a good girl for my family, follow their rules, do as I was told, know the rights and wrongs, but you could be patience for a certain amount of time, till where it gets really boring, where you want to take the matters into your own hands (or for my own case claws) to get the job done; but no one could, we all had to be patience and wait, you don’t want to go after something (or in this case for me someone) and find out you got the wrong one and I did all of that till the day I got sick.

          Stopped on the porch and brought my senses out to the open, making sure everything was cleared, when it was, I opened the door, walked in, then closed it behind me without looking back, used my powers to lock the front door. Then walked up to the stairs to the second floor where Catherin and her families rooms were, went into her old room, which is now my borrowed room, to make sure her windows were locked, then headed back to the hallway, heading to the bathroom to check the window, then went back out again heading to Christoff’s room, then to McKnight’s room to make sure their windows were locked too, walking in and out of their rooms without waking them up, heading back to the hallway to the stair again, then went down the stairs towards the living room to the kitchen s***h dining room to make sure the window and sliding door were locked, till I went back to the living room, sitting on the couch to keep watch all night.

          Everything was quiet on earth, but only from one side of the planet, while the other side of the planet everyone was doing their own thing, working at their jobs, children going to their own schools and so much more, people walking, getting to one place after the other, moving place to place, spending time with their friends, co-workers at lunch times, children playing with other children that’s their age; cars honking, people shouting, birds chirping, different animals making noises; talking to each other, all of that; while on the other side of the planet, everyone were sleeping, but half of the adults were still working late shift, or working overnight from at their jobs, children dreaming about fun places they would love to go, or dreaming about different kinds of sweets they could eat, or even dream about any type of fairy tales they would want to become that makes them happy, but not KC Yesterman, she’s wide awake making sure no one would come and hurt the family she’s with; so from all through the night long, she watch, listens, even senses everything, focusing only on her job; keeping Mr. McKnight and his family save from any harm, which she knows would be coming.  

          When morning came, I was half relief and half not relief, cause anything could happened when you at least expected and you wouldn’t even know it, till that day comes, so I made sure I kept my guard up at all times, making sure nothing would happened to this family, not on my watch, sensing everything that’s been going on all night till morning came, anything could go wrong, anything at all, where it would get this family killed, and yourself hurt by getting kicked out of heaven for sure, and I really don’t want that, so I’m gone a make sure this family would always be save and I tend to keep my promise to both Catherin and Father Lord, even to all the other girls who were counting on me by keeping their families save from any harm no matter what, I intend to get this job done without any distractions, even if sometimes I can’t help it when it comes to saving the wild animals when they’re in pain, and I have to help them too.

          I was watching the news when Mr. McKnight came down stairs with a dark blue robe on, he glanced to me and showed a shocking expression on his face, he must have forgotten that I was still here or something, I tried not to laugh, it is funning when it comes to humans’ face expressions, even when they just got out of bed in the morning “(clearing my throat) Good morning Mr. McKnight.” I said to him in a pretend cheerful way.

“Hugh, Good Morning Miss?” yup he did.

“Yesterman, Mr. McKnight.”

“Miss Yesterman.”

          Man, it really was hard not to laugh when you want to, and I really do, but I don’t want to hurt his feelings, but he did forget why I was here and now on top of that he forgot my name, -breath in, breath out. come on KC, you could do this, just don’t laugh, don’t you dare laugh, breath in, breath out and breath in, and out. Inhale, then exhale- I told myself this while watching the news again, but when I moved my eyes back to Mr. McKnight, who was still staring back to me and still had the same: who-are-you-and-why-are-you-in-my-house-again? look, I couldn’t hold it anymore.

          “Ha! ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!” I started laughing, holding my stomach, closing my eyes, rocking back and forth while still laughing, I even had tears coming out from my eyes. I laughed, and laughed, and laughed, then the whole time while I was Laughing like a Hyena, I think my laughter woke up Mrs. McKnight and their son Christoff, oops, but I couldn’t stop laughing no matter how hard I tried.

          “hey what’s with all that laughing going on about, oh it’s you KC, what’s so funny, please pray tell.” I wouldn’t know if Mrs. McKnight would laugh as I still am right now and it does come to show, it was hard to speak while your laughing like a hyena, so I tried explaining to her why I was laughing so hard, Mrs. McKnight looked at her husband and saw the same expression on his face, Christoff already started laughing with me, few moments later Mrs. McKnight joined in. it must felt like forever till all three of us could stopped laughing, then Mrs. McKnight confronted her husband.

“so, you forgot KC came to our home last night, and letting us know why she’s here.” Mrs. McKnight said while crossing her arms and gave him a disbelieve look. All Mr. McKnight could only do was shrugging his shoulders with another expression where he felt guilty about some-thing where you know you got in trouble from it, that really did it now, I burst into more laughter where I fell off the couch while still laughing my ass off, Christoff laugh so hard where he lost his balance and fell on the floor still laughing.

          Mr. McKnight thought it was that time to head back to his chamber to get dressed, so he headed back up the stairs to his room from the left door in the hallway, then closed the door behind him. I finally calmed down for a while and got up off the floor to put myself back on the couch.

“Sorry about that, I didn’t mean to wake you Mrs. McKnight, I really did try to be quiet, and tried not to laugh, but it was really hard not to, ooh I haven’t laughed like that in years that really did felt good.” Mrs. McKnight smiled, then her smiled faded after what I just said to her, oops I said too much, this family still doesn’t know what I am, should I or? no I’ll think up of a lie instead, I could feel from her that she would never believe or understand.

“what do you mean by that KC, did something happen to you or something.” She asked.

“well, not really Mrs. McKnight.” That was a lie. “it’s just because, um well um.” I’m nerves, hesitating, whatever you want to call it, I wanted her to get use to me, and it goes for her family too, but I just know it’s gone a be bad if I did so.

“(sighing) it’s because I lost my family years ago, Mrs. McKnight that’s why.  that’s.  why.” sighing again in surrender.

“that’s why you haven’t laughed in years.” I nodded though it was a lie, well more like I haven’t seen my family since I was turned, till I finally did saw them up in heaven seventy-nine years later. After I had left my family and my friends so I could get used to my new life and so I wouldn’t hurt any of them, I knew they would hate me even would be terrified of me, so I left them all without looking back, till I found out after the war was over that, they all didn’t make it to the bomb shelter and was killed in the house; what did anyone expected for a two-story house with a family of six children minus myself which would had have been seven children, if I was there; but I wasn’t.

“I’m so sorry KC.” Mrs. McKnight said trying to comfort me which was sweet of her, I’ll give her that.

“hey what’s this going on about being sorry.” Mr. McKnight asked.