Chapter 12: The first vampire
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Esmeralda
As I made my way back home, I felt mortified. How was I going to ever face Lucan again after tonight, how could I be so stupid as to not have realized what I was doing. I mean, there had been moments where it had felt good, but I’d simply thought that was due to my feelings for him, my stupid irrational feelings.
There had been a moment, though, a very fleeting moment, but a moment nonetheless. He had told me it was ok, even called me darling, which had made me weak at the knees.
He had gently held my hands and I swear for a split second he was going to lean in and kiss my cheek or something, but he obviously had thought better of it and dropped my hands like they burned. He had said a cold goodbye and walked off, not waiting for me to reply.
It was dark outside and quiet, so I let the tears fall, I really wished he had just leaned in and kissed me even if it had only been on the cheek. I hated that I felt this way about a man who despised me and everything I was, I barely even knew him, so why was I was falling more in love every time I saw him, when all he was, was cold and mean towards me.
My phone started to ring, and I picked it up on the third ring. “Hello?”
“Esmeralda, you are required to attend the queen’s meeting tonight, it starts at eleven this evening.” The male voice hung up on me and I turned back around to make my way to the queen.
I cringed on the way, remembering Dana’s embarrassing interrogation. The thought of me being a virgin and non-experienced probably put Lucan off me even more, if that were possible.
I didn’t know anything about s**x at all, when I was human, I had been a housemaid, they treated me well, but they usually had liked to keep me hidden and out of the way when guests were around, the only other human contact I’d had was with my mother because we worked and lived in the home together.
They had taken us in when my mother had begged for a place to stay, and they had been wanting a housemaid and a nanny anyway.
My mother had passed away a few years later due to a heart attack and when I became a vampire five years later, I had been kept hidden yet again.
Vampires weren’t known about back then, and I’d been a mistake, the vampire had thought he’d killed me, but he hadn’t, and before I knew it I had woken up a vampire, the queen had found out about me and sent someone to bring me to her before I lost control to hunger and went on some killing spree.
When I refused to feed on blood that’s when the vampire community had mostly shunned me, I was hidden away like some dirty little secret, beaten and t.ortured by Sadie for fun when she was bored and that was that.
I hadn’t been given any sort of freedom for over a century, locked in a room until the queen trusted that I could control myself even if I only fed on emotions and energy.
The queen wasn’t evil compared to other vampires, but she wasn’t good either.
No vampire wanted to date weak ugly me, I didn’t drink blood, so I wasn’t beautiful like them, and it was an embarrassment to them as well, so no, I lived a quiet and isolated life and quite literally knew nothing about s**x or the slang words for it.
I tended to avoid adult videos as I figured it would just be depressing knowing I’d never experience it with anyone special. I’m sure I could have found a human to spend the night with, but I had no interest in casual fun, I wanted love and humans I had found in modern society seemed very all about just having fun and not settling down.
When I got to the building, I joined the others who were gathered in the hallway and didn’t bother to look up at anyone, here I was practically invisible, nothing more than dirt on the end of their shoes in their eyes.
The queen came onto the balcony above and greeted us.
“Good evening my dears, I do apologize for the late announcement, but I have grave news. It is confirmed that the executioner, death himself, is indeed here in our very city, this has drawn the attention of the mother of the night.”
She waited for the gasps and murmurings to die down before continuing, “she fought this foe a long time ago, some say he has lived longer than any mere mortal man, and today through the mother of the night’s pet I have been told this is true, that she fought him centuries ago, and he left a scar upon her, a mark that has bound them in some way so that she can sense whenever he is nearby, she plans on coming to our city in a weeks time to battle him once more. We shall honor her wish and treat her with the utmost respect, fail to do so will most certainly be the death of you.”
She looked afraid and walked away, leaving everyone to whisper and talk among themselves. I could feel the terror in the air, terror to know that death himself was here, and terror to know that the mother of the night was coming too.
There had been rumors and whispers that she was the mother of all vampires, the first vampire. She was more formidable than any other queen or king on this planet, if she so chose, she could easily have ruled as many vampires in as many countries as she wished, thankfully she had no desire to do so, she had a few close followers and pets and that satisfied her enough.
Needless to say, I slept very uneasy that night. I lay there with my mind racing, I never wanted to meet the mother of the night, I had heard some terrible rumors about the things she had done, one of them had been turning a child into a vampire, their small still developing mind so fragile that they’d lost their mind, turned into a psychotic, t.orturous murderer who killed for fun.
She still had this child as one of her pets, and it sent chills down my spine just thinking about it. I wondered if Sadie idolized the mother of the night because she had turned a child too, who also was not of sound mind. I wondered whether I should tell Lucan this news, and before I came up with an answer I drifted into sleep.
When morning came, I got ready for work and left. When I arrived, I noticed Dana wasn’t there. “Where’s Dana?” I asked.
Lucan was looking for something, going through drawers when he muttered, “uh, I don’t know, she said she’d be ten minutes late.”
I took a deep breath and turned to look at him. “I need to tell you something, so please, don’t kill the messenger.”
That got his attention, and he looked up from the drawers he had been riffling through.
“What?” He demanded.
“My queen had us all attend her home last night, she confirmed that they know the executioner is here in town—“
“Who’s the executioner?” He interrupted.
“Oh, Um, well, I’m pretty sure it’s you, you’re the only vampire hunter I’ve met that has such unique powers, even for a necromancer.”
“That’s what they call me, the executioner?”
“Yes and death.”
He laughed as if it were stupid but said, “carry on.”
“She mentioned another vampire, the mother of the night is wanting to come here in a week’s time, she wishes to destroy the executioner, sorry, you, because you apparently fought one another before.”
Out of nowhere, he had me pinned up against the wall with his forearm pressing against my neck hard enough that I couldn’t breathe.
“That b.itch is still alive? Where is your queens home, take me there now!” He growled.
“I…can’t…breathe,” I spluttered.
He shoved his forearm against me harder and snarled, “you don’t need to breathe, you’re already f.ucking dead.”
I felt myself growing faint, and then everything went black. When I opened my eyes, I was staring up at the ceiling and then looked to where a loud commotion was going on.
Dana punched Lucan in the face, and he didn’t even flinch, he blocked her next hit and threw her to the floor, she kicked her foot out sweeping his leg so that he fell to the floor, she was on him before he could move, and she punched him again.
He grabbed her long blonde hair and yanked her neck back and slammed his fist into her face enough to daze her, then he pushed her off him and got to his feet.
Spitting blood next to her, he yelled, “enough! I’m not going to kill her!”
Dana glared angrily up at him and wiped the blood from her nose with the back of her arm before climbing onto her feet.
“You better not!”
She came over to me when she saw I was awake and helped me to my feet.
“Are you alright?” She asked me.
I nodded meekly and answered, “I’m sorry, I still need to breathe because I don’t feed on human blood, I can go a long time not breathing, but over the years I’ve become weaker.”
“What do you mean weaker? Can you die if you only feed on the emotions of others?”
I nodded weakly and sat in the chair she guided me to. “I think so, yes, overtime I’ve felt myself growing weaker, my hair is turning gray and falling out, and I think it won’t be long until I die a true death.”
Dana’s eyes grew wide whilst Lucan just stood there, arms folded and eyes cold as ice.
“You’re going to die, do you know how long you have left?” Dana sounded the most serious I’d ever heard her.
“No, I just know it won’t be longer than two years, I don’t know how I know, I can just feel it.”
“Can’t you drink from blood bags or something, that way it’s fresh, and you’re not hurting anyone?”
I smiled and stood up when I felt strong again, “no, I could, but I won’t, that would be taking away from seriously ill people, including children who will desperately need that blood.”
“Do you have to be so emotional for a vampire,” Dana snapped at me.
I knew she wasn’t really angry at me, she was just worried.
“Sorry,” I shrugged my shoulders.
She stormed off to clean herself up before opening for the day, and Lucan went to clean up too.
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