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We go back to Gabe and the boys to find out what kind of turn the conversation takes. And, the guys learn a little more about the vampire they're dealing with...
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Joe, Pete, Andy, and Patrick all looked around the warehouse as Gabe, Emmi, and Rayne gave them a tour of the place that was being offered to Pete, and his friends if they wanted. It was a safe place for a newly turned vampires, with cell doors made to hold back vampires, new and old, with a couple of training rooms, some bedrooms and bathrooms. There was also a garage and several other unused rooms that they could do what they wanted with, supposedly with no conditions. The outside of the building was just a façade to keep strangers away, to give the illusion it was some broken down warehouse, but the inside was taken care of, just now in use. The only time it was used was when Gabe used it for a safe house, or times like this, which didn’t come along very often.
“So, what is the catch to all of this?” Patrick questioned as they all sat down in the slightly dusty chairs and on the unused couch. “Protection and a place to live aren’t just given away for free.”
“A case like yours is very special, young man,” Gabe said as he sat forward, resting his elbows on his knees. “Your friend is wanted by a vampire that is an enemy to my family, to my home, and to anyone else who crosses him. There are many vampire covens who have a price on his head because of the threat he has somehow managed to pose, given his…ways.”
“What do you mean?” Joe asked, his curiosity peaked. “Why do you make it sound like he shouldn’t even be a threat?”
“Because he shouldn’t,” Rayne answered for Gabe, her lip twitching as she thought about the pathetic vampire.
“He gains his loyalty, not always but often, by controlling his servants, his pets, his assassins; anyone he wants really,” Gabe explained. “He has those that are loyal by choice, but they have broken pasts that he’s played on somehow to make them think on their own that they want to be loved by him, or want his approval. Unfortunately, even though he never gets his hands dirty himself, which is why Pete surprises me so much, he has good taste in picking fighters or murderers. His Dandies are all very dangerous, which makes his threat so real.”
“Dandies…?” Andy question, his brow lifting as if he were waiting for the name to be corrected.
“Yes,” Gabe grinned, “Dandies. A Dandy can range from tracker, scout, to errand boy. Sometimes they’re used to bring home humans for the others to feed on, or as spies. The lesser known, but still dangerous, characters in William’s little coven.”
“So, why does Pete surprise you so much?” Patrick questioned. “Or is it just that he doesn’t get his own hands dirty?”
Gabe nodded as he looked to Pete, who was looking at him, obviously waiting for answers as well. “Sometimes the closet thing William gets to turning people himself is sending a Dandy to fetch someone that might have potential, and if he doesn’t like him he feeds, if he does he keeps them. William attacked Pete out in open ground, and then didn’t turn him. Not only was William outside of his beloved mansion, but he let a potential pet get away from him.” He looked at Patrick. “Both of those factors surprise me, but it reminds me of the more important reason we’re here.”
“Which is?” Pete questioned.
“You haven’t turned all the way,” Gabe answered. “I bet being in such close proximity to four human hearts, pumping the blood through our veins is driving your vampire side to madness. Am I right?”
Pete clenched his jaw as Gabe’s words seemed to stroke the burning thirst into a roaring desire for blood. He tensed and managed a nod that almost went unnoticed by his friends. “I refuse… to feed… and become on of them,” he growled out, trying to push back the temptation that Gabe had provoked with his words.
“What if I told you, I can help you?” Gabe questioned. “What if I told you I can help you not crave your friends’ blood?”
“I would want to know what you’re talking about,” he replied, his eyes going black as they had outside.
“My younger associate, Emmi, she is only half-turned, same as you, but she never has to drink a day in her life unless she so chooses,” Gabe explained, looking to Emmi, who looked to her Master at the mention of her name. “I’ve created a blend, for vampires like yourselves, that helps kill the craving as long as you drink it when you wake up at night. Every day you have to drink it, and once it gets into your system, you won’t have to worry about not being able to get close to your friends without killing them.”
“He wouldn’t have to feed?” Patrick questioned, some hope finally coming to him. “And it would keep him from turning?”
Gabe nodded and motioned to Rayne, who had grabbed a bag from the car before the group had relocated inside after deciding the conversation was too dangerous to have outside. “In the bag are two sets of the ingredients for this blend-”
“Why are there two?” Pete questioned.
Gabe looked at him, biting his tongue for a moment at the rude gesture of being cut off, before he continued. “One is for you, the other is for Emmi. I’ll let you pick your set, and she’ll take the one you don’t pick. Both will be made at the same time and you can watch her drink her blend first, so that you can see it’s not poisonous or harmful. I can walk one of your friends through making it so that neither myself or either of my two friends will touch it.”
“And if it doesn’t work?” Joe questioned, voicing the same thought everyone else had in their minds. “What do we do if it doesn’t work?”
“If it doesn’t work then we make a stronger blend,” Gabe answered. “This blend will work as long as he doesn’t drink any blood. The minute he drinks blood, from a vampire or a human, he will fully turn. Once he goes that far, there is no going back.”
Patrick looked at Pete, who looked like he was considering it, but to someone like Patrick, who knew his friend, he could tell Pete was struggling more than he let on. Pete had never trusted strangers, and now he was being asked by strangers to drink something none of them had ever heard of. He got up and walked over to Pete, daring the risk of the hunger he knew his friend was fighting off, and knelt down by his legs, touching Pete’s thigh.
Pete turned his eyes, now wholly black, to his friend, his nostrils flaring slightly at the sudden closeness of the blood his vampire side was dying to have.
“Try it,” Patrick whispered, his eyes and tone begging. “Let her drink it first, let me make yours, and try it. If it could help you, if you could be okay, what could you lose by trying it?”
“And if it makes the hunger worse?” Pete softly countered, trying so hard to not attack his friend. “I can’t… I couldn’t kill you guys…”
“If it works we can be okay Pete,” Patrick assured him. “I honestly think you should trust them…”
Pete pushed the steady thrumming of Patrick’s heart, and the sweet, coppery scent of Patrick’s blood from his mind and focused on the blue-green orbs staring up at him. He lowered his head and nodded, feeling a small disappointment, but large relief, when Patrick moved away and followed Gabe to the area that was a make-shift kitchen.
[Author's Note: Okay, there you have it, 3 updates for you in one day, the third one is actually a day early. Even though I had put my posting on hold, like mentioned on my profile on the 13th, I still was writing the updates so that when I was done moving things from here to google documents I could just update however many were due. So, I'm done transferring, here are your updates, reviews, as always, are loved =).]
“So, what is the catch to all of this?” Patrick questioned as they all sat down in the slightly dusty chairs and on the unused couch. “Protection and a place to live aren’t just given away for free.”
“A case like yours is very special, young man,” Gabe said as he sat forward, resting his elbows on his knees. “Your friend is wanted by a vampire that is an enemy to my family, to my home, and to anyone else who crosses him. There are many vampire covens who have a price on his head because of the threat he has somehow managed to pose, given his…ways.”
“What do you mean?” Joe asked, his curiosity peaked. “Why do you make it sound like he shouldn’t even be a threat?”
“Because he shouldn’t,” Rayne answered for Gabe, her lip twitching as she thought about the pathetic vampire.
“He gains his loyalty, not always but often, by controlling his servants, his pets, his assassins; anyone he wants really,” Gabe explained. “He has those that are loyal by choice, but they have broken pasts that he’s played on somehow to make them think on their own that they want to be loved by him, or want his approval. Unfortunately, even though he never gets his hands dirty himself, which is why Pete surprises me so much, he has good taste in picking fighters or murderers. His Dandies are all very dangerous, which makes his threat so real.”
“Dandies…?” Andy question, his brow lifting as if he were waiting for the name to be corrected.
“Yes,” Gabe grinned, “Dandies. A Dandy can range from tracker, scout, to errand boy. Sometimes they’re used to bring home humans for the others to feed on, or as spies. The lesser known, but still dangerous, characters in William’s little coven.”
“So, why does Pete surprise you so much?” Patrick questioned. “Or is it just that he doesn’t get his own hands dirty?”
Gabe nodded as he looked to Pete, who was looking at him, obviously waiting for answers as well. “Sometimes the closet thing William gets to turning people himself is sending a Dandy to fetch someone that might have potential, and if he doesn’t like him he feeds, if he does he keeps them. William attacked Pete out in open ground, and then didn’t turn him. Not only was William outside of his beloved mansion, but he let a potential pet get away from him.” He looked at Patrick. “Both of those factors surprise me, but it reminds me of the more important reason we’re here.”
“Which is?” Pete questioned.
“You haven’t turned all the way,” Gabe answered. “I bet being in such close proximity to four human hearts, pumping the blood through our veins is driving your vampire side to madness. Am I right?”
Pete clenched his jaw as Gabe’s words seemed to stroke the burning thirst into a roaring desire for blood. He tensed and managed a nod that almost went unnoticed by his friends. “I refuse… to feed… and become on of them,” he growled out, trying to push back the temptation that Gabe had provoked with his words.
“What if I told you, I can help you?” Gabe questioned. “What if I told you I can help you not crave your friends’ blood?”
“I would want to know what you’re talking about,” he replied, his eyes going black as they had outside.
“My younger associate, Emmi, she is only half-turned, same as you, but she never has to drink a day in her life unless she so chooses,” Gabe explained, looking to Emmi, who looked to her Master at the mention of her name. “I’ve created a blend, for vampires like yourselves, that helps kill the craving as long as you drink it when you wake up at night. Every day you have to drink it, and once it gets into your system, you won’t have to worry about not being able to get close to your friends without killing them.”
“He wouldn’t have to feed?” Patrick questioned, some hope finally coming to him. “And it would keep him from turning?”
Gabe nodded and motioned to Rayne, who had grabbed a bag from the car before the group had relocated inside after deciding the conversation was too dangerous to have outside. “In the bag are two sets of the ingredients for this blend-”
“Why are there two?” Pete questioned.
Gabe looked at him, biting his tongue for a moment at the rude gesture of being cut off, before he continued. “One is for you, the other is for Emmi. I’ll let you pick your set, and she’ll take the one you don’t pick. Both will be made at the same time and you can watch her drink her blend first, so that you can see it’s not poisonous or harmful. I can walk one of your friends through making it so that neither myself or either of my two friends will touch it.”
“And if it doesn’t work?” Joe questioned, voicing the same thought everyone else had in their minds. “What do we do if it doesn’t work?”
“If it doesn’t work then we make a stronger blend,” Gabe answered. “This blend will work as long as he doesn’t drink any blood. The minute he drinks blood, from a vampire or a human, he will fully turn. Once he goes that far, there is no going back.”
Patrick looked at Pete, who looked like he was considering it, but to someone like Patrick, who knew his friend, he could tell Pete was struggling more than he let on. Pete had never trusted strangers, and now he was being asked by strangers to drink something none of them had ever heard of. He got up and walked over to Pete, daring the risk of the hunger he knew his friend was fighting off, and knelt down by his legs, touching Pete’s thigh.
Pete turned his eyes, now wholly black, to his friend, his nostrils flaring slightly at the sudden closeness of the blood his vampire side was dying to have.
“Try it,” Patrick whispered, his eyes and tone begging. “Let her drink it first, let me make yours, and try it. If it could help you, if you could be okay, what could you lose by trying it?”
“And if it makes the hunger worse?” Pete softly countered, trying so hard to not attack his friend. “I can’t… I couldn’t kill you guys…”
“If it works we can be okay Pete,” Patrick assured him. “I honestly think you should trust them…”
Pete pushed the steady thrumming of Patrick’s heart, and the sweet, coppery scent of Patrick’s blood from his mind and focused on the blue-green orbs staring up at him. He lowered his head and nodded, feeling a small disappointment, but large relief, when Patrick moved away and followed Gabe to the area that was a make-shift kitchen.
[Author's Note: Okay, there you have it, 3 updates for you in one day, the third one is actually a day early. Even though I had put my posting on hold, like mentioned on my profile on the 13th, I still was writing the updates so that when I was done moving things from here to google documents I could just update however many were due. So, I'm done transferring, here are your updates, reviews, as always, are loved =).]
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