Vampyre 5.

Chapter 5

Donna and I get some pretty strange looks as we walk into the IHOP together we’re both pretty filthy, there’s dried blood and dirt from the fight and the ashes and torn clothes and if that wasn’t enough Donna’s holding my hand.

The few rednecks without the brain power to just let people be people are sort of choking on their remarks because yeah…go ahead be a redneck homophobe to an officer of the law.

Actually it makes me smile because Donna’s normal…I can tell she might be Raine’s mom but the power wasn’t part of her…she’s just Donna and that’s enough really.

I mean a divorced late thirties woman faced off against a three hundred year old vampire.

She’d eat these idiots for breakfast and you know just thinking about how brave she is…was tonight just how smart and kick ass makes me smile.

That she came back for me and she fought for me…

I became a realist a long time ago, the smart thing would have been to run but that little part of me that’s the boy from the plantation that hid in the attic and played dress up had those little girl dreams of a hero.

Now so long after…I’ve a heroine that came to my rescue.

It goes against my hide and keep your head down instincts but I don’t know if it’s my newly beating heart but suddenly I’m flooded with good, clean happy emotions that are all my own and I turn to face her as we get to a booth and I stand on my tip toes and wrap my arms around her and I kiss my girlfriend.

It hasn’t even been the case of being a long time since I’ve felt like this it’s the first time. The first time that my heart and my soul are mine.

More looks but I don’t care and we slide into our booth and the waitress comes over. She’s smiling at us and her being a young twenty something I’m guessing she doesn’t have a problem with us.

We order and I order a big order.

Donna looks at me. He r eyebrow slightly up on the left and she tucks some hair back behind her ear and she does look like her daughter then or rather I can see Raine sort of looking like her.

“You are hungry.”

“Starving but also there’s not a lot of variety in a sanguine diet. Rare and bloody, stuff once touched by a living essence…pour blood on the rest.”

“Yay….” She makes a face like it was eeew.

“Uh-huh and now I’m going to at least try and eat the things that I haven’t been able to in like forever and all the stuff I wanted to try but never got to yet.”

“Haven’t tried you’re over two hundred years old?”

“Yes and most of that I was well and fully addicted and soul enslaved to The Beast.”

“The Beast?”

“The thing in the darkness, the source of all vampires.”

“Oh…you’re going to fill me in on the lore right?”

“Yeah and maybe the others too, Raine and them need to know this stuff and there’s a lot I can tell from the inside track.”

“Good Idea…maybe we can do a bit more.”

“Like?”

“Arm up, get ready for more trouble.”

“Good idea.”

The food comes and I really like it or well most of it. I love berries and I have so missed carbs really and eggs…blood on eggs no matter how vampy you are ruins them. The same way with most fish too.

Donna eats and smiles at me and we shared food and bites and oh…oh…okay I’m a southern girl…and Donna is having steak and eggs with some biscuits and gravy on the side but she has hot sauce all over it and the bites she feeds me takes me back to a good place.

“So hot sauce is a yes?”

“Mmm?”

“For groceries…”

“Groceries?”

She stares at me and she looks me in the eyes and slips her fingers into mine and looks at me. “I thought…I…thought we’d…think about living together.”

“Oh…..” I…I honestly never thought of that and I haven’t lived together with someone before unless you count thralls and my sires or my children.

“Too soon?”

“No…I’ve just…I’ve never…maybe it’s too soon but sometimes what we think’s too soon is right exactly…”

I’m rambling like a nervous girl and thankfully she shuts me up by kissing me. And it’s a really great kiss with her touching me and everything and you know that is it getting warm thing…well I’ve been cold for so long that that heat of passion is running through me like a wildfire.

I break the kiss needing air and even that’s a novel experience…I’m dizzy in a good way and I’m panting and I look at her.

“I have a house…a real house…you can move in and we can give Raine and Shaun the trailer so they can have their own place…”

We kiss again and Donna waves for the check and we very quickly head for her place and we pack some things. She leaves a letter for Raine and we head to my place she drops me off. “I’ll be right back; I’m going to get my truck from the office okay.”

“Okay…I’ll get cleaned up?”

“Nuh-uh...wait.”

“Wait?”

“I wanna take a bath with you.”

“Okay.”

……………………………………….I’m all jitters and almost teenagers nerves for awhile after she’s gone and I’m pretty sure I’m on a sugar high so I end up talking to the cat and then calming down enough to look online for gothy stuff in town and anything else that is going on that sounds bourgeois.

Raphael if he’s one thing he’s an arrogant bourgeois fop. He loves to show up here and be all superior as he feeds. Like his sister said he likes stuff like fast food employees because in his twisted mind it’s like a joke that he’s lowering himself to feed off of such trash.

But yes here are a few hotels that he’d stay at, and ah some car services. If I ask around on the phone in french most people would just assume that I’m with him or working for him….people really do go with the easiest rationales.

I’ve got about five places he’s likely stay and hunt and more importantly show off at. I’ll hunt him down at some of these goth clubs and the two raves that I found tonight.

Donna pulls in and she has bags and boxes of stuff and I smell witchy stuff and church power in two boxes. “What’s this?”

“Stuff I got blessed by the catholic priest here in town, some holy water, other stuff.”

“What did the priest say?”

“Nothing he smiled and said no problem because I was getting baptized at the time because I wanted to have God’s protection as I protected others.”

“So you didn’t mention Vampires.”

“No and I didn’t mention my transgendered daughter or the fact that she is able to do magic. I mean I wasn’t lying really.”

“Okay and this stuff it smells wiccan.”

“Astrid…I talked to her and she’s sowed me how to do something called a free magic protection circle?”

“Oh…good idea.”

“Yeah and telling her what it was for she gave me this one that blurs the voices of people on the outside if they’re lying to me. She said that it’s something she used in one of her more interesting relationships.”

“Interesting.”

“Yes and I want to try it out can you tell if it’s working like this during the day?”

“Oh yeah I’ve still got some of my powers in daylight but the mystical stuff that I have I had to learn it all over the years.”

“Good oh and here.”

I was expecting like something church like or mystical but its a few grocery bags and I look inside and there’s grits…and there some bottles of hot sauce and other southern foods I haven’t had in forever.

“Donna…” I have to tip toe kiss her again.

She sets the stuff on my kitchen table and puts the perishable stuff in the fridge and it’s the most food that it’s ever seen…then she takes my hand and kisses me and get’s me to take her to the bedroom and our bathroom.

Living set is so different, feeling and just…just getting a damned life…is so…

We made love in the bath so slow and with the bubbles and jazz and long slow gentleness and after that she lathers me up in suntan lotion and she took me out to my fenced in backyard that I’ve barely used and set out a layer of blankets and we tanned…sat out ion the sunshine and we tanned until the sunlight and warmth was sinking into me so deep I was crying and she shushed me…told me I was going to be alright and stared into my eyes and then made love to me…

My heart hurts and it was squeezing so much blood and so much sunshine and…there is something vamp…so not vamp sexy about the way she looks up at me from between my legs and as she sinks her face into my sex.

I get a …we get sunburned…we were outside almost all afternoon…

I actually cook…I had too, Donna’s a Yankee she was making the grits wrong.

We actually spend as much time together as we can right up until it gets to when we have to make the circle.

It’s a pentacle and done in special ingredients that have been charged with mana, so the magic really isn’t “free” but it is made to pull on ambient power to do the bulk of the spell. It’s a way that non-mages can do magic’s of a certain kind and at the first run through it works.

It’s too damned fast between that and when she had to do it for real and she had some of the things to defend herself with her.

Good girl.

………………………………Dying was painful…going cold and my heart stopping…hurt. Then he came, it came and my world went black and white and the windows all filled with blackness and dark tendrils of his power tried to sink into me streaming out of the dark.

To Donna it was just moments for me it felt like hours.

But as much as he tried to sink into me I was filled with the light of the day, stronger too much more tied to my mortal life than I was last time.

And.

I was in love.

…………………………………I sit up and look at her and fight down the cravings, the urges and soon I feel like I felt before…I was undead again but Death’s Vampyre and not the Beasts creature.

I look around feeling power and smelling Raine and Shaun and…oh lovely…Jill.

And I’m vamped out still and Jill’s got a gun out pointed at me. “What the hell is going on Raine…she… she was out in daylight! I saw her and now she’s a bloodsucker!”

“Watch your mouth.” Donna says then… “Are you alright baby?”

“I’m fine…well…not fine but I’m way more in control.” I look at Raine. “You don’t seem surprised.”

“I saw you and Mom together while scrying.” She shrugs. “As long as you two are happy then I don’t see the problem.”

Jill looks fit to burst. “What?”

“Jill chill out.” Shaun says. “Alecia helped us with Shea…she’s good people.”

“Actually you all helped me out with him but that’s for the vote Shaun.”

Jill glares at me. “She’s on the hot list, she’s a serious predator guys.”

Raine looks at her. “Jill…remember that chat we had about this in the hospital.”

“Yeah…”

“Alecia here isn’t the one on the hot list, that vampire’s long gone.”

“They’ll know about her the next time I have to go in.”

“The next time we go in Jill we’re all going in.”

“What?”

“All of us, this isn’t you guys fighting pockets of stuff here and there keeping us safe from the stuff that goes bump in the night anymore. This is end of days stuff.”

Jill just stares at all of us before holstering her gun. “Fine…”

I hear her muttering under her breath about how she hates being left in the dark. Her hands in her pocket and her whole look the look of a soldier that just had her mission go FUBAR.

I go over and gather my notes. “You’re here though….?”

“The same reason that you are; that vampire that works for Michel.”

I’d be surprised normally but Raine speaks to HER almost like they were mother and daughter for real.

“Raphael, he’s likely to be staying and haunting in these areas.” I hold up my notes.

Jill perks up. “If we’re doing this and going in afterwards, then I can call in my team that’s still here in town and we can run down some of these.”

“Good idea, recon only though Raphael’s old but he’s also a coward. He’ll come at me though he has to. So if they spot him pass it along.”

“We’re professionals we do this all the time.”

“Good so is he, it’s how he’s lived as long as he has.”

And there’s this sort of pissing contest and she’s getting under my fangs, she has that my way thing going on that the officers had back in the confederate army. She’s probably very skilled but honestly she isn’t as good or informed as she thinks that she is.

Donna coughs and steps between our glaring at each other. “Look we’ll need the back up, his sister had back up with her so he’s likely got some too.”

Jill nods. “Right.”

WTF? Did she just check out my girlfriend?

Raine looks at all of us. “We should get started Jill get a hold of your people and get a hold of Sloan I want her here when we go in.”

There was this…presence in her when she just talked like she was used to command too. I nod and head to my bedroom to get changed. I haven’t warm fighting clothes for a long time.

I get into my leather pants and halter top vest that buckles in the front like a hard leather bra combined with a short vest. It’s got a steel plate over my heart front and back. Over it I have a long sleeved dark tee-shirt with a hood and a leather motorcycle jacket.

I’m armed too…several knives and a teke wood carved and hardened aikiuchi. That’s a Japanese dagger like a tanto without a guard it’s very nicely carved and formed and makes a very good stake. Since my escape from the Templars and the years that I’ve had it it’s dusted eleven of my kind. I slip five silver coated throwing stars into a pocket as well. Silver can hurt us but not lethally we don’t heal as fast from it but…still an advantage especially if I throw them vampyre hard.

Donna was with Raine getting geared up and Shaun was helping her too it’s maybe just getting to true night time when we’re getting into Jill and Donna’s trucks. We look like we’re going clubbing or like characters from one of those TV shows.

“Just so you guys all know…if I see the Winchesters I’m going home.” I say.