Sacrifice Helle

Chapter 11

He laughed at me. "Anyway, let's take a look at you, okey?" "What? There's nothing wrong with me!" He gave me a distrustful look. "I saw you right now, I also saw how you walked..." He stood in front of me, then he started to unbutton my shirt. "What are you.." His eyes met mine, telling me not to worry. "And I saw parts of what happened yesterday. I’m sorry that I couldn't help you..." "You saw it? You .. you see everything that happens?" "I see a lot." He had unbuttoned my shirt, and took it off me, then saw my bruises and put his hand on one of them. I suddenly felt a warm feeling coming from his hand, and when he removed it, my bruise was gone. He looked me into the eyes and placed his hand on my other bruise. The warm feeling came back. It was rather nice. "But.. I couldn't see it all, after you came into the park.. it got dark. I couldn't see you again until this morning. What happened?" "How exactly does that thing work anyway? Like, something’s you can see, others not?" "No.. I see what I want so see, but sometimes, I'm blocked. Like.. if someone jams my vision.." He wandered around me, then stopped behind me and all of a sudden pulled up my t-shirt. "HEEY!!" I tried to rip it out of his hands and pull it down, but he just grabbed hold of it, and pulled it all the way over my head. "What do you think you're doing?!" "Do you know what's on your back?!" "Just a few scratches..." "Well, whoever scratched you, please try to make sure they won't scratch you again, this is bad.." "Ah, come on! You're acting like it would stay on my back for ever! Or like it would kill me!" I heard him sight behind me, then he held on to my hips and I felt something soft running over my back, covering one of the scratches, it tickled and it felt like it was wet. "Iiih, what are you doing, it tickles!" "Just stop moving, I can’t do it properly.." "Is that your tongue?!" "Hey, it's not an ordinary scratch, okay? Whatever scratched you was not human.. And it doesn't seem to react to my healing either..." I felt once more his tongue over the scratch on my back, it gave me this tickling feeling down my spine, I got goose bumps all over from it. Nice. "Weird... Tell me what happened last night! Who did this?"

"I don’t know.", I lied. "But you have a good idea of who it might be. And the reason you don't want to tell me is that you wish it wasn't true. Like saying it out loud would make it come true." I looked into the wall in front of me, it was empty. He was correct, he had read my mind again. I didn't want to think about it at all, I just wanted to forget and pretend it never happened. But deep down, I knew it had. "He.. he is a friend. He was in the park yesterday. He saw me and the..." I was unsure of whether to say 'vampire' or not, when Raphael made it very easy for me, "You and the vampire." He came up in front of me again, I was standing there in just my bra and had my t-shirt protectively covering my chest. He laid his hand on my tummy, it felt so good , my tummy had been so grumpy this morning, finally it relaxed. "Why are you holding back, I even told you I'm not human, saying the word 'vampire' isn't gonna scare me off..." He wasn't focusing on me, actually, he was looking down at my legs and my hips. It was like I could hear him think, his eyes moved quickly from here to there but still always looking at he same place, like he was looking at something I couldn’t see. "What are you then?" "Don't think about such negative thoughts, I can tell you what he is if you really want to know.", was Raphael’s answer. "Just you answer me, we can talk about what's on my mind later." "So you don't wanna know what he is? Well.. actually I can't tell for sure, but I got a pretty good idea. Not many options either.. " "I don’t think I want to know right know, thank you. And just forget that I asked you, I already knew what you were when I first met you." "He looked at me a little surprised, "You did?" "It's just a matter of letting logic go and live in the dream. Instead of in denial." He didn't reply, but cut the eye contact and focused on my jeans again, and before I could react, he had already unbuttoned it and the zipper was down. "You don't think you're going a little to far now?!" "It hurts right? It will not take long..." I just then remembered where it hurt, then I yelled at Raphael, "No! Stop it! It won't kill me, it's just a little uncomfortable, you don't need to worry!" "YOU don’t need to worry! Relax a little! I’m just your friend... who happens to have the ability to heal, why not use me?" 'Friends with benefits' came to thought, and my mind kicked itself in the very moment. "I don't need to get healed, okey???" "You wanna be able to sit down today?" I sighted. If he really wanted to do it, then fine! My crotch would appreciate it very much, but other than that, I thought this was overdoing it a little.

He pulled down my jeans, leaving me in only my underwear. It felt kinda awkward being so naked with someone you hardly knew and him being so dressed. "Would you feel better if I took off m.." "O_o Ehehe! Nonono, you just keep it on, okey? " 'Gosh, I feel so stupid...' He then gave me one of those glances again, one that told me that everything was alright. I relaxed immediately, he really knew his things... To my relief, he didn’t go straight to the spot where it hurt, but got down on his knees and touched my leg with his hands, going slowly upwards, the warm feeling came back. To keep my mind on something else I started asking, "Back to what we were originally supposed to be talking about: You said you left that poem for me, and then you said you had stolen it? From who? Why?" He mumbled something, and moved his hands to my other leg. "What's that? I can’t hear you.." "I just...hmm..." "WHAT?! Tell me or I'm gonna let you know how it feels when a knee comes in great speed towards your face! You're ticking me off with all these mysteries!!!" He looked up immediately, rose up from the floor, his right hand moved up my thigh with him, standing so close to me, his clothes touching my skin, looked me straight into my eyes. His left hand went behind my back as he pressed his right hand firmly against my crotch. "This is the spot right?", he said with a low straight voice, like if he was pissed off. His hand pressing in between my thighs. I gasped as I felt one of his fingers move against a very sensitive part of my body, tried to move backwards and away, but his hand held me back and instead pushed me against him. "I know what he did, are you willing to admit it now? Or maybe you prefer to live in denial?" I then felt the warm feeling again, sending shivers through my body. It felt so good, I stopped thinking for a second and pressed my face up against his chest. "I..I.. think you should stop, Raphael... I... you.." His eyes suddenly widened when he realized what he was doing to my body. He stopped and pulled his hand away, but still holding the other hand on my back. "Don't get aggressive with me again, I reflect your feelings so easily...", he said in a low voice, a bit sad with what he had done, "I didn't mean to..." I kept quiet and tried not to think about anything at all, deadly afraid that he would sense anything. Then I quickly bent down and got my jeans up. The pain was gone, except from the scratches on my back. "Where’s my shirt..?" He walked over to get it, and I threw my t-shirt on as quick as mankind allowed me to.

"I stole it from one of Vaan's bitches.", he said while he reached me my shirt. "Vaan is a vampire, he is in the park, waiting for the advent. He probably sent for you the other day. That's why you were brought here." My ears were about to fall of, "You know Vaan?! And you know where he is staying right now?!" Raphael’s eyes widened up in surprise too, "You know about Vaan?" "Yes, Darien, my friend, he told me about him, and I've seen him once..." Raphael was clearly surprised to hear this. "Darien?" "Yeah, he killed that vamp Vaan sent for me, and then he brought me home and told me everything, well, almost." I started getting really excited, "So you know where he stays?" "First: who's Darien? He's the one who took you? And second: yes, I know where Vaan stays, but I'm not so sure I want you to know. Third: why do you want to know? Ah..! Never mind, I know why... Your little friend wants him of the face of earth?" "And you want him to stay?" "Vaan isn't the worst thing out there... If I can choose, I keep him." I gave him an odd look, but didn't get the time to respond when the door suddenly flung open behind me and Daniel rushed in.