The Music of the Demons

This is probably the longest chapter I wrote for this story. It’s pretty lengthy, more than I usually write for a chapter. Over 3,800 words.

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It didn’t seem like we were going to talk about what happened back in my car, because Kaden didn’t bring it up, and it was something I really wasn’t going to push, not right now.

I wanted to, but I wasn’t, and this time I meant it.

“Are you mad?” Kaden asked, again his guilty look surfacing.

“For what?”

“Not telling you that I’m not completely blind?” I shook my head.

“No.” I wasn't sure if I even could be mad, especially for something that meant something good. He needed to stop thinking that things were his fault.

“Well… what now?” He asked, and I thought for a moment.

“Don’t really know. Is there anything you want to do?” I was answered by a stomach growl.

“Um… can I eat?” My angel gave me a shy smile, while holding his stomach.

“Of course. Anything from the fridge is yours for the taking. Except for anything at the very bottom.” The bottom had my blood packets, while I waited, till I was sure if it was alright for the both of us if I fed from him.

It led to the thought that I almost did something very stupid earlier. If Kaden had demon blood, what if it’s poisonous? It’s not like I could tell, just by the smell, oddly enough. It was just better to not drink from anyone that had demon blood.

I was hungry too, now that I thought about it. I had managed to ignore the call of his blood for a while now, made it to where I didn’t think about it, but when I was so close to actually biting him earlier, it let everything loose that I had been holding back.

“Thanks,” Kaden said after a second, before walking into the kitchen, which I soon followed after him.

“It’s been a pretty long day,” I said, just to make conversation. It was true, though. We’d used up most of the day, and the sky was getting dark.

“Yeah, do you mind if I go to bed soon?” Kaden asked, going through the items in the fridge, picking up one thing, then setting it down for another. Either he couldn’t find anything he liked, or he was having trouble choosing.

Of course, I hoped for the latter. I didn’t want my angel to starve. Not that I thought he would, I just couldn't help the thought from crossing my mind.

Eventually he decided on something, and began eating. Because of earlier, I was going to have to feed too. Cold blood lasts me only so long. I needed something that just been pumped from the heart. Namely Kaden’s…

No, not yet, I still had to see what kind of effect it would have on both of us. It’d be horrible if it was poisonous for me, but pleasurable for me, or painful for him but delicious for me.

Yes, definitely something I had to find out soon.

“You don’t have to ask, do what you want,” I told him. I wasn’t sure why, but I felt better about myself if I fed after he went to bed. Maybe because he didn’t have to see what I really was. I didn't want to actually show him what I was, even if he accepted it.

“But I’m still going to,” he stated, before gorging the food down. He really must have been hungry.

Damn it, I’m going to have to think about this from now on. I only needed to feed at least once, every two or three days if I didn’t have anything to make me hungry, like Kaden’s blood.

But I’ve never had to take care of a human before. I needed to make sure he had everything he needed, clothes, food, entertainment, companionship, sex- which I doubted I'd have trouble remembering.

But still, a lot to think of. It sounded if I was taking care of a pet more than anything. A human one, because it would be… disgusting to have sex with an animal. And besides, it not like I actually thought of him as a pet, though it would be a little... fun in certain occasions.

“I’m gonna go to bed now,” Kaden informed me, and I nodded from my place in the kitchen. He walked out the doorway, sending one last, shy look my way, before disappearing into the hallway. I heard his door close, and listened for the bed to shift, which it soon did.

Still I waited, till I could hear my angel’s breath slow to a sleeping pattern, and I made my way to the fridge, and crouching down.

I took one of the blood packets, I wasn’t extremely thirsty, despite the intense need for Kaden’s blood earlier. I was going to have to restock, though I planned to be gone by the end of the week, if everything went well.

I quickly cut the bag, and poured it into one of the wine glasses. It felt human to think of it as drinking blood red wine.

I wondered what kind of life I could have with Kaden. I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Things were going to change, very soon, I would make sure of it, but I only knew the start of the change. What was going to happen after we left? Would I be able to keep Kaden safe?

Would I be able to keep him happy?

How could I live with myself if knew that I was causing him utter misery?

And even if we were happy, it wouldn’t last long, unless I turned him.

Another reason for a vampire to be solitary, was because the few half demons we fell in love with, we couldn’t change anyway, because of the blood. One of us would be miserable in the end.

And then, who would we feed on? There were many legends about mates, one that sprang to mind, was that when a mate of a vampire was turned, their heart still beat and pumped warm blood, allowing for the true vampire to feed from him. Sometimes, they even needed to drink from the vampire as well.

I wasn’t sure how we even got these sort of legends, if they were true. I doubted that they weren’t much to go by.

Either way, I wouldn’t allow Kaden to feed from another person. It was too intimate.

I decided to go to bed as well, so I could wake up when Kaden did, or before, which would be more likely. I just hoped I didn’t have the dreams like I did before, I didn’t need something like what happened in the bathroom again, because I wasn’t sure if I would be able to hold myself back.

This time, I was lucky enough to have regular, dark and morbid dreams.

Of course, afterwards, when we were long gone from this city, and in Canada, I’d take wet dreams over morbid ones any day.

I woke up with a start when I sensed someone open my door, and stayed still, ready to attack once I figured out if it was an enemy or Kaden.

I took in a deep breath, it was Kaden.

What was he doing in my room?

I didn’t move as Kaden walked towards me, and stopped at the food of my bed.

“Dean?” He whispered, but I didn’t answer, acting as if I was still asleep. I wanted to know what he would do. If he tried to leave, I’d try and catch him first, but if not?

“Dean?” he tried again, even quieter, and I felt the bed dip.

“What’re you doin?” I slurred out, my brain realizing I wasn’t in danger, and falling back asleep.

“There are noises, and I can‘t sleep.”

“Hm?” Noises?

Oh, that’s right. The walls aren’t exactly completely soundproof, for some stupid reason. I forgot the guestroom wasn’t too far away from the next door’s guestroom, where if I listened quietly enough, I could hear the neighbors nighttime activities. An annoying continuous headboard banging against the wall sort of knocking noise.

And truthfully? I could’ve gone a long time without noticing that if Adam hadn’t pointed it out.

“Do you mind if I sleep on the couch or something?” Kaden asked, but yes, I did mind. Kaden deserved better than a couch.

I blindly reached out and grabbed hold of Kaden’s arm, and pulled, making him fall slightly on me with a gasp.

“What’re you doing?” He panicked, but I was too far gone into sleep to really worry about it. I managed to maneuver the blankets, and eventually hot them tucked around me and Kaden, his body flush against mine.

He struggled weakly, before finally settling down. I turned to my side, and wrapped an arm around him, before falling asleep again.

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Another odd thing that happens when you wake up, not remembering how the hell someone got into your arms.

I laid there for a moment, and then some of it came back to me, something had kept Kaden awake, and so he came in here.

Not… much was clear after that. Something about me grabbing him, but that was about it.

I took this chance to look at my angel’s face when he slept. It was so peaceful, like a real angel.

As if he didn’t have a worry in the world, and I didn’t want to mar it with hardship of the days when we were leaving.

It gets worse before it gets better, right? Well, soon the worse was going to come, and then it would be over with, and maybe then we would be able to get some peace and quiet.

And lets just hope that that’s what we get in the end. I’ll do just about anything to make sure that we do. Except for leaving my angel. I’m selfish, and I doubt that’s going to change anytime.

“Dean?” I had barely even noticed Kaden wake up, and he was staring at me like he didn’t know why he was in here, which he probably didn’t.

“Awake yet?” I asked though it was obvious that he was. Even still, he nodded, lifting his head and yawning. He either hadn’t noticed yet, or didn’t mind that my arm was wrapped around him, pushing him up against my body.

“What time is it?” He asked, and I craned my head to see the clock on the other side of the bed.

“Eight,” I answered, and heard a sigh, before Kaden’s arm snaked onto my chest, and his head went back to my shoulder.

My body froze, my brain conjuring up hope that it wasn’t just a sleep hazed mind that made him do this, touch me as intimately as he was, but no, I couldn’t do this, I wasn’t going to get my hopes up, yet. I was assured that he had some sort of feelings for me, but it was too early for something too personal. Wasn’t it?

But, I was going to have to hurry this along, we didn’t have much time, seven days at the most to learn about each other, and to convince him to come with me. I wasn’t sure how to go about it, and I didn’t think just winging it would work, but it was what I was going to have to do. At least a big part, anyway.

There had to be something that I could do to speed this up.

I could tell him that his life was in danger, and say he had to leave with me if he wanted any chance of survival, but truthfully, I was hoping that he wouldn’t have to know at all. If I could pull that off, I just knew that it was going to bite me in the ass later on.

So, I’ve decided to tell him, though not at the moment. I was going to throw it off for as long as possible, which wasn’t going to be that long at all.

After trying to decide what I was going to do in the future, and I got to thinking about what was going to happen today. I didn’t really having anything planned, though I had a feeling Kaden wasn’t going to want to be cooped up all day. But then again, I doubted he wanted a repeat of what happened in the car yesterday.

“Do I have to get up now?” I heard Kaden mumble against my shoulder, and I smiled down at him.

“No, you can sleep for a little longer,” I told him, hoping that he would, so I would get a chance to watch him sleeping again. If I’m not careful, I might have myself a new pastime to look forward to. Probably already too late for that.

“Did you need to get up,” Mumbled to me again, but I shook my head.

“Nope.” I closed my eyes, thinking only for a moment, but in the end, I’d just fallen back asleep.

When I woke up again, Kaden was sleeping lightly, on the verge of waking up. I looked over to the clock, which said it was ten.

I looked at Kaden again, before sighing, and sitting up slowly, so I didn’t jar him awake. His arm slid down, onto my lap, and I moved it to the side, before standing up.

I grabbed clothes and went into the bathroom to take a shower, only looking back once at Kaden’s sleeping form.

In the end, it was a cold shower. Odd how it is that it still works, even though temperature doesn’t affect me to a high degree.

But yes, it still does it’s job very well. I hoped that I wasn’t going to have to do this regularly. I only do it now, because I didn’t want to repeat what happened the other day, when Kaden walked in on me. If something like that happened again, between now and anytime in the near future, I might not be able to hold myself back.

After my shower, I went back to my room, only to find that Kaden was gone from my bed. I didn’t panic, because I could hear him shuffling around in his room, going through the dressers.

While he did that, I went down to ge the news, then going into the kitchen, and sat down, waiting for him to join me. If he wanted breakfast, then I'd just have to ask him so that I could make it.

I heard him go into the bathroom, and knew I had at least another minute to wait. There was something that was bothering me, especially because I never thought about it before.

What about his family?

The only person I knew from his life was Jeremy. Even then, Kaden didn’t talk about him, and it wasn’t something I cared to know, as long as he didn’t hurt my angel.

But still, it was something I’d have to ask about. I mean, he might want to be with his family in the end, and would blame me if I took him away from those he loved.

Or putting him in danger so that he couldn't see them anymore, unless wanting to risk them as well.

Kaden walked into the kitchen, giving me a ‘good morning’ before walking to the fridge, and picking something out.

“What do you want to do today?” I asked, getting a shrug from Kaden.

“Whatever you want to.” No, he probably didn’t, because what I wanted to do was take him into my room, and fuck him.

“Want to go out again?” I went on, I wanted to do something that would give us time to talk. “Just for a walk or something?”

Kaden mulled it over for a minute, before nodding, and then getting down to eating.

“Do you have to work or something?” He asked after for a few moments, and I shook my head. “Then how the hell do you afford all this?”

I smirked, before telling him about the monthly payments from the clan. My angel nodded in understanding.

It was something else that I was going to have to think about. Money.

I could milk my accounts dry before I left, which I’d undoubtedly do, but what if we ran out? We couldn’t live on it forever.

Well, considering how much I had, I probably could, just had to use it sparingly. I don’t do jobs.

“You know, I’m not blind, so you don’t have to take care of me anymore,” Kaden said, looking down at the table, so that he wouldn't meet my eyes.

“Lets not start this up again, okay?” I asked, hoping that he would just let it go. I wasn’t letting him go, I needed him to know that.

My angel looked like he was about to say something else, but he stopped.

Eventually he was done eating, and stood up.

“When are we going then?” Kaden said with an odd smile, like he was still guilty about something. I planned on asking that as well.

“Anytime you want,” I answered, and stood up as well as he went out the kitchen to get his jacket and put his shoes on.

I liked to walk sometimes, though I never did with anyone else. It was usually just to clear my mind and get away from the frustrations of the clan. But now, it was to get closer to my angel, and I couldn’t help but be excited. It was probably going to be like this for the rest of the week. I couldn’t wait.

Soon Kaden joined me, and we walked out. I hadn’t even looked out the window before we left, and didn’t see the pregnant clouds about to burst overhead.

It was a perfect day for a walk. The sky dark, the air smelling of rain, lovely. I just hoped that Kaden wasn’t too cold, and I probably should have brought an umbrella, though I wasn’t planning on walking to far from my home.

It was quiet for a while, before I finally brought it up. His family. I wasn’t sure to be saddened or happy with his answer.

Apparently, his parents had died when he was young, early enough to where he could barely remember them. A nice, elder couple adopted him afterwards, and he grew up with him. He went to a public school, and was in a music class. Apparently Jeremy was a music teacher there, and saw the potential my angel had.

Jeremy quit his job, paid for lessons, and later became his legal guardian, until he turned eighteen, saying he would help pay the couple’s financial problems.

Jeremy kept his promise, to an extent, though the couple ended up in a car crash, and Jeremy had ‘failed’ to tell him about it, until they were back in Kaden’s home city, St. Louis, Missouri, when Kaden went looking for them. The only way Kaden even found out was by an old neighbor, who he hadn’t seen in years.

I could tell, just by the way he spoke with contempt, that he hated Jeremy with almost his whole being.

After he told me most of his life story, he asked me a few questions, which I answered. Mostly about where I was born, my own family, and my age.

Born a state over, family dead, over a hundred. I tried to make it a little more detailed, but there wasn’t really anything to say, other than I hated my clan.

The sky began to rumble, and so we turned around, walking back to the building to get in before it started to rain.

We made it back right when the downpour started, and got inside.

I looked at the clock, apparently we had been out for two hours, though it didn’t seem all that long.

We'd barely passed through the door, when Kaden’s stomach growled, and I looked over at him.

“You get hungry a lot, don’t you?” I asked, though I really didn’t know how much a human ate. Kaden gave me a shy grin, a hand on his slender stomach.

“Do you mind if I…” I nodded, and Kaden walked into the kitchen.

It was then that I remembered that I had to make a call.

Five minutes later, the call was made, the deed was done, we could go. One of the demons I knew, a succubus, Kali, who had a pretty high ranking in the demon group, was going to get us a place to stay. She was going to talk to the others, their thoughts depending on how close we could live to the center.

Apparently there was a lot of controversy of vampires joining their group. Most still thought of us as heartless killers, which we were, if the mood struck us, but the feeling could be quelled.

I heard a clang in the kitchen, and then a chopping sound. Kaden must have found the knifes.

I walked towards the kitchen, and stood in the doorway, watching my angel as he worked.

Kaden was standing at the counter, and I took the moment to get a good look at him from behind. I remembered what I had seen when I walked in on him, though I only got a look at his top half.

Nice, softly toned muscles, slender, nice and soft looking flesh, begging to be bitten…

I coughed into my hand, trying to erase that thought. I must’ve startled Kaden, because he jumped as the knife went down.

The knife clattered to the floor, and I started forward, and turned Kaden around, to make sure he was alright. His cheeks were red, and he had a finger in his mouth.

“Are you alright?” I asked, getting a nod. I sighed, before putting a hand on his wrist, trying to pull his finger out so I could see the extent of the damage, only to be met with resistance.

“Let me see it,” I ordered, but Kaden only shook his head. I sighed again, before tugging harder, him not having enough strength to resist a vampire.

I looked at the small cut on his finger. Not too deep or long, but blood welled at the wound almost immediately.

I stared at the blood, watching it begin to trail down my angel’s finger, and licked my lips.

“Dean?” Kaden sounded so far away, I could barely hear him. All I could see was the blood coming from his finger, and hear only the thudding of his heart, pumping that warm, thick liquid.

I breathed in, and the most exotic of smells hit me, making my fangs grow, slicing my lip.

I was too far gone, I could barely even think anymore, except poison, but it wasn't enough.

I gulped, before bringing his finger up to my mouth, flicking a tongue over the top. It was only a small sample, but it was more than enough to tell that it wasn’t bad.

Instead, it was the best I’d ever tasted, and I needed more.