Vampires Find Love In Winter For A Reason

"Are you really sorry?" Jack mumbled.

I sniffled and nodded.

"I was really worried about you, you know"

I sat silent, my neck still constricted from crying.

"I thought you were gone for good. I didn\'t know what happened to you." he said, pushing hair behind my ear. I looked into his eyes. Jack wasn\'t model-attractive exactly, he had a rugged, bad-boy look about him.

Before I left, Jack had taken me for granted, and now I could see that he finally realized that.

"You don\'t love me anymore, do you?" he asked, dropping his hand and bringing it back to his side.

I looked down. "Jack, when I left the house on Thanksgiving, I was really angry."

"I know, and I\'m sorry"

"And I believe you." I sighed, "But so much has happened."

"You found someone else" he commented, pointing to the the hickey on my chest.

"No, that\'s no it" I half-lied, covering my chest with my hands, "I tried to text you, but you were being a jerk"

"I didn\'t know where you were. I was worried"

"That part I don\'t believe"

"Why wouldn\'t I be worried?" he raised his voice.

"Why would you hut me?" I shouted.

He opened his mouth to say something, but quickly shut it.

Silence

"I\'m sorry" he said, "It\'s just, I was so mad at you for leaving me"

I had no response to that.

"So, are we still....are we okay now?"

"I don\'t know, Jack" I said, sitting up.

"Can you try?"

"I don\'t think I can."

"So you aren\'t still in love with me"

"I\'m sorry"

"No, I\'m sorry"



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I awoke in what I recognized to by my old basement. I tried to move my hands, but they were chained to the wall behind me. I tried moving my feet, but they were chained to the floor. The curtains shielded any possible light from beaming in, so I could barely see in the dark. My head was throbbing, but I couldn\'t touch it to see whether or not I was bleeding.

"You\'re awake"

I turned around to see Jack\'s outline arise from a chair. "I heard your breathing change"

"Wh..what have you done to me?" I asked.

"There\'s no need to worry. I cleaned off all the blood"

"Blood?"

"Otherwise I wouldn\'t be able to help myself, being a newborn vampire and such. I did have a little taste, though."

I was so confused.

"Why am I chained down?"

"So you won\'t run away."

"Jack, this is silly"

He glared at me. "If you won\'t love me, I have no other use for you besides feeding"

"Feed? But won\'t I become a vampire?"

He laughed. "You can\'t become a vampire by being bitten. You have to be drank from, then drink a vampire\'s blood as well"

"That\'s not how Wade was changed"

"Wade? Is that your little boyfriend? Well, I hate to break it to you, but he lied"

"Then how did you drink Vincent\'s blood?"

"He took a lot out of me, which made me collapse. I thought I was going to die, but he bit his fingertip and brought it to my mouth."

"You liar"

"If you want, I can show you"

"I\'d rather you didn\'t"

"You don\'t want me to make you into a vampire? Of course not, you\'d rather Wade do it"

"You leave him out of this!"

"Ah, so he is your new boyfriend" he pointed to the hickey again.

"No"

He glared, "There\'s another?"

I sat silent.

"You\'re even more of a slut than I thought. However, I can\'t help but continue to love you. You should feel privileged." He reached for my face, then held my chin in his hand. He lifted up my face, and I glared down at him.

"You\'re practically begging to be bitten, Emilia. Is that what you want?"

The thought of being bitten by Jack disgusted me. It was almost like losing your virginity, and I had already lost that to him long ago.

I shook my head, my eyes clenched shut, yet the tears still fell.

"No!" I shouted.

"Aw, I promise I\'ll be gentle" He whispered, kissing my earlobe.

I shook my head again and sobbed, my eyes still shut.

"Emili, you are hurting my feelings. Please do this one thing for me. I am hungry, it would make me feel so much better. C\'mon. I\'ll get you down."

My heart started pounding as he started unchaining my feet, then my hands. I started flailing around in his arms, trying to resist, but he was too strong. He hauled me over his shoulder and plopped me on his bed, then positioned himself beside me. I tried to push away, but he held me tight, then climbed halfway on top of me; his hand on my waist.

"Jack, Jack, no" I begged.

"Shh, Emili, you are only making me hungrier."

"Jack!" I whimpered.

"You know, your cries for help are almost erotic"

I gasped, and tried to hold back my sobs, yet my breaths were still uneven, and my chest still rose as my heart beat raced.

Jack moved his hand up and down against my waist, taking in my curves, while he moved his mouth from the top of my breast, to my collarbone, then finally to my neck. I shivered at his touch and gasped in terror, arching my back suddenly, causing Jack to groan slightly. He licked my neck, then kissed it.

"Jack?" I asked.

"Hmm?" he grunted quietly, now sucking on my neck.

"Please don\'t do this."

"Sorry, Emili."

He licked my neck once more, then I felt his fangs prick against my skin.

This isn\'t so bad

Suddenly, I felt his fangs penetrate my skin. I felt a hot, burning sensation in my neck, followed by freezing cold. I felt blood leave my body and passed out under the pain.

Jack\'s P.O.V.

I watched Emilia sleep next to me in the darkness. I wanted to sleep next to her, but the process was not over. I bit my wrist, then shook her awake.

"Emilia" I called.

She rustled, and I pulled my wrist to my lips, sucking some blood into my mouth. I shook her again.

Finally she opened her eyes. I leaned down and kissed her, transferring the blood from my mouth to hers. I did not plan on releasing her lips until I had felt her swallow my blood. Shockingly, she did not pull back. I tried to deepen the kiss, only this time, she did resist. I think she finally fully awoken and realized what was going on.

She broke our kiss with a gasp of air and fell back on the bed, then looked up at me with a confused look in her eyes, then, fear. It broke my heart to see her look at me this way. She was my everything, she always had been, and I loved her so much, I was willing to do everything to have her. Yet, I still couldn\'t say anything to her. Finally, I couldn\'t take the silence anymore.

"That wasn\'t so bad"

She continued to stare at me, hurt.

"Please don\'t look at me that way, Emilia. It breaks my heart." It surprised me that I said that, I didn\'t mean to be that truthful towards her.

"How could you do that?" she asked.

"Huh?"

"How could you take that from me? With no gain to you, how could you make me a vampire? You took my life from me. I..I hate you."

My heart was completely broken in that moment. This was not the Emilia that I had once known and loved. No, she was different now, and I knew who was to blame.

Wade





Original P.O.V.

I awoke to the most annoying sound; it sounded like someone was scraping on glass. I looked over my shoulder to find that Jack had abandoned me in the night. I was alone on his bed; he must be feeding or something. If he was feeding, I could understand what he was feeling; I was a vampire now.

My mouth and throat were dry and I my stomach rumbled. I wasn\'t hungry for food, however, but something I was unfamiliar with. I looked around the room to see where the annoying sound was coming from, and saw a figure at the window. I flinched, startled slightly, then stood up to see who it was. I had to stand on my tiptoes to see; I was in the basement and the only window was at the top of the wall. Suddenly, I was greeted by a pair of bright blue eyes: Cale. He pulled the window open and reached his hand out. I took my hand in his and put my foot against the wall, pushing myself up. I was impressed with my new vampiric coordination; I was never able to do that before.

I climbed out of the window well after Cale. He grabbed my hand again and ran with me behind him to his car. We didn\'t say words once; he got in the driver\'s side, and I got in the passenger\'s side, and he drove off.

"You\'re a vampire." he said.

"Uh.....yeah."

"I\'ll kill him"

"Who?"

"The bastard who did that to you."

"Since when have you cared about me?" I asked on impulse. I immediately wished I hadn\'t said anything.

He slammed on the brakes; I jerked forward and hit my head on the dashboard.

"Ow!"

"Well, maybe you should wear a seatbelt. What makes you think I don\'t care for you? I love you. I told you that."

"I..I saw the collection of old girlfriend\'s pictures in your room"

"Em, I told you I regretted all of those girls. I never should have dated any of them. Sometimes, relationships die, but I couldn\'t just let them go home knowing my secret! It\'s not like I tortured them before h-"

"You had them bound and gagged!"

"Only so they wouldn\'t know about their death! I told them all that we were playing a game, then injected them with a serum. It was painless, I swear! I only took pictures to remind myself that I am a monster, and I shouldn\'t be loving anyone! But I can\'t help it, Emilia, I am a living being, I can\'t help but love! And I love you!" he shouted, grabbing my face in his hands.

"You.....you called me Emilia?"

He nodded.

"You always call me Em, though."

"You told me you don\'t like to be called that. I\'d like to respect your wishes."

"I like it when you call me Em, better."

He smiled and pulled my close. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and kissed him. Sweet memories filled my mind as his gentle lips pressed against mine. I wanted this to last forever, but my hunger overtook me. I broke the kiss and grabbed my throat. I felt a hot, throbbing sensation burning in my mouth and down to my stomach.

"Cale, what\'s happening?"

"You\'re hungry. C\'mon. Let\'s go back to the house."



It felt like we had driven across two states by the time we arrived back at his house. My mouth was dry, yet watering; cold, yet burning for food.

"C\'mon, there\'s food in the basement."

Food

I flashed back to seeing all of the people in the dungeon, just wasting away.

Maggie\'s voice. Oh yeah? Well, we\'re dying

The old couple.

The first night I was there.

"Maggie, we have to escape"

"No, they\'d only kill us faster."

And the man who interrupted us.

"Sounds good to me"

Yet strangely enough, I wanted sustenance. I needed to feed. I felt sickened, yet excited.

"Cale, I don\'t know if I can."

"You\'re a vampire now. Of course you can."

I followed Cale into his house, down the hall to the bathroom, and down the stairs.

"Hey Cale" Elliot said, "Oh. Hey Emilia."

"Not now, Elliot. She\'s hungry"

"But the kitchen\'s upst- Wait. You didn\'t...Did you?"

"No" Cale replied, opening the door next to his room. I had never been in this room before, but I had seen Elliot take some people in here for "lunch", whatever that meant.

There was a refrigerator in this room and a door leading to the next room. I had a feeling that was the room where they killed people.

Cale opened up the refrigerator and pulled out a bag of blood. I closed my eyes to contain myself from both crying and attacking the bag; I felt so horrible. Cale opened the bag and poured the blood in a glass, then set it on a hot plate.

"Hang on" he said, resting a hand on my shoulder. I hadn\'t realized that I had tried to go after the blood. He stuck a thermometer in the glass and turned off the hot plate, then handed me the blood.

"Drink up. Try not to make a-"

I snatched the glass from him and pulled it to my face. Blood dripped down the corners of my mouth, landing on the counter and floor.

"Mess. Never mind." Cale grabbed a rag and wiped the blood off. I had finished my blood breakfast and was licking the glass.

"Emilia!" he chuckled, "You are such a typical newborn vampire. C\'mon. Let\'s go clean you off."

Cale led me to the downstairs bathroom and pulled off my shirt.

"Uh, what are you doing?" I asked.

"You have to take a bath"

"I can do it myself"

"Oh, come on. I\'ve seen you naked before."

"Ummm. Okay, I suppose you can stay. Start the bath, will you?"

"All right" he said, smiling that I gave in. I pulled off my pants and socks, leaving my in my bra and underwear in front of Cale. I had forgotten how cold this bathroom was. I covered my chest, leaving Cale laughing.

"Cold?"

"And like you aren\'t?"

He looked down slightly, checking himself out, and looked back at me, "Why, does it look like it?"

I giggled, "No. I can\'t tell, your pants are hiding you pretty well"

He smiled at me, then looked at the bath. "Well, I think your bath is ready. Here, you get in, I\'ll go throw your clothes in the wash."

"M\'kay. Hang on." I pulled off my panties and bra and them to him, "Here, take these, too"

He smiled at me, "You are so beautiful."

I smiled back as he walked out the door.

The water was very hot; it soothed my skin and got the blood off of me easily. The door opened shortly into my shower, and Cale walked in. He put down the toilet seat and sat on it.

"So. You wanna talk about-" he pointed to his fangs.

"Not really. How about why you let Vincent take me to Jack\'s house?"

"I didn\'t know about it. It was Vincent, Wade, and I think Elliot who were in on that. When I came home from...hunting..I noticed you were missing. I asked where you were, and Vincent merely said, \'Where she belongs.\'" So, I wasn\'t sure what to think. A couple hours later, I went downstairs to talk to Wade to see if he knew anything. He just said that you were with Jack. I asked him why he let you leave, and he said that Vince took you there. So I went back upstairs and asked Vince why he did it and he said something about \'it\'s where she belongs.\' I was about to punch his face in, until he said something like, \'Wade didn\'t have a problem with it\', so I went back downstairs and asked Wade why the hell he would take you to Jack\'s and he said something like,\'Well humans and vampires can\'t be together\', so I punched him in the shoulder for being so stupid and I told him that he was an idiot, and I came to find you. Any other questions?"

"Wade wasn\'t sad at all?"

"Not really. Why?"

I scoffed, "Why did I care about him? He acts like he likes me, then like he doesn\'t, then like he does, then sends me to my ex boyfriends house to become a vampire. Does he expect me to act like everything\'s fine now?"

"Do you like him?"

"N-no. I mean, I thought I did, but I don\'t think so anymore."

"Do you like me?"

I looked up at him and smiled. "Why would I be naked in front of you if I didn\'t like you. I love you, Cale, and I mean that."

Cale sat up and kissed me. He drained the now reddish colored bath and turned on the shower, washing off the red residue from my skin, getting water on himself in the process.

When my shower was done, I followed Cale to his room in a towel. He stripped down to his bare self and changed out of his wet clothes, then led me back to my room and grabbed some of what I guessed to be Maggie\'s clothes, and handed them to me. I, too, changed in front of Cale. It was weird; I was so comfortable being naked around Cale that I didn\'t even feel like we had to have sex. We could both be blind and deaf, and still be comfortable around each other. He had trusted me with his secret, and I had forgiven him for his past relationships. I was the happiest I had ever been in my life.



Jack\'s P.O.V.

"Are you ready?" I asked.

"Yes"

"Good. You remember where he lives?"

"Yes"

"Good. Call me when he\'s taken care of."

"I will."

"Thank you, Katie."