Read Vampire Pet (BL) :: Chapter 4 (2/2)

"So? Who wants their fortune told first? What do you want to know? I know all because the crystal ball tells me. I can answer any question that you have," the woman asked, making strange motions with her hands around the glowing ball.

"I want to go first!!" Cade exclaimed. "I want to know whatever you know!"

"Ah yes, of course. My crystal ball is telling me something... Inside it, I can see... A time long ago... Thousands of years maybe. There's magic and supernatural creatures... Two races are at war... One race has a powerful darkness, the other wants to control it... They manage to find a spell... A very special spell with a surprising weakness... But they don't believe the spell can be broken. Even if it is, they're experimenting... with what?" The woman gasps. "With their own race! This experiment will have an effect on the far future... But it's their last savior who may be able to control the darkness if the spell is ever broken..."

Cade looks mesmerized as she tells the story. But I am disturbed. It's as if... she's telling my story.

"Now... the present time... the race that experimented on one of their own... that experiment still exists... It's inside you, my dear boy. Your ancestor was the first." The woman then looks at me. "And you... Although they believed that the spell could never be broken, you managed to find the weakness... The weakness they never imagined would be exploited... The weakness that is love. Ah, my crystal ball has gone dark. I can't see any more."

I felt very disturbed. How did she know? How did she know that I had a spell put on me? And is that what happened? My love for Cade finally released me...? Or is she just telling a story that sounds oddly similar to a real situation?

"My ancestor... was experimented on?" Cade asked.

"Yes. You have probably noticed that you're a bit different than the average person. How you use that power will either satisfy or torment your ancestors."

"I... I may have used it wrong once... But I vowed to never use it for evil again."

"Very good. You're a good person. You've learned your lesson. So you will always be a good person from here on."

Cade looked like he felt touched by her words. I just felt very uncomfortable. I grabbed his arm and pulled him up with me.

"We're leaving."

"Wait, Silas...!" Cade protested. I ignored him and pulled him out of the tent.

"Your darkness has lessened. I hope it stays that way, king of vampires." The woman's ominous words made me feel a chill. But I kept walking until I was far away from that tent and that strange woman.

"What'd you do that for!" Cade says when I finally let him go. "That was amazing! Isn't she amazing??"

"She knows too much. And I don't know how she knows it. I don't like it," I say.

"That just goes to show that she isn't a fraud like I thought she was going to be! I can't believe I met a real fortune teller!"

"...You have a vampire before you."

"Well yeah but..."

"Let's go home. I don't want to be here anymore." I begin walking away, wanting to leave the whole carnival behind.

"I can't get over how amazing that was!!" Cade said as he followed.

I didn't really care if my identity as a vampire was revealed, as long as no one tried to kill me. Even then, I would be able to protect myself so I'm not worried. But slaughtering humans would have made Cade hate me. I don't want that. I just want to live peacefully as we have been. So I just hope that that fortune teller leaves us alone...

On a day that Cade had off work, that we both had off work, we wandered around town. He pointed out the arcade which he made us play at for a bit. The games were strange and the claw machine made me want to break the whole thing. I could easily break the glass and grab a stuffed animal, why do I need to use this flimsy crane? But Cade stopped me before I did. He managed to win one and gave it to me. I said I didn't need it so he held onto it.

We stopped by the grocery store on our way home. As we walked around there, Cade stopped. Wondering what he was looking at, I followed his eyes. He was looking at a man who was looking for which container of chicken to buy.

"...do you know him?" I asked.

Cade held tightly to the stuffed bear. "...he's my ex... the one... I hurt..."

I looked back at the man. I knew it couldn't be good for them to see each other again.

"I... I have to apologize..."

"What?" I looked at him like he was crazy.

"It's my only chance... I finally have the opportunity. If I don't do it now, it'll haunt me forever...!"

I grabbed his shoulder before he ran off. "Are you sure about this?"

Cade looked at me, sorrow etched into his face. "I have to."

I hesitated. Then I let go of him. "If you think it's right."

"...I have to..." He repeated as he took a shaky step forward. Then he walked the rest of the way.

I saw the horror on the man's face when he saw Cade. I had to look away. I listened as Cade apologized profusely, tears coming to his eyes and in his voice. The man wasn't happy. He said he didn't want to see Cade again. Cade apologized again. Then he came back over to me. He looked distraught.

I pulled him into a hug. "You finally apologized. You don't need to see him again."

Cade nodded, sniffing. I held him a bit longer. Then we left the store. Perhaps with that apology, they both managed to have some kind of closure.

For days we lived peacefully. We grew even closer. Close enough to do things that a normal couple would do. We often went on dates whether that meant walking around the town or going to dinner. Then one night...

"Can... vampires feel pleasure...?" Cade asked as he pulled his shirt off.

I laid in his bed, staring at him on top of me. "...yes."

"Then... I want to make you feel good..." He put his hands inside my shirt. This human... He's making me go crazy...

After a night of passion, my feelings for him only grew stronger. I watched him sleep afterwards, exhausted from the activity. I caressed his hair and traced my finger along his arm as I listened to him breathe.

Living with the kind and caring Cade was more than I could have ever asked for. I never knew that I could get so comfortable among the humans with him by my side. My vampire side seemed to fade away and I began to feel human. But it was still there. I couldn't be cured of vampirism.

While Cade grew old and I stayed the same, he would always comment on how handsome I was. I felt sad knowing that I could never grow old with him. Yet I stayed with him and held him and enjoyed every moment we had together. I cherished every second. Until the seconds became decades. And his lifespan neared its end.

"Silas... You're still so handsome..." Cade commented, old and wrinkled on his bed. His heart monitor beeped with the beat of his heart. He wanted his last moments at home instead of in a hospital room.

I held his wrinkled hand tightly. "So are you."

"Ha... Don't lie... I'm old and ugly now..."

"You're still the most handsome in my eyes."

Cade smiled. "I love how I look in your eyes." The words I said years ago that seem as if it was yesterday...

"I love you, Cade. I will always love you. Forever and ever. Until the end of time."

"I love you too, Silas... I will love you even when I'm dead. I will love you until the end of time."

I pressed my forehead against his hand. For the first time in my long life, I felt tears well up in my eyes. I don't want him to go. But his lifespan has come to its end.

"Silas, let me see your handsome face..."

I looked up, a tear sliding down my cheek. He moved his hand out of mine to wipe the tear away. He continued to smile, the same smile as always.

"Give me one last kiss," He asked.

I stood up and leaned over. Our lips met. His hand was on my face until it slowly fell. I moved away. The heart monitor became a straight line as a long beep rang out. Cade was gone.

I buried him. My one and only love. My true love. We found each other in the end. I will never forget him. And I will keep on loving him until I disappear too.

I lived on like his request when he was sick. I tried to be happy but it was hard. I felt my heart becoming cold again. I decided to travel the world and watch it change with time. I began to keep my distance from humans again. Not because I hated them. But because they reminded me of him.

I know that one day the world will come to an end. So I wait for it. But not in a concrete cell underground, or in the corner of a room that was made for me, but out in nature where I truly belong. Where I can feel Cade around me. Where his body stays underneath the earth. And until the world comes to its inevitable end, the end of its inevitable lifespan, I will keep loving the one human who ever cared for me.

~ The End ~

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~ Character Information ~

Silas "The King of Vampires"

- Thousands of years old

- Lost his pinky finger on his left hand

- His parents died when he was 10, killed by humans

- Wanted to rule the world

- His hands and arms to his elbows were restrained with magic

Abilities

- All clichés don't apply to him (needing blood, burning in the sun, no reflection, weak to garlic, dies by a wooden stake, etc)

- Can go without food and sleep forever, doesn't use the bathroom. Food and sleep are only for pleasure