Category: Writers Block
"I f.ckin hate that.... i've lost too much..lately" Jamie sat down away from the pool of blood its diluted pink colour and strange odour, disgusted Vincent he also knew Jamie wouldnt survive the transformation."You need a transfusion and quickly...come on up!.."
He helped the boy to his feet and slung him over his shoulder."Its not far but the risk"
"what happened to your confidence....I've been.... hanging on for 2 years for... you to get on with it" he was angry and that sapped his energy."Give me some now pal just a small taste" his voice was little more than a whisper and Vincent carefully lowered him to the ground.
"Shit! ok but when i say stop you do it...none of this i didnt hear like last time" he spoke with cold authority but Jamie saw the hurt lining his face.
Vincent pierced his wrist with his fangs and held it to Jamie's mouth,the blood was dark almost blue and full of drugs alcohol and good food all the things he missed so badly.The boy drank greedily and the vampire felt something resembling a paternal instinct.
"Ok that's it i cant risk leaving you tonight" he licked the wound and the punctures slowly closed "i love how that happens its true magic" their peace was shattered by the arrival of some drunken lads on the prowl for trouble.
"Lets go I'm bloody well sick of them" Vincent glared at the crowd and for a minute he thought about attacking the biggest,they saw him and jeered tired childish insults that went out of fashion a decade ago.
No! We'll draw too much attention Christ! Is feeding all you think about".Jamie stood up and took 3 steps foward his legs felt weak and the blood had done nothing
"Alright pal...If Marcus could see me being bossed about by a child!".He smiled and braced himself against the inevitable pain when the vampire took his weight.
"Oi! Watch... the... nails....ive been pricked enough".Vincent smiled at his ironic humour "wish i could say the same...its been a while".
Jamie was asleep by the time they reached the run down tenement building,Vincent scanned the waste ground and gave 3 quick raps on the door though it sounded like 6,
footsteps answered and he listened closely to their pattern "we'er ok pal" the door opened and a face peered cautiously from around it
"come on you know me by now is Marcus in i need his medical training"
the woman led him to a large gloomy room lit by candles he sighed at the pseudo Gothic atmosphere
"you been reading Anne Rice again?" it was a question and a statement,he lowered Jamie onto a dusty sofa and stared at his pale pinched face *like that of an old man*
"Why is he here are the others too difficult to catch now".
Vincent turned to the voice and a tall dark vampire approached him he bowed,and offered his silver hip flask 1/2 filled with blood.
"No im quite full BUT at least you remembered this time...who's this he's a little young".Marcus glanced at Jamie with interest as a cat considers its pray.
"He needs help the boy is dying and I'm indebted to him in the time before he was my eyes".
Jamie stirred and blinked away the sleep he held out a hand for someone familiar.
what? you...didn't....lie to me".
"No that was never my intention dont worry my boss used to be a doctor".
Marcus smiled at Jamie but his fangs remained hidden.
"I will transfuse you and that will give you a few more months" the boy sat up and the room swam before his eyes.
You... cant!....Iv'e a rare blood type... that's why I'm dying ...they cant.... match...it"
he gasped for air and Vincent couldnt bear to watch
"there's no danger of a mix up as you will recieve his blood" Jamie thought this over while the room slowed to a halt ".........really my hero" the vampire looked away and wiped his eyes free of blood tears he took a quick gulp out of the hip flask and prepared himself for the tranfusion.
They lay beside each other and Vincent eyed the needle with distrust Jamie smiled he wanted to laugh but couldnt
"I forgot... your... scared of....needles" the vampire raised his middle finger and smiled with malice there were times when his dwindling humanity,was painfully obvious.
Marcus was having trouble finding a vein they had been well and truly used up he tightened the tourniquet and 1 crept in to view as if it had been hiding.
"Ah ha! Let's have you" he slipped the needle in to the thready blue vein and fixed the clear plastic tubing to Jamie's arm
"I dont need to tell you anything so just enjoy his panic" Marcus whispered and took the piss out of his old friend
"..he's never been good with sharp pricks" the boy spent the last of his strength on loud laughter.
He fell asleep as the live giving fluid flowed into his thirsting body in many ways they were so alike each desperate for blood,each dying in his own way,
"Vincent he will only be safe for a short time...there are those who would drain you with blunted knives for this!"
He shrugged and fiddled with the long needle invading his skin.
"I'll live a wry smile played on his lips.with whatever comes it cant be worse than dying from cancer"
the older vamp shook his head in amused exasperation as if his disciple was a naughty toddler "you are still too human...." he ran a 1/2 closed hand down Vincent's smooth pale cheek and he inclined his head to accept the gesture of love.
"Who's fault's that hmmm?..How much more does he need I'm getting hungry".
Marcus took out his hip flask and offered it to Vincent who hesitated then drank the lot
"Hmm yep what did I say impetuous impatient every greedy and ready to pounce"Vincent gave him a dirty look but it wasnt serious "I'm the perfect example you saw to that... Their Lestat".
"I'm saying nothing I never could win an argument with you".He stood and smiled but his dark eyes were filled with longing and disappointment
"Soon ok ever since the....rape its been impossible I'd love nothing more than to be with you and abandon myself totally...." The words rushed out in a torrent stumbling and tumbling over one another like fast flowing water.
Marcus wanted to ask the right questions and say he understood but the young vampire would feel insulted and accuse him of pity.
"I love you in spite but your incorrigable"
they parted and Jamie shifted position under the blanket his skin was pink and innocently wrapped in sleep he was once again 10 yrs old.
"I'm saying nothing I never could win an argument with you".He stood and smiled but his dark eyes were filled with longing and disappointment
"Soon ok ever since the....rape its been impossible I'd love nothing more than to be with you and abandon myself totally...." The words rushed out in a torrent stumbling and tumbling over one another like fast flowing water.
Marcus wanted to ask the right questions and say he understood but the young vampire would feel insulted and accuse him of pity.
"I love you in spite but your incorrigable"
they parted and Jamie shifted position under the blanket his skin was pink and innocently wrapped in sleep he was once again 10 yrs old.
"I'm saying nothing I never could win an argument with you".He stood and smiled but his dark eyes were filled with longing and disappointment
"Soon ok ever since the....rape its been impossible I'd love nothing more than to be with you and abandon myself totally...." The words rushed out in a torrent stumbling and tumbling over one another like fast flowing water.
Marcus wanted to ask the right questions and say he understood but the young vampire would feel insulted and accuse him of pity.
"I love you in spite but your incorrigable"
they parted and Jamie shifted position under the blanket his skin was pink and innocently wrapped in sleep he was once again 10 yrs old.
An hour later Jamie woke up and for a minute he thought {F.ck! Please dont tell me I'm in hospital}the vampire watched his luminous skin competed with the full moonlight,which bathed him in her reviving light.
He quietly sang 1 of his favourite songs it might have been a lullaby "Your silver rays brought me back to life gifted me gave me new sight" he imitated the singer and captured his dark German accent perfectly.
Jamie knew every word of the song he had been there when Vincent had seen a full moon for the 1st time
"you should have been...a rock star pal.... instead of Manson grabbing all the headlines"
"Hmm he's not bad but how long can you keep it up"
Jamie didnt snigger or become embarrassed by their sexual inuendo the cancer had matured him early.
"That's the big question and I'm too hungry to bother".
"Are you ever ten years old! Hmm do you play, or imagine, as they do or have you forgotten how!" with a shock the boy realised the depth of Vincent's concern and something approaching paternal love.
"how am i meant to play when I'm too ill to walk" he sat up as the last of Vincent's donation ran into his vein
"thank you I'm...grateful only you would have done that" he couldnt hold the vampire's gaze now his eyes were cold and distant
"Jenny will get anything you want talking of which...." his skin was nearly blue and he staggered under the hunger
"Man! I didnt mean to take so much Im...sorry"
Jamie reached out to apologise with an effort the vampire avoided his guilt
"It's done now and there's plenty more I'm glad your hungry that's all i wanted to hear"
"You... really...care Jesus! Wow!" Vincent hid his moistening eyes behind dark glasses and left to slake his thirst reaching the door he turned and said
"Your language is feckin terrible something has to be done"
With a reckless and open smile he disappeared and didnt return until the moon had hidden her beautiful face, behind thick snow laden cloud.
Marcus had left also he liked to make sure the vamp cleaned up after himself getting rid of the evidence,was necessary even in Glasgow where murder was a fact of life.
"Such cheek he has gallus as f.ck but who could resist".
he sat in a bar with an untouched glass of Italian red wine he was very talented when it came to fooling the living
"no one would have guessed that he isn't"
Vincent sensed his presence nearby but didnt react he was waiting for the right victim.
And she came slowly due to the frosty ground and her age..Marcus felt the urge to retch at the image of his beautiful vampire, sinking his elegant fangs,in to her thin wrinkled neck
"You really are the limit! I cant watch this is dispicable".
{Spare me your moral outrage! The pickings are slimmer than that bluimic teenager you feasted on without a 1st or 2nd thought}
he backed away in to the darkness of an alley and heard the muffled scream of the old woman {they're SO easily shocked and this city's hoachin wi Goths} Marcus collected himself and ignored the impression of a Glesga keelie their voices grated on his sensitive hearing.
the old woman saw his fangs as he bared them in the classic pose, as they sank deep into her jugular vein he closed his mouth around her like a vice while caressing her frail body with one rapidly warming hand.
He played her like a violin his hands bringing alive her tune from far back in her hazy and memory,one that played tricks and kidded her on about reality
then he released his hold and didnt spill a drop
"dont be frightened I'm good and you didnt feel a thing right"
Vincent picked her up and carried the corpse towards the freezing Clyde,the river was black and the moon which he loved to watch playing on its surface,still hid herself as if in shame at 1 more murder
I'm sorry but you cant lie about its better this way" he dropped the corpse in to the river and told her goodnight.
Marcus joined him he had been sick but that was due to the amount of cocaine in the junkie's bloodstream
"I despair..." "You should try ecstacy...that coke just doesnt agree dahling" with a smile full of bravado and i dare you he walzted away swinging his hips and laughing at the swirling snow.
Marcus returned covered in snow and full of regret he had a weakness for cocaine but this Columbian shit was just too strong Jamie looked up from the 1st food he'd eaten in days the smell of bacon laced with brown sauce turned the vampire's stomach.
"How can you eat such crap no wonder people die young in this city" he sat across from Jamie who noticed the lack of colour in the vamp's face "what happened did Vincey boy beat you to it" he sighed and stretched out his legs the door opened and a frigid breeze blew in
"Oh shit talk of the devil" Vincent was immune to the cold and quickly forming hoar frost,his skin was pink warm and he looked almost human "well that was fun roll on halloween" he dropped in to a seat and smiled as Jamie tucked in to his food "wont that be a huge disappointment for you after all every day's halloween for you lot".
No I cant wait...It's f.ck! I'd almost forgotten why! Did you have to remind me eh! When the dreams had stopped" Vincent stood up and held his head as if the nightmares were physically painful
"let me take them please! Why wont you let me help" he backed away from Marcus and ran out in to the blizzard
"stay here its too cold for you" his voice was filled with anger and for the 1st time Jamie was afraid
the flakes danced as 1 and created a shifting white fog which the vampires moved thru with ease
"You know I'll be here havent i always been here hmmm he didnt mean to mention it...You 2 have been apart for so long" he listened as the snow and his long hair blew around in a ballet for a long time there was nothing Vincent had learned early on how to disappear completely
"Damn you! Halloween is a fortnight away will you shut me out for all of that long!"
"No i couldnt as much as the pain ask's me to" there will always be memories my friend he placed a hand around Vincent's head and held him close "its a curse of our existence we arent allowed to forget".
"help me to" he took the hand and kissed it with surprising and nervous tenderness "are you sure....The last thing i want to hear is what have i done!"
Vincent held his hand and stared straight into Marcus's eyes I'm sure there will be no recriminations i promise....Have you fed enough here take it" he drank from the antique flask the blood was lukewarm and hard to swallow
"urrghh! It's not my night christ! You had better be good" Vincent smiled he recovered so quickly but the act was second rate "aren't I always even before i was something to talk about"
"help me to" he took the hand and kissed it with surprising and nervous tenderness "are you sure....The last thing i want to hear is what have i done!"
Vincent held his hand and stared straight into Marcus's eyes I'm sure there will be no recriminations i promise....Have you fed enough here take it" he drank from the antique flask the blood was lukewarm and hard to swallow
"urrghh! It's not my night christ! You had better be good" Vincent smiled he recovered so quickly but the act was second rate "aren't I always even before i was something to talk about"
"hmmm thats what i fell for your modesty and sense of perspective" they laughed and brushed away the thickly falling snow "this is a bad sign we will have trouble now"
Vincent picked up a handful of snow and idly played with it but his friend was aware of his intention
"Where's your sense of adventure hmmm dont tell me your getting past it!..." At 400 years old Marcus was the oldest and everything he had experienced in that great expanse of time was evident in his dark brown eyes
"I'll show you past it! 10 years is a mere blip in a vampire's life...Who are you to mock my age!" He picked up a large pile of icy snow and fired with blinding speed Vincent ducked and the snowball shattered against a nearby tree
"try again old man i can wait do your bones hurt maybe you should sit down for a while" Marcus remained impassive while moulding a handful of snow in to a hard lump
Jamie watched the vamps acting like children who have been waiting all winter for a decent fall
they fired snowballs and chased each other in a gathering blizzard Jenny stood beside him with 1 arm slung protectively around his shoulders
I'm glad he's happy I didn't mean to talk about ..That"
"we all have to careful with Vincent he's still too human and i doubt that will ever change" the vampires exulted in the powerful skin numbing cold and Jamie ached to be out there playing as a 10year old should.Warmed by the blood Marcus ripped off his leather jacket as a strong breeze suddenly tossed his long hair,he rubbed snow across his face its fine icy powder stung and cleaned away some of the blood sweat.
"They're just...i love those guys they keep me alive imagine seeing THIS for the 1st time!..."
the door blew open with a vicous gust and they appeared like 1/2 frozen walking corpses
"ahhh! I'm so glad to be alive here i saved you some" Marcus handed over a hard compact fistful of snow,and Jamie took it with respect
"thanks your really considerate for a killer" he smiled and ruffled the boy's hair "i have my moments..Now time for a drink hmm oh no your too young for THIS sonny boy" Vincent went to raise his middle finger but his lover was quicker
he gripped the hand and challenged him to a dare
"Ok for your cheek you will take your next victim in full view of the living AND in daylight"
Vincent pulled his free and glared at his maker "that's guarenteed to have me killed!..He placed a hand where a heartbeat should have been "who will get you stiff when i am permanately hmmm admit defeat you cant live without me"
Marcus shook his head and cut him dead
"Ive managed for this long.....Your too smart arse and its backfired you were seen taking the old woman and 100 years of hatred and fear does not dissolve overnight!...Be careful! I cant protect you forever".
Hey, Mr. Goblin,
How it is you get to keep Running POSTs under the same Topic... Well, Good for you. Me, I just keep on getting wiped out over and over again!
Connie
CG