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k_a_webb“I’m not leaving you, Nick,” Alice said finally, shaking her head, disbelief filling her eyes. “I’ll admit I am scared of your creator, but that isn’t the reason I’ve stayed with you for so long.” She ran a hand through her hair. “I love you. I have done since… I don’t know exactly when. Falling in love with a vampire wasn’t something I ever imagined happening, but it did, and I would have asked you, when I had the courage to, to change me.” Another tear trickled down her cheek and she swallowed. “Instead I kept putting it off, because I was scared you’d say no. I didn’t know how you felt about me, or the other donors, and you could have been in love with them. When I woke up after you saved my life you told me you couldn’t imagine your life without me, so I knew you were in love with me, but then… I was feeling so many things and I took them out on you because you were there.”
“Alice…” Nick shrugged. “I fell in love with you the day I met you. You saved me from your family and the other people in the village who wanted to kill me. No one else had ever done something like that for me, even though I knew you were only doing it because you felt like you owed me for stopping that vampire from taking you to the auctions, and then you offered to donate me your blood.”
“You saved me from a fate worse than death that day. I wanted to hate you, because of what you were, but I couldn’t. You’re actions showed me that I might be wrong about vampires and that meant I had to give you a chance, no matter what I’d been taught and what my family wanted.”
“They wanted you to kill me.”
Alice nodded, her eyes looking haunted. “One day my father tried to convince me that you’d brainwashed me somehow. If he’d tried that maybe a week earlier my reaction might have been different, but I laughed in his face. I told him that the only thing you’d done was teach me that vampires were the same as people. No vampire was innately bad because of what he was.” She sighed. “We got into a huge argument and I know he would have chucked me out if it wasn’t for Mum.”
“When I think back to the choices we made during that time there were so many points where things could have gone so differently.” Nick reached out and brushed Alice’s hair back from her face. “Even though I wish I hadn’t made the final decision for you I’m glad you’re still with me and that we can talk about these things.”
With one hand Alice grabbed hold of Nick’s free hand and held on tightly, as though she needed something to anchor her down. “There are still going to be times when I’ll hate you for making me a vampire.”
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.