The Winchester Sisters

You're Not A Failure

We get a table after Austin compels the hostess to think we had a reservation. After a few minutes our food gets served to us. We start talking while eating and I tell Austin the big events he doesn't know from my past, which is really just my birthday, and a few hunting stories where I got certain scars.

"Well, it sounds like you've lived so much in just 18 years," He says.

"Yeah, that's one way to put it. Enough about me, tell me about you," I reply.

"Well, you already know how I died," He starts with a chuckle, "My mother died when I was young, which sent my father into a.. spiraling depression that he masked with anger. He immediately taught me and my brother all the ins and outs of hunting, and anytime we failed he'd punish us. His go to was the whip. He'd chain us up in the barn and he'd whip us for days. We wouldn't be able to get up, or eat, and we'd just sit there, naked in a pool of our dried blood, until he thought the lesson was learned," He says.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry," I respond, in shock.

He gives a sad smile then says, "Well it's in the past now. The amount of years I had to go to therapy to get over it was tremendous, but I'm okay now. After my father killed me, I woke up in the woods in a shallow grave. I killed people blah blah blah, you get the jist. About 10 years later I met a girl, but it turns out it wasn't for the first time. We had met a few times when I was still human. At first, I was ready to run away, but she grabbed my arm and told me that she too was a vampire. I felt safe around her, and eventually she and I got together. We were together for years until my brother showed up and tried killing us after laying his eyes on her. He tied her up in vervain rope and made her confess to everything. She apparently wanted me when she first met me, but since I was never let out of my father's sight she went after my brother. He fell in love with her, even knowing she was a vampire, and after he begged and begged, those are her words, not mine, she finally fed him her blood. He was still human for the moment, but she said that after he finished one final task for her, she'd kill him herself and wait for him to awake. That final task was putting her blood in my drink, and then pretending to be a vampire, and falsely outting me so I'd be killed," He explains.

"You've had a very tragic past. Your father kills you after your brother betrays you over some girl, then said girl becomes your girlfriend, only for you to find out she's.. Utterly insane," I say.

"Pretty much. After all of that though I joined the military for both world wars. I only survived those because I was a vampire, but I always came up with some story every time I was asked why there was so much blood on me even when I wasn't wounded. After serving, I just traveled the world, and bought so many different things. I haven't done much after that, except go to as many concerts as I can. I always want to experience as much as possible," He continues.

"My grandfather was a marine. I don't know many details about when he served and everything, but when he started hunting he gave his location using coordinates, or communicated with different code words, just in case someone discovered the paper he left it on or was listening to his conversation, anything. I've traveled across the United States, but only for hunting. I never got to go sightseeing. I've been to a few concerts of classic rock bands, but there's more I'd like to go to," I say.

"Well you graduate in practically a few months so you can travel then. With the concerts, there's one coming up in a few months, maybe 3 hours from our town that we could go to," He replies.

I smile and when I'm about to respond I get distracted after seeing people dancing in the garden outside.

"Do you want to go dance?" He asks.

"Though I do love dancing, I think I'd feel uncomfortable around others. I haven't danced in a crowd before, especially not ballroom dancing" I say.

"Okay. I'm gonna go take care of the bill. I'll come get you when I'm done," He says before getting up and walking to the front.