Til' Death Do Us Part

Chapter Twenty-Six

    Romulus paced in the apartment before letting out a heart-wrenching scream as he slid down into a sitting position on the floor with his hands on his chest. He was a grown man five times over and an inhuman creature but the pain inside his chest felt just as horrible as it had when he was human; it was nostalgic even. He'd just lost everything important to him.

    A smart woman was indeed a dangerous thing, like Ms.Percy had said but there was also something from her that he'd heard once. A man with nothing else to lose but something to protect was just as dangerous.

    Rome turned his head to look out of the apartment. The curtains were closed over the glass sliding door but he could still faintly hear crickets outside. Nothing stopped life from going on and it wouldn't matter what happened because it would just keep going on so Rome picked himself up and called Dimitri.

     "Yes, Romulus? What is it?"

    Romulus swallowed, "I had to turn her in."

     "Oh, boy." Dimitri excused himself from the conversation he'd been in previously and there was a sound of cloth or leather, probably Dimitri pressing his phone to his chest, "Tell me what's happened."

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     Elizabeth stood in the doorway of the testing center, rubbing her arm. It was bandaged but it still hurt like hell since Rome had transferred his blood over to her on the bed. He'd properly cleaned it as far as she knew but understandably, this woman wanted to look at it and see if it really was.

    The room looked and smelled clean. There were metal objects on metal counters, white tiles and white rugs over them. The only color in the room was the occasional silver and metal objects other than one single picture frame of the woman and a little boy and some sticky notes that sat on her desk.

    Elizabeth slowly walked towards to woman and sat in the chair. She pulled her arm towards herself cautiously, "You won't do anything will you? You won't take any samples or make me take any medicine to dispel it?"

     "Hold your tongue, ma'am. However, no I'm only here to clean and disinfect it if need be. It's part of standard procedure and if I were to do that, you would be strapped to a table." The woman felt a small tinge of guilt, "It's painful I've heard. After this, I'm going to take weight, height, and I need to know if you've eaten tonight? Or today at all-some newcomers don't tend to." She suggested as she unrolled the thin gauze to see a scabbed over wound, "And when did your partner do this?"

     "Uhm-maybe an hour and a half ago? Maybe even two, I'm not very sure." Since she'd gotten into this building, time didn't seem to pass very quickly at some times but at others, it passed faster than she could count.

     "They must have given you a lot of blood then. Typically they don't scab over because of the venom-it prevents the cells from multiplying for a few hours which is why they covered it in gauze. They can leak droplets anywhere from three to five hours. It shouldn't have healed that quickly but I'm sure you're aware of all of that mess." The woman smiled feebly before pressing a bandaid over the scab and then promptly pricked Elizabeth's finger with a small device. She then pressed a tab to the blood and carefully looked at the numbers before looking at her phone and then proceeded to press a button on the far side of the room, "Uh, sir?"

     "Yes, Mrs.Bree?"

     "I think we have a code five-this girl-what's your name?"

    "Elizabeth Storren."

     "Elizabeth Storren has forty percent of vampire blood in her veins. And part of it is confirmed RH type-her blood is fusing with the -" She looked at the small device, "-the male's." Which meant Rome had not only given his own blood to Elizabeth-he'd given her blood of her own that he'd already consumed and it contained a vitamin and chemical in it that bonded the two which somehow manipulated the rest of her blood thinking the foreign substance was also her own blood.

      This type of taboo had only been done outside of the Council's testing centers to very few humans a little less than a thousand years ago. No humans survived it because each time the transfusion was an accident and the amounts of blood were always too high or too low. There was always a large possibility the binded blood wouldn't transfuse and over time the Council had given up hope of recreating it-but now they had what they'd wanted and worked for, for so long.

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