For The Eternals

Thereuss Clan : Theodore Spade

I sat in the living room enjoying the cookies Henry made. The TV showed a program I liked. It was about DIY kind of things.

I loved crafting, even my favorite game in my phone is Minecraft. It brought a peace to me. To see how random things could be useful and beautiful by crafting them gave me so much satisfaction.

My favorite craft was simple jewelry. I could make bracelets, necklace or rings from beads, silver wire, or any things I got.

And for the information, I made a bracelet for my future soulmate. It was from gold wire, crafted with garnet gemstones and emeralds, and a special stone made from the blood of my clan. It shaped a famous pattern in my culture, a Herakles knot. It was a sacred pattern, and it was usually gave by a groom to his bride, as a symbol of love, marriage and purity. I kept it safely in a velvet box.

I finished the cookies and cleaned any mess. William would be so mad to see the living room messy or even just a slight crumble of cookies left behind. What did the people call it? ADHD? IGD? LCD? Oh.. OCD. It's a kind of disorder, well..I didn't really know. I just know it made a person extremely tidy, like William.

After made sure the living room was clean, I decided to spend the night in a bar. I walked upstairs to William's room. He loved going to the bar. I thought it because he could be loosened after a few glass. His OCD was also lessened when he's drunk.

"William!" I called him. I knew he could hear my steps to his room. I just liked to called. Blamed my weird habit.

"What, Theo?" He opened the door.

"Wanna get some boost?"

He agreed and I waited him in my car in a few minutes before he showed up. He always made sure his appearance was smooth. Damn, OCD!

It turned out he wasn't alone. He brought Henry and Alex with him. Well.. The more the merrier.

A few kilometers after that, I parked in front of our usual bar. This bar was special. It just accepted immortal like us. The guards let us in because they knew who we were. Specifically, they knew that I was the owner.

The inside was full of the people of the eternal. We went to our VIP room in the second floor. There's glass windows that looked out the bar downstairs.

We ordered our usual drinks. The drinks here were not for mortal people. They would passed out before finishing their first shot. The drinks were made specially hard for us, and there were some amounts of blood in it.

When our drinks arrived, we could smell something different from them. The smell were very intoxicating, not like usual.

"I think the drinks are different"

Looked like everyone agreed with me.

"I'll go check." I went out of the room and went to the bartender.

"Oh.. Theo, my man. What's up, man?" The bartender greeted me cheerfully like usual.

" Cut it up, Ben! The drinks were different today. Why is it? Is it spiked or anything?"

He looked petrified, but quickly covered it up.

"Nothing unusual, Theo. Just regular mix between tequila and blood."

"Is there something different with the tequila? Is it different brand or something?" Henry's voice could be heard behind me.

"No!" He took a bottle of tequila and put it in front of us. "This is the tequila I used. It's the same brand as usual"

We observed it, but found nothing different, Henry also taste it a little bit. We had drunk this brand for too many times.

"Maybe the blood you used? You still use the ones from the bank?" Alex also came down.

Ben shivered when he saw Alex. Alex was known for his strict behavior. One single mistake could cost him his life.

" No! I'll tell you, but don't kill me! I used blood from a donor for your drinks. Her blood was known for the sweet taste among the immortal"

"A donor?" Alex asked furiously. Donors always gave their blood to blood bank, where they would be taken care and given suitable compensation. He made sure no human harmed because of the immortal, specially in this city.

"Yes. She gave her blood for money. She's done it before. My fellow bartenders told me." Ben placed a half full of a blood bag in front of us. Henry took the bag quickly. He smelled it like smelling a drug. Alex also did the same thing.

I reached the bag and took a deep breath. The smell was very intoxicating. I could feel my self flying and my mind was full of the sweetness it brought.

"It's the smell of a soulmate, isn't it?" Henry asked.

"Where did you meet her? Who is she?" I asked Ben curiously.

"She came here yesterday. Jimmy brought her. I didn't ask any questions to her. I just pay her same amount of money as banks would pay. Maybe Jimmy knows her better."

"How about CCTV? Was it on yesterday?" Henry asked.

"We met at the back door. I brought her to the office and she gave her blood. There's a CCTV near the door."

Listening to that, I practically ran to the office. I pushed an employee in the process. A CCTV officer looked at us.

"Show us the recording from yesterday".

He nodded eagerly and worked on the computer. A few seconds, the monitor showed two people standing in front of the back door. One of them was Jimmy, a friend of Ben. I recognized his scar on his left cheek. The other one, I couldn't see her clearly, just her backside. I saw her blonde hair tied into ponytail, she wore a pair of jeans and black jacket. She looked like in her early twenties by judging her composure. I could see Ben's head looked out the door and Then they enter the building. There's no other camera until the office door. And the camera didn't give much more information. I should installed more of them. I went out the room furiously. We were so close to find her, yet we still not succeed.

"Calm down, Theo. We can call Jimmy. He brought her here, he must know something about her". Henry assures me.

We went back to the VIP room. I order more drinks with her blood in it. In fact, I took all of her blood in the bag. I wanted to share it with the rest of the clan.

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"do you know anything about her?" Alex asked someone in the end of the phone line. He sighed.

"For once, Jimmy, please do something with your lack of brain. You know it's illegal to trade blood."

He took some times to hold his anger. He really need this Jimmy to tell us something.

"okay. Tell me if she makes any contact." He turned off the call.

We're waiting for him to tell us.

"Jimmy can't be counted. He said the girl called him to trade her blood for money. He didn't say anything about our kinds and don't thing she know what will happen to her blood after that. Looks like Jimmy has a business to buy blood from human and sell it to bars and clubs in the city."

"nothing we can use to find her?" Henry asked and Alex shook his head. We felt a big disappointment.

"why that girl sold her blood? Does she has money problem?" I asked no one in particular.

"that's sad." Henry said. I could see his face showing some concern.

We got into the car and back to the mansion. Didn't feel a will to hang out anymore.