My Vampires

Chapter 20

...One of Nicholas' enemies is a vampire? 

Nicholas
"Comte, please... please tell me this wasn't your doing!"

Gabriel
"It wasn't. I've only revived everyone who is here, and Will. That's all."

Nicholas
"Then how is a dead man alive right now? You're the only one who has the power to do so, right?!"

A silence stretched on that seemed like an eternity. Le Comte's voice sounded hoarse when he answered.

Gabriel
"...I'm not the only one. There's another man in this world who can use the door to bring dead humans back to life.

Lennon
"Then explain it so Nicholas and everyone else here accepts your answer...including me."

Le Comte looked around at everyone's faces, then got a faraway look in his eyes as he began to speak.

Gabriel
"...I had a friend. Another immortal, pure-blooded vampire." "When we were children, we shared beautiful times together, but due to a quarrel we went our separate ways."  "We saw each other again once we became adults. At the time I felt living forever felt empty as I watched my human friends die."

Flashback

Gabriel
"Hey...if there was such thing as a flower that never wilted, do you think that would be pretty?"

Le Comte's Friend
"Hm, I'm not sure. What do you think, Comte?"

Gabriel
"I think a flower is beautiful BECAUSE it wilts."

Le Comte's Friend
"Like humans?"

Gabriel
"Yes. But since we purebloods live forever, we're just like flowers that never wilt.. don't you think?"

Le Comte's Friend
"......"

Gabriel
"Living among the humans made me realize that the lives of vampires and humans are so fundamentally different." "I thought I understood that when I was a boy, but..." "I've seen more humans die than I care to count."   "I had very close friends. Some that were so gifted the world will never see such rare talent again. I respected each of them."  "Yet no matter how wonderful, how talented each of them were...they all left this world just like all humans do."

Le Comte's Friend
"...Comte, the length of someone's life is determined by their fate."  "I love humans because they are so fleeting."

Gabriel
"Yes... Their short lives are so bright and brilliant because they are so fleeting."  "But I also discovered the deep loneliness and emptiness that comes along with knowing their deaths are inevitable."  "That empty, meaningless feeling of them losing their lives, the time they spent with you--losing everything--will never end."

Le Comte's Friend
"Meaningless... Perhaps that's true."  "But could you really cut off all ties with humans?"

Flashback Ends

Gabriel
"I couldn't answer him."  "No matter how hopeless I felt, or how hurt I was, kept reaching out to humans. He knew that, and so he said this to me..."

Flashback

Le Comte's Friend
"Comte... What if a human's life and their talents could continue on forever?"  "Do you think that would make the world a better place?"

Gabriel
"What do you mean?"

Flashback Ends

Gabriel
"He said, 'Let's make it together. Flowers that will never wither.'"

So it was his friend who suggested they revive people who had already died...

Arthur
"A flower that will never wither--reviving humans with extraordinary abilities so that they would never die."  "He thought if you did that, the world would become a better place, and would give meaning to the life of a pure-blooded vampire?"