Smother - Sire #1 (Thursday Updates)

Chapter 10 - Part 2

It was the need to find out why the vampires had innocent human children that coaxed me out of my room and into the cafeteria. I was hoping to see Silas. There wasn't anyone else I was brave enough to ask that could give me the answers I wanted.

There were a few sires talking and eating. I didn't spend a lot of time in the cafeteria. Despite Silas' advice on keeping up the human eating to blend in, I had kept to myself in my room. But the answers I were looking for I would not find confined within the four walls of my room.

I was nervous as I found a table. It wasn't that busy. There were a few other sires, none that I recognized but they were definitely trainees like me. They did not have the air of confidence the fully trained Sires had. It made me wonder how many teams they trained.

Slowly, I scanned the immediate area for Silas. It didn't take long to find him standing to the side watching from the sidelines like he usually did. His expression blank. He was so difficult to read. Our eyes locked and I felt a physical reaction sweep through me.

I didn't want to analyze why responded that way to him, I knew how crazy it was to feel this way especially after everything I had endured at his hands. There was a part of me that explained it away as a necessity to survive.

There was no way I could just walk up to him and start a conversation. And this wasn't something I wanted to talk about out in the open with the possibility of someone overhearing us. Besides it wasn't the norm for a Sire to approach a vampire to talk. There was definitely a hierarchy that didn't make it easy to go to him with the questions I had.

I allowed myself to hold his gaze for a few seconds more than I usually would before I got up slowly and made my way back to my room.

There was no guarantee he would get the message from my lingering gaze. I just had to hope it was enough to peak his interest and he would follow me. Otherwise, I would have to try and speak to him another time but it would waste more time. But the thought of the young boy being subjected to the cruelness of the vampires was too much to bear, every moment was hell. Every second my mind entertained the worst possible scenarios of what the vampires would do to him.

I was sitting on my bed for a couple of minutes, losing hope that Silas had received my unspoken message. What was I going to do now? There was no point in going back out there. I would have to wait for tomorrow and hopefully an opportunity would arise where I would be able to speak to him.

It was then he walked into my room, closing the door behind him.

The sight of him made my heart race. I put it down to nerves. He simply me made me nervous. It was easily explained.

He approached me slowly, it made me more nervous.

"Where were you?" he asked, with a slight frown.

He had noticed I had been gone. It did something weird inside me but I shut it down before I could analyze what it meant.

"They took me to for some tests." I clasped my hands together.

"Tests?" he echoed the key word in my answer.

"They did more blood tests and a scan."

I slipped from the bed to stand. Feeling too anxious to sit still.

His features froze. It wasn't a good sign. I studied him waiting for him to say something. He rarely shows emotion. This was uncharacteristic of him.

"Did they say anything?" he asked.

I shook my head. "Why are they doing more tests?"

He would know the answer but whether he would share it with me was something I wasn't fully confident in.