Were-Geek

18.)

1.)

Telling my story took longer than I would ever think, and by the end I was exhausted and my voice was hoarse. I didn't think I had ever talked so much in my life. I wasn't a big talker, I'd been socially ostracized all of my life and I'd never let it bother me. But now, My throat hurt no matter how much water I drank and I was tiiiireeeed. Emphasize on the extra i's and e's. That's how tired I was.

Finally, the others finished for me as I tried to keep my eyelids from drifting shut. Except for my throat I wasn't really in any pain. I was just drained. So, the debonair man dissmissed us with a wave of his hand and told us to get some rest, especially me because I would need it. That bothered me, why did he think I would need it? But I didn't worry about it now. I was too worn out to really think of anything but laying in a nice soft bed with fluffy pillows and blankets.

The jet or whatever it was landed smoothly and I told myself to find the pilot and thank them sometime when I wasn't fit to falling over.

I waited for the doors to slide open with The Hunters, sipping at water and occasionaly pinching myself and widening my eyes so I didn't fall asleep right there.

"El, what are you doing?" Amy glanced at me as I grabbed my right eyelid and pried it up.

I looked over at her and said with slightly slurred words, "Trying not to fall asleep on my feet."

She laughed and I smiled, then the door opened and we stepped down over the metal slat that was also part of the wall. I couldn't get the image of my bed out of my head.

2.)

Vincent stood aside from the human adults and watched the young Hunters awaiting the portal to open. The door. He watched Elmira trying to stay awake and the others watched with amusement until the other girl said something and Elmira made her laugh. The friendship growing between the five of them was practically palpable. Something the vampire so loved to watch because it happened so rarely that a group of people could come together with so little apprehension. The rare times it did happen he saw it as ethereal, as a true serenity found not so often as he would expect with seven billion people on one planet and he so loved to spectate.

The vampire sighed, remembering when the population was half that what it was today. He watched the palatial group until they tiredly disapeared into the inconspicuous gray building that was The Hunters headquarters. Lee had offered him temporary residence as she always did when he visited and as always he politely declined, preferring the comforts of sleeping in his coffin among the books and their eaves.

After a moment of brief contemplation he bade his farewell to the elder Hunters and took his leave, after first checking on the little werewolf who was already collapsed spread eagled on her bed.

The vampire chuckled as a thin line of drool collected on her sheets, her face hadn't quite made it to the pillow when she had dropped onto the mattress and her face was mashed against the mattress child-like.

Vincent looked up as Elmira's door slowly opened, making her shift and mutter something about broken reeds and minor triads in her sleep. But she quickly settled back into a deep sleep as another young Hunter, Logan, entered her room and stood awkwardly at the side of her bed, a slight smile of amusement on his face. He reached out and gently touched her arm, then turned and left.

The vampire felt as if he had just been witness to a momentous occurance. He knew something great had just transpired between that light touch between two teens. He knew he would never fully understand that happening nor did he want to. It was another of those things that no one would know of, not even the two beings that it had happened to. The vampire smiled and headed back to his 'lair'.