Life of the Half Dead

Chapter 2

At exactly 6:00, Eli knocked on Jane's dorm room door. Eli was a demi-vamp, like Jane, but unlike Jane, he had been born to a human mother and vampire father over 2000 years ago. Dhampires are half immortal and age at one year to every one hundred human years, so Eli only looked like he was in his early twenties; no one would ever think he had been born in 200 BC. 

Jane answered the door and they greeted each other with friendly hugs. The drive to the restaurant  was mostly spent on small talk, just two old friends catching up with each other.

"So, how is college life?'' Eli asked politely.

"It's good. A little stressful, but I love it."

"I went to university once, a long time ago. We didn't have all the fancy gadgets you kids have these days. I wrote all my papers by hand, and if I needed to look something up, I got a book."

"You sound like my grandfather." Jane giggled.

"What can I say? I'm old." Eli grinned. "And it could be my age, or my good looks, or the fact that I'm the best vampire slayer there ever was, but I just got promoted to assistant directer of the Dhampire association!"

"I'm definitely going to have to say that it is your humble attitude that got you promoted." Jane smirked sarcastically.

"I'm so glad you can recognize more of my great qualities." Eli replayed in mock sincerity.

"But seriously, congratulations. You really deserve this promotion."

"Thank you Jane. Maybe soon you will want to join the association." The Dhampire association was a large group of demi-vamps who hunted and slayed vampires. They also try to help victims of vampire attacks, and stop vampires from turning more humans, the way they stopped Jane from being changed into a full vampire.

"I just don't think I could kill a vampire. What if some of theme are good and don't drink human blood?" Asked Jane

"Have you been reading Twilight again? Eli teased 

"No." She answered quickly. "I watched the movies."

"Those movies are fictional; vampires arn't like that. They are all bad.'' They had arrived at the restaurant now, and they both let the discussion drop as they went inside and were seated.

"You look like you have something on your mind." Eli stated after they had ordered their food. "I's it something you want to discus?"

 "Yes, actually, there is something." Jane hesitated. "I met a boy today."

"A boy that you like? Jane, you know how bad of an idea it is fall for a human. He will get old with out you." Eli warned.

"No, it's not like that. I think he may be one of us. He has fangs, but I don't think he is a full vampire."

"Have you talked to him?"

"A little." She replied. "He seems scared. I don't think he even knows what he is."

"It is a possibility that he doesn't know" Eli thought out loud "No one other than the Dhampire association knows how to make demi-vamps by religious intervention, but it is possible that he was made by magic and then abandoned."

"I didn't know magic could be used to stop someone from becoming a vampire."

"Yes, dark magic will sometimes work. We use light to fight the darkness, and others use more darkness to fight it." 

"So what are we going to do about Spencer?"

"You got him to tell you his name?"

"Yeah, but not much else."

"Keep talking to him, try to earn his trust." Eli advised her. "He probably needs help."

"Your right. I remember how hard it was when I first turned." Jane mused. "What was it like being a child this way?"

"In some ways it was hard." He remembered. "I didn't have a lot of friends because I aged slower than them and we had to move a lot so no one would notice. I always got along with adults better because I was mature for my 'age', but I did't have anyone I could really relate to."

"Did your father raise you?" Jane asked.

"No, my father hated what I was. My mother took care of me when I was a baby, but she was human and died long before my first birthday." He told her. "The association found us just before she died. I was raised by a very nice dhampire women. She was like my mother and my best friend, sometimes she still is."

"Is she part of the association?" Jane asked. "Have I meet her?"

"Yes, she was there the night you first turned." He informed her. "You would get to know her better if you would join."

"I just want a normal life." She told him for what felt like the hundredth time. "Tell me more about when you were a kid."

"Alright, did I ever tell you about the time I lived in Egypt?"

"No, do tell."

"Rebeka, my adopted mother, would always tell me to stay away from the Nile. I must have been about ten human years then, and you know how little boys are; I would play near that river every chance I got. One day, I was just sitting there, when out of nowhere this giant crocodile attacks me. He must have been fifty feet long and weighed six thousand pounds. Its a good thing I can't be killed easily and have amazing strength, I fought him off with my bare hands." Eli spent the rest of diner telling Jane his exciting and exaggerated childhood stories, and by the time he dropped her off that night, she felt a lot less worried about Spencer.

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A/N   I didn't have time to have this edited, so it may be a little sloppy, but I wanted to get another chapter published tonight. I liked getting to know Eli a little more in this chapter. What do you guys think of him? What do you think of Jane and the rest of the story? I would love to know!