Hotel Dumort (The Mortal Instruments Fanfiction)

Squish thank, squish thank, went my boots as I trudged down the back road of the hotel. There had been a storm the night before and as I went down the path, the cold air hugs me and seeps into my skin. Not that I mind. I never felt temperature. As I approached the corral, I noticed a mud puddle, a particularly marvelous mud puddle where the rain had mixed with water, mud, and cow dung that had been there before the storm. Little did I know that I was about to be involved in the mud fight of a lifetime.

Splash! The first wave of the mud hit my cheeks. I turned around cautiously for old men with torches. None. There are only kids with friendly faces, beckoning me to join them. I smiled. It’s a long time that I haven’t had fun.

As I ran about with the kids, I felt only happiness. “This is the life I wanted,” I thought. Being normal. Playing every night. Grow old. Die. Most people would give anything for immortality, but I promise it’s not worth it. I scooped a ball of mud and threw it at a kid named Gambit. He laughed and grabbed my hand, wanting to pull me to him, but he stopped. And I knew why.

“He’s a vampire!” He screamed. All the other kids scrambled away. Upon noticing that several men with torches has begun approaching me, I decided to run.

A dread feeling settles in my chest. What about my cloven? If they caught me, they’ll ask me to lead me to them, at the old hotel. And they’ll kill us.

I stopped running as I reached the town’s centre. I passed by the theater. I felt a pang of pain. Before I was turned, I used to love singing and dancing. Now, I just can’t go out in daylight. The sun would kill me anyway, not to mention the villagers.

I thought about my cloven at the Hotel. They loved being vampires, despite only drinking animal blood. They wouldn’t dream of leaving their lives. As I walked around the town, passing the school, the library, and the supermarket, I realized that someone was watching me.

The back of my neck prickled. I could sense a pair of eyes behind me. I turned around, ready to attack. Instead, a petite seventeen year old girl is standing behind me, smiling. And I knew why she didn’t scram and run.

She’s blind.

“Where are you going?” she asked me.

“N-n-nowhere,” I sputtered.

“Come on, follow me,” she took my hand and I froze. She wrapped her hands around mine and said, “I notice you liked to hang around every night,”

I stared at her.

“Of course, I’m blind,” she laughed at her own joke. “But I can sense people. And you had a peculiar kind of smell. Why is that?”

“Do I smell like…”

“Blood,” I stopped in my tracks.

“Don’t worry , I won’t bite you. So why are you out at night?”

I can’t believe why she hasn’t realized what I am. After all, I smell of blood.

“I just want to have fun,”

“Why night?”

“Be-because I hated sunlight,” I said. “ And why are you out?”

“ I hated my family. They disregard me because I’m blind,”

“What? Me too! I’m always divergent from my family. They just don’t get it,”

Suddenly, I heard a high speed car towards us. Before the girl got crashed, I took her in my arms and I jumped to the nearest tree.

“You saved my life,”

“THERE! The vampire’s there, on the tree branch! With Zia!” Everyone gasped. Zia is putting her arms around me, her head tucked in my chest.

“Get off him!” Someone shouted.

“He’s  a monster!”

“Zia!” I heard a shrill female voice. Must be her mother. “He’ll kill you!”

She looked up. “Nonsense!” she said. “He just saved my life. Without him, I’ll be dead. I don’t care who he is. He’s the kindest person I’ve ever met, and I’ll never leave him!”

“What?” I said. “You can’t-“

“Take me to your home, wherever it is,” she said. “Now,” When I hesitated, she added, ‘Please?”

And with her in my arms, I jumped of the branch, tree to tree, to Hotel Dumort, where my cloven is waiting.