In The Night - Fallacy x Encre

Chapter 4

I will not eat anymore, not trusting the food and just not feeling hungry, but instead feeling ill.  I do not really move from the bed either in the bedroom due to exhaustion.  I stopped praying and I do not drink anything either, feeling the betrayal and disgust of myself. There is a knock at the door but I do not move. The door opens slightly.  "Encre? Are you feeling... Any better?"  I hear Lord Fallacy ask.  "No..."  I answer tiredly.  All I want to do is sleep, and not move.  "Encre... You are going to starve, if you do not at least drink something."  Lord Fallacy says.  I keep my gaze towards the stone wall as I feel the bed sink slightly.  I feel him gently place a hand on my arm.  I cover myself to make sure he has less of a chance of touching me wrongly again.  He retracts his hand from my shoulder.  There is a sharp pain in my chest and I feel a great amount of sadness overwhelm me as he stands and moves away from me. Suddenly I feel myself move quite quickly as I grab onto him.  I am trembling slightly. "Please... Do not leave me..."  I mutter into his back. I feel him move and my grip in his cape slips from the fabric. He begins to leave the room and tears start to slip from my eyes as he walks away from me.  I collapse to the floor having used up all the energy I had to get to him.  I feel darkness flood my mind.  

'Dream'...

I am in a field ever expanding across my eye sight.  I see two options for me, a home, job and admiration from millions of villagers, and the king and queen, are to my left at the end of the field.  And to the right stands but a single person, Lord Fallacy, there is nothing else.  "My child... What is your choice?"  I hear.  "I don't want to go back to what was happening before. I want to stay with Lord Fallacy, but I know he does not feel the same as me.  I know I sinned, having sex and with a male out of wedlock... I know I did... I had no control over myself, but I would do it again with him, again and again, with only him.  But I... Also know he does not feel the same..."  I say falling to my knees. "My child... He does feel the same, he is just extremely old and does not want to chance loosing someone he cares about.  He thinks you are suffering, reason why he left you before this dream, right now he is holding you, but he can see this conversation."  I hear feeling myself being held.  I look to the left then to the right.  I can feel myself being helped up.  "Choose... Before you loose both options."  I hear.   I take off running to the right.  Lord Fallacy catches me.

'Dream' End...

"I have you... It is alright..."  I hear as I wake up from my dream. I curl myself into the person that is holding me.  "You have had things like that happen like this before... My lord."  I hear.  "He picked me... Over everything else he was offered."  I hear.  "Over a home, his painting and admiration... He picked love." I hear.  I open my eyes to see Lord Fallacy holding me tightly and I feel relief flow through me.  I set my head against his chest feeling relaxed and safe, as I close my eyes again.  

Weeks later...

Lord Fallacy and I are getting along quite well.  We talk quite a bit and we got to learn more about each other so far.  Right now I am gazing out the window from my bed.  Looking out at the beautiful view of lights twinkling in the distance within the trees.  The moon and stars look so bright and are much closer than they ever were before to me.  I stand from the bed and move towards the window.  What I see puts me in a state of awe.  The lights I saw in the trees were house lights lower down in the trees.  Meaning the castle is built in a tree.  I am filled with multiple questions as I stare out at what must be a village.  "That means... Lord Fallacy is the King of Vampires..."  I mutter.  Then blush slightly thinking 'This is all so strange...'  There is a soft knock at the door and I say "Come in!"  I sound extremely cheerful as I continue to gaze out the window.  "Encre... This is the first time I have seen you near the window..."  I hear Lord Fallacy say as there are light footsteps.  "It is all so... Breathtaking... How were you capable of doing it?"  I ask looking over to him.  He looks confused as he comes to stand beside me.  "Doing what, Encre?" He asks gently.  "The houses in the trees and the castle... It must have been extremely hard to do."  I say looking up at him.  "I am not quite sure how my father did it... I believe the others helped him as he helped them."  Lord Fallacy answers.  'He had a father... Well I guess everyone has at one point... But are vampires not as old as time? Maybe I should ask.'  I think confused.  He looks like he is about to laugh so I hold my question.  "Encre... Are you aware that vampires are almost like Mortals. We just have fangs and require blood, and we happen to be immortal, but we can die, silver is our weakness." Lord Fallacy says softly.  I look up at him and nod.  "I know that, every Mortal knows that silver can kill a vampire... Everyone I knew when I was younger had something silver on them."  I answer shyly.  Lord Fallacy pulls me closer.  "I am actually quite young to be the king... I was supposed to take the throne at two hundred fifty years of age... But even then that is considered too young..."  Lord Fallacy says worriedly.  "How old are you then?" I ask.  "I am only one hundred eighty seven years of age. I took the throne after the war when my father was murdered by the Mortal king."  "But the war happened only 9 years ago..." I mutter.  "I had just became an adult as well... This castle... It bores me. It always has..." He says.  "Wait... I remember Eterna saying something along the lines of if you were to set a vampire down to a mortal's age it would be just dividing by 8... To become a full adult in Mortal years it is the age of 21 you must hit... 187 divided by 8 is... You would only be 23 years old... *muttering* Darn, that is still older than me. *sigh* You are still really young then..."  I answer gently.  Lord Fallacy looks surprised with how fast I did the math.  I blush as he says "You are extremely intelligent, Encre... May I inquire your age?" Lord Fallacy asks.  "I am 20 years of age."  I answer. "If you were a vampire you would be exactly 160 years of age, Encre."  Lord Fallacy says.  I blush a little darker.  Lord Fallacy grabs my hand gently as we look outside.  "If you had a choice Encre... Would you be born Mortal or a vampire in your next life?"  He asks.  "Next life?  I am so used to the idea of heaven and hell... I..."  I trail off trying to figure out an answer.  'If I could live again... And have the choice of being Mortal or immortal... Pros of Mortals, they don't need to drink blood, they are moving ahead in medical discoveries monthly, the last time I heard.  Cons they destroy things, they die easily, they live short boring lives.  Pros of being a vampire...  *looks outside* They get to live in amazing surroundings, they have long life spans, they can transform to bats, they have fangs, oh... And the possibilities are endless. Cons, they cannot go out in sunlight, cannot touch silver, cannot look in the mirror, they need to drink blood and they are hunted by Mortals...'  I weight the options.  I feel a hand on my shoulder.  "Please choose quickly."  Lord Fallacy says gently to me.  I look out the window.  "To not be trapped and feel so alone, surrounded by people... I can relate to..."  I say softly.  Lord Fallacy smiles at me sweetly before leaning down and kissing me on the lips gently.  I am taken back slightly, but I close my eyes gently and kiss back shyly.  I feel him pull away gently and then I feel my shirt being slipped off my shoulder slightly, since I had not buttoned my shirt fully.  I open my eyes gently and see him moving into and towards me.  He picks me up and gently sets me down on the bed.  He towers over me and smiles almost cautiously at me.  He pulls me up towards him and slips off my shirt carefully.  Treating me as something extremely fragile as he holds me as if I will break.  "Encre... You excite me and you give me something to look forward to and everyday I wake, you are the first thought on my mind."  He says before kissing me lovingly.  I place a hand on his cheek and kiss him back as I sit myself up to be closer to him.  To feel the coolness of his bone, and the softness of his touch.  "Encre..."  He says gently as he pulls back.  I make eye contact with him as he runs a hand along my spine gently.  I gasp watching as he delicately runs the tips of his fingers along the black patterns covering every single inch of my bones.  I feel a heat in my pants as he carefully runs his finger tips along my shoulder blades and up my neck's vertebrae. "Lord Fallacy..."  I gasp.  "Yes, Encre?"  He says softly.  "When you told me that I excite you and give you something to look forward to... I felt something... I am unsure of what it was..."  I say shakenly. I feel him kiss my neck softly before he whispers "It was love."  Then there is a startling feeling through me as I feel something dig into my neck.  I am filled with panic and fear, but I hold onto Lord Fallacy not wanting to move away, trusting in him, though I am filled with fright. I gasp as a warm feeling surrounds me, almost embracingly.  'This... Feels, almost nice.'  I think tiredly.  The feeling becomes cool and calming as I feel the pain in my shoulder disburse gradually.  "Encre... You will hurt over the next few days, forgive me for this."  He says.  "I do not mind, Lord Fallacy.  As long as you promise to be near."  I say shyly.  He smiles at me as my eyes focus entirely on him.  "I love you, Encre..."  Lord Fallacy says frangibly.  I smile weakly towards him and say with tears in my eyes "I... As well love you, Lord Fallacy."  There is a blackness that surrounds my vision suddenly and I go limp in Lord Fallacy's arms.