Kara gripped the white bed sheet close to her body trying to keep her warmth as she stepped outside. The moon was high and bright, it illuminated the village with its soft grey light. She took a deep breath, the freshness of the air calming her erratic heart. Feeling the need to move she headed for the forest behind the house.
She noticed her headache was gone and the soreness of her muscles had subdued a bit, but she still felt tired. Tired and perturbed. Her feet slowly carried her into the forest, careful not to trip.
What was that dream? Kara thought raking a hand through her long black hair. It felt so... real. He died, why would I dream of his death, of all that death? A field covered in corpses, werewolf and human alike, so much blood. She closed her eyes trying to get the images out of her head.
"What are you doing here?" A deep voice said from behind her.
Kara slowly turned to see Marko standing a few meters away from her. The grey light of the moon gave him an ethereal look, which made his eye shine even brighter than usual. He wore a white long sleeve cotton shirt and black pants, his shoulder length hair fell loosely around his face. She noticed he had small stubble of a beard growing, which made him look rugged like a mysterious beats.
Fear gripped her as he started to make his way toward her. I need to get away from him, he will die. Kara thought as she took a few steps away.
"Kara, please talk to me, yell if you have to, but don't run away." He said stopping about ten feet from her. "What's wrong? You shouldn't be out here."
"I think it is safe to say that I can protect my self, I just wanted to go for a walk." She said eyeing him, "What are you doing here?"
"I was checking the perimeter," he said a bit too fast. "You haven't answered... what's wrong?"
"You kissed me." She said looking away.
He hung his head down "And that has made you hate me?" then looked at her from under his lashes.
She looked back at him "I could not hate you, Marko. Even though I do not completely approve of that kiss or the context in which it occurred, I understand why you did it and I should have thanked you for it. I might have overreacted to your actions." She gave him a small smile. "But none of that matters now, does it?"
"What do you mean it does not matter? Do you regret it, the kiss I mean?" he said taking a step forward.
She shook her head frowning. "What I mean to say is that tomorrow you leave... and so will I."
"You are leaving? Why? Where are you going?" There was fear in his voice.
"Will you stop worrying about me and questioning everything? I am leaving because I am a monster. That is why I was so mad at you, because you saw what I did in the forest when I lost control. I basically massacred those vampires. An you still look at me as if I were innocent and blameless." She said as a tear fell from her eye, lately that's all she seemed to be doing, shedding tears.
"You are not a monster, if anyone here is a monster it would be me. Did you not see me rip their hearts out and their heads off like they were nothing... because it was nothing, I feel no remorse in killing rogue vampires." He stepped closer, making her back up. "But you." He chuckled "You feel that remorse, I could see that you genuinely hated them, but what you did shocked you. Yes, you lost control but that can change, Yenive can help, Kendra can help, even I can help you control it." Marko took a deep breath looking intently into her blue doe eyes. "Come with me."
She had to blink twice to make sure this was all real. Did Marko really ask her to leave with him?
"Leave with me tomorrow. There is no need for you to live alone in worry of loosing control." He said taking a step towards her.
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Mixed Blood (Wattys2015)
WerewolfAfter the bloody death of her parents when she was eleven, Kara Dosnia has lived in more than four different Villages. All of which have been decimated by cannibalistic vampires. It seemed to Kara that the vampires were following her for some reason...
