Awakenings - Part One

Countenance

I had the tickets and was balancing the books when I heard an almighty crash further down the corridor.
“What the hell could that be?”

I said it aloud just in case it was an intruder and made haste to the source of the noise which seemed to be coming from the kitchen.

I opened the door cautiously and saw Erica perched over the counter taking a drink of water.

I was about to say her name when she turned around and I was confronted with an abomination, half of her face was missing…..seeped in blood.

“Erica, what the fuck happened to you?”

She opened the one remaining eye.
“Cordelia”

I processed the name but was clueless as to why she said it.
“What about her, is she not with you?”
“It was a fucking trap”
“A trap?”
“Yes, Cordelia was the bait…..her sister was waiting for one of us and I was stabbed with a jewelled scabbard…..come and look at the wound on my neck”.

I approached her and saw the tell tale mark of the dagger of the brotherhood.
“What happened?”
“Her sister is a member of the guardians and attacked, I had no time to defend myself……she even lied and said that it would do nothing to me…..well this is the result”.

I was extremely angry at these turn of events.
“There is something else you need to know”.
“More bad news?”
“You could say that, the guardians have made a pact with the catalonia”.

That was a name I had not heard for a long time, a cross breed of humans and vampire kind……If this was true then we had major ass problems.
But for the moment Erica was my concern, I crossed the room and scooped her up in my arms……I ripped the veins on my arms open and let her feed from me.

This was the part I loved the most and as she suckled and drank the dark liquid her strength began to restore.
At last she stopped and I laid her down on the table.

My blood was rich and my silent observation of Erica showed that I was just in time to stop any further damage.

Before my eyes her skin began to regenerate until her face was whole again.

“Thank you Pamela”
“Your welcome Erica, I cannot afford to lose you”.

“Yeah well if your girlfriend had not fucked up this would not have happened”
“Girlfriend?”

“Veronica, she follows you around like a lost puppy…..does she taste good?”

I smirked, her strength was indeed returning and this was the Erica of old, the one who let jealousy take control of her.

“Veronica has her uses but she is not my girlfriend”.

Erica stepped away from me.
“Prove it?”
I looked into her bloodless eyes.
“You want me to fuck you, here on this table?”

She smiled.
“No Pamela, if your feelings for Veronica are not that way inclined then she must be punished for this error”.

“I cant do that to her”

“You know our ways, that’s how it must be…..Imagine if I had died at the hands of a guardian…….what then?”
“You know precisely, I would avenge your death”.

“Then avenge me now for what I suffered, go to veronica and kill her”.
I shook my head.

“No Erica, I will find another way to punish her”.

She looked into my eyes with a venom that I had not seen in a long time.

“Im sorry Pamela but if you wont kill her…….
I will”