Dracula

VI

The next day like Vlad said he told Dax some more about him and his life as he ate breakfast in bed. " After me and my brother left Ottoman Empire my brother went off to do his own thing, which happens to fight against the Ottoman Empire Army. He killed those who rape him. After the war was over, will that one anyways he moved somewhere else and I don't know anything else." Vlad told him. "I took my place in Wallachia after the death of our father brother and our half brother. But I soon had to return to the Ottoman Empire and leave my home behind yet again."

"But I didn't stay long I soon move to Edirne, where my uncle Bogda II held the throne. October Stephen my cousin and I had to flee to Transylvania, for Bogda II was murder. All of this is said on the cards, but here more to it." Vlad said.

"Before my brother and I was free to go, I fall in love, will I thought it was love. His name was Lucian, he was a stable boy. Every day I would see him and my heart would skip a beat. But when I told him how I felt he said he felt the same, but it was a lie. I was a pond in his game. He wanted to get back at another. When I find him and the other together in the stalls I know I was played a fool."

"I turn and walked away before he could see me. I next day when he came to talk, I told him we have to end things for I don't feel the same anymore and I walked away from him. The day after I got the news that he and his family had moved somewhere else. But that night I saw him with another I vow to never be fooled again and to not let love blind me with her lies."

" So I keep my heart locked up. Sure there were other men and women I bed but I never felt anything for them. Just like my wives, I felt nothing. That was until Teo came along. He was the one who put love back into my life. He didn't see a monster like the others he saw the real me. Me who was lost and broken and he was the one who put me back together."

" On the battlefields, I was a beast a bloodthirst monster, with him I was neither of those. I was a friend a lover. Will him I was free to be me. I never wanted to fight, I never wanted to rule, but I never had a say in my own life." Vlad told him. "That's it for now. So how about your life?" Vlad asked.

Dax looked at him for a moment. " I don't have a family. My mom whoever that maybe gave me up the moment I was born. So I don't know who my mom or dad is. If I have brothers or sisters. Up until I was eighteen I was in one home after another. After I was out of the system I started moved around. I work for a month then I move somewhere else."

"I move so much I can't remember where I been half the time. Here is where I stay the longest. I feel more like home here then I have anywhere else." Dax told him. "How about that one you talk to before, Liviu?" Vlad asked. "Liviu is my boss, my best friend and the close thing I have to a brother. His family took me as one of the family. I think that's why I stayed." Dax told him.

At least you find a family that wants you, even if it years later." Vlad said. "Yeah, they are the sweet people I have ever meet. They are the ones who taught me how to speak Romanian." Dax told him.

"I have a question about the whole feeding thing?" Dax said. "I feed off of blood. Just animal blood tho. If I feed off a human then I would have to do a blood oath with them. That means they would be my only food sources. I can't feed off another or animal blood any more in less they, I guess stop the deal in some way." Vlad told him.

"So if I say you could feed off me I'm the only one you can feed off of until I say stop or die?" Dax asked. "Yes and no I can not turn you as far as I know," Vlad told him. Dax nodded his head. Nothing was said any more about the feed thing.

They talked some more until Dax fell asleep. Vlad's hungry has been getting worse lately. He could go a month or so without having to feed. Now he was to feed every other day.