Same Faces Different Places

When Darkness Fell For Light {{CHONI}}

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The Serpents are a clan with strict rules about revealing themselves and especially Turning people

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Vampire Toni falls for a mortal Cheryl 

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She's drawn to her the very first time she sees her across the crowded dance floor of the Whyte Wyrm. She's red headed, fair skinned, young, beautiful – and mortal. Even if Toni didn't know without a doubt the girl doesn't belong to them she can still smell the heavy scent of sweat glistening on pale skin and the sweet flow of blood inside her veins.

She's dangerous in the same way as she's everything Toni is attracted to. The beating heart, the pumping blood, the breaths of air – it's all Toni wants but knows she can't have. She's come to terms with being undead centuries ago, but sometimes it's hard finding the one you think you could be with for the rest of your life and know that it's just not possible. She wouldn't do this to anyone she cares about. She wouldn't put them through the torture that is changing on purpose.

It had been different for her, she never asked to become a Vampire. She remembers leaving her home in a fit of rage against her parents for arranging her marriage and the next thing she knew had been waking up in the forest. Alone, in the dark, she'd been hurting all over – a downside of Turning she'd later learn. She had spend hours lying on the dirty ground, not able to get up or even move, until she'd finally stopped aching with every breath she took; and that's when she had realized she didn't need the breaths she had been so eagerly sucking into her lungs for the last hours. Of course, the Undead had already been a story elders taught their children and grandchildren, but how possible had it really been that they were, actually * real * and not just some figment of imagination someone had come up with centuries before she had even been born.

She had put it down to fear, of * course * she had needed to breath and had pulled herself off the ground with much effort. She had made her way home again, but with no idea where she actually was, it had taken another hour until she had found a spot she knew how to navigate to her house from. The strong urge to gulp down on hot, fresh, flowing blood hit her the moment she'd stepped into her village and, not knowing what is going on with her, she'd run home as fast as she could. The rising sun had burned her hand when she'd reached out for the door handle and it had been the last straw. She had turned and ran.

She'd run and run for hours, only absently noticing the speed in which she was moving, until the strong urge to feed had come over her again and she'd been too weak to move. She'd found a dark spot where the sun won't ever reach and curled up as small as she could. There's no way vampires were real, but it had been the only logical explanation she had been able to come up with. And she would not drink on humans – it had grossed her out so much, she still sometimes feels it today.

Elizabeth had found her weak and starving three days later and had brought the girl to her parents. FP and Alice had taken her and her sister, along with another pair of siblings in, when they had found themselves in a similar situation. And so Toni had learned about what it takes to be a Vampire and about the Rules and Regulations and how to survive and, most importantly, how it feels to have a real and loving family. She hasn't seen her own parents since that day she'd stormed out and as time went on, she stopped missing them completely. To this day, she has no idea who turned her and why. Whoever did had broken one of their laws, and she would have been well within her right to avenge herself for that, but they'd never found them. And it's not like there were that many laws to abide by:
Never reveal themselves
Never leave newly Turned on their own
Never leave someone you fed on without wiping their memory

But this had been her unwilling Turning, she didn't have a chance back then. Her only options had been accepting what she'd become or commit suicide by torching herself in the rising sunlight. But this girl, she would have to undergo Turning under the 5 rules and that's only of Toni even gets the okay to reveal herself and, in turn, their whole clan. So Toni relents to watching from afar, doesn't dare approaching the beautiful redhead for fear of actually falling for her and dragging her down into something she would never choose herself.