Vampire Experiment: Book One of the Vamp Virus Series

✧✦ Chapter Six ✦✧

"Lestat?" Jasper questioned. Lestat broke from his trance and turned to look at him. "What are you doing?"

"N...nothing. Just remembering." He waved at the garden and turned back to him. "What's up? How is Red doing?"

"He's alright." Jasper replied, scraping his shoe against the ground. "He's sleeping soundly for now." Lestat nodded and relaxed into a bench.

"Do you ever regret that I turned you?" He asked. He rarely showed emotion and since Jasper's return it seemed that it had begun to spark inside him. He knew what pain, anger, sadness and love was. It was what had consumed him in the first place. He shook his head, getting rid of his thoughts.

"Well... I can't say I have loved every minute of it." Jasper scratched his head and looked away. "But it got me away from that mad scientist and his abuse, and for that and that alone I am thankful."

He nodded. "You aren't away from him though. I know you still go to him now and then. I knew it when I tasted your blood." He said the last bit quietly. "I know he turned her and I know why." Lestat met Jasper's eyes.

"Okay, first off, when did you take the opportunity to bite me?" A frown grew on Jasper's face, "Second, tell me what you know about all of this."

He smirked. "Did you have a strange dream, Jasper? About someone biting you?" He raised an eyebrow. "I did it to check your health. And no, I will not tell you. It does not concern you. It has to do with me and I will deal with it myself."

He shook his head and stepped up into Lestat's face, growling at him. "Tell me. You may think it doesn't have anything to do with me, but it does! Now tell me what is going on with Odette, or so help me I will-"

"You will what? I created you, boy! Do not forget that. I am the only one who can control you and if you need me to prove that point, I will. The issue at hand does not pertain to you. It has to deal with Harland and myself, you just got caught in the middle of it." He stood up, matching Jasper's stare. "I suggest you stop this waste of time and get back inside. We have work to do." Jasper swore loudly before turning around and stalking back into the building, growling.

Lestat shook his head and disappeared into the kitchen, throwing dishes out the open window. Everything that was dirty he simply tossed, everything else he counted. He opened an antique fridge and was thankful that he couldn't smell the human food. He pulled everything out and threw it out the window, splattering onto the dishes already out there. When he finished he went out to the living room where Jasper was.

"Kitchen is done. What is taking you so long?"

"Nothing." He spat, sweeping the floor furiously and causing dust to fly everywhere.

"Why don't you just do this?" Lestat asked, opening all of the doors and windows, letting the wind move the dust from one side of the room toward the front door. "See? All done. Let's go get some food."

"Fine..." Jasper sighed and followed him outside to the car. "Where are we going?"

Lestat got in the drivers side and held out his hand for the keys. "Keys. Now. No fighting. I know how you drive when you are angry. Keys and get in." He waved his hand, looking at the dashboard.

Jasper dug in his pockets before dropping the keys into Lestat's open hand. He climbed into the passenger seat and slumped down in the seat. "Where are we going?" He asked again, staring out the window.

"Does it make a difference if I tell you?" The engine roared to life and Lestat peeled out of the area and down the mountain. He wasn't quite sure if Jasper would get angry or not, but at the moment he didn't care. The car swerved around the corners, skidding across the dirt. At the end of the mountain the car buckled as it went up and over a few massive bumps.