The Brightest Part of The Night

Chapter 4

Shocked, Aidan drops her keys on the ground. "I haven't seen you in decades, why are you here?" 

"Is it not okay for me to check on who I turned?" They say, stepping out of the darkness. 

"You abandoned me when I was a young vampire. Left me to fend for myself." 

"Ah, yes. I did. For your safety." 

"Do you know how many people I killed? How many lives I took? How long it took me to control myself?" 

They step forward once again, placing a hand on Aidan's cheek. "My child, I know exactly what you've done. Raised your kid, taught them everything they know. Kaervan, your biological, he's beautiful. You've done quite well with both of them, Aidan." 

"Don't bring up Elliot or Kaervan."

"Why?"

Aidan pushes their hand away. "They're some of the last things I have going for me." 

"And what happened to being able to see people's outlines," they ask, staring directly into Aidan's eyes. They're terrifying, deep set eyes, red as blood. Tall, taller than Aidan, wearing black, short black hair with a little bit of a beard. 

"I still can." Aidan meets his eyes. "Viktor." 

He stands taller, watching Aidan's eyes scan him after saying that. "So, where's your little Elliot?" 

"Not gonna tell you." Aidan pushed past him, trying to get into her home. 

"What? I can't know what happened to them?" 

"I'm sure you know, dickbag," Aidan unlocked the door, walking in, and sitting down. "Don't come in here. This is my home. Not yours." 

Viktor sits against the door outside. "That's fine, I just want to check up on you. Before you hunt me. Like the vampire hunter you are." He scoffs. "A vampire vampire hunter. Ridiculous." 

"I think of it as powerful." Aidan tells him, smiling to herself. 

"You can't hunt them in the day, can you?" 

She lets air out of her nose, "Yes. I can." She stands. "I've got work in the morning. You're free to stay out there." 

"Where do you work?" 

"I'm a pediatrician. Seventy years later, and I'm a doctor, not just a nurse." 

"They now you're vampire?" 

"A lot of people now are. We don't really live in secrecy, anymore."

She hears Viktor shuffle around outside. "I've got to sleep. Don't go anywhere near my kids." 

Elliot wakes up with the hunger back. They now what's happening. They're changing, slowly. Not like Aidan described it when she changed. 

They try to move around their right arm. When they realize it's gone. "Shit, fuck, dammit, what happened?" They think back, hoping to find something. 

A man? They don't know. They pushed Elliot off the roof, them holding on to the ledge as long as they could before the thing, bites their forearm, and rips it off. Falling to the ground, from a two story ledge, landing. 

Last thing they remember, is Aidan biting them, then everything goes black. Their forearm was ripped off and then repaired as best as possible, still only leaving up until the elbow joint. 

"Dammit." Elliot curses, making sense of where they are, sitting up. Someone knocks at the door, some mortal, by the way Elliot hears the heartbeat.