There's Always A Tomorrow: We'll Live Our Lives And Then...
Prequels: "There's Always A Tomorrow: I Sacrifice My Soul" and "There's Always A Tomorrow: This Certainty is Bliss"
Summary:
I have felt bliss, and yet all I get in return is suffering. As hard as I try, I can't fight my need for him even though I have another by my side. I must try to live without him if I want him to be happy. He has everything he wants and I fail to be listed as one of his necessities. I must move aside my anger and pain to remember that he is mine for eternity...No matter if we want it to be that way or not. We belong together.
Before the Summer Ends
Mina sighed greatly as Vlad shut his eyes tightly. She laid her back on the porch, one leg bent at the knee and the other straight out. Her left arm held her head up in a pillow and her other hand fumbled with her IPod.
Vlad tried with all his might to use what concentrated power he needed to try and locate Otis. But with Vlad's growling stomach and Mina lying down but a step away with her sweet vampric blood pounding, it was difficult. He knew that he was stronger with his vampric powers when hungry but Mina being there was too much. She tossed her IPod down on her stomach and took in a breath.
"To dim the sun before the summer ends. To burn the castle down before the princess is awake. To kill our love when it's still so alive... I would not do it... my heart would break-"
"Would you just stop?" He snapped at her. She sat up at his outburst. Her blue IPod fell off of her to the wooden porch and she stared at him blankly. Her eyes narrowed for a split second before going blank once more. "I'm sorry, but I have to concentrate and that's hard with you singing your endless songs!"
"Yes, Master Pravus." She rolled her beautiful eyes and lay back down.
He shot her a look but softened when she closed her eyes and returned to the false-bliss that Dracula gave her. After so long Vlad sighed and seemed to be waiting before talking through telepathy with Otis. Mina was brought from her day-dreams when the soft breeze of Otis alerted her of his return. He had been teaching Vlad to sense other vampires, while others where around him. Hence the only reason Mina was there, otherwise she would be home.
She felt his vampire-presence and smelt his scent. She sat up but leaned on one of the pillars of the porch with her eyes still closed.
"How did you see me, Vladimir? Exactly what were you doing?" Otis asked in a shocked tone that caused Mina to pause her IPod in interest. He shrugged carelessly before he spoke.
"I didn't do anything different, just reached out with my blood, the way you taught me. Why?"
"Vampires can't tell who it is we sense or precisely where they are, only how far away from us they're located and how many there are." Mina scowled at Vlad in contemplated thought. She had seen these moments constantly occurring over this summer. At the beginning, she found herself special for being able to fly rather than hover or for her fast-developing mind-skills. Yet as Vlad was the Pravus there was nothing she could do about it, he would outshine her. She didn't much mind but school was starting again tomorrow and with them being nocturnal and the next day to switch to her original human schedule was making her irritable.
"Great. I can't do the simplest thing without screwing it up with my weirdness." He sighed, Mina suppressed a chuckle.
"It's not a curse, Vladimir. It's a blessing." Mina saw a faint lie but ignored it.
