Bloodstream

Chapter 4

*flashback*
"Skyler shh, it's okay" Cameron sooths. But it's not okay. It's not.
I scramble to sit up, all pain suddenly gone.
"Skyler, you're not going to die" he says.
"Cameron, you should be dead.." I say shakily, my fingers reaching up to the wound in his chest. I touch it...and there's no reaction. He feels no pain.

Then we hear the sirens. They will be coming here.
"Get out of the car. Now." The urgency in his voice scares me. So I do what he says. He pulls me into the trees but not before I get a glimpse of James. His handsome face blood splattered, his neck snapped. I scream. Cameron covers my mouth with his hand and the feeling of flesh against my lips is what makes my new fangs feel a need to sink into skin.

I choke and struggle but Cameron just holds me back in the thick of the forest, my fangs drawing blood from his hand. It tastes good....
The police are at the scene of the accident as me and Cameron flee. He pins my back to a tree and tells me to calm down and eventually my breathing slows.
"Skyler I have some explaining to do."

*present time*

So if you hadn't guessed it, that day was the day Cameron turned me into a vampire. Here's the thing: we have twice as much strength and speed as average humans. We don't have pale pale skin, we don't sparkle....we are however immortal. We don't feel physical pain, only emotional. We can be killed but only We don't age. At least not anywhere near as quickly, by the time I'm 1000 years old I will only look 30. And yes. We drink blood. We have one power and that is compulsion. And biting others doesn't kill them or turn them. It will give them temporary fangs so they can bite the vampire back and drink the vampires magical blood, this will turn them. Being bitten gives you an urge to bite back. Each vampire can turn only one person. Cameron chose me. To save me. He bit me then his blood from his wounds dropped into my mouth and the blood from his hand finished the job.
And when we do drink blood? The process is easy. You compel your 'victim' to sit still, so they don't try bite you back. Then you drink, clean up and compel them into thinking you weren't ever there. Ever woken up one morning and you have what looks like a vampire bite on your leg or arm, the marks to small to of course be a vampire (bite wounds heal quick) so you assume they are sandfly bites? That's us. Sorry, we borrowed your blood...

So here I am. Immortal me.

Despite my change I carried on. I am happy.

I haven't had a dose of blood in a while and that does make me appear pale. I grab a benie and thick scarf and walk to the park. My scarf conceals most of my face. I see a handsome man sitting on a park bench, no ones around. I sit beside him.
"Hello" I say innocently. He looks up at me, he recognises me instantly but my compulsion stops him from saying anything.
"Stay and keep quiet" I say. He does as he's told. I take his arm and roll up his sleeve. My fangs sink into his wrist. When I am done feeding, I wait till his fangs disappear before I compel him to forget and quickly walk back to my flat. I feel better and call my manager.
"Katlyne!" I say into the phone.
"Oh thank God" she says. "I heard about the accident, I'm on my way to your flat."
"I'm fine, I swear, don't worry" I say back. "Just tell Kitty I need her" kitty is my stylist. Katlyne pauses.
"Okay fine, but why?"
"Taylor's party."
"Oh right! You're going to that? That's good, very good"
She hangs up and Kitty later arrives hastily bustling through my door.
"OH DARLING!" She runs up to me and begins work straight away.

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A/N WELL THERE IT IS FOLKS! Comment what you think etc