The Half Heir

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I felt whole and i felt complete. It felt like free falling and like butterflies were living in my stomach. It also felt peaceful and normal. It just felt so right. I had never felt so happy. I couldnt stop smilling. It felt like everything was beautiful and wonderful. Plus looking at Andrian grin at me and just adore me was the cherry on top. I was not used to so much happiness. If there would be anymore of it, i might burst.

Suddenly he stopped smiling. He looked at our room door, blank faced and then grimaced. He held his hand to his torso and hissed in pain. All the happiness just vanished, replaced with worry. I checked to see if he had gotten hurt but there were no wounds on him. Why was he in pain then? Was his mind being attacked? I closed my eyes and located his mind. I didnt find any external power attacking him.

"Andrian, whats wrong? Who is hurting you?" I ask him, worry gnawing at me.

"Its nothing. Someone is just being tortured." Andrian replied.

"What??!!?!" I ask him, horrified.

"You know i can feel others pain, so whoever is being tortured, i can feel their pain." He said and i grimaced. Now that wasnt nice.

"Who is being tortured and why?" I ask him, totally not ok with it.

"They most probably caught a spy. They might be torturing him for information. Dont look so surprised, we are vampires. We dont have much humanity within us." Andrian says.

"I know you are vampires but torturing is not something i would consider normal." I tell him. "And also you guys are pretty humanistic."

He smiles at me when i say that he is pretty humanistic. I mean he is. Like he and Catherine are big softies, so is Edwin. They dont seem like monsters at all.

"I was not always so humanistic as you call it. I did have phases when i felt nothing. I did not feel any remorse or guilt when i drank the life out of people. I did not even care about my own family. But then things change. It is not all permanent." He explains.

"What do you think caused the change?" I ask him. He looks at me a long moment, looking thoughtful.

"You did." He said softly. And my heart leapt. I grinned at him. Awww. That just melted my heart. I opened my mouth to ask him to elaborate more on what he meant about me changing me. But then he grimaces again and looks away.

I feel really bad that he is suffering so much. He totally doesnt deserve it. I also feel really bad about whoever it is being tortured. But first i need to help Andrian. I cant see him in pain. It hurts me when he is in pain. I reach out and take his hand in mine. I intervene our fingers and close my eyes. I immediately feel his presence. I concentrate on his presence. His presence is much different than my own or Rajah's.

His presence was golden and black. It was strikingly beautiful. The black stood for his vampire side and the gold was his soul. His presence reaches out to me. At first i was surprised with it. I was also scared. I mean his presence meeting mine might lead to disaster. But i dont move away as his golden black presence brushes against my red and blue one. It was the most beautiful feeling ever.

It felt so exhilarating and beautiful. It felt amazing. But it was gone too soon. His presence retreated completely into his mind. I felt strangly empty and sad without his presence. But i couldnt concentrate on that right now. I had to shield Andrian. I concentrated on his presence. I actually had no idea of what i was supposed to be doing. Its not like i have ever tried shielding minds before.

But then i remember something. Andrian had said that when i used my powers, it did not affect him. So my pain did not hurt him. Maybe i could use that piece of information. So i focused on my own presence. I slowly separated a part of myself from my own presence. It hurt like a bitch when i did that. It was like i was being poked by thousands of needles. I gave up then. The pain was too overwhelming.