Prologue
Amber Blair is the name. Nec-Romancy is my game (Helping magical or the un-dead with all their marital struggles with my one-week marriage therapy plan). I'm a normal girl, for the most part. I like painting and drawing flowers mostly. I have brown hair and blue eyes, and I'd say I'm pretty pale. Everything about me is normal, except, of course, that I drink blood. Animal blood, of course, but blood nonetheless. I didn't choose to be like this, but I was dying slowly of stage 3 cancer, and I am all my Grandfather has left.
My family was pretty young, my Grandma had my mom at 15, and my mom had me at 16, so at 22 years old, my Grandfather is 50. My entire family died the summer before I was diagnosed. They were in a plane on their way to Philadelphia to see me, when they went through a heavy thunder storm. You can imagine what happened next.
So I drove down to Estes Colorado to live with my Grandfather, learning more about my heritage and family history than I ever truly cared to know. But I listen because it means a lot to him, and it's how he copes with knowing that his family, save me and his brother, are all gone. It's really too bad that I'm gone too.
((I just kindda wanted to have fun with this, so its structured more like a tv show with a new plot each chapter, but with an underlying main plot)) ((It's kind of like a fiction-humor. I got the idea of it from izombie, but none of the same characters and not zombies and not in a morgue))
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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