Blood Ties - Part 5
I'll say only ONE thing: Writer's block is horrible. But no worries, while I blocked on Blood Ties, I advanced some other stories I had in wait. So I'm not leaving everything there for a mere writer's block.
Title: Blood Ties
Part: 5 of ?
Main pairing: unconfirmed!Sihan
Other parings: Kangteuk, Heesica, some to declare themselves later
Rating: PG-13
Disclamer: I own no one!
Summary: After the vampires took the world over, reducing humans to be a "lower race", newborn vampire Siwon has to deal with the harsh reality of being a night creature...but also discovers that even those said to be soulless creatures have their own little spot of happiness in this world, no matter what happens.
“Why do you have no prey?! I mean, how do you feed?!”
Kangin chuckled, which seemed strange to Siwon. This man knew how to laugh? One arm around Leeteuk’s waist, he was about to say something when a falcon entered the place, making Siwon jump in surprise. The bird perched itself on Heechul’s shoulder, who didn’t seem the least alerted by it. Apparently it was something usual… On the bird’s leg was a parchment… Falcons instead of pigeons? Interesting. Vampires had more patience than humans… less fear, too.
Heechul took the note and read it. Each line he read was accompanied with a loud sigh, which deserved him strange look from the trio that was with him. Suddenly he turned the parchment into a ball, throwing it in the nearest fireplace.
“Seunghyunnie just lost his prey. Poor boy is inconsolable… Jessica has no patience in those situation, plans that she would kill her own Child if he keeps crying… Which I don’t think he’ll stop until I do something.”
“Oh. You should go to him.” Whispered Leeteuk with a pained expression.
Pain was a mere word compared to what Siwon was feeling right now. The idea of losing his own prey…. Was unbearable. He was thinking of Han Geng, that he had left to sleep in his bedroom instead of the usual prey dormitory, and how losing him would hurt his heart. Deeply. He felt for that Seunghyun. Could he be considered as Siwon’s cousin? Probably not, they were the Children of half brothers’ lovers… nah, it would be too farfetched…
“If there is anything, you guys know how to join me. We are in Jessica’s sisters’ clan.”
“Have a safe trip” grumbled the Clan leader, happy to see his half-brother leave.
“Siwon?”
While Heechul was rambling about his trip and complaining that Kangin didn’t love him, Siwon heard his name and saw his prey standing at the top of the stairs. Wondering if something was wrong, he ran to reach him, worry all over his eyes.
“I… I just had a bad feeling…”
“It’s okay… You still look pale, though. You should go back to bed…”
“I’m alright…”
“You sure?”
Geng looked stable on his feet, so he wasn’t this weak… but he just lost a glassful of blood! That wasn’t logical! Just to confirm his doubts, Kangin climbed back the stairs as soon as Heechul closed the main door, suddenly holding the prey’s chin very tightly, making him wince, then looking straight in those eyes, looking for something, Siwon had no idea what it was, but something.
“Not the slightest sign of tiredness… He looks… perfectly fine…”
“Is there a problem with that?”
Siwon had to ask. He didn’t want to know that there was a problem with his prey. He would probably throw a fit if something like that happened. He had just met in a convenient manner and they already cared for each other!
“He’s just like you were, Teukie! First blood collecting and he doesn’t even need to sleep!” cried out the clan leader, looking to his lover who was slowly climbing the stairs in turn, frowning with interrogations spread all over his features.
“I see that… unusual prey indeed…”
“Is there anything wrong with me?” asked Han Geng with a small voice. Siwon feared the answer.
That is when Siwon realised those dark circles which were there less than an hour ago… were gone. He never heard of dark circles leaving their trace on a face this quickly.
“Is he... a special prey?”
Seriously, he preferred his option to the one expressed in Geng’s question. Leeteuk nodded and took Kangin’s wrist to stop him from squeezing the poor human’s chin. Siwon swore that he heard a scolding “tut” coming from the former prey.
“There is nothing wrong with you. And yes, Siwon, he is a special prey. I never thought I would meet someone else that would be like I used to be…”
“… used to be… wait…!”
Links were forming themselves in his head. Leeteuk knew Kangin when he was human, and he knew the other clan members, like Heechul or Kangin’s Parent, who also knew him… Nothing could explain that… but one thing.
“You were a prey too!”
Leeteuk smiled, nodding calmly to confirm what Siwon was guessing. Kangin threw an arm around his lover’s shoulders in something that seemed to be a possessive move.
“…and you were Kangin’s! That is why you knew everyone of the clan, and that’s why you two don’t treat preys like the rest of them do! And…”
“Were you lovers even back then?”
Siwon was cut short by his prey’s blunt question. He turned around and looked at him with round eyes. Geng looked perfectly calm, as if that question was the most regular one. Sometimes Siwon just couldn’t understand him! Somehow, it didn’t seem to alarm neither Kangin nor Leeteuk.
“Yes we were… That’s why I turned him when I realised that he was getting way older than my own human age. He’s my Bloodmate, I couldn’t just let him go like that.”
Leeteuk blushed and looked away and Siwon was sure that he felt Geng tense up at the answer.
“But why were you a special prey? What do I have that makes me different like you were? Could it be a nuisance to Siwon?”
“Oh, no! Being a special prey is good! You can regenerate your blood much more quickly than a regular prey… you heal from blood collecting so easily! I was the same… I could regenerate myself in a day! Most preys take a week and they sleep for majority of it. You went through a rough Adaptation, but you are blessed with the capacity to feed Siwon as soon as he needs it!”
“Oh, good then.”
The Chinese prey let out a huge sigh before looking at Siwon with a little smile.
“So when you are hungry, you don’t hesitate, okay?”
That smile was so charming, Siwon just couldn’t resist it. He answered to it with heart, feeling full and content. His prey simply was wonderful.
“Speaking of hungry… why don’t you have your own prey, Umma?”
“Oh. Kangin doesn’t have one either.”
That wasn’t logical. Kangin used to have Leeteuk has a prey, now he doesn’t have a prey at all? And now Leeteuk didn’t have one too… There was something wrong… Wait. Heechul had been here for a while and he was on his own, so no prey either. What had they in common other than being direct descendants of the original couple? Heechul’s children had preys… like he did.
Apparently Han Geng was a far more intelligent man than what Siwon had given him credit for earlier, because he found the answer before the vampire he was feeding.
“Maybe… are you feeding off each other?”
Feeding off each other… Not something all vampires could do, since they had human preys…
“BLOODMATES!”
Kangin stopped on his tracks as he heard the word. Leeteuk, on the other side, looked simply amazed, as if he had been expecting his Child to find the answer on his own for quite a time.
“He’s too young to know the principles of Bloodmates!”
“He found it on his own, we have been surrounded with Bloodmates situations ever since he’s born! You and me, Heechul and Jessica… the representative and his former prey!”
Kangin let out a loud sigh, Leeteuk was simply smiling at him while Siwon looked content with his discovery… while not really understanding it. The human in the room didn’t seem to understand a single thing of it.
“Geng, that’s it? …could you please go back to Siwon’s room? I have stuff to talk about with my Child.”
“Siwon’s room? Ah, yes… I thought you would make me go back to the basement.”
“If other vampires know about your Regeneration abilities, you could be in trouble while being down there.”
Siwon never saw a human go away that fast without running. Well, he was truly special. Thinking that he would have his whole explanation now, Siwon waited, but Leeteuk threw a glance at Kangin who grumbled and left, not without stealing a quick peck on his lover’s lips.
“You sure?”
“Yes I am, with what is at risk right now… He has to get ready quicker than any other newborn.”
“I’m trusting you… see you later.”
Siwon smiled when he saw two vampire fighting with each other a little further, Kangin scolding them as he spotted them.
“Come with me, we’ll go to my quarters.”
Leeteuk’s quarters. Siwon hadn’t been there ever since he woke up from his transformation, all lost and confused. This was the place were Leeteuk had cared for him in his first week as a vampire newborn. He wondered why he was suddenly allowed to come back there.
“I can’t believe I’m talking to you about it already.” Sighed the Parent as he sat in a huge chair, showing to Siwon that he could sit on the one right next.
“About what?”
“Everything.”
That was such a large answer. But as Leeteuk started to explain, Siwon could picture the stories quite easily…
They say that vampires come from a human that was bitten by a bat. That is nonsense. Vampires all were humans before the race existed. That is why we can’t switch from human to bat like human show in their movie. That is why we aren’t affected by those cross and holy water and stuff that would repel demons… because we aren’t demons. We are… modified human being. The stories talk that a human that had an illness or a DNA abnormality. He transferred this abnormality to his children and they gave it to their children, all of them suffering and not living for long. One of his descendants found out that if he drank blood, he would feel better. This is how that child decided to bite a few normal humans, killing them when it got out of his control… and his organism started to change.
He was the first vampire. Our father to all of us. We inherited his illness. And our organism is like his… the long fangs to be able to piece skin, the craving for blood in order to feel better…
However, as he was being persecuted, he started to live on his own, hidden. He was never going out, only during the night because there were less people and he could hide in darkness to be able to bite a human who was passing by. His skin was so unused to light by then that he got sunburn instantly…Our skin burn when we are exposed to natural light, it’s because of him.
That man once tried to bite a beautiful, beautiful woman. He wanted to drink off her, but he didn’t want to kill her like he killed the others. He bit her, and strangely, as he was wondering if he should stop, she told him to. She knew already what he was. Her family had been touched by the illness, but none of them became a vampire like our creator did. She had the capacity to become one, it was in her genes… that is why she bit him in turn.
She turned into the same thing he was… the second one. Our mother. Together, they are called the Original Couple.
They were both afraid of persecution, as she had somehow developed his abilities when she drank his blood. That is how they started feeding off each other, making sure that they wouldn’t get caught if they went outside together. Two vampires attacking humans now and then would be easily noticed. However, they started to feel lonely. That is why our father went out, saying that he would find them a child.
He was quite… something, that young child. Well, young was a large word, as he was twenty years old in human years. But he knew that they had to do something to get out of this place, in the sewers…
That is how they ended up in an abandoned house in the forest, hiding all windows and making sure that no one could reach it so they wouldn’t be discovered. They quickly discovered that their child was unable to feed off them without feeling nauseous. They wondered why, She had been transformed by him like the boy had been and she was able to drink off her lover…
There was still one vampire on the run, eating whenever he wanted, on whoever he wanted. This is how he met with an extravagant youth a few decades after. He looked like a girl, but he was determined: he wanted to be like them. He wanted to flee the normal world, he didn’t feel like he belonged. He begged the child of the Original Couple, asking him to transform him in turn, but the Child had no idea how to do it… then he talked about it to his mother… who took action and transformed the other boy. There was now two Children for the couple.
“Kangin and Heechul.” Siwon whispered.
“Exactly.”
But neither of the children was able to drink off his Parent, unable the Couple who were feeding off each other. One day, the father sighed loudly as he watched their youngest Child come back home, wiping the blood from his mouth.
“We have no soul… we have no regret in killing for survival.”
“Don’t be silly, if we don’t have souls, what keeps us together?”
“Blood.”
“So you think that we can’t love each other since we have no soul?”
“No, I say that love for our kind comes as a chemical reaction our blood… thus why our Children can’t drink off us while we can to each other.”
“So if we aren’t Soulmates…what are we, you and I?”
“I say something like… Bloodmates, my pretty…”
Not only they were the Original Couple, the beginning of our race, but they also discovered the one rule to which the vampires live. Find your Bloodmate, cherish that person, and ease your mind of the pain you cause to normal humans.
“So, the one of whom you can feed off while that person is vampire… is your Bloodmate?”
“Feelings come before everything. It’s the love that you feel from inside that changes your blood composition… Because how do you want prey and vampire to be Bloodmates?”
“True…”
“Now off, the sun is about to rise. I want you to take a good night rest before I tell you more.”
“Okay… thank you for the explanation, Umma”
“You’re welcome, Siwonnie!”
He was feeling that his head wasn’t hurting as much as before. Those two, the Original Couple… they seemed awesome. Siwon was their direct descendant, now to think of it. Wow. It brought a lot of pressure. He let out a huge sigh before entering his bedroom.
“Han Geng? You’re here?”
The man was crouched in front of the fireplace, poking the wood logs to activate the flames with a long stick.
Wait, flames? Fire?
What was this dreaded feeling inside of him. Why did he want to flee from that place as soon as possible? The little smoke was killing his insides, he wanted to scream, to cry, all at the same time.
“Siwon, you alright?”
“Stop that fire, Geng… stop it…”
He was shaking. He felt a sudden headache, as if something bad was about to happen to him. He held his head with both hands, falling on the floor without realising that Geng cried out in worry, not hearing the sound of a bucket of water being thrown at the fire.
Everything’s was blank. But Siwon still saw those haunting flames in front of his eyes and he heard a woman screaming his name while crying.