Vampires and Slaves (Enter This Realm To Die)

Allan

He leads me outside, telling me of the new being I was and his experience in hunting, and around the city until we stumble across a couple of men. He makes them fall limp, unable to escape, and hands one to me, telling me to feed. I look at the pulse in the murderer's neck a moment before the hunger gets the better of me and I'm swallowing mouthful after mouthful of his blood.

Fidelis

I watched Allan feed from the man. I waited a while, then tapped Allan's shoulder. "That's enough. You can only take as much to stop the heart from beating. When you hunt, you kill your prey." Once Allan released his dead prey, the corpse fell flat to the ground. "You'll get the gist of it. Just takes a little practice. Watch me." I latched to my prey's throat and drank him almost dry. After that, I released him and watched him fall dead. "It's been three years since I last had a hunt like that. Of course, then again I had myself a fresh meal out of a gunman the night we faked our deaths."

Allan

I feed until he taps my shoulder and tells me it's enough. I release the man and watch him fall limp the ground, dead. I'd just killed someone.

"You'll get the gist of it. Just takes a little practice. Watch me." He says.

I look at him and watch as he feeds, somehow getting hungrier as I do. He releases him and the man falls to the ground.

"It's been three years since I last had a hunt like that. Of course, then again I had myself a fresh meal out of a gunman the night we faked our deaths." He says.

"You fed that night...from someone besides me?" I ask, not sure what to think about it.

Fidelis

I nodded. "Sometimes, I have to hunt to keep the crime level down. That gunman would've murdered someone if I didn't kill him. Same would've happened to anyone else if we didn't kill these men. I follow the beliefs of the Druids. Vampires were once believed as bringers of justice before we were believed as evil. Some of us are, but most of us are as you say old school." I led him around, doing so by the hand. "Because most of us live by the Druids' belief about vampires, we use that as a way of life. It's also the law of the Queen that we never feed off innocent blood. Feeding off innocent blood was the downfall and ultimately fatal end to the Bloodlust Twins."

Allan

I nod and let him lead me around by the hand, listening.

"Okay, that means that I'm like that too, right?" I ask. "'Cause I don't know if I could handle feeding off of...infants or anything like that."

Fidelis

"Feeding off innocent blood will only corrupt you and twist you in ways too dreadful to speak of. The Bloodlust Twins are a perfect example of what happens to those who feed off innocent blood. Those of us who don't feed off innocent blood are the lucky ones." I sat down on a bench. "However, I myself regret my first taste of innocent blood. It was after that, I've been hunting guilty mortals to sustain me. That first taste of innocent blood was like someone having thier first taste of wine. You know it's bad for you, but you just couldn't help but have a taste for a try."

Allan

I nod and sit beside him.

"I consider myself more of a vodka kind of guy," I attempt to joke.

Fidelis

I sighed. "But still, my first taste of innocent blood almost drove me to madness. I had to lock myself away to get the taste out of my mouth. Even now, I still regret that first taste of innocent blood. I don't want to go through that again."

Allan

I scoot closer to him and set my head on his shoulder, nodding.

"Then I won't ever," I promise.

Fidelis

I set my hand on his knee. "You're not curious about it? Not even the slightest about how I first tasted innocent blood?"

Allan

I look up and study him, my eyes flickering back to his hand on my knee every so often.

"Just a little," I admit.

Fidelis

I sighed. "It was when I was in the care of the Bloodlust Twins, about a month or less before I freed Celeste. I couldn't tell what they were doing, but they were tormenting her for some unknown reason. While they were on the hunt, I had a long talk with Celeste, trying to calm her down. That was when I noticed she was with child. It was showing a little, but it was obvious to me that she was carrying a life inside her. To calm her down more, I secretly made friends with her and cared for her so she could someday bear a healthy child. When the Bloodlust Twins came back from their hunt, they brought a young man with them for me to snack on. The second his blood touched my tongue, I knew he was an innocent man. By the time I figured that out, it was too late to stop myself from killing him. I was driven to near-madness until Celeste locked me in the basement where she usually hid. After I freed her, I made a pact with her. I swore never to do harm to her descendents or take innocent blood, then she swore never to forget me. After I heard from your father, I knew Celeste was true to her word." I looked at Allan. "And I'm still true to my word. I never harmed you and I never touched innocent blood again."

Allan

I nod, listening, and hesitantly set my hand over his.

"Does it really drive one crazy? Drinking from an innocent, I mean?" I ask.

Fidelis

I nodded. "From my experience, it does. Take as much as the Bloodlust Twins did and you're utterly insane and absolutely corrupted. I'd hate to kill you if you went that far."

Allan

I swallow and look up at him.

"Y-you wouldn't let me go that far, right?" I ask. "I-I don't want to be like that."