The Vampire Adamantine MxM (Staten Crown)

14

"Are you upset?"

He was standing over me. We had rented a hotel room in the middle of Harlem. I didn't have much money on me. I managed to swipe a woman's wallet without her looking. She wouldn't miss the 30 dollars. I gave the rest of the wallet to the guy at the convenient store. Maybe she'd come looking for it and find it with him.

30 dollars was all we could afford and it showed. The place was roach infested. There was only one bed and it looked like it was in shambles completely.

"We'll be ok. Your wounds will heal and then Roxanne and the others will come back to get us."

"Why come my blood doesn't bother you?"

"It just doesn't," I explained. I didn't want to go back into the idea of Lilith again. Carter asked questions but I knew he asked questions sometimes to things that he really didn't want to hear. That had always been a big issue of his.

"So how will they know when to come back. Besides, how will we get the door open?"

"There is where you come in. Maybe you can try to remember. Maybe you can dream and try to see again how the door opens to Eden. If not I will call Boston."

"What's in Boston?"

"A friend by the name of Belial. If I can get a phone to Belial, he may know just how t

openthat door."
I'll sleep under the bed if you don't mind. I just have to make sure no light hits me when

morningcomes."

"We still have a few hours until sunrise."

"I suppose."

I hadn't even looked at the time. I was upset. I didn't want to show it but I was. David was dead. That was the most upsetting thing of all. I couldn't believe it. I had just begun to like him. I had just begun to understand him and now he was gone from us. I couldn't help but keep seeing Giovanni's face. I couldn't help but remember how he just didn't seem to care at all. Was this the way of the vampire. You love someone one day and they you completely abandon them.

I had begun to think about my own love affair. What if Arie tired of me in the same way that Giovanni tired of David? An eternity was an awfully long time...

"You thinking about him aren't you?" Carter asked me.

"You mean David?"

"No...I mean the other one. Don't make me say his name."

"Do you even know his name?"

Carter laughed steadily and nodded, "You think I won't know the name of the guy that did this to someone so close to me."

I paused. Carter's laugh wasn't a happy laugh. I had seen the laugh before. I wanted to be careful of what I said to Carter. We hadn't seen each other in a long time but I was sure if I thought about it, we could still have that connection that we had before. We could still obtain that perfect connection.

"He didn't make me like this. Carter are you...embarrassed that I am what I am now?"

"I don't know..." he answered, "Are you happy?"

I nodded.

I was grateful for his honesty. I got up off the bed and looked into the mirror. It was wrong what the old fairytales said. A vampire did have a reflection, but the reflection was different than a normal human's. The reflection was blurry, almost transparent depending on the way you looked at it. It would be hard to describe if you didn't see it yourself.