The blonde waif began stirring from the euphoric effects of Thomas's feeding and her eyes slowly fluttered open to see that they were no longer alone in the alleyway. "Wh-what is going on here," she asked dreamily.<br/><br/>"Nothing you need to concern yourself with dear girl," Julian said as he stepped past Elizabeth to take hold of the human's arm and pull her from Thomas's grasp. "In fact, you never need to concern yourself with anything ever again." With those last words to her the eldest vampire twisted her head sharply until her spine snapped with an audible crunch. Dropping her corpse at his childe's feet in the most nonchalant of manners. "Really Thomas, leaving your prey alive? I was certain that I taught you better than that."<br/><br/>Thomas looked down at the body of the girl, and while he would mourn her passing later as he had all those that Julian had murdered over their years together the young vampire that occupied the alleyway with them garnered his attention more. She was not his Elizabeth, but the shade of her hair and the spread of freckles across the bridge of her nose dredged up memories of his former love. Thomas did not bother to answer Julian's question, instead choosing to ignore his sire as he pushed past him to stand before the vampiress. "You," the words came out as a whisper as he reached up to brush her cheek with shaky fingertips, "you are not her..."<br/><br/>The revelation caused his fingers to clinch angrily into a fist as he turned from the fiery-haired vixen and faced down his former master. "What is the meaning of this you monster?" Hatred, pure and unrefined bubbled to the surface as his muscles became taut, ready to pounce upon the man that had caused him so much pain. "You created another childe? For what purpose?"<br/><br/>Julian smiled warmly at Thomas, that same sickening grin that the sire had used to lull him into staying with promises of no more beatings. Of course it was a lie, for the beatings always came again and again. "I made her for you of course. I felt terrible for what happened to your dear Elizabeth, so I made you a new one. I want us to be a family again Thomas, a father and his two dear children living forever together."<br/><br/><i>I made you a new one.</i>The fact that he saw her as some manner of replacement for a child's broken toy baffled Thomas. He couldn't understand how such a creature had held onto him for so long, and he wondered just what Julian had put this Elizabeth through in their own time together. He wanted to leap at his sire then and there, to rip his head from his shoulders, but something in the back of his mind halted him. Not only was that primal fear of his sire still ever present, but the woman that stood at his back seemed to be completely in his thrall. He could attempt an attack, but he was certain he would die if it became two versus one. No, he needed to free this girl from Julian's clutches and in doing so he would hopefully free himself of the guilt he felt over the real Elizabeth's death. He couldn't save her before, but perhaps he could this time...<br/><br/>Releasing the fist that he had made he looked upon the man who had made them what they were and bowed his head solemnly. "I have been so very lonely without you, and now you have created something wonderful just for me." He stepped back to Elizabeth's side and placed an arm tentatively around her waist, trying his best to seem genuine. "Please forgive me for my past transgressions...master."