A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)
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				Title: <strong>A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>crystaltears</strong> on <strong>24-04-2009, 07:51:26</strong>
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				Elizabeth Jones Looked out the display window at the front of the little book shop she worked at. The rain was coming down as a light drizzle. <em>'At least it's not heavy like it was earlier...'</em> she thought, but she still didn't like the idea of walking out into it. She finished closing up the shop and slipped into her trench coat, thankful for its water resistance and length. The walk from the store to her apartment was not a long one.<br><br>She looked around the shop one more time before grabbing her purse and umbrella and heading outside. The night air was cool and the rain drizzling from the skies did nothing to help that. She followed the road the book store fronted on for a while, but staying on the roads prolonged her walk home considerably. Tonight she just wanted the warmth of her apartment. Normally she didn't cut through the alley, rather enjoying the walk, but in this weather the walk wasn't worth the cold.<br><br>She took a right at the first opening. The alley was dark, the pavement slick, and the sound of her heels clicking against it was muffled a little by the rain. The black fabric of her trench coat protected the knee-length, black skirt and white blouse from the rain that was falling, and her umbrella protected the coat and her round, brown purse. <br><br>She was five minutes through the walk home, in about the middle of the portion that led through the alley when she first saw them. It was night and there weren't any lights on in the alley; the overcast sky added to the darkness, preventing Elizabeth from seeing them well enough to distinguish much at all, but they were coughing. It sounded masculine. Part of her was wary of the stranger and she started to just walk by, but another cough made her turn back and say, "Are you alright?"<br><br>He sounded so miserable with that coughing, and pressed into a wall in an alleyway.. Likely in an effort to protect himself at least somewhat from the rain that was falling on the streets. It didn't look like he was very warm. <em>'Am I crazy?'</em> she asked herself, <em>'Talking to a stranger in a dark alley all by myself... And if he's not okay, what then? Am I going to take him home?'</em> She didn't know what she was going to do, but she did know she didn't want to leave this stranger out in the cold.
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Saku</strong> on <strong>25-04-2009, 03:53:38</strong>
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				The vampire coughed, not able to stop as he spat out the blood, the tainted blood that had belonged to the one he had intended to turn. How could he have known the mortal was a werewolf? Dressed in a long dark trenchcoat, the tall pale faced man coughed again as he spat out more of the dark red liquid and turned away from his victim just as Elizabeth Jones showed up. Fiery ice rushed through Sergei's veins as he struggled to breathe and he felt as though his entire body was burning up. It didn't feel good whatever was happening and he kept trying to fight it off.<br><br>What was happening to him? He had to tell Jayson and Jocelyn that he had been bit by a vampire but he couldn't seem to speak or even move and he cried out in pain only to find that no sound escaped his mouth. Feverish, Sergei's blue eyes darted back and forth and then rolled around in his head as he tried to keep himself conscious in order to fight off whatever it was that had gotten into his system and he whined low in his throat. His attacker moved away from him quite suddenly and Sergei's body collapsed onto the hard ground as the vampire dropped him.<br><br>The undead creature coughed in response to Elizabeth's words and stumbled off, brushing her concern aside as he hurried away, wanting to leave this alley to recover, Elizabeth was lucky that he hadn't been one of those evil vampires. They would have simply ripped her throat out and drank the precious blood that pumped through her veins without a second thought, after all drinking pure blood helped rid the system of poisonous blood it was a known fact. Soon he disappeared from sight leaving Elizabeth in total darkness. Alone.<br><br>Or so it seemed. Only a moment later an almost inaudible sound could be heard if one listened hard enough, it sounded as though someone or something was up ahead in the dark. <em>"H-hel-p...!"</em> It was one word and the owner of the voice was not well considering how the word was broken up and almost couldn't be heard at all. Sergei could tell by now that he was in trouble and he needed for someone to get word back to his pack for they would know how to help him. They were his family. He knew someone else was here, he'd heard them.<br><br>If Elizabeth moved forward she would see that a body lay in the shadows up against the wall of the alley. Should Elizabeth help him up she would find that Sergei stood at around 5'6" and possessed a mop of black curly hair which was at the moment quite disheveled. He used to have a gorgeous pair of blue eyes but after being turned into a vampire, his eyes were now a unique shade of gold when he was conscious and moving around. However, it might be hard to see them in the darkened alleyway. Sergei made a soft whining sound in the back of his throat for the second time that night as he waited for help to come. Before it was too late.
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>crystaltears</strong> on <strong>27-04-2009, 05:00:10</strong>
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				Elizabeth took a step back as the man she'd seen started moving, but he moved away from her, out toward the street she'd come from. She breathed a sigh of relief. <em>'Saved from my own foolish kindness.'</em> Her heel clicked once on the pavement as she began to walk again before she heard, just barely, a plea for help. The woman turned toward the noise. <br><br>On the ground, pressed into the wall the other stranger had been against, she could barely make out the form of man. She moved forward cautiously, fishing into her purse for the pepper spray she carried, but the sound of his voice was so broken. Her hand closed around it before she let it go again and just moved closer. His breathing was labored, or so she thought as she watched him. The darkness and the rain made it very hard to tell for sure.<br><br>"Oh my.. Can you hear me? We should call the police.." She moved beside him now, suspecting he had been the victim of a mugging or something. As she did she tried to help him to his feet. The man stood easily enough with her aid. It turned out he was only a little taller than she was, in these heels at least. His hair was black as far as she could tell in the darkness.<br><br>She sighed. Calling the police was well and good, but he was obviously in pain. The least she could do was get him out of the rain, "Come on, if you can, I'll take you to my apartment." Her voice was soft. In the process of helping him up the coat and umbrella had done some moving and now her blouse was a little spattered with rain water. It was not so bad as to make it see-through yet, but the material did cling to her skin a little.<br><br>She pulled the coat closed in the front and held the umbrella so it sheltered him from the rainfall. Her own hair was dirty blonde, but looked black from the wetness and the lighting. Brown eyes stayed peeled as they moved through the alley; she didn't want the attacker sneaking up on them. She chose her steps carefully, and tried to guide his as well, though she wasn't sure how badly injured he was. Elizabeth would know more when she got him inside and into some decent lighting. She knew a few things about injuries; being the daughter of a nurse came in handy once-in-a-while.
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Saku</strong> on <strong>29-04-2009, 02:13:44</strong>
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				He felt weak, weaker than he had ever been before which was not a good sign and he knew he needed to get word out to his pack about what had gone down in the alley. They- but then he heard a female voice call out to him, interrupting his thoughts for she had responded to his rhetorical cry for help and Sergei blinked. Who was that? Was there someone else in the alley?<br><br>It took him a few minutes to process what she had said and then he shook his head, the motion causing him to experience quite a bit of dizziness and he slumped. <em>"No, no. No police. No hospital."</em> Sergei managed to get out as she tried to help him to his feet and he leaned heavily on her as he tried to get his head to stop spinning around. He hated feeling like this.<br><br>He nodded when Elizabeth said they could go to her apartment and he let himself be led off with her, his arm still draped over the woman's shoulder. Sergei could smell her body odor and her scent even in his current state and she smelled good but he restrained himself from trying to take a bite out of her. Elizabeth was trying to help him and the least he could do was not eat her.<br><br>He heard the pitter patter of rain hit the umbrella a few seconds later and realized she had held up the contraption to shelter him from the rain. <em>"Thank...you."</em> Sergei said, pausing for breath after the first word before the second slipped from his lips and took a deep breath, trying to remain conscious. It was a hard thing to do because his entire body was freaking out.<br><br>Sergei wasn't entirely sure what was happening to him but it couldn't be good that much was for certain since a vampire had tried to feed off him. He didn't think that he could hang on for much longer though and if he didn't wake up he needed to let her know who to contact and he tried to gather what he wanted to say in his mind. Once he had put everything together he opened his mouth to tell her what he needed from her. <br><br>They had just stopped outside a building that apparently was the one she lived in when he lost his grip and slipped into a state of unconsciousness, his body tipping forward to begin a descent into the hard stone wall...
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>crystaltears</strong> on <strong>03-05-2009, 10:14:36</strong>
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				Elizabeth blinked when he said not to call the police or take him to the hospital. She said nothing but thought, <em>'Well, I'll be the judge of that...'</em> She was a nurse's daughter; if he seemed to need a hospital visit she would take him there. They kept moving, the umbrella protecting him from the rain that was falling. He seemed to take notice of it and thanked her and she smiled a little, that he had thanked her calmed her nerves some. <br><br>Even if he hadn't she would have helped though. Her mother had often told her not to leave a person suffering if you could help them. She smiled as they neared the apartment. Elizabeth was not a weak girl, but was nothing exceptional when it came to strength. She happened to glance at his face as they neared the door to her first floor apartment and thought he was about to say something when he suddenly started falling forward off her. <br><br>Elizabeth was caught off guard and her heel slipped a little from the wet concrete they stood on, but she caught herself somehow, barely. She caught him too, straining against his weight as she pulled his arm more snugly around her shoulder and half-carried, half-dragged him to her apartment door. She rested him between herself and the wall as she dug the keys out of her purse and opened the door. <br><br>Still only half-carrying him she pulled him inside and dropped the purse on the ground by the door along with the umbrella that had been clenched in her hand. Elizabeth bit her lower lip as she moved him into her little kitchen and rested him on the floor before going back to the door, closing it, and locking it. She retrieved a first aid kit and moved back to the stranger and started to check him over. Pulse, breathing, then began trying to see where he was injured so she could tend it. The kitchen light was on and bright enough for her to see by.
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Saku</strong> on <strong>04-05-2009, 00:04:25</strong>
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				He didn't want the police or hospital involved because the latter would find out that his blood was not normal and that would lead to tests which would lead to questions which would lead to trouble and he couldn't afford to bring attention to his pack. The police could not be contacted because they would ask about the incident itself and Sergei would not be able to tell them anything because they would be no match for the vampire that had attacked him. If they tried to investigate, one of them or all of them would end up dead. That would lead to a full blown investigation and even more people would end up dying and might even spark a war between the vampires and the werewolves or lycans as they liked to call themselves.<br><br>But he couldn't tell any of this to the human who had saved him and he knew she was human judging from the way she smelled for his lycan senses were enhanced and he could smell a human from a mile away. Sergei intended to simply recover and then head out but he realized that there was a good chance he would probably pass out and he needed to get a message to his pack before he did for who knew what the vampire might do? What if he didn't wake up for a few days which was entirely likely because what lycan had gotten bit by a vampire and lived to tell the tale? Almost none. So he tried to tell Elizabeth what he needed her to do but luck was not on his side and he fell unconscious before he could get out what he wanted to say.<br><br>Sergei had not suffered any injuries to his body or else the vampire would have sensed that he was a werewolf from the scent of his blood. No he'd just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The only wound that could be seen was the one on the right of his neck, there were two little puncture holes from where the vampire had started to drink from him. It didn't seem as though the injury was very bad but the wound itself was not what was causing him pain, it was what had happened earlier when the vampire had tried to bite him the first time. Sergei had fought back as most lycans and even humans would if someone tried to attack them and he had managed to swipe his claws across the vampire's lips, nose and cheek.<br><br>Most humans would not have even landed an attack so the vampire had been surprised but figured it was just pure luck and had bit him then. The undead creature's own blood had mixed with that of Sergei's as the pale creature had fed off him for a few moments and in so doing vampire blood had intermingled with his lycan blood. That was what had caused him to become so weak because his system was fighting off the infection of the vampiric blood that usually tended to kill werewolves and Sergei knew there was a possibility that he would die. His attacker had fled once he'd tasted werewolf blood and didn't even think to consider that Sergei might turn into a vampire, after all he was a lycan, most likely the end result would be that Sergei would die.<br><br>It was normal for something like that to happen. All loose ends tied up. Sergei's body convulsed suddenly on the kitchen floor where Elizabeth had laid him down and he started to shake, a fever beginning to overtake him and a low whine escaped his lips. The wolf in him wanted out, wanted to roam and to fight back against the invader in his bloodstream but it could not find it and Sergei growled out his frustration as he thrashed back and forth on the floor. Evil vampiric blood! Evil! He snapped without realizing he was doing so on Elizabeth's kitchen floor as his eyelids fluttered and he tossed his head back and forth, a thin layer of sweat coating his forehead and body while it tried to fight off the vampiric blood as it tried to kill off his human and lycan blood.<br><br>Then fifteen minutes later it stopped and Sergei's body lay still. He wasn't breathing and then his chest heaved up and down for although he did not have a working heart anymore it was an unconscious habit that he hadn't broken out of yet. Sergei was now a vampire...but he was also still a lycan...the first hybrid of his kind that had come about in a very very long time. The sort that most hated or wanted to track down and experiment on. Sergei had not yet awakened but probably would after a little bit of rest... His black curly hair was damp with sweat and his eyes which had once been baby blue were still closed from the exertion he had gone through earlier when he had tried to fight off the poisonous vampiric blood.
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>crystaltears</strong> on <strong>05-05-2009, 08:48:25</strong>
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				Elizabeth felt a little panic in her as the man on her floor twitched and growled. She edged away, not wanting him to attack her in his delusions. Was he on something? Or was it just the attack? She caught sight of the little puncture wounds on his neck and got the feeling she might know the answer... Some kind of snake had bitten him, his body was fighting the poison. This was the only solution she had come up with that made any sense. Luckily, there weren't very many seriously dangerous snakes in the area so she didn't need to worry too much. <br><br>On the other hand, if the poor fool had been bitten by the rare dangerous one... He might die and she would not know how to save him. There was little she could do about that with him out cold on the floor. Once he grew still again she moved forward, kneeling beside him and leaning over his mouth to check his breathing. She could still feel it on her cheek and felt reassured. <br><br>Elizabeth began to clean the wound, using hydrogen peroxide. After cleaning the wound thoroughly she applied a thin layer of triple antibiotic ointment to the wounds. Once done, she opened the kit and took out some gauze which she used as a band aid, and taped it down on his neck and collar bone in the places she thought would be the least painful when she removed it later. She sighed and put the materials not used back into the first aid kit before lifting him and carrying, really mostly dragging, him into her bedroom. The apartment only had one so she would let the injured person use it.<br><br>She pulled him to the bed, moved the covers down, and situated him on it. She took his shoes off and covered him, knowing as she did so that she would need to wash the sheets because of the rain water. Elizabeth sat in a corner of the room, eventually she made a call to her work to say she wouldn't be coming in the next day due to a 'medical emergency'. They would get the message in the morning and adjust.<br><br>She sat back and watched him, once sure he wouldn't stop breathing she finally got ready for sleep. She took some conservative pajamas into the bathroom with her, showered, changed, brushed her teeth, and slipped back into the room, sitting in the arm chair and watched him longer. Eventually sleep would claim her, but she had a hard time with letting go. She hoped her choice to help the stranger would not prove stupid as her eyelids finally fell closed. The sun was rising outside, but she'd put heavy curtains in the bedroom just because she had a tendency to stay awake into the late hours of the morning and the rays of the sun this day would not disturb her sleeping quarters.
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Saku</strong> on <strong>06-05-2009, 03:11:21</strong>
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				Fiery ice ran through his bloodstream causing intolerable amounts of pain and he felt as if he would die if it continued much longer. Thankfully, only a few minutes later a blinding pain rendered him unconscious and he never knew that Elizabeth fixed up his wound and then dragged him into her bedroom, placing him on the bed to cover him up so he wouldn't be cold.<br><br>One hour later, his eyelids fluttered and the room spun into focus, a bit blurry at first but then it became clear, crystal clear actually and Sergei looked around in the dark finding that his eyesight was amazing and he could see quite well. Interesting. He didn't think much of it except that it was kind of cool but figured it was probably that his eyes were used to the dark right now and had adjusted.<br><br>He discovered that he was currently under the covers of a bed and looked over at the heavy curtains that hid the sun's rays from view which probably was a good thing since looking at the sun right away would be a bit bright. Sergei slipped out of the bed and winced as he felt a soreness on the side of his neck and raised a hand to find gauze there and frowned, what was that doing there? He didn't remember getting hurt. Strange.<br><br>He passed a mirror and then paused as he stepped back to look into it, seeing that he had golden eyes, well that was new, to his knowledge humans didn't possess that color so what the hell was he? Sergei raised a brow as he examined himself in the glass, curly dark hair, golden eyes, okay besides the pigment of his eyes it didn't seem as though anything else was out of the ordinary about him and he frowned.<br><br>Maybe he had contacts in for some reason... He straightened up and accidentally knocked off a hairbrush and he made a grab for it, finding that his reflexes were insanely fast, actually catching the brush before it hit the floor. However, he was so surprised that it toppled out of his fingers in the next instant, hitting the ground with a soft thud but he didn't care. He was too surprised by what had just happened. What was going on with him?
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>crystaltears</strong> on <strong>09-05-2009, 20:57:28</strong>
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				Elizabeth had drifted off during her watch, the sound of the brush scraping off the table and then the thud of it on the floor made her eyes flutter open. To her surprise the mans he had been so concerned about now stood before her bedroom mirror. He was staring down on the ground. She followed his gaze to the hairbrush and realized it had been hat had roused her, and she was thankful for it. Sleeping with a stranger in her house was uncomfortable enough.<br><br>She straightened a little in her seat, not making sudden movements, but slow, deliberate ones. Her eyes searched the man, but she could barely see more than his silhouette. After some moments of silence she finally got the nerve to speak, "Are you.. feeling better?" It sounded like such a stupid question given that he'd had a fever, he'd had convulsions on her kitchen floor, and he had puncture wounds from a snake bite in his neck. At least now she was fairly certain the snake had not been poisonous. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Saku</strong> on <strong>10-05-2009, 14:33:38</strong>
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				It was the sound of her voice that broke Sergei out of the shock he felt and he glanced up, his golden eyes falling on hers for a moment, curly dark hair framing his face.<br><br>He bit down on his bottom lip as he looked over at her and swallowed hard, uncomfortable in this place for he didn't know where he was or how he had gotten here but it seemed like it was a place he could feel at ease in.<br><br>That was reassuring.<br><br>Sergei nodded somewhat curtly in response to her words and he let his eyes flicker around the room he was currently in, uncertain about all this and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself.<br><br><em>"Where am I, who are you, what am I doing here?"</em><br><br>The question came tumbling one after another almost as though he couldn't stop them and he hoped Elizabeth would know the answers to them or else he would feel even more lost.<br><br><em>"Did I get hurt?"</em><br><br>Sergei asked as he reached up to feel the gauze where she had cared for his injury and he couldn't seem to remember how he'd gotten it but he felt as though he should, yet the information was eluding him.
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>crystaltears</strong> on <strong>10-05-2009, 20:11:56</strong>
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				Elizabeth blinked a little as she caught a hint of the color of his eyes. <em>'Are they yellow?'</em> She wondered. She reached out for the lamp on her bedside table and twisted the switch until it clicked once. A flood of dim, yellowish lighting filled the room, chasing away teh darkness. <em>'No, they're golden.'</em> "Erm.." She shook her head a little, focusing back on the man, "You're, at my apartment.. I'm pretty sure you were bitten by a snake, and when I found you I think you'd just been mugged. Hit while you were down I guess." She rubbed her head a little, "I still think you should see a doctor."<br><br><em>'Especially now that you don't seem to remember what happened. You were so insistent, no hospitals.. Are you some kind of thug? Would they be looking for you?'</em> She didn't say anything out loud but her mind kept turning on that topic. A small queaseyness built up in her stomach and she ignored it. "I'm Elizabeth," her name was the last thing she offered him as her eyes again locked on his and she wondered what kind of contacts he was wearing.
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				Title: <strong>Re: A little touch of kindness... (Saku and crystaltears)</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Saku</strong> on <strong>11-05-2009, 23:43:19</strong>
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				Memories came rushing back to him when Elizabeth spoke, letting him know what had happened and he blinked, swaying on his feet as he experienced a headrush of something that seemed like nausea. Sergei put a hand up to his head and half fell against the mirror, one arm grasped the edge of it and held himself up as he tried to recover, the flashes getting stronger. Oh when would they ever stop? Why was this happening to him and for what reason?<br><br><em>"Ugh."</em> He muttered, wincing as his head seemed to explode and he took a deep breath as the pictures in his head slowed to a trickle and then to nothing and he blinked, remembering the events that had led up to now. Unfortunately, he didn't seem to remember anything from before being attacked in the alley and he figured Elizabeth didn't know either since he was fairly sure they hadn't met beforehand but maybe he was mistaken.<br><br>After all, he couldn't remember so whose to say they didn't know each other? <em>"Did I know you from before the alley?"</em> Sergei asked as he gazed at her and hid his eyes with a hand, cringing away from the sudden flood of dim, yellowish light for his eyes hadn't gotten used to the brightness so soon after being in complete darkness. It didn't take long, in fact it took less time for him to get accustomed to the light than a normal human would.<br><br>Only a few moments later it seemed he had adapted and he lowered his hand to look at Elizabeth once more and sighed when she told him she thought he had been bitten by a snake and he grimaced, shaking his head for that he did remember. For some reason he knew that a vampire had attacked him and he still couldn't believe it for it seemed insane if he just thought about it, vampires weren't real. Only crazy people thought they existed.<br><br>And yet he just <strong>knew</strong> that it had been a vampire responsible but he didn't quite know what that meant since all the vampire myths spoke of how in order to turn one they had to drink all your blood and then have you drink theirs. So he couldn't have been turned but on the other hand the only other option was for the vampire to drain you dry, they never just took some and then left. Especially while you were awake. Exposure was a big thing.<br><br>That was a big thing to them so why was he still alive? Could it be that the vampire had gotten scared off when Elizabeth arrived? But why? She was a mortal, wasn't she? What the hell was going on? <em>"Yeah. Thanks for coming when you did."</em> Sergei told her, not knowing what else to tell her, it was probably best if she didn't know what was going on here because she wouldn't believe the truth anyway, hell he didn't even know if he believed it.<br><br><em>"I think I'm going to be fine but if you want a doctor to look at me I don't have a problem with that."</em> He told her, not knowing that a doctor would be bad in his current state for he had no heartbeat and his blood was much different than that of a normal human so both would alert any doctor that something was wrong with him. Sergei let a slight smile come to his face when Elizabeth introduced herself and he nodded, extending a hand to her. <br><br><em>"Sergei."</em> He said, remembering his name only at that very moment and was glad that he had for it had a nice ring to it and he felt as though it suited him for some reason, odd. Decidedly odd. <em>"So what were you doing in that alley? It's a dangerous place for a lone woman to be in at that time of night."</em> Sergei said as he gazed at Elizabeth, not knowing his golden eyes were creeping her out a bit.
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