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Dark Nights	By : MarianTheBlackadder Category: M through R > Only Lovers Left Alive Views: 4341 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Chapter List
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Surrealism
                “Jade.” Dani sat starring into the microscope but not really seeing anything as she was lost in deep thought. “Jade!” She shook it off and looked over seeing Sean standing next to her trying to get her attention.
                “What?” She said in an annoyed tone not really wanting to speak with him when she didn’t absolutely have to.
                “You’ve been off the clock for an hour. If you don’t leave soon you’re going to be stuck in the clinic all day again.” He cautioned. “You should go home. You haven’t been home in two days. Won’t they be concerned?”
                She picked up her phone showing it to him before putting it back down. Of course she’d talked to Eve to let her know she was all right, but there was so much she hadn’t told them. She didn’t know how to even begin.
                Sean sighed, “If you don’t want to go home yet, you should come back to my place. Staying in the clinic another day probably isn’t the best idea. Appearances, you know?”
                “Do you feel badly about any of this at all?” Dani asked.
                “Yes. I do.” He answered. Dani shook her head before looking back into the microscope. Sean hated this and he knew it was his fault. He should have warned her when they first approached him, she could have escaped before they had time to dig in and surround them. “You need to rest.” He said before turning and leaving her alone in the lab.
                After a few minutes, Dani picked up a pen and wrote some notes down. With a sigh she took off her gloves and stood. When she turned around she came face to face with Eve and Adam. “What are you guys doing here?” She asked starring at them in wide-eyed horror.
                “We’ve come to take you home.” Eve said releasing Adam’s hand and moving closer to her. “You haven’t been back, we know something’s wrong.”
                Dani’s eyes starred at Adam before turning away unable to look at him stepping back. No doubt all the cleaners and other scents in the clinic were drowning out the scent that would have already informed them of some of what was happening.
                “Come home with us sweetheart, we’ll sort everything out there.” Eve said as it would be sunrise before too long.
                “I can’t.” Dani said her eyes welling up with tears. Eve reached up stroking her hair. They could see she was in some kind of trouble, but what she was most obviously afraid of and trying to avoid was Adam. Eve looked over at him knowing he was going to have to be the one to convince her to come back with them.
                Adam could sense there was something different, something troubling her greatly. He walked to her standing before her looking down at her eyes that were afraid to look up at him. “Dani, come home.” He said in a gentle voice. Dani’s lip quivered as she closed her eyes hanging her head in shame.
What to Do
                As soon as Dani walked in the door to their house she retreated into the bathroom and bathed thoroughly. When she came out, Eve and Adam were waiting for her in the living room to find out what was going on. She couldn’t keep it from them, they needed to know.
                Eve sat next to Dani on the couch and Adam stood close by listening as she relayed the story. After she had told them everything there was a long period of silence between them. “This is my fault.” Dani said finally. “Because I went to work at the clinic. I made it easy for them to find us.” She said as tears escaped her eyes. She took a jagged breath, “If you guys leave now, you can slip away. Disappear. Their focus will be on me and they won’t hound you.”
                “Don’t be so fucking foolish.” Adam snapped at her suggestion.
                “We aren’t going to leave you behind.” Eve added.
                “There aren’t a whole lot of options here you guys. I screwed up. Again! I’ve put you both in danger. You need to get out and away from here while you still can.” Dani said covering her eyes, “I did this. I don’t want you guys to get hurt or killed because I’m an idiot.”
                “What do you imagine we’re going to do here, Dani?” Eve demanded. “Just leave you here, fleeing while you’re sold into the white slave trade?”
                “If it makes it possible for you to escape, I’ll fuck everybody in Tangiers twice!” She exclaimed. She sighed in frustration getting up from the couch. “You guys can’t spend the rest of your eternity cleaning up my messes. You have to go and leave me to figure this out on my own.”
                Adam broke in, “That’s just fucking great. What better learning experience then for you to be taken by sadists and experimented on until there’s nothing left but a pile of burnt ash. That’s fucking brilliant!”
                “It’s my own fault! If I had listened to you in the first place, used a little common sense this wouldn’t have happened!” She shouted back at him.
                “Alright, everyone just calm down.” Eve said standing up between them . “Losing our heads and fighting amongst ourselves isn’t going to help the situation.” They both sighed turning away from each other. “What about Sean?” Eve asked Dani. Adam’s eyes flashed at the name. “Do you think he’s telling you the truth? Or is he twisting things to play an angle for his own purposes?”
                Dani sighed, “I don’t know. Some of it doesn’t add up. Why would he accept being paid off when he doesn’t need the money? He comes from money, his family is very wealthy.”
                “Maybe ‘money’ wasn’t the pay off.” Adam said in a low voice.
                Dani’s eyes closed turning her eyes away. It hurt her deeply to be betrayed by Sean like this. It took someone truly depraved to agree to do something like this. Eve walked over and wrapped her arm around Dani knowing she was in terrible pain. “I honestly . . . . thought . . .” She couldn’t even finish the sentence covering her mouth. Eve rubbed her arm hugging her close.
                “Darling,” Eve said gently. “Can you do this? Be truthful.”
                “I don’t know how much time it’s going to buy.” She answered honestly. “Maybe a few weeks.”
                “That will give us a chance to figure something out. To find out just how many people are here and what sort of surveillance they have on us. As you said, their main focus is going to be on you. That could give Adam and I a chance to access the situation.” Eve said. “What’s to be done in the meantime?”
                “I have to maintain the illusion that Sean and I are involved romantically. I’ll have to go out with him, spend days with him in his apartment . . . sleep with him.” She couldn’t face Adam. “The minute it seems like we aren’t romantically involved, they’re going to move in.”
                “What happens if this little experiment of theirs works?” Adam said in anger and disgust, “What then?”
                Dani could hardly bear the thought of that happening, “Then I’m fucked. In every sense of the word.”
                Adam’s temper flared having been simmering just below the surface. “No.” He said in a stern tone. “This isn’t going to happen; I will not allow this to continue.”
                “Adam . . .” Eve said seeing how enraged he was, and knowing Dani’s heart was already torn to shreds over this.
                “NO.” He said louder and more forcefully not accepting this, any of it. “You are not their lab rat, or their whore. I’m not going to let them make you one.”
                Dani took a breath gathering her senses and stood up straight. “It’s too late.” She said before turning and looking at him, “They already have.” Adam clinched his jaw leaning his head back his eyes remaining on her. “I know you’re angry with me. You’re probably disgusted with me. But I love you both so much. You are more of a family to me then my own ever was. If it were just me, I’d turn myself over to them rather than sleep with someone who has lied to me, betrayed me, and deceived me for so long. I hate him.” She couldn’t take this anymore. It was so shameful and humiliating. Dani shook her head and went to her room closing the door.
                Adam turned pacing as his hands were clinched so tight in anger his nails were cutting into his skin. Eve started to say something but Adam turned punching the wall putting his hand through the brick. Eve sighed looking down, what a mess.
Endless days
                Dani sat on the edge of Sean’s bed in silence in her pajamas. Sean took her pulse, her temperature and a small blood sample. “How was I supposed to not be suspicious of this? What were you going to say this was? Foreplay?”
                “You were supposed to be asleep.” He admitted. “Vampires seem to be somewhat sluggish during the day. Mostly in the evening before they feed. That’s when I was meant to do this.”
                “You know, they sure told you a hell of a lot of stuff about us.” She said giving him a look.
                “I imagine they wanted to make me aware of the danger I would be in and caution I should take.” He said putting the sample away in the case and writing down the readings.
                “What’s with taking my pulse when I don’t have a heartbeat?” She said with a sigh.
                “They have a theory that it beats sometimes. So this is one of the readings they require.” He explained putting the equipment away.
                “They tried that already, it didn’t work.” She said in annoyance remembering how they had electrocuted her over and over even when she begged them to stop. Sean turned towards her a moment and she looked away from him.
                “Dani, what else could I have done?” He asked, “If I declined they would have just gone around me. They might have just captured you and spirited you away. I didn’t want that. Agreeing to this was the only way I could help you.”
                “And yourself.” She said. “If you had any idea what those people did to us . . .”
                “I can imagine.” He broke in, “The way they speak of you, the terminology they use is very telling. I don’t think of you that way and would never treat you like that. Not ever.”
                Dani sighed and shook her head, “Let’s just get this over with.” She said lying down. “Have to be at work shortly after sunset.”
                Sean closed his eyes. This isn’t the way he wanted things to be between them. Reaching over he opened the drawer taking out what looked like a smelling salts capsule.
                She knew already what it was; she didn’t need to be told. “That . . . turns us into primal, feral animals. If you recall, you’re nothing but food to me. How badly to you want to die?”
                He sighed putting it back in the drawer. Sean looked at her reaching up touching her face. Dani closed her eyes turning her face away from him. “If that won’t help you.” He began as he caressed her cheek with his fingertips. “This will.” At once he plunged a needle into her shoulder injecting her with a powerful sedative. Dani cried out at the painful sting and covered her shoulder with her hand as she sat up. Dani looked at him in horror.
                “I was cooperating with you!” She said starring at him not understanding why he would do this. Her eyes started to flutter close and her body went limp.
                “I know.” He quickly reached out and caught her in his arms before she fell and laid her back down against the pillows. He smoothed her hair back from her eyes. “But the only things I ever see in your eyes are tears and hate.” Sean said softly. “You aren’t the only one suffering through this.” He kissed her gently then he unbuttoned his shirt and took it off putting it aside before laying over her unconscious body. He studied her face for a moment as she slept, wishing she would look at him with her beautiful amethyst eyes in the way he looked at her. “I’m sorry. This really is for you.” He whispered kissing her softly.
Shock and Depression
                Dani lay on her bed curled up in the fetal position staring at the wall. It was bad before with everything that had happened. But this? This was somehow far worse. What kind of existence was this? What was the point of it? For a while, back in Detroit she was happy. There was her job; there was Adam, her apartment she had worked extremely hard on, and a clean and steady supply of blood. Things were going so well. Then she got sick, and things started to rapidly fall apart from there.
                If she somehow got out of this, she knew she couldn’t stay with them anymore. She had to get away from them and stay away from them. She’d disrupted their lives enough. They were old enough and smart enough they could disappear. But she was a liability. To many times already she’d put them in harm’s way, she made Adam’s life a living hell, and Eve who had the patience of a saint had to be getting tired of all her nonsense too.
                A hand gently rested on Dani’s arm bringing her back to herself. “Please.” She said in a broken voice, “Please don’t touch me.” But it didn’t seem to matter. Adam lay behind her, his body melding to hers as he wrapped his arms around her holding her tight in his embrace resting his cheek to hers. “Please.” She whispered as her body trembled. Adam just held her tighter closing his eyes. He kissed her cheek then gently spoke in her ear, “I still love you sweetheart.” His voice was so soft and comforting; it eased the unbearable pain in her heart. “Nothing is ever going to change that. Not in a million years.”
                “I reek of him.” She said softly, “Even though I scrub in boiling water, his scent remains. I can’t get him off of me.” She whispered her voice in pieces.
                “Shhh.” He said resting his cheek to hers once more holding tighter still. There was another quiet moment of silence before he finally asked her, “What does he do, Dani?” He questioned. “Does he at least . . . hold you with care and have tenderness in his touch?”
                She didn’t know what to say when she did her best not to think about it. “He tried.” She finally replied. “I don’t know what he does now. He’s turned me into a living doll. A play thing.”
                It was infuriating; taking her senses and will from her, leaving her helpless and vulnerable. Whatever it had been before, it was rape now. Pure and simple. “He won’t survive this. I promise you.”
                “It doesn’t change what’s already been done.” She held her his arms against her, his touch was the only thing to keep her from falling apart completely.
                Adam’s hand found hers lacing their fingers together. He thought for a moment deciding to try and take her mind off of it and turn to something else. “Do you know that it was Eve’s people who built Stonehenge?” He began. “There is a moment that only lasts for a fraction of a second at dawn, and then once more a dusk that catches the light and shadows making the massive stones glow in all of their ancient glory. Humans can’t see it with their eyes, nor feel the millenniums that have passed through it. We can. It’s beautiful and fills those who witness it with a peace and understanding that is indescribable.”
                Dani closed her eyes imagining it as he spoke having seen pictures of Stonehenge but never having visited the UK before now, “Is it green? Emerald green all around it?” She questioned.
                “Yes.” He said holding her hand tighter. “It shimmers in the moonlight, especially when it’s rained. The droplets of water on the grass sparkle like a blanket of diamonds.” She smiled softly imagining how beautiful it must be to see.
                “It sounds so wonderful.” She said softly.
                “You’ll see it. We’ll take you there. Soon.” He replied. Dani’s eyes opened as her smile faded. If only she could go with them. Stay with them. “It will be good for us to travel and see how the places we’ve been have changed, or remained the same.”
                Of course Adam didn’t like her smelling of another man. It assaulted his senses in every direction. But he also knew it wasn’t her fault. It was tearing her apart inside. The last time she was so beaten down was when they were caged like beasts. She had had a rough time of it her entire life as well as her undead life. He would take it all for her if he could; erase all those memories, take the burden from her shoulders and heart.
                It wasn’t as though he and Eve hadn’t gone through extraordinary, dangerous, and painful times. But they weren’t all compacted in the short period of just 3-5 years. It was fucking ridiculous. She was such a sweet, brilliant, optimistic and enthusiastic girl. But all of this was changing her, crushing her spirit. It was painful to see and not be able to do anything about it.
                “Let me love you.” He requested gently in her ear realizing that she might not have been up for such activities right now. “Let me remind you what making love is, so you don’t forget.” He said kissing her neck holding her body tighter to his.
                “It isn’t a good idea right now, Adam.” She said softly not wanting to disappoint him. “Where Sean is a shot in the dark, we already know you’re a sure thing.”
                “Forget all that nonsense.” He said, “All that experimentation, breeding, cold, clinical rubbish. Just enjoy our being together. The pleasure we share in our most intimate moments. Do you remember what it was like when we made love before all of this came about? The peace, the profound way our souls would touch and entwine into one as we held each other in the darkness?” Adam whispered.
                Of course she remembered. “You always make everything so clear when I’m confused or afraid. Being with you makes everything right when everything is so wrong, and spiraling out of control.” She held his arms against her, “You are still the only thing that makes it better. Makes everything better . . . makes it not hurt so much.”
                Adam ran his thumb over the back of her hand before raising it to his lips and kissing her fingers, then her palm, then her wrist holding it against his face. She rolled back towards him and he leaned down kissing her tenderly. They looked into each other’s eyes for several moments in silence. Touching and caressing each other’s faces. Words weren’t needed between them. Not right now, not in this moment. Dani rolled further onto her back so she could face him into his embrace. They kissed again slowly, lovingly before nuzzling against each other just wanting to be as close as possible. To feel each other, and cherish one another, to bask in the love they shared between them. Adam wanted to take this slow and be ever so gentle with her. His beautiful Dani.
Sunset
                Adam came out of Dani’s bedroom putting on his shirt, carefully pulling the door closed so she wouldn’t be disturbed. He walked into the living room where Eve was pouring their breakfast. “How is she darling?” She asked.
                “Resting. Better then she has these past few weeks.” Eve handed him his glass of blood as he sat down next to her on the couch. She could see that Adam was in a better mood as well. He hated being helpless, not being able to do anything, to protect and spare her from this psychological torture she was being subjected to.
                “She’ll be due into work before long.” Eve reminded him taking her glass and leaning back on the couch.
                “Fuck them.” Adam replied, “I turned off her phone and pulled the plug on her alarm. She needs her rest.”
                Eve agreed and reached over resting her hand on his shoulder rubbing his arm. “We know where they are, and who they are. We know they have her phone bugged, her computer as well. Of course the heaviest concentration of surveillance is on the clinic.” She said recounting everything they’d uncovered the past several weeks. “So now the trick is going to be getting the three of us out of Tangiers quickly, safely, and disappearing completely before they realize we’ve gone.”
                “We need to make them understand that coming after us is more trouble than it’s worth.” Adam said. “That coming after Dani is deadly.”
                Eve had been thinking the same thing, “It’s not going to be easy. Once it starts, we’re going to have a very small window of opportunity. She said. “We won’t be able to do it alone, there is too many of them and they’re spread out too far. We’re going to need Marlow’s people to help us again.”
                “Because we all got along so splendidly the last time.” Adam scoffed with an eye roll.
                “We’re all somewhat set in our ways after centuries of living and it makes working with each other a bit difficult. But this isn’t just for us, or for Dani. These people are trained vampire hunters, it concerns the others too.” Eve pointed out.
                Adam sighed looking away. Dani was going to have to be used as a decoy and he hated it. Sean wasn’t like William, but there was still something off about him, something amiss. Trusting him was not an option. “Do you think she’s ready to do it on her own?”
                “As angry as she is at him, as betrayed as she feels by this? He’s pushed her to the breaking point already.” Eve took his hand in hers, “She has to do it darling. It’s the only way for her to get the power back that he’s taken away from her.”
                “For someone who professes repeatedly that he cares for her, he mistreats her in a grotesque manner.” Adam growled in a low voice.
                “It does seem rather unnecessary to render her unconscious when she wasn’t fighting him. Unless he’s doing more to her then just taking her blood and temperature. Something she wouldn’t agree to if she were awake.” Eve suggested.
                “There’s no discoloration on her thighs or hips like there was before when they were injecting her with fertility drugs. I checked her over thoroughly for anything that didn’t belong, but I didn’t find anything.” Adam said.
                “They wouldn’t be using the same chemicals they used on her before. You are another vampire like she is, but Sean is human. Cross species genetics are tricky at the best of times.” Eve pointed out. Adam clinched his jaw looking away again still incredibly disgusted by this perverse turn of events. Not that the straightforward approach had been any better.
Zombie Shit
                Dani hadn’t been feeling well from the moment she’d woken up. She was dizzy and somewhat out of it hardly able to keep up with anything around her. Everything seemed like it was in slow motion, or as though she was looking through a wall of water. She sat in the break room at the clinic, her eyes staring at the blank wall. She didn’t even notice when 3 other nurses came in to eat their lunch.
                The next thing she knew, she was lying on the floor starring up at the ceiling as someone patted her face, “Jade? Honey? Can you hear me?” One of the nurses said, “Keep your eyes open for me sweetie.”
                One of the other nurses ran for a doctor and the one they returned with was Sean, “What happened.” He asked kneeling down beside her opening each of her eyes and checking them.
                “She just collapsed. She was sitting in here by herself when we came in and then she slumped over and fell to the floor.” The nurse said holding Dani’s hand. Sean looked at his watch seeing it was only a few hours before sunrise.
                “Let’s get her to a bed.” Sean carefully picked her up from the floor and took her into one of the exam rooms. Once he was alone with her, he checked her reactions and her eyes again. “Dani. Can you hear me?” He said cupping her face in his hands, “Dani.” He said a bit more forcefully trying to get her attention. He sighed knowing she needed blood, but he couldn’t feed her here. He had to get her on her feet to be able to take her from the clinic.
                Shaking his head he took out his phone dialing a number, “There’s a problem.”
Quick Fixes
                “I told you that I didn’t want to use an untested substance on her.” Sean said in a raised voice. “She’s having a severely bad reaction to the chemicals. It’s severe enough that if she were still human, she’d be dead.”
                A woman stood over Dani holding her arm still as she injected her with a blue solution. “This will counteract the drugs leaving it inert. She’ll be fine when she wakes up.” The woman reported, “And we couldn’t test it until we had her to test it on.” Sean sighed crossing his arms over his chest. “Still wrestling with your conscious I see.” She said rolling Dani’s sleeve back down. “How many times must I remind you? She’s a dangerous and deadly predator. Not some innocent girl. Have you any idea how many people died in the explosion her and her kind caused in Michigan?”
                “You were holding her against her will and torturing her. Did you expect them not to fight back?” He asked thinking it was absurd to imagine otherwise. “They were defending themselves.”
                “They feed off of the living to sustain their own lives, Dr. Hammon. She, like the others, are nothing more than parasites. You would do well to remember that.” She said seriously.
                “They drink blood that’s been willingly given by donors. Who gave of themselves to sustain someone else’s life. Just because she drinks it rather than taking it intravenously is of little consequence.” He countered.
                “You’ve betrayed them, betrayed her Dr. Hammon. Do you honestly think all your good intentions are going to save you from what they no doubt have in store for you?” She snapped.
                “As it should be. The penalty for all rapists should be death.” He said in disgust looking away. “But no more of these little side experiments. One heartless and sadistic experiment at a time is quiet enough.” Dani groaned and started to stir, and Sean immediately walked over taking her hand touching her face.
                They woman quickly put her things away, “You’ve got 48 minutes before sunrise. Get her on her feet, get her back to your apartment, and feed her. Do it fast before she becomes self aware enough to argue with you.” Sean shot her a look as she turned and left the room.
                Sean sighed, “Dani. Come on. On your feet.” He said pulling her up from the table. “We’ve got to go right now.” He wrapped his arm around her waist helping her, “Come on.”
Decline
                Adam sat on Dani’s bed, his back against the headboard as he held her tight curled up in his lap while she slept. Considering the state she had stumbled home in, it was a wonder she found their house at all. His cheek rested to her head as his hand caressed her back.
                Eve came in carrying two pints of warm blood sitting on the bed beside them. Reaching over she smoothed Dani’s hair back from her face. Eve and Adam looked at each other in worried silence. Picking up one of the bags, Eve bit it open before moving closer and holding the opening to Dani’s mouth. When the first few drops fell on her parched lips, her tongue slid out catching them before she began to drink. They fed her both pints before undressing her and putting her into bed to rest. Both Adam and Eve curled up against either side of her, holding her between them.
                When Dani stumbled in, her eyes were glazed over and dim. She had no idea who they were or even where she was. It was horrifying to see her like this, not knowing what had been done to her to cause this. It was strangely familiar as they cared for her, much as they had when Adam first found her mutilated body and took her home. All they could do was keep her well fed, watch and wait.
                Three days passed with no improvement when a knock came to the front door. Eve answered it finding Sean standing on their doorstep. Before he could speak, her eyes flashed and she reached out grabbing him by the throat jerking him inside. She pushed the door shut before slamming him hard against the wall knocking his wind from him.
                “How dare you come here after what you’ve done.” She growled at him. He reached up trying to pry her death grip from around his neck gasping for air.
                “Please.” He begged, “I just want to know if she’s alright. I want to help her if I can.”
                “Of course she’s not alright!” Eve snapped, “She’s been in a vegetative stage since she came home.” She slid him up the wall leaving his feet dangling in the air. “It is my husband’s dearest wish to flay you alive, and right now I’m inclined to let him.”
                “I can help!” Sean gurgled clutching to her wrist, “Please let me help her, I beg you!”
                “Help her?” Eve scoffed, “You’re the reason this happened in the first place.” He kicked against the wall before Eve released him dropping him to the floor. He gasped wrapping his hands around his throat astonished a small and thin woman like Eve could be so strong.
                Swallowing the lump in his throat he looked at her, “Dani had a bad reaction to one of the experimental chemicals I was told to administer to her. When that happened I called the corporation for help. She’d collapsed at work. They came and injected her with something else that was supposed to counteract the first drug, but it seemed to only make her worse. I’d fallen asleep after taking her to my apartment, and when I woke up she was gone. It must have been when she came back here.”
                “If you couldn’t help her before, what makes you think you can help her now?” Eve demanded.
                “I think that the chemicals are staying in her body. They aren’t absorbing as they were meant to and they’re just sitting there. Vampire bodies don’t process things the same way humans do. I think if the chemicals were all flushed out of her system she’d get better.” He explained. “I think if she was put on dialyses it would clean the toxins from her blood.”
                “Why? So you can just continue to experiment on her? Torture her?” Eve said in absolute disgust.
                “I never wanted to hurt her. I don’t want anyone else to hurt her either. What else could I have done?” He asked.
                “A good start would have been not deceiving and lying to her in the first place.” Eve replied, “She cared about you and trusted you.”
                Sean looked away a moment still quite ashamed at his part in this, “I care for her too. I like spending time with her. She’s smart, and she’s funny, she’s so beautiful . . . . I wanted to get to know her . . . I hoped . . . . that she would like me too. But she always kept me at arm’s length.”
                “Because she didn’t want to lead you on. She cared enough about you she didn’t want you to get hurt.” Eve said.
                The young doctor sighed, “Will you let me help her??” He asked finding no empathy for his position. Not that he really expected to find any.
                “You’re coming here is going to alert those people that we know about them. For a brilliant doctor, you certainly are a foolish boy.” Eve said. She looked at him a moment longer before relenting. She turned and motioned for him to follow her leading him to Dani’s room. She knew this wasn’t going to go over well with Adam and Sean would be lucky to make it two steps into the room.
                Eve opened the door and stepped in first finding Adam sitting on the bed once again, his arms around Dani as he held her on his lap. Knowing that he wouldn’t drop her, this seemed like the opportune moment for Adam not to jump up and rip Sean’s throat out. When Sean stepped in, Adam’s eyes flashed beginning to glow. “What is he doing here.” He growled in a low voice, his teeth as sharp as razors.
                “Pushing his luck.” Eve said her eyes fixed on the doctor as she closed the door of the room. “But he is a doctor, Adam. Who has information about her that can help.”
                “If you don’t let me help, she could stay this way and never come out of it. Maybe even get worse.” Sean said seriously.
                Sean looked down knowing he had to take whatever they gave him. Taking off his backpack, he opened it pulling out several bits of equipment. He approached the bed as Adam’s eyes began to glow brighter and his fangs began to show. Eve stayed close to Sean ready to take him down should he do anything they didn’t like. Sean took a breath sitting down on the bed next to Dani. He took her temperature then pressed his fingers to her wrist.
                Eve and Adam looked at each other as he was not promoting confidence if he didn’t know they didn’t have a pulse. He reached up and started to unbutton Dani’s shirt and instantly Adam’s hand snapped up his sharp claws digging into the young doctor’s wrist in a warning. “I need to check her breathing.” Sean said quickly. Adam just stared at him darkly for a moment longer before releasing his hand.
                The doctor sighed before taking out his stethoscope pressing it to her chest and listening a moment before moving it to other spots listening. “How long hasn’t she been breathing?”
                “It isn’t necessary to breathe; it’s a habit from when she was human. She only breathes when she’s awake.” Eve said. Sean looked at Adam and then at Eve.
                “The two of you seem to breathe.” He said putting his stethoscope around his neck. Neither Adam nor Eve answered him further not really interested in having a chat or exchange of information. Sean reached up feeling her throat, and then moved down feeling her shoulders and chest, then her abdomen. He opened her eyes that were pinpointed. He sighed, “You need to bring her into the clinic. The equipment I need is there.”
                “Forget it.” Adam said in a dark tone.
                “Adam.” Eve said understanding how he felt, but they didn’t have much of a choice.
                “No fucking way! I have no intention of making it simple for them to capture us. To capture and take her. Especially when she can’t defend herself!” He exclaimed.
                “If we were in the states I may have been able to have a smaller more portable set up that we could do here, but we just don’t have that resource. We have to take her into the clinic; it’s the only way to get the drugs out of her system.” He explained.
                Adam just clinched his jaw holding Dani tighter. “Go back to the clinic.” Eve said, “See that everything is set up. We’ll be there in an hour.” She told him. Sean realized he was being dismissed and he looked at Dani again almost wanting to hold her hand. But it was plain if he tried that; he could lose his arm in the process. He put his equipment back in his bag, then picked it up putting it over his shoulder.
                “An hour.” He repeated before heading out and going back to the clinic.
                Eve sighed and looked at Adam walking over sitting next to them on the bed. “Blood isn’t enough to heal her.” Eve said gently, “If what he says is true, then this is what has to be done.”
                “Eve.” Adam said in a low voice, “Are we really to entrust her care to the one who put her in this state in the first place?”
                She shook her head, “What choice do we have darling? We cannot help her we have tried everything to our knowledge we can try to bring her out of this state. Simple blood is not healing her, we must do as he suggests.” Eve said gently.
                Adam was less than happy with this. He looked down at his Dani, the state she was in, how she didn’t know she was in her own room, her own bed, nor him or Eve. It crushed his heart. “They’ll know we’re aware of them.” Adam warned.
                “Get her ready so she’s decent to be taken out of the house, I’ll call Marlow. I believe that we’re about to depart Tangiers rather quickly.” Eve said. She stood taking out her phone and walking into the next room to get her things.
                Adam sighed and looked down at Dani, she was in no condition to travel, to be moved, or when the time came, she was completely unable to defend herself. He held her tight closing her eyes and kissing her head gently, then embraced her again. “They’ll not take you. Never again.” He whispered.
Treatments
                Eve stood next to the bed holding Dani’s hand as she was hooked up to machines covered in tubes and wires. “Did anyone see you come in?” Sean asked.
                “No. We were very careful.” Eve said.
                “He didn’t come with you?” Sean asked.
                “He is around.” Was the only answer that she gave.
                Sean checked the settings on the machines, noting the color of Dani’s blood wasn’t the same as healthy human blood, nor the same hue as her regular natural blood. He ran his hand over his face in frustration.
                “What is it?” Eve asked.
                “Her blood is dull, and thick.” He said tapping the glass.
                “She’s ill and malnourished.” Eve replied. Sean looked at her before unlocking the door and disappearing for several moments. Then he returned locking it closed again. He came back to the bed carrying several bags on a tray putting it down next to her. “What are you doing?”
                “Transfusing healthy blood into her system will no doubt help her recover faster.” Sean said.
                “What have we told you about experimenting on her any further?” Eve said starring at him darkly.
                “How is this an experiment? You require human blood to live don’t you?” Sean asked.
                “We consume it for nourishment, we don’t inject it.” Eve said. “Have you no true sense of how this works?”
                “They’ve only told me what I’ve needed to know as I have needed it.” He said. “Despite what you may think of me, I’m no better thought of by the corporation then she is.” He said checking her readings noting there was some improvement but it would be a good hour before the treatment was completed.
                Eve moved over checking the temperature of the blood. She took out the meter that Adam and Dani had sent to her and tested it to make certain it was clean. At this point, they couldn’t be careful enough. Making a few adjustments, Sean walked over and slid his hand behind Dani propping her up slightly. Eve bit into the bag of blood pressing the opening to Dani’s lips as she began to drink.
                “At least she’s drinking on her own.” Sean said.
                “She’s starving as we all are, every day of our lives.” Eve said opening another bag holding it up to Dani’s lips as she drank again.
                Now he was seeing a change, the change he was expecting to see from the beginning. “She’s getting better now.” She reported with a sigh of relief. “Thank God.”
                Eve starred at Sean taking Dani’s hand in hers again. “Have you any idea what this young woman has been through since she’s come into our lives. The horrors she’s endured? We believed we could help her, guide her through her new life. When she was turned we had no idea how unique she truly was.” Eve said never taking her eyes from Sean. “Much to our horror and dismay, it was her uniqueness that brought her to the attention of your precious organization.” Eve said.
                “You keep talking as if I wanted this. I didn’t. When I asked her out, my invitation was genuine. Maybe her unconventional look and beauty is what drew me to her, but then I got to know her. I wanted to know more and spend every available moment with her.” He explained. “I think I love her.”
                “Love?” Eve scoffed, “You force her to go to bed with you. You used us, her family those she loves, to make her bend to your will. You played on her worse fears and spent the last few weeks torturing and humiliating her. Love? You don’t even know the meaning of the word.”
                “Eve,” Sean said, “It’s just sex. I’ve always been respectful and gentle with her. Knowing she didn’t really want it . . . I never made it last longer than it had to. But I’ve always tried to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel appreciated. I wanted her to want to be with me because she wanted to be. It’s why I waited so long after their deadline before finally telling her of it. But she simply . . . . she simply wouldn’t give in.”
                “Her heart belongs to another, Sean. She is extremely loyal and devoted to him.” Eve said seriously, “As a human you cannot hope to understand it. As vampires, we don’t truly understand it fully, but we can feel it.”
                “Is that fair to her? Is it fair to you? To be married to someone for so long only to have some girl come long and intrude on such a profound and intimate relationship?” Sean said.
                “Accept we don’t feel that way. We love her very much, both of us. She has desires and needs no one else can ever meet. I want her and love her just as much as Adam does, and no. I have never minded sharing him with her.” Eve was quiet for a moment before she spoke again, “It is quite possible that these feelings you have, this lust for you have isn’t even real.” She began.
                “What do you mean?” Sean said.
                Eve looked at Dani reaching up and gently stroking her hair. “She doesn’t mean to do it; she isn’t even aware of it and would be completely humiliated and embarrassed at the thought of it. But I have suspected for a while that there are periods of time when, for lack of a better term, she comes into heat.”
                Sean looked at her in shock, “What?”
                “She fights it and hides it extremely well.” Eve began, “But there are times when males are irresistibly and uncontrollably drawn to her that rarely leaves them in a rational state of mind.” She explained, “She isolates herself when she feels it happen, but she doesn’t know what it is.”
                “What about Adam?” Sean asked. “Is he affected by it too?”
                “Adam isn’t aware of it either, but he feels it at times too. Adam has a right to her just as she has a right to him. It’s the way things are for us.” Eve said. Dani groaned and started to shift. Her body was sore and weak from head to toe. A smile swept Eve’s face as this was the first response they’d seen from her in days, “Darling.” She said stroking her head in excitement.
                “Eve?” Dani whispered hardly able to open her eyes. Sean reached up quickly turning the light off that was over her head. “Where am I? What happened?”
                “You’re at the clinic, you’ve been ill. But you’re getting better. Everything’s alright my darling.” She answered holding Dani’s hand to her face completely overwhelmed with joy.
                “I was sick?” Dani said not remembering.
                “Yes, but we’ll talk about it later sweetheart. Right now we need to get you home.” Eve looked at Sean, “Get her off of these things, now.” She demanded.
                “She needs to finish the treatment to make sure all the toxins have been completely removed from her system. Now we know that such chemicals have an accumulative affect, we can’t risk it.” He checked his watch, “At least another 25 minutes.” He insisted.
                “The longer we stay here, the greater the chance we will be caught.” Eve warned.
                “There isn’t another way, you don’t have a choice. We have to wait.” He said sternly.
Home Again
                As usual, the first thing Dani did when she returned home was bathe from head to toe. She felt filthy and the hot water made the aches and pains feel better and fade away. When she came from her bedroom she was dressed in her pajamas, her hair pulled back in a braid off of her neck. She didn’t remember anything about the past week and it was very jarring. Eve and Adam were waiting for her anxiously in the living room.
                Eve smiled walking over to her, “How are you feeling darling? Better” She asked embracing her tightly as Dani hugged her back.
                “Yes, much better than before.” Eve kissed her cheek before taking her by the hand and leading her over to the couch and they sat down. “I don’t understand, what happened to me?”
                “You were injected with experimental chemicals. You had a bad reaction to one of them and then were injected with something else that just made matters worse. They weren’t absorbing into your system and just kept you very sick.” Eve explained.
                “Why would they me something that my body couldn’t handle? With all the knowledge they have about us, why would they do that?” She asked still confused.
                “Because they’re morons.” Adam said walking over and sitting down on the opposite side of her. “Don’t look for rational thought or common sense where it doesn’t exist.” He held up a small back jewelry case that was tied with a crimson red ribbon around it.
                “What’s this?” Dani asked taking it.
                “A very late birthday gift.” Eve answered, “Our intention was to give it to you on the night, but things sort of got a bit off track.”
                Dani smiled a little opening the case. Her eyes lit up seeing the beautiful choker necklace with three hand carved skull stones on the leather strap. “It’s beautiful.” She said in astonishment.
                Adam reached over taking the necklace from the box and unclasped it wrapping it around her neck fastening it at the back so it fit against her throat. Dani smiled reaching up touching it, it fit perfectly. Eve smiled, “Happy birthday sweetheart.” She said kissing her cheek.
                “Thank you.” Dani said loving it. Adam hugged her kissing her other cheek just happy she’d returned to them and was healthy again. She closed her eyes as they hugged her and she hugged them back.
Confrontations
                Sean turned to come out of his office but stopped finding himself standing face to face with Dani. He was startled at first not having heard her come in. A smile swept his face seeing how good and healthy she looked again. Sean gave a sigh of relief, “Thank God.”
                “Why?” She said with an irritated look, “Were you afraid you’d killed me ahead of schedule?” She said in a low tone.
                Sean’s smile faded and disappeared. Taking a breath he sighed and looked away from her, “I can only tell you how sorry I am so many times, Dani.” He answered, “Does it get better every time I say it?”
                “No. Doesn’t really help at all.” She said seriously. I don’t care how sick I was, you had no right to come anywhere near our home.”
                “You needed help, I didn’t have a choice.” He said.
                “You don’t seem to have very many choices or even a small bit of control over your own life.” She said seriously. “You are not welcome. Stay away from us, and our home.” She warned.
                Sean took a breath and gave a nod letting her know he understood. “Are you coming home with me today?” He asked.
                “Do I have a choice?” She said before turning and leaving his office. Sean closed his eyes shaking his head.
Trying to Make Peace
                  Sean held Dani in his arms as he lay between her thighs thrusting deep into her wet cool body with long deliberate strokes. He kissed her lips and neck, resting his face to her shoulder as he continued his movements. After a few more moments he thrust into her completely releasing deep inside of her filling her womb with his hot seed. He gasped clinging to her body before lavishing kisses over her shoulders and neck then her face.
                 Deciding he’d finished, Dani pressed her hand to his chest pushing him up enough so she could roll onto her side turning away from him. Sean closed his eyes resting his face to her shoulder and resting his hand on her waist. He would give anything not to have her so cold and unfeeling to him when they lie in bed together.
                “Does it at least feel good?” He questioned softly, “What I do to you? I strive to be careful, to give you whatever pleasure I can.” He offered.
                “You aren’t him.” She said simply pushing her pillow up beneath her head.
                “No, I’m not.” He agreed. “But we could still have some fun together.” He offered, “IF you let me, if you let yourself. I mean, couldn’t we enjoy ourselves a little?” He almost begged.
                Dani couldn’t answer him right away, “There was a time,” She began in a soft voice, “When I believed that I wanted to be with you, and I thought I would have liked to have spent the night with you.” She said starring at the wall, “But that time has passed. There’s only one man I want.”
                “You’d be the only woman in my life. The only one I would love, the only one who I would ever share a bed with. You will never have that with him. You’ll always come second to his wife, Dani. Is that fair? Don’t you want something that is yours and yours alone?” Sean said.
                “Sean, you don’t understand. You will never understand and I can’t explain it to you because I don’t really understand it completely either.” Dani said closing her eyes. The doctor fell silent remembering that Eve had said the same thing. Sean wrapped his arm around her holding her tight.
                “You would be second to no one, to nothing in my heart.” He whispered to her sincerely, “I’ll do anything I can to help you. I swear it.” He vowed.
Open Hearts
                Dani was lying on her back on the floor her legs propped up on the bed as she scrolled blankly through her tablet. She was listening to music softly so as not to disturb Eve and Adam who were no doubt sleeping this time of day. Lady Gaga was one of her favorites and for some reason; she always wanted to see what Adam’s reaction to her was. He had such a strong opinion on music, artists, and zombies in general.
                Adam came into her room quietly finding she was still awake. He walked around the bed finding her on the floor. “It’s nearly noon.” He sat down on the edge of her bed next to her rubbing her leg, “Why are you still awake?”
                She sighed resting the tablet to her middle, “I spend far too much time in bed these days.” She said softly not looking up at him. Adam reached down offering her his hand. Dani looked at it for a moment before she took it and he pulled her up to sit with him on the bed.
                “It won’t be much longer sweetheart.” He said holding her close and kissing her head, “It shouldn’t have been allowed to continue this long.”
                “At least, I guess, we aren’t locked in a box this time. For the most part we have our freedom.” She said softly.
                “You have a strange sense of freedom for an American born woman, Dani.” He said stroking her back. He knew what she meant. Even though she was under more restraint and trapped worse than ever, they were leaving him and Eve alone for the most part. As long as she played along and cooperated with them. It was infuriating.
                Dani closed her eyes resting her head to his shoulder hugging him tight. Taking a breath she looked up at him, “Adam, I want you and Eve to go. To leave and disappear. You’re good at hiding yourselves and staying off grid.” She looked down, “This whole set up is so fragile, so very delicate. It could snap at any time, and then you and Eve would be swept up and taken with me.”
                Adam touched her chin raising her face looking into her eyes, “As we’ve told you already, we are not leaving you behind. When we leave, you are coming with us.”
                “Oh ADAM!” She exclaimed in frustration standing from the bed and pacing slightly. “You and Eve have lived for hundreds, even thousands of years. You didn’t even know about these people, these ‘vampire hunters’ until I came along.” She turned looking at him, “You two are much better off, much safer without me around causing never ending problems. You and eve are so smart, so beyond wise you have to see it’s true.”
                Adam looked at her, “From a stand point of pure reason and logic, that’s true. Without you, Eve and I would no doubt settle back into the lives we made for ourselves and lived these past centuries.” He stood and walked over to her, “But when has reason or logic ever had anything to love.” He questioned.
                Dani looked into his eyes, “If I hadn’t been attacked, and tortured. If I had just remained your blood supplier, would it have ever even entered your mind to make me like you? To turn me?” She questioned. He fell silent not having thought about it in years. “We just would have remained employer and employee, wouldn’t we?”
                “I never regretted taking you as mine, Dani.” He said seriously. “With your brilliant mind, talent and skill . . I regret that you no longer have the ability to live a human life that no doubt would have been a remarkable one.” Reaching up he cupped her face in his hand leaning closer, “But then I would have never had you, and that thought in itself is a tragedy I cannot bear.”
                She reached up covering his hand with hers closing her eyes. His touch still filled her with such joy and profound peace. Adam’s other hand reached up gently holding her head in his hands. “I love you, Adam.” She breathed in a trembling voice, “With all of my heart. Always, always.” He leaned down kissing her with gentle loving tenderness. He rested his forehead to hers as they just held close to each other. Adam found her lips again kissing her passionately holding her body as he embraced her tight.
                Looking into her eyes once again, he swept her up into his arms and carried her over to her bed lying her down and laying over her gazing into her eyes. Soon swept into their growing passion they devoured each other’s kisses, unable to touch each other enough.
Disappearance
                “What’s going on? Adam?” Eve said quickly as he came storming into the house.
                “She’s not there.” He said heading into Dani’s room with Eve following quickly behind. “Her locker at the clinic is empty and her name has been taken off the roster.” He stopped and turned towards her, “She’s gone. They are all gone. Vanished!” He said starting to tear through her things looking for something, anything that would explain this.
                “Who? Who’s gone?” Eve asked.
                “I thought she might have been at the moron’s apartment, but they aren’t there. It’s been cleared of everything and left completely bare. Our . . . ‘observers’ all over the city have disappeared as well. Neither them or their equipment is anywhere to be found!” He exclaimed jerking out the dresser drawer and flinging it across the room. It shattered on the far wall. “Things of hers are missing as well!” He shouted.
                Eve shook her head and walked over sitting down on the bed. They were planning to leave in two days. Everything was arranged and ready. When her hand rested on the bed, a envelope touched her hand catching her attention. She pushed the pillow aside picking it up seeing “Adam and Eve” written in Dani’s handwriting.
                Adam stopped looking at her. Eve turned it over opening it and reading. Adam walked over sitting down beside her as they both looked at it. After a moment Adam’s eyes went wide and he took it from her reading it again. “It’s a goodbye letter.” She said in astonishment. “She’s turned herself over to them on the condition you and I are left alone.” Closing her eyes she lowered her head.
                Adam was stunned unable to believe this was real reading the letter yet again. She’d written how much she loved them, how grateful she was for everything. For their loving her, for watching over her, for keeping her safe and that it was her turn to protect them. She asked them not to look for her and begged them to forget her and go on with their lives. Some of the words were blurred and smeared from her tears as she wrote it. Adam lowered the letter starring at the floor in shock. He was numb, but his heart was breaking at the same time.
                “What are we going to do?” Eve asked.

To be continued . . . . .
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