Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:29:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Zane Subject: Jaded-Part 14 JADED By: Zane Hunter Green Chapter Fourteen The copyright of this story belongs to the author. This is a piece of fiction not based on any real person, or situations. This story is written for a mature audience as it has adult material Darkness was resisting the morning light when Anton pushed the unlocked door open at Harper's home. He waved to Michael who took off in his old model SAAB, picked up his travel bag and went inside. He should have been exhausted after getting up so early to make the drive, but there was too much to do now for that. For a long time he talked about his concerns and wishes. Michael promised to keep his eye on Jaden, and if anything happened to Ty he would be responsible for him. This made Anton feel like an oppressive wall was removed from his back. Michael was returning home the next morning. He told Anton that he would be by to pick him up. Anton told him he might want to stay in LA longer; he had brought enough medicine and clothes for a week... Their parting words were about that issue. The house was dark, and it took Anton some time for his eyes to adjust. There was the odor of pine incense, but nothing was burning. "So you've come at last my dear friend." Harper started to laugh. His hair had grown longer but he looked the same. The room was full of art deco furniture, and prints on the wall, it looked more like the abode of a frustrated designer than a vampire's lair. "I figured I'd be welcome. I want to know your secret to long life." "In one word, I'm a vampire." "And you suck blood." "Actually I don't although I joke about it. Actually, I use energy. I'm what is known as a physic vampire." Which is another word for bullshit, Anton thought to himself. "Could what you are or do help me to get better." "Only if I give you some of my energy, if I take any from you Anton, I'd have to sweep you off the floor, you look terrible man!" "I am terrible." "What is it?" "Just my heart and cancer." "No shit! You are doubly cursed." "Yeah, and I haven't been a bad boy to deserve it. I mean perhaps I played hard but I've always stayed lean and cleared away from most drugs and drink. The truth is I am at the end of my rope I hate being sick and a burden to my family. I know thinking of becoming a vampire is a fantasy, but just for the wildest idea, what if you could turn me into a vampire, could it make me healthy again?" "Nay, it never works like that. Only my companion and lover share my benefits, the pity is I'm not attracted to you, cute as you are." "Yeah sure, I've become an old man." "Anton, you're still sexy." "Where, there's not one sexy bone left on my body." "So you want to be twenty again?" "No, actually I'm doing this so I can be around to raise my nephew." "You have a nephew>" "His mother died, and he's living with Ty and me. Ty has been messed up since the boy arrived." "Is he a little monster?" "Like you, maybe to some degree but take out the spoiled self centered part, and add kind and generous?" "Oh know, that type of boy, do you want him to become a vampire? Boys make the best little vampires, so full of delicious energy." "No^Åof course not!" You will think differently if you become one of us. That is what you must consider, when you are re-born into this world of shade, all that you love will be your first prey. "And I start to crave their blood?" "I started to tell you, there are several kinds of vamps, and I drain energy, not blood." "But then you sleep during the day, or risk death by the sun?" "No, I can tolerate the day, but I much prefer the night, the day tires and depress me." "I am starting to think you can't help me." "I can help you though. If I go out tonight I can seduce plenty of young viral men, and later transfer their hot energy to you." "And that will help?" "It would help more if you went out and seduced the young lads yourself." "Like I could do that?" "It's amazing how much protein one can get from sperm, as well as the beauty of a heated engorged cock in ones mouth. One night I swear I blew one hundred." "Yeah, those were the days." "Well the secret is don't give it up Anton. Stop telling yourself that you are sick and dying, that is as self-destructive as I know. My secret is I live every moment as if it is my right to enjoy life; I let no one make me feel guilty about all that is good for me, pleasure, as well as pain. I live only in the moment, and I make that moment good enough to last forever." "So what do you mean that you suck energy?" "I have the ability to tap into other's, but I try not to use it. There are many vampires that don't even know what they are doing, those kind of people who leave you drained when you are with them. When I was a kid I used to give all my teachers migraines almost everyday. I totally exhausted them. Finally when I became aware of what I was, I tried to return energy as well. "So you can give me energy, without turning me into a vampire." "Anton, perhaps it didn't occur to you but you are a vampire." "What?" "From what you tell me you have already been feeding on Ty and Jaden with all this talk of death, and pushing them into a relationship." Anton turned white; he didn't know what to say. It was true. When you go home, release them, chase the shadows from your home, or if you can't do that just fill them with energy. Anton had a lot to think about...