pick?” I was feeling bad for him and I knew he
didn’t want to be taken away. Then he had to remind me of the
V2.
I didn’t know what to pick, I remembered the
feeling when he had bit me, but it wasn’t for the venom, he had
taken my blood. “Can’t I think about it?” I asked in a begging
tone.
“No. it’s not something you can think about
you need to choose now because we’re going to our room.” He said
walking ahead of me.
I didn’t want to pick the injections, no. I
hate needles. “Ummm… I sort of don’t like needles. But I don’t want
you to think that… you know…”
“I know.” He simply said without looking at
me. We stayed silent the rest of the walk.
We reached the bedroom
and I opened it. I went in and washed my hands in the kitchen sink.
“Ready?” He even asked me this time.
“Yeah, let’s get this over
with.” I said. He got close to me and put a hand around my waist
and with the other. He grabbed my left hand and pulled it up to his
lips. He was so tall and handsome and I looked into his eyes then
they suddenly turned black and he closed them, as he bit into my
wrist and I felt something different. It was not the same as the
last time. This was a strong sting it went from my wrist all the
way up my arm spreading through my body. I was changing little, by
little and I could feel the difference from the V2 being put into
my body now. It was not a pretty feeling, but I felt the
power.
Then he did something he shouldn’t have. He
took blood from me, I knew he did because I had that same feeling
interfere with the sting and it felt so good I didn’t want him to
stop. Actually I wanted to take his blood too. I started feeling
dizzy and then I collapsed, he had me in his arms in no time.
“Shit!” I heard him say. “Mia, don’t go. Mia.
Shit!” That was the last thing I heard because what I felt next
made me scream in agony. Robert had injected me more V2 and it hurt
a lot. He covered my mouth and soothed me. “It’s going to be okay.
I promise. I am so sorry Mia I didn’t mean to do that, but I don’t
know what happened…” I heard his voice crack. I decided I wasn’t
going to tell anyone, for both of our sakes. I was feeling strong
and my bite healed fast. I sat up and looked at him, his eyes were
closed and he was still holding on to my wrist like it wouldn’t let
him go.
“Robert I’m fine. Don’t worry. I’m not saying
a word. It’ll be our secret. But could you let go, it still hurts.”
I waited for him to release it, and he did slowly. He pulled away
and I sat on the edge of his bed. “It’s not only your fault… I
don’t know. It’s weird to me I’ve never felt anything like that
before. But why did I fall like that?”
“You didn’t. I took a lot of blood from you,
and the V2 was working before I drank your blood and then it didn’t
and that’s why it hurt after I injected you with it again, I’m not
supposed to give you more than once a day only if you use needles.
Your body was weak and I thought you were going to…. you looked
purple for a minute.” His face was expressionless like he had just
seen a ghost. I didn’t know what to say to him. Now I really hated
the needles more, and I wanted him to continue biting me but I
didn’t think that was going to work out. “ I don’t know if I should
do that again, it’s too dangerous. I’ve done it before, but no one
else’s blood has ever called to me like yours has. Do you feel
anything?”
I wasn’t going to lie to him. I could feel
the connection between us, the bond. And I liked it, that was the
bad part, because I still remembered what Mereily had said: “He’s
done some bad things.” But I didn’t want to question him about it
for now. “Yeah, the connection is there, is that normal? I mean
after you bond with someone?”
“Yes. But it’s too strong for just two bites.
It doesn’t make sense.” He looked frustrated, irritated and
confused. He had his hands in his
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