#bloodkeeper

12:19 PM

Amy awoke with a start. She quickly sat up in her bed. Her breath was quick and her sheets were drenched in sweat. She quickly turned her head towards the spot Rheya been standing just moments ago. To her relief, she found herself to be the only person in the bedroom. 

Rheya wasn’t there, that should have been enough to calm her down. So why did make her heart pound even harder? She got up from her bed and began pacing around the room. Her eyes stung as tears threatened to spill out. She felt sick. Her stomach twisted and her legs were shaking. Something was wrong. Something was very wrong. 

Her mind was racing a hundred miles a minute. Then she remembered the vision she had earlier that day — the grief she experienced, the bloodlust she felt. It was too much. It was all too much. She walked over to her bedside table and disconnected her phone from her charger. With a shaky hand, she scrolled through her contacts before landing on the one person she knew she could trust. She hesitantly pushed on the quick dial before pressing the phone to her ear. It rang a couple times before he finally picked up.

“Amy?” He whispered. His voice was hoarse - he must have been asleep. “Is everything okay? It’s noon, you should be sleeping.” Hearing his voice really broke her. She began crying out all the emotions she was feeling. “Adrian… I can’t do this anymore” she managed to say through a couple loud sobs. “Is everything okay?” He repeated, sounding more alert and worried than before. “Do you need me to come over?” “Y-yes” she said before hanging up

12:28 PM

Not even ten minutes had gone by before Amy heard a knock at the door. She walked over to the door, she was feeling a bit better. She had finally stopped crying but her eyes were puffy and she felt as if her emotions could spill out any second. 

She opened the door. Adrian was standing on the other side. The second he saw her, he wrapped her in a tight hug. They stood like that for a while, hugging each other, as she cried into his shoulder. He broke the hug after a couple minutes. Adrian walked her over to the couch, they sat side by side in silence. He patiently waited for her to start explaining what was bothering her. When she finally started talking, her voice was low, barely she a whisper. 

“Ever since I was turned.. my Bloodkeeper powers have… evolved.” She said with a shaky breath. “And today, when I was with Rheya… I saw something…” “A memory?” He asked “No… it was like a glimpse of the future.” She replied. She turned her head and looked out the window, unable to meet his gaze. “And it was so so horrible”.

He didn’t know what to say, he didn’t know what to reply. He knew how cruel the world could be. He knew the pain and suffering that came with immortality. Worst of all, he knew he was the one that cursed her with this eternity of torture. It was his fault she would have to go through this. He couldn’t lie to her. He couldn’t lie all say ‘it was going to be okay’ or ‘everything was going to be fine’ because, truth be told, he couldn’t guarantee that it would be.

So he didn’t say anything. He just hugged her. He held her as she cried into his chest. He drew circles on her back, something that normally got her to calm down. He heard her heartbeat slow down and her sobs subside. 

And in that moment, the only thing he was able was

“I’m sorry”

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