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Sven was leaning her head against her master’s shoulder on the plane, snuggled up close to him while she looked out the window, her fingers drumming against her thigh. It was so sudden, this trip, and she had absolutely no idea where they were going. She hadn’t been allowed to look at her suitcase, her ticket-- anything. She tried coaxing an answer from Colton with sweet words and touches, but again, nothing. All she knew was that it was an extremely long flight. 

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Colton stood by his car, pressing the key fob to unlock it just as the rain started to come pouring down. It was that time of year in the Caribbean when the sky would suddenly open up and just let out a torrential downpour on everyone. As he started to pull away he looked out and seeing a familiar figure trying to run for saftey from the rain he pulled alongside her, opened his driver’s door and pulled her onto his lap, smiling when he’d closed the door again, leaving her tight up against him in the dry car. “If you promise not to shake yourself dry, I’ll give you a ride home.” he offered.

Oh..fantastic.. Qhuinn had thought that she’d times things just right. She had seen the dark clouds rolling in, and had tried to finish the last few patient charts so that she didn’t have to bring work home with her for once. But of course the impending storm caused the WiFi to flicker, and next thing she knew the heavy sound of rain started to pound the roof of the clinic. Giving up, she tossed everything in her bag and locked up, contemplating calling someone for a ride when a car suddenly stopped next to her. Before she could react, a long arm shot out and she found herself on the lap of a certain vampire. “You know..when you say things like that it just makes me want to do them more” Qhuinn joked, giving him a hug, then frowning a bit as a sudden wave of exhaustion washed over her. Pushing it aside, she pulled back and smiled. “I’d love that though, thanks Colton”

Jody was nice. Jody was really kind and concerned for Dhani and always let him borrow a comic book or three. But Jody was turning into a friend and Dhani needed someone who wasn’t. He needed a older perspective. Jody was a supernatural, technically. But he was a handful of years older than Dhani and had never effectively thought of himself as one. Dhani needed to know more about a world outside of humans. He needed bigger perspective. And hopefully figure out where he fit and that it wasn’t as small as he was feeling.

Dhani blew out a breath, nodding to Colton as he was let into the office. Dhani took a seat on the couch. He’d gone to therapy before, mostly as a kid and a teenager, after his mother died. He wasn’t a fan of laying on the couch. And this whole Island situation may have changed a few things.

“So... um. Thanks for seeing me.”

Juniper had chatted with Ace for awhile while she waited for Colton to come home. She’d come immediately when he texted her telling her to come wearing clothes she didn’t care about. She had slipped on a pair of jeans and an old t-shirt that she rarely wore along with some crappy shoes she didn’t care about, thought she was sure she would take her shoes off before going to ground. 

When Ace went to his room Juniper waited in the living room until Colton went back and watched as he went straight to the kitchen and then returned. She told him about her goodbye with Noah, the text she’d gotten from Dhani and telling Sabrina how to water her plants if she wasn’t back sooner rather than later and he told her he thought she was smart for doing that. She explained about the papers she’d left in case she didn’t wake up and he agreed to help her fulfill what she’d left on the papers and then he talked about her motivations for becoming a vampire again. Then they were quiet while Colton had her listen to her heartbeat for the last time. 

Juniper sighed when they went outside, her eyes landing on the grave dug in the corner of the yard, but she turned instead where Colton had sat down on a chaise lounge and took her into his arms. She sat there with her back against his chest while he moved the hair from her neck, trying to concentrate on the stars as she suddenly wished that she had someone with her, someone aside from Colton. When his teeth sank into her neck, she whimpered, unable to stop herself. Juniper tried to focus on the stars, her eyes looking upward at the sky but in that moment, as the life was being drawn from her body, her thoughts went first to her mom. 

Her mom who had always been the one to support her, to get her her first typewriter, to get her into plays and the theater at all. The one who she hadn’t gone to see in the hospital the day she died. Then her thoughts went to Noah. There was some weird unspoken thing between them, no matter how hard she tried to speak about it, and she knew she cared for him more than she cared for a human before, he had been her last kiss as a human and for a moment she could still feel her lips tingling from the kiss, but then she realized it was the blood loss. The stars were getting hazy, the blue sky seeming endless as she looked up at it, hazy white spots in the sky... She tried to lift a hand to touch the sky, but she found she couldn’t move. She couldn’t even blink... 

Juniper could feel her body aching, it was agony and she couldn’t even whimper anymore, When Colton moved her she felt like the whole earth was moving, spinning around and around as she was laid back slightly over Colton’s lap. She was conscious enough to feel the blood running down her throat, some of it dripping down her chin a little when his arm slipped or he moved her accidentally. But when he stopped giving her blood he started taking it again, and that’s when she died. 

She knew the moment it happened, and yet for someone who was dead she was sure cold and wet. Juniper tried to move but the weight of the world it felt like was pressing down on her. She started with moving her fingers, then wiggling around to give herself more room to move. Her hands were on her chest in the classic ‘sleeping vampire’ pose and she suddenly realized that was why they slept like that, to claw themselves out of the ground. And that’s what she had to do. She was blind, and yet she didn’t need to see to know which way to go. She whimpered a little and the sound seemed enormous. 

After wiggling for awhile she started to dig, finally finding her way up, she dug, pushing the dirt down behind her as she moved forward until her hands could feel the surface above her, and one hand extended out of the ground, grasping for something, anything to pull herself out of the ground. When her second hand moved out of the ground she kept groping, clawing for something to hold steady to while she pulled herself out of the ground. 

Why wasn’t Colton helping her? Couldn’t he see how hard this was? Couldn’t he tell how hungry she was? God the impulse hit her like a semi truck and suddenly she had never been more hungry in her life. She whined as she pulled herself a few more inches out of the ground, wanting food, but not food, she knew what she wanted, she wanted blood. The very thought made her almost shake in anticipation as she realized Colton would have blood for her. When she finally pulled herself from the dirt he was kneeling next to her grave, looking down at her with a wide grin, showing off his fangs. 

And she knew then that they were connected because she could feel his excitement, his joy, and he could feel her hunger. Why else would he have bags of blood waiting for her. Her fangs were sensitive she found out as she sank them into the bag, it was an impulse, to bite things Colton told her as she drank heavily from the first bag. He had brought her enough blood to fill a full grown man and as she drank she moaned in satisfaction, not caring that she was sitting in a pile of mud that had once been her possible final resting place, nor caring that she was covered in dirt and mud, all she cared about was the insatiable thirst that drew her to the bags of blood he had laid out for her and the loyalty to her master that ran through her veins. Looking up at him while she drained the first bag she felt a wave of affection for the man crash over her and she smiled knowing he loved her. 

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Colton walked down the hallway, shuffling a few papers in his hands before he caught sight of another man in the hallway. It didn’t take a psychologist to notice the agitation in the other man’s stance. It did however take him being a vampire to realize that this man was a vampire as well. He raised an eyebrow and then cleared his throat slightly. “Problems?” he asked as he looked at the other man.

Lost in his thoughts, Dougal failed to realize that a man had taken notice of his near mental breakdown. But the professor didn’t have to turn around to recognize the presence of another that was...like him. He turned and was faced with an unfamiliar face with a strikingly familiar aura. “Multitudes,” he replied briefly, eyeing the stranger up and down. Dougal had yet to meet any of his kind at the Institute (or much at all in the outside world) but perhaps he was simply imagining it. Perhaps it was the frustration getting to his head...yet his gut was telling him otherwise.

Colton smiled as he looked at her, before taking her hand and kissing the cool pale knuckles. “And I am Colton Graves,” he said as he looked up at her. “What do you teach?” he asked, surprised he hadn’t met the woman.

Grace gave the male a charming smile at the kiss. How refreshing it was, to meet another with such impeccable manners. “Mmm..a pleasure Colton. Always lovely to meet another of our kind..especially such a fine specimen. I teach Art History, as well as own the antique shop in town with my progeny. And yourself?”

“Well I don’t know about you, but I was thinking about going for a swim. Would you like to join me?”

“Yeah, that actually sounds really nice. We haven’t spent any time together in way too long. Do you mind if I go back to my house and get a suit?”

Text: Yeah..I remember very well.

Text: I’m okay I guess. About as good as anyone can be right now. How are you though?