2 comments/ 4536 views/ 5 favorites Vincent Ch. 01 By: icefang4436 This story contains a few spoilers for my other story Trapped, nothing you wouldn't find after the escape but all it really does it tell you a few connections, and really it's a very long way into the story. This is a story about Vincent and how his life was when he was young,I want to note now that in my stories there are no years as we know them, the months are similar, and I will have the real month in parenthesis when needed, but they don't have the years numbered like 2011, 2012, 2013 and so on. Sorry but there would be a lot of math on my part and I would practically have to make a calendar spanning well over 3,000 years for dozens of chars and blah XD here's an idea of how many chars I have, Vincent's direct blood line has over a dozen chars and then there are around 8 or 9 families (if you count siblings as single families) with more chars being added >... Btw any names of cities are random ones I picked up (they aren't the real city >... Vincent's story I remember the day I lost my parents like it was yesterday. I was with my little brother, Fang, just helping our mother with chores around the house. I couldn't have been more than 12, making Fang about 9. I remember my dad ran into the house and told us to hide and not to come out for anyone. At first Fang and I didn't know what was happening, after we stood there for a moment our mom pushed us in the kitchen and told us to climb into the cabinets and to be quiet. I should mention that the only walls we had in our house separated the bedrooms, meaning we could see most the house from where we crouched. I remember the door being kicked in and 3 men running into the house with weapons, one with a bow pointed at my dad's chest, they shouted at my parents something about evil demons and that the men were here to destroy them. My mom hissed and bared her fangs, something she rarely did, and my dad looked just as fierce, snarling and letting his large, inky black wings out. At that time it didn't click that my family all being vampires would be seen as bad by some, I thought it was normal. I think it clicked when I saw my mother killed though, her head separated from her body from a blow from one of the men. I tried to turn Fang away but he clawed me and tried to get out to save our dad, not one to be risky I held him to me covering his mouth to quiet him. I think when I saw her die is when I lost my childhood, I'm not really sure, all I know is that it was important to keep Fang safe and us both alive. My heart, as dead as it was, knew that trying to help would only kill us. I felt him try to scream as the only man left in the room killed our father. It's crazy to think that in a matter of moments we went from a close family to a pair of orphans with murdered parents. The last man cut off a piece of my parents' bloodied clothes and left. The moment the door shut my brother kicked me as hard as he could making me drop him and he ran to our parents. I crawled out and sat next to him, my eyes tearing up as the truth of what happened hit me. "Why did you stop me?! You jerk! It's your fault mom and dad are gone! Get away from me!" He screamed at me his fangs descended. "What do you think you could've done that mom or dad didn't?!? It's because they hid us and because I held you down that we're alive at all! If they couldn't have won what chance do we have... You haven't even gotten the blood lust down and I barely know how to fly let alone win a fight against those guys..." I said screaming at first then letting my voice die down to a whisper. "We need to get out of here they may come back, come on." "No, I'm staying here, now get away from me." He said turning back to our dad, laying his head on dad's bloody chest, growling when I came near. He lay there for a long time, after a moment I went to our mom covering her slashed neck and laid my head on her chest like Fang. We did that until the sun had long set. I got up, my head aching from the tears. "We need to go, those guys may come back." I said gently shaking him. He growled and I simply pulled him up with me to our room to grab clothes. I hated to think about it when I was little but my dad always told me what to do if something ever happened to them, now I was thankful I knew what to do. "Grab some clothes and put them in a bag." I told Fang, he stood there for a moment as I went about the room grabbing clothes then leaving the room to go to our parents'. He followed me wordlessly watching me as I went into their little closet looking or the sword my dad got me to train me for my 10th birthday, my brother looked at me confused. "Why are you taking that? Where are we going?" "We need it and I don't know we'll have to find somewhere we can be safe." -----10 years later on the streets of Uzès----- I walked around looking for my next meal. One good thing about being the rare kind of vampire is that I'm immune to the sunlight and I didn't have to feed as much. The money I took 10 years ago ran out quickly as we grew out of our clothes, currently I was wearing an old black jacket I took from someone I fed from a month ago as well as his white shirt and tan pants. Fang's clothes were about the same. A few months back I noticed a change in Fang, while he was still taking more blood then healthy from his victims he seemed to enjoy the fear in their eyes. I think he's going insane. I can see it in his eyes; though they were black they seemed to have a haze over them, but not the kind some blind people get but different...bad. I walked in to a narrow alley way using my mental power to drag in some woman. She walked like a zombie almost, stiff, obviously not thinking. I had her stop in front of me. It's funny I was 21 years old and I was still a virgin, why? Because I didn't want to leave my brother alone that long, I had a bad feeling about doing that. Hell I was only out this long because he was asleep. The woman I pulled wasn't bad looking, long brown hair, green eyes, and soft looking lips. I felt myself hungering for something different than what I brought her here for. While I haven't had sex that doesn't mean I haven't done some stuff with women, I've had a few blow me and I've played with a few of their breast. It didn't feel right taking advantage of them like that though; they had no control over their actions. I couldn't help myself as I had her drop to her knees in front of me. Slipping my pants down I pulled out my large cock and she leaned forward taking it in her hands while she licked the tip. My cock was fairly large about 9 inches, I'm thankful for my vampire attributes in this way, it was fairly thick as well. I watched as the brunet sucked me off. She seemed to have done this enough that her body knew what to do to get me groaning, I gently sat us down as she continued going down on me. Reaching out I played with her breast, I decided to try feeding from there. I groan loudly when I came hard in her mouth, having her swallow it. I had her lay on her back as I slipped the top of her low cut dress down. My fangs were descended as I licked my way around her sizeable boob, suckling the nipple that hardened under my ministrations. Gently, I sunk my fangs into her breast, unintentionally dropping my control of her. "Whaa... Oh gods" She moaned as the endorphins from my saliva invaded her brain. I was somewhat disappointed with the small amount of blood I got from her boobs so I quickly went to her neck after closing the old wound. I smelt the bitter scent of her fear, I didn't like it and I sent a wave of calmness over her mind and she just looked into my eyes relaxed but confused. "Who are you?" She said groggily while I licked her neck softly. "You don't need to know that, just relax; I'm not going to hurt you." "Please, let me go." She muttered arching her body into mine as I suckled her neck without biting. "You say that but your actions tell me you don't want me to." I said softly into her ear, licking it softly. "Relax." She moaned when I gently bit into her soft, sweet neck, my belly rumbling softly when her blood flowed freely into my mouth. I was careful not to take too much, just enough to fill me. After I closed the wound I sent her to sleep and erased what happened. After I fixed her clothes and laid her out of sight from the streets, not that I expected anyone to look. I walked back to the abandoned building where Fang and I slept. He was still asleep, his long silver hair splayed around him with his clothes mussed up. When he was asleep you'd never know that he seemed to be insane, evil, and harsh. It's funny our appearances are the same except for our eyes and hair. His hair was silver, we don't know why but it is. Mine's black and just as straight as his, the same was with our eyes, his were black and mine silver. We both had the same slender build and same face shape with only a few little differences, like my lips were a little thicker and darker and I was a bit taller. He stirred and opened his eyes, he always was a heavy sleeper, I woke with the smallest sound, and it was actually really annoying. Fang sat up groggily and looked at me with the eyes of a predator; it was time for his feeding now that it was late at night. "Come on; let's get you something to eat." I said walking to him as he got out of bed, making a sound of pleasure. I still had to go with him when he fed; he tries to drain them to death otherwise. I didn't intervene until the human was weak and fading, at that time I would stop him. The feeding was the same as normal; I pulled him a large man so he could get more blood, and then had to stop him from killing said man. This was our way, as it had been for years now. There were times we pulled people with weapons to take them for ourselves. Currently I had a pair of mismatched daggers and Fang, even though I didn't like it, had a short sword. "I want more." Fang said looking at me, his eyes filled with lust. "I think you've had enough, it'd be risky to pull another." I said trying to get him to go home instead of feed more. He got worse when he fed extra I had noticed. "I don't care, get me another." He said baring his teeth. "Stop, you don't need another. Let's go." I heard a loud snarl as I turned after saying that. I looked back and he was pissed. I was in a bit of shock at how easy it was to make him this pissed off. His fangs and claws were descended, his wings had torn through the back of his shirt, and his eyes bore into mine. I could sense him trying to pull someone, turning around I saw a woman walking to us looking very confused. Fang couldn't take the full control I could but he could get people to want to do the stuff he wanted. "Why... Who... Oh my gods is he ok?" The small woman asked not yet noticing Fang but seeing the passed out man on the ground. She looked up at us and gasped. "No... this isn't happening is it..?" She said her eyes wide in terror and shock. "Please don't hurt me." She whispered softly as waves of fear emanated from her body. Fang started to walk to her with deadly intent in his eyes. "Don't do this Fang, you're better than this and you know it." I said stepping in front of him. "Get out of my way." He ground out, pushing me away. "Brother, don't do this, this isn't who you are... please, this isn't what our parents would've wanted, don't let the blood lust consume you." I said getting in front of the woman who was now crouching against the wall. "Fuck you. I don't give a shit what they want anymore. They aren't here; they don't know what I've been through. This is their fault anyway; we could've lived just fine if they hadn't gotten killed." "What are you talking about? They died protecting us. It's because of them that we're alive." "Whatever, move. I won't take much, I'll play nice." "You'll play nice? What? No, you aren't feeding from her. We're going home." I said, I was shocked when he complied by turning around, clearly waiting for me to go. Leaning over I erased this memory from the woman. After we went home he went straight to bed, another surprise to me. This wasn't right; something was wrong, very wrong. I ignored the thought and went to bed. I woke up a few hours past noon. Going to our small and rather pathetic closest I grabbed some of my nicer clothes; a pair of untorn black pants, a white shirt, and a decent black cloak with my normal overused boots. My daggers hung hidden at my sides as I went out to look for work. Though we didn't need food we still needed new clothes and nicer weapons. I went from shop to shop looking for work; sadly I hadn't really learned a trade of any kind so finding work was difficult. By the end of the day I had went to every shop I could see and not one was willing to hire me. "Sorry we need someone with experience, good day." That was the reply I got from almost every damned shopkeeper, that or "Oh you don't know how to (random stupid thing!)? Sorry, we can't help you." It was late by the time I got back to our abandoned house. I could hear sounds from the insides as I moved a plank that covered the hole we used to get in. When I stepped into the main room I was in shock, Fang had killed a woman after he raped her. I stood there for a moment unable to talk or move. Fang looked up at me, covered in blood, he hissed. "Get out, now." I said still frozen. "Make me." He said leaning down licking some blood off of her neck. I walked over to him, drawing both daggers. "God damn it Fang. This is why I have to live like this; if it wasn't for you I could have a good life. I'm sick of it. Get out. I'll give you 3 days to get out of the area, otherwise next time I see you I will kill you. I don't care if we're blood related, you're not my brother. I'm giving you a mercy by letting you live for this, I get the feeling I'll regret it but I'm gonna give you this time. Go before I change my mind." I said, laying the blade of my dagger against his throat. I've never acted this way with him, he knew I meant what I said, his eyes widened as he slowly moved back. "Go." I said, following him with the blade. He nodded and stood up, he grabbed his clothes slipping them on, watching me as he left. I sighed, this wasn't the first time he's killed someone, this was the first time he's done this though and I didn't intend to see it again. I gently wrapped the abused body and walked out to the entrance. Walking the darkest alleys I found a dry dark spot and lay her body softly there. I could sense Fang's energy fading as he got farther away. This was the first time we've been apart like this and I intended to keep him away. I couldn't take the way he was anymore; this had been the last straw. I looked down at the body of the woman, she had been small, clearly no match for a vampire like Fang. She had long brown hair, I had no idea what color her eyes had been; when a vampire kills in this way I noticed that the eyes of the victim became pure white. This girl was no exception. I walked away from her after covering her with the blanket I had wrapped her in. I got back to the house and cleaned up all the blood in the main room. I was horrified at the amount of it. There was blood all over the floor and on the blankets Fang had laid out, clearly for his comfort. The task was a horrible one but I finished it rather quickly, glad to be done I lay on my bed that had been stripped of its sheets and went to sleep. A few days passed, there was no sign of Fang, the girl who he killed had a few posters up; I'd heard a rumor that someone found her body, wrapped in the blanket, starting to decay. I felt bad for her family; I personally ran into one, he was greatly upset. I wanted to tell them what happened but if they believed me they'd probably kill me in my brother's place. So I wrote a note using my limited skills, using my abilities I found their house and left it on the woman's mother's pillow with a red rose. The note basically said 'I apologize for your loss, My brother was the culprit, I'm very sorry to say. I caught him with her body, unable to kill my own brother I had to banish him. He'd drained her blood. I wouldn't tell you this in person when I saw you, you would've killed me. But my brother and I are vampires, I've tried to keep him from doing this as best I could, but I was unsuccessful. For this I am truly very, very sorry.' I didn't sign it, I couldn't. I didn't have the strength to. My father had taught me to write before he died, granted my penmanship wasn't exactly anything that could be called beautiful, and my punctuation wasn't great but it worked. I was lucky my parents had been educated; it was hard to get anywhere here if you weren't. Most people could at least read and count. I was walking past the church while looking for work and I saw the parents of the woman in the little graveyard of the church, the mother was holding the rose I'd left the night before. I didn't like churches, it's not that it hurt to go on the grounds or it hurt to look at a cross, it's that the priests didn't like me. It's almost like they have a 6th sense for my kind and to be honest it freaked me the fuck out. I paused in front of the church looking at the couple, they didn't look up but the priest did. He gestures to me, beckoning me to go to him. I don't know why but I did. "Did you know this young girl?" He asked me looking carefully into my eyes. "No sir, I've just seen them grieving while I was walking around." I said keeping my voice calm. He pulled me aside and whispered to me "I don't know what you are, but I know you aren't human, I know you're connected to this somehow." "I don't know what you're talking about." "I can see it plainly, you know sliver eyes are the eyes of evil right?" He practically hissed in my ear. I felt water hit the side of my face and I looked over. The priest had a vile of 'holy water'. Needless to say all it did was get my face. "What was that?" I asked wiping it off my face. He looked a bit surprised that his little water trick did nothing. "Nothing. Why don't you go on your way now." He said turning the question into a command. The priest went back to the couple, watching me as I go. 'This is why I don't like the church!' I thought to myself as I walked away, back on my quest to find a job. It took hours but I found a small bakery that was hiring. "Can you count, read, and write decently?" The man asked, his blue eyes looking me up and down "Yes sir, my hand writing isn't great but I can fix it with a bit of work." "Do you know the money system?" "Yes sir." The money system here was easy, it was all coins. The tin ones were the cheapest, then copper, then up to silver, and the most expensive was gold. It took about 2 or 3 tin coins to buy a nice looking apple. 5 tin made a copper coin, 10 copper made a silver coin, and 10 silvers made a gold coin. Most the time they were just referred to by their metals. "Good, we'll see how you do tomorrow, if you do well then we'll give you the job, my name is Baxter by the way." Baxter said shaking my hand. "I'm Vincent, what time tomorrow should I be here?" "Just after the sun rises would be good." He said, letting me out. "Ok, I'll see you then." The next morning seemed to come the moment I lay on my bed. I woke early and went to the outskirts of the town where a river lay. Walking to an isolated area I stripped myself bare, letting the cold air envelope my body. One good thing about be a vampire is the cold doesn't bother you, in fact hot and cold felt kind of good to me, even if they were the extremes they still felt good. I slipped into the chilly water, sighing as it flowed over me. After wading toward the middle of the river, letting the water run to my chest I started scrubbing at my body; I could literally feel the dirt being washed away as I scrubbed my chest and arms with a scrap of cloth. I wadded closer to the shore so the water was at my hips instead of my chest. Leaning down facing the river I started cleaning my hips and cock. Vincent Ch. 01 It wasn't long before my scrubbing got me hard. 'Wait until you're done bathing before you get distracted.' I thought as I cleaned my legs off. I heard a small gasp behind me as I bent over, turning quickly I saw a young woman. She was smallish with blond hair and green eyes, I think, she was wearing a brown robe that almost touched the ground, she was carrying a bundle of clothes. My instincts told me she was around 19 or 20 though she looked younger. I realized with a start that the water was below my groin; showing everything to her. I gasped and turned around, I stepped deeper into the water trying to will my erection down. "I'm so sorry sir! I didn't know you were here and... I'm sorry" She shouted from behind me. I could feel my body flush with embarrassment; I think she took the red hue that lit my skin as anger thought because she started apologizing and begging me not to be mad at her. "It's ok, I was finishing up anyway." I said looking over my shoulder at her. She looked at the ground when I turned around, her face as red as my own. "Here, if you turn around I'll get out and get dressed." I said "Ok..." She said nodding softly as she turned away. I slipped out of the river, walking to my clothes I pulled a small cloth I used as a towel and quickly dried off my lower body and slipped on my pants, not that they hid my erection. "Ok, I'm reasonably covered" I said turning to her as I started toweling off my chest and arms after I wrung out my hair. She turned and looked at me, even thought it was fairly clear she was watching me while I got dressed. Her face turned a deeper shade of red when she watched me dry my chest. I chuckled, "Breath, I know it was an accident, it's ok." I told her, "Did you come down here to do laundry?" "Yes sir." She replied softly, still looking down. "You don't talk much do you?" I asked her when she didn't say anything else. "No sir." I slipped on my shirt and cloak, slipping my daggers in their spot on my hips, not that I thought I needed them, but they were nice to have. I walked over to her and she looked up at me with her wide green eyes when I stepped in front of her. "Breath, you're not in trouble, ok?" I whispered. I could smell her arousal, needless to say it didn't help my now rock solid erection. "Oh....ok..." She said, her heart pounding rapidly. "I'm just embarrassed, I'm really sor..." "Hush, I told you it's fine," I muttered as I put my finger over her mouth, moving much closer than I really meant to. Both of our breathing picked up, I wanted her, bad. Letting my hand drop down I accidently hit the basket she had her clothes in, knocking them down. "Oh shit, I'm sorry," I said bending down turning the basket right side up and picking up the clothes. I looked up at her and noticed she was wearing a cross; it was the kind you only got if you worked with the church. 'Don't even think about it!' My better half of my brain said, the other half didn't really care. I started to stand up just as she leaned over my back. We fell together, me on my back and her on my chest. "Uff, ugh, I'm sorry...urk" I grunted. She shifted on top of me, unintentionally rubbing my crotch, moaning softly my hands clasped her hips. She gasped softly and put her hands on my chest. Her eyes were emerald with her surprisingly innocent lust as she stared into my eyes. Somehow our lips met and I rolled us over so I was on top. Her mouth felt amazing on mine; I gently nibbled on her lip. She moaned in such a soft and sexy way that I wanted to fuck her as hard as I could to see if her screams were as sexy. We moaned as I ground my hips into hers. It felt so damn hot I wanted to scream out loud and tear both our clothes off. "Oh gods, I'm sorry, oh we shouldn't have done that!" The girl said after we parted. "It's ok, and besides I'm not complaining in anyway." I whispered panting. "You know I never did catch your name, what is it?" I said softly in her ear. "Umm...It's...G...Godelief." She whispered very softly. I gently kissed Godelief's forehead and she stiffened a little bit. "Loved by the gods? That seems fitting. I'm Vincent." I said smiling as I continue to lay on her. I found myself wanting to continue with kissing her, but she clearly was regretting what we did so I crawled off her. "Ya.. I.. um should get going...I..." She said getting up. "No it's ok, I've got to get to work," I said getting up and nodding at her, "I'll be honest I'm only a little sorry we did that, I mean it wasn't hurting anyone or anything, ya know?" I said starting to ramble a little. She smiled softly and I shut up and nodded at her as I left, heading to work, trying to will my erection down as I walked off. 'Geez, could that have gone much worse!? Honestly, acting like a 12 year old, ugh.' I thought to myself as I walked to work... The walk was short and I was quickly at the store walking in to find a small older woman working the counters. She had long blonde hair and soft blue eyes, she was putting away the bread and pastries as I walked up. "Are you the new employee? I'm Letha, Baxter's wife, I help bake the pastries." She said shaking my hands, smiling softly. "Come on and step back here." She said gesturing to the opening in the counter. I nodded and stepped behind the counter, the woman was at least a head shorter than me, causing me to tower over her just a little. "Well, you're a big guy aren't ya?" She said patting my shoulder, smiling sweetly. "My husband said you were rather tall, you said you're good with money?" "I'm fairly good, to be honest I've never really had a job like this." I said meekly. "It's ok hon, I can teach you anything you need to know. Oh, here, and tie your hair back." She said as she handed me an apron and a cloth strip for my hair. I fumbled with the cloth and she tutted and took the strip from me, turned me around and tied my hair back quickly. "There, hmm, you've got some thick hair." She muttered, "Sorry, I have a tendency to get distracted easy." I nodded and she let go of my hair and went to the counter and started explaining the prices to me, how to wrap the breads and pastries, how to fill a basket if the customer paid for one, and how to put the money away and keep up with the ledger. "I'll stay here with you until I think you've got it, ok?" She said and I simply nodded. The day seemed to go quickly and it wasn't long until it was getting dark and Baxter was telling me it was time to close shop for the night. I had figured out the prices and such quickly, and Mrs. Letha had left me on my own for the last few hours. Baxter paid me a copper and 3 tin coins after they decided to pay me day by day from how much we sold. "Today was an average day; hopefully we'll get a rush tomorrow. Here, I saw you didn't eat lunch, take some leftovers home." Baxter said handing me a few loaves of bread wrapped up in one of their blankets. "Thank you, I'll... eat it when I get home." I said taking the bread, not sure what I was going to do with it when I got home but not wanting to be rude. He nodded and waved as I walked out the door, heading to my little abandoned house. As I passed the church I thought of Godelief, silently wondering what she was doing, if she was upset with me, if she really had gotten in trouble for our kiss. 'Stop it, any girl but that one, find someone else. She's the only girl who could get you in trouble, or maybe even killed, so stop daydreaming about how... really... really soft... DAMN IT...' I started cursing out loud as I felt myself get an erection once again. 'Think of anything else, oh, wait, bread, what am I gonna do with it,' I thought as I walked. I didn't care to eat anything, mostly because it would have to come out again, unlike blood. Throwing it away seemed a waste, and maybe there's some around here who'd want it. I started wondering the area near my house where other homeless people lived. Sure enough I found an abandoned house with voices coming from the inside, peeking in, I saw a small group of kids sitting in the middle of the main room talking quietly. "What are we gonna do... there's so little here to split between us." A feminine voice whispered. I could see there were 3 of them but I couldn't tell who was talking. "How are we going to survive next winter Archer? What if there's a famine or something? How are we going to make it through that?" A young male voice said. "We'll find a way, don't worry about it." A different young male voice, who I assume to be Archer, said. I slipped the plank in front of me out of the way and quietly slipped into the house, closing it silently back into place. They continued talking about their food situation as I snuck around as quietly as I could. I didn't realize there was a plank next to my foot until I kicked it, knocking it over. "Who's there!" Archer shouted, standing up abruptly. I cursed under my breath as I stepped out from behind the wall, getting my first good look at the kids. They were very thin, Archer had short light brown hair, brown eyes, and he appeared to be the oldest. The other two both had short dark hair, I couldn't tell which one was the girl though. "Why are you in here?" Archer said, walking up to me, practically bristling. "I just heard voices while I was passing by outside so I came inside to see what was going on, given this place is supposedly abandoned." "Um, you didn't have to come in here..." He said, looking a little nervous. "I could go to the guards with this but I won't, I'm in a similar state as you three, I do however have extra food if maybe you're interested." I said, holding up the basket that was still in my arms. "Really?" He asked, his mouth gaping slightly. The other two stood up behind him, one with green eyes , the other with brown eyes. "Would you really give us all of that?" A small female voice asked; she was the one with brown eyes, she looked to be about 12."Oh, I'm Maddie, that's Archer and this is my brother Barlow." She said gesturing to the others as she stepped forward, giving me a name for the third boy. "Yea, I've been where you are, I know what it's like to scrape by." I said stepping forward handing Maddie the bread. "Thank you so much, no one's ever been so kind to us." She said, hugging me tight. "Maddie, get back here." Archer said, stiffing up slightly. It was clear the teen didn't trust me, I can't blame him, if it had been me and... Fang, before he killed that woman, I wouldn't have let them near us. "It's ok; I'm not going to hurt you, I swear." I said softly, holding my hands up. "How do we know we can trust you, how do we know these aren't poisoned, if you have it half as bad as we do then you wouldn't just give away good food, why are you doing this for us?" He asked, holding Maddie away from me. "Because I've got a job that gives me spare food, I don't need this much; I can try to give it to y'all every night if y'all want, I just don't want it to go to waste." I said, trying to look unthreatening, a somewhat difficult task for me given the dark figure look about me. "Come on Archer, we need this food, we won't go long without it." Barlow said, looking at Archer. "Thank you, we needed this." He said to me, looking down slightly. He was also young, maybe around 14ish. "Thank you, ah... umm.. I don't know your name." Maddie said, blushing softly. "It's fine, my name is Vincent, do y'all live here?" I asked, looking around at the small ruined house. "Yes." Archer answered stiffly. "Well, I'll um go now, if I have any more extras I'll bring them here." I said as I turn and walk out slowly, feeling Archer's unease at my presence. As I walked away I could hear Maddie crying out happily when she found that there was a pastry in the basket. The walk home was normal, quiet, dull, little dirty, but then so was the house I lived in, even though it was two story you could see the sky from the ground floor in some places. The cheap mattress I sleep on was there before Fang and I had found the place and was in very bad shape, it was sleepable however so it was appreciated. Funny, not so long ago I had hardly noticed how far Fang had fallen... Now if I ever see him again it won't be in the same light, we will be but strangers with the same blood. I pushed the dark thoughts of Fang away as I lay down, going to sleep, not dreaming at all. -----A few weeks later at the shop----- "Vincent, the shop is closing, clean up, Letha and I are going to run some errands." Baxter told me toward the end of the day. All in all it had been a good day, I had seen Godelief for a bit when she'd stepped in to buy bread for the priest. Godelief and I had become friends, of course I can't go visit her without the priest verbally attacking me, but she'd come into the shop and visit while she got food. Nothing else sexual had happened between us since the day we'd meet by the river. Today she mentioned that I shouldn't go around the church, there was a 'holy noble' there, that was supposedly a pro demon hunter and the priest would use me as an example as soon as he got the chance. As I cleaned off the counter the door opened, "Hey, I'm sorry but we're closing up." I said without looking up. "I know, I'm looking for my father, he owns the bakery" A small soft female voice said. "You're Baxter's ki..." I said pausing as I looked up, find a young woman, with breath taking blue eyes, and long, soft looking, golden hair. "Oh um... hi." I whispered, cursing myself for sounding so surprised. "Hi." She said chuckling softly at my shock. "So, where are my parents?" "Oh, they um stepped out to go run some errands." I stuttered, grimacing softly "Oh, well do you need any help closing up?" "Ya, could you cover the bread?" I said, finally finding my voice. "Sure, do you want to take some home? Or is dad not doing that anymore?" "Ya, he is, three pieces will do." "Three? Sounds like you either eat a lot or you're feeding someone else." She said, clearly joking. I laughed softly, thinking of the kids in the house, they had grown to trust me, I brought them bread almost daily now, occasionally bringing a sweet or two for Maddie. "Here ya go." She said, setting the bread on the counter as I locked up the windows. "Thanks, I'm Vincent by the way." I said, holding my hand out to her as I scooped up the bundle of bread. "I'm Titania, nice to meet you." She smiled as she shook my hand softly. Yay for cliff hangers :3 Please comment what you thought i need to work on and such, and please rate it so i know what you think :3-Icy