A Dangerous Road- A Vampires Fight Part Four (Revamed)

As the city lights grew around me I couldn’t help but realize I had come a long way from the darkness that consumed me. I did much of Dario’s bidding until I took hold of my own life and ran from the life he wanted.

It wasn’t me, his darkness consumed him in ways where power was everything and more to him and to me it wasn’t about power but rather I was running from my own secrets and my past. I wanted to run into Lorenzo’s arms again but things were different.

And coming to America had given me the chance to change. To be the person I needed to be for mankind. I closed my eyes and remembered that day, the sadness and humanity escaping my fingertips as Lorenzo’s faint image was like a figment of my own imagination.

I was at my wits end. I was about to break again, and I felt it was the end as I knew it. It was a cold rainy Saturday Night. I had tried for days to get the old me back; I tried putting on a smile faking how I really felt. But Inside I was screaming and breaking, the love I pushed aside the displacement I felt.

On the outside I was smiling, it’s all I could do. Fake it. I was good at it. I was an Augustine; we were good at faking emotions especially for the right people and cause. I stared out the window and watch as the rain fell, first just a smidge but then the thunder and lightning came, a rush of water fell.

I starred for hours at the rain hitting the window as the droplets inched their way down. I closed my eyes as my head was spinning; I was used to being left behind, Lorenzo made sure I felt that pain that night. I took my knees and folding them up against my tiny frame. I hadn’t eaten for days; I looked to my side seeing bottles of liqueur everywhere.

It was all I could turn to ease the pain, but it only made it grow within me. These nightmares kept creeping up on me, and I knew I knew it was for good reason.  I took my phone from my back pocket and opened it up. I tried dialing Lorenzo , my thoughts cried out to just call him to get him here to help me, but my fingers didn’t budge how could he come now. After everything we had gone through in the centuries. The running. How could I face him?

Yes Lorenzo was alive but where I couldn’t tell you. These nightmares only appearing to me to show me maybe just maybe I had got it all wrong.  I threw the phone to the floor breaking it in pieces. The voices began to talk to me, the dark shadows beckoned me to turn it all off again, they slithered their way into my thoughts as if they were there to ease the pain. It had finally crept into my heart, all the fights all the pain from Lorenzo flashing back.

~~~Flashback~~~~

On to America-

So our trip to America began, and my new found spirit inside me with a burning desire to Kill my light was dimming as the light was shutting down inside me. America would be my new playground and a time to start fresh. Not just for myself, but the relationship I had with Dario. Things didn’t change the way I felt for Dario in fact his willingness to help me and set me free without consequence made me see him in a better light, Little did I know his darkest secret was my demise with Lorenzo, but at the same time it made me his best creation yet.

     The moment I turned off my humanity I wasn’t the same love struck girl I once was. I didn’t let anyone just run or walk all over me including Dario and he couldn’t help but love the new found me. It was the push I needed that Lorenzo gave up on me to get my way in the door to take control over my life and not let just anyone walk in and even show me an ounce of love. I didn’t care anymore and I wasn’t going to start.

     The day we hit the shores of America I took in the air closing my hues and just imaging what life had for me ahead. All the emotions gone and a new purge of evil was about to embark on our journey for I knew Dario had his plans and I would be setting them forth for all to bow down to him. I stepped off the big boat with my seductive heals and a nice shawl around my small shoulders and looked around at the land ahead of me. It was untouched by the hand of evil and I knew with a sly smirk coming across Dario’s face this would be our playground.

From the beginning Dario always wanted everything big and grand; he never cared at the thought of being discovered because he knew it would be taken care of with a wave of my hand, but things were still different in some ways. We had to still be discreet in the places we set our ground and the people we made victim to our grasp. In upcoming years we changed names here and there, just to keep people on their toes of who were, but of course Dario always wanted big and expensive which entailed me getting the big and rich out of their home and us moved in. In our down time where not much was needed in Dario’s presence, I got doctorates in many fields so I could expand my horizons. I played many parts in many lives and always stood by my master Dario.Later on I decided I needed to be on my own when the rough times were laid low and Dario understood knowing his plans were being met and decided I could leave for a few until he called on me to come back to him. I also ventured out on my own from time to time to get a feel for life in my own eyes. Dario wanted me to have a life after the thought of me leaving again. So I lead my life. My humanity being off I would kill for the fun and pleasure.

It wasn’t until 1955 that everything changed once again. I was doing a study at the Whitmore house under Dario‘s command to find out what exactly the Whitmore’s had found with our kind and what horrible things they could possibly do to us. The Whitmore house believed I was Maggie Jamesa young scholar wanting to help the cause, and because of my capabilities I went undercover not showing I too was part Vampire. And that’s where I found Lorenzo again…..

 

It was hard enough I was made to do Dario’s bidding, but I did it loyally and without question. He was all the family I ever had. He was the only one who never left me and never turned his back not even when his own turned he kept me safe. Some of the things he wanted me to do I had no problems with I did without question. I would kill innocent people. The kill in my eyes the passion it gave me was a high I couldn’t explain, it gave me this feeling no one else could, It was better than love . That’s when I knew when I turned my humanity off the day Lorenzo left me it was the best mistake he ever made. For me.

It was hard to leave Dario while he went on his adventures leaving me to do he asked. He always had a plan and knew exactly why he had me do what he asked. Everything had its position and was in place where he put it. He was very mischievous when he did his orders, and knew exactly what he had in mind.

 

That’s why he sent me to the Whitmore home years later he knew my humanity was gone, he knew my love for Lorenzo was completely gone, or so he thought. What he didn’t expect was my fury would take over and I could never forgive Dario for his actions. For I didn’t know it was his actions that put us both there in this very hell.

#EnzosStory- Enzo was found by the Whitmore family after he left his post in Eastern Europe during WWII to go to me, caused by Dario giving information of his where about’s to the Whitmores to capture him and take him away from his prized possession, me. He was imprisoned by Dr. Whitmore and forced to endure his torture for ten years, when I thought he just left and was afraid of commitment. In 1950, Enzo was a prisoner of the Whitmore Society; He was used as an experiment in the laboratory at Whitmore. .

#OnToAmericaContinued-

 I was responsible for the study of his behavior and take notes about him. My appearance had changed and I had change my features some. I wasn’t the same flame of love he once remembered. As to not be detected as a beautiful outsider and wore glasses to portray my part, I wanted to hate Enzo when I saw it was actually him, I hated his guts, I thought Dario put me here because he found out for me where he was so I could kill him, but in his state after all the experiments he didn’t even know who I was so I played my part. Within months we began to have feelings for each again, my hate was subsiding. I wanted to help him escape and I had asked him to turn her into a vampire, playing my part to pretend he didn’t know me I wanted his reaction and to tell me yes, and that’s when I would reveal myself. I wanted to escape and be with him forever, but Enzo, in order to protect me or so he thought, took my bracelet that had vervain in it to protect me from their compulsion (which I was already used to per Dario‘s command to get a tolerance for it so the vervain never hurt me it was only a toy in the operation) off, and thought he compelled me to forget about him and leave. Lorenzo returned my bracelet and I turned and left not under compulsion but of more hate for him.

 

~~~~Present~~~~~

A friend of Vampires  helped me break the bond that consumed me years ago and I couln’t go back to the darkness that consumed me. I hated that bond and the evil it brought with it. I wanted to be able to choose what I wanted when I wanted without Dario giving me the okay to do it. I didn’t want to feel hated anymore or kill innocent’s. I wanted to be free to feel alive. I wanted mankind never to fear us but to strengthen. And that Is when I choose the path I was on today. Even if my nightmares were still haunting me.

Maybe something was in the air, maybe I was just being paranoid. I wasn’t as I once was. Sure I looked tough and acted tough but something inside me was trying to break free and fight within myself. I knew the fate I had was to lead to a long barrel of sin and I didn’t care.

I got up from my miserable chair and fixed myself up. I looked around and grabbed an empty bottle “of fucking course, why is the rum always gone.” I threw it down and grabbed my keys. “Might as well check at Johnnys Bar, might even be a bounty there or something I can dig my fangs into.” I said to myself as I walked out of my hotel room.

I needed a stiff one and I knew johnny’s had the best of the best. I walked in like I owned the place and waved at a few friends, or humans that gave me some tips every once in a while when trouble strayed in.

I couldn’t help bending over the bar talking to johnny when the door to the bar hit open. A few faces rolled in laughing but one in particular made me stop dead in my tracks. Lorenzo. It had been decades since I last saw him. Why here why now, and who the fuck was he with. I huffed as I tried not to care.

It was mind blowing, of all places and times here? These nightmares had to be saying something to me I went on my mary way of course flirting with the bar keep to get some free drinks; johnny was always one to give me anything I needed.  I shot down two tequilas before I had noticed Lorenzo sat down. He was the same muscled man I had known and hated for centuries but he must have not noticed me or maybe he did.

I wasn’t the same as I once was, or what he knew. Before I was timid and way too much of a girly girl. Now I was fitting into my own skin, black hair brown eyes that could kill and I worked out.

I knew he would know me from a mile away if he noticed even if I wasn’t the same girl as before,  so I got up and brought over a drink to him when Lorenzo sat down. He was stunned and couldn’t even speak at the woman who now sat before him. I wasn’t the same follower of Dario, I made my way into the world. I was muscled physique and carried myself in a fashion that no one was going to stop me. Lorenzo face was as white as it could be. “awe can’t say hello to an old flame huh,” I passed him the shot “Don’t worry you don’t have to explain a thing I am just here for a drink and then I am off.”

#ToBeContinued