UNEXPECTED TRUTH

(Amy's Chronicles - Book III)

Chapter 1

Author's note:

This is a sequel to "A New Call". So if you haven't read it first, you won't probably understand some details or references mentionned in this third book.

This third part is dedicated to my best friend Yléna, my fav reader who always thinks that my fics are great. Many thanks to her for her help, her advices, and for the time she spent reading me. With a thought for the chapters she made me destroy because they were "like shit". Thanks to her, I keep practicing.

Disclaimer:

All publicly recognisable characters, settings, etc... are the property of their respective owners. The boys do not belong to me, unfortunately. The original characters and plot are my property. I'm in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.

Warnings: Like the book and the film that inspired my writings, this story is rated R and contains blood play, character's death and violence.

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Even if David had told me that he wouldn't hurt me, I was not completely relaxed. He wanted to initiate me and the only mention of it was terrible for me. Everyday, I was discovering something new, something I would never have known if I had stayed a human.  Nevertheless I was afraid of the unknown. I trusted David because he had not killed me as he had been ordered. But what could prevent him from changing his mind? Anyway, it was too late. I was unable to kill David, even if I would become strong enough. I will never be 'human' again and I will have to do with it.

My stomach was painful of hunger and it made David happy because I was refusing to feed for days. I was refusing to kill anyone. He thought this time I'll do it. He had brought me to the boardwalk, we had melted into the crowd many times, and it was getting harder and harder to resist. To the bloodlust that was slowly devouring my conscience, I had to add David’s pressure on me. I asked him if I could drink from the bottle again and he said no. He said that I needed fresh and warm blood if I wanted to survive. The bottle couldn’t provide me what I needed.

Three nights ago, I was so weak that David had forced me to drink directly from his wrist. I first had turned my head with a disgusted grin, but I finally gave up. I needed his blood. But I continued refusing to take anyone’s life.

“Tonight!” David ordered.

“I won’t,” I answered.

“You must feed, Amy, stop fighting,” David said.

“I can't,” I replied firmly. I saw disappointment and impatience in his icy blue eyes.
He came close to me and raised a hand to my face. I closed my eyes under his soft touch but stared back at him to let him know that I wouldn’t give up.

“Come on, you know that I’m right. You're a vampire now!”

“Not yet. Not completely. I will be a vampire when, and only when, I'll make my first kill. And I'm not going to do it.”

“This is a part of your initiation, Amy! I know you are suffering and I can take your pain off. You just have to want it. You just have to let it rise inside of you and let it simply get out.” His voice was hypnotic and soft. His slow talking was like a tempting dream. He leaned in as to kiss me but I turned my head and he stopped moving. He took my chin between his fingers and made me look back at him, violently. He was slowly losing his self-control.

“Don't play with me, I'm not in a good mood!”
 
“David, we've had this conversation ten times,” I tried.

His eyes became blacker, but he said nothing and stepped away. He walked to his armchair and sat down. I saw he was hardly trying to stay calm.

“We’ve had this conversation ten times,” he repeated, “But at the end, you'll do it, and you'll do it MY WAY!” He said firmly.

I looked at the ground and sighed. I knew he was right.

“How long could I keep resisting?” I wondered.
I was fighting my feelings, I was fighting my deepest desires, I was fighting my new nature, and I was fighting David. It was too hard.

Marko entered the place with Dwayne and Paul close behind. They probably just woke up a few minutes ago and it disturbed my dark thoughts. He went to David and talked in his ear. It was familiar! David nodded. They both stared at me in silence and I get worried.

“Was I concerned by what Marko had said?” I wondered once more.

“What?” I asked. David looked at Marko.

“Feeding time,” said Marko, enjoying his bad joke.

“Very funny,” I replied ironically as Paul and Dwayne laughed.

“Enough,” said David to Marko, standing up. They looked at each other and I knew they were debating without even saying a word. Marko said yes with the head. David moved over to me.

“Let’s get out, boys,” Marko said to Paul and Dwayne. They left the cave and I heard the loud roar of their bikes. They were going out to feed.

“Come with me,” David told me, raising his hand as to take mine.

“No, please, not tonight,” I pleaded to be released because I knew he would try me again. He was letting me no rest.

“Tonight or tomorrow night, it will be the same!” He commented. He took me by the hand and pulled me outside the cave towards his bike. Despite my desire to disobey, I did not resist. Even if I was becoming one of them, even if I was feeling a kind of new force inside of me, I was still under his power and I knew that I would always be.

Like almost every night, we drove to the amusement park. David parked his motorbike and we walked on the boardwalk. I glanced at the crowd of mortals but looked away quickly. I could barely stand my feelings. I could barely stand the growing bloodlust. When I watched people, I could see the blood pulse in their veins under their skin. I could hear their heart beating in their chest. I followed their rhythm, getting louder and louder. It was like a song for the undead. It was an invitation to drink from them, it was the call of the darkness, and it was painful for me to resist. David knew it. I saw him smile with content as he felt my apprehension. He took me by the hand and lured me to the Giant Dipper.

“Let me initiate you, Amy!” He whispered in my ear.
I did not reply, I just closed my eyes for a short instant.

A big security guard stared angrily at David but did not move. David’s glare was more threatening than the policeman’s. The guard did not seem to be afraid, though.

We stepped towards the Merry-go-round and I tried to look away, but the summer season always lured tons of people in the Santa Carla resort. David never left my hand because he knew that I’d stop following if he did.

“Which one do you prefer?” David asked sadistically.

“Do you want this girl with the green top or the guy over there, with the huge glasses?”

“David, please stop!” I implored him.

“Or this guy? Or this one?” He continued, pointing people randomly. He was playing with me and I saw him enjoy it. He smiled viciously.

“Those are a bit too young,” he finally said. “Not that I care about that but I think that it could be an inconvenience for you!” He smirked.

While David was talking, I felt eyes on me, an insisting look that caused me discomfort. I turned my head to face it as David continued to talk, but his voice faded in my ears when I spotted a stranger in the crowd. He was tall, dark-brown haired, brow eyed. He smiled at me knowingly. It was like he had said “I know what you are”. A chill ran down my spine. I couldn’t look away from him. I was about to warn David when a young girl ran to the man, passing next to me. She called him with the hand and he answered her. I sighed with relief. I was getting paranoid with all the events that just had completely changed my life. Slowly, David’s words reached my mind again.

“Let’s see what we can have on the shore,” he said. I looked back at him but I stayed where I was. I was unable to follow. He turned to me.

“Now!” He growled. His eyes were so dark. It was not a point of discussion.
I reluctantly went with him to the shore. I looked behind me but the stranger was gone.

There were couples of lovers here and there, on the beach, probably looking for a bit of privacy. David did not even glance at them. He was not interested. He was looking for a lonely soul.

“Over there,” he said, pointing a lost shadow in the dark. It was almost out of sight but I could already feel the tormented heart of the person. David turned to me.

“Can you feel it?” He asked. I nodded.

“This is the fist contact you have with the mortals. Tortured minds are easier to catch because they are close to the darkness, so they are close to us,” he explained. He was like a teacher and I was certain that he had the answers to much more than just my questions.

He slowed down.

“The most important thing is not to be noticed,” David said.  “Under no circumstances someone can witness your vampire activities, keep that in mind and it will save your life!”

“And yours!” I commented. He turned to me.

“This is serious, Amy!”

“I know,” I said, trying to escape from his stare.

“We will wait until he goes away a little more, and then, you will do what you have to do.”

“He? You can say that he’s a boy? How come?”
He smiled with content.

“Your vampire abilities will grow with time,” he answered. Then he turned back to the future victim.

I looked at David discretely from the corner of my eyes. He was like a hunter, feeling and smelling his prey more than seeing it really. All I was just able to feel was the tormented thoughts, nothing more. We were getting closer and closer.

“Always remember that the dead bodies have to disappear once you’ve fed. No witness, no clue!”
He pointed the see and I understood that all the hungry creatures that lived in the ocean would be very happy to take care of his victims. It was disgusting but the more he taught me about it, the more my hunger was painful.

“David, I won’t… I don’t think I’ll be able to…”

“Shhttt,” he said, putting a finger on his lips to silence me. He observed his prey for a moment.

When David had decided that we were far enough from the crowd, he transformed and turned his vampire face to me. He was able to control his transformation and I couldn’t control mine. Once more, he had told me that it would come to me with time.

“Now!” He said.

I got scared but I was not afraid of him, I was afraid of myself, I was afraid of my own reactions because I suddenly desired this mortal more than anything else and I couldn’t control it. David smiled. We had stalked that guy for a long moment and I was certain that it was the reason of my growing lust. David knew me perfectly, he knew how to act with me in order to obtain what he wanted. All this hunt game was just to make me give up easier.
 
“You can do it quickly or not, it is up to you,” joked David.
In one move, he jumped on his victim. The guy tried to scream with fear but David put a hand on his mouth.

“Shhttt, don’t be scared, man, it won’t be long.” David told him cruelly.
David exhibited the man’s neck. He obviously wanted me to bite him.

“Do it”, he ordered. “He’s yours.”

I looked at the neck and, once again, I saw the blood pulse in the veins. Warmth came from inside and I felt my eyes become blood shot. It burned inside. My face changed with lust, I was transforming. I desired to feast on that man. Some kind of an irresistible force inside made me open my mouth and I felt my sharp fangs on my lips. I came closer, slowly.

“That’s it, Amy,” said David.

I couldn’t see anything else than the veins on the neck, they were calling me. I leaned in as to bite it, hearing David’s hypnotic voice in my head… “Come on, do it…”

Suddenly, the man moaned and I looked in his eyes. I saw how scared he was, I felt his despair and his strong desire to live. It helped me to recuperate my forces.

“No,” I growled, fighting my transformation and recovering my human face. The fire that consumed me disappeared and my bloodlust faded.

David looked furious.

“Come on, Amy, you can do it!” He insisted.

“No,” I replied, looking away.

The man was trying to escape from David’s grip and it angered David much more. In one precise move, he violently broke the man’s neck, with one of his hands. He dropped the dead body on the sand and did not even drink from it.

“Don’t get on my nerves, Amy! I won’t have that patience!” He said furiously, coming to me.

“Why do you torture me like that? Do you enjoy it as you enjoy each of your kills? Why don’t you kill me?” I growled.

He caught me by the throat, brutally.

“This can be done!” He said, squeezing his hold a little. “But I’m sure you don’t want to die.”
He was right, I did not want to die. I did not answer.

“How long will you play that game?” He asked. “You wouldn’t survive without me, haven’t you noticed yet?”

“I don’t want to kill, David.” I said with difficulty, gasping for air.
He realised he was about to strangle me and released his grip a little.

“This guy did not want to die, he was just sad. He had a family, he had friends, I saw it in his eyes and in his soul!”
He put his face close to mine.

“No one is ever ready to die,” he said sadistically. His powerful voice resounded in the night as if we were in the cave.

I have no idea of what look I gave him but he calmed down.

“I can’t help you if you keep refusing my help.” He said, releasing me completely.

I looked away from him because some tears were falling from my eyes. He took me in his arms. I put my head on his chest and closed my eyes. I tried to forget this all, the guy, his fear, his death… David was so strange. He could be so hard in a moment and become so sweet a few minutes later. We stayed like that a little, and then he took my head between his hands, softly, making me look up at him.

“Let me help you, Amy,” he said.

He looked deeper in my eyes. I was locked on his. His lips reached mine and he kissed me. This time, I kissed him back.

“I'm lost, David,” I said after a while.

“I know!” was all David answered.

While David was taking care of the dead man’s body, I felt the same strong stare on me, the one I had felt on the boardwalk earlier. I was certain that someone was observing us.

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