High School

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela puts her hand on Emery's cheek and smiles. "Nope." She says, before trailing her hand to where his heart was. She could feel the slow beat of it, like a war drum. Thump.........Thump.........Thump. "So slow." She whispers before biting her lip and putting her hand at her side.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"Because vampires are half dead. You know, we don't have a lot of our own blood, heart doesn't need to work as much." He grins and grabs her hand. "So yeah, you're practically dating a dead guy, hope you're into that kind of thing." He winks, smirking.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"As long as you're fine with dating an animal." She says, pulling her hand up to her mouth to nibble on it softly. She stops when a yawn comes from her mouth, causing her to cover it and close her eyes. "Wow, I'm tired." She whispers and lays her head down.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"Sleep then," Emery whispers and kisses her forehead, wrapping his arms around her waist and laying down next to her. He strokes her hair and traces patterns on her shoulder lightly to lull her to sleep. He was tired too, but he'd wait until Leela was asleep till he went to sleep.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela closes her eyes and snuggles into Emery's chest. "Fine." She whispers and gently nuzzles his chest, before wrapping her arms around him and sighing. He was very comfortable, and it wasn't hard for her to fall asleep. And soon she was snoring quietly, as she always did when she got very tired.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Emery finally noted that she was snoring and finally let himself fall asleep, his breathing synchronised with Leelas. He hoped that he didn't dream, and if he did he hoped that it wouldn't be bad, wouldn't wake him up like it had the night before.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

There were three figures, walking down a tunnel. All she could see were their silhouettes, but they looked big and mean. "Hello?" She tried to call, but her voice was muffled. She tries to move her hands up to her mouth but they were tied with what felt like rope behind her back. Her legs were tied together as well and she was in some kind of hole. Soon the three silhouettes got closer, but she still couldn't see who they were. There was a slamming sound, and then complete darkness, before she heard the sound of tires on pavement. She was in a trunk.





She jumped awake, sweat covering her face as she noticed that she was still cuddled with Emery. She sighs when she sees him still awake and gets up. Leela walks into the bathroom and runs cold water on her hands before rubbing the water on her face. She looks up at the mirror to see her eyes were bloodshot, and her pupils were a lot bigger than they should be. Instead of worrying about it, though, she shrugs and walks out of the bathroom.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Emery woke up the second she did, and followed her to the bathroom, he pulls her closer to him and wraps his arms around her comfortingly. "It's okay, it's okay it was a dream. You're fine." He whispers and strokes her hair, shushing her. He wondered what had happened in her dream, but he didn't want to ask her and make her re live it.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"I know." She says, hugging him back. She wasn't really bothered by nightmares, it's just she normally didn't have them. She'd always figure that it was because of the dream catcher her mother had made for her when she was a baby. "I'm fine, no worries." She says, her legs were a bit shaky but she brushed that off as her lack of food for that day. She walks over to the fruit and grabs a banana before sitting back down on the bed and peeling it slowly.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"Are you sure you're okay?" He asks and walks over to the bottle he had abandoned. It was half full and had gone warm, which sort of reminded him of it being fresh. He sipped at it and sat cross legged on the floor in front of the bed. "Do you... Wanna talk about it?" He asks her, looking away. So much for not invading.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

She tears a piece of the banana off and puts it in her mouth. "It was dark, and there were three figures walking towards me. I tried to scream but there was something over my mouth," she starts, and takes another bite of the fruit, "I was tied up in a tight space, a trunk of a car I believe." She finishes her explanation of the dream and nibbles on the banana, trying to stop thinking about it.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"Do you think its a memory?" Emery asks as he sits upright, looking her in the eye. "Have you had more dreams like this?" From his experience most of his dreams were memories, or bad things that could happen. He used to have nightmares about the torture he went through when he was younger, and didn't remember it as a memory. When he finally remembered it, he stopped dreaming about it, and started dreaming about Leela dying.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"I've never had nightmares before, and I've never been in the trunk of a car." She says, then brushes the wet hair out of her face. "It's just a dream." She whispers, more to herself than to Emery. She hugs her knees to her chest and continues to eat her banana with closed eyes. Images of the three silhouettes flashing through her mind.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

Emery nods his head and brings his knees up to his chest, resting his head on top of them. "It's just a dream." He confirms, before he drains the rest of the bottle. He was dangerously low on supply now, one bottle would last him for the rest of the day, and then he'd have to go out hunting for some easy people.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela nods her head and finishes her banana, then she stands up and walks to the trashcan this time. She then walks over to Emery and sits down in front of him with a smile on her face. She hugs her knees to her chest and rests her chin on them, just the way Emery had. "Looks like you need to go shopping." She says, glancing at the bottle, then back at him.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"I'll sort it later." He says, frowning. He'd do it when she was asleep, at night. It was always better to hunt at night, and he needed to, he could feel it in his bones. He was a predator, and humans were his prey, and it had been too long since he had hunted. He'd have to be discrete, make it look like an animal attack or make the people go missing or something. He just had to hunt, even if he didn't want Leela to look at him badly for it.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela nods, and closes her eyes again. "Well. I need to change soon, you know, if you go to long without it things can get bad." She says, and looks at her cut up hands. To long was more like a day or two, if she didn't go wolf soon than it would happen automatically, and it always seemed to happen in the worse situations possible. Once she started phasing in the middle of class and she had to run to the back of the school. It was hard to get the teachers to let it slide, but her father had managed.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"Don't worry, theres a wood near here. You can change there. I need to hunt though, it's been too long for me, too." He looks away from Leela. You don't need to hunt, he thinks to himself, you want to, you sick fuck. He looks back at Leela and smiles again, sweetly. "I'm a predator, hunting is in my blood."

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela rolls her eyes and grabs his hand. "I understand, Emery. You need to hunt, it's a thing that you HAVE to do." She says, staring into his eyes. "Just like me.. Eating is a thing I have to do." She jokes, a smirk popping onto her face. "But seriously, I understand." Her eyebrows raise, and her mouth turns to a kind smile.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"Good," Emery smiles. "I'm going to do it tonight, that okay?" He asks her. If she didn't want him to do it tonight then he wouldn't. Besides, Leela was his main concern, not hunting. He could put that off if Leela needed him. He would feel guilty for leaving her to change on her own in a new town, so if she wanted him there, he would be. "I can always stick with you, you know."

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"No, don't worry about it. I can find my way back." She says and winks at him. "Didn't you know? All dogs can find their way home." She adds, she didn't like referring to herself as a 'dog' but it was necessary for the reference. She shrugs her shoulders and pushes her hair back with her hands, before looking around the warehouse. "This is home."

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"I'm glad you think of it like that," Emery laughs, "I suppose it is home now. That's weird to say. Home for me is supposed to be Niles Manor. Now that place just feels like... I don't know." He shrugs before he reaches for Leela, pulling her towards him.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"A dungeon? Hell?" She'd only been in that place once and it had felt like she'd never get out. She smiles at Emery and she puts her head on his shoulder. "I don't know, there was something about that town that just wasn't right to me." She says, her shoulders shrugging yet again. She always shrugged, and she didn't know exactly why.

 

[buildingaspaceship]

"My house was hell, yeah. That sounds about right. But I miss my bedroom, a lot. It was nice in there, but this place is nice too. And you're here, you weren't there, so.. And the town? I get where your coming from there, I got weird vibes from that place." Emery laughs and moves some hair that was falling in front of Leelas face, putting it behind her ear.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"I didn't like my house, or bedroom. Any part of my house really. My dad had dead animals hanging everywhere, and it made me sad." She says, remembering the big deer head that her father had mounted on the wall. She had seen him kill that deer, and it was as if he had no mercy. Leela sighs and shakes her head, putting thoughts of her father out of her head. "There was really.. Just something off about that place, and I can't put my finger on it."