An Interesting Opportunity

Marius de Romanus (Age: 2,278 Apparent: 40

What is surely to be an interesting opportunity quickens my resolve to continue my work.

Piper Vale walked back into our lives. But no this wasn’t the same Piper I used to know.  This was Piper the Vampire.  Vampirism having stripped her of her witchery, she was now accustomed to her new reality, but was she?  She talked of the struggles she’s had to work to overcome and how difficult it had been.  But of course, Ashiok had made her vampire and all but left her to her own devices. Surely, at her own request; she’s stubborn like that. She thought she could handle it on her own, being around vampires the majority of her life.  But by her own admission, she had underestimated the importance of a good sire. As most of us do, for one reason or another. Now she felt a bit lost, a bit overwhelmed, and certainly a bit lonely. She needed a vampire that could educate her, guide her, mentor her.

Of course, I offered her to become my protego.  This was Piper.  Our Piper.  I would not leave her to suffer and have her grow to be unstable.  That’s what happens without a proper sireship. But the memory of Piper would surely evoke other memories, especially for Pandora. She was afterall the woman that brought Brelynn and Saralyn to us, helped us raise them, developed us into actual parents. Everytime we look at her, we’re reminded of what we lost. Nothing would ever replace that void for us, for Pandora and I.  Our daughters were the first legal adoption of our entire family, they were the first chance for us to be “normal”, to be “parents” not just sires.  How long ago that all seems, and now with Brelynn’s rejection,  my torment is absolute.  Armand had told me of his encounter with her, of how she now longed to remove the vampire side of her and wished to be left alone.  The repugnant face she made when Armand called her by her legal name, Brelynn de Romanus.  Her birth mother Karalynn had been found, and that too proved to be another blow for my daughter.  Karalynn could not break free of the bond her sire holds upon her.  She escaped the comfort of our protection to return to him back on Earth. And with her our daughter’s forgiveness and tolerance of our lifestyle.

pandora-mariusSo now I broach the subject with Pandora.  I told her Piper was back, that she needed our help.  And no sooner did I mention her name, did Pandora say, “Absolutely. Of course we must help her.” but I saw her mind drift… drift off to those times where Saralyn and Brelynn would sneak off to see Piper at night or to hang out with boys that surely gaves us many sleepless nights.  They were teenagers none the less.  My wife’s face said it all.

She looked down and clutched the necklace that had a picture of Saralyn and Brelynn embedded in jade and emeralds,  one that Va’lis had made for her.  I looked at her and through our bond, which is both that of lovers eternal and of sire-to-progeny, I saw her heart break once again.  In that moment I wondered if having Piper around would hurt us more, or help us heal.  We would have to find out.  And quickly.

If I was to be put to death for my crimes by the Order or incarcerated for an extensive period of time, I would have to count on Piper to not only work with Va’lis to admister the serum as needed to those of us that require aid in keeping our masquerade or those that like Cherry desire to have what Pandora and I so briefly had, but also ask her to look out for Pandora, to help her heal from the loss of our beloved daughters and quite possibly from the loss of … well me.

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