Bloods Gem (21 page)

“
Are you ready my love?” I asked.
Looking into my eyes, she told me she wanted to try something
first. I stood wondering what she wanted. She let her nightgown
slip and fall into the water. I didn’t know why she did
this.

Pressing her lips to mine, I wanted to
follow her lead but stopped her. “Love, it’s not time for this
yet,” I said softly, putting the nightgown in her hands.

“
You said we could do anything here
and it wouldn’t count as doing it in real life.” She had a good
point, but I’d never done this before and I was probably more
nervous then her. I wasn’t sure if making love to her our spirits
would be as one, as it would with the unolding process. I thought
too much about it and what it might do. I told her there would be
no repercussions in reality. Making love to her spirit wouldn’t be
the same as making love to her in reality.

Glancing down at into her pleading eyes,
“Why do you want this?” I asked. “I want to be with you in every
way I can and I desire you,” she responded. I felt my body wanting
to respond to her words. I wanted to take here right there, feel
her body against mine, but my mind took over.

“
Can we please wait? I want to do this
the right way with you and it’s too soon.” She put her head down
and I felt her sadness. I touched her face and whispered in her
ear, “When the time is right Love.” Slipping her nightgown over her
head, I placed my hand on her back, giving her a new emotion. I
didn’t want this dream to be sad for her.

We went to my family’s castle. She laughed,
believing I was joking. When I told her I wasn't, she looked at me
in disbelief.

“
This is where I’ve lived all my life
Faith. I know it’s a little much, but we have a large family. We
have seventy-five Ill-suen living here and about two-hundred and
fifty vampires.” She shook her head, frightened. I pulled her
close. “They’re all animal eaters. We don’t hunt humans, plus no
one can hurt you in dreams,” I reminded her.

We headed towards the door and walked in,
her close by my side, holding my hand. Everyone was up and about it
seemed. Some in the library reading and some practicing sparring in
the gym. Others were scattered here and there. I tried picking up
my sister’s scent and led faith to her. She was close to mother and
they were talking about my brother. I knocked something off a shelf
to get their attention. They froze for a minute, then started
laughing. Their bodies dropped and they leaped into spirit form.
They stood looking at the girl next to me. Mother came and hugged
me.

“
Mother, Celeste, this is Faith,” I
introduced them. Faith stepped out front and shook their hands,
smiling.

“
It’s nice to meet you Faith,” my
sister said excited.

I shot her a look.

“
It was Faith's idea to come meet
you,” I said, looking down at Faith's reaction.

“
I wanted to meet the family he talked
about all the time,” she said, looking back at me.

“
Mother, where’s father?” I
asked.

Glancing at me she spoke through her mind. I
continued the conversation in return not wanting Faith to hear our
family affairs. “So did he go look for Adrian?”

“
Yes, he’s trying to get him back to
us. Worried he might go back to the old clan and do something
stupid.”

“
Something stupid like come after me?”
I asked.

She looked sad. “He’s confused, and he’s
very jealous of you. Before he left he said he went to see you in
spirit and saw how happy you were with your gem and thought it was
unfair since he doesn’t feel the same about his. He blames your
father for a lot, because he says your father didn’t train him well
enough about the process for it to work, and he spent more time
training you.”

“
He trained him the exact way he
trained me mother. I was there for his sessions.”

“
We all came to the conclusion that
she probably wasn’t a gem after all. We think he had been misguided
by an evil spirit along the way,” she said. “But wouldn’t he be
different around us if that was so? When he came back from his
journey he was just the same as before he left.”

“
Son, these evil things work in many
ways, that’s why your father is going to find him so he can take
him to the healers to see if he has an evil spirit inside of
him.”

“
There’s no way we wouldn’t sense the
evil Mother. That’s part of the training, to sense these sort of
things when they are close to us.”

“
There’s no way to know son. Like I
told you before, magic works in strange ways and there’s always
ways around this sort of thing. We just have to address this
situation and hope for the best.” I nodded, agreeing with
her.

“
Have you went through the process yet
my son?”

I shook my head, “I am going to wait a
year Mother. I want her to understand us first and feel the emotion
for me naturally before I change her. I don’t want there to be a
doubt in her mind about what she feels for me.” “Good
choice son, but I must warn you, if another Ill-suen got to
her and unold on her, she would be lost forever. So think about
this decision wisely. If you choose this path there can be
devastating consequences.”

What she said hit me hard. If that was to
happen I couldn’t bear it. Imagining her controlled by another
Ill-suen, maybe my brother and knowing her feelings for me. She
could always reject him, but he could also use mind control to make
her love him.

I wouldn’t let him get close enough to have
a chance. I would kill him myself if he tried. I looked around and
didn’t see Faith or Celeste. Mother squeezed my arm, “She’s showing
Faith around. She knew we had to talk.” Mother urged me to complete
the process soon after I asked her how likely it was Adrian would
try to take Faith away from me.

“
I can’t talk about this anymore
Mother. I can’t think about this. I have to get my head right again
to figure out what to do.” She hugged me and let me go.

After finding Faith, she told my Mother and
sister goodbye and we left. I dropped her back at the waterfall and
told her I needed to wake up. She looked concerned and I told her
my mother had told me some news I needed to think about and I’d
tell her more later.

I thought about it all night and came up
with a plan. I would help find my father in his search for Adrian.
I would leave Faith with my family back at the castle. I would tell
Faith everything and hope for her understanding. She had been good
so far about things I have told her.

I figured I would set our new house up and
furnish it. Then I would cook her and her mother dinner. It would
help her mother get to know me better and might help my chances of
gaining her trust with her daughter.

Faith

I looked up at the clock. It was six in the
morning. I was still tired but a little worried about Daniel. He
seemed concerned about what his Mother told him. I wondered if it
concerned me. Did she like me? He told me he’d tell me more later
so I know I shouldn’t worry. I laid my head back down on the
pillow, wondering why he didn’t want me like I wanted him. I threw
myself at him when we were dreaming and he seemed uninterested.
Perhaps he lied to me and is not attracted to humans. Hell if I
know. And what did he mean 'not the right time'? We proclaimed our
love for one another and we’re going to be living together. We’ve
had heavy make out sessions where he led me to believe that’s what
he wanted. Maybe he was raised differently. Or, maybe he’s waiting
for marriage.

I should probably just trust his decision
and wait for him to come around. I didn't want to dwell on it too
much. There were still unanswered questions though. Why was I
seeing things? He didn’t offer an explanation. I couldn’t wait much
longer and decided to just call him. The phone rang for awhile
before he answered.

“
Faith, everything okay?”

“
Yes, everything’s fine. I needed to
hear your voice.”

“
I love hearing yours too love.” We
were silent for a minute.

“
What are you doing?” I
asked.

“
Just thinking…” he said.

“
What about?”

“
Everything. You, me, our life
together. My family. What are you thinking about love?”

“
You. I wish you were here holding me.
Feeling your breath on my ear as you speak.” I heard static in the
back ground. So I paused.

“
Finish what you were saying love,” he
said.

“
Well I was just imagining you--” He
opened my window and hopped in. I sat up. My mouth fell
open.

“
You said you wanted me here,” he said
smiling.

“
That was like what, five seconds?” I
said shaking my head. His eyes rolled up like he was thinking, “No,
not five. Closer to ten. maybe twelve,” he answered, half smiling.
I pulled him down onto me, “So, you think you can just dash here
anytime I say I wish you were here?”

He smirked, “Your wish is my command
Baby.”

“
Yeah right!” I said
laughing.

“
What? Anything you want is yours. You
just have to ask.”

I shook my head. “That’s a lie. Not
anything,” I said.

He looked at me wondering. “Okay, how about
this read my thoughts right now please. It concerns you.”

He smiled listening. Sat silent for a
minute. His mouth opened a little. “Ah… Well… Uh… I…”

“
Speechless?” I asked, pushing him to
the side of me.

He folded his arms on his stomach, then
scratched his head thinking about what to say. “Don’t you want our…
Relationship to be at a normal pace?” He asked.

“
You’re kidding me right? I mean, you
just asked me to move in with you and a few weeks ago you were all
over me. That’s not a normal pace! It's not fair
Daniel.”

He sat up. “You're right, it's not fair but
it’s just different,” he said.

“
No! It's not. If you want a normal
pace, okay, that’s what you’ll get. When you decide you want me in
every way, then I'll move in!” I folded my arms across my chest. He
rubbed my arm but I shrugged him off. “No if you don’t want me then
why are you touching me?”

He smiled. “I thought you didn’t want to
have sex with a corpse?” He smirked. That set me off. “Get the hell
out now! Just leave.”

He didn’t move. He stood there looking at
the wall emotionless. “You're right, it’s unfair for me to ask you
to move in with me, if I can’t give you everything you want,” he
said softly. Walking toward the window to leave, I stood in his
way, putting my hands on his shoulders.

“
Why don’t you just tell me what’s
going on? Trust me. You tell me to trust you all the time, why
can’t you do the same?” I asked, looking into his teary
eyes.

“
Faith… I…” he shook his
head.

“
What’s wrong?” I asked.

“
You want me to answer your
questions?” I nodded.

“
There’s are a few different reasons I
don’t want to make love to you Faith. One, it’s too soon. We have
just started getting to know each other, and I would like to have a
deeper understanding with you before we cave into our desires.
Another is, I’m still trying to get used to being around you
without wanting to…. Drink from you. Being this close to you right
now is still hard for me. Kissing you is difficult too. I mean, you
seen how hard it was a few months ago… When I pushed you off of me.
You make me feel so many emotions and urges. Ranging from wanting
to taste your blood to wanting to make passionate love to you. I
hate myself for still thinking about you in the way I do. I try not
to let the animal inside me get the best of me. Also if we were to
make love… my strength is a thousand times that of a normal human.
If I were to harm you again like I did your hand it would kill
me.

“
Another reason well, I’m nervous
around you, like you are around me and I don’t know much about
making love except what I’ve seen on television and that doesn’t
look like the most romantic way to go about doing things in my
book. I want it to be special. Meaningful and safe for
you.”

I sat back down thinking of what he just
said. He had valid points and he was right, it was too soon. There
was just something about him that drew me into that frame of mind.
I cleared my throat, “Is there someway you can tone down… Your…
appeal then? Like to help me not throw myself at you every
second?”

He laughed and sighed. “I wish there was
someway. And, I wish there was someway for you to be less appealing
to me as well. The only thing I can do is control your mind into
thinking something else. But I doubt you’d want that.” He looked at
me waiting for a response. I shook my head, “I’d rather suffer then
have someone control my mind. So I guess we can suffer together.” I
said.

“
There’s something else I need to talk
to you about Faith. The reason for asking you to move in so
quickly. One of the reasons is, My brother has disappeared, and my
family believes he could come looking for and to harm me in
someway. Possibly through you. They said he’s jealous of what we
have because his gem didn’t work out the same way. There are other
reasons but I wont get into them now. But to keep you safe, I need
to be with you as much as possible.”

“
So, your brother would try to hurt me
to get to you?”