Dangerous Love (22 page)

“I love you too,” Sage said as she smiled softly and leaned into her touch. She appreciated her trying to calm her down. She sighed softly and gazed trustingly at her as she tilted her head to the side and waited.

In reality, Vayna didn’t need to drink her blood to turn her. A single drop of her own blood mixed with Sage’s would’ve been enough. But she opened her mouth and sank her teeth into her human’s neck and drank her blood anyway. It was a selfish reason, she knew, but she wanted to taste her human blood one last time before she turned her.

Her eyes closed as she felt her strength fading with each passing second. Her arms slipped off o
f Vayna’s back and fell onto to her sides as her breathing became shallow. The more of her blood Vayna drank the more she lost her sense of touch and time as she floated in between life and death. Deep in her mind, she felt like she was lost within a deep, dark abyss, but she felt nothing. No worry, no fear, no love, or happiness. There was nothing but her and the abyss and she wasn’t sure if they were one and the same or not. In that moment, nothing else existed or mattered. She felt something warm drip onto her mouth and she licked her lips, the tiny voice in her mind speaking softly as it whispered, “Blood…?”

“Drink,”
came a commanding female voice. She didn’t know who’s it was, but she felt herself unable to deny the command. Opening her mouth, she felt liquid fire pour into her mouth and down her throat. With each small swallow, more of that liquid fire seeped through her limbs and she felt her consciousness float up from that abyss. Her eyes opened, the grey hue fading to red as she weakly lifted her head and closed her mouth around Vayna’s arm. She drank down that liquid fire as quickly as she could, desperate to have more.

Vayna
let her drink a few moments more before slowly sliding her finger into Sage’s mouth. She pushed it behind her fangs and gently prying her off of her arm. Easing Sage down onto the couch, she pulled her arm away and cradled it against her chest as she watched her slowly change from a human to a vampire. She felt a deep sadness enter her at the loss of life she just too. Even though Sage wanted this, she still felt sad. She would always feel sad when she turned someone. But it was already done, and there was nothing left to do now but wait.

Sage
lay motionless on the couch for a few moments. She felt nothing but that fire that was still spreading through her veins. She didn’t
feel
like a vampire. She thought there would be something a bit more… something that would tell her that she was transitioning into a vampire. Instead she felt very little. She dimly realized that she did have fangs. She felt them when Vayna pried them out of her arm. But that was the only change she felt.

Without warning, that liquid fire she felt seeping through her body turned to blinding pain and she gave a cry as her body arche
d up off the couch. It felt like every single cell in her body was caught on fire and was being frozen at the same time. The pain was excruciating and she writhed on the couch as bloody tears leaked down her cheeks. It hurt greatly and the pain seemed to last forever.

Up and down her body it raced, the vampire gene in Vayna’s blood turning every bit of Sage’s body into a vampire. It infected her DNA and c
hanged the human half of her own DNA fully into that of a vampire’s. Every part from the skin cells in her feet, to the cells that worked her brain all changed. No longer would she require the basic nutrients from human food to survive. Now her body craved blood. It needed the forbidden liquid to keep her alive.

Vayna watched with a pained face as Sage screamed and twisted in pain. She knew that it was hurting her human
to be transforming into a vampire. It was a pain she felt herself and saw many times before. There was no getting around it. In order for her body to survive as a vampire, her blood had to infect Sage’s body, the DNA strands changing and reforming. It wasn’t an easy process since she literally was turning from one creature into another. She stayed there, her arm dripping blood while she watched her lover turn. Forced herself to watch the transitioning as if it would help her share in her lover’s agony.

The pain spreading through her body was so great that Sage’s mind wasn’t able to handle it anymore. She fell unconscious,
her body collapsing onto the couch as the turning process continued. Her body still twitched through the pain that it felt, but thankfully her mind was unable to comprehend what it was feeling.

Vayna sighed as she saw her black out as she
cradled her arm. Her lover wouldn’t be waking up anytime soon, and she had to take care of her arm. Leaving Sage on the couch to sleep off the rest of the turning, she moved through the cabin to the bathroom. Digging out some bandages, she wrapped her arm up tightly, not worried about it getting infected. She was a vampire and things like bacteria and viruses were killed the moment they tried to infect her.

Once her arm was bandaged and the bleeding mostly stopped, she left the
bathroom and walked back over to the couch. Sage’s body stopped moving and she lay there resting. The transformation was done. Vayna sank down onto the floor next to the couch, her back to it as she dropped her head and sighed. Part of her regretted taking Sage’s mortal life, but this was what she wanted. She chose this and Vayna respected her wish.

The rest of that night and the day passed by before Sage moved again.
Vayna heard her stir softly and she stood up as she bent over her. Pale eyelids opened to reveal beautiful dark crimson eyes that gazed up at her. She smiled softly as she murmured, “Welcome to the rest of eternity, my love.”