Dory stepped away from her office in the third floor of the castle to rest her eyes and to feel the weather this afternoon. She adopted this habit after her return to the castle. She felt she needed to remind herself that she was not that superior to other people. There were greater thing in this world than living sucking monster at night. In her mind, she made the right call every time and she saved one life each time by doing this. She contemplated the sunset, the trees moving to the rhythm of the wind, and the green screen she could perceive with her red eyes. The birds did not pass unnoticed as well as big wild animals in this little forest. She concentrated hard enough to see a mother bird defended its children against a snake. The snake was the predator and predator did not always get their prey. Through her eyes she imagined her corpse on the ground living the normal specie to grow and to flourish. She might as well start doing it while she was alive. Her ten folding times pain stuck with her everyday from the moment she regained her way again during this eternity life. Life had meaning once more especially with her niece Jessica, her sister left in her care. She smiled. Her therapy worked every time and she would walk back to her office (Description). Dory entered the room and startled the moment she stepped in. Jessica stood in front of the window. Focus on the development of an event, she did not bother to look behind her shoulder.
"I lost another friend again aunty. To time. It is not fair. Is it wrong to want death? I meet countless great person every five decade. They touch my life or I touch theirs. At the end, They are gone and I am still here." Jessica, Dory niece started to question her worth like any other immortals and at her age she had right to the answers. Dory could not remember the last she saw Jessica in her office all grown up. The little girl she had the chance to raise had become a woman and her curiosity came with the age. Jessica was 30 years old for her appearance, but in reality she was 105 years old. Flawless skin, nice tint, Black hair, big grey eyes, flat nose, curvy mouth, long figure, and an amazing body. She worked out everyday and had a club to encourage everyone in town. Her passion was letters and she liked to read. Dory found her many times over in her office reading around the corner her books and more. She did it too at the library for children where she helped people in the town with their kids. She could find answers for everything, except for what she was. Jessica counted a century already but her immortal maturity just begun.
"No honey, but for us, we die at the time of our choosing. I am sorry about your friend. You will remember her always. Did you add her to your journal?" Dory tried to comfort her niece with some advices and this time she worried. Jessica kept watching the people mourned her and sent her to the other side. Sadness covered her face, and her need for answers kicked in.
"Of course and they will always be with me." Jessica turned around with her frustrated face toward Dory. She was putting order in her papers and she felt Jessica blood thrust for the first time. She quickly directed her attention to her. Jessica was not supposed to express her blood thirst. Dory looked at her and she saw her sister. Her eyebrows folded, her mouth tightened and her face cracked a little. "I wanna know why aunty. Why can we live that long? Why do we have to suffer that much? Why are we choose to live this life? Aunty it is time to tell me, don't you think?"
"Well, I suppose." Dory sighed hard and let the papers fell on the desk without concern of their importance. Her niece represented all for her, so she needs to trust her making the right decision after she knew the truth. "The truth, I did not agree with your mother to turn you into this being. Despite the fact you came to us dead. I refuse to give you this life."
The surprise in Jessica face was not unexpected and her frozen reaction in front of the desk and her aunty considered normal. Dory went to her book dorm and pressed on the cover. This key book left an opening with two albums, old album. She reached them, pulled them and show them to Jessica. She had not moved an inch for three long minutes. Life stopped for her the moment her aunty told her a truth she was unaware.
"What are those?" Jessica advanced slowly to grab one.
"This album is my Life and this album is yours. I am going to tell you who we are through my story. I hope you listen. Not everything will make sense at first." Dory unfolded her album and flipped the first page. The first picture appeared the school group in the year she attended high school with her best friend Gabrielle. The picture that followed was both of them in hugging for the end of their high school year, the last time they were together and happy.
"Who is she?" Jessica asked quickly pointing her to Dory in the picture.
"That is Gabrielle, she was my best friend. She was one of us at the beginning." Dory did not want to affect her judgement but Jessica asked for the truth. So she must be ready to hear the ugly ones as well.
"What happened?"
"I…killed...her to save someone." Dory memories rushed through her heads with a speed that her mind could only stay at that moment in time where her life changed for the first time. Jessica noticed the unnecessary pause and tried to wake her up, but at the contact of their hand, their minds synchronized and Dory memories flowed through her. Jessica found herself in Dory life in the day of her last school day.
In <...> town, each year, each June, at this point in time, between day 10 to 15, the town got crowdy and the street counted the right numbers of students and children from school. Children succeeded, grew, and changed class. Life continued yet some succeeded, grew, and moved on into reality. Dory and Gabrielle were ones of many who would meet reality after their last class at the Elementary high school. Happy, sure of themselves, and jumping of joy for their new short freedom. At that time, The same night of this day, everyone was getting ready to go to the parade. This parade usually fell in the same day school doors closed until August or September. The people celebrated the day of their savior, their hero, and some even say their God. The girls had plan to go with their boyfriends, but the guys screwed up in the last party they went. The girls heard about their excursion and their resolution was clear. So the girls dropped them hard before the whole school. Now, as usual, Dory and Gabrielle, inseparable as always, would attend the parade together without the boys.
"So do you know what you are going to put?" Gabrielle demanded Dory watching her thinking out loud.
"I will find something. Do not worry. I only hope we could find some boys to keep us company. It was always fun to have them close." Dory deduced answering to Gabrielle who at her turn was thinking.
"Yeah, it was great to have them around. Well, their loss. Anyway, the day is long we might find some new guys." Gabrielle just finished her sentence when a convertible red parked close to them on the street in front of Mrs. Delaine Coffeeshop. This Coffeeshop united everyone in town because it was the only one Coffeeshop that attracted even ants before, while, and after brewing. Marcus got down of the car and looked at Dory. Impossible to miss her, the beauty of her soul reflected out of her body.
"Hi. How are you?" Marcus caught Dory attention with a simple greeting and she heard him before he could finish.
"Hi, I am fine thank you." Dory smiled to him and aligned her fallen string hair behind her ears. She blushed as Marcus got close enough to hold her.
"Listen, we are new in town and we are visiting. We are thinking maybe you girls might help us better. What do you think?" for some reason, Dory could not refuse him his demands and Marcus got more attractive as their conversation grew.
"Maybe you guys should come to the parade later. The perfect moment for meeting the town will be there tonight." Gabrielle interrupted them in their connection and Marcus glimpsed at Master to see if everything would be fine to join the parade.
"Definitely, it might be much easier to meet the people in town. Where do you live now?" Dory peeked at Marcus with enthusiasm wishing for more than just a simple greeting from this sensible and handsome man.
"Would you girls mind accompanying us? It would be a great time to have some friends in town. You girls are fantastic. Accepting us will be more a pleasure for us than for you. What do you say?"
"Absolutely. We will be waiting for you at the end of the street down the church. Our house is at the end of the depth of the community. Do not be late." Gabrielle armed Dory and their back do the talking for them. Except it was impossible for them not look back at the guys.
Marcus and Master turned their car around and went on direction of the town castle, while the girls went down to the street close the church. A right turn and they walked to their house door. Dory picked up the mail and Gabrielle disappeared behind her door. Dory glimpsed behind her feeling the eyes of someone watching her, but the sensation faded as soon as she turned. She did not give that much importance and got into her house without much effort.
Dory and Jessica gasped together and released each other from their minds.
"I had no idea I could do that. Master can do it but this is my first time. How are your head? Is it everything alright?" Dory looked at Jessica shaking her head and yawned so her ears can regain her ability to hear. Jessica surprised to see her aunty had ability even she did not know about. However, they shared more than just memories. She felt every emotion Dory expressed that day toward Marcus and Gabrielle and Master.
"I am fine. I think yours is more than just memories. I could feel the intensity of your friendship with Gabrielle and the curiosity you hide from Marcus. Tell me what happened next." Jessica got interested to the story and how Dory can feel in a single moment all that appreciation toward a stranger.
"If you believe Marcus and Master used anything on us. You are mistaken OK. They were sincere with us from the beginning. That night when they changed us." Dory smiled and grabbed Jessica hand once more to see if she could relive the moment she transformed into something different from what the world considered normal.
Marcus and Master arrived at the front house of the girls to notice the door of one of them remained open. Master face altered suddenly smelling the one substance that could attract his attention. Marcus felt the aura and he shimmered a little, because he was the first time he felt such power in a blood thirst. He could read the years of experience Master had accumulated during his first millennium. He was not an ancient for nothing. He had also the weight.
"The girls…" Master just told him and they ended up in the house. At their sight, the girls were laid down in oblique at the floor in opposite direction from each other, fighting not to die even though he was inevitable. Blood everywhere, broken glasses, and aftermath of the fight with the thief, the guys could avoid it, their eyes changed red at their turn. Master's red turned black at some point confirming Marcus suspicion. Master represented the evolution of their race. No immortals had such eyes as far as he is been alive and his research had never mentioned such phenomena.
"We do not want to die. Please." Marcus swallowed his saliva hard thinking of the fantastic light he would kill if he saved Dory. He was so looking forward to fall in love with her. Becoming immortal did not guarantee she would stay the same, but she might be alive to keep them company. Turning them was unpredictable and the result might not be in their favor. Why would they turn them? Dory and Gabrielle belonged to the human specie and like any normal human one day you had to die. Well, those two reached their time without default. What make them different? Marcus and Master could not answer that question, but one matter stood out. The girls were not dead yet.
"We can save you but your life will not be the same after that. It is your choice. The only condition is to come stay with us in the castle. What do you say?" Master laid it out for them and they were desperate. Time was running out, so both agreed to Master condition.
"So, Master and Marcus mad you two immortals. Without any skills or any ideas if you will stay with them in the castle. You become immortals simply because you did not want to die." Jessica could not understand a reason so light counted worthy to gift someone with immortality.
"The reason can be different on each case. For example, you were already dead. Your mother wanted you to live and to know the world. The reason I protested rested in the fact I lost my way many times before you see me now. I have been a killer, a thief, a monster, and a blood thirsty immortal. The last one is the worst to come back from. My life got meaning again when Marcus saved you." Dory confessed her unforgivable sins to Jessica. She sat on the floor like when she was little and Dory came to pick her up as she fell asleep. Jessica could not believe there was more to being immortal than simply living forever.
"I wanna see mother." Jessica held Dory with both hands and demanded to see her own mother. She became anxious and impatient. Her blood rushed so fast to see her that her eyes turned red. Dory concluded the effect of the truth to Jessica. She unleashed the emotion she had held for a hundred years and now all these information in one day pushed her to her limit. Dory sighed again and fast forward to the moment her sister was in labor ready to give birth to Jessica.
For some days now, Dory closed herself in the office in the third floor. She needed better way to take care of her sister. She was in middle of a break through when she heard her voice screaming in pain. Marcus appeared at the door and she knew something was wrong. They rushed to the house and Danny was ready to deliver her baby.
"Dory, thank God. Your sister only asks for you. I suggested her we went to a hospital. She insisted you came to help her." Danny husband calmly informed Dory and let her in there.
"Do not worry Georges. She is going to be fine. Marcus stay with him. I will take care of my sister. Everything is fine. I am here." Dory had been in love with Marcus and him with her for at least 300 years, but the way Georges loved her sister She had never seen it during all these times. She saw it and Georges confessed it to her. Georges had been living for his wife. This was another reason Dory became convinced the world possessed lots of worthy things than blood sucking murderers.
Georges and Marcus remained outside and Dory with her sister was inside doing God knows what. Dory tied her hand to the bed, opened her legs and demanded the push necessary for the baby to slide out of her. After five minutes of push, scream, swear, and encouragement, Danny have birth to a beautiful girl. Dory took her in her arm tapping on the baby for a scream. Dory got so caught up in helping Danny that she had to shut off her senses.
"Danny, she is not screaming. I do not know what to do. Sister, what is happening? My niece is…wait." Dory just remembered what she was so she turned her senses on. "Sister, my niece is dead. Probably before she came out."
Jessica stood in the middle of The room in the memories watching her mother's face devastated the moment she heard the word came out of Dory mouth. Like every mother she released her burden, let herself go and laid down facing at the right side.
Danny came into town to meet her family. She heard the story of her grandma and wanted to see where she came from. When she arrived, the old house was for sale, but she had no way of buying it. She did not have any plan but everything changed when she met Dory that night. Dory deduced her parental link through her blood. Telling Dory the old story, she decided to save her last sister. She bought the house for her and found her a job. In the next year, Danny was celebrating Christmas with Dory her sister, Marcus, and some new friends in town. Danny was a simple girl with a big heart, long black hair from the family, blue eyes from her father, and the flat nose accompanied by a sensible round lip. She was taller than Dory and more attractive. She liked everything in her body, especially her legs. She exposed them to make men happy. Dory once again found joy and peace with her new sister and their bond tied every day.
Dory held Jessica in her arms adoring her dead niece and once again she saw the importance of life. How normal human being wanted to life and others to do the same. This feeling remained with her and she convinced herself what she started to do was worth it.
"You have to save her. I know you can. Do not lie to me." Dory opened her mouth to contradicts her and Danny called Marcus.
"I can't. I can't save her. She is already dead sister."
"What is wrong? Georges is outside, anxious and impatient. Should he come in?" Marcus just entered the room and knew what was going on and the reality did not favor for Dory family once again.
"No Marcus. Promise me you can save my daughter. I know what you guys are for some times. I did not say anything, because my sister helped instead of eating me. I am grateful, besides that we become family. Now I want your help again sis. To save my only daughter." Danny showed them her true color and was waiting for answer before Georges rushed into the room.
"I can't sis. I am sorry." Dory left and run to the castle with tears in her eyes. She closed the door of the office and slide down to cry. While crying she heard the rest of the conversation of her sister with Marcus. Marcus agreed to make a miracle happened. Marcus took Jessica in her arms and came back to the castle to access his laboratory. Dory went down before the laboratory door of Marcus, she remained there until he came out after ten days. The moment Marcus stepped outside, she got him by the throat to get any kind of news.
"Tell me how is she? Did you do anything? Did anything work?" Dory was so weak she could not stay up too long but she had survived worst. So this new situation did not compare except if her niece returned with life.
"She is going to be fine. I can't let you see her now. I have to go inside in three days to deduce if she will survive." Dory unable to hold herself fell in the floor with her body in corpse form. "Look at you. Please do not tell me you have been out here for ten days straight without sustenance." Marcus lifted her up and put her to bed. Provided her with sustenance for three days and she had her strength back.
In the morning, the sun shines through her window and she felt the warmth of life entered her pore. She stayed in that day thinking that it would not be great to see her niece in the death state again. She might crack. Her sister came to mind. How could she refuse her this one request? After she bought her the house and she made a home for herself, there were only the two of them. She had never asked her for more than she needed or less than she wanted. Dory had accumulated a rich sum during her years and a family was just what he wanted to share her fortune with. Dory gave Danny everything and so did Danny. She would not be ready to forgive herself if her niece did not survive this or Marcus failed in his process.
"Dory, I have someone who wants to say hi. Can you take it?" Marcus appeared in her room with a young child. Dory could not believe her eyes when she saw he niece height."I think Jessica will be a great name. She is strong and she is more Like you than your sister." Dory froze in her bed and could not move a muscle. Her niece survived and she could not find the right word to express her feeling toward Marcus and her joy for her niece.
"Hi, who are you? I do not know this sir. He said I was home.Am I?"
"Yes you are honey and I am your aunty Dory. You will behaving with us from now. You will have space to play a lot here. The house is enormous. We will do everything together." Jessica remembered the day she saw her aunt for the first time. Dory remembered it clearly and she reminisced this moment every time she saw her running, hiding, sleeping, reading or crying. She was fulfilled with joy and happiness. She had a new reason to live and to stopped her old bad habit. Jessica gave her time to only think of showing her what was right.
"This is how you feel about me and you did not agree to save me in the first place." Jessica got disappointed even with all the emotions she felt from her aunty Dory since her miracle until now.
"You think you know who you are. Then tell me if you are ready to do this after what you learned from me." Dory raised her voice. Jessica got shocked and she grabbed her and her eyes flashed the memories of thousands people Dory executed for no reason simply, because she felt like it. She held Jessica for a minute and by the time she released her hands Jessica was trembling of fear and unable to pronounce a word from the atrocity she saw in her aunty memories. "Trust me you do not know what you are capable of. You should thank me for it. Because you would be worst."
Dory stood once more at the head of the castle and breathed a full if fresh air and admired the sunrise, the trees, the wind, and the animals in the forest below the mountains. Her theory of greatness than his specie therapy worked once again and she smiled. While she was going down, she felt Jessica leaving Marcus room and went down to leave the castle. Maybe he was time she found her own way after she learned the truth. She was going to decided whether she wanted to be like her aunty or being a different immortal. That was The reason Dory bothered to educate her and to shadow her away from the reality of immortality. She had lived it many times over and wanted to alter the future with better personalized immortal.
She got to her office and sat to work in her contribution to the town once more. Becoming immortal was easy, gaining immortal ability did not take time, but living of an immortal required purpose and reason to live. If not, you would always lose your way. Her book " Being Immortal" was published in town and every person who read that book, bought it simply to remind themselves they were immortal and they needed a purpose. Some people in town left to live their immortality in the best reason they could find in their life. The town knew evolution as well thanks to this book. She accomplished more after the book for the town and everyone recognized the "Lady of the castle."
Jessica went to say goodbye to her dear friend in the cemetery and some friends came along. Jessica reminded them how great their time together had been. After this, a moment of silence occurred and Jessica thoughts went to her aunty memories. She had some answers now and she wanted proof. Would any of her friend be close to her if they knew what she was capable of? If they knew the atrocity she could cause in an instant. The sadness she knew would not be enough compare to the one she might if she lost all her friends simply for being who she was. She became terrified to the idea and excused them to run back to the castle.
"Why me? Why can't you leave me dead? Why did you make me like this?" She opened the office door with absurd questions Dory was waiting for some times.
"Your mother wanted you to live and I wanted to avoid you the agony of being immortal. I gave you a home, family, friends, and purpose. As long as you have these, your immortality will be a walk in the park. If not, you may as well cut your head off." Dory told her straight truth and she could not encounter the Lady who raised her for one hundred year and who was still doing her education in this day. "Do you know I can still remember their deaths and their screams? The worst is that I still remember the first time I kill. It was no other than my best friend." Dory tend her hand toward her and she gently held this hand that helped her on her bicycle, to write, and to eat. Dory felt her hesitation and her pain but this was the least of her worry. Until now she had not lost her yet to the dark side of being immortal.
A year accomplished since Dory and Gabrielle became immortal and received orientation through their alteration. Master came to them in an afternoon and announced to them that they had to pass his test.
"What test Master?" Gabrielle kept her interest toward Master while Marcus tried his best to let Dory got used to being immortal before addressing the subject. Gabrielle always rested on impressing Master while Dory had a reason to get better and social, her family. She spent a year away from them with the worries they presumed she met her demise as well as Gabrielle. The blood on the floor of their house kind of gave it away.
"Tonight you will go to the parade alone and you will feed and you will not kill not even a ant." The words got straight in Dory's mind, but For Gabrielle they fell in deaf ears. As promised, Marcus provided them nice and new clothes. Dory wore a nice white skirt covered with a jacket accompanied a tight blue pant and a leather boot. Gabrielle put a two strings pink skirt with her new big ball in her chest with a short pants enough only to hide her buttocks and a nice pair of boot heels above her knees.
"You are not coming Marcus. I need your help you know. I am not Gabrielle." Dory felt her sensibility to succumb at her desire.
"You are going to be fine. Just think of your family and when you return, we will think of another anchor for you." Marcus assured her with a kiss in her forehead and she followed Gabrielle at the door.
The parade did not change much while the new immortal learned of their new ability and their curse. Music, dancers, exhibitionists, circus, and animals. The parade upgraded a little by putting big pictures of the many heroes the town produced in the 19th century. Gabrielle disappeared as soon as she got to the parade, but Dory got suffocated with hundred of people in town in the parade. She felt being strangled in a bath of blood. Unable to resist her impulsion, she flew on the rooftop of the house in the street where the parade strolled. She followed better and she caught her breathe. The sensation became easier as she remained close to them and ignored the silence. She kept herself busy trying to see the whole parade and to see her family. As soon as she concluded they were not in the parade, she crossed the street in the rooftop to get home. From a rooftop close the church, she looked inside her house to hear her mother cried, her brother sighed in pain, and her sister grieving by looking at old pictures. She moved to fly down and went home when she heard someone running out of breathe. She tried to ignore it but she recognized Gabrielle voice in the background.
"Monster," Dory perceived the situation and rushed to stop Gabrielle in her craziness.
"Gabrielle, what are you doing? Master told us not to kill anyone. You do remember, right?" Dory did not see any opening to avoid a disaster. Gabrielle would devour the guy and broke Master rule. One person would lose his life simply a monster wanted to eat. If there was nothing Dory knew how to do well was to obey the rules. One reason her father had such great relationship with her in the first place.
"I do not want to die. I do not want to die." the guy screamed twice in a row with his heart from where he had no clue.
"Shut…up…" Dory pointed her finger to him and hypnotized him to be silent in the moment.
"Wow. This is a new move. You have to teach it to me after we enjoy this little meal together. You have not eaten right. That what I thought." Dory swallowed hard and kept her eye on Gabrielle movement around the guy neck. "You can jump in when you are ready." Dory moved, Gabrielle pulled out her fangs, and the guy screamed one more.
The door opened and Marcus and Master saw Dory appeared behind it. Master was not surprise but Marcus hoped to see both girls came back.
"I am moving out. My family needs me. I must go join them before one of them die. I am sorry I can't stay like I promise but I will be close if you need me." Dory did not have much take to return home. She appreciated the time Marcus dedicated to her orientation but it was time to go home.
"Where is Gabrielle?" Master wondered as Dory walked out the castle.
"She may be taken a bath in the river. We got separated before we can get to the parade. She surely counted to lose her head." Marcus understood easily when Master ignored her answer and climbed the stairs. The eyes of Dory changed that night and from there she was already in her way to become a reaper.
"Why did you not feed me the way you were taught? I do not think this will make much difference. You know I make up my own mind about everything. Why did you not trust me?" Jessica asked her last questions with strength and authority. She was not a little girl anymore. She had become a woman and the time arrived for her to fly in her own. She did not decide it yet but Dory could already see it in her eyes.
"Because I did not want you to be a simple immortal who goes around without an origin point. An immortal who could not find her way, Her purpose in life. Most importantly, because you are my niece and my daughter. I raise you, and I will do it until the day you die. You are not me and you are not your mother either. You are an immortal with purpose and who will find more to this life wherever you go. I hope you understand me one day. I only hope you do not become a reaper like me before you do, because you will kill yourself."
"I want to see it. Just for a minute. I want to see the people you kill." Jessica held her arms and she eased up the memories through her except she showed her more than she had to see.
Jessica physically found herself in a room where Dory sat under a coolant with a single tube in the middle. The room was filthy and smelly. The scent reached to your brain and your eyes could barely support the darkness of the room. Red, streamed down on her and she did not move a muscle. Not that she could not, she did not want to. For her, this was her prison, the place she came to live over and over again every person she had ever killed in her time in Hawaii. The worst scenario consisted of a little girl she torn from her mother one night. She had her in a blanket watching her and repeating the same word: "You kill me, you kill me, you kill me." Jessica bared the torture of her aunty and she finally figured why she raised so different the other immortal. She was only making up for her sin. By altering the concept of immortality from birth, she would succeed in raising immortal to live among human without knowing what aftermath they could avoid when they knew what sort of atrocity they could inflict in the world.
Jessica let go and kissed her accompanied by a hug. Dory smiled and knew she had reached her. "My work here is done. I hope you will be successful in your new life." Jessica did not bother to wonder how she knew after all she was her mother. Jessica glimpsed to her one last time and run the office again. She stepped out and Dory returned to her daily business on the desk. Actually, she had found a new girl to take under her wing. She would be promising before she can reach her potential.
The next day, Jessica stood at the front of the door to say her last goodbye to everyone. "You have your name in my account. You can dispose of the money how you want except do not waste it. Got it." Jessica shook her head to prove her she would not. She hugged Marcus and sent her goodbye from there to Master ears in his studies. Master smiled hearing her voice. "Hope you find your way little one."
"You let her go. Are you sure she is going to be OK?" Marcus closed his eyes to turn away when Jessica left in the car with two of her friends. Dory smiled once more Like the first when she held Jessica in her arms.
"Are you going to be alright? Is she…"
"She is never coming back. I am sure of it. Besides I have more important thing to do in this town. We have a new girl coming in Monday. She has potential and I want to help her. I still have sins to make up for." Dory returned to her office. She had no plan in changing it just because Jessica did not live in the castle anymore. Right now, she was not just another immortal. She had the potential to change anyone's life. She needed more to live worthy of immortality and she had it thanks to her aunty Dory.
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