Swept Away: The First Bloodline (29 page)

             
“Yes.  So?”

             
“That was her.  The little boy who was lost and brought into your ER, the one that you stayed with telling the stories of your childhood to.  Again her.  She has been in your life more than you know.  She had to do it to keep you and Liz safe.”

             
“Who is looking for us Damien?  I want answers now!”  She screamed quickly toning it down in fear of waking the kids.  The hell with Regina or Ramee, she didn’t care.  If she left on her own free will, putting Liz and Taylor through hell then the hell with her, Taylor thought.

             
“Calm down Taylor.”

             
“Don’t you dare tell me to calm down!  And don’t you dare use a single one of your fucking gifts either.  I want answers and I want them now!”

             
“Just calm down, I am trying to answer your questions the best way I know how.”

             
“Straight forward.  Don’t sugar coat it.”

             
“Fine, but keep in mind you asked for it.” His words were harsh and she found she didn’t care at this point.

             
“Ok, you said something about my parents.  How do they come into all of this?”

             
“Sweet this is going to be hard for you to believe.  They were like me.  You and your sister are like me.”

             
She froze.

No way.  Impossible.  This can’t be right.  That would mean that I was vampire.  I don’t have special abilities, I don’t have the slightest desire to taste blood.  I’m just me.  Simple.

              “You do have them.  You have always had them.  You and Liz are both vampires.  Your mother Ciarra and your father Macco were vampires.  Your Mother was half for the first part of her life.  Your line of decedents are special.”

             
“What do you mean my line?  Explain it.”  Taylor was confused, in disbelief.  She felt like passing out, waking up as if all of this was a dream.

             
“I will.  Let me explain all of it then you can ask your questions.  Understand?”

             
She nodded.

             
“Your mother comes from the oldest of our kind.  Her blood is that of the first vampire.  Arasha.  He was born from human parents.  No one knows why or how this happened.  My kind have never found that answer despite many years of researching it.

             
“Your father’s blood line comes from that of Arasha’s wife.  The first female vampire that he chose to change to be forever his mate.  Gianna.  Your line is the purest there is.  Over the years their children changed, then their children changed.  And so on.”

             
“Wait.  You said he chose to change.  So he just bit her or something.”

             
“No.  He bit her yes, but she in turn had to drink his blood.  Once she drank his blood the change began.  It is a very painful process to go through it like that.”

             
“As opposed to what?”

             
“As opposed to someone like you.  I’m getting there.  You and Liz are what is left of the first bloodline.”

             
“Ok.”

             
“It is said that he possessed an amulet.  One that could change any vampire into human.  If the amulet was ever used, all vampires would change into human form.  There are those of us that believe that this would not be the curse that others believe.

             
“The truth is we don’t really know everything about your line.  But what we do know is, that your line has the ability to live life as your heart desires.  Human or vampire.  Your abilities will never appear until your heart decides to live as a vampire.  This decision is not one to be taken lightly.  In order for the change to occur you and your sister have to agree together to make the change.  Not one of you can change without the other.

             
“If you choose to make this change, you will become something that no one including my kind could ever imagine.  You will have more abilities than ever known to any kind.

             
“You will have the ability to control violence in the vampire world.  You could stop it all.  You would control the entire vampire world.  No one, even if they wanted to could stop you, or go against your orders. 

             
“You and your sister could end the violence all together.  No more humans would be killed by our kind.  We would only lust for the blood that you choose for us to lust for.  So, you could make us want to taste the blood of animals instead that of humans.  Your power is endless.”

             
“I don’t understand this.  I don’t understand if this is a good thing, then why did we have to scotty beam me up back here?  Why did you have to give me a heart attack?  Why were you and Jarrod so terrified, concerned?”

             
“Because there are those in my kind that have only learned the identity of you through me.  I have been able to hide it.  I don’t know how they found you but they know.  And they are planning to come after you.”

             
“Why, what do they want?  I don’t have anything to offer them.  I am human.  I don’t control them.  Why?”

             
“They are coming to kill you, Liz, and the twins.  They will have your abilities to some degree when they change.  Not as powerful as you because Chase was human.”

             
“When they change?  Are you shitting me.  They are just kids.  You told me that you don’t age.  They can’t change.  They would be stuck like this for the rest of their lives and although I would love it, it would not be fair for them.  No that won’t happen.   I won’t allow it.”

             
“They wouldn’t change now.  They would change on their twenty fifth birthday.”

             
“That’s still young.  They will only begin to live then.  And what of children.  Would they be able to have children if they choose to do so?”

             
“Only if they made that decision and had them before they turned of age.”

             
“What would happen to their children?”

             
“The same as yours.  If they do not have children then your bloodline would end with them.  Forever.”

             
“But I don’t have any amulet nor do I know of one.  This is ridiculous.  I don’t understand why they are coming after me, when I live the life of a human. This is not a choice for me but my way of life.  Why don’t they just go find the damn amulet and destroy the damn thing.”

             
“They fear you.  The choice is yours to change at any time you and Liz choose to.  This can forever change our world.  That doesn’t require the use of the amulet.”

             
“So what are you saying?  The bad vamps are coming to kill my entire family because they fear something that until now we knew nothing about?  Because I have this ability to control them and make them human with an amulet that I don’t have nor know how to find?”

             
“Yes.”

             
“Why now?  Why didn’t they do this sooner?  Why couldn’t they have done this before the twins were born?  Or why wait at all.  Why not just kill me and Liz when we were children?”

             
“That’s where I come in.  Vampires can choose to have relationships.  But they cannot choose who their mate is.  You are my mate.  Liz is Jarrod’s mate.  You don’t feel the connection that we feel because you are human.   If you were to change then you would also feel this.  It would be a bond like you have with the children.  That strong.  Nobody has been able to find you because you have been living a human life.  They found you through Jarrod and I.  They were able to track us through our thoughts and feelings.  The only time our guard is down is well, certain moments in our life.  Like the ones we experienced over and over this weekend.”

             
“What do I do?  Do we run?  Hide?”

             
“I can’t tell you what to do.  You have your options.  You can either live human and run for the rest of your life and those that choose to follow you will do our best to protect you or you can change.  But for right now, yes we run.”

             
“Where to?  Where do we go?  They found us through you.  They will find us again as long as you know where we are.”

             
“You’re right.   You should run without me or Jarrod.  The risk that imposes is great but it is your best option.  If I shut off the connection, then I won’t know anything.”

             
“Shut off the connection.  You can turn it off and yet you still stole my thoughts, my feelings.  You bastard!  I don’t want to leave you, but for my kids, I will.  You should have never of come into our lives.  For you to endanger my life is one thing, my sisters life and my kids, how could you?”

             
“Turning off the connection would be like turning off the support of existence to my body.  I would no longer exist.  I would only be a shell and it was only a matter of time Sweet.  This is the way it has to be.  It was going to happen anyways.  Do you think that if we would have stayed away they wouldn’t have found you.  They have been searching for you.”

             
I hate you.  I hate you.  Because of you, I have to leave my home, take my kids and run for our lives and that is no guarantee I can or will be able to keep them safe.  How dare you do this to them?  Leave my house now and don’t ever come back here.

              The minute she turned her back to him her heart broke.  She turned back to stop him, to apologize and beg for him to stay but he wasn’t there.

Wait come back.  I was mad.  I didn’t mean it.  Please I know you can hear me. 

She waited breathlessly for him to come back.  Hoping and praying that he would.  She needed him to help her through this.  To help her protect her children.  To stay with her and make sure nothing happened to her babies.  Innocent children that had nothing to do with the stupid mistakes that she had made.

She ran to the bedroom hoping Jarrod could get him back but Jarrod was gone as well.

He knows I want him back here; it was a stupid mistake, why isn’t he coming back?

             
She knew what she needed to do.  She had to run with her children and had nowhere to go.  She didn’t know what she was up against or what to do next.  She couldn’t do this alone without him.  She needed him.  She fell to her knees, bawling with uncontrolled emotions ripping through her heart body and soul.

             
Realization set in and the fact that he was now gone.  She was on her own.  She had to protect her children and Liz with everything in her.

             
Taylor ran through the house hastily packing only the necessary clothing items for all of them including Liz.  She got everything loaded into her SUV.  She was now more appreciative of her having the big Tahoe, third seat, fully loaded edition.

             
“Liz, wake up.”  Taylor whispered nudging her shoulder.

             
“What?”

             
“We have to go.  Come on I will explain on the way.”

             
“No, I want to sleep.  Where did Jarrod go?  I know he’s left, I can’t feel him here anymore.” 
How could she feel him?  I never felt Damien like that.
  Taylor felt jealous of the connection that they had but she didn’t have the time to explore why.

             
“Liz, there’s no time.”  Taylor turned her voice up a notch careful not to wake up the kids which was exactly what she needed to open her eyes seeing the seriousness that Taylor had.

             
“What’s wrong Tay?  Did something happen to Jarrod?  Damien?  What is it?”  Taylor heard the panic and fear in Liz’s voice.  She didn’t know how to make it go away.

             
“Let’s go.  We have to get the kids and get out of here.  We can’t stay.  I’ll tell ya on the way.  We don’t have much time.” Taylor reached over grabbing Zach who was on the side of the bed.  She waited for Liz to grab Ashley.

             
They loaded up the kids and took off.  She didn’t have a plan on where to go.  Just to drive and keep driving until she found somewhere to stop.  They wouldn’t be able to stay for long at each stop along the way, that she knew for sure.

She had the financial part figured out.  She still had a lot of Chase’s life insurance money left.  Between that and what she had saved herself combined with Liz they could go for a while.  She even thought that Liz and
she could work if needed as traveling nurses along the way. 

After stopping, filling up with gas, Taylor grabbed some snacks with some really strong coffee.  She explained everything to Liz.  Immediately she could see the mirror image of all of her emotions, her feelings, her thoughts.  All of it compiled
into the look she projected from her eyes.