A safe place to land

~Memory Age 16~


Walking out of Dusk's that morning I knew things at home were going to be bad. I'd been gone for days with no word. I knew my father was going to be livid. He hated vampires more than anything and here I was his little girl running off with one. There would be hell to pay.

I walked as slow as I possibly could just trying to brace myself for what I knew was to come. It was just past dawn and Dusk was sleeping, with no idea I'd left. He couldn't protect me now. This was something I had to face on my own.

I opened the door quietly, praying Daddy was still sleeping. Instead I found him waiting in the living room.

"Fucking vampire slut" were the first words he said to me that morning. I ran, ran as fast as I could for the back door, begging God to let me get out safely. My luck has never been that good.

He caught me by my hair as I reached for the doorknob. So close to freedom I could taste it. With one firm yank, I was down, kicking and screaming. I tried desperately to grab onto the table, the chair, anything that would stop him from hurting me. But I knew it was already too late. He would win this battle.

God smiled on me that day as I slipped into the darkness quick. I woke close to nightfall, battered and bruised. My first instinct was to run to Dusk. To have him heal me. But I just couldn't force myself to move. I laid there for what seemed hours, slipping in and out of conciousness. I wanted him so much. I needed him to make me feel safe.

I felt the hands on me, my body being lifted. I was terrified my father was back to finish me off. Opening one swollen eye I could barely make out Draven's face. I relaxed into his arms. Gave into the pain, the darkness, the fear.

I awoke near dawn, in Dusk's bed. He lay next to me, close, but not touching. He offered to heal me, and I'm not sure why but I said no. I needed to prove to him that I wasn't with him just because of what he could do for me. I needed to feel this pain. I needed him to know he was worth it.

He refused to let me go home again for weeks. He even brought Star by to see me while I recovered. That was the moment I knew he really, truly loved me. Dusk was forever telling me that he loved me and saving my ass too many times to count. But when he walked in that house with Star in tow, I KNEW. He brought her there because I missed her.

I recovered, and life went back to normal. Or as normal as it can when an ancient vampire is in love with a small, fragile human. But all that time, he never hurt me. Not once. He just loved me and gave me what I needed. A safe place to land when it all went wrong.


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