The Sad Tale of Luca McTavish

[Kira]

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"You find any loose zombies?" Kira asked her wraith, she made a point to clear the area of zombies every so often so that normal humans wouldn't have to deal with them. Dave was in his van, making rounds. He could kill zombies on his own though, normal zombies were easy enough and it's something he had been doing for years considering Kira's need for zombie ears.

"The area seems pretty clear." Marcus replied before moving on ahead.

Kira looked around, it seemed pretty dead in this area, well with no undead roaming around. There was one more section to check. There were a lot of abandoned buildings to look through, there might be homeless that zombies would go after. She headed inside an old warehouse, it looked rather run down, holes in the roof. Evidence of animal life living in it.

She made out a figure laying on the ground. She tilted her head, homeless? No, that was a pretty nice suit the man was wearing. Was he breathing? She watched the chest for a moment, she didn't really want to deal with cops at the moment and finding a dead body meant calling cops. The right thing to do. The chest rose, she heard a slight gasp. Alive. But that wasn't normal breathing.

Kira made her way over to the man, he was older. Age late 60s maybe? Maybe even older. (Muse real age is 89 but want him at a younger age)

She knelt down, feeling his pulse, it was rather slow. What was he doing out here? Did he have dementia? She noticed a pill bottle. She picked it up, looking at the name. trazodone. Not a common sleep aide to try to OD with but add that with the empty bottle of alcohol made it worse.

What was going on in this man's life that he wanted to just end it? She took out her cell phone and dialed the emergency number. "I have an man in his late 60s maybe. Slow breathing and heart rate. I think he OD on a bottle of trazodone and alcohol." she said.

"Will he respond to you? Do you know his name?" they asked.

"The bottle has the name Luca McTavish." she replied, shaking the man's shoulder. "Luca?"

The man opened his eyes but he wasn't really seeing clearly. "Ava?" he said, she could hear a thick Scottish accent to his voice even though his voice was weak.

"What is your location?"

Kira gave them the location, she sent a message for Dave to come by with the van so that they could look for it. She stayed on the line, waiting. She jumped when the man took her hand, calling her Ava again.

"Lay still. Help is on the way." she said, there was no point on correcting him that she wasn't whoever this Ava was. She heard the sirens coming closer and stop in front the building. They came in with a stretcher and started to check his vitals, blood pressure was seriously low as well.

They loaded him up and asked her to come by the hospital for some questions. She really hoped it wasn't with cops. She headed over to the van and got in.

"What was that all about?" Dave asked, starting up the van.

"Some guy trying to kill himself. We're going to the hospital too. I have to answer some questions I guess.." Kira replied, leaning back in her seat.

Dave turned the van around to head to the hospital, they got there shortly after the man arrived. Kira hopped out of the van and headed towards the door, Dave following behind her.

"Hi, a older man was brought in. An OD. I was told to come answer some questions." Kira said, she was shown to the hallway. They were already working on stabilizing him. Once they did, the doctor came out to talk to her.

"Are you family?" he asked.

Kira shook her head. "No, I found him." she replied.

"Well, it's a good thing you did. He wouldn't have made it otherwise." the doctor replied.

"So he's going to be okay?" Kira asked.

"Yes, though we'll have to hold him for awhile for his mental health but he'll live."

"He obviously didn't want to for some reason." Kira replied, "I hope you guys can figure that all out." Kira quickly left when she saw some cops walk in, grabbing Dave by the arm on the way out. "Let's go home. Getting close to sunrise." she said.

Dave drove home, parking the van. They got out of the van, Dave went to go check on the horses while Kira went inside. She had enough time to feed the cats and dogs before heading up to her room as the sun started to rise, feeling the pull to sleep.

[Kira]

It had been two nights since she had saved that man and for some reason she couldn't stop thinking about him. What would cause him to do that? Something bad happen in his life? Had he always been a bit unstable? She wondered how he was doing. It was really none of her business though.

As much as she tried to distract herself with writing songs, writing the music, the lyrics, playing her violin, nothing was working. "How annoying.." she muttered. Maybe if she saw how he was doing, maybe she can finally let it rest. She saved what she was working on and teleported a couple of blocks from the hospital. She headed inside and asked to visit Luca McTavish, hopefully that was really his name. At first they didn't want to let her in because she wasn't family. Though being an allurist meant you had ways of getting what you wanted.

She was shown to his room, he was awake, sitting up but still hooked up to a vitals machine and oxygen. She simply stared at him, not making a move to go in. This was enough, he seemed fine. She could go about her life again. She turned away only to come face to face with his doctor from before.

"He's been asking about you." he said, "You should go in."

"About me?" she muttered, "Angry that I didn't leave him be?"

"I'm not sure. He didn't express either way but he wished he could meet you."

Kira bit her lower lip, very clearly a fang though the doctor didn't seem phased by. She grumbled slightly and turned back to the door. She went inside and closed the door. She walked closer, he was looking at her. "Hum, so, I was the one that found you.." she said.

He stared at her, "Why did you save me?" he asked. He played with the bracelet used to keep an eye on people who may try to leave when they're not suppose.

"Well, my moral compass is pretty fucked up but it didn't seem right just leaving you there to die alone. Or die in general." Kira replied, he gestured to a chair beside the bed. She moved over and sat down, "Are you upset that you're alive?"

He took in a deep breath, "I don't know." he replied, "I was at first...but now, I don't know." he said, staring at her now. There was a lot of reports of people regretting the choice but it was too late.

"You kept calling me Ava.." Kira said softly.

"My granddaughter.." he replied, "You look...a bit like her." he said, looking away from her. "She died...a couple of weeks ago. Always been so sickly and she caught something she just couldn't get over."

"Is that why you tried to kill yourself?" she asked.

He didn't reply right away. "She was all I had left." he replied, "I felt completely lost...."

Kira could assume that his wife had passed away before all this and he didn't have any family left at all. "I'm sorry for your lost." she said, that was the proper thing to say right. Not that it helps any. She stared at him, she didn't have any sort of blood family, that she knew of. She remembered the dreams she had that seemed to be of a past life. Would this be what her father would have looked like if he had lived? The village had been wiped out.
She sighed softly, she could listen to his voice all day though.

"Why were you in that area anyway? It was pretty empty when I went there." Luca asked her.

"I was hunting zombies and other undead things. Keeping the area clear." Kira reply.

Luca studied her for a moment, "Are you a vampire?" he asked.

Kira blinked, "Maybe.." she said, not sure how to reply to that. She was a more well known vampire though. "Yes.." she muttered, "Does it matter?"

"No, not really." Luca replied, "I mean you could have drained me of blood instead of saving me."

She wondered if the drugs could be passed on to her and make her fall asleep. "I could have, sure." she replied."That's not how I roll."

"Mhm.." Luca muttered softly.

Kira got up, "Well, I hope...you feel better." she said, turning to leave.

"Would you come back again?" Luca asked, "Maybe not tomorrow but the next day.."

Kira blinked, looking back at him. Maybe he just wanted someone to talk to. "Sure...I can do that." she replied. She then left the room, only to come face to face with the doctor again.

"Seems you two talking is beneficial eh?"

"Seems so.." Kira replied, stepping around him. "I'll be back in a couple of days, per his request." she added before heading out of the hospital. She did feel better after the visit. She wasn't sure why.

[Luca McTavish]

The woman did visit him in a couple of days, then a couple more. He enjoyed talking to her, she wasn't no replacement for the daughter he had lost but close, talking to her helped. During those short visits he learned quite a bit about her, the businesses she ran, the farm she had. Her lack of memories of where she came from, lack of family other than the family she made here though it seemed more an extended adopted family from what he understood.

As time neared for him to be released from the hospital, he wondered what he would do with himself. Go back to an empty home? Dreadful. The hospital wanted him to stay with someone that would keep an eye on him for awhile, granted he had servants but he didn't want them knowing what he had tried to do. So he put Kira's name and number on the paperwork and was discharged.

He tried looking up an address but nothing was listed under her name other than the two businesses she had told him about. No, why would a vampire with enemies have their address they live at listed. He sighed softly, what would be the odds that she was at one her businesses?

He gave it a shot and took the train to wickbridge and strolled over to the mall. He could have tried calling her, but it would be harder to say no in person right? He checked on the business up front, it was being tended to by workers and Kira was only there by appointment for readings. He didn't understand this occult stuff. He left and went to the back where her second business was at. He could hear the music playing, but it wasn't exactly business hours. He tried the door, unlocked. He pulled it open and stepped inside.

Most of the lights were off in the sitting and bar area, there was a group of people, spread out from the dance floor to the stage. And there was Kira, center of it all. He stood back, not wanting to interrupt.

[Kira]

"Right, so the show this weekend will have three numbers. Rest of the night will be dancing. Song for all of us, one for the boys and one for the girls." Kira explained to them, listing off the different song to pick from. She got distracted when she noticed someone else in the building.

"Who is that?" Cody asked. "He be too old for anything we're doing." he added, which earned him a smack upside the head by Kira who had walked past him and jumped off the stage.

The man said he was going to be let out of the hospital soon, she thought that meant not seeing him again. So she was shocked to see him, let alone here. "Luca, what are you doing here?" she asked.

"Well my dear, I have to have a proper keeper for awhile. Hospital rules. I put you on the paperwork so they will be checking up on me through you." Luca replied simply.

Kira stared at him a bit dumbfounded. Did he really have no one else? No friends? "My mental health isn't all that great and I'm a vampire. I very much doubt they would have agreed if they had known." she said. Not that she tried offing herself or anything but she lived dangerously a lot and she had urges to kill from time to time.

"Well, you've proven that being a vampire doesn't mean you're a blood thirsty killer like the media and government try to make you out to be. Do they all know what you are?" he asked.

Kira bit her lower lip for a moment, "There are things you still don't know about me. I'm not completely a good person. I told you, my moral compass is fucked up." she replied, "Yes...I told them around the time the cat was let out of the bag about us."

The man just simply smiled, "Well I can learn all about that when I stay with you for a week. So don't mind me. I'll just sit down and watch." Luca said and went to sit down nearby.

Kira blinked, what was up with this guy? She wasn't sure what to do. She looked back at her workers and quickly returned to them.

"Is that your grandpa?" Cody said with a snicker, which earned him another smack upside the head.

"Let's get back to work." Kira said, they finished up their practice for the night and she told them to lock up when they were done. She went over to Luca and gestured for him to come along. "Well, you ready for your first taste of vampire power." she said, not giving him time to reply, she took a hold of his arm and they teleported to the farm.

She headed inside, the dogs had to come over and carefully sniff at Luca, the cats were indifferent to the visitor, just watching him.

Dave came into the room and stopped in his tracks. "Who the **** is this?" he asked.

"You remember the man I found in the warehouse that one night? Well this is him. He'll be staying for..awhile." Kira replied to the now even more confused man.

"Don't mind me. Won't even know I'm here." Luca said, petting the dogs now they calmed down a bit. "Other than I would love to know more about you and everything.."

Dave was still confused as hell.
Kira smiled weakly, "Well, now you have someone to eat with who actually needs to eat.." she told Dave.

"I guess.." Dave muttered, "I'll go get the guest room ready.." he added, moving upstairs.

"So is he a vampire?" Luca asked a bit confused. Had she brought him up before?

Kira shook her head, "No he is human." she replied, "He's...bewitched in a way to do what I say." she said, not too sure how to explain it. "They say they don't have any free will but I think he does. He can think for himself."

Luca raised an eyebrow, "Is there some kind of bond though?" he asked.

"I think there is.." Kira replied, "I mean, feel free to talk to him about it I guess." she added before she went to distract the animals by filling up their food.

[Dave Carson]

Luca stared at Dave, "So what is it like? Being bewitched?" he asked.

Dave crossed his arms, "I don't know, I don't feel any different now. There were times were the spell didn't seem to work and I would end up attacking Kira out of resentment but I don't feel that way anymore. I suppose my life is better now with her." he replied. "I do whatever I want but there's the undying loyalty to Kira there."

Luca tilted his head, "Interesting. So there is a bond there." he replied, "How did you end up with her?"

"As her thrall? She forced it on me.." Dave replied, "Which is where the resentment comes in...but I don't mind it now. She's done a lot of me and my family."

Luca nodded, "So, it be pretty easy if the person was...willing to be bewitched.." he said.

"Well...yeah.." Dave replied confused. He eyed the old man. "Wait, you want Kira to bewitch you?"

Luca nodded slowly, "I need...a new purpose in life." he replied.

Kira came in from the other room, the other two looked at her at the same time. She raised an eyebrow, "I walk into a private conversation?" she asked.

Luca shot Dave a look, not to say anything. He wanted to approach the topic with Kira later.

"Just guy talk.." Dave muttered and sat down to watch some TV, he wasn't sure if her wraith was around but they sure liked TV.

Kira tilted her head, she suppose Dave didn't hang out with other males much. Last time he hang out with a male it was Anemoi and he was just using Dave to get to her. So maybe this would be good for him. She wasn't sure if they would have anything in common with the age difference.

[Luca McTavish]

Luca had been living with Kira for awhile now, getting to know her and Dave. Learning more about vampires. He felt comfortable here, there was something about her that he couldn't place but he didn't want to leave when the time came. He didn't have any family left. Was she a replacement for the granddaughter he lost? His daughter before that. Nothing was going to bring them back but if he stayed here, he would at least wouldn't be alone and have a purpose again.

"I signed the paperwork stating you're mood has improved and no longer suicidal." Kira said, hopefully that was true. He didn't seem so depressed now. He seemed to have kept busy helping Dave and asking lots of questions. "You can return home now."

"Thank you." Luca replied, he took a deep breath. "But I don't wish to to home." he added. "I have given this a lot of thought. And I wish to be like Dave. I want you to bewitch me. I'm too old to be a vampire and at some point I will want to die and see my family again. But for now, I wish to stay by your side and have a bond, be like a family maybe.."

Kira stared at him, "Wait what.." she said confused. Why would anyone pick to stay by her side as a thrall? She had no idea what a human family was supposed to be like. "Think you need to go back to the mental ward.."

"Well that's rude." Luca said but laughed. "I'm very serious and sane, this is what I want. Up until I'm old old and feel it's my time to pass on, at least I won't be alone."

"Aren't you already 80?" Kira replied in disbelief.

"No, I'm only 65. Don't be making me older than I am." Luca said with a sigh. "I still got some years left in me. Health is good."

Dave huffed, "And what's an old man going to do around here? You're not making him do the heavy lifting."

'I can make myself useful, don't worry." Luca replied

Kira sighed softly, "Fine..." she replied, "If this is what you want, then I'll do it." she added, she really could listen to him just talk about nonsense all day though, something about his accent was soothing, unlike her own when she's pissed off.

"Thank you." Luca replied with a smile. "Whenever you feel like, casting the spell? Is that how it works?"

"Something like that. We'll do tomorrow, okay." Kira replied, "I got to get to the lounge for awhile." she added as she headed off.