Fact, not a single person in the last week had come to see if she was even alive still down there. Which if she had been a human being, she would of already been in the hospital over two weeks ago. She hadn't 'eaten' a single thing in over a month but she didn't mind that fact at all. At least she hadn't until things started to blur... until she lost her balance and came crashing down onto her lab floor, glass tubes, chemicals shattering across the floor with her, burning and cutting into already far to thin vampiric female. The burning pain was the last thing she could recall as she passed out.
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Slowly she opened her eyes, licking her dry lips she slowly sat up. “No....” she knew there should had been tears rolling down her face but when she lifted her hand to see if her cheeks were wet, there was nothing. Nothing at all, “To long...” she whispered softly, that was the only thing she could think of. She was a vampire yes but still she the blood that flowed in her system from the blood bags allowed her to keep her body or at least she could only assume it did in the standard human like built. The same amount of pints of blood remained in her system... and that hadn't changed after her turning. Though her blood couldn't replace itself on it's own, not unless she used her own special gift.
Her mind looked at the mess, 'perhaps it wasn't all lost... ' she slowly lifted herself to her feet and made her way to her computer, mindless of the shards of glass that splintered out of her body, the cuts and burns that had been the end result of her lack of blood. Typing in the password to the protected file. She moved down to, her last entry, her eyes scanning to the clock, there was 12 hours missing. Yet all that was lost was what she had been working on. Slowly her eyes turned back to the table, “Maybe... please...” she slowly got out of the chair and as quickly as she could began to move her hands madly over the papers and files. “Just... bits and pieces... I... I can use this... I can...” her eyes moved back down towards her supplies and she fell to her knees, broken shards of glass pushing further inside.
“I... I... I'm out... it's... it's gone...” she whispered softly, the last of her blood sample was gone. How was she going to replace it? The man was dead when she had found him in the first place in the morgue... there hadn't been much left. Her mind began to race trying to figure out what she could do, “his... bones... maybe there...” as quickly as she could she rose to her feet.
She would need someone to dig up his body. Her eyes moved towards the ceiling, she was going to have to go upstairs to do this, seeing as she had left her cellphone in her bedroom to assure that she was left alone. She mentally groaned at the thought of making her way up several flights of stairs but she knew she had little choice but to do so... that was after she dug out the shards of glass so that her body could even begin to try and heal itself.
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It had taken her about an hour to make it to her room and back down to the living room, where she stood fearful she wouldn't be able to stand back up again at her reflection. She gave thanks to her beloved Moon that seemed to always give her peace of mind and an inner strength she wasn't normally aware of when it wasn't shining down upon her... it shone just over her head, that if she turned sidewise, the waxing creist moon reminded her greatly of the painting of Mother Mary and Baby Jesus more so if she stood back some from the mirror. Still it wasn't her face, or at least not the face she was used to seeing shining back at her from the mirror that was looking at her.
She looked like a very old woman, going on 102 years old. Her face was heavily wrinkled, not from old age but from the lack of blood. Slowly mummifying she was sure and found it hard not to want to take herself into her laboratory to study the effects but even had she been able to do so, any tissue samples would have been nothing more than rotting flesh turning to ash. “Would that happen to us?” she lean closing looking at her milky white eyes, unsure if that was from there more or less more natural look in the light or something more... something else. Trailing her fingers through her white hair she sighed, it wasn't too thin but it was rather uncomfortable still to see her hair so white. “Is this what....” she didn't want to think if this would had been what she would've looked like had she grown old.
Trailing her fingers across the edge the mirror the flipped on the webcam and saw for the first time that her body had not even began to healing process even after an hour. True she was not bleeding, there was likely so little blood left inside of her that it her body could even heal in the first place. Yet outside of that there was no change at all between what she was being shown by that piece of her soul to what was shown in the webcam. Flipping it back on her eyes trailed up towards the moon that shone still, as she began placed a hand against her chest where her heart was she willed herself to pump good fresh blood.
It was amusing to say the least watching herself slowly age backwards with only two pints of blood in her system now how her hair had began to darken some from it's pure whiteness, how her face seemed to be less wrinkled that it once had been, and she had began to slowly heal like she should of done and would have done had she not been starving herself, so lost in her research. There was also a freshness and less aching pain in her step that she hadn't felt before as she made her way into the kitchen.
Making sure she looked around carefully she carefully knelt down, noting the pain in her joints as she moved the wine rack to the side. Odin... had talent... and she knew part of the way this place worked was thanks to Christopher and his genius mind as much as Odin had with his talent of building. She let the sadness of Christopher remain for just a moment longer as she lifted the wooden panel away revealing a hidden cooler, with it's special pin key lock. Punching in the code she pulled several bottles of what anyone would didn't know better would think was wine. Closing the door and putting everything back in place she grabbed a wine glass and poured her a glass.
She had to get to the body, but she had to drink... had to get her strength back... and not fall half way through leading whoever she could get in touch with to the woods and dig up the body for her. After downing two bottles of the blood she made her way back to the living room, looking more in the mirror she chewed her lower lip as she stared at her reflection. 'Looking younger...'
'Yeah, if you call being a 50 year old woman young' she closed her eyes taken a deep breath, she sure did let herself go. Running a hand through her pepper and salt hair she frowned softly at her other self that reflected in the mirror.
'Better than looking like we're 102 years of age.' she turned making her way to the indoor garden and took a seat in one of the chair, putting the glass and bottle down she pour herself another glass and stared at the moon from above the glass ceiling.
After finishing the last bottle she knew she would still look much older still, maybe in her late 30s if she was lucky, but that was what happened when you didn't feed for such a long period of time. She didn't have to look exactly like herself, after all she knew she would age with grace, her father's blood and her mother's blood and shown her just how gracefully her family on both sides aged and she had never seen a photo of any of her family members that had not shown any sign of gracefully aging. Why would she be any different? Sure she would look older, maybe with a few silver hairs around the edges of her face. Maybe just a few laugh lines... but not anything that would make one guess she wasn't Serenity or if they did, not related to her.
Digging out her cellphone from her pocket thinking she should of gone up those stairs after she had fed herself and not before she shook her head and went down the list of names. She text several people, with a simple:
- I need help in my research. I need someone with a capable body who doesn't mind a bit of hard labor tonight. Text me back ASAP if you are willing to help me.
True she knew that most wouldn't reply or if they did it would be 'they were busy' very few weren't scared of being taken to her private lab, and those that weren't scared, tended to still be wary. Putting her cellphone down on the table she debated about getting another bottle of her 'special' wine when the reflection in the wine glass began to turn a pinkish-red. Slowly lifting her eyes up towards the glass ceiling she watched as it began to swirl around her beloved family symbol.
Eyes narrowing she watched the once pure silver light of the moon turned to a redish-pink light and then pain. Like someone was opening the gates that she had kept so carefully under lock and key, all the things that she didn't want to let out seemed to rush through her. “I'm... safe...” she kept muttering over and over as she held her chest, “vampires don't have heart attacks...” there was no danger to her. There was no reason for the part of herself she called Dragon to kick in. She fell out of the chair as the pain came crushing down on her chest.
'It's unnatural... it's all unnatural' both parts of her soul screamed inside. Her eyesight went dark, she couldn't even hear the rushing flow of blood, her pounding heart but she felt the sheer pain of it all even to the tip of her hair. She wasn't sure if she was screaming, if she wasn't she didn't hear it...