An Eternal Kind of Love

Laya

"LAYA GET DOWN!" I quickly duck down as Tess throws a stone at a demon lunging at me from the opposite direction. I look over at it lying in a heap and smile at her.

"Thank you dear. I almost missed that one." Tess laughs and we run off together killing any demons that dare get in our way.

In case you don't already know, me and Tess are vampires. For the past 500 years we have been inseparable. I honestly couldn't imagine living throughout eternity without her.

Tess is a tall and muscular woman with dark skin and short curly hair. She was a slave in her human life who was turned into a vampire by a woman that pitied the sad life she was living.

I on the other hand, am rather small with fair skin, but don't let that fool you. With the help of my charms and my small frame I am able to nimbly swoop in and kill my prey without so much as breaking a sweat.

My combat skills are far more advanced than Tess's because i was apart of the royal guard in her human life.

Yes, there are women in the guard.

I was trained to live and fight for the royals when one night, as i was enjoying a night out with some friends, a woman coaxed me into a corner and turned me into a blood sucking vampire.

At first I was upset because honestly, who wants to be a vampire?

It was a real drag knowing id have to pretty much spend eternity alone. There was no point in creating any new relationships just for me to have to watch them die. Being alone seemed to be the best option.

I was minding my business one night when a group of men approached me as I was passing an alley way.

"Aye there sweetie. What are you doing out here by yourself?" I rolled my eyes and tried to keep walking when one of them blocked my path.

I sighed looking them over unimpressed. "Listen gentlemen, I have an appointment tonight so if you want to live another day, I suggest you move out of my way."

I go to push through them when suddenly one pushes me against the alley wall and gets in my face. "Now now precious, what's the hurry?" He pulls out a knife and slices a slit in my skirt cutting my leg a little. "Were only looking for a little fun."

I look down at my ruined skirt and glare at him with my eyes glowing red. "That was my favorite skirt."

Fear plagues his eyes, but it's too late.

In a matter of seconds I slice through each of their necks,ripping out their throats.

I watch as they all fall in a heap and sigh at the condition of my skirt. "Well poo. Now I have to buy a new skirt."

Im about to clean up the scene when I feel a chill run down my spine followed by a voice. "Hey there. I was on my way to help but it seems like you were able to handle things on you're own just fine."

In one swift movement, I raise a dagger up to her throat but meraculously she stops it.

I raise an eyebrow at her as she smirks at me. "Man you're quick. I was almost a goner."

I scoff and pull my knife away. "Let me guess, another vampire?"

She smiles and points at me. "Bingo. And Here I was thinking you were a damsel in distress." I roll my eyes and go back to moving the bodies completely ignoring her.

I start to drag one away when she's suddenly face to face with me.

I'm shocked because I didn't even sense her Movements.

. I look up into her eyes and my blood runs colder than usual.

Those eyes have seen things. She may be smiling at me now, but I can tell that she has a dark past. "Need a hand with that?" She asks as she reaches behind me to grab one of the men.

I blush a little as I notice our proximity. "No no I've got it!"

She may be kind of shady, but that doesn't mean she isn't hot.

I push past her trying to keep my composure when I start to feel dizzy.

My legs begin to buckle and everything goes black.

When I woke up, I realized I wasn't in my own home. I quickly went on the defensive and went to strike her in the face but she blocked it just like before. "Hey hold on! Is that the way to thank your savior?"

I tilt my head at her and look down realizing I'm only in my underwear and a tshirts with a bandage around my thigh. My face instantly heats up as I cover myself more with the blanket before yelling at her. "Where the Fuck are my clothes you perv?!"

She raises her hands in defense and hands them back to me. "They were soaked in blood and ripped up so I fixed them and washed them for you. I didn't try anything I swear!" I glare at her searching for any doubt in her eyes but I find none.

"Fine. Just turn around while I change." She obliged and as I was getting dressed, I got curious about the bandage on my thigh. "Do you know what happened to me?" She peeked back to make sure I was done before turning to face me.

"Apparently one of the guys that attacked you had a knife laced with poison. I am immune to all poisons so I was able to extract it from you and patch you up good as new." I give her a look and her face drops.

"Extract? How did you extract it?" She rubs the back of her head explaining how she had to suck the poison from my thigh and my face gets more and more red with every word.

No one has ever done anything like that for me my whole life.

This person has so many layers to them. I get the feeling that there is this darkness surrounding them yet,her personality completely contradicts that.

That night, I stayed at her house. Over time we became the best of friends and eventually, she stole my heart.

As we grew closer, i found out the she was one of the fallen ones. A group of vampires hell bent on taking over the human race so that vampires could rule.

One day,she was hurt. She was prepared to lay there and die when an old woman saved her. She was human yet she showed her so much kindness.

Ever since then she renounced her allegiance to the fallen ones and left the country they resided in.

She still has the mark on her back but In my eyes, that's not what defines her. She is a sweet caring person and my love for her has grown each day over the past 500 years.

It must have been destiny that we were turned into vampires because spending and eternity with her sounds like heaven on earth.

Human lovers only have a limited time on this earth with each other, yet we can be together, for all of eternity.

Laya

As time goes on, we find ourselves back to back fighting off demons left and right.

There seemed to be no end to them and even though I know we could do this all day, our men were growing weary.

I look back at Tess as she breaks a demons neck. "I think we're going to need some back up." She raises an eyebrow at me as she reverse kicks another demon away from us.

"Laya I don't think that's a good idea. He can get a little...over excited sometimes." I dodge an attack and slice the demons head off with my blade before flipping my hair out of my face.

"Yes I know but this is taking far too long. Besides, the men are dropping like flies around us." She looks around at all of the wounded that are still trying to fight.

She sighs and waves her hand approving and a smile forms across my face. Tess steps in front of me for protection as I close my eyes taking in a deep breath.

I use my energy to connect with my brother and smile when he instantly gets the link.

Darren. I need you.

"In trouble I presume?" I smirk opening my eyes to see him standing before me with a smile on his face. He wearing a black t shirt with jeans, combat boots, and a large black trench coat. By the blood stains on his face and how messing his curly brown hair looks, I can only assume he was out hunting before I called for him.

Before you get any ideas, he's not a cold blooded killer. He only hunts men that hurt women, similar to me and Tess.

None of us really need the blood to survive since we have adapted, but every now and then we have to fulfill our thirst. What better way than to sink our teeth into a rapist or murderer? It's a win win in my opinion

"Just a little."I say rolling my eyes.

He laughs patting me on the head. " Aww don't worry, big brothers got you covered." He tenses a little and grabs a demon by the throat as it breaks past Tess and tries to attack me.

Darren's eyes glow red as her slowly turns to face the demon who looks as if he's seen a ghost. "Uh uh uh. That's MY little sister there bucko. Big mistake."

Darren smashes the demon into the ground and stomps on its face. I raise an eyebrow at him when he's done.

"A bit excessive don't you think?" He shrugs and cracks his neck before giving me a crooked smile.

"Just having a little fun." I shake my head at him and we get into action, fighting alongside Tess and the rest of our men.

With my brother at my side, we work in unison tearing through the demons as if they aren't even there. Within the next hour, the only ones left standing are me, my brother, tess, and a few hundred of our men.

Tess sighs a breath of relief as she raises her fist high in the air signaling our victory. The men erupt into cheers and i can't help but smile at their joy.

I go off to check on the wounded when all of a sudden I begin to feel dizzy. I fall to my knees as my body begins to sweat profusely.

"Wh-what's happening?" I look down at my leg and see the smallest cut. I watched as the poison seemed to seep into my veins before my bison became blurry.

Tess.

I turn and reach out for her as I see her turn to me.

The joy quickly falls from her face as she starts to run towards me.

A slight smile forms on my lips as I feel myself losing consciousness. I know she will save me. She always does.

Right before things go black, I hear tess scream as Darren stabs her in the shoulder with his blade. They both fight for control and I watch as tess rips the blade from her arm before stabbing him in the eye.

He screams in pain and staggers away before tess turns back to me. Tears fall from my face as she stumbles over to me before the only thing I can see, is darkness.

When I come to, I am laying in bed with a bandage around my leg and arms. I go to sit up but my head is pounding instantly.

"Wow slow down there. You need to rest." My eyes get huge at the sound of her voice and i instantly wrap my arms around her neck.

"Oh my god you're okay!" Tears stream down my face as I hold her tight causing her to chuckle.

"Of course I am love, i wouldn't leave you like that. Are you okay though?"she gently grabs my face to look me over making me smile.

"You scared me back there love. I always tell you to check yourself after a fight. You never know where you might have been cut." I shake my head and kiss her lips pulling her closer.

"I'm fine I'm fine. I knew you would save me." She smiles at me and then I remember something important.

"Darren! Where is he? What was that back there? Is he okay?" I bombard her with questions and her face goes cold.

"I told you we didn't need him." I give her a look and she stands up walking away from me.

"What are you talking about? Without him we never would've won." She takes a deep breath and turns to me gently grabbing my chin.

I blush a little under her intense stare before she says something that breaks my heart. "You need to stay away from him."

I stare at her wide eyed and back out of her grasp. "How could you say that? He's my brother. My twin! I can't just leave him."

She steps closer to me and I take a step back. "He's dangerous laya. He tried to kill me,"

I frown before folding my arms across my chest. "And you stabbed him in the eye. I don't know what's going on between you two but you can't keep me from him." She sighs and reaches for me again but I pull away.

"Baby I'm just trying to protect you." She grabs my arm and I yank it away.

"Don't touch me!" Suddenly her face gets serious and she steps closer towering over me. "You listen to me. I don't want you around him. He's got some shady shit going on, and I don't want you to get hurt! Stay away from him, understand?!"

She grabs both of my arms holding me against the wall and i freeze. She's never looked at me like this.

For 500 years she's looked at me with nothing but love and admiration.

Right now,her eyes are dark.

Devoid of anything but pure anger.

A tear rolls down my face as I use all of my strength to push her off of me.

She smashes into the far wall and cries out as the pain radiates through her body. "Ah!"

She falls to the ground and before she can gather herself, I have her pinned to the wall by her throat as tears pour from my eyes.

She was my love, my best friend. I could have spent all of eternity in her arms,but the person I am looking at right now, isn't her.

This isn't my Tess.

She gasps for air pulling at my arm but I won't budge. I get closer and stare into her eyes so she can see how much she's hurt me. "Don't look for me."

I drop her to the ground and rush out the door before she can even catch her breath.

As I run away, I can hear her screaming my name but I don't look back. "LAYA! PLEASE COME BACK!"

I hear her voice break and I fall to my knees. I have to be hundreds of miles away by now yet our connection is still so strong.

I crawl into a hole as I listen to her anguished cries for me.

I can feel her pain. I can hear the desperation in her voice and I want nothing more than to pull her in my arms, but I can't.

Something changed and until I know what it was, I need to keep my distance from her.

I sniffle as I wrap my arms around my knees wondering what could have happened to my brother.

Why doesn't she want me to be around him? So much so that she would react that way?

A tear rolls down my cheek as I try to connect to my brother.

I am met with nothing but silence and that scares me more than anything.

"Darren...where did you go?"

Tess

It's been 100 years since laya left me. I searched and searched for years trying to find her but even my best men were unable to find her location.

I sigh as I lean against a wall wondering what she could be doing right now. My ears perk up at the sound of one of my men giving a signal.

I nod my head and move into position to capture the target. He's a business man that has been using his mattress business as a cover up for a sex ring.

He's been picking up young girls off of the street and selling them to the highest bidder. The authorities have been trying to months to nab him, but he keeps slipping away. That's why the called me.

Since laya left me, I had to find some form of distraction so i decided to become a mercenary for the humans. My division has the highest success rate in the nation, mostly because we're all vampires.

We move into place and easily dispatch the target in less than 10 minutes. "Move out." We go to make our escape when I notice a fleeting red cape off in the distance.

I lose focus for just a second and in that time, the targets guards approach us ready to strike. Me and My men begin to fight and hold them back but there are more of them coming.

I don't even notice the arrow coming straight for my heart until a hand swiftly grabs it before it can land the fatal blow.

I freeze when I look over and see the green eyes that I have been searching for for years underneath a red hood. "Laya?"

She throws the arrow down and glares at me before striking a man that tried to lung at her from behind. "Watch it."

I start to try and talk to her but someone runs at us with a club and we both pull apart to dodge it. She whistles out and more men dressed in hoods like her roll out of the shadows and attack the guards.

I watch in amazement as she runs up to a man wrapping her legs around his head to snap his neck and then flipping off him to stomp another man's head into the ground.

My jaw drops not only because that was insanely hot but the fact that her fighting skills have far surpassed my own. She quickly takes down two more guys and without even turning around, she throws a dagger straight at me.

I narrowly dodge it, cutting my cheek a little, but I'm shocked when I see it perfectly lodged into the center of a mans head right behind me.

I look back and watch as he falls into a heap before turning back to her. "Holy shit."

She grapples with a guy for a moment and I lung forward knocking a guy that tried to sneak up on her into the floor.

She knocks her guy out and wipes the blood off of her hands onto her tights. "Laya where have you been? I searched for you for years."

She scoffs kneeing a guy in the face. "Did you ever think that perhaps I did not want to be found." I throw a guy through a wall and turn to her but she doesn't face me.

"Please, can we just talk. For a moment?"She twirls two knives in her hands and slices through two more men before sheathings them.

"No. Can't you see I'm busy?" She flips her hair and pulls her hood back over her head after signaling for her men to leave.

She starts to take off herself but I rush over and grab her arm before she has a chance. "WAIT! Laya please, can we ta-" she glares down at my hand and grabs my wrist flipping me over and crushing her foot over my throat.

"Don't fucking touch me!" She growls pressing down harder. I struggle trying to get her off of me but her stance is too strong.

I don't understand. She was always strong but now she's on a completely different level.

She watches as I struggle a bit longer and scoffs before removing her foot. "Pathetic."

She storms off as I cough trying to compose myself. I look up as she struts off not even looking back once. I know that what I did before was wrong. I should have explained things more clearly but I couldn't control my emotions.

I reach out for her trying to think of something that would make her stop. Something to get her to listen to me. My eyes get huge as I quickly stand. "I know where he his!"

She stops walking. "I know where Darren is. I can sho-" she rushes forward slamming me against the wall so hard I almost black out.

"Don't play games with me Tess. I've been searching for him for 100 years. I can't even get a connection with him yet you expect me to believe that you know where he is?"she squeezes my throat a little harder and presses her body up against me.

I gulp a little as I feel her face get closer to mine. She's kicking my ass right now but internally I'm elated. I've missed her so much and if letting her throw me around is what I have to do to keep her close then so be it. "I found his location. I can show you..I swear.."

She growls a little in my ear and I bite my lip. "Fine. But if you're lying to me." I flinch a little as I feel her blade run along my neck. "I'll kill you."

I whine a little as I feel her breathing on my neck. I nod my head and she drops me on the ground before walking away again. "Wait! Don't...you need the ...address."

I choke out rubbing my neck. She holds up one of my business cards. "Got it."

I start to say something else but she's already Turning the corner, disappearing into the night. I check on my men and we make our escape.

The whole way back,I can't get her off of my mind. I just hope she actually comes by.