Temper: NIGHT

it was a cold afternoon, thankfully, vampires being cold-blooded themselves, did not see the cold as a bad thing. They relished it. “temperance jay are you listening?” temperance jumped up to find herself being watched by twenty pairs of human eyes, “ uh yeah. i am..” she said, slumping in her seat as she stared directly at her shoes. temperance, like every other vampire under eighteen, had to attend human schools, but after she turned eighteen, she was admitted into special training to sort out the new members of the division and was officially integrated into the vampire community. thankfully, the bell rang saving her from the teacher’s questions, and she stood up quickly, striding towards the classroom door. temperance was seventeen, and her birthday happened to be less than a week away. soon she’d rid herself of all these human things and be able to fully embrace her origin. “temper!” someone called out, and temperance turned to see shawn walking towards her, a wide grin on his face. he was attracting a lot of attention because of his dark beautiful looks and his black clothing. when shawn finally reached her he whispered, “im in”. temperance smiled, he had passed the division’s test and was now an official member of the division and the vampire community. “you’re so lucky!” she whispered back, “I’m still stuck with these people…” “you only have a week or so left.. and I think you can go through the training better than I did” shawn smiled, walking besides her as she left the school building. “we had to study vampire history though” shawn said once they reached his car, “it was boring. But did you know that we’re not obligated to drink blood. It’s like all the vampire stories these humans tell are so far fetched. Only rogue vampires do that..” “no duh..” said temperance, “if we needed blood there wouldn’t be a single student in this school left!” “but what about Dracula? He was real..the only story these humans got right. He wasn’t rogue but he sucked blood!” shawn exclaimed as they drove off towards their house. “Dracula was a psychopathic ass and you know it, not even the division’s sure he ever existed..” temperance said, a small smile playing on her lips. “well I still don’t get it, but don’t tell dad. He thinks im brilliant” shawn smiled back as he parked the car in front of a white, two story house on a quiet suburban street. “home sweet home” shawn sighed eyeing the house gratefully as he got out of the car. Temperance had almost forgot shawn had been gone for more than a year due to the training. Getting out of the car, Temper looked around her street. Any human that happened to pass by, wouldn’t realize that most of the houses in this area were occupied by vampires. mason lane was the ideal environment for vampires, only three or four humans lived in the midst of mason lane, and they never suspected their neighbors were vampires. it was all so… normal. Shrugging, she skipped up the stairs after shawn who was already unlocking the door.

walking in, shawn took in his surroundings. It was nice to be home again, although it had been pretty nice to live side by side with other young vampires as well, but his home was his home, and besides, he had missed temperance and his father. “shawn!” blake exclaimed, “come here boy. Ive missed you!” shawn smiled as he embraced his father who looked no older than twenty-eight years, that was the magic of vampires. they barely aged and were amazingly beautiful and elegant. They aged like humans fro the first eighteen years, after that, they only age when important emotional occasions occurred, like the birth of a child, or something happy like that. “I heard you passed with above average in defense against the dark and healing, im so proud!” blake exclaimed again, squeezing his son in a tight hug. Temperance laughed at shawn’s red face, “Aww shawn nobody’s watching. Don’t be so embarrassed!” she said and shawn shot her an annoyed look. Finally, when blake let go of shawn, temperance received her daily squeeze and reverences. “I love you too dad. Yeah.” Temperance smiled as she walked toward her room.

A few minutes later, some one knocked on her door, “Come in!” she said and shawn walked in quietly closing the door behind him. He sat on the edge of her bed and stared at herm “ I haven’t showed off my skills to you yet.” He whispered. Temperance smiled, all vampires were born with abilities, but after training, they were so supposed to be perfected and powerful. She sat on the bed and hugged her legs across her chest, eyeing him curiously. “shawn?” she asked, he had apparently disappeared. “im right here” he said and rematerialized, he had perfected his invisibility skills, “awesome!” she exclaimed giving him the thumbs up and he grinned in recognition. “what abooouut this?” he asked as the things in her room began to levitate and rise off their corresponding places, “cool. Ive always liked that one. Levitation, right?” temperance said, and shawn nodded. “I also passed fire and water, but my ice is a little shaky. I passed other things too..but I wont name them all, you’ll figure them out.” Shawn smiled, “there was this one girl in my group called harper, damn she was good. She was the only one who perfected weather and the only one, after hundreds of years, to be able to do the kiss of life..” shawn said quietly. temperance looked up at him, “the kiss of life?” she whispered, “wow..”. the kiss of life is when a vampire sinks his/her fangs into a dying, or dead person and revives them by drinking their blood . If the person happens to be human, they are transformed into vampires, but to be able to perform the kiss of life successfully, the vampire must be a pureblood and a very powerful one at that. “so she was a pureblood?” temperance asked, “well yeah. the first one to train in hundreds of years. I was like so nervous around her. Everyone was.” Shawn said a thoughtful, dreamy look on his face. Temperance smiled, “do you love her?” she asked. Asking a vampire if they loved someone was like asking a cow to bark. Really really awkward. Vampire’s did not fall in love so easily, and unlike all those stories about glowing auras of the one and only mate in the whole world, vampire’s had a variety of compatible lovers. The way a vampire knew someone was a compatible lover for them, was a tingling sensation they felt when they encountered the person, but it was the vampire who got to chose whether or not to accept them. Vampire’s often passed through hundreds of compatible mates before finally deciding for one and falling in love. “no” shawn said simply, “she was compatible though. But I admire her for her power, and anyway, a pureblood wouldn’t want to mate with a half-blood like me.” A half-blood was a vampire with an impure lineage, in other words, that some of their ancestors were humans, while if you trace a pure blood’s bloodline, all you’d get were vampires. “so what!” temperance exclaimed, “hell, im a half-blood too, im your sister, and if I was compatible with a pure blood id go for it! It’s not every day a half-blood is compatible with a pure blood!” shawn stared at her. Truth was, he was unsure. He knew she didn’t know he wasn’t her real brother or that blake wasn’t her real father, he really didn’t know where she cane from. But she didn’t know any of that, so he just played along, “yeah, but still I don’t think a pure-blood would want to mess up their blood line.” Shawn said, “mess up their blood line! You ARE a vampire shawn! You’re not some human, you’re a vampire. Mating with you isn’t gonna mess up her blood line!” temperance exclaimed and then laughed when she saw shawn blush at the mention of mating, though she hated it when he degraded himself. He was so beautiful, so smart, and so strong, any girl, pure-blood, half-blood, human, or undead (transformed humans), would fall in love with shawn. A tingly feeling ran up temperance’s spine as she thought about her brother, and she felt a soothing warmth fill her heart. She jumped in surprise, what, no, shawn was her brother. “What’s wrong?” shawn asked as watched her “Nothing um. I want to go to sleep. So yeah..” temperance mumbled lowering he eyes from his face and staring blankly at her feet, “ What sleep? But you never sleep!” shawn exclaimed, “Whatever…I just want to be alone okay?” she said softly, edging away from him and lying down on her pillow. Shawn shrugged and jumped up from the bed, and as he walked out and closed the door behind him a tingly sensation ran up his spine and a soothing warmth spread through his body. He just closed his eyes and sighed, he had been feeling that for five years now.