Second Chances 3/12
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write_my_dreamsTitle: Second Chances
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Pairing: past Hakuei x OFC, Hakuei x MiA
Genre: AU, supernatural, vampires. 1980s setting.
Warning: Mentions of sex
Disclaimer: The band members portrayed do not belong to me but the writing/story and the original characters are mine.
Rating: PG-13
Chapters: 3/12
Summary: The desire for blood and sex brings Hakuei to Kabuki-cho one night. A chance encounter at a nightclub brings MiA into his life, giving him a second chance at love and happiness after the death of his beloved wife
Author's Comment: And here is "Acceptance". Wanted to get this posted in time before I left for Times Square so I rushed the final proofread a bit. Please inform me of any errors I missed!
Hakuei sighed as he looked at his reflection. A month had passed since that first night he took MiA to his apartment. Their relationship had only deepened these last few weeks. He’d learned to compromise and let MiA pay for things, and he’d gotten good at reading his lover. He could tell which gentlemanly actions annoyed him, which ones he accepted, and what was merely tolerated. Things were going so well between them that he’d dreamt of Kana congratulating him on finding happiness. Except their relationship was founded on a lie. MiA thought he was a human man. He had no idea Hakuei was a centuries old vampire. “I need to tell him.” He couldn’t keep this secret any longer. He had to be honest. And hopefully, MiA would accept him for who and what he was rather than running in fear.
For once, his lover’s knock at the door made him uneasy. What if MiA rejected him? It’d taken him so long to find someone new. Would every man remind him of MiA while every woman reminded him of Kana? Get a grip. You haven’t even told him yet, he scolded himself. Taking the breath he didn’t need Hakuei went to the door and opened it. His beautiful lover was stunning as always in black Armani dress pants, a red silk shirt, and a slim black tie. “You look gorgeous.”
MiA smiled. “You too. Did you deal with any security threats today?”
“Fortunately no. Things were quiet today.” Hakuei walked to the table. “Would you like some wine?” he asked.
“Please.” MiA toed off his shoes and took a seat at the table. He watched Hakuei pour a glass of red wine. He did a double take seeing the bottle was from a decade ago. “I feel like we should be celebrating something if we’re opening a ten year old bottle.”
Hakuei poured himself some wine too and settled down across from MiA. “We are celebrating. You’ve come to my apartment to have dinner with me. I celebrate having you in my life, how I’ve gotten to know you these past weeks. I look forward to knowing you as well as I do myself.”
MiA smiled. “I’ll toast to that.” He raised his glass and clinked it to Hakuei’s. “Dinner looks incredible.”
“I made sure to have your favorites.”
“I can tell,” MiA laughed. “I may have to roll myself out the door after this.”
Hakuei saved his revelation for after the meal. There was no sense in spoiling MiA’s appetite. Once the leftovers had been packed away into the fridge and the dishes loaded into the sink, he asked MiA if he’d like some dessert.
“Later. Tell me what’s on your mind first. Your smile is strained and you keep looking at me like it’s the last time you’ll ever see me. What’s going on? Did something happen?”
Perceptive as always. If MiA stayed in this business he would make an excellent detective. “There’s something you need to know about me. I have tried my absolute hardest never to lie to you, whether by omission or no. It’s time you learned the full truth though.”
MiA frowned. “What haven’t you told me?”
“I haven’t been entirely honest with you about certain aspects of my life.”
MiA bit his lip. His eyes flashed to the tattoos on Hakuei’s hands, on his chest. “So you are yakuza?”
Hakuei laughed. Trust a police officer to assume that. “No, MiA. I am not. My tattoos are merely personal decoration as I have told you before. I have never been associated with the yakuza.” Tsuzuku didn’t count as he’d left that life behind the moment Koichi’s fangs pierced his neck. His smile faded as he studied his lover. It was now or never. “I’m not a human man. I don’t work for a company. I am a vampire who was turned in the Sengoku Jidai… and I work for the vampire council. My job is to prevent humans from finding out about my kind. To keep the peace between our races.”
For a moment MiA merely stared at him. Hakuei could practically hear the gears in his mind turning as he processed the information. He opened his mouth to speak, closed it, swallowed, then tried again. “Hakuei… you… you seriously believe you’re a vampire?”
“I don’t believe. I know what I am.”
MiA frowned. “How?” He still looked unsure and while his pulse had quickened, he made no move to leave the table. His brave MiA.
Hakuei sighed as he recalled the circumstances of his long ago turning. Some of his human memories were blurry with age. Faded as an old photograph. Not this day though. He could live a thousand years and he would never forget. “Kana is the one who turned me. Four months before that day, our castle was raided and she was taken from me. I was overjoyed when I found her again. At last my wife was back in my arms where she belonged. She was pale and her skin cooler to the touch, but she seemed unharmed so I took her home. I soon realized the woman I’d brought home was not the same Kana. She couldn’t bear to be out in daylight or to even be in a bright room. She insisted she be in darkness but for her candles. Then one day I caught her with red-stained lips. I thought she was ill, had contracted some sort of bloody cough…” Hakuei trailed off, shaking his head. These were not the memories MiA needed to hear. “Before Kana had the chance to tell me what had befallen her in those four months, our castle was attacked. Assassins entered our chamber…” He closed his eyes as he remembered the men, his fear that their swords would take Kana from him. Forever. “I fought like a man possessed. All I wanted was to keep my wife safe. I suffered a mortal wound protecting her. Kana… she snapped when she saw me fall. She flung my assailant into the wall and moved in a whirlwind of blades as she took down the others with ease. When the last man was dead she turned to me with fangs and blood-red eyes. I knew then what my wife had become.” He opened his eyes to watch MiA’s reaction. “I was dying. Kana begged me to let her bite me, to turn me...”
“And you agreed,” MiA said softly.
“I did.”
“I-If you’re a vampire, why haven’t I seen your fangs? How come you have brown eyes instead of red? Why do you have a reflection? I’ve seen us in the mirror! How can you wear that cross?” he pointed at Hakuei’s neck. “How can you wear silver jewelry at all?”
Hakuei opened his mouth to show MiA his fangs, watching the color drain from his face. No longer could he doubt what his lover was. He pushed the fangs back with his tongue. “You have not seen my fangs because I’ve been cautious. A vampire’s eyes turn red when they are thirsty or feeding. I take great care to keep myself well fed so I won’t hurt you. You’ve seen my reflection so you know that a vampire having none is a myth. In fact, most of the stories told about vampires are myths. The cross, or any religious symbol, is harmless. As you can tell be the one I’m wearing. If you dipped a cross in holy water and pressed it to my skin then it would hurt me. Silver,” he glanced at his rings and bracelets, “also has no effect on me.”
“Garlic?”
Hakuei shook his head. “Myth. I have stronger senses than you do so the scent is amplified. It’s not pleasant, but it wouldn’t repel me.”
MiA swallowed. “W-What happens if you go out in the sun?”
“I burn,” Hakuei said simply. “I wasn’t lying when I told you that I have a severe reaction to daylight. My skin blisters and blackens. If I stay in daylight long enough my body will turn to ash and I will die.”
“What about… blood?” MiA frowned and straightened. “Did you drink my blood?”
Hakuei shook his head. “Never. I will not drink from you unless I have your consent. You’ve noticed how I sometimes turn you over onto your stomach or your hands and knees when we are intimate?” MiA nodded. “I do that when the desire for your blood becomes too strong. I need a moment to get myself under control and I don’t want you to see me struggle with my fangs or watch my eyes flash from brown to crimson. MiA… I did, I do, wish to taste your blood. But I swear, I have not drunk from you.”
MiA swallowed. “You really are a vampire,” he whispered.
Hakuei showed him his fangs again. “I am.”
Realization dawned on MiA’s face. “That night we met, you were in Kabuki-cho to feed. Weren’t you?”
“I was.” Hakuei smiled wryly. “Kabuki-cho is popular with vampires. I come there to feed and also to keep the more reckless vampires away. That night, I told you I was there for a drink and good sex. I had alcohol but I did not get the drink I’d come for.”
MiA frowned. “If it’s so important to keep vampires a secret from humans then why are you telling me this now? Why are you even dating me? Isn’t that hypocritical?”
Hakuei pushed his fangs back again. “I’m telling you because I care for you. I wanted to reveal the truth of my own free will rather than have it forced from me. You know I am a widower and that I still mourn the loss of my wife. I… had honestly lost hope of ever finding a new partner. You can laugh if you wish, I know it sounds like a line from a bad soap opera, but everything changed when I met you. The more we got to know each other the more I wanted to have a relationship with you. These lasts weeks have been the happiest I’ve been in five years. You have chased away my darkness and brought light and happiness back into my life. But I knew we would never have a truly honest relationship until you knew the truth. And so I told you.”
MiA bit his lip. “Am in danger now that I know the truth? That there are vampires out there?”
Hakuei shook his head. “No, you’re not. No harm will come to you. If you went and told, say your coworkers, that your boyfriend was a vampire how would they react?”
“They’d think I was joking.”
Hakuei inclined his head. “Exactly. I understand that this is a lot for you to take in,” he said softly. “I don’t expect you to make a decision now.”
MiA gulped down some wine. “I… I need to go home. I need to think,” he whispered eyes darting up to Hakuei’s face.
“I’ll call a taxi for you.”
MiA took another drink. “What do you want from me now that you’ve told me?”
“I would like a future with you. Whether or not our relationship continues is entirely in your hands. If dating a vampire is too much for you, then I will let you go without protest. You will not hear from me again.” Imagining a life without MiA pained him. They’d known each other for such a short time and already MiA had become precious to him. If he lost him…
MiA stared into his wine glass. “I… don’t think I could give you up like that.” His face was a myriad of emotions when he raised his gaze. “I need to think. This is… a lot. Give me a few days, okay? I’ll call you.”
“Take all the time you need.” Hakuei finished his wine and got up to call a taxi for MiA. Normally he would drive him home, but he imagined that was the last thing his lover wanted tonight. “Your taxi will be here in about fifteen minutes.” Losing MiA would be heartbreaking, but he would respect his decision. No matter what it was.
“Thanks,” MiA said quietly. “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”
Hakuei shrugged. “Fear. I debated for weeks on when was the best time to tell you. The first night you came home with me, I considered telling you then. It felt too soon though so I waited. We were still getting to know each other after all. Then you took me home the next day, showed me your apartment and your life there.”
Realization dawned on MiA’s face again. “You couldn’t enter without my permission.”
“You’re right.”
“…So is my apartment open to any vampire now?”
“No, only me. And no, you can’t rescind your invitation once it’s been offered. I have promised you space and time. You have my word that you will not catch me lurking near your apartment trying to catch a glimpse of you.”
MiA rubbed his arms. “You should have told me sooner.”
Hakuei sighed softly. “I know. As I said, I was afraid. It’d taken me so long to find someone I was interested in. If you found out I was a vampire and thought I was a monster, that you ran from me…” he trailed off. It would’ve broken him.
MiA shook his head. “You’re not a monster, Hakuei. The only monster was Taka.”
Hakuei couldn’t deny that.
When MiA’s taxi arrived, Hakuei said goodbye and watched him walk away. He sighed as he closed the door behind his lover. Hopefully this wouldn’t be the last time he saw him. He’d known the risks when he started dating MiA. Vampire/human relationships didn’t always work out. He’d seen the consequences all too often. MiA had seemed different though. He’d handled Taka’s attempted date rape well. Surely he could handle a vampire. If MiA trusted him, if he gave him this chance, then they would beat the odds.
So long as MiA was willing to give him that chance.
Hakuei waited a week for MiA’s answer. He focused on his work and was patient, understanding MiA needed time. He also couldn’t hide his eagerness whenever the phone rang or the disappointment he felt when it wasn’t MiA on the other line. Hakuei had just gotten out of the shower when he heard the phone ringing. He went over to answer it. “Hello?”
“Hi,” MiA said lamely. “I’ve… had time to think about everything. I’m still kind of freaked out that you’re a vampire, but I know you wouldn’t hurt me. That you won’t bite me without my permission. I want to give us a chance. I’m so used to being around you that these few days without you have been rough on me. Can I see you tonight?”
“Of course. Should I pick you up?”
“Please.”
Hakuei glanced at the clock. Was MiA working or was he free tonight? “What time should I come get you?”
“Now?” MiA asked, sounding hopeful. “I want to see you.”
Hakuei grinned. “I’ll be right over. See you soon.” He said goodbye then hung up, grabbing his wallet and keys. He hadn’t felt this light in years. MiA knew the truth and had accepted him, was willing to have a relationship with a vampire. Now they could properly begin their relationship without any lies or half truths between them.
Notes
1) This chapter concludes the "getting to know each other" arc. Chapter 4 takes place two years later and leads into the main story of this fic.
2) Unless I'm miraculously offered a new job before Thursday, I'm going home for a few days next week. I have Chapter 4 completed I just have to edit it now so I'm hoping to have that up by Wednsday night at the latest as I'll be leaving very early on Thursday.
Author:
write_my_dreamsPairing: past Hakuei x OFC, Hakuei x MiA
Genre: AU, supernatural, vampires. 1980s setting.
Warning: Mentions of sex
Disclaimer: The band members portrayed do not belong to me but the writing/story and the original characters are mine.
Rating: PG-13
Chapters: 3/12
Summary: The desire for blood and sex brings Hakuei to Kabuki-cho one night. A chance encounter at a nightclub brings MiA into his life, giving him a second chance at love and happiness after the death of his beloved wife
Author's Comment: And here is "Acceptance". Wanted to get this posted in time before I left for Times Square so I rushed the final proofread a bit. Please inform me of any errors I missed!
Hakuei sighed as he looked at his reflection. A month had passed since that first night he took MiA to his apartment. Their relationship had only deepened these last few weeks. He’d learned to compromise and let MiA pay for things, and he’d gotten good at reading his lover. He could tell which gentlemanly actions annoyed him, which ones he accepted, and what was merely tolerated. Things were going so well between them that he’d dreamt of Kana congratulating him on finding happiness. Except their relationship was founded on a lie. MiA thought he was a human man. He had no idea Hakuei was a centuries old vampire. “I need to tell him.” He couldn’t keep this secret any longer. He had to be honest. And hopefully, MiA would accept him for who and what he was rather than running in fear.
For once, his lover’s knock at the door made him uneasy. What if MiA rejected him? It’d taken him so long to find someone new. Would every man remind him of MiA while every woman reminded him of Kana? Get a grip. You haven’t even told him yet, he scolded himself. Taking the breath he didn’t need Hakuei went to the door and opened it. His beautiful lover was stunning as always in black Armani dress pants, a red silk shirt, and a slim black tie. “You look gorgeous.”
MiA smiled. “You too. Did you deal with any security threats today?”
“Fortunately no. Things were quiet today.” Hakuei walked to the table. “Would you like some wine?” he asked.
“Please.” MiA toed off his shoes and took a seat at the table. He watched Hakuei pour a glass of red wine. He did a double take seeing the bottle was from a decade ago. “I feel like we should be celebrating something if we’re opening a ten year old bottle.”
Hakuei poured himself some wine too and settled down across from MiA. “We are celebrating. You’ve come to my apartment to have dinner with me. I celebrate having you in my life, how I’ve gotten to know you these past weeks. I look forward to knowing you as well as I do myself.”
MiA smiled. “I’ll toast to that.” He raised his glass and clinked it to Hakuei’s. “Dinner looks incredible.”
“I made sure to have your favorites.”
“I can tell,” MiA laughed. “I may have to roll myself out the door after this.”
Hakuei saved his revelation for after the meal. There was no sense in spoiling MiA’s appetite. Once the leftovers had been packed away into the fridge and the dishes loaded into the sink, he asked MiA if he’d like some dessert.
“Later. Tell me what’s on your mind first. Your smile is strained and you keep looking at me like it’s the last time you’ll ever see me. What’s going on? Did something happen?”
Perceptive as always. If MiA stayed in this business he would make an excellent detective. “There’s something you need to know about me. I have tried my absolute hardest never to lie to you, whether by omission or no. It’s time you learned the full truth though.”
MiA frowned. “What haven’t you told me?”
“I haven’t been entirely honest with you about certain aspects of my life.”
MiA bit his lip. His eyes flashed to the tattoos on Hakuei’s hands, on his chest. “So you are yakuza?”
Hakuei laughed. Trust a police officer to assume that. “No, MiA. I am not. My tattoos are merely personal decoration as I have told you before. I have never been associated with the yakuza.” Tsuzuku didn’t count as he’d left that life behind the moment Koichi’s fangs pierced his neck. His smile faded as he studied his lover. It was now or never. “I’m not a human man. I don’t work for a company. I am a vampire who was turned in the Sengoku Jidai… and I work for the vampire council. My job is to prevent humans from finding out about my kind. To keep the peace between our races.”
For a moment MiA merely stared at him. Hakuei could practically hear the gears in his mind turning as he processed the information. He opened his mouth to speak, closed it, swallowed, then tried again. “Hakuei… you… you seriously believe you’re a vampire?”
“I don’t believe. I know what I am.”
MiA frowned. “How?” He still looked unsure and while his pulse had quickened, he made no move to leave the table. His brave MiA.
Hakuei sighed as he recalled the circumstances of his long ago turning. Some of his human memories were blurry with age. Faded as an old photograph. Not this day though. He could live a thousand years and he would never forget. “Kana is the one who turned me. Four months before that day, our castle was raided and she was taken from me. I was overjoyed when I found her again. At last my wife was back in my arms where she belonged. She was pale and her skin cooler to the touch, but she seemed unharmed so I took her home. I soon realized the woman I’d brought home was not the same Kana. She couldn’t bear to be out in daylight or to even be in a bright room. She insisted she be in darkness but for her candles. Then one day I caught her with red-stained lips. I thought she was ill, had contracted some sort of bloody cough…” Hakuei trailed off, shaking his head. These were not the memories MiA needed to hear. “Before Kana had the chance to tell me what had befallen her in those four months, our castle was attacked. Assassins entered our chamber…” He closed his eyes as he remembered the men, his fear that their swords would take Kana from him. Forever. “I fought like a man possessed. All I wanted was to keep my wife safe. I suffered a mortal wound protecting her. Kana… she snapped when she saw me fall. She flung my assailant into the wall and moved in a whirlwind of blades as she took down the others with ease. When the last man was dead she turned to me with fangs and blood-red eyes. I knew then what my wife had become.” He opened his eyes to watch MiA’s reaction. “I was dying. Kana begged me to let her bite me, to turn me...”
“And you agreed,” MiA said softly.
“I did.”
“I-If you’re a vampire, why haven’t I seen your fangs? How come you have brown eyes instead of red? Why do you have a reflection? I’ve seen us in the mirror! How can you wear that cross?” he pointed at Hakuei’s neck. “How can you wear silver jewelry at all?”
Hakuei opened his mouth to show MiA his fangs, watching the color drain from his face. No longer could he doubt what his lover was. He pushed the fangs back with his tongue. “You have not seen my fangs because I’ve been cautious. A vampire’s eyes turn red when they are thirsty or feeding. I take great care to keep myself well fed so I won’t hurt you. You’ve seen my reflection so you know that a vampire having none is a myth. In fact, most of the stories told about vampires are myths. The cross, or any religious symbol, is harmless. As you can tell be the one I’m wearing. If you dipped a cross in holy water and pressed it to my skin then it would hurt me. Silver,” he glanced at his rings and bracelets, “also has no effect on me.”
“Garlic?”
Hakuei shook his head. “Myth. I have stronger senses than you do so the scent is amplified. It’s not pleasant, but it wouldn’t repel me.”
MiA swallowed. “W-What happens if you go out in the sun?”
“I burn,” Hakuei said simply. “I wasn’t lying when I told you that I have a severe reaction to daylight. My skin blisters and blackens. If I stay in daylight long enough my body will turn to ash and I will die.”
“What about… blood?” MiA frowned and straightened. “Did you drink my blood?”
Hakuei shook his head. “Never. I will not drink from you unless I have your consent. You’ve noticed how I sometimes turn you over onto your stomach or your hands and knees when we are intimate?” MiA nodded. “I do that when the desire for your blood becomes too strong. I need a moment to get myself under control and I don’t want you to see me struggle with my fangs or watch my eyes flash from brown to crimson. MiA… I did, I do, wish to taste your blood. But I swear, I have not drunk from you.”
MiA swallowed. “You really are a vampire,” he whispered.
Hakuei showed him his fangs again. “I am.”
Realization dawned on MiA’s face. “That night we met, you were in Kabuki-cho to feed. Weren’t you?”
“I was.” Hakuei smiled wryly. “Kabuki-cho is popular with vampires. I come there to feed and also to keep the more reckless vampires away. That night, I told you I was there for a drink and good sex. I had alcohol but I did not get the drink I’d come for.”
MiA frowned. “If it’s so important to keep vampires a secret from humans then why are you telling me this now? Why are you even dating me? Isn’t that hypocritical?”
Hakuei pushed his fangs back again. “I’m telling you because I care for you. I wanted to reveal the truth of my own free will rather than have it forced from me. You know I am a widower and that I still mourn the loss of my wife. I… had honestly lost hope of ever finding a new partner. You can laugh if you wish, I know it sounds like a line from a bad soap opera, but everything changed when I met you. The more we got to know each other the more I wanted to have a relationship with you. These lasts weeks have been the happiest I’ve been in five years. You have chased away my darkness and brought light and happiness back into my life. But I knew we would never have a truly honest relationship until you knew the truth. And so I told you.”
MiA bit his lip. “Am in danger now that I know the truth? That there are vampires out there?”
Hakuei shook his head. “No, you’re not. No harm will come to you. If you went and told, say your coworkers, that your boyfriend was a vampire how would they react?”
“They’d think I was joking.”
Hakuei inclined his head. “Exactly. I understand that this is a lot for you to take in,” he said softly. “I don’t expect you to make a decision now.”
MiA gulped down some wine. “I… I need to go home. I need to think,” he whispered eyes darting up to Hakuei’s face.
“I’ll call a taxi for you.”
MiA took another drink. “What do you want from me now that you’ve told me?”
“I would like a future with you. Whether or not our relationship continues is entirely in your hands. If dating a vampire is too much for you, then I will let you go without protest. You will not hear from me again.” Imagining a life without MiA pained him. They’d known each other for such a short time and already MiA had become precious to him. If he lost him…
MiA stared into his wine glass. “I… don’t think I could give you up like that.” His face was a myriad of emotions when he raised his gaze. “I need to think. This is… a lot. Give me a few days, okay? I’ll call you.”
“Take all the time you need.” Hakuei finished his wine and got up to call a taxi for MiA. Normally he would drive him home, but he imagined that was the last thing his lover wanted tonight. “Your taxi will be here in about fifteen minutes.” Losing MiA would be heartbreaking, but he would respect his decision. No matter what it was.
“Thanks,” MiA said quietly. “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”
Hakuei shrugged. “Fear. I debated for weeks on when was the best time to tell you. The first night you came home with me, I considered telling you then. It felt too soon though so I waited. We were still getting to know each other after all. Then you took me home the next day, showed me your apartment and your life there.”
Realization dawned on MiA’s face again. “You couldn’t enter without my permission.”
“You’re right.”
“…So is my apartment open to any vampire now?”
“No, only me. And no, you can’t rescind your invitation once it’s been offered. I have promised you space and time. You have my word that you will not catch me lurking near your apartment trying to catch a glimpse of you.”
MiA rubbed his arms. “You should have told me sooner.”
Hakuei sighed softly. “I know. As I said, I was afraid. It’d taken me so long to find someone I was interested in. If you found out I was a vampire and thought I was a monster, that you ran from me…” he trailed off. It would’ve broken him.
MiA shook his head. “You’re not a monster, Hakuei. The only monster was Taka.”
Hakuei couldn’t deny that.
When MiA’s taxi arrived, Hakuei said goodbye and watched him walk away. He sighed as he closed the door behind his lover. Hopefully this wouldn’t be the last time he saw him. He’d known the risks when he started dating MiA. Vampire/human relationships didn’t always work out. He’d seen the consequences all too often. MiA had seemed different though. He’d handled Taka’s attempted date rape well. Surely he could handle a vampire. If MiA trusted him, if he gave him this chance, then they would beat the odds.
So long as MiA was willing to give him that chance.
Hakuei waited a week for MiA’s answer. He focused on his work and was patient, understanding MiA needed time. He also couldn’t hide his eagerness whenever the phone rang or the disappointment he felt when it wasn’t MiA on the other line. Hakuei had just gotten out of the shower when he heard the phone ringing. He went over to answer it. “Hello?”
“Hi,” MiA said lamely. “I’ve… had time to think about everything. I’m still kind of freaked out that you’re a vampire, but I know you wouldn’t hurt me. That you won’t bite me without my permission. I want to give us a chance. I’m so used to being around you that these few days without you have been rough on me. Can I see you tonight?”
“Of course. Should I pick you up?”
“Please.”
Hakuei glanced at the clock. Was MiA working or was he free tonight? “What time should I come get you?”
“Now?” MiA asked, sounding hopeful. “I want to see you.”
Hakuei grinned. “I’ll be right over. See you soon.” He said goodbye then hung up, grabbing his wallet and keys. He hadn’t felt this light in years. MiA knew the truth and had accepted him, was willing to have a relationship with a vampire. Now they could properly begin their relationship without any lies or half truths between them.
Notes
1) This chapter concludes the "getting to know each other" arc. Chapter 4 takes place two years later and leads into the main story of this fic.
2) Unless I'm miraculously offered a new job before Thursday, I'm going home for a few days next week. I have Chapter 4 completed I just have to edit it now so I'm hoping to have that up by Wednsday night at the latest as I'll be leaving very early on Thursday.
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