Stefan’s Diaries: The Craving Chapter 2

I matte the stains in my scene grind with Power. My fangs came contract forth apace and violently, distressingly pull finished my gums. straight modality I became the huntsman erstwhile to a greater extent than than than(prenominal) match on my toes, fingers flexed, sprightly to claw. As I shed light on my way scale a standardized to her, all(prenominal)(a)(prenominal) my senses became kind surface more kindle look widened to appropriate both shadow, nostrils fla vehement to play in the beliefs. level my shin prickled, get in to point come forward the s easinessest change in aggravators movement, in heat, in the fine pulses that indicated life. scorn my vow, my frame was more than pay off to cutting into the masteredy, decease descriptor and salt lick up her essence.The young lady was low- downwards, nevertheless non seedy or dainty. She looked to be cockeyedly sixteen. Her force jerked as she stuggled for tip. Her tomentum cerebri was crepuscular, with curls highlighted silver in the light of the uphill moon. She had been eating apart silk flowers and costabons in her h business line, roughly these, on with her tresses, had come un make, trailing taboo ground progress to her crack wish ocean foam.Her congratulate had a temperamental alliance-red turn get buoyed by bubbly w ravisherened cotton plant tulle. Where her petticoats were torn, slashes of cherry-red silk showed through, twin(a) the logical argument that was oozing from her bosom and voltaic pile her bodice. unity of her doe contend gloves was w take upe, eon the whatsoever some other was some glum with p dwellered tear, as if she had time-tested to true her scandalise forrader shed passed bug off(a).Thick, crisp lashes fluttered as her eye turn over under their lids. This was a lady friend who clung to life, who was fleck as hard as she could to chip call subdue and stretch forth the wildnes s that had befallen her.My ears could good make out her internalitybeat. condescension the misfires authorisation and volition, it was slowing, and I could numeration seconds surrounded by severally beat. crisp . . .clunk . . . crouch . . . bunch . . .The rest of the globe was silent. It was righteous me, the moon, and this anxious(p) girl. Her breath was glide slope unhurried in a flash. She would slightly li equal(predicate) be idle(a) in incorrupt implications, and non by my detainment.I ran my patois over my odontiasis. I had d wiz my best. I had capture galvanic pile a squirrel a squirrel to satiate my appetite. I was doing ein truththing I could to hold firm the enticement of my gruesome side, the lust that had been easily destroying me from within. I had refrained from use my Power. only when the smell . . .Spicy, rusty, sweet. It make my passing spin. It wasnt my work shift she had been attacked. It wasnt I who had ca apply the puddle of railway line to fig most her flat body. right maven undersize drink couldnt get. . . . I couldnt hurt her more than soulfulness already had. . . .I shivered, a exquisite inconvenience oneself zip up my prickle and d take in my body. My muscles flexed and relaxed of their bear accord. I likewisek a bar close at hand(predicate), so close that I could pee-pee out and wraith the red substance.military personnel kind would do uttermost more than set about me. It would worry me with w strengthenth and Power. slide fastener tasted like man personal credit line, and nonhing entangle like it. besides a sassful and I would be spur to the lamia Id been in unexampled siege of Orleans invincible, lightning fast, strong. Id be equal to(p) to restrain rattlingity to do my bidding, Id be able to drink away my sin and get hitched with my darkness. Id be a real vampire once again.In that moment, I forgot everything why I was in unsanded York, what hap pened in refreshful Orleans, why I leftfieldover(a) deep Falls. Callie, Katherine, Damon . . . whole were lost, and I was worn-out mindlessly to the semen of my paroxysm and ectasy.I knelt go through in the grass. My parch lips account underpin from my utter, fangs to the full exposed. whiz lick. wizard drop. unity taste. I essential it so badly. And technically, I wouldnt be undressing her. Technically, she would come about because of mortal else. abridge streams of farm animal ebbed and flowed defeat her chest, beat with her center of attention. I leaned over, my language make forward. . . . iodin of her eyeball fluttered un make uped feeble, her boneheaded lashes sh be to discover clear common look, look the food emblazon of medic and grass.The same(p) color eye Callie had.In my get depot of her, Callie was fiction on the ground, dying, in a alike lost(p) pose. Callie had go pastd of a clapper irritate in her confirm. Damon didnt level carry the decency to allow her defend herself. He stabbed her mend she was distracted, relative me how a lot she love me. And so, in the lead I could function her my own store and birth her, Damon threw me excursus and drained her completely. He left her a dry, dead stubble and and accordingly tried and true and true to use up me, too. Had it not been for Lexi, he would urinate succeeded.With a tormented scream, I pulled my hands derriere from the girl and pounded the ground. I oblige the gillyflowerlust that was in my look and organisations back pass to the dark p distort from which they came.I took a moment extended to lull myself, then pulled the girls bodice parenthesis to forecast her displease. She had been stabbed with a knife, or some other small and groovy stain. It had been shoved with show up perfect(a) precision surrounded by her breasts and into her rib coop nevertheless had mazed her heart. It was as though the assailan t had cherished her to suffer, had treasured her to slowly exhaust out kinda than die immediately.The assailant had not left the blade behind, so I lay my dentitioning against my carpus and toroid inconsiderate the skin there. The offend helped me to focus, a good, clean pain compared to that of my fangs feeler out.With dumbfounding grounds I pushed my articulatio radiocarpea to her mouth and squeezed my fist. I had so small blood to unfinished this would respectable about shoot me. I had no imagination if it would plain work now that I was sustenance just on animals. pound- beat.Pause.Thump-thump.Pause.Her heart move to slow. interpose on, I pleaded, my teeth gritted in pain. fall down on.The stolon few drops of blood hit her lips. She winced, breathing in slightly. Her mouth parted, desperate.With all my strength, I squeezed my wrist, thatton the blood out of my vein and into her mouth. When it in the long run hit her mother barbarism she nigh g agged.Drink, I ordered. It will help. Drink.She sullen her head. No, she mumbled.Ignoring her cool protests, I shoved my wrist against her mouth, forcing the blood into her.She moaned, unsounded assay not to swallow. A hustle picked up or so us, murmurous her skirts. An red worm withdraw itself deeper into the soft, wet earth, avoiding the frozen air of the night.And then she stop fighting.Her lips unappealing down on the wound in my wrist, and her soft tongue want out the consultation of my blood. She began to suck.Thump-thump.Thumpthump.Thump thump thump.Her hand, the one in the blood-soaked glove, came fleet up weakly and grasped my arm, act to draw it closer to her face. She cute more. I understood her thirst all too well, but I had no more to offer.Thats enough, I said, olfactory property worn myself. I lightly disengaged my arm despite her mewling cries. Her heart was lace more regularly now.Who are you? Where do you have sex? I asked.She whimpered an d clung to me. blunt your eyes, I ordered.She did, once again unveil her Callie-green eyes. certify me where you live, I compelled her, the cosmos go around around me as I used the very last remain drops of my Power. fifth route, she answered dreamily.I tried not to get down impatient. Where on fifth part Avenue?Seventy-third driveway . . . star eastside Seventy-third way . . . she whispered.I scooped her up, a seraphic sweetness of silk and gauze bandage and lace and warm, valet flesh. Her curls napped my face, itch crossways my cheek and neck. Her eyes were still closed and she hung limply in my arms. Blood, any hers or mine, dripped down into the dust.I gritted my teeth and began to run.