"Patients Eli, my dear, we’re in public, you know”.

“Are you going to deny me?!”

She seemed to forget that she wanted to look good before meeting. Her hair was a mess, and luckily, she had fallen into water earlier, which must have washed off the smell of shark insides that may have clung to her body.

“of course not, but…”

“Then why should being in public matter? Do you not realize 200 years is a long time?”

She said in frustration, interrupting his words and adding the 200 years as a way to guilt trip into agreeing to her unreasonable demands. If he truly loved her, he would do as she says.

“Yes, I understand, but let’s get home first, then I can please you all you want”

He agreed but he was not about to satisfy his wife in the middle of a beach, he also notes that “200 years” is going to be a regular spoken phrase in their conversation, hopefully the other two won’t hold it over him, they probably will.

“Humph!!, fine, but drink some blood, this weak form of yours will hardly please me”

She crossed her arms and pouted as she said, making it clear that she was not pleased, of course she looked cuter than anything which made Vlad realise that though he may have been asleep he missed her, his mouth stretched into a small smile.

“I’m sure I’ll do just fine”.

“Your arms feel weak on my body. Do you think I want you to hold me gently like this?”

She asked. She wanted him to squeeze her tight to showcase his deep longing for her. She could tell he was trying to do that, but he was weak.

She needed a back breaking hug, not to mention how is he going to choke her with such weak arms? Honestly, did he think she wanted him to be gentle when they finally embraced each other after 200 years?

“Be reasonable Elizabeth”

“No but I’ll compromise. If you don’t satisfy me properly, I demand a week’s worth of love making to make up for it”

“That can be done, now let’s go home, I’m excited to learn more about the cell phone”

With that, he shot up into the air and flew back to his home with his wife in his arms.

Unfortunately for Elizabeth, Homer wasn’t dead. His body that was left near the completely wrecked car began to heal, his broken bones snapped back together, and his wounds closed. Slowly opening his eyes, he spoke.

“May have underestimated my foe there”

Homer stated as he felt the pain of having his body slammed against a car multiple times, it also didn’t help the he was feeling incredibly hungry, after using his healing blessed contract to such an extent today.

“Yeah, no kidding!”

A man wearing a pitch-black suit and top hat appeared. He had a black mask covering half his face and revealing the thick beard on the lower half. He held a walking stick that was made from Mahogany wood.

“Lokt, were you watching me?”

Homer asked with a bit of shock in his voice.

“Would I show up here if I wasn’t, is it stupid questions day, today? Obviously, if I show up here, it means I was watching you. Are you dumb? Wait, no, actually, you are otherwise. Why else would you willingly face that vampire instead of killing her the moment you saw her. This is why you won’t get a promotion. You put too much trust in your stupid talisman…”

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As Lokt continued to speak, his body never stopped moving, his hands gesticulating all over as he spoke, putting emphasis on his words. It was almost cartoonish, with how exaggerated it was.

“Alright, alright, I get it”

“Do you? coz I get the feeling you don’t, if you did get it, you wouldn’t need me to tell you all this, you wouldn’t have done the stupid shit you just did but fine I’ll stop. Question: Who was that guy that showed up at the end there? You don’t know? Wonderful now, we have an unknown enemy because Mr. Stupid over here decided to play dead instead of asking questions.”

“She was going to kill me. What was I supposed to do?”

“You were supposed to kill her. Maybe that corpse looking guy wouldn’t have shown up if you did, but I guess now we know he exists. Good job, good job on being an idiot. I know it sounds like I’m being unreasonable and a jerk that's because I am, it’s been a long day, and I need a stress release. Don’t take that out of context. Anyway, you must walk to headquarters, goodbye”

With that, Lokt disappeared, leaving Homer groaning in exasperation.

“Good grief, that guy won’t shut up sometimes”.

He said as he began looking for a car, surprisingly only one out of 10 vehicles were destroyed, he walked around the area and added additional concealment talisman around the area, there was already a few talismans made to keep people out of the beach and people who lived near were forcefully evicted under with the excuse of a tsunami being eminent.

He quickly got onto one of the vehicles and drove off. The S.E.E. will send people to clean up his mess, not that only but he’s mostly going to get a pay cut after this.

“Damn that was stupid of me”.

……..

Aaron arrived in his home, a mansion house that was Located at central London, the mansion was designed in Victorian style or rather the Mansion was built during the Victorian era and the Theed family must only maintain it without ruining its structure.

Arriving at the gate the guards that stood at its sides simply nodded at his arrival neither of them asked any questions about his tattered appearance nor was it their business, using his key card he entered and walked to the house, he dreaded the fact that the driveway was so large causing him to have to walk an entire kilometre before arriving at the door of his home.

The doors opened as he was suddenly jumped by a blur. He found himself getting crushed by something akin to a vice. His chest felt as if it was caving in due to the sheer force.

“Oh, my baby! where have you been? why didn’t you answer your phone? what happened, why are your clothes so dirty? What happened to your leg? Does it hurt?”

His mom barraged him with various questions as she looked him all over, checking his condition and state of being, there was clear worry and concern in her eyes, unfortunately despite her question Aaron didn’t answer her, instead he simply returned the hug, grabbing her tight as tears began to roll down his face.

The incident that occurred yesterday was fresh on his mind, and he was stricken with guilt. How was he supposed to tell her?

“What’s wrong dear? You’re crushing me with your arms, you know”.

Perhaps he did not want to see her face when she hears the news, the hurt in her eyes when she hears what she has to say is something that he was too afraid to see as such he decided to deliver the news while they both were still hugging.

“Mom…. Dad is dead”

He stated but those words felt like an admission of the reality of things and the tears flooded his face, a look of anguish and sorrow marred his face, he could only imagine how his mother would feel.

There was a silence as he let his words sink in, a full minute went by before his mom finally spoke.

“Oh! honey, are you okay?”

She pulled away from the hug and looked at his tear covered face and saw the hurt in his eyes as she asked, she touched his face and wiped the tears off his cheeks, her face showed only concern for him, her darling little boy had to go through such a traumatic event.

Aaron looked at her with mild confusion in his eyes, she didn’t seem upset about the news he delivered, she did not break down and cry her eyes out like he was expecting, perhaps she didn’t hear him.

“Mom didn’t you hear me? Dad is dead”

“Yes, I heard you honey, I know you love your dad, but don’t worry I’m here for you if you need to talk”.

His eyes nearly bulged out of his out of his head as he looked at his mother, his mind spun as various thoughts ran across it, he was severely confused, completely flashbangered, he could not believe what he was seeing, why was she not crying?

“Mom dad is dead!”

“I heard you Aaron”

“Then why aren’t you crying? Your husband just died”

He shouted, causing some of the guards outside to look in his direction. Her eyes darted around, seeing the reactions of the guards before she beckoned him to enter the house.

“Come inside, Aaron, I’ll tell you inside”

She tried to lead him into the house. However, he slapped her hand away and took a step back, his anger bubbled within. He wanted answers.

“No!! te-tell here! Tell me here, what’s going on?!”

He demanded, stumbling over his words a bit. This woman wasn’t even heartbroken about the fact that her husband just died. He was tempted to accuse her of being in cahoots with Aunty Val.

“You’re going to need to sit down”

“No! I’m fine standing up!!!”

He responded, awfully rude, talking to his mother like that. However, his mom didn’t chastise him for it but instead simply sighed and shook her head. He was hardheaded like his father.

“I’m sorry you had to find out like this, but I didn’t love your father. In fact, we divorced a year after you were born.”

“What?!!”

The shock was so immense that he took a few steps back. His whole life had just suddenly become a lie, the family trips, the game nights, the family photos.

All those things were not done by a loving family of three but instead two adults who weren’t a family nor were they even in love, the only saving grace to this was that he at least wasn’t a literal bastard.

first, it was his trusted aunt and mentor who murdered his uncles, cousins, and father, and now his mother is telling him such news. He couldn’t believe it, surely this wasn’t reality.

“Of course, I’m stupid. This is a dream”

His mind retreated to the realm of delusions. It was the only thing that made sense. No way could such a succession of events could happen in the span of a few hours.

Of course, he was merely dreaming, and he should wake up any moment now, as much he wanted to delude himself into believing that deep down, he knew the truth.

“Oh darling, I’m sorry I didn’t…”

“Don’t touch me!!”

Slapping her hand away, he turned his back to her and began to walk, he cannot sleep in the same house as her today, too many things were happening all at once, he needed peace, some quiet to properly think things through.

“Aaron listen… I”

“I will not!! listen to anything a liar like you will say”.

He said with finality and walked towards the gate. Exiting the gate, he decided to take a small walk before booking a nearby hotel.

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