My Vampire Queen

Waking up in the same hallway, I move down to the doorway that’s closed, but the light is still on. The light shining under the door lets me know the girl is still up, I test the doorknob, finding my hand goes through it. So arms first I go through the door to find the girl in a similar spot as yesterday, this time her hair up in a messy ponytail and different clothing.

“That’s creepy.” She said in a hushed voice.

“What I don’t get is I walk on the floor like it’s solid but I can walk through the door?” I shake my head and move myself to the side of the room farther from her. “My Alpha and I had a talk when I left here, apparently I’m sleepwalking. The thing is I don’t know why, also I don’t know why I’m sleepwalking to a young shifter.”

“Are you a vampire Queen?” She asks and I nod, I could see her face shutting down as I confirm what I am. She clearly did not like that idea.

“I found out a few days ago that my mother wasn’t my real mother. My biological mother was an Amina Queen, my father isn’t Amina though.” I wonder how much to tell her, but when she looks back up. Interest in knowing and some of a skeptical look on her face. I hum and bring my fingers up to my chin. “My Alpha told me some stories, of what Queens did to try to have babies. I get that you’re distrustful, but my Goddess is sending me here for a reason and I don’t know why.”

“To try to feed off of me?” She questions a bite of venom in her voice.

And truthfully I have to think about that, not for long before I shake my head. “I don’t need some crazy sacrifice to get pregnant.”

“And how do you know that?”

How did I know that? Because something deep in me just knew that I didn’t need much more than me wanting a child and a willing Blood to get pregnant. “There are some things you just know deep in your soul. I know that when I want to get pregnant I will, I won’t need help from anyone but my Alpha or Blood.”

“Gross.” She says it under her breath, just loud enough for me to hear. Her head shakes like she’s trying to get the thought out of her head. “Let’s talk about anything else.”

I let out a laugh at that. “You still haven’t told me your name.”

She heaves out a sigh. “It’s Rue.”

“Okay, Rue,” I said nodding, trying to think of something ordinary to talk about. “Why are you up so late?”

“It’s only midnight.” Okay, she had a point, I had gone to bed early. “I have chores after dinner, they take awhile.”

How late do they eat dinner around here? Or does she have just a shit ton of chores? I wasn’t sure if I should ask or not. Dealing with preteens is a tricky thing, I should know, I was a fucking menace. Looking around I try to think of something else. “Is this your parent’s place?”

“No.”

I wait for a few seconds for her to say something else but she doesn’t so I continue. “Got any siblings?”

“Probably.”

Odd. Okay. “Are you not telling me anything more because you don’t want to, or because of what I am?”

Rue purses her lips while she thinks about that for a second and then says. “The first one.”

Okay, so we are getting somewhere with this. “Would you rather me talk about myself? Or I could go explore until I get woken up?”

She looks at the door and I see a little panic on her face. “I don’t know if that’s a good idea. Can others see you?”

“I don’t know. I’ve only met you when I’m sleepwalking.” That would be a good idea to find out if others could see me walking around. That could also be very dangerous because I don’t know what someone could do to me if they caught me out like this. Could they trap me like this? Could they hurt me or would I be able to just snap back into my body?

“Can you just leave?” She asks.

“Do you want me to?” I ask back.

Chewing her lip she says. “What was your life like before?”

It wasn’t a yes, leave. So I’ll take it and talk to her a little more. I mean there had to be a reason I was here, hopefully talking to her will help me figure it out at some point. “I’m 24, I grew up with my adopted mom though I thought she was my birth mother. I grew up in a small city with a few family members around, my dad lived a state away and I barely saw him.”

“Lucky.” She mumbles and I nod surprising her.

“My dad tried to be a decent dad at some points, I’ll give him that,” I tell her, I feel a little angry at the thought. He was an okay dad until I disagreed with him. “He did yell a lot, never hit me. He’d just take things away and make me help him with cleaning or chores even when I was five or six. If I could reach the sink I did dishes, if I could lift a laundry basket I’d do the laundry.”

“That’s... not normal?”

That was putting a few more puzzle pieces together. To answer her question I shake my head. “Sure kids should learn to pick up things, like putting dirty dishes in the sink, dirty laundry in the hamper, pick up toys. Maybe when a kid turns into a teen they take on actual chores but shouldn’t be forced to do all of the chores. Kids need time to be kids.”

I feel fingers brush over my face and I close my eyes, enjoying the feeling of knowing it’s my Alpha. A silent request to go back to him, I can feel his worry and I know this scares him. I barely have any idea what I’m doing, that can be dangerous. Opening my eyes I give Rue a small smile. “I have to go, my Alphas worried.”

“Are you going to be coming here every night?” She asks, I can’t figure out if she’d be happy about that or not. She doesn’t seem displeased at the idea.

“I don’t know, I guess well both see tomorrow night.” I feel a soft brush of fingers down my arm that make me shiver. Before snapping back to my body I turn to her. “I hope you have a good night of sleep Rue.”

Snapping back to my body jolts me, Bjorn makes quick work of clearing space for me to get up and rush to the bathroom. He follows me to hold my hair like he did the other night. He doesn’t ask me anything, he just waits and comforts me while I puke up my dinner and then proceed to brush my teeth until my gums and tongue hurt. Bjorn carried me, yes carried me to bed because he refused to let me walk back. I’m tucked into bed next to Bjorn and I start telling him everything that happened tonight, every detail I can remember.

When I finish I take a deep breath and say. “I think she’s being abused I don’t know if she’s with her parents or is with someone else. But I think whoever is in charge of her is just abusing her.”

“It sounds that way,” Bjorn said running a hand down my back. I’m half pulled onto his chest as he leans back into the bed, hand on my lower back holding me to him. “When Tabitha gets here in the morning we can tell her about the situation. We can ask her if she can snoop around for supernaturals in the area.”

“But how do we know if she’s nearby or not?” I ask him.

“Did it feel like you had gone far?” He questions, I don’t have to think about it too long before shaking my head. It’s farther than I can go when I’m awake looking for Blood, but it’s not so far I feel like I’m states away. “Then we will ask her to look into supernaturals in the state and surrounding states.”

“That would be a good start,” I said dropping my head onto his chest. Sleepwalking made my body feel like I ran a marathon.

“You need to feed again.”

“I feed a lot tonight already,” I tell him. Like the other night I had drained him and this time Vinny to the point of not being able to walk, Nathan I feed off only a little. He was up for first-watch tonight. I pat Bjorn’s chest when I feel worry come through from him, I’d have to get used to this bond quickly. “I’ll feed again in the morning.”

“As much as I like it being the five of us, four really. I’ll be happy for when we get more Blood, more for you to rotate draining.” I knew he meant it as a joke, I just felt kind of bad. I didn’t want to keep draining them until they couldn’t walk, so yeah, more Blood would be nice. Maybe then I wouldn’t have to focus out two of them.