Ben and Emily slept for hours. He was still tired from spending 6 months in that chamber healing from his injuries and she was just happy to have him back. When they finally awoke they had no idea what time it was or even what day it was. He opened his eyes to seeing Emily still asleep in his arms.
She let out a small moan moving a little followed by what sounded like a whimper.
"No, David no!" she said talking in her sleep before she opened her eyes looking up at him with almost a panicked look on her face. She looked around a little before looking at Ben. A look of relief came over her face and she composed herself before she smiled at him.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey, What time is it?"
"No clue, does it really matter anyway?"
"I suppose not." She said opening her eyes a little more. "I'm so happy you're still here."
"Where would I go?"
"No where, but a part of me still thought it was a dream."
"I'm still here."
"Good, don't leave again."
"Well as long as you don't have any other psychotic Ex boyfriends we should be good."
"No, that should be it."
"Well that's good, but hey are you ok?"
"Yeah why?"
"You just seemed a little worried when you awoke."
"Just bad dreams that's all."
"You want to tell me about it?"
"It's not important, had them while you were away, but you're back and that's all that matters."
"Ok, I just worry about you that's all.... hey I um... I remember you."
"I would hope so!"
"No I mean, that day at the mall when I was young."
Emily stared at him for a second with a surprised look on her face. "You do?"
"When I was in that chamber I had a dream, or vision, it's hard to describe but I remembered something that I must have blocked out a long time ago but I remember seeing you. Was it real?"
"Yes, it was real."
"Why didn't you ever tell me about that?"
"When I realized you didn't remember it I figure maybe you would in time, but almost being abducted as a child can be traumatic so I didn't want to remind of it."
"But you saved me, and though I appreciate it, why did you?"
"I was there just wandering around, I was at a low in my life and I went to the mall mainly out of boredom. I heard a little boy crying for his Mommy and saw a Vampire dragging some poor child out of the mall."
"He was a Vampire?"
"Not from around here but yeah, I saw what was happening and I just couldn't stand the idea of some frightened child being killed by one of us, so I stopped him and brought this frightened little boy back to his mother. You called me an Angel."
"Yeah I did, and so did my mom."
"When you started calling me Angel again I thought you remembered but you still didn't."
"You are my Angel, and apparently you always have been."
She smiled a little at his comment. "I never forgot your scent."
"Is that why you saved me that night at the bar?"
"I couldn't believe it was you at first. That's why we made eye contact because I remembered that smell and saw you, I was shocked at how handsome you were and then when they started looking at you like a snack I couldn't just let them have you."
"You had to have me instead?"
"I couldn't let them just suck you and your friends dry after I had already saved you once, but then my curiosity got the better of me. I wanted to know what kind of person you grew up to be, who you became. Who knew it would be the man I love."
"Maybe it was fate, or destiny?"
"Maybe, but that's the sort of crap David believed in. Let's just call it reality."
"Ok."
"But um... so Vlad gave you his blood?"
"He said he wouldn't stop David but he would level the playing field, give me a fighting chance."
"So he did help?"
"As much as he could, and it seemed to work for the most part. He told me David was like a son to him." He said rubbing his scar a little.
"He was family to me once too, but people change I guess."
"I don't think anyone truly changes, they get better or worse but never really change. David was always that person, he just got worse over time."
"You may be right."
"So, what now?"
"Well first off you remember Jen?"
"Jen?"
"Yeah the broad you asked me not to kill a few years ago?"
"Oh yeah, what about her?"
"Apparently she was spying on us wanting revenge against what happened to Victor."
"Really?"