Anastasia

The mate bond

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I woke up thirsty, and before I could stop myself I had bitten Damons wrist and I was sucking his blood, Damon lay next to me

"What are you....?" Damon started to say, his voice caused me to pull away, as I realised what I was doing, I put my hand to my mouth and saw blood, my tongue brushed against pointy teeth in my mouth, I had fangs, I was dead? I didn't want to be dead, I got up and started to run towards the front door, I couldn't blink I was dead, I was deaf to Damon calling my name, I didn't want to be dead, how was I dead? I ran for a long time until I couldn't run anymore, I could hear myself screaming but my voice sounded so far away, I soon stopped and just cried silently, I felt a hand on my shoulder, it was Dylan

"Come your majesty, let me help you" he said in a soothing ton

Dylan and I walked into his house, on the left was the lounge I was hugging myself as we walked in, Charlie put down the paper he was reading, stood up, and bowed I nodded in acknowledgment

"Charlie could you call Damon, and tell him the queen is here" Dylan spoke to his husband, Charlie nodded and left the room, Dylan pointed to the sofa signaling me to sit down, I sat down, he took the box of tissues off the coffee table and held it out to me, as he sat down on the coffee table so that he could face me, I took a tissue thankfully and dabbed my face, I took the tissue away and looked at it, I expected to see blood, as a vampire cries bloody tears, but there was no blood, I felt in my mouth the fands were gone

"What?" I exclaimed

"Is everything alright my queen?" Dylan asked

"I, I'm not sure" I told him, I turned to him "Am I a vampire? or not?" Dylan raised an eyebrow, so I went on to tell him what had happened after I woke, by the time I finished Charlie had joined us "What could it mean? Am I dead? Am I a vampire?" I asked no one in particular but still Charlie answered

"You're not an actual vampire, you're not dead, but you can drink blood, not just any blood, your mates blood" I was so confused

"I'm Sorry my queen let me explain. I did some research for a book, many years ago and what I learnt was spectacular, so you know when two werewolves mate, they share a bond where they can mind link, and if one gets injured the mate would know? Well when lycans mate its the same we also share emotions, so if I'm happy, Dylan will feel it, if Dylan is angry I'll feel it, and when witches mate they share abilities, so if you have the ability to fly and your mate has the ability to read minds after mating you would both have the ability to read minds and fly, but  your case is different because you're mated with vampire not a witch, therefore you share abilities with a vampire, he drinks blood so you can drink blood, he will carry on drinking from others but you will only drink from him, it will be an intimate process where when you drink from him he will drink from you as well, he will also have your abilities, I don't know which ones maybe all of them" as Charlie finished talking there was a knock on the door I got up really fast and blinked to the door, happy i could still blink, it was Damon and I wanted to open it so I did, when I did I grabbed him in a hug, I held him tight never wanting to let go
"Can't breath" he said like he was having difficulty I let go quickly and he smirked, I realised he was joking so I punched him, he kissed my nose
"Are you okay?" Damon asked sadly
"I am now, thanks to Charlie" I looked behind me to see both Dylan and Charlie standing there smiling, Damon came in and sat down I sat next to him not wanting to leave his side, Charlie explained to Damon about the mating bond as he had explained to me, we had drinks, then we decide to leave so after thanking Dylan once again for bringing me to his home we walked home, we talked about what powers Damon might have, what powers he wanted, and what powers he deserved, once home I made myself some pasta, thankful I could still eat, I mean vampires can eat but they can't enjoy, I want to enjoy my food for as long as possible, as soon as I finished eating I was about to wash up, when there was a knock on the door, Damon, who had just gotten a dish cloth out of the cupboard to help me with the washing, looked at me as if to ask who it was
"Thomas" I shrugged not knowing why he was here, both of us walked to the front door to answer, Thomas looked sad,
"My queen" he greeted as he bowed his head I nodded in acknowledgment he then followed us to the lounge, "My queen, are you alright?" he asked seemingly searching my face, I nodded "Alot of people mentioned you were upset they saw you crying and screaming"
"I'm so sorry you heard that" I was so embarrassed
"No your majesty you misunderstand, I was wondering, however, why you were so upset? Is there anything I can do?"
"No Thomas, thank-you" I went on to explain what had happened and then I explained what Charlie had told us, he listened and was happy that I was okay, we talked for a long time he was sorry he didn't know much about mating bonds between witches and vampires, in fact Thomas had never once met a mated witch, but they did exist, but he had never even heard of a mated vampire, vampires did not mate, it never happened, he wondered out loud what the gods were thinking

"Well if you ever come across a god do ask" I told him, to which he laughed, he told me he would see me on Saturday for the weekly meetings, then he left.

Damon and I sat on the sofa as we watched a movie together, I sat with my head on his chest and he had his arm around my shoulders I held his hand in mine whilst my other hand rested on his leg.
"You know when you bit my hand before it felt amazing, I never realised how it felt to have someone drink your blood, no wonder you're always offering your blood to me" he laughed, I squinted, raised my head, and slapped his leg. I was smiling though, he let go of my hand and started to tickle me "You wanna hit me? huh? I'm gonna punished you for that my queen" he kept tickling me and I was trying to get away, I blinked behind him, "okay that's not fair" he said looking around, when he found me I started to laugh he chased me, but then he was suddenly in front of me, I stopped running as I ran into him
"Did you just?"
"I think I did" he smiled, "Ha, yes, I can blink, I am gonna have so much fun, it's going to be epic" he looked so happy, and I hugged him. Blinking was so much fun.