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The faint but definite knock on the door pulled the dark brunette out of her reverie. She begrudgingly lifted herself from the couch to check the door for what she assumed was an annoying neighbor or a Girl Scout. Carmilla pulled it open to be greeted with none other than the golden brunette that she hadn’t seen in at least six months, not since she refused to do the one thing that Laura desperately wanted.
“Well, well if it isn’t-” Carmilla stopped her snarky remark immediately noticing a lack of subtle thumping between them. Even when they were entirely silent she could hear the faint beating of Laura’s heart but now there was none. “Laura Elizabeth Hollis, what the fuck did you do?”
/ /
“So, let me get this straight. I refused to turn you because I wanted you to live a normal life and you go out and get some stranger to turn you instead?” Carmilla asked incredulously still surprised by the absolute gall of the younger girl. “Do you know how incredibly dangerous that is?”
“Yes,” Laura replied simply looking up sheepishly at Carmilla. She knew exactly what she was getting herself into. Six months ago when Carmilla refused to turn her and in turn left her life so Laura could live a “normal” one she knew just what she had to do. She began fruitless research that kept her up into the late hours for days at a time before finding reliable resources. And with the help of LaFontaine, Laura was off to Amsterdam to meet with another vampire not much younger than Carmilla who was known for turning humans with little to no cost to them. He simply had asked Laura her reason for wanting to be a vampire and upon hearing the story immediately caved. Apparently he had known Carmilla at one point in their overlapping lives and was rather impressed that she had fallen for a girl like Laura. Or rather that Laura had fallen for a person like Carmilla. He was impressed by the lengths Laura was willing and wanted to go just to have Carmilla in her life. So he agreed to turn her. At absolutely no actual cost to her except the promise to accompany him every couple of years for a month so he had at least one consistent person in his life to consider a friend. Laura found the whole thing very touching really.
“Who turned you?” Carmilla asked glaring down at Laura. If she was turned by the wrong person things could go very bad very quickly. “And when?”
“Casper. And a little over a month ago,” Laura deadpanned. In reality Casper had turned her almost two months ago now. The first month or so he vowed to show her the ropes so Carmilla didn’t have to deal with baby vampire Laura. By now she had the immediate impulses under control. Casper was actually pretty impressed with how much she could hold her own so quickly. It was definitely one of his most smooth turnings and he’s seen quite a lot of them in his long life.
Carmilla immediately let out a huge sigh of relief at hearing Casper’s name. Oh thank god. Of all the stupid things Laura has ever done at least she knows how to do her research first. It was the one thing she got right. Carmilla met Casper a long time ago back in her days living in France. He was a sweet kid who was unfortunately turned around the age of fourteen. Being perpetually fourteen was the absolute worst case scenario for anyone. He rarely looked of age so was always getting into trouble for having such a baby face. Casper couldn’t help that but he always managed to get his hands on convincing fake IDs every couple of years to back him up. His baby face caused a lot of problems when it came to handling jobs to get money so he started to help out with the baby vampires turned by the big guys. These “big guys” were just vampires who found joy in turning people and often had too many at once to properly train. Which often led to them getting killed by people who discovered them or getting killed for being caught murdering innocent people. So Casper began to help out in the training of the mass of baby vampires. Someone had to do it. She had to admit that Cas really did make a living for himself that way and has been sitting pretty on a large sum of cash ever since the late 70s.
“Thank god you’re an overly snoopy journalist,” Carmilla murmured eventually. “Your, no doubt, constant and meticulous research is probably the only thing that saved you.” Admittedly there were less than a handful of vampires that you could actually trust to turn someone these days. Either the majority of others refused to turn people altogether or they only turned people to use them for their evil bidding. Either way Laura is lucky that she’s the particularly snoopy and know it all that she is because if she didn’t bother to do what can only be assumed as months of constant research she probably wouldn’t be here today. Not like this. “What the hell were you thinking, Hollis?”
“That we could be together again. This is the life I want, Carmilla. I want a life with you,” Laura confessed again. Carmilla had heard it all before back six months ago when Laura had originally asked Carmilla to turn her. And she refused because she believed she was holding the young journalist back. And she was. Laura could never live a normal life with Carmilla in it the way she was. But now here Laura was and all chances of a normal life are completely out the window.
“I just--I need time to process this,” Carmilla finally admits before walking into the other room. She promptly goes to the winding metal staircase and runs up leaving behind the sounds of metal clanging echoing in her apartment. Carmilla needed some air and time alone to think without having to look at a now vampiric Laura.
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Laura was about to give up on the older girl rejoining her when she heard metal creaks begin to fill the apartment that had previously been completely silent for almost three hours. Carmilla walked in from the other room seemingly ignoring Laura’s presence entirely.
Carmilla poured a healthy amount of blood into a glass without even thinking twice about it. The second she turned around she glanced at the recently turned vampire and immediately braced herself. When Laura remained unresponsive on the couch she openly gaped at her in complete awe.
“How are you controlling your impulses so well? I mean, I knew Cas was good at what he did but I didn’t know he was a miracle worker,” Carmilla stated with emphasis. She stared at the other girl for several moments before continuing. “Vampires usually aren’t able to control their impulses like this until at least after a year.”
“Cas said I was unnaturally tame from the beginning. Something about possibly having another underlying supernatural gene,” Laura said simply as if it were the most boring thing about her. Carmilla glanced at the other girl immediately picking up on how irrelevant she thought that was but it could be pertinent and vital information to figure out. She rolled her eyes before finally moving from where she was stood in the middle of the kitchen. Carmilla reluctantly sat down on the other end of the couch as far away as physically possible from Laura.
A silence settled between the two of them while Carmilla tried to think of what to say to the golden brunette sat across from her.
“You can’t ignore me forever, Carm. You know just as well as I do that we were meant for each other. And if you need some time you can go right ahead because, honestly, we both have all the time in the world,” Laura says calmly but honestly while looking at the dark brunette.
“I know,” Carmilla reaffirms.
“Good. So don’t go anywhere,” Laura states simply before getting up from the couch and heading to the door.
“Where are you going?”
“Out. I’ll be back eventually, don’t disappear anytime soon.”
Carmilla laughs in reply as the lock of the door clicks back into place after the younger girl left. Whatever Laura was up to was going to be interesting for sure. She slowly lifted herself from the couch before making her way to the front door as well. Well, if Laura was going to be sticking around for awhile might as well pick up some hot cocoa. The younger girl may now be a vampire but that doesn’t mean that they don’t get cravings like anyone else. Laura’s obvious addiction to hot chocolate was something that was definitely not going away anytime soon so why not indulge in it some more with an extensive supply of hot chocolate.