Almost Is Never Enough | Millie & Adrian
Adrian made his way through the deserted streets of Oxford, his mind going over and over the last couple of hours. It had been a while since the vampire had found himself in a mess like that. While he never really doubted the fact that he would escape he sure as hell hadn’t planned on it going down the way it did. Then again, he was a 300 year old vampire and had still gotten captured by humans - the fact that he was saved by one shouldn’t have been all that surprising.
But it was.
Since being turn he’d always had a soft spot when it came to humans - but Adrian wasn’t an idiot, he knew just how cruel humans could be. Yet it had never been enough for him to lose his faith in them entirely…which was just one of many reasons why the vampire found himself in front of Luke Vranians mansion rather than at Ariellas. As soon as he had gotten Ronnie to safety and made sure she would recuperate, Adrian took off again. He had the rest of time to fully regain his strength. Right now, there were more important things at hand.
Like seeing her again.
He’d thought about her practically every day he’d been in that basement. In fact, a part of Adrian had been worried that she might have left during the short time he was gone. He was glad to see that wasn’t the case when Millie had been the one to answer the door.
"Hi," was all he could muster at the moment, a weak smile on his face. He probably looked at great as he felt but again, there were more important things at hand right now.
It had been tough; realizing that Adrian was gone... again. She'd been so happy to see him again, she'd even held some kind of ridiculous hope that they might have been able to talk about what had happened and why he'd left the first time. Now that she was a vampire herself, she could almost understand why, but she'd wanted his side of the story, the details she didn't know. But when she'd gone looking for him all over Oxford to find him nowhere, she was heartbroken.
She had spent the entire time he was missing thinking that she was an idiot, that she should have realized that there was no chance of her having some kind of normal friendship - much less a relationship. She'd spent many evenings sitting across the couch from Lucian, gazing at him and trying to make her mind realize that he was the only man that wouldn't leave her. That she needed to forget Adrian and focus on keeping her Maker happy.
And she'd done a rather good job of it. Only on days where Luke was out for the night did she allow herself to weep, or listen to music that made her think of the dark haired man who'd left.
That is until he showed up at her door. Millie gazed at him with wide eyes. She couldn't possibly have guessed just by looking at him what he'd gone through, but she could see the char around his wrists and neck that was left behind after vampire skin had healed from the touch of silver. She could smell the reek of a nasty human being on him, and suddenly she felt like the scum of the earth for thinking he'd left when she should have been trying to save him from whatever had befallen him.
"Adrian!" she said, stepping over the threshold and wrapping her arms around his neck, clinging him to her slight frame. "What happened to you?!" she asked him as she pulled back and gazed at him, then she shook her head. It was something to watch. Millie had ceased to exist when she'd become a vampire. She'd become Eve, a monster of the night who cared little for anyone besides herself and her maker. But with Adrian, Eve fell so easily back into the maternal, loving patterns of who she'd been as a human.
"No, no, don't worry about explaining yet," she said, gripping his hand and bringing him into the house. She led him over to one of the large couches and motioned for him to sit before speeding to the fridge and then back, handing him a bag of blood, "Drink, you look like you need it." Even by vampire standards, he was pale. Whatever he'd been through had taken a lot out of him, and she wanted him to get well before worrying about anything else. She took a seat beside him after once more speeding off to the kitchen and back, this time with a wet rag. Quietly she went about trying to clean off the tell tale signs that he'd been injured, hoping that somehow her taking care of him would make up for her assuming he'd left her.
















