Miss Edith, what are your thoughts about becoming a vampire? Would you do it? Are you afraid of the transformation?
(Also hi and bye! ✨)
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“Ooh,” Felix winks, leaning forward from where he is sitting. “This, I gotta hear.”
Edith shifts, tucking one leg under the other as she thinks of an appropriate way to respond. Slowly, she wonders out loud, “I’m not sure which I fear more — death, or immortality.”
The young vampire beside her groans in disappointment, plopping back dramatically. “Way to make it all deep and wise, E.D.”
Nate pats his shoulder as he takes a seat on the other end of the couch. “And yet,” he begins while offering Edith a kind smile, “a question that remains unanswered regardless.”
Silence settles between them, each left to their own thoughts momentarily. That is, until a deep voice speaks from behind them, a sigh hidden beyond its stubborn front.
“Immortality.”
The three of them look up, only to see Adam standing by the door. His face unreadable save for the slightest hint of forlorn regret.
Despite the tension, Felix snickers. “Speaking from experience, eh?” He quips, earning himself a disapproving glare from Nate who shakes his head in warning. Adam simply looks away, moving to the window instead of joining them by the fireplace.
Edith purses her lips, not quite convinced due to the absence of reason behind Adam’s answer. “You only say that because you haven’t experienced death.”
Felix shoots her an amused look. “To be fair, no one ever comes out of death alive—”
“—I say that because I’ve experienced immortality.” Adam cuts Felix off, his own focus entirely on Edith.
She watches him, trying to decipher what he had meant, only to be returned with a guarded stare, and with it, more uncertainty.
In the short moments of observing him, Edith can’t help but let her mind wander back to the question at hand; on whether she’d ever choose to turn. Deep down, she knows that given an emergency scenario — one where her turning into a vampire may help in flipping the tides to their favour — she would agree to it. But if it’s a proposition of her own free will, the answer, as Nate says, is still nowhere near determined.
She decides that it’s not so much the transformation that she’s concerned about, but rather the weight of giving up humanly matters for ... for what? For more time? For life? Simply to not ever die? It daunts her to think what she’ll have to let go in order to achieve that, particularly the idea of growing old with her friends and family, perhaps even a partner.
Edith’s attention snaps back into focus, immediately finding Adam’s eyes still on her, waiting.
Her partner.
“Ooookay,” Felix prompts, “but back to the question though!” He moves forward again, blocking Adam in the process, flashing a wide grin at Edith in hopes for an affirmative answer. She smiles back at him.
Maybe she might.
Maybe if a certain someone is willing, the notion of eternity may not seem as scary, as lonely.
Maybe if he’s accepting, escaping death may just be worth it.
She glances over at Adam again, expecting to see him opposed to the idea. But instead, she sees for the first time hope in his expression, his eyes asking her a question he seems to refuse to hold back.
Would you really?
