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said then
shook his head. "Of course, you're distracted, forgive
me."
    "No, it's quite all right." Michael
said and took Jack's outstretched hand. "I was just thinking about
the others."
    "About Cristian?" Julian
asked.
    "No, someone else." Michael
replied.
    "So,” Ash said and looked at him,
Michael looked at her quickly and smiled. "You never really told me
about how you became a vampire."
    "Funny." Julian spoke up. "He never
really told me either."
    "I never told you?" Michael asked.
Julian shook his head. "Strange, I thought with your curiosity that
it might have slipped out before. It's really a long and boring
story."
    "Yes, but if it will help us to help
you with your problem, Michael,” Julian added, taking a bite of his
Danish, then letting Jack loose again, "maybe, we should hear
it."
    "And waste a good summer day?" Michael
questioned, then looked at his friends, and realized that they
weren't going to let him get away with it. He was going to have to
tell them; otherwise, they wouldn't leave him alone. "Where to
begin, because really, there doesn't seem to be a starting
point."
    "Well, we know about Charles, and the
other two, Justin and Cristian, but we just don't know how they're
involved." Julian said and watched Michael sit back and get
comfortable in the chair.
    "Charles isn't my sire, despite what
you might think." Michael said softly. "He was a vampire, but for
some reason, he wouldn't turn us. The three of us wanted
immortality, after hearing Charles tell his stories for countless
nights, and we wanted it so badly, we could taste it
already.
    "It was Justin's idea to visit one of
Charles' friends, an old vampire that lived deep in the woods near
the town where we were living. She had a young figure, but seemed
to have many centuries behind her and when we asked her to change
us, she laughed. She told us that we were going about this all the
wrong way, and that our reasons for wanting this gift were
childish.
    "She wanted us to think about what we
really wanted first, before jumping into it, and then, in a month,
she wanted us to come back and maybe she would introduce us to
another vampire she knew who would help us with the transformation.
So, the three of us sat and sulked for a month, trying to figure
out the real reason we wanted to become vampires so badly. Cristian
wanted the ability to do anything he wanted so that he could save
the world from us, noble, but silly, since he was only one boy and
there were thousands of people in the world, I wanted it for
myself, which I admit was a little selfish, but after the death of
my parents, I didn't want to die. I was afraid of the other side,
of the void I thought we fell into when we died. I didn't want to
be like my parents.
    "Justin wouldn't tell us straight out
what he wanted it for, but I suspected that it wasn't good. He had
always had darkness around him darker then Cristian, which only
came out when really provoked. Justin was just darkness, even as a
mortal. He would tell us how he wanted it for the girls, so that he
could control their thoughts, and if he liked them and they didn't
like him; he could change their minds. I thought, at the time, that
it seemed like a good idea, to have whoever you wanted, Cristian
didn't see it as anything special, the reason, but after a while it
seemed to grow on him. So we had it, finally, the reason we wanted
it so badly was power.
    "Plain and simple, and if the woman
didn't like it, there were other vampires that we could turn to."
Michael looked at Ashley, then at Julian and sipped at the coffee
that the maid had brought him.
    "So, what happened then?" Ashley asked.
"Did she agree?"
    "No." He answered.
    "No?" Julian asked. Michael shook his
head. "After a whole month of making you wait, she said
no?"
    "She felt our reason was too
destructive, that we three together, would do some irreversible
damage to this place. She thought that together we would be
powerful.”
    “ So, you found someone
else?” Ash