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Prompt: Ordinary
I stared at him for a couple minutes at least. It was simply too absurd, but I guess that's what my life was becoming. A week ago he was a dried up corpse, now he was a haughty looking young man in a black suit watching the telly. The countenance of an ordinary bloke was broken by the fact that he was sucking blood from a donor bag through a straw. I fought to repress my revulsion, trying to remind myself that it could be much worse.
"What are you watching?" I asked.
He spared me a glance. His eyes glowed in the gloom and I knew it was not a trick of the light. My skin crawled a bit; that was not something I'd soon get used to.
"Current events," He replied tersely.
I couldn't suppress my surprised laughter. This was bloody surreal!
"My god, you really are an old man!"
Alucard chuckled softly. It made me feel weird. His beckoning index finger made me feel even stranger.
"Does my master have a better suggestion?" The vampire teased.
I steeled myself, determined to shake off these disturbing emotions. It would do no good to appear nervous around him. He'd be around for a very long time, so I'd better get used to his presence.
I stalked over to the couch and sat right down next to him after snatching the remote from the coffee table. "Anything but this!"
Alucard laughed as I began to rabidly flip through the channels. "Slow down! How can you know what you're seeing?"
I rolled my eyes and kept going, stopping finally on a Dr. Who rerun. Smiling happily I tossed the remote aside.
"Much better," I proclaimed as I got comfortable.
Alucard watched in silence for a few minutes before uttering a soft 'huh.'
"What?" I asked.
"You used to watch this with your father," Alucard drawled entirely too casually for my taste.
I felt a little sick.
"How did you know that?" I whispered.
He looked at me, and frowned as though he'd suddenly become aware of his folly. I watched as he simply shrugged.
"I'm sorry...I forgot...." Alucard trailed off before looking away. "These past few decades have been a swarm of memories for me. Mine as well as others."
He stood up suddenly and bid me a curt nod. I stared up his impressive height and once more felt anxious.
"I'll leave you to it. Good evening, Miss Integra."
When he was gone I shuddered a sorrowful sigh and collapsed along the side of the couch where Alucard had sat. There was no warmth in his wake. Images flickered over the telly's screen but I wasn't paying attention anymore. It unnerved me to think that for as long as I'd been alive (longer still...) a vampire had been slumbering beneath my feet. How much did he know about my life before we'd even met? I turned it off after the programme was over, but continued to lay in the dark. Though I did not cry, I felt a deep sadness settle over me.
Finis.