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Dick sat up in the bed pulling his knees up to his chest and resting his head against his knees. It was about three in the morning and he had just woken up from a nightmare, normally after a nightmare, he would go down to the kitchen and get some milk but he wasn't at the mansion like normal. He was spending the night at his best friends house, the best friend who was still fast asleep next to him. He swallowed hard trying to calm his dry throat but it burned in a way that no water would fix. He needed to feed.
He hated emotionally triggered fits of hunger because they were the most intense and most painful kind of hunger. They made his fangs too long and clash hard against his other teeth, triggered knife-sharp hunger pains, and made his throat feel like sandpaper. In general, he felt miserable. It was moments like this he hated before a vampire. He didn't even get to be a cool type of vampire-like in the movies, he was the shitty kind who didn't have any supernatural abilities but had all the weaknesses. He needed to feed on blood and was sensitive to sunlight for extended periods but super speed and strength and stuff was a no go which totally sucked. Not that right now was the time to think about that, he had more important problems.
He had fed two days ago, and he only normally fed every two weeks or so, so he hadn't packed any bags of blood when he came over to Wally's house. Now it was the middle of the night and he felt miserable and starved. He could hear the heartbeat of his friend who was asleep beside him and smell his blood it made his mouth water in hunger. 'Wally?" he whispered pathetically pulling himself into a tighter ball. The redhead beside him sturred with a soft groan
"what time is i....." he felt a shift in weight in the bed that meant Wally had sat up "Dick what's wrong?" He asked sounding concerned. With Wally moving closer the smell of his blood washed over Dick stronger and caused his stomach to growl and send sharp pains into his gut. He needed to feed and he needed to do it now before he accidentally hurt someone. Wally's hand was on his shoulder and he swallowed hard at the watering in his mouth, he could practically feel Wally's heartbeat through his skin and it made his hunger skyrocket. "Dick?" Wally tried again moving closer
Dick whined pathetically looking up at his friend. He could see wally meet his eyes gasp and shift away from him slightly. Dick knew the blue iris on his eyes were extremely blood red and near glowing, as they always were when he needed to feed.
"Do you have any blood?" Wally asked and Dick shook his head. Wally knew DIck was a vampire, he had figured it out when he accidentally walked in on Dick drinking from a blood bag. DIck had explained everything that day, about a year ago. He heard Wally curse under his breath and it he hadn't felt so miserable he would have laughed. But he couldn't, now that he looked up his nose was no longer covered and the smell of Wally's blood and the sound of his heartbeat was louder and damn near overwhelming. Wally scratched his head, probably thinking and DIck couldn't help but notice the artery under his pale skin. It made his stomach growl again.
Without thinking about it he moved onto his hand and knees and crawled close to wally who had moved away from him. He was losing control and he was losing it fast. He wasn't sure how he had ended up on his knees in front of Wally with one hand on the gingers arm and another on the tender skin of his neck but he was frozen in the position not having the strength to pull himself away.
He could feel a wally pulse under his fingers. "Dick, w-what are you doing?" Sally's voice shuddered to bring Dick back to his senses, he pulled his hand back.
"Sorry" he whispered looking down "I didn't mean to ... "
"You can drink from me" Wally cut him off. Dick looked up confused at his friend. No, he could never drink from wally. He had never drunk from a living person before, always from blood bags, wild animals, and the synthetic blood that Captin Atom and Batman had co-created.
"I, I can't" Dick whispered but he felt his stomach growl agonizingly and he wrapped his arms around his abdomen groaning and curling into himself.
"Will you transform me or do some kind of weird vampire mind control?" Wally asked sounding hesitant. Dick shook his head, he was too young to change people and there was no vampire mind control. "Okay, Drink from me" He insisted.
Dick wanted to argue again but before he could get another argument to leave his lips his stomach growled painfully and he slipped into the control of his instincts. He wasn't sure how he ended up with his lips on Wally's neck but he let his fangs pierce the skin and sink into the warm blood below. The entire time he had sure to produce plenty of the pain-blocking chemical in his saliva so that this wouldn't hurt wally. He felt the warm blood go up to his fangs and spill into his mouth where he drank greedily. He was drinking for no more than a minute or two before the feelings of starving faded and he pulled back from wally licking the blood off his shoulder. Wally healed almost instantly.
Wally looked at him "you good now?" He asked and Dick just nodded feeling ashamed for his weakness and for having used his friend like that. "Good nwo can we go back to bed"
This forced a bitter caught out of the younger boy and they curled up together again. Dcik promised himself this was going to be just a one-time thing.