Sitting in the middle of the room with his hat laying on the table with a cup of tea in front of him, Lionel sat drinking it though it was just a waste of time for he didn't need to drink anything but blood but it was too suspicious if he just sat there with out a drink. Lionel had a newspaper filling out crossword puzzle in it. "Another word for suspicious, hmmmmm, ahh doubtful" Lionel said to himself filling out 3 down on the crossword puzzle. " These are too easy especially if you lived in more than a thousand years. Wish I had someone to talk to." Said Lionel to himself working on the next word.
"Maybe someone will turn up I am getting bored" he said looking up and turning his head around looking around the cafe. It was bright in the middle of the room and he had a clear view of the whole front room. A man was standing behind a counter cleaning an already clean glass. "Oh well maybe a little longer" and he bent his head again working on the puzzle.


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Rin stepped through the door into the club, her eyes cold and desolate, raked over the few patrons with loathing, she looked upon Lionel and paused. She had seen him before, she remembered how frightened she had been, but that was when she was merely beginning to taste the life of a vampire and she no longer felt fear like she used to. She walked to the bar and sat beside him, her blue eyes glimmering as she looked down upon the crossword. She smiled some knowing he never saw her behind the dumpster that night when his friend killed the girl.
'It's been awhile ...' she said softly. 'I was hoping I would see you again."

'It's been awhile ... 'I was hoping I would see you again." That sentence echoed in his ear and he wondered who she was. He looked up after finishing the puzzle and setting it aside. Lionel looked at the girl with curiosity. Her eyes were desolute her skin pale and he could see unmistakable fang marks on her neck. She has just recently transformed. "Hello there, care for a drink?" Lionel asked taking a sip of of the bitter remains of his tea.

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"Depends on who it comes from ..." She smiled softly mildly amused by his confusion. "You don't know who I am huh ...?" She leaned close her lips tenderly caressing his ear as she spoke. "You couldn't see me that night ... I was hidden ... watching you kill that woman in the window ... help your friend kill another ... I was behind the dumpster you two dumped her in ..." She pulled back slowly her eyes glimmering in the lights. "ever since then I was hoping I would find you ..." she looked at the crossword and up to him. "so ... about that drink ..."

Lionel laughed to himself and looked into the girls eyes. "I hope you don't think me and my friend are killers on purpose. We have to make sure our kind is not found. So you were behind the dumpster that must have been frightening." He looked at her with a friendly admiration and found a twinkle in her eyes.
He reached in his coat for some money and he start to flip some coins in the air and he smiled slightly. "What do you want to drink?"


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She nodded, 'I was still somewhat mortal then ... it was ... truely terrifying.' She watched the glitter of the money in the light and smiled. 'I doubt what I want can be bought with money, I have found it difficult to drink other fluids other than that that can come from humans.' She looked around them, taking in the atmosphere, she paused and looked to him out of the corner of her eyes. 'I guess water will be alright.' She smiled turned so that she could look at him better. 'My name is Rin ..."

Lionel took her hand and kissed it and he smiled. "Water it is then" and he gave the bartender the money and the bartender delivered the water. " I will also have another cup of tea" Lionel told the bartender and handed him a dollar fifty. When he got his drink he looked at Rin.
" My name is Lionel Stagerson,I have been a vampire for over a thousand years now and I remember when I was bit as if it were only yesterday." Lionel sighed and looked back at Rin. "How long ago were you bit?" Lionel said moving closer to her so no one could over hear.

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She paused thinking and hung her head as she sipped her water lightly, "only a couple days ... " there was a long silence that followed, slowly she looked up, her eyes reddened slightly with tears, her lips slightly parted. 'forgive me ... it seems what little time has passed has yet to aid in softening the pain of it.' she sat her glass upon the surface of the bar. She looked to it tears streaking her soft skin, and looked to his eyes, permitting a small smile. "I guess ... eventually ... hopefully ... it will be forgotten ..."

She rubbed the tears from her moistened cheeks, irritated that she fell apart at the mere thought of her encounter. She took another drink from her glass and sighed. 'perhaps ... if it is not too much ... you can teach me some of vampires ... for you have lived so long ..." she looked to him quietly, a look of desperation in her lustreous eyes.

He looked at her and tears still remained on her face. Lionel brought his hand up gingerly and wiped the tears from her face gently. "There is nothing wrong with not getting completley over it. I wish every day that I could have died at the normal age but I guess I am far from normal." Lionel laughed at his own remark and he looked at the young woman once more.
I guess it would not hurt to teach you what you want to know but it will be hard cosidering if either of us are caught in the day light we are sparklers and roman candles." He leaned back in his chair and stared at the ceiling. "What was your job before you were transformed?" Lionel looked at her and then back at the ceiling.
I was many things before and after and I am a little bit of everything right now but sadly I am mostly a killer for I must kill in order to survive." Lionel took a sip of his Tea and looked at Rin with admiration.

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Rin blushed alittle and looked away as he brushed her tears from her cheeks, she traced her fingertip over the mouth of the glass. 'I was a writer ... and an artist ... I still paint though ... my whole loft is filled with easles and canvases ...' she smiled and looked up to his eyes slowly, pausing a second seeing the admiration within them. She blinked and laughed softly, 'I forgot what I was going to say ...' She paused and looked to him. "but I'm curious ... what are you thinking?"

Lionel laughed "What am I thinking, well I am thinking how sad it is that you were bitten and you had to see my true nature that night. I admire that you didn't get too scared of what you are." Lionel sighed and looked back up at the ceiling. "I have seen many things in my lifetime and I am bound to see more. I have been in every american war back to the revolutionary war. I am not afraid to kill anyone and I am not afraid of death. But I feel guilt a lot of it everytime I take a persons life guilt is unbelievable."
Lionel looked at Rin and smiled. "But maybe it will be better for me to have a friend who is new and not used to killing as much as others. You can help me relieve guilt and learn more of what happiness is." He took a large gulp of tea and set it on the table. "How about it, want to accompany me?"

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Rin sat in awe of all that he had said, when he asked her to join him she had to sit there in silent thought for a good minute. She paused and looked to him smiling warmly. 'It would be nice to enter this new world with someone else rather than being on my own. And you seem in need of my company just as much as I am in need of yours, so why not?' she finished off her drink and looked outside seeing the rain come down, slowly at first then faster. She heard the soft roll of thunder and looked back to him. 'I love nights like this ... I have ever since I was alittle girl ...' She looked around at the few contents of the cafe growing a thirst, she shook her head slightly saying to herself. 'stop it.'

Lionel smiled "Yes I am in need of a companion, no I am in need of... a friend." Lionel drained his cup of tea and looked out side of the stormy night. Lionel sighed as he did "The only thing wrong with them is no one is on the streets to feed upon. I will never break into someones home to feed because I could easily get caught and that would not be good." Lionel turned to Rin and looked into her soul. "You are thirsty aren't you?"

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She smiled at being caught and nodded, 'Indeed ... I am ...' She paused and looked to him. 'It's not going to be easy hiding stuff from you if you do that you realize ...' She paused her mind slipping back to her thirst, she wondered if she should pick one of the few mortals in here to drink from. She blinked and looked back at him. 'Got any ideas on what I should do ...?"

Lionel laughed silently and looked at Rin "I have plenty ideas, now let me pick the best one." Lionel looked around the room to search out the best victim in the room. He layed eyes on a smug looking man who was making fun of a young poor boy asking for money.
Lionel had a steely look when he saw this and looked back to Rin. "I will control that man to leave then I will leave soon after, I will lure him to an alley close by then you meet me in the alley beside this building." Lionel looked at her asking her silently for her agreement.

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Rin looked to the man then back to Lionel, she smiled her glimmering fangs barely hidden and nodded. 'Deal.' She looked back at the man curious of how Lionel was going to control him, wanting to see if she could do that also. She felt goosebumps lace her skin as she began to feel somewhat frightened and almost excited.

"It is quite simple for a mortal is easily manipulated, and corrupted but one thing that really helps is that they are power hungry. But today we are not going to corrupt, manipulate, or even trick him into thinking we can give him power. I am going to control him like a puppet" and with those words Lionel stared into the eyes of the rude man and the man stared back.
Lionel's eyes flashed and the smug man's appearance changed. The smirk was there no more his brow was straight and he looked distant. Lionel furrowed his brow in concentration and mentally told the man to leave the cafe. The man did so and Lionel told him to wait in the alley way beside the cafe. Lionel saw the man through the window walk to the left and was out of sight.
Lionel stood up and picked up his hat, Lionel then walked to the door then turned around to Rin. "Peice of cake, I will meet you in the alleys" Lionel winked so he would get his hint about the alleys and with that he put on his hat and left the cafe his coat flapping in the wind.


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Rin smiled simply as he left then got up slowly, stretched alil, and walked out the door. She had a bounce in her step as she walked to the alley behind the club. She looked around quietly, remembering when she first got bit. She first saw Lionel and Zale, and on another night even drew one to her with the scent of her spilled blood. She pulled her suede trench around her as a cold breeze swept down the alley, her blue eyes looked up at the sky and she sighed softly, waiting.

Walking back into the cafe Lionel sat at a table in the far corner of the room and pulled out some thread of the colors red, gold and black. Lionel also pulled out a needle and he got to work making a new square of the massacre he had been part of with Rin and Drake the other night. With this square he would never forget those two vampires and he never planned on forgetting them anyway. A waitress walked up to Lionel and asked him if he would like something to drink Lionel refused and took off his hat soon after she left so he could see his work more clearly.
Lionel did not know how long it would take to finish this and he doubted he would finish it tonight but he also wished he had someone to talk to. "Another story to remember friends but also guilt but of course my guilt is lessening so it may be better for me" Lionel muttered slaving over the tapestry square.


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Lionel slaving over the square once again pricked himself in the thumb "For heaven's sake" Lionel said almost ripping the square to shreds. "This is getting really old lets hope something else comes along to keep me busy." Lionel said hope in his voice. Lionel dropped the square for a bit and leaned back in his chair.


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