solarbaby614 | Slake: Prompt 3- No More Lonely Night

Title: Slake

Author: Solarbaby

Fandom: Home and Away

Character(s); Robbie Hunter

Table: In the Dark

Rating: T

Warnings: AU. Vampire-ness?

Word Count: 300

General Summary: "We enjoy the night, the darkness, where we can do things that aren't acceptable in the light. Night is when we slake out thirst." - Vampire's Kiss by William Hill

Drabble Summary: Robbie didn't know what being a vampire truely meant.

They didn't talk about it.

It was as if it was some unwritten rule that they'd both unconciously agreed to. During the day, it was like nothing had changed, they didn't mention it, avoided the subject, but during the night... Everything had changed and nothing had changed.

This was more than Kim could have expected, hoped for even. Every night Robbie would join him on the beach. They would sit there and talk, sometimes his friend would ask questions that he wouldn't hesitate to answer. Robbie seemed to get more and more comfortable with the idea that his friend was a vampire.

Then again, Robbie really had no idea what being a vampire meant. There was no way that he could know that there was a predator always there, under the surface, waiting. He could feel the darkness within him, whispering dark thoughts across his mind.

Kim would catch himself watching his friend as if he was a predator watching his prey.

But these thoughts, these whispers, they weren't the same thoughts of death and killing that had disgusted him before. These thoughts murmured ideas of pleasure instead of pain, of taking more than Robbie's blood. And he didn't find these thoughts repulsive, even entertaining them without darkness prompting them.

And that scared the hell out of him.

Luckily, Robbie seemed obvious to all of this. Not noticing the looks sent his way or when his laughs started to get a little forced. Kim had control, more than he probably should have, considering.

But he had no more lonely nights now. Robbie sat at his side, laughing and smiling, subconsciously trusting his friend to keep him safe, and Kim felt less alone than he had for nearly a decade.

And he would do anything to keep it that way.