Danni had fully expected Lucas to refuse her request, and had worked herself up for an argument. She knew exactly what she was going to say, exactly how she was going to reason with him, and she knew that she was not taking no for an answer. But she was pleasantly surprised when he agreed to change her, and wondered whether this was something he'd been thinking about, too. She didn't have a chance to ask him, though, because he was already explaining what would happen, and then he was behind her and she could feel his lips against her skin. She leaned back against him and tried to relax as he bit into her, her eyes shut against the pain. It wasn't much different to the other times he'd fed off her, but once he'd laid her on the floor, she saw what he meant.
White hot pain seared through her, spreading from the bite all the way through her body, right down to her fingertips. She bit down hard on her lip in an attempt to keep quiet, and soon the metallic taste of blood seeped onto her tongue, but eventually her eyes flew open, her back arched and she let out a long, loud scream. It wasn't just in pain either; she was terrified.
"Just let the serum work", he'd said. She couldn't fight it. But she didn't know how not to; how do you willingly let something kill you? The next few hours passed in a frenzied blur of mind-crushing agony and sweet, sympathetic oblivion, but the next time her eyes opened, the pain seemed to be ebbing somewhat. She was breathing hard, gasping for air. Her eyes were wide, scared, and they darted around the room - or the ceiling - desperately searching for a reassuring face, silently begging someone to tell her that this was the last of the pain. It seemed to be. She let out a whimper as her back, which had been permanently arched against the pain, finally collapsed onto the floor, and her hands released her hair and jeans, which she had grabbed at in sheer desperation.
"Lucas?" She barely recognised the voice as her own, it was so weak and scared. "Please..." She didn't know what she was asking of him, whether it was to tell her that it was over or to kill her and stop the pain from ever coming back, but she needed something, if only a few reassuring words, just so she could hear his voice and know he was still there.
She moaned as the remainder of the pain left her, to be replaced by complete and utter exhaustion. Her body ached, partly from the torture it had just been subjected to, partly because her hands had desperately scrabbled at her legs and arms while under that torture, just to feel something she recognised. And now she felt like she could sleep for a hundred years and still complain when someone woke her up. But she had to move. She couldn't lie there in the middle of the floor for a second longer, she needed him. Moving slowly, gingerly, she pushed herself into an almost-sitting position. She groaned as the movements tore painfully at her muscles, but she forced herself to crawl across the floor to where Lucas sat in the corner of the room. She didn't know how long it had been since he'd whispered those words in her ear, but it felt like days, and he looked exhausted. She reached him, and her hand clawed its way across the space between them until her fingertips found his hand, which she latched onto, and then she allowed herself to collapse, her head in his lap, and closed her eyes for what felt like the last time.