Passing the Event Horizon - Challenge #135 PG
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 1:49 am
Disclaimer: Don't own Moonlight. Not making any money. Just doing this for fun.
“You don’t understand--if he's discussing this, he’s already accepted the idea.”
“Why now? For years, he has brushed off my attempts to bring it up.”
“Mick's nearing ninety three and you'll soon be thirty--the same age as when he was Turned. The century mark's very significant for vampires. It has been called by many names--in the late 18th century it was called the ‘Twilight Time’“
“Like the old song?”
“Yes. There had been talk about picking a new name for a couple of decades, but there wasn’t any rush until that movie about the teen vamps. Now, it‘s ‘passing the event horizon’--when a vampire’s connections to the human world weaken and perhaps disappear: friends and family die off and the world no longer resembles the one they knew. After that, most vampires are less drawn to humans for anything other than a food source.”
“To love us is to watch us die…”
“Excuse me?”
“Simone Walker once said that's how vampires see humans. ‘We‘re just a blip in their lifespan, to love us is to watch us die.’”
“Aptly put. Beth, he wants you with him.”
“How does it feel to be Turned?”
“Mick has told you what he felt, but if you know what's happening the experience is altogether different: sensual, erotic. You'd be placing your self completely in his hands. Do you trust him that much?”
“Of course. It’s the only way we can be together. I’m ready.”
“You don’t understand--if he's discussing this, he’s already accepted the idea.”
“Why now? For years, he has brushed off my attempts to bring it up.”
“Mick's nearing ninety three and you'll soon be thirty--the same age as when he was Turned. The century mark's very significant for vampires. It has been called by many names--in the late 18th century it was called the ‘Twilight Time’“
“Like the old song?”
“Yes. There had been talk about picking a new name for a couple of decades, but there wasn’t any rush until that movie about the teen vamps. Now, it‘s ‘passing the event horizon’--when a vampire’s connections to the human world weaken and perhaps disappear: friends and family die off and the world no longer resembles the one they knew. After that, most vampires are less drawn to humans for anything other than a food source.”
“To love us is to watch us die…”
“Excuse me?”
“Simone Walker once said that's how vampires see humans. ‘We‘re just a blip in their lifespan, to love us is to watch us die.’”
“Aptly put. Beth, he wants you with him.”
“How does it feel to be Turned?”
“Mick has told you what he felt, but if you know what's happening the experience is altogether different: sensual, erotic. You'd be placing your self completely in his hands. Do you trust him that much?”
“Of course. It’s the only way we can be together. I’m ready.”
....I could see and hear Josef and Beth in this.
surely Josef does want to escape the "twilight" moniker.... great 250 words!
Now let's just get Beth through the turning properly, no sleeping beauty issues, please!!! 
And then our beautiful vamp couple can begin to enjoy their life together, beyond the event horizon.