Chapter 2 Olivia
8 years later
It was a rainy day, about three o’clock in the morning. It was a Friday, so London’s streets were full of drunk and drugged people who continued partying on the streets or tried to find their homes.
However, the situation in the major hospital just got worse every minute. Most of the patients got there with alcohol poisoning, some of them overdosed on some drugs. Many people got involved in a fight which caused broken bones or stabbed wounds. It seemed like it was never ending.
“What happened to him?” a doctor pulled the curtain away and stepped to the bed. A man laid there, his arm full of blood.
“A deep but clear cut on the forearm, Dr. Flores.”
Dr. Olivia Flores was a surgeon in the department of A&E. Even though she seemed like a young doctor, her experience and the way she treated people made other doctors and nurses think she was practicing for much longer than she said. Actually, they weren’t wrong.
Olivia wasn’t just a fantastic doctor, she was also very attractive as a woman. She had a slender figure, but she wasn’t too tall or short. She had natural black hair, and her eyes were like the coldest ocean blue. Her skin was white like she never sees the Sun, but still her full lips were red like blood. She was like a living porcelain doll. Many doctors tried to get close to her, but she refused all of them, as she didn’t want to get involved with anyone.
She didn’t seek a relationship. Even if she was lonely, and she missed to be loved, she couldn’t let others know what she was. She couldn’t let any human know she was a vampire.
She had a few affairs in her life. She tried to be with other vampires, but their relationships always failed. Mostly because of their different eating habits.
She tried to move into vampire communities, but again, she couldn’t bear the barbeque parties, as the vampires called them, where humans were the treats.
How old was she? She couldn’t tell. She stopped counting it after four hundred years that she lived moving around the world.
Olivia never wanted to hurt people, but she needed blood, of course. There was a period in her life that she lived with other creatures, living the same life as her. She was the part of a group of science, trying to know creatures other than humans. Her target was to find the way to live without blood, but she was unsuccessful. During these years, she only practiced bearing her hunger, but actually, she did that very well. She needed a sachet of blood in each half year, which she always took from the hospital secretly. That was why it was so beneficial for her being a doctor in the human world.
Because she never looked older, she never spent over ten years in one place. Moving was always a lot of work, but it was necessary, as humans couldn’t know their existence. Many of them believed they existed, but they weren’t allowed to confess that.
One of the communities’ leaders could execute vampires who couldn’t keep the rules. And that was all the vampire’s biggest fear, including Olivia, of course.
“I cleaned the wound. A nurse will bandage it for you, Mr. Rest your arm for a few days, keep the bandage dry and clean. My colleagues will inform you when to come back to change it. If it hurts too much, you can take some ibuprofen.”
“Thank you, Dr.” The human looked at Olivia with gratefulness. Probably, he was involved in a fight, but she didn’t ask. His wound wasn’t serious at all, so there was no need to involve the police.
She just closed the curtain back, then she got to the next folder. She sighed and went to see the next patient.
At eight o’clock in the morning, she sat down in the hospital’s restaurant. She bought a coffee, which she never drank, of course, but she needed a break. Not that she was tired physically. She treated twelve lightly injured people, a very ill little girl, and she had three life saving operations. Even though she was a vampire and she was stronger than a human, she loved to sleep as well. That helped her mind rest, and she hasn’t slept for three days now. She looked around, and she smiled at the thought she would miss this place.
“Are you done?” Another doctor stepped at her table. She looked up at her and nodded with a smile. “Yes.”
“Well, I wish you good luck in the new place. Hopefully, it won’t be as mad as this one.”
“Thank you, Laura.” Olivia smiled back. It was her last day here, and she sat at her table with her last coffee that she would just throw away.
After she forced herself to stand up, she took her belongings, then she walked down. In the main reception, everyone said farewell to her, and wished her good luck with her new job.
Even though she went through it so many times, she still loved to feel people would honestly miss her.
She walked out and sat in her car. She turned on the engine and she drove back to her apartment.
When she stepped inside, the apartment echoed because of the empty rooms and places, just like usually. Even if she was all packed, that changed nothing in the flat. She didn’t like to buy stuff. Because she moved a lot, she didn’t want to be attached to anything.
She laid down on her inflatable mattress, and she fell asleep quickly.
The next morning, she showered, and after getting dressed, she had a last look at the place where she spent the last ten years. She stepped out with a sad smile, and she walked down with her only luggage in her hand. She put them into her car, and she drove to her next home, Middlesbrough.
Actually, it wasn’t unfamiliar to her. She used to live here a long time ago.
She rented out the flat a few weeks ago. She knew where she was going. When she arrived, she looked around, satisfied. This was her home for the next ten years. She hesitated a lot before she moved here, as it wasn’t too far from London, but she wanted to move to the north so much, she only hoped she wouldn’t meet anyone from her past ten years.
She lit some candles, and she laid in the bath. Even though her body was naturally cold, she enjoyed the warm water. She loved to feel her body warmed up. It made her relaxed.
The next day was her first day in the new hospital. The hospital was huge, just like the one in London, but this one looked more cold somehow. She worked here before, but that time the entire building looked different.
“May I help you?” A young blonde receptionist asked her when she stepped to the desk. Olivia smiled at her.
“Yes. My name is Dr. Olivia Flores. This is my first day.”
“Oh…” the receptionist looked at her surprised. “I call someone to come. Which department?”
“A&E.”
As soon as the woman stood up and walked to another phone, Olivia’s gaze stuck to someone. He stood there, and probably he heard everything.
When their gazes met, Olivia felt something unfamiliar. She couldn’t describe what that feeling was, but if her heart would have beat, it probably would have beat crazily.
The man’s gaze remained serious, and he didn’t look away. They were staring at each other for a few moments. The man had black hair, an unusually muscular body, and he was a little taller than Olivia. His skin was white, but apparently he enjoyed the Sun a lot, and his eyes were brown. She felt like the air froze, and she only could think of what he was, and they were going to work at one place.