Chapter 32
“We always seem to end up in this position, don’t we?” said Charming.
Kamilla gulped her tears down and slowly nodded. “Yeah.”
Charming studied her face and pursed his lips. “I apologize, it appears I interrupted something. Uhm… did you watch it? Me… waking up?”
Kamilla swallowed again when her chin trembled. She nodded. “Y–yeah. Front row seat.”
Charming looked pain. “I’m sorry, Kamilla. I’m deeply sorry, my lady.”
She looked at him for a second and sighed.
“You have nothing to be sorry for, Charming.” He said nothing, only looked sadly at her, and Kamilla sighed again. “Could you like, help me up? Please.”
“Oh, of course!” Charming pushed himself up and got to his feet, stretching a hand out to assist her. “Forgive me, I must have forgotten my manners.”
Kamilla shook her head as she brushed off her clothes. “I said it’s okay! Don’t worry.”
Charming again stopped to look at her.
Kamilla stopped her movement and closed her eyes for a second. “Damn. I’m sorry, Charming, I shouldn’t be talking to you like that-”
He held up a hand. “It’s okay. Please do not apologize. You’ve just watched Viktor go through torturous pain and considering your link, you might have even have felt a bit of it. A cheerful smile would be the last thing I’d want to see on your face right now.”
Kamilla pursed her lips and ran a hand through her hair. Slowly walking over to an armchair, she lowered herself onto it, pulling her knees up to wrap her arms around them.
Charming sat on Viktor’s bed as Kamilla settled her chin on her knees. He waited patiently for her to speak. He knew she had plenty to ask. Before, she was only curious, but now, she wanted to know more than why Viktor was the way he was.
She wanted to know how to take away his pain.
“Why…” began Kamilla quietly. “Why does it have to be so painful for him? Why does he have to suffer so much?”
Her gaze focused on him and Charming saw her sadness. He sighed. “I don’t really know. But when I think of it, it’s basically a total transformation of his mind, so… it probably couldn’t occur without pain.”
Kamilla bit her lip. “Why? I’m sorry, Charming, I know it’s not your fault, but… why? Why must you exist?”
She saw him swallow hard and felt horrible for asking him that, but she had to know! Charming’s existence was
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Viktor’s biggest weakness.
He looked at her. “I hold all the memories. Everything Viktor forgot… it’s all in my head. I deal with all his pain, all his self–hatred. I make it void.”
Kamilla shook her head. “I’m so confused right now, I don’t understand a thing you’re saying.”
A sad smile curved his mouth. “I know. I’ll explain in terms which you can understand. You see… I’m human.”
Kamilla blinked. She’d suspected as much, but Kamilla always thought Charming’s existence in Viktor made him at least half. He couldn’t be fully human because Viktor was a Vamp. Although they had separate minds, they still shared a body. She swallowed. That actually also made
Viktor somehow half. Like her.
She studied Charming. “Not fully human.”
Charming laughed and nodded. “Yes, I am. I couldn’t even entertain the insanity of putting blood upon my tongue. The very thought of it makes me shudder.”
Kamilla felt like she was currently solving an impossible mathematic equation. Damned X just refused to be
solved for.
“But… Viktor… he’s the Vampire King. You’re in his body.”
“Indeed,” agreed Charming with a nod. “But he, Viktor, is the Vampire. I, Prince Charming, am the human. And together, we exist. Without Viktor, I cannot be. And without me… Viktor could be broken beyond repair.”
Kamilla released a shuddering breath of frustration. “But why?!”
“Because,” said Charming. “Viktor desired it with all his soul. He desired it so much, he made me real.”
“He desired what?”
“Viktor… desired to be me.”
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this story sounds like my abnormal psychology class. it also makes me feel sorrow for Victor and what his life must have been like
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