AOTW#1 - Love is Love

 Sometimes I wonder; Does blood really matter?

It was the summer of 2150. The dusty wind was full of chemicals from the government using their newly experimental program. This program was known as CTX1. CTX1 also had a sub-program known as MP13 was a prison for creatures that were from other time periods and even other planets. The creatures were in a daze, mindless and brain-dead. Besides this one creature known as Vlad. Vlad was a vampire from the 17th century. He was different from the others. He had a mind of his own. He was hard to control, as his will to live was stronger than the other creatures.
 Vlad's favorite activity was painting portraits of his former lover Katherine. All Vlad wanted was to be with her. She was his true love. They use to slow dance in the garden at Vlad's mansion before he turned. His heart was full of pure love and desire for her. Once he turned, that's where it turned scary for Katherine and Vlad. He never wanted or thought to hurt Katherine before. He wanted to be with her forever and experience true happiness for the rest of his life. The night he turned, he attacked Katherine due to confusion and starving. He attempted to bite her neck and draw blood. Katherine screamed in terror as tears flow down her cheeks.
 Vlad noticing this, he quickly got off her and flee into the shadows, never to see his true love again. Vlad always had nightmares of attacking Katherine and woke up in the middle of the night. The only thing that calmed him was a piece of her dress that torn off the night of the attack. Even after all these years, he could still smell her on the piece of the dress. He'd inhale her scent and then go back to the memories in the garden.
 Tonight was different. He had his nightmare and as he was smelling the piece of the dress alarms started to go off. It wasn't the normal kind of alarms but different. Something Vlad has never heard before. As Vlad went to the tightly sealed window, it would begin to open and allow Vlad to exit the room. He was so confused yet felt free for the first time in centuries. As he was running for the opened exit doors, his eyes would lock eyes with this woman. Her flesh was partly torn off, dress ripped and her skin was a pale green. She looked familiar to Vlad but he was busy escaping the prison. His feet gently touched the grass from outside the government's prison.
 As he was running, he tripped over rocks and fell to the ground. He heard the soldiers running and shouting near him. He felt defeated until he felt the cold touch of a soft hand against on his hand. Pulling him up and yelling at him to run. Suddenly Vlad felt a feeling he didn't think would happen again. But, he was too focused on escaping once again. Still holding the hand of the mysterious creature, they'd run for hours. Finding safety in a forest, they'd stop and sit down next to a tree. Finally Vlad looked to the creature to see it was a zombie woman. The zombie woman was staring intensely and nervously to Vlad. He was confused but then realized, it was Katherine as a zombie. Vlad jumped up and began to cry, thinking and believing he caused her to become a zombie from the night of attacking her.
 Katherine stood up and grabbed Vlad's hands, gently holding them as she smiled warmly towards him. Vlad was still crying until Katherine gently placed her hand onto his cheek and wiped off the tears. Vlad started to calm down as he reached inside his pocket to pull out the piece of dress that was torn. Katherine smiled wider and began to look around in the forest. Vlad was confused on her looking around but didn't care as he was reunited with his beloved. Katherine began to tug on Vlad's arm, pulling him over to a flower patch in the forest. She gently picked a red rose and handed it to Vlad then wrapped her arms around the back of his neck. Beginning to sway back and forth, Vlad wrapped his arms around her waist. They danced for decades and centuries, being thrilled to be together once again.