KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR

Cole was awoken by the sudden feeling that something was wrong but he had no idea of what it was. He tried to go back to bed but was unable to. He even tried reminding myself of the important business meeting he had tomorrow but still wasn't able to fall asleep. After several failed attempts to fall asleep he decided to check on Ashley.

Cole gave a gentle knock on the door but there was no answer. He knocked on the door but still no answer.

"Ashley" he called in a voice not to loud and not to quiet.

There was no answer so he guessed she was asleep. He turned to leave when he heard a weak groan from inside.

This raised a sudden feeling of doubt in him and he knocked on the door, this time louder.

"Ashely!" he said in a louder tone.

His doubts turned to certainty and he knew something was not right.

"Ashely, can you hear me?" he said.

Cole was determined to open the door when he heard another weak groan from inside the room. He tried to break the door open but it was too strong.

He walked to the intercom on a table and was about to dial Austin when he found a bunch of keys beside it. He decided to try all the keys in that one may open the door and as hoped one of them did.

He slowly opened the door but it got stuck at a point. He looked in to see what had got it stuck when he saw Ashely laying lifelessly behind the door.

This unusual discovery made his heart skip a beat. He rushed over to her lifeless body and picked her up in his arms. He rushed into his room and gently laid her on his bed.

He dialed the servant's quarters on his bedside intercom and called Austin.

"Hello" he said in his usual cold voice

With the tone of his voice no one would know how much he was panicking inside.

"Come to my room, right now" he said

"Yes…and bring the servant in charge of first aid...don't ask too much questions just hurry up… Also call the doctor" he said right before hanging up.

Ashley was really pale and turning pale blue…kind of. This made Cole really worried.

An Idea came to his mind, he wanted to find out the cause of this strange sickness so he decided to taste her blood. He leaned in to her pale neck and sank his unusually sharp canine into her veins. With his teeth already attached into her veins, he sucked out a tiny amount of her blood.

His action was followed by a tiny weak and pitiful groan that left Ashely's mouth. He could feel the familiar taste of her blood but there was a little something else. He tried hard to see if he could find out what the foreign taste was but he couldn't.

He was no doctor but knew whatever it was must have been the cause for her current situation so he finally decided something; he was going to suck out a huge amount from her body and leave the rest for her body to fight off.

He took the risk of poisoning himself, sucked out the venom from another vein on her neck and rushed into the bathroom to spit it out. His eyes met with the gaze of his reflection in the mirror.

He had never taken such a risk for another girl, he'd just let them die but something was different about this girl; though he didn't know her so well he guessed it must have been her golden blood.