InsaneJournal

Who: Bill and Lily Evans
When: a warm Tuesday evening, just after sunset
Where: Battery Park
What: Bill gets out of the house
Rating/status: Completed





For the first time in what felt like months, Bill wasn't hungry.

He had gotten fairly lucky this week. Sure, drinking from that patient at the hospital had made him a little sickly, but since then he had the fortune to run into several people alone in the park. All of them glamored to forget, all of them making it home alive, if a little anemic.

So Bill felt healthy and strong as he walked through Battery Park, admiring the smell of the ocean, the sound of low conversation, the shrill cry of seagulls diving in and out of the water. Though he had never been one for city life (Hollywood, in particular, he held a special distaste for), he had to admit that there was a completely different essence and life to New York. If it weren't for the other vampires that lived here (ruthless and smug, all of them) he could consider making this city his home.

After walking up and down the shoreline for a mile, Bill took a seat on a bench to people watch. They were all starting to head home - not much reason to be out in the park on a Tuesday night - but the few that passed by gave him warm nods and smiles. Whether they were unwittingly attracted to his vampirism or if they were just friendly he didn't know, but returned all of them with "Hellos" and "Good evenings".

Bill sighed with satisfaction. It was a lonely life to be sure, but at least he was able to savor these little moments.