What I Do For You (a My Babysitter's A Vampire fanfic)

Rated: T

Pairing: Ethan/Benny

Summary: Slash. Ethan gets bitten and Benny's grandmother's blood substitute isn't enough to keep his thirst away, so Ethan's cravings are getting stronger. Can anything save him?

Chapter 1 - Bitten (Posted 23 July 2011)

"Are you sure you should be doing that?" Ethan asked as he watched Benny mix some kind of potion.

"Sure, it's an easy potion." Benny said, continuing to mix the fizzing liquid in the glass jar.

"And you're sure it'll make us stronger?"

"Guaranteed." Benny wiggled his eyebrows.

"Is it supposed to be foaming like that?"

"Yeah, it's fine."

"Should it be... rumbling?" Ethan asked, listening closer.

"I... think so?" Benny looked around the container and checked the spell book again.

The potion continued to fizz and pop and rumble as the glass container began to shake. When a small crack formed down the side of the glass, the boys' eyes widened.

"Ok..." Benny said, "maybe I did something wrong."

"Maybe?" Ethan asked. "What should we do? It looks like it's gonna explode!"

"Um..." Benny said worriedly. "I don't know!"

"Well we can't just..."

"Duck!" Benny yelled and pulled Ethan down behind the counter just as the glass ruptured and sent fragments flying all around the kitchen.

"Ouch!" Ethan said as a sharp piece of glass scraped across his neck.

Benny helped Ethan stand up and they looked around the kitchen. There was a slimy liquid all over along with thousands of tiny pieces of glass. But they could worry about that later. "Are you ok?" his eyes flicked to the gash on his best friend's neck.

Ethan put a hand on his cut and looked at his hand, seeing blood smeared all around it. "I'm fine. It's not that deep. I'm just glad there aren't any vampires here." His eyes met Benny's worried ones.

"Yeah me too." Benny nodded. "So what should we do? Do you need to go to the hospital or..."

"No, I can clean it up here. Really, it's just a surface wound."

"Ok." Benny pursed his lips.

"I'll just go to the bathroom and clean it up." Ethan said, looking away and breaking Benny's gaze.

"Ok." Benny said again. "I guess I'll clean this up."

"If you wait I'll help you." Ethan said as he walked toward the bathroom.

"No, I'll get it. You just go take care of that cut."

X

"Stop messing with it!" Benny said to Ethan, who was rubbing the long scab on his neck. It was the end of the school day and they were walking through the hall.

"I'm not." Ethan said, dropping his arm to his side.

"Yeah, you are. You keep picking at it. In a school full of vampires!"

"Shh!" Ethan shushed him, gaining weird looks from the other students.

"What? It's true! You never know if one of them was around us when you pick that thing open. And your blood makes them go crazy, so just be careful."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever."

"Hey." Sarah said as she walked up to the guys. "I'm glad you managed to make it out alive with that thing." she pointed to the dark spot on Ethan's neck.

"It's just a cut." Ethan insisted.

"I know." she said with a concerned face. "Just be careful, ok? Even though it's dry, a scab still has blood in it."

"Thank you!" Benny said. "I've been telling him the same thing."

"Would you guys stop worrying about me?" Ethan asked, feeling embarrassed. "I can take care of myself."

"Ok," Sarah backed off a little bit, "but I think you should probably avoid Erica." She said and walked away.

"She's right you know." Benny said.

"Don't you think I figured that out on my own?"

"Ok, sorry bro, I didn't mean to offend you." Benny held his hands up in defense. "I just feel really bad. It's my fault you got hurt, and you could end up getting hurt more because of it. I just don't want that to happen."

Ethan sighed. "I know. But you don't have to worry about it. I'm gonna be fine."

They started walking again and Ethan's hand returned to his scab.

"Dude, seriously, you're grossing me out a little." Benny scrunched his face up.

"I can't help it!" Ethan admitted. "It's itchy."

They suddenly bumped into someone.

"Watch it, dorks." The voice made Benny and Ethan go cold.

"H-hey, Erica." Benny stuttered.

She rolled her eyes and started walking away.

Ethan, who had been holding completely still, was relieved when Erica walked away. But he didn't realize that he'd begun picking at his scab again.

Erica's footsteps stopped. "What... is that smell?" She turned around and eyed the two boys.

"Umm..." Ethan's voice broke as he shied away from her. He pulled his hand away from his neck again and gagged when he saw blood on it.

"Ethan, run!" Benny said, knowing he was the one in the most danger.

Ethan was paralyzed with fear as Erica came closer.

"Ethan!" Benny grabbed his friend's arm. "Let's go!" He pulled him in the opposite direction.

"Not so fast." Erica said as she ran at vampire speed and caught Ethan.

"No! Ethan!" Benny yelled. He tried to grab him back from the bloodthirsty girl, but she sank her fangs into his neck before he was able to do anything. He watched in horror as she drank from him. "No, get off him!" Benny mustered all his strength and pulled them apart. Erica hissed at him, but he didn't care. "Back off. Now."

She stepped back and looked at him and then down at Ethan, who had fallen on the floor and was tossing and turning in pain.

Benny bent down next to him. "Well! Don't just stand there!" Benny yelled at Erica. "Do something! Save him!"

"I... there's nothing I can do." She said, not sounding particularly regretful. "I took too much blood from him and it's too late to suck the venom out like last time. He really does have a unique flavor though." she twirled her hair.

"How can you say that? You just turned an innocent human into a vampire!"

"Oooh, now he'll be super strong and live forever. How terrible."

Ethan writhed in pain for a few more seconds before falling limp. "What's happening now?"

"Now, the transformation is complete. You'd better be careful, when he wakes up he's gonna be thirsty." With that she sped away.

Benny laid one hand on Ethan's stomach and used the other one to lightly tap him on the cheek. "Ethan? Ethan, buddy, wake up."

Ethan moaned quietly, but his eyes didn't open.

"Woah. What's goin on?" Rory said as he walked up to them.

Benny didn't bother looking up. "Erica bit him!"

"Oh, cool."

"No! Not cool!" Benny shouted.

Rory backed up a little bit. "Why is it not cool?"

"Ethan can't be a vampire!" Benny hissed.

"Why not?"

"He doesn't want to! He's had plenty of chances to become one but he didn't want it! I don't know what to do..."

"You should take him home." Rory suggested. "And maybe restrain him until you can get him some of that synthetic blood."

"Yeah, ok..." Benny said, still disoriented from having watched Ethan get bitten right before his eyes. "Can you help me? Can you, like, fly him home or something? It'll be faster and I don't want anyone to see him like this."

"I guess." Rory said as he stooped down and picked Ethan up. "But you guys owe me." He ran out of the school and flew away.