Author's Note: This is the second fanfiction I post online and English is my second language, please forgive me for any mistakes.

Additional notes:

- I'm using Amy for MC's name, as it's the game's default name.

- Kamilah being over 2000 years old, I assume she has some knowledge on debriefing. This vampire skill hasn't been explored in the book yet, so I'm kinda basing it on Vampire Diaries' compelling skill.

Disclaimer: Bloodbound and all the characters belong to Pixelberry Studios

~22 years ago~ - 1 a.m.

The night looked darker than usual, making it hard to see anything even for a vampire with an advanced sight. Kamilah Sayeed sighed in frustration.

Such a stupid decision she made, to drive around the coast. Again. She had done that over 20 times since she arrived to America. But then, she was bored and there was the council... A bunch of snakes! A member of her clan was being accused of causing trouble. Although she had enough proof his acts were directly influenced by Priya Lacroix, they still voted in favor of his execution. Except for Adrian.

"Are you sure you're going to be okay?" Adrian asked before she left.

She nodded, lying. Truth was, she was getting tired of this life. This world had nothing new to show her. As much as the World had changed since she was turned, everything was still the same. She felt like didn't belong anywhere. People never changed. Love was a myth, an illusion to make people believe they were destinated for someone. Happiness was just a temporary state of mind, not a feeling. There was no such a thing as fate. Or maybe her fate had been erased, by the time she became a vampire. An undead being.

She turned on the radio to distract her mind. Stupid mortal love song. She changed the station. Static. Another station, more static and inaudible words, news about the mortal world. She rolled her eyes and turned off the radio. Silence felt better.

"Help me!" She heard as soon as the radio stopped.

She looked around, seeing nothing on both of the sides of the road.

"Please, I need help!" She heard again, distantly.

Not being able to locate where the sound came from, she followed her way. A little further on the road, a strange smell started to fill the air. That was smoke and... blood. Her instincts never failed to show her a possible prey. Looking at her left, she was able to locate where it was coming from. A car had crashed into a tree, in the middle of the woods.

Kamilah stopped her car, grabbed a flashlight and followed the smell.

"Help me!" The voice cried again. Kamilah was able to distinguish it as a woman.

She pondered if it was a good idea to proceed. The smoke was starting to fill her airways to the point she started coughing. That woman's days were numbered anyways. Sooner or later that she'd find her fate.

"Please, help my baby!" The voice begged, in the middle of sobs.

Kamilah wasn't sure if it was Adrian's influence, but she wasn't able to ignore that plead. He was poisoning her mind with his over affection for humans. A few more steps and she located the crash site. A lot of smoke and the smell of leaking gas suggested that the car was going to explode anytime soon.

"Y-you," a young woman called from the driver's seat. "P-please."

Kamilah approached, noticing she was very injured. Bleeding profusely.

She took her hand to her nose and mouth. The blood was making her feel predatory, it had been a few hours since she last fed. As much as she was hungry, that wasn't the intention right now, she was determined to help the poor mortal.

Kamilah tried to open the car's door, but the damage got it stuck. Using her extra strenght, she was able to remove it with much effort.

"H-how..."

"It doesn't matter." She told the female, while examining her injuries. The woman showed symptoms of internal hemorrage and head trauma.

"I need you to stay calm," Kamilah ordered, trying to unplug the safety belt. "I'm gonna get you out here. This car is about to explode."

"P-please... take... my daughter first."

Kamilah looked at the back of the car. A little baby girl slept peacefully on the safety seat. She looked unharmed.

"Okay," she agreed, moving her body to the back to get the child. While she figured out how to remove the seat, the infant woke up, crying very loudly.

"M-my baby... is... she okay?" The mother asked.

"She appears to be."

Kamilah placed the baby on the ground, a couple of meters away from the crash scene, and came back to get the mother.

"No... take her out of here first... then you come back..."

"We're running out of time..."

"Please!" The woman demanded, holding Kamilah's hand tightly. "I'm not sure... I'm going to..."

Kamilah gave her a consenting look.

"I'll be right back."

Some things are only possible when you're a vampire, in a fraction of a second she took the baby to her own car. She placed her inside and locked the doors, where she'd be safe and warm. In another second she was back to rescue the mother.

"H-how did...? Am I hallucinating?"

Kamilah ignored her question and carefully removed her from the damaged car, as the flames started to erupt. Holding the female in her arms, she quickly got out of the woods. She placed the injured woman lying on the road.

After a couple of minutes, the car exploded in flames. There was a lot of fire and smoke, it'd attract help in a matter of minutes, Kamilah observed.

"T-thank you..." the woman said. "Now go... take my baby and..."

"I'm not leaving you here!" Kamilah angered. "I'll stay until help comes."

"I-I'm dying..."

The young mother wasn't lying. She was pale and cold. Kamilah checked her pulse, she could barely feel it. She was about to fall unconscious when Kamilah touched her face.

"Hey, stay with me!" She asked. "Stay awake! Tell me about your daughter!"

"H-her name is Amy... S-she's only... three months old. "

"Is she your only child?"

"Yeah..." the woman was about to faint.

"Tell me about your husband!" Kamilah shook her body, in an attempt to keep her conscious.

"We had a fight and... I..." tears started coming down from her eyes. "I was driving to... my mother's..."

She collapsed.

"No. Stay with me, stay with me!"

Kamilah had watched many people die, but this one was way too painful. The female seemed to be in her early twenties. She couldn't help thinking about her husband and her baby daughter. She made a decision that could be either that woman's salvation, or her final death sentence. Kamilah bite her own wrist to feed her some of her blood. If it didn't heal her injuries, she'd die to become a vampire. Or worse.

"The council is going to have me executed too," Kamilah said to herself, while waiting for the injured woman to respond. After a few minutes, that seemed like hours, her pulsation was finally growing stronger and the color started to come back to her skin.

Kamilah sighed in relief.

When she noticed the mother was going to be alright, she went to her car to check the baby. Baby Amy hadn't stopped crying for a second. Kamilah carefully took her in her arms and sat down, to examine if she had any injuries.

"You're a tough one." she told the baby. "How could escape this accident without a single scratch?"

The baby stopped crying and started to look at her directly in the eyes, paying attention in every word she said.

"You're so tiny, fragile, but enchanting. Like a..." Kamilah stopped to think, "little firefly."

The baby giggled and grabbed her thumb.

In that moment it was like time had stopped and everything else had disappeared around them. Kamilah felt like she had been teleported to another dimension. A surge of eletricity ran through all her body and for a second she felt like the sun was burning her skin.

"What the..." she thought.

Wasn't it what the book's legend said? A legend Adrian told her, long time ago, about when vampires find their bound. Their souls would always be linked to the bound's. And the bound was the only thing in the world that had the power of making them feel human... complete again...

"So this is how it fells when you finally meet Ms. Right?" She laughed and mocked Adrian for being so hopeless romantic. Now she was experiencing exactly what he described.

Bounding was considered extremely rare. Some would consider it as a myth.

"No," she shook her head in denial. "It can't be. It's not real."

She got pulled back to reality, baby Amy was still looking at her, smiling.

"Don't do this, Amy," she said with some sadness in her voice. "I mean it. I've done some horrible things in the past and... I can't make you happy! A life with me will only put you in constant danger until the day... the day someone will take you away from me."

The mother started showing signs she was about to wake up. Kamilah moved to her side, pressing her fingers against her temples. Jameson had taught her some lessons about debriefing, however, she had never tried. Until now.

"Forget about me. Forget I rescued you. You were in a car accident and escaped, unharmed. After bringing your baby to safety, you passed out. You remember nothing."

Kamilah could hear the sirens approaching, so she placed baby Amy in her seat, right next to her mother, and drove away as fast as she could.

For the next months or even years, Kamilah did the best to erase that event from her mind, by dedicating her time exclusively to her company, Ahmanet Financial, and avoiding much contact with mortals.

Until... 12 years later...

To be continued...