you can't ride the concept of the horse by hackthis (PG-13)

[amaresu]

Fandom: BEING HUMAN
Pairing: Mitchell/Herrick, Mitchell/George
Length: medium-long
Author on LJ: hackthis
Author Website: Dysfunctional
Why this must be read: This is a story about Mitchell. It traces his history from when he first changed to the beginning of the episode. In a number of short vignette-type sections hackthis manages to paint and elaborate and complex picture of Mitchell and his life.



The newly born are hungry. Newborn babies, newly born calves, newborn vampires are all the same. They want to be fed. Mitchell cut a thirteen body swath through Cambridge before he was reigned in: girls who had slighted him, boys who had bullied him at school, anyone who Herrick suggested.

Mitchell was very open to suggestion when he was young. He was very open to a lot of things with Herrick at his side. Herrick believed -- believes -- that it's important to do what you will, when you will. Vampires are the top of the food chain, everything is fair game, and this irrefutable fact was Herrick's present to Mitchell. He promised Mitchell the world, and all Mitchell had to do was everything Herrick said.

The newly born are highly impressionable that way. They aim only to please. To be cosseted and protected. To be promised love and warmth. With Herrick, Mitchell was first, no waiting, no sharing, no structure.

Nothing but freedom.

Except that after a while all the freedom got old. And after a while, all the bodies piled up. Mitchell had signed the contract without reading the small print. He couldn't see his family; he was never going to be a father; he was going to be slight and lean forever. And this was the real forever, not the forever that children dream of or that adults dread. This was much much worse.

you can't ride the concept of the horse