[Comprehensive British and American] Group rearing of endangered species

Olivia sat on the rocking chair by the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, staring at the sky outside in a daze.

She knew what Lester had always expected of her. He wanted a baby who would love him and trust him with all his heart, a lovely daughter.Olivia has always done the same, she sees herself as Lester or Louis' daughter, not Olivia.

To be honest, being their daughter is actually a very happy thing, because both vampires dote on her very much, especially Lester, who almost took out all his best things.

He hardly mentioned another person, his other new daughter, Claudia.

Claudia is Olivia's older sister, she is much older than her, but Claudia's face will always stay at the age of a little girl.

Olivia is not very clear about the past disputes between Claudia, Lester, and Louis. She only knows that the three vampires broke up.Claudia chose another female vampire, whom she recognized as her mother, and the two vampires left Louis and Lester together.

Maybe they had a tough fight in the past, but when Olivia got to know Claudia, the relationship between her and them seemed to have eased and stopped.

Claudia doesn't show up very often, and Olivia only sees her every 20 years or so.

30 years ago, Claudia came to visit.At that time, Olivia was living in a small country near the sea in Northern Europe. Lester got the title of human being, and the land and castle belonged to him forever.

Olivia lives in that old castle.Lester and Louie gave her everything they could.

Hunting is even an occasional entertainment for her, because she is worried that hunting humans will cause her spiritual pollution, and more often two men bring the prey.

When Claudia came here, she looked proudly and disdainfully at the place where Olivia lived, with a sneer on the corner of her mouth.

"Their education for you is really perfect. Why, are you afraid of teaching a second me?" Claudia said mockingly in a girlish voice, "——I'm like a test product for the two of them."

Claudia has always been arrogant and unapproachable, and Olivia has never been very good at getting along with her.

Fortunately, Claudia didn't want any answers.She has very complicated emotions between Lester and Louie.

She hated Lester for spending her life as a girl forever, and she hated Louis for choosing to be with Lester instead of leaving her.But she loved them as much as she hated them.

It was impossible for Olivia to unravel this twisted and complicated emotion with a few words of comfort.

Claudia visits Olivia's living quarters, and she sneers.

"You're going to hate him someday," Claudia said.

Both Olivia and Claudia know that 'he' refers to Lester.

"I won't." Olivia said, "They saved me and gave me life..."

"But you didn't give you the life you deserve." Claudia said lightly, "You know, in fact, decades ago, when I first learned that they had picked up a baby girl, I hated you. "

She looked at Olivia.

"Do you know when I stopped hating you? It was when I knew you were first embraced by Lester when you were 19 years old." Claudia said mockingly, "I even mistakenly thought that Lester I really love you, but when he turned you into a vampire, I knew that he never loved you, and he still loved himself."

"I did it voluntarily." Olivia frowned. "I chose the vampire. He never forced me."

Claudia watched her silently.

"Then let's wait and see," she said after a while.

When Olivia sent Claudia away, the girl was standing on the steps. She turned her head and looked at her coldly.

"Being a good baby girl is tiring, isn't it?" she said pityingly, "I guess you have ten years at most before you can bear this kind of life."

When Claudia left, Olivia saw a woman waiting for her in the distance.That woman looked like a good mother and a good person, but she didn't look like a vampire.Claudia took her hand and left, disappearing.

In fact, Olivia persisted longer than she thought.

But ten years later, Olivia did have other ideas indistinctly.

In the hearts of Lester and Louis, she is only 19 years old, but she has lived for more than 60 years now. No matter how well men protect her, they cannot prevent the passage of time from affecting her thinking and experience.

Lester still regards her as a young girl, but she faintly feels that her real self is breaking away from this image.

That's right, her heart is more childish, but there is still a distance between her and a real child.She was growing up slowly, but men were still treating her the same way.Olivia even felt that maybe they didn't want her to grow up at all.

Twenty years later, the problem has gotten a little worse.She really loves them, but sometimes she has to start faking it and it wears her out.And the fact that her life span is always around them makes her kind of tedious.

After another ten years, Olivia finally ushered in her solo trip to New York.

And that phone call made Olivia realize one thing, maybe she was on an important decision-making fork, she began to feel afraid, she was used to being protected by two people.

Now there are two paths before her.She can continue to be the daughter of a vampire and continue to accept the protection of Lester, one of the most powerful vampires so far.

Or choose a new path, she will be herself, start a new life, and nothing can go back to the past.Her relationship with Leicester and Louis may change because of this.

Would Lester think she was too much?

Olivia lay on the couch, she watched the sunset and sighed deeply.

Ahhh, she is such a coward, she has no idea of ​​her own at all.

Olivia was in a daze, even when Steve came in after coming back from get off work at the base, she rarely greeted him warmly.

Steve put the keys and peaked cap aside, his ordinary attire well suppressed his own aura.He saw Olivia staring blankly by the French window.

This is rare because girls rarely think about things with such a serious expression.

He came to her side, took a chair and sat down, and asked worriedly, "Is something wrong?"

Olivia came back to her senses, she looked at Steve.The setting sun shone lightly on Steve's handsome face, his blue eyes seemed to be the endless sea under the setting sun.

When such a handsome guy was staring at Olivia, Olivia couldn't help but subconsciously smiled, and then slowly put it away.

She sighed again, a little sadly.

"Captain, if you had to choose, would you choose to be who you really are, or what others expect you to be?"

Steve was taken aback when he heard this question. Seeing that Olivia was seriously distressed, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

"Be yourself and do what you feel is right," he said gently.

"But what about other people's expectations?" Olivia muttered.

"Did you quarrel with your vampire father?" Olivia didn't reveal anything, but Steve asked.

Olivia sighed, and she nodded.

She began to talk to Steve about the previous events and her troubles in a tangled and depressing way. Steve listened, and his brows, which were used to frowning slightly, relaxed slowly, and his breath seemed to be peaceful.

very nice.

Although Steve knew that Olivia was really distressed, he still couldn't help thinking apologetically.

He had spent so long in various dangers that when he saw Olivia frowning and serious, he subconsciously thought badly.

But hearing that this is a daughter who is worried about the communication and relationship between herself and her father, Steve couldn't help but relax.

When he thought that she was almost killed by that catastrophe, he felt that her troubles were so precious now.

Although Olivia has been emphasizing that she has grown up, to Steve, she is still very innocent and childish.

Olivia wouldn't understand that the last time her two fathers lost her and got her back again, the terrifying ups and downs in mentality were enough for them to tolerate every path she chose for the rest of their lives, every thought.

Because she is still alive, this is precious enough.

Steve felt pretty good. He always heard all kinds of too bad news. This time, this not so bad distress made him feel that his efforts to defend the country over the years were not in vain.

How good would it be if every bad news was a warm thing like a daughter worrying about her family?

"Are you listening?" Olivia babbled and worried for a long time, looking at Steve and seeing that the corners of the man's mouth were even slightly raised, she immediately yelled dissatisfied.

"I'm listening." Steve responded quickly, cleared his throat, and commented in a deep voice, "This is really a—very distressing thing."

Olivia nodded in agreement, and she hugged the pillow in her arms tightly, and Steve realized that the pattern of the pillow in her hand turned out to be his shield star.

"Where did you get the pillow?" he said in surprise.

"Peter gave it to me at the base last time." Olivia hugged it tightly, and she muttered, "He said you have a support club in S.H.I.E.L.D."

She hugged the pillow in front of her body, her arms strangled the stars so that they were deformed.

She is very wronged.

"I've just grown up, I'm a mature vampire!" She said angrily and aggrieved, "Why do you have to have the attitude that I want to get married just when you come out to live! It's not about life and death, really... ..." She pointed at Steve again, "And you! You don't listen to me at all, woo woo woo..."

The vampire without tear ducts howled dryly.

Steve couldn't laugh or cry.He seemed to have gotten to know Olivia more and more, and understood what she was thinking.

"I'm sorry, I sincerely admit my mistake to you, Miss." He held back his smile and tried to say seriously, "How can I compensate you?"

Olivia let go of the pillow that she had kneaded miserably. She looked at him with bright eyes, and then stretched out her arm.

"Then give it a hug!" she said, "just give me a hug."

The two looked at each other. Steve looked at her eyes that seemed to be shining like stars, and couldn't help sighing softly. Then he bent down and hugged the vampire girl, as if gently hugging her. Lived a fragile but beautiful chick.

Being mature isn't necessarily a good thing, Steve thought.

If she could always be like this, it would be enough to be innocent and childish all the time.

He'd seen too many complex situations and too dangerous a situation, and those things were starting to tire Steve, a veteran.Only the clean and pure Olivia gave him the ease of going back to the past.

Her existence, her being and her character, without her knowing it, have always given him a different strength.