Dark Desires- closed

[Artemidorus]

Malice whistled a cheery tune as she pulled the cart behind her. It was slow and sweet but dark, and the tune carried across the hill as she made her way to the castle like manor. The cart was full of flowers and herbs, along with a stirring but overall unconscious body.

"Calm down dear. We're almost home and we'll get you cleaned up for dinner." she chirped happily,a s she pulled the cart.

It didn't take long to get home, and Malice let herself in, pulling the cart behind her. The sun was setting, and as dusk fell her master would rouse.

She took her victim up to the feeding room to clean her up. She sponged her down and used the mint she had collected today, leaving her fresh smelling and clean for her master. Malice headed for the door, leaving her naked form tucked into the lavish bed there. She locked the door from the outside and then headed down to the kitchen, stopping to grab a few herbs from the cart.

The house looked lovely, full of fresh, ragrant flowers in vases. The curtains were full and thick to keep out the light, but as she moved about the house she lit the many oil lanterns and chandeliers. When she finally made it to the kitchen, she thought she heard her master stirring. Typically he went straight for his meal after he awoke.

She set her supplies down and started a pot of boiling water. She added lavender and mint and stirred as it began to steep. Then she added mushrooms to a pot of beef bones. While that was cooking she grabbed a bandage and wrapped up her hand. The long cut across her palm had begun bleeding again, and she didn't want the scent to affect her master.

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[Stalzyn]

Still lying in the basement below, on a soft bed with silk dressings from India. Varane was feeling it. The cool evening air, the change of scenery that dusk brings. He could sense it, the sun hiding behind the clouds. His large bronze door opening with a creak.
Slowly Varane opened his eyes and straightened his limbs then rose in one swift motion. The thick darkness was nothing to his already adapted crimson eyes. As he made his way up the stairs, he picked up another scent, one that reminded him how hungry he was...how much he needed to feed. The sweet scent of blood - the life-giving elixir.

As he walked through the long passage way towards his large bedroom, the scent became stronger, extreme, closer. Strangely enough it wasn't coming from his bedroom, but from the bend in front, from the kitchen.
"Why will she take his meal to the kitchen?" Varane wondered following the trail. As he opened the kitchen door, as he sighted his supposed meal Varane froze.
There before him, was his maid. Malice, the girl he has watch grow into a sumptuous woman, full in all the right places and perfect curves. A woman that he has secretly fallen in love with.
He noticed her bandaged hand and winced, so that was where the scent came from, her blood must be revitalising indeed. The thought of biting into her vein and sucking such rejuvenating liquid, her warm blood sliding down his throat,.as heating him up.
Varane shook himself....
Yelling a mental No! To his enraged desires. He couldn't bare to feed from her. With how much he loved her, he was scared, afraid he might lose it in the bliss, lose control or snap and at the end of the day, have a lifeless body in his arms.
"How did you come about the cut?" He asked, his voice coming out hoarsely, his complexion very pale. She was startled for she didn't hear him walk in.


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[Artemidorus]

Malice jumped, her hands covering her heart as she let out a gasp. "My lord!" she panted out. "This- I-" she frowned. It would be best to explain how the cut had happened. "Your meal tonight is a Miss Susan Eldridge. She is a farmers daughter, one of seven. Been sneaking out to meet a suiter almost every night. I left some of her clothes in his house covered in blood. He lives completely on the other side of town." she figured it would cast the ever growing suspicion off of them. The townsfolk didn't look upon the looming castle with its mysterious lord verh fondly.

"I'm so very sorry my lord. I tried to cover up the cut." she bowed, covering her wounded hand with her other. "Miss Eldridge is in your feeding room upstairs. I can prepare a fire for you if you would like to sit in the lounge after."

Her eyes finally met his. She had been looking down apologetically for most of the encounter, but as always, her blue eyes met his cold crimson and she shuddered. Not with fear, but with something else. His cold features always made her weak, and the strength in those eyes made her shake, made feelings well up inside her like a tidal wave.

 

[Stalzyn]

The. Castle
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A view of the inside
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[Stalzyn]

Varane nodded understandingly, without saying another word he flashed out of sight, something that his maid has gotten used to by now. For the uninitiated, it'd look like he disappeared when actually he just moved, in a super human speed.
As Varane continued his walk up the stairs, his mind battled between focusing on his food or on those eyes. Those dark pupils that Varane could almost swear held deep desires within.
His thought didn't drift from his maid till he turned the knob of his bedroom door and saw her. His meal, lying sprawled on the bed...naked.
Varane could hear the beating of her heart as she slowly stirred. In a flash he was kneeling on the bed and staring back at her.
He didn't utter a word, only gaze into her frightened and questioning eyes. A small smile crept his features as she relaxed under his gaze, she closed her eyes and braced herself, strangely enough she knew at the back of her mind what will happen, yet she wanted nothing more but to offer herself to him.
Varane chuckled softly when she closed her eyes...he watched her beating heart relax to a settled pace.
Slowly he leaned in and kissed her lips, while she hungrily accepted his predatory mouth.
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Varane entered the lounge, his eyes immediately locking on his maid who was pouring red martini into a glass cup, she had bent to fill the glass thereby causing her black skirt to ride up, displaying her thighs to the vampire lord. Varane felt it again, the familiar tingling inside, his hormones rising, the desire to hold her and ravish her body under the illuminating moonlight. As always, he dismissed the thought, based on the grounds that if he lay with her, he won't be able to stop himself from feeding from her.
"Have you had something?" He asked making for the couch near the fire. He remembered not answering her question about making a fire. He smiled softly, how well she now knew him.

 

[Artemidorus]

Malice finished her soup and tea, eating in the kitchen while she set up a platter. She put the tea in a teapot and grabbed two cups just in case, adding a saucer of cream and a bowl of sugar. The mushroom soup was delicious, and she was glad she had baked bread only yesterday. Mushroom hunting was a tricky sport, but with a good eye and knowledge of the surrounding hills she could bring one of the best harvests. They even gre potatos nearby. Tomorrow she would go into town and sell them and the herbs.

After she cleaned up, she brought her tray to the parlor and set it down as she got to work tending a fire. Once it was going well, she retrieved a glass and bottle from the alchohol cabinet. The liqueur was red and thicker than normal spirits, a blend she mixed herself that was gin, rum and type O. She found that blood kept the best and the longest, and mixed with the alcohol instead of clotting.

Her master arrived just as she was pouring his drink. She stood, brushing down her dress and hoping he hadn't seen tok much when she was bending over. "I hope you found dinner satisfying, my lord." she said with a bow, as she handed him his drink.

She smiled as he asked about her. "Yes of course, my lord."