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[Orithyia]

I wiggle and lifted my hips to help when he took off my pants. My breath caught and my skin flamed at the touch of Jake at my core. Without meaning to I made soft pleading pleasure sounds and hooked my legs around his tangling them as he slid into me. There was pain behind my eyes at the bring flash of light that I saw. Negative spots clouded my sight when I looked down between our bodies watching him sink into me.

This wasn't a new experience for me but never had I felt like this. I tried describing them as I felt them overwhelm me and when I had almost that I knew the word for this feeling it changed and became something new and something stronger. I was lost to the sensation and I gave into it helplessly. Under the weight of his body I trembled.

When our eyes met I saw my whole life, the one I had yet to life with him. A knot of panic jerked me. I would die without this man. The knowledge of that was so powerful that it almost pained me to know that I was just flesh to him. For him there was no bond that would drive him to give his life for me or to even care for me. I was a craving, the sexual that needed to be filled. Not wanting him to see the tide in my thoughts I hooked my legs over his hips and crossed them behind him using the movement that brought us closer to turn my head away and nip at his shoulder.

But for all that it might be for him I was glad for that little because it gave me this moment. I moved my hips under him and felt his shaft, slick with my need, move inside of me. Everything about him fit me the muscles inside of me rippled with pleasure when I felt him move. My hands roamed over his back, shoulders, arms and back up to his back. I played with the tiny hairs at the back of his neck and thread my finger thru his hair. There wasn't a part of him that didn't send shivers to the core of me and rooted what I already felt for him.

Using my legs that were crossed behind him I moved under him and with our bodies so tightly pressed together it brushed against my clit and I sighed with sharp breaths when it happened. Feeling that my mind had calmed I let go enough to look back into Jake's face and watch for signs that he was enjoying this joining as much as I was.

 

[musicankane]

I couldn't believe how good she felt. This was beyond anything I've ever experience with any girl before. This meant something more than sex, it had to be. Her legs wrapped around me and I felt her shift under me thus making her insides rub and slide along my shaft. I trembled over her and sighed deeply. "Wow I can't believe how amazing you fucking feel." I told her.

I pulled my hip back, sliding from her body part of the way, and then pushed back into her. She was just as tight going in the second time as she was the first time, like her body recovered extremely quickly from the penetration. I was able to feel her tunnel part around me again as I pushed back into her. The way her body wiggled and shifted under me, her breasts grinding against my chest and our skin brushing against each other as I moved.

I found a rhythm that made her make the best sounds. My lips brushed over her cheeks and neck, kissing around her as I moved in and out of her. Every thrust sent tingles into my balls and back up my spine.

I paused a moment and whispered into her ears, "You are truly special. This kind of feeling shouldn't be possible." I moved again, a quick in and out thrust into her body. "Does it feel amazing for you? I could fall for you if you become any more amazing." I said meaning it as a tease.

 

[Orithyia]

I loved his voice telling me how I felt to him. I wanted to tell him the way he made my body melt and writhe with passion. How just the simplest flex or pull of his muscles blurred the sharp lines of everything I saw but words to tell him these things required air and I was too busy making little mewing moaning sounds as he moved in me.

"Ja-ke..." I tried to speak but when our hips met and he pushed even farther my body lifted up, my head titled back and I lost my train of thought. My legs uncrossed and I moved my hips to met his body, hungry for more.

I couldn't believe that he was being so gentle with me. Most experiences were rushed lust filled rages that were hard, quick and over the moment we both achieved our goal. But this- With his light kisses and smooth slow movements, it was not only the hottest experience of my life but warmed in a way I would never have thought possible.

What I couldn't tell him in words I showed with my body. My hands explored his body with caresses that memorized his reactions to my touch. Lips returned ever light kiss for one of my own, my tongue traced pattered over his skin tasting the salty flavor of his body and teeth nipped and teased with edges of fangs.

When he stopped I worried that something was wrong. Fear was a cold hard blanket that threatened to numb me of every amazing feeling of this night.

'You are truly special. This kind of feeling shouldn't be possible.'

I wanted to cry and I did but it wasn't with tear of happiness that I had first felt at hearing those words, it was with a new awakening when he moved with quick thrusts. I clung to his body in a full body hug and when I released him I was smiling. I wanted more then anything right now to bond us and at his words I took them to mean that it was alright.

"In all the years I have been alive I have yet to find the words that could explain this night to you. I would say amazing but the word feels weak and dull to how you make me feel." I had never in my life had a problem with speech but I felt like a child now with a lack of a vocabulary to explain. My face hardened into a serious mask and my tone was more distant when I spoke. "If you were given the chance to live beyond your human life, preserved as you are now, with me by your side, would you take it?" I had asked that question wanting the answer now. What little of my blood of my blood that he had swallow was still in his system and it would only take words and a marking bite of my own to bind us together. But the unknown made me vulnerable and to hide from it I used my body. I circled my hips and rocked them against Jake's body. Using muscles I clenched and unclenched the walls around him as I moved.

 

[musicankane]

Her words made me pause. Everything froze to me even thoigh she kept wiggling her hips and letting her hands caress my skin. I became oblivious to the waves of pleasure she gave me with her body because i was trying to understand what she meant by her words. Could she really be offering me immortality? To become a vampire?

It was what I had always dreamt about while reading my books or watching my movies. To be exactly like the strong creatures that carried along in my imagination. Now as it turned out they were real and one had found a connections with me enough to make me this offer. That was why she had found ways to be by my side. The whole thing had been an act, I was meant for her somehow. Almost two thousand years after her birth she found a siul mate in me and i didnt even know about it. She had tried to hise it from me, i guess to not freak me out. I had caught hints of something from her and now i knew what it was.

So we were soul mates. I guess it made sense to me. I mean she was beautiful sure, but i had certainly seen beautiful women before. None, however, none had made me feel such a need for them as Althea did. They say everything happens for a reason. They say we are all designed to be something in life. Maybe that was why I loved vampire fiction, because I was one day meant to fall in love with this magnificant woman beneath me and my brain needed to be ready to accept her.

But as she whispered her offer to me, and her silken walls milked my length, i didnt know if i should leave everything behind for it. I had worked hard my whole life to become a guy with a good career able to take care of a family. Should i just give that up for eternal life? Part of me wanted it and wanted it badly. The other part of me couldnt. I needed time. I had only known her for really a day and i couldnt throw everything away in such a short time. Not even for my wildest fantasies.

I proped myself above her and looked into her eyes. "I like you Althea. I really do. But I dont know you well enough yet. I mean Ive worked hard for the life i have and i cant just throw it away for what ive always thought would be a fantasy." I smiled, "Give me a little time, how about I date an immortal vampire for a while before she makes me immortal too. See if we get along and whatnot." I tried to make the jokes but somehow i knew how much i meant to her and how badly she needed a ckmpanion. Her loneliness must be incredible, but if she really cared for me and wanted me i hoped she would understand.

"I'm sorry Althea. I cant imagine the loneliness you must suffer. Understand that a big part of me wants to say yes and let you change me, but there is that oart that wants to be safe too. I am not sure i am ready to give up on having kids and a wife and such to be a vampire." I started to pull out of her body, even though our sexual lust had yet to finish, my rejection would probably damper the mood a bit and i didnt want to be on top of or inside a pissed off vampire.

 

[Orithyia]

It was easy to forget that while I lived in his world and knew the customs of it, he did not know of my world much less the rulings and customs it had. I smiled saddened only by his rejection and the careful way he phrased it so as not to hurt my feelings. I knew I should have felt more then that but because it wasn't a no only a small part of me was sad. In more ways it was a yes and I was hopeful for what I hoped to come.

I smiled and wrapped my legs around him again so he couldn't leg my body. "I'm sorry." I started cupping his face in my hand. "I did not mean to trouble you with that question." I wiggled my body and pulled my legs in and buried him back into me with a contented sigh. "But I don't want this to end." I moved my hips so he would understand what I meant. "It was unfair of me to ask expecting you to know what I do." The binding words still rang in my ears but the freedom of Jake's choice dulled my need to speak them.

He would be in even more danger now then he was before. The threads of our binding had started and it would show in the eye of all my kind but it wasn't finished, it could still be broken. I didn't know if weres could see what we saw but I was sure that if Mac knew that I was marked and knew the tease of his blood he would kill Jake and then me. Even worse I didn't know what would happen if our bond broke. Stories said that I would be wiped from Jake's mind and it would be a pain harsher then death but I wasn't going to let it happen and find out.

"I have never dated before but there is much we need to learn." I needed to learn patience and he needed to learn the ways of my kind and that it wasn't like the movies or books. He would be just as human as he was now just tougher to live in my world. And kids, my heart exploded with the thought of having Jake's kids, it was a possibility and a treasured gift.

I was tired of talking. I had gotten my answer and it made this night easier on me knowing what he wanted. "For now," I dropped my hand and leaned up to kiss him. "I want to feel you in every way possible." My strange triple colored eyes glowed in the candle light and it spoke of the things that I wanted. My hips swayed under his and my legs, comfortable in the assurance that he wasn't going anywhere let go of him.

 

[musicankane]

I felt better after all that. I also felt really good because she pulled me back inside of her. Her hips wiggled around as she reassured me somehow that she still wanted me. I was more important to her than a simple guy, and my need for time was something she could afford to give. Hell she had much more time than I ever would.

She told me she wanted more of me, wanted me in everyway. I leaned down and kissed her, "Alright then." I put my hands on either side of her body and began to fuck her. Holy shit, it was by far the most intense feeling yet. Her walls clamped around me, as if fighting me when I pulled out, but opening for me when I drove back into her.

The tone of her voice changed as I began to thrust into her with a quick pace. This was sex, pure and raw. The awkward shit was behind us now and I felt like we could enjoy each other in a primal way. There was nothing that I could do to her that didn't feel amazing. I wiggled my hips a little, trying to drive into her at different angles. No matter what I did or how I moved she felt awesome.

The sounds I brought out of her excited me. I lifted my body off of hers enough to watch her breasts bounce and jiggle with my motions. After a minute I drove into her and grinding my hips against hers, really digging into her so I could feel the deepest part of her.

I grunted as I felt the pressure building in my balls, my load was building and nearly ready to burst from me like a cannonball. "I'm close Althea." I told her, warning her like I would any other girl I was fucking without a condom, even though I wasn't sure on the fertility of a vampire.

 

[Orithyia]

Jake kissed me and there was a slight change in his features when he pulled back from the kiss that made me tingle from the ends of my hair to the tips of my toes. I was no longer treated with soft slow thrusts but ones that stole my breath with every ball smacking thrust. This was a man in his every right hungering for a woman's touch and feel and I loved it.

When he pulled back I cried wanting his back, my hips reaching for him and meeting his thrust back into me. His drive pushed my body and when our bodies were touching brushed the sensitive tips of my nipples across his skin adding to the sensations. His wiggle over me changed the angle and I cried out pleasure and my hands fisted in the sheets. I kept my nail short and trimmed but I didn't want to risk raking them across his skin and drawing blood.

Nothing before had ever felt like this and I felt myself reaching out with my mind searching for something. I saw the two, lonely, twisted strands connected between our bodies and wanted to complete the ritual of words. To be selfish and take away the choice I promised Jake. I closed my eyes resisted the urge and shudder running down my body at the effort. I felt his mind and how it resisted me. I was unknown and without the bonding it would keep it's walls against me. He was the only human in the world that I couldn't force to do anything no matter how much I wanted. But I didn't want to force him I wanted to join with him but still he kept me away.

In spite of resistance the intimacy of feeling him fight me was a pleasure. I had fought the urge to feel for him like this, there was no need, I was aware of him without know the feel of his mind. I knew his soul and it was a deeper connection. I knew that every touch, mental or physical, would call to me and pull me even closer to him. Would make me want him ever more. Longing was never a feeling I had to deal with in my life, I wanted blood I didn't long for it with ever cell of my body like I did with Jake.

He lifted his body away from mine and my first reaction was to mentally pull back. Had he felt my advances? I worried for a fraction of a second and then he picked up his rhythm. My breast jiggled in time with his thrusts and the weight of his body changed and laid against my center. It made the penetration deeper and I moaned as he dug his hips into me. I ground against him and rubbed my clit against him. A jolt rose from the central heat of my body and flew up my body sizzling nerve endings as it caught in my throat.

I heard his warming and smiled, I was nearing my release too. I nodded my head and reached a hand down between us and circled the base of his penis and reached under to brush against his ball. I love the pulsing and tightening feel of a man's release and I wanted to feel it fro the first clench of his ball to the swelling of his shaft to the eruption into me. "Come for me." I whispered. My inside walls were starting to tighten and I was trying to hold it off till Jake reached his so we could cum together and heighten the feels for us both.

 

[musicankane]

It was a simple three words, barely uttered from her lips. The breath of her voice caressed across my face, putting power behind what she said. Not supernatural power mind you, just the power any beautiful woman could have to her lover. I thrust myself into her one final time, pushing as deep into her as I could as my orgasm broke free from its bounds. My thick hot seed burst from the tip of my shaft and shot into the depths of her silken walls.

At the same time I felt her tighten around me in everyway, her walls rippled and milked at me, her arms and legs wrapped around me, trapping me to her body making sure every drop of my essence would not escape her. I shuddered and trembled as I spurted over and over into her, filling her core with my cum.

I grunted as the pleasure was too great to keep silent. Then after what seemed like forever, my seed flowed to a stop and I relaxed on top of her. I was completely drained by her, my body fell heavily on top of her, my entire weight on her small but powerful frame. I had no energy to move, all I could do was listen to our hearts beat together as we came down slowly form our orgasmic high.

"Wow Althea, you are the most amazing woman I've ever met." I told her. "With sex like that, I don't think it will take me long to decided to be with you forever. Holy shit." I panted, chuckling a little.

Gently I rolled to her side, my spent shaft slipping from her. "Do you think it will be safe for me to work on Monday? I don't wanna piss off werewolves again." I sighed, "Vampires and werewolves in the same damn day. Wow. I still don't believe Mac was a werewolf, let alone that he tried to hurt me. Why would he do that, he's been my friend for years."

 

[Orithyia]

Light exploded behind closed lids and I wrapped myself around Jake as if he were the only thing in this world that could save me. Inside I felt the warmth of his seed filling me and I met him with a climax of my own. Arms pulled him to me and my mouth hovered over his neck wanting so badly to bite him. I could taste his flavor on my tongue. "Uah!" I cried out frustrated but in a floating bubbly bliss as I came.

"Jake!" I screamed his name and my nail drew red furrows down his back just shy of drawing blood. He still had my blood in his system and knew it would sting for a moment but heal faster because of it. His body collapsed on mine in the most delightful way and I snuggled into his warmth. I could hear our hearts as I calmed down and they were perfectly in sync and I smiled.

"If that's all it takes then, please, have at me at you will." I tempted in a teasing manor.

There was only a small frown on my lips when he rolled over and slipped out of me. "I don't see why not." I shrugged. "I'll be with you and keeping their secret is more important then killing me." Or you I added silently in my mind. I wouldn't give them a chance to even come close to harming Jake so I didn't think it needed to be said. "You make me stronger." I answered as if it was that simple. "Even with a treaty between us we're still enemies fighting the same opponent and anything that gives us an edge is worth killing, if it can be killed."

I was forgetting that everything about my life was new and unknown to Jake and that my answer might just raise more questions.

 

[musicankane]

I rolled onto my back and shifted against her, snuggling against her. I loved the way she felt against me, and not touching her just felt wrong to me. Maybe her offer made more sense to accept, I don't know what she had done to me, but when I wasn't touching her I noticed a dip in my mood all of a sudden. Though I don't know how much of it was her doing, and not just the insane attraction I had felt for her from the moment I met her. Still once I was snuggled against her everything felt wonderful.

I stared up at the ceiling for a moment, letting the bliss of post sexual release flow through me from head to toe. I felt alright since she said going back to work was going to be okay. The werewolves wouldn't attack me outright like that in my office I wouldn't think. Like she said they didn't want the public to realize that werewolves were real.

I glanced over at her and smiled, "It is going to feel totally strange being your boss at work now. Since I know that you could crush my car like a soda can if I piss you off too much." I said with a wink.

Then I sat up and looked over her body, "I need to get something to eat. Is there a place we can grab some food around here? All I remember is wilderness outside?" I asked her, then slowly I smirked, "The human needs food." I teased putting my hand on her stomach and giving her a gentle squeeze.

 

[Orithyia]

I was surprised by Jake's words and laughed out loud. "Don't worry, I like you're car so it should be safe." He had snuggled against me and I curved and fitted my body closer to his so we fit together like two jigsaw puzzle pieces. It was nice to know that he needed my touch as much as I did and that he had moved to me first. But just as I had gotten comfortable and started to close my eyes to rest he moved.

I understood the need for food and now that he had mentioned it I was starving. "If I drive the speed limit there's a town about 45 minutes away. Or we can go to France for something to eat in a blink of an eye but my recommendation would be the kitchen downstairs." I informed him with a growl from my stomach. "I need food too." And then twisted and giggled as he tickled me.

Then I remembered that he had tossed his shirt in the fire and I had ripped his jeans some time later. "If we're going out you're going to need something to wear." I smiled trying to tempt him into staying so I could cook for him. "But if we stay here clothing isn't needed." I stretched out my long body giving him reason to stay here.

 

[musicankane]

I sat back on my haunches and thought for a moment. It wasn't everyday that I get an offer to go to France on a whim. Hell that was usually an experience given to a very hot girl from some rich bastard trying to get his dipstick into her flower pot. And it was pretty tempting, I'd always wanted to travel and I never had a chance to go too various places due to my job and school before that.

Still I figured two things, number one she had to be kidding, and number two it was a bit exessive to grab a simple bite to eat. Plus number three was that I wouldn't have to get dressed if we stayed here. Plus even another number four, she wouldn't have to get dressed, and I really liked the idea of watching her cook for me completely naked. Wasn't that why Hooter was such a popular restuarant? Guys liked to be served by naked, or nearly naked, women?

Althea was built like a goddess, her body was full on flawless. She skin was like silk and her insides were like the lock and my cock was the key. She was flat out perfect and the idea of watching her move around nice and naked was too enticing to pass up.

I smirked and nodded, "Alright let's see what you can do with a stove Althea. I've always wanted to see a woman cook naked. But I've never thought of watching a goddess do it naked." I leaned down and gave her a quick kiss and then scrambled off the bed. I felt good, loose and relaxed, and full of energy minus the grumbling stomach. It was like she had revitalized every muscle in my body. "Damn I feel real good. How the hell do I feel this good?"

 

[Orithyia]

I was glad to get my way but I noticed the hesitation before he gave me his answer. I wanted to ask about it but if he didn't willing say anything I didn't think it important enough to ask about. If it was about France or the town they were nearest to it would be easy enough to show him about later if he wished to do so.

Compliments were something I hear often but I never took any of them to heart or even pay much attention to them but when Jake called me a goddess it was like he was trailing a hand down my body and I blushed with warmth. "What are you hungry for?" I smiled and watched him bounce off the bed like a child on Christmas. The linger tingle of his kiss still on my lips. I had to admit, having him naked walking around my house was a sight I would never tire of.

"It's more them likely my blood. I'm quick to heal and the blood that you swallow is still alive and in your system. Depending on how fast your body is you'll fell like this for at least an hour or two." I crawled off the bed and passed by the robe hanging off the back of the chair. We were on the third floor and if we phased thru the floors the kitchen was almost directly below us.

This questions to things made me want to know what he thought of my kind. A lot of different sources said a lot of different things and I wanted to teach him the truth. But first I had to know what it is that he knew to know where to start off from. "I have a lot of questions. I've seen you're collection of vampire and sci-fi fantasy but if you had to pick a truth out of them what would you think it to be?" I opened the door to my bedroom. There was a hallway with two other doors to the left and right and at the end was the stairway. It branched off for the second floor but circled around as one single stairway back to the first floor entryway. From there you walked down the hallway leading to the back of the house and took a right into the dining room to the kitchen.

 

[musicankane]

There was something odd about this situation I had put myself into. Here I was walking through a vampires house, butt naked. It seemed completely absurd, like I was in some kind of horrible Tales from the Crypt episode. It made me smile and I looked over at Althea's, letting her beauty please my eyes. She seemed to move with amazing grace and flow, as if she was floating rather than taking actual steps.

Then she asked me about my view on vampires and I couldn't help but laugh. "So the vampire is asking me what I think a vampire should be?" I smiled and took her hand. "Well there have a lot of different takes on the vampire as a creature." I began as we moved into the kitchen area. "Okay now you opened a big can of worms and I am about to ramble. Just a warning."

"So yeah there have been a lot of different takes on vampires, and really the only thing that remains a constant is the need or hunger for human blood. What varies from story to story is the powers and weaknesses of the vampire. Already you've proven some of them true and false. Like sunlight for instance, clearly sunlight doesn't do shit to you which I am so glad is true, because I always thought bursting into flames in the sun was the stupidest shit. Super speed and strength you have also shown to be true. The extent of that strength is still up in the air. Let's see, you mentioned healing and such, I've read vampires that could be crippled by a busted leg for a little while and I've read stuff where a vampire could be blown nearly in half and heal it right away like the T-1000 form terminator."

I shifted and leaned against the counter as Althea began grabbing stuff from the fridge. I saw some steak sitting in the freezer and I motioned for her to grab it. I loved steak, and smiled at the fact that she had that.

"This proves something else, blood is supposed to be the vampire's only form of sustinance, but obviously you eat food so that is out the window. You know it is funny, because my favorite vampire stories were the vampires that were very very powerful. Wooden stakes, sunlight and crosses are all a joke to them. Which brings up a good question, will you freak out and burst into flames if you walk into a church?"

 

[Orithyia]

"Ramble, I love the sound of your voice." I grinned. He was holding my hand and I felt light and carefree. How was he able to make me forget about the problems in my life with something as simple as a held hand.

I fell into old habits as I started the meal. Alone I didn't have to worry about having to restrain my unnatural abilities and I raced around the kitchen gathering the things I would need. I wasn't sure what Jake wanted other then steaks so I ended up with a little bit of everything. I washed and cut romaine and took it outside to the bbq and came back with a bar stool and placed it besides Jake if he wanted to sit.

Even in the middle of doing everything I was focused on his voice. Parts made me laugh and others made me wonder. "If I stay in the sun took long uncovered I'll start to blister and get a migraine even with the darkest glasses. But bursting into fire, yeah, it's pretty stupid. I'm not sure I would heal if I was torn in half." I paused in my preparations. I was cutting onions for a french onion soup. "I guess as long as my heart kept beating I could heal from it. I would need to go to ground to heal from something like that and it would take time. Near to a month would be my guess." I've had my leg torn off and it wasn't until the end of the second week that the pains had finally gone away.

I took out two kinds of steak. A filet mignon seasoned in honey, soy sauce, garlic, olive oil and fresh rosemary. And a prime rib that I grabbed from the back where it was being aged. The meat would be light salted and peppered and would come with a sage jus. I left the room again and came back with the grilled romaine hearts and added just a touch of white balsamic vinegar, some sunflower seeds and ground pepper. The french onion soup was almost done and once the hearts were plated the cheese on the top of the soup was bubbly and golden.

I handed out silverware and placed the salad and soup in front of Jake. I made some for myself and left the room quickly bring back a chair for myself. The meats were cooking and the potatoes for the loaded garlic masted potatoes were simmering. Unsure of what kind of vegetables that he like I was pan grilling asparagus in a white wine butter sauce, steaming broccoli and warming up sweet corn.

"With no soul to judge churches aren't a problem. I'm not sure if it's a normal reaction but when I walk into one there's a chilling weight and it's uncomfortable." I answered as I poured water for both of us. "Do you want something other then water to drink?" Ah, that's right, blood. "Not all of my kind drink blood. We all hunger for it but once you mature it's no longer needed. As with everything in life it had it's pros and cons. While it might make you stronger it's also very addicting and if you kill from it, it'll pull you into a blood lust that changes you. Blood becomes the only thing that you're body can absorb and life off of and you become known as a slayer. They are dangerous creatures that lusts for not only your blood but your death. But if you can control it then you have not only you're blood to live on but another's and that's what gives you the extra boost."

"I'm of the other. I can be stilled by the spill of blood but I'e never drank it as a source of nourishment." I smiled the tips of my fangs showing. "Until I meet you." My tongue darted out and traced over my lips as I drank in the sight of him naked in my kitchen. "To be a hunter you have to be a pure-tongue, one who doesn't drink, to slay the slayers." I turned the filet mingnon when it smelled just right and returned to my seat.

The thing I wanted to know most was what he thought happened when he 'changed' but I didn't want to question it in case he took it as me pressuring him to join with me.

 

[musicankane]

I listened to her explanation of things as she moved around the kitchen cooking food that was starting to smell incredible. As she set up the table for us and set out soup and salad she continued explaining things. It made sense and honestly it was a description of a vampiric creature that I could see existing in the real world. Still she was supernatural, but not so obsurdly so that it could only be fiction.

I listened carefully when she spoke about blood and what it meant to vampires. "Wait, that doesn't make sense though. You're saying a normal vampire is just a strong immortal creature that kind of looks at blood and goes 'Oh that looks good, but I'm on a diet'?" I asked, "Then you have the ones that love blood but they're evil and your kind hunts them down?" I frowned and took a bite of the salad. "Wow good salad."

I shook my head and said, "See that is strange to me. But you know I've only read fictional book so clearly my judgement is clouded by years of fiction." I thought for a moment, "Actually though, there was this one story I read about a 5000 year old vampire who regarded blood like that. She needed blood to heal after a big injury or something like that, but otherwise she only needed a little blood from a human once a month or so. So I guess you kinda fall into that type." I explained.

"Speaking of which, your offer back in the bedroom. You were offering me I guess to become a vampire right? How does that work? I feel stronger and better with just a little bit of your blood. Is that how it works? If I drink enough of your blood do I become a vampire? Do you need to drain me to near death first? Or you know how do you make new vampires?"

 

[Orithyia]

"Think of blood more of like a drug. There are some who stay away from it, some who can use it without going overboard and the ones who over abuse it and turn into monsters." She tried better at explaining. "The thing about slayers is that they kill. When you drink from a person you become part of them and share a piece of their memories and life. When you drink and kill it warps you into something. They saw that experiencing your death in the form of someone else's is the greatest high and you obtain the most power from it and once you have a taste for it that's all you crave. So they keep killing and with the attention it draws they end up being killed themselves." I hoped that made more sense.

"There are three positions of standing in my kind. You have the hunters, those who don't drink and hunt the slayers. They're physically weaker but mentally more powerful. Next you have Guardians. They drink blood but never fall into the blood lust and never kill. They're our soldiers and protect our women, children and old and their power can't be matched but they lack for certain skills that blood of another dulls. And lastly you have slayers. Those of my kind that have fallen or given up to the blood and have killed."

I smiled glad that he liked the salad and went to the stove to check everything. The potatoes were soft and I added what needed to be added and mashed them to a silky finish. I plated the filet mignon and drizzled sauce over them and a sprig of rosemary. The mashed potatoes joined the plate of filet mingnon and each vegetable was served on a dish of it's own. Toppings for the potatoes were lined on the counter. I left and came back with the prime rib and put it on a plate of it's own. The sage jus was fixed and poured in a saucer and horseradish was in a cup.

I brought over the plates and they filled what empty space was left on the table. "Blood is needed as a child and as you grow you are fed a diet of blood and your mother's milk. When you mature you grow you're fangs and blood become a choice. As a child you are weak and more fragile the a human. Children can get sick, the sun harms them and many don't live to grow fangs." It was a sad history to explain but he had to know, it was within his right. "Many of the legends of vampires and their weaknesses came from the our children and child bearing mothers. Even the first few years after you've gained your fangs your still weak. You're body has to adapt to living on it's own energies. It's why many turn to drinking the blood of others because it reduces the transition time."

I sat down relaxing now that all the food was out. I started on the salad. Manors dictated that I eat with tiny slow bites but I was hungry and compensated with larger, if still slower then I wanted, bites. What he was asking was more mystical then could be scientifically proven or studied. I finished my salad thinking how to answer. "You won't be a vampire because you have a soul." I started not sure if that was the right place to start. "I am without one. In a way you are my soul and when we bound we become one in many ways. Your change will be minor compared to the movies. Your body with evolve to match mine. You'll gain my speed, strength and immortality but every binding is different. My Mother gained powers of the mind but lacked the full extent of speed and strength. Others I've heard of grew to overpower their mate. It's all in what your mind and body can handle. I don't know if you'll grow fangs or not. My mother has a hint of fangs but that's all." I shrugged my shoulders and pushed my empty salad plate away and reached for my soup. "From you I gain a soul and a purpose to live." Said like that it sounded like of one sided but his gift to me was greater then anything I could give him. "And I will be able to have children." I whispered with a glowing smile.

The soup was still hot, the cheese helping in keeping it's heat in. It was a lot to take in and I was giving Jake a change to process it. "Um..." The cheese pulled away from the rim of the bowl in a long stand and burned my lower lips when I raised the spoon full of soup to my mouth. It was light in flavor though rich and maybe just a little salty. I frowned over the imperfect result and was tempted to tell Jake not to eat it.

 

[musicankane]

I listened to everything she said, taking it all in. I didn't know about the lack of a soul part, but now I understood what made her think I was so important. In her eyes I was her salvation, a fulfillment that she had been without for 1600 years. The question was why? Surely she had met many other men in her life that could have given her what she wanted. Why after all this time? Why me?

All this had completely made me forget about the food and I leaned forward toward her. "So that's why you've come to me then? I'm like your other half or something?" I asked, "Althea, why me? After 1600 years you what, picked me out of a hat?"

Could there be a deeper reason? Was my attraction to her more than some primal attraction to her beauty? Maybe she had been using a vampire mind trick on me to make me like her better, almost love her. No that wasn't right, there was more to this than she was letting me know. I felt the pull of her from the first night in the pool hall, before she had ever even spoken to me. Hell her first interaction with me was a job interview. If this was really some mind trick then she would have come after me that first night.

"I need to know Althea, what about me made you want to bind me tonight?" I said very flatly.

 

[Orithyia]

I sighed. I didn't know how this worked other it was the way it is. I never questioned it. "There was no hat." I stared down at my spoon fill with broth and bits of bread and onions and sink to the bottom. "I don't know how to explain it. You're body calls to me and I answer it without thought." I didn't know what answer he wanted but why was it so important. Did it matter why I felt this way about him? I pushed the cup away with a little more force then needed and the soups swished over the edges and puddled around the base.

"It's not just tonight that I've wanted to bind you to me. It was moment I first saw you." I turned away so he wouldn't see the shame in my face. I wasn't ready to admit that I had stalked him days before he first saw me at the pool hall. "You blood calls to me, beckons to the need in me to feed. I want to bite you, mark you as mine so all the world will know you are mine." I touched my breast that was scared with his teeth mark. "As I've been marked by you." I added softly. "I fear for you. I won't be the only one to hear your blood's song and the rise in power from me will alert them that I've answered. As you are now, you can die." I jerked at the thought and it didn't help in giving Jake the time that he wanted.

I stood and rounded the island counter we were eating at my body trembling with everything I felt. "Maybe we are more like animals then human." I looked at my hand tracing the lines with my finger. I put my hands down flat on the marble surface. "I don't know why or how, call it magic if you will but you are the only man I will love and the only one who can will start a child in me."

"Tonight-" I smiled at the memory. "Tonight I learned your body and I crave and hunger for you all the more. I've tasted you and know the flavor and smell of you. Everything in me demands that I bind us but I will do as you wish and give you time. If your answer is no," My eyes glistened with the unthinkable. "I will try to live with it no matter the cost. But I can never leave you. You might never see me again but your protection is the order to my life. You are known to this world now and that can't be changed and I will protect you from it." I promised.

"You're food is getting cold." I noticed that he had stopped eating and nudged a plate closer to him. I didn't mean to spoil his appetite and felt guilty for my selfishness at questioning him. But one question still lingered. "Why is it so important where my feeling come from or why I feel them. Is it wrong to feel this way about you?" Do you not want me as a part of your life? The silent question echoed, fear of the answer keeping me from asking it.

 

[musicankane]

Talk about the metaphysical short straw. Every bit of her story made me feel terrible, like someone was ripping on my heart and trying to make me feel all the pain she must have felt her whole life. I wasn't upset with her, I wasn't upset with the sudden reveal that I was the sun in her universe. It wasn't fair.

She nudged the plate toward me, trying to encourage me to eat. I looked up at her, then I rose to my feet and stepped toward her. I took her hands and pulled her into my arms, hugging her against me. I said nothing, I just held her. Her body fit to mine so perfectly that it was clear she spoke nothing but truth to me. I would never meet a woman as special as her.

I could fight it, I could try to say to myself that I could just walk away from her. But it would all be bullshit. I was a part of her now, she was a part of me and I couldn't refuse her only to let her protect me from the shadows. What kind of life would I condem her to, only letting her observe the man she loves from the shadows.

Plus she said I was the only hope she would ever have to having a child. She was everything I wanted, with a vampire twist I suppose. I could have a family with her, I could have the white picket fence with this woman.

"It isn't fair you know. That you've had to suffer alone for so long." I whispered. "I wont let you be alone anymore Althea. If you say I am that much to you, then I can't just walk away from that. It's like a man walking away from winning the lottery or something." I reached up and ran my fingers through her hair. "Let me make you complete Althea, become mine forever."

 

[Orithyia]

I didn't expect him to hug me but I warmed to the touch. He made my life seem so much harder then it was. "My life was one of suffering. You never miss what you don't know." I wrapped my arms around him. I was going to say more but his words stopped me. Was he saying what I was hoping he was saying? If so why did it feel like he was sacrificing himself for me. I didn't want it to feel that way but I kept in mind that he wanted me to be his forever.

"As much as I want this I said I would give you time and there was a lot that I told you and you need to think it over." I kissed him and the words felt heavy as I said them but I wanted him to know and think about what he was choosing. "You have me either way." I told him. I wasn't going to be selfish.

I patted his butt and pulled away. "My father had some clothes here, they won't fit but it'll work for now." If we were both done with the food he needed clothes and I wanted to show off ym garage. I ran upstairs to the room my father used and grabbed a pair of jeans and a shirt. "The jeans should fit around the hips but I think they're going to be long and the shirt is just going to be big." I had changed while I was upstairs. "We can get you something in town or if you like we have a weekend to make a travel date out of it." I smiled.

 

[musicankane]

I felt like I had fucked up. Maybe she felt like i was choosing her because of her story and not because i really wanted too. Maybe she was right in part, but this wasnt like i was fitting into torture for the rezt of my life. Althea seemed like a really nice girl and she was nuts about me, sure she didnt have a choice in that matter but that didnt change how she felt. If anything I would be the one feeling like the slave master to her. She didnt have a choice but I did too some degree.

I stepped into the pants and bent over to roll up the legging then i smiled at her. "Let me ask you this Althea. In any of hese previous pairing has the couple not been in love with each other. More importantly do you love me? I dont mean that you would do anything for me, i mean do you really love me?" I asked her taking a small step toward her. I tried to hide the smile behind me lips for what i had planned.

 

[Orithyia]

I eyed him for a moment trying to guess at the reasoning behind the question. "The soulless will always love the souled one. The vampire might not like them but love is the flip side to the coin." I answered slowly. Everyone I had ever met that had been paired and bound to each other were like hallmark cards of love. There was no questioning the depth of their love because it was obvious to anyone who saw them how they felt about each other. "I love you because we were made for each other, I care for you because I've seen the man you are." I smiled then a glint of trouble in my eyes. "I am free in my choice to feel for you as I am to grant you what you want. No is not a word I am unfamiliar with." I told him hinting that not everything asked of me I would give.

"Why do you ask?" I had a feeling that I was somehow being tricked. I watched him take a small step towards me and almost wanted to mirror the step in the opposite direction. Was I being tricked? Or had I been tricked and the last few hours were just an act to get me to lower my guard making it easier to kill me. I shrugged in my mind. If we wanted to kill me I had already decided that I would let him. Of course in my mind I had already killed Mac and the werewolves but I guess this way, with me out of the way he would be safe again.

 

[musicankane]

I smiled and said, "I wanted to make sure that there was some free will behind your feelings. Your love without control doesnt mean as much as it does when i know you can resist it." I closed the distance between us and cupped my hand to her cheek. "I wanted the storybook happy ending ever since I was a kid. I wanted a wife and kids thats why i spent so much effort in trying to get a good job. With you....well you are more than everything i have ever wanted hell you even give me super powers."

I sighed and leaned in to press my forhead to hers. "The way I see it though this is the dating stage for us. But unlike any other dating you need to show me the world as you do. Woe me into your world Althea, take me to extoic places and see the sights you've seen that i never could." I smirked and let my hand drop to her hip. "I want you to know that I really want to love you, i see a lot of good in you but it is like you said i need to see what i am getting into before i can give you my heart. Last i checked we still have a weekend before us so all i can say is show me."

 

[Orithyia]

"You don't have to work so hard now." I told him affectionately. "You have me and that means everything that is mine is yours." I liked that he said I was albe to give him everything he wanted. I knew the importance of money but after years of investments, stocks and real estate I had stopped caring about it. I had more then I could ever wish to spend for this life time and any hundred more I would live.

I could seen then what he meant about doing anything for him. I wasn't sure if it was a weakness per say but if I could get it for him I knew that I would. It didn't mean that he would get it the moment that he asked for it but I would find reasons to give him gifts. In fact if I looked into it I was sure that there was something that marked every day in a year. I smiled at myself. If this is how I felt and thought about a man I just met I shudder to think how I will treat my child. And then I thought about it. I was spoiled beyond that of a normal child and I came out fine.

There was so much I wanted to show him. My child hood home, my parents, the wonders of the world, places only thought as legends. On and on the list went and I was trembling with the need to make him love me. I had never wooed anyone before and but at least I knew where to start. "First we need to get you clothes." And taking his hand she walked him towards the ]garage, a smirk on my face unable to see the look on his face when he saw my garage. And this isn't even my biggest one! I hooted with laughter in my mind.

Before opening the doors I paused and wiped the smirk from my face then turned to him. "I'm horribly indecisive." I frowned with happiness. "If you could help me by picking one out that would save us time." I couldn't hide it anymore and pushed open the doors to my garage.