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[musicankane]

I think i shit my pants when she clicked on the light of the garage. I couldnt believe my eyes. She had a collection that I could never dream of. Classic cars, european sports cars, exotics fucking anything i could think of she had one it seemed. I couldnt believe this shit. She had so much money it must be staggering.

I shook my head and walked into the garage. I let my eyes wonder over her cars until i stopped in front of the red Ferrari. "Oh my God. I've always wanted to drive a Ferrari." I said leaned over to gently run my fingers over the smooth red paint. I turned toward her and smiled, "you have great taste in cars. You really know how to seduce a guy dont you." I teased with a wink.

I didnt want her wealth to affect my feelings for her, but I would be lying if I didnt admit to myself that this was a big plus. "Christ this fucking garage is like a toys-r-us to me. Is that a Porche Caerra Gt over there?" I asked pointing to a silver Porche in the corner. I wanted to laugh as I thought about driving in these clothes that didnt fit and a beautiful woman by my side. People would easilly asume she was with me for money, when the truth would be so much weirder.

I went up to her and out my hands on her shoulders, "Please say i can drive it."

 

[Orithyia]

His happiness made me happy and I stood there silently against the wall watching him. He caressed the Ferrari with the same tenderness that he touched me with and I moved to his side. "I have better taste in men." I wasn't teasing, it was the truth, I had picked Jake didn't I.

"You should see my Father's collection. He's been collection cars since they were first made." When he asked his question I nodded yes without even looking. I knew what was in here and I was pleasantly surprised at his eye and knowledge. In this garage I leaned more towards my Audi R8 GT Spyder unit number 3. But I kept my favoritism quite and let him pick one.

I laughed and felt like teasing him as he grabbed my shoulder. "No. I just felt like showing you them. We're taking the bus." But I didn't want to see his face drop and I quickly followed it with a head nod toward the back wall. "Key are in the case. They're all labeled, go pick and drive." I smiled patting his hands before I expected him to run off like a black Friday shopper.

In the mean time and scooted up on the hood of a car and posed like a calender girl until he came back.

 

[musicankane]

I gave her a quick kiss then darted over to the box where she said the keys where. It took me longer than I expected to find the keys to the right car. My eyes wandered over the keys and the labels. She had all kinds of shit here, I couldnt believe how many cars she had. Ferrari's, Porche's, Corevettes, some cars with names and brands I never even heard of. Some of these things had to be worth millions. The greedy part of me couldnt help but wonder just how much money she had. But I shook that away because that was simply a horrible thought to have about somebody.

I snagged the keys and came back to the car where she had taken it amongst herself to strike a pose on the hood of the car. Now a guy has two reactions to this. The first one is, bend that beauty over and fuck her on the hoos of the car. The second one is, holy shit get off the hood before you scratch it. Sine it was her car I mostly had the first reaction.

I smirked, "You keep looking that sexy and we'll never get anywhere." I said moving up to her and putting my hands on her knees. I let my finger trail up and down her thighs and smiled teasingly at her. "Make a man feel wanted and he might not be able to control the thing he'll do to you."

 

[Orithyia]

I loved the look he gave me and I felt it roll down my spine to the never endings that make me sigh. I parted my legs for him and looked up at him and returned his teasing smile of my own. "So how much more wanted do I have to make you feel before you lose control?" I purred glad that I had picked this outfit today. It would be easy to remove, a buckle for the belt and a zipper and the pants here off and a simple knot at the back and the loosening of ties and the top would fall off.

I reached for his body and my hand slid under his shirt and his skin stung the palm of my hand. It wasn't pain that I felt but a tight coil of desire expand and awaken. It was never far when Jake was near me. "But you're right." I sighed and pouted. "We'll never get anywhere if you rip my clothes off and have your way with me on the hood of this car." I was teasing him and one of my hands moved from touching his chest to playing with the zipper on the side of my leg.

"Would you help a lady off the hood of the car?" I leaned over and made a showing of the tops of my breasts and cleavage. And because I wanted to be a tease I didn't fully zip the zipper all the way and left a part of it undone to show a flash of skin.

 

[musicankane]

I shivered at the teasing glimpses of flesh she allowed me to see. My eyes lingered over her breasts because she was giving me the chance to have a look. I knew she wouldnt mind if i stood there all night just staring at her body. But alas I would have to make a move eventually. So i leaned into her and scooped her off the car throwing her over my shoulder like a cave.

"Jake like pretty lady. Jake like pretty lady car. Jake play with car then Jake play with lady and make snewsnew." I said grunting and bouncing her around for a moment. I took her to the passenger side of the car and set her down.

I opened the door for her then ran around to my side and climbed in. My hands ran gently of the leather of the wheel unable to believe I was about to drive this amazing machine. I turned the car on and it roared to life making me laugh evilly. I turned to her and reached out quickly grabbing a handful of her hair and pulling her lips to mine.

"You are fucking awesome you know that?" I asked her, breathing against her lips. Then she pressed something and the garage door opened. I smiled and stepped on the gas sending us flying into the night with a roar of the engine.

As i got on the road i saw a road sign that wasnt in English and i asked, "So where the hell are we anyway? I mean geographically?" Then just to see if she would catch the question i added, "What's your favorite position to have sex in?"

 

[Orithyia]

I sang with laughter as Jake lifted me up and tossed me over his shoulder. I couldn't remember the last time I laughed like this and I treasured it for what it was. I didn't know how I could have been any happier. I watched Jake run around the car before sliding into the car myself. I didn't bother with the seat belt and I resisted the urge to tell Jake to put his on. He was petting the car again. I wan tempted to just give it to him then and there but I wasn't sure how he would react to that. His laughter sending shivers down my body until I had to clamp my legs shut and force them to not rock.

"Uhmm." I moaned into his mouth. I was about to just say fuck it and strip him of his clothes and I didn't know what stopped me. I pressed the garage door button and he stepped on the gas pedal, the high wail of rubber burning shrieking before they jetted out of the garage.

"54°10′N 4°34′W." I answered as if that helped in anyway shape or form. "Isle of Man." I smiled. "In the sea between Ireland and the UK." I clarified. "Take A26, it's the only thing in English, north until you hit A1. It'll take us into Douglas and we can go shopping there."

 

[musicankane]

I turned my head briefly as she explained where we were and where I should go. "Ireland?" I asked, "You serious? You rushed us half-way around the globe?" I couldn't believe it. I had always wanted to travel, and little did I know that I have been in Ireland for the past, what, six hours or so now? Well alright then, might as well enjoy a fast car in a country with no speed limit.

I stepped on the gas harder and let the car open up and listened to the engine rev up as I quickly hit 120 mph. "WHOOOO!" I cried as I zipped through the open road countryside, enjoying this incredible experience. My eyes watched far ahead for anything dangerous as well as the road sign she had told me to look for.

As I drove I said, "So you never answered the other question. What's your favorite position?" I asked her again. "I figure I can get to know you better, starting with the good stuff." I said, giving her a quick wink.

 

[Orithyia]

"It's more the responsibility of the UK but it's a self governing department of the Crown." I corrected. "But yeah, I'm serious." My gift was is teleportation of what I liked to call 'flashing'. Many of my kind could fool the human eye into thinking that we could teleport but it was just the quick movements of my kind that made it seem so. I differed in the way that I could physically move from one place to another. I knew of one other that could teleport but I had greater distance and power in my gift.

His excitement was mirrored in the acceleration of the car. I kept an eye out for hazards and road signs as she sped across the country. I've never been in a car ride that could match the rush of this one. As much as I wanted to watched the road I became lost as I stared at Jake.

"What?" He was right I never did answer the question. "I'm not sure." I answered truthfully. "I've never sought out sex for pleasure. It was more a fulfillment that my body needed." I tried thinking about it. Porn wasn't a new thing for me but I didn't ever watch it, just catching bit a pieces through out my life. "I've always been most instead in the position called 'doggy'. The control the man had and the power in which he can thrust into the woman." I smiled rubbing my legs together and feeling the leather ride up and against my wet lips.

I didn't want him to get in a wreck but I couldn't stop myself. I leaned over and lick his neck, my hand easily undoing the button on his borrowed pants. I wanted to feel him and taste him. I pulled his zipper down and reached into his pants. My mouth sucking hard over the pulse in his neck. "What's your favorite position?" I whispered on his skin feeling him in my hand.

 

[musicankane]

I smiled at her answer to the question. I was a fan of doggy style and the picture I got in my head of her bent over for me, while I fucked her made me excited. Apparently it got her excited to because she leaned over and licked my neck. Her hand then worked down to my pants and she snaked her fingers down to brush over my cock.

"Oh I like lots of positions." I breathed slowly, a bead of sweat suddenly forming on my forehead. Her attentions made my heart start to pound in my chest and every time she touched me it felt like I was a virgin in high school, suddenly about to be alone with the hottest girl in school.

This time though her fingers caress me at 115 mph down a road I didn't know. It was dangerous, but at the same time it was incredibly thrilling. I tighten my grip on the wheel and smirked, "You better be careful Althea. There is a snake down there that likes to spit." I teased.

 

[Orithyia]

"But do you have a favorite one?" I asked making him concentrate on answering the question as my hand played lightly over his shaft, tracing the flare around the tip.

It may not have seemed like it but I was paying attention to the road. my mind reached out ahead of us and I was able to feel living things, which helped when you could run across a flock of cheep in the middle of the road. But more then that I was listening to the car. "Be careful." I warned mentally mapping where we were. "There's going to be a curve around his swell. It's not too sharp but at this speed you might want to be careful."

I chucked at his joke. "It's okay, I swallow." I returned pulling out his cock. I knew I had warned him about being careful just moments and this wouldn't help him focus on the road but I was being selfish. I could protect him with my body if anything happens. What ever might happen to the car, I didn't care. I could always get another one if I wanted. I licked and coated the head of his dick with my tongue and circled around the flare of the head. I was mindful of my fangs as I sucked on his head and reached into his pants to fondle his ball.

"Curve." I warned just as he passed the swell.

It was a straight shot from here until he hit A1 and I went back to what I was doing. Opening my mouth wide I took as much of him in my mouth that I could. It was enough that he hit the back of my throat and what I couldn't put in my mouth was blocked my the pants. It didn't matter to me and I worked with what I had. Flexing and tightening the back of my throat so that different pressures worked over the herd of him. I didn't neglect any part of him. My hand played, gently pulled and cupped his ball. My tongue swirled under and around his shaft. After a long while I came up gasping for breath, a thin strand of saliva connecting his cock to my bottom lip.

I looked up from his lap my hand moving to cover his cock and stroke him with a long easy rhythm. "How's the car handling?" I asked as if he was paying attention to that.

 

[musicankane]

One of the things that had always been on my bucket list was getting my dick sucked while driving. Top that off with always wanting to drive an expensive sports car and that made a check and double check on that. With her mouth licking and sucking on my gearshift I slowed the car down to about eighty or so, which was still soeeding anywhere in the states but this car handled it like I was driving forty. Smooth and wonderful.

Speaking of wonderful the thrill that ran through me everything her teeth grazed the skin of my cock was mindblowing. I knew there was no danger and yet there was that possibility of danger by accident, like cumming inside a girl on the pill. It should be safe but you really never know.

Her head bobbed in my lap and i had to resist the urge to put my hand on the back of her head. I needed to keep the car in control and I didnt want to push my limits of paying attention. She lifted off of me for a moment to ask about the car and I gasped. Her warm spit was dripping down my length and it gave me tingles in my stomach.

"Car's great." I gasped, "And you really know how to work a stick shift." I told her. We approached the turn onto a different highway and i made it just as her tongue resumed its taste test.

It was only a couple of miles more before i fept my balls tense. She had just went down as deep as she could go and the feel of being in her mouth completely pushed me over the edge. I grunted a warning but it was all I could managed before my first spurt of cum burst into her mouth.

 

[Orithyia]

I felt the tightening and swelling in his shaft and knew he was close to cumming and relaxed my throat and pushed my head down until I could feel him in my throat. It wasn't that I cared about the leather in the car or the borrowed clothes but I didn't want to make a mess and have Jake cum all over the place. Plus I wanted to know what that part if him tasted like. Just when I thought that it was a false alarm Jake's hips jerked and a hot spurt of cum went down my throat. I couldn't taste him like that and pulled back so that he could fill my mouth with is cum. It was salty and bitter in the way that untouched chocolate was. I quickly swallowed when my mouth was full not wanting to waste a drop.

When the ripples of his shaft stopped I puled back until all I held in my mouth was his head and sucked on it gently to milk the last few drops from him. "So you have yet to tell me your favorite position." I reminded him as I wiped my mouth clean and tucked him safely back into his underwear and re did his pants.

"Oh and when you get into town just park anywhere." I told him sitting back in my seat to watch the road go by.

I had felt it when Jake came and I was wet and wanting but I hadn't down it for me, I had wanted to pleasure Jake but now that he was pleasured I found that I wasn't as calmed by the ordeal as I would have thought. I wanted to be in town already. I understood the need for some clothes but more then that I wanted to take him to the lighthouse and have him take me from behind as we watched the waves crash below us.

 

[musicankane]

I felt myself totally relax in the seat. Even after Althea had put me back into my pants and it looked like nothing had happened, I felt the post orgasmic relaxation pour through me. I've never had a girl swallow my cum before and having Althea do it without protest or even a challenge was amazing. The girl was willing and able to just take all the cum I could squirt out into herself in any place I wished it seemed. Men would kill for this kind of girl friend.

She reminded me to tell her what my favorite sexual position was and I glanced at her with a grin, "I am I fan of doggy too. But my favorite is Missionary. I love to see the look on a girl's face when she's cumming, or the look she makes when she feels my cum splashing into her. It's so hot." I glanced from her back to the road and screamed, "HOLY SHIT!!!!"

Where there was open road a moment ago, now stood a shadowed man. He stood in the street right in front of the car like it meant nothing to him. I had no time to react, or even step on the brakes. The man simply put out his hand and the car stopped with a massive jerk. Over eighty mph to zero in no time. I was saved because of the seat belt, but Althea had taken hers off to suck me off and she went flying through the windsheild with a crash.

The man in front of us caught her mid-air and slammed her onto her back on the hood of the car, which caused it to cave it and the engine shrieked to a stop.

Whiplash had me seeing stars and everything was blurry for a moment, but I could still hear what was happened.

"Well if it isn't my sweet little Althea. I was wondering when you'd come back home." He said in an extremely deep voice that simply felt ancient in tone. "I've decided Althea, I am tired of you to wait until you find your soul mate. You have been my mate for hundreds of years and I want you back now. No more games, no more hiding, you are to come with me now." There was a pause, "Well maybe after we have a snack off the meal you have there in the car." He chuckled.

 

[Orithyia]

"Well if you don't have a problem with it there's this place-" I hadn't been paying attention or I could have warned Jake but as it was the car jerked to a halt and I flew thru the glass. The action didn't phase me at all but the person who caught me did. I knew him well and I wasn't the happiest to see him. I was even less pleased when he slammed in on the hood of the car, totaling it.

I chucked as if I wasn't bothered at all by what he said. "Oh Fionn..." I sighed reached up to pat his cheek. "You are so lucky this wasn't my Audi." I smiled the pat on his face turning into sharp little smacks. I wasn't going to bring up the fact that this wasn't my home just the location that the house that I loved the most called home. "If I had known you were still here wait like I love struck teen I would have stayed away longer." The sharp sting of a harder pressed slap rang in the silence.

Over my should I could see Jake and I felt and saw with more then my eyes the two lonely strands that connected us. It was by no ways complete but it was there, glowing faintly. "Have you no eyes to see. I've found what calls to me." I threw myself both mentally and physically at my once upon a time sexual outlet. The car was already beyond fixing and I took my turn slamming him on to the hood widening my body mark and making it deeper.

"We were never mates. Unbonded cannot mate." I told him simply. We could pair and group but there was never real love to the pairings. Possession maybe but never love and in the end it's what all of my kind want, unless you've given into the blood lust. "What makes me think I came for you? Did you hear me call out to you? Did you feel my hunger for your body?" Each question was followed by a not so gentle push into the seemingly 'soft' metal. "I believe the answer to both is no."

I backed away from him with the slow speed of a human and went to Jake's side of the car. I didn't know how he would react to the vampire that was acting like a disgruntled ex-boyfriend. "Sorry about that." I smiled keeping my mind sharp on the man who had threatened my blood bound. "This place has the worst speed bumps." I laughed trying to ease the mood. "Next time gas it."

 

[musicankane]

I was dazed and a little dizzy from essentially driving into a brick wall at a high speed. The fact that I wasn't completely dead or broken was a miracle, or maybe it was due to the small amount of vampire blood in my system still. I don't know how long it was going to last though and now I had a massive head ache. I watched Althea push away from the guy in front of us.

The front end of the car was totally and royally fucked. It made me sad, or would have if I could have thought straight at the moment. I blinked as she moved beside me and opened the door. I tried to unbuckle the seat belt, but the clasp was bent in place.

I groaned and roll my head, trying to blink the haze out of my head. "What's happening?" I asked.

Fionn moved around to get a look at the boy who had become a part of Althea's exsistance. It made him angry, because in this human, this frail shell, was all of Althea's attention and hopes. It was stopping Fionn from getting Althea for himself.

"You have not yet bounded him?" Fionn asked, mildly surprised that she was taking her time with a soul mate. Then a slow smiled spread on his face, "Such Frailty in such an important package. It would be a shame if I accident squashed him."

 

[Orithyia]

I heard the groan of pain from Jake and my heart ached and was weighted down by guilt and self hate. I was the reason that he was in pain right now. My face softened and I easily snapped the metal clasp and freed him but didn't move his from his seat. I didn't know how injured he was and I didn't want to rick moving him and making it worse. My blood was gone from his system burned up with the need to heal his body but it wasn't enough to leave him without pains.

"We ran into an old friend of mine." I was using the word friend in the loosest manor. He had threatened to drain the soul to my body and it automatically removed him from that list but I wanted Jake to remain calm. "Here." I stuck my thumb in my mouth and tore at the fleshy pad of skin. "It'll make you feel better." I told him holding out my bloodied thumb. I was asking him to take my blood, to heal what I had caused him.

I had felt Fionn move and I wasn't excited to have the vampire at my back. Years before I had come to him to ease the tensions of my body. When I was lonely and tired of a life that would kill me the first chance they got if they knew who I was, I sought him out. It was true that the last time we had been together it had been on this isle but I hadn't thought that he had stuck around and waited for me. "Fionn-" I started ready to apologize for my attitude but quickly ate my words when he spoke up.

My blood ran cold and I back away from Jake, putting myself between him and Fionn and turned to met him with an icy glare that would freeze hell itself should I direct it in their direction. "And here I thought I would say sorry for being a bitch but I guess not." I took a step towards him in a challenge. It was probably not the best idea to challenge Fionn in such a way but my mind wasn't working at it's normal logical capacity.

"What would be a true shame is to loose such a handsome figure to something as stupid as trying to harm my blood bond." I charmed in a sing song like voice that burned with it's icy touch. "Don't make me kill you." I pleaded the tone of my voice tired. I didn't want to have to kill the person that I had so easily turned to in my life. He was important but in the back of my mind I knew that if I ever saw him after that he would be the one person unhappy with my having found Jake. "Be with me in my time of joy. Stand by my side as a friend who I can still come to when times are hard."

Even as I asked all this I didn't let my guard down. I would protect Jake with my life if I needed to and Fionn being the closest thing to a loved one and cherished friend wouldn't make me hesitate in what I would do if he tried to harm Jake.

 

[musicankane]

Fionn smiled and spread his hands as if there was nothing he could do about any of this. "You leave me no choice my sweet Althea. Friendship had nothing to do with our history, it was to be apart of a bond of power." His eyes narrowed and he smiled, "Binding you to me, would increase my power ten fold. That's what I'm after. Children, love, those are simple stupid mortal feelings that are beneath our kind."

He turned his back and took a few steps away. "You have one week Althea. I know how bonding works. You must make him want you more than life itself for the bond to become valid. If you can't make him your mate by then, I will return and kill him, then I will bond you too me whether you want it or not."

There was a shimmer of motion, then he was gone.

* * * *

I felt the haze melt away. Left behind by the copper taste of blood in my mouth. I blinked and shifted in the seat realizing slowly that the pain was gone. I looked around for Althea and saw her staring off toward empty space. I pulled myself slowly out of the car and moved next to her.

My head still hurt a little bit, though I was unaware that it was because my spine was putting itself back into the right shape. "What the hell happened?" I asked her, did I hit a animal or something. I spun toward the car and winced, the beautiful car was fucked. I groaned, "Oh fuck Althea, the Ferrari. I'm sorry, ahh shit. First time I get behind a Ferrari and I fuck it up." I sighed and hung my head. "I'll pay you back I swear."

 

[Orithyia]

Cold dread knotted in my stomach and I jumped at the sound of Jake's voice.

A week...

It felt almost useless now. Jake did not love me and in seven day's time he was going to die. I closed my eyes against the hopeless feelings that were threatening to tear me up inside. Shivers racked my body in tiny waves that shimmered with unleashed power.

NO!

My eyes opened and the power receded back into me and my body stilled with it's new resolve. Even if Jake did not love me I would let nothing come to him. If that meant giving myself over to Fionn to save Jake then I would. Bonds of power didn't work the same as a calling of blood, soul and love did. I would do everything in my power to keep Jake save. My heart clamped on the promise and I steeled myself against the dread of having Fionn coming after him.

"We ran into an old friend of mine." I repeated ignoring everything that had just happened in the few minutes that stretched to feel like years. "Thought saying that you almost ran into an animal wouldn't be far off." I whispered under my breath. "The car is alright. If you want we can get a new one." I smiled walking to close the space between us. "I don't want your money. It's just a car. You on the other hand is what worries me. Are you okay?" I could feel the warm humming in his body as my blood whizzed around healing and mending the things that were broken and sore.

My hands roamed over his body to make sure that nothing felt any different then the first time I had touched him. When I was done with my search and comfortable in the knowledge that nothing was harmed or maimed I tilted my head back and reached up to kiss him. "As long as you are safe and well I would sacrifice anything and everything that I own to keep you that way." I said between kisses. I wanted to hold him and merge my body into his and be with him forever. My arms wrapped around him and I pressed my body as close as I could unbalancing him.

'I'm sorry.' I whispered in my mind knowing that my words were unheard by the man who should be able to hear them. But we weren't bound yet and my repeated cries fell into the void.

 

[musicankane]

She touched me and kissed me, speaking word of encouragement to me. i must have been hurt because she seemed to be running her hands over me to inspect for any injuries. It was the first time that I truly felt how strong her feelings for me. Sure she had been telling me all night how much I meant to her and she had done a lot of things to try and show me, like the house, the sex, the car. But this was different. I could almost feel the panic that I was hurt from her and felt her body relax when she was satisfied that I wasn't.

I put my arms around her and smiled softly, "Althea." I told her softly, "I really mean that much to you don't I? I thought your story was at least partly bullshit, to be honest with you. But that relief and fear of my safety cannot be faked. I'm sorry I hadn't realized the truth. I'm so sorry."

A cold wind blew and I shivered a minute. "Say can you do me a favor? And teleport us somewhere not so cold?" I asked with a smirk. My fingers brushed through her hair and I kissed her softly, "Let's go on a date. That's something couples do right? Let me take you to dinner, like a blood bank or something." I teased, trying to make light of the situation.

 

[Orithyia]

I shook my head disregarding his apology. He wasn't born to this world he was just made for it. Human's lied and were deceitful but in a world that everyone could hear the slightest change of your heart, see the contraction or enlargement of your pupils or smelled your fear there was no way you could get away with a lie so it wasn't done. If you tried and were caught they could lay a claim on you for something they wanted or help that they needed and you were obligated to fulfill it because you had tried to lie to them. It didn't matter the reason, you had done it. The most that we could do is refuse to answer. But lying to a human to safe keep what you were was the shade of gray in the lying loop hole.

"Jake." I framed his face in my hands holding him because I was still scared that I would loose him. "I will never lie to you. You are all things light in my life, what reason would I have to lie. What could that gain me?" I asked him softly. "I never want you to doubt me." I kissed him softly and when deepened it wanting to taste him. If all I had was a week where he would be safe and I wouldn't have to part on the side of caution I was going to take every opportunity to do it.

I felt him shiver against my body and I was suddenly worried again. Was it from pain? Fear? Cold? But before I could ask he answered the question for me. "Somewhere not so cold?" Did that mean that he wanted to leave the Isle of Man? There were hundreds of places that I could take him weren't cold but there was a tailor here of her kind that could stitch a whole wardrobe in a day. "Okay somewhere not so cold." I agreed. "And a date." I smiled glowing with the idea that even with what happened with Fionn, Jake still wanted to court me.

"But first." I 'teleported' us to the inside of a building. "Ryan!" I let go of Jake and stepped up to the man behind a large table mounted with sewing what-nots.

"It's Mark now." The tall dark skinned man smiled, showing very white teeth and the tips of fangs. "You glow with the starting of life." He praised when he saw the connection to me and Jake. "What can I do you for?" His half smile was teasing. He was one of the few dark skinned of my kind and women surrounded him with wonder and lust and he had learned to work it into a charm. I had yet to bend to him finding his too smooth charm off balancing.

"Jake this is Mark, the best tailor that I know and the man responsible for every thing you've seen me wear." I knew that he liked what I wore and it was a good feeling introducing him to the man who created them. "I thought since I was partly responsible for ruining your clothes that I would get you more." I smiled. "If not we could always move into a nudist colony." I liked the idea, I knew of a few cities in south america where clothing was an option.

"Ohh there sounds like a story." Mark rubbed his hands together expecting a story. "Jake." Mark bowed from his hips and I wished that he hadn't. Who I was placed Jake in the highest ranks of my society and I hadn't yet told Jake the full history of my family. "It's an honor to meet the man to tame Althea of- Althea Methoni." He had caught my look almost too late and spoke over it in a fit.

"There isn't." I laughed. Aside from his sexual charm it was easy to fall into a relaxed mood around him. "Tell him what you want, he'll maybe listen to you, measure you and then we can leave for our date."

 

[musicankane]

Althea faltered for just a moment when I mentioned the cold. She probably didn't get cold or hot or anything like that so maybe the question simply puzzled her. Then she nodded and the world became blurry as we zipped through time and space. I thought about Althea's words, she wanted me to never doubt her, never doubt her feelings and now I was starting to realize just how special this was to her, and to me.

I found myself in this room where a man was standing behind a counter, his fingers blindly sewing up a bit of clothing. He gave Althea a smirk as he corrected her with who he was now. I thought for a moment that he might be in one of those witness protection programs or something, then he smiled wide enough to flash fangs and I got it. Apparently vampire changed their names every now and again in order to keep humans around them from being suspicious.

Althea turned to me and explained that Mark here was responsible for those outfits I liked her in. I smiled and nodded, "You do good work sir."

He came around to greet us and bowed from the hip, deep and formal. I blinked as he corrected himself as he said her name. I tamed ALthea? Maybe it was a joke like ball and chain was a joke for married people. Though Althea and I weren't married or anything like that....at least not yet.

Althea made arangements for Mark to make me some clothing. I nodded and Mark gestured me behind the counter, "Come around back sir, we'll get you measured and you can tell me what you want."

I nodded and gave Althea a wink before going back with Mark. Once we were alone Mark grabbed some measuring tape and began to take the numbers he needed, "So what do you want made?" He asked me.

"I am a T-shirt and jeans kind of guy." I told him.

Mark nodded and turned to a wall of cloth he had set up on large rollers. Then he became a blur, flying from side to side. The roller's spun like he was grabbing cloth faster than the eye could follow. Then he suddenly was at the bench sewing rapidly over bits of cloth.

It was like watching someone work in super fast forward. "So back there, you were about to call Althea something else, does she have another name or something."

Mark actually paused and looked up at me. His face looked red, like I had caught something that I shouldn't have. He sighed and shook his head, "I'm sorry, but it isn't for me to say. You can ask Althea, and she will tell you. She cannot lie to you, not anymore."

I stepped up to him. "So this is real? This bonding of blood thing? I'm really her soul mate?"

Mark nodded, "Your blood is special. The way vampire's breed is that there is one human with the right DNA in their blood to adapt with a vampire's system. It is a rare thing for a vampire to find that person, some go crazy with searching and never finding that special person. Other's never know that feeling. It's like instant love. Her body knows you in every way."

"Then what stopped her from bonding me before when we were having sex or something?" I asked.

Mark shook his head, "It wont work like that. If she bonded to you before your blood was ready to accept her, then the blood would rebel and go dormant. Making impossible for her to ever concieve with you."

"She is using me to have children?"

"No not just that. Not any more than a married man and woman have children with each other. She loves you more than eternal life itself. She wants to spend the rest of her existance with you."

"Then what keeps my blood from going dormant?"

"You have to love her back." Mark said with a shrug. "Really love her. It can't be half a feeling, your blood knows. It must be real love, only then can the bond work."

I couldn't believe it. But Mark was being too honest for me to doubt him. What reason would he ever have to lie anyway? It wouldn't serve any purpose for him. That meant that Althea was more special than anything I ever thought before, and I was more to her than she wanted to let on. I kind of felt like an asshole for turning her down back in the bedroom, but because of what would have happened I am glad I didn't.

MArk held up a few T-shirts and a couple pairs of jeans. "What do you think?" He asked.

"Perfect." I told him. Then I leaned toward him and smiled, "Could you make just one more thing for me?"

* * * *

When I walked back into the front room where Althea was waiting, I was dressed in a nice custom made dress shirt, a dark blue with a matching pair of black slacks. MArk even did me a solid and made some nice shoes to go with it all.

I walked right up to Althea and spread my arms, "I figured I should look good for our date. IT would be wrong for a woman as beautiful as you to go out with a shlubby looking guy." I said with a smiled, "What do you think?"

 

[Orithyia]

I didn't care what he wore because in my eyes everything looked perfect but I had to agree that in this he looked more then handsome. Without saying anything I let my eyes hungrily take in the sight of him. Mark had a talent with the cut and fit of cloth and the way it hung off his body made all his finer points stand out. The only problem was finding a single finer point to center on. Instead my eyes roamed from one spot to another in no particular order.

My voice was husky when I told him what I thought of him. "Women will stare at your perfection and I am not sure I can even share the sight of you with another woman." I didn't want anyone else to see the man that he was. I wanted him all for myself and I wasn't sure what I would do or if I would be able to handle another woman standing at his side. "You make me hunger for you." I stalked towards him like a large cat that had just found her pray. "Thank you Mark." I said dully as I felt the other vampire enter the room. I needed to get Jake out of here now and have him for myself but we had things he- No, we wanted to do.

I blinked rapidly and shook my head clear of all the things I wanted to do with this man standing in front of me. "Lets go now before I decide that I need to lock you in a room for the rest of your life." It wasn't an idle threat but I tried to make light of it with my airy voice.

"Glad to have been of service, your-" I was really getting tired of all Mark's slip ups and my glare and middle finger stopped the joking bow that I knew was coming. "Althea." He laughted instead watching as we left the building that he owned located in the middle of town.

 

[musicankane]

I felt proud that she approved with how I looked. Though the way she looked at me and from what Mark had said I wasn't sure she would have been pleased if I walked out in a plastic garbage bag outfit. Okay maybe that was pushing it, but she reassured me that I wouldn't have to worry about her being up that I love to wear basic things like T-shirt and jeans combos.

She teased about keeping me locked away and honestly it was rather different to be wanted in such a way for a change. My mind kept going back to what Mark had said, the things she was going through just by meeting me. The things I meant to her, words and feelings that she couldn't really describe to me. Guilt ran through me because I had been born 1600 years too late for her. Mark had explained the solitude that a vampire can feel after a few hundred years of being alone, being able to feel the yearning but never being able to fill it.

The biggest source of guilt was that I couldn't just outright love her the way she deserved. The way she felt for me. I mean I did have feeling for her, and I really did like her, could I call it love...no and I knew now that I really needed to be honest with myself because if the bond happened and I wasn't 100% sure I would screw her over and Althea deserved better than that.

I smiled at her and let my hands reach down to cup her ass cheeks gently. "Let's go get something to eat. I need a really good steak." I said, making sure my voice didn't let on the things I now knew, and the things that Mark's flubs had hinted to me about.

 

[Orithyia]

I nodded recalling how little he ate of the meal I had cooked and it helped in pushing aside all my animistic wants and needs for the moment. "Yes, stake. Umm..." I was slow in answering and I didn't really know why. It wasn't like there was a lot of choices in Douglas. In fact there were two, three if you count the private dinner that catered to my kind and I wasn't going to take Jake there without us being tied.

"We have The Grill In The Park which in alright but hard to like when you can cook better and Jaks Bar & Steak House which is by far the better of the picks." It would be an easy walk to either place from Mark's and wouldn't need a car to get to. A problem since they were at the moment lack in the car department and neither place had a safe area to flash to without getting seen. "Or we can go somewhere else entirely."

I knew that Fionn would find me even if I left but I liked the idea of getting Jake as far away from him as I could. At the same time I liked to keep an eye on the person that threatened my soul mate and it would be harder to watch out for if I was half way across the world. Still... I tried to convince myself that it was all for Jake, didn't he say he wanted to go somewhere warmer?

 

[musicankane]

I agreed to the better steak house and we left Matt with a thank you and walked toward the restaurant. We walked in silence for a while, just enjoying the coolness of the night together. There weren't many people out and about, but I saw the European lisence plates on the cars and it was a jarring reminder that I was halfway across the world from my home. To think i had always wanted to travel and with Althea, anywhere I wanted to go was a moment away.

It was strange and everything about Althea made me feel like I would be using her power to my own ends if I ended up with her. Then again she was already in love with me, my blood forced that feeling into her. Was what she would be getting from me, worth the trade?

I didn't know, but she was clearly strong enough to tell me know if she ever thought I crossed the line. My mind constantly thought about the things we could do, and I didn't realize we were at the restaurant until we reached the front door. I blinked and shook my head. I was over thinking it, spending too much time in my head.

I smiled at Althea and put my hand around her waist, "I am spending way too much time in my head darling. I'm sorry." I told her and gestured into the restaurant. "Let's have a good dinner, I want to learn more about you."