Heirot

Tenele's repeated urging was the last straw in crumbling the carefully sculpted wall of control that had kept him from this act for nearly the entire time he'd known her. His scarred cheek stung where she'd touched it, and even that felt good. He moved lower against her, his mouth working at the hollow at the base of her neck, and the most private parts of their bodies touched for the first time. Vlad waited a moment, drinking in his own anticipation, and then entered her in a long, slow movement. He felt a soft break of tissue and the faint scent of blood told him for sure what they'd both been wondering.

"I am your first," he breathed against her neck.

Tenele held her breath at the unfamiliar feeling of his body and hers meeting. It wasn't unbarable, however it was slightly uncomfortable and when he reached what was sacred to a woman she let out an involuntary gasp as he broke through. Her hands were clutching at his shoulders, her nails dragging over his skin as she clutched him tighter. She lay still for a moment trying to get used to the new adaption ot her body and how it felt so different. She heard his words, and she felt the sting of tears. Tears she willed away for another time. She was happy beyond anything at the moment. Happy that it was Vlad she had given herself to and no other man had stolen that gift.

"I'm glad," she whispered, her finger tips trailing over his cheek. "I am yours now..." She gave him a sweet tender smile.

Silver hair cascaded over the bed and peircing green eyes watched him intently as she saught his lips. Her kiss was passionate, needful. She let go of the fear that had consumed her moments before, and gave way to a deeper and stronger feeling. One that in words Tenele thought she could never describe. She didn't know if she should say anything, or what there was to say. All she could do was cover him in loving passionate kisses.

Vlad met her kiss, hungering for her more openly now that the sleeping fear had been put aside. He was slow and gentle at first, waiting for the tension to leave her muscles. After that he grew stronger in his movements, always in control, but tasting the edge of danger as well as his lips moved to the heat of her neck and lingered there. He finally had to pull his face away to avoid biting into that heat. He sat up over her, concentrating and reveling at the same time. He smiled darkly and ran his fingers over her body, making sure her sensations called her as wildly as his did. In his lifetime he'd had a lot of time to practice this, and he knew exactly what his hands and body were doing.

Tenele at first was quiet, but that didn't last long. She only gasped at first, sucking air in quickly as new sensations began. Ones she had never felt. Soon the gasps gave way to soft moans, and despite how much she didn't mean too, they flowed from her lips freely. She decided that it must have been a good thing to make such noises. She clutched at the bed sheets and finally returned her hands to him, holding onto him as her eyes saught his wildly. "Vlad..." she gasped out, unable to express the way she felt. She clutched at him tighter as the sensation grew. Just when she thought it couldn't get any better, it did. She rose up to kiss him, her kiss more passionate than ever before.

* * *

Above them was a figure, seated comfortably on the rafters with a presence that was completely undetectible. Not even the mighty Vladimir Dracul would be able to feel him. He was like Death, except better. Stronger. With all the strengths of a No Life King, and none of the weaknesses. Save one. One that his Queen had passed on to him. One that would be simple to avoid.

His eyes glowed red as he watched the two lovers, watching with a sour expression that began to change the more he gazed on. Slowly a smile pulled at the corner of his lips as he watched the expressions change on the woman's face and admired the way they were together. He would wait until they had worked themselves into slumber. Then he would act. Then he would have what he had come for. What was promised to him.

The Queen would get what she wanted as well, of course.

Vlad grinned, his eyes half closing as he leaned forward to kiss her. He could sense her beating pulse, calling his own. A tense groan rolled from his throat, but he was going to wait, he kept telling himself, wait wait wait. It was always so hard to control himself with her.

She clutched at him tighter and soon she could swear she was almost screaming. She twined her legs around him, hugging him tighter to her as her hands gripped at his shoulders. She wanted him closer, though she felt like she would never be closer to anyone. It was odd how suddenly she felt so one with him, connected. This was a feeling unlike anything she had ever experienced and when she reached the peek of that feeling she let out a cry. Wide-eyed, she stared at Vlad in disbelief, unable to understand how he could make her body feel such things.

* * *

The figure grinned, unable to contain it and barely able to stifle the chuckle that wished to exape from his lips. His red orbs grew wider with excitement. Maybe the vampire would be exhausted, as he knew after what the girl had been through she was sure to fall into slumber. He only hoped he would be lucky enough that the vampire would do the same. Else the surprise would have to come sooner.

"Gods, Tenele," Vlad groaned, the knowledge that she'd crossed the edge driving him over it as well. He grazed his teeth along her throat, a definite sensation but not enough to break her skin. He clutched her tightly against him and cried out, and then lay breathing against her, slowly sorting out where she ended and his own flesh started again. He vaguely considered something clever to say, but for once he had no words to follow up what he was feeling, and kept silent.

Tenele wrapped her arms around him tightly, hugging herself to him. Her limbs felt oddly shakey, and her heart thundered in her chest. She realized suddenly that her whole body was shaking, so she held him tighter. She didn't know what to say. She knew all the things she wanted to say and they all seemed so bland at the moment.

She nuzzled face closer to him, kissing his shoulder and his neck lovingly, while her finger tips idly traced a circular pattern across his back. She was trying to regain control of her breath, trying to regain control of her senses. She laughed softly, a happy and cheerful laugh. "Am I supposed to be this lightheaded?" she asked, smiling, staring at him with her water sparkling green eyes.

"Only with me," Vlad boasted, his voice pleasantly tired. "My Lady," he breathed against her skin, just enjoying the feel of the words on his lips. He'd been in love once before, as a human. It had been an arranged matter, not of his own choice, as with most nobles, but nonetheless he'd grown close to her. When he'd been turned, her passion burned out, and eventually so had his. But it had not been like this. This was something real enough to taste, real enough to fear, real enough to protect. He'd ignored it for so long, and now it was directly in front of him, too clear to possibly miss. His muscles relaxed against her, the sleep he'd denied last night nagging at him. His heart was beating so fast that his body was thinking it was human, trying to lull him into sleep.

Tenele's eyes were heavy as she still hugged him, snuggling up to his nude form. She felt so tired, and wondered if it were always like this afterwards. Even Vlad seemed tired, and that was a shock. She smiled as one she moved to let her finger tips slide down his handsome face. "If you fall a sleep on top of me, you'll crush me," she whispered softly, giving him a tender kiss.

She grinned, giving him a playful bite before using a good bit of her strength to push him off and role him over onto her side. She hovered over his form, draping a slender leg over his. Silver hair cascaded down around her face. The sun light hit the strands of metalic silver and they shimmered like jewelry. Her body's graceful curves were accented by the deep contrasting shadows created from the dim room and bright sunlight. A gentle hand touched his face as she smiled down at him, her eyes roaming over his features. Tenele felt her heart still pounding in her chest, and it was almost as if she could hear it in her ears.

She watched him for a moment and then placed a gentle ever so tender kiss on his lips. "I love you, Vladimir," she reminded him, as if she feared he'd forget. With that she laid her head on his chest, draping an arm over his abdomen after pulling a sheet over their lower haves. It wasn't as if she feared someone walking in on them, infact she hadn't even looked to see if there was a door to this seemingly magical room. It was just the fact her rear was cold.

Vlad let her roll him off of her with her own strength, happily uncooperative. She was extremely comfortable.

"I love you, Vladimir," she told him as she snuggled up against his side.

He clutched her possessively against him in response, breathing in the scent of her hair. Again, his body tempted him to sleep, but the impulse was growing weaker as his heart rate slowed. He didn't intend to sleep; there was still a threat of being attacked from inside the castle, and he'd lived long enough to learn not to let his guard down. Admittedly, lying naked and comfortable with a woman he admittedly loved wasn't exactly the picture of invulnerability.

Tenele fell into a gentle slumber, and that pleased the figure that hovered above on the rafters. However, the fact that Vladimir was not falling a sleep aggitated him. He could pull of what he needed to do before the vampire could realize anything. It just wouldn't be as fun.

He gave a gruff sigh and went by slicing the bodies he had tied to the rafters. Vlad didn't notice this because the figures were already stone dead, and with the help of his Queen he had ported them here to the place she had sent him. He had sensed the woman was being taken by a man, the spell of protection she had placed around Tenele had never worn off. Just as she had promised the guards she knew exactly when and where Tenele was being taken at. Though all of this was unplanned and she was just going along with it for her own amusement, she found the outcome had worked out quite brilliantly.

Before the blood could fall to the floor he used the abilities that came with his new found powers and telepathicly angled all the blood to the windows. He needed to cover up the light, else that could prove a problem to him. The blood splattered sickeningly against the narrow windows, dripping and sliding to cover ever last corner until no light was able to get through and the whole room took on a dark dim red color.

Tenele blinked her eyes open at the sound, sitting up next Vlad as light sprinkles of dark red liquid began raining from the ceiling. "What-"

Vlad's body suddenly went rigid as the overwhelming scent of blood filled the room seemingly at once. He jerked upright in the bed and narrowed his eyes at the windows dripping with blood. A twisted smile rose to his lips. "Interesting. Show yourself," he said fiercely.

An all too familiar laugh, to Tenele's liking, filled the room, echoing off the curved walls. She knew there was no way that she knew who the person was and it was all in her imagenation. She pulled on the covers, feeling exposed now that someone was in the room. She tugged them until they sort of covered her form, however Vlad appeared to be sitting on the rest of it. She used her hands to cover the rest.

The laugh continued until a pair of glowing red eyes appeared in the darkness before the bed. Obscured by the shadows, the only thing that could be seen was his eyes.

"I've come to bleed you dry, vampire," he grinned, his voice was multi-toned. Like two people were talking at once. "And your blood will create a new race, just as it created me."

Tenele narrowed her eyes unable to see how Vlad could have created him. Then she remembered that some how Adrian had gotten Vlad's curse, and they were unable to figure it out. Now this man had it as well. Who was he? How did he get it? He seemed willing to tell Vlad everything at the moment, maybe he would enlighten them? Maybe she could get to her nightgown and dress herself before the fight actually began.

"Its simple to do with the blood she took from your body during your first fight. She did it again with the last fight. You didn't even realize it did you? Why do you think she kept that whore alive," he cackled and Tenele rolled her eyes. Why did Arken scum call good women whores and the one that ruled them slept with every thing that had three legs, nooo they called her a Queen. "She knew as soon as she found out the connection you would come for her. Adrian, the one before me, was flawed."

He grew very quiet and began to emerge from the shadows. Tall, lean, and completely different looking. His face held a haunting smile that Tenele knew she wouldn't forget. He looked different. His face was no longer mutilated from scars, and he even seemed younger. He not only had fangs like Vlad, it seemed all his teeth were filed to a point. "I... am not."

Tenele glaced at Vlad, wondering if he remembered the man he had drained of blood in the mouth of the cave. The one who had come to claim her. Once again, just as they had with Adrian, they hadn't taken the time to remove the head and shea had reclaimed one of her minions. Reusing him as if he were something that could be recycled.

He stepped closer to them, what little light was in the room caught the silver handle of an axe that led to a silver axe-head that drug across the floor, creating an eerie screaching sound. The axe head was covered in holy ruins and Tenele was in total disbelief that he could even hold it in his hand. Whatever Shea had done to alter Vlad's blood... it had created something much worst than a no life king.

"The boy Adrian was a bore. I trust since you've made a mess of my chambers, you won't waste my time as he did," he said darkly, literally levitating himself out of the bed to stand before it, studying the stranger testily. He recognized the man; he could tell just by the smell of his blood. "So your witch queen gave you some magic powers to play with, how nice. Tell me, did she find a way to cure your stupidity, too?" he sneered.