7 comments/ 10110 views/ 44 favorites A Few Sips Ch. 01 By: sinagainChris12 Dear readers! Thank you oh so much for all of the comments, praises, criticisms, and guidance through feedback and the viewable comments. I really do appreciate them and have been slowly working through the next story that needs to be told about one of the characters from Vorhees. I hope you enjoy this one, I have been working hard to make it right and am hoping to keep the chapters coming quickly. ***** Step one, first name. She frowned. Even if she put her real name, no one would ever believe her. It had been cute in grade school, embarrassing in middle school, and a nightmare for her in high school. Closing her eyes for a moment, she took a deep breath and thought about the promise that she had made to her friend, Jenna. 'Domino.' Location was next, so she quickly typed 'Burlington, VT.' That was easier. Age was, as well, '23.' Occupation was one that she wasn't really sure what to put. 'Professional agoraphobe' seemed like it would attract the wrong type of people, or no one at all. 'IT Support' was a much better answer, and probably more of what the dating site was looking for there. Likes. Seriously? How in the world would anyone ever know what to actually put there? Domino sighed again, grabbing another candy corn from the bowl at her side and popping it into her mouth, she mass purchased one of the only sweets she really liked in October to hold her over each year. 'Halloween. The sound of crickets chirping at night. A hot bath. Eating good Chinese food. Puppets.' She was pretty sure if Jenna saw what she had put, the spunky woman would yell at her and take over the setting up of her dating profile, but Jenna just happened to be in the middle of a teleconference and she'd set a timeline for Domino to get the account set up. And she only had 20 more minutes. Dislikes. Oh, she would need a lot more characters than allowed to answer that one. 'People who don't like goats. Ryan Gosling. lo fi. Grocery shopping. Cooking fish.' What is your best personality trait? Oh Jesus. 'My expectations are low.' What is your worst personality trait? 'I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection.' Wait. No, she couldn't put either of those. It made her look desperate and sad. Well, she was kind of desperate and sad. She changed the best trait to 'attentive' and worst trait to 'sarmassophobia.' At least she'd get them to google something. What was she looking for in a date? Domino had never been on a real date before, so how in the world did she even know? She hadn't even left her house in the last three months. 'Patience and understanding.' Sure. Where would she go on her ideal date? Seriously? Did they mean seriously or like, if she had access to an airplane and unlimited funds? 'A good place for dinner where the music was soft and the conversation was good.' What do you look for in a date? 'Someone who is nonjudgmental and has possibly laughed at a cat meme on the Internet.' Ok, she had somehow decided to answer all the questions in such a way as to ensure that she never went on a date in her life, but Domino was having a hard time with this. Setting up an Internet dating profile would have been easier when she was seventeen, but now, after what she'd been through, it was like going to the dentist for her, something that almost required an Ativan. Clicking the next button, she was glad to see that everything else was a 1-5 scale of likes and stuff, which she went through quickly. Once she was done, she finally hit the submit button and then bit her lip as she went to the 'upload photo' button. Was she really considering putting her actual picture up on the Internet? The thought was stress-provoking and she lingered over the array of photos that she'd taken earlier in the day. All were of her sitting in front of her computer, turning her head one way or the other, her long, thick, wavy blond hair falling around her heart shaped face. Rolling her eyes, she clicked on one, knowing it was not what Jenna would have chosen, but she had only promised to make a profile, she hadn't promised to care about it. The picture she uploaded was of her, but instead of showing her big brown eyes and pale skin and dark brows, she was wearing a a Catwoman mask that covered her head from her scalp line to her lower cheeks and nose. She'd even put on red lipstick in the picture and had puckered just a little bit. Done! Domino clicked 'finish' and watched as her profile uploaded. Once it said that her profile would be reviewed and then taken live, Domino snapped her laptop closed and got up from her couch. Setting the machine aside, she walked from her living room into her small kitchen and pulled open her fridge. Speaking of grocery shopping, she was going to have to do it again, and soon. There were only condiments and a half stick of butter on the sad looking shelves. Frowning, she closed the door and opened the freezer to find a nearly empty ice cube tray and a partially empty box of frozen waffles. Shutting that door, she went to her cabinets and was equally disappointed by what she was seeing inside. Looking at the time, she knew it was too late to order a grocery delivery, it was evening, the darkness creeping through her windows confirmed that. Fuck, she felt a shiver work up and down her arms. She could just order take out. Then she wouldn't have to leave. But Domino knew that she needed to just go to the store. She would need food for the morning, as well, she was tired of eating waffles. Grabbing her jacket, she threw it over the black NiN shirt she was wearing with gray yoga pants and slipped into her black moccasins. There was a market a few blocks down from her house that was open late. She'd been there many times and it usually was pretty empty. Unlocking the deadbolt and lower lock on her door, Domino opened it wide and looked out into the hallway of her second floor apartment. She could feel the heat in her body as she looked at the threshold. This was ridiculous, she thought to herself, it was ridiculous to not be okay with leaving your own apartment to get food. She reached to the side table and grabbed her purse, looking into it as she forced herself to walk over the line that marked her space versus the more public space of the hallway, and then she pulled her door shut behind her and locked it. Domino refused to let her mind get the better of her and she walked down the staircase, stealing herself for the sick feeling that was bound to work up from her gut when she opened the front door of her apartment complex and stepped out onto the front walkway. Domino was intelligent enough to know that she had nothing to fear from being outside, she knew her phobia was completely irrational. She hadn't been this way her entire life, she used to love the outdoors, in fact. She had enjoyed going kayaking and swimming with her foster family, had loved to go snowboarding and hiking. Domino couldn't remember ever wanting to stay in a house, no matter where she was living at the time. She had been outdoorsy. It had only been after she'd found herself the subject of the attentions of her slightly older foster brother that she'd started to develop a fear of being around other people, and that fear had festered and grown until she'd been forced to quit her job at a local tech company because she was having a hard time getting into the office to work. Pete Seares had done this to her, and she knew it wasn't fair to herself to let the man have so much control over her still. It had been five years now. Five years since he had last gotten her naked in the den when he thought everyone else in the house was asleep. Five years since he'd last forced her to go down on him. Five years since he had shoved his cock high up into her ass while she sat with her back to him on that ugly paisley couch in the den, his hand toying with her clit as he slammed his hips up into her from underneath. He had loved to fuck her ass, he'd done it so many times that she'd been surprised that they hadn't been discovered before they had. When their foster father had walked in on them that night, it had been humiliating, and then she'd been kicked back into the system while Pete got to stay, Pete got to age out there. Domino had aged out in a group home on the other side of town. She'd never seen him since that night, and she certainly didn't want to, but she knew the fear that they would cross paths was just one of the reasons now that she worked from home and watched a lot of Netflix. She barely had any friends. Jenna was the one she was closest to, and they had only met in person a few times, and mostly at Domino's apartment. Jenna was convinced that Domino needed to conquer her fears and get out and meet people, hence the stupid profile that she'd just created. It was sprinkling outside, she realized at she looked up at the night sky. There was a full moon, also, which made her slow her steps a little to take it in. It was very beautiful, and she was glad that she'd went outdoors, she couldn't see the moon very well from the windows of her apartment. A few minutes later, she reached the door of the market that she wanted to go to and pulled it open slowly. Stepping inside, she felt a little bit of the tension in her shoulders dissipate and she looked around the interior of the store. There was a young man sweeping the area in front of the cashier desk and a young couple a few rows over near the back looking at something on the shelf. Domino turned to her right and made her way to the frozen food section. She opened a door, not caring really what was inside, just needing to feel the cool air for a moment to slow her breathing and calm her body. She closed her eyes and stood there for a little while until she felt herself finally relax enough that she could complete the task that she'd come here to complete. "Excuse me, can I grab something?" A deep, rumbly sounding male voice said and Domino jerked back a little and looked up at the large, tall man who had somehow appeared beside her. He was tall, hulkishly so, and his broad shoulders were ridiculously muscled under the black jacket that he was wearing. He had black hair that fell in waves behind his ears and his jaw was chiseled and very very sexy, with the type of stubble that was probably too stubborn to ever be shaved completely away. His lips were firm and wide, and lifted slightly at the corners in a warm smile. She ignored the smile, and the weird brownish, red? color of his eyes as she moved her eyes down to his equally impressive chest that clung to the black t-shirt that he wore beneath the half unzipped jacket. His waist was narrow, still the same size as a massive tree stump, she figured, but packed with hard muscle and not an ounce of fat. His thighs were the same, encased as they were in black denim, which she suddenly felt irrationally jealous of as she looked him over very slowly. His soft chuckle finally brought her wide brown eyes back to his face. "Wh-what? Oh, excuse me." Domino said and backed away, waving from him to the open freezer door. "Please, don't let me stop you. I'm enjoying the view myself." He nodded down at her and Domino felt a whole different kind of heat fill her body, this one centering quite fiercely in the space between her legs, and she knew she would be wet if she were to touch down there, if he were to touch her down there. Her breath caught and she dropped her mouth open as he stepped forward, grabbing a water out of the cooler before closing the door and turning to stand very close in front of her. "What's your name?" His question surprised her, and the heat from his body made her shiver and she felt her pussy clench, it was a strange sensation, this arousal, to a man that she had only just seen for the first time. "Domino." Really? Great way to start this conversation, he probably thought you were lying. Her brown eyes, thickly lashed, looked straight into his. "Domino," The way he said her name so low in his throat sounded like he was having sex with it, and she felt a heat creep slowly up her neck, "Would you like to have dinner with me?" "Dinner? What? I don't-." Domino shook her head. Sexy, big, enormous, powerful guy taking little, nervous Nelly, Domino to dinner? Totally not plausible. "There's a cafe a few doors down. I'm sure they have a table." He murmured and she felt her breathing deepen as she let his words waft over her. "I'm sure they do." She muttered as she looked around her, why had she left her apartment? Food? "My name is Alex. I'd love to take you to dinner, but if you're not sure, if you need a moment, I'll leave first and go sit at the cafe. If you show up, I'll feed you, if you don't, well...missed opportunity on my part, I suppose." He shrugged his shoulders softly before he very very gently ran the pads of a few fingers along the very edge of her right shoulder. Domino felt her body doing somersaults as desire burned through her in crashing waves as the man walked away and took his water bottle up to the counter. She couldn't take her eyes off of him as he paid for the water and then put it in his jacket pocket before walking out the door, his strange eyes watching her as he exited. Domino frowned, every thought in her mind was a mistake. If she followed him to the cafe, it could be a trap, he could be a sleazy rapist, or some other type of monster lurking around in the dark. If she went home, she could be missing a golden opportunity to have a nice meal with a man who had been nice in their few moments of conversation. And how excited would Jenna be to hear that Domino had actually left her house AND gone on a date, of sorts, with a stranger? She'd practically jump out of her skin. She knew the cafe he was talking about. She'd actually been to it before. Jenna had made her sit inside of the brightly lit room for an hour before she'd finally relented and walked with Domino back to her house. She wasn't sure, she wasn't sure if it was a good idea, and she certainly didn't know if she could actually do it, if she could actually sit in the cafe long enough to eat and have a conversation with the strange, intensely attractive man. Her feet seemed to finally give up on her mind's battle to come to a decision, and Domino walked slowly out of the market, not buying a single thing that she'd intended to, and she walked down the street to the door of the cafe. Two people were walking out, so she waited to go in, her eyes sweeping through the relatively few patrons inside. It took only seconds to spot the man who had invited her in to eat with him. He was sitting at a table, his back to the window, near the rear of the cafe. His shoulders were relaxed, as if whether or not she appeared made no real difference to him. Domino sighed and stepped through the door of the cafe and slowly made her way over to him. As she slid into the seat, thankful that it faced most of the cafe, she watched his weird eyes lift to look at her, and his mouth widened into a smile that hit her pussy like a ton of sexy sexy bricks. Jesus, how could she want to crawl over the small table and jump this man? She didn't know him AT ALL. "You came." His voice was barely audible, it was so deep a baritone, and her skin prickled and her nipples hardened within her t-shirt. The dreams she would have tonight, Domino thought to herself, they would be intense. "I did." She settled herself down, hanging her purse over the upper corner of her seat and taking her jacket off and putting it over top the wooden chair. "Here's the menu." He handed her one and then returned his hands to his knees under the table. Domino wondered as to why he wasn't looking at one but didn't ask. Instead, intimidated by the way he made her feel, she moved her eyes over the choices in the menu and finally, knowing that a waitress had arrived at their table, she moved her eyes up to the black haired girl that couldn't take her eyes off of the masculine form across from Domino, she understood it, she had a hard time not looking at him herself. "What can I get you?" The question was 100% directed at her dining companion and Domino felt him stiffen a little, they were sitting pretty close, the table was rather small. "Domino?" He asked, tipping his chin at the pretty blond with the gently curved ass and amazing, full breasts that he had smelled before he'd even seen her in the small neighborhood market. Domino frowned as she looked at the menu, "Can I get an iced tea and the club sandwich?" "Sure, do you want chips and a pickle or fries?" "Chips, please." Domino told the girl and watched as she nodded and wrote her order down. Domino half expected the woman to spit in her sandwich before she brought it to her from the way she was salivating so openly over Alex. "Fine. And you?" Now her voice was sickly sweet, she was looking at him with so much lust, she might well have put herself on the menu. "The same." He said, and Domino noticed that his eyes never left her face, and she could feel the finger pads of his right hand flutter over her left knee. "Okay. I'll be back over soon with your drinks." The waitress walked away, slightly defeated that he hadn't given her as much attention as she'd hoped for. "I think she might serve your sandwich to you completely naked if you asked her." Domino heard herself say and bit her lower lip to hide her embarrassment. He chuckled as he squeezed her knee gently. "That's unfortunate." "For you or her?" "For her, I would rather see you naked." His words further made her body sizzle and she shifted uneasily in her chair. "That's a little forward for a first conversation." She told him, pausing for a bit after as their iced tea was delivered. "No one is ever honest in their first conversations with each other. Maybe we should try it." He smiled when she looked at him with a lot of doubt in her eyes. "What do you suppose we say then?" "I could ask you a question and you answer honestly, and then you do the same. And just be honest, no judging, just honesty." He was running the pads of his fingers over her upper knee as she sipped her tea. "Okay," Domino set her glass down and thought of what she wanted to ask him, "Are you on steroids?" He laughed deeply, and more than one woman in the cafe looked in their direction, a bit of jealousy on their faces at the sight of the masculinity he emanated. "No, Domino, I am not on steroids, or any other drug for that matter." Domino nodded and waited for him to ask her a question. "How old are you?" His question was easy, it wasn't nearly as personal as she had expected, especially with the fact that her pussy was very much enjoying the caress of his fingers on her lower thigh. "Twenty-three. You?" He frowned, "A little older." Domino raised a brow, "I thought we were going to be honest with each other?" "I turned 41 on my last birthday." He told her as the waitress brought over two plates of food and put one in front of each of them. "Do you have a boyfriend?" "No. Do you?" She smiled softly when she realized what it sounded like when she'd asked her question. "No, no boyfriend, or girlfriend, by the way. Why are you scared right now?" Domino tensed a little and looked down at her sandwich. She'd just taken a bite and chewed thoughtfully for a moment before swallowing and looking back up at him, "I have agoraphobia. This is my first time out of my apartment in months and you're as big as an ox and you frighten the shit out of me." His fingers only seemed to press harder, and a little farther up on her thigh. "Are your eyes red?" He nodded, "Most of the time. Sometimes they seem to go almost black. How long have you had a fear of leaving your home?" She shrugged, "It sort of started when I was eighteen and lost my foster placement. It got worse and worse until I couldn't get to work, or go out with my friends. It's just been easier, I guess. Do you typically pick up young women at night in corner markets?" A Few Sips Ch. 01 He shook his head, "I usually find women at clubs or at work. You were a surprise to me. What happened when you were eighteen?" He felt her stiffen immediately at the question. "That's-." Domino sighed, they had said honesty, "I was a foster kid and I lived in this really nice home with this really nice couple that had three other foster kids. The younger two were seven and twelve. The oldest was this guy named Pete. He was about nine months older than me. I was the newest placement for them. I lived there for about four months before Pete started to touch me. Touching turned to kissing, and kissing turned to me blowing him when he wanted me to and then he started to fuck me, whenever he could, in the den at night. Our foster father finally found out and had me sent back. I-I developed a few trust issues after that and it just got hard to be around people." "That's a pretty terrible thing to have happen to a girl your age." "Absolutely. It's made it hard to meet people, men especially. Why did you want to have dinner with me?" "I want to fuck you, Domino." His statement made her eyes widen and she felt her body throb anew, his hand had wrapped under her knee and she felt herself shifted forward in her seat so that her knees parted on either side of one of his legs and she felt his knee nudge closer to her crotch, his hand was now settled fully over the top of her thigh under the table, not visible to the eyes of those around them. "Oh." She said throatily, expecting him to move his hand again, but he kept it completely still. "Does that scare you?" "Yes. If I say no, will you be okay with that?" "Yes. I don't force women before they say yes, but I can't promise I won't use force after. Eat your food, Domino. What do you do for a living?" He changed the subject of their conversation and Domino picked up a potato chip. "I work support for a tech company. I work from home." She explained to him, chewing on her food afterward for a moment as she thought of another question, "Why don't you have a girlfriend?" "I suppose it's because I've never found the one. Though, I did meet a woman not too long ago that I would have probably liked to have made mine. But she was in love with someone else, so it couldn't have worked out between us." "You could have fought for her." Domino suggested sipping the rest of her tea. He handed her his tea and she furrowed a brow, he hadn't drank any of it, nor had he eaten any of his food. "I suppose, but sometimes, it's pretty clear where you stand, I never could have made her happy the way that she is now. Did you like it when he fucked you?" Domino shivered at his question and felt his hand slide slowly in between her thighs. "I was young and stupid and thought he loved me. It was really uncomfortable at first and I don't think I ever quite got used to the way he would fuck me. What do you do for a living?" She asked, desperate now to change the conversation. He smiled as he moved his hand up to press the pads of two fingers against the crotch of her yoga pants, one hit her clit and she had to control her reaction as he rubbed hard against the sensitive little bulb. "I don't work much, but when I do, I'm something of an escort." He told her, knowing her body was reacting to his finger, he ran the second along the slit he could feel under the cotton of her pants. "Like...a hooker?" She whispered, her hands were in her lap, covering his as he pushed a little harder against her nub, she could feel her pussy juice starting to seep a little. He chuckled, "Not really, Domino. It's hard to explain, I provide a service for my employer that is good for both me and the woman I service. I have very specific...needs, and they are met as I meet her needs." "Can I get you both anything else?" The waitress had returned and she frowned down at the untouched plate of food in front of the man. "Can I get this to go? We need to leave soon." He waved absently at his food as he pushed his iced tea towards the girl across from him, his other hand was still hidden against her pussy. "All right, I'll just grab this and bring it back in a box with your check." The waitress said, sending him one last look of longing before she walked away with his plate of food. "I take it you live near here." Alex asked the small woman at his side after they had left the cafe, she was quite a bit shorter than him, her head didn't even hit his shoulder. "I do." Domino shouldn't tell him that, he was a stranger, a stranger who had almost brought her to orgasm while she ate her dinner. "I will walk you home." He said softly as he moved in close to her and put a hand down to rest against the side of her hip. "Ok." Domino pointed in the direction that they needed to take and they began walking towards her apartment complex. "You didn't eat your dinner." She nodded down at the bag that he carried at his side. "This isn't my dinner. I'll be leaving this with you." He told her as they turned a corner. The night was getting cooler and she liked the heat he was giving off against her side. "Oh, you weren't hungry?" Domino tilted her head up to look at him. "I am famished, Domino." His words were dark, sensual, and she felt her body grow tight and moisture pooled in her pussy, more than ready to drench her if he were to just touch her a little more. "Then why?" She stopped as he squeezed his hand into her side, they were at the door to her building. "I want you to let me into your apartment. I want to eat your pussy, Domino. I want to fuck you hard. Will you let me have you, my little dove?" His dark words made her shake visibly and Domino licked her lower lip. "Will you stop if I get scared?" She asked, feeling his body surround her and she was lifted against him and the wall to the side of the door, her legs were separated around his waist and he ground his hips against her pelvis, letting her feel the thick cock hidden in his pants. "No. If you let me in your apartment, Domino, I will fuck you even if you beg me to stop. Which is quite possibly something that you will do." He muttered gutturally against her, his mouth lowering to kiss her throat roughly, and she whimpered. "Then maybe you should go." She said, though her eyes filled with tears suddenly at the thought of him leaving. He shook against her as he buried his face in the warm space between her breasts. "Domino, please." She closed her eyes, all of her old fears were keeping her from saying yes, from doing what her body was screaming at her to let this man do. She knew being with him would be amazing, incredibly sexy, and she knew he'd make her cum in ways that Pete had never been able to make her cum. Domino put her hands on his shoulders and then slid them around to his chest. "Let me down, Alex." She muttered softly, grateful that he did what she asked immediately. Taking his hand, she led him around the side of her building, not caring that the bag of food had fallen to the ground near her building's front entrance. They walked in silence around to the back of her building, where the parking lot was located, and Domino led him into the alleyway that was only accessible in the back, off the alcove of the back entrance. It was deep in the shadows, and the moment they were inside of it, she felt him tense against her and she was roughly pushed up against the side of the building. "Domino?" He panted, his mouth descending on hers as he pulled her up against his body again. She let him kiss her carnally, her tongue sliding against his as he shoved the thick length of his into her mouth, digging deep, making sharp spikes of desire push through her body and drip from her pussy walls. His hips pushed into her hard, letting her know his cock was more than willing to take control here. You can go down on me, if you want to, Alex." She groaned and felt him immediately sink down onto his knees, one large hand held her up against the wall by her stomach as the other tugged her shoes and pants off of her shapely legs. He tore the panties off, as well, and didn't hesitate before he covered her wet, trimmed pussy with his mouth. The feel of it made her cry out and she sunk her hands into his hair, he was sucking hard on her clit, biting it almost painfully before he moved his mouth down to suck in against the fold, making her buck into him with her hips. "Oh, fuck!" Domino panted, he was relentless in his attack on her pussy and she felt his teeth bite down harder, his tongue slid into her fold and she felt it flick inside, making her pussy shatter and her cum covered his open mouth an he sucked in on her. "You're a virgin, Domino." His statement a moment later surprised Domino and she could only nod at him as he shifted back up, he was soon pushing her to her knees. "You said you were fucked by your stepbrother." He told her as he pulled open his pants, his intentions were clear and Domino widened her eyes as a huge cock was pulled into her view, enormous, thick, heavy. It was bigger than Pete, that was for sure, but it had to surely be larger than possible, and it was thickly veined and pointing right at her. He wanted to fuck her with this hard rod? It wouldn't ever fit! "He liked fucking my ass. I think he thought it was sexy that he kept me a virgin, he used to talk about how I belonged to him and so did my virginity. He used to say he would never fuck my pussy. That I would die with it." She looked up at him with innocent looking brown eyes and he put a hand on the back of her head. "Open your mouth, Domino. I want to fuck your face." He told her and she didn't hesitate in doing as he requested, her whole body shaking when he pushed the whole cock head in at once, and she felt herself gag a little as she adjusted to the thick length and width of him. "That's it, relax, you can take it." He cooed down at her as he held her face with one hand and pressed the other palm against the wall. Domino let her eyes close as she moved her hands up to wrap around the base of his cock, he was so hot, and hard, and the smoothness of him made her pussy clench and tighten, imagining the feel of having him deep inside of her. She tilted her neck a little and felt his hips surge forth and his cock was somehow down into her throat. She shot her eyes up at his face and saw it tight with control, he slid in farther, not caring that she couldn't breathe, and then pulled back, hearing her pop off the end and take a deep breath. "You're too big." Domino gasped and watched his lips widen in a smile and he pulled her head forward again, his shaft back in her mouth and this time he thrust harder, bottoming out in what felt like the bottom of her throat and he felt her hands scratch at his thighs as she took him deeply. Domino felt his hips begin to rock forward in a faster rhythm and he began to fuck her face, just as he had stated he would, and she lowered one hand to rub her swollen clit as he growled above her and pulled her head into his crotch over and over. He continued for an eternity, his husky hissed moans of passion echoed in the small alley and she felt numb with the pleasure that she was rocked with, and then he punched inside and held, his cum shot down her throat and Domino swallowed as much as she could, thankful when he pulled his cock from her mouth, finally allowing her to breath as she licked up the remnants of his orgasm. She stayed where she was, her breath coming fast as she tried to settle herself down. He eventually reached down and pulled her up against him. His mouth moved to lick her throat and move along the bottom curve of her ear as she breathed rapidly against him. "Can I take you to your apartment and fuck you, little dove?" He asked darkly in her ear and Domino shivered again, finally nodding, yelping when he moved with inhumane quickness into the back of the apartment complex. She was still in his arms as he went up the staircase that she indicated. She dug in her purse for her key and had only just turned the lock in the door when he threw it open and took them inside. Domino thought for a second about the shoes, panties, and pants that were still in a pile on the ground in the alley, but the next second, he had thrown her roughly on top of her bed and was reaching down and pulling off her shirt. Domino could barely see him in the dark shadows of her room, and she shivered as he moved away from her and started digging in her dresser. When he returned and moved on top of her, his hands grabbing her wrists, she jerked and whimpered, he was wrapping a pair of stockings around them and she was soon tied, her arms wide to each side, to the headboard. "Why?" She gasped as he moved down her body, his lips kissing and nipping as he moved. His hands went to the underside of her thighs and they were lifted and stretched wide to each side. "Because I want to see you fully open and helpless against me. I don't mean to scare you, Domino, but I need you to let me do whatever I want to you. I need you to trust me." He practically begged her with his eyes before using the ends of the stockings to tie each ankle into place. Looking down at herself, Domino felt herself blush, her pussy was fully visible, open and wet, her juices dripping down and already getting the sheets she laid on wet with her cum. Jesus, this was erotic, and she wanted to see him put that huge cock in her, but again, she didn't think it would fit. "Will you hurt me?" She shivered. "Yes, you're a virgin, it will hurt. But it will feel very very good, very quickly. But I will be big for you, you will beg me to stop, probably, and I won't be able to. Please let me fuck you, Domino." He said again and she looked deeply into eyes that did, indeed, grow to almost a molten black color as he stood over her at the end of the bed. "We are still being honest with each other, right?" She asked, her breath coming out in shallow pants. "Yes, Domino, we are being honest with one another." He said, his gaze on her intense as he pulled his pants off, his boxers and shoes and socks making a pile on the floor beside him. "Why me?" The question must have surprised him because he paused after just having unzipped his jacket. "Domino, if you could smell yourself, you would know why. I'll tell you what I'm going to do as we go, so I don't scare you so much. Will that be okay?" Domino nodded. "Yes, I think that would be best." "I'm going to take my jacket off and show you my wings. And then I'm going to get on the bed and bite your pussy." "You're going to what?" Domino shrieked, her eyes widening as she watched him slowly peel off the jacket that he'd kept on the entire time. Wings? A Few Sips Ch. 02 Oh dear Mother Mary Margaret. Domino could barely breathe as she stared at the giant man standing quietly at the base of her bed. There were no lights on in her bedroom, only the glow from a street light somewhere outside of her window. It made him look more menacing as his chest rose and fell deeply, his eye were burning into her as she panted heavily, her wrists tugging uselessly against the binds they were in. Had he really said wings? Was he actually going to bite her where he'd said? This was crazy. When she'd invited him to her apartment, she knew that he was going to fuck her, but wings? Her body shivered violently as he moved his hands to the front edges of his jacket and the large piece of clothing was removed. She could see the shadows of something black behind his back and whatever it was seemed to move down to sway gently behind his ass, his very shapely, sexy ass. Domino moved her eyes back to Alex's face and watched as he pulled his t-shirt up and over his head. Damn, he was like a solid tree trunk. She could have outlined each of his muscles and sort of wanted to smash her face into his dark haired chest and those astounding pecs. Her desire to slide her tongue over the small, dark nipples was a violent thing, and she knew her pussy was clenched tightly, her juice dripping out more steadily from the aching fold. "Do not scream, Domino." He said gutturally as he bent forward so that he could put his palms against the mattress of her bed and the black, smooth furred wings, large ones, spread out behind his back. They almost touched the side walls of her room, which wasn't very big when she thought about it. They were though, and her breath caught in her throat as she took in the bony edges, the thinner tissues of the wings, the darkness to them. At the top edge of each wing was a slight protuberance that looked almost like a hooked finger. She wanted to scream until her lungs popped out of her chest and she went limp, but instead, Domino bit her lower lip and whimpered as she watched him slowly move the wings back and forth, stretching out the ache she was sure he had from keeping them hidden as he had under the jacket. "You have questions." He said softly as he lowered his head and kissed the inside of her left thigh so softly, making her muscles tighten. "Fuck, yes, I do." Domino let her head drop back a moment as he licked her from one inner thigh to the other, his rough tongue dragging slowly over her pussy lips as he made a path from one side to the other. "Ask one." He muttered, his hot breath blew over her clit and Domino cried out as she tried to think of what her most pressing question was. "Are you Batman?" Oh Jesus, really? Not, are those for real? Or, can we take a second to talk about the fact that you're a mutant? Are you fucking Batman? He chuckled, "No, Domino, I am not Batman." His hard lips moved down and surrounded her clit, closing over it as his tongue pushed against the sensitive bud and then he sucked on her hard, making her body jump up against him and Domino felt her juices squirt against his chin, a profound orgasm sliced through her and she felt herself grind her pussy against the coarse stubble of his jaw as he engulfed her clit, prolonging the contraction of her inner muscles. "Oh, fuck, Alex. Oh, fuuuuuuck." Domino felt tears fall from her eyes that had nothing to do with fear or sadness, but an intense, fanatical need to have this man, this...whatever he was, do exactly what he was doing to her, and more. "Domino, close your eyes." He whispered a few moments later after licking frantically at the cum that drenched her, his molten eyes filled with his need. "O-okay." Domino slowly did as he requested, she had been told to trust him, and she wanted to, she really wanted to. She felt him put his hands underneath each of her ass cheeks and he lifted her gently up as much as the bindings on her wrists and ankles would allow. She could feel his open mouth just millimeters from the extremely sensitive skin of her pussy and heard and felt him take a deep breath of the pungent smell of her femininity. When she felt his mouth push forward, open wide, and then the piercing sting of four sharp points biting into the tender skin just above her clit and on the inside top of her canal, Domino coughed out what would have been a scream if she hadn't stopped it just in time. The pain was sharp, but almost instantly, it was gone, and she was left shaking as she felt her blood seem to pound through her body. He was still connected to her, and she could feel his tongue moving, feeding on the blood that seeped from the bite marks he had given her. Another orgasm hit her and she felt him groan in appreciation, one hand rising to her pussy, a finger pushing in just a few inches to tease a response as he licked at the wounds he had given her. "You're a v-vampire." Domino shook against the words, she didn't believe in vampires. Granted, she didn't believe in people with big black bat wings, but vampires were a total scam. "Yes, or a strigoi, as I was called in Romania, where I am from." He licked a path from her clit to her belly button and Domino opened her eyes and looked down at him, his finger was still just slightly inside of her pussy. "You don't sound Romanian." She whispered, her body was filled with butterflies as he circled that finger within her. "It's been a very long time since I was there." He shrugged as he shifted to kiss her left breast, his lips closing hard over the nipple. "You said you were forty-one, FUCK that feels amazing, were you lying?" "Yes, and no. I was forty-one when I became a vampire. But that was when I stopped aging." He widened his mouth open and bit into her breast, making her gasp and she pushed her tit harder into his face. "You don't eat. You only drink blood?" "I don't eat what you eat, Domino." "Are you going to kill me?" She asked in a shaky voice as he pushed the finger in a little deeper, knowing he felt her hymen as he smoothed the pad of his finger against it softly. "No. I'm not that kind of monster, though I can't speak for all of my kind. I fed before seeing you in that market, I drink from you because it makes me want to fuck you more." He had healed the bites on her breast and moved to the other one and done the same there. "Oh." She felt somewhat jealous that he had put his mouth on someone else. How was that possible? "The fact that you will bleed when I first fuck you will break my control, Domino. When I taste your virginity, I will not be gentle with your body. I will be too aroused." She nodded, her pussy was sopping now, and she was trying hard not to buck into his finger, it was barely moving within her. "I want you to watch what I do, Domino, I want you to see how easy it is for me to mount you, to make you cum on me." His words plowed a path of passion into her loins and she whimpered and lowered heat-filled eyes to where he had shifted low again on her body, his face near her pussy as he moved two fingers to the fold of her. "Domino, can I have your virginity?" He asked in a hoarse whisper, his eyes holding hers as she panted, slowly nodding. "Yes, Alex." She cried out her answer as he slid a finger deep into her pussy, she could feel him press against her hymen, but it didn't break, he stretched it enough to make her drop her mouth open, needing, desperately needing more. "My cock is bigger than a man's, when I put it in you, you'll feel like I'm tearing your pussy, but you won't tear, I promise. You will take what I give you." He whispered, his eyes on her lower body as he pulled the finger out and pushed into her with two, thick fingers. The slide of them inside, the way her pussy stretched against the girth of them, made Domino cry out, and then he punched up inside, tearing through her hymen and making her hips buck, sending him even deeper inside. "Stay still, Domino, let me." He groaned and holding her down with one hand on her stomach, he began to rapidly box his hand up inside of her body, mimicking what his dick would soon be doing in her heated, throbbing cunt. Domino shattered with another orgasm and then with her head back on the pillows behind her, she watched as he pulled his fingers from her and put them in his mouth. She could tell that he tasted her blood, his body seemed to tense and tighten, and his wings stretched out behind him. "I'm going to eat your pussy, Domino, and then I'm going to fuck you." He said darkly. His mouth was on her instantly, sucking her fold, his tongue inside gorging itself on her virgin blood, and Domino felt the room start to burn around her, the heat from him, the way his breath came unevenly, the low growls of desire that come from his throat as he buried his face in her pussy, it all let her know that this wasn't the end, this was the very start. He was nowhere near finished. When he moved his body to rise to his knees between her legs, Domino shook, her eyes on the thick, pulsating cock between her outstretched legs. She could see pre cum dripping from the hole in the tip and let her mouth drop open, knowing she wouldn't get to taste him again, he was going to bury that meat in her body, and he wasn't going to stop until he'd taken all that she had to give. His hands moved to her ass cheeks and he lifted her up to put the head of his bulging cock at the entry to her sheath and Domino screamed as he bucked his hips forward, sending the entire length of his shaft deep within her weeping pussy. Domino felt stretched farther than was possible, and he had been right, she felt as if he had torn her completely in two, but when she clenched her pussy muscles around him, she felt that she was holding him, and the sensation of doing so, of milking his cock with each spasm of her walls around him, made the beast above her let out an impassioned cry and he was suddenly hammering his hips into hers, bottoming out way inside, his head beating into her cervix, his rhythm fast, constant, the thrusts full, powerful. Jesus, he was going to make her cum again and he'd only just entered her body. Domino felt him move one hand to the headboard of her bed as he leaned his weight down into her harder and his thrusts increased in speed and force. She knew her bed was having a hard time handling the weight of the fucking he was giving her, and she figured it would give way at some point as he ground his body balls deep inside. Domino felt so stretched, and not just by his massive cock, but also from the way her body was so tightly held open under him, she had no recourse but to take what he gave her with her pussy so wide open and welcoming. His hard, hot body slid heavy and felt wonderful, and when he knelt so he could slake his tongue over the base of her throat, Domino shivered. "I'm going to drink just a little bit more, little dove. And then I am going to own your pussy." He grumbled against her skin and then bit down on her hard, making her gasp and whimper. She could feel her blood flow more freely from the new bite and his hands were back beneath her ass cheeks and he was yanking her forcefully into each thrust, dear God, he meant it. He really was going to fuck her so hard she begged him. "Please." She whimpered as she felt him lick the bite marks a little later, she felt a little light headed, but not too much, and her senses were focused solely on the way he pistoned his cock into her like a jack hammer. Over and over, he rode her, grinding her hard into the mattress, pulling back and then slamming back forward with such brutal force that she cried every time, her head hit the headboard until he moved a hand behind her neck to hold her down and bring her into his cock. She could see him disappear inside of her with each thrust, knew her pussy was greedily eating the long, wide girth of him, it was almost terrifying to think of how loose he must be making her pussy, his cock was wider than a baseball bat and hit into her just as heavily as a Major Leaguer would swing a slugger at a ball. Then Alex was crouched around her, his feet now on the bed instead of his knees and the new angle seemed to break something inside of him and she could tell by the look on his face that he was fully enveloped now, his head pummeled deep, deeper than even a second ago and she screamed, unable to take the sensation of having him so high. "Please, oh, God, Alex. Please, stop. Please, I can't-." She squeezed her eyes shut as she watched the clawed protrusion on one of his wings tear through the stocking holding her right foot and arm against the bed. With the new freedom, he wrapped her against him, bending her leg over his chest as he continued his strokes inside. She whimpered, her freed hand squeezed into his chest hair as she felt her pussy explode in a rush of juice, and as he pulled her up, filled her with his cock, one of his hands squeezing bruisingly into her ass cheek, Domino cried out as she felt his cock tighten. His balls throbbed and the hot, copious load of cum shot heavy up into her womb. Spurt after spurt filled her and she happily squeezed her hips around him, more than willing to accept it all. She had begged him, she had pleaded with him to go gentle, but she had also begged him to keep going, to fuck her hard, to use her the way he wanted. And he had, oh, yes, he definitely had. "Domino," He was just as breathless as she was as he moved her body more naturally down onto the bed, somehow, he'd released her other limbs, and he scooted down to lay beside her, "I want you to rest for a bit. I'm going to go get something to loosen up your ass for me." His words made her shiver, but they didn't really register to Domino as she felt her eyes already closing and she fell into a heavy, dreamless sleep. She was so exhausted, her body had been pulled so tightly into a coil of eager rapture that once he'd delivered her of the need for release, her muscles felt puddled within her body and she felt herself sinking happily into the mattress and soft blankets that he smoothed around her sleeping form as he stood up from her bed and walked barefoot out of her bedroom. ~*~*~*~ When Domino opened her eyes a little later, she first noticed the clock on her bedside table. It was a quarter past two in the morning, the sky was still dark and despite her breathing, there was little other noise in the room. The second thing she noticed, or more precisely, felt, was that she was not alone, there was a hot male form behind her and something was pushed up her asshole, stretching the muscle, albeit with no pain. She whimpered despite that and tried to pull away, a long arm was wrapped around her, though, and she was kept where she was. "Domino, I have my fingers in your ass. Calm down, little dove." A deep voice said near her ear and she gargled out a whimper and buried her head into his shoulder, her hands wrapping around the wrist that held her to his body, he was unnaturally warm. "Pete, stop." Domino begged, panting as she felt the fingers slide from her ass and she was rolled to her back. Opening her eyes, she realized that it wasn't Pete this time, the man in her bed wasn't a man at all, but the vampire that had not long ago taken the virginity that Pete had tried so hard to keep intact. "Domino, he will never touch you again. I will be the last man who you will ever again allow within your ass. I want to own this piece of you, to take it from him. I've been gently spreading you open for me for a while now, but only my fingers have been inside." He whispered as he sank over her and spread light kisses across her chest as she worked to control the way she'd started to breathe when she'd thought she was back at the age of 18. A shiver worked through her body as the warmth returned, as she felt his heat penetrate her and she felt comfortable in his arms again. He didn't push her, he just spent the time it took for her to speak loving her sensitive skin with his lips and tongue. His mouth was on her belly and his hands were petting her thighs when Domino groaned softly and put a hand into his thick head of black hair. "It's not fair how much I want you, Alex." She whispered in a coo, pushing her hips up, wishing he would move his tongue down. "But you want me." He stated, as if that made this all okay. "Your cock is as big as a dachshund, how can I not want you? But there's no way it will fit in my ass." She dropped her mouth open to gasp when his mouth closed over her overwhelmed clit and sucked on it rhythmically. "I would like to try." He muttered from against her pussy, his red eyes looking up and holding onto hers. "I have...issues with it. I am scared it will take me back there again." She told him very honestly. He nodded as he massaged her ass with one hand, the other was holding her left leg up and away from her body. "I understand. Was there a certain position he used, or was it random?" Domino thought about it with a little frown, she had tried not to think about it for so long it took some time for her to remember. She shook her head, "He was always behind me, either with me on my hands and knees or sitting on his lap facing away from him." "Coward." Alex muttered before shoving his tongue up into her sore pussy, making her gasp. She closed her eyes and focused on the sensations that he was building inside of her and moved her hips in awkward jerks against his face. The hand that had been on her ass moved slowly between her legs and she felt him push two fingers inside her ass, felt them glide freely and painlessly up to the lowest knuckle. It felt amazingly good, but she knew that his cock would be so much more. "I'm going to put another finger inside, Domino. I want you to tell me how good it feels." He told her and she nodded, though his eyes were staring at the juicy pussy before him. The insertion made her groan, Jesus, it felt amazing, and she wondered just how prepared he had made her before she woke. "Very good." "Now I'm going to put four in, Domino. It's what I had in when you woke, I was inside you with everything but my thumb, little dove." He pulled the fingers out and then pushed back in with all four, and Domino hissed out her pleasure as he filled her and sunk as far inside as he could get before his thumb pushed hard against her perineum. "Good?" "Great." Domino breathed, rocking her hips against it, needing to feel that slide again, her body was responding with heat and she wanted more. He began slowly to move the fingers in and out as one thick rod and Domino gasped each time he punched her ass with them. His speed increased and she was bucking hard down into the hand. His mouth closed over her clit and bit down, just enough to make her gargle out a response and her hands tugged harder at the hair on his head. "Fuck, Alex. Fuck!" She couldn't speak anything more coherent than that, her whole body was spinning into the orgasm that suddenly crashed down on her. He moved the hand all the way out, and when she felt it push back inside, she tensed ever so slightly as she felt his thumb press into the palm of his hand and he slowly maneuvered so that he could would the whole of it into her ass. "Oh my God, Alex, what are you doing?" Domino shook against him, tugging on his hair until he moved his face back to hers. "I'm going to fist fuck your ass, Domino. Then you're going to let me own your ass." "You said you weren't going to kill me. Liar, liar, Alex." She panted as she dropped her head back and felt the hand press up a little higher inside, he was in her all the way to the last knuckle of her thumb and the width was making her ass burn and ache to close a little. "Look, I want you to watch your ass eat my hand, little dove." He shifted on the bed and put one hand behind her neck to fold her up so that she could see his arm that was hell bent on fucking her asshole. A Few Sips Ch. 02 She widened her eyes, Jesus! His hand looked so huge, and it was almost all the way in her ass. Licking her lower lip, she looked at the large, black-lashed eyes of the vampire in her bed and nodded, "I want it." He growled hungrily and pushed hard, making her cry out as the whole hand disappeared inside her colon, the ache lessening around the first muscle of her asshole as it slipped down onto the narrower wrist. She watched him as closely as she could as he pushed higher, and she felt her whole body shiver uncontrollably at the feel of his hand unfolding in her colon to wriggle his fingers inside. "I had to lubricate your ass so much for this, Domino. I am pleased that you can take me." He purred as he looked at his hand that he was beginning to move back and forth within her ass. "Lubricate? How?" "I looked through your house. You don't have any sex lube, which is a pity. You should have plenty of that. I found something in your kitchen that works quite efficiently." "Do I want to know?" Domino asked and watched him smile and shake his head. "I'm going to push into you harder now, little dove. I want you to try to hold back your orgasm until I say." He said instead of telling her, and pulled all the way out of her ass before immediately thrusting his hand back inside. "F-f-fiiiiine." Domino whimpered as he did it again, and again, and Oh, Jesus, he just kept pulling out and pushing back in, pushing deeper each time, his free hand moving behind her ass to hold her to him as he buried what felt like half his damn arm inside from time to time. Always, her orgasm was on the edge of exploding, and Domino had to grit her teeth and pant and plead and tense up to try to keep it at bay. It felt like hours passed as he attacked her ass with his fist until the large beast moved his face up to hers and pinched her clit hard with his free hand. His mouth was against her ear and the long tongue inside was sweeping over the shell of it. "Cum for me, little dove, cover my arm with your cum and I'll know you're ready for me." He groaned and Domino followed, dropping her head into his shoulder as she released her pussy juices against his onslaught and felt him shake against her before withdrawing his hand from her ass. Domino felt his arms surround her waist and he moved her up and over him, facing him as he sat her down over his heavily muscled abdomen. His back was down on the mattress, his wings spread carefully under him so as not to cause him any discomfort, and his hands went to lazily rest against her waist as they looked at each other with eyes glazed over with passion. She moved shaky hands to rest over his and breathed deeply as she focused on the rough feel of the dark hair on his body as it rubbed against her overly sensitive pussy. "The easiest way to do this, Domino, would be for you to get on your feet and squat over my dick. Then slowly push down, at whatever speed suits you best. I won't move until you ask me to." He smiled up at her as she widened her eyes at him. "What if I never ask you to, what if I can't take very much of you?" "You'll ask me to, little dove." He assured her, but Domino shook her head, not really believing him as she put her palms against his chest and lifted herself to her feet as he had suggested. Moving back a step, she reached down and grabbed his cock with one hand just under the head and held him in place as she squatted over him. She couldn't get her hands around it and was somewhat afraid it would slip out of her grasp before she could get it into her. It's so big, Alex." She whimpered as she pressed the hard head of his meaty erection up against the gape that he had created in her asshole. She closed her eyes as she slowly pushed down on the rod that seemed to have very little ability to bend and felt her ass spread wide, taking the head in as far down to the mushroomed ridge before she stopped, panting, her brown eyes large as saucers as she looked down at his face. "Alex." She whispered softly and felt him shiver below her, his hands tightening just a bit over her hip bones, but he did not pull her down. "My little dove, now slowly move down, slowly, until you can rest your ass on my body. That's it." He murmured, shifting one hand to spread his large fingers against her trim stomach as he began to rub circles into the small of her back with the other one. Domino continued to squat onto his monster cock, feeling the way it stretched her ass open as she took him in, only moving him onto her a few inches at a time before stopping, her breath shallow and rapid as her body reacted to the immense pleasure that was building inside with each push. Biting her lip, she wanted all of him inside, needed it now, Domino sank harder, feeling the slight sting as her body ate the last of him and her asshole stayed stretched and aching around the thick base of his other-worldly dick. She could feel the way her ass smashed down comfortably onto his hairy groin area and whimpered, how had she taken the whole length within her body? She could feel it, the whole of it, as she held him completely inside and looked down at his face to see that he was pleased, more than pleased, he was tensed up and aching to fuck her with his rod but she knew he wouldn't move until she asked him to. "Don't move, Alex." She hissed out as she pushed up, glorying in the feel of his cock sliding out of her, whimpering when she realized that he had swollen even more and she wasn't able to move her asshole past where his cock head mushroomed out. He was stuck to her, which was fine as far as Domino was concerned, she had intended to disconnect completely but she was going to push right back down onto him. She could do that without fully removing him, so she started down over him again, impaling herself on the hot, pulsing flesh a little faster this time. She heard his harsh intake of breath as she bottomed out a little more quickly, and Domino smiled at the look of intense concentration on his face as she moved up again, repeating the process of milking his cock several more times until the fingers tightened around her hips so much that she could only move up and down in short strokes. He was close to snapping his control and pummeling into her body with that cock, she knew that for sure. "Alex, if I tell you to fuck my ass, what will it be like?" She asked, her voice shaking as the heat that seemed to pour off of him surrounded her. His blood red eyes focused on hers, their carnal intent almost malicious as he moved himself to sit up, his hands keeping her planted where she was fully impacted on his steaming flesh. "It would be hard, and fast, and deep, and I would fill your ass full with my cum. Do you want that, Domino?" He whispered in her ear as he moved his lips slowly over the curve of her neck, he hadn't bitten her in a while, and the desire to do so was strong, but she could only give him the tiniest bit more blood tonight. He would need to wait until he absolutely couldn't wait any longer. "I want to tell you to fuck my ass so bad, but I'm so scared, Alex." Domino panted, pulling off of him, just to the bulge before slamming back down even harder this time. "Have I hurt you yet, little dove?" He spoke gutturally, his voice deep and rumbly against her pussy as it smashed against his groin. "No." Domino shook her head, lifting again, biting her lip as she tilted her neck back and dropped her ass onto him, making him hiss and curve his body around her, his arms surrounding her small body as he pulled her slightly off. "You're going to make me hurt you if you do that again." He warned menacingly and she shivered. "But that felt good, Alex." Domino whimpered, wrapping her hands around his broad shoulders, shyly running the pads of her fingers over the hot furred flesh and bone that connected his wings to his back. She was surprised how hard the muscles were. "Alexandru, I want you to say my full name." He dipped his mouth to hers and she had to open wide to accept the forceful thrust of his tongue. "Alexandru. Maybe, could, Alexandru, I'm ready now, I'm ready for you to own my ass the way you want to." Domino felt herself grabbed tightly and she yelped when he beat his wings heavily behind him and they were pushed so that she was now down, just her shoulders hitting the mattress and her head near the lower end of the bed as he got on his knees between her legs and held her ass cheeks firmly in both hands. His eyes stared at her, hot, aroused, intense, and Domino felt him pull out as far as he could, farther than she had, making her wince and clutch at the body of his cock with her asshole. When he filled her to the end in one forceful stroke, his shaft stretching her colon, demanding that her body shift to accept him all the way, to eat his whole cock, Domino felt herself scream and arch her back in a sudden, fierce orgasm that made her tighten all the muscles in her body, from her toes to her firmly bitten lips. His growl echoed the way she cried out pants and he increased the speed and force with which he took her every ten or so strokes, bringing her to an ever growing climax in a pussy that was empty and ached with jealousy at the thrashing he was giving her ass. "Little dove, does this feel good?" He asked, his own breathing erratic as he held her hips and pulled her hard into his cock, which was swelling with the need to cum within her soft, small body. "Oh, Jesus, Al-FUCK. Please, yes, yes, this feels good." Domino squeezed her eyes shut as he hammered in suddenly, his large, muscled hips pumping with an astonishing amount of speed and force, and she felt him sink farther into her colon and his body suddenly tensed and a rush of hot, thick cum shot in waves into her colon, well past her rectum, she knew, as she shook in her own orgasm that squirted her pussy juices all over the nest of black curls on his groin. Alex held her tightly pressed up against his body as he slowly pulled his partially swollen cock from her ass and then he shifted them so that he could lay her on her side on her bed, her head on a pillow, her legs straightened as he grabbed the soft, lilac colored bedspread and moved it up and over her slightly damp skin. He frowned as he realized he had not bitten her that last time, which was unusual for him. Usually a good hard fuck like he'd just given the girl would have forced him to suck on her, but he'd been so focused on the way he felt driving his dick inside her asshole, he'd forgotten to. He laid at her side, an elbow propped him up as he rested his right arm over her covered body. Alex had stayed above the blanket, he would need to leave, and quickly. But he was having a hard time doing so, he wanted to stay, wanted to make sure that Domino was okay with everything that he had done to you. "Thank you, Alexandru." He heard a husky whisper come from her and he moved his hand to her chest and pushed her down onto her back. "What are you thanking me for, little dove? It was you that gave me the ultimate gift." He whispered coarsely, planting small kisses across her face as he spoke. "You gave me the decision on whether or not to give it, Alex." Domino felt tears fill her eyes as he looked down at her, his eyes had widened just a touch and he had moved one side of his mouth up in a satisfied grin before settling over her body more firmly and taking her lips under his one last time. She knew he was going to leave, even if he didn't say it, she knew the sky was starting to lighten and could feel his restlessness as he stroked her tongue with his and his hands buried in her long blond hair. She shivered when he rose above her, his palms moving down on the mattress to force himself off of her. "You have to leave before it gets light outside, don't you." Domino wrapped her hands around his wrists. He nodded, "I am a creature of the dark, Domino. My skin does not react well to the light." "What happens?" She shivered, he lowered his mouth to her throat and licked the skin above her carotid, the feel of the pulsing artery making him harden. "It burns, little dove." He muttered as he opened his mouth and sunk his teeth into the pulsing artery, only taking a little, licking the wounds quickly so she didn't have any lasting damage from the slaking of his lust for her blood. "Then you should go." She said, her voice catching as tears came to her eyes at the thought of him disappearing. "You'll need to increase your fluids for a while, Domino, I've taken blood from you. It wouldn't hurt for you to increase your iron intake, as well. You're a little deficient." He planted another kiss on her mouth before forcing himself to rise and collect and put his clothes back on, he smiled a little as he thought about where her pants were. "Will I see you again?" Domino sat up, keeping her breasts tucked into the blanket she was wrapped in. "It's not safe for me to return too soon, you need time to restore your blood supply. A month, maybe more. I will find you again, little dove, I am quite-you've been a surprise. A pleasant one." He told her, standing close to the doorway of her room. "How often do you feed?" She asked, curious as to what he would do for nourishment in the meantime. "I must feed weekly, but it's sometimes more frequently." He smiled knowingly down at her, "I don't fuck all of my food, little dove. I have acquired a collection of humans willing to let me dine on them without sex." "I can't imagine not wanting to fuck you." She whispered as he glanced to the window. "Domino, when did you last bleed?" He asked, and the question made her frown, not sure what he was asking at first. "My period? I actually just finished my last one two days ago. Why? Oh." Domino widened her eyes, it hadn't even occurred to her about getting pregnant. "Women typically ovulate two or so weeks after they start. You cannot carry a vampire child." He dug out the wallet in his back pocket and pulled out a foil wrapped card from the pocket and put it on top of her dresser. "Morning after pill. You should take it when you wake up." Domino nodded, she bit her lower lip as she looked at him move out of her bedroom door into the short hallway. "Alexandru." She felt herself whimper and he looked back at her for just a moment before disappearing from the doorway. She waited a few moments and heard her front door close. She shivered at the idea that he had actually left and that she had no idea when she would see him again. If she saw him again. He was a vampire, she was more than likely just a night's conquest for him. Getting out of bed, she walked to the door, picking up the foil pack as she went, and walked into the front of her apartment. Domino didn't hesitate in locking the door closed and then she walked into the kitchen and poured herself a glass of water. As she bent to throw the empty packet in the trash after putting the pills in her hand, she moaned softly, her pussy was sore, sated, but very very sore. Straightening, she put the pills in her mouth and took a drink of water, swallowing them in one gulp before downing the rest of the glass. The only consequences of her night fucking a vampire that Domino could handle was the loss of her virginity. She was more than happy to ensure that he left nothing else behind. Looking once more at the locks on her front door, to ensure they were indeed locked, she made her way back to her bedroom and crawled underneath the covers. Her eyes were closed and she was asleep before the blankets had settled down around her body. Breathing deeply, she could smell the remnants of his scent and hers, and the odor of their sex in the air, lulling her into a deeper sleep. A Few Sips Ch. 03 Domino slept late into the next day, only waking long enough to email her boss and tell her that she didn't feel well. It wasn't entirely true, but she was so sore and exhausted, it had been a bit of a chore to get up and do the essentials, like urinate and make coffee. Her body still tingled, even now, later the next afternoon, and Domino found herself smiling at random times as she was reminded of ways that Alexandru had touched her, of how he had tasted and felt. He had done so many truly sexual things to her that every movement she made was a harsh reminder of how insanely desirous he was, and how much it pained her deep inside that he was gone. She was so wrapped up in the reminder of the sensations he had sent coursing through her body that, at one point, Domino had just returned to bed again and spent a great amount of time running her hands over her body, caressing her breasts, tickling her sides and belly, and then burying her hands in her crotch, rubbing harshly against her clit and sliding against her aching pussy. Her ass was slowly returning to normal, but she knew it would be days before she felt more normal in the back, and even her stretched pussy would need time to recuperate. She figured a month was more than enough time. The following day was Saturday, and she woke that morning feeling much more refreshed and a forceful need to pee. She'd saturated herself the day before with water and had ordered beef and broccoli for lunch for the iron that Alex had suggested. Once she took a shower and dressed, she pulled her shoes on and unlocked her front door, walking out of it and was halfway down the stairs, going over her shopping list in her head, when she suddenly stopped, gasping and looking around her. She was in the hallway. Her heart wasn't pounding. She had left her house without even thinking about the process of doing so. Her eyes widened and she shivered, half needing now to turn around and go back, but instead, she steeled her shoulders and walked the rest of the way down the stairs. She bit her lower lip as her mouth spread in an excited smile. She opened the door and felt the warm morning sun hit her face and she closed her eyes and took it in for a moment before turning to walk back to the market she had visited so fatefully a few days ago. Her fear was gone. There was no way great sex could have gotten her over what had held her so captive for so many years. But the vampire had done more than just fucked her, she supposed. He had allowed her to be in control, despite the obvious need he had to take what he wanted from her. She had made all the decisions. She had made them gladly. Inside the market, she grabbed a basket and filled it with the items that she would need to hold her over, at least for a few days. She could always come back. Domino smiled to herself, she could always come back. That option had never brought her so much pleasure before, and she giggled as she walked along the frozen food section. She would get some ice cream to celebrate her own personal victory. ~*~*~*~ Today was a huge day for Domino Ashburn, and she woke up to her alarm invigorated and ready to start her morning. First, she showered, shaved and brushed her teeth before taking the time to dry and style her hair up in a side braid that left little wisps and curls to fall around the rest of her head, and then she carefully looked over a few of the outfits that she had purchased for this particular moment. Eventually, she settled on the below the knee red dress with the little white polka dots. It had a modest scooped neck, half sleeves and a small bow at the waist and the skirt flared out somewhat from there. She paired it with vintage-y black heels that she'd purchased online on a whim years before but had never had a reason to wear them. The dress had come off of an online site, as well, and Domino had had to return it at first to get a smaller size. She'd lost a little weight in the last month, which she'd attributed to the fact that she was more active. She'd even went so far as to join an albeit small gym where she went three times a week to walk on a treadmill. Putting a dab of red lipstick on, she smiled at her pale complexion and then walked out of her bathroom and made her way into the living room to get her lunch and computer packed into a bag. Once she had everything ready, she grabbed an apple from her stocked pantry and made her way out of her apartment. Outside, she smiled at a woman walking by with a stroller and made her way down to the bus stop. She waited quietly with a few other potential bus passengers until the light blue and green bus finally rolled to a stop in front of them. Boarding it, she took a seat near the window and enjoyed the view that passed by as it made its appointed stops on the way to the large office building that she was heading to. It was her first day of work...in an office...with coworkers, and it wasn't her living room. Domino had waited a while to see if her insecurities had returned, but had found that every time she left her apartment, doing so again was just that much easier, and she was excited to attend to every chore, and found herself leaving as much as she possibly could now. "That's a nice dress." A deep voice said from the seat behind her and Domino turned around to see a blond haired man with a jaw that needed a bit of a shave wearing a flannel shirt and worn out jeans smiling kindly at her. "Thank you." Domino nodded at him, feeling the smallest blush creep up her neck as she turned back around. "I take this bus every day, I've never seen you on it before. Car break down?" He asked, leaning forward and resting the underside of his left forearm on the empty seat beside her. She shook her head, turning her head to meet his gaze again, she was still uneasy talking to men, but this was good practice, she supposed, she knew a lot of her coworkers were male. "No, I don't drive." "Lucky me." He winked at her and she tilted her head a little as she took in his handsome face with the light blue twinkling eyes. He looked like a college student, probably at UVM. The bus rolled to a stop and she watched him as he looked out the window and frowned, "My stop. It's a shame. Maybe I'll see you again." He shifted so that his face moved closer to her and she watched as he breathed in deeply, and his body seemed to shiver a moment as his mouth fell into a stress-filled frown, his eyes searching hers for a moment before he stood up and looked down at her. "Maybe so?" Domino responded, wondering at the change in him as he moved into the aisle, his eyes on her for another moment before he nodded shortly and left the bus. She looked out the window and watched as he moved onto the sidewalk. He turned and looked towards where she sat on the bus, his eyes still just as questioning as they'd been after he'd smelled her and she almost thought she saw him shake his head as the bus started to drive off. She looked into her lap to see that her hands were shaking a little, she didn't understand. What had made the man react to her smell the way he had? Why had he seemed to change his entire demeanor toward her in that one brief intake of air? She shivered a moment, but Domino was not going to let some weird guy on the bus ruin her whole day. She was going to work, damn it, and that was something to celebrate! When the bus finally got to her stop, Domino exited it and quickly walked into the front doors of the building that she'd only been to the one time, her initial interview with the tech company. A smile on her face, she walked to the elevator and pushed the button for the floor that she knew her office was located on, and waited the few minutes it took for her to get to the appropriate floor. Walking down the hall to the right, Jenna had told her exactly where to go, she'd even texted her a video of the floor in preparation for today, Domino looked ahead and her grin widened into a tooth-exposing smile as she saw her desk covered in toilet paper and balloons, and Jenna and several other people were surrounding it, blowing on party horns as she stopped in front of them. "Welcome to work, Dom! It's about damn time!" Jenna laughed at her and walked over and gave her friend a big hug. "Thanks, Jenna. You guys really didn't have to do this." Domino nodded at the others, who she was quickly introduced to. Her first work day was a success and Domino felt very proud of herself as she left the office later that afternoon. She'd met pretty much everyone who worked in the office, and they'd taken her out to lunch, even. All had been friendly, and more than one of the men had looked at her a little longer than socially acceptable, but had been completely gentlemanly with her. It was an amazing feeling, to once again be part of something, part of the world. She had so much to thank Alexandru for, if she ever saw him again. Jenna had given her a ride home from work, and she'd entered her apartment building through the back door, slyly looking towards the little alleyway off the alcove, she had very fond memories of that quiet little area. She'd snuck down the afternoon after Alexandru had visited her and found her clothes pretty much exactly where she'd left them. She'd thrown the pants and undies in the trash, but had cleaned up the shoes and tossed them in her closet. The following weeks were close repeats of those first few days of her work, and Domino had gotten into a relative routine of work, exercise and home. She'd started taking classes at a local bakery that taught people to decorate cakes and cupcakes, and Jenna had invited her almost weekly to some adventure or another. Sometimes it was just the two of them, and other times, it would be a small group that they would head out with. She saw a few movies, went fishing, and even drove with a car full of people over to the Ben and Jerry factory to take a tour and eat some ice cream. It was something like a dream that she desperately wanted to never wake up from. But like all dreams, the happy, easy, contented life that she had started to live was interrupted one afternoon when she stepped off of the bus in front of the stop in her neighborhood and looked up and saw a face that she hadn't seen since that first day that she'd taken it to work. Despite what the blond man had said, he hadn't seen her again, though she had looked, and had taken the bus later or earlier a few times just to see if he showed up. He was sitting, his elbows on his knees and his hands folded in front of him, his eyes watching her approach closely, on the bus bench. He wasn't alone, there were five other men with him, all tall, like he was, all dressed similarly in casual clothing, and all seemed to have their eyes centered completely on her. Oh, what was she doing out of her apartment? It was the first thing Domino thought as a nervous shiver worked through her body. She pulled her bag closer against the dark blue dress that she wore and nodded at him, it would be rude not to acknowledge that she'd seen him before, and a nod seemed the most noncommittal thing that she could do. Turning to her left, she started making her way to her apartment building, her body tensing and heating up when she saw several of the men shift in her direction as she started moving away from them, and the blond stood up, his hands shoving into his pockets as he started to follow her. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. She dug her keys out and put them between her fingers like they tell you to in defense classes, or at least that's what she'd heard in the past. Domino thought she heard a dog growl nearby and moved her eyes down to the ground around her, but she couldn't see any animals anywhere. Frowning, she knew he was about ten feet behind her now and she sped up a little. "Wait." His deep male voice sounded and Domino felt her entire body tense and sizzle in fear and she stopped in front of her apartment complex door and shoved the key fob against the sensor as she felt his body come up behind her. He didn't press in, he just stood extremely close behind her, his hands moving to rest on her shoulders as she shook against the door. Tears fell from her eyes as she felt him pull her hair back over one shoulder so he could move his mouth closer to her ear. "I'm not trying to scare you. We need to talk." He told her and she whimpered. "If you're not trying to scare me, then why are you standing so close and why did you follow me to my apartment?" She whispered against him as he took a step away from her and let his hands fall to his sides. "My name is Aidan Bardolph. These are my brothers." He motioned to the five other men who had approached with him, she didn't believe for a minute that they were brothers, none of them looked the same, and one of them looked to have a little Asian in him. "And?" Domino crossed her arms in front of her as she faced them. "I smell a vampire on you." His words were spoken softly and she tensed as if he'd screamed them at her. "And?" She frowned, how could he have? He wasn't a vampire too, was he? But it was sunny outside, not possible. "I mean I smell a vampire inside of you, growing inside of you." He looked down at her flat stomach and Domino followed his gaze. Her eyes were wide as she looked back up at his face, he couldn't possibly be right. She'd taken the pill that Alexandru had given her, she'd even bled a bit shortly after. She couldn't be pregnant? Frowning, she shook her head, "No way." "I smell it, it's there." He looked down and she realized that rumbling growl that she'd heard was actually coming from him. "You can't be-." One of the men, a dark blond haired one, stepped forward and put a hand on Aidan's shoulder. "This is not the place for this conversation." Aidan looked at the man and sighed, nodding his head before looking back at the girl in front of him with the wide, scared eyes. "I mean you no harm. When I saw you on the bus a few weeks ago, I smelled it on you, but I couldn't figure it out at first. Once I spoke with my pack about it, I realized what it was. You're in danger." Domino frowned again, looking at the six men with worry on her face. "I'm not about to let six guys that I don't know into my apartment, but I will allow Aidan to enter by himself." She wasn't sure what had made her decide to do that, but she was worried that what he said was true, and she wanted more information. Opening the front door, she walked inside and held it open for the lean blond man that walked in alone behind her, closing the door behind him. They took the stairs quickly and Domino unlocked the dead bolt on her door. Once inside the room, she felt instantly calmer, the safety net that she was so used to finally back around her with force. She was terrified that this would be the straw, the one that sent her back into hiding from the world. "What is your name?" He asked as he closed the door, staying near it so that he didn't scare her further. "Domino. Domino Ashburn." She told him, walking into her living room and sitting on her couch, on the edge, she was way too tense to get more comfortable. "And you had sex with a vampire, Domino? When? Do you know his name, or was it-?" He let his question end without finishing it, but she knew what he was asking. Domino looked up as he walked into the living room, sitting on the armchair nearer the window, the one that she liked to sit and read in. "I wasn't raped. I know that's what you think, but it wasn't rape. He didn't hurt me. But he gave me a morning after pill, so how could I?" "So he tried to protect you from this?" Domino nodded, "Of course, he said it's dangerous for a human girl to have a vampire baby. How do you even know about vampires?" He smiled mischievously and ran a hand through his somewhat messy hair, "Vampires aren't the only non-humans in the world, they're just the ones that your kind seem to romanticize the most." She frowned, she had not romanticized Alexandru. What they had done was much more physical, much more brutally passionate. She had not gazed at him with innocent star filled eyes, she had screamed in intense, agonizing pleasure as she'd gushed her pussy juices all over his cock. Domino felt herself blush and grow warm as her thoughts centered on her time with her vampire and she took a few moments to calm herself before looking back at the man on the armchair, he seemed to have tensed ever so slightly. "His name is Alexandru. He was not unkind to me." She let her gaze rest on and hold his and he nodded slowly. "I know the vampires in this area, and he's not familiar to me. Did he tell you where he nests? If he plans on seeing you again?" He put his elbows on his knees and clasped his hands together in front of them. "I don't know. He said he works as an escort of some sort sometimes. He said he couldn't see me for a while, that I needed time to restore my-my blood supply." She heard him growl a little and figured his kind didn't like the fact that vampires used her kind for a food supply. "How long ago were you together?" "S-seven weeks, I think?" Lord, that would put her at almost two months along in her pregnancy. He frowned, and she wondered why. "If I'm really pregnant, and it's dangerous, then I can go and get an abortion, right? Then it can't hurt me?" The thought of aborting Alex's baby made her gut tighten and she wanted to cry again, but if it would kill her, did she have any other option? "At seven weeks, it is firmly attached to your blood supply. Removing it now would mean we would have to remove your entire uterus. You'd be sterilized, if you even survived it." Aidan frowned, knowing she was scared by the way her shoulders were slumped and she was starting to visibly shake. "I'm going to die." Domino felt the tears fall and she looked slowly up at him with wide, terror filled eyes. "I left my house to buy milk and now I'm going to die." He stood up and walked over to her, putting an arm around her shoulder and bringing her up against his warm, solid chest. He was making a few rumbling sounds that she couldn't understand and found herself wrapping her arms around his waist as she sobbed. Damn it. Of course having sex with a vampire had been a stupid idea. What kind of a nut says yes to letting something that drinks blood as a source of nutrition fuck her? Really, who does that? "Domino, there is still time. Your body is feeding the fetus all right for now, but eventually, in another month or so, you will start to feel exhausted, short of breath, and you'll become short of blood as it begins to consume larger amounts than you can restore. Have you noticed that you drink more fluids already, that you're hungry for meat?" He asked her quietly, talking in what she knew was a voice meant to soothe her and not scare her further. Domino sniffed and wiped her eyes across the front of the thick cotton shirt that he wore. Nodding, she looked up at his face, "I have noticed that I eat more red meat. I'm usually not very into it, but hamburgers seem to be my go to meals these days." Jesus, she was pregnant. "My great great grandfather did some similar type work as your vampire friend. I wonder if he might know this lover of yours. He should know what he's done to you. Plus, he might know something that can help you. There's always a chance, a story, a rumor of something that has worked in the past. There is still time, Domino." Aidan told her. She nodded, his great great grandfather? That sounded weird. "Why do you care?" "Non-humans should be responsible for what they do to others. I would be remiss if I knew you were in danger and I did nothing." Aidan ran a hand across her cheek, his face loomed ever closer to hers and Domino could feel his heat seem to flow into her skin and warm her, "Plus, I find myself somewhat drawn to you." A Few Sips Ch. 03 Domino widened her eyes and gasped, his mouth fluttered ever so lightly over hers and then he was kissing her fully, his lips surrounding and closing around hers, his tongue stabbing between, rubbing carnally against her tongue. His right arm, the one behind her back, moved under her arm to slide forward so that he could cup her breast tightly while his left hand moved to the back of her head to hold her face to his as he continued kissing her. "Aidan, I don't know-." Domino gasped for breath between the assault of his tongue inside her mouth and felt him push her down onto her back on the couch, his larger, stronger body moving over hers fluidly. "I'm not going to do more than kiss you today, Domino." He finally sat back on his knees looking down at her, loving the way she looked, her lips swollen from kissing, her hair splayed out behind her on the couch pillows. Her dress had ridden up and he could see her smooth, milky-white thighs and the bottom of her covered pussy. He bit his lower lip at the intense smell of her cunt and the dark spot he knew he was responsible for on her panties. He would stop there, though. She didn't need a further complication in her life right now, and he had a feeling that there was something more than just a quick fuck between her and her vampire lover. "I don't understand all of this. I don't understand how I lose my virginity to someone who's not even supposed to exist, and now he left behind something that is going to kill me, according to you. And you said you're not human. So what are you?" Domino felt him lower back down to lie on top of her, his hands cupping around her shoulders as he kissed her more slowly this time. "I wish I could show you, Domino, but I'm already playing with fire approaching you like this." Aidan sniffed her, she smelled like she very very much belonged to the vampire that had fucked her. "Then tell me." He sighed and let his left hand slip to rub over her right breast. "I shift in the moonlight. I can control it unless there's a full moon." "You're a werewolf?" Domino whispered, and then whimpered when he dipped his head and bit her nipple through the cotton of her dress. He nodded, moving his mouth to the other breast and repeating the nip as she wiggled beneath him, her pussy was growing more moist and he felt his cock harden tightly in his pants. "Why are you touching me like this?" Domino shook with the desire he was lighting within her body and when he pushed his hips hard between her thighs, she felt her eyes squeeze closed and her hands scratched at his chest through his shirt. "Just because you're pregnant and most likely in love with a blood sucking demon doesn't mean you're not sex on wheels, Domino. How could I not be attracted to you?" He chuckled, pushing up from her on his palms, his eyes sparkled as he smiled down at her. "What if we can't find him?" She shivered, the idea of never seeing Alexandru again, or at least before this baby inside her killed her, terrified Domino and she squeezed her hands against his waist. "I'm going to take you to my great great grandfather and we will see if we can. He knows a great many powerful people. We should be able to locate your vampire lover before it's too late." She hated hearing him say 'too late.' It made her stomach burn with fear. "But what if-?" She whimpered through tears that were threatening to fall and felt him growl and he ground his hips into hers. "Then I will stay with you until we find a way to save you." "I can't imagine that vampires have been around so long but no one knows how to keep me alive." "For a very large part of history, Domino, keeping humans alive has been very low priority on the list for non-humans. We're only slightly more civilized now." Aidan moved a hand to the side of her face, and then slowly slipped his thumb into her mouth as he bucked rhythmically against her pussy, the feel of his rough jeans rubbing against the wet satin of her panties was making Domino boil with desire. Domino closed her mouth over the thumb and felt him shudder over her, sucking gently, she slid her tongue over and around it and enjoyed the hissed breath he took against her. His cock felt huge, and she felt her pussy juices building as he brought her towards orgasm while simply showing her how he would fuck her with his tightly muscled body. Jesus, she had not expected this, sure he was attractive, and he smelled amazing, of the woods and spice, and he was young and virile. It was obvious that he would be an amazing lover. However, the last amazing lover that she'd had left her with a baby that was going to eat her from the inside out. What the hell would a werewolf leave behind? And did she really want him to? She felt something very strong for Alexandru, something impossible to feel so intensely after having him in her life for just one night. How could she possibly consider letting this man do more with those powerful ass muscles than just dry hump her? She was scared, that's what it was, she was scared that she would die, that what Alexandru had done to her would kill her, and she would die having only had sex that one night. It infuriated her, she realized, that he would introduce her to such an amazing part of her body, and then he would leave, for seven weeks, and she would be pregnant. Pregnant and terminal. Domino frowned and sucked harder on the thumb in her mouth as her hands went to the button at the top of his jeans. He tensed against her and stilled, his eyes dropping to watch as she opened the button and slowly unzipped his pants, pulling them down so they rested near his knees before she moved her hands around to the long rod that was hanging full, and very very heavy, between his legs. The first touch of her hand to his aroused cock made the man above her howl and Domino gasped as she tried to wrap her hand around the rod, but couldn't. He was very thick, and long, she realized as she ran her hand up to the tip and down to the base, knowing she wanted to see it out of his boxers. She moved her hands to the hem of them and felt him sink down to lay on top of her, keeping her from lowering them. "Domino, you need to think about this. If you keep going, I'm going to fuck you. And you don't belong to me." He muttered throatily and she wrapped her hands around his back. "I don't belong to anyone." She choked out as she sought out his mouth, "how can I now?" He groaned and took control of the kiss, holding her face down against the pillows with his and his hands tugged at her skirt, bringing it up and over her pussy and waist, finally pulling his body up so that he could tug it completely off of her body by pulling it over her head. She wore a pink, lacy bra that he quickly had on the floor beside them, and her matching panties were pulled down and off, as well. Aidan moved his body so that his mouth was level with her pussy, and Domino cried out loudly when he moved in and sucked hard on her clit, his fingers moving in and two fingers shoved inside of her wet sheath. "Oh fuck, oh, oh." Domino jerked her head from side to side as he ate her pussy with fury, his tongue and teeth and lips tugging and sucking and biting her until she felt her pussy muscles clench down hard onto the fingers attacking her and she shattered, her cum spilling over his hand, making him growl low, his body shaking against her. "You smell so hot, Domino." He groaned as he moved back up her body, lowering his boxers as he moved, his cock in hand as he sank between her legs and he pushed the head against the wet opening to her cunt. "Oh my God!" Domino shouted in response, he'd bucked his hips forward and thrust his thick dick all the way inside, stretching her forcefully to accommodate his size and girth. He wasn't as big as Alexandru, but he was still substantial, larger than she figured a human man could be. He didn't stay still inside of her, either, but pulled back with his hips and thrust back forward again, his hips moving in a circular, and ever increasing rhythm in and out of her cunt. Her breath came in harsh gulps and she whimpered as his mouth came down and closed over her breast, suckling hard there as his hands went low to pull her into his powerful thrusts. "Does that feel good?" He asked as he hammered hard inside, knowing that he was balls deep and pressing harshly into her womb from the way she tensed her entire body and her breath caught. "Y-yes, that feels so good." Domino opened her brown eyes and looked up at the man above her on the couch. "And this," Aidan slowed down, circling his hips in and out of her in a slow, aching way that caused her control to break and she drenched him in another orgasm, "does it feel good when I do this?" "Are you sure that you're not the demon?" She groaned and saw his smile widen for a moment before he bit his lip and began to fuck into her a little faster. "You wouldn't have had to worry about my getting you pregnant in my human form. It would have been better if we'd met first." He told her and she frowned at him, she wasn't ready to regret being with Alex, she cared for him, cared for him so much it made her heart hurt that she was fucking this man. "Don't-don't, just fuck me, Aidan, just FUCK-." Her last word came out in a scream as he growled and began to beat into her pussy with such force that she felt her ass grind low into the couch beneath her, burning as it was rubbed hard as his cock buried deeper, harder, faster inside her pussy, over and over until his whole body started to shake and tense and his lungs filled with a howl and his cum speared her pussy in long, thick ribbons of white fluid. Her orgasm wrapped around her at the same time, pulling and squeezing and milking both his cock and her muscles for more of the hot, pungent juice that she squirted out in a blissful squeal against his throbbing hard cock. Afterward, Aidan stood up and pulled his shoes and jeans off, the boxers falling down as well, and he tossed them all to the side while he tugged his cotton shirt over his head and dropped it onto the pile. His blue eyes never left hers, and he knelt down and picked her up off of the couch and carried her in his arms to the bedroom. He would feed her later, he'd already asked one of his pack to bring food, she would need to eat. The male members of his pack that had accompanied him today, as well as the three others, and the three female pack members were all concerned about Aidan getting physical with the girl. They knew it was a huge mistake, especially if the vampire wanted her for himself, but Aidan hadn't been able to help himself, especially when she had opened her sweet little body for him. "Are you leaving?" Domino asked from the bed when he walked back towards the bedroom door. He turned to her for a second and shook his head, then walked out of the room, made sure the door to her apartment was unlocked, pushed the button that would open the downstairs door for his brothers, and then he walked back into her bedroom and shut the door. "I'm not leaving you unless you ask me to, Domino. And I know there is a good chance of that if we're able to locate your vampire." "Or if I die." Domino muttered as he moved onto the bed, moving his body to spoon behind her, his hands wrapped around her waist and chest and pulled her against him. "That's not going to happen. I am going to take you to Sergei and he's going to help us figure out a way to fix this." Domino shivered and sank farther into him, allowing herself to enjoy the feel of the man around her, holding her, keeping her safe if at least for a little while. Closing her eyes, she felt herself drift into a light sleep, knowing he would continue keeping her safe as she rested. Maybe he was right, maybe when they visited his great great grandfather, Sergei?, they would get some answers, maybe there was some hope for her after all. A Few Sips Ch. 04 The sun had set more than an hour ago, and the streets were empty in this part of Burlington. The only footsteps that could be heard on the concrete sidewalk belonged to a very tall, very broad shouldered man in a dark black trench coat, which was a little much for a hot July night, even in Vermont. At the apartment complex that was his destination, Alexandru pushed the call button beside the apartment number that he knew belonged to the woman he was seeking. There was no answer, even after several moments, and he buzzed again, stepping back to look up towards what he knew was her living room window. Frowning, he realized that it was dark. She never left home. Where could she be? He frowned harder and walked around the block to go to the back of the building. At the rear door, he closed his hand around the handle and yanked hard, inhumanely so, and felt something give from within the frame and it opened up for him easily. Stepping inside, he walked up the staircase to stand in front of her door. Trying the knob, he realized that it was locked, but the deadbolt hadn't been used. Closing his hand over the knob, he turned it as he pushed hard against the door, feeling it give instantly, and he stepped inside quickly and shut the door behind him. There were no lights, but all of Domino's things were still inside. It was clean, there were no plates on the counter telling him she'd been here recently, and her work space was clean and empty of the laptop that he'd seen in the room before. He frowned, stepping farther into the room. Looking at her small kitchen table, he saw an envelope sitting in the middle of it. An envelope with his name on it. Walking over, he scooped it up and opened it, pulling out the paper inside quickly. Scanning it, he felt his breath heat and he pulled oxygen into his lungs more harshly. 'Dear Alexandru, If you get this, just know that I am looking for you. I am pregnant with your baby and I know what this is going to do to me. I've gone to look for you, and for help. I've met someone who is helping me figure this out. I am sorry that I am not there right now, but if you read this know that I am looking for you, please, please, come to me. I am going to a place near Duluth, Minnesota, to visit a man named Sergei Mihaylov. He may know where to find you. I am leaving the address on the end of this letter. Alex, find me. Please. Domino' Alexandru felt his gut tighten uncontrollably, so many things were flying through his mind at once. Domino was pregnant? How could she be? He had never had any problem stopping conception with the other women he had fucked. Frowning, he felt his body grow hot with worry. His child would kill her, and she would be too far along to stop it now. Damn! He crumpled the letter in his hand and looked around him, she was headed to Sergei, to-to Anya. The idea that she would meet the one woman that he'd wanted to steal away with forever made him nearly nauseous, if a vampire could be nauseous, which he wasn't even sure. Dear God, what would Anya, or those possessive and annoying wolves of hers tell Domino? He needed to get to Minnesota, and quickly. He took one step towards the door as he breathed deeply and then he felt himself flush with heat and he turned his head towards the bedroom. Frowning, Alexandru moved to the doorway and stepped inside, breathing again, focusing on the scents coming from inside. Domino's scent was strongest here. When he had left, it had smelled of her, and him, and the scent of the sex that they had enjoyed together. Now, it smelled faintly of her, and her sweet, appetizing cunt, but it also smelled like another man, a wolf. God DAMN it. He pressed his lips in a firm line as he stormed out of the bedroom, she had mated with a wolf. He could smell the salty sterile cum, he could smell the juice that had erupted from her pussy, the pussy that belonged to him. He growled as he yanked open her apartment door and slammed it shut behind him, he was not going to lose another woman to some damned puppy. Not again. ~*~*~*~ A normal person would have taken a flight to Duluth, as far as it was located from Vermont, but Alexandru had no interest in piling into a metal can among a bunch of blood-filled humans 36,000 feet in the air when he had wings of his own. So, for the next few days, he flew at night, and rested during the day, out of the light. If he had pushed himself, he could have arrived just before dawn the second day, but he didn't want to arrive and then immediately have to rest, so Alexandru waited to locate the address that Domino had left him on the third night, shortly after the sun had lowered from the sky. He'd been to this area of the country already, he'd visited Sergei and his pack before they'd gotten bonded with Anya. This house, however, was new to him, but the largeness of it, the grandness didn't surprise him, Mr. Bricker was one for appearances and he knew that the dragons had a special place in their dark, sinister hearts for the light siren. He knew they all did, and despite the fact that his whole body was filled with the tension of not knowing how Domino was doing, or who she was doing, he felt his gut tighten a little bit at the thought of seeing Anya again. He would have liked to arrive in a more stealthy way, but the wolves had extremely sensitive instincts, and he knew they would smell him the moment he reached the property. When he flew down towards the front of the large house, he wasn't at all surprised to see the front door open and two men walk outside. Alexandru smirked, they were stressed, and he knew it had to do with what he had done to the girl. It was an unwritten rule in this world these days that vampires did not procreate with human women. "Alexandru." Sergei said in his smooth baritone voice as he watched the large vampire land with a pounding thud on his driveway and then straighten and stay where he was. "Sergei." Alexandru nodded. "We figured you'd show up eventually." Yakov stepped a little closer to his alpha. "She is here?" He asked, knowing from the way both men seemed to heat up by several degrees that the answer was yes. "She's been here for a few days." "How is she?" "She's scared, confused, pregnant." Sergei frowned, exactly what did the vampire expect to hear? "Can I see her?" Alexandru asked, stalling outside of the home only out of his respect for the men and woman who lived here, but he wouldn't be able to do so for long, he had a strong urge to see Domino. "You need to remain calm, Alexandru. She is starting to get more easily tired." Sergei said, his head slowly nodding. Alexandru glared at the wolf alpha and swept quickly past both men and stormed into the house through the front door. Looking around, he didn't see anyone at first, and then he saw a small blond woman standing on the far side of a formal dining room, her hands wrapped around her body as she stared outside. A lighter blond-haired man was standing behind her, leaning close, and every nerve in Alexandru's body fired and he felt a growl leave his lips as he walked fiercely through the entry way and into the dining room. She was with the wolf who had fucked her, fucked his Domino. "Alexandru?" He heard Anya from somewhere, and glanced to see her standing in a doorway, her eyes wide and her mouth dropped open, but he didn't stop making his way over to Domino. Her brown eyes were on him now, wide, filled with sudden longing, worry, and sadness as he moved to stand in front of her. He searched her face, looked down at her body, she wasn't showing yet, at least not from what he could tell beneath the somewhat baggy shirt she wore. He frowned as he raised a hand and smoothed it against her right cheek, moving it back to wrap into her long thick hair, and the smell of her that floated to him made Alexandru clutch her more forcefully and bring her up to him. He moved his other arm down and wrapped it under her ass to yank her up his body, his lips lowering to cover hers instantly, her whimper clinging to him as he shoved his tongue deep into her mouth. "Alex." Domino whimpered later, wrapping her arms around his neck as he moved his mouth to her throat, pressing his face into the curve of her neck and both of his arms were wrapped tightly around her much smaller body. "I'm so sorry." He muttered against her as he walked back around the table with her towards the entry way. "Alex." She whispered as he didn't stop before they were outside on the driveway. "Where are you taking her?" A concerned male voice said from the doorway, and Alex turned to see that it was Sergei, who looked somewhat frustrated. "Not far, I will bring her back." He extended his large wings and as she yelped in fear, he beat down with them and they were in the air, quickly making their way towards the woods behind the house. "Alex." He heard her say again as soon as he had taken them back to the ground in the trees. It was a warm night, for which he was thankful, and he pulled her down beside him on the ground, pulling her under his large body easily. "I should not have stayed away so long." He muttered, spreading a hand over her upper chest, above the delicious curve of her breasts. "No, you shouldn't have. You got me PREGNANT." Domino gasped, the heat of his palm making her skin sizzle and she felt that delicious ache swell in her pussy, familiar with this man, his scent, his touch. "We will figure this out." He told her, lowering his mouth to hers and kissing her hungrily, his tongue within her mouth, his lips molded tightly to hers. His hand moved into the top hem of the shirt she was wearing and he pushed his fingers into her bra so that he could cup her nicely rounded breasts. The soft catch to her breath that she made when he squeezed the nipple made Alexandru burn with desire, and he moved his body over her, pressing his knees between her legs as she moved her hands up to his chest. "Maybe we shouldn't." Domino groaned as she felt him grind his hips into her, the feel of his arousal against her covered pussy was almost too much. "Domino. You belong to me." His voice was hoarse, scratchy as he kissed her throat, his hands were on her skirt, pulling it up, uncovering the lace panties beneath. "Alex, you left. You left and you didn't come back." She put her hands on either side of his face when he moved back over top of her. "I did come back, little dove. I read your note. I smelled you. I smelled...him." He shuddered for a moment as he held himself over her body. "Alex..." Domino's eyes widened as she looked at the man above her, his wings stretched out behind him, his dark eyes molten with desire. His hands lowered to tug her panties down and off her legs, and then he was tugging his own pants down to reveal his massive, thick shaft that was more than ready to plunge inside of her. Domino gasped, he was already moving in between her legs, pressing the cock head hard against her opening, and she cried out and arched her back when the thick, hot head speared inside past the mushroomed tip. Her body sizzled and stretched and she clung to his hot skin, burying her face in his still clothed chest and breathed in the heady, arousing scent of him. "Domino, open your legs wider, little dove, I want all of you." He hissed against her throat, feeling his canines lengthen, he wrapped his arms around her back as he waited for her to grant him full access to her tight pussy. Domino closed her eyes and breathed him in, her memory of their first time coming forward, filling her with need, a deep, intense need to have him bury that hard dick high inside of her. She was wet, and the way he held the head just inside, her pussy was vibrating for more. Sighing, she dropped her legs open wide and then screamed as she felt him hammer into her in one, long stroke, pushing against her insides tightly, forcing her to take all of him. "Alex, fuuuuuck." Domino panted as he set a heavy rhythm inside, her pussy was exploding from a powerful orgasm and she felt her inner muscles tighten against him, milking him as best she could, God, he was so much to take. "You are mine, Domino. You are mine." He groaned against her throat, breathing in her scent, smelling her arousal, her sweat and breath as it hit his throat from below. "Yes." Domino cried out against him. "Your pussy belongs to me, only me." He growled, slowly opening his mouth as he punched his cock brutally into her cunt, he felt her start to shake against him again, knew that she was being drawn tightly into the coil of another climax and he sank his teeth into her neck, drinking from her just enough to sate his hunger of her blood. When he came, it was with uncontrollable force, his seed filling her canal, it would get no farther inside, he knew, her womb was already housing the product of their last time together. Despite what could happen, despite the trouble that he had caused her, Alexandru knew that he wouldn't change a thing, he couldn't have, she was meant to be his. Arching his neck back, he let out a ferocious cry, bucking up inside of her small, exquisite body several more times before finally pulling his cock out, feeling her whimper as the head popped from the neck of her pussy. Looking down at the woman he had somehow wrapped his heart around, he gave her a somewhat shy, guilty smile, a smile that was also full of love. Alexandru was struck by the sudden unbearable feeling of it, he had really fallen in love with this girl. And when the baby that he had placed within her body so damned carelessly was developed enough, it was going to kill her, it was going to kill his little dove. ~*~*~*~ They had arrived by car to the large house north of Twig, Minnesota early in the morning. Domino had been filled with trepidation as the car that Aidan had driven her in had pulled to a stop in the wide driveway. She wasn't sure exactly what she had expected, but she was sure it hadn't been the enormous house surrounded by a beautiful backdrop of forested land that seemed to stretch on forever in all directions. It was a gorgeous spot, gorgeous and secluded, which she assumed was very much the point considering that, from what Aidan had told her, this house was home to a great many non-humans. "Are you sure that they won't be angry with us just showing up like this?" Domino looked at the man who had rounded the car to stand beside her. Aidan's blue eyes met and held hers and her smiled softly, though she knew he was still irritated with her from their earlier conversation. He was still mad that she had told him that she wasn't going to have sex with him anymore. They'd fucked several times on the drive to Minnesota, but now that they were here, now that she might be able to find Alexandru again, she knew it wasn't fair to continue with Aidan, especially since she knew he liked her. "They're not out here tearing us limb from limb, Domino. So that's a good sign." He put a hand on her shoulder and they walked slowly up to the front door. "They know we're here already?" Domino shivered, that was a little frightening. Aidan nodded, "A wolf has a sense of what occurs in his territory, it's like a sixth sense that lets him know if there is danger or not. They're probably standing just within the doorway." Domino nodded and shivered a little as he rang the doorbell. Just as he'd said, the occupants of the house must have been waiting for their approach because no sooner than the doorbell chimed, the front door was pushed open by a man of average height, dusky brown hair that desperately needed a trim, and intense, wide, gray eyes. He looked at her for several moments before turning to the man she'd come with. "Aidan, you know better than to just enter onto another pack's property." The man scolded the younger one beside her, and Domino bit the inside of her lip as she looked up at Aidan. "I didn't realize that I would be seen as an intruder, Sergei. Being that we are family after all." Aidan shrugged his shoulders. Domino's eyes widened, this was Sergei? This was his great great grandfather? She had a hard time believing it. They didn't look a lot like each other, either, at all, but they definitely knew each other, she could see, as the two finally stepped towards each other and hugged tightly for a moment. "This is my...friend, Domino. I brought her here because she needs your help." Aidan eventually turned and acknowledged where she was standing. The man nodded, looking at her closely for a moment before looking back with an arched brow at Aidan, "She belongs to a vampire, Aidan. What have you gotten yourself into?" Domino frowned, "We are looking for him. He got me pregnant, you see..." Aidan put a hand on her shoulder and growled at his grandparent, "Can we come inside. As she said, we have some things we need to talk to you about." Sergei raised an eyebrow at them and finally nodded, allowing them into the entryway of the house. "Sergei?" A woman's voice said from another doorway and Domino looked over to see a short brunette with big green eyes and a similar looking toddler girl held tightly in her arms. It made Domino's gut tighten, she would never get to hold her own child like that. "Anya, come here." Sergei waved her over as Yegor and Grigory walked into the entry way behind her. "Werewolves age extremely fast when they're pups, two years for every six human months. But once we reach out maturity, around 20 human years, we slow down our aging process extensively. Sergei is much older than he looks. As am I." Aidan whispered to her as they waited for Anya to walk over to them. "I'm Sergei, and I am alpha to this pack. Anya is my mate, and my wife, as you would call her. She's holding our daughter, Catarina. These men are the other members of my pack, Yegor, Grigory," Sergei nodded towards the door that opened behind her and she turned to see a massive dark haired man enter who looked like something out of a Greek mythology novel, "And Yakov." "Aidan is a great great grandson. He lives in Vermont." Sergei told his pack. Domino had been told that werewolf packs generally kept their numbers between 12 and 18, with several females all bonded to the group. A pack of four werewolves bonded only to one human female was unheard of, and Aidan had told her that they were something of an oddity among his kind. "My name is Domino Ashburn. Aidan and I met on the bus," Well, that sounded stupid, "I didn't realize that I was pregnant, but he did. He told me." "Who was the vampire?" "She had sex with a vampire?" Anya asked, biting her lip when Sergei gave her his typical 'quiet' look and she walked over to Domino and took her by the hand. "I need to put Cat back with her siblings. Then we can all sit and talk. And you look starving. Yegor, can you please make her something to eat?" Anya took over, they weren't going to grill this woman who looked terrified in her foyer. "Something filled with iron." Aidan suggested and watched as Yegor and Grigory walked into the kitchen. Anya led Domino down to the basement and they walked into a large, finished basement that had been set up as a playroom for a rather large looking group of children. But when she looked around, not all of them were children, at least not human looking children. There were three pups in the room, two black and one white with a line of gray down the center of its back. They were playing with the children. Domino watched as Anya put the little girl down and then gasped when the little girl shifted from her human form to a darling little gray colored wolf pup. She yipped a few times at Anya and then scampered off and went over to a little girl who looked to be about five years old or so who was reading a book to a few seated little ones and one of the pups. A Few Sips Ch. 04 "I'll introduce them all, but no one will mind if you can't remember them all right away. They're like a hoard of little rugrats." Anya chuckled throatily as she walked with Anya farther into the room. "I've got four kids who are light sirens like me, from my first marriage to a human. Penny is the one reading, Sam is the eight year old playing dominos, and Oscar is over there with the white wolf. Dina, the little girl there listening to the story, is also a light siren, not a wolf. Then I had my first litter in March. Catarina was who I was holding, the white wolf is her brother, Egor. Then there's Ava, Boris, Demetri, Fionna, and Gertie." "Seven at once?" Domino knew her eyes were wide, it was a lot to take in. Anya smiled and nodded, "They come out a little sooner than a human baby, smaller, too. But some of them make up for it in orneriness. Especially that one, my little Boris." Domino looked to the little pup that was running back and forth between one wall and the one across from it, using the wall itself as a launching pad to turn around and run the other direction. He did't seem to care that to do so meant he was jumping over the heads of two of the little ones who were trying to play with toys below one of the walls. It was a very endearing scene before her. Maybe if she didn't make it, but her baby did, maybe Anya would be willing to raise her child among these children? At least, if doing so wasn't a danger to them. "Hey, don't cry. It's going to be all right, Domino." The brunette woman was beside her, an arm wrapping around Domino's waist to lead her back to the staircase. Domino wiped her eyes as they climbed the stairs, she hadn't even realized that she'd been crying looking at the room full of children. When they got to the main floor of the house, Domino saw that the five werewolf men had seated themselves on couches in the living room and all eyes turned to her and Anya as they entered the room. Aidan frowned when he saw that her face was red and her eyes slightly puffy. Standing up, he walked to her and put a hand on one of her cheeks as he searched her eyes with his. "Are you okay?" He asked, his whole body seemed to tense as he awaited whatever answer that she would give. She cleared her throat gently and nodded, letting him walk her over to sit beside him on a loveseat near the fireplace in the large room. Anya, not seeing any spots left on any of the chairs or couches, smiled and climbed on top of Yegor, sitting with her back pressed against his chest, his arms immediately wrapping around her waist to hold her in his lap as they waited for Sergei to start talking, to get to the bottom of all of this. "We do apologize for just barging in like this. Domino is almost eight weeks along now, she doesn't have a lot of time to figure all of this out. We need to find her lov-the vampire that did this to her, and we need to know if there is any way that she can make it out of this with her life." Aidan said, his right arm on the couch behind her neck and the other rested on his knee. "Who does she belong to?" Sergei wasn't going to beat around this particular bush, the woman smelled like her lover, despite the fact that Aidan had been within her, his scent was very obvious to them. "His name is Alexandru." Domino said before Aidan could, and she widened her eyes as the woman gasped and then started to chuckle as the wolves around her growled, seemingly in her direction. "Alexandru got you pregnant?" Anya felt Yegor grip her tighter, telling her to hush, this wasn't about her, the girl was scared enough. "Yes, do you know him?" Domino looked at her hopefully. Anya nodded, a demure smile on her face as she shifted uncomfortably in Yegor's grasp, "I do. And so does Sergei and the others of our pack. They all used to work for the same man." "Oh. He said he was an escort." She explained and heard Anya giggle harder at that. "Anya." Sergei sighed, breathing deeply as he looked over at his wife who was now covering her mouth with a hand to suppress her giggles. "I am so sorry, Domino, this is a serious situation, I am aware completely. I've been in the same spot as you. Honestly. I was given a medication to end the pregnancy. Did he not offer you something to block conception?" Anya sat more upright, finally getting control of herself. "He did, and I took it, but it obviously didn't work." She frowned. "You haven't seen him since he got you pregnant?" Yakov asked. She shook her head, "He said he thought it would be too dangerous to be around me for a while, he wanted my bl-blood supply to get back to normal first." She could feel Aidan growl in the base of his throat next to her. "He does have a tendency to take a little more than he should..." Anya rolled her eyes when the man next to her put a hand on her thigh. "I don't think he nests in Vermont where we live. His scent wasn't familiar to me." Aidan explained. "Is there any way that this won't kill me?" Domino changed the direction of the conversation, her eyes on Sergei, who was watching her quietly. "We will take you to Anya's obstetrician in the morning so that we can get a better look. He may be able to tell us how likely it would be that you'd survive having it removed. Though at almost two months along..." Sergei shook his head, echoing what Aidan had already told her. Domino nodded, "I have four weeks maybe until it starts to really affect me?" "If you're lucky, the amount of blood-, you would live for a while, Domino, but it would drain you of life before the time came that you could no longer support it." Sergei told her honestly. "Would the baby survive?" She asked, feeling the way Aidan tensed at her side. "Domino, do not think about trading your life for this child." He told her. She frowned at him, "I may not have a choice, Aidan." "It might, if you made it to six months or so gestation. We will know more when we meet with the obstetrician." Sergei repeated. "Do you know how to contact Alexandru?" Domino asked instead of asking about her pregnancy again, she didn't want to argue with Aidan about it. "He doesn't really leave contact information around, but we can contact his employer and see if he can find him." "Do you think it will take a long time?" Domino knew from the heat seeping into her from the man next to her that he was frustrated, he was falling for her, and she was desperate for him not to. She couldn't, no matter how much she was attracted to him physically. Mentally, she was still very much connected to Alexandru. "Would that shake stuff that Mr. Hughes is so fond of work on her?" Anya asked her husband and watched him frown and shake his head, they had bad memories, she knew, of the man using that shake on her after she'd first met the wolves. "It wouldn't end the life of a fetus already forming after implantation." Sergei said darkly, standing up and walking over to the cell phone that was in a basket in the front entry. Anya held up her hand, "I'll call Mr. Bricker. He can talk to Mr. Hughes and maybe he has a few ways to reach out to Alexandru as well." Sergei handed her the phone and sat back down. "Do you understand that once Alexandru is found, it's very likely that he will be unhappy that you've touched her?" Sergei looked at Aidan. "I'll deal with that when I have to." Aidan growled, he seemed to shake against her as he spoke and Domino looked over at him with an eyebrow raised. "I'm the one who started things between Aidan and myself. Alexandru can take that up with me if he wants to be angry with someone." Domino said directly to Sergei, she knew what she'd done. "He certainly will." Grigory spoke, finally breaking the silence he'd kept during the conversation around him. "Hey Ned, have sex with anyone conscious lately?" Anya held up a staying hand to those around her, she'd finally gotten someone on the other end of the line. Domino watched her in confusion as she kept talking, explaining the situation and responding to whatever the person on the other end of the line was saying. They only spoke for a few minutes, but she had a hard time following the conversation, as it was salted with her current situation, a description of the health of Anya's many children, her vapid anger at that literally Goddamned angel, and a request that Ned 'grow up and fuck someone with their eyes open.' She was pretty sure that she was in the middle of some kind of drug-induced dream by the time Anya tapped the disconnect button on her phone and set it down. "You know," Anya spoke suddenly, as if they'd never stopped talking in the living room, "Mr. Hughes told me that it would have taken an entire warehouse full of blood to keep me alive if I'd kept Alexandru's vampire baby." "Anya." Sergei hissed, a rumble erupted from the room. "You had sex with Alexandru?" Aidan asked. "You were pregnant by him?" Domino knew her question was loaded with a tight feeling of pain at the thought that he'd done this to another woman. "Anya." Yakov said in a sigh. "Oh, shit. I'm sorry. I wasn't even thinking. Domino, it feels like it happened decades ago. I was a client at Vorhees Spa and I spent some time, a very short amount of time, there with Alexandru. It didn't mean anything." Anya sat up straighter, a sad frown on her face. "No, no it's ok. I can't really be upset, can I? I've barely known him at all." Domino sighed, Aidan's arm had dropped to rest behind her shoulders. "Mr. Hughes may well be our best bet in how to handle this situation." Sergei said softly, standing up and walking over to where Anya was seated. Domino watched as he put his hands under the woman's arms and pulled her to her feet. She stayed against his side as she looked down at where Domino still sat beside Aidan. "If Alexandru knew he'd gotten you pregnant, I know he wouldn't have been able to leave you. We'll find him, and we'll figure out how to help you. I need to go feed the pups and lunch is waiting for us in the dining room. I'll meet you in the dining room in a little while." Anya told her as she slowly walked towards the door with her husband. "We threw some chicken onto the grill. It should be about done now." Grigory said as he got up and left the room to tend to their meal. Aidan got up and pulled her up with him. His blue eyes looked into hers, searching for how she felt, wishing he could read her the way that Sergei and the rest of his pack were able to do with each other. He never would be able to, he figured, if she found her vampire, or if she died. The thought gave him a sick feeling and he found himself frowning at the thought. Domino shook her head gently, not sure exactly what he expected her to say, not knowing what she could say. She was pregnant by a vampire, and the baby was going to suck her dry. She'd asked for it, she'd begged for it, really. Alexandru had asked her repeatedly if she was okay with him fucking her the way he needed to and she had repeatedly allowed it. She couldn't now, when she was suffering with the repercussions of her own actions, be angry with him. She could only be angry with herself. She could only hope that this Mr. Hughes knew how to help her. They spent the night at the house, Aidan on the couch in the living room, and Domino in the spare bedroom of two bedrooms in the basement. The pups all slept together in the room next to the one she was in. Anya said that she'd tried to split them between the two, boys in one and girls in the other, but it hadn't worked. Even her first four children had taken to sleeping in the room with their brothers and sisters, a huge mess of cotton nightgowns and soft fur. The next day, Sergei and Anya had taken her to their obstetrician, who was apparently a werewolf like them. Aidan had been told to stay at the house, he was entirely too close to her, his great great grandfather had told him, and he needed to start distancing himself. Now was as good a time as any. Alexandru would be found soon, and then Aidan would have to let her go. The young wolf had fought it, but after a while, he had nodded and admitted that they were right. The obstetrician had confirmed their fears, the blood supply from the baby had wedged quite heavily into her uterus. The doctor had said that any attempt to prematurely separate the fetus from the uterus, or the uterus from the body would be met with catastrophic systemic results. Basically, Domino would die. But birthing a vampire baby, well, he had sighed sadly, that was going to kill her anyway. He'd never heard about any way to stop the inevitable. Vampires had even attempted to change their pregnant lovers at the time of birth and it had not been soon enough to save her. He had no idea what to do to help her. According to him, everything had been tried. Nothing had worked. Human women who had carried a vampire baby had always died. No matter what. The return call from the man who was apparently Anya's former lawyer brought news from Mr. Hughes that Alexandru had left the spa, which she had ascertained was actually a sex spa from the wolves, over three weeks ago and the vampire had left no forwarding address as to where he was going to. However, in that phone call, it became clear that the man had some ideas of what to do, but that he could only speak about them in person, and only if he felt compelled to by Domino. He had asked that she be brought to Toronto so that he could assess the situation himself. In the meantime, he would continue sending out feelers for the elusive vampire. Domino didn't want to go to yet another place, she was filled with trepidation that he would be unable to do anything in the end, that she would die no matter how many miles she traveled or non-humans that she met. She wished more than anything that she could at least see Alexandru, just once more. She needed to know that this would be worth it, that her life, or the ending of it, had some sort of meaning. Right now, well, right now, Domino felt like she was being punished for something. Either for leaving her house and thinking that she could do it, or for having stayed shut up inside for so long because of her fear of a measly human being. Pete and all his deviant behavior seemed to pale in comparison to the situation she found herself in now. Anya had been very quiet around her after she'd said what she'd said about her own history with Alexandru. Sergei had taken Domino aside eventually and explained that Anya didn't actually remember very much of what had happened to her with the large beast because he had drained her of blood very quickly, apparently being a siren made her irresistible to other non-humans. He had asked for her apology on Anya's behalf, for information that she probably would have rather not known. Domino didn't really know how she felt about knowing or not knowing, but at least it had given the saucy brunette an experience from which to pull what Mr. Hughes had said about being pregnant by a vampire. The next night, Domino had sat at a table full of non-humans and eaten a dinner that was heavy on the meat side for her. She'd never had a steak so large before, and definitely not one that was just this side of rare from raw, and she'd eaten it like a starving woman. She was aware of the conversation going on around her, the easy banter between Anya and her mates, the closeness that seemed so simple and so intense between the five of them, and she also noticed the way Aidan seemed to grow more and more unsteady of himself every day. He had a pack, but she knew he had started blocking them out more and more as they had left Vermont. They had told him to stick her on a bus, they had told him to forget about her, she would never belong to him. He had been very clear to her about how he felt and what he was doing, and a part of her wished that he had listened to them. There was no future for them together. Then Sergei and the rest of his pack had gotten up and Grigory had went downstairs with the children who had eaten with them. The older ones had sat in the dining room while the smaller children had sat at the table in the kitchen. Yegor had followed behind them, happy to spend time with the little ones. Both men worked outside the home and their evenings were often spent with them. Anya had told Domino that werewolves were extremely focused on their litters, and they were very welcoming to children that came into their pack, as her four mates had welcomed her own children. When it was just Aidan and Domino in the room, she stood up and walked over to the back window. This house and the yard behind were so beautiful. It was such a peaceful location deep in woods that were pristine and thick with trees. She couldn't get over the loveliness of it. "How are you feeling, Domino?" Aidan asked quietly as he came over to stand beside her. Domino looked up at him with her large brown eyes, the slight glossy appearance in them telling him that she could cry so very easily, it was how she'd looked ever since the meeting they'd had the day before with the obstetrician. She was starting to resolve herself to the fact that she would die, and he knew he wasn't there yet. He still had hope that something would work to save her. "I feel like I'm pregnant with a time bomb, Aidan." She frowned, turning to look out the window again. "We're not giving up, Domino. When we get to Vorhees, there may be a way for Mr. Hughes to help you. Please don't give up." He told her, moving to put a hand on her shoulder, frowning when he saw her wince a little before pulling away. "I don't know, Aidan, there may be nothing that he can do." She shook her head slowly, "Either way, you shouldn't come. He's sending a plane tomorrow to collect me. I should go alone." Domino told him. "There's no way that I'm going to let you leave here by yourself. This whole world is new to you and you shouldn't be alone as you figure it out." He protested, unwilling yet to say goodbye. "You need to get back to your pack. I know that they've been upset with you since that day, you should go back to them." She pushed, knowing that he didn't want to hear it still, the firm shake of his head told her that. "That bond is breaking, Domino. They stopped trying to pull me back once we arrived here and have started to push me away. I don't think I have a pack to go home to." He told her quietly and watched as her eyes swiveled to his face in surprise. "What are you talking about? You said they understood that you were going back to them." Domino frowned, speaking more quietly because Sergei and Yakov had walked out of the kitchen into the front entry and out the front door without saying anything. He shook his head, "I went against pack decision with you, Domino. That's not a very popular thing to do among wolves." "But you, but you need a pack. You said lone wolves don't do so well." She whispered, turning back to the window, she did not want him ruining his life for a chance with her. There was no chance. "I'll figure it out, Dom. But I don't need to worry about that right now. I want to make sure you're going to be ok." He told her, wishing she would allow him to hold her, she looked very lost, her arms wrapped around her body as she looked out the window. "I'm not your responsibility, Aidan. I can't be." Domino felt a shiver work through and heat up her body. "You could be." He suggested gently, taking a step towards her. "No, I can't. I'm either going to die, or I'm going to find Alexandru and I'm going to have this baby somehow and while I am attracted to you, I ache for him. I want him." She said bluntly, knowing that she couldn't help but hurt him a little, she frowned, scolding herself internally for leading this young man on, of all the mistakes... She heard a noise in the entry but didn't turn. Her eyes were back to the darkening woods behind the house, closing them, she imagined walking into them and just getting lost, just letting the woods take her and helping her forget the problems that she had created in her life. A Few Sips Ch. 04 "Alexandru?" She heard Anya's voice from somewhere behind her and Domino started to shake as she slowly turned around. Her eyes met and held red ones that seemed to breech her very soul as the large, monstrously large man she'd been unable to forget for even one moment moved slowly into the dining room, walking around the table and chairs with sure footing until he stood before her. Heat seeped from him and surrounded her in soothing, arousing sparks of fire and it was all she could do not to throw herself into his arms. Why couldn't she, his arms were exactly where she wanted to be at the moment. Domino was about to move when his hand went up to cup her face and she was scalded by his palm, burned with the knowledge that he had finally found her, that he wanted her, that he knew, that he knew everything, and that she wanted him so desperately much, she could have thrown him down over the dining room table and had at him right here in front of the wolves and woman that were, for the most part, hanging back at the entrance to the room. He tightened his grip into her hair and then used his other arm to yank her up his large, hard body and his lips covered hers, desperate in their need to connect, his tongue plunging in, relearning her taste, discovering again the shape of her, the feel of her tongue as she pressed it to his. Her groan mixed with his as they clung to each other for several moments. The kiss felt like it lasted forever, but then, when he moved his lips back from hers, Domino felt as if they'd only just touched each other, and she wanted so very much more. "Alex." She whimpered as he held her firmly to him, his head dipping down to kiss her throat and the curve of her neck, Domino squeezed at him, her arms encircling the shaft of his wings where they met his strong, muscled back. "I'm so sorry." He muttered and she felt her whole body melt into a puddle that rooted deep in her sopping pussy, Domino clung to him as he turned them and they left the dining room. She knew he was talking to Sergei, or Sergei was talking to him, she didn't care what they said, she cared only about being with Alexandru, everything else was pointless, she needed her lover more than she needed air. They were outside and then he was flying with her, FLYING, through the night sky and they flew right into the woods that she had only moments before wished that she could disappear into. Then they were on the ground and there were words, but she didn't hear them, nor know what she said, she didn't care. Domino knew only that his hands were pulling her clothes away, pulling out his own cock, and then he was in her, so so deep, plunging in to the base as they both cried out their passion, hers a loud agonized scream and him a roar that seemed to shake the entire forest. After he came, and she'd cum for the millionth time, it felt, Alexandru was leaning over her, his breath coming more quickly as he looked down at her naked body beneath him, red, hot, slightly sweaty, and covered here and there with scratches from the ground beneath her. She looked beautiful, her long blond hair had spread out around her, her full lips were swollen and parted as she breathed heavily. Her heart was tugging and jumping and screaming inside and she panted as she reached up a hand to put it on his chest. "I love you, Domino. I will not lose you." Alexandru spoke fiercely over her and Domino smiled and moved both of her hands to his hairy chest. "I love you, too." She saw him widen his eyes at what she'd said and knew it pleased him as he moved back down over her and kissed at her chest and throat, the heat from his body keeping her warm on the cool forest floor. "You were supposed to take the pills." He lifted his head to look at her a moment before lowering it again, his tongue making her body tingle and purr. "I did take the stupid pills. They didn't work." She told him, his lips was moving down her now, sliding roughly over her nipples before he took each into the heat of his mouth and suckled on her hard, making her push into the caress. "They always work." He told her, one of his hands was at her pussy now, a few fingers already sliding inside as she hissed and closed her eyes. "Well, they didn't for me, Alex." Domino whimpered and grabbed at the hand that was rubbing her pussy quite distractingly. "I am sorry, Domino." He frowned, pushing a third finger into her wet pussy, loving the way she clenched around him, her hips unconsciously pushing into each inward slide. "You should be." She muttered as she felt an orgasm slowly begin to take shape within her. "You fucked someone else." He changed the conversation so suddenly, Domino wasn't able to respond immediately, her body had grown taut with a climax that had her lower body writhing against his question fingers. "Alexandru." She cried, he was moving between her legs again, his cock pushing inside harder this time than he had entered her before, and the rhythm he started inside was far more punishing than a few moments ago. "You will not have another lover, little dove, you are mine." "Yes." She breathed out, her eyes closing again as she wrapped her arms around him and pushed up in the balls of her feet with each thrust, allowing him in her completely, more than happy to let him fuck her with unchecked fury. "Mine." He said again as he pulled one of her legs up and started to pound his cock in, over and over until his passion spilled into her and she was screaming her own release against him, her pussy around his cock like a vice, pulling everything she could from his cock before he was finally able to exit her. "Is there anything that we can do?" Domino asked later as they sat leaning against a tree trunk, her body wrapped up in his lap, his wings around her to keep her warm. It was July, but the night was cold. "I will change you. It will kill the baby, but it is the only way to save your life." He said darkly and Domino shivered. "What do you mean, change me?" Domino sat up a little straighter, her body shifting to sit facing him, held in his lap by his smooth, hot wings. "Do you remember me telling you that I had turned 41 on my last birthday?" He asked her as his hands caressed her hair and the sides of her face. "Yes." Domino frowned at him. "That was my last human birthday. I've lived many many years since as a vampire." He felt her gasp so much as heard it. "You mean you weren't always non-human?" He shook his head, "No. I was once a simple human man. A soldier from a long long ago time, but a human. I was changed by a vampire when I was wounded once. I can change you and you will live with me forever." "Wh-what do you do to change me?" Domino shivered as he looked at her, his red eyes were dark again, his passion was rising, she could feel it below her. "I would have to drain your body, then you would drink from me. It's quite painful, though, but you would live." Domino shivered, "And the baby? It would die?" He nodded as he shifted beneath her, his cock searching out her wet pussy and spearing her slowly, "The systemic lack of blood would be too much for it. By the time I fed you and then you fed to replace your own supply, it would be dead." Domino frowned as she leaned into him, her face against his chest as she thought about what he was saying. Killing her own baby to save herself. But hadn't she considered that herself when she'd thought of abortion? She shivered and then groaned as he pulled her deeper onto his cock. Could she do such a thing? Did she want to? "Once I'm a vampire, can we have a baby together?" Domino asked and felt him shudder against her. "No. Once you're a vampire, your reproductive system will shut down." He told her and watched as her eyes filled with tears, tears that spilled out unobstructed as she began to openly sob against him. "Domino." He murmured against her as he held her over his body, she was shaking, her head buried in his chest and her hands wrapped around his back tightly. "Then no. I do not want you to make me a vampire." She whispered, making his tense up against her and pull her back to look at her face. "My seed will kill you." He said firmly, his anger apparent as his hands squeezed into her arms. "But it's our baby. If I can hold out long enough, you will have our baby." She tried to explain, not sure if he even heard as he growled and threw her roughly beneath him onto the ground, his cock slamming in hard, his body over hers, hot, demanding, slamming again, his hips never slowing. "I want you, little dove, nothing more." He growled, his lips close to her neck, he knew all he had to do was bite, bite and just keep drinking. She would never have the power to stop him. "I can't Alexandru. I just can't. Before I saw you, I thought I could, I thought it would be a good idea to get the baby out of me, but I can't. It's you and me, and it's alive, I can already feel it." "You can feel it because it is feasting on you from inside, Domino." He moved a hand to her ass and held her up as he pistoned his hips forward. "Alex!" Domino cried out again, her whole body tightly wound against him, "Fuck!" He felt her clutch at him, smiling with satisfaction as he brought her to climax yet again, and continued moving his cock within the hot, slick sheath. "I want a lifetime of fucking you like this, ten lifetimes, please, little dove. Please let me change you." "No." Domino whimpered and felt something in him snap and he pulled her hands over her head, trapping them there as he began to fuck her without mercy, grinding inside, heedless to the scratches she received from the hard ground beneath her, and then he came, deep, deep inside of her, and she knew that he had not just wanted to attack her, but the child that had taken root in her womb. "Alexandru, I am supposed to go and see Mr. Hughes as Vorhees tomorrow. There may be something that he can do to keep me and the baby alive." She whispered later, curled against the large beast on the forest floor. "Or he may only prolong your death, Domino. I wouldn't put my trust in an angel, not when you are filled with this darkness." He ran his hand over her stomach, feeling the way it was gently, but barely, rounded with his child. "I am putting my trust in us, Alexandru. You and me. Will you go with me to Vorhees?" She asked quietly. "We will never be apart again, little dove, I will be at your side from now until forever." He kissed her head, breathing in her scent, satisfied now that the smell of the wolf was off of her completely. "Thank you, Alex." He heard her mutter before she finally fell asleep, her body was more than exhausted, and he knew that even though he had only bit her once, and taken just a few sips of her sweet blood, Domino was running lower than normal, and her heart was having to pump faster to get the remaining fluid through her body. She would not last until the baby was viable if they didn't find a way to sustain her, a way to keep her veins filled with what his child needed from her to live. He hoped that Arc knew of a way to keep her alive. Otherwise, he hoped the man was willing to make sure that when Domino died, that Alexandru died with her. How could she, how could anyone, expect him to go on with this painful ache in his chest at the thought of not having her with him for eternity? A Few Sips Ch. 05 "Fucking tin can with wings." The large vampire grumbled beside her and Domino chuckled as she looked over at the man. He looked so uncomfortable, even on the overly large, stuffed chair that he sat on. He'd refused to buckle his belt. "So much for thinking I had a big, bad, vampire. Alexandru, you are going to be just fine." She giggled as he looked at her, his face somewhat green, she thought, as the engines roared and the plane began to make its descent. "When we crash and burn and die, don't look at me, I said I could get you here." He grumbled as he looked out the small window. "Hitching a ride on the back of a vampire all the way to Canada was never going to happen." Domino clutched his hand in hers, as scared as he seemed to be about the plane ride, she was just as scared about what would happen when they reached the spa. Would this Mr. Hughes guy really be able to help her? Or would he tell her what everyone else was telling her? She had told Anya what Alexandru had said about turning her into a vampire, and the brunette had thought about it for a long while before sighing. "Trading my fertility for immortality." Anya had shook her head, "That would be an impossible choice, one that I would cling to for as long as I could, I think. But there are plenty of ways to become a mother, Domino. I think even Alexandru would tell you that. Wait for what Mr. Hughes can tell you, but don't trade your life away so easily. You're so young." Domino had nodded, frowning at the woman who was actually only four years older than her. She didn't want to think that she was right, and she knew Anya's thoughts were echoed by the rest of her pack, she could see it in their eyes as they waited for the plane to arrive earlier that day, and then as they waited for dusk to fall for Alexandru to come up from the basement bedroom where they'd put him, the window covered completely to keep the room in darkness. Saying goodbye to Aidan had been awkward. When she'd returned from the woods with Alexandru, he'd been standing in the doorway to the kitchen, holding one of the wolf pups in human form, and his blue eyes had focused on hers intently, desperate to know her thoughts. Domino had clutched tightly to Alexandru's hand and the tension in the room between the two had seemed to only grow until Sergei had entered the room growling, his eyes saying more than he did to the young wolf until Aidan had slipped out of the room with the child. They hadn't seen much of each other until shortly before dusk. "Domino." He had said quietly, putting a hand around her wrist as she'd been walking out the back door to join the children who were playing in the yard. "Aidan." She had frowned, not sure it was a good idea for them to talk. "Please, just give me a moment. I am not going to ask you to stay." He told her sadly, and despite his misery, Domino was glad to know he was finally admitting the truth. "Aidan, I am sorry for what I did to you. It wasn't fair." She told him as she walked with him to the western side of the yard, where a vegetable garden had been planted. "I wouldn't change it, Dom. It got you here, it's hopefully going to get you some help." He shrugged his shoulders as he moved his hands into his jeans pockets. "I love him, Aidan." She felt her eyes fill with tears and she searched his eyes for understanding. "I know. I knew that the whole time. It's why my pack was so angry that I stayed, they knew what would happen. I knew what would happen. That's on me, not you." He gave her a lopsided grin as he leaned on the fence behind him. "I don't know where I'd be without you, Aidan, I'm thankful for what you've done for me." Domino told him. "He would have found you, he may have thought to consult this Hughes guy just like the pack here." "What will you do when I leave? Will you go back to Burlington?" She asked. He shrugged again, "I don't know. My pack, well, they're not really my pack anymore. I don't hear them talking like I did before." Domino frowned, that was terrible, to be ostracized like that from those who you'd considered family. "So will you stay here?" He shook his head, looking over to the children playing. "Sergei wants his pack to stay the size it is, though I know he's getting a lot of pressure from nearby packs because of what Anya does to us." "What does she do?" As of yet, Domino didn't understand how a siren was different than a regular human, Anya looked human, and she didn't seem to have any powers or anything that would mark her otherwise. "It's hard to explain, but wolves are both evil and good, and Anya intensifies that and yet calms it at the same time. Her scent alone can make us do things that we wouldn't normally do. She's like some special kind of wolf crack." He chuckled, looking across the yard to where the brunette they spoke of was playing jump rope with her daughter, Penny, her blind son was holding the other end of the rope and they were all laughing at how they kept turning it at the wrong time. "You are totally turned on by her." Domino gasped, her eyes widening as he looked back at her with a frown. "Domino, it's not like that." He straightened a little, and she grinned, she was totally right. "You totally are. She's like your step great great grandma and you want to fuck her." Domino yelped when he grabbed her and put a hand over her mouth. "Ssssh." He whispered, not wanting her to continue talking, he knew that the wolves in the house would be able to hear her and he didn't need their anger right now, he felt ashamed enough as it was. Domino smiled under his hold and then nodded. "You better watch yourself. They're very bonded to her." She tilted her head slightly at him and watched as he took a deep breath and moved away from her again. "I know it. I expect that Sergei will ask me to leave once you are gone. I'd like to stay, but he probably won't allow it." Aidan looked to the back door of the house and could see that Grigory had come to stand just outside of it on the deck, his eye on Aidan, the look intense, no, the pack would not be likely to allow him to bond with them, because bonding meant he would have access to Anya's enticing pussy, and that was off limits. "Well, I want you to find a pack that will love you, Aidan, you deserve that. And then you can make a bunch of pups of your own and forget all about me." Domino told him, and watched his mouth break wide into a smile. "Domino, I know I look very young to you, but I'm older than you think, I've given rise to forty-three pups already." His words made her gasp and she listened to him chuckle. "You have?" He nodded, "Yes, most of them are grown already, but there are a few in my previous pack that are younger." "And the pack kicked you out?" "Pups belong to their mothers, though we fathers are very attentive to them. At least at first, as the years go by, you sort of lose that need for closeness. It's replaced by a pack bond. But if I were to see them, I would be able to sense that they were mine." He shrugged, wolves were not like humans in that way. "That seems a little sad." He chuckled, "It's necessary, Domino. Wolves are both evil and good, remember? We have enemies. Not all of my children survived through to adulthood, and several others have died after reaching maturity. It is the way things are for us, in my world." "Well that's extremely depressing. Will my baby be in danger?" She asked him. Aidan looked at her wordlessly for a few moments and finally shook his head, "Vampires don't typically get born these days, they are changed. A vampire baby is somewhat of an oddity now. I am sure Alexandru will do everything necessary to ensure the safety of your child." Domino had nodded and they'd spoken for a few more moments before she'd begged off and gone inside to use the restroom. She noticed that she peed less these days and figured that it was due to feeling dehydrated all the time. No matter how much she drank, it never felt like she had enough. The wheels of the plane screeched as they met the concrete landing strip and Domino was jerked out of her thoughts. Looking over at Alexandru, she saw that his eyes were closed and he was holding tightly to the armrests of his chair. She grinned at the way he looked so tense and unbuckled her belt and moved into his lap, resting her back against his chest as she moved her face into the curve of his neck. Eventually, his arms wrapped around her and the plane came to a stop. The cockpit door opened and the crew came out and looked their way. One of the two men opened the door and lowered the stairs before they both exited the plane to stand beside it. Domino moved to stand up and whimpered when Alexandru pulled her more firmly back against him and his mouth moved down to hers and he clung to her lips for several moments before standing up, moving her up with him. She walked ahead of him to the door as he grabbed her suitcase and followed her out of the small plane. They stood on wet concrete for a moment looking around in the darkness. It smelled like it had been raining, and she could see the massive structure of what appeared to be a mansion nearby. Several other buildings surrounded it and she was taken back by the size of the 'spa' that she had been brought to. "This is where you work?" She asked Alexandru as he spread his fingers through hers on her left hand. "Where I worked, I'm turning in my resignation tonight, little dove. No more fucking needy subs for me." He muttered darkly in her ear before nipping the top edge of it. "I seem to be losing all sorts of employees these days." A deep voice said from their right and both Domino and Alexandru turned to see a tall man in a black suit walking towards them. "Mr. Hughes." Alexandru said, a small frown on his face as the other man stopped a few feet from them. Domino's eyes widened, she wasn't sure what she expected Mr. Hughes to look like, but she'd expected wings, for one thing. This man had no wings that she could see, and his suit made him look like some sort of gentleman. He had short, buzzed hair, and he was attractive, masculine, and she knew that he hid a finely sculpted body under that suit. But he had no wings. Wasn't he supposed to be an angel? There was something about the way he looked at them, the way he held himself so erect, as if he forced it. He had a slight darkness under his eyes as if he'd had trouble sleeping lately, and there was a twitch to the corner of his jaw that she figured was stress. At them? He hadn't even met her yet. "Alexandru," The man nodded at her lover and turned those menacing gray eyes to her, "I assume you are Domino. I'm Mr. Hughes, this is my spa." "It's-it's nice to meet you." She saw him raise his hand and she shook it firmly, though she knew she was shaking. The man had a quiet intensity to him that she couldn't quite understand, it was like he saw through her, saw everything about her. It was strange, overwhelming, and she felt herself move closer against Alexandru's side as they fell into step beside him to enter the spa. They were led through a large dining room and then out to a front foyer, which dwarfed even Anya's, with its crown molding and expensive paintings. The staircases were both wide, and the tables were littered with vases full of fresh cut flowers. In the back right corner of the foyer was a room, into which they were led, and Mr. Hughes sat behind a large oak desk as Alexandru led her to one of the two leather chairs on the side nearer the door. He sat beside her, his wings folding down along the back of his chair as he waited to see what his now former employer would be able to tell them. "I am sure there are still those of your kind out there who don't give a damn if they impregnate a human girl here and there, but I didn't expect this from you, Alexandru." He started and she could feel the heat rise off of Alexandru. "It was not purposeful, Arc. I gave her the pills that would rid her of it, and they didn't work." Alexandru's voice sounded frustrated. "I see." Those gray eyes moved back to her, "You did take them, then?" Domino nodded quickly, "I did exactly what he told me to." Mr. Hughes frowned as he looked at the two of them, "Did you tell her that you could change her?" "He-he said it would kill the baby." Domino said quickly before Alexandru could tell him just that. Yes, he had offered, she was not accepting unless she absolutely had to. "You want to have this baby?" Mr. Hughes looked at her with a bit of surprise in his gaze. "It's a baby-it's...our baby." She looked at the man beside her, though he wasn't really a man, was he? He sat there with a bare chest and low riding dark pants, but his feet were bare and he had wings, huge wings, solidly connected to his back. "Has it ever been done before, Arc? Is this possible? Can she survive it?" "What you're asking for is against nature, Ms. Ashburn. Do you understand that? Vampire children are no longer common for a reason. Their creation is a great disaster. Something that has long since been abolished for this very reason. Humans should not be considered disposable." His voice was filled with a despair that she could not understand and Domino heard Alexandru growl at her side, sliding her hand into his as he sat up straighter in his chair. "It's already done, Archimendes. She is already pregnant. What is there to do now? Is there any way to save them both?" "He just called our baby a disaster, Alex." Domino's statement came out as somewhat of a whimper and she looked at the man seated behind the desk. He had moved his elbows to the table top and his hands were cupped against his forehead. His mouth had turned up in an odd grin, he was acting like a man in pain, what was wrong with him? And was he taking it out on them. "If we do not intervene, the fetus will eventually drain its host of all her blood supply. Then, if he is born alive, he will be hungry, dangerously so. If you live, you will have to feed him quite often, and it will not be just milk your body must create to do so efficiently. It's not just keeping you alive through this pregnancy and the birth, it's about just how much you can handle for far longer than that." Mr. Hughes explained, not mincing words, not needing to. "Has it been done before? Has a human girl survived this before?" Alexandra knew the answer was yes, he knew it was. Mr. Hughes sat back at his desk and sighed, looking them both over for several moments before a knock sounded at the door. Shi opened it slowly and came in with a small red cooler. She walked over to Mr. Hughes after nodding in greeting at the three of them and set the cooler down in front of the man at the desk. "Ms. Domino Ashburn, this is Shi, she works for me here at the spa. She will be tending to both you and Alexandru during your stay here." Mr. Hughes stood and turned to a cabinet behind him. When he pulled out what looked like clear, plastic tubing and other medical equipment, she tensed, what was he going to do? "It is nice to meet you, Domino. Alexandru." Shi smiled softly at them as they watched what Mr. Hughes was doing. "What is this?" Alexandru waved a hand at the items on the table. "For centuries, people have tried to find a way to allow vampires to procreate safely. They tried early induction of labor, cesarean birth, having the pregnant woman drink blood, having blood injected into her body, all with absolutely no success. A human girl pregnant with a vampire baby always ended with maternal demise." Mr. Hughes organized the items on his desk. "I know all of this." Alexandru frowned. "The advent of better scientific research led to blood typing, which seemed, at first, to help women survive, at least long enough for the baby to reach viability, but still, the woman died." "Alexandru, stop squeezing my hand so hard." Domino said gently, her eyes going back and forth between the two men. "Human science only gets us so far. Infusion is the only option, but it didn't work right. Not right enough. Then, a non-human scientist, of which there are regrettably few of, found something." "Why are there so few of them?" Domino asked. "Non-humans generally don't need to work. If they do so, it's because they enjoy their trade." "Like Grigory, who works construction?" She watched as Mr. Hughes' face seemed to tighten a little and then he slowly nodded. "Yes, like him. There is a scientist who started looking into it. He found that there is a protein in the blood of a vampire that is rejected by a protein on the outside of the red blood cell of a human. But then he found that not all humans had the protein, and he further developed a way to inactivate it in the blood that did. He was able to save the life of a human that way, but the treatment has to begin early, before the fetus has depleted too much of the mother's supply. You would need to get started immediately, Ms. Ashburn, you are already dehydrated somewhat." He opened the cooler and took out a medical bag of bright red blood and Alexandru hissed as Domino gasped at the sight. "This still may not work, Alexandru. It is very tricky, the amount of fluid to infuse. When the scientist tried again, he wasn't successful the second time." Mr. Hughes explained, his eyes searching the vampire's face for a sign that he wanted to go through with this. "If this is the only way, Alex." Domino stood and wrapped her hand around his big arm, making him move his molten red eyes down to look at her. "The blood in the cooler. It's from Anya, isn't it?" Alexandru's question surprised Domino and she widened her eyes as she looked at the cooler on the desk. "Yes, I requested that she send some, I thought it might make this work a little better, her blood affected you differently, perhaps it will affect your child. It's also a perfect crossmatch to Ms. Ashburn." Mr. Hughes' face seemed to darken as he spoke about the woman, and for the first time, Domino was pretty sure that the anguish that he kept slightly below the surface was directed at the brunette who'd given and sent this blood. "We have to do this. We don't have a choice." Domino said to Mr. Hughes and felt Alexandru turn to her and wrap his arm around her to make her face him. "I would like some time alone with her before we start this." "We need to start now." "An hour, I want only an hour, once she has Anya's blood in her, I may have to stay away. It would be too dangerous for her to have two vampires intent on feeding from her." "No, Alexandru, I don't want you to leave again." Domino shook, tears fell from her eyes again as she clutched at him. "An hour, Alexandru." Mr. Hughes shrugged, putting the blood back in the cooler as the big, angry vampire stomped out of the room and began climbing stairs until they were in a gray stone-walled room with a huge four poster bed on one side, and an open pane-free window to the left. "I need to fuck you, Domino." He said gutturally as he squatted in front of her and began pulling her clothes from her body. "You always need to fuck me, Alex." Domino bit her lip to keep from smiling down at him. "I love the way your pussy smells." He moaned as he ran a finger over her clit, making her jump a little, her hands dropping to his shoulders. "I love the way you heat up when you want me." "Then I must be on fire." He looked up at her with his beautiful thickly-lashed eyes, his needy desire blatant on his face. Domino smiled and ran her hands through his hair. "I love the way your pussy tastes." He murmured, his eyes dropping to the mound of her, his thumb pressed harder against her clit and he slid a finger roughly into her fold. "Oh God," Domino gasped, "I love the feel of your tongue when you lick me down there." A Few Sips Ch. 05 He smiled and pulled his finger from her and wrapped both hands around her ass to pull her closer to his body. He pulled her thighs apart gently and sunk onto his knees so he could get low enough to move his face to her pussy, his tongue immediately sliding over her clit, passing it to tease the tender fold below. "Please, Alex, oh please. FUCK." Domino panted as he closed his mouth over her wet pussy and his long tongue shoved inside, in and out, mimicking what he wanted to do with his cock, hard and thick between his thighs, more than ready to join in. He made her cum hard, her body shaking, sinking into him, held up by his strong arms as his mouth devoured her nectar, a growl of arousal coming from his throat as her taste filled him. "I do not understand why you want this. You are mortal, I will lose you unless you let me change you." She didn't expect to hear him say that, and she sucked in a breath as he slowly rose to his feet in front of her. "I want forever with you, Alexandru. But if we can have this child, then I want that, too. When you change me, I want it to be for us, not to kill what we've made." Domino hadn't even known she'd decided to one day let him change her, but she knew she wouldn't do it unless she had to, at least not while she was pregnant. "But if this doesn't work, if the blood doesn't stop it from draining you, please let me do it before. I can't lose you, Domino." Alexandru picked her up in his arms and began walking towards the window. "I can't lose you, either, Alexandru." She whispered back as she wrapped her hands around his neck. "I want you to hold onto me, little dove." He said darkly and Domino tensed as he suddenly flapped his wings sending them out of the window and into the dark night sky. She yelped as he immediately began flying north, and then with a more powerful beat of his wings, they were going straight up into the sky, higher and higher until she felt the air grow terrifically thin and she clung close to his body. Looking down, the ground seemed so far away, barely a glimmer of spotted lights below them. Alexandru slowly peeled her legs from around his waist where they'd gone when he was flying with her, and she felt him pull on her until she was facing him, her legs dangling below her. The wind was cool, her nipples hard and she was shaking as she stared into the eyes of her lover, her vampire. "How far up are we?" Domino asked somewhat breathless against him. "A little over two miles up, I think." He told her, looking before them for a moment. "Oh." She widened her eyes and looked down again. "Trust me, little dove." He said against her ear before holding her farther away from his body. When he released her, a cocky smile on his face at the look of surprise on hers, Domino shrieked, reaching for his ankle as it passed in front of her face as she fell. Just as she slid the tips of her fingers against it, he moved out of the way and watched as she quickly fell below him. Domino felt herself turn and she faced the ground now, her body whipped downwards. She knew she was screaming but the ringing in her ears kept her from really hearing much. Her hands reached for something to grab onto, but there was nothing, she was in the air, high above the tree line, a tree line that was going to be dangerously close in well less than a minute. She was within a hundred feet of the treetops and was bracing herself for impact when she felt arms wrap tightly around her body and she was pulled against Alexandru's large body and they were flying along the tops of the forest, slowing a bit before he picked up speed and they were on their way high into the sky again. "Alex, please, please don't drop me again." She begged as he took her at least as high as he did the time before. He pulled her close and kissed her hard on the mouth, his tongue inside thrusting into her throat as he moved his hands to her ass to grind her against his cock. She shivered and moved to wrap her legs around him, needing that cock to fill her wet pussy, then he groaned against her and he tossed her from him, causing her to fall towards the earth a second time. Domino swore under her breath, or maybe she screamed it all, she wasn't sure as she hurtled towards the ground below again before he caught her just in time. Again, he pulled her high into the sky, dropping her again despite her pleads, and then again, and again, until she could barely breathe, exhausted from the fear she felt with each drop. The sixth time he began to rise into the sky, Domino went slack against him and felt him shift her, moving her ass to his groin and lifting her so that he could line his cock head up with her drenched pussy. When she felt him yank her down onto his cock, Domino whimpered, but didn't try to lift herself upright, her chest rested against her thighs and her head was pointed towards the ground beneath them. This angle gave him total access to her cunt, and his wide girth stretched and surged forth until he had buried his whole length inside her pussy. He could feel her shiver against him, and he heard the gasps that she gave each time he pulled her back and down. Finally, holding her so that her pussy was still completely eating his cock, he beat his wings in a way that took them down to the sides of the mansion, one arm moving to lift her from him and turn her to face him as he set them against the side of the mansion. He steadied them with his feet against the wall as his wings continuously moved to hold them there. Alexandru moved one hand to hold her behind her ass as he began to plow into her, and the other lifted to hold the wall above her head. "Take me, Domino. Take it all." He growled as he bucked his hips into her, feeling her pussy walls clench him inside, the delicious squeeze quickly sending them both over the edge. "Oh, God." Domino whimpered, her voice barely audible as the vampire pumped into her body. She felt hot, her skin sizzled and her insides tightened and throbbed almost painfully. She wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her face against his throat, not minding the moist heated feel of his skin as he worked himself deeper. "I love you, Domino. I love you with every single part of me." His voice was deep and his words rumbled through her, sending her into an orgasm that made her tighten and then shake uncontrollably against him as her juices poured against his surging cock. "I love you, too, Alexandru." Domino choked out against him, closing her eyes as his mouth opened over her carotid and he bit into her skin. ~*~*~*~ "I don't want you to leave." She whispered later on that night, lying on her left side in the room in the basement of the large mansion that they had been given to use while at the spa. Alexandru had finally taken her back inside and they'd found Mr. Hughes impatiently waiting for them in the room he'd flown her out of. He'd brought them downstairs quickly and had left instructions with Shi that she was to get Domino food to eat, items rich in iron, he had specified. Then he'd taken them down to the basement, which was finished rather richly, just like the rest of the building. He knew Alexandru would want a room where the sun would not penetrate it during the day, and he had a feeling that the vampire would want to keep his lover near his side. "I may have to, my little dove. If the siren's scent is too strong, I will want to feed on you often, and that will harm both you and our baby." Alexandru put his left hand on the side of her face and moved closer to her to kiss her gently. "Please be careful of the IV, Alexandru. I don't want you ripping it out of her accidentally." Mr. Hughes frowned from the doorway, his arms folded in front of him as he stared at the couple on the bed. Domino looked down at the tube of blood connected to her. It was infusing slowly, but she could already feel a little improvement in her breathing. She was covered with a blanket, but beneath she was still naked as Alexandru lay beside her, also naked, his long, hairy legs entwined with her smaller ones. "I shall try my best." Alexandru sent Mr. Hughes an annoyed look. "I will have a doctor out tomorrow to set her up with a PICC line. It will help her veins hold up better since she's going to have to be transfused at a steady rate." "How often will you use blood from Anya?" "I'm splitting the supply with the other blood I collect, so she will get about 120 milliliters for every liter of blood that she is given. So there will always be a little bit in what she takes in, at least for now. If you could keep from biting her, though, it would help, Alexandru." Mr. Hughes sounded like he was scolding the vampire and Domino felt her eyes widen as she covered her mouth with a hand, the other spread open on the hairy chest before her. "I will try." Alexandru frowned at Domino and pulled her closer into his grasp. "If this works, and she survives the birth, I think it would be best if she had her tubes tied, or a hysterectomy. I don't think you should chance her life like this again." Mr. Hughes said and frowned at the angry look that the vampire sent him. "Good night, Mr. Hughes." Alexandru said tightly, pulling the blankets up to hide the two of them on the bed. Domino waited quietly as the man who was helping them left the room and closed the door behind him. Once they were alone in the room, she pushed at her vampire until he rolled onto his back, bringing her carefully over him to sit across his abdomen. "You should be nice to him. He's trying to help us, and there's something-I don't know, there's something really sad about him." She frowned, looking towards the door as she spoke. "Yeah, there is something sad about him, isn't there?" His words were not as sympathetic as they sounded and she glared down at him as his hands went to her hips. "I'm serious, Alex. He's not happy, it shows on his face plain as day...well, if you even remember what day looks like." "Now I'm not happy." He chuckled throatily as she slapped at his chest. "You know what his problem is, don't you?" Alexandru nodded, "He fell in love with Anya." Domino's eyes widened, was there a non-human who hadn't fallen for the light siren? "So what happened?" Domino felt him push her down closer to his crotch. "You know what happened. Anya likes to fuck puppy dogs." "Oh, you jerk." Domino scoffed at him, "She totally loves them and they love her. But why didn't she fall in love with Mr. Hughes?" "She kind of did, I think. Deandra, a girl who works here, who I just feed on," He growled up at her when she frowned down at him, "anyway, she said that there was something going on between them for a moment, but when he found out that she was a light siren, I think it was hard on him." "Why would it be hard on him?" "Mr. Hughes is an angel. A fallen angel now, but before, he was responsible for doing the dirty work of his God. The dragons were being feisty, using Anya's kind to procreate when their own females couldn't, so he was sent with some others to kill the light sirens, and the children created. He didn't handle it well, annihilating an entire species, and innocent children, that's ballsy no matter who you are, and the light sirens, well, they were without sin, some say they were even more favored by the gods than humans, but that's all just conjecture. No one really knows, it was a long time ago, long before me, even." "So he feels guilty?" "Yes." "For loving her or for killing off the rest of her kind?" "Both, I think." "That's like some crazy epic biblical type stuff, isn't it?" Alexandru chuckled as he pushed his finger against her clit, making her yelp. "You are impossible, Alexandru." Domino breathed out in a sigh and bent forward to kiss him fully on the lips. He slid his hands around the bottom curve of her ass and she shivered when she felt a finger push against her ass hole. He groaned and pushed in a little harder as she took in a heavy breath. Then, he moved her carefully off of him and got off of the bed with a big grin on his face. "What is that look?" Domino widened her eyes as she stayed on her knees on the bed. "I forgot, they've got something here that is going to make you feel really good." He said as he walked into the bathroom, coming out a moment later with a jar of clear looking fluid. "What is that?" "It's a type of lube. You're going to like this." He climbed back onto the bed as he opened the jar and smeared some of the goo onto a few fingers of one hand. "Oh?" Domino felt her body heat up a few more degrees. "Bend over and show me your ass, Domino." He ordered, his voice suddenly hoarse as he looked down at her naked body. Domino panted, shaking as she went down on her hands and knees. His fingers moved beneath her and she jumped a little at the feel of him spreading the goo on the outside, and then into her anus. When she heard the jar placed on the bedside table, she looked at him as he stared at her body, his hard, fully erect cock in one hand, his wings spread behind him, his eyes directed to her lower body. "It feels," Domino closed her eyes, it felt tingly, and numbing and stimulating, oh, yes, she was going to like this, "it feels like I might need you to fuck me in the ass, Alexandru." "How? Behind you, below you, on top?" He asked, running the palm of one hand over her beautifully curved behind. "I don't care, but you need to fuck me, Alex, NOW." Domino was feeling herself coming close to orgasm just centering on the way the goo made her feel and when he moved in behind her, his body over hers, she gurgled out a moan as his cock shoved hard against her ass hole before plunging all the way inside in a hard thrust. "FUCK!" She whimpered, he was pulling out and pounding back inside. "Does this feel good?" He asked, knowing that ass play was not something that she had enjoyed before him, needing to know she was okay. "Yes, Jesus, Alex. Please..." Domino cried out, squeezing the sheets on the bed tightly as he set a hard rhythm into her ass, she could feel the thick, veined shaft sliding against the fold of her rectum and with the added lube, it was intensely arousing, and she came hard, her cum coating the top of his scrotum and dripping to the bed below them. His arms had moved around her smaller body, one around her waist to pull her ass back forcefully into each thrust of his hips, and the other under her chest, clutching her left breast tightly as he held her body back and up against him. "You are mine, Domino. Forever." He growled as he knelt his body over hers, the desire to bite her was there, but it wasn't overwhelming like it usually was when he fucked a girl, but he didn't focus on it, he focused on her smell, the way she was so soft and giving beneath him, the taste of her salty perspiration as he licked her shoulder and neck. "Don't leave me, Alex. Please don't leave me." She whimpered, closing her eyes as he continued hammering into her ass, he was close, so close to coming and she was shaking with the aftermath of her orgasm, another was right on its heels. "I won't, my little dove. I won't." His voice was soft, the timber deep and full of meaning as he moved his hands to her hips and yanked her brutally back into his rapid thrusting hips, his cock plowing deep, thickening, and then ribbons of his cum filled her ass high up inside, their cries filling the room they were in until they both dropped to the bed beneath them exhausted, sated, and happy. Very very happy. A Few Sips Ch. 06 Domino couldn't sleep all day while the great big vampire slumbered away peacefully beside her on the large bed, no matter how comfortable she felt nestled up against him. Shi had been in and out throughout the day, offering her food and making sure she was constantly infused with the blood that was supposed to help keep her alive. A few hours after lunch, a doctor had arrived and Mr. Hughes had had her taken into a room on the second floor, a simple, scarcely decorated bedroom, and she'd allowed herself to be examined. Apparently, this doctor had already talked to the obstetrician that she'd seen while in Duluth with Anya. He spoke at length with Mr. Hughes about her treatment, and then using the equipment that he had brought with him, he had inserted a PICC line, a central line to the heart threaded through a peripheral vein. The procedure had been pretty painless, as he'd used local anesthetic, and she was happy that she wouldn't have to be given countless repeated IVs. He assured her that, if necessary, she could go a year with a PICC line. It didn't make her feel very sexy, having tubes sticking out of her skin, but if this kept her human long enough to have her baby, then far be it for her to complain about the inconvenience of having plastic attached to her for a while. She was sure that the contraption would end up bothering Alexandru way more than it bothered her, but Domino figured that he would get over that quickly, he was very attracted to her, and he let her know it with his body well into the early morning hours. She'd almost been grateful when his body had forced him to sleep with the rising of the sun. Almost. Mr. Hughes had told her that, in general, the first floor of the mansion was used for clientele, so it would be better for her to stay in the room he'd had her seen in, or in the basement, where, besides several bedrooms, was a large living space complete with television, pool table, and a small kitchenette that was well stocked. He'd given her leave to go outside, though the IV pole that she had to lug with her everywhere she went made that a little more difficult. He had asked her to remain somewhat near the house, not to go swimming in the lake in the back, and not to try to explore the other buildings or areas of the mansion. "There are a great many nonhumans here right now, and most of them are very dominant when they see a human female. I do not want you to accidentally find yourself in a situation you can't quite get out of." He had said by way of warning, and she'd just looked at him with wide eyes and nodded. Domino almost wished she hadn't told her workplace she was taking a vacation, by dinner time, she was bored stiff and would have liked to wile away for a few hours on her computer doing something mundane and focused. Instead, she found herself in the kitchenette, a chicken breast in a pan on the stove, sizzling as it cooked. She hadn't had too much morning sickness with her pregnancy, just a few trips to the bathroom here and there early in the day, but now, the smell of the meat cooking on the stovetop made her stomach turn and Domino was trying to stand a good distance from the pan as she used tongs to turn it from side to side to cook it evenly. She was holding a dishtowel in front of her face and trying to cook the meat still when she heard a deep chuckle behind her and turned to see a man of an average height, maybe 5'11" or so, standing facing her, his hands folded in front of him and a friendly smile on his face as he watched her cooking so awkwardly. She lowered the towel and gave him a sheepish smile and then nodded to the chicken. "I don't know why, but the smell of it is just killing me right now." She told him, feeling a blush creep up her neck as he took a step forward and took the tongs from her, his scent hit her and it made another part of her body stir just a little, which she blamed on Alexandru for keeping her so aroused the night before and that morning. "I'm Samir. Mr. Hughes sent me down to check on you since I wasn't busy. The smell of meat doesn't just affect pregnant girls, you know. I've seen plenty of people gag over it throughout the years. For me, lamb is the worst, or maybe venison. Yeah, venison does me in pretty good." He gave her a wide open grin and Domino felt a little lost in his handsome face, it was the face of that guy that you loved in college who dated the sorority president and played soccer or something, his hair was blond, his jaw was not soft at all, but it was very nicely shaped. Definitely hot popular guy, but the kind that was secretly smart, also, and maybe kind of liked the more nerdy girls. Domino gulped down a rush of desire, Alexandru would be up soon and he was not prone to being ok with her getting turned on by other men. Her vampire was a little of the jealous variety. "I'm Domino." She told him simply, stepping back from the smell in the kitchenette and watching as he took to cooking the meat himself. "Do you want me to season this at all?" Samir asked over his shoulder as he pulled open a cabinet door and started looking through it. "Sure," Domino said, shrugging her shoulders despite the fact that he couldn't see it as his back was to her, "I usually buy the pre-seasoned packs because I'm a lazy cook, so I don't really know what I'm doing with a plain piece of meat." That sounded dirty, she was sure of it. "You should have Alexandru cook for you. I've heard that he is actually a really good chef." Bottles and bottles were being pulled out onto the counter and she watched as he poured in a little of this and a touch of that to the sizzling chicken. "Really? That's weird. He doesn't eat regular food, does he?" Samir shook his head, "No, but he cooks, I guess. Some of the girls-some of the other employees here have talked about it." She heard the pause, but didn't linger on it, Alexandru had to eat somehow, and even if he had fucked other women at this spa, she didn't care. He had worked here, it had been his job to please women. Domino was sure that he had left them all very very pleased. "So you're an employee, too?" She asked, the smell was starting to change to a more fragrant odor and Domino found herself taking a slow step forward so that she could see what he was doing, her stomach growled as she did. "I am. I've been here a little over a year now, I think. I can't remember. It's a good place for people like myself. A safe place." He eyed her sideways for a moment as he worked on the food he was making. "This isn't a four star pantry, what in the world did you do to my chicken?" She asked, chuckling, the meat had been torn to pieces and he'd added all sort of ingredients to it, making it completely unrecognizable to what she'd been doing just a short time ago. "I'm making what is probably going to be a very poor excuse for a fatteh djaj." He smiled, stirring the contents of the pan. "A what?" "Fatteh djaj. The last place I lived was Syria, I dabbled a little in the local cuisine. A girlfriend of mine liked to cook for me, too." He winked at her. Domino nodded softly, no wonder he'd mentioned feeling safe here, what with all that had been happening in Syria the last few years. It was a little odd, though, when she thought about it. He was a caucasian blond, with super intense blue eyes named 'Samir.' She was sure that there was a story there, but she obviously didn't know this man anywhere near well enough to ask. He was a non-human, too, but she couldn't tell in what way. He looked totally 'normal' to her eyes. He was awake during the day, so she could cross vampire off the list. She also didn't think he was a werewolf, they had a tendency to growl and rumble laughter from low in their throats, and he wasn't doing any of that. "The cheese isn't right and I don't have all the right herbs, but this shouldn't taste terrible. At least I don't think your baby will be too mad." He pulled a container of milk out of the fridge and poured two glasses and set them aside. "You know I'm pregnant?" She asked, eyes wide. Samir nodded at her, "News like that travels fast through Vorhees. Deep down, we're all a bunch of gossips here." Domino chuckled now, she could just imagine this man standing over a water cooler somewhere talking it up with other non-humans. The picture in her mind was ridiculous. She sat down at the small table in the room as he pulled down a package of minute rice from the cabinet and yoghurt from the fridge and continued cooking. "What are people saying about me?" She asked nervously. "Oh, nothing terrible. I promise. They all know Alexandru, and everyone is happy that he is happy. They're worried for you, and for Alexandru if something should happen to you, but they're also proud of you." He didn't look back at her as he spoke, his hands were whipping stuff up left and right on the small counter and cookstove in front of him. "Proud of me? For getting knocked up by a vampire?" Domino furrowed a brow at him and heard him chuckle. "For standing your ground and doing everything you can to save the life of a non-human. These days life...seems so expendable. It's nice to see that you, as a human, are willing to risk so very much for one of our kind." The rice was steaming now and he was switching to whisking the yoghurt with who knew what in a saucepan. She hadn't even realized that there was enough in the kitchenette to do this sort of thing. "And what is your kind, Samir? I feel extremely rude asking, but you call yourself a non-human, but I can't tell from just looking at you. I apologize if I offend you." Domino felt like an ass for asking, but she was oh so curious. "No, don't feel offended. I don't mind answering. I'm a colossus." He was looking through a breadbox, frowning, "There's no pita bread here...I don't even. Ah, let's try a bagel, it'll probably be rubbish, but it's something." "What is a colossus?" That sounded...colossal, and this guy didn't even hit six feet, and he was pretty trim. "I'm a giant, Domino." He looked over at her with another wink. "You don't look like a giant." "I'd show you, but Mr. Hughes has strictly forbidden me from shifting in the spa. I've done a bit of damage in the past." He was stirring everything again and bits from one pan were being tossed into another. "I guess it's a good thing that you can shift like that, seeing as how some super tall guy would totally be noticeable walking through a local market." She said softly, resting her head on her hand as she watched him start to dish food onto two plates. "Yeah, it is. But then there is a side of me that I constantly feel the need to hide away from the world." He tilted his head sideways slightly for a moment and then walked over to where she sat and put down the two plates of food. One in front of her, and the other at the chair across from her. "I know how that feels." Domino sighed as she accepted the fork that he handed her. The food before her smelled absolutely delicious and her stomach must be loud enough by now to wake her sleeping lover. "Oh?" Samir prodded as he sat in the chair across from her after putting a glass of milk behind each plate. "I spent the last few years kind of hiding out myself. My therapist called it agoraphobia and all the sessions I had never seemed to kick it. I stayed in my house most of the time, worked from home and stuff. I know all about keeping who you are away from others." Domino scooped up some of the food on the plate with her fork and took a bite. Her eyes closed and she smiled as she chewed, "If this is a poor version, I can't even imagine how good the real stuff would be." Samir smiled and tried some himself, "The flavors aren't quite right, but what I did use played off each other well. This isn't rubbish after all." Domino nodded and continued eating, Samir did as well, "Sounds like a lonely life, Domino." She shrugged, "It wasn't completely lonely, I have a few friends who kept hanging out with me even when I wanted to push them away. My friend Jenna was amazingly persistent at trying to get me out." "How did you meet Alexandru?" He asked before taking a drink of his milk. "I had worked up the courage, though that seems ridiculous to call it that, to go to the store, and he was in there. He invited me to dinner nearby and I found myself accepting. He is extremely attractive." She smiled, her blush creeping up her neck. "Vampires are sort of engineered to be that way, makes it easier for them to find a meal. But yes, Alexandru is very attractive. I hear it from pretty much every female that even catches a glimpse of him in this place." He chuckled as he spoke. "So...you work here, do you do what Alexandru did, or in some other capacity?" Domino asked after they had sat in silence for a little bit eating the food. "I work here in the same way that Alexandru did. I've never done this sort of thing before so it's taken some getting used to for me. Sex is...it can be...it should be something very intimate and special. But here, here, I fuck. For the most part, it's enjoyable, don't get me wrong, I am happy to do it, but it's sometimes mechanical on my part. Not that I'm not grateful for my job here, it keeps me safe and I don't have to worry about getting tangled up in anything too romantic. I'm not really ready for that right now." "You'd said you had a girlfriend." Domino nodded softly, figuring maybe that was why. He nodded back at her, "I did. But I don't anymore." She caught the drift that he didn't want to talk about that, so she smiled and changed course, "So do you think this insta-pipeline of blood they're shooting into me is going to do the trick?" Samir looked relieved and he peered at the tubes coming from her arm. "I suppose so. Mr. Hughes is extremely knowledgeable about this sort of thing, he's sort of 'been there/done that' with most everything." "He looks like he's a very unhappy man." Domino took another drink of her milk. "I am not sure if I've ever seen him happy, but you're right, he definitely seems a little...unhappy these days." He shrugged, he had already eaten most of the food on his plate. Looking down at hers, Domino realized that she wasn't far behind him. "Because of Anya." "I heard you met her. How is she?" He smiled, really? He knew Anya too? Did that woman know everybody? "She's good. She's happy. I guess she just had her first litter. Seven babies." Samir smiled a wide, toothy grin, "Good for her. I'm glad she is happy." "Did you know her here?" Domino waved around them a little. He grinned at her with a spark in his too handsome eyes, "Yes, I knew Anya here. She was a guest." "Oh." Domino bit her lower lip and looked down at her plate. "We write each other every once in a while. She's a friend." He emphasized that last word and Domino looked back up at him. "Do you befriend all the girls?" She asked, he totally could, he was totally that guy. Samir shook his head and gave a short laugh, "No. Most of the women I fuck here, I only see that one time, and then there is never any more contact. Anya is the only one that played on everyone's minds here. She is the only one...besides you now...that got romantically involved with a past employee." "Oh, okay. So..." Domino felt her blush creep up her cheeks, she wanted to talk to him about his job, but doing so reminded her exactly what he did for a living, and that made her hot, "Do you have sex with all of the clients that come here?" He grinned and shook his head, "Just women, and not all of them. People come here as either dominant in bed, or submissive. I have a tendency to have a better experience with submissive women." That made her pussy sit up and take notice, he liked to be in charge, and she was sure he knew exactly what he was doing. It made her want the sun to go down, she was sort of getting a desperate need to get back to Alexandru. "Are you attracted to the women you...fuck?" She asked. "Some of them, yes, some, not so much. We all have our likes and dislikes. That's where the mechanical fucking comes in." He winked at her and she felt something melt a bit inside. "Who decides all this, Mr. Hughes?" He nodded, "He's the boss. He also decides the schedule. Usually, the women I fuck come to me near the end of their visit, when their bodies are most able and willing to accept what I do to them." Domino frowned, "What do you do to them?" "What did I tell you that I was, Domino?" He grinned like a schoolboy as he drank the rest of his milk and put it on top of his empty plate. She watched him stand up as her mouth dropped open for a moment, "You fuck them as a giant?" He chuckled warmly at her as he took both of their empty plates and glasses over to the sink in the kitchen and put them in. "I fuck them all sorts of ways, Domino. In both of my forms. I am a guy, I can think pretty well with my cock when I want to." "You sure better not be thinking with it right now." A somewhat surly sounding deep voice came from the hall and Domino looked over to see Alexandru standing in the doorway, wearing only pants that hung low on his waist as his eyes took in the sight of both of them in the kitchen. "Alex!" Domino cheered, her lover was awake. Grabbing hold of the pole of her IV, she got up and walked quickly over to him, wrapping her arms around his big body and breathing him in for a moment before looking up at him, "Samir made me dinner. And he didn't use his cock to do it." She whispered the last bit, but heard the man near the sink chuckle anyway. "Are you ready for a walk outside, my little dove?" He asked, folding her more firmly into his embrace. Domino nodded, "I would love that, but my pole..." "Mr. Hughes said you can remove it for a little bit each day. It looks like that bag is about empty. By the time we find him, you should be ready to have it taken off long enough for a walk." Alexandru told her as he looked over at the blond man in the room. "That sounds wonderful." Domino sighed, and looked over at Samir, as well, "Thank you so much for dinner. It really was good." "You're welcome. Any time. Alexandru, you've got yourself a lovely woman there. You're a lucky man." Samir said honestly, smiling at the big frowning winged beast. "Thank you." Alexandru nodded, deciding not to threaten the colossus until it was apparent the threat would need to be given. He knew that Domino would be lonely here with him being forced to sleep so long each day. A friendship or two wouldn't hurt her. "I'll see you tomorrow maybe?" Domino asked. Samir shrugged, "I have an appointment tonight, but I should be free tomorrow during the day, I'll check in on you then." Domino nodded, squeezing the hand Alexandru slipped through hers. "Sounds good. We'll see you later, Samir." Walking down the hallway, she could feel the heat coming off the vampire at her side and she cuddled closer against him. She could see his eyes moving to the PICC line, and knew she'd been right about how much he would hate it. Not only was it totally unsexy, but it kept her skin open, and she knew he could smell her blood, Anya's blood, and it did affect him even if he wouldn't ever admit it to her. "Did you just wake up?" She asked instead of bringing it up. "Yes, while Mr. Hughes disconnects you, I am going to need to feed really quickly, enough to sate myself, Domino. I do not want to upset you." He told her in a hoarse voice, her smell really was doing a number on his control. "But he said you shouldn't-." "I am not going to feed on you, my little dove. Nor will I feed in your vicinity, but I will not do anything more than feed." He was telling her that he was going to feed on someone else, she frowned, not liking the idea, but there was nothing she could do about it. He had to feed. A Few Sips Ch. 06 "All right." She nodded as they began to climb the stairs. True to his word, as Mr. Hughes albeit grumpily disconnected her from the tubing, Alexandru stepped out of the room and didn't come back until about half an hour later, and she could tell that he had fed because he was less tense around her and the air wasn't so hot with his burning need to feed from her. She was insanely jealous, but he came right to her and picked her up in his arms and headed towards the door. "One hour, Alexandru. That is all." Mr. Hughes said gruffly and Alexandru grunted in reply as he stepped back into the foyer with Domino. "Outside?" Domino asked as she wrapped her arms around his neck. Alexandru nodded, "Outside. I want to fuck you in the moonlight." "I want you to fuck me in the moonlight. But you're not going to drop me out of the sky again, are you?" "No, that was a one time thing, it's hard to explain, but it's something of a mating ritual. I wanted to fuck you like that the first night, but you were a virgin, and scared to be outside." He told her as he walked with her out the back door from the dining room and onto the dark patio. "Take your clothes off, Domino." He ordered as he put her down. Domino moved quickly to do so and watched as he pulled his own pants down and kicked them off to lie with her pile of clothes on the ground. Then he walked over to a table that was near the door and picked up a small jar from a basket on it. She felt herself grow warm and fuzzy when he walked back to her with the goo that he had used on her the night before, and Domino couldn't help the whimper that came to her lips as he spread some on her pussy and on and into her asshole. Oh, Jesus, he had plans. He had very very arousing plans indeed. After he dropped the jar on top of their clothes, Alexandru wrapped his arms around her small body and pulled her up to meet his mouth as it descended to lightly duel with hers. "Hold me." He growled as he started beating his wings and she gasped and grabbed a hold of him around the shoulders and encircled his waist with her legs as they moved into the sky. He didn't fly too high, he kept them rather low, in fact, and soon they were walking again as they made their way into the woods behind the spa. They walked for a little while, but stopped before they left the woods. Alexandru had remained very quiet as they made their way through the woods, and when he stopped them, sitting himself down on the ground with her in his lap, facing away from him, he pointed ahead of them through a break in the bushes they were mostly hidden behind, and she knew why. Through the thick leaves, she could make out what she realized was a girl, naked, tied into the air between two trees. Her long legs were stretched wide, almost straight out to each side, and her arms were tied together above her, fastened to ropes that went higher up along the trunk of the tree. they were somewhat behind and to the side of the woman, who looked to be rather tall if her legs gave them a clue. A flame from a torch to her left side illuminated her oiled skin for them as they quietly took in her beautiful body. Domino almost said something, but Alexandru firmly put a hand over her mouth as he shifted her body to bring his cock head against her asshole. She leaned back into him and her breathing tightened as he pulled her down, making her ass spread open slowly to accept the thick bulging head inside. Her muscles clamped and released in delicious, erotic ways, and she eventually felt the mushroomed ridge slip through the outer muscle of her ass. He held her like that as the ground below them seemed to shake for a moment. "Be very quiet, my little dove." He whispered in the shell of her ear and Domino shivered, wondering at the second and third thuds what was headed their way. Her eyes widened as she watched a man appear from their right, making the girl, who was gagged, whimper in fear at what she couldn't see behind her. She was fully stretched open and Domino could see even from here that the woman's pussy and ass were glistening with moisture. She'd been made ready for the fuck she was going to receive. Domino knew instantly that the man was Samir, though he looked somewhat different now, twice as tall at least as he had been before, his body thick with powerful looking muscles. His waist seemed as wide as a tree trunk, a big one, and his blue eyes had grown, but remained their same color and intensity. His face was only slightly more hulkish thank before, she should have known his good looks would only become more ruggedly attractive when he changed to his non-human form. She watched, her ass still held lifted over her lover's cock, as the giant in front of them moved over to the girl and put one large hand over her ass. She cried out and shook as he slid a rough digit against her wet pussy folds and Domino heard her groan in passion. When his hand went down to stroke his cock, she almost gasped loudly, he was enormous! How the fuck would the woman take it? He didn't seem concerned, however, and he lined up the thickly veined rod with the fold of her pussy, and in one, long, forward thrust, he shoved at leave two thirds of it inside of her body. She cried out in something that sounded like bliss as he put his arms on either side of her hips and immediately began to fuck her in brutal, rapid strokes that sent him deeper and deeper inside. Domino felt herself soak the front of Alexandru's cock as he sat under her and then she felt him yank down on her shoulders, sending her ass down so that she ate the entire length of his cock in one movement. He held her sounds and the heavy breaths that she was taking and forced her to stay impaled on his hot cock for several minutes before he started moving her by her hips up and down over him, her ass squeezing and clutching at his dick, milking it quickly of his cum, gratefully taking the ribbons of fluid inside as he shook against her. Her eyes were glued to the scene before her, even as Alexandru shifted them so that she was on her hands and knees on the ground. He pushed her legs a little apart, and being careful to keep his wings low, he pulled his still aroused cock out of her ass and then pounded into her pussy with a force that made her scream against the hand he kept there. This was so hot, the way Alexandru was taking her with such intensity while she watched Samir fuck the strange woman maybe 15 feet away. The giant didn't seem to slow down, and his hands were running over the woman's breasts, squeezing them as she shook and cried out against him. She knew the girl had come several times, her moisture was spilling down her legs. Alexandru was filling her pussy full of cum by the time Samir came the first time in the girl, and she could almost feel the way his body tightened up and released hard into her. The girl was writhing in her release and when he pulled his huge, slightly softened shaft from her pussy, globs of thick, white cum spilled down to the ground out of the gape he had given her. Domino came again hard, making Alexandru tense in near pain as her pussy neck slammed closed around his partially removed shaft. He had to wait a few moments while she got herself back under control, and then he pulled his cock out of her. Samir wasn't done with the woman, she could tell, he was shoving his fingers up the woman's ass while he rubbed her body with the other hand. His cock was already hard again. It made her pant and she pushed herself back against the cock under her. Quietly, her body in the fierce grip of his hands, Alexandru rose a little so that he could slowly inch them away from the giant who was already pushing two thick fingers up inside of the woman tied up before him, just those two huge fingers would be a lot to take, and Domino couldn't help but think what it would feel like to be fucked by such a massive cock, until the one that belonged to her lover speared back into her ass when they were far enough away that her cries wouldn't be heard so easily. "Fuck, Alex." She panted, pushing into his thrusts, loving the feel of his cock stretching her rectum so unbelievably wide. "Yes." He growled, fucking up even harder into her, not caring that he made her cry out hard with each forward thrust of his hips, she was his, he owned her body, her heart, she would take all of him, and she was doing so with wild passion. "Fuck me, my wonderful lover." She cooed against her hands as she was pushed down lower onto her stomach, her ass in the air and his cock buried thick inside. "Gladly." He growled in a menacing tone, his hand going to bury itself in her hair as he pushed her face down against the cool ground beneath her, her cheek smashed against the soft grass and dirt below. His other hand held both of her wrists behind her back and his hips began to move with such a pistoning force that Domino came hard, her whole body shaking as he continued and continued. ~*~*~*~ "Why did you let me watch Samir fuck that woman?" Domino asked a few hours later. They had stayed outside for the full hour before returning to the house to find Mr. Hughes waiting impatiently for them. Why was he allowing himself to wallow in this sadness that he found himself surrounded by? He looked so unbelievably handsome standing there in his tailored suit, but he looked like he wanted to kick the living shit out of somebody. "Did you like it?" Alexandru responded with a question. "I'm pretty sure you know I did, I practically used my pussy to bite off your cock." She was sitting on top of him, hooked up to another flow of blood as he used his hands to move her hips up and down while his cock was buried in her pussy. "I want you to do that again, it made me want to fuck you into pieces." He grumbled against her and Domino closed her eyes, the feel of his hairy skin against her clit was making her somewhat distracted. "You want me to cum because I watched a gigantic man slam his cock into a woman and it made me hot? Alexandru, that's kind of kinky. I don't know how into that I could ever be. I want you." Domino frowned at him playfully as she rotated her lower body over him, increasing the sensation of having him fuck her. "I want you to cum like you did then, I want your pussy muscles to tighten that hard again. If you don't want to watch Samir go at it, then we'll just figure out how I can make you do that." Alexandru groaned, moving his hands up to her breasts, they had filled out a little more because of her pregnancy, he wondered if she had realized that or not. "Do you think he saw us watching him?" Domino leaned down, putting her palms on his chest as he began to focus on slamming into her. "I don't care, my little dove, I was too busy fucking you." He growled, rolling them over until she was beneath him on the bed. She was thankful that the tube Mr. Hughes had used was long, because her lover was becoming rough in his desire to bring her to a hard climax. His mouth lowered to hers and he kissed her as he set a new, slower rhythm, coaxing her orgasm slowly, then speeding up, making her cry out as she eventually gripped him hard between her legs and felt her juices flow along his sliding meaty cock. Domino was shaking with her release when he bucked hard and held, filling her again with his hot, sticky cum. "Mr. Hughes is going to have to talk to you about tossing me around like this. You're going to rip out this PICC line and hurt me." Domino muttered as he moved to lay to her side, his arms surrounding her and pulling her close against him as he went. "Mr. Hughes can go to hell, my little dove. If I can't bite you, then I'm just going to have to fuck you more. And harder." He chuckled at her moan and kissed the side of her throat, "You tasted delicious before, but now, it's even more intense." "Because of Anya." She muttered with a little frown. "Yes. Because of Anya. Kind of like your orgasm was more intense in the woods," He moved a hand to her face and made her look at him, "Because of Samir. It doesn't make me think you want to fuck him, just like my liking Anya's blood in you shouldn't make you think that I want to fuck her." She sighed, nodding as she understood. She shouldn't be so jealous when it came to Alexandru, but it was hard here, at this place where he'd fucked who knows how many women. How could she not be at least a little jealous? "I don't really want you watching everyone here fuck, but would you be willing to let Mr. Hughes tie you up for me, at least once? He tied the girl last night. It's really sexy and I know it will make you cum hard for me. If he'll do it, will you let him?" "He won't do anything to me, will he?" Domino shivered, she didn't think she would be okay with the brooding angel touching her the way she liked having Alex touch her. "No, he won't. He likes the dominance part of it, knowing you can't move, can't get away. You can spend the day with Samir and then tonight, I'll have him tie you for me." Alexandru settled down, it was still night, but he knew she was tired, and he wanted to feel her sleeping against him. "I suppose, as long as it won't hurt the baby." She finally nodded, knowing he was happy by the way he growled a little and pulled her even more closely against him. "Go to sleep, my little dove. I want to hold you." Domino closed her eyes and relaxed against him, feeling his hands wrap around her heated skin, one cupping a breast while the other curved under her pussy to rest partially within the sopping wet fold. Sighing, she felt herself fall asleep with a sated smile on her face. She couldn't even keep herself awake long enough to wonder what Mr. Hughes would do to her the following night. ~*~*~*~ It was after ten in the morning when Domino finally maneuvered herself out from under the hold of the sleeping vampire that she'd fallen asleep beside. He hadn't woken her up again last night, so she had actually gotten a decent amount of rest before her body had compelled her to find a bathroom. Pulling her pole along with her, she realized the bag had been changed sometime recently, as it was full, and she hadn't heard Shi or Mr. Hughes enter the room to do it. Once she'd used the bathroom, she turned on the tub and let it fill with hot water that she added a bit of oatmeal bath scrub to. Her skin tingled at the idea of getting to soak in the heated tub, the whirlpool jets going against her back to soothe her aching muscles. She could tell she was pregnant, she definitely was starting to get more tired these days. She stayed in the tub for a good thirty minutes, her PICC containing arm hanging over the outside as Domino made sure that she didn't get it wet. When she had dried herself off, she went looking in the closet for the clothes that Shi had brought down for her to wear. The shirt was sleeveless and had two straps that tied behind her neck to hold it up, making it easier to dress with the PICC line. She pulled on the below the knee blue skirt that matched the white and blue floral top and then shoved her feet into ballerina shoes before leaving the room and closing the door firmly behind her heavily sleeping lover. July must be very hard for him, as he slept for a long portion of each day this time of year. Going into the kitchenette, she saw Samir sitting at the small table reading a newspaper. She smiled softly, it didn't surprise her to see him reading the news, he seemed to be very connected to the human world. Walking over to the small refrigerator, she pulled out a can of ginger ale and took it with her to the table and sat down. "No food?" He asked her with a raised eyebrow. Domino shrugged, "It's hard to get enthused for breakfast when the thought of smelling bacon fry makes you want to gag." He chuckled and stood up, "Can you handle French toast?" Her grumbling stomach gave her away and Domino smiled up at him, "I think you're going to just have to be my personal chef from now on." "You have to get Alexandru to cook for you, I promise, he is much better than me." Samir pulled out a loaf of bread from the bread box and some eggs and the milk from the fridge. "He sleeps when I'm hungry. And when he's awake...he's hungry." She blushed but he just chuckled and started prepping the food. "It'll be easier when the nights are longer. He'll be awake longer and won't feel in such a rush to, to have you." Samir turned around and winked at her for a moment before turning back to the food. Domino looked at him as he worked at the counter. He was wearing jeans today that fit him really nicely. His shoulders were well muscled and he held himself in a way that made her feel that he was really at home with who he was, at least here in this place. The island of misfit toys, she thought, as she watched him dunk thick pieces of bread into the egg batter. Mr. Hughes was apparently a few screws loose from whatever the situation with Anya had been, and Samir was suffering from what she figured was also a broken heart. She wondered what the maladies of the other employees were but knew she'd never be privy to that type of information. "It was a pretty pleasant night out for it being July, wasn't it, Domino?" He said quietly, and she blushed, that was a loaded question if she'd ever heard one, she knew he knew. "It felt a little warm to me." She muttered as she turned the can absently in front of her. "I wasn't embarrassed that you watched me, Domino, I don't want you to be." He didn't look at her while he spoke and she felt a shiver work down her body. "I-." She really didn't know how to respond to that. "Do you want syrup or fruit? There's a bottle of peaches up here." He continued talking, not wanting her to be uncomfortable. "Peaches would be lovely." Domino nodded and put the can on the table, "You were a lot different than I imagined a giant would look like." "Did you imagine something more Jack and the Beanstalk, or the Incredible Hulk?" He gave her a lopsided grin and Domino laughed a little. "Maybe something more like the giants from Harry Potter, I guess? I don't know. You stay very handsome, you know." She told him. "Well, thank you. I'm not sure I've seen that. I'll have to watch it." "You watch movies?" "Oh, gosh, yes. I can get a little bored here sometimes so it's a good way to pass the time. Right now I'm in the middle of a Hobbit marathon." "You are a closet nerd, I knew it." Domino watched his eyes widen at her in surprise and she started laughing. "I'm really that transparent?" "You're just a Flash shirt away from Comic-con, Samir." He gave her a wounded look and she shook her head. "We all have our vices, Domino." He smiled at her and shrugged in defeat, "What do you do to relax?" "I read a lot, and I knit. Oh, and I do dabble in Marvel comics, so I'm right there with you wallowing in nerd-dom." "I knew I liked you. What do you knit?" "Anything, I've been doing it since I was a little girl. One of my foster moms taught me. I do sweaters a lot, scarves, cowls. Anything, really." "One of your foster moms? There were several?" "There were a bunch. I was put into the system when I was one, when my parents died and no one ever seemed to want to adopt me. It seems like a really long time ago now, I haven't thought about it in a while." "That must have been hard growing up, not really having a family." He told her, he was scooping French toast onto plates and topping it with the jar of fruit and some of the syrup in the jar. "I had foster siblings sometimes, but it was what it was, I guess. I know lots of people have it harder. Did you grow up in a family?" She asked and watched him walk over to her with two plates. He sat one in front of her and handed her a fork before sitting across from her with his. He had waited to eat breakfast with her? He must be starving. A Few Sips Ch. 06 "I did. My parents were both like me, and they had six of us. Four boys and two girls." He told her as he started to cut into his food. "So you have brothers and sisters? That's cool." "Well, Bryant, the oldest, he died a long time ago. I haven't seen my other two brothers in a long time. A really long time. I wouldn't even know what they call themselves these days. My sisters, Ashley and Gerthe, they live in Europe. I see them every so often." "So you weren't named Samir originally?" Domino felt like she pried, he gave her a look saying so, but smiled anyway and answered her. "No, I change my name sometimes, depending on where I am, or the situation." "Does Alexandru change his name?" Samir shook his head and grinned wider, "No, he's been Alexandru since he was born...centuries ago." "Centuries?" Samir nodded, "If he wants to tell you just how old he is, I'll let him be the one to. It seems mean for me to tell you just how old your boyfriend is." "Oh, nice." "I'm older than him, though. By a substantial margin." He chuckled. "Really?" "Really. like...really old." "Now you have to tell me how old you are." "No way, I like you thinking that I'm this young guy. You might not look at me the same if you realize I've been qualifying for AARP for the last...many years." "Not fair." "I'm over two thousand years old, Domino. That's as close as you're going to get." Domino's eyes widened and she gasped at him a little. "Are you serious?" He nodded, "I was born in Rome, during their time in the sun." She nodded, it seemed really unbelievable to think that he could be that old and look the way he did. Domino realized that he would have seen so many things happen, like, everything, really. The birth of Christ, the Crusades, the Industrial Revolution. Man, he knew the entire history of the world. But then she frowned a little, he would have met a countless number of humans, and they would live, and then they would die, and he would still be there. That made her sad. He must be very lonely. Immortality was not as easy as it sounded. She shivered, she had told Alexandru that she wanted him to change her after she gave birth, but would she one day regret that? Her child would be immortal, the man she loved would be. It had to be the right choice. "So what do you want to do today?" He asked, he was nearly done with his food. "I've made you waste almost the whole morning waiting for me to get up, I'm sorry." Domino looked at the clock on the wall. He shook his head, "I got down here about 9:30 am. I got up at seven and ate and exercised even." "You already ate breakfast and then you ate all of that?" Domino looked to his empty plate. Samir smiled, "That makes sense, I guess. I don't know what I want to do today. I don't really know this place very well." "Well, we could stay down here and play pool," She made a face at him apparently that told him she didn't want to do that, "Or we could watch a movie?" Domino shook her head, "Is it nice outside?" Samir nodded, "It's really nice outside. Can you go out with that pole?" She nodded, "Yup. It rolls pretty easy, I just need to make sure to limit it to a few hours at a time, then I have to get a new battery for the pump." "Can you bring a battery with you, and we can go out and go fishing on the far side of the lake." "Mr. Hughes said not to swim in the lake." "Yeah, you can't swim in it, but you can fish out of it. Let's go upstairs and grab a battery from the boss and I'll get my fishing gear." "Okay." She was going to fish, she couldn't remember the last time she'd done that, but it sounded much more fun than sitting in the spa. They walked upstairs after cleaning the dishes in the sink and made their way to the room off the foyer where Mr. Hughes kept his office. Domino knocked softly, and then opened the door and stepped inside, her eyes going straight to the man standing on the other side of the desk as she did so. She gasped and stopped in her tracks, feeling Samir bump her lightly as he stopped a little less quickly than she had. Mr. Hughes had his coat off, and his shirt, and she was struck my two things at the same time. First, his body was almost completely covered in tattoos in some strange language that looked pretty archaic. There were a few that looked to be fading, but his arms to the wrist and his torso to the neck and disappearing under his black slacks was a sea of words. The second thing she noticed, since he happened to have his back turned slightly towards them, was that where his wings had once been, there was nothing left but bloody stumps that they had interrupted him redressing. It wasn't a new wound, the blood covering it had long since congealed and darkened, but Domino knew it was painful. She could see it on every line of his face and every tightened muscle of his strong looking body. Sweet Jesus, that's why he looked the way he did, so filled with misery. He had cut off his wings. He had cut OFF his wings. Her mouth fell open and she took a few steps into the room so that Samir could come all the way inside and shut the door behind him. "Mr. Hughes, what happened?" Samir asked carefully, apparently he had not know what his boss had done, did anyone? "You should both go." Domino shook her head and walked over to him, lugging her dumb pole along with her. It made her look less serious than she felt, and she wanted him to know she wasn't going to take no as an answer. "Sit down sideways on your chair, Mr. Hughes. I want to help you." She waved her arm at his chair and he frowned at her with his piercing gray eyes for several moments before he begrudgingly sat down on the chair. "Do you have an actual first aid kit in here?" She asked, taking the bloody bandage from him and throwing it in the trash. "In the cabinet, there." Mr. Hughes nodded behind her. "Samir, see if there is some salve or something in there. Mr. Hughes, whatever made you do this to yourself? This has got to be really painful." She bit her lip as tears came to her eyes. He looked up at her without saying anything at first and she got the tiniest smidgen of agony in the stormy depths of his gaze before he blocked it back behind a heavily guarded wall, "They should have taken them from me when I fell. I didn't deserve them." "You don't deserve this. You don't. I don't know what has made you feel this way, but you deserve better, you don't deserve THIS." Domino took the medical salve that Samir handed her, and together, without saying anything more, the two of them worked carefully and slowly on the broken stumps to make sure that they were clean and dressed properly. "Thank you." He said a little while later as Samir helped him slowly put his shirt and jacket back on. "I would request that you keep this to yourselves." "Of course. I'll come up every day to check it to make sure it continues to heal. I wish you hadn't done it, I don't understand, but I'll keep taking care of it." Domino replied, looking from the fallen angel to the man who had moved to stand at her side near the door. "All right. Now, why did the two of you come here?" Mr. Hughes sat down in his chair. "I wanted to grab an extra battery for this contraption of torture. Samir is taking me fishing." She explained. He nodded and bent to the side to pick up a battery that was on a docking station behind his desk. "Be sure to bring the other one back in here after to recharge. And remember, do not go in the lake." Domino frowned, what the hell was in the lake? "I'm taking her to the far side, so that we don't bother him so much." Samir said and they watched Mr. Hughes nod. "Fine. It's been stocked so you should have an enjoyable day." Mr. Hughes said in a way that made her feel like they hadn't just walked into the room a short time ago and seen how the man had disfigured himself in such a terrible way. Samir stood looking at Mr. Hughes with a slight frown on his face, but whatever he wanted to say, he didn't. They left the room as quietly as they had entered and Samir deposited her on the back patio and he went back inside the spa to fetch his fishing gear. Eventually, they were walking side by side towards a path that meandered around the lake. It was nice outside, and not overly hot for this time of year, which was nice. Samir set things up on the side of the lake, setting out his tackle and bait and when a golf cart type vehicle pulled up with a couple of chairs in it, he took them out and arranged them by the side of the water. "So we're not going to talk about why an angel would cut off his wings?" Domino said gently a while later, her line out bobbing in the water that lapped lazily around the lake. "Nope, we are definitely not going to talk about that." A Few Sips Ch. 07 Author's Note: Dearest readers, I wanted to take a moment and thank you for the amazing and very helpful feedback that I have received through email, as well as the comments that are posted as I bring out new chapters! It helps me so much to know that I have people's attention with my stories, and it makes me work harder to make these chapters compelling, to make the characters come more alive! THANK YOU! ~*~*~*~ "Seriously? There are centaurs here? That is so cool." Domino gave Samir a dirty look when he laughed at her later in the day, they were sitting together on a couch in front of the television where they'd just been watching a movie as they waited for their dinner to finish cooking. Samir had made a casserole. "Yes, they're certainly cool. But they're moody and when they mate, it's not exactly timid." Samir shook his head at her, the small blond had asked him what types of non-humans worked for Mr. Hughes. Yet another conversation topic that didn't involve the angel that they had both been thinking about throughout the day. "I don't think any of you non-humans are timid when it comes to mating." She muttered as she crossed her legs in front of her, her back resting comfortably against the couch. "Not really." He nodded, he couldn't think of any. "So besides centaurs, who else?" "There's a female vampire that comes here, and I suppose Mr. Hughes will have to hire a new male vampire. He already hired on a new pack of werewolves from the Boston area." "Do non-humans want to get a job here?" Samir shrugged, "There are a few places like this around the world. This is the only one in North America, though, and I think it's probably the one with the most rules. But that just makes it safer for our guests, and our non-humans." "What kind of rules do the other ones not have?" That made her curious. "No pain, Mr. Hughes is big on that one, no injury to anyone involved." "That's a good rule." "No pregnancies, the women who come here are given a meal each morning that contains birth control. Only Chrysanthulus can make a woman pregnant and take her to term." "What is Chrysanthulus?" "A plant creature...who lives at the bottom of the lake. He fucks women and within six hours or so, they give birth to his little baby plant creatures." He smiled at the look of wonder in her eyes. "Which is why I can't swim in the lake." He nodded, "Precisely." "We also aren't supposed to tell personal details to the clients, or try to get involved with them." He told her. "So Anya broke that rule big time, huh?" He grinned mischievously, "Yeah, she did. But it was only partially her fault, light sirens make us all go a little starry eyed. When she left, everyone around here moped around for weeks. But she didn't really break the rules until after she left. She found Grigory's phone number in her lawyer's office and tracked him down to find him and the rest of his pack." "Her lawyer had a werewolf's number?" He nodded, "Mr. Bricker was the one who sent Anya to us. He's an incubus." "A lawyer who is really a sex demon. That's funny." "He hears that all the time." Samir ran a hand through his blond hair. "Any more rules?" "Let's see, the clients only get one appointment with each of the non-humans that they visit. They also don't choose who they see. Some places, you can make appointments with certain non-humans." "Self-serve sex." Her words made him chuckle again and he shook his head at her. "Sometimes you remind me of Anya, she talks like that sometimes." "I don't know if I like hearing that, I'm not really happy that she made Mr. Hughes disfigure himself over her." She frowned, turning slightly so that she could face him more easily on the couch. "We're not talking about that, remember?" "Oh, I know, but I can still be upset to see him go through so much pain. At first, when I got here, I didn't really like him, he seemed like sort of a sourpuss. But he is trying to help me have this baby. I didn't realize that his shitty mood was because he had a broken heart and that he had cut off his wings, Jesus, he cut through bone, Samir." He shook a little beside her and nodded, "Did you know that we have a male and female dragon working here?" "No fucking way, those are real, too?" "Yup, and elves are real, there are a bunch of different kinds of them, actually, and they don't all get along, nor are they all light or dark. I've met some real jerks over the years. Mermaids, satyrs, fauns, you name it, most of the non-humans you've read about over the years are real." Samir was glad he got her off of Mr. Hughes again, he really wasn't ready to discuss how he felt about what the angel had done to himself. "So like, we're talking Chronicles of Narnia menagerie. That is so amazing. But, if you all want to remain so secret to humans, how come there are so many books and things out there about all of you?" "You might be surprised to realize, or maybe not, that some non-humans have a sense of humor, or a desire to spread truth or lies, about their own kind, and many have penned books on the matter." "Oh really." She thought, wondering suddenly what kind of non-human C.S. Lewis might have been, or Tolkien. "Hold the phone. Dwarves? Please tell me there is a Kili and Fili running around somewhere, that would be, oh. Yeah, I would totally get in trouble with Alexandru if they were real, I totally would." She rushed out excitedly and Samir laughed at her again. "They are books, Domino, not non-fiction about actual non-humans. There aren't hobbits, there are no dwarves that look like any of the characters in the movies, orcs are totally fiction." "Aslan? Big adorable lion?" "Domino, that was a lion with a voice, an allegory for Jesus." Samir chuckled, standing when he heard the timer go off. "I know that, but he was my favorite character in the books." She stood up too, and pulled her pole with her over to the dining room table. "Just don't believe everything that you read in books, or see in movies about non-humans. I'm sure you've already guessed that there is a ton of misinformation out there, seeing as how you're pregnant by a vampire and all." He winked at her as he pulled the casserole out of the oven. "Yeah, I get that, Samir. I'm sure all the ambiguities and misinformation are actually helpful, and keep your identities a secret." Domino watched him dish some food onto two plates. He did eat more than her. She'd watched him down a pizza few hours ago and she'd been able to only eat a slice after the large lunch they'd had earlier. "They help, but every once in a while, when you hear someone claiming they saw Bigfoot, or seeing someone fly, they really did see Bigfoot, or see someone fly." He chuckled as he sat down after putting a plate of food on the table for each of them. "I feel like I stepped into a Grimm tale or something." "A really really sexy Grimm tale." He said under his breath and Domino giggled at him as she forked some of the casserole into her mouth. "Wait, you said that Mr. Hughes has a rule that you can't get the girls here pregnant. There are places like this where the girls get pregnant?" That surprised her. "Well, humans can't birth all non-human babies, so sometimes, it just isn't feasible, like with satyrs and centaurs and vampires. Except you, rule-breaker. But some non-humans can mate and sire children with humans. Werewolves, elves, witches..." He took a bite of his food instead of finishing his sentence. "Can giants have babies with humans?" "Giant women can. Giant babies in human girls, that can be a little tricky." He cocked an eyebrow at her and she thought about it for a moment. If the baby morphed inside of the woman, that could be catastrophic, she supposed. "Yeah, that doesn't sound like a lot of fun. So...have you had any children with any other colossus?" "That kind of goes in the private details category." He said before putting more food in his mouth. "Well good thing I'm not a client then..." Domino smiled at him and he chuckled. "There are times I wish that I'd procreated every chance I got, and had built up this veritable army of giants that could help guide, by force if necessary, humans into making decisions that didn't cause so much harm, but I suppose it's too late for that now. I've only sired three children over the years. One girl and two boys." "Are they nearly as old as you?" "My oldest is about 1500 years old. The other two are younger. They don't all know each other. Different moms." He told her with a shrug. "Do you see them?" She prodded, knowing that he didn't want to say more, she could tell by the way he spoke to her. "Not really. My youngest is still a little attached. It fades over time, that need to see a parent, to check in at home. We've been around for such a long time that, not to sound heartless, because I will always love my kids, but the need to see them just isn't there. It's the same for them with me. It's hard to explain to someone who is mortal." "Well, I won't be forever. Alexandru is going to change me after the baby is born." She told him and watched as he paused his hand, fork near his mouth as he thought about what she'd just said. "You want to be a vampire then?" He asked quietly, prodding her just as she had him a second ago. "I want Alexandru, and if I live through having this baby, I will want to be his or her mother forever. Being a vampire will allow me to do that." "And the way you have to feed? You're okay with that?" He asked, it wasn't from disgust, he was only curious, she could tell it by his tone. "It totally gives me the heebee jeebies, but I suppose once he changes me, I won't care." Domino shrugged, she hadn't really given a lot of thought to what her diet would be when she became a vampire. She could only think about how complete she would feel with her new family if she were one of them. "So it's not a romantic thing, the idea of being one?" "Oh, gosh no. I just want to be with Alexandru, I romanticize him, but not because of what he is." Samir smiled, "That's good. I suppose it's the best reasoning for making a change like that. I've heard vampires in the past talk about humans asking to be changed. Some of their reasons would surprise...even disgust you, I'm sure." "Well, no one ever said people are smart. We're obviously pretty dumb if we've let you non-humans pull the wool over our eyes about your existence for the entirety of mankind." Domino stood up and picked up her empty plate only to have him rise and take both over to the counter to wash. "Do you work today?" She asked as he started scrubbing on one plate. "No, I don't. I need to go soon, though. Mr. Hughes should be here shortly, and I promised to take Shi and Deandra to the theater tonight." He winked at her and she smiled, two women, of course, Samir the ladies' man. "I'm here now." A deep voice sounded behind them and Domino turned to see the owner of this mansion, impeccably dressed as always, standing just within the doorway of the room that they were in. "You're ready for me?" She asked with a shy smile on her face, was she really going to let this man tie her up? He nodded, "You'll want to use the restroom first, and prep yourself with the lube that Alexandru provided you with first." She blushed crimson that he said that in front of Samir and stepped a little farther away from the giant who was putting dishes on a rack to dry. "I apologize, I forget that you're not here as a client, Domino. I did not mean to embarrass either of you." He told her as he stepped into the room. "No, no it's okay. I'll just go get ready." Domino sped past him into the hall as fast as she could drag the pole behind her. She made quick work of the restroom and then she was back with Mr. Hughes, walking up the staircase with him towards the first floor. "Where are you going to tie me?" She asked quietly, he was holding the pole since the pump on it made it a little heavy for her. "In the room where the doctor saw you before. There are suspension hooks in the ceiling in there." He said, making her blush again as they made their way to the foyer and then up the left staircase. "I've only been tied up once before, by Alexandru. But he didn't hang me up, I was on my bed." She told him, this was very very new to her. "It won't hurt, there won't be unbearable pressure, and none on your abdomen. I won't tie you in any way that makes you uncomfortable. I want you to let me know if you are." He told her as they entered the room and he walked her and her pole over to the center of the empty area of the room, between the bed and the dresser on the same wall as the outer door to the hallway. "You will want to undress now. Again, I promise to behave myself with you, Domino. I am doing this as a favor to Alexandru. He doesn't have the patience, or the experience that I do. But he enjoys the end result." He gave her a little hint of a smile and Domino felt warmed suddenly, there was a bit of something in Mr. Hughes that could maybe find happiness one day, and it made her hopeful. "All right." She nodded and slowly began to take off the clothing that she'd worn during the day she'd spent with Samir. While she stripped, Mr. Hughes had moved over to the dresser and opened a drawer. She'd thought maybe there would be clothes inside, or towels, or sheets, but he began pulling out ropes and other items and setting them on the top of the dresser. When she was naked, standing nervously with her arms at her sides, he finally turned back to her and she watched as his turbulent gray eyes moved over her body from her feet up to her face, which she was sure had deepened in shade at his perusal. "I can see why Alexandru is so smitten with you. Not only do you have a wonderful personality that plays well off of his own, you are quite a looker, Domino." His timber made her shiver a bit and she smiled. "Thank you, Mr. Hughes." "Archimendes. Or Arc, if you will. You have helped me at my most vulnerable, and I would like to think that we are friends." She widened her eyes at hearing him say that and nodded quickly. "I would like to be your friend, Arc. I think maybe you need one." Domino knew he had employees he could talk to, like Samir, who she knew had been very concerned about him, but she wondered if he was ever comfortable enough to ever talk to anyone about himself, or the veritable shit storm that she figured was his relationship with Anya. She definitely wanted to know more about that, but she also knew that she was perfectly happy not knowing, and focusing on helping him get better. She didn't know when she stopped looking at him as just a miserable wreck and more of someone who desperately needed a little pick me up, but she definitely was in his corner now. Wait, she did know when it happened. The minute she walked into that room and saw that he'd cut his wings off. He nodded and approached her, a bit of something in his hand that she couldn't fully see. "Alexandru requested that I suspend you fully in the air, but I won't be doing that. There are too many risks involved with you because of your pregnancy, so it'll be a semi-suspension." He told her. "I don't know what that means." Domino arched a brow at him. "You'll always have one leg on the ground." "Oh, okay." That didn't sound too bad. "I should warn you now, some women, when they are being tied up, the sensation of it, that feeling of trust and helplessness mixes with arousal, and they find themselves reaching orgasm on their own." He spoke more softly as he moved a little closer to her. "Oh, really..." "As your friend, I promise to completely ignore it, if it happens." His eyes bespoke the truth of it and she smiled, a little embarrassed. "Hot guy tying me up, unintentional orgasm, check. I may never be able to look you in the face again." Domino chuckled nervously as he smiled a little more, the left corner of his face lifting more than his right. "Are you ready to begin, Domino?" His question sounded extremely loaded, but Domino gulped down her nerves and nodded, yes, she definitely wanted to see how this would go. "Yes." "Close your eyes." His request confused her, but she did it anyway, she wanted him to trust her, so she would show him that same trust. A satin blindfold was secured around her face and she gasped a little, she wasn't going to get to watch him as he tied her. She had not expected that. But she figured it might make it easier to not focus on the fact that it was Mr. Hughes, Arc, that was tying her up and she could pretend it was her lover. His hands had moved down to her PICC line and she knew he was disconnecting it. "While I tie you, I'm going to unhook you. Once you're tied, you won't be going anywhere, so I will hook you back up right before I leave." He explained and a few moments later, she felt the absence of the plastic tube against her arm that led to the IV pump, and she heard her pole roll across the room, out of the way. His warm, calloused hands moved up her forearms towards her wrists and she felt him move her hands together to clasp in front of her body. A rope was first tied around her chest, one line above and one line below her breasts, and then it was moved upwards, as were her arms, to tie the two together at the elbows. Once the ropes were secured there, he extended the length of the rope again and tied her wrists together, as well. Domino could feel his body brush fully up against the front of her as he moved in to raise her hands above her head, and eventually, he had connected those ropes to something on the ceiling above them, and she felt the ropes tighten, forcing her arms skyward. He smelled like peppermints and pine and vanilla and the mingled scents sparked her arousal and she felt her pussy slowly start to warm and throb, and moisten little by little. The feelings continued inside of her as he stepped away, and she heard him walking around the room. "How does that feel, Domino?" He asked from across the room, and she couldn't tell if there was a catch in his voice or not. "Good. I have a feeling that this is a pretty tame tie for you, huh? I saw your work outside the other night, and that looked way more complex." "Even what I did to that girl was pretty tame, Domino. I have been tying women up for centuries, and it can be very beautiful work that takes days and days to finish." He was walking back over, she could hear his foot steps. "That sounds extremely, extremely, sexy." She muttered, his chuckle making her skin burn suddenly as he ran a hand down her back from her shoulder to her right ass cheek. "I'm going to lift your leg into the air now." He said softly and she dropped her forehead against her arms and breathed in, she totally knew what he meant when he said that women found this arousing, he wasn't even doing a complicated tie, and she was wet. His hand moved to the back of her right thigh and he lifted her leg, then moved the hand up to straighten her knee before clasping his fingers around her ankle for a moment as he grabbed the rope he'd connected to one of the ceiling hooks and lowering it to tie her ankle securely into the air. She was rather flexible, he found, and was able to scissor her legs apart at about a 120 degree angle, though when he tied her leg up, he only forced her open at about 100 degrees. Once the ankle was secure, he looped the rope through the ceiling and then brought it down again to tie her at the knee and thigh, as well. Domino wished she could see herself, and Mr. Hughes as he worked on the ropes, she was shaking with desire and knew that her pussy was begging for release already, a line of cum was already trickling down the leg that went to the floor under her. She was open now, not as exposed as the woman the other night, but she knew her pussy was on display to the man in the room with her, and that he would be able to see the shiny line of moisture that he'd created by simply using ropes to tie her with. A Few Sips Ch. 07 "Are you comfortable?" "Yes." "I told Alexandru that he could bite you tonight, but he will feed before coming to you, so you will not have to worry about him taking too much." "But my blood has her blood in it." "So does the blood that I gave him to feed from. It only takes a little of it to placate your vampire. But he wants to bite you, and considering that he won't be able to for much longer, it should be tonight." "What do you mean?" Domino asked, was he still worried that she would die? She needed him to be positive of her chances so that SHE could be positive of her chances. "When he changes you, he won't be able to feed from you again." He told her, his footsteps were taking him away from her again. "Oh?" "Vampires cannot feed from each other." "I didn't know that. That's kind of a bummer." She frowned, she would have to feed off others, and so would he. "He also isn't going to get to fuck you much longer, either, at least for the duration of your pregnancy. Once the baby is bigger, it would be a big risk." His deep voice sounded and she knew he was coming back over to her. "Arc, you are taking all the fun out of my life." She teased and heard him chuckle. Then, she felt something touch her left nipple and pinch it just this side of pain and she choked out a gasp as every muscle in her body tensed and shivered. He had attached a nipple clamp and the feeling was insane, erotic, and even before he attached the second one, she knew she was going to come, and she did so, in a heavy squirt of juices that poured down her thigh as the second clasp settled on her left nipple. "Oh, sweet Jesus." She groaned, her body rocking with the force of her orgasm. "Open your mouth, Domino." He whispered close to her ear and she immediately complied, letting her mouth drop open as he moved something towards it. Domino whimpered as a rubber ball gag was pushed into her mouth, and then he was cinching the bindings behind her neck and the back of her head to secure it in place. "Alexandru had a few other requests from me, as well." She shivered, crying out against the gag as he tugged ever so gently on the nipple clamps before he walked away again. When he returned, she felt him in front of her, and when his fingers went to her pussy and separated the outer lips of her labia, she jerked, instinctively bucking her hips towards him as he exposed her clit. She knew she was moaning, but couldn't stop herself, not being able to see what he was doing was making every sensation more extreme, and when he placed something against her clit, and it clamped on, her entire body rocked uncontrollably in an orgasm that made the first one seem timid in comparison. Domino squeezed her eyes shut and whimpered as his body moved away, leaving behind the intensely pleasurable pressure of the clamp on her clit. "I'm not quite finished, Domino." His words made her clench her pussy muscles hard, she could feel her juices running in little streams of fluid down her thigh and she had a hard time holding her foot down on the ground, her breath was more rapid and she was sensitive all over her skin. She whimpered again as she felt him walk away from her. Part of her needed him to stop, but that was the wimpy, scared part of her, and she hated that part. Domino wanted him to come back and do more...a lot more. Damn it! When was Alexandru going to get here? "You used the lube? Plenty of it?" He asked huskily, and she knew now that his voice was changed, he was aroused, and she couldn't blame him for it, she felt sexy like this, she knew she had to look that way for him. She nodded, yes, she'd used the lube like Alexandru used it on her. "I want you to relax, Domino, yes, relax..." He whispered from behind her into her ear as he pushed something large and wide against her puckered asshole. Domino let her head drop back against his collarbone and she groaned as the dildo he was holding slowly spread open her asshole enough to accept the first few inches inside. Her tight whimpers told him when to stop, and he held the thick pliable plastic rod where it was, not even over the head of the tip of the penis shaped instrument. "This is a double dildo. Once I have this high in your ass, I'm going to bury the other end up in your cunt." His dirty words made her shake and moisten and her body screamed for him to do what he said he would do to her, fuck, she wanted this. He pushed in three more inches and she felt the ribbed mushroom edge slip into her and coughed out a hard cry when he pushed hard, sending it high, spreading her ass open for the thick girth in one smooth stroke. Domino knew her clit was throbbing and swollen, her pussy was wrecked by an orgasm that just seemed to blast forth and then weaken and then hit again. She'd had no idea how much she could cum, how hard and how stimulated she could be made to feel with barely a hand placed on her body. "Are you ready for your pussy to be filled, Domino?" He asked in a coarse whisper and Domino nodded frantically, not caring at all what he used to fill it, she was sure his cock was hard, it had to be, she was practically weeping for him to fuck her pussy. Without another word, he maneuvered the cock so that he could push the opposite end against the fold of her pussy and she roared out her need as he shoved it hard, high up into her canal. She was completely stuffed, both ends rubbing against one another through the thin tissue between the two holes, and Domino shook against his chest as she was wrapped tightly into the vice of another release. His hand was on the center of the long cock and he was pressing it to make sure she was completely full, each end pushing inside as far as it would go. He was breathing more heavily, she could tell, but he didn't mention his own desire, which she knew he wouldn't, he had said he would be ignoring her orgasms, since he was here merely to get her ready for her lover. Domino felt a closeness to him not unlike that of a lover, but she knew she could trust this man, he was not going to overstep things here, even if a small part of her wanted him to, he wouldn't go too far. Eventually, he moved away from her and she felt something silky wrap around her left hip and then it was criss crossed under her pussy in a way that secured the dildo up inside before he wrapped it up and around her right hip where he tied it carefully. "Wouldn't want it to slip out." He whispered in her ear. Domino panted as a response and she felt his heat disappear from around her a little. He was back in a flash, connecting her tubing back to her PICC line and then the heat of him disappeared completely. Footsteps moved around the room and then eventually, she was sure that he wasn't in the room anymore, though she wasn't quite sure she'd heard the door close. Though, if she were being honest with herself, she would say that her head was too muddled up with her arousal to even have noticed any such thing, but she knew she was alone. Whimpering, she tested the bonds that tied her where she was and knew she would never be able to get herself free. Each movement intensified the feel of the dildo inside of her, and she tried to stay still and calm herself a bit, she wanted Alexandru, she wanted him to be the one to make her come. ~*~*~*~ Alexandru awoke slowly, stretching out on the mattress of the large bed he shared with Domino as his ears adjusted to the many sounds around him. He was alone in the room as he knew he would be, she would have left earlier in the day, and if his wishes had been followed, she would be waiting, very impatiently, for him to join her upstairs. The thought made him smile and he slowly opened his eyes and sat up on the edge of the bed. He was so intent on pulling on some pants so that he wasn't walking through the mansion in the nude, sending the guests into a flutter of arousal that he almost missed the sound outside of his bedroom door, of someone breathing evenly, standing almost perfectly still. He smirked, Mr. Hughes was waiting for him. "Come inside, Arc." He said by way of hello into the darkness surrounding him and rose to stand as the door opened and light flooded the bedroom from the bulb in the hallway. "I hope you'll forgive me the intrusion, but I wanted to catch you before you went to her." Mr. Hughes stepped just inside of the room and closed the door behind him as he flicked the light switch on. He frowned and reached onto the chair beside the bed for the pants that were there and began to yank them up his heavily muscled legs. When he was buttoning the front over his otherwise naked groin, he looked over at the angel and nodded. "What do you need?" "Did Domino discuss with you what she saw in my office yesterday?" Mr. Hughes asked and Alexandru tightened his eyelids as he glared at the man in the room with him who was still completely dressed in a suit. "I swear, Arc, I'll kill you somehow if she saw you doing some of your bdsm bullshit to one of your girls, she doesn't need to see that, she was raped when she was young. I don't need you stirring shit up with her." Alexandru felt his neck heat up and his back tensed as he looked at the other man with red, angry eyes. Mr. Hughes frowned as he heard what the vampire said, "You should have told me that she'd been raped before, Alexandru. I might have explained to her a bit more what I was doing when I got her ready for you. I think she is okay, though. She is more than anxious for your arrival. But no, I was not engaged in any sex play when she walked into the room with Samir." "What did she see?" Alexandru was curious, and worried, it wasn't like Mr. Hughes to discuss what he did, he had very few confidantes. Very few, maybe just Ned? He wasn't sure. The man had more secrets than there were humans on this planet. "I had my shirt off and-." "She's probably seen someone with tattoos before, Arc, that wouldn't be something she'd think to report home about." He shook his head and watched as Mr. Hughes frowned, his gray eyes widening at the interruption to what he was saying. "She saw me trying to put a bandage on my back." "Why would you be bandaging-you know...I hadn't wanted to say anything, but I can smell you easier lately, but I've been so wrapped up in Domino. What happened?" Alexandru asked. "I cut off my wings." Alexandru felt himself stop breathing, no inward or outward motion of air in his lungs, just a sudden stop, and he stared at the man in front of him, his red eyes turning nearly black from the turmoil that suddenly roared inside, and he found himself completely unable to respond. His wings? He couldn't be serious. Why in the fuck would he do something like that? "Did you hear me?" "Fuck, I heard you, but I can't believe it. Why would you do that?" "I was bandaging the remains and Domino came in with Samir and helped. I wanted you to know that she had seen it, and I wanted you to know that I will do everything in my power to keep her alive, even if that means keeping her from you to do so." Those gray eyes looked up at him quite menacingly, and Alexandru knew better than to think the man's threat was idle. But he didn't care, let the man threaten him. "You cut off your wings." "Yes, I said that." "You fucking idiot." "You've said that to me before." "For her?" "Alexandru, you should go to Domino, she is waiting for you." "You cut off your wings for her, because she left you?" "I didn't exactly ask her to stay, she made her choice. I'll see you later? I put a few bags of blood on the table in the kitchenette. Feed before you go up, and then only a pint from her tonight. And no more, Alexandru. You can't feed from her any more." "You're going to explain yourself." Alexandru was nearly mad with fury at this point and he stepped towards the angel. "No, I'm not. I'll see you later." Mr. Hughes backed out of the room and turned his back towards Alexandru who stepped into the hallway. "Coward." Alexandru sneered and Mr. Hughes suddenly turned around and swung his arm out, landing a fist on Alex's jaw, making his face turn to the side, but he otherwise stayed on his feet. "Alexandru, either go fuck Domino, or I will. She was more than ready for me to." Mr. Hughes turned away again and the last bit of his sentence was said over his retreating back. Alexandru shook with anger, and he followed the other man as far as the kitchenette before stopping and grabbing at the first bag of blood. He wasn't finished discussing Mr. Hughes' stupid life choices, but for now, he would focus on abating his hunger and then abating his need to find Domino and fuck her while he still could. He figured there would be a point in time when he wouldn't be allowed to anymore for the sake of the baby. ~*~*~*~ Every once in a while a breeze would blow through the room as the wind outside the open window shifted the air around her and Domino would whimper, her forehead resting on her arms in front of her and her lower leg would shake as she stood. Her pussy and ass were both throbbing and stuffed, wishing for more movement, aching to stay still, but knowing that eventually, she would be joined in the room and Alexandru would be able to do whatever he wanted to her. She just hoped that what he wanted was to fuck her with a wild frenzy that involved his monster sized cock and her wet and very very willing holes. When she felt the heat of flesh rub against her side, Domino gasped and nearly jumped out of her skin. She hadn't even heard him enter. Was it Alexandru? Or had Mr. Hughes returned? She didn't know, she couldn't tell as the satin tie was tugged open and allowed to slide down her leg, exposing the dildo that was penetrating her from both ends. Large hands grasped it in the middle and it was pulled in one quick stroke from her body, making her whimper as it popped out almost simultaneously from each side. She felt whoever it was move behind her and kneel down, she was starting to think this was Alexandru, the man seemed large, very large, and the air fluttered differently as he moved, his wings created more of a current and they had a tendency to move as he did. Those hands moved to her ass cheeks and spread them so that he could see her anus from behind. "You have the prettiest gape, my little dove, your beautiful smooth skin on the outside and nice and pink on the inside." Alexandru's voice was guttural and breaking a little as he moved his face towards her ass. Domino tilted her head back and cried out when his lips surrounded the hole and his tongue was suddenly deep inside, laving over the tissue of her ass hole and making her body push back into the caress. He continued for several minutes, making her squeal and squirm, unable, of course, to break the bonds that held her, and she was whimpering and her pussy was clenching hard when he finally rose up and placed his cock head at the opening to her ass. "Can I have your ass?" He muttered into her ear and Domino wanted to shout yes, but could only nod frantically with the ball in her mouth, fuck, yes, he could have her ass. "Then push back on my cock, and I'll give you what you want." He ordered, one hand going to her abdomen to hold her while the other hand held his cock in place. Domino groaned, fine, she pushed back into him, feeling his bulbous shaft stretch her asshole open slowly, and then she felt the girth widen and whimpered, but didn't slow her progress until he was halfway inside of her rectum. "Good girl, do you want it all?" His hands moved to her hips and Domino shivered, knowing how good it would feel when he pushed all the way inside. She nodded and felt the muscles in his hips and thighs tighten and then he growled and slammed forward hard, sending his cock all the way into her ass, balls deep, and holding her hard against his groin as she shook and sprayed her pussy juices all over his scrotum. "My God, Domino." His voice shook as he began to ride her, pumping ferociously with his hips as he stroked into and out of her colon, knowing he was pushing past her rectum into her sigmoid with his non-human cock, loving the feel of the muscles that milked him as he fucked her. Domino, unable to respond with her voice, cried out her passion and pushed back against him, loving every second of having this man, this vampire fuck her ass. He moved his hands to her breasts and tugged on the clamps there, making her groan in delicious agony, and then he was beating into her harder, higher, until his cock reared forth and he shot several lines of hot, thick cum into her colon, shaking as he held inside, his head dropping to rest against hers as he waited out the orgasm. "How can I love you this much, little dove? I don't even usually go for blonds." He muttered his confusion and warmed when he felt and heard her giggle. His cock slid out of her. Even half aroused, he was still much more wide in girth than a human man, and she whimpered as it came out fully. He knelt again and spread her ass cheeks so he could see the wide gape that he had created. 
"You have no idea how arousing it is to see you spread like this, Domino, to know I can have such an effect on your body." He explained softly as he moved his hand up to her anus and with the fingers and thumb together, started to push into her ass. Domino groaned, not expecting the entry, and she shook more and more as he worked the hand inside, crying out when he stopped at the widest part, the lower knuckle of his thumb, and kept her wide for a few seconds before pushing past, burying his hand in her ass to his wrist. She clenched around him, trying to pull him farther inside as she cried out at the intrusion. Jesus, everything about this man was a lot to take. He opened his hand and touched her in such a way that she dropped her leg out from under her and spasmed in a panicked release. Her movement pushed his hand up higher inside of her, and she knew she was impaled almost to his elbow...almost. Her breath was a volley of hiccuped gulps for air and she pushed back with each punch forward that he made into her. "I love seeing you this way, Domino. I love you." He whispered against her, his free hand was inching closer to her clit and Domino was shaking in anticipation. When his fingers rubbed hard over the tip that was visible around the clamp, she screamed hard, her body tensing and bucking and buckling as she was pounded by a forceful orgasm, her pussy practically frantic as it clenched, wishing there was something penetrating it to clench upon. Domino was sure she'd bit a hole in the ball in her mouth as she let the orgasm roll over her, leaving her drenched and panting and trying to find her footing beneath her as he slowly pulled his hand from her ass hole. She felt him move around to the front of her, his hands sliding over her body as he went, and then she felt him pulling the clasps apart on her ball gag and it was finally removed from her and tossed across the room carelessly. "Jesus Fucking Christ, Alex." She panted, each word coming out harshly as she breathed in deeper. "Don't give him the credit, Dom, I'm the one who made you come." He chuckled as he pulled the blindfold off of her head. Domino blinked several times, the light in the room startling her eyes. Eventually, she was able to look and see her sexy lover standing before her, tall and muscled, naked, his wings wide, his cock already standing back up, ready for more. "No way, I should totally be mad at you right now. You had Mr. Hughes tie me up and I got all hot, thinking of what was going to happen to me and I came, right with him there working on me. It felt really naughty, Alexandru." She chastised him and watched as he grinned wide and put a hand under her left thigh. "I'm sure he appreciated it." He moved the other hand to her right nipple clamp and without warning, unhooked it and she gasped as the blood rushed back into it. A Few Sips Ch. 07 "Oh shit." She bit her lip, the pleasure was excruciating. "You have a dirty mouth when we fuck, Domino." He chuckled, pulling on the other one until it, too, popped off, she cried out at that one. Then he turned and walked away, through a doorway and into another room. When he came back, he had a dry washcloth in his hand. "Can you feel my cum in your ass, are you starting to feel the need to push it out?" He asked, and Domino nodded as she blushed a little. "Here, push." He murmured as he moved forward and put the towel under her anus so that she could expel what he had shot into her. Once she was done and he had tossed the cloth away from them, Alexandru sank onto his knees and moved so that his mouth was in line with her pussy. "I'm going to feed on you, little dove, just a little." "Okay." "I want to feed from here, so I can drink your blood and your pussy juice at the same time." His words made her shiver and said 'juice' ran a little more quickly as his hot mouth breathed fire against her tender and aroused skin. When his fingers moved in to unhook her clit from the clamp, she gasped and bucked, and then screamed when his mouth moved forward and clamped hard over her clit and his top canines sank into the extremely sensitive skin above it and his lower teeth pierced into the wall of her pussy just inside the fold. She was smashed to bits in another orgasm as he groaned and immediately started sucking on the blood that dripped steadily from the wounds he had made, and his tongue slathered over her, his mouth sucking harder and harder, his hands on her ass holding her where she was. An eternity seemed to pass before he had licked the wounds themselves closed and then ran his tongue over her pussy, taking in everything that she'd released before he rose to stand, pulling her free leg up with him to hold it against his hip as he lined his cock up with her overwhelmed pussy. "Ready?" He asked, an excited look in his eyes as he smiled sexily at her. Domino had never been more ready for anything in her life. Nodding, she smiled at him and then felt her mouth drop into an "o" as he thrust forward, his cock slammed to the heart of her, creating a ripple of spasms that worked quickly through her body and apexed at the neck of her pussy and squeezed him hard, holding him deep, making him growl and flap his wings, causing them both to shift up to the ceiling where he used some of the empty hooks to hold onto with his hands while his feet somehow gained a hold above her, Domino saw pieces of plaster fall to the ground below them as he thrust into her pussy in fierce, repeated strokes. She couldn't help the little smile that came to her face as she pressed it into his warm neck. So much for Samir being the one to break apart the walls of the spa. Their lovemaking was fierce, unbridled even, but it was definitely that, and Domino was hugging tightly to her lover, kissing him gently, and carnally, and running her hands over his large, muscled body, his silky furred wings, his chest, his strong back. This was love, and as she wrapped her arms around his back and her eyes fell to the thankfully long tubing of blood that was running steadily into her body, she prayed to the gods that she knew now existed that she wouldn't lose this, that she wouldn't lose him so very soon after finding him. A Few Sips Ch. 08 The next four weeks went by relatively peacefully at the spa. Business went about as usual around them, and Domino spent time almost every day with Samir. She had finally gotten Alexandru to cook for her, and he would spend part of each night prepping meals for her for the next day. He wasn't overly thrilled that in doing so, he was cooking for her blond friend, but he dealt with it because he knew Samir watched over her during the day. Domino was working again, her computer was stored for her in the room upstairs so that she could sit in a sunlit room while she completed her daily tasks. Her job was something that she and Alexandru hadn't really agreed on. He wanted her to quit, and she wasn't ready to. She liked the work and enjoyed the interaction that she had with her coworkers through emails and IMs. Samir had taken her fishing several more times, and he'd walked with her around the large property, talking to her about the creatures a little more that lived on it, or ones that had lived there at one point or another. she was kind of happy to have missed a few of the former employees. The gargoyles had sounded a little intense to her. Deandra, who she had finally met, was a big fan of card games, and along with Samir and Shi, the four of them had set up a regular mid-afternoon game of pitch while the rest of the spa rested during that part of the day. Mr. Hughes would even join them from time to time. Domino felt like she had friends here, and the agoraphobia that had plagued her while living in Vermont in her little apartment had all but seemed to vanish. The only thing that kept her chained to the property, it seemed, was the pole and blood pump that she had to take everywhere. The only things that had really changed in the last month were that her transfusion rate had increased gradually each week, and Alexandru had become a much more tender lover, afraid to aggravate the life growing inside of her. He had grown into that attentive, protective boyfriend who wanted to know every minute detail of her life, and he would lay in bed, their bodies on their sides, facing each other, and they would talk about their past, their present, and their future. He told her about his childhood as a human, about growing up and becoming a soldier. He told her about the night that he'd been injured, sliced open with a wound that would have proven fatal if fate, or more aptly, a vampire named Klaus, hadn't intervened. He'd woken the next night a vampire and his life had changed forever. He was adamant when he told her that he wasn't dead, however, like all of the movies and books liked to say about vampires. He was very much alive. She already knew that, she knew his body now just as well as he did. It had surprised her to hear that he had been married at the time of his change, to a Romanian woman he described as curvaceous and lovely, and they'd had children together. He had spied them from afar for many years after he had changed, but had never returned, too afraid that he would scare them, or, at the very worst, feed on them. They had grown older, eventually dying, and he had felt their passing deeply, finally leaving his home country once and for all after his youngest daughter had died. It was a part of the vampire that he usually kept very much to himself, but he felt a need to tell Domino everything. So he told her the good, and he told her the bad, and she listened and responded, and loved him all the more for his honesty. He didn't feed on her again, either, though Domino knew that there were times that he really wanted to do so. She knew it was especially hard when he would wake at night and make love to her for a few hours before begging her forgiveness and saying that he had to leave, and that he probably wouldn't be back for a day or so. He never left her for longer than that, and she found herself okay with the absence, she was getting more and more tired now, and the extra sleep was appreciated. On days when Alexandru was gone, she would often awake to find not Samir, but Mr. Hughes in the kitchenette. He didn't cook, but he would be waiting for her to leave her room, a tray of food from the upstairs kitchen on the table in front of him. They would talk about his plans for the day, and he would tell her a little about the clients in the spa and some of the interesting situations that arose from time to time. She could tell that he was very fond of his employees, even the obstinate ones like Alexandru. Domino had quickly realized that he had made this place into somewhat of a sanctuary for non-humans that either had nowhere else to go, or felt more comfortable hidden away in this remote Canadian paradise. She could understand that, it was beautiful here, and they were surrounded by gorgeous bits of nature. It was where she was now, walking slowly beside the owner, along a carefully constructed path through the woods, and Domino was gazing absently out at the trees around her. It was a quiet majesty to walk in these trees, the air sweet and fragrant to her nose, the sunlight striking as it beat little paths through the stalks of the trees. One could definitely lose themselves quite happily here. "I think I want to talk to you about Anya." The barely audible voice beside her made Domino stiffen a little and she looked at him out of the corner of her eye. "Only if you want to, Arc. I can't think of a touchier subject for you." She told him gently, wrapping her hand through his as they slowed their walking a little. "She came to the spa by way of her lawyer, she'd told him she'd missed having sex, and he had thought to oblige her. He didn't know that she was a light siren, there is something about her that keeps most of us from realizing why she affects us so much. An adaptation, I suppose, that allowed her kind to survive, even just a little." He started, leading her over to a boulder along the side of the path, and they sat down on it, one leg tucked up on it so that they could face one another. "You have a history with the light sirens, don't you?" Domino squeezed the hand that still held hers. "I do," He nodded slowly as he looked without direction behind her, "And it's not a good one." Domino shivered, no, it wasn't a good one, "She can't blame you for it. You were told to." "I killed women and children, unborn dragons, I blame myself for it more than anyone else ever could." His voice was pained and she knew where some of the pain in his eyes came from, he was punishing himself. "Afterwards, I shared my anger and opposition with my god, and he cast me out, but I had been a favorite of sorts, so he allowed me to fall to earth instead of being sent to hell to become a demon. I chose to come here." He waved at the ground around them. "I am thankful for that, however selfish that is. But I can't imagine losing my place, my home, with the rest of my kind. Not when how you felt was justified." She told him. Mr. Hughes looked at her with a soft smile, his explanation only touched at a much larger picture, but he didn't want to burden her with too much of him, not all at once, "I didn't expect to fall for a client. I know she wanted to be with me, too, but not in the way I needed her. When I found out what she was, later, after she had left...I didn't handle it well. I was angry that I'd lost her, I was angry that I'd loved her, I was angry all the time. I blamed her for my punishment, I blamed her for making me go against my god. I blamed her for this life, and I blamed myself for killing off her species." "You were just a hot mess." He nodded, "That's putting it simply." "Did she know? Did she know what she caused you?" He nodded, "She was told before me." "It didn't change things, though, did it? It didn't make you feel any better?" "She won't talk to me, she thinks I tried to control her life after she left the spa. Whatever I did, it was out of concern for her. She affects non-humans and I wanted her safe. But all she can see was my interference." "Yet, it's because of your guilt over having to murder off her kind that you've been taken away from your own species and left here. Alone." Domino frowned, he was looking away from her again, his face tilted up lightly as he looked into the sky. "I can still hear them, you know, faintly, through the heat of the sky, the wind, I hear the songs, the call, that will never go away, but I can never return." His words made her gut tighten, it must be miserable to know what he was missing, to be unable to get back into the favor of his god. It seemed very unfair. "Cutting off your wings was supposed to do what, soothe that pain?" She prodded, his eyes moved back to her face as he frowned at her. "We all have our dark moments." He muttered. Domino cocked her head to the side and shook it gently, "No, you don't get to dismiss torturing yourself as a 'dark moment.' We're friends, Arc, and I won't let you do that." "Knowing I was punished for doing a task that hadn't even been successful, it has intensified things a bit, it's made it harder to listen to their song. I thought if I cut off my wings, it would numb it." "And did that work?" She asked, watching as he stood and scratched the back of his head with a hand. "No." "And now you have no wings. It was kind of an idiotic thing to do. You must have been so sexy once." She joked gently, watching as he smiled a little at her. "Your boyfriend called me an idiot." "You told him?" "Yes, I figured you might have already, but he didn't know. You kept your secret. I appreciate that. Not many people these days seem to be able to keep secrets." "Well, so far, other than Alexandru, the only person I might have thought to confide in was Samir, and he already knew, and we have a strict 'we don't talk about Mr. Hughes' wings' policy." She heard him chuckle a little, that was good. "After she moved in with the wolves, I wrote her. I apologized for what I'd done to her, and for what I had done to her kind. She never wrote me back. The first time I heard anything from her, it was through Mr. Bricker, and it was about you." He put his hands in the pockets of his pants. "I don't know her well, Arc. I'm not a non-human, at least not yet, so she doesn't affect me the way she does all of you. What she did to you pisses me off. If she can't see that, then she's a fool and you deserve better. You shouldn't be torturing yourself for her. Plus, I can imagine that what happened with the light sirens happened a long time ago, and there has got to be some sort of limitation on just how long you have to punish yourself for that. You weren't even the only angel to partake in the...killing, and they are all up there singing while you're down here hating yourself for it." Domino scooted off of the boulder, grabbing the tops of his forearms as he moved forward to help her. "I am not sure I am ready to believe you, Domino, but I appreciate you believing in me." His voice was a little husky as he pulled her into is embrace and Domino closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around him in turn. "If you need me to go to Duluth and run over her with a dump trunk, I am more than willing to do so. Just say the word." She whispered against him and felt his chest rumble with his deep chuckle as he squeezed her a little tighter for a moment, then took a step back to smile down at her. "I do not need to deal with a pack of angry werewolves, Domino. Not even a small pack like Sergei's. We will just leave her there." "Whatever, but I have been watching Alexandru use knives in the kitchen, I think I can do some damage before they take me down. Just let me know." Domino winked at him and looped her arm through his as they turned towards the path that would lead them back to the house. "I will, Dom." He nodded and they started walking. "Do you remember the songs?" She asked quietly as they moved through the trees. "I could never forget them." He said in a murmur. "Could you sing me one?" "The words are not in English, you wouldn't understand." He furrowed a brow at her. "I don't care, I'd love to hear a little." She pressed, it would be nothing short of a true miracle to hear a song sung by an angel. "All right." He sighed, lifting his head up a moment as if he was trying to catch a melody that sifted through the clouds above them through the trees. When he started singing, her heart tightened and her body was warmed and comforted. His voice was deep and pure, beautiful in tone and depth and sure, the words sliding from his throat in such a way it almost sounded like he never paused to breathe. She'd never heard anything like it, it wasn't the common five chords that were in modern music, it was something ancient, and beautiful, angelic, she supposed, and while he sang, she found herself pausing in her steps to simply stand there and listen to him. He wasn't singing loudly, nor was his voice a whisper, but when he sang, his eyes closed and he gave himself to the song and she thought that maybe, he didn't even remember where he was, or that she was there, he was so focused on the words he sang. It was enchanting, standing there in the woods, the sun filtering through the trees and his voice surrounding her, the words making her skin tingle and warm. For Domino, it was not unlike that feeling you get when you take the first bite of a big, gooey chocolate chip cookie straight from the oven, though it seemed a lame analogy, but it was full of warmth, wonder, a deep hunger from deep inside at the expectation of the flavors and scents involved. She just stood and stared, and it wasn't until he finally opened his eyes just a little and the words from his mouth began to fade that she touched her cheek and realized that she was crying. "Arc, that was beautiful." Her voice was shaky as she tried to get her emotions under control, wiping at the tears falling from her eyes as she spoke. "I want you to take two steps toward me, slowly. Don't be scared." His gray eyes weren't focused on her, she realized, he was looking slightly to her left. Domino stiffened and tried not to rush, but she took the two steps quickly and he suddenly reached out his arms and pulled her tightly into his arms, she let him pull her close and wrapped her arms around his waist as she turned her head to look behind her. She wasn't sure exactly what she expected to see, but it definitely wasn't the two tall, handsome men who stood about ten feet before them now in the woods. They both had long hair that was pulled pack from their eyes in leather and jewel encrusted clasps. Their skin was somewhat olive colored, and smooth, as if they didn't even know what acne was, nor did it look like they'd ever needed to shave. Their jaws were firm, masculine, and set in a line that showed their amusement at what Mr. Hughes had requested that she do. They were wearing robes of a deep chestnut color, and the clothing underneath was equally long and ornately embroidered. Their hands were clasped in front of them, low, as they stared quietly at Domino and Mr. Hughes, and their eyes, eyes that seemed like they were slightly, just slightly, larger than a normal human's eyes. That would have been enough for Domino to guess that they were non-human, if not for the pointed ears that bellied the same knowledge. "What are you doing here, Thorontur?" Mr. Hughes' voice was filled with his displeasure. The one on the left tilted his head a little, his brown eyes had been centered on Domino for a moment, but he finally turned to Mr. Hughes with a look of humor on his face, "I thought to ask for your counsel, Mr. Hughes, we are sorry if our appearance is somewhat of a bother." "You're an extremely long way from home." Mr. Hughes softened his voice, his body was still straight, and he didn't appear to be scared of these two men, just very very annoyed. "I suppose we should have called first, as the humans would say," Those entrancing brown eyes looked over Domino more slowly as he spoke, "But we did not want to chance a refusal from you about our visit. Our business is rather important." "You are correct. I would not have welcomed you here." This was angry Mr. Hughes, in charge Mr. Hughes, and she silently applauded him, tell these two whatever they are's to get lost. Domino knew her eyes echoed that as she glared icily back at the two men and she watched as the one, Thorontur, smiled in amusement. "Does this one belong to you? I thought you usually kept yours locked away and tied up." Thorontur said, humored by the situation, and Domino felt the man she had finally stopped clinging to stiffen just a little bit. "Domino, this is Thorontur and his brother, Faeron. They are wood elves. Thorontur, Faeron, this is Domino, she is Alexandru's bloodmate." Mr. Hughes introduced them. Ooooh, wood elves, probably the nasty kind. Samir had told her that not all elves were nice, and Mr. Hughes was nice to non-humans, so he must have reason not to like them. He had called her a bloodmate. She supposed that was a good way to describe her relationship with her lover, it sounded more intimate than 'boyfriend' at least. She frowned at them as they nodded at her. "A human bloodmate, and a pregnant one, I assume." Thorontur took a step forward as he nodded his head at her. "Assume whatever you want." Mr. Hughes looked over at the younger brother, "I have a spa to run, what is it that you want to talk about?" "The human equipment, is this what you are doing to save her?" Thorontur ignored Mr. Hughes' question and waved at the tubing that was running from her arm. "I think I should return her to the spa. You can either wait for me here or come with us and wait for me in my office." He knew he wasn't going to get anywhere like this, they would bluster and redirect until they got their questions answered, nosy elves. "We would gladly join you. As you've said, it was a long journey and we would like some libations, if you would permit it." Libations, what a word, now it felt like they were just trying to sound important. Domino felt Mr. Hughes clasp her hand in his and they turned to walk towards the spa. She knew the two wood elves were walking behind them, matching their somewhat slow pace because of her pole, she could feel them watching her. "How far along is she?" The younger elf finally spoke, his voice as melodious as the first. "Three months." Mr. Hughes said, looking down at Domino who was watching him closely. Domino made a stabbing motion with her hand that only Mr. Hughes could see and he smiled in humor, she was willing to cut these two annoying creatures if he wanted her to. "You should add erithropoietin to her meds if you haven't already. And a separate infusion of platelets if she makes it to six months." Faeron said and Mr. Hughes frowned and looked over his shoulder. "What would you know about it?" He asked. "I don't. But I know Klaus." Faeron shrugged and Domino felt her eyes widen, Klaus was the name of the vampire that turned Alexandru! "Is Klaus the scientist who studied this?" Domino asked quietly. Mr. Hughes nodded at her. "Is he a vampire?" Another nod. Seriously? Alexandru's sire was the vampire scientist who had tried to keep human women alive? She wondered if he knew that. It was extremely coincidental. Domino looked ahead of them and saw the end of the woods in the path. It was a sunny day, a day that she wouldn't get to see all that many more of when she let Alexandru change her, but she wouldn't think of that, she could only think of him, and the baby she held inside of her. She wanted forever with them. "When we go inside, Domino, I want you to go downstairs, all right?" Mr. Hughes said to her as they stepped into the open back yard of the spa. Domino nodded, she would be happy to leave him with these two elves, though at the same time she worried that maybe he shouldn't be alone with them. They were not entirely kind, she could tell, and he wasn't himself right now. Frowning, she tried to decide whether or not to listen to him. As the approached the patio, however, she saw Samir sitting on the railing, a piece of wood in his hands that he'd been cutting with a knife. When he saw them approach, he smiled at first, and then frowned when he saw the darker-clad forms of the thin, tall elves behind them. A Few Sips Ch. 08 "Samir." Mr. Hughes said his name as they stopped in front of him, and Domino could sense the tone of caution in the single word. "Samir, is it? It's good to see you again." Thorontur stepped forward to stand beside Domino, which apparently pissed the colossus off, and he grabbed Domino around the waist and pulled her to his left side, away from the elves entirely. "It shouldn't be. Last time we saw each other I ripped your Goddamned arm off." Samir growled, making Domino drop her mouth open and she looked up at him, then over at the elf who looked to have two arms now. "Samir, take Domino downstairs. Stay with her." Mr. Hughes told his employee firmly and Samir looked like he didn't have any intention of obeying. "Do it." Mr. Hughes spoke again, and Domino watched as he ever so slightly lifted his outspread hand in the giant's direction. Samir seemed to tense a little and his eyes went to his employer's, somewhat shocked in appearance before he finally nodded and putting a hand on Domino's shoulder, he led her into the mansion and they walked through the dining room and down the hall towards the staircase that would lead to the basement. "What did he just do to you?" Domino asked quietly, Samir still seemed very pissed off about the situation. "He compelled me." "How did he do that?" She gasped, looking at him as he yanked open the door to the stairs. "He's an angel, Domino. He can compel any creature of the light to bend to his will." Samir frowned and allowed her to walk down in front of him, he held the pole behind her as they went. "Not the darkness?" She asked. He shook his head at the base of the stairs, "No. It's about the only thing that makes me envious of them at this moment. I'd like nothing more than to have another go at that stupid fucking wood elf." "Why? Who are they?" "You know how I told you that there were other places like this around the world?" Samir walked with her into the room with the couch and they sat down together. "Yes, you said this was the best one." "It is, well, Thorontur and his brother, own the oldest known spa. It wasn't really a 'spa' in the sense of the word a long time ago. They held non-humans captive back then, we were forced to do what they told us, not with compulsion, but with the threat of torture and pain, and death. There are no creatures of the darkness who seem to be able to compel, except sires compelling their vampire progeny." "You said 'we.'" Domino whispered, her voice pained. He nodded, "Yes, for a time, I was one of their number of spectacles." "But you're a colossus, how could they have stopped you from getting out? From freeing the others?" Domino put a hand on his forearm, he was hot, tense, the elves had definitely set him on edge. "They didn't have to threaten my life to get me to behave, Domino, they had found another way to threaten me, by threatening my wife." He said low, his voice filled with pain, and she gasped, squeezing his arm a little bit. "Samir, that's horrible." "There was no way I could get to her before they would have had a chance to kill her. It was, it was a bad time." "They finally let you go? What happened?" "I was becoming more and more frustrated, but I was too scared to do anything about it. It was miserable there, Domino, being forced to be put on display like I was. I wasn't there to fuck, you see, I was there as a sideshow act, really. 'see the great and powerful giant!' It was disgusting." "Dicks." "Truly not even vulgar enough for those two." "Your wife, was she a human?" Something told Domino she was, and she watched him nod. "Yes. They kept her in a cell across from mine, a guard with her at all times. We had been married for almost twenty years, and they liked to joke about how, in my human form, I looked young enough to be her son. They would call her all kinds of things and they would touch her from time to time, to remind me that she was so easy for them to get to. They were very anti-human back then, very. One night, they came to my cell and told me that they had had a request from a visitor to pleasure her. I was livid. I would do no such thing, I wasn't a whore." "Oh, man, Samir." "I told them no, and they had one of the guards, a man who was one of the ones who liked to paw at my wife, go to her. He held her down and was about to rape her. I shifted, tore out of the cell and before I could reach her, Thorontur was there, and she had a knife in her heart." "Oh, my God." Domino choked out, she saw tears fall from his blue eyes as he looked at her anguished and she moved forward and wrapped her arms around him, she was crying, too. "I ripped his arm off. Broke several more bones on my way out, but eventually I got away with her body. I buried her in the mountains. I never married again after that, it was too hard." He held her in his arms as they sat together silently for a while after that. "I am so sorry, Samir." She finally said, one hand moving up to rest on his chest as they finally got their tears under control. "Elves have a regenerative property that lets them heal unless their neck is severed. I should have ripped his head off instead of his arm." Samir chuckled softly as he ran a hand over her hair. "I agree. You should have. Do they still hold non-humans hostage?" Domino sat up again. He shook his head. "No. I met Mr. Hughes for the first time a while after that, and I told him about them. Even then, before he had opened Vorhees, he was very involved with the non-humans. We have always looked at him as some sort of a president for those of us who are light. He is the 'lightest' of us, you know. He took care of it, they changed their ways somewhat after that." "So they're more like Vorhees now, but still under shitty management?" She watched him chuckle and was glad that the mood was lightening just a little bit, this was the price of immortality, it seemed, moments of happiness frosted with some extreme bits of pain and sadness. "Right. And Mr. Hughes generally doesn't give them the time of day, so we shall have to wait and see what happens." Samir looked towards the stairs. "Why didn't he want to talk to them about me?" "They asked about you?" She nodded, "It could have just been because they're not used to seeing a woman walk around in the woods hooked up to a bag of blood, but yes. Faeron, especially." "I don't know, really. I haven't seen them in a long, long time. They're very nosy, though, all of the elves are. They like to know everything because they like to act like they know everything about everyone." "Hmm," Domino looked towards the kitchenette, "Well, you know what. I can't cook very well myself, but I make a mean batch of popcorn. We're gonna sit and watch a movie that I love, and you are going to tell me if it's as good as I say." "Popcorn and a movie?" "Extra butter, extra salt, twice the heart block." Domino grinned stupidly at him and her body warmed up as he laughed openly, his arm going to the couch to rest along the back of it. "What movie, do I need to rent it?" She nodded, "Yup, it's called Labyrinth. Have you seen it?" He shook his head, "No." "Great, you're gonna love it. Especially Bluto. I'll go make the popcorn." Domino jumped up and walked into the kitchenette and pulled out a saucepan. She was pulling out the popcorn kernels from the cabinet when she heard Samir chuckle in the sitting room. Looking over, she could see that he had the movie up and there was a picture of some of the characters on the front. Smiling, she knew he would tease her about watching non-human movies when she went back in, but it would take his mind off of his past and the elves upstairs in the spa while they waited for Alexandru to wake up. He still had another few hours before the sun set. She sort of hoped that the elves would be gone by then. "Goblins, really, Domino?" Apparently, he didn't plan on waiting to tease her. "Oh, shut it, Samir. Just wait. Jareth is a sexy sexy sexy man, when I was young, I wanted to be Sarah, only not so stupid, and I wanted to kiss that goblin king and be his forever and have my own little army of chubby cheeked goblins." "You really thought that through, didn't you." He barked in laughter. "I did. It's what you do when you don't have a family of your own, you make one up any way you can." Domino said, more serious this time as she set the heat on the sauce pan. She heard him get up and walk into the kitchenette and lean on the counter as he looked at her, "Is that why you've been so quick to adopt all of us as family here?" Domino looked up at his eyes and saw the question burn within them, and she shrugged her shoulders, "Maybe." "Can I be the favored cousin? I'd rather not be the uncle that everyone invites to the party just because they have to invite him." "Oh, Samir, you're the brother, the good one." "When you smile at me like that, I don't feel very brotherly." He growled as he turned and pulled out a couple glasses. "Well, considering that this is my family, and Arc is the patriarchal part, and he's touched my bare...ladybits...we're already a bit incestuous, I suppose." He chuckled, "Poor Samir, he's just the boyfriend." "Bloodmate." "What did you say?" Samir looked at her with a frown. "Bloodmate? It's what Mr. Hughes called me when he introduced the elves to me. Why?" "Nothing, he probably called you that to get them to find you uninteresting, but it's not something you should refer to yourself as, Domino." He shook his head and reached into the refrigerator for the bottle of ginger ale. "What does it mean, Samir?" "There's not really a good English translation to it, Dom, and it's not true, anyways. It refers to a woman who is owned by a vampire and used by him for sex and food, until he drains her and she dies. It's a brutal term, Domino, and vampires don't do that anymore. Times are different now." "Why would he call me that, couldn't he just have said that I was a client who got pregnant on accident?" He shook his head, "They know that Mr. Hughes prevents pregnancy. A blood mate was just a quick explanation that he hoped would appease them. They never saw the problem with such a thing." She shivered, the thought of being slowly drained and fucked without her consent by a vampire was not something that she would have ever welcomed, and Samir was right, Alexandru loved her, he would never have treated her that way. "Can we not, can we not tell Alex that he said that? I don't think he would like it." Samir barked with laughter, "I think he would try to hurt our dear angel. He's very possessive of you." "I'm very possessive of him." Domino looked towards the closed door that her lover was sleeping behind. "Ok, it's popping, what do we do?" ~*~*~*~ Several hours later, Samir and Domino were still on the couch. They had finished the popcorn, which Samir had enjoyed, and the movie, which he agreed with her that Sarah should have ended up with the sexy goblin king. Afterwards, they'd heated up some manicotti that Alexandru had put in the fridge for her, and they had shoveled that in while she'd convinced him to watch Twilight with her. You would have thought it was a comedy with how much Samir was laughing at it. They were seated on the couch, the only light in the room the one coming in from the partially opened bathroom door in the corner of the room. Samir was sitting with his right leg stretched out against the back of the couch, and Domino was lying on the couch on her left side, the pole behind the arm that Samir's back was propped up against, and she had her head resting on his chest and her right hand rested on his jean covered left thigh. "I want to slap that girl, and I have never slapped a girl in my life. She and Sarah should get together and go bowling, for the completely opposite reasons." He groaned as he rubbed her head with his right hand absently. "They could get matching shirts." "And balls." "And shoes." "They could call themselves 'The Nitwits.'" "Or 'The Twin Idiots.'" "The Twiniots." "Oh, that one's good. Gold star." Domino chuckled as she heard a door open and Alexandru came out into the hallway, a frown on his face. "It's a good thing I was just getting up, you two could wake the dead." He grumbled as he rubbed his eyes. He wore only pants, as he usually did when leaving the room." His red eyes peered in at the two of him and he gave her a look. Domino gazed up at him with a wide smile and waved him over with a hand, shifting as he moved towards them, and she found herself shoved onto her back, her head resting on Samir's thigh as Alexandru climbed on top of her, his lower legs and feet hanging over the edge of the couch as he wrapped his hands under her back and kissed her. "I've never kissed a woman with some other guy's crotch inches from my face." Alexandru growled huskily as he tilted his head back to look down at her. "Hello, Alex. Did you sleep well?" Domino giggled as she wrapped her arms around her lover. "How the fuck are you so warm?" Samir asked, his right arm had risen a bit to grab the left wing of the vampire, to keep it from accidentally smacking him in the face. "Why are the two of you so cold?" Alexandra countered as Domino turned her face to the left and looked at the television screen. "Ooooh, look Samir, watch this part. This is where they they fight James, the bad vampire." Domino pointed to the television and Alexandru turned his head and rested his cheek against hers as he looked at the screen as well. "What the fuck are you watching?" He grumbled, squinting at the picture on the screen. "She's making me watch Twilight." Samir nodded, "It's horrific." "Vampires do not sparkle." He frowned. "No shit." Domino chuckled as she watched the vampires start to fight. "James would totally win. He's the only one who drinks human blood. The others would all be dead." "That is not how you change a human into a vampire. Amateurs." "She is such a sissy. But I like Alice. She's kind of pretty." "I don't even know what to say about the three of you." A deep voice said with a little bit of shock and curiosity from the doorway of the room and three sets of eyes looked away from the television screen to see Mr. Hughes standing just within the room, his hands clasped behind his back and one brow was raised at the visual of them sitting all together on the couch. "Arc." Domino gasped, pushing on Alexandru until he got up, slapping Samir in the face a few times as he did so, making the giant frown and bat them away from him. Mr. Hughes waited as Alexandru sat up and Domino sat on his knee, pulled there when he rose, as Samir shifted both legs to the floor beneath him. Domino wondered anxiously as to what the meeting had been about with the wood elves. Had he ripped them apart? Kicked them out? Chopped them into pieces? She would be fine with any and all of those options. "Are they gone?" Samir asked, his voice calm, but stress had crept back into his voice as he switched the television off and Mr. Hughes flicked the light switch on. "Is who gone?" Alexandru frowned, it was the one thing that really annoyed him about being on the opposite schedule of everyone else. "Thorontur and Faeron came to visit with me today. They had a request that they wished to discuss." "I hope you told them to go to hell." Domino said, and felt Alexandru wrap his arm around her waist. "I couldn't have said it better myself." Samir nodded slightly. "They are hoping to transition Farwathain into a spa like ours. Our rules, our conditions, with the pay scale we use and the treatment we give our employees." He knew this was going to be hard for the nonhumans in the room to understand, after centuries of bad feelings and memories, he'd had a difficult time listening as well. He had constantly been waiting for something, anything, in their conversation to tell him that they weren't sincere. "What a crock of shit." That was Alexandru, Domino figured he knew a little about the wood elves super crappy past, as well. "I thought that, too, but Thorontur never changed his story, they want to change, and they want our help to do it." "That is the catch. He wants some of us to go there. Fuck no. I will not let that happen. Not ever." Samir stood up, his voice was booming. "They did not request that I send any of my staff to Farwathain. They actually requested that I allow one of their people to work here for a year, to learn how we do things, and to do things our way. The non-human population is beginning to turn on them, this is the only thing that they can do to stay in business. And Eruraina, she is apparently adamant that they stop what they are doing." Mr. Hughes knew the men were still skeptical, he was, but when Thorontur had appeared desperate, something he had never once seen from the wood elf, he figured it wouldn't hurt to hear him out. "Who is that?" "Their older sister. She is the oldest of the wood elves on earth. The older generation left for the other seas a long time ago." "The other seas?" Domino raised a brow and Alexandru frowned and shook his head. "Now is not the time for a lesson on elvish lore, Domino. You told him to fuck off, right?" Alexandru stood up, running his hands through his hair. "I did not." Mr. Hughes shook his head as he looked down at Domino, she was the only one not looking at him with anger in their eyes. "They're lying." Samir hissed. "He's never told the truth in his life." "But Arc risks nothing by letting one of his employees come here for a year, does he? Even if it doesn't happen, it's no skin off Arc's back. At least he knows that HE tried. Even if they continue to be douchecanoes." "What the hell is a douchecanoe?" Alex looked at her frowning and she chuckled. "You are so old, my love. You should really bone up on your modern day slang." "Who is staying?" Samir sighed, looking at Mr. Hughes with a little disappointment on his face. "Faeron." "Not Thorontur?" Mr. Hughes shook his head, "No, not him. He has already left the property, Samir. I told him that I could never allow him here, I respect you to much for that. Faeron wasn't there back then, I believe." Samir shook his head, "He was not." "I don't expect any of you to associate with him, he will be given a room in the third floor, south wing, away from my other employees and the guests. He will be monitored at all times. When he is with a client, he will be under close supervision. The moment he looks to be breaking our rules, I will let you, personally, get rid of him." "You do realize that my getting rid of him would involve ripping his head off." Samir stated, and Domino shivered, sensing the danger Samir presented. Mr. Hughes nodded, "I already have a statement from Thorontur that he would not seek retribution if that very thing were to happen." "Good." A few minutes later, Domino watched Mr. Hughes and Samir leave the room after they'd said goodnight to her and Alexandru. When they were alone in the room, Alexandru turned to her and wrapped her up tightly in his arms, hugging her close as he brought her to sit on his lap with her legs on either side of his. "You know why he hates the wood elves?" He grunted as he made quick work of getting her clothes off. Domino nodded, "I hate the wood elves for what they did to him." "You're a lot like a mamma bear. Protecting Mr. Hughes and Samir from those that would hurt them. Which is funny because they're stronger in their smallest finger than you are in your whole body." Domino smiled, chuckling at him as he slipped a finger against her now exposed fold, finding it wet and warm. "I don't know, I do a pretty good job of disarming you." She whimpered as he pushed a finger inside. A Few Sips Ch. 08 "So you would attack them with your pussy? I don't think I would allow that." "Well, of course you wouldn't, my pussy belongs to you, Alex." She purred, sinking against his chest and kissing his throat. "I want you to steer as clear of Faeron as possible, ok? I don't want to have to worry about you around him." Alex pulled open his pants and brought his cock out, he wasn't planning on a lot of foreplay tonight, she could tell in his hurriedness. "He gave Arc some suggestions on how to keep me alive." She lifted her hips so he could position his cock at the entrance of her cunt. "Really?" Alexandru whimpered in the sexy way he always did when he first slid in and her tight pussy walls fought the surging thickness of him. "He said Klaus told him." Domino cried out when he bucked up hard, then he pushed her down so that she sat impaled on his whole monster shaft. "Klaus." "Any relation?" She asked him softly. "The same." "Do you still see him?" "No." "Why is he researching how to keep human girls alive?" "Because he lost a woman once, a woman that he loved dearly. He's sort of obsessed with it now." "Oh." "Ride me, Domino. I need you." Domino smiled, putting her hands on either side of his strong face as she kissed him, moving her hips slowly up and down, slipping him just to the inside of her pussy neck before pushing back down, hard, fast, and over, and over. His hands settled on her hips and she sighed in completion, she was where she wanted to be, and she knew that they would figure out a way to keep her there. Forever and ever. A Few Sips Ch. 09 A few weeks went by, in which Domino spent as much time with Alexandru as possible. Every day now was a tiny bit shorter, since they'd hit the peak daylight of July and she was looking forward to him being awake more often. She was feeling more tired, and was no longer meeting with Mr. Hughes or Samir until lunchtime or a little after. They didn't mention it, and neither did she, but they all knew that the baby was starting to finally make its presence known. The obstetrician that Mr. Hughes had brought in was able to let her hear the heart beat, and he'd done a trans-vaginal ultrasound that had allowed them both to see their first glimpses of the baby inside. Domino had been a little shocked to see the forming skeleton complete with wings, but she should have known. Alexandru said that all vampires grew or were born with wings, and he had been more interested in the veins and arteries that were attached to her uterus through the placenta than anything. She knew why, but she didn't focus in on their conversation because she knew that her lover was going to worry enough for both of them. She needed to focus on keeping herself as healthy as she could for her baby. It was a Thursday, just after dusk when Domino, who had been sitting at the table in the kitchenette, looked up from the puzzle she'd been putting together by herself to see Alexandru come out of the bedroom. Her face had lit into a smile and she'd pushed herself up from the table a little faster than she probably should have, and a sharp pain shot up her spine from her uterus and she gasped and put her hands down on the table's surface, sending puzzle pieces flying everywhere. "Shit!" She groaned as she stayed bent over the table, her breath a little more rapid as she looked at the work she'd just ruined. "Domino, what is, my little dove?" Alexandru's face was filled with worry as he rushed to her side, one hand on her back as the other cupped her cheek and made her look up at him. "I screwed up my puzzle. I've been working on this all afternoon." She told him, a frown on her face, she was going to ignore the sting of tears that had filled her eyes. "What did you feel?" He pressed, his frown letting her know he wasn't in the joking mood. "Nothing, just...just it stung when I got up, like I pinched my sciatic nerve only, only it wasn't my sciatic nerve." She put a hand on her slightly rounded stomach and stood straight, whatever it had been, it was gone now. "Let's go have Mr. Hughes call for the doctor." He grabbed her pole and put a hand on her waist to guide her out of the room. "I'm just fine, Alex. It was just a pinch. It's fine now." Domino insisted as he walked with her down the hallway and then they were climbing the stairs to the first floor. "I would rather a doctor told me that, Domino." He grumbled as he opened the door to the first floor. "I'm not even four months along yet, Alexandru. You're going to set a record for world's most worrisome new father." She chuckled at him, though she knew he was probably right, she should probably make sure that the pinch was just that. "I'll hang it proudly on the wall if I have to, to keep you safe, little dove." He said in a voice filled with concern and walked with her to the door of Mr. Hughes' office, knocking on it loudly. "He may not be here, Faeron had an appointment this afternoon." Domino said quietly as they waited to see if the door would open. "How is that going?" Alexandru generally did not want to hear about the wood elf that had taken up residence at Vorhees and begun working there. "Fine so far. They've mostly been going over how Mr. Hughes runs things, payroll, making appointments, employee concerns and stuff. But he's had several appointments with clients. I guess they've went ok. Samir hasn't ripped his head off yet." "It's still an option." Alexandru hissed under his breath as the door was pulled open in front of them. Mr. Hughes stood before them in one of his many, matching suits that looked like it had just been pressed seconds before they opened the door. "Just once, Arc, I want to see you walking around in a Van Halen t-shirt and pajama pants." Domino sighed as she leaned on the door frame. The look of anguish that came to his face was comical and she found herself laughing as he ushered them into the room. "You do not generally need my services at night, Domino. Is there something I can help you both with?" He asked, choosing to ignore her suggestion. "Is this because you've got that English accent? You need to dress the part? You know you'd be sexy no matter what you wear." She pushed on, watching him frown and shake his head at her. "Domino." "She stood up and doubled over in pain. She says it's just a pinched nerve." Alexandru explained as he set her into a chair, her pole at her side. Mr. Hughes frowned and picked up the phone on his desk without hesitation, "I'll call Dr. Trainor. He can examine her." "Don't you think it's a little quick to call in the big guns?" Domino asked, frustration in her voice as they made plans without her. "Domino, the fetus inside of you is going to affect you differently than a regular human fetus. If we need to make adjustments in your treatment, we need to do them quickly and not wait until things get worse." Mr. Hughes paused as he spoke quickly to the person who picked up on the other end as he sat behind his desk and motioned for Alexandru to sit as well. "It was just a little pinch." She shrugged, muttering to them as she sank back in her chair. "I need access to your airplane." Alexandru said and Domino looked over at him confused. "Why? You hate planes." "I need to go to Belarus, maybe Latvia." He said, his eyes on his former employer and not on the girl beside him. "It is at your disposal." Mr. Hughes nodded, he had just set the phone back down. "Why? Where are you going?" Domino knew her voice was shaking, she didn't want him to leave for a long time, she needed him here, with her. "I need to find Klaus." "Your sire? Do you think he can help?" She asked and watched as he frowned at her. "Klaus is your sire?" Mr. Hughes raised an eyebrow, Alexandru had not ever explained who had turned him. "Yes." "How long will you be gone?" Domino asked, worry in her voice, she did not like it when he left, she just didn't. "I don't know. I have to find him." "A week? Two?" "I don't know." Alexandru said a little louder than he'd meant, and he knew it bothered her when her eyes filled with tears and she looked at him a little agonized. "I'm scared, Alexandru." She sniffed, wiping her eyes as he stood up and picked her up and sat down in her chair with her in his lap, curled up in a ball with his arms around her. "My little dove, I will come home to you. I need to find Klaus, to see if he can help you. I don't want to leave you, but I can't take you from here, and I will have a better chance of finding him than anyone else." "When do you want to leave?" Mr. Hughes' voice was filled with sympathy as Domino looked over at him with a frown. "Immediately." Alexandru replied and put a hand on Domino's forehead when she choked back a sob. "I'll get it arranged." Mr. Hughes picked up the phone again and called who she could only assume was the pilot of the plane that would be taking her vampire lover from her. He spoke for a short time, and then was off the phone again and had stood up and started to walk around the desk. "Are you going to wait for the doctor to see her? He should be here momentarily." Alexandru lifted Domino off of his lap and set her on her feet so he could stand up. "I'll wait until the doctor has some news. Then I'll go." The three of them made their way up to the second floor, to the room that Domino used during the day, and she was lifted onto the bed, with Alex beside her as they waited for the doctor. When he arrived, portable ultrasound in hand, he asked Domino several questions and then he scanned her abdomen for a while. He said very little and they had to wait while he looked at the images on the screen. Finally, he turned to them with a soft smile of understanding. "There is no damage to the uterus. You have no free blood or other fluid in your abdomen. Getting up as quickly as you did may have inadvertently made the fetal wings poke you enough to cause the pain. I can't be certain, as there is no evidence of any trauma. I would suggest, however, that you limit your movement for the remainder of the pregnancy. You should also refrain from intercourse, Ms. Ashburn, until the baby has been delivered." "So I'm stuck in bed for five and a half months? Wonderful." She frowned as she looked from the doctor to Alexandru. "There is no chance of her actually going to full term, is there, Dr. Trainor?" Mr. Hughes asked. The doctor shook his head, making his white hair shift back and forth on his head, Domino realized he must have been asleep when the call had been made requesting him to come here. She frowned, this probably wouldn't be the last time that he was sent to do so. "I am hopeful to reach the six month mark, at least for the child's sake. I still do not know how healthy we will be able to keep you, Domino. I do not want to lie to you about your chances." "One of our employees has suggested that we add erithropoietin to her medications, and that we start giving her platelets a little later in her pregnancy. I believe he has gathered information from a vampire who has been studying how to help girls like Domino." The doctor thought about it for a moment before nodding, "If I could speak with him, it would help me make a decision to do it, though I can say right off the bat that neither would hurt her chances. Can you set up a time tomorrow for me to return and talk to him?" Mr. Hughes nodded, jotting something down on a pad of paper that he pulled from the pocket of his suit. "Of course, I will let Faeron know that he will speak with you tomorrow, say 9 am?" "That would be fine. If there is nothing else?" The doctor looked from Domino to Alexandru, and then back to Mr. Hughes. "I think that's it, thank you, Dr. Trainor. I appreciate you coming so late in the evening." Domino tried to stand up when the doctor did, but Alexandru put a staying hand on her shoulder. "You are welcome, Ms. Ashburn. Please try to get as much rest as you can." The older man stressed before excusing himself from the bedroom. "I'll leave you two alone so that you can say goodbye. Domino, will you be sleeping in here tonight, or downstairs?" Mr. Hughes looked at them with trepidation, he knew that Domino was still unhappy about Alexandru leaving, and even more so now that she was going to be on bed rest. "I guess up here. Can someone bring my things up tomorrow?" Domino sighed, frowning as she looked at the simply-furnished room she was in. She missed her things at home, but she was nowhere near ready to go back there, if she ever went back. Her apartment was still being paid for, but she hadn't really thought of what would happen when she was changed. It was a one bedroom, there was no place for a baby. "I'll see to it. Goodnight." Mr. Hughes nodded at them both and left the room, closing the door silently behind him. "I have to go, Domino. I promise I would not leave you unless I thought it was absolutely necessary." "He might know how to save my life." She sighed, looking at her lover with eyes wide and full of sadness. "He's done it before, he can do it again." Alexandru had to believe that. "It could be weeks before you return." Domino clasped her fingers together over her stomach and stared at them now as she spoke. "It could, but I am hoping that I can find him in less time than that. The closer I get, the more I will be able to sense where he is." "That whole sire/spawn thing?" Alexandru smiled softly and nodded, "Yes." "You'll have to feed while you're away." She said in a whisper and knew he stiffened from his spot beside her on the bed. "That is not something I can control, Domino." He grumbled, getting up from the bed and walking towards the window, looking out into the darkness of the night. He would have to feed before getting on the plane. And the plane itself was going to have to be made to keep out the light. "I know. Just...just leave it at that, though. I know that sometimes, you feel the urge to-to have sex when you feed, and I don't want you to-." She stopped when he chuckled lightly and crossed his arms over his chest. "You humans think that sex is something so very intimate when it means so very little in the life of someone like me." He said softly, shaking his head. "Sex with me means nothing to you?" Domino felt her throat catch and she looked over at him in surprise, she hadn't thought that. "Sex with you means EVERYTHING to me." Alexandru's voice boomed so loudly through the room that Domino was sure she felt the window reverberate and she tensed and her eyes instantly filled with crocodile sized tears. He was facing her, his breath a little unsteady as he made his way back over to her side, "Domino, I love you. Yes, I enjoy fucking you, I want to fuck you right now, in fact. But I can't because my doing so has put a timer on your lifespan that I can't afford. I can't lose you, too." His words made her sob and she wrapped her arms around his neck as he moved in to hold her, and she wept against his chest for several moments before he finally tilted his face over hers so that their mouths connected. His tongue was halfway down her throat when the door swung open hard, smashing, and probably busting into, the wall behind it. They both jumped, startled, and looked to see Samir breathing heavy, standing in the doorway with his eyes wide, glued to where they were embraced on the bed. "I heard yelling." The young-looking blond man slowly straightened and began to look a little sheepish for barging in. "Get out of this Goddamned room before I rip your fucking head off." Alexandru shouted, making Domino put a hand over her mouth to stifle the chuckle that wanted to come out as Samir bit his lower lip and slowly backed out of the room, yanking the door out of the wall and closing it as best he could against the door frame that wasn't quite where it had been a few moments ago. "I suppose he's better than a guard dog." Alexandru muttered and Domino couldn't help but think that he might have been talking about Aidan. "Samir is my friend, Alexandru. You should be happy he is looking out for me." She put her palms against his face and moved her lips up to plant kisses along his high cheekbones and long, handsome nose. "Samir is attracted to you." "You would think a block of wood was attracted to me." "You may be right about that." He murmured and moved his mouth to cover hers again, he had to leave, but he hated saying goodbye to her. ~*~*~*~ After Domino ate lunch the next day, a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup that Samir had prepared for her when she'd gotten up, she sat on a chaise lounge that had been brought into her bedroom looking out the window while Shi and Samir brought her things in, unpacked them, and then started pilfering furniture and decorations from other areas of the spa to make her room look more lived in. She appreciated the effort even though she knew that it would never feel quite right with Alexandru gone. She'd never thought that she was the brooding because her boyfriend is gone type, but apparently, she was very much that type. Mr. Hughes showed up in her doorway at 1 pm, like he had been doing the last few weeks since the first time she'd heard him sing, and without a word, he lifted her up into his arms and carried her and her pole up staircases until they were seated on the roof, her laying on her side on the massive comfortable mattress under the stone dome, and him sitting erect at the side. She had told him that hearing him sing made her happy, and she had begged for him to continue doing so. He had. Each day, they had walked in the woods, when she was able, and now it seemed he would bring her up here, and he would sing the songs of the angels to her. There was always that pause at the start. He never just sang her any song, but the songs that he heard from the skies above them. Mr. Hughes had seemed hesitant at first about the whole thing, but she knew now that it helped him, it helped him to sing in his own voice, to be that angel that he had been for who knew how long, forever? They might have kicked him out, but he was still one of them, despite his descent from grace. So she listened with open ears, and most of the time, she would just close her eyes and let the melodious sound fill her senses. Never would she fall asleep, though he often accused her of it. It was magical to hear him, an honor that she knew had possibly never befallen another human being. "I would like to ask a favor of you, Domino." He said later, when he had finally stopped singing. She had still been basking in it and slowly opened her eyes to look at him. "I don't know what I can do while lying in a bed all day, but what do you need?" She asked. The smile he gave her was so filled with mischief that Domino turned red, he was such a dirty dirty dirty minded man, no wonder he owned a sex spa. "Get your mind OUT of the gutter, Arc. I cannot believe you." "I have an appointment I cannot change, and Faeron has an appointment at three this afternoon with a client. I need someone to watch him." "You mean you need a babysitter?" "Yes, for a wood elf, while he fucks someone. Can you do it for me?" "So I'm like, an employee now?" "Let's call it a contract employee. It comes with free room and board." "I get that anyway, wait-," He was smiling at her again, "Alexandru is paying you for me to stay here. Oh, that's evil." "He's rich as Croesus. He can afford it." "I imagine you have little need of the money." Domino laughed. Mr. Hughes raised an eyebrow at her, "You'd be surprised what the money raised here at Vorhees has been used to help accomplish around the world. We give to a wide variety of human charities and organizations." "That's considerate, considering if humans knew about all of you, they would be pretty damn scared." Domino said honestly, she knew humans had faults, and fear was a huge one. "Undoubtedly. But we contribute all the same. Samir will come and get you around 2:45 pm. He'll be in the room with you, but not where he can see Faeron. He can't watch." Mr. Hughes didn't have to explain to her why. "So I just go in a room and watch him have sex with someone? And they see me?" "No, you'll be in an adjoining room. They will see a mirror on their side, and you will be able to see what they do." "Oh, ok." "Elves, even dark ones like the wood elves, can be quite sexually provocative, Domino. But they can also be very cruel. He has not shown that here, even when in a position of dominance, and I've come to believe that his quest is real, but I want someone else's eyes on him for now, trust is hard earned towards their species. They have broken it more times than I can count." He told her. "If I do this for you, can you do something for me?" She asked with a sparkle of mischief in her eye. "What?" He sounded worried as to what she would request, which only meant that he knew her too well. "I want you to come to dinner tonight, Samir and Shi are coming up, and we're going to eat take out Chinese and watch movies." She watched him frown and stand up, he never socialized in groups. "Domino." "Dude. Please." She groaned and watched him press his lips together for a moment before he finally, hesitantly nodded his head yes. "What are you watching this time?" "The Never-ending Story. And don't even bother trying to tell me that there is no such thing as a luck dragon, because I will not listen to your heresy." She said so matter of factly that he could just look at her with abject horror before he nodded again and moved to pick her up to take her back downstairs. A Few Sips Ch. 09 "I won't say a word, Domino." He muttered as he started carrying her down to the second floor. "Oh, and one more thing." "I asked you to watch two people fuck, not conquer the Sub-Saharan." He frowned down at her. "There's a dress code, and it's super casual. No suits allowed." "I don't know why I'm friends with you." "This isn't about friendship, this is about blackmail." ~*~*~*~ "I'm sorry that you have to do this, I just can't watch it, it makes me want to vomit." Samir sighed, sitting with his back to the wall that parted the two rooms. Domino was sitting on a chair, her legs up on a footstool near the window that she knew was a mirror from the other side. Her eyes were on the room in front of her. The woman was alone, Mr. Hughes had just left her, and she was tied up in the middle of a room that had absolutely no furniture in it. The woman was a little older than Domino, with fire-red hair and freckles over her entire body. She was cute with green eyes that tilted up a little at each side and a pretty, small red mouth. That mouth was filled with a ball gag and her eyes were wide as she waited to see what she was in for. "No worries, Samir. I may vomit myself, you never know. I am the pregnant one." Domino pointed absently to her stomach. "Elves are assholes." "You said yourself that not all elves are assholes. Light and dark, remember?" The girl's hands were tied behind her back and there was a rope hanging from the ceiling that they were attached to. He had tied a very intricate design from her shoulder down to her wrists, and the way it crossed and made circles in various spots showed just how skilled he was with the ties. She had been tied on her chest, as well, and the ropes made somewhat of a star, and her breasts were being slightly squeezed by the ropes around them. "These elves are assholes." "What did you say that electric ball thingie that Mr. Hughes used on her was called again?" The redhead's legs were stretched apart, a bar connected to each ankle keeping them outstretched so her pussy would be easily accessible, a pussy that was completely drenched in cum, currently. "A 'magic wand,' I'll buy you one." He smiled at Domino and she rolled her eyes at him. "That'll make Alexandru totally calm where you're concerned. He already thinks you want to fuck me, buying me sex toys will pretty much confirm it." She laughed. "If you'd ever used a magic wand, you wouldn't care who bought it for you. It makes you cum, hard and fast. I'll buy you one." He winked at her. "Well, if I don't tell you how it goes, don't be surprised." She gave him a haughty look and moved her eyes back to the room that was lit now with just candles. The girl had an ass plug in her, a big one, and Domino could tell that the woman was squirming, extremely aroused and on edge because she didn't know what was going to happen. "Oh, trust me, you'll tell me. You won't be able not to tell me." "Now you're flirting and I'm gonna have to call an audible here and tell you to stop." She frowned down at Samir and shook her head. "I can't help it. You're easy to flirt with, and it's the highlight of my day to piss off your boyfriend." "Well, he's not here to defend my honor, so cool it for now." Domino raised her eyebrows at him and then shoved her gaze back to the mirror and watched as the door opened slowly and Faeron walked in. He was still wearing his robes. "Why does he dress like an old jedi master?" Her question made him laugh and he had to cover his mouth to keep it down. "Wood elves have no eye for fashion." Samir waved his hands at his own carpenter jeans and flannel shirt that he'd rolled the cuffs halfway up, showing off his light haired, muscular forearms. His deerskin boots along with the rest of his outfit put him in the classification of either a hipster or a lumberjack. She would go with lumberjack, hipsters weren't sexy to her, and Samir was very sexy. Damnit, now she was thinking about him that way. Alexandru needed to come home. The woman was staring at the tall, large eyed elf intently, and her body was shaking a little as he approached her, his hand going to the side of her face to spread the pads of his fingers along her cheekbones as the other hand slid down her throat to cover and caress her right breast. She groaned, Domino could tell, and then she watched as he lowered that hand farther, sliding his fingers along her wet fold and making her drop her head against his chest and whimper. When she thought he was going to push his fingers inside the girl, the elf suddenly stepped away, and his hands went to his own clothing. Domino felt her body heat up as he pulled off the robes and then the clothing beneath. He didn't stop undressing until he was completely naked. Faeron had dark brown hair, so dark it was almost black, but his brown eyes were almost a walnut color. He was at least six and a half feet tall, and while he was thin, he was all sculpted muscle, which she could make out very well as he stood facing the mirror. He stood facing the mirror. Her eyes widened, he was looking at her. What the hell? It was a mirror. How could he know where she was actually sitting? He couldn't, but his eyes were directly on hers. Domino gasped a little as she looked down from his gaze and her mouth fell open as she saw his erect cock jutting from between his thighs. It was long, longer than a human, were all non-humans so well endowed? It was veiny and thick, and firm. Very firm, and he was showing it off to her, and he knew it. He knew she was there looking at him. It made her tense up self-consciously and she looked away, down at where Samir was watching her with a frown on his face. "Do elves have magical powers?" She asked. "Why? What did he do?" "He just showed off his cock to me, can he see me through the mirror?" She watched Samir shift uneasily, but remain seated where he was, he really was unable to look. "No, he can't, but he knows we're in here." He told her. Domino sighed, looking back through the window, she felt like it was more, but Samir knew more about these elves than she did, and the elf's eyes were larger, the irises bigger, maybe he was just looking at the window in general. He was concentrated on the girl again, and he had moved in behind her. She was groaning because he was pushing into her pussy with several fingers of one hand while the other was manipulating the ass plug within her. In no time at all, the girl came against his fingers, and it only made the elf move harder into her, pounding his hand against her pussy as she cried out against her gag. "Whoa." She muttered in awe as the girl squirted what looked like copious amounts of cum from her pussy that was taking one hell of a beating. "Did Mr. Hughes take you up to the roof today?" Samir asked, breaking her concentration from the scene in front of her and she looked down at him with a frown. "Yes, we used to go walking in the woods in the afternoon, but we can't now because the stupid doctor put me on stupid, oh my God, he just shoved his whole hand in there." "Domino, I don't want to know." He shook his head at her. "Sorry, I can't help it. It's kind of erotic watching someone fuck someone else. I know you don't care for this and you're only here for me, and the off chance that you get to go in there and rip his head off, I'll stop." She muttered, though she felt the heat rise in her own body as she watched the red head take half the elves long forearm into her pussy with each punch that seemed to spread from his shoulders. "Deandra said she thought she heard singing, but couldn't really figure it out." Samir went back to her time on the roof with the angel. She nodded, "Yes, that's Mr. Hughes. He sings for me." "He sings for you. Mr. Hughes?" "Yes. I don't really want to say too much about it, though, Samir. It's intensely personal for him." She looked at him with a smile that asked for his understanding and he nodded. "So you think he is getting better?" "I do. We've spoken a lot, about his past, about her. He isn't ready to forgive himself, but I think he's starting to understand that all the blame does not rest entirely on his shoulders." "You've been good for him, Domino. He needed a friend." Samir nodded at her. Domino looked back through the window, the elf had removed his hand and replaced it with his cock, and the girl was going crazy from the way he was drilling it into her. His mouth was on her throat, and his hands were squeezing at her breasts harshly, leaving long red lines that Domino could tell weren't scratches, they were just from the tight squeeze from his fingers. It was very erotic, and she felt her pussy clench as the long cock pulled into view and then disappeared quickly back into the girl's sopping pussy. Jesus, she wanted Alexandru to come home, and she wanted this baby born so she could fuck her lover like this. Domino wondered if Mr. Hughes would be willing to tie her up more intricately when she was free from her pregnancy. It would be beyond amazing to get fucked like that. She closed her eyes as she felt moisture spread between her legs and she looked out at the elf who was now spilling his load inside the girl's tight canal, and she was in the throes of her own orgasm. "I don't think I'm going to say yes to doing this again, Samir. It just makes me wish Alexandru was here." She chuckled throatily as she looked over at her friend. Samir was looking at her with a slight frown. "What?" She asked nervously. "I can smell you, Dom." He said softly. "What do you mean, Samir? Oh, shit, you mean you can smell me 'down there?'" Domino pointed towards her lower body, "That's embarrassing." "No, Domino. I smell your blood." He stood up and was stepping close to her at the same time Domino was gasping, and then she was clutching her stomach as a contraction hit her hard and she shifted on her seat to see a red stain slowly growing larger on the cushion below her. "No, no, no, no, no..." She moaned, tears filling her eyes as she looked up at the giant as he looked down to see what she saw. Samir frowned hard, looking around them for a moment and not seeing a phone. Growling, he fisted his hand and hit the mirror, making it crack into a million pieces and come down to show the occupants in the other room the two of them huddled together. "Samir, what is wrong?" Faeron had immediately pulled his cock out of the redhead and walked away from her and towards them, not even caring that he was stepping on shattered glass to do so. "She's bleeding, there's a phone in the hallway, call Mr. Hughes and have him call her doctor. Then help me get her upstairs." Samir barked out the order as he looked with angry eyes at the tall, silent elf. "She needs oxygen." Faeron said gently, knowing not to go too far with this particular non-human. Samir nodded and picked Domino up in his arms, clutching the pole in one hand, and carried her quickly out of the room, running with her down the hallway and to the staircase that would lead him back to her bedroom on the upper floors. By the time he was inside, laying her down on her back on the bed, Domino was breathing more shallowly and her skin was pale. He was frantic, one hand on her head, telling her to be calm, that everything was going to be okay when Shi came into the room with an oxygen mask and a portable tank. She came directly over to the bed and connected it to Domino and told the terrified woman to breathe deeply. The two stood on either side of the bed, each holding one of Domino's hands when Mr. Hughes rushed into the room, Faeron at his side and they were both by the bed quickly. "What happened?" Mr. Hughes growled, glaring over at Samir. "She was just sitting there, watching him," Samir nodded towards the wood elf, "and then suddenly she started bleeding. She clutched her side in pain after." Faeron moved closer to the woman who was pale and sweaty, and shaking on the bed weakly, her breaths coming in harsh gulps as she stared wide eyed at them all standing over her. The wood elf put a hand on her abdomen, over the mound of her uterus and his eyes closed. Samir growled and took a step towards him until Mr. Hughes shouted for him to wait. "The baby is alive. It is kicking." He spoke without opening his eyes. "What is happening to her?" Samir demanded. "Her cervix is too weak to hold the vampire inside and her placenta is too close to the opening." Faeron finally opened his eyes and looked over at Mr Hughes. Domino whimpered, scared of what could happen, scared to get this far and everything come so quickly to an end. As the men stood around her, looking helpless, Shi rushed to and from the bathroom with some clean towels, as well as a warm, wet one to put on her forehead. Domino squeezed at Mr. Hughes hand and tugged on it as hard as she could, which didn't seem very hard, as it took several tugs for him to finally look down at her and frown. He moved in close, and she moved a hand to move the mask to the side for just a moment. "Save the baby, Arc. Save-the baby." Her words were soft, catching in her throat and she felt him move the mask back in place as he frowned down at her. "What did she say?" Samir asked from the other side of the bed. "She wants us to save the baby." Mr. Hughes didn't sound very happy about it. "We don't really have a choice," Faeron said as Domino felt herself grow numb and she was beginning to get pulled into the dark void of unconsciousness, "if we want to save the baby, we have to save her. Otherwise, we lose them both." ~*~*~*~ She had died. Domino was absolutely sure of it. She knew she had, she'd heard a similar melody before when Mr. Hughes had sung to her in the woods, so this meant that she was dead. Plus, when she opened her eyes a little, bright light from an open window drifted into the room that she was laying in. Blinking a few times, though, she started to think that maybe she was wrong after all. It was Mr. Hughes singing softly, sadly, as he stood near the open window, his hands clenched tightly to his sides as he looked up to the sky above him. It was a dark blue today, with beautiful, puffy clouds that moved lazily through the sky. "Arc." She said breathlessly and felt the thickness roll back over her just as he stopped singing and turned to face her, his gray eyes a stormy haze, and then the world went black again. It must have been hours later when she woke up again, this time, she was slightly on her right side, and there was a warmth pressed up against her body, and she was positive someone's legs were entwined with hers as she slowly, very slowly, felt the thick black lashes over her brown eyes drift open to see a t-shirt covered chest in front of her face. Strong arms were wrapped around her, and Domino felt safe in the hard embrace. Looking at the slow breathing of the chest she was against, she almost thought the man in bed with her was asleep, but as she looked up, expecting Samir to by laying beside her on the bed, she realized it wasn't him. "Arc." She whispered, shocked at several things all at once. His gray eyes were sparkling as he looked down at her, and his face was tilted in that lop-sided smile that made him look extra sexy, and he was wearing a t-shirt. He didn't say anything, just stayed propped up on his left arm, his hand was moving to hold his head up off the pillow. She looked down, it was a black t-shirt with a Nine Inch Nails logo on it, and it allowed her to see the tattoos that lined his arms. Below the t-shirt, that was slightly bunched beneath him, showing a sliver of tattooed abdomen, she saw a white, black, red, and gray pair of pajama pants beneath. They looked new, and very very comfortable. Her mouth stretched into a smile as she moved her arm around his back and spread the palm of her left hand against the small of his back. Tucking herself closer against him, she breathed in his scent and let the warmth of him trickle into her skin that suddenly felt very sensitive to the touch. He was wearing pajama pants...for her. "You had to have someone buy those, didn't you?" She giggled, her voice was hoarse, scratchy, and she wondered why. Was there plastic under her nose? "The pants, yes. Deandra made a shopping trip for me. The shirt, I've had for years." "A fan?" He chuckled and nodded a little, "We all have our vices." "What happened, Arc?" Domino knew her hand was shaking a little as she raised it to the nasal cannula that was attached to a tube. "Your cervix is incompetent, plus the placenta is attached low, which is what caused the bleeding. It's under control now, though. The doctor had to do a cervical cerclage. He had to sew it closed so that the baby stayed put." He frowned as she widened her eyes and moved her hand down to the small mound of her stomach. "That sounds like...gross." She muttered. "He had to put you on a magnesium sulfate drip, too. He's hoping that he can turn it off in the morning if you don't have any more contractions." "I was having contractions?" She gasped, looking at his face as he nodded. "Erratic ones. It's under control now." "So the baby is okay?" He moved his right hand to rest it on the back of her head. "For now. You aren't allowed to get out of this bed. Not even to go to the bathroom. Shi will attend to your needs. Dr. Trainor has already said he may have to put you in what he called a 'reverse trendelenburg' position. With your head tilted down and your legs higher. He wants the pressure off of your cervix. So please behave and do what we ask, don't fight it." He explained quietly. "I won't. Are there more tubes attached to my PICC?" Domino looked down at where the IV was attached and saw that all three ports had a tube attached. Ugh. "One is the magnesium, so hopefully that can come off tomorrow. The other is infusing you with platelets. Faeron and Dr. Trainor had a long conversation about your treatment yesterday. They want to make sure you don't start bleeding again." "What are my chances, Arc? Like, for real, can I get through this? I'm not even quite four months along." Domino felt her lower lip shake as she spoke and welcomed the way he pulled her against him again as he kissed the top of her forehead. "We were hoping you would get a little farther along before there were complications, but you're stable for now. But we don't know, everything the doctor is doing may not work. And even if you get to deliver, there's no guarantee that the placenta will disconnect the right way. A vampire baby's placenta connects more firmly to the mother's blood supply because of what it feeds on. In the past, that has been what caused fatality for those who survived that long." "So I could go through all of this and still die." Domino sighed, her eyes were filled with tears as he frowned at her and nodded. "You could go through all of this and still die." He agreed with her and she choked back a sob. "Is sleeping with a creature of the dark going to get me sent to hell?" She asked a few minutes later. "What?" "Sleeping with a vampire, is it going to get me sent to hell?" "Domino, God is forgiving, and he created vampires, so no, that's not going to get you sent to hell. Plus, sacrificing your life for the life of your child is kind of a straight shot to Heaven." "Good. So you should probably start giving me a list of angels to go and beat the shit out of for not standing up for you." Domino felt herself start to fade again and felt his body shake with a laugh. "Get some more rest, Domino. You're not going anywhere today." She heard him say it, but she was already half out, and felt her body relax onto her back as he curled against her and lowered his head back to the pillow beside her. This time when she fell asleep, she was more at peace than the first time. This time she knew she really was alive. A Few Sips Ch. 09 She didn't stay asleep for long, however, having slept for almost sixteen hours after she passed out the night before. When her eyes opened the third time, she heard more noises in her room. There were more people in it, as well. Samir was on the big bed at her side, his back was against the headboard and he had a container of Chinese food in one hand and chopsticks in the other. It smelled delicious and she heard her stomach growl. He did too and looked down at her with a big smile. "You finally woke up, lazybones. We thought you were actually going to miss movie night again." Samir teased, waving the container under her nose, making her even more hungry. "Oh my God, feed me." She groaned as she reached for the container that he immediately yanked out of her reach. "You get two hours a day where you can be propped up a little, so if you'd like to have Samir do that, so that you can eat, just let him know. I have food for you." Mr. Hughes said from over by the dresser where he was standing beside Shi, still dressed in his pajama pants and t-shirt. Looking around, she saw that Shi was wearing something similar to her employer, and so was Deandra, who was sitting cross legged near the foot of the bed, chewing on food from the container she held. Samir was wearing pajama pants, probably bought during the same trip to the store, but his shirt was yellow, with some sort of sports logo on it. She smiled, this was all for her benefit. "I could eat a house, so yes, please prop me up." She grinned and watched as Samir put his container down, away from her, and then he turned and helped her sit up gently, and held her as he and Shi piled pillows under her back and behind her shoulders and neck. When she was propped nicely up, she saw that a large television had been placed in the room, and Mr. Hughes walked over and handed her a container of food. "I hope you like sweet and sour chicken." "I love it. Thank you." Domino took the container and opted for a fork when he offered her the choice of what to use, and she immediately tore the package open and took a bite of food. It tasted so good it should be a sin, she thought as she chewed quickly. "The cannula you're wearing is probably gonna stay on for the rest of your pregnancy." He nodded towards the plastic tube that was looped over her ears and ran under her nose. "Figured. I'm sure Alexandru will think it's super sexy," She paused when she thought of her vampire, "Does he know?" "No, we have no way to contact him. Plus, there's the fact that if we told him what happened, he would be even more frantic, and a frantic vampire is not what you need right now." Samir told her and she nodded, no, no one needed that. She just hoped that he came home quickly, and with good news. Mr. Hughes climbed onto the bed to sit close beside her. Shi sat in front of Samir, she'd placed a pillow in front of his stomach so she could use him to prop herself up a little with. Deandra had shifted to her stomach and had stretched her legs back to the outside of Mr. Hughes' as she grabbed the remote to the television and flicked it on. Domino smiled, they looked like a regular group of humans just sitting here having a movie night. Except for the multiple tubes connected to Domino, and the two pumps that were set up beside the bed nearest Mr. Hughes. It was pretty domestic and it made her chuckle. "The Never-ending Story?" She asked quietly, looking over at Samir. "Yes. The only one of us who has seen it was Deandra, who said she likes it." He told her. "Maybe after, we can rent Krull and watch it. That one would really make you guys want to strangle me." Domino chuckled. "Not too tired?" Mr. Hughes asked, holding a bite of beef and broccoli near his mouth as he asked her the question. "No, I don't think I could sleep anymore right now, I don't want to waste any time I don't have to with my eyes closed. And she meant it. A Few Sips Ch. 10 The only thing better than being nearly four months pregnant with a baby that was doing its damndest to wreak havoc on her body, was getting to just over five months pregnant without anything further happening to threaten either her or the growing fetus. Domino spent twenty-one or so hours a day laying down with her head just slightly raised, and the other few hours, she was allowed to sit up a little more in order to eat and make trips to and from her bathroom. Dr. Trainor visited often, and she was constantly being bombarded with ultrasounds and questions. He seemed pleased with how her body was reacting to bedrest, and she was thankful that he hadn't had to put her in the position he'd mentioned to Mr. Hughes. She wasn't sure she would have been able to handle laying with her head tilted down for very long. Samir spent time with her early each morning, and then in the afternoons unless he had an appointment. It seemed like there was a pretty good supply of clients, both human and non-human, that visited Vorhees each week. She knew he enjoyed his work for the most part, and she was pretty certain it was because it allowed him to meet his sexual needs and not worry about getting hurt. You couldn't get hurt when you lived life having what amounted to one night stands with women. Domino wished that her friend would be more open to starting a relationship with someone, but he wouldn't, he was very happy with the status quo. Mr. Hughes also visited her, sometimes bringing up some of the paperwork he had to fill out with him so that he could sit at the desk in the room and make idle conversation with her while he worked. He had never been that into computer systems, and after a while, having watched him take pen to paper so often, Domino had started to toy around with her computer to develop a system that would better suit his needs and make certain things flow more efficiently. In the last few weeks, he had started to hand certain parts of the running of the spa over to her to transfer to the computer, and she had enjoyed teaching him how to use the computer program that she'd made. What had been done just to humor her at first had turned into something that he had told her would make things much easier for him in the long run. It was nice to feel useful after weeks of moping around on her bed, bored out of her mind. She'd watched movies and knitted a baby blanket and she was three fourths of the way through a charcoal colored tweed sweater. Shi had been nice enough to make a few trips into Toronto to get her some knitting supplies because she'd left her things in Vermont, in the apartment that was still being paid for, though she had no idea if or when she would ever return to it. Eventually, she would have to deal with it, but she didn't want to think about it now. She also wasn't working anymore, Mr. Hughes had taken care of that for her. When they weren't sure if she would even regain consciousness, he had sent an email under her work account to her employer resigning from her position. When she'd first found out about it, she'd been very angry. The choice to quit should have been hers, but she knew why he had done it. She still missed the work, but now that Mr. Hughes was having her help him with Vorhees, she at least got to do something besides get stuck in her own head all day. Faeron visited, too, often with Dr. Trainor, and sometimes alone. He was kind to her, and she knew that things were going well with his work at the spa. He was spending a lot of time with Mr. Hughes learning the background workings and he apparently asked a lot of questions, wanting to know as much as Mr. Hughes would tell him. His interest seemed sincere, and while they were still very weary of him, there was a touch of trust in the wood elf. She had even shown him the computer program that she'd created to help streamline some of the work. Domino no longer watched his appointments, not since that one time, and she knew that they were going well. Shi and Deandra were most often his chaperones at this point, and there had been no complaints from any of the clients that had been a recipient of his services. Alexandru was still away, and he hadn't contacted them, not even once since he had left. That was what bothered Domino the most. Why hadn't he called? What was taking so long? His sire was a little reclusive, Faeron had tried to reassure her, but Domino was not happy about the wait. She wanted her vampire back, she wanted him here if something were to happen to her. She wanted to know that the baby would have its father when the time came. Faeron had told her the gender, but she had no intention of telling anyone else, she had wanted Alexandru there for that decision, but he wasn't back, and she had no idea how much longer it would take him to get home. Even more amazing than getting to five months pregnant was knowing that by the time Halloween rolled around this year, she had hit the 26 week mark and was feeling pretty good about her baby's chances to survive. Halloween was her favorite time of year, which had always surprised Jenna because Domino had refused to ever go out to any parties or clubs. She had resisted even participating in her apartment complex's trick or treating. The thought of having to open her apartment door over and over had been entirely too much for her. Instead, Domino had spent more Halloweens than she wanted to count standing by the front window and stretching her neck here and there to spot the kids and adults walking through her neighborhood wearing their costumes. A few weeks before, she had approached Mr. Hughes and asked if the staff at Vorhees had ever had a Halloween party, and he had smiled at her, humored by her question. "Halloween is full of people dressing up and pretending to be non-human. It tends to be a little non-sequitur to celebrate Halloween." He explained, and Domino had nodded and then given him a million and one reasons that she wanted to throw a party anyway. He had been resistant, apparently having no appetite for chocolate, which she assured him spoke volumes about his constantly sour mood, nor did he have a desire to see people bobbing for apples, to which she had just rolled her eyes and said he didn't get it because he'd never done it. In the end, she'd simply told him that it was her favorite holiday, and it could well be her last, and she wanted to celebrate it, she wanted to celebrate something. Mr. Hughes had eventually handed her his credit card and told her that if she was going to plan a Halloween party, to make it worth it, and that he would re-organize the schedule to allow for his employees to be available for the party. "It's going to be a costume party." She had told him as he'd walked to the door, her hand already on her laptop. The look he'd sent her way before leaving had been akin to torture. Domino had only smiled and connected to the internet and started ordering everything that she would need to turn Vorhees Spa, or at least a few rooms of it, into the proper setting for a very spooky, and fun, Halloween party. The morning of the party, Dr. Trainor had been called to give Domino a thorough evaluation. Samir and Mr. Hughes had stayed close by, wanting to know the verdict as to whether or not Domino could be up for a longer period of time during the night's festivities, and they had been pleasantly, but cautiously assured that Domino's body was reacting well to the medication regimen that she was on, and that one night in a wheelchair should not have any adverse affects to her health. Domino was excited, it was better than she'd hoped for, she'd actually made sure one area of the downstairs dining room would be clear for a chaise lounge to be brought in to have her lay on. Just because she couldn't get up, she was not willing to forgo the party herself! So knowing she would get to sit in a wheelchair was fantastic! She couldn't wait to see what Mr. Hughes and the others dressed as. She had asked them all to keep their costumes a secret from her, she had not wanted to know what anyone had come up with. She had wanted to be completely surprised. Her own costume, she had ordered online and had kept it secreted away under her bed so no one could see it and spoil things for her. After the doctor had left, after yet again declining their offer to come to tonight's Halloween party, Domino had made Samir sit and watch several Halloween movies with her. She'd started out with Hocus Pocus, and then had settled into an old Dracula movie that she liked, a black and white one that had made her television companion laugh repeatedly. Deandra had come in at one point, something white in her hands that she worked on diligently during the movie that Domino couldn't quite make out, though it looked like one of those old-fashioned cravat type things. Lunch was soup and sandwiches and Domino ate with zeal, she was hungry so often now she often told Samir that she could give him a run for his money. After lunch, she was starting to get anxious, she had a phone beside her that she constantly used to contact Shi, who was in charge of getting all of the decorations in place for that night. She wanted everything to be perfect, and the tall, black haired woman had a taste for decoration. Between the two of them, she knew that everything would come together just as she planned it. Then, around five pm, Shi spent some time upstairs helping Domino get ready for the party before going to her own rooms to change into her costume. When it was finally time to go down to the party, Domino was impatiently watching the second hand of the clock on her wall tick away. It seemed like time slowed down and then stopped at some point, it was taking so long for seven pm to hit, but then she heard footsteps outside of her door and watched as it opened and Mr. Hughes walked into the room. She saw the black wheelchair he pushed inside first, and then looked up at him and frowned. She was going to kill him. You in a suit is hardly a costume." She huffed, folding her arms in front of her. "Wait for it." He spoke in a deep voice, she could feel the humor in his words. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of sunglasses and put them on, and then he put his hand out the door and came back in with a black fedora style hat that he placed on his head. "Oh. My. God." She started laughing when suddenly, Samir was at his side, dressed identically. "It's 110 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas..." Mr. Hughes smiled his lopsided grin and turned to Samir, who was smiling more like an idiot. "A half a pack of cigarettes," He pulled a beaten up looking pack of them out of his suit pocket, "It's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." Then, as Domino covered her mouth to hide the fit of giggles she had fallen into at hearing them quote 'Blues Brothers,' both men looked at each other and said, "Hit it." She was certain that even with the additional oxygen being pumped into her lungs through the cannula in her nose, she would never be able to breathe again. Even after Samir had sauntered farther into the room, rolling the chair in with him, she couldn't even look at the two of them. She'd expected something more...non-human, but they'd dressed up as Jake and Elwood. It was a movie that she remembered Samir putting on his top ten favorites during one of their many long conversations. "I hate you both, you are the worst." She groaned as she felt tears fall down her face, this had been so unexpected, and great. And she couldn't stop laughing. "And all you did was dress up like, what are you dressed as?" Mr. Hughes cocked his head at her costume. "Dude, I'm Selene, from Underworld? See, my blue contacts, and I'm wearing a wig. Underworld? No? Oh, man, you are both terrible." Domino chuckled and let Samir help her sit up. "Is this another non-human movie?" Mr. Hughes frowned, he really did hate her affinity for them. "Hecks yes. I can't believe you don't know it. And I had a hell of a time finding leather pants that would fit me and my big fat stomach. Not to mention this jacket. You spent so much money on this outfit!" Domino chuckled as they took in what she was wearing, from the long black trench coat to the fitted leather pants and leather undershirt. She wore black calf-length boots and there were two wooden spikes hooked to the sides of the undershirt. She thought the looked awesome, and it was completely lost on these two. "What is she?" Samir asked, an eyebrow raised at the wooden spikes. "Selene is a vampire hunter." She let her smile widen slowly as she looked up at them with her eerie crystal blue contacts. Samir snorted and Mr. Hughes shook his head at her, "You really are the worst, Domino." "I am not. I look awesome." She assured them as Samir picked her up and deposited her carefully in the chair. Her pump and the bags of blood and platelets were connected to a pole that was attached to the back of the wheelchair, and they soon were walking her down to the elevator that would take them to the party below. "The food arrived?" She asked, clasping her hands in front of her as she was pushed onto the elevator. "Yes, an hour ago, the caterers are already preparing to serve the appetizers. People have started to arrive." Mr. Hughes nodded, he knew she was nervous, she wanted this to go well. "The fog machine got set up? I know that-." "It's all set up, turned on, and creating quite the creepy atmosphere in the library, Dom." Samir explained before she could finish. "The apples, please tell me you bought the apples." She looked at Mr. Hughes, worry in her eyes. "The apples are already bobbing, Dom. You can stay calm, it's all been seen to." He told her, a hand on her shoulder as the elevator moved down to the first floor. Domino sighed, staring at the door as it slowly opened before her. Shi and Deandra were both standing there. Shi had worn a Snow White costume, albeit with a slightly shorter skirt than the original Snow White had worn in the cartoon. Deandra, beside her, was dressed as the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. They both looked amazing and she nodded at them both. "You both look awesome! I love it!" She felt happy, happier than she had in a while, and she couldn't wait to see what others at the party were wearing. Domino didn't have to wait long, when she was rolled over to the door of the library, she saw Faeron standing just inside, and the long brown robe with the tan colored underclothing and light saber in his arm, that he was holding like a cane, made her roll with more laughter. They had really went out of their way to make tonight special for her, and she knew why. She'd seen her reflection in the mirror lately, she knew she was paler than she used to be, and that her hair wasn't as thick as it had once been, she knew her body was slowly getting starved by her baby. "We thought that maybe we shouldn't just call this a Halloween party," Mr. Hughes said as he rolled her to a stop in the middle of the room crowded with people, "It seemed fitting to give you a baby shower, like you humans tend to enjoy." Domino looked up at him confused for a moment as a few of the people in the room parted to one side, and others, including Piltrum, whom she'd met when she first came to Vorhees months ago, dressed in a toga, of course, stepped to the other. There was a table piled high with gifts, all wrapped in baby type paper or put into bags. There were even several diaper cakes on the table and she gasped as she took it all in. Tears were falling down her eyes as she looked up at Mr. Hughes and her other three close friends, this was definitely too much to take in. "Thank you." She whispered in a choked voice and Deandra came forward and gave her a hug. "Thank you, Domino. This place has been filled with excitement the last few weeks getting ready for tonight. Everyone is happy and glad that you're here. Enjoy tonight, oui?" Deandra kissed her cheek before stepping back and waving an arm at the decorations around them. "I can't even, I don't know what to say." She shook her head, in awe. Everyone around her looked to be enjoying themselves, eating and drinking, dressed up. There were people that she'd met and gotten to know a lot here, as well as those she knew only a little, and a few that she'd never seen before. The hot Asian couple in the far corner, dressed as a flapper and a gangster, yeah, they were new. But they were all here because she had wanted this. "You don't have to say anything. Now, please. Show me how to bob for apples. I wanna do it before they've all got bite marks on them." Samir said close to her ear from behind and wheeled her in the direction of the large barrel in the room. ~*~*~*~ "You didn't sing today." Domino said a few hours later, her wheelchair pulled up to a table in the dining room. She'd just eaten a very tasty lasagna and was now slowly making her way through a small serving of tiramisu. "No, I didn't. You were very busy, and I had plenty to attend to." He looked around the room at them. "I thought Shi and Deandra did the work?" Domino frowned at him. "They did the majority of it. But when you started ordering supplies, they needed help getting everything unpacked and organized. I'm pretty sure you are solely responsible for the yearly profits to a great number of holiday stores this year." He frowned at her, he had been the one to pay for it all. "But that is what is awesome about holiday decorations. You use them one year, then you put them up and you get to use them again, and again. It's brilliant really, an investment that continues to give back." She tried to console him. "Don't even think about decorating for Thanksgiving." He grumbled and she laughed. "Whatever, I'm just in it for the pie in November." Domino didn't even want to think about Christmas, December seemed like an awfully long way away and she didn't want to get sucked down that hole of terror. "You did a good job here. I think it brought some of us a little closer, the employees seem to be enjoying themselves." He looked around them, there was a lot of laughter in the room right now, and she really was responsible for all of it. "Who are the two over there by the window? I haven't seen them before." She whispered, trying to nod over at them without making it look obvious. "That's Wei and Shu Lotus. They're the dragons I told you about." He smiled at her. "They are so hot." He chuckled at her whispered words, "The little boy and girl, the ones dressed up like a pony and a ninja, those are Wei's twins, with Anya." His words made her eyes widen and she looked at the children that were running around amongst another group of children. She hadn't realized that Anya had even more children. "She really did break the rules, didn't she?" She muttered, frowning as she looked back at the man she felt had become her best friend, well, besides Alexandru. "Domino." "Hey, I can have an opinion." "In this case, Anya wasn't really given a choice. Dragons can be somewhat...persuasive." He said quietly as he looked across the room to find Wei looking back at them. He nodded in their direction, Wei nodded back. Shu was watching the children closely, as she always did. That ever present, protective aunt. "Fine. I won't tack this onto the list of ways she wronged you, but she's still not off my shit list, Arc." She assured him, and he grinned softly at her, it was amusing to have this little human girl angry on his behalf, protective of his feelings in a way that no one had been in a very very very long time. "I will defer to your shit list, Dom." He nodded at her, looking back around the room as he did so. "You need a girl who makes you feel whole, not one who makes you feel like you still have to keep a room full of naughtiness under her nose." Domino whispered to him and he frowned, he'd just seen something, but her words made him look at her in poorly masked surprise. A Few Sips Ch. 10 "What are you talking about?" He asked. "I know about your kink room, the one off your bedroom. Samir let that particular cat out of the bag, and if I wasn't stuck on my ass all day and night, I'd be clearing that the fuck out. You're better than that-." She wanted to continue her little tirade, spurred on by the sugar in her tiramisu, she was sure, but he smiled softly and put his hand on her arm. "Domino." "I'm serious, I know you like things a certain way, but keeping...sex slaves...really, that is what they are...that's just wrong." She said quietly, close to his ear as he bent a little closer to her. "I can assure you that we will revisit this conversation, but not right now. And rest easy in the fact that Samir is going to have some explaining to do, as well. But I want you to take a deep breath, calm yourself, and look behind you." His gray eyes lifted from hers to someone who had come to stand nearby and Domino widened her eyes and straightened, her eyes going up and up until they found and grabbed onto large, black lashed red ones that widened a bit more as he took in her appearance. "Alexandru!" Domino shouted and almost jumped from her wheelchair when Mr. Hughes but a hand firmly, very firmly, on her thigh to keep her in place. "My little dove. Why in the hell are you dressed up as a woman who spends her life trying to kill my very species?" He said in a soft, rumbling voice and Domino grinned. "See, Arc. This is why I love Alex. He gets me." She giggled as she held out her arms to her lover and felt him surround her small body with his muscled ones, she breathed in his earthy smell and felt the scent of him fill her body with warmth and remembrance, and a little bit of desire, which would, of course, go uncared for right now. "I missed you, you were gone way too long, Alexandru." She frowned as he stretched back, squatting in front of her, his hands clutching tightly to hers. "You are different, Domino. You're paler. And this tube. You will need to tell me what you have been through." He sounded concerned, which she knew he would be. "I'm fine, really. The doctor and Faeron have been watching over me, medical wise, since you left, and I'm fine. I'm tired all the time and this is the first time I've been out of bed this long in a long time, but I'm fine." She tried to reassure him but knew that there was nothing she could ever say that would stop the worry. "It's good that you're back, Alexandru." Mr. Hughes stood up, his eyes shifting from the vampire that he knew to the one standing slightly behind them, a curious smile on his face as he took in the scene before him. "I'm sorry it took so long. Klaus was...indisposed." Alexandru rose to his full height and turned around to the man who had walked into the room at his side. "This is Domino, she is the woman that I told you about," He put a hand on her shoulder as he spoke, "Domino, this is Klaus, he is the scientist we talked to you about, my sire." "It's nice to meet you. Thank you for coming all the way here to try to help us." She said, holding out a hand to the vampire who looked more like the ones she saw in old Dracula movies, short black hair, pale pale skin, bloodshot eyes, he did not reach out to shake her hand. "I have asked Alexandru for years to help me with my research, I never thought he would finally give up this idea that mortal life was something to be cherished. Leave it to him to fall in love and end up giving me exactly what I've wanted all along." The creaky, sick voice of the vampire made Domino tense up and she felt herself grow warm with anger. Looking at Alexandru, she saw that he was completely stiff, his hands fisted, and he was glaring at his sire with eyes filled with pain and animosity, but he couldn't seem to move a muscle. He was being compelled. She hated him. She knew it, she hated this man with every little hair on her head. The hell with him. Domino was about to tell him exactly that when she felt two hands wrap around her shoulders from behind at just the moment she was about to speak and she lowered her hand and looked to see that it was Faeron who was touching her. Damned wood elf, listening to her thoughts again. "I am going to take Domino back to her room, she's been up a long time and she shouldn't be out of bed any longer." Faeron spoke with finality and she had no voice with which to argue, she wanted nothing more than to scream and yell, none of which would help Alexandru get out from under the control of his sire. Maybe if she staked him, she had two on her. She could do it now. "We will speak with the angel and then be up to see her shortly. I am anxious to do an examination on the girl." Klaus smiled, watching with great interest as the young woman was wheeled away rather quickly. "I cannot believe you." She growled at Faeron when they were at the elevator waiting for it to come down. "You are a lot more vicious than I thought, staking a vampire. You have no idea how gross that would have been." Faeron shook his head and chuckled. "I don't care. I hate him." She growled as the door finally opened. "You hated me when I first came here." He reminded her as he rolled her into the elevator, Shi was running over, and they waited for her to get on before they closed the door. "I still hate you." She muttered, clutching Shi's hand when her friend stepped close. Faeron chuckled, "No, you don't." "I totally should." "Klaus is kind of an ass." That was Shi, and Domino looked up at her friend with an eyebrow raised. "What did he say to you?" Domino asked, already hearing Faeron chuckle at her other side. "He demanded that Mr. Hughes find him a meal and a fuck. Like he can demand Mr. Hughes to do anything. Ugh, I wish I could cuss in French the way that Deandra does, it sounds much more...powerful." Shi stomped her feet as the elevator arrived at the floor where her room was located. "I always forget how human women are so quick to show their anger. Domino, you've been out of bed too long, we must get you back in." Faeron said, his voice sounding ever so slightly amused with their irritation as he rolled her off of the elevator. "Well, maybe the fact that you wood elves take so long to actually feel an emotion is why you treated everyone else like garbage for such an incredibly long amount of time." Domino countered, giving him a knowing look as he locked the wheelchair wheels beside her bed. "Touché." "See, that sounds so much better than 'good one,' doesn't it, Dom?" Shi muttered from the other side of the bed where she was climbing on to reach Domino's preferred side so that the bed covers could be turned down. "Yes, it does." Domino couldn't help the smile that came to her face as she watched the elf step in and pick her up from the chair, they may be on speaking terms, but Faeron had rarely touched her anywhere but on her abdomen. He set her gently on the bed and manipulated the tubing around her so that it wouldn't bother her, and then he set the pump and bags of fluid on their original pole. Shi made quick work of the clothing that Domino had worn, and a plain, white nightgown was pulled over her head. The wig was removed at some point in that process, and her contacts popped out easily before Shi finally shifted off of the bed. By the time her covers had been pulled up and she was lying down, her head raised only as high as the single pillow would allow, there were already heavy footsteps outside of her door and Alexandru was pushing it open with a little more force than necessary. "Alex, careful, that frame is brand new." Domino turned her head to smile at her lover, oh, she had missed him. He frowned at her as he remembered why, and then walked over to the bed, his hands on her face as he bent over to kiss her properly, passionately, the way she wished he had when they were downstairs. "I am sorry, Domino. He is a very old vampire. He does not feel for humans the way I do. I wouldn't have brought him here if I didn't think that he could help us." "He's awful, Alexandru. I'm so sorry for you. I'm so glad that you are home." She smiled up at him, running her hands along the sides of his worried face as he looked her over better. "Faeron, what has happened since I left?" He turned to the wood elf, knowing that the man would be a lot less likely to placate him. "Shortly after you left, Domino began to bleed and we had to sew her cervix closed. Dr. Trainor seems to believe that was actually due to her human anatomy, something about a shortened cervix. She has needed oxygen supplementation ever since. We've increased her blood infusion, though you can see that she is still a little starved for circulation. We've got a daily dose of heart medication going to handle it, she's also getting platelets. She was on a drip to stop her contractions, but we've only had to do that twice so far." Faeron told Alexandru as the door opened again and Mr. Hughes and the super creeper vampire came back in. "She has held up surprisingly well for someone as small as she is." Domino shivered at the nasally voice of Klaus as he came closer to her bed. "Dr. Trainor took several videos of her scans this morning, I can show them to you." Mr. Hughes veered the man with the evil look to him over to a computer that Mr. Hughes had set up for the doctor's use and Domino was happy to have the man not come straight over to her. She really didn't want to have him touch her. "Why didn't you call? You could have called." She frowned at Alexandru, who was now climbing onto the empty side of the bed that Shi had left to stand beside Faeron. He sat with his back against the headboard and he moved his hand to the side of her face to smooth the pads of his fingers against the skin of her cheek. "My hearing is a tad more sensitive than yours, my little dove, if I were to try to use a phone, the intensity of it can be quite deafening. I can hear on multiple frequencies, so it's volume overload when I use a telephone." "It's the bat thing, right?" She sighed, that was a better explanation than that he couldn't just be bothered. "Right, but also because I can hear at the same decibels as a human. It's a little more complicated than that, but you get the gist." "But really, there's text, that wouldn't have killed you, or email. Don't leave again period, but don't leave without contacting me." Domino raised her hand to his wrist and squeezed it, Mr. Hughes was on his way over to her with Klaus. "It doesn't look like the fetus' blood supply has gone too far past the first few layers of the uterus. As long as we continue monitoring your condition, the additions that Faeron has suggested have done a good job at keeping you stable, we should be able to get you a little farther along before we will need to perform a C-section and remove the baby." Klaus explained, she couldn't imagine a less caring bedside manner, the tone of his voice was absolutely flat. "Will you need to remove my entire uterus?" She asked. "No, I would prefer to avoid that. Before we remove the child fully from the uterus, we will clamp the uterine artery and carefully infuse a small amount of vampire blood, it will make the fetal placenta retract its hold on your uterus and it should disconnect from your body without causing irreparable trauma. I've been successful with this procedure several times now." He explained and she nodded, assholes could even serve a purpose. Looking at Faeron, she saw the corner of his mouth lift just ever so slightly. "So Alexandru can give me his blood to do it?" She asked. "No, he has genetics in common, it won't react negatively quick enough to keep you from danger." "I'm totally not letting you put your blood in my body." Domino said before she could think how dangerous saying it could be, but he merely grinned at her. "I have a vampire on staff here, Brunhild, she will be more than happy to help Domino." Mr. Hughes put in. "Splendid. For now, there is nothing more to be done. We must simply watch, and wait, and hope that Domino can last a few more months." Klaus nodded before looking over at Mr. Hughes, "About my request?" Mr. Hughes frowned, Domino could tell that he didn't want to give the vampire anything, "I have had several bags of blood taken to a room for you. As soon as you have fed, you will need only to pull the rope beside your bed and I will have what you have requested brought to you." "Excellent. Domino, Alexandru, I will see the both of you again soon, I am sure. Mr. Hughes has been gracious enough to allow me to stay here until you have delivered." Klaus tipped his head towards where they were positioned on her bed and Domino nodded very slowly, she felt so uneasy around the old vampire, and wasn't looking forward to him sticking around. "Thank you, Klaus." She tried to smile, but knew she failed to make it look very genuine. When he was gone from the room, Domino let out a long sigh and looked at Mr. Hughes. "Who is going to go to him, Arc?" She worried that it was someone she knew. "I have an employee that has had experience in the past with men with his particular...obsessions. She is well paid, and she will be perfectly safe, Domino. I assure you." He smiled gently, Domino had begun to feel quite close to the people who worked here, it didn't surprise him that she would be worried for them. "Domino, you should really rest." Faeron spoke up, his eyes going from her to the vampire at her side. "Wood elves are very very bossy, Mr. Hughes." Domino said with a frown as Alexandru scooted down on the bed beside her and pulled the covers over him so that he could shift closer to her side. "I gather." Mr. Hughes sent Faeron a look, she looked exhausted, but the tension that had surrounded her when Alexandru was gone had dissipated. "Good night." Alexandru's guttural voice signaled that he wanted them to leave and Shi smiled and bent and kissed Domino on the cheek before turning and leaving the room, Faeron at her side as they left the door open for Mr. Hughes. "Are you hungry, Alexandru?" The angel's question made Domino look at her lover, and he shook his head. "I fed already. I did not want to worry about needing to when I got here." His right arm was wrapped around her body, resting on her left him as he moved closer. "I have an alarm set on my phone when it's time to change her bags, you have about 90 minutes now before I will be up to do a change." Mr. Hughes spoke softly before stepping out of the room and closing the door behind him. "Fucking finally." Alexandru groaned and rolled to his knees and moved his mouth down to cover hers, his tongue thrusting in quickly, exploring her mouth, renewing the memory of her taste and feel. "Oh my God, I missed you so much." Domino whimpered as his mouth went to surround her throat and suck in the sensitive skin there. "I want to fuck you so bad." He groaned, his hand pressing to her breast and squeezing the swollen flesh there. "Me, too. But, Alex," Domino reached for the buttons on his pants, tugging the first one open before he pulled her back a little bit, "just because we can't fuck doesn't mean you can't cum." He growled low in his throat and shifted back forward so that she could release his quickly thickening cock from his pants. She held the weight of it in hand as he shifted his body on the bed so that the head of it was beside her face. Domino smiled and rolled carefully to her side before sliding her tongue over the bulbous head, licking the bit of pre-cum that had already escaped, loving the salty taste of him, and she licked for more, the tip of her tongue pushing slightly against the hole where it had come from. He groaned and put his hand in her hair to let her know he wanted more, and Domino opened her mouth and allowed him to slowly push in between her lips. "I am sorry about my sire, he was never a good man. He is an even worse vampire." He muttered as the head of his cock hit the back of her throat. Domino closed her eyes, she didn't want to think of Klaus right now, she cupped his scrotum with her fingers and tilted her throat so that she could take him in farther, breathing deeply when he withdrew, and holding herself open and willing as he pushed slowly back forward with his hips. He went slow tonight, thrusting in and out of her mouth with painstakingly measured, deep strokes, and Domino could feel his body shake and hear the sounds of passion he made as she ate most of his cock. When he came, she happily guzzled as much of it as she could take, and when he withdrew, she let several lines of it slip from her mouth, knowing, and loving the way he scooted down on the bed so that he could lick it off, and then kiss her deeply, slowly, until she fell into an exhausted, and sated slumber, happily in the arms of the vampire that she loved. A Few Sips Ch. 11 The sky was a beautiful blue, with very few interruptions of puffs of white, and Domino loved the way Mr. Hughes always looked up at it so intently as he sang to her early each afternoon. She was laying on her bed, sideways, propped up on her right side so that she could see him as he serenaded her with his angelic, lusty voice. It still affected her as much, and as deeply, as it had that first day, and Domino felt like it helped keep her calmer, more relaxed. She was sure that was what it was supposed to do. She loved hearing his singular voice, she couldn't imagine how absolutely fascinating it would be to hear a whole choir, a whole choir of angels. November had come and was now on the way out. The night before, there had been a large employee dinner, complete with turkey, stuffing, and a variety of pies. Domino had remained in her room, Alexandru had brought her a tray of food and lit the room with what had looked like thousands of little candles, and they had eaten together. She had had seconds of everything, hungrier and hungrier these days, and Alex had been the ever-attentive boyfriend. Then, when she'd finally given in and asked for that third piece of pumpkin pie, he had begrudgingly gotten up to fetch it for her. When he'd put it on top of her rounded stomach, she'd looked down and gasped. The platinum ring with the enormous square-cut diamond solitaire that was sticking out of the top of the whipped cream on a little wooden stick had been completely unexpected, and she had started to cry as he had climbed onto her bed and put a hand around her from behind. "I've only ever married one woman in my life. I never thought I could love someone as much as I loved her. When I met you, I realized how very wrong I was. I love you, and I want to spend forever with you, Domino. Will you be my wife?" He has said in his delicious deep rumble and she had wrapped her arms around him and sobbed, nodding, yes, she would be his wife, a million times yes. "I should say no, we don't know what's going to happen with the baby, but yes. Yes, Alexandru. I love you so much." She'd nodded, burying her face in his naked chest and breathing him into her, wanting to keep against him like this forever. They had spent the night beside one another, just running their hands over each other's bodies and talking a little about what the future could hold for them. He owned a house on several acres of land outside of Rochester, New York. He hadn't done much to decorate it and hoped that she would be willing to make it into their home. It was large enough, he had said, to fit the three of them, and it had already been outfitted with windows and shutters that completely shut out the light. She had told him that she knew the baby's sex, but he had said that he didn't want to know, he wanted to wait. It had been a very cozy, normal night of making plans and memories, it had been wonderful. So now here she was the very next day getting to listen to an angel sing. Mr. Hughes was so much more than he had first seemed to her when they'd arrived, and she had a hard time thinking about how she'd at first not really liked him. Domino couldn't imagine not having him in her life, the thought of moving to New York and not getting to see him very often was actually a little disconcerting. At least he had a cell phone. They could FaceTime and text whenever they wanted, but it wouldn't be the same as getting to chastise him face to face. Mr. Hughes' voice was strong, and fluid and it seemed to fill the room with that mysterious, melodious tone, and Domino could listen to it for hours, she knew, but he would only sing for a little while, stopping almost mid-word sometimes. She had asked him from time to time what the words meant, but he would just shake his head a little and tell her that the song itself was what she should focus on. The sound was the purpose, not the words he sang. She just figured it was some super secret angel thing, and scoffed every time. She was yawning when he stopped singing this time, and had covered her mouth with one hand when Mr. Hughes suddenly took several steps back from the open window and there was suddenly a gust and something, someone, suddenly landed just inside of her room. Sweet Jesus, Domino widened her eyes and saw up on her bed, a hand on her rounded abdomen as she took in the sight before her. A man had entered, well, a male, at least. His skin was a few shades darker than Mr. Hughes, and she could see a lot of it. His groin area was covered in some sort of white clothe wrap-around thing that left his chest and long, muscular legs bare. He was tall, dark-haired, and had huge, white wings that had fluttered a bit as he landed before folding slowly against him back. Mr. Hughes didn't say anything at first, he almost looked annoyed, she thought, and Domino wanted to ask a million questions just as much as she wanted to lose her shit on this angel and ask him why Mr. Hughes had been punished and the others had just went along with the shitty shitty plan to kill all those non-humans. When they did start to speak, it was the strange angel, and the words he voiced were unknown to her, similar in sound to the songs that Mr. Hughes sang. Mr. Hughes responded in kind at first, but after Domino cleared her throat, he sent her a sidelong look before turning back to the intruder. "Fezekial, this is my friend, Domino. Domino, this is Fezekial. I have known him for a very long time." Mr. Hughes told her, turning his body so that his back was to the wall of the bathroom, so that he could turn his head between the two of them easier, "Apparently, they have heard my singing." "It's nice to meet you. I've never met someone like Arc before." Domino decided to attempt being cordial. "You keep interesting company here, Archimendes." The man's voice was not as deep as Mr. Hughes', and his eyes were blue instead of her preferred gray. "Why are you here, Fezekial?" Mr. Hughes frowned. "You are being called back. If that is what you want." Fezekial said simply and Domino knew her mouth dropped open and she stared at Mr. Hughes, he was being given the chance to go home, to return to Heaven? Holy shit. Holy, indeed. "Why?" Mr. Hughes should have looked elated, he had wanted this for so long, hadn't he? Why did he look like someone just shot his dog. In the face. Point blank. With a bazooka. "You know as well as I that I am never told the reason when I am told to do something." Fezekial frowned, he must have expected Mr. Hughes to jump at the chance as well. "If I were to return, what would my station be?" Mr. Hughes looked over towards Domino, he knew she had plenty of questions for him, but now was not the time to ask or answer them. "We all serve Him, Archimendes." "Serving him has never been an issue for me." Mr. Hughes sighed and walked over the window to look up at the clear sky. "He has forgiven you." Fezekial said in a softer voice and Domino turned her head away as she almost snorted, forgiven, my ass, Mr. Hughes had earned that forgiveness from the very beginning of it all, there had been no reason to torture the angel in this way. "I am grateful for that." Mr. Hughes still sounded irritated. "He said if you choose to stay, there may not be another chance for you to ascend." Oh, an ultimatum, Domino furrowed her brow, she wondered what the purpose was, to entice him to go home? To leave Vorhees? "Will there be a chance that I descend if I choose to stay?" Mr. Hughes asked and the other angel, the one who had not cut his wings off, widened his eyes a little bit. "You would choose this life? Here, among all of these...people," Fezekial waved his hand at the floor in front of him, his eyes venturing to Domino more than once as she frowned at him, "You would stay here with your broken wings and your twisted heart instead of coming home?" "I am needed here, you may not understand that, but He will." Mr. Hughes was choosing life on earth, he was choosing life on earth instead of Heaven. She was shocked, but also extremely proud of him for standing up for himself. "Archimendes," The angel spoke her friend's name in such a different way than she had ever heard it said before, and it made her shiver a little bit every time, "why?" "There's no need for me to explain. He can hear me. He has always been able to." Mr. Hughes tipped his head at the angel that looked rather agitated and walked over to stand beside Domino. "Archimendes, we were all there, we know-." Fezekial shifted uneasily near the window, stopping when Domino finally coughed and sighed. "You were all there, and ARC was the only one who stood up, the only one to say 'hey, this wasn't cool' and you wonder why he might be a little hesitant to return to the fold." She snorted, feeling Mr. Hughes wrap a hand around her arm and squeeze it a little bit. Fezekial's blue eyes seemed to grow molten and darker as he looked at her pointedly, apparently smarting off to an angel was not a good idea, but he merely pinched his lips together for a moment and then looked back at Mr. Hughes, "If this is your decision." "I am where I belong, Fezekial." Mr. Hughes said softly, then switched back to the language that he'd spoken when the other angel first arrived. Domino waited patiently to see what would happen, and after a few more minutes of talking, none of which she could understand, the dark-haired angel sighed and put a hand on Mr. Hughes shoulder for a moment and then he moved gracefully back to the window and soon disappeared into the sky. It was weird, he had seem to dematerialize the moment the sunlight hit him. As soon as the were alone, she felt Mr. Hughes sit on the bed, his face towards the window, and she put her hand on his back, he was shaking. She couldn't imagine why he had done what he had done. He had a right to be where he belonged. What had made him choose earth? What had made him choose a place where he was constantly reminded of what had brought him here? She bit her lip as she tugged on his suit jacket, and watched as he turned towards her, eyes red-rimmed and his face completely void of all color. "You're an idiot." She told him softly and watched as he chuckled despite the catch in his voice, his gray eyes were stormy as he looked at her, and then he moved. His arms went around her body, his chest came over her, and his mouth descended on hers, which opened in a gasp of surprise, and he thrust his tongue inside. It was hard, demanding, his touch strong and sure, rough and arousing and Domino whimpered as his left hand surrounded and squeezed her right breast through the material of her nightgown. She could feel her pussy instantly start to throb and she put her hands on his chest. This was not going to happen, she could not allow him to make a mistake with her because he had done something to make himself miserable. Why had he stayed. "Arc, let me go." She breathed out in a hiss as his hand slipped down over her stomach and pulled up her nightgown. He didn't answer her, nor did he respond in any way other than shoving his tongue back inside of her mouth, his index and middle finger slipped into the quickly moistening fold of her pussy and she clenched her muscles as they pushed deep and fast. Her groan was caught in his mouth and his body held hers beneath him on the bed. "I need to fuck, Domino." He growled as he moved his mouth to her throat. "Well, you certainly can't fuuu-uck me. Remember? I can't. Please Arc, st-stooop." She squeezed her eyes shut, Jesus his hand was fucking gifted, she was on the verge of coming, and she knew it wasn't a good idea. She could already feel the baby moving within her, woken from the nap it had been taking. "What? Oh-." He shook himself against her and Domino looked up at his face as he pulled his hand from her pussy and sat up on his knees on the bed. The color was starting to return to his face. "I don't agree with your little fuck room, but I think maybe right now, that is where you should be." She muttered as he tried to get his breathing under control. "Domino." "Don't you dare apologize, that's the most action I've got in months, but I am your friend, Arc. Your friend. Not your sex toy, not your lover. I am also engaged to a vampire. A vampire with a temper." "I don't know what got-." "You just gave up your spot in heaven to live among us heathens, that's what got into you. Otherwise you wouldn't be kissing a chick with plastic tubes in her nose. I'm okay, but you need to go and expend some of your energy." Domino repeated, she had a hand on his thigh and was squeezing it a little. There was knock at the door that they ignored as they stared at each other. "You will be okay? This won't-?" Mr. Hughes didn't seem quite able to get his words out and Domino smiled gently, she loved this man so much, but as her dearest friend. She could easily put what had just happened between them in the past, she knew he would be able to as well, eventually. "This changes nothing. Now scoot and see who's at the door." She patted his thigh and watched as he got off of the bed and straightened the suit. When the door opened, it was Faeron standing on the other side, eyes filled with a desire to know what had happened in the room and Domino rolled his eyes, he was the worst kind of snoop, she was sure he'd been listening to her thoughts. "I'll be back in an hour to change your bag over." Mr. Hughes told her from the door and she nodded at him before he disappeared from sight into the hall. Faeron walked in the way he always did, sure of himself, like his feet almost slid on the floor, or maybe an inch or so above it. She looked at his dark hair, how could it always look so straight and perfect? Jerk. He smiled at her in good humor as he shut the window that Mr. Hughes had inadvertently left open. It was almost December, the air was cold. Then he sat down on the chair beside her bed, after he gripped her thick blanket and moved it back over her body to cover her. Well, shit. Domino was happy that at least her nightgown was back in place, she didn't feel like giving him an entirely free show. "Pregnant vampire brides don't really do it for me, Domino." He chuckled and she glared at him. "Get the fuck out of my head." He shook his head, his grin broadening, "I can't, izrê. Believe me, there are times I try." "I'm not the only human at Vorhees, and I know Shi and Deandra have much more interesting lives than me. Listen to them." She crossed her arms in front of her chest. "I do listen to them. I have found it quite...erotic...to hear the thoughts of women when they are getting fucked. Yesterday, Shi-well...nevermind. You are aroused, I want to hear about you." He put an elbow on the arm of his chair and moved two fingers to press against his mouth as he looked at her. "How do you know I'm not always aroused?" She countered. "True, you spend an insane amount of time thinking about Alexandru's cock, and those are thoughts I could truly do without." "He has a fascinating cock." She watched him roll his eyes and it made her giggle, served him right. "You don't actually have to say it, Domino. I hear it well enough." "Mr. Hughes told his god that he didn't want to go back to Heaven." She said softer, watching as the wood elf's large eyes widened just a bit, but it just served to make him look even more unearthly. "You expected him to say yes?" He asked, not telling her how her personally felt about his employer's decision. "It's heaven. Wouldn't you go?" She asked and watched as he grinned. "I don't expect I will ever see any pearly gates, izrê." "What does that mean, anyway?" "It's an endearment, Domino. Better than agarmâ, which is what Mr. Hughes first referred to you as." He told her, still not answering her question, but he very rarely did. "He didn't like you back then. He didn't want you to know about me." "It's hard not to know about you, Domino, you have changed things in this spa." Domino shook her head, "No, I think Anya did. I've just been spending a lot of time trying to put things back together." He nodded, "I have not met her, but she is spoken of very fondly here by those that do. Have you met her?" Domino nodded, "As a person, I suppose she is all right, but she kind of came in here like a bull in a china shop, breaking hearts instead of dishware, of course. Not on purpose, but I still can't quite forgive it." "Because of what she has done to Mr. Hughes?" "He is my friend, Faeron, My. Friend." He smiled at her as he tapped a fingertip against his chin, "That is very clear to me." "Hey, don't even. Yes, I got wet because he kissed me, but that would happen if anyone kissed me right now. I haven't gotten laid in months." She frowned at the wood elf whose eyes sparkled at her words. "I am not judging you, Domino. The fact that you are easily aroused is not a mark against your character, it actually speaks in favor of it." He said, standing up and going to the tray on her dresser. Grabbing the wrapped plate of crackers and cheese, he brought it over to her. "You need to eat." "Thanks." She muttered, she hated it when he was nice to her when she wanted to slap him. "Did he give a reason for staying?" "He probably wants to make sure you wood elves behave." She muttered before shoving a cracker in her mouth, he chuckled. "He would continue to have access to the non-humans here on earth. That wouldn't have stopped him. Though...if he returned, he would no longer be accessible to the humans that he knows. And the memories that you have of him would fade." Faeron sat back down. "Well, that would suck, but that's not a reason to stay." She frowned. "No, I wouldn't think so. But I don't have the affinity for your kind that he does." He was being honest with her, he always was as far as she knew, but she still shook her head at his comment. "Are you here just to snoop about Mr. Hughes, because you can go?" Domino settled more comfortably on her side, setting the plate of food on the bed to her left as she arched a brow at him. "I actually have some advice to ask from you. Questions about our fearless leader were actually just a close second." He leaned forward in the chair a bit as he spoke. "Advice? From a lowly human? Oh, you must be desperate." Domino chuckled and prepped another cracker with a piece of mild cheddar. "It's about a human." He shrugged and sat back, "Shi-." "This is about Shi? What did you do to her?" Domino almost choked on a cracker and he moved from the chair to sit beside her, patting her back a little as she swallowed, reaching for the water beside the bed to wash it down with. "It would be easier to show you." He said softly, and Domino was going to ask him what he meant by that when he put a hand on her head and she felt something warm and fuzzy grow within her body. "Close your eyes, I'm not going to hurt you." He whispered and she did as he said, needing to, knowing she needed to focus on whatever he was doing. When her eyes closed, it was strange, instead of that black surface, she felt like her eyes were open, but they weren't really her eyes that she was looking through anymore. She, or whoever it was, was getting out of a bed in a darkly painted room somewhere in Vorhees. The room was simple of furniture, a single bed and a small dresser and desk lined the room, but it was almost filled to overflowing with tall green plants and shorter potted flowers. It was actually really beautiful. She could see orchids and lilies and ferns. The room smelled heavenly, as well, all the scents of the flora wrapped into a tantalizing mix in her nose and she breathed deeply as she walked into the bathroom. She shivered when those eyes lowered to the large cock that she was now holding and pointing to the toilet. Domino gasped, she'd never seen that before, and the feeling of the urine working through the longer male urethra was intense, and it made her feel funny inside, in shock that she could feel it. When she was done peeing, she flushed the toilet and let her partially aroused cock fall back between her legs. Now that she knew she had one, she focused on the way it felt as she moved over to the sink. Looking into the mirror, she realized that she was Faeron, it made no sense, but his was the face staring back at her from the looking glass. She brushed her teeth and her straight hair, and ran a hot, wet wash cloth over her face to wipe away the sleepy feeling she had. It was refreshing, she should try that, Domino thought as she padded her way back into the bedroom. A Few Sips Ch. 11 She changed from the gown she wore to the one Faeron was wearing now and then she opened the bedroom door, she could tell she was hungry, and that her intention had been to go down to the kitchen and get something to eat. Instead, when the door opened, she looked outside and saw Shi standing in front of her door, and she was completely naked. "Can I help you?" She had been able to read her desire, she wanted Faeron even though she'd been fighting those feelings for weeks, and the elf had been kind enough not to mention it to her despite the fact that he'd known how she felt for just as long. Shi hadn't said anything, she put her hands on her chest and shoved her farther into the bedroom and shut the door behind her. Domino kept her hands at her sides as Shi sank immediately to her knees and pushed aside her gown until she had her cock, now quickly filling with blood, thickening painful tight as she brought the tip of it to her mouth, her beautiful wide, brown eyes on the face above her as she opened it and licked the tip with her tongue. Shi wanted Faeron to fuck her, hard, the way she'd seen him fuck many women these last few months. Her pussy was wet, Domino could smell it, could sense the throbbing inside of her walls as she swallowed the drop of pre cum from her cock before opening her mouth wide in order to eat the head of it. Domino groaned, that feeling was intense, the mouth hot, the tongue rough and erotic against her cock. Jesus, no wonder guys liked head. Shi ate her like a pro, grabbing her cloth-covered ass and pulling her forward, sending her cock to the back of her throat, and then Domino thrust forward, and her cock was deep down the girl's esophagus and the heat and pressure was intense, and she felt her cock start to tense and she lost control, putting her hands on either side of Shi's face and fucking in and out of her mouth in stroke after stroke of greedy, determined need. Shi's left hand moved to her balls and started to caress them, and the growl that came from her male lips was animalistic, and she began to thrust brutally into the girl's throat. When the tightening stretched into her balls, and then she felt something pulse and an intense feeling of bliss filled Domino, she whimpered, the orgasm that shot wads of her thick, seeded cum into the girl's stomach was much more...much more than she thought it would be, it radiated out from her cock to the rest of her body in hot, molten waves, and she ground Shi's face against her groin until she had to let go, had to allow the girl to breathe. "Get on the bed." Domino said, her voice Faeron's, and it was filled with desire, but it was clear it was not a suggestion, she was going to be in charge, she was going to fuck this girl her way. Shi nodded and got up and walked over to the bed, crawling onto it and sitting on her knees facing Domino as she removed her clothing. Once she was naked, her shaft already filling again, it stood up between her legs, ready for round two, as she walked over to the bed, carelessly grabbing the panting woman's ankle and yanking her towards the edge of the bed. Domino flipped the girl onto her stomach and let her legs fall over the edge of the bed. Shi gasped when Domino slapped her ass cheek with an open palm. She waited a few seconds before doing it again, rubbing at the bright red marks that appeared. Her hand went down several more times, hitting the fold of her pussy more than once, and Shi was groaning, her pussy dripping freely as she lay against the mattress on the narrow bed. "Stay where you are." Domino ordered as she walked away to the dresser. She came back moments later with a jar of the special Vorhees lube and several satin straps. She grabbed Shi and moved her like she weighed as much as a paperclip to the center of the bed on her back. Her wrists were expertly tied to the ends of the headboard on the simple, but sturdy metal rungs. Then, when Domino knew that the girl couldn't get her hands free, she grabbed her under her thighs and lifted her legs up and bent them towards the headboard, tying her ankles tightly to rungs about a foot apart above her head. Looking down, She's pussy was clearly visible, as was her cute little puckered asshole. Her ass was white and smooth, and Domino growled as she put her hands on the cheeks, spreading them, hot as she thought about sinking her cock deep in both of those holes. "Faeron." Shi whimpered, overwhelmed as the elf above her ran the bottom side of his shaft along her wet pussy lips. "Sssh." Domino murmured as she picked up the jar and opened it. Smearing some of the goo on her fingers, she spread it onto the asshole and shoved a finger gently inside then another, so that she could open it a bit and push an ample amount of goo up inside. After putting the jar on the floor behind her, she climbed onto the bed below Shi's upturned groin and lowered her mouth to cover the human girl's delicious smelling pussy and she sucked hard, making Shi writhe uncontrollably below her. Domino felt hot at the flavor of Shi's pussy juice, and licked at it frantically with her tongue, pushing up inside the wet fold and drinking in the orgasm that shot through the girl. As Shi came, her whole body shaking, Domino shoved two fingers into the girl's asshole and started sliding them in and out, making Shi cry out and pull helpless at her bonds. "Open for me." She groaned against the pussy she was still devouring and inserted a third finger into the tight, hot hole. "Yes." Shi cried. Domino moved a fourth finger in and sank her hand in as far as she could with the thumb on the outside and began to fuck her ass with her hand, making Shi beg for it, beg her for more. Putting the thumb of her other hand solidly over She's swollen clit, she licked the girl deeply and put the thumb at her ass into the palm of that hand to slowly shove the entire hand up into her extended asshole. "Oh, fuck!" Shi moaned as the slipped in over the last knuckle of the thumb and her ass ate Domino's large, male hand to the wrist. "You are so wet." Domino groaned as she lifted from the pussy she'd enjoyed eating so that she could concentrate on punching up into the girl's ass with her hand. The sensation was intense for the girl beneath her, and it did amazing things to Domino's cock as she moved in and out. "You want my fist in your pussy?" Domino asked, her desire to fuck more than apparent in her voice. "Oh God!" Shi widened her eyes and shook her head, unsure she could handle any such thing, but Domino was already removing her hand from her ass and sliding it up and into the fold of her pussy. She went slow, knowing that she'd need to stretch the pussy enough to accept the invasion of her whole hand, but Shi was experienced, she was eventually able to twist her wrist in a way that allowed her hand to sink wrist deep into the hot, quivering pussy of the girl tied up beneath her. "Good girl." Domino moved her mouth to Shi's left breast and sucked on it hard, biting at the nipple as she felt the girl orgasm around her hand. Domino gave attention to each breast before concentrating on fucking Shi hard with her hand, knowing that it was time to do more when Shi had finally sunk against the bed, unable to take more of the intense feeling of the full fist in her cunt. Pulling out carefully, Domino moved on the bed to position her cock head at Shi's weeping pussy hole, it was covered with the clear, glossy cum of her orgasm, and Domino knew she intended to fill it with her own cum. With a growl, and a powerful, unforgiving, thrust of her hips, Domino slammed her cock completely inside of She's hot pussy in one stroke, her balls smashed against Shi's asshole and her cock head high, pushing at the tissue of the pussy she had just taken ownership of. Shi's vaginal muscles were clamped down tight around her thick girth, and the length was way more than she could take even after having just been fisted. Domino barely registered the scream that tore from Shi's throat, but she knew the girl was impassioned, she was moaning and begging for more with each powerful piston of Domino's hips, sending her cock in over and over and over. You want my cum in your sweet pussy, Shi?" Domino hissed, not stopping the torrent of thrusts in and out of her, Jesus, she was so ready to fill this girl. "Yes, yes, Faeron, please." Shi whimpered, feeling Domino move a hand to rest over her lower abdomen. "My cum will take root, you're ready to be mated." Domino could sense the girl's second of concern, but she was fully wrapped up in the burgeoning orgasm that was about to hit her, that she bit her lower lip instead and nodded frantically. "Fill my pussy with your cum, Faeron." Domino needed no further encouragement, she grabbed Shi by the backs of her calves and tore into her, beating harder and harder as Shi cried out, until her cock swelled even further and that same tightening of her balls started and she was sending her cum high into the fertile womb, knowing it would take root, smiling down in complete satisfaction as she made claim to the woman. When her cock slipped from the hole that she'd just ravaged, Domino looked down to see ribbons of cum leak out between the pink lips and ran a hand through it, then brought the cum on her fingers to Shi's lips. The girl sucked on the cum greedily and nearly bit down when she felt Domino push the head of her cock against the gaped asshole. "You didn't think I was done, did you?" Domino chuckled throatily and pushed harder, sending the mushroomed head all the way inside. Shi widened her eyes and shook her head, overwhelmed by the feeling of that hot, hard cock between her legs sliding higher and higher into her ass, passing her rectum and fucking her hard, with brutal, unrelenting force. Domino gasped, it was tighter, hotter, than the girl's pussy, and the way the muscles clenched and milked her cock made her almost crazy with an uncontrollable desire to fuck harder, faster, and she did, until she was moving with rapid force in and out of the ass that swallowed her cock. She could smell the scent of their sex and bodies and it only made her realize just how much this aroused her, how much she enjoyed fucking this particular human girl. She'd fucked thousands of women, repeatedly, more brutally than she'd fucked this one, but Shi was stirring something inside of her. Domino was worried that it meant that Vorhees was having a larger affect on her than she had thought it would, she was starting to feel with her heart, and for a wood elf, that could be rather terrifying, for they mated for life, and a human girl had a very very short one. Domino clenched, her cum shooting up into the tight ass beneath her, and she sank over the girl who was breathing shallowly, and much quicker than she should. Her lips moved to and covered Shi's and she kissed the girl deeply, for an eternity before finally removing the straps tying her legs to the headboard. She didn't untie Shi, however. Instead, her legs were moved down and parted so that Shi was spreadeagled on the bed, and Domino tied her ankles to the baseboard. Domino rose and grabbed the blanket that had fallen onto the ground at some point and covered Shi's body with it. "You should rest." Domino said softly, going to the dresser and the returning a moment later and sitting on the bed beside her. "Faeron." Shi smiled at him, happily exhausted from their forceful fucking. "I don't know if you realize the position you've put yourself in. I've mated with you, I've already penetrated the egg in your body. You belong to me. You may not want that." She put a hand on the side of her face as Shi shivered against her. "I want you." Shi moaned as that hand lowered to her throat. "It should be clear to you that I want you, as well. But you do not understand. I am going to control you, it is instinctual for me. It's much like a very strict dom/sub human relationship. I will force you to obey me." "If that is what it takes, Faeron. I can't stop feeling like this. I tried." Shi's lower lip shivered as he brought a ball gag into view. "You will learn just what that means in time, Shi, but for now, I am going to leave you here, like this. When I come back, I'm going to show you just how a wood elf fucks his mate." Domino growled out the last bit and felt Shi shake beneath her. Reaching up, she shoved the ball into Shi's mouth and secured it behind her head. Brown eyes looked up into hers with a loving trust that she hadn't expected, and a little bit of fear at what would happen when she returned, and she intended to. There were plenty of ways that Domino intended to exercise her dominance over this new and unexpected mate. Her cock already twitched at the thought. ~*~*~*~ "Oh. My. Dear. Jesus." Domino opened her eyes as Faeron's hand moved off of her face. She was panting and her body was hot, and aroused, oh man, so very very aroused. "I'm sorry, I couldn't think of another way to explain to you want I want to ask you." "You want to know how to tell Mr. Hughes that you impregnated a member of his staff, left her tied up in your room, and plan on fucking her whenever the hell the mood strikes you for the rest of her life?" She frowned at him, yeah, it wasn't going to be an easy conversation, especially since it was going to involve him imprinting on her, which she somehow knew everything about, and Shi was no longer going to be permitted to fuck people at the spa, which had long been a part of her job here. "Yes." He nodded, his eyes searching her for understanding. "You're kind of...in love with her now, aren't you. And it is freaking you the fuck out." Domino's eyes widened as she remembered that particular detail. Wow, when wood elves fell, they fell fucking hard. "He's not going to be happy about losing another employee." She shook her head at his comment as he moved back to the chair beside the bed. "How is it that she can't spread her legs for anyone else, but you can sink that insane cock of yours into whoever you want?" His eyebrows raised and his smile widened. "Call it my elf prerogative." "That's lame. You shouldn't fuck anyone besides her." Domino shook her head, frowning, Alexandru was only going to fuck her now, he loved her. "You just had another man's hand in your pussy and you're telling me to handle my sexual urges." "Oh, I'm going to poison your food for that one. Faeron, that has nothing to do with you, and he didn't mean it." "I'm sure he meant it, he just didn't control his urge." Domino threw a cracker at him for that one. "He's not going to like you forcing this all on her without talking to her about what would happen first. You should have told her what to expect." "I wasn't able to control my urge." "Oh, my God. Why are the men in my life so controlled by their cocks?" Domino sighed and looked at him weird when he started laughing out loud. "Domino, I think there is something you don't know." He shook his head gently at her. "What?" She frowned, what was he laughing at her for? "That angel bestie of yours, he doesn't have a cock." "WHAT?" "Angels aren't sexual, well, he is, but the rest aren't. They were created without genitalia. He has no cock." Faeron watched her eyes widen impossibly large and her beautiful, full mouth dropped open, he couldn't help thinking of her in a sexual way, her blond hair was still bed swept around her body and she looked completely fuckable, save all the tubes connected to her, and the swelling of her belly. "Then how does he-? He has a sex room, how-?" She was confused, this was not what she had imagined. "Strap ons work for everyone, izrê." He reminded her and smiled as she shook her head, trying to piece it all together. "Well, hot damn." She looked up at him, still a little in shock. "Indeed." "Is it wrong that it kind of makes me hot?" "He's an angel, he kind of makes everyone hot." "What was that called that you did, touching me, making me a part of your memory?" "Indemmar. It's one of our many...gifts. It allows you to experience a memory that I have, in more than just words." "It felt like I was there, that I was you." "It is supposed to feel that way." "How long was I in it? It felt like hours." "It lasted only a few minutes, Domino." "Really? That's crazy, I felt the whole experience, it was really really sexy." "I'm glad I could give you a little release, since you're not able to be with your boyfriend right now." "Fiancé. We're engaged." She fluttered her left hand in the air to show her ring. "Congratulations." He said, his eyes searching for more, he was wanting to know her thoughts on the wedding. "I love him, Faeron, and if I live through this pregnancy, I want to be with him for the rest of my life." She chastised as he grinned mischievously at her. "And you really expect that neither of you will ever fuck someone else? Through all of eternity?" He asked, wonder in his voice at the very thought of it. "That's what love is, Faeron, knowing when what you have is enough, more than enough." She shrugged her shoulders, Alexandru was all she wanted, and she wanted all of him. "Far be it for me to suggest that you're being a bit myopic about sex." Faeron shrugged as she frowned at him. "You just did suggest it!" She shook her head. "Well, I didn't think it was fair to just think it when I can hear everything that you're thinking." He shrugged again and rose, knowing he had to go and find Mr. Hughes before too long, Shi's absence in the spa would be noted eventually. "I have no interest in knowing what is rolling around in that thick head of yours, Faeron. Go find Mr. Hughes, he's probably busy, though. You can come annoy me again tomorrow." She waved him off. "Have a good day...and night...izrê." Faeron nodded at her in farewell and left the room. A Few Sips Ch. 12 Domino was right. When Faeron returned the next day to visit her, he told her how his conversation had gone with his employer, and it had not exactly been pretty, or response free. The wood fairy had taken all the blame, despite the fact that Shi had basically attacked him in the doorway, but he had told Mr. Hughes that he had given the girl a choice, and she had chosen him. Mr. Hughes had roared at him and told him that Shi had no experience with wood elves, that she would not understand what it meant to be imprinted. Faeron had listened patiently, taking the verbal beating, and told Mr. Hughes that he would do anything he had to do to make things easier, to give Shi as normal of a life as possible, but that he simply could not let her go, that his heart was connected to hers now, and it would not work. Mr. Hughes had threatened to fire him anyway, and Faeron had pleaded for his job, asking that the angel consider making his position here permanent if Shi wanted to remain at the spa, but not in a sexual way, he would not allow her to fuck anyone here. He had said that he would pay for a small home to be built either on the property, or on land nearby if Mr. Hughes wanted him out, but didn't want Shi to have to leave. He had promised to take care of her, to marry her as humans do. It all sounded so incredibly romantic to Domino, and she had been surprised to see the conviction in the wood elf's voice as he spoke with a great deal of care for the black-haired, pretty woman that he did, indeed, seem extremely connected to. In the end, Mr. Hughes had decided to allow for construction in the wing where he had housed Faeron to create a large apartment for the couple. With extra bedrooms, of course, as they were already on their way to starting their family. It had been done begrudgingly, and out of respect for Shi, Faeron knew, since Mr. Hughes was still holding judgement on Faeron's reasons for being here. The wood elf had thanked his employer and listened as Mr. Hughes threatened him in several different ways before finally returning to his room to find Shi still where he had left her, frustrated at the length of time she'd been left. He had not told her how that part had gone, but because of the indemmar from the previous day, she knew it involved his cock swelling to full staff and when he thrust it into her, it would suddenly shine with the scrawling script of elvish language, and the words would be seared onto the flesh of her vaginal walls, not painfully, but she would be branded internally, marking her as only his from that point forward. Shi would have come in glorious hard waves and he would have been affected as well. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that room last night, Domino had thought to herself and heard him chuckle, damnit. She hated that he could hear her thoughts. She'd spent her night snuggled close to Alexandru, and they had touched and kissed as they had taken to doing. He had left for only a little while to feed, and she had had to endure a short visit with Klaus who was again studying the ultrasounds of her abdomen to check on the placement of the placental veins in her uterus. They had not moved any farther into the uterine vein, and he held out hope that they would not go too far. He had suggested another adjustment to her blood intake, and then had left, thankfully, without saying anything more nasty about her relationship with Alexandru. "I am so sad that you've had to deal with him for so many years, Alex. It must be quite terrible." She had whispered against his chest. He had run a hand over her naked side and kissed her forehead before responding. "Not everyone gets to choose their sire. It's why I live where I do, the farther I am from him, the less he can control me. He has chosen for a very long time to let me be on my own. Before I brought him here, I made him promise to leave us afterwards, to let us live our lives in peace from him." "And he agreed to that? It doesn't sound like him." She'd muttered. Alex had chuckled and smoothed his rough palm over her right ass cheek, "He has many spawn, Domino, I am not the only one who he can choose to mistreat." "I wish there was a way to break that sire relationship. To get rid of that hold he has on you." She had looked into his red eyes as she spoke. "There is, he can simply say 'I release you, Alexandru,' and I would be free of him." She had gasped at his words. "Really? Then why won't he? It seems so archaic to force someone to do what you want them to." She had tightened her hold on his chest and he'd placed a hand over hers. "He is very very old, Domino. I don't think he even thinks about such a thing, he has certainly never released any of us." "Have you ever changed a human, Alexandru?" Domino had realized that she had never asked him that before. He'd grinned, "Would you be jealous if I had?" "I'm already jealous that you have to feed on others, of course the thought makes me jealous." "I have never changed anyone. I think the decision to do so is not something to take lightly." He'd told her and she'd been surprised to hear that he hadn't. "But you were ready to change me the second you learned that I was pregnant." She'd whispered, curling her fingers in the coarse hair of his chest, she didn't think she would ever get over how warm he was, she had always thought of vampires being cold, being dead. "Because I love you and I want you safe. I don't like seeing you like this, with all this human medical shit attached to you. I want you healthy, alive, not like this." He'd grumbled as he'd moved her to her back on the bed and kissed her more fully on the lips. "We're close now, Alexandru. I'm over thirty weeks along, the baby is moving like it should, I'm okay. It won't be much longer." She'd tried to reassure him, but knew from the look on his face that he wasn't listening. "That is what I am afraid of, my little dove. I want more time than a little longer." He had wrapped her in his arms and pulled her close. "So is now a bad time to mention that Arc freaked out today after he had a visit with an angel, and he kissed me and stuck a few fingers in my pussy?" She'd said super super softly, hating that she had to tell him, but she HAD to. He had stiffened up tightly against her, and before she'd even been able to further explain, he was up and off the bed, leaving her behind as he stormed out of the room in a flurry of growls and wings. She'd shouted for him to come back, but he'd ignored her and went to search out the angel. Domino had used the phone to text Mr. Hughes and warn him, and she'd also texted Samir and Deandra to come to the angel's aid should he need it. It had been more than an hour later when Alexandru had returned. His heat was down, and he was more relaxed as he yawned and climbed into the bed at her side. He would stay here until shortly before dawn, then he would go back to the basement. Apparently, she heard early the next morning from Samir, Mr. Hughes had been on the back patio when Alexandru had stormed outside, his fury rolling off of him as he sneered in disgust at his former employer, and Samir, in his nonhuman form, had merely grabbed the enraged vampire by the back of his neck and held him as he struggled. Alexandru had been furious, lashing out ineffectively against the giant's hold, doing no damage to the man as Mr. Hughes had stood silently, waiting for Alexandru to calm enough to have a conversation. Mr. Hughes had explained about what had happened with Fezekial and had apologized for the liberties that he had taken with Domino. He had promised to keep his hands to himself in the future, and had assured Alex that his fiancé had stopped his advances quickly, and he had listened and backed off. It had taken a little longer for Alexandru to calm down enough that Samir had felt safe in releasing him, but eventually, he had, and the three men talked for a while longer. She was sure that they'd spoken about more than just the situation between her and Mr. Hughes, but Domino was not told about what. There were times where she felt like the men here at Vorhees chose not to explain a great many things to her, and she thought it was really annoying. She didn't want to be left in the dark, and she knew that she was being left there, in a great big pile of it. ~*~*~*~ Domino was sitting in a wheelchair in the back yard of Vorhees wearing a long, violet colored gown as she held a bouquet of white and violet colored roses. It was dark, near midnight, and there were candles lit in poles all around the gathering on the rear of the property. She couldn't stop smiling, even though she felt really tired tonight. Shi was wearing a gorgeous white, A-line silk wedding dress and had just taken her place beside Faeron, who had worn a stunning black suit. She couldn't help but wonder if Mr. Hughes had helped him get a tailor. Alexandru was standing with Samir and Thorontur, who had made the trip to watch his brother get married to the human girl. Deandra, Shi's sister, Ami, and Domino were all standing beside Shi, on her side of the gathering. Mr. Hughes was officiating, which had made Domino snort when he'd told her. He'd been very hesitant to do so, but Domino had only thought it was fitting for someone who was literally a man of God to marry the wood elf to her friend. Shi looked absolutely beautiful. The cut of the gown with spaghetti strapped sleeves and the low bodice fit her trim figure perfectly, and her face was glowing as she stared into the abnormally large eyes of her soon to be husband. The two were incredibly smitten with each other, it was obvious to everyone around them. Shi had continued working at Vorhees, though not entirely in the same capacity as she had before. Instead of fucking who she was assigned to, Shi spent her days helping ready the rooms in the spa, or bringing in new clients, or helping with the exit of those that were leaving. At night, she was in Faeron's room, where she had moved as soon as he had imprinted on her. There were big plans being drawn up for their apartment that Shi had shared with her during her visits late every afternoon. They also had scoured magazines and websites for the wedding, as well as what she wanted to outfit the apartment with. They had both spent a lot of time on baby furniture and other items. At 34 weeks now, Domino knew her baby had an excellent chance of coming through delivery unscathed. She needed to know that Alexandru would have everything he needed to take care of their child. "You may now kiss the bride." She was shaken out of her thoughts by Mr. Hughes' deep voice and Domino looked up at the couple who had been grinning like fools at each other, who then moved to wrap their arms around each other and kiss with a great deal of longing and suggestion. Domino was overwhelmed with how incredibly romantic it all was. All of the employees were here to celebrate with them, as well as Shi's cousin, Marc Caffey, who had arrived with Deandra on his arm, and the entire Lotus family. Talk about a hot group of dragons. Not one male, or female member of that group was anything less than breathtakingly handsome. The four children that they had brought with them were well on their way to being the same. She had been told that all of them were Anya's. The light siren and her pack of wolves had been invited, as well, but only Grigory and Yegor had come. Anya was pregnant again and not feeling very well, being in her first trimester, and Sergei had not wanted her to make the journey to Toronto. He, Yakov, and Aidan, who was still apparently with them for now, had stayed behind to take care of her and watch their growing brood. Domino wasn't sure if she was happy Anya hadn't come, or upset. There were a great many things that she would have liked to say to the light siren, but it probably wasn't a good idea to try to corner the woman at a wedding and let her know that how she was treating Mr. Hughes was neither called for or appropriate. He had disfigured himself over her, there was absolutely no reason she should have made him so miserable. Domino was biting her lower lip when Faeron looked over at her for just a second, enough to let her know to move along in her thoughts and she smiled, thinking again of the memory he had shared with her of his first time with Shi. She wondered if every time was like that, and saw him smile and pick up the woman he had just married and kiss her again as everyone in the crowded back yard clapped. Domino looked over at Alexandru. He looked so incredibly sexy in his black tux and bowtie. She wanted to crawl right onto him but knew that she didn't even have the energy to stand up now. He was looking at her, his eyes smoldering, his face tight, worried, as it always was these days. She knew he was worried that he was about to lose her. She focused on what he was about to gain. A child, a second chance to have a family. Domino had tried unsuccessfully to get him to think in those terms, of how lucky he would be to have a baby that would be like him, that would never die, that he would never lose. His response had been one of anger and they'd fought, as they seemed to fight more and more often. There was nothing she could do, though. It was way too late to remove the baby, it was alive and kicking. Oooh, it was definitely kicking. She rested a hand on her swollen stomach and felt the baby's foot shove out and move along the top of the mound. The feeling always made her a little nauseous and creeped out, but it let her know that the baby was okay. That was what mattered to her. But this kicking seemed different, maybe not so very kick like, she thought as she felt like her whole uterus tightened. No, it hadn't been a kick. That sharp pain in her lower back hadn't been a kick at all. Faeron was walking down the aisle with Shi at his side and they were being cheered on by the chatter and clapping of their standing guests. Deandra and Thorontur went down the aisle behind them first, and when Alexandru came over to Domino, he moved around behind her to push her chair and she tilted her head back and he bent down so that she could whisper in his ear. His frown tightened and he nodded, slowly pushing her down the aisle as she pulled her phone out from underneath her leg and texted Dr. Trainor and Mr. Hughes. They went down the aisle, smiling as appropriate, and instead of turning right and joining the married couple in the reception line, they continued straight forward and moved onto the patio and through to the dining room that had been set up in a beautiful way for the wedding dinner, complete with a small orchestra who were getting ready to perform. Domino figured they must be non-human in some way because there was no way that Mr. Hughes would have allowed humans in to see all of the people in attendance, some of whom were not able to hide their appearance. The elevator ride seemed long, and Domino waited for Alexandru to say something, but he was being tight lipped as they waited to reach their floor. When he pushed her out of the elevator, his jaw had tensed just that much more, because she had had another contraction, and this one had shown on her face and in the whimper she had inadvertently released. In the room that she had lived in for what now seemed like forever, Alexandru parked the chair and picked her up in his arms, clutching her against his body tightly, his mouth over hers, his hands around her ass and her shoulders, his face was wet and she didn't have to look at him to know he was crying, to know he was terrified. "When the baby is out, just change me, Alex. It will all be okay." She told him, holding him to her as he slowly lowered her to her back on the bed. "If you die..." He shook his head, he couldn't even get the words out through the choking feeling in his throat. "If I die, you open the top drawer of my dresser, and you raise our baby to be as wonderful and loving and perfect as you are." Domino whispered as Mr. Hughes walked through the door of the room, his eyes filled with trepidation. "What is going on?" He asked, though her text to him had been very very clear. 'Headed to my room, baby is making an appearance tonight.' "Is Dr. Trainor on his way?" She asked, just as her phone buzzed to let her know the doctor had just arrived downstairs. "Klaus has been sent for, as well." "Hasn't he taught Dr. Trainor the procedure? Does that creeper really have to be involved?" Domino frowned, she didn't really want Klaus touching her or her child. "He has, but Domino, he is the only one who has been successful at this. We need him here." Mr. Hughes shook his head at her, he pulled out his phone again and sent another text. "Brunhild will be here shortly. We wanted the vampire blood that we use to be fresh. I'm going to move things in the room around, Domino, we need to get things as sterile as possible." He explained as he pocketed his phone in his black slacks and removed his tuxedo jacket and set it over a chair. Domino watched Alexandru do the same, and both men had tossed away their bowties and rolled up the sleeves on their white shirts as the doctor came into the room with Deandra on his heels, her eyes wide as she held one edge of her bridesmaid's dress in hand. "Oh, Deandra, please, go back to the party. This is a night to celebrate. Let Shi know that I am fine. There will be more than enough people here." Domino frowned, not wanting everyone to start worrying about her, it wouldn't change whatever happened in the end. "Are you sure, Dom? I can stay, I'm happy to." Deandra stood beside the bed and put a hand on Domino's hot forehead as she looked down at her face. Domino nodded, "Yup. I'm fine. I want you all to celebrate. Marc looks way too hot not to dance with. I want you to dance, so go. Dance." Domino tensed as another contraction hit and Deandra looked over at Alexandru who was walking over to the bed with a pile of clean sheets. "It's okay. We'll update you as things go along." He tried to reassure the small woman who looked at him skeptically for a moment before nodding and leaving the room. "It is time?" Klaus' voice came from the doorway and Domino looked over at him. "God, I hope so. This really hurts." Domino told him, Alexandru picked her up off of the bed and Mr. Hughes ripped the sheets off and redressed it in plain white ones. She was laid back down on top of the sheets and her clothing was unceremoniously removed from her body. They put a simple hospital blanket over her as various medical machinery was moved into location around her, and Domino watched nervously as another pump and a heart rate monitor was set up near her head. Dr. Trainor was setting up a tray of scary looking metal instruments at her side and Domino widened her eyes and looked up at Alexandru, this was really getting real, and scary. Really scary. "I have to put you under general anesthesia, Domino. It will keep the baby a little sedated, which we will need to remove him without his wings causing any unnecessary tearing, and when we work to disconnect the placenta, well...it would be better for you not to be conscious." The doctor said from beside her, then he looked between her and Alexandru. "I would like a moment alone with my fiancé." Domino spoke a little louder than she probably need to, but another contraction was hitting her. "Quickly, Domino." Mr. Hughes said before motioning for Dr. Trainor and Klaus to walk out of the bedroom with him. "This is my fault." His words were guttural and filled with sadness. "It totally is. But I am having a baby, Alexandru, a baby with you. That is not a terrible thing. Tonight is not a terrible night. We are having our baby." Domino felt him take her hands in his. "I don't know if I can raise a baby without you." He frowned from his towering height over her. A Few Sips Ch. 12 Domino smiled, "That's totally not what a woman in my position wants to hear, you know." "I'm only a good man when I'm with you, my little dove. If I lose you..." He shook his head. "Alexandru. I love you. I want this baby, this was my decision. Whatever happens happens, and I am not going to regret a single moment with you. If I die tonight, then I die, but if I do, it's to bring this beautiful little bit of life into the world, and I will happily do it. So stop moping and tell me whatever it is you need to tell me before the doctor comes back in and cuts me open." She squeezed his hands. "I-it's just-I love you, you stubborn little woman." "I love you, too, you crotchety old man." Domino watched as his mouth tipped up at the corner just the tiniest little bit. "Be strong for me." "Be strong for me, Alex. We can do this." She groaned a little as the baby shifted awkwardly and Alexandru moved away from her and went to the door, motioning for the other three men to come inside. "Are you ready, Domino?" Dr. Trainor asked as he took a vial of something and connected it to the one empty port of her PICC line. "Arc, come here." Domino weakly reached out with a hand to her friend and he came over to her, his gray eyes all torn up and murky. "I love you, so don't go doing anything stupid if something happens to me, you big, dumb idiot." She chuckled and watched as his eyes shifted into a glare as he shook his head at her. "You can't possibly be serious, can you, Domino?" He sighed, looking at Alexandru. "Oh, trust me, I'm totally serious. Just, behave...and make sure, make sure the baby gets to see her godfather as much as she wants." Domino felt her spine clench up a little and nodded at the doctor, they needed to do this now. "Who is her godfather, Dom?" Mr. Hughes tilted his head forward a little bit as the medication was pushed. "You, silly." Domino said before her eyes fluttered closed and she lost consciousness. Alexandru was glad that the men around him ignored the way his breath caught at seeing her eyes close like that, and finally, he looked up at Dr. Trainor, and then over at his sire and hissed. "She does not die. No matter what. You must not let her die." He growled before stepping back and allowing the doctor to move into place beside her abdomen. Mr. Hughes folded the blanket down to just under the bottom curve of her belly and then placed another blanket over her chest as the doctor inserted an IV to allow for an infusion of normal saline. Keeping her fluids up would be essential, he knew. When that was done, he set up her ventilator and intubated her with a breathing tube. Klaus was at the door, Brunhild had arrived and he was taking several vials of her blood. When he came back to the bed, Mr. Hughes looked at him and Alexandru for a moment. "Brunhild will stay just outside the door. Domino requested that if she be changed into...your kind, that it be her. She doesn't want the guilt of doing it on you, Alex, and she wants to make sure that her sire releases her immediately." He looked at Klaus when he said that and the old vampire had the audacity to smirk a little and nod his head. "I will change her if it needs to be done." Alexandru shook his head. "No, you won't." That was Samir, who had appeared in the doorway of the room and was walking over slowly, his hands behind his back as he looked at the woman who was being prepped with chlorhexidine to keep her abdomen sterile during the incision and opening. Alexandru felt himself grow heated, but he had no time to argue, the doctor had picked up a scalpel and was starting to cut. The smell of blood was too much and he started to shake. Samir immediately grabbed him by the arm and pulled him forcefully out of the room. "Sorry, Alexandru, but we don't need you draining her in the middle of all of this." Samir sounded apologetic, but that didn't keep the vampire from trying to pry out of his grasp. "She smells fantastic, I don't blame you, Alexandru." Brunhild said softly from where she was leaning against the wall. The tall, buxom brunette with the thin, long nose took a long breath and closed her eyes for a moment. "Klaus-." Alexandru growled, looking into the room. "Klaus fed before coming in. He will be fine. He's done this before." Samir replied. "She'd better live." He frowned, his red eyes focused on the dark blue ones that stared right back at him. "Hell, yes, she better. I've got a gift sitting in my room for her when she gets better and I'm going to be incredibly disappointed if she never gets it." ~*~*~*~ Alexandru knew it was close to dawn. He could feel his body starting to tug him into slumber, but he wasn't willing to seek shelter below stairs yet. He was sitting on the floor of the hallway, Samir dosing softly at his side, and Brunhild laying down across from them. His mind had not stopped raising over scenarios since he'd been dragged from Domino's side. Mr. Hughes had come out several times and said that they were taking it very slow. The baby as all right, but the process of extraction was somewhat difficult. They had to go a little bit at a time to retract the veins that were piercing the uterine tissue. He still felt like it was all taking too long. Alexandru wanted to be by her side, but her smell was strong, and even here in the hallway, he could practically taste it. Deandra had come upstairs with her boyfriend, and they had both offered him a wrist to drink from and he had gratefully accepted their help. If he wasn't going to be the one to change her, he shouldn't see her on an empty stomach. Brunhild was the one who was waiting until the last minute to sate her hunger. "Alexandru, you can come in now." Mr. Hughes' voice sounded from the doorway, tired, and restrained as he waited for the large vampire to rise. Samir and Brunhild did as well, but they both stayed a little back when entering the room behind the man who rushed in ahead of them. "Domino?" Alexandru asked, looking at the doctor and his sire, trying to see his lover between the blue blankets that now covered her body. She was pale, and unconscious, and there was a thin tube in her nose that looked like a feeding tube. But her chest was moving and the bulge to her stomach was lower. "She is alive. The process that Klaus has developed was successful at removing the baby." Dr. Trainor said, "She is very weak, malnourished. It will be a long road to recovery for her, but she can return to her pre-pregnancy state." "She can live, and continue to be a human?" Alexandru looked from the doctor to his sire, who was holding something wrapped in another blue blanket. "She can. But that isn't want she has requested, Alexandru." Mr. Hughes frowned. "Do you honestly think that I should change her into a vampire if she can live as a human?" Alex looked knowingly into the eyes of the angel, who sighed and looked at Dr. Trainor. "She will remain stable?" "I have every expectation that she will. I even expect her to wake up in the next hour or so, as well." "Keep her human. I don't want her changed." Alexandru shook his head, he couldn't do it, he couldn't let anyone do it. "Alexandru, it is what she wants." Brunhild stepped forward a little. "She has no idea what this means. She has no idea what it feels like to desire to feed on people, to have this hunger in her all the time. She wouldn't want this, before I met her, she could barely even leave her house, she was terrified of people, how can I do this to her? How can I make her into this. No, no, we will wait. I want her fully conscious, I want her to think about this for a day before it happens. Brunhild. Go somewhere else and feed. No one is changing her tonight." Alexandru was desperate for them to listen and Mr. Hughes finally sighed and nodded at the female vampire in the room. "Fine, let me know if you need me tomorrow." She walked out of the room to find a meal before she needed to return to her room. "Do you want to see your daughter, Alexandru?" Klaus' voice was quiet as he spoke, and Alexandru felt a shiver go through his body, it was a girl. "A girl?" He still asked, even though it had already been said, and he slowly walked over towards Klaus, his eyes widening as he saw the dark haired bundle sleeping peacefully. "She is tiny, like her mother, but very healthy. Strong lungs." Klaus handed the baby to her father and backed away. "She's beautiful." Alexandru muttered as he put a large hand over the baby's, sucking in a breath as she moved her tiny fist to grab his index finger. "Of course she is," Mr. Hughes was moving equipment away from the bedside, "Look at her mother." "We have already fed her, she drank quite well. A whole bottle." Klaus told him. Alexandru looked up, and nodded, he hadn't even considered that the baby would need to feed this soon, but it was close to dawn, so it would be a while before the newborn woke, and it would be extremely hungry then. "You should take her and go downstairs. It is going to be light very soon. There is blood and bottles already in the room, in the small fridge near the dresser. She will want to eat as soon as you rise." Mr. Hughes said, nodding toward the door. "I don't feel right taking her before Domino sees her." Alexandru frowned. "There is no time, and she isn't going to wake up soon, and she cannot be moved from here today. You have to go." Mr. Hughes said again, Samir was coming over with new sheets for the bed. "Fine." Alexandru furrowed a brow as he turned towards the door. Then, he thought of something and turned back around. "She doesn't have a name." He said simply. "She does. She told it to Faeron. Your daughter's name is Faith." Samir grinned from the opposite side of the bed. "Faith." Alexandru muttered as he looked down at the sleeping bundle in his arms. Faith. ~*~*~*~ "Get this thing out of my nose." Domino groaned the next afternoon, she had not woken up in a good mood. "No, it's a feeding tube and you need it." A deep voice chuckled at her from beside the bed. "I don't need a fucking feeding tube. I need a cheeseburger." Domino felt the weight finally lift off of her eyes and she turned her head to look over at the smiling blond that was seated in the chair beside her bed. "Good afternoon, lazy ass." Samir smiled wide, showing his perfect white teeth and Domino frowned. "Afternoon, are you kidding? Where is Faith? Why do I want a cheeseburger? Where is Alexandru? Why am I not burning? What the hell, Samir?" She groaned the last and tried to rise, but she was too sore and winced as Samir jumped up to help her lay back down. "Faith is with her father, they are sleeping together in a way that even makes me get all gushy. On their sides, facing each other, wings curled around them as they're all bent towards each other. They're fine. She's beautiful, Domino, you did good." Samir explained the most important bit first. "Hm, I guess I never really thought about that, she's going to have to sleep all day like her dad. Awesome. Wait, I'm not there." "No, you aren't." Samir shook his head. "Why am I not there, Samir?" Domino was growing angry. "When the doctor told him that you could survive as a human, he insisted that you be given a day to think about what you want. Mr. Hughes argued with him about it, and you know that Mr. Hughes doesn't want you to change into anything that you're not already." Samir watched her frown deepen and she bit her lower lip. "But I told him, I wanted to be like my family." Domino felt a tear leave her eye, she didn't want to be different, she wanted to be like Alexandru and Faith. "Then tell him that tonight, and have Brunhild change you." Samir shrugged, he wasn't thrilled with the idea of Domino becoming a vampire, either, but that was for purely selfish reasons. "It's just that we talked about this so much, I don't understand why he would make me wait. It's safer for me if I'm not human around Faith, isn't it? Won't I make her hungry?" Domino asked, it was a good question.
"From what I understand, she doesn't have any teeth and will develop like a normal baby. She will need to get blood from a bottle until then. But that's good because she's so little, she would feed uncontrollably at first. From what Klaus said, you can nurse her, even." Samir stood up and went to the dresser where he had dropped his phone. "I'm texting Mr. Hughes and Shi. They wanted to know when you woke up." He told her. "I missed the whole party." Domino frowned as he hit send. "Yeah, you did. But I had a plate of all the goodies made for you, and cake, too. We can eat some as soon as the doctor comes and clears you for food." He told her as he walked back over to her bed. "Do you think Alexandru doesn't want me to be a vampire?" Her question was asked very quietly, and he sat down on the mattress facing her and took her hand in his. "No, I don't think he does." Samir shook his head and watched her face fall a bit. "Does he not love me?" Domino choked on the words and heard him deny any such thing. "He loves you a great deal. I think that's why he doesn't want it. He knows what hell it can be to be alive forever, to watch family die, to be alone. He doesn't want that for you." He tried to explain, but knew she was having none of it. "I don't have any family besides Alexandru and Faith. And you and Mr. Hughes. Shi, Deandra, and my friend Jenna are actually the only human friends I even have. So what the hell do you mean 'watch my family die?' As it stands right now, MY family are the ones who are going to watch ME die." By the time she had stopped speaking, she was screaming, and Samir was scooting up in the bed, both hands going to her face to try to shush her, her health was still delicate and getting riled up was not the way to go about improving it. "Can we not make her bleed out when we don't have a vampire to get her back?" Mr. Hughes said sourly from the doorway. Domino looked over at him and finally let her tears fall. "Tell me how this is fair. Tell me how he gets to take this decision from me." She gulped for air as Mr. Hughes walked over and sat in the chair after pulling it closer to the bed. "It's not fair, and he doesn't get to take this decision from you." He said instead, and Domino raised her eyebrows, she hadn't expected him to side with her, well, wait. He was her friend, that was exactly what he should have done. Angel 1, StupidVampireFiancé 0. "I have a daughter, I don't want her to lose me. I lost my parents when I was a baby. I don't want her to ever go through that." Domino told them, showing Mr. Hughes the PICC line when he motioned for it, he was very diligent in keeping good care of her. "Domino, it will be okay. In the end, Alexandru will understand that. He just needs to hear it. Last night, last night he was so terrified of losing you, he wasn't thinking. He loves you and he won't want to lose you. Wait until tonight and talk to him." Mr. Hughes wiped a thick lock of her blond hair out of her eyes. "Will Dr. Trainor be here soon? She's saying she wants a cheeseburger." Samir asked, effectively switching the subject when he heard her stomach growl. "He should be here in an hour. Until then, I'll give you a tube feed, Domino." He immediately got up to do so. "Did the doctor give you a time frame on how long it will be before I am able to get up?" She asked as Mr. Hughes moved about beside her. "Nope." He responded and she chuckled. "Nope? That's a little slang-ish for an angel." "I'm a modern guy." He shrugged his shoulders and she started laughing, Samir joining in with her this time. "Oh no you are not." A Few Sips Ch. 13 It felt like days had passed since Mr. Hughes, Dr. Trainor, and Samir had left after she'd been examined. Apparently, she was healing rather well, and with any luck, the doctor had told her, she would be able to be up and about in just a few more days. It wasn't her incision keeping her down, he'd assured her, it was the hypotension that she was affected by at the significant amount of blood loss that she had endured during the procedure. Her daughter had been rather hungry, he had frowned at telling her, and had taken quite a bit from her before they'd been able to disconnect the placenta from her uterine wall. Faeron and Shi had come up with dinner and sat with her as she ate. They told her about the party after their wedding, and about the guests that had come for the festivities. While they were there, Yegor and Grigory had stopped in to tell her congratulations on the baby before leaving to go back to Minnesota. She'd told them the same, knowing that Anya was expecting, and both had smiled, apparently, she was pregnant with pups from the whole pack this time, and not just Sergei, so they had puffed up with pride. They'd left quietly after telling her to rest up and giving their farewells to both her and the bride and groom. "If she asked you to make her immortal and you could, would you?" Domino had asked, surprising the newlyweds. "Yes. If that is what she wished." Faeron had nodded without hesitation. "Why?" Faeron had smiled and put his hand in Shi's as she smiled back at him. "Because I love my wife. You should understand, Domino, that this is an easy conversation for she and I to have. For every year that I am imprinted on her, about five years is added to her life, so as long as we are together, her aging will slow and I will get an immeasurable amount of time with her." "Really? I didn't know that." Domino had nodded, that sounded a lot simpler than having to get sucked dry and changed by a vampire, a lot less brutal, at least. "Many vampires think that because they are darkness, that they are cursed and do not wish to pass that affliction on to others. Alexandru is hesitant because of his love for you, not because he doesn't care if you die. He cares a great deal." Faeron had tried to reassure her, but it was hard, she just needed Alexandru to wake up, she just needed to talk to him. Dusk had finally arrived, and Domino was sitting up in her bed, feeding tube finally out. She was wearing a simple white sleeveless nightgown with a front that buttoned up. Her hands were clutched tightly in her lap as she looked at the closed door to her room with great impatience. Alexandru would be coming soon, he would bring their daughter to her, and she would be able to see Faith for the first time. She was so overwhelmed with the emotions filling her that her heart seemed to pound against her chest and her breathing was a little more rapid than it should be. Before the door was even open, she could hear the baby cries coming from the hallway, and bit her lower lip as the door was pulled open slowly. When she expected to see Alexandru's face, she saw Samir's instead, and he looked to the bed and saw her, a gentle nod in her direction before he walked in, a squealing, squirming baby with flapping black wings in his arms as he moved to the bed, sitting on it at the level of her waist. "Where is Alexandru?" Domino was confused, she looked at the doorway and saw Mr. Hughes come inside and shut the door behind him. He was dressed in his typical suit and had that look on his face that he made when he didn't want you to know how he felt, which told her more than anything that something was wrong. "Faith, meet your mummy." Samir's deep voice cooed at the baby girl who didn't care, and she shrieked at the top of her little lungs, more than hungry at this point. Domino looked down and froze, amazed at how like her the little girl looked. Well, she had her daddy's black hair, full and relatively thick. Her face was bright pink and wrinkled as she cried and Domino instinctively took her in her arms and held her close, feeling her calm instantly and grab at Domino's nightgown with her tiny little hands. Domino moved her big brown eyes to the gray ones still near the doorway. "Can I nurse her?" She asked in a soft whisper. "Please do, otherwise I don't think anyone in this place is going to get any sleep tonight." Mr. Hughes nodded, a soft look on his face as he saw Domino with her daughter for the first time, both alive, both healthy. "I don't even know how." Domino frowned as she held the little girl with one arm and moved the other hand to the buttons on the front of her gown. It was awkward and she felt frustrated when Samir moved his hands to help and the gown was pulled open enough for her to reach in and grab one of her swollen breasts. "Hold her like this." Samir moved the baby in her arms a little to put the little baby in a better position to feed, and Domino held the nipple to the baby's mouth, gasping when, eyes still closed angrily, the little girl's mouth sunk onto the nipple and sucked it deep into her mouth. "Oh, sweet, Jesus." Domino groaned and watched the little eyes open, they were red, like Alexandru's eyes. "Is it painful?" Samir asked, ready to help adjust the baby if need be. Domino chuckled and shook her head, "No, it's just...she's a hard sucker, and well, I was a little full." Mr. Hughes finally walked over to the bed and sat down on the other side, he looked at Samir and frowned. Domino saw it and furrowed a brow. "What is it? Where is Alexandru?" She asked, feeling her lower lip shake a little, something was definitely wrong. "Domino. Klaus refused to help Alexandru help you. He wasn't going to come to the spa." Mr. Hughes shook his head, not quite sure how to go about this. "What do you mean? The creeper was here, he helped Dr. Trainor save my life." Domino shook her head, that didn't make sense. "Yes, but only after Alexandru gave him what he wanted." Mr. Hughes said in a sigh, he closed his eyes for a moment. "Alexandru didn't give him anything, I don't understand. What are you saying?" Domino felt Faith suck a little harder and smoothed a hand over her little girl's smooth face. "Klaus only agreed to come to Canada with Alexandru if Alexandru promised to return to Belarus with him after he had delivered you." "What?" "He wants a companion, he made Alexandru agree to it." Samir put in, his own heart aching for the pain they were causing the girl who had already been through so much. "A companion? He wants to fuck my Al-?" Domino gasped and Mr. Hughes put a hand on her thigh. "It's not a sexual thing, Domino. Klaus is an incredibly old vampire, he wants someone to be at his side, someone he can control, someone who he can compel. He has always been fond of Alexandru, apparently, for his humanity. Klaus had tried to get him to agree to it for years before he finally moved to the States. He used you to get what he wanted." Mr. Hughes could tell that she was sinking, her heart was slowly taking in what had happened and her breath was coming slowly, and painfully. "Where is he?" She asked, her voice a broken whisper. "They are gone, Domino. They had already left the spa by the time I was alerted to Faith crying by one of the maids." He felt her tense beside him and her face was covered in tears that fell silently. "But he asked me to marry him." She choked out, looking at Samir, shaking her head as she spoke. "Dom." Samir sighed, rubbing her inner knee as he sat facing her. "He asked me to marry him." She said a little louder, and a little angrier as she looked at Mr. Hughes. "He loves you, Domino." "He asked me to MARRY him." She shouted, wincing a little as Faith bit her nipple at the sound of her voice. "Stay calm, Domino. You're still recovering, it's going to take some time. You can't let this-." Mr. Hughes scooted a little closer and wrapped his left arm around her body, bringing her up against his chest as she continued to sob and look at the two of them with lost, hurt eyes. "Oh my God, he asked me to marry him." Domino closed her eyes and sunk against the warm body of the man against her, her shoulders shaking from the sobs that tore through her, and her little daughter clinging tightly to her breast. ~*~*~*~ Day one post Alexandru was probably the hardest day that Domino had ever gone through in her life. Harder than having a baby pulled from her womb who had a greedy placenta, and much harder than being fucked by Pete when she was younger. She'd been completely unable to do anything for herself that night. Samir and Mr. Hughes had stayed with her the whole time, burping Faith, switching her to the other breast, cleaning her, feeding her a bottle of blood, singing to her, putting her down to sleep. It had been an endless cycle of baby care that had ended with Samir returning her to the basement, to a room where Mr. Hughes had set up the crib that Domino had ordered online a month ago. It was not in Alexandru's room, he knew that Domino would not be able to go in there so soon. She'd slept fitfully, wrapped up tightly against Samir, needing the warmth that surrounded her as he held her in the comfort of his strong arms. She'd cried when he'd come in after putting Faith down for the day, and she'd cried when he'd wiped her down with a warm cloth. She'd cried when he'd stripped to his boxers and crawled into the bed with her, and she'd cried when he'd pulled her into his arms and shushed her softly, waving Mr. Hughes away when his employer had finally risen from the computer that he'd been doing some work on while Samir had readied Domino for bed. She was pretty sure she'd cried as she slept, too. When she woke up that afternoon, she wasn't alone. Mr. Hughes was in front of the computer and on the phone talking to someone, and Shi was lying on her stomach on the bed, her head near Domino's and she was listening to music through earbuds on an iPod until Domino opened her eyes to look at her. Shi had smiled softly, reached over and kissed her cheek, and then put one of the earbuds in Domino's ear so that she could listen to the classical music, as well. Domino heard the music, but it felt flat to her, she felt flat, and she did little but stare absently around her as her bags were changed and she was forced to eat some food, the appetite that she'd had before was gone. Day seven was a little better. Domino was up now, her fluid levels back up to sufficient numbers. Because Faith was breastfeeding, she would still need to drink fluids a lot during the day, but she was finally off of the blood and the platelets and the saline. In fact, Mr. Hughes had removed the PICC line from her arm because she had responded very well to their treatment. He'd told her that once the baby started teething, that she would have to pump if she wanted to continue to feed her breastmilk. Otherwise, Faith would start to bite her and if she drew blood, it could be dangerous for Domino. Baby vampires didn't know when to stop. It's why they always fed the infant blood from a bottle. She'd taken to sleeping on a twin bed that had been moved into Faith's room, and stayed there often, even during the day when her baby was sleeping soundly. Domino liked to hear her steady breathing, to watch the gentle rise and fall of her little baby chest as she slept, on her stomach because of her beautiful satin-smooth furred wings. Domino had no idea how she was going to control her little one when she learned to fly. Brunhild had told her that it wouldn't be until she was about a year old, so she had some time to figure it out, she supposed. It would be a harsh learning curve, she knew, because she honestly felt like she knew very little about vampires. She certainly hadn't realized that they could abandon their own children at such a young age. It was that thought that made her more miserable than anything. Domino knew what it was like to grow up without a mom and a dad. Having this baby with Alexandru, she'd never once considered that he wouldn't be in the picture. Day thirteen brought Christmas, and while everyone else in the spa was celebrating, and showering each other gifts and kissing under the mistletoe, Domino was hiding out down in the basement, watching horror movies or feeding her daughter, or sleeping. She had a pile of gifts to open, for both her and her daughter, but she didn't have the energy or the desire to do it. She had absolutely no reason to celebrate anything this year. She couldn't imagine plastering a smile on her face and wishing everyone a happy Christmas. Hell no. Ba Fucking Humbug. Day twenty-one brought with it a letter. A letter from Aidan that she had never expected to get. He was still with Sergei and Anya. He had been hoping that they would let them become a member of their little pack, but so far, the alpha had been extremely opposed to the idea. They had apparently heard from Mr. Hughes what had happened with Alexandru, and he had written to offer his sincerest apologies to her, and then to offer to take care of her, if she would consider it, because he didn't want her to be alone. Domino had frowned, and let the letter fall to the floor as she went to stand beside her daughter's crib, hands wrapped around her from the front. He was happy with being a consolation prize? He deserved better than that. He deserved better than her. After a few days, she had sent him a letter back, telling him so. Day thirty found Domino sitting in the conservatory, her laptop in her lap, flipped open to a browser with multiple tabs open. She'd gone there after breakfast and had sat there all morning, alone, looking at apartments and houses for rent in the northern United States. She didn't want to return to Vermont, and had given her landlord notice that she would be breaking her contract as of March 1st, which gave her a little over a month and a half to find a place that would work, that she could keep Faith safe at. "You're leaving?" Mr. Hughes came up behind her and looked at the page she'd been on. "I can't stay and raise my baby at a sex spa." She muttered, not looking up from the screen. "I stopped thinking of you as a temporary resident a long time ago, I guess. I apologize, I should have been more helpful. What can I do?" He sat on a chair beside hers, his voice calm, solemn, as he tried to pretend that he didn't like the thought of her going, but she knew he didn't, she knew he would be perfectly fine with her staying here forever. "I don't want to go to Burlington, too much...past...there. I want to start somewhere fresh. Alex put all this stupid cash in an account for me, so I have money to get started. Then I can find a job like my old one where I can stay at home and work, so I don't have to worry about anyone finding Faith." She explained to him as she crossed another apartment off of the list. "Can I suggest a place where there is a vampire nearby? One close enough for questions, but not close enough to interfere? You will need guidance, Domino, whether you think so or not." He watched her carefully with his gray eyes, she was not her normal self these days, she was withdrawn, cold. Absent. He had figured her agoraphobia had kicked right back into place, and had actually been surprised to see her outside one of her rooms. "One who can't be compelled to leave me, too?" She said bitterly as she looked at another apartment, she didn't really want an apartment, she didn't want nosy neighbors. "Domino." "Have you ever been to Spokane?" Mr. Hughes sighed, "There is a very kind, gracious vampire who lives in the Green Bay area of Wisconsin that I have known for years. She is like your daughter, a result of a pregnancy. Her mother died in childbirth and she would be very helpful to you, Domino. Her name is Josephine. Would you be willing to meet her if I brought her here? I will help you find a place in that area if you are willing." Domino frowned, she really wasn't a cheese curd or a Packers' fan, but it wouldn't hurt, and the thought of meeting a vampire who had been born and not changed did appeal to her. She wanted to know what life would be like for her daughter. "I guess so." She flipped her laptop shut and looked at him. "Thank you. I will call her today to set up her visit." He stood up, wanting to touch her shoulder, anything, to bring some warmth to her lost, misery-filled brown eyes, but he knew she would stiffen at the touch and he couldn't bare it. "You could always come with me, you know, leave this place in Faeron and Shi's hands, check in over the internet. Faith needs a non-disappointing father in her life." She tilted her head back a little to look up at him and he frowned. "Domino, I know you are upset, I know you feel like your heart has been ripped out of your body, but you're not unkind. Don't become that way." "I just asked you to move in with me, how is that unkind?" Domino scoffed as he placed his hands together behind his back. "Because you don't mean it." He said simply. Domino bit her lower lip as she straightened her gaze to peer absently out the window she faced and into the woods behind the landscaped yard. She didn't speak for several moments, and when she did, she ignored the shine in her eyes from the unshed tears in them, "Do not fall in love with me, Arc. I couldn't bare that." ~*~*~*~ Day forty-two was quiet at first, Domino sat with Deandra playing cards in the morning, she ate lunch with Faeron and an apparently insatiable Shi. Developing elf babies were severe food mongers. The afternoon had been spent in her upstairs room, listening to Mr. Hughes sing, despite the fact that she hadn't asked him to in a long time, and then supper had been with Samir, who had forced her to eat with him in his room, which she had only been in once before. After he fed her another meal that he'd learned to make in Syria, he moved over to sit on his comfortable microfiber couch and patted on it to get her to join him. Domino frowned at the blond, handsome man, but she rose from his small table anyway, and went over to the couch to sit down, leaving nearly an entire cushion between the two of them. He smiled and disappeared into the bathroom for a second before coming back out with a folded blanket of some sort. "Stand up for a second, Dom." He told her, and she immediately did as he requested. He put the pad, which was about three feet by three feet, onto the cushion that she'd just been sitting on. Then, he squatted in front of her quickly and pulled down both the leggings that she'd been wearing, and the pale pink panties beneath until they were both around her ankles. Domino gasped and tried to reach down and grab them. "Sit." He barked the order and she sat, shaking as he pulled both items of clothing completely off of her. Samir stood back up and took the clothes into the bathroom with him so she couldn't put them back on. Domino did not get up from the couch, she just put her hands over the top of her pussy so that it wasn't so visible when he walked back in with what looked like some sort of corded electrical device with a plastic baseball sized thing on the opposite end. Her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open as she watched him plug it in beside the couch, and then he sank to his knees, setting it down so he could pull her legs apart and move his body close between them so she couldn't close them again. "Lean back against the cushions, Domino, when I turn this on and put it against your clit, you're gonna cum hard, and fast." Samir muttered, his voice showing his sudden arousal and she gasped, barely having time to do as he had told her to before she heard the buzzing sound the thing made when he flipped a switch. Oh, shit, this was the thing Mr. Hughes had used on that redhead a million years ago. A Few Sips Ch. 13 "Move your hands, Domino." He said gutturally and she knew they were shaking as she pressed them into the couch on either side of her spread thighs. He was right, the second he touched the rapidly pulsing wand to her clit, her pussy exploded and she felt moisture gush from her extremely sensitive fold. Her gasp was loud, and appreciative, and she felt her hips shift towards him, giving him better access, a full view of her pale pink pussy lips and the liquid he had made her spill. Domino felt her whole body tense and roll and she couldn't help the cries that repeatedly came, and how she began to pant for breath as he continued to move the wand in tiny little circles on and around her clit. It kept her in constant orgasm and she knew she was grinding her pussy towards him, aroused to the point that she didn't care who was doing this to her, just knowing she never wanted him to stop. Suddenly, the wand turned off and Domino groaned, "Oh, fuck, fuck, no. Don't stop." She looked at him with passion-filled brown eyes, her hair mussed behind her head, and Domino saw that Samir was smiling wide, completely satisfied that he'd been right about her reaction. "I told you that you'd want to talk to me about this." "Oh my God, Samir, you're such an assho-!" Domino squealed when the wand suddenly vibrated to life and he teased her clit with it for another minute before pressing harder, eliciting another momentous orgasm that made her juices squirt from within her tightly clenched pussy. "You don't have to thank me, seeing you get wet like this is all I need." He chuckled as he ran the ball of the wand up and down her pussy fold. He knew Domino wanted to shoot a retort at him, but she was so wrapped up in orgasm number three that she forgot to by the time he tilted the wand at a different angle and grabbed one of her thighs. "Squeeze your legs together, that's it." He ordered as he moved a bit so that she could do as he bid, squeezing her thighs together around the wand that he had shoved right onto the top of her quickly over sensitized, swelling clit. The sensation of it made her groan and she felt her body writhe, the hand he wasn't using to hold the wand was helping hold her legs closed, forcing her orgasm, not allowing her to back away from it, and she shook and whimpered and breathed rapidly. By the time Samir switched the wand off and set it to the side to clean later, Domino was limp on the couch, her whole body tingling and her pussy sopping wet with her pussy juice. The shiny pink surface made Samir smile as he stood up and went to the bathroom to fetch her a towel and her clothes that he'd taken from her. When he returned to the couch, she had barely moved other than moving her knees closer together in front of her. She was still trying to calm her breathing, and her eyes were half closed as they watched what he was doing. "You are a really weird friend." She muttered as he wiped her pussy off with the towel and started putting her panties on. "You needed to remember what it feels like to feel good, Dom." He whispered, his dark blue eyes focused on hers, his grin was infectious and she couldn't help the knowing smile that lit her face. "I would have talked to you about the wand. That thing is fantastic." "Isn't it? I don't mind saying I told you so." "I don't mind hearing it." Domino felt him pull her legs through the holes of the leggings. "I'll clean it up and put it in your room later. I know that Buttons will be awake soon and your vampire visitor is supposed to be arriving tonight." Samir stood up and pulled her to her feet. Domino frowned, "Stop calling her Buttons. That is a ridiculous nickname." "I can't help it, she's got this cute little button nose, and these cute little button eyes, and this cute little mouth that curves into the shape of-." "A button, I know. Samir, really. You're going to be that annoying uncle after all, aren't you?" She chuckled as the air around them gradually cooled off a bit from the heat that they had created before. "When it comes to that gorgeous little baby girl, absolutely." He grinned and kissed her forehead and hugged her before walking her to the door of his room. "I will tell you how this meeting goes. I'm not sold on the idea of being watched over by a vampire, but she may be able to answer a bunch of questions that I have about Faith." She told him as he opened the door. "Domino. Alexandru loves you, he did what he did for you. But you can't live your entire life hoping he will come back. We don't know if he ever will. You're not ready to go fuck around with some other guy." That sentence made her raise an eyebrow at him, "Other than me, of course, because we're friends. Make some decisions, for you and for Faith. Some big ones. Get out of here and start a life for the two of you somewhere. Don't wait for him, but don't hate him, either." "You sound like Faeron." Domino bit her lip when she realized what she'd said, but he merely smirked just a little. "It figures there has to be at least one wood elf with at least half a brain, Domino. He's a rare breed." He shrugged his shoulders. "I've got to go. We will talk later." "Make decisions, Dom." He called after her as she rushed down the hall, towards the elevator. Domino thought about what he said, he was right. She needed to take control of things. She could not stay here, she could not raise her daughter in this place, even though she knew that she was loved here. She needed to make a real life for herself, to find her own place in the world. She knew he was right about one other thing, too. She had to do it without considering whether or not Alexandru would ever return to explain why he had kept everything so secret. Did Klaus honestly have that much control over him? They had been alone together, intimately so, had Klaus been a part of making all of that happen? She shivered thinking about it, now wondering just how very long Klaus had actually been compelling her lover to do his bidding. It made her a little sick to think about, so she shook it off as the elevator doors opened and she saw Faeron standing there, a worried look on his face. "Domino. Stop thinking what you're thinking. He wasn't being compelled until he got back to Vorhees with his sire." God damn it all to hell. Domino pushed against his chest until he moved out of her way. "Get out of my head, Faeron." She growled. He shook his head, "This time, I'm glad I heard you, Faith is not a product of a compulsion from his sire. Klaus took advantage of it." Faeron explained slowly. "When you started talking about Klaus and his experiments with human girls, you said he did it because he lost someone he loved, you never said it was because he was a sick creeper who would steal my fiancé from me." She shook her head, not looking back at him as she started walking away. He was behind her, close behind, and she felt his hand wrap around her arm. "He did lose someone he loved, a human. She became pregnant and died from it. After that, it warped him, made him cold, detached, and he was determined to find a way to make it work, not for others, but to prove that he could do it. It became an obsession, one he has been sickened by for centuries. Alexandru realized just why his sire had changed him and was enraged, escaping as soon as he could and trying to steer clear of him ever since. He went to him now because he had to." "So Klaus is going to compel Alex to impregnate women for him?" Domino felt tears fall from her eyes, she couldn't even imagine it, he would be so angry, and him with another woman, it was enough to make her chest burn and she had to pause to get her breathing under control. "Klaus is unable to seed his own, a long time ago, he was captured and castrated by a group of non-humans that found out what he was doing. It was causing problems for them in the town that they were living in among humans. He was rescued by one of his spawn before they finally cut off his head, but it did the damage it needed to. But now, he needs Alex." "Alex said he's never gotten a human girl pregnant before." Faeron shook his head, "He hasn't, Domino. Just you." Domino sighed, letting her back rest against his chest for a few moments as she took all of this in. It explained a few things, a lot of things, but it didn't explain everything, and it didn't make what she needed to do any different. Her life was her own, she wasn't going to live it for him anymore. "I was with Mr. Hughes when Josephine arrived by plane a few minutes ago. She is quite...interesting. I think you will like her." He put a hand on her back and gave her the tiniest of shoves to get her walking again. "Stay out of my head, Faeron." She muttered under her breath as she walked towards the foyer and Mr. Hughes' office. "No." Domino still had a frown on her face as she rounded the corner and opened the office door a little faster than she'd meant to and stumbled inside. Mr. Hughes was leaning on his desk, smiling and nodding as a rather animated woman with black bat wings folded behind her stood before him, waving her arms about and telling him something or other that was apparently amusing him. When she opened the door, however, they both stopped and looked her way. "Sorry I'm late. Samir made me dinner and...well, held me up a little. And then Faeron was in the hallway, so..." She shrugged, not sure what to say really. The vampire in the room would have heard her in the hallway, she knew how good their hearing was. "Oh, you are beautiful, they weren't kidding." The muscular but thin, average height, predominantly African woman said with a wide smile in a really unique accent as she walked over to Domino, her hand outstretched. Domino widened her eyes as she took in the long, curly hair and the green eyes that really bounced against the darkness of the woman's skin and grasped her hand in a firm shake. "I'm Domino Ashburn. I know that Arc has told you about me. It's nice to meet you." She said and gasped when the woman pulled her into a hug and kissed her cheek. "You'll have to excuse me, Dom, it's not often, or ever really, that I get to meet a woman who has made it through what you've made it through. I think it's fascinating, and I am so excited to be here. Oh, I really really want to just hear all about it, but Mr. H here said on the phone, well, not to me, but to my partner, phones give me this excrutiatingly bad headache, anyway, he said that you need a safe place to move to, and, well...I've got a suggestion or two for you, as well." Her rapid speech made Domino have to focus, and then that wide mouth opened again in a smile and she laughed. "I'm Josephine, Jo Thompson, by the way. I'm sorry, I get overly excited. I always have." She waved a hand at one of two chairs beside Mr. Hughes' desk. "I have Deandra downstairs with Faith, to give her a bottle. She will bring her up after to feed from you when she is finished." Mr. Hughes said as he sat behind his own desk. "God, I love this desk, the memories." Jo smiled familiarly at Mr. Hughes and Domino frowned, they'd fucked? Here? Jesus, she might need to punch this girl. A knock came to the door. Then it opened and Faeron peeked his head inside, "Pardon me, Mr. Hughes, but I kind of think that Domino could use me in here...for guidance. Do you mind?" Domino groaned and leaned forward to put her head on the top of the desk. Maybe if she slammed her head against it a couple times, he wouldn't be able to hear her. She could feel him moving a chair from near the door over so that he could sit behind her and to the right, out of the way, but close enough that she knew he was there, that he would be listening, and trying to keep her just a little bit in line. "This doesn't really concern you, Faeron." Mr. Hughes frowned at the wood elf, who nodded back at him. "I understand, but Domino is feeling a little...volatile...right now." Faeron's mouth moved up slightly in a knowing smile and Mr. Hughes centered knowing eyes on Domino. I recently gave birth to a vampire and my fiancé ditched me to go impregnate a bunch of other human girls for his sick mother-fucking sire. What do I have to be a little volatile about?" Domino shrugged, widening her eyes at Mr. Hughes as she spoke. "Klaus is a total ass, Domino, I agree. Scientist, whatever. Does he have any degrees, did he go to school? Being non-human doesn't make you smart, nor does it mean that you have the right to do whatever you want. He'll get his one day, Dom. I know he will." Jo told her and then looked over at Mr. Hughes, "Why didn't you have Brunhild change her after he left? Isn't that what she wanted?" "It seemed like the thing to do would be to wait...at least for now." "Oh, uh, I think that's a bad idea. Especially for the baby. Once she has teeth, there will be a huge chance of her biting you and accidentally changing you herself. And that is not something you would ever want, Dom, to have a small child as your sire, it would be absolutely the worst. Can you imagine, the way she would compel you? No, you need to change, and soon, so that she senses that she can't bite you." Jo explained, and Domino was starting to wonder if the woman even breathed, where was she storing enough oxygen to get through all that? "I don't really want to have anyone as my sire. The idea of being compelled to do what someone else wanted me to do kind of makes me sick right now." "Well, we can do that." Jo shrugged like it was absolutely no big deal, and everyone turned to look at her in confusion. "That's not possible." Mr. Hughes shook his head, confused. "It's totally possible. It takes a little more work and vampires who change humans have a tendency to want to be able to control them, so no one does it. It's why I don't get a lot of respect from others of my kind, you know. Most vampires like dominance, and dominance over spawn is a huge thing for them, but it really all comes down to cells and protein chains and stuff. It didn't take long for me to figure out where it happened once I started looking. The activated chain was actually pretty simple to turn off." Jo started rambling and Mr. Hughes frowned and held up a hand. "Jo, I'm not a scientist, can you please re-explain yourself?" Domino asked her. Jo shook her head a bit, "Ugh, this is why no one likes me but Arc. I'm sorry. I am an actual scientist, I run a lab. I've gotten my PhD in biochem like six...no seven times already. I go back to school every fifteen years or so to keep up. I also have degrees in microbiology and molecular biology. I'm a hematologist, too, which no one can believe. I know what makes vampires tick, not that I can write a paper on it or even tell my stupid species. They chalk real science up to something like witch craft. Which I think is really insulting to witches, you know. That shit's real." "Why didn't you bring her in when I was pregnant instead of having Alexandru go get Klaus?" Domino asked Mr. Hughes. "I don't do babies, Domino. I may understand how the change works and how to keep certain things from happening, but there are very few pregnancies to even study, and the whole process is very tedious, human women are not always good at lasting long enough to birth a baby. I'm sorry, but I couldn't have helped you. Klaus, even though he's a total douche, was your best bet." Jo pressed her lips together in an apologetic way and met Domino's gaze. "So you can change Domino without forcing her into a sire/spawn relationship?" Faeron's voice was quieter than the others, mostly because he knew that Domino wanted him to leave, and to jump off a bridge somewhere over a pit of crocodiles, that was very clear in her thoughts. "Oh, definitely. It's a slower process that requires a hemodialysis machine to infuse you directly instead of you drinking blood, but it works. It's less messy, too, which I like." Jo nodded. "And you really think she should change?" "Unless she wants her daughter to control her all through her preteen years, absolutely. I brought all my equipment. So whenever Domino makes her decision, I can be ready. I use fresh blood, so I'll need to collect from myself, Brunhild, and a few other vampires, but that is easy enough. I brought Cooper and Fionna with me." "I thought vampire blood was toxic to other vampires?" Jo nodded, "Oh, totally, when you drink it. When it goes through your digestive tract, it breaks down proteins that release endotoxins to the vampire blood in your system. But you currently don't have any vampire blood in your system, and they are mixed in a beaker, not in your gastric system." "You are really into blood." Domino sighed, eyes wide in amazement. Jo's lips parted in a wide smile, "I am a vampire. I was one all my life and I spent a good part of my 'youth' trying to figure out what it all meant, and where my place was in the world. I didn't really fit in with a lot of vampires that I know. Nor did I really want to, they're kind of creepy sometimes. But the blood, it really spoke to me, and I wanted to understand it, so I did what any self-respecting scientist would do and learned everything that I could in schools and from other humans, and then added on the vampire bit in my own labs. I know a LOT." "Do you just study vampires?" Domino was intrigued. Jo nodded, "Yes, other non-humans don't really have the blood thing like we do. It's what makes us who we are. Other non-humans tend to have their differences rooted in the neurological system, like your wood elf there, or their psychological system, like Mr. Hughes. That doesn't really sound right, we're talking brain for each. Hmm..." Jo looked from the elf to the angel who were both frowning at her. "Will I still be able to breastfeed?" She asked, wondering if it would be better to wait for that. "Oh, absolutely. You're still you, and you still just had a baby and have all those hormones shooting through your body. There's no reason to think that would stop. You'd just have blood added to your diet, and these crazy wings, oh, and you'd be able to hear like...everything, did you know that wood elves have five chambers to their heart? It's totally wicked, wait til you hear it. Your sense of smell would increase and your eyesight, well, that kind of doesn't change." Domino had looked over at Faeron when Jo had mentioned his heart and the look of irritation on his face was almost comical, "I would sleep all day, too." "Well...sure. I guess, but I kind of know how to shut that off, too." Jo said quietly. "What?" Mr. Hughes furrowed a brow, she hadn't told him that she'd finally been successful at it. If she had been, there would be some ramifications. "Not entirely, I know the chain, again, we're talking proteins, that makes us go all limp and stupid all day long. It's harder to alter, unlike the sire thing, but I've developed an elixir that you can take before dawn each day and it allows you to stay awake for about six or so additional hours a day." "But what about the sunlight? Won't that still burn?" Domino asked, this seemed a little too good to be true. "That's the super tricky part, we still would in direct sunlight. But if you're inside, and not sitting on a beach in Tahiti, you're ok. We're not cursed, vampires are so neanderthal about all of that stuff, it's a cell wall issue, nothing more. But I can't correct the issue without affecting the cells ability to work, so I'm limited. Cooper went out on a cloudy day, with long sleeves, pants, and gloves, hat and sunglasses and a crap load of sunscreen on and he didn't die. Though he did sort of throw up for a few hours after. It's hard. I'm thinking I've hit the end of where I can go with it at this point." "But I can be up longer? That's amazing." Domino breathed out, how could the other vampires not like this woman, she was awesome. A Few Sips Ch. 13 "Yeah, after it worked the first time and I was awake after sunrise, I totally felt cheated, I've been missing Saturday morning cartoons for years." Jo chuckled. "How do you know the sire-less change will work?" Faeron asked, sounding a little skeptical, he wasn't a big believer in human science, but this was interesting. "Cooper and Fionna. I changed both of them. They were lab employees of mine over the years, former food sources, and eventually, they wanted me to change them so that we could continue our research together. Plus, they're like this totally hot for each other couple, so they agreed to be my guinea pigs. It worked. But I don't typically change humans into vampires, so they're two of the only seven I have changed." "How did you know you could do it?" Faeron leaned forward in his chair. "Because vampire babies are born without one. No one ever talks about it in the vampire community, they think it's sort of an oddity, but it's just cellular." Jo smiled. "So Faith doesn't have a sire? Her father could never control her?" Domino felt a huge wave of relief wash through her, even though he meant everything to her, she didn't like the idea of him being able to compel their daughter. Jo shook her head, "No, she's sire-less." "Wonderful." "So Mr. Hughes said you're looking for a place to live? Green Bay is pretty cool, lots of people, lots of stuff to do. It's not all that far from Oshkosh, Milwaukee or Madison. I love Madison, I would move around there if I were you. Lots of college kids on State Street. Makes feeding a whole lot easier." "I want a fresh start for Faith and I." Domino sat back in her chair. "Well, it's a nice area, pretty country. I wouldn't bother you, but I'd be nearby if you needed anything. Cooper and Fionna, too. You'll like them." Jo grinned happily, "It's always just the three of us, and Marci, so it'll be nice to have someone else around who will talk to me." "Who's Marci?" Domino asked. "Oh, Marci is my girlfriend. She's a human, she chose not to change. That's okay, though. I love her anyway." Jo beamed with that love and Domino couldn't help but smile. "I think we should do this." Domino looked at Mr. Hughes who was looking at her intently with his intense gray eyes, he nodded his head ever so slowly. "Do you want to sleep on it one more day and have Jo do it tomorrow at dusk?" Mr. Hughes suggested, he wanted her to get back to normal, to find the good in her life, but he also didn't want to risk her making a quick decision. "Oh, that totally went so well for me last time, didn't it? No, I want to do this, and I want to do it now." Domino said as the door opened and Deandra brought in Faith, who was fidgeting a little bit in her arms. "Maybe after you feel your baby." Faeron muttered from behind her and Domino looked up at Faith and reached for her. "Tonight, Arc. Tonight is my last night as a human." A Few Sips Ch. 14 Day forty-three started at midnight for Domino. She wanted to spend a little time with Faith before she changed. Jo had said that the transition would take a few hours and that she would be unable to care for her daughter during that time. Samir and Shi had promised to stay up and see to Faith's needs. Domino knew who she was doing this for, and who she wasn't doing it for. Faith would need her, and she would need her as her mother and not as someone she could compel to do her bidding through the years. Becoming a vampire would ensure that Faith had a parent no matter what happened with Alexandru. Every time she thought of Alexandru and him having lied to and left her, Domino reminded herself of what she had named her sweet little baby. Faith. She had to have faith that things would work out. With or without him. Preferably with, but she had no way of fixing it. It was a problem that she could not solve. No one could, except Klaus, and he was obviously getting exactly what he wanted so he would have no reason to release Alexandru. They had decided to use the room that she'd shared with Alexandru in the basement for her transition, and Domino was sitting in a chair beside the bed, patiently allowing herself to be readied for the procedure that would make her into a vampire. It seemed very...medical...to her, the way they were doing this, but if it kept anyone from being able to control her, then so be it. She would rather it be this way. Mr. Hughes had remained with her, and Jo's companions, Cooper and Fionna had introduced themselves as they'd brought their equipment into the room. The young couple seemed friendly, and they were trying to explain everything to her as they went through their many checklists. "Is this going to hurt?" Domino asked, looking at the large machine that had been set up right next to her. "When we start draining the blood from your body, your heart is going to start pounding, it can be quite uncomfortable, it's trying to get blood to your organs. Yes, it will hurt at first, and then you'll pass out. Once we have removed a sufficient volume, we will begin infusing you with the vampire blood that we've collected. You'll wake up and for just a second, you will not be...happy. Then you'll get really thirsty and we have blood on hand to feed you with at that point." Jo pointed to a cooler that was set up at the foot of the bed. "And the wings?" Domino nodded towards the furred black set on the three vampires in the room. "That's the part I remember most." Fionna frowned, "The bones grow extremely fast, it's why the transition takes so long. You'll want to feed, and then you'll just want to sleep because you'll feel so exhausted, but you won't be able to because of the ache. You won't be able to do anything really as they grow, but once they're grown, you'll be able to sleep and it will be fine. You'll be a vampire." "It will be a week or so before you can start taking the elixir. I feel like it's just safe to wait until your body is fully adjusted to the change. But after that, I'll make sure you have a steady supply of it for when you want to use it. I wouldn't suggest using it with Faith until she is older. Generally speaking, vampire children need that day rest much more than we do." Jo spoke as she sat on a chair beside Domino and put her hands on her knees. "You are absolutely certain?" Mr. Hughes questioned from the far corner of the room where he leaned against the wall with his arms crossed in front of him. "Yes, Arc. I want this. For me." She nodded, she was sure, 100% so, that she was making the right decision. "Should we get started, then?" Jo smiled. Domino nodded, "Nothing like the present, right?" Jo chuckled and switched the machine on, "It'll take a bit for you to feel anything, but when you do, you're probably gonna get a little scared, but we are here with you and you will be okay. Oh, and I forgot to mention, you're gonna sleep extremely well, maybe even a little past dusk, and when you wake up, you're gonna have a pretty desperate need to feed."Domino bit her lip, "Even after all the blood you inject?" Jo nodded, "Yeah, you're gonna be hungry, you'll feel a serious need to feed for the first few weeks, but nothing unmanageable. You're not going to go on some blood driven warpath or anything." "That's good." "Your senses will be really overwhelmed, remember that, right when you wake up. You're gonna be all jumpy." Jo grinned, her eyes sparkling as she leaned forward and took Domino's pulse. "Like, my hearing and stuff? The things that you said get more intense?" "Yeah...really intense. But you will figure it out. I promise." Jo adjusted the infusion level a bit and sat back in her chair. "Oh, fuck. That feels fucking awful." Domino bit her lip and looked over at Mr. Hughes, who approached her at a brisk pace and sat on the edge of the bed, clutching her unattached arm in his. "Breathe slowly, Dom. It shouldn't be too long until you're out." Jo put a hand on her shoulder as she whimpered a little. "Arc." Domino leaned against his shoulder. Her heart was pounding like a marathon runner, trying to supply her body with oxygen, and the lack of it was starting to burn and make her dizzy. No amount of deep breathing was helping and she felt her eyes stink with tears that there was suddenly no fluid for and she felt her head start to lull, and her eyelids sank. She felt Jo rub her shoulder, knew Arc was still holding onto her, and just before she lost consciousness, the image of her daughter shined before her face, and she knew she was going to be okay. She knew that this would keep the two of them together forever. ~*~*~*~ There was a knife in her chest. Someone had just thrust a knife deep into her chest and Domino opened her eyes and screamed at the top of her lungs. Sweet Jesus, that stung, she thought as she moved her hand up to take the knife out, not understanding when she didn't feel the blade where she knew it had been pushed through her rib cage. What the hell was going on? Looking down, she realized that she was naked from the waist up and lying on the large bed she shared with Alexandru. The sheets were different, a different shade even, and they smelled like the ocean, and chemicals. She could smell the chemicals, and that jarred her a little bit. Looking around her, she had a hard time focusing for a minute as she felt the pain in her chest lighten a little bit and the growing ache in her back seem to intensity. Rolling to her side, she moaned and brought her knees up to her chest, wrapping her arms around her legs to keep herself in a fetal position. "Dom, can you hear me?" Wow, who was on speaker? Dom put her hands over her ears a minute. "Speak in a whisper, Arc, her hearing is really sensitive right now. It'll pass as she gets used to it." Domino could hear Jo say. "Please stop screaming." Domino groaned as she rolled to lay on her shins, her face smashed into the mattress and her back pointed up. "Your wings are already starting to protrude from your back, Domino. At this rate, you'll have them grown in about an hour and a half. Just in time for sunrise." Cooper whispered from the other side of the room, she felt like he was yelling in her ear. "Great. Can you, can you guys just stop breathing for a little bit?" Domino moaned and covered her head with the pillow and squeezed her eyes shut. "We should really go. She's gonna be okay in here alone." Jo waved at the others to leave and Domino shook, she could feel the air move as if she was getting him with waves of water, "Dom, there is a table right next to the bed to your left and there are several bags of blood on it. Just cut them open and there are glasses there to use. You'll be okay. I'll check on you later." Domino moved a hand in the direction of the voice and then in the direction of the door and she heard Jo sigh and leave the room, closing the door as gently as possible behind her. Domino stayed where she was once she was alone. She could feel her back, could feel the growth of bone and tissue and while it didn't exactly hurt, it certainly didn't feel good in any way whatsoever. She was pretty sure her scapulas had become the base of the wings, and she could feel her back muscles growing and making new connections in order for her to have use of her new appendages. Focusing on her breathing, she kept them deep and slow, and finally realized that there was, in fact, an ache in her stomach that was growing more and more insistent as she stayed hunched over on the bed. Eventually, that ache turned into a raging hungry cry and Domino jerked herself into a seated position on the bed and looked over at the table that Jo had mentioned. She could smell the blood, as if it were right in front of her nose, and she scooted over to sit on the side of the bed. Lifting the closest bag, she took the scissors and cut it open. Domino was about to dump it into a glass when she frowned, looking down at the bag she held and lifted it directly to her lips. She drank the entire contents in one long, satisfying gulp and gasped in pleasure when it was empty, her eyes wide at just how delicious it had felt. Wow, no wonder Alexandru had always enjoyed feeding from her so much. Well, he couldn't anymore, not that she intended to let him, or could. Tossing the bag aside, she picked up another one and cut it and walked slowly over to the bathroom. Flicking on the light, she walked inside, ignoring the hum from the fan above her head and the way the light seemed way too bright for her. Domino took a smaller sip from the bag and held it in her hands as she looked at herself in the reflection of the mirror. She was not sure what to expect, but she was pretty sure she looked amazing. Her blond hair was a mess, but it looked fuller, sexier, and she smiled, that was a nice side effect. Her skin was a bit paler, which she still thought was weird because vampires drank blood, they should be dark red. Her eyes, the brown was gone, it had been replaced by a deep, ruby red. Her already thick lashes seemed to have lengthened and she couldn't see any flaws to her skin. Domino could tell her face was just a tad narrower, but other than that, she looked the same. Except for maybe the thin line of blood that had fallen down her chin as she drank. Licking at it, she turned so that she could see the wings she knew were growing. The sight of them was a bit startling and Domino shivered a little as she saw that the foot and a half that was already protruding from her back was covered in that super soft coat of black fur. She watched in wonder for a while as they lengthened, and then finally, she could see them start to unfold. They weren't as big as Alexandru's but he was such a big vampire. They were more like Jo's and Fionna's. Walking back into the bedroom, she sat down on the bed and finished off the second bag and grabbed a third. The noise in the room was deafening and so was the air movement and smells that she was surrounded with. She could tell that the yoghurt in the kitchenette refrigerator was close to going bad, and she knew that Faith was giving Shi a run for her money on a diaper change that the two were in current negotiations with. She smiled, her baby girl was happy, loved, and protected now. And so was she. Domino drank the third bag and tossed it to the side before going to lay on her back. Her wings had a little longer to go, and she couldn't really focus on anything for long because of that weird ache in her back as they lengthened. She kept her eyes closed and let her thoughts drift to what would come next for her and for Faith. It didn't involve the spa, nor did it involve waiting around for Alexandru or finding someone to take his place. Sure, she'd suggested just such a thing to Mr. Hughes, but she knew he would never have said yes, they were friends. She wanted them to remain that way. The most important thing on her mind as she started to feel extremely tired, was that she had the ability to make plans, that there was no reason to be afraid anymore. She had her daughter, she was not going to lose her, and they were going to be together forever. That was all that mattered now. ~*~*~*~ "You're really leaving? This soon?" Samir asked quietly a week and a half later, on day fifty-three. He was sitting on the couch in the sitting room in the basement as Domino sat on the floor, her daughter on the carpet in front of her on her back, sucking on one of Dom's fingers, Jo had assured her that once Faith smelled that she was a vampire, the little infant would not try to bite her, even when she had teeth. "Of course. I don't have any reason to stay here. I want to get a fresh start. Arc found me this little farmhouse just outside of Oshkosh near a lake. It's really pretty and I had more than enough to get it." Domino frowned at the giant, he'd been moping around about it ever since he came down to visit with her tonight. "How will you feed with Faith? It's not like you can prowl about for people when you've got an infant with you, even one who needs what you need." He asked, it was a logical question, but she already knew the answer. "Jo has access to human blood. Until Faith is older, she can feed from that. I can, too, when I need to. It doesn't take long to curb my needs, Samir. Cooper and Fionna live nearby, too, and they're more than happy to watch Faith a few times a week so that I can go out and get something a little...fresher." Domino lifted the corners of her mouth up just a little, fresh blood did taste better, she'd gotten to feed in Toronto the last few nights with the other vampires. She hadn't realized that a vampire can release a fluid in their saliva that acts as an amnesiac, so that the people she fed on didn't even remember meeting her, let alone having a pint of blood removed from them. Alexandra had never done that, he'd wanted her to remember what he'd done. "You've transitioned yourself into this new world of yours pretty quickly." He muttered, his eyes on her red ones that were again focused on her daughter. "Yes. I have. I'm happy now, Samir. I'm not scared anymore. I don't feel like I need to be, I don't feel like I need to be protected, either. Alexandru was like a living security blanket for me. Him leaving, it sucks, it always will I think, but him leaving has forced me to make my life about me and what I want, and I don't want to be scared. I want to be happy, and I want to raise our daughter to be happy, too." "I'm not trying to argue with you, Dom, I just am gonna miss you, that's all. It's been fun having you here." Samir waved his arms in defeat as she looked up at him exasperated. "I'm going to miss you, too. And Arc." She frowned as she thought about her closest friend, "You need to keep an eye on him for me, he's got his own demons, Samir, and I don't like the thought of him being alone with them again." "I'm not sure he'd want me holding his hand like you do, Domino. He's older than me." "Oh, I know that. Just...just be there. Keep him singing." "I don't know if he'll sing when you leave, at least not for me to hear. He only ever did that with you." "Well, he better keep singing." "I'll try." Samir promised, he would, but he wasn't sure his employer would agree to his suggestion. "That's all I ask. And he's already promised to email and text, but let me know how things go. I am still going to do a little bookkeeping stuff for Vorhees from my computer, but the other stuff, I want to know how things go." She picked Faith up and nuzzled the baby's chubby little neck. "You're totally going to spoil her, you hold her all the time." Samir chuckled. "That just proves that you're a goob, Samir. You can't spoil babies, no you can't." Domino cooed at her daughter and kissed her again before putting the baby to her chest, she immediately started rooting. "She eats more than me." Samir chuckled as Domino set about baring her breast for Faith to latch on to. "She certainly does. But it's because she doesn't have all day to do it like a normal baby." Domino ran the pads of her fingers down the back of her daughter's head, feeling that strong pull of love that she always felt when she held her little girl. Two days later, they were on Mr. Hughes' private plane just after dusk and on their way to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The flight was uneventful for her, and Domino spent the time aboard playing with her daughter, feeding her, feeding herself, and looking out the window at the blackening sky. When they landed, she saw that there was a black sedan waiting for her, also courtesy of Mr. Hughes, and she was soon settled inside with her daughter in a carseat, and their luggage in the trunk. Her apartment had been packed up about a week ago and Mr. Hughes had told her that everything would already be in place at the farm house that he had made sure was purchased with her money. He had also arranged for the rooms to be better equipped for their needs. The windows had been reinforced, as well as shutters put in that completely blocked the sunlight. The farmhouse wasn't big, but it did have two bedrooms and a bath upstairs, a living room, dining room and kitchen downstairs, and a full basement. Mr. Hughes had arranged for the basement to be waterproofed and finished off, complete with two additional bedrooms and a bathroom between them. He had wanted to make sure that Domino and Faith had a safe place to sleep during the day. In fact, he'd had the entire interior renovated rather quickly without telling Domino about it. He'd wanted her not to have to worry about a thing when she moved it. So when Domino finally felt the sedan pull to a stop in front of a pretty periwinkle blue house with white shutters and a white picket fence around the front of it, she felt her breath catch a little in her throat. There was a porch that ran along the front of the house and a porch swing was on the left side, complete with large, comfy looking outdoor pillows. Old, gorgeous oak and maple trees lined the yard, and there were woods behind and snow covered fields to either side as her door was opened and she stepped out, pulling out the carseat with her as she looked around them. Domino didn't know if the man driving the sedan knew she was a vampire or not, and she was glad that her wings wrapped easily around her shoulders and were able to be covered by the large, long cloak that she wore. It was a thick, dark crimson velvet cloak that Deandra had made for her as a housewarming gift of sorts, since she was moving to a northern state. Looking down at her daughter, who was looking around her with wide, searching eyes, she was glad that she'd bundled the little one in a few thick blankets. Her little wings were covered as well as they walked through the cold air up the path to the front of the house and then up the few short stairs to the front door. Domino pulled the key out of her pocket that Mr. Hughes had given her right before getting on the plane, and turned it in the lock. The door opened easily, and Domino walked into the front hallway of a nicely warmed home. She smiled as she looked around, someone had unpacked all of her things and she'd apparently been gifted with a bit more furniture to fill the lovely place. Setting the carseat down, she tossed her purse to the side and held the door open for the driver who was bringing in her suitcase and the one that held most of Faith's clothes and cloth diapers. "Thank you so much." She looked at the driver who had put both suitcases against the hallway wall near the staircase before turning to look at her. "You're welcome, Miss Ashburn," The driver said, his brown eyes on hers as he took a step towards her and the open door, "Mr. Hughes said that you might be hungry when we arrived. If you would like to feed, I am willing to help you." His deep voice and the words he said made her eyes widen and Domino felt that tug of hunger fill her a bit. He knew what she was. A Few Sips Ch. 14 Domino slowly closed the door and picked up the carseat, "Let me put Faith in another room, she will start fussing if she can smell you." "She is a beautiful baby." He said softly as she looked at her daughter, who already seemed to be looking at her with accusing eyes. "Thank you, I think so." Domino walked into the living room and set the car seat down on the floor between the couch and the entry into the kitchen, which ran along the back of the house. "Is this a service you usually provide?" She asked him as she walked back into the room, he was about mid-thirties in age, dressed in a suit, his hair closely cropped, he was former military, she was sure. "When the need arises, though it doesn't very often." He nodded as she moved closer to him. "Are you generally kept aware that you've been fed on?" She put a hand on the left side of his warm neck, feeling his pulse throb against her palm. "I need to keep track of it so that I know when I can be of use again." He nodded as he looked down at her. "All right." Domino pulled a little on his neck, he was a fair bit taller than she was, and he knelt down so that she could move her face in close to his throat, breathing in slowly, letting his scent fill her, she felt her teeth extend and knew her eyes would be molten as she looked at him for a moment. It was rather intoxicating to feed from someone else. Keeping her right hand on his neck, she turned hers and opened her mouth, biting into his carotid artery carefully, so as not to shred it, and immediately intaking the blood that squirted out in pulses. It was quick this way, and she was licking the wound shut as his hands had dropped to cup her ass and pull her up against his body, which was the general reaction she got from those she fed from. The feed was intimate, arousing, but easily controlled because of the quickness of the way she'd fed. He would probably go home and have to take care of himself, if he made it that far before pulling over and doing it in his car. Stepping back, she smiled up at him a little, running her hand around her mouth to make sure she didn't have any drops of blood visible. He was looking at her with passion filled eyes, but he let his hands fall to the sides of his body and nodded. Without a word, she watched him walk over to the door and open it, closing it behind him after he walked through it to the porch outside. Domino heard Faith let out an angry cry as she moved to the window by the door to watch as he walked to the sedan and he paused for just a moment, looking back at the house before sitting within it and slowly pulling away. "Faith, sweetie, mommy is coming." Domino told her daughter as she came back into the room and unbuckled her baby from the carseat, holding her as she walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge. There were a few bags of thawed blood inside, and a quick check of the freezer showed them many more bags. Jo had said that she would have it stocked, and she wasn't lying. She knew there would be even more in the freezer in the pantry. The next two days were the weekend. Domino took the elixir both days so that she could have some time in the house without Faith being awake to interrupt her. She was busy getting her work area coordinated in one of the upstairs bedrooms, and she was rearranging a few bits and pieces around the house where she wanted them. She hadn't tried to go outside, Cooper vomiting for hours after he did it didn't give her a lot of reason to try, but just being able to be up for a while longer was a nice feeling. She didn't plan on using it all the time, but the option of having it was amazing. The next week went by with Domino focusing on just being a mother. She found that she loved it more than anything. Even when Faith was comfortable, full and happy, she had a tendency to want to hold her close and talk to her, to run her hands over those flappy little wings that sometimes did what the infant wanted them to, but most of the time seemed to make the little one frustrated. She had a tendency to have one of them in her hand as she sucked on the upper ridge of it. Vampire babies apparently did not require a pacifier. Jo, Cooper, and Fionna had stopped by one night, along with Jo's girlfriend, Marci. Domino wasn't sure what she'd expected, but a seventy-three year old woman with long gray hair and a happy smile hadn't been at the top of the list. Jo was obviously very taken with her, and they were very affectionate during the visit. The four of them, or sometimes just a few would end up visiting every other weekend or so, to check in on Domino and restock her freezers. Domino didn't begrudge the visits, she was new to this vampire thing, and she had been able to have them answer questions from time to time. Cooper and Fionna were much more social vampires who liked to go into Madison and feed there, or simply shop and eat at restaurants like the other locals did. At least, when they weren't working in the lab with Jo, who was almost completely obsessed with her work. Domino had only gone with them a few times, but about two months after she'd made the move, she found herself alone, walking down State Street in Madison, by herself in her long cloak as the night crowd made their way to and from their destinations. Jo and Marci had promised to stay in and watch Faith, who was inching closer to four months old and was desperate to start crawling, but her little arms and legs couldn't agree on what to do, and her wings were constantly in the way. She'd already fed on a couple people already. A woman who she'd found alone in the bathroom at the restaurant where she'd eaten dinner, and then a little later, there'd been a man who'd snuck around to the side of a tavern to pee on the wall. She'd caught him before he'd even gotten his pants down and had fed from him before leaving him just as quickly. Domino had smiled to herself as she'd walked away, his zipper was already going down and he'd pissed without even realizing that she'd been there. It was about thirty minutes later when she heard some movement in an alley about half a block down from where she was walking quietly, the streets were nearly empty at this point, and she knew it was getting close to when she would need to head back to her home. Domino frowned, though, hearing a feminine whimper as a woman was pushed hard up against the side of a brick wall. Biting her lip, she made her way towards the alley. "Let me go!" A soft voice muttered, half muffled by the chest that was being pushed fully up against her. Domino rounded the corner and saw the scene come into view. The man was big, not muscled, but fat, and he was holding what looked to be a very young woman against a wall. The girl still had her clothes on, thankfully, but the man was trying to lower the waistband of his sweatpants to bare himself, the thought of him doing so made Domino want to gag. She moved soundlessly over to him and grabbed him by the throat and one of his big meaty arms and he was thrown effortlessly against the wall on the other side of the alley. He crashed onto the ground with an extremely satisfying thud, and Domino walked over to him, crouching down and picking up one of his arms. He was out, but would live. Holding the underside of his wrist up, she bit into it and took what he unknowingly offered. A little more than a pint, though, it would keep him a little weaker for a few days, maybe make him think twice about attacking a woman in an alley. "Th-thank you." The girl whispered in a breathless gasp and Domino licked the wound closed and then stood and turned towards the voice. Long brown hair framed a heart-shaped face with big blue eyes and full, dark red lips. She had freckles over her nose, a nose that looked like it might have been broken once upon a time. The girl was wearing jeans that had seen better days, and a flannel shirt that had started smelling months ago, Domino sniffed, overall, the girl was pretty pungent. Domino realized that she wasn't quite as young as she'd first thought, and she was wearing black boots that once had been polished and new, but were now very scuffed and dirty. "You live on the street." Domino stated as she tilted her head to the side a bit, taking in the way the young woman shook, she was scared, which Domino understood, she'd just watched her feed on the man. The girl nodded, her eyes darting around her, "Yes." "I'm not going to hurt you." Domino looked with a frown down at the unconscious man, "He was, though." "What are you?" The girl's voice was trembling a little bit. "Oh, you know what I am." Domino waved the question off with her hand as she looked a little farther down the alley and saw where the girl had dropped her backpack and other things. "But you don't exist." The girl said again, this time, her voice was a little more clear, and she was standing up now and not leaning against the wall. "Sure, if that is what works for you." Domino moved swiftly front of the girl, knowing that the movement made her cloak fly behind her shoulders and she was able to move her wings up into the air around them. She heard the girl gasp and look at the big black wings and then she moved her eyes back down to the red ones mere inches from her face. "It doesn't matter to me if you believe in me or not, but you won't remember any of this in a moment." Domino breathed in the girl's scent before moving her hand to the girl's neck to hold her still as she bit into her carotid, feeding only momentarily before she felt the need to gag. Domino licked the girl's neck and then backed away, spitting the small bit of blood she'd withdrawn from her mouth. "You taste disgusting." Domino spat, wiping her mouth with the back of her hand as she looked in confusion at the girl. The girl shrugged. "Maybe I should say 'thank you,' since that means you can't feed on me, which is obviously a little creepy to do. Don't you ask?" "Sometimes, but generally speaking, I can take away the memory of the encounter. It isn't really necessary." Domino frowned, why the hell had the girl tasted so gross? "Still, it's more polite to ask. Not everyone would tell you no. Then you wouldn't feel like such a jerk for taking their blood." The girl walked over to her bags and picked them up off of the ground. "Who said I feel like a jerk?" Domino cocked her head to the side again as she watched the girl rummage through her bag for a moment. "Well, I guess I would feel like one," The girl looked at her with her blue eyes and frowned with only one side of her mouth, "I'm Spencer." "Domino." "You've never had someone taste bad before?" Domino shook her head, neither Jo nor Alexandru had ever said anything. They'd just said vampire blood was like poison and other than the foul taste, she didn't feel like she was getting sicker." "I wonder if it's because I'm a mermaid." The girl's words made Domino drop her mouth open. "Uh, ya think? You don't smell-well-you haven't actually bathed yourself in a while, have you? Maybe that's what has my senses all weirded out. Hmmmm, that could be it. But-wait. You're a mermaid and you don't believe in vampires?" Domino shook her head. "I've never met one." Spencer shrugged and settled her bag over her back. "Well, I've never met a mermaid, but I wouldn't say they don't exist, especially with all the nonhumans I have met." Domino told her. "Well, I've never met any other nonhumans besides my mom and I. She died a few years ago, so it's just been me." "And you can change your tail into human legs?" Domino looked down at the girl's jean-clad legs. "Yeah. We have to be able to leave the water. Some of us live in areas where the water freezes, and we breathe air. If we can't get to the surface, we can die, so we have to be able to walk away from the water." Spencer explained to the vampire that was watching her very cautiously. "So there are other mermaids out there, you just haven't met them?" Spencer shrugged her shoulders again, "Yeah, I guess so. It's what my mom always said. "So why are you alone, why don't you go find one of them?" "Do all of you vampires go hunt each other down thinking you've got some bond that instantly makes you friends?" The girl's eyes were sharp, she definitely had her wits about her, that was for sure. Domino shook her head, "No. I don't. I have a few close friends that are vampires but I don't go looking for more. Still, it'd be nice to know someone of your kind. Or not." "I should get going, like you said, I stink, it's been a few weeks outside of water for me and I need to get back to it. I was headed out of town when this jerk caught me." Spencer glared down at the unconscious man. "Well-you know, I have this house, and it's really close to a lake. I haven't been in the water myself, but it looks okay. You could probably go there. My land borders it on one side, so you'd be pretty safe." Domino was surprised at herself that she was suggesting it, but this girl looked like she had felt not all that long ago. "Do you have a tub?" Spencer asked. Domino nodded, "Yes, you're welcome to it. The upstairs bedrooms are empty, so you're more than welcome to stay." Spencer smiled slowly, "First, you save me, then you feed from me, and now you're offering me a place to stay. This is a weird night." "Tell me about it. I must be off my game." "Well, how do we get to your place?" Domino smiled and flapped her wings behind her back. Spencer looked up at them with wide eyes and then gave Domino a look of disbelief. "Really weird night." ~*~*~*~ Domino took the elixir the next morning because she wanted to be up for a bit to watch the girl. When they'd arrived at her house, the girl had been shocked to see how 'normal' and 'quaint' it was. It was kind of unsettling to think that the mermaid thought she would be living in some gothic castle in a crypt of some sort. There may be vampires that do, and she imagined Klaus probably did, but she was normal. She'd been human, and her tastes hadn't changed that much. They had gone inside and Jo had been right by the door, having smelled Spencer's stench from quite a distance away. "Jo, this is Spencer. Spencer, this is my friend, Jo. She's like me." Domino had explained, and then shrugged when Jo gave her a look, "She's a mermaid." "And you tried to drink from her? Dom," Jo had chuckled and shook her head, "human blood. Not vampire, not mermaid, just human blood. Golly, you are just so new. I'm sorry, I forgot to really tell you that I suppose. Spencer, it's nice to meet you. Are you from the area? I don't know any local mermaids, just a few up near Superior." Spencer had listened, her eyes open wide as she'd taken in the extremely chipper personality of the vampire before her. When Marci walked in with Faith flapping, irritated in her arms, the mermaid let out a gasp. "Whoa, a baby vampire, that's weird." "Spencer didn't believe in vampires earlier tonight." Domino had told her friends as she'd taken Faith from Marci and had pulled the ties of her cloak until the whole thing fell into a puddle on the floor. She'd then kicked it toward the hooks on the wall as she'd unbuttoned her shirt. "A breastfeeding vampire? Really, how in the world do you actually think I would have believed that?" Spencer had shaken her head in wonder over the whole thing. "Well, it's true." Domino had felt Faith latch on and had looked down at her, little red eyes had stared back accusingly. "You smell really bad, that's not normal." Jo'd said to Spencer as she'd offered to take the girl's bag. "Yeah, it kind of happens when you're homeless. Domino said that there was a bathroom I could wash up in?" Spencer had shaken her head, she would keep her things, she didn't trust these people just yet. "Up the stairs and the first door on the right." Domino had pointed at the staircase. She'd watched as the girl went up and disappeared inside the room. Grinning when she'd heard the lock slide into place. Jo had immediately crossed her arms in front of her chest and had looked at Domino with an arched brow. "Taking in strays?" "She's a non-human who needed help. It didn't seem harmful." Domino'd shrugged. It wasn't harmful. The girl had spent hours in the bathroom before finally coming out, her hair washed and combed, now braided in a single thick braid behind one ear. Her skin was now clean and just mildly sparkly, now Domino knew why she let herself get so dirty. If a human looked at her too closely, it could be dangerous. She had a bit of a shimmer to her. Spencer had also changed into a pair of black leggings and a long, three-fourths sleeve peach colored sweater. The three adult vampires had sat talking to her for a while before Jo and Marci had taken their leave. After that, Domino had gone to the basement with Faith to feed her once more from her breasts, and then one more bottle of blood before laying the baby down in her bed, knowing she would soon fall asleep as the sun rose. Her stash of elixir was in her bedroom, and she'd taken it just in time to stop herself from falling asleep. Back upstairs, she moved about the kitchen making her guest breakfast while Spencer sat on a bar stool at the island. "So you were human when you got pregnant?" "Yes." "But now you can't have more vampire babies?" "No, vampire women aren't fertile. I don't really know why, but I've been told." Domino had shrugged her shoulders, Faith was enough. "But you got pregnant by a vampire, right?" "Yes. Alexandru." "So guy vamps are fertile?" "Apparently." Domino had bit her lip for a moment after pouring waffle mix onto the waffle maker. "Where is your guy vamp? Did he knock you up and take off?" "Is that what your dad did to your mom?" Domino frowned at the girl, she didn't know her well enough to just tell her everything about herself. "Basically, yeah." Spencer nodded, shrugging her shoulders. "I'm sorry. I know what it's like to not have a parent. I didn't grow up with a mom or a dad. Man, that sees like ages ago, but it wasn't. I was just changed a few months ago." Domino closed the lid to the waffle maker and leaned back on the counter behind her. "I'm sorry if I'm prying. I don't get to talk to people really, I'm kind of a loner." "It's okay. Faith's father is in Belarus with his asshole of a sire. Women who get pregnant by vampires generally die from it, but his sire knew how to keep me alive and so Alexandru traded his freedom from his sire for my life." It sounded so simple but felt so very complex. "That sucks, so sires can control their-?" Spencer stopped talking as she searched for the right word. "Spawn? Yeah, they can." "So when is he coming back?" Domino shook her head and looked at Spencer, her red eyes boiling with emotion, "I don't think he is." "So it's just you and Faith here?" Spencer looked around her. "Yeah, it is." "Would you mind a roommate? I have no money, but I can cook, and clean, and babysit. And Faith likes me." "And she can't bite you." "Nope." "Maybe we can try it. For a few weeks, to see how it goes." "Thank you, Dom. I haven't felt safe in a while. It feels safe here to me, I dunno." Spencer shrugged as she looked around them at the house Domino had instantly felt very much at home in. "I understand wanting to feel safe, Spencer. We'll see how it goes." ~*~*~*~ "It's been four months," The hissed voice of the older vampire in the dingy, moist room made the only other occupant wince and start to shake again, "you can't hold out forever." "I don't have to hold out forever," Alexandru's voice sounded weak, barely a whisper, but it still seemed to echo throughout the cavernous large room where he was chained, his hands raised and stretched to either side along a sharp edged wall of stones, his feet barely touched the floor, "I just have to live long enough for you to make a mistake and then I'm going to kill you." A Few Sips Ch. 14 Klaus couldn't control the growl that came from his thin, dark lips as he moved over towards the man he had brought here months ago, thinking that Alexandru would finally give him what he wanted, what he had created the vampire for ages ago. However, despite the fact that Alexandru had done as he'd promised, he'd come to Belarus, the infuriating vampire had refused to feed. And if the big vampire wouldn't feed, he couldn't mate, because his blood dropped off significantly after a very short amount of time. Low blood levels meant no erection, and he couldn't get what he wanted unless the large, usually virile vampire was able to fuck. It was maddening to the aged vampire and he'd spent the last four months trying to get Alexandru to feed, even trying to force it down his throat at times. The one thing he needed, wanted from his spawn, and it was also the one thing that Klaus was unable to compel Alexandru to do. Be it God's way of giving vampire spawn a way to get out from under the control of their sires or for whatever other reason there could be, Alexandru had control over whether or not he fed. Refusing to do so made him weak, drowsy, and his senses were lulled, but it kept him from doing anything to hurt anyone. It was what had led to his escape the first time. Klaus had put him in this exact position, tied to a wall, naked, beaten, bloodied, and he'd tried to force him to eat, bringing him human after human to tempt him. He'd refused and Klaus had eventually begun to come in the room less and less. Once, a servant had come inside, curious as to the big vampire that was going against his master's wishes. They had spoken and it became clear that Klaus had left the large ancient home. The servant had fed him and helped him escape. He had run from his prison and never looked back, getting as far as he could as quickly as he could. By the time Klaus had returned to discover that he'd escaped, he was too far away for his sire to exert control. The closest he had ever come to Klaus' chosen home in Belarus was Romania, where he would go to watch his family until they had eventually died off. Klaus had not bothered to seek him out after that first time because he knew that Alexandru had no reason not to starve himself again. The big vampire had refused to give him any reason, any one, to use against him. Until now, until Domino had come along and planted herself directly in the vampire's heart. It was all Klaus had needed to get him back. The first time Alexandru had disobeyed him, he'd hung on this wall almost nine months. He knew Klaus had every intention of making sure he hung there this time until he either died, or fed. He also knew Klaus wouldn't leave this time, he would wait until Alexandru was at the point of death, which was different for every vampire who wasted away in such a fashion. It was a slow and painful way to go, but if this was how he kept from hurting someone, from breaking the promise he'd made to Domino that he wouldn't fuck another woman, then so be it. He'd sacrificed himself for her, death was merely a final step to keeping her safe. Klaus had give his word never to hurt her or Faith, and giving one's word was an unbreakable physical bond for a vampire. It was the one real code that they had ever completely lived by. "All this for a simple girl." Klaus hissed, picking up the cane that he'd used on Alexandru the previous day. When the bound vampire saw it, he physically winced and whimpered a little bit. "For THE girl." Alex let his head fall forward, it was almost better not to know where the rod would hit. "Do you think she's still wearing the ring?" Klaus whispered close to his ear and Alexandru tensed, damn him. "You had promised not to compel me while we were there. You shouldn't have made me propose, you shouldn't have hurt her like that." A promise was not a word, and Alexandru should have known better, he should have demanded more. "I don't care about her feelings, Alexandru, I only care about you doing what I made you for. It was so quaint, the way she responded, quite sexy, in fact. I did quite enjoy the times I made you fuck her." Alexandru felt the sting of the cane hit across the front of his large thighs and groaned, his whole body jerking at how hard he'd been hit. A bright red line immediately appeared on each thigh. "You should have let me tell her I was leaving, you should have-." Alexandru felt his neck jerk back hard as the cane came down over his right nipple, Christ, nothing could burn more than this. "I should have done no such thing. This way, I know she hates you. I know that she could never forgive you for how you treated her. She will never come looking, she will never care for you the way she did before you betrayed her." Klaus ran the end of the cane up Alex's bruised abdomen slowly. "I didn't betray her." Alex said low, his voice hoarse as he ground his teeth together, the next swing of the cane landed just above his limp cock on his groin and it made the world explode painfully around him. "But that is the point, Alexandru, for the rest of eternity, or at least until her human body gives out and she dies, Domino will think that you did betray her, and she will hate you for it." Klaus's nauseating chuckle reverberated around the room and Alexandru shook, knowing by the look in his sire's eyes that the man wasn't anywhere near done with the cane tonight, he'd be covered with raised welts from it by the time the sun rose in the morning. A Few Sips Ch. 15 At just about five months old, Faith had cut her first two teeth, her bottom two incisors, and a month later, she was sitting up on her own and had gotten much better control of her wings. Spencer called her a mama's girl a lot, because Faith would always reach for Domino whenever she was in the room, and Domino, still glowing in the loving fascination with her young baby, was almost always in the room with her. By eight months old, Domino and Spencer were having a heck of a time keeping up with the precocious crawler who seemed to want to get into everything in the house. They'd had to buy baby gates and locks and the coffee table had been shoved into the small attic because Faith had gotten extremely adept at bumping her little head on it. Cereal was either shoved forcefully into her mouth or rained about the room in little showers that were always accompanied by fits of laughter. The baby vampire was happy, very healthy, and used all of her wakeful hours exploring her environment and actively taking part in it, whether her mother wanted her to, or not. Faith was a happy baby who had gained weight and giggled and squealed and generally enjoyed life and brought happiness to those around her, despite the fact that she was exhausting to both her mother, and Spencer, who had taken on the roll of much older sister and caretaker. Faith was about nine months old now, and it was only a matter of time until the little girl was pulling herself up to a standing position. In just a few more months, Domino knew that she would be walking, and flying, and that was what made her nervous. A flying baby was not something she wanted to deal with, she just hoped that Faith would be able to control herself. She'd enjoyed that exhaustive time where Alexandru had taken her up in the sky and caught her over and over again, she had given him her complete trust that night, but it gave her nightmares thinking that Faith might mess up, or get tired, and plummet to the earth below her. So she'd started to put locks on all the windows that the little girl couldn't open, and Domino had placed cameras in every room so that she would be able to see what Faith was up to, on the off chance that she couldn't hear her, which Domino knew was unlikely. Jo had tried to assure her that things would all happen very naturally, and that Faith would be okay, but she worried, she didn't want anything to happen, not even the chance of it. Her daughter meant the world to her. Over the last few months, she had spent an increasing amount of time with Jo and her girlfriend. They were all very close friends now, which is not something that Domino had expected to happen. Jo had been able to give her some guidance on Faith's development and despite Domino's near frantic worry that Faith would somehow do something to hurt herself, the advice had helped calm her at least ever so slightly. The vampire scientist had been born to a human female who had died giving birth to her, so Jo had been raised by her vampire father until they'd parted ways years ago. Her mother had lived in a tribe in Ethiopia, a part of the modern day Amhara. Her father had been from either Egypt or the then Arabia, what was now Saudi Arabia, Jo wasn't sure, as he'd refused to speak a lot about his own past. He had raised her in Ethiopia, and Domino could tell that she missed her homeland. She had spoken at length about her life among them, and how extremely different it was from the life she had now. Jo had beautiful brown skin with warm orange-red undertones and soft, curly, black hair that framed her oval face. Her eyes were always smiling in the corners, their dark chestnut irises always seeming to suggest that she could sense the good in everything around her. It was a remarkable trait to see on a creature of the darkness, one would almost think that this particular vampire was born of the light. Domino couldn't help but be put in a good mood when she was around the vampire, and she had listened to her life story with rapt fascination. Jo had stayed in Africa until about eighty-three years ago when she'd immigrated to the United States. Apparently, she'd met Mr. Hughes somewhere along the way, and Marci had come along after the human woman was in her forties. Domino knew that Jo and Mr. Hughes had been intimate in the past, though they were only friends now, and she'd asked the spunky vampire once about it all. "When you live as long as I have, you start to see sexuality in more fluid terms. Men are sexy, strong, sure of themselves, and sex with them can be fantastic. Women are powerful, sensual, caring, and sex with them can be equally fantastic. It's all relative, really. I like who I like when I like them. I've had lasting relationships with men and women. I'm a serial monogamist, I suppose. Never married, and I've only ever dated humans. Mr. Hughes, well, he was just for sport. I was visiting a friend who used to work for him and we kinda got it on a couple times. But yeah, I'm not gay, and I'm not straight, because I don't think, if you live long enough, those labels would actually mean anything. Pansexual? Is that it? I have no idea what people are calling it these days." Jo had explained, and Domino was pretty sure she understood. An eternity on this planet would give someone a whole different perspective on what life was like, what sexuality was like. Though Domino had to admit, when she thought about sex and a relationship, her head was very much still linked to Alexandru. She missed him so much. Yes, she was angry, she didn't understand what had made him leave without telling her, she couldn't quite get past that, but she still loved him. She couldn't imagine ever not loving him as fiercely as she did now. Would she feel that painful ache in her heart forever, or would it eventually dull over time? Domino felt sick thinking there would be a time when he wasn't the second thing she thought about after waking at night, Faith forever being the first. Would that happen? How would that make her feel? The thought kept her frustrated, but she knew there was nothing she could do right now to figure any of it out. Everything was still very fresh for her. So instead, she spent her time with Faith and Spencer, and visited her other friends when she had time, and went out to feed in Madison or Green Bay when she had the chance. Currently, Faith was sitting in the living room playing with some sort of blanket thing that made different noises depending on where you touched it, and Spencer was reading quietly on the couch behind her, while Domino stood at the sink in the kitchen washing the bottles that Faith had already consumed. A knock at her door made her frown, she wasn't expecting Jo or the other two vampires, and Marci was in Sioux City at her younger sister's house right now. Going towards the door, Domino breathed in slowly and smelling the familiar scent she knew oh so well outside the door, she smiled and hauled the door wide open. Average height, stocky build, wide grin showing even, white teeth, and those dark blue, intense eyes all told her that Samir had finally come to visit. Moving forward, she hugged him close and then stepped back to let him inside. "I didn't expect you to show up here." She said as she closed the door behind him, he had stepped into her house and was looking around it with appreciation in his gaze. "This is a great place, Dom, it feels like a home to me." He smiled as he turned towards her and waved a hand around them. "Thank you. I really do love it here." She nodded, walking with him into the living room. Looking at the couch, she saw that Spencer had sat up and was looking at Samir with a timid look in her eye, which was the natural reaction to his extreme good looks, she supposed. She'd probably felt the same way about him herself when they'd first met. Now, he was just 'Samir, her friend.' A friend who'd bought her a sex toy, which she was still immensely thankful for, but a friend, nonetheless. "Spencer, this is my friend, Samir. Samir, this is my friend and roommate, Spencer. I've written you about her." Domino sat down on the floor next to Faith and watched as Samir walked over to Spencer and shook her hand, a smile on his face as she slowly pulled her hand from his after, eyes wide as she looked up at him. "It's nice to finally meet you, Spencer." Samir nodded and then moved over to sit near Domino and her daughter on the floor. "You work at that spa that Domino had Faith at?" Spencer asked belatedly as she turned on the couch a little to see them better. "I do." "So are you, like, taking vacation days or something?" Domino smiled tightly, a sparkle in her eyes as she looked over at Spencer, the girl had thought the idea of a sex spa was absurd, and had asked her a great many hilarious questions about it, including her conclusion that Mr. Hughes was a pimp. She'd assured the girl that that was not the case, but it was amusing sometimes, at the parallels that she would make. "I think so," Samir arched a brow at Domino, "Mr. Hughes sort of told me to leave, so I am not sure if I'm on vacation or if I'm fired, really." "What?" Domino gasped, she'd just talked to Mr. Hughes a few days ago, what had happened? "We just had a little disagreement." Samir shrugged, and she could tell by the way that he focused on Faith that he had no intention of giving her any information about what was going in. "Is this about her, the girl who's been staying there lately?" Domino pressed anyway, and was rewarded with a frown from Samir as his eyes flickered to her for just a moment. "What has he actually told you about her?" "Not much, other than saying that she's driving him bat shit crazy, he's really quiet about her." Domino frowned, Mr. Hughes seemed more stressed lately, but it didn't seem like it was the normal type of stress, this was a whole new level of weird for him. If he hadn't already cut his wings off, she might be a little worried about what he might do to himself. Samir chuckled, "Something like that. He's annoyed, but it will work itself out one way or another. I chose to listen and take a vacation. Anyway, I bring news, Domino. News that you want to hear." She looked at him curiously, "Yes?" "We found Alexandru." He said softly, knowing by the way her body stiffened that she heard him very clearly. "Where?" "Belarus. Outside of Hrodna. Klaus has land there and Thorontur had some of the wood elves that work for him go into the area. By listening to the humans there, he was able to find one that worked for Klaus. Eventually, they found where he was, and where he was keeping Alexandru." Samir saw all sorts of emotions flicker within her eyes and knew by the way they clouded over a bit that she was still very much out of sorts about her lover. "Alexandru?" Domino wasn't quite sure what she was asking, but she wanted to know, she wanted to know everything. "He's being held in a basement there. Chained. Klaus has apparently been very angry lately, so Mr. Hughes is assuming that Alexandru isn't making things easy on the man." "How can he make things hard? Klaus can compel him to do whatever he wants." Domino shook her head. "He can't make him drink." Samir said in a voice that sounded a little strained, and Domino frowned, what did that mean? "But he has to drink." She bit her lip and picked Faith up and put her in her lap, they had to drink, every night. Jo said their bodies had to have at least a quart of blood, if not more, to function properly. "From what I understand, if a vampire doesn't drink nightly, they very quickly become weak and lethargic. Eventually, if they abstain from all blood long enough, it will kill them." He told her gently as he held a finger up for Faith, who grabbed at it and tugged at him, giggling as she did so. "Faith is eight and a half months old, Samir, how long has he not been drinking?" Her whole body felt rigid, and her throat felt dry, dear God, what was Alexandru doing? Samir shook his head, "They aren't sure, but Domino...there aren't any pregnant women there. Nor has there been since Alexandru arrived." "So he's been starving himself since the beginning?" Domino felt herself hunch down over Faith a little bit as her eyes closed over the tears that filled them, Alexandru was choosing death, death over breaking his promise to her, no. No no no. "We think so." "How long can he survive?" She whimpered, not looking up, knowing all he would see on her face was pain. "A year would be stretching it, Dom. Mr. Hughes said that through the years there are vampires that choose death this way, they tire of being here, of losing people, of being who they are, and they choose to waste away. Alexandru is doing this so that he doesn't have the energy to fuck, he doesn't want to put a woman through what you went through. And he loves you." He put a hand on her knee as he said that last part and Domino shifted away from him a little. "Faith can't lose her father, she can't, she hasn't even really met him yet." She stood up, holding the little girl in her arms until she started squirming to be let back down. Domino watched as the dark haired girl crawled quickly over to Samir, her wings flapping above her as she squealed and fell into his arms. Everything about the sweet child reminded her of Alexandru and about what he was missing. He had only had that one night, that very first night of her life with her before he'd had to leave his baby girl on that bed and walk away. Domino wiped at the tears under her eyes and looked over at Spencer who had been sitting quietly listening to them. "So when are we going to Belarus?" Spencer tilted her head slightly, a sparkle in her eyes as she looked up at her friend from the couch. Domino frowned, "Why would you come with me?" "Wait a minute, Dom, Mr. Hughes is already working with the wood elves on a plan." "It's not his responsibility to get Alexandru free, it's mine." "There are some logistics involved, Dom, like the light, and the people who work there. He's got guards, both human and non-human." "Well, it's a good thing I have a mermaid for a friend then." She looked at him intently and watched as the right corner of Spencer's mouth lifted in a knowing smile. "Why?" Samir frowned, thinking of the powers of the mermaids he had met, there were several types of mermaids, most were of the light, but not all... "Anya isn't the only siren out there, Samir." Domino smiled at the way his eyes widened and he looked over at the small, quiet woman who was still relaxing back against the couch. "A li-?" "No, Samir, she's not a light siren. She's the other kind." Domino grinned, it could work, if Spencer could transform close enough to the building where Alexandru was being kept, the girl's song would reach the men protecting Klaus within and they would be summoned outside to listen to her song. "Is there water near them?" Spencer asked. Samir nodded, "There's a lake south of the mansion, maybe about a fourth of a mile away." "Is that too far?" Domino asked and breathed a little easier when Spencer shook her head. "It's actually a good distance, my mother said that they walk slowly, so it will give you more time. Once they reach me, I'll have to have help tying them down so that they don't come in the water. Otherwise, I'll have to stop singing." Spencer sat up straight and nodded at her plan. The men who came to her would go into the water after her and drown, which was not really what they wanted, so their plan could only work if Spencer had help, but it couldn't come from Samir, it couldn't come from a man, at all. "I need a woman, or women, to help. If there is a man there, other than a vampire sleeping, as they cannot be woken up, he would be lured to me, as well. It wouldn't work." Spencer looked at Domino. "It can't be Jo or Fionna, they could never be in the light that long." "Anya?" Domino snorted, "She may be non-human, but she's not like us in strength. Besides, she's got a million babies to take care of, I wouldn't want her to risk herself like that. It's too dangerous." "Dom said that there was a dragon woman. Could you get her to help us?" Samir frowned and shook his head, "Shu hasn't been seen for about five months now, I think. She is in hiding." Domino frowned, knowing there was a story there, but now was not the time. She needed to be selfish and focus on her own problems, "Faeron, Faeron has like a bunch of sisters, doesn't he?" "I think there are five of them, yes." Samir nodded, not sure he wanted to trust the rescue of the captive vampire to a bunch of wood elves, despite how Faeron had proved to be such an asset to Vorhees. "Then I'll text Faeron and ask if he can have them meet us in Belarus. We'll need their help." Domino nodded, seeing Spencer nod a little more enthusiastically at her side, this could work if they planned it right. "Domino, if you do it this way, I can't help you get him out." Samir furrowed his brow, knowing he would be affected by the siren song, as well. "Samir, I never said I needed your help. I'll be the one getting him out. This is my family, MY fiancé, and I can do this. Once the male guards are dealt with, Jo, Fionna, and I can handle the females. They won't be expecting us." "On the contrary, Domino, I think they will be expecting you." Samir said in a frustrated voice. "No they won't, because we're attacking at dawn." Domino said with a wide sinister smile on her face. "Jo's elixir?" "Yes, and we're the only ones that have it, she's never given it to other vampires." "Domino, this is dangerous, you need to come up with a better plan." "Oh, I will, and I'll do it with Jo's help. If she can figure out a way to break the bond between Alexandru and Klaus permanently, then we'll do it. Otherwise..." "Otherwise you're going to kill Klaus." He sighed, killing a non-human was always a tricky thing, and killing a vampire was tricky...and disgusting. "I might end up doing that anyway, unless, oh, if I kill him is it going to be all 'Lost Boys' and Alexandru becomes a human again? That would kind of suck." Domino asked, she hadn't thought about that, she just really wanted the asshole vampire to die. Samir frowned at her, "Once you're a vampire, you're always a vampire, Domino. Klaus dying will not affect Alexandru. But you can't just go around killing non-humans. It's the kind of thing that pisses other members of the darkness off." "You killed two gargoyles and you didn't die." She scoffed. "I had the Lotus Family backing what I did." He told her. "Then maybe you can help. Go talk to Wei and his brothers and make them understand that I need to kill that asshole." Domino thought he was going to refuse her, but he slowly nodded, his eyes falling to the little girl in his arms that was slapping his face lightly as the adults around her spoke. "We'll need one more woman, someone who isn't a vampire to drive you, Jo, and Fionna to his mansion that morning." Spencer said quietly. Domino bit her lower lip as she thought, Connor was a guy, and she would have him stay somewhere safe with Faith while they rescued Alexandru. She absolutely would not use Shi, or Anya. "I know someone." Samir said after a bit, "As soon as you decide when this is happening, then I'll call her and let her know where to be, and when." Domino smiled and walked over to him, squatting beside him to give the man a hug as Faith giggled between the two of them. This would work, it had to work, because she had to get Alexandru away from Klaus. It didn't mean she forgave him, but it meant that he would be safe, that he would not be in the clutches of a crazy vampire. Once he was free, well, a lot of that was on him, because she wasn't the same as when he'd left. For the past eight and a half months, she'd built a new life for herself in Wisconsin. A new home, and a new family. She wasn't sure where Alexandru's place was in it...yet. Or if he would have a place besides being Faith's father, but unless he got free, she would never know. And boy, did she want to know. A Few Sips Ch. 15 "Let's go give Jo a visit." She looked at Spencer with a fresh light in her eyes, they had work to do. Thankfully, Jo was not absent from her Green Bay home. When Domino had texted her, she'd been having dinner and was going to be heading to the lab to work. Instead, the scientist had texted Fionna and Connor, and they had arrived just as Samir, Domino, Faith, and Spencer had shown up at her doorstep. They first explained what Samir had told them, and then Domino had outlined the rudimentary plan that they had thought of so far. Connor and Fionna had a lot of input as to how certain parts would best be executed and it wasn't long before that rudimentary plan developed into an actual, plausible, rescue mission. Now, Domino was talking with Jo about what would happen once they were inside. "I wish it was possible. It's not. I've tried before. It works for a while, but the stupid protein chain will turn back on. That's why it's better to turn a vampire my way in the first place, then the sire bond is never placed. I'll find the string of DNA that does it eventually, but it's being a pesky little sucker. I've thought about attaching the enzyme that negates it to a virus of some sort, but vampires are really good at healing, so it gets rid of the virus before it can do any good to the sire bond. One day, maybe, but no, I could never have it done, not by the day after tomorrow for sure. Our best bet is that you stab that jerkass in the heart." Jo spoke in a rushed tone, they'd been talking for hours, and had planned quite a bit of the attack that would be taking place in just a few days. They'd already heard back from Faeron who had been cautiously optimistic about their chances, attacking when Klaus was asleep was their best chance, but that meant that Alexandru would be asleep, too, but once Klaus was dead, then they wouldn't have to rush to be free. As soon as Spencer stopped singing, the wood elves that would accompany four of Faeron's sisters to Belarus would be able to come close enough to be of use. It would have to happen quickly, Domino and the other vampires who used the elixir would only be awake for about six hours before they, too, would have to go to bed. They'd be at the mercy of their non-human allies at that point. Samir had already spoken to Zheng Lotus, who was going to confer with his brothers about the slaying of a non-human. He hadn't been able to let Domino and her friends know what way the dragon was swaying because Zheng was unreadable. Domino had to just hope that the dragons would understand that the only way to get Alexandru free of Klaus' hateful grip was to end the old vampire's life. The world would be a better place without him, she was sure of it. Samir was also going to come and stay with the wood elf males far enough away from Klaus' land so that after Spencer was done with her part, he could come in and help get Alexandru out of the mansion and make sure they were all taken to safety. "Have you considered the fact that Alexandru may die before you get there?" Samir said quietly, he'd been standing slightly back from the table they were all sitting around. "But you just said that the elves found him." Spencer frowned at him. "Yes, they know that he's there, but he is very sick, Domino. It could happen any time. I just want you to prepare for that." He shrugged, he didn't want to see her get hurt again. "We'll just have to hope we get there in time." Connor smiled reassuringly at Domino and she nodded in return. "I have to do what I can, and we can't wait to find out if he's still alive. We just have to go." Domino knew Samir was trying to be cautious, but she was done with that. She was going to get on a plane, which was already on its way from Vorhees thanks to Mr. Hughes, and she was going to get Alexandru back. ~*~*~*~ They had arrived in Belarus just after dusk had set. Domino was thankful that Mr. Hughes had made some alterations to his private plane that allowed for the interior to be completely dark as they made their journey across the Atlantic. It was a full flight, and everyone on board was a little nervous, talking constantly about random things to pass the time as they waited to land. For a while, Samir, Spencer, and Faeron, who had insisted on coming and being a part of the rescue, were the only two besides the flight crew to be awake. The vampires on board; Domino, Fionna, Jo, Connor and Faith, had slept while the sun was shining. Though, they, too, had napped to ensure that they wouldn't be too tired upon arrival. When the vampires had awoken, it had almost been simultaneous, and then Faith had started screaming to be fed. The door of the plane was opened and the stairs put down. Domino was the first one out the door, anxious to get to where they would spend the night, an inn on the opposite side of Hrodna. It wasn't likely that they would be spotted, but there was always a chance. Klaus was very secretive and none of them would put it past him to have spies. On the black tarmac, Domino saw a woman standing quietly, a jacket wrapped around her body as she watched them all get off of the plane. This was Samir's contact, the one who would be driving in the morning. She had beautiful long, straight, blond hair and her blue eyes were exactly the same color as Samir's, which made Domino arch a brow and look at the blond man that had come up to stand beside her, his face had stretched into a smile, and he quickly stepped forward to hug the woman. "Hello, Dad." The woman's soft, friendly, voice made Domino gasp a little. This was Samir's daughter? Wow. They looked close to the same age. Giants were lucky. "Siobhan, this is Domino, the woman I told you about." Samir kissed his daughter's cheek and turned a bit so that he could introduce the two of them. "It's nice to meet you, Siobhan. Thank you so much for helping us." Domino grinned, holding out her hand and gasping again when the woman stepped forward, instead, and hugged her tightly. "It's a pleasure meeting you, too, Domino. Samir has told me a great deal about you, and this little sweetheart of yours." Siobhan looked at Faith, who had been carried off of the plane by Spencer. "Faith. She's a little hungry right now." Domino chuckled, her daughter was looking everywhere around her with inquisitive eyes as she sucked down a bottle of blood. "She's adorable. Reminds me of my youngest, starving, all the time." Siobhan looked at the child for a few moments with a smile. Domino grinned, looking over at Samir and mouthing the word 'grandpa,' which made him chuckle good-naturedly. Once Siobhan had been introduced to the others, they piled into a van and made their way to the inn. They were met there by thirteen wood elves that had taken up residence earlier in the evening. Seven women, including four of Faeron's sisters, and three of their friends who had agreed to help. The six men in attendance would be the ones waiting with Samir to go in later. Faeron's four sisters echoed their brothers in looks. All had dark hair, chestnut, overly large eyes, and had a somewhat mystical look about them. They each wore long dresses that were simple in design but the fabric didn't seen to be anything that Domino'd ever seen in a store before, it shimmered and moved in very delicate and fluttery ways as the girls moved about the room as they were each introduced. The older three were very proper, nodding in introduction, asking easy questions, accepting answers graciously, but the youngest, Ennostiel, who had corrected the name to 'Natasha' after Faeron had introduced her, had been much quieter, and had stood back a bit from the others. Domino had probably paid that sister the most attention, as she seemed somewhat nervous around everyone in the room, and her big eyes never seemed to stay in one place for very long. She seemed to taking each of them in, and Domino had the feeling that she was the most nervous about being involved. For the first time, she wished that Faeron could still hear her mind, it would be nice to know if his sister was up for this particular mission of theirs. She didn't want someone who was scared to be forced to participate. But the girl never said anything, and eventually, she left the room with her sisters, having not uttered a single word to any of them. "Your sisters seem nice, Faeron. So what is wrong with all you male wood elves that made you such horrible people for so long?" Domino cracked a smile at the elf a little later when the rest of the male wood elves had gone to their rooms to rest. He'd looked at her with an arched brow. "My sisters were nice to you because I told them to be, Dom. They can be quite ferocious." He chuckled, Naerwen, especially, that particular sister was a bit spiteful. "And Natasha? Is she ferocious?" Domino pressed gently, watching as he looked at her with a frown. "Ennostiel is young. Very young in the eyes of a wood elf. Practically an infant. She grew up in a very different world than the rest of us. Plus-she's-. Well, she's just a little different than your average wood elf, I should say. You can trust her, if that is what has you curious. She will help you. In fact, she was the one who convinced the others that they had to come." His words surprised and confused her, but Faeron's words often surprised and confused her, which she was sure that he did on purpose. "Is there anything that we are missing, Faeron?" She asked right before he walked out of her room, only he and Spencer and Faith were in it at this point. "Yes, we are definitely missing things, but there is nothing we can do about it. We can't plan for everything, but we can be hopeful, Domino. There is always hope." He nodded before leaving the room. Domino looked over at Spencer and frowned softly, "I just don't want anyone else to get hurt, and there are a lot of people here." Spencer nodded, patting Faith on the back after the little girl was finished with her latest bottle. "You've done everything you can, and you can't do this all on your own. No matter how much you want to. Besides, I've never been outside of Wisconsin, this is pretty neat to me." "Nice first vacation." Domino rolled her eyes. Spencer just laughed and sat down on the couch in the room with Faith babbling in her arms. They spent the next few hours just talking, Spencer about her life with her mother, and Domino about her own life, and about the life she had started to build with Alexandru. It had been a hard conversation, especially when they were closer to her lover than they'd been in months and so many things could go wrong before she could get him free. Were the memories that she spoke of the last ones that she would have with her big, grumpy vampire, or would they eventually be able to make new ones? It was a half hour before dawn when two vehicles pulled up on the western edge of the large lake that bordered Klaus' land. The passenger van held seven female wood elves, and the box truck that had been reinforced to keep out light from within held one female giant, a mermaid, and three female vampires. They had woken a few hours before and everyone had gathered and gone over the final plans before they'd quietly made their way out of town and around the land that Klaus owned. They knew there were werewolves on the grounds, and they would know instantly if someone entered their territory that they didn't know. So the group had tread carefully, turning off the lights to their vehicles early, driving slow, and then walking when they were still almost a half mile from the edge of the lake. Domino had wanted to be there when Spencer went in, just in case there was a problem. They had coordinated an exact time when the woman would start singing, which was right at dawn, and after the vampires had drank their elixir. But she had to be sure the plan was going to work first. Standing about ten feet from the edge of the lake, though, Domino felt nervous, very nervous for the very first time that they would fail. Her red eyes were wide and scared as she looked out over the fog-covered lake before them, able to see the dark stone mansion in the background through the mist. Spencer was standing just in front of her and to the side, and she eventually looked over at Domino with a frown of her own. "There's a problem." Spencer said quietly, and Domino stiffened, not already. "What is it?" Domino whispered back while the elves moved closer to them to hear. "There's a mermaid in the water." Spencer nodded out towards the lake. Domino looked out over the still body of water before them and frowned, Jesus, really? A fucking mermaid was going to ruin her whole plan? "A male or female?" She asked, worried either way, would one really be worse than the other? Would they be working for Klaus? "A male." "Is he light or dark?" That was Alastegiel, the sister closest to Faeron in age, that spoke quietly. "Does it matter?" Domino asked. Spencer nodded, "One like me could call all the women to the water. If he is working for Klaus, we'd be fucked." "And if he's light?" "Then he's just a 'normal' mermaid-merman, I suppose. Which makes him just more of a nuisance." Spencer shrugged, maybe they'd get lucky, maybe his being here was a coincidence. "Well, how the fuck do we find out?" Domino growled, this could just NOT be happening. Spencer put down her backpack against a tree, and began undressing. She didn't stop until she was completely nude and then the girl gave Domino one last, hopeful look before licking her lower lip. "Here goes nothing." The girl said quietly as she quickly moved to the water's edge and dived in, disappearing below the surface for several moments before she jumped above the waterline, her long, shimmering orange and yellow tale visible for a moment before she disappeared again beneath. "How long should we wait here?" Domino asked the elves, but no one in particular. "You don't. You must get to the edge of their territory now, you don't have a lot of time. You'll know if she fails, or if the merman is of the dark." Naerwen nodded at her. "How?" "We'll all drown." The elf looked at her with wide, solemn eyes. A Few Sips Ch. 16 When Spencer hit the water the first time, it was cold and stung her naked skin as she slid deeper into it, her legs instantly coming together and changing into her mermaid tail before she'd even turned and jumped above the surface to suck in a much needed breath of warm air. The freshwater of the lake felt good against her skin, though mermaids could change in salt water, as well. She had always been in Wisconsin, though, and had only ever known freshwater. Going back under, she opened her eyes to look around her, hoping to stay on the far side of the lake away from Klaus' territory as she looked for the merman that she knew was somewhere within these depths. Swimming slowly, she tried to concentrate on the vibrations in the water, but could not feel him moving. Which let her know that he was very aware of her presence. It made her shiver and she swam forward cautiously, her eyes darting side to side, her body on edge, poised to retreat if she needed to, hoping that she could get away from him if necessary. A minute or two went by and she was unable to locate him, but felt that he was somehow getting closer to her. The water was pretty clear, but there were lots of places he could be hiding, fallen logs, rocks, and plant growth, all of which he would know, all of which could hide him from her. Frowning, Spencer kicked up and started to swim towards the surface, she felt like her skin was crawling, looking for someone who she knew was watching her. The moment she lifted her head up towards the moonlight above her strong hands surrounded the base of her tail and yanked her back down into the water, making her gasp and jerk around to see him. Her eyes widened the moment she saw the merman, she hadn't expected him to be so much more muscled, and so big. He had long, brown hair and broad, strong shoulders. His abdomen looked to be chiseled in stone and his arms were powerful looking, well, they were just plain powerful, his grip was tight, unmoving and she could do nothing but look at him as he pulled her closer to his body. His green eyes stared at her closely, and he slowly removed one hand from her tail to cup her behind her head to move her face closer to him. The feel of his hand on her made Spencer shiver and she felt little bolts of electricity shoot through her body as his other hand slowly ran up her tail and over the curve of her ass before settling on her lower back. When he kicked up with his own powerful tail, sending them to the surface, Spencer inadvertently wrapped her arms around his neck and when their heads were above the water, she gasped, taking the time to breathe before she looked over to the edge of the water to see the elf females waiting expectantly by the edge of the lake. Shaking her head, she wanted them to back away a little, it would do no good for him to see them right now. He spoke to her in a language that she didn't understand and Spencer shook her head, "Do you speak English?" "Who are you?" He asked in a heavy accent as he held them just above the surface. She could see his face clearer now, he was rather attractive, and his hands on her body had pulled them tightly together. "Spencer. You?" And are you a dark siren or just a regular old merman, she wanted to ask. "Astor. Why are you here?" He asked, she felt his hand move low on her ass, and then it slowly swept forward to wrap around the side of her waist. "I needed to swim." She shrugged her shoulders, trying to swim from him when he moved a hand around to the front of her, to her groin area. She could feel his fingers searching for the fold of her that was half hidden by the downy soft fin that sprouted out just within her hip bones. Spencer gasped and pushed from him when he would have slipped a digit within her body. When she was a few feet away, she glared at him. "That's not how I typically say hello to someone I've just met." She hissed at him, watching as he smiled knowingly at her, and she watched as he swam a little closer to her. "You must not have spent a lot of time around your own kind. This is exactly how most of us would greet a member of the opposite sex. Mermaids aren't very common around here." He told her, dipping under the water for a moment and coming up behind her. Spencer bit her lip, she did not have time for his courting, "Do you work for the vampire that lives there." She waved a hand absently at the mansion in the background. Astor frowned at her and she felt hopeful suddenly, "I don't require employment, and certainly not from that one." "But you live so close to his land." She pressed. "I was here well before he came to this area. I damned well won't leave my home to please him, or his goons." Astor shrugged, moving his hands back around her body, this time holding her against him as he pushed a finger up inside the warm, moistening crevice at her groin. Spencer whimpered and closed her eyes, letting her head fall back against his chest. "So you won't mind if I sing and help some friends storm in and do away with him, huh?" Spencer felt her body shake, she'd never been touched, not in either of her forms, and the way his finger felt sliding along the satiny feeling fold inside of her was making her groggy with desire. "You're a siren of the darkness, then?" His question and the chuckle that came from his throat made her push against his hold, but he kept her against him. "I am. Are you?" She bit her lip when she saw his chin move from left to right. "I'm of the light." He told her quietly, his hand was moving in little circles inside and it was making her lose focus. "Would you mind if I sing, I don't want to pull you into anything, but we are trying to rescue a friend." She looked at the sky, dawn was so very near. "Then we have to fuck." He groaned against her ear and she shivered, her body unconsciously pushing towards his questing finger as it pushed more rapidly within her. "I don't have time." She moaned, turning towards him so that he could push with more force into her fold. "You have to make it, if you sing without fucking me first, I'll force myself on you, and you won't be able to. I have to have known your body in order to remain unaffected by your song." He explained to her, wondering how she wasn't quite aware of that fact. "It's almost dawn." Spencer looked in the sky above them and then gasped in air before he pulled her back below the surface of the lake. Underwater, she could see that his shaft had risen against his groin and the long, solid looking mass was already pointing towards her lower body. She'd never fucked before, and certainly hadn't expected her first time to go like this, but if this is what she had to do, if this is what would help her friend, the woman who had taken her in as family, then her virginity was a small price to pay. Biting her lip, she nodded at him, her eyes wide, scared, and he moved against her, the head of his cock pressing against the opening as his arms surrounded her. It was long, longer than she had thought it would be, and she couldn't imagine how he would fit inside, but even as she had the thought, he was pushing in, filling her with one heavy stroke that stung at one point, and he held her carefully against him as she jerked away, not letting her disconnect. He moved them further down so that he could press her against the soft, mossy bottom of the lake and started to move his body over her, into and out of her fold in increasing thrusts, his hands on her arms, holding her in place as their tails began to beat off of one another. Spencer felt something break in her body and she felt moisture rush against him, felt her body accept more of his length, and then the greater pressure as he began to ram inside, forcing all of his shaft high inside of her body, over and over. She felt something snap in him, as well, and he began to pump hard, rapidly, into her pussy until he finally slammed forcefully down and soaked her insides with his cum. Spencer felt them moving up to the surface as she let her eyes drift closed for a moment, overwhelmed by what had happened. He held her against him as they both breathed in much needed gulps of air. It had been fast, carnal, more of a quick slaking of one's needs rather than a slow, languid loving, and the emotions rolling through her were muddled and confusing. She slowly moved her eyes to his face to look at him and saw him smiling. "I would have much rather gone slower, but apparently time is of the essence today?" He whispered against her as he moved his eyes to look at the elves he knew were waiting against the tree line. "It is." Her voice came out a little choked and he put his hands on either side of her face and kissed her thoroughly. His tongue slid inside and Spencer felt herself lost to the caress for a moment before someone coughing near the edge of the water brought her attention back to what she was here for. Looking up, she saw that the sun had just hit the horizon. "I am sorry for the way we came together, I will make it up to you." The way he spoke and looked over her naked body made her shiver with expectation. "I need to sing, Astor." She told him, she could not think about fucking him right now, she just could not. He nodded and grinned, "Can I make myself useful then? I assume they are here with ropes to tie up your victims with?" "You're going to help?" Spencer was so shaken up, part of her wanted to continue the mission, and the other desperately wanted to go back underwater and let this merman fuck her again. And again. "Of course. I'm not going to let them have all the fun." Astor nodded to the elves who nodded back and then started to skip over the surface of the water towards the opposite shore. Spencer watched them go with wide eyes and opened her mouth, she would need to sing before they reached the other end. She needed to have the males under control quickly. If there were any females among them, she just hoped the female wood elves could handle it. Her voice came out in a mezzo-soprano that she knew would reverberate through the air for a little less than half a mile. There was a chance that people who weren't working for the vampire would be affected, but that was what the elves were for, and now that Astor was helping, well, they should be able to handle whoever came their way quite well. Now, Domino just needed to do her part. ~*~*~*~ The back of the box truck felt suffocating, and despite the fact that they'd all drank the elixir, and that the box was completely shielded from the rays of the sun, the three vampires in the back of the box truck were hot and itchy and if this hadn't been the only way to get the upper hand on Klaus, Domino didn't think any of the three of them would have gone through the torture of getting in this situation. As it was, Domino felt horrible about her two friends being subjected to this. They loved her though, as much as she loved them, and they were doing this to write a wrong. Domino knew it, Jo knew it, and so did Fionna. Holding anyone against their wishes was evil, and Klaus had done a great amount of evil in his life. When the truck stopped, they heard shouts outside and then the front door of the truck opened and slammed shut. They could hear Siobhan being asked who she was, and they heard her reply that she had a delivery for Klaus. Apparently, they weren't expected and needed to leave, Domino smirked at that. She wished she could see what happened next, but by the increase in anger from the women who were in the area, Siobhan had started to change into her giant self and they were beginning to attack her. There was a loud crash, and a boom that reverberated under their feet and through the air around them as a part of the mansion wall was somehow torn apart. Then the truck was suddenly lifted into the air and set down a little less than gently in another location. For a few more minutes, they continued to hear as Siobhan fought with the woman around the outside of the house before the giant finally told them to open the back door of the truck. Domino and Fionna immediately grabbed hold of the handle at the base of the door and yanked it open quickly, knowing they would need to be able to fight instantly if there was someone on the other side, worrying that the sunlight would hinder their ability to if they were hit with direct beams of it. But when they opened the door, they were met with the dark interior of what looked to be a sitting room. Siobhan had moved the truck so that the back was flush against the back of the house. Looking out into the darkness, Domino snarled, she could see a wolf nearby, reared back and ready to attack, and there were several other women she assumed were different types of nonhumans in the room. Without hesitation, Domino jumped down in the room, her wings wide, ready to take flight and leap, which she did, colliding with the wolf midair and slamming the female beast onto the ground where she landed with a thud and a whimper, knocked unconscious quickly. Her eyes went to Jo, who was already wrestling another woman into submission while Fionna was locked into an attack on a third. A fourth and fifth woman were near the doorway where they had backed towards when the others had been attacked. The mission here was not to kill, the mission was to incapacitate. Domino's angry red eyes and black wings marking her as a vampire, however, made them a bit more terrified and when she took a step towards them, they turned and fled the room and went further into the bowels of the mansion. She waited patiently as the two women whom they'd left behind were dealt with and tied up, and then Domino walked with her friends out of the sitting room and they walked down one hallway and then another, looking for Klaus and Alexandru, knowing finding them in this enormous maze was going to be tricky. Siobhan found them in the hallway, back to normal size and dressed in the robe that she'd been wearing since they got going earlier in the morning. It was easier to change, she'd told them, when she didn't have to worry about kicking out of a pair of pants. It was a grueling twenty minutes or so of pushing in doors that were locked, going through rooms, closets, pantries and floorboards looking for an opening that would get them to where they needed to go, and as of yet, they were still unable to find an entryway to the basement. Domino was getting frustrated, she knew the more time that went by, the harder it would be for the elixir to continue working, they were so active, and it was making it wear off faster, she could feel it every time her heart pumped. Fuck, where were they hidden. "Stop moving, Domino." A quiet male voice said from her left and she looked over to see that Faeron was now inside. That meant that Spencer had taken care of all the males, good. This would be easier with more help. "Why?" "We need to listen, there are humans hiding in the house. We need to hear their thoughts in order to find them." He said as he put a finger in front of his mouth. Domino nodded and looked around at the others near her. Jo and Siobhan had went to search another area of the mansion, but she couldn't hear them as they moved around. Everyone stopped moving and Faeron closed his eyes to concentrate. Eventually, he gave the slightest little nod and began walking to his left, slowly, quietly, as he continued to listen to the thoughts of one of the hidden humans. A few minutes later, they were standing along one of the interior walls where there was a large tapestry hanging floor to ceiling. He raised a hand and pushed it to the side, revealing a doorway that would have easily been mistaken as part of the wood wall. She watched as Faeron waved a hand near the knob and heard the click of locks moving out of position. That was a neat trick, she smirked up at the wood elf who then moved his hand to the knob and pulled the door open. Inside, there were three humans, dressed as servants, hidden in the back corner. Their eyes widened in fear seeing an elf and two vampires standing outside the door. "Where is Klaus?" Domino asked, getting frowns and a shake of the head from more than one of them. "We can't tell you, he-he'll kill us." "Tell me where he is and you won't have to worry about that happening." She sneered and saw Faeron nod out of the corner of her eye. "He is close, Domino. There is another vampire here, a weak one, chained, his name is Alexandru." Faeron spoke gently, nodding again when he heard what he needed from the humans and then he turned away from them completely and walked farther down the hallway, taking a right at one end. Domino shut the door, closing the humans back inside, and she followed with Fionna. As they reached the turn, she saw Samir come into the hallways and he quietly followed them until Faeron stopped in front of what looked to be a plane wall. There was no hidden door that she could see, just a solid wall. Frowning, she looked at Faeron and waited for him to do something. "There is a vault within this. The opening is in the ceiling below. Klaus is inside." He moved his big eyes to Domino, and then to Samir, who nodded. "You guys may want to go back into the other hall for a minute." Samir looked at them. Domino furrowed a brow, but could already see that Samir meant to change into his giant form, he was peeling away his shirt and pants and tossing them to Fionna. Quickly, they moved away from him and after a few moments, they could hear and feel the vibration as he grew big, pushing in the plastered walls on either side of the hall, and then he was forcefully tearing down the surrounding structure to the vault within the wall. Dust was flying everywhere, and Domino covered her mouth and nose with a hand, her eyes mostly closing as they watched as Samir began to back slowly out of the hall towards where the front of the mansion was located. "Where are you taking him?" She asked, knowing it would be difficult to open the heavy metal vault, especially inside. But if he was outside, she wouldn't be able to get to the vampire within. "To Wei." "Wei? I thought you said you never heard back from the dragons?" This irritated Domino, this wasn't part of the plan. SHE wanted to kill Klaus, she wasn't going to let the dragon family stop her from doing it. He needed to die. "Domino. I'm tired, we need to find your lover." Fionna grabbed hold of her hand and made her look away from the giant. "He needs to die, Samir." Domino groaned, fuck, her anger was fueling her and now she could feel that fear start to creep in over what she would find in the basement. Faeron stepped in front of Domino and put a hand on her cheek to make her look up at him, "Go through the hole. He will be down the hall to the east. Go, find him." She bit her lip and nodded, Klaus' fate was apparently not up to her, and while she didn't like it, not one bit, Alexandru was more important. Rushing away from Faeron, she knew that Fionna was with her, and she could smell Jo and Siobhan running towards them from another area of the house, Domino turned back into the far hall and saw the huge hole that Samir had created between the ground floor and the basement. Without hesitation, she jumped down into the basement, not caring that her feet were scratched by the bits of plaster and wood on the ground below, she looked around the darkness, finally finding a void that must be the hallway that Faeron had spoken of. She could see a light dimly far within it, and set off in a run towards the flickering beam. "He's alive." Jo gasped as she came up beside Domino, who nodded and moved a little faster, desperate to see behind the door. "Barely." "I've got the blood for him, Domino." Fiona patted the pack on her waist. "That's a fucking heavy door." Domino stopped in front of the large, metal and stone structure. There was no window to the inside, and the candle burning on a peg on the outside left of it made it look even more menacing. A Few Sips Ch. 16 "I can't transform here without bringing the house down around us." Siobhan looked around them. "I'm not as strong as I can be." "Then move." A very soft voice sounded from behind them, and they moved their eyes simultaneously to see a small, wispy wood elf move into view. "Natasha?" Domino asked, she could barely make the girl out in the darkness. Finally, the young wood elf stepped fully into their diminishing eyesight, her light green dress flowing gently around her, she was barefoot like her sisters had been, and she stepped up to the door and put her hands up, moving them around all the sides as her eyes closed and she concentrated. Domino looked across her to Jo, who looked back and shrugged, they really had no idea of the powers of a wood elf, not all non-humans were very open about their powers, so she could shoot lasers from her eyes and they wouldn't be all that surprised. Could she shoot lasers through her eyes? That would probably be helpful right now. They looked back at the girl as they started to hear heavy vibrations in the wall. "Can you unlock it?" Domino asked quietly. "It's not locked. It's cemented in. This door hasn't opened in over a month." Natasha's statement made Domino groan and lean back against the wall behind her, he had sealed Alexandru inside? For a month already? "Can we get through from the ceiling?" Jo suggested. Natasha shook her head, "The room is completely stone. This is the only way. I suggest you stand back." Domino didn't hesitate, she grabbed hold of Fionna and moved quickly back out of the way. Jo and Siobhan moved to stand beside them and all four women watched as the dainty elf crouched slightly, facing the door, her hands up and out, palms toward the door, fingers splayed. There was nothing for a few moments, then Domino started to smell something burning, and the room slowly seemed to heat up. Her eyes widened as the door, or more appropriately, the edges of the door started to glow first red, then yellow, then a startling blue color before it splintered and fell in on itself. When the young elf put her hands down and turned to look at them, panting from the exertion of what she'd just done, Domino gaped openly at her. "Faeron never said wood elves could melt stone like that, that's amazing!" She gasped. Natasha chewed on the inside of her cheek for a moment as she looked at them. "Faeron can't do that." Domino raised her brow, under normal circumstances, she would ask more, but the room was now open, and she needed to get inside. Nodding at Natasha, she walked back to the now open doorway and walked inside. The whole room was in darkness, but that was quickly interrupted when Fionna walked into the room with the candle from outside in her hand, which she used to find a chain that hung from a bulb on the ceiling. Pulling it flooded the room with a murky, yellow glow and Domino felt her gut tighten in pain when she saw the form of her vampire fiancé slumped against the far wall. "Oh, my." She heard Jo say, knowing that for once, the female vampire was at a loss for words. The phrase 'a mere shell of one's former self' had never really meant a lot to Domino, not until now. Her once proud and powerfully muscular vampire lover was now practically skin and bone, he was pale, pasty looking, and his skin seemed paper thin. She could tell that he was alive, his chest was moving, though barely, and his usually thick and handsome head of hair was limp, damaged, and the smell emanating from him was wretched. If death had a smell, this was it, and Domino was never so thankful that she had made the decision to come here. He had days, hours maybe, and then he would have been lost to her forever. "Alex." She whimpered, going straight to him, his skin was clammy, cold, his wings limp behind his back. His arms were stretched above his head and she wrapped her arms around his waist to lift him, knowing by his wrists that he was injured. He couldn't heal, he was too sick to at this point. God damn that asshole, Klaus. He deserved to die for this. "I'll unhook him." Fionna said and came forward, making quick work of the binds at his wrists. Domino felt Siobhan take a hold of Alexandru, as well, and the two of them lowered him slowly to the ground. Domino got on her knees at his side, her hands on either side of his gaunt cheekbones. "Alexandru, it's Domino. I'm here. I need to you to eat, my love. Please. Open your mouth for me." She whimpered, her tears falling against his skin as she moved her face close to his. "Here's the blood, Domino. It's just one pack, but we have more back in Hrodna." Fiona said, she sounded very tired, and Domino nodded and took it from the woman. "Alex, open your mouth," She whimpered again as he groaned slightly and tried to turn from her, "please." Shaking, she bent forward and pressed her lips to his. When his thin, waxy lips remained closed, she sank back on her heels with a sob. Stupid day sleeping, he was completely out, and he didn't know her, he was too weak. "Let me, Domino." Siobhan whispered at her side, moving her hands to the vampires mouth and grabbing his chin with one and his cheeks with the other. With what looked like the slightest pressure, the vampire's mouth came open and Domino gasped, opening the bag and slowly dripping blood into the emaciated man's mouth. He wouldn't be able to swallow it, he didn't have the strength, so she had to be careful and just give him a few drops at a time. Enough to bring a bit of strength back, to get him to instinctively take in more. Jo had said it was possible to feed when sleeping, if it was done slowly. Domino hadn't quite believed her, she knew she was completely comatose during the day, how could he feed without choking? As if to prove her wrong, she watched as Alexandru swallowed, albeit painful in appearance. "That's it, baby. Drink." Domino ran a hand over his cold scalp and nodded. A little more blood and his lips eventually closed over the edges of the bag, sucking on it weakly at first, and then with a little more force, finally emptying it of its contents. His eyes never opened and his breathing only slightly improved, but it was something. It was enough for now. Her tears were still falling as she heard footsteps enter the room, her eyesight was getting worse as she grew more tired, but she looked up at Samir and Faeron with a smile and then down at Alexandru. "He's alive. We've got to get him out of here." She said, or at least she was pretty sure that she said it. The next thing she knew, the world went black and she had slumped over his thin body as the last of the elixir wore off. ~*~*~*~ "He looks like total and complete shit, Arc." Domino muttered as she drank blood from a glass from the doorway of the room that she had one shared with Alexandru. It felt like years had passed since she'd been to Vorhees. Had it only been less than nine months? Mr. Hughes looked up from his newest charge and frowned at the winged vampire that had come into the room as soon as she'd woken. "It will take time for Alexandru to regain his strength." "But the bond is gone, Klaus is dead. He is aware of that, right? He's not going to fight you feeding him?" She asked, needing to know he would be okay. "I am transfusing him for now, though his body will be strong enough to reject the IV at one point. He should be coherent enough by then to know that it is safe for him to feed. He will get better, Dom, he already is." Mr. Hughes looked at the skin of the man that appeared just a little less gaunt, a tad pinker than it had when they'd arrived at midnight. Alexandru had barely even stirred when dusk had fallen in the air, but the other five vampires on board had immediately awoken, ready to care for the man. Samir and Faeron were also aboard, however, and had been slowly working a few more bags of blood into the limp form that had been placed on a medical gurney near the back of the plane. Domino had come to stand by his side, and Faith had squealed when she'd seen the form of her father, which made Domino tense, how could the little girl possibly know him? He'd seen her for only one night? But the girl seemed to know who he was, and she reached and screeched for him until Domino had to put the little girl down at his side. She'd felt her eyes fill with tears as her daughter had bent over her father's body and hugged him, her chubby little cheek resting above his weakened heart as she babbled incoherently. It wasn't lost on her that the little girl hadn't immediately screamed to be fed, and while Faith slapped at her father's chest, apparently ordering him to get better, she found the cooler of bottles that Spencer had made at some point and pulled one out to give to her daughter. Faeron had to intercede when the little one tried to feed her father, inadvertently slapping his jaw with the hard plastic. Domino had picked her up and carried her to a nearby seat to feed. Samir had come to sit at her side. "He's dead, Dom. Klaus is dead." He'd told her straight away, knowing that she would want to know. "How?" She'd been glad to hear it, like a weight was suddenly gone, but she'd also been angry that she hadn't gotten to be the one to do it. "It was actually pretty gross. Wei turned into a dragon and scorched the vault, right there in the yard. It melted, MELTED, and Klaus was inside. He got burnt pretty badly by the metal that fused to him, and I thought he was dead for a moment before Wei came down and turned him over so that the skin showed through the dripping metal. He screamed, it was really creepy, the sound he made. The sun hit him and he caught on fire. I don't ever want to see that again." He had shaken his head, the picture of it in his mind was pretty hideous. Domino had shivered, it certainly sounded like a vicious death, one that Klaus deserved, but still, it was scary what could happen to a vampire in the sun. She would have all sorts of new nightmares about it. "Why didn't Wei let me kill him?" She'd asked, looking at the row in front and to the side of them where Spencer had shifted in her sleep against the man she was cuddled against, Domino had been more than a little surprised to hear that not only had Spencer been with the merman, Astor, but that he was coming back to Wisconsin with them. He had even helped ensure that no one was harmed by the lake when Spencer had sung her siren song. "No one is going to argue with a dragon for killing a member of the darkness. Especially not now, when there are four new dragons on this planet. They're pretty invincible." He had told her. "So what now?" She'd asked, watching as Samir looked down at Faith, his fingers twirling in her thick, black hair. "That's all up to you, Domino. Mr. Hughes is waiting to hear what you want." "Doesn't he have enough on his plate right now?" She'd frowned. Samir had shrugged, "He's already got things ready for Alexandru at the spa, if that's where you still want him." "I do. I'm not ready-. I think it would be best for Alexandru to be cared for at Vorhees, at least until he is strong again. Jo said that there would most likely be some sort of...effects from this, that he won't be his normal self at the start. I just, I don't think I'm mentally ready to forgive all this, and I know it's not all his fault, but I need a little more time. Now that I know he is safe, I can go home and figure things out for me." Domino had shrugged. She wasn't ready to go back to the way things were before Alexandru had disappeared for the second time. So they had landed at Vorhees and Samir had rolled the gurney inside and down to the room where Domino was now standing, watching as her best friend carefully washed her lover of the stench and dirt and sweat that had covered him since he'd been taken from her. "We're leaving at dusk tonight. We'll sleep here today, but I would like to be gone before he's strong enough to regain consciousness. Will that be okay with you?" Domino asked and watched as Mr. Hughes looked back up at her with a frown. "You're really leaving him here?" "Yes. I don't want to hear it from you. I'm not running away from my problems, I'm giving him a chance to deal with his, and to decide what he wants." "I can tell you what he wants." Mr. Hughes shook his head, Alexandru would want her, always. "Then maybe I need to figure out what I want. Regardless, this is not where we are going to be reunited. If he wants me, if he wants to apologize and try to make a life with me, he can come to me, on my terms. Not here. Not like this." She tried to explain. "Why do relationships have to be so bloody complicated?" Mr. Hughes murmured as he grabbed another bag of blood from the cooler beside the bed. Domino grinned, knowingly, "Do I get to meet her?" He shook his head forcefully, "No. She's...indisposed right now." "Because Samir is here?" His gray eyes landed on hers with more than a little frustration in their depths, "Samir has nothing to do with her." Domino shrugged, Samir's friendship with the girl was a huge stressor for Mr. Hughes, whether he was willing to admit it or not. "Fine. Another time." "Another time." "When he wakes up, can you have him open the top drawer of the dresser in my room upstairs? I've put some things in there for him." She let her eyes fall to rest on the form of her lover, and she breathed deeply, he was so thin, wain, it was hard to see him like this. "Of course." "I'm going to go feed." "Try not to eat too many of my guests." He frowned at her as she turned towards the door. "Oh, don't worry. I am going into Toronto with Jo, Connor and Fionna. They want to try the local cuisine." Domino smiled at him before turning and leaving the room. A Few Sips Ch. 17 Alexandru flickered in and out of consciousness during the night hours for the first week that he was free of his confines in Belarus. He would wake to find Samir or Mr. Hughes or Faeron nearby, ready to feed him, tend to his wounds that had finally begun to heal more rapidly. By the beginning of his second week in his old room at Vorhees, the one he had shared with his Domino all those many months ago, when dusk settled in the sky, his eyes would open and he was able to remain awake the whole night. When he woke, however, he wasn't entirely sure he was happy to be that way, the immense pain that greeted him with every stirring was enough to down a bear, and he would lay in bed, his eyes molten and his voice strangled as those around him tended to his every need. "Where is she?" Was his first question, and Mr. Hughes had sat down on the edge of the bed and sighed. "She went back to her home, Alexandru, she hasn't lived at the spa since shortly after Faith was born." His former employer had told him gently, worried to further anger the recovering vampire. "But she was here." He was sure of it, he was sure that he had seen the woman he loved at some point, but she had been different, she had smelled different. "She was. It was Domino that got you free. She brought you here so that you could heal." "She left me." "I think that she would argue that you have been the one to leave her...several times. She didn't want to stay, she said that she couldn't be here, not if there was a chance that something could go wrong. You were quite bad off when you first arrived. It was touch and go for a little bit." Mr. Hughes had explained to him. "She smelled like darkness." Alexandru had groaned as he'd squeezed his eyes closed. Mr. Hughes nodded, "She's been changed to a vampire, did you not see her wings?" Alexandru shook his head, he'd barely seen more than a glimpse of her face, "Her sire? Domino shouldn't have-." "She doesn't have one. Jo, a vampire who helped find you, actually, has developed a method of changing someone into a vampire that doesn't create a sire bond. Domino wanted to change, Alexandru. For herself, for Faith. She didn't want to change for you, so don't look at me like that." Mr. Hughes had frowned at the look of frustration he was being given by the still thin vampire. "She has no sire?" "No, she's like Faith in that aspect. No one can control her." Mr. Hughes had risen from the bed and gotten a bag of blood from the cooler, "You need to eat. You have a long way to go before you're ready to get your family back." "Do I have a chance? Do I have a chance to get them back?" "There's always a chance, Alex." Two more weeks went by with Alexandru feeding voraciously. His body was slowly growing stronger, and in the past week, he'd been able to start bearing a little weight, cautiously taking a few steps each night, then a few more, until he was able to make his way back and forth from the bathroom. He would have a long way to go before his muscles would be back to their original shape and strength, but every day, there was a little improvement. The vampire, however, wished it would work a little faster, he had a family, they needed him, he couldn't be here forever. "How much longer will you keep me here?" He had asked Mr. Hughes, who had frowned and shrugged his shoulders. "Once you're well enough to make it up to the room Domino used to sleep in, to the dresser there where she left you something, then we can talk about whether or not you're ready to leave. But not before." Alexandru had cursed at the man and pushed himself to get to the bedroom door. He had only made it to the doorway of the kitchen before he fell down, too exhausted to move any farther. It had been a bit humiliating to see Samir walk over from the couch, a smile on his face, and the giant had picked him up and carried him back to bed. He tried again before the night was over and was only able to make it about a step or two farther. Another week went by before he was able to walk up the staircase to the ground floor, and then another before he was able to make it to the elevator. The basement staircase wore him out much more than walking in a straight line. There was no way he would be able to do two flights of stairs. Still, Samir was constantly having to pick him up and return him to his space below stairs. Alexandru's frustration that six weeks after his rescue, he was still unable to walk as he should, and that his body was only just returning to a usable state, was making him so cross that most everyone at the spa was steering well clear of him. He knew there were eyes watching him every now and then as he would walk towards the destination that he sought every day, but other than Samir picking him up, or Faeron encouraging him, or Mr. Hughes just standing there with a frown on his face, no one else approached the vampire, who was usually hissing foul language as he tried to make his legs work the way he wanted them to. "Open the fucking door." He groaned one night in the middle of week seven, his hand on the knob, his whole body shaking from exhaustion. "Are you sure? You aren't going to make it much farther." Samir said from close behind him and Alexandru closed his eyes, if he turned, it was over, he'd have to go again tomorrow. Damn it. He wanted his family. "Fuck off." He growled and turned the knob awkwardly, sighing in satisfaction as the door slowly swung open before him. He saw the bed that Domino had been in when he'd last seen her, saw the desk and the chair near the window. Her scent was ever so faintly in the air, and it warmed him to breathe her in. The dresser had been moved to the side of the bed, Alexandru frowned, that damned angel must think he was hilarious. Alexandru straightened and took a step forward and felt his muscles begin to scream from the burning feeling from the heavy use. "Stop, Alex, it's not a good idea." Samir cautioned him. "I need her." He hissed back, taking another painfully excruciating step into the room. "You need to rest." Samir stayed in the doorway, his arms crossed in front of him. "Fuck rest." He took a third step, he couldn't feel anything from the knees down at this point. Alexandru felt a shiver work up his body and then he lost control of it and fell to the ground before him. He'd overdone it, and lost consciousness this time. Samir sighed and stepped forward, wishing the vampire would take it a little easier, but knowing that the man had two very powerful motivators now. His daughter, and Domino, and he was going to do everything he could do to get back to them, and the sooner, the better. ~*~*~*~ It was two days shy of week eight when Alexandru found himself standing before the dresser in Domino's room. He had actually reached it at the end of the night before, but had turned to look at Faeron and said that he needed to go back to his room, that he didn't want to feel like he was going to pass out after pulling the drawer open. He had taken things slow until the sun and risen and had fed several times at the coming of the next dusk before slowly setting back out to reach the dresser. Now, standing in front of it, he was shaking a little, not from exhaustion, but from nervousness as to what was inside. What had Domino left for him to find? Would it be a letter telling him she didn't want to see him? Would it be a letter saying where to find her? He couldn't imagine what it was, and after a deep, steadying breath, he pulled the drawer open. The first thing he saw was a pile of baby clothes. Each outfit had a note pinned to the front of it. On the top was the blanket that Faith had been wrapped in when he had slept with her that very first night. The note said 'Her first night with Daddy.' It was enough to bring tears to his eyes, which he wiped carefully away before taking the pile out and putting them under one arm. In the bottom of the drawer, there were two envelopes. One said 'Open if I don't make it' and the other one simply had his name scrawled across the front of it. Picking both up, he moved over to sit on the bed. Putting the letters down to his right, he moved the clothes to his lap and lifted the little blanket to his face, breathing in the baby scent, his baby's scent and reveling in the softness of the fabric. That night had meant a lifetime to him, he had worried it would be the only time that he saw his daughter. Putting it down beside the letters, he looked at the long sleeved onesie that had been beneath it, it had been a light green color but now had faint red stains on it, 'Month One.' Smelling the shirt, it smelled like Faith, but also faintly of human blood. He could imagine how difficult this would have been to clean. 'Month Two' was a little red dress with a polar bear on it. The next few months were the same. 'Month six' was a pair of leggings and a shirt, the leggings were almost worn through on the knees. She had started crawling. Months eight and nine were similar. Then, there was a pretty green dress with laces edging and a pair of white tights underneath. The label made his gut tighten and he clutched it tightly in his hands 'Daddy's first day back.' His daughter had seen him, they had been together. They had been together and he couldn't even remember it. Alexandru knew his breath was coming more choppy and he put the gown down on the rest of the pile. Looking at the letters, he wasn't sure which one to open first. She hadn't given him any instructions on how to start. But he imagined the one with his name on it was newer, and he felt he should start at the beginning, so he grabbed the other. Tearing it open, he pulled out the single sheet of paper and carefully read the words that she had written on the page. "My dearest love, If you're reading this, it means that I am no longer alive, that I didn't survive the birth of our beautiful daughter. I can't imagine the pain you must be feeling right now, but I am sure it is not unlike the pain I feel when I think of not being there to see her take her first steps, or say her first word, or ride her first bike. Do vampires ride bikes? I hope so, I want her to do all of those silly human things that I grew up wishing I got to do. There weren't ever a lot of bicycles in foster care. I want her, I want our daughter, Faith, to have a wonderful life, a life that I know that you can give her. I know she will be safe and loved forever, and that you will tell her all about me. I love you, Alexandru, and I know you are going to be angry that I made all of the choices that I have made over these last several months. You are my family, she is my family, and every choice that I have made is to make sure that our family is together. If you've lost me because of those choices, I am sorry, but I have died knowing that I have given you something that was only in my power to give you...Faith. I know you will do everything right. I am hopeful that I will get to hear about it, I've got a line on an angel that I've met before and I'm quite certain that he can keep me updated on all of you down here. I love you, I love you, I love you, Domino." He didn't wipe at the tears as they came, and he swore when he realized that she had prepared this for him prior to the birth of Faith. She had worried what would happen if she were to die, but she had been so prepared that he would have been there for Faith. It made him sick when he thought about what would have actually happened if she had died. He would have still been forced to leave the spa, Klaus would not have changed his mind. Faith would have been raised here, by Mr. Hughes, and not by him. Putting the letter down, he opened the next one, very nervous about what it would say, but reading it anyway, he had to know. "Dear Alex, I can forgive you for leaving me after Faith was born. I know you were compelled by Klaus, and I am sure he had something to do with your proposal to me. Or maybe it was your way of saying that you were going to continue to fight for us even though you made that stupid deal with him to save me. I can forgive all of that, because you couldn't control yourself. He controlled you. I can forgive you for leaving me after I got pregnant, as well. You thought there was no risk of my becoming pregnant. As you once told me, I wasn't ovulating, and the pills you gave me should have worked. You had no idea that I would find myself pregnant. When you learned I was pregnant, you wanted to do everything you could to save me, even at the expense of our daughter. I have made mistakes, as well, ones that I could have controlled, but failed to. I had sex with Aidan. I was scared and you were missing and I thought I was going to die. It felt good at the time, but I regret having done that to myself, and him, he didn't deserve to be used in that way. But, he was there when you weren't, and because of him, I got the help I needed. I moved to Wisconsin with Faith after she was born. I have a house here in the country, and it is lovely. We have a family of our own in Spencer, the mermaid who I met in Madison, who now lives with us. Jo, Fionna, and Connor, the three vampires I know here, have also become close to us. We care for each other, and we look out for each other. I don't have problems leaving my house, I am much more sure of myself, Alex. Being a vampire has definitely made things easier in that department. I am so much more aware of my surroundings, everything is so intensified. My only worries these days are whether or not Faith is going to fly away from me and get lost, and that I will never see you again. I want to see you again. I want to love you again. But I am not the same woman who you met and slept with in that apartment in Vermont. I don't need to have you protect me anymore, I don't need to have you try to plan my life for me. If that is what you want, just know that that girl is gone. I can't be her anymore. I've changed. I want you, I need you, but I need to rely on myself now. So if you are willing to try it my way, come to Wisconsin. Rent a place, and ask me on a date. We'll see how it goes from there. If you can't, if I have to worry about you leaving me again, or trying to tell me what to do again, come anyway. Find a place to live that will keep you safe, and Faith, when she visits, and be a father to your daughter in that way. She needs her daddy. I still love you, Alexandru, Domino." Alexandru reread the letter several times before finally putting it down and looking towards the doorway. Samir was leaning against the paneled wall across the hallways from the door, his eyes to the left as he gazed absently about him, trying to give Alexandru as much space as he could without being entirely absent, the vampire was still pretty shaky on his feet, but he was improving. Putting the letter he just read on top of the other one, he picked up the whole pile and got back to his feet. Walking carefully, he made it out to where Samir was standing and looking to the left, he could see the wheelchair that they had begun to use so that he wasn't constantly being lugged in someone's arms unconscious every day. Walking over to it, he sat in it by himself and looked up at Samir. "She's so much stronger than I thought." He said in a husky whisper and watched as Samir smiled softly and nodded down at him before walking around behind the vampire. "She went halfway around the world to save you, and she wanted to do it all by herself. Of course, she is." Samir replied as he started pushing Alexandru towards the elevator. "Klaus, did she kill him?" Alexandru grimaced at the thought, of the ways of which there was to kill a vampire, most were quite gory. The giant shook his head as he pushed the button, "Wei would not allow it. She really wanted to, though. Wei knew that there would be some to argue that we had no right to end your sire's life after so many years. He was apparently a very old vampire and this type of behavior was nothing new to him. If we kill him for it, why are we not killing the wood elves?" "Why aren't we?" Alexandru leaned his head back to look up at Samir as he was pushed onto the elevator. "Indeed, why aren't we?" Samir frowned, lost in his own head a moment as they waited for the door to close. "But he is dead." Alexandru couldn't really explain it, but some sort of chain that had always been around his brain, and had intensified when he was around his sire, had vanished. "Yes. Wei had me take him out into the sun. The dragon wanted to do it. He wanted to be the one, so that all arguments stopped with him. Klaus was in his vault, but Wei got him out and took care of the rest." Samir frowned, it had been difficult to see the vampire burn like he had, into ash, but it was better than seeing the blood explode from his body as it did when you stabbed them in the heart. "How did Domino take that?" Samir grinned, "Not well. She wanted to kill him herself, probably with her bare hands. I know she's glad that he is gone, but she hasn't quite gotten over having to hand him over to 'a bunch of ego-driven guys' as she called us." "I wouldn't have wanted her to have killed a non-human, it-it isn't a good feeling. I wouldn't have wanted her to have to live with that, even if that non-human was Klaus." Alexandru spoke softly as they rolled through the ground floor of the house towards the staircase. "You think you can make it down them?" Alexandru frowned, no, no he could not. But he sure wasn't about to tell Samir that, and instead, tried to rise from the wheelchair. His legs didn't cooperate and he swore. Samir didn't laugh, though, he knew how aggravated the vampire was, knew he was more than ready to get to his family. Walking around the chair, he lifted Alexandru up into his arms and walked him down into the basement and down the long hallway to his bedroom. "She will take me back, right?" "Yes. She's waiting for you, Alex." "I don't want to make her wait." "You don't exactly have a choice right now." Alexandru frowned, he didn't feel that he had the choice to wait, he felt like he needed to get to her immediately. His body just needed to get with the program. ~*~*~*~ "It's not as fun throwing a birthday party for a baby at night, when you can't have the house filled with other babies all shoving cake in their mouth and playing with loads of toys and stuff." Domino sighed as she looked over at Spencer, who was helping her hang crepe paper ornaments in the doorway between the kitchen and dining room. The small woman with her smiled a little and put a hand over her own stomach for a moment, a gesture that was not missed on Domino, though the mermaid had yet to confess that she was pregnant now, herself. "When your baby tends to drink blood for fuel, it's not exactly conducive to a playgroup, Dom." Spencer chuckled as she reached for another ornament. Domino smirked, "I guess I should befriend some non-human mommies, like Anya. Then Faith wouldn't be the only kid around here." Spencer blushed a little but didn't say anything. Her relationship with Astor was still very new, and the two spent almost all of their time joined at the hip. Domino hadn't minded him moving in, sharing one of the bedrooms upstairs with her friend. It made her feel safer having non-humans in the house who could move about it during the day. The lake nearby allowed them to change to their non-human forms whenever they wanted, which was generally at night when the humans in the area wouldn't suddenly appear, though the lake was pretty well deserted. Every so often, a fisherman would appear on the opposite side from her property. Anya's got too many kids, though, doesn't she? Your house isn't big enough for that." Spencer reminded her and Domino sighed. "Yeah, you're right. Plus, I kind of want to punch her face in sometimes, though Arc tells me that I need to work on my anger issues." Domino shrugged, she thought Mr. Hughes needed to work on HIS anger issues, actually, he was like a grumpy little toddler these days who had STILL not allowed her to meet his illusive guest. It was starting to piss her off, especially since she knew that even Anya had met the girl. A Few Sips Ch. 17 "Hey, don't smash that one, I worked hard on these." Spencer growled at her and Domino shook herself from where her train of thoughts was taking her. Looking down, she realized that she'd been squeezing her hands around a little pink ball. Loosening her grip, she worked to fix it when she heard a knock at the door, and then sniffed slightly. Gasping, her eyes growing big, she dropped the ornament entirely and rushed from the room to the front door, barely catching herself from yanking it open in a rush. Instead, she stood a little straighter, took a few deep, calming breaths, and opened the door more slowly. She knew her eyes would be wide, and her body had grown just a little shaky as she looked up at the tall form of the man before her. He was wearing a pair of black slacks with nothing on top, as usual, and his feet were bare. His black hair was thicker, but still shorter than it had been in the past, and his red eyes looked less pained and were slowly growing molten as she looked him over. The muscles on his body were growing in, but still had a ways to go before he was back to his rock-solid former self. She liked him this way, though, he wasn't all unbridled man strength and intensity. He held a bag in both hands, and she could see that they were filled with wrapped gifts. Biting her lip, knowing her eyes were quickly filling with tears, Domino stepped back from the open doorway to allow him inside. "You are the most beautiful vampire that I have ever seen, Domino." Alexandru's deep voice was catching a little in his throat and she realized that he was nervous. "Thank you, Alex. Please come inside." She smiled gently as he stepped into her home, his eyes moving around it as Spencer walked over from the dining room and Astor came down the stairs, A squealing Faith in his arms. Domino watched his eyes finally move off of her body and he turned towards the sound of their daughter and her heart melted as she saw the look of absolute adoration that came to his face as his little girl reached towards him from Astor's grasp and he dropped the two bags on the ground with a thud and went to hold his daughter. "Happy Birthday, my love." He said softly to her as he hugged her little body close to his, and then smothered her cheeks and throat with kisses, making the girl squeak with laughter and her own style of little wet kisses. "Ma-ma-ma!" Faith babbled out her favorite word and put her hands on either side of her father's face. "We've been practicing 'Da-da,' but it hasn't quite stuck yet." Domino said as she closed the door. "She has plenty of time, no rush." Alexandru breathed in his daughter's scent, letting it warm him and putting it to memory as he smushed his face into her stomach, making her giggle and grab hold if his hair. Domino could have melted into the floor at the picture she was being presented with. It was this, this that had made her refuse to let him change her before she finished her pregnancy, this that had made her adamant to have this baby. Alexandru was going to be an amazing dad. Biting her lower lip, worried that it was shaking with her emotion, she took a small step towards him and then pointed over towards where Spencer now stood beside her boyfriend. "Alex, this is Spencer, she is my friend, she lives here with me. And this is her boyfriend, Astor. He also helped us the day we rescued you. This is Alexandru, Faith's daddy." She made the introduction and watched as Alexandru happily walked over to the couple and shook their hands. "I can't thank you enough, for helping me, for supporting Domino when I wasn't here, and Faith. I can't ever repay you for taking care of my family." Alexandru said sincerely, smiling at the two as he held Faith against the side of his chest. "I feel like Domino has spent a lot more time taking care of me than the other way around, but you're welcome. It's nice to see you looking a little more...alive." Spencer said as she put her arm back around Astor's waist. "Samir told me about where you were, what you did, I thank you for it." Alexandru said to Astor, who shrugged. "I knew there was evil in that place, but before Dom and Spence came along, I had no real way of trying to remove it. I'm glad everything worked out." Astor nodded. "Well, I'm getting hungry, and we made this huge dinner of all of Faith's favorite finger foods. Oh, and cake. We totally have cake." Domino spoke up, not wanting things to get uncomfortable, "Let's go in the dining room." "Sure thing." Spencer smiled and pulled Astor towards the dining room with her. Domino started to move in that direction as well when she felt Alexandru wrap a hand around her arm. "Can I have just a moment, please?" He asked quietly. Domino breathed in slowly and nodded, turning to face him as he moved closer to her. "I missed you." He started, watching her nod slowly up at him with eyes that matched his in color, "I love you." "I love you, too. Alex." She replied, unconsciously putting her hand on his chest for a moment before moving it away. "Do you think Spencer would mind watching Faith tomorrow night so I can take you on a date?" He grinned, a little nervous as he put the question forth, he couldn't remember the last time he asked a woman to go on a date with him, a real one. "I think I could convince her." "I'll pick you up about thirty minutes after the sun goes down, does that sound okay?" He asked. Domino nodded and then looked he arm through his to lead him into the dining room. "That sounds perfect." ~*~*~*~ Domino dressed with care the next night, she'd tried on about five different dresses before finally deciding on a simple black dress that swirled nicely around her ankles, and over the sleeveless gown, she'd put a long-sleeved satin, crimson red cardigan that had been altered in the back to leave a space for her wings, buttoning above and below then, that also wrapped around her waist twice and tied to one side over her thin hip bone. She'd just slipped into ballerina flats, thankful that it hadn't snowed recently and the sidewalks were relatively clear so that she could do so. Since becoming a vampire, she'd noticed that she was able to handle to cold weather of Wisconsin pretty well, since her temperature was higher than the average human's. Her blond hair had been put into a lazy-looking French braid down the right side of her head and was then braided and hung over her left shoulder. She thought it made her look carefree and comfortable in herself, which was how she felt a lot more often these days. Domino was still staring at herself, head tilted a bit, as she heard the knock on the front door and slowly left her room to answer it. She knew he'd been standing out there for several minutes, all nerves and pompous male bravado that he was trying to control as he waited for her. She could feel his worry, that he would do something wrong, that she would tell him to leave, but that was not her intention, that had never been her intention when she'd written him that letter. She had just needed to know that he knew what she wanted from him, what she needed from him now. "You look ravishing." His words were guttural and filled with need as he looked at her from head to toe after she'd opened the door. "You're wearing a shirt." She smiled wide back at him, he was indeed, wearing a shirt, a nice thick cotton button down shirt that she figured had also been altered to fit him correctly. It looked new and over that, he was wearing a long, black overcoat, which was hiding his wings from her. He looked thin still, paler than he used to be, but healthier, she knew he would be fully healed before too long. "Can I help you with your coat?" He asked her as she picked up the clutch she had moved a few things into earlier and nodded. He picked up the smooth black long coat that she had bought not long ago and slipped it onto her arms and over her shoulders. Domino felt her skin tingle beneath the fabric as he moved close in front of her to button it closed around her. She breathed in his heady scent and knew he was affected by her nearness as well. Then her eyes moved up and met his, unable to break the gaze as he stared quietly down at her, his mouth open just ever so slightly, his eyes wide, penetrating hers, gah, she forgot how damned sexy he was. "Not to say I'm not over the moon with our daughter, because I am, but had I known the vampire you would make, I would have turned you the second I met you in Burlington. I do not know what I was thinking." "Maybe that you didn't want to control me." Domino smiled as she felt his hands slowly encircle her waist. "Oh, there's still a big part of me that wants to do that, but not in the way you think." He grinned down at her, moving his mouth closer to her ear as he spoke, "In a purely sexual way." "Oh, trust me, that's exactly how I thought you meant it." Domino breathed a little more shallow as he ran his cheek against hers as he stood back straight. "Well, we should go." He placed his hand out to her palm up and Domino smiled and took hold of it without hesitation. "Where are we going?" She asked. "It's a surprise." He winked at her as he walked her outside. When she looked ahead of them, she saw a limo parked out front, and in front of that limo stood a man that looked insanely familiar to her. Domino felt her eyes widen as she realized who it was and she looked over at Alexandru with a little frown on her face. "You know him." He nodded, it wasn't a question. "He drove me here that first night I arrived. I f-." "Fed on him, I know. He told me." "Really?" She gasped. He nodded, "I asked him if he was all right with being a little pre-date snack for you." Domino bit her lip, she hadn't eaten in her haste to get dressed for tonight, and her body instantly warmed to the idea of drinking from the human, but she had been attracted to him physically that first time, and she didn't know if she wanted Alexandru to see that on their first date together now. It didn't stop her from moving close to the driver, however, and smiling at him as he smiled down at her. "Good evening." He said huskily and Domino felt her body grow hot to feed, it was always more intense if she fed from someone a second time, there was more intimacy, a mutual understanding of what would happen. "This is a pleasant surprise." She said softly as he nodded and let his head fall slightly to the side as she moved closer to him. The driver nodded and shifted down against the limo a bit so that she could reach his neck earlier. Domino breathed in and tried to ignore the way her nipples hardened and her pussy twitched as she moved her tongue over the neck he presented, the arousing male scent filling her, and the fuzzy pulse of his blood that she could sense in the arteries under the that skin made her canines lengthen and she looked him in the eyes for just a moment before she sank her teeth into him, feeling that unexpected jerk for a moment before he settled his body around her instinctively as she fed, and his hands unconsciously wrapped around behind her, pulling her lower body against his again, as he had done before. Domino sucked until she'd taken about a pint from him and then licked the would closed and licked the blood from his skin. Putting a hand to her mouth, she made sure she hadn't spilled before looking up at him, still held within his grasp as he worked to control his breathing, his hands were shaking slightly against her ass. "Why is it that I want to fuck you so bad when you do this? I don't usually have this reaction to vampires." The man whispered and Domino frowned, he didn't? "It's what we call a meci de sânge, or a blood match. All human blood is inherently different, some more appetizing than others. Yours is exceptionally appetizing to my fiancé." Alexandru put a little but more stress on that last word, and it wasn't missed by the man who held her. Domino felt him remove his hands from her body and he shifted to stand fully erect beside the limo, a little nervous now that he knew the true relationship between the two. It made her frown at Alexandru. If it was a blood thing, then he couldn't help it, and she couldn't help the way her pussy felt wet now, either. He was just throwing his weight around a bit by calling her his fiancé. "Maybe we should go?" She suggested and the driver moved to open the door to the back of the limo for her. Domino stepped inside, and Alexandru moved in behind her to sit facing her with his back to the driver's seat. They waited quietly as the driver got behind the wheel and pulled away from her house. Their eyes were on each other, and they were very physically aware of each other's presence, but neither seemed willing to start talking, worried that they would maybe say the wrong thing and ruin this first date. "Is that why you told me that sex wasn't a big deal? Because some humans you just really really feel the need to fuck when you feed from them?" She finally asked quietly. Alexandru nodded, "Yes. But it's not an emotional thing, you don't LOVE them. It only occurs during the feed. It takes restraint to not fuck. You show amazing restraint, especially for such a new vampire." "I am not exactly going to hump a guy when my lover is standing two feet away from me." She furrowed a brow at him. "I would have found it very arousing, Domino. It's not something I would consider cheating. It's a physiological thing. Our date might have occurred completely in this back seat if I'd seen you get fucked by a blood match. But I would never ask you to, I love you, I completely belong to you, but I will never hold it against you if it should ever happen in the future. You will come across them from time to time. It's not that common, but it happens." "Have you fucked a blood match since we met?" She asked, nervous of what the answer would be. "I've not fucked anyone but you since we met, Dom. But I'm an older vampire, I know the smell a match of mine would emit, I can avoid it by not drinking." "So I'll figure that out one day?" Domino asked, she wished her body would cool off a bit, but it was also the conversation that was keeping her aroused, and she could smell it, and if she could, Alexandru could. "Yes. But you fed from him, so you'll always feel the need for more. It doesn't bother me. I don't expect you to act on it, but if you feed on him again, you may not be able to help yourself." "Well, then consider this time my last time." Domino smiled and watched as the vampire across from her chuckled and sat forward a bit. "If I wasn't trying to behave and make this a successful first date, I might ask if I could take care of it for you." He breathed out huskily and Domino knew immediately that the 'it' to which he referred was the burning arousal between her legs. Oh, Alexandru, he was crafty. She knew her eyes sparkled with the idea of letting him slake this need inside of her, to have him plant his cock full force inside and make her cum in dizzying waves against him. Her whole body heated to a new degree and she had to look away and concentrate on her breathing in order not to launch herself suddenly and forcefully into his arms. There was no gentleness in the pictures she had in her head of the two of them fucking, just long, hard strokes that broiled in passion as they tore into each other with their need. Lord, she was losing it, Domino thought to herself as she bit the inside of her cheek, it had been a year since she'd had sex. A year. She was long overdue. "Dirty, dirty." She whispered and heard him chuckle. They were headed towards Madison and she wondered where they were going. It was only about six pm now, so there were any number of places that he could be taking her to. A half an hour later, they pulled up in front of a brick building with a sign above the front door that said 'Rosa.' She'd never seen it before but didn't ask as the door was opened and she was helped out of the limo by the driver, who looked at her with passion still in his eyes and then she waited for Alexandru to emerge from the vehicle. "We have reservations." Her lover nodded at the door and offered her his arm, which she immediately took. Without a word to the driver, they went into the building, which was actually a very immaculately designed restaurant, complete with booths that had walls behind each seat to allow for intimacy between the diners, and a long, wooden bar against a far wall. Alexandru allowed her to walk in front of him through the narrow restaurant and they were given a table near the back. A waiter came over and took there drink order and Domino smiled across the table at her date as she unfolded her cloth napkin to put it in her lap. "I do love Italian food, Alex." She grinned as he raised an eyebrow at her. "I know you love my Italian food. We'll see how you feel about Gustave's." He grinned back at her. "I am sure it will be fine." Domino nodded at him. "Faith is amazing. You've been an amazing mother to her." He changed the subject and Domino smiled at the thought of her little girl. "I am kind of obsessed with her. She's a hot mess all the time, but she just makes you love her and want to drown her in kisses, doesn't she?" Domino remembered last night, he had stayed till almost dawn playing with Faith, and the little girl had been livid when he had left. "Yes. I have to say, having a child again, after all this time..." He shook his head, not quite able to say what he wanted to, there weren't always words for it. "I can't imagine losing a child, even to old age, Alex. I am glad that Faith will be with us for much longer." Domino reached a hand to his and squeezed it lightly. "I thought wanting her was selfish, that risking your life was wrong." He looked at her, honestly filling his gaze as he spoke. "And I felt selfish putting myself first. It wasn't her fault, and there seemed to be a chance that I could have both, both her and you." "And then I left." "Klaus was a fuckface. I think he will always be my one regret. I wanted to stake that mother fucker." She felt herself grow red and he grinned, chuckling softly. "You're more vicious than I remember." "He stole you from me. I have good cause." Alexandru almost spoke again, but a man walked over to their table and Domino looked at him, her eyes wide with shock when she realized that he was wearing a robe, and his chest and legs were bare. He was young, early twenties, and he had green eyes and a pretty face. She looked with confusion up at him. "Where would you like me?" He asked, and she frowned and looked at Alexandru. "Femoral, I think. The lady's new and she hasn't had the pleasure yet." Alexandru told the man who nodded and started to move to sit on top of the table to her right side. "Alex, what is going on?" "Dom, this is a vampire friendly restaurant. The other patrons here are all vampires. He is your appetizer." His words made her gasp, and she watched as the man moved his robe to expose his thankfully cloth covered groin area. "Alex." She muttered, feeling her body heat up again at the thought of feeding, and she looked at the young man before her, Alex wanted her to feed from his femoral artery? The thought made her lick her lips. "Lift your foot and put it on the back of her seat, it will give her easier access." Alex's voice was guttural as he spoke and Alex watched as the man lifted his left leg to the new position. Her canines grew her and breath quickened as she could hear the pulse from him arteries so close to her face. Domino opened her mouth and put a hand on the top of his thigh and sent one last look up at those green eyes before she moved forward and sank her teeth into the skin of his thigh, breeching the artery and feeling his blood rush into her mouth. She heard the man whimper and sink a little against her as she continued to feed, but thankfully didn't feel the intense sexual attraction that she'd felt with the driver earlier. A few moments later, she was licking the wound closed and the man was straightening up from this seat on the table. A Few Sips Ch. 17 "Thank you." She told him with a shy smile on her face. He nodded, grinning back at her before he left the table and went into the back of the restaurant. "Tasty?" Alexandru asked, making her laugh a little. "That doesn't bother you, seeing me feed like that?" She asked, knowing the waiter was walking over with their drinks. Alexandru shook his head forcefully, "Not at all. It turns me on." "Here are your drinks, my lady. Sir." The waiter set a glass of red wine in front of Domino, and a similar glass in front of Alex, as well as a very large glass of blood in front of him. "You're not feeding from someone?" She asked, arching a brow at him. "I don't think seeing me sink my teeth into a woman is the best way for you to welcome me back into your life, Domino. I've fed so many times, for so long, that one is just as good as the other to me." He said, lifting the glass of blood an downing it quickly. "You liked feeding from me, though." She said in a whisper. "Was I a blood match?" "I loved feeding from you. But no, you weren't. I'm glad you weren't. If you had been, and you'd had Anya's blood in you, as well, I would have drained you, I would never have been able to help myself." He told her. "You were really willing to die in order to make sure you didn't make another woman pregnant?" She knew the subject change bothered him by the way he tensed a little, but she asked anyway. "If you had seen the way you looked after you gave birth, and even before. You were so drained, so lifeless. The thought that you could survive that, impossible. You were lucky. Especially being as small as you are, I couldn't do that to someone else, I didn't want to do it to you." He shrugged. "Well, you can't anymore. I'm barren now." She told him, thinking she'd still like him to try, the arousal from earlier was still there, just on the edge of her consciousness, and she had always been so easily turned on by him. "You have no idea how mad it made me to think that you had changed. The thought of you with a sire, being controlled, after what your life was like when you were young, it was terrifying to me. I didn't want that." "Well, Jo made sure I had no sire, so you don't have to worry. No one can tell me what to do." She shrugged, the waiter came over and took their order and then quietly walked away again. "I am very thankful for that, and for her. She sounds like a very interesting woman." "She is, Jo is amazing." "I would like to meet your friends someday. I like Spencer and Astor. She's pregnant." He said, taking a sip of the wine at the table. "Yes, I know. But she hasn't told me yet, so don't say anything. I know she knows, though. They fuck like rabbits, though, there's no way she couldn't be." Domino chuckled. "Do you like having them live with you?" "Yeah, I do. Jo called it a symbiotic relationship. I give her access to the lake that she needs, and she protects me during the day when I need her. Plus, it's like having a built in babysitter." Domino told him with a happy smile on her face. "And you never got a job, I know that you were adamant that you would continue working." He pushed gently and she frowned. "I don't really like the thought of just living off of your money, but Faith is so time consuming, I don't really have the time to work. It doesn't mean what it used to for me, I guess." She shrugged. As they waited for their meal, they talked about Faith, about her friends, and about what her life had been like this last year in Wisconsin. Alexandru had had many questions, and he had wanted to know everything about the time that he had missed with his family. She had told him as much as they had time for, and had asked a few questions of her own. Alex had not wanted to discuss his time in Belarus, but after her gentle prodding, he had finally chipped a little off of that particular wall around his soul and found himself telling her a little about the refusal to feed, the torture, and about being locked away from the world for such a long time. Domino had sat listening, barely moving, with a sheen of moisture over her eyes as she took it all in. Her hand never left his, and even as they began to eat, she would remind him physically with a touch, a caress, that she was there, that he was free. By the time the meal ended, they had fallen into their normal routine of comfort in their conversation, and they walked out of the restaurant standing much closer together than they had walking in. The driver had their door open and they got inside and were soon on their way to what ended up being a local theater. 'The Nutcracker' was playing, and Alexandru had secured them a private box on the side where they could sit without being squashed into regular theater seats, it would have been hell on their wings. They enjoyed the ballet together in silence, it had always been a favorite if Dom's, and Alexandru kept his arm on the back of her chair the entire time. When the Russian dance came on, he dipped closer and whispered in her ear. "I can do that." To which she had giggled and looked up at him. "I totally want to see you do that with wings." She had whispered back, turning her face towards his, inadvertently brushing her lips against his firm ones for the briefest of moments. The shock of the caress stunned her and she stayed turned towards him, her mouth millimeters from his as he stared hungrily down at her. Alexandru was fighting a war in his head, she could tell, and it took him several moments to finally decide, and he bent his head ever so slightly forward and pressed his lips to hers, effectively closing them both and then he moved away, shifting a little back in his seat so as not to have temptation so very close. "That was amazing, Alex. Thank you so much for tonight." Domino said as they walked back to the limo after the ballet had ended. "You're welcome, Domino. Does that mean I get a second date?" He asked hesitantly, watching as the driver opened the door. "Yes, you get a second date. But only if you cook for me this time." She smiled up at him before taking the driver's hand and letting him hold it as she lowered herself to the limo seat. "Thank you." He said hoarsely as he moved in to sit beside her. "That makes you aroused, to hear me say I want you to cook for me?" Domino giggled as the door was closed and they were shut inside. "No, but the fact that that man has the biggest hard on for you and you didn't even notice is making me very very hot." He breathed against her ear and Domino gasped as he put a hand to the side of her face and pulled her towards him so that he could mold his mouth over his, thrusting his tongue deep inside as she opened for him, her hands surrounding his shoulders and her body pressing closer against him. He kissed her roughly, passionately, groaning as she pushed her own tongue against his in response to his kiss, and it was only when they both absolutely needed to breathe that they separated and looked into each other's eyes, panting. "I want to fuck you so bad." Alex muttered against her ear before moving his mouth to her throat. "No. Not yet." Domino whimpered against him and shook her head, she wanted more time. They needed more time, she could not just jump back into bed with this man again. "I know." Alexandru licked a path from the curve of her neck near her collarbone up to her right earlobe. "I just said I want to fuck you, I'm not going to." "You are so dirty." Domino chastised as he moved to sit up a little straighter in the seat. His eyes had moved to the front of the car where the driver was behind the wheel and moving them steadily through the near empty streets. "If you knew the thoughts in my head right now, I'd absolutely repulse you." He frowned, running a hand over her cloth covered thigh. "Of what you would do to me?" She asked, even though she knew how dangerous it was. "Some, but also what I would like to see him do to you." Alexandru nodded towards the driver and she widened her eyes. "You're right, I'm completely repulsed." Domino groaned, rolling her eyes at him, it was true, she was, but she was also a little bit turned on and the way her pussy was wet and clenching let her know that it wouldn't take too hard of a push for her to do some of the things that were apparently floating around in the mind of her fiancé. "I told you." Alexandru chuckled deep in his throat at her and put an arm around her back to hold her close. A Few Sips Ch. 18: Finale Author's Note: Oh, the emotions that are being evoked from this story of two lovers on a not so straight path to happiness. I have read all of the comments, and the feedback that has been emailed to me, and I promise I do take it all to heart in my writing. I've even adjusted things a little along the way to try to explain earlier actions, etc...so when you comment/email, I do listen. As an author, I am honored that you have gotten wrapped up in these characters, whether you love them or hate them, they brought out a reaction in you and that is what every author aims for, and so often on this site, we miss that mark. So I am not offended when someone comments unhappily. I sit here with my big girl panties on (if I'm wearing panties, that is) and think of what you're telling me, and whether or not I would have written it differently or kept it the same. It would be very easy to pander to my readers, this is an erotica site and I'm not being paid for my submissions, I could very easily just give in and make my stories straight forward and just filled with hard, hot sex, but I would be misrepresenting myself if I ignored my own creative flow. I don't want to write the story that one or another reader is saying that I should write, it's my story. I want to write the story that is in my heart, otherwise, I'm being incredibly dishonest with my own creativity. However...it's Christmas and may the following end of this tale of Alexandru and Domino be my gift to you. (But remember that Christmas comes once a year, and I will not be held to the expectation that I would do this again. It's a lot of work!) I am a true child of the 80s, and during my youth, I was a voracious reader and thankfully, my mom made use of our public library several times a week. My younger brother would often get these books that were known as "choose your own adventures" and when I was done reading whatever book I had rented that day (as you can imagine, I read a lot of fantasy), I would grab one of those and read through it. I have no idea if these books were popular in other countries, and I don't even know if they're still produced, so here is just a really quick definition. The book starts out in a single direction, hero/heroine starts an adventure, and then, at one point, the reader is told "if you want them to do this, turn to page XXX," or "if you want them to do this, turn to page XXX" and that happens three or four times during the course of the remainder of the book. It has got to be time intensive, well, it seems that way, these books were never as long as the well developed stories others wrote. I have so many readers who want so many endings to this story. So I am giving you the option to one of three endings. Read one and leave it be, or read all three and tell me which one you liked better. Regardless of which one you like, regardless of how it plays out, the very end is the same, and it will not change the course of any future stories, so I am fine with giving you what your imagination requires. They all start the same, but eventually, where one goes left, the other goes right, and the third goes barreling right down the middle. Oh, and consider voting, I have put a lot of work into this finale, and it's easy to read through it and move on, but I do look at how it's doing vote wise, I really do. Not for the "h" but for how I feel my readers are responding. Ch.18 Finale #1 This is for those of you who just want Alexandru and Domino and JUST Alexandru and Domino. No driver, no dirty talk from our big sexy vampire about his lustful thoughts about Domino with someone else. Just the two of them finding their path. Start reading on Page 1. Ch.18 Finale #2 This is for those of you who would like a little bit of kink there, don't mind there being a bit of discussion between the two of them about a third party. But in the end, it's all about the two of them. Start reading on Bottom of Page 2. Ch. 18 Finale #3 This is for those of you that just want it down and dirty and would love to see things get settled with this blood match that Domino has with the driver, and how Alexandru and she finally get their relationship back on the right path. Start reading on Middle of Page 4. Have a wonderful holiday, be safe out there this New Year's, and be patient as I start typing up the chapters I've written to my next story, 'The Gift She Gives.' It's finally time for Mr. Hughes to shine. ~*~*~*~ Chapter 18 Finale #1 Date number two was more casual, and Domino enjoyed the meal of chicken piccata and fettuccine that Alexandru had prepared carefully for them. They had sat at the small table in the kitchen of the apartment that he was renting in Oshkosh. It was a basement apartment that the landlord had stated lacked a lot of windows in the ad online. It worked out well for Alexandru, who had told the man that he worked nights and slept all day, anyway. They had talked easily and had finally moved from the table to the couch to watch a movie before he would take Domino home. They kissed again, at her front door this time, and then he had left her to go inside. Leaving her was the hardest thing he did, for it was something he was very conscious of, and never wanted to do again. But she had made the rules, and he would follow them. Domino appreciated that, and she happily schedule date number three, this one involving Faith. They stayed at her home this time, Astor and Spencer were in the lake together. She cooked him a meal, though she had to admit that his cooking skills were much better than her own. They drank wine and blood from the supply that Jo always sent her way, and after they ate, they played board games, which she thought was rather comical, a couple of big bad vampires of the darkness sitting around playing a game where you tried not to draw an exploding cat from a pile of cards. But they did, and it kept the air light. When they tired of playing, they sat on the floor with Faith, who had pointedly been ignoring them as she walked around the room on increasingly steady feet. She'd started to fly recently, as well, and Domino was constantly running along below her, hands out, just in case the little girl should fall. It didn't matter that a fall wouldn't kill the girl, Domino's protective instinct as a mother was high. Faith had tired of their interference in her play and was over by the little plastic kitchen that Astor had come home with the other day and put together. Domino was lying on her stomach, watching the little girl as Alexandru sat on his rear at her side, a hand splayed over her back, over the smooth fur of her wings. They were still new to him, and he couldn't get over how sexy they made her look. "Oh, crap." He heard Domino say as she pushed up onto her knees and put her hands to her chest. "What's wrong?" Alex asked, moving her a little so that she faced him. "I stopped breastfeeding her yesterday. I'm just a little full is all." She shrugged as she moved a hand to show him the wet spot. Looking down at her breast, he got hard instantly, his eyes turning fire and he lifted his gaze to hers, his need easy to read in their depths. "You are so dirty minded." She frowned at him. "I want to taste you, if you're going to go dry, I won't ever get the chance again." He told her, his desire making him hot, making him move towards and over her until she was lying on her back beneath him. "Alex, I'm not ready-." Domino shook her head as his hands pulled her shirt up to expose her bra. "I'm not going to fuck you, Domino, certainly not with our daughter making fake eggs in a dishwasher over there, I'm going to drink from you." He groaned, his throat hoarse and filled with his arousal as he pulled the cups of her bra down to expose two round, full orbs, the sight of them made him groan again and he cupped one in a hand. She watched as his eyes took in the way liquid beaded up from her nipple and his whole body tensed as he lowered his mouth to run his tongue over the soft, beaded flesh. "Oh, Jesus." Domino whimpered when he growled suddenly and clamped his mouth hard over the nipple, suckling it in deep, making her milk flow hard into his throat. She put a hand on either side of his face and held him to her as he slowly, and very exquisitely emptied her breast of milk. When he finally raised his face up to look at her, he spread his lips open in a wide smile. "I may have to come here every night to do this so that you keep producing. You're delicious." He groaned, unconsciously pushing his clothed cock up against her lower body. "You're not a baby, you don't need to drink my milk." Domino chuckled as he licked over the nipple on the second breast. "Oh, but I think I do." Alex groaned before closing his mouth over the full breast to give it the same loving attention as he had the first. Domino arched her back and pulled his face to her breast, not minding the way his hands fell to her ass to grind her forward against his cock. He began to move his hips to mimic how he would thrust into her, and Domino wrapped her legs around his waist. "I am not fucking you." She whimpered as he continued to drink from her and she felt his body shiver against her. "I know." Alex groaned, finally separating from her, but staying over her body as he breathed slowly to calm himself down. "Da-Da!" Faith's excited voice came from nearby and Domino chuckled as the little girl shoved a plate with a plastic egg on it under her father's nose. He rolled off of Domino, who quickly fixed her bra and pulled her shirt down, and then sat up to watch as the man picked up his daughter and put her in his lap. He talked to her about what she'd made and then pretended to eat the egg while Faith laughed up at him. Domino smiled at the scene, it was such a beautiful thing to get to see him play with Faith, getting to know her, laughing at her silly little mannerisms. "Thank you for letting me come over, I really enjoyed tonight." He said to her later, close to dawn, as they walked together to the doorway. "I did, too. I'm glad that you're here." Domino told him as he opened up the door. "I know we're taking this slow, I know why you feel the need to protect yourself from me as much as you can, but I hate knowing that I walk away from you at the end of each night, that I leave you. I don't want to do that, not ever again." He stepped over the threshold and turned back to look at her. "I know. You shouldn't look at it as you leaving me, I am asking you to wait. As long as you show back up for our next date, then I'm fine." She told him as he bent forward a little. "May I kiss you?" He murmured, his eyes going molten as he looked at her full mouth. "Yes." Domino grinned before she was swept up into his arms in a delightfully complete kiss that made her toes curl and her body filled with heat. "When will I see you next?" He groaned against her as he slowly lowered her back to her feet. "I have plans tomorrow with Jo and Fionna in Green Bay. Maybe, maybe you would like to take Faith for a night or two? It would be good for you to spend some time with her." "My apartment isn't as locked down as your house." He frowned, wanting nothing more than to have the opportunity to care for Faith. "Then stay here. I'll just stay at Jo's house. I'll be back Thursday, and we can see each other then?" Domino suggested and watched as he nodded, a happy smile lighting his face. "I'll make you dinner again." "That sounds fantastic." Domino spent the next two nights in Green Bay with her friends. Jo was having some computer issues in the lab and she was using Domino's coding expertise to help fix it. Then, they spent some time in the city itself, feeding and doing a little Christmas shopping. The last year, she had pretty much ignored the holiday completely, but she had bought a tree this year and was excited to have Faith open up all the little toys and outfits that she had bought. She even found herself buying Alexandru a few gifts, mostly movies about non-humans that she knew would make him roll her eyes at her. It was a fun few days, but by the time she arrived back at her house shortly after dusk the third night, she was more than ready to be with her daughter again. Walking inside, she could immediately smell something cooking and it made her smile as she tossed her bag down and walked towards the kitchen. As she made her way through the dining room, she saw that two places had been set at the table, complete with flowers, and long, skinny candles in the center. Jazz music was playing from somewhere in the kitchen and she could see Alexandru stirring something on the stove as she entered the back of the house. Without saying anything, she walked up behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist, settling her head just below where his wings erupted from his body on his back. He was hot to the touch and his muscles tensed ever so slightly as she ran her palms over his abdomen. Domino closed her eyes, just enjoying being against him, feeling him under her hands, knowing that he was really there, that she had really gotten him back. "Faith is upstairs with Astor and Spencer. They said that they would watch her while we had our date." Alexandru slowly turned in her arms so that he faced her and wrapped his own hands behind her back. "Whatever you are making smells delicious." She said softly as he bent down and kissed her gently. "It's potato goulash with pork. It's a recipe from home." She knew when he said home, he meant Romania, it was the only other home he had truly felt connected to. "Well, I can't wait. I'm hungry." "Did you feed on the way?" He asked, picking up a glass of blood that he'd been drinking while he started dinner. "Yes." She ran a hand along his jawline as he swallowed, every time she saw him, he looked just a teeny bit more his normal self. "Are you still producing?" He asked in a knowing rumble, his eyes lowering to her chest, and she grinned. "No, I think I'm done in that department." She saw his slight frown but he just smiled right after and moved his mouth to nuzzle her throat for a moment before he turned back to the pot on the stove and stirred it once more before putting the lid back on it. "It has about an hour before it's ready to eat. What would you like to do while we wait?" He asked, moving her out of the kitchen and towards the living room. Domino saw that he'd pulled out several board games and even had tossed a couple dvds on the coffee table in the room. Smiling, she turned completely towards him and put her hands on his chest. "I think I'd like an appetizer." She murmured, slowly unbuttoning the shirt he wore until she was able to pull it apart and expose his hairy chest to her view. Alexandru felt a tight shiver work through his body as he stared down at her as she pulled his shirt from his body. Her hands didn't stop moving, and his eyes churned in fiery shades as she unbuttoned his pants and slowly squatted to remove them from his body. He had worn no boxers, he never had, and his feet had been bare. When Alexandru thought that she was going to stand, she slipped onto her knees and took hold of his quickly rising erection and help it before her face. "Domino." He growled, he couldn't be toyed with, he desired her too much. If she were to want to stop after eating his cock, he would be unable to. "I want you, Alex." She gulped as she stared up at him, her own body shaking with need. "You have to want all of me if you're going to do this, Domino. I won't be able to stop, I need you too much." He warned her and watched as she nodded. Without another word, Domino moved her eyes back to his thick shaft, it was warm and satiny in her hands, yet hard and inflexible. She ran her fingertips slowly down the long length of it, basking in the memories of what he had done to her with this amazing rod in the past, what he would do with it again. Wrapping the fingers of one hand around it more securely, not quite able to make it completely fingertip to fingertip, she shuddered as a drop of pre-cum appeared from the rounded tip. Licking her lips, she watched his abdominal muscles tighten, and she smiled, knowing that he was watching her, knowing that he had imagined her licking him, which she did, ever so slowly. The taste was familiar, salty, arousing, and Domino ran her tongue from the tip of his cock to the very base, loving the way he growled over her and his hands gripped the back of her head. She moved back up, her darkening red eyes rising to his as she opened her mouth and took the head of him inside. His whole face was tense, controlled, and it was all he had in him to hold his hands where they were and not shove his cock all the way inside of the moist, hot confines of her mouth and throat. Domino's eyes sparkled, and she put her hands on his ass, pulling him forward as she tilted her head in a way she knew would allow her to slide his cock in farther, past her gag reflex and into the clenching tight heat of her throat. He roared as she settled against his base, her face against the hairs of his groin and his control slipped and he held her tightly against him before slowly, pulling away and then forcefully thrusting forward to fuck her face with his aching shaft. He could feel her fingers dig into the skin of his ass as he fucked her this way several more times before he felt his cock burn with the need to come, and he held and shot his load down into her throat, forcing her to take it all before he backed away and breathed rapidly as he looked down at her. "I had a feeling it wouldn't take you long, Alex. It's been a long time." Domino smiled knowingly up at him as she wiped a dribble of fluid from the corner of her mouth before standing and peeling off the clothing that she was wearing. "It could just be because you're very good at sucking cock." He murmured in her ear as he helped her unbutton her shirt. "We all have our talents." She chuckled as he knelt and yanked off her leggings and panties. "Can I show you mine?" He asked breathlessly, picking her up with his hands on her ass and wrapping her legs around his waist. Domino smirked down at him as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "Please do." She hissed when he pulled her ass down towards him and speared her wet fold in one hard thrust with his oversized, engorged cock. "Jesus, I missed you." Alexandru groaned as he backed her against the couch, her ass on the arm and her back against the bottom cushion, it tilted her in a way that allowed him to buck his hips into her and send his cock deep inside with each movement. Domino moaned and clung to him, her eyes closed as he slowly built up speed to the point where he was hammering in and out, and then alternating with slow, smooth strokes as he built up towards an orgasm that made her cry out and clench her pussy muscles around that furious volley of thrusts that followed. He held his own orgasm for what seemed like ages, and when she thought he was there, that he was about to come, something seemed to snap inside of the large man and he rose to stand straight above her and pulled her thighs up and farther apart. When his hips pistoned forward the next time, the force was so great that she felt the couch move against the floor. He did it again, and again, and faster, and deeper, and her voice lost the capacity to make sound and she clawed at him as her pussy exploded in another forceful orgasm. He hadn't fucked her this hard before, for she knew he would have hurt her in her former human form, but this, this way, this time, it was amazing, and she begged for him never to stop. Never to stop beating into her pussy, and he growled and sank down over her and suckled on the skin of her throat as he tried to do just that. When he finally did come, they were both breathing frantically and clinging to each other's sweat-slickened bodies as if they were afraid to let go, afraid that if they did, this feeling would disappear. A Few Sips Ch. 18: Finale "I think I enjoy sex with you as a vampire." She whispered against his ear as he slowly pulled away from her and looked at the floor beside them for his pants. "I hope you do. You belong to me." He frowned when she frowned up at him and he shrugged his shoulders, "I belong to you just as much, Dom. But you're going to have a hard time scratching away at the need for me to be in control of our relationship. It's old habit, and I don't mean anything negative by it. I will forever want to protect you." "And I'll let you protect me." Domino stood up and pulled her shirt on and then found her skirt and tugged that on, ignoring the panties that she figured would just get ripped off again anyways. "The only person I've ever seen you need protection from, though, is me. It's not a good feeling." He told her honestly as he wrapped her in his arms and planted kisses along her forehead. "Not anymore. But if you burn that soup, you're going to need protection from me. I'm starving." Domino grinned, trying to lighten the mood. They would have this conversation again, but they had more than a lifetime to talk about it. That night was the first night that Domino allowed Alexandru to stay overnight in her room. Faith slept between the two of them, and Domino felt that finally, maybe, their lives would slowly get better and better from this moment on. At least, that's what she hoped, with no one being able to compel either of them, and within the safety of their own home, they could have a safe, happy life together. ~*~*~*~ New Year's Eve brought with it a fresh layer of snow and icy cold temperatures. That didn't stop Jo from demanding that Domino and Alexandru accompany her to a party that one of her lab assistants was throwing at a local club. They'd rented out the top floor while the bottom one was open for locals. The vampires in residence had kept their wings under wraps due to the rush of humans below them, but they were used to it, having to do so whenever they went out in public. Jo liked to say "Vampires use toilet paper, too, you know." Domino had worn a shimmery gold spaghetti strapped gown with a long, white cloak that she had chosen because while it hid her wings, it was airy enough not to make her too overheated. It was practically sweltering inside the music filled club. Alexandru had even worn a tuxedo for the occasion and she had threatened to not leave the house several times in order to make quick work of the form fitting outfit to get at the hard muscled man beneath. If it wasn't for the love she had for her friend, they would never have made it to Green Bay. They were sitting on a couch, surrounded by their friends, all with glasses of warm human blood, as well as wine, beer, and other liquors as they talked and laughed amongst themselves. It had been quite a year for all of them. Domino had sat close up against the side of her lover, feeling his heat seep under her skin as her body reacted slowly to the closeness of him, the way his body tightened and felt hard and smooth. It conjured up all sorts of sexy thoughts in her head, and she tingled as his arm wrapped around her back and she was drawn up even closer, practically into his lap at this point. "You know, Alexandru, when Domino first told me about you, I wasn't sure that I was going to like you. Older vampires seem to be so cocky, and they certainly aren't known for treating their lovers with a great deal of respect. No offense meant by the 'old' part, but you've been around for a while. It's surprising, really, to know that you honestly care for her so much. That you would have died for her." Jo said putting her wine glass to her lips as Alexandru smiled at her and nodded. "Thank you, Jo. I didn't give anyone a lot of reason to give me a chance, but I'm glad you all did. Domino means a lot to me, she means everything." He ran a thumb over her collar bone and Domino felt her eyes widen a bit. "Well, you're okay. I'm glad that we got you here. Things between the two of you seem to be going okay." Jo shrugged before turning to Marci and whispering in her ear, the two were in direct competition with the other three couples on who could actually cuddle the closest. "They are." Domino grinned knowingly, tilting her head up at Alexandru as he looked down at her, planting a soft kiss against her lips as he did so. "Would you like to dance, my little dove?" He murmured, raising a hand to her cheek and running the pad of one thumb along her sensitive skin. "With you? Absolutely." Domino nodded and stood up. They walked to the dance floor that was partially filled with couples moving rhythmically against each other and took their place somewhere near the middle. The music changed to a slower tune and Domino grinned and moved her arms up to wrap around his neck as he bent a little down towards her. "You do know how much I love you, right?" He said huskily as he looked down at her with his fluid red eyes. "I do." She grinned broadly, he had a tendency to remind her of that fact. "I couldn't have lived without you." He frowned a little, "I couldn't have lived without you." She knew what he was referring to and she nodded, moving her hands to the front of his chest and leaning her head against it. It was still scary to think about, the fact that he had almost died. If they hadn't gotten there when they had, she would have lost him forever, and thinking about it only made her eyes shine with tears she refused to cry. "You don't have to worry about that now, we're together. We're here, and you're moving in with me, with Faith." Domino rubbed her small palm over his suit coat where she knew his nipple would be and felt him stiffen a little. "Are you sure Faith is okay at home with Jo's friend?" He frowned, he hadn't liked the thought of them leaving their daughter with a vampire that they'd only just met. One of Jo's former research assistants was visiting from Antwerp. He had offered to watch their daughter instead of accompanying them to the party, he was somewhat awkward and quiet, and they had agreed, or at least Domino had. Alexandru had been more reluctant. He wasn't used to making these decisions, of leaving his child with anyone. "She is just fine. Wesley is a nice guy, and he's going to be just fine." Domino chuckled, this worried father part of her lover had amused her. But she knew this was all new to him, parenting a vampire child. He was very concerned with her safety. "Still, we should probably not stay too long." He muttered, pulling her closer against him despite the fact that the song had gotten a little faster. "We can't leave before midnight, Jo will have our ass." Domino giggled as he dipped her and moved his mouth down to kiss her throat. "I would like to have your ass." He groaned against her ear and Domino felt heat rush through her body, yes, he still turned her on just as much as he had before he'd gone to Belarus. "Later, my love." Domino breathed in against him, "We have plenty of time for that." "I hate waiting, my little dove." He groaned against her and Domino felt him lift her off of her feet and they moved to the side of the room. She felt her back press against the wall behind her as he held her up against his chest, his mouth covering hers, his tongue pushing deep inside. Domino's ass was held securely in his hands and she desperately wanted to wrap her legs around his waist but controlled herself, she didn't want to give everyone else in the room that much of a show. "Marry me." He breathed out against her ear and Domino shivered as she looked at him, her eyes searching, seeing the love he had for her right on the surface of his gaze. "Alexandru." She whispered, dipping her head forward to kiss him gently this time. "Marry me, be my wife, forever. I want only you with me for eternity, you and our Faith." He pressed her pelvis harder against his groin and she could feel his burgeoning erection. "No blood matches, no fucking anyone else, no suggesting that I do something so stupid?" She bit her lip as she watched him shake his head slowly. "It will always arouse me to think of it, but the actual doing, my little dove, I don't want that. I want only you, and I want you to only want me." He told her sincerely, and she believed him. "And I only want you, Alex. I'm finding myself to have a little bit of a jealous streak, so you're just going to have to deal with that. I won't be sharing." She smiled as he grinned at her with understanding. "I've not had a jealous lover in a very long time, it's-it's rather refreshing, Dom. But I will never give you a reason to be jealous. I will show you every moment of every day and night how much I love you, how committed I am to us, to our family." Alexandru let her sink down to stand back on her feet and he took her hand in his. "Then my answer is yes, Alex." She nodded up at him. "Yes?" "Yes, I will marry you. It's about time you asked me." She giggled as he lifted her again and spun her around in a quick circle. When he put her back down, he grabbed her hand again and walked with her back towards the group of friends that they had come with. "We're leaving." He looked directly at Jo. She dropped her mouth open as she looked up at him in surprise, "But you can't leave, it's not even midnight yet, they haven't-." "He asked me to marry him." Domino didn't even add the 'again' because the first time hadn't felt real since she'd realized that he'd been forced to do it. "Really? That's awesome! Congratulations!" Jo gasped, standing up and hugging Domino quickly. "Congrats, Dom." Spencer was next, soon followed by Fionna and Connor. "We're leaving." Alexandru said again, not waylaid by the congratulations of their friends, he couldn't wait to have her much longer. "Fine, fine. Go, enjoy, I'll see you both sometime later this week." Jo waved them off. "I think Astor and I are going to stay in a hotel tonight here in town." Spencer told them and Domino nodded, she had a feeling it would be a good idea for their housemates to be elsewhere for the night. She had a feeling that Alexandru was going to be a bit forceful with her. "We'll give Wes the keys to Alexandru's apartment for the night." Domino told Jo as Alexandru wrapped his arm around her waist and lifted her to get her walking towards the exit. "You're awful, Alexandru, I'm pretty sure every single one of them know that you're just going to take me home and fuck me. You are so bad." She breathed against him as they made their way down the staircase. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to look at us and imagine that I might want to make love to the woman who just told me that she was going to be my wife." He scoffed as he pushed open the front door of the club and they walked out into the frosty night of Green Bay. "Are we flying or driving?" She asked as he started walked with her down the street. "We'll take a cab to De Pere and then we can fly from there." He told her as he waved a hand to hail a cab. It wasn't long before they had found a quiet, empty place to remove their coats and spread their wings, and they were both in the air, making their way as quickly as the could towards the small house that had quickly become their home. Domino could see Alex's eyes burn in hunger as he flew towards her, forcing her higher and higher into the sky every so often. She smiled as he pulled off his white shirt and let it fall away from him. His chest was getting larger, more muscled, it wouldn't be long now before all remnants of his captivity were gone. When he moved his hands to his slacks and began tugging them off, Domino felt herself slow down a bit, rocked by the tightening of her pussy as she thought of what he was doing. He guided her higher into the sky again as he lost his shoes somewhere to the wooded area beneath them. Domino felt him come up to fly upside down beneath her, and his hands went around her back to unzip her gown. It came off easily and Domino watched as the shimmery material floated through the sky away from her. Looking at him, she could see the unbridled passion in his eyes and he moved his hands to her breasts to squeeze them a moment before he grabbed a hold of her and moved them with force and speed higher and higher into the night sky. "You can't make me fall this time, Alexandru. I have wings of my own now." She smiled as he moved his mouth to the side of her neck. "You taste delicious, my little dove." He groaned against her neck as one hand moved down to cup her between her legs and Domino arched her back as he shoved two fingers inside of her pussy. Alexandru shivered at the feel of her wet pussy, he could feel her inner muscles clutch at him and it made him push harder inside. "Open your legs, Dom." She did as he said immediately, moaning as he pushed a third finger inside. As he worked her towards orgasm, Domino felt herself slump more against his body, her hands clinging to him as she bucked her hips against the invasion of his fingers. When he finally felt her cry out and her body stiffened and her pussy juice coated the hand he slowly removed from her, Alexandru smiled in satisfaction and removed her arms from his body and Domino gasped as she felt herself start to fall. As she reacted to the spasms rocking through her body, she was unable to move her wings effectively and she felt herself slip down through the night sky until her big lover was with her again, clutching at her body as he aligned his fully aroused cock with the pussy that was practically weeping to be filled. "Oh, Alex." She whimpered, feeling the hard length stretch her open, filling her in one long stroke. She didn't even realize at first that they were still upside down, and neither one was using their wings. "I love you." He growled as he felt the approach of the tree line, jerking his wings into motion at the last second to send them south, closer to their home. "I love you, too." She breathed against him as he held her, flying and thrusting his hips against her pelvis, letting her know exactly how much he wanted her. ~*~*~*~ Domino hadn't thought that she was a fan of the large tub that had been placed in the basement bathroom connected to her bedroom until she found herself sitting in Alexandru's lap surrounded by hot, bubbly water. She was leaning back against her lover, enjoying the feel of his hair covered chest against her back and wings as his hands moved softly over her belly. Her eyes were closed as he ever so slowly slid just a little farther into her backside. "I don't think I will ever get used to you like this, Dom, a vampire. A part of me will always miss you as a human, but I am filled with relief that I won't lose you." Alexandru said gutturally close to her ear. "Why didn't you change your first wife?" She asked and felt him stiffen just slightly below her. "I was new back then, and I wasn't exactly happy with what I had become. I felt it was a curse for a very long time. I don't feel that way now." His hands folded over her breasts and she purred against him. "You would never have changed me if I hadn't gotten pregnant, though, would you?" She felt his hands lower to her hips so he could push hard up inside so that she ate him to the base. "There?" "Yes, there..." She cooed, grinding against his cock, delighting when he pulled her up a bit and slammed back down a little harder. "I'd never changed anyone before because of the sire bond, my little dove, the idea of controlling someone else like that," He shook his head as he furrowed his brow in concentration, "I didn't want that. Not for anyone." "But now I'm a vampire and I don't have a sire." "You just have me." "And you're enough." Domino felt him shift so that she was leaning forward in the tub on her knees while he held her by the waist and began to pump his hips against her harder. "You're more, oh God, than enough." He growled against her and started sliding with brutal force into her ass, loving the feel of her tight grip on his cock as she milked him, gripped him inside, and her wings rose out above her, twitching with every pinpoint of arousal that hit her body at his possession. Her phone, which she'd tossed on the top of the sink beeped and he frowned, hating the sound that interrupted their fucking, even if just momentarily. "Who the fuck is texting you at this time of night?" He growled, beating in harder, hearing her yelp and grab back at his thighs to hold him inside. Domino's breath came in quick pants as she smiled over her shoulder at him, "It's probably Arc." "Why is that man texting you?" Alexandru frowned, he didn't mind their friendship, but now was not the time. "He's probably letting me know whether or not he liked my idea of a double wedding." She grinned and chuckled as the vampire behind her hissed and wrapped his body tightly around hers and set about making her forget all about the angel and any impending nuptials that were coming up at Vorhees. When he married the woman he loved, it would be all about the two of them. Chapter 18 Finale #2 Date number two was more casual, and Domino enjoyed the meal of chicken piccata and fettuccine that Alexandru had prepared carefully for them. They had sat at the small table in the kitchen of the apartment that he was renting in Oshkosh. It was a basement apartment that the landlord had stated lacked a lot of windows in the ad online. It worked out well for Alexandru, who had told the man that he worked nights and slept all day, anyway. They had talked easily and had finally moved from the table to the couch to watch a movie before he would take Domino home. They kissed again, at her front door this time, and then he had left her to go inside. Leaving her was the hardest thing he did, for it was something he was very conscious of, and never wanted to do again. But she had made the rules, and he would follow them. Domino appreciated that, and she happily schedule date number three, this one involving Faith. They stayed at her home this time, Astor and Spencer were in the lake together. She cooked him a meal, though she had to admit that his cooking skills were much better than her own. They drank wine and blood from the supply that Jo always sent her way, and after they ate, they played board games, which she thought was rather comical, a couple of big bad vampires of the darkness sitting around playing a game where you tried not to draw an exploding cat from a pile of cards. But they did, and it kept the air light. When they tired of playing, they sat on the floor with Faith, who had pointedly been ignoring them as she walked around the room on increasingly steady feet. She'd started to fly recently, as well, and Domino was constantly running along below her, hands out, just in case the little girl should fall. It didn't matter that a fall wouldn't kill the girl, Domino's protective instinct as a mother was high. Faith had tired of their interference in her play and was over by the little plastic kitchen that Astor had come home with the other day and put together. Domino was lying on her stomach, watching the little girl as Alexandru sat on his rear at her side, a hand splayed over her back, over the smooth fur of her wings. They were still new to him, and he couldn't get over how sexy they made her look. "Oh, crap." He heard Domino say as she pushed up onto her knees and put her hands to her chest. "What's wrong?" Alex asked, moving her a little so that she faced him. "I stopped breastfeeding her yesterday. I'm just a little full is all." She shrugged as she moved a hand to show him the wet spot. Looking down at her breast, he got hard instantly, his eyes turning fire and he lifted his gaze to hers, his need easy to read in their depths. "You are so dirty minded." She frowned at him. A Few Sips Ch. 18: Finale "I want to taste you, if you're going to go dry, I won't ever get the chance again." He told her, his desire making him hot, making him move towards and over her until she was lying on her back beneath him. "Alex, I'm not ready-." Domino shook her head as his hands pulled her shirt up to expose her bra. "I'm not going to fuck you, Domino, certainly not with our daughter making fake eggs in a dishwasher over there, I'm going to drink from you." He groaned, his throat hoarse and filled with his arousal as he pulled the cups of her bra down to expose two round, full orbs, the sight of them made him groan again and he cupped one in a hand. She watched as his eyes took in the way liquid beaded up from her nipple and his whole body tensed as he lowered his mouth to run his tongue over the soft, beaded flesh. "Oh, Jesus." Domino whimpered when he growled suddenly and clamped his mouth hard over the nipple, suckling it in deep, making her milk flow hard into his throat. She put a hand on either side of his face and held him to her as he slowly, and very exquisitely emptied her breast of milk. When he finally raised his face up to look at her, he spread his lips open in a wide smile. "I may have to come here every night to do this so that you keep producing. You're delicious." He groaned, unconsciously pushing his clothed cock up against her lower body. "You're not a baby, you don't need to drink my milk." Domino chuckled as he licked over the nipple on the second breast. "Oh, but I think I do." Alex groaned before closing his mouth over the full breast to give it the same loving attention as he had the first. Domino arched her back and pulled his face to her breast, not minding the way his hands fell to her ass to grind her forward against his cock. He began to move his hips to mimic how he would thrust into her, and Domino wrapped her legs around his waist. "I am not fucking you." She whimpered as he continued to drink from her and she felt his body shiver against her. "I know." Alex groaned, finally separating from her, but staying over her body as he breathed slowly to calm himself down. "Da-Da!" Faith's excited voice came from nearby and Domino chuckled as the little girl shoved a plate with a plastic egg on it under her father's nose. He rolled off of Domino, who quickly fixed her bra and pulled her shirt down, and then sat up to watch as the man picked up his daughter and put her in his lap. He talked to her about what she'd made and then pretended to eat the egg while Faith laughed up at him. Domino smiled at the scene, it was such a beautiful thing to get to see him play with Faith, getting to know her, laughing at her silly little mannerisms. "Thank you for letting me come over, I really enjoyed tonight." He said to her later, close to dawn, as they walked together to the doorway. "I did, too. I'm glad that you're here." Domino told him as he opened up the door. "I know we're taking this slow, I know why you feel the need to protect yourself from me as much as you can, but I hate knowing that I walk away from you at the end of each night, that I leave you. I don't want to do that, not ever again." He stepped over the threshold and turned back to look at her. "I know. You shouldn't look at it as you leaving me, I am asking you to wait. As long as you show back up for our next date, then I'm fine." She told him as he bent forward a little. "May I kiss you?" He murmured, his eyes going molten as he looked at her full mouth. "Yes." Domino grinned before she was swept up into his arms in a delightfully complete kiss that made her toes curl and her body filled with heat. "When will I see you next?" He groaned against her as he slowly lowered her back to her feet. "I have plans tomorrow with Jo and Fionna in Green Bay. Maybe, maybe you would like to take Faith for a night or two? It would be good for you to spend some time with her." "My apartment isn't as locked down as your house." He frowned, wanting nothing more than to have the opportunity to care for Faith. "Then stay here. I'll just stay at Jo's house. I'll be back Thursday, and we can see each other then?" Domino suggested and watched as he nodded, a happy smile lighting his face. "I'll make you dinner again." "That sounds fantastic." Domino spent the next two nights in Green Bay with her friends. Jo was having some computer issues in the lab and she was using Domino's coding expertise to help fix it. Then, they spent some time in the city itself, feeding and doing a little Christmas shopping. The last year, she had pretty much ignored the holiday completely, but she had bought a tree this year and was excited to have Faith open up all the little toys and outfits that she had bought. She even found herself buying Alexandru a few gifts, mostly movies about non-humans that she knew would make him roll her eyes at her. It was a fun few days, but by the time she arrived back at her house shortly after dusk the third night, she was more than ready to be with her daughter again. Walking inside, she could immediately smell something cooking and it made her smile as she tossed her bag down and walked towards the kitchen. As she made her way through the dining room, she saw that two places had been set at the table, complete with flowers, and long, skinny candles in the center. Jazz music was playing from somewhere in the kitchen and she could see Alexandru stirring something on the stove as she entered the back of the house. Without saying anything, she walked up behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist, settling her head just below where his wings erupted from his body on his back. He was hot to the touch and his muscles tensed ever so slightly as she ran her palms over his abdomen. Domino closed her eyes, just enjoying being against him, feeling him under her hands, knowing that he was really there, that she had really gotten him back. "Faith is upstairs with Astor and Spencer. They said that they would watch her while we had our date." Alexandru slowly turned in her arms so that he faced her and wrapped his own hands behind her back. "Whatever you are making smells delicious." She said softly as he bent down and kissed her gently. "It's potato goulash with pork. It's a recipe from home." She knew when he said home, he meant Romania, it was the only other home he had truly felt connected to. "Well, I can't wait. I'm hungry." "Did you feed on the way?" He asked, picking up a glass of blood that he'd been drinking while he started dinner. "Yes." She ran a hand along his jawline as he swallowed, every time she saw him, he looked just a teeny bit more his normal self. "Are you still producing?" He asked in a knowing rumble, his eyes lowering to her chest, and she grinned. "No, I think I'm done in that department." She saw his slight frown but he just smiled right after and moved his mouth to nuzzle her throat for a moment before he turned back to the pot on the stove and stirred it once more before putting the lid back on it. "It has about an hour before it's ready to eat. What would you like to do while we wait?" He asked, moving her out of the kitchen and towards the living room. Domino saw that he'd pulled out several board games and even had tossed a couple dvds on the coffee table in the room. Smiling, she turned completely towards him and put her hands on his chest. "I think I'd like an appetizer." She murmured, slowly unbuttoning the shirt he wore until she was able to pull it apart and expose his hairy chest to her view. Alexandru felt a tight shiver work through his body as he stared down at her as she pulled his shirt from his body. Her hands didn't stop moving, and his eyes churned in fiery shades as she unbuttoned his pants and slowly squatted to remove them from his body. He had worn no boxers, he never had, and his feet had been bare. When Alexandru thought that she was going to stand, she slipped onto her knees and took hold of his quickly rising erection and help it before her face. "Domino." He growled, he couldn't be toyed with, he desired her too much. If she were to want to stop after eating his cock, he would be unable to. "I want you, Alex." She gulped as she stared up at him, her own body shaking with need. "You have to want all of me if you're going to do this, Domino. I won't be able to stop, I need you too much." He warned her and watched as she nodded. Without another word, Domino moved her eyes back to his thick shaft, it was warm and satiny in her hands, yet hard and inflexible. She ran her fingertips slowly down the long length of it, basking in the memories of what he had done to her with this amazing rod in the past, what he would do with it again. Wrapping the fingers of one hand around it more securely, not quite able to make it completely fingertip to fingertip, she shuddered as a drop of pre-cum appeared from the rounded tip. Licking her lips, she watched his abdominal muscles tighten, and she smiled, knowing that he was watching her, knowing that he had imagined her licking him, which she did, ever so slowly. The taste was familiar, salty, arousing, and Domino ran her tongue from the tip of his cock to the very base, loving the way he growled over her and his hands gripped the back of her head. She moved back up, her darkening red eyes rising to his as she opened her mouth and took the head of him inside. His whole face was tense, controlled, and it was all he had in him to hold his hands where they were and not shove his cock all the way inside of the moist, hot confines of her mouth and throat. Domino's eyes sparkled, and she put her hands on his ass, pulling him forward as she tilted her head in a way she knew would allow her to slide his cock in farther, past her gag reflex and into the clenching tight heat of her throat. He roared as she settled against his base, her face against the hairs of his groin and his control slipped and he held her tightly against him before slowly, pulling away and then forcefully thrusting forward to fuck her face with his aching shaft. He could feel her fingers dig into the skin of his ass as he fucked her this way several more times before he felt his cock burn with the need to come, and he held and shot his load down into her throat, forcing her to take it all before he backed away and breathed rapidly as he looked down at her. "I had a feeling it wouldn't take you long, Alex. It's been a long time." Domino smiled knowingly up at him as she wiped a dribble of fluid from the corner of her mouth before standing and peeling off the clothing that she was wearing. "It could just be because you're very good at sucking cock." He murmured in her ear as he helped her unbutton her shirt. "We all have our talents." She chuckled as he knelt and yanked off her leggings and panties. "Can I show you mine?" He asked breathlessly, picking her up with his hands on her ass and wrapping her legs around his waist. Domino smirked down at him as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "Please do." She hissed when he pulled her ass down towards him and speared her wet fold in one hard thrust with his oversized, engorged cock. "Jesus, I missed you." Alexandru groaned as he backed her against the couch, her ass on the arm and her back against the bottom cushion, it tilted her in a way that allowed him to buck his hips into her and send his cock deep inside with each movement. Domino moaned and clung to him, her eyes closed as he slowly built up speed to the point where he was hammering in and out, and then alternating with slow, smooth strokes as he built up towards an orgasm that made her cry out and clench her pussy muscles around that furious volley of thrusts that followed. He held his own orgasm for what seemed like ages, and when she thought he was there, that he was about to come, something seemed to snap inside of the large man and he rose to stand straight above her and pulled her thighs up and farther apart. When his hips pistoned forward the next time, the force was so great that she felt the couch move against the floor. He did it again, and again, and faster, and deeper, and her voice lost the capacity to make sound and she clawed at him as her pussy exploded in another forceful orgasm. He hadn't fucked her this hard before, for she knew he would have hurt her in her former human form, but this, this way, this time, it was amazing, and she begged for him never to stop. Never to stop beating into her pussy, and he growled and sank down over her and suckled on the skin of her throat as he tried to do just that. When he finally did come, they were both breathing frantically and clinging to each other's sweat-slickened bodies as if they were afraid to let go, afraid that if they did, this feeling would disappear. "I think I enjoy sex with you as a vampire." She whispered against his ear as he slowly pulled away from her and looked at the floor beside them for his pants. "I hope you do. You belong to me." He frowned when she frowned up at him and he shrugged his shoulders, "I belong to you just as much, Dom. But you're going to have a hard time scratching away at the need for me to be in control of our relationship. It's old habit, and I don't mean anything negative by it. I will forever want to protect you." "And I'll let you protect me." Domino stood up and pulled her shirt on and then found her skirt and tugged that on, ignoring the panties that she figured would just get ripped off again anyways. "The only person I've ever seen you need protection from, though, is me. It's not a good feeling." He told her honestly as he wrapped her in his arms and planted kisses along her forehead. "Not anymore. But if you burn that soup, you're going to need protection from me. I'm starving." Domino grinned, trying to lighten the mood. They would have this conversation again, but they had more than a lifetime to talk about it. That night was the first night that Domino allowed Alexandru to stay overnight in her room. Faith slept between the two of them, and Domino felt that finally, maybe, their lives would slowly get better and better from this moment on. At least, that's what she hoped, with no one being able to compel either of them, and within the safety of their own home, they could have a safe, happy life together. ~*~*~*~ New Year's Eve brought with it a fresh layer of snow and icy cold temperatures. That didn't stop Jo from demanding that Domino and Alexandru accompany her to a party that one of her lab assistants was throwing at a local club. They'd rented out the top floor while the bottom one was open for locals. The vampires in residence had kept their wings under wraps due to the rush of humans below them, but they were used to it, having to do so whenever they went out in public. Jo liked to say "Vampires use toilet paper, too, you know." Domino had worn a shimmery gold spaghetti strapped gown with a long, white cloak that she had chosen because while it hid her wings, it was airy enough not to make her too overheated. It was practically sweltering inside the music filled club. Alexandru had even worn a tuxedo for the occasion and she had threatened to not leave the house several times in order to make quick work of the form fitting outfit to get at the hard muscled man beneath. If it wasn't for the love she had for her friend, they would never have made it to Green Bay. "Can I feed here tonight?" He whispered in her ear and Domino looked at him, he had still refused to feed in front of her unless the blood came from a bag, and she wished he understood that she was secure in their relationship. Food was food. Sex was sex. They were not synonymous. "Only if I can pick who." She grinned mischievously. "Then I pick who you feed from." He winked back at her and she frowned, maybe not such a good idea. "Alexandru." "Let me. It'll make me want to fuck you more." "You can't possibly want to fuck me more, you want to fuck me every moment we're awake." She groaned, putting a hand on his cheek and kissing him soundly. "You guys do realize that we're sitting right here, right?" Fionna faked disgust and they turned to look at her with sheepish smiles. "I'm hungry." Alex stood up from the couch he'd been sitting on and pulled Domino up with him. "We'll be back." Dom raised her eyebrows at her group of friends and watched as they were waved off before she walked away with Alexandru. "So who will it be?" He asked close to her ear as they leaned on the railing that looked over a portion of the first floor of the club. Domino smiled and looked down at the dancers and people lounging around and talking to their friends. A red head with blue eyes was standing on the corner of the bar with a dark-haired man. It was obvious he was trying to hit on her and she just wasn't having it. She was trying desperately to ignore him and fiddled with her drink as she looked farther into the club, probably looking for whoever she'd come with. "The redhead, there." Domino nodded and turned to look at him. "Wait here." "You're not going to tell me who I can feed from?" She asked. "No, I want to look at my choices first. I'll be back." He grinned wickedly at her and kissed her cheek before slowly making his way downstairs. The club was actually rather dark, but their eyesight was quite advanced so she'd been able to make out a lot of details that the average human would have missed. She could clearly see Alexandru making his way towards the end of the bar where the woman was sitting, alone finally, when the man had given up. There were strobe lights flashing on and off and Alexandru was very skilled at feeding discreetly that he could have just come up behind the woman and fed from her without anyone even noticing, but he took a little time. Domino felt her pussy twitch with jealousy as the woman smiled at her vampire lover and turned to face him a little more fully. It took only moments before he had her on the dance floor, her back to him as they began to move rhythmically to the house music that was playing. Domino watched and could see his eyes as he ran his hand up the side of the woman's body and gently pulled her hair back and away from the left side of her throat. Their eyes locked from the distance that separated him, and she watched, aroused, as he moved his mouth to the girl's throat and latched on, still dancing up behind the girl who only stiffened for a moment as he began to feed. As soon as he'd injected the amnesiac into her body, however, she had become more fluid against him and allowed him to hold her close. "Who am I feeding from, Alex?" She asked after he had come back up the staircase a short time later. "You have a choice." He grinned at her, his eyes shining with something she couldn't quite figure out. He looked excited, and she wasn't sure quite how to take that. "Oh?" She asked. "Yeah. Come with me." He took her hand and walked with her towards the staircase and they were halfway down it before he stopped walking and pointed cautiously to an area of the downstairs. "You can feed from that man." He pointed towards a handsome black man in his early thirties who was holding a beer while he spoke to a group of his friends. She felt herself grow hot just from thinking about the feed, and she looked up at Alexandru, or? "Or that one." He pointed a little farther back in the club and her eyes immediately found who he had referred to, she'd barely needed him to point because she would have recognized the man without any help, it was the driver she had fed from twice, the one who made her want to fuck his brains out each time. "Alexandru." She frowned up at him, "I told you, and you even said it, I can't feed from him again without losing control." He grinned, "Maybe I want to see you lose control." A Few Sips Ch. 18: Finale She shook her head, "Sex isn't nothing to me." "With him, it would just be sex, with me, it's everything. You would understand that if you let him fuck you." He moved closer to her and put his hands on her face. "But I want you to fuck me." She whispered up at him. "Fuck us both." He said so deeply that she almost didn't hear him. "I would feel guilty. Like I cheated on you again." "You won't feel guilty. Your body is practically screaming with the need to do it. It's so rare to come across a blood match, Domino, I've only ever been with two. I would hate for you to ignore it." He pressed a thumb against her lips and she sighed up at him. "We talked about this whole 'letting me be who I am now' thing, remember?" He nodded, "I know who you are, Domino, and I know just knowing he is over there, knowing that you can smell the scent from him, it's affecting you already. You're wet, Domino. And if you want to fuck him, I am 100 percent okay with it, in fact, if it is what you want." "So you want me to fuck other guys?" Domino bit her lip. "No, I don't. I would absolutely rip any man in half who even touched you. You belong to me." He frowned and his body grew hot and angry as he spoke and she knew he was telling her the truth. "Then why is it okay with him?" She asked. "Because until you fuck that man, you will always want to. It will always be there." "But if I fuck him?" "The need will lift. And I will stop smelling it on you every time he's around." His words made her tense and she stared at him. "That vampire sense of smell really is a pain in the ass." Domino muttered as she looked over at the man, he was laughing and smiling at the people he was with. Alexandru nodded, "It's damned annoying." "So you want me to fuck this guy because it bothers you that I want to." She shook her head slowly, vampires were really strange. "If you hadn't fed from him, it wouldn't be this way. You'll have to pay more attention in the future if you don't want it to happen again." He grinned at her. "I think I may just have to get my blood from a bag if I have to worry about this every time." She arched a brow at him, could she do this? She knew her body wanted to, but she'd been with a man besides Alexandru before and it hadn't made her feel good, it had made her feel worse. She didn't want to be this woman, the one that slept around. She loved Alexandru. "You decide. I'm going to go back upstairs. There is a doorway in the back on the south left corner. I'll be waiting for you back there. With, or without him." Alexandru told her with a wink, he seemed somewhat excited at the prospect of her fucking their former driver and that made her bite her lip in frustration, she would rather have him roar and fly over and rip the guys head off, she wanted him to only want her to be with him. She was still shaking her head at him as he turned and walked back up the staircase. Sighing, she slowly slid her gaze back over to where the man in question stood, a beer in hand, deep in conversation with those around him. There were a few women in the crowd and she wondered if he was there with one of them. He may have every intention of leaving the club on one of their arms, not getting mixed up with a vampire like her who saw him as a quick meal and a fast fuck. Domino took a deep breath and, with her red eyes molten and focused on the man who she'd fed from twice already, she moved slowly into the crowd of people who were dancing and talking and otherwise having a good time on the lower floor of the club. When she got to where she was headed, she stopped and looked up at the man before her, her head tilted a little to the side and her smile soft and sultry as he moved to look down at her. His dark brown eyes moved slowly over her body and his wide, delicious looking mouth spread into a knowing smile. "Can I get you a drink?" His voice was deep and it warmed Domino to her toes and she smiled a little wider at him. "Funny you should ask. That's exactly what I want." She nodded and the black man she had approached sent his friends a quick look that told them he was going to walk away with her and they smiled and patted him on the shoulder before he put a hand on her shoulder and guided her towards the long bar. "I'm Darius. What's your name?" He asked, bending close to her ear as they waited for the bartender to get to them. "Domino." She told him, having to speak a little louder than she normally would because of the music pounding through the bar. "What'll you have?" He asked when he saw the middle aged bartender nod and start walking their way. "A whiskey." She grinned as he stood a little closer to her, his arm still around her shoulder as he turned to the bartender and ordered them each a drink. "Are you here alone?" He asked a moment later after he had paid for their drinks and they'd each taken a sip. Domino shook her head and looked up at him with a knowing smile, "No, I have friends here." "What brought you over to me?" He asked, looking around them, not seeing anyone watching the young woman. "I wanted a drink." She winked at him and he laughed down at her. "Do you want to dance?" He leaned in again and she breathed in the cologne he was wearing, it was tangy, very earthy smelling, a hint of cedar, maybe? "Let's go outside for a minute, it's getting really hot in here." She suggested and watched as he raised his eyebrows at her, she knew what he was thinking she wanted. He was wrong, but she would let him think it anyway in order to get him alone. They walked through the crowd and she felt someone brush close to her as they stepped slightly into her path. It was the driver. Damn it. She held her breath as he looked at her, his eyes crinkled at the side as he smiled at her, knowing immediately who she was. Domino bit her lower lip. "Ms. Ashburn." He said huskily, looking from her to the man she was with, who had wrapped her hand in his as they walked towards the door. "I-I'm sorry, I never have asked you your name." Domino sighed. He still smelled amazing, and she knew her pussy was starting to throb, but she wasn't going to give in. When a cock slammed into her, it would be Alexandru's, not this man's. Not ever. "Elias." He nodded at her and tipped his beer at the both of them, "Have a happy New Year." "Happy New Year." She nodded back quickly and walked towards the door, refusing to look back and see if he was watching her leave. "Who's that guy?" Domino shrugged, "He's given me a drink or two before. It's nothing." When they were outside, he turned her to him and put his hands on either side of her face. Domino knew he was going to kiss her and she didn't stop him, it allowed her a moment to get herself back under control, and then she was pulling him rather roughly at her side into the alley to the south of the building. He was deepening the kiss, his tongue sliding against hers and Domino whimpered as he pushed her up against the side of the building. "You smell so good." He groaned as his hands slid over her breasts and down her sides. "Believe me, you smell pretty damn good yourself." Domino closed her eyes for a moment as he moved his face to her throat and kissed the sensitive skin there. "This is better than dancing." He muttered again and Domino smiled softly, moving a hand to the back of his neck as he looked up at her, without responding, she lowered her head to his neck and sunk her teeth in, feeling him jerk and buck against her, his blood squirting into her mouth quickly as she pierced his carotid. As she drank, she felt him relax against her and by the time she was licking the wound closed, he was calm, his arms simply atop her shoulders as he looked somewhat hazily down at her. For the next few moments, he would be somewhat dazed, and she used that time to ensure that she had no blood visible on her, nor any on him. Then, a hand in his, she walked with him back inside and walked him over to the bar and deposited him on a seat before she made her way back up the staircase quickly, this time completely avoiding the driver, Elias, who she really did not want to see. Domino was aroused, and she wanted Alexandru, badly. Right now. "You're alone." Alexandru smiled a moment later when she entered the room that he'd been waiting for her in. The south rear door had hidden a long hallway, with doors on one side. All of them had been closed except for one that was slightly ajar. She'd known he would be behind that one. Domino stepped into the room and shut the door, putting her hand on the buttons of her cloak as she did so, not caring as the garment slipped to the floor on her way over to her lover. Smiling, she put a hand on either side of his face and pressed her lips to his. He was sitting on a bed, the only piece of furniture in the room, and they were almost eye to eye. "I am not. You're here with me." She whispered, licking his lips and feeling him open his mouth a little. "Did you feed?" Alexandru moved his hands to the base of her ass and pulled her closer between his legs. Domino nodded, "I did." "And?" "I chose door number 1, Alex. I always will." She smiled as she tugged at the black tie that he was wearing, yanking it off completely after a few quick yanks. "Door number one?" He groaned, his hands moving up to the zipper on the back of her gown. "You, Alex," Domino pulled his shirt apart, not caring that she was ripping off buttons, only knowing that she needed him naked, and fast, "I chose you. I always will." He growled against her and his mouth sank over hers as he tugged her gown from her shoulders and she stood before him completely naked. Her hands were on his coat and shirt, pushing them back and off his arms with his help, and she found herself sitting on his cloth covered cock in seconds, her groan filling the air as his mouth sank over her left breast and suckled hard on the nipple that beaded instantly. "You love me." He whispered as he grabbed her by the base of each of her wings, holding her chest in front of his face. "Yes, Alexandru." She nodded as he licked the other breast, circling the nubbin with his coarse, hot tongue for several moments before suckling the whole of it into his mouth. "And you'll marry me? You'll be my wife?" "Are you proposing to me?" Domino gasped, putting her hands on his face and making him look up at her. "Will you be my wife, Domino? For all of our lives?" His red eyes were molten, filled with his passion for her, echoing his love and she found herself melting in his arms, her arms surrounding his shoulders as she pulled him into a tight hug. "You really love me, Alexandru?" She gasped and felt his chest reverberate from the way he chuckled against her. "I have loved you since the moment I walked into that market, since I first tasted your sweet pussy, since you looked me in the eye and told me you were willing to die for our baby. I've loved you through all of it and I want you as my wife." His words made her shiver and he turned them so that she was beneath him on the bed, her legs wrapped around his bare waist as he moved one hand to the front of his slacks. "Yes." "Yes?" Domino nodded, licking her lips as she felt the head of his shaft drop heavy against her lower abdomen, "Yes, Alexandru, I'll marry you." He grinned down at her with such a grateful face that she felt tears fill her eyes and she pulled hard on his shoulders to hug him close. She felt his lips find hers and felt moisture on his cheeks, as well. When his hips shifted and she felt the burning hard length of him rock into her welcoming pussy, Domino gasped, arching her back so that he wouldn't stop until she had taken in the whole of him. She lost the ability to speak as he picked up speed and hammered into her body, bringing her ass up off of the bed as his hands cupped it hard and held her into each thrust of his hips. She could feel the muscles of his body tense and move and her cries mingled with the sounds of their bodies beating together. She knew his cock was stretching her, forcing her to take the whole length of him, she could feel his balls grind into her with every thrust and her pussy milked him possessively. For ages, it felt like, he concentrated on fucking her intensely, and she came against him several times, her pussy walls clenching down so tight it made him growl and buck up with more force until she would relax and he would drive in a little slower, numbed somewhat by the tight grip she'd put on his cock. When he came, it was thorough, ribbons of his seed shot inside and they lay together on the bed for several moments before he finally rose up to his elbows and looked down at her face. Her blond hair was spread out in thick ringlets around her head and her beautiful red eyes were smiling at him, her mouth open in a wide smile as she ran the tips of her fingers across the front of his chest. "What are you smiling at, my little dove?" He asked, planting small kisses against her cheeks. "Two things." Domino felt a blush rise on her already flushed face, she could feel his cock coming to life still inside her and knew he was hoping for some ass play from the way one of his hands was rubbing at the hole between her ass cheeks. "Yes?" He murmured, kissing the top of her nose. "I am glad I finally get to be Domino Yonescu, That way I have the same name as my lover and my daughter." She breathed in his scent, letting it fill and warm her to arousal as he pushed a finger into her ass. "And the second?" He moved his mouth down to her neck and suckled on her tender skin. "I need to text Arc later and let him know that he needs to plan for a double wedding." Domino giggled as he looked up at her with a frown, not really wanting to share their special day. Chapter 18 Finale #3 Date number two was more casual, and Domino enjoyed the meal of chicken piccata and fettuccine that Alexandru had prepared carefully for them. They had sat at the small table in the kitchen of the apartment that he was renting in Oshkosh. It was a basement apartment that the landlord had stated lacked a lot of windows in the ad online. It worked out well for Alexandru, who had told the man that he worked nights and slept all day, anyway. They had talked easily and had finally moved from the table to the couch to watch a movie before he would take Domino home. They kissed again, at her front door this time, and then he had left her to go inside. Leaving her was the hardest thing he did, for it was something he was very conscious of, and never wanted to do again. But she had made the rules, and he would follow them. Domino appreciated that, and she happily schedule date number three, this one involving Faith. They stayed at her home this time, Astor and Spencer were in the lake together. She cooked him a meal, though she had to admit that his cooking skills were much better than her own. They drank wine and blood from the supply that Jo always sent her way, and after they ate, they played board games, which she thought was rather comical, a couple of big bad vampires of the darkness sitting around playing a game where you tried not to draw an exploding cat from a pile of cards. But they did, and it kept the air light. When they tired of playing, they sat on the floor with Faith, who had pointedly been ignoring them as she walked around the room on increasingly steady feet. She'd started to fly recently, as well, and Domino was constantly running along below her, hands out, just in case the little girl should fall. It didn't matter that a fall wouldn't kill the girl, Domino's protective instinct as a mother was high. Faith had tired of their interference in her play and was over by the little plastic kitchen that Astor had come home with the other day and put together. Domino was lying on her stomach, watching the little girl as Alexandru sat on his rear at her side, a hand splayed over her back, over the smooth fur of her wings. They were still new to him, and he couldn't get over how sexy they made her look. "Oh, crap." He heard Domino say as she pushed up onto her knees and put her hands to her chest. "What's wrong?" Alex asked, moving her a little so that she faced him. "I stopped breastfeeding her yesterday. I'm just a little full is all." She shrugged as she moved a hand to show him the wet spot. Looking down at her breast, he got hard instantly, his eyes turning fire and he lifted his gaze to hers, his need easy to read in their depths. "You are so dirty minded." She frowned at him. "I want to taste you, if you're going to go dry, I won't ever get the chance again." He told her, his desire making him hot, making him move towards and over her until she was lying on her back beneath him. "Alex, I'm not ready-." Domino shook her head as his hands pulled her shirt up to expose her bra. "I'm not going to fuck you, Domino, certainly not with our daughter making fake eggs in a dishwasher over there, I'm going to drink from you." He groaned, his throat hoarse and filled with his arousal as he pulled the cups of her bra down to expose two round, full orbs, the sight of them made him groan again and he cupped one in a hand. She watched as his eyes took in the way liquid beaded up from her nipple and his whole body tensed as he lowered his mouth to run his tongue over the soft, beaded flesh. "Oh, Jesus." Domino whimpered when he growled suddenly and clamped his mouth hard over the nipple, suckling it in deep, making her milk flow hard into his throat. She put a hand on either side of his face and held him to her as he slowly, and very exquisitely emptied her breast of milk. When he finally raised his face up to look at her, he spread his lips open in a wide smile. "I may have to come here every night to do this so that you keep producing. You're delicious." He groaned, unconsciously pushing his clothed cock up against her lower body. "You're not a baby, you don't need to drink my milk." Domino chuckled as he licked over the nipple on the second breast. "Oh, but I think I do." Alex groaned before closing his mouth over the full breast to give it the same loving attention as he had the first. Domino arched her back and pulled his face to her breast, not minding the way his hands fell to her ass to grind her forward against his cock. He began to move his hips to mimic how he would thrust into her, and Domino wrapped her legs around his waist. "I am not fucking you." She whimpered as he continued to drink from her and she felt his body shiver against her. "I know." Alex groaned, finally separating from her, but staying over her body as he breathed slowly to calm himself down. "Da-Da!" Faith's excited voice came from nearby and Domino chuckled as the little girl shoved a plate with a plastic egg on it under her father's nose. He rolled off of Domino, who quickly fixed her bra and pulled her shirt down, and then sat up to watch as the man picked up his daughter and put her in his lap. He talked to her about what she'd made and then pretended to eat the egg while Faith laughed up at him. Domino smiled at the scene, it was such a beautiful thing to get to see him play with Faith, getting to know her, laughing at her silly little mannerisms. "Thank you for letting me come over, I really enjoyed tonight." He said to her later, close to dawn, as they walked together to the doorway. "I did, too. I'm glad that you're here." Domino told him as he opened up the door. "I know we're taking this slow, I know why you feel the need to protect yourself from me as much as you can, but I hate knowing that I walk away from you at the end of each night, that I leave you. I don't want to do that, not ever again." He stepped over the threshold and turned back to look at her. A Few Sips Ch. 18: Finale "I know. You shouldn't look at it as you leaving me, I am asking you to wait. As long as you show back up for our next date, then I'm fine." She told him as he bent forward a little. "May I kiss you?" He murmured, his eyes going molten as he looked at her full mouth. "Yes." Domino grinned before she was swept up into his arms in a delightfully complete kiss that made her toes curl and her body filled with heat. "When will I see you next?" He groaned against her as he slowly lowered her back to her feet. "I have plans tomorrow with Jo and Fionna in Green Bay. Maybe, maybe you would like to take Faith for a night or two? It would be good for you to spend some time with her." "My apartment isn't as locked down as your house." He frowned, wanting nothing more than to have the opportunity to care for Faith. "Then stay here. I'll just stay at Jo's house. I'll be back Thursday, and we can see each other then?" Domino suggested and watched as he nodded, a happy smile lighting his face. "I'll make you dinner again." "That sounds fantastic." Domino spent the next two nights in Green Bay with her friends. Jo was having some computer issues in the lab and she was using Domino's coding expertise to help fix it. Then, they spent some time in the city itself, feeding and doing a little Christmas shopping. The last year, she had pretty much ignored the holiday completely, but she had bought a tree this year and was excited to have Faith open up all the little toys and outfits that she had bought. She even found herself buying Alexandru a few gifts, mostly movies about non-humans that she knew would make him roll her eyes at her. It was a fun few days, but by the time she arrived back at her house shortly after dusk the third night, she was more than ready to be with her daughter again. Walking inside, she could immediately smell something cooking and it made her smile as she tossed her bag down and walked towards the kitchen. As she made her way through the dining room, she saw that two places had been set at the table, complete with flowers, and long, skinny candles in the center. Jazz music was playing from somewhere in the kitchen and she could see Alexandru stirring something on the stove as she entered the back of the house. Without saying anything, she walked up behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist, settling her head just below where his wings erupted from his body on his back. He was hot to the touch and his muscles tensed ever so slightly as she ran her palms over his abdomen. Domino closed her eyes, just enjoying being against him, feeling him under her hands, knowing that he was really there, that she had really gotten him back. "Faith is upstairs with Astor and Spencer. They said that they would watch her while we had our date." Alexandru slowly turned in her arms so that he faced her and wrapped his own hands behind her back. "Whatever you are making smells delicious." She said softly as he bent down and kissed her gently. "It's potato goulash with pork. It's a recipe from home." She knew when he said home, he meant Romania, it was the only other home he had truly felt connected to. "Well, I can't wait. I'm hungry." "Did you feed on the way?" He asked, picking up a glass of blood that he'd been drinking while he started dinner. "Yes." She ran a hand along his jawline as he swallowed, every time she saw him, he looked just a teeny bit more his normal self. "Are you still producing?" He asked in a knowing rumble, his eyes lowering to her chest, and she grinned. "No, I think I'm done in that department." She saw his slight frown but he just smiled right after and moved his mouth to nuzzle her throat for a moment before he turned back to the pot on the stove and stirred it once more before putting the lid back on it. "It has about an hour before it's ready to eat. What would you like to do while we wait?" He asked, moving her out of the kitchen and towards the living room. Domino saw that he'd pulled out several board games and even had tossed a couple dvds on the coffee table in the room. Smiling, she turned completely towards him and put her hands on his chest. "I think I'd like an appetizer." She murmured, slowly unbuttoning the shirt he wore until she was able to pull it apart and expose his hairy chest to her view. Alexandru felt a tight shiver work through his body as he stared down at her as she pulled his shirt from his body. Her hands didn't stop moving, and his eyes churned in fiery shades as she unbuttoned his pants and slowly squatted to remove them from his body. He had worn no boxers, he never had, and his feet had been bare. When Alexandru thought that she was going to stand, she slipped onto her knees and took hold of his quickly rising erection and help it before her face. "Domino." He growled, he couldn't be toyed with, he desired her too much. If she were to want to stop after eating his cock, he would be unable to. "I want you, Alex." She gulped as she stared up at him, her own body shaking with need. "You have to want all of me if you're going to do this, Domino. I won't be able to stop, I need you too much." He warned her and watched as she nodded. Without another word, Domino moved her eyes back to his thick shaft, it was warm and satiny in her hands, yet hard and inflexible. She ran her fingertips slowly down the long length of it, basking in the memories of what he had done to her with this amazing rod in the past, what he would do with it again. Wrapping the fingers of one hand around it more securely, not quite able to make it completely fingertip to fingertip, she shuddered as a drop of pre-cum appeared from the rounded tip. Licking her lips, she watched his abdominal muscles tighten, and she smiled, knowing that he was watching her, knowing that he had imagined her licking him, which she did, ever so slowly. The taste was familiar, salty, arousing, and Domino ran her tongue from the tip of his cock to the very base, loving the way he growled over her and his hands gripped the back of her head. She moved back up, her darkening red eyes rising to his as she opened her mouth and took the head of him inside. His whole face was tense, controlled, and it was all he had in him to hold his hands where they were and not shove his cock all the way inside of the moist, hot confines of her mouth and throat. Domino's eyes sparkled, and she put her hands on his ass, pulling him forward as she tilted her head in a way she knew would allow her to slide his cock in farther, past her gag reflex and into the clenching tight heat of her throat. He roared as she settled against his base, her face against the hairs of his groin and his control slipped and he held her tightly against him before slowly, pulling away and then forcefully thrusting forward to fuck her face with his aching shaft. He could feel her fingers dig into the skin of his ass as he fucked her this way several more times before he felt his cock burn with the need to come, and he held and shot his load down into her throat, forcing her to take it all before he backed away and breathed rapidly as he looked down at her. "I had a feeling it wouldn't take you long, Alex. It's been a long time." Domino smiled knowingly up at him as she wiped a dribble of fluid from the corner of her mouth before standing and peeling off the clothing that she was wearing. "It could just be because you're very good at sucking cock." He murmured in her ear as he helped her unbutton her shirt. "We all have our talents." She chuckled as he knelt and yanked off her leggings and panties. "Can I show you mine?" He asked breathlessly, picking her up with his hands on her ass and wrapping her legs around his waist. Domino smirked down at him as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders. "Please do." She hissed when he pulled her ass down towards him and speared her wet fold in one hard thrust with his oversized, engorged cock. "Jesus, I missed you." Alexandru groaned as he backed her against the couch, her ass on the arm and her back against the bottom cushion, it tilted her in a way that allowed him to buck his hips into her and send his cock deep inside with each movement. Domino moaned and clung to him, her eyes closed as he slowly built up speed to the point where he was hammering in and out, and then alternating with slow, smooth strokes as he built up towards an orgasm that made her cry out and clench her pussy muscles around that furious volley of thrusts that followed. He held his own orgasm for what seemed like ages, and when she thought he was there, that he was about to come, something seemed to snap inside of the large man and he rose to stand straight above her and pulled her thighs up and farther apart. When his hips pistoned forward the next time, the force was so great that she felt the couch move against the floor. He did it again, and again, and faster, and deeper, and her voice lost the capacity to make sound and she clawed at him as her pussy exploded in another forceful orgasm. He hadn't fucked her this hard before, for she knew he would have hurt her in her former human form, but this, this way, this time, it was amazing, and she begged for him never to stop. Never to stop beating into her pussy, and he growled and sank down over her and suckled on the skin of her throat as he tried to do just that. When he finally did come, they were both breathing frantically and clinging to each other's sweat-slickened bodies as if they were afraid to let go, afraid that if they did, this feeling would disappear. "I think I enjoy sex with you as a vampire." She whispered against his ear as he slowly pulled away from her and looked at the floor beside them for his pants. "I hope you do. You belong to me." He frowned when she frowned up at him and he shrugged his shoulders, "I belong to you just as much, Dom. But you're going to have a hard time scratching away at the need for me to be in control of our relationship. It's old habit, and I don't mean anything negative by it. I will forever want to protect you." "And I'll let you protect me." Domino stood up and pulled her shirt on and then found her skirt and tugged that on, ignoring the panties that she figured would just get ripped off again anyways. "The only person I've ever seen you need protection from, though, is me. It's not a good feeling." He told her honestly as he wrapped her in his arms and planted kisses along her forehead. "Not anymore. But if you burn that soup, you're going to need protection from me. I'm starving." Domino grinned, trying to lighten the mood. They would have this conversation again, but they had more than a lifetime to talk about it. That night was the first night that Domino allowed Alexandru to stay overnight in her room. Faith slept between the two of them, and Domino felt that finally, maybe, their lives would slowly get better and better from this moment on. At least, that's what she hoped, with no one being able to compel either of them, and within the safety of their own home, they could have a safe, happy life together. ~*~*~*~ New Year's Eve brought with it a fresh layer of snow and icy cold temperatures. That didn't stop Jo from demanding that Domino and Alexandru accompany her to a party that one of her lab assistants was throwing at a local club. They'd rented out the top floor while the bottom one was open for locals. The vampires in residence had kept their wings under wraps due to the rush of humans below them, but they were used to it, having to do so whenever they went out in public. Jo liked to say "Vampires use toilet paper, too, you know." Domino had worn a shimmery gold spaghetti strapped gown with a long, white cloak that she had chosen because while it hid her wings, it was airy enough not to make her too overheated. It was practically sweltering inside the music filled club. Alexandru had even worn a tuxedo for the occasion and she had threatened to not leave the house several times in order to make quick work of the form fitting outfit to get at the hard muscled man beneath. If it wasn't for the love she had for her friend, they would never have made it to Green Bay. "Can I feed here tonight?" He whispered in her ear and Domino looked at him, he had still refused to feed in front of her unless the blood came from a bag, and she wished he understood that she was secure in their relationship. Food was food. Sex was sex. They were not synonymous. "Only if I can pick who." She grinned mischievously. "Then I pick who you feed from." He winked back at her and she frowned, maybe not such a good idea. "Alexandru." "Let me. It'll make me want to fuck you more." "You can't possibly want to fuck me more, you want to fuck me every moment we're awake." She groaned, putting a hand on his cheek and kissing him soundly. "You guys do realize that we're sitting right here, right?" Fionna faked disgust and they turned to look at her with sheepish smiles. "I'm hungry." Alex stood up from the couch he'd been sitting on and pulled Domino up with him. "We'll be back." Dom raised her eyebrows at her group of friends and watched as they were waved off before she walked away with Alexandru. "So who will it be?" He asked close to her ear as they leaned on the railing that looked over a portion of the first floor of the club. Domino smiled and looked down at the dancers and people lounging around and talking to their friends. A red head with blue eyes was standing on the corner of the bar with a dark-haired man. It was obvious he was trying to hit on her and she just wasn't having it. She was trying desperately to ignore him and fiddled with her drink as she looked farther into the club, probably looking for whoever she'd come with. "The redhead, there." Domino nodded and turned to look at him. "Wait here." "You're not going to tell me who I can feed from?" She asked. "No, I want to look at my choices first. I'll be back." He grinned wickedly at her and kissed her cheek before slowly making his way downstairs. The club was actually rather dark, but their eyesight was quite advanced so she'd been able to make out a lot of details that the average human would have missed. She could clearly see Alexandru making his way towards the end of the bar where the woman was sitting, alone finally, when the man had given up. There were strobe lights flashing on and off and Alexandru was very skilled at feeding discreetly that he could have just come up behind the woman and fed from her without anyone even noticing, but he took a little time. Domino felt her pussy twitch with jealousy as the woman smiled at her vampire lover and turned to face him a little more fully. It took only moments before he had her on the dance floor, her back to him as they began to move rhythmically to the house music that was playing. Domino watched and could see his eyes as he ran his hand up the side of the woman's body and gently pulled her hair back and away from the left side of her throat. Their eyes locked from the distance that separated him, and she watched, aroused, as he moved his mouth to the girl's throat and latched on, still dancing up behind the girl who only stiffened for a moment as he began to feed. As soon as he'd injected the amnesiac into her body, however, she had become more fluid against him and allowed him to hold her close. "Who am I feeding from, Alex?" She asked after he had come back up the staircase a short time later. "You have a choice." He grinned at her, his eyes shining with something she couldn't quite figure out. He looked excited, and she wasn't sure quite how to take that. "Oh?" She asked. "Yeah. Come with me." He took her hand and walked with her towards the staircase and they were halfway down it before he stopped walking and pointed cautiously to an area of the downstairs. "You can feed from that man." He pointed towards a handsome black man in his early thirties who was holding a beer while he spoke to a group of his friends. She felt herself grow hot just from thinking about the feed, and she looked up at Alexandru, or? "Or that one." He pointed a little farther back in the club and her eyes immediately found who he had referred to, she'd barely needed him to point because she would have recognized the man without any help, it was the driver she had fed from twice, the one who made her want to fuck his brains out each time. "Alexandru." She frowned up at him, "I told you, and you even said it, I can't feed from him again without losing control." He grinned, "Maybe I want to see you lose control." She shook her head, "Sex isn't nothing to me." "With him, it would just be sex, with me, it's everything. You would understand that if you let him fuck you." He moved closer to her and put his hands on her face. "But I want you to fuck me." She whispered up at him. "Fuck us both." He said so deeply that she almost didn't hear him. "I would feel guilty. Like I cheated on you again." "You won't feel guilty. Your body is practically screaming with the need to do it. It's so rare to come across a blood match, Domino, I've only ever been with two. I would hate for you to ignore it." He pressed a thumb against her lips and she sighed up at him. "We talked about this whole 'letting me be who I am now' thing, remember?" He nodded, "I know who you are, Domino, and I know just knowing he is over there, knowing that you can smell the scent from him, it's affecting you already. You're wet, Domino. And if you want to fuck him, I am 100 percent okay with it, in fact, IF it is what you want." "So you want me to fuck other guys?" Domino bit her lip. "No, I don't. I would absolutely rip any man in half who even touched you. You belong to me." He frowned and his body grew hot and angry as he spoke and she knew he was telling her the truth. "Then why is it okay with him?" She asked. "Because until you fuck that man, you will always want to. It will always be there." "But if I fuck him?" "The need will lift. And I will stop smelling it on you every time he's around." His words made her tense and she stared at him. "That vampire sense of smell really is a pain in the ass." Domino muttered as she looked over at the man, he was laughing and smiling at the people he was with. Alexandru nodded, "It's damned annoying." "So you want me to fuck this guy because it bothers you that I want to." She shook her head slowly, vampires were really strange. "If you hadn't fed from him, it wouldn't be this way. You'll have to pay more attention in the future if you don't want it to happen again." He grinned at her. "I think I may just have to get my blood from a bag if I have to worry about this every time." She arched a brow at him, could she do this? She knew her body wanted to, but she'd been with a man besides Alexandru before and it hadn't made her feel good, it had made her feel worse. She didn't want to be this woman, the one that slept around. She loved Alexandru. "You decide. I'm going to go back upstairs. There is a doorway in the back on the south left corner. I'll be waiting for you back there. With, or without him." Alexandru told her with a wink, he seemed somewhat excited at the prospect of her fucking their former driver and that made her bite her lip in frustration, she would rather have him roar and fly over and rip the guys head off, she wanted him to only want her to be with him. She was still shaking her head at him as he turned and walked back up the staircase. Sighing, she slowly slid her gaze back over to where the man in question stood, a beer in hand, deep in conversation with those around him. There were a few women in the crowd and she wondered if he was there with one of them. He may have every intention of leaving the club on one of their arms, not getting mixed up with a vampire like her who saw him as a quick meal and a fast fuck. But as she watched him, the play of his muscles as he grinned, the way he held his body relaxed, yet still aware of those around him, it was extremely sexy and she could feel her pussy flutter with her desire.