A Carpathian Story

By: Arralina Naylor

Lina Dubrinsky, a young woman who's life was filled with endless sorrow and confusion, wondered the city looking for her new apartment. She recently moved to France, to start a new life with her fiance. The plane they were on crashed and her fiance was killed. Lina had always known she'd out live him but she always thought that she would be able to have a happy life with her new husband. She never was able to say he was even her husband. Lina dunrinsky was the daughter of Vlad Dubrinsky. He had managed to get a human woman pregnant while he was still only a fledgling. Knowing fairly well no one would ever accepted her into the carpathian life, Vlad kept her a secret. He raised her when she was still young and explained to her, not her mother, what he was and that she was partially in his world. He had never fully explained the carpathian life to her, yet Lina knew that she would never be able to live with her father. On her 18th birthday her father told her he could never see her again. She accepted the life she was given, the longevity, the few powers she possessed, even the blood lust she had. She rarely drank human blood, only when she was ill to help her heal, but once her father died she had become outraged. She killed an entire bar when she realized his presence gone from her and then had to mask her idenitity. She had the powers to shift her body into a more petite blonde girl and lived her life from there. But now she was lost in a rather large city, for her taste, and she needed to find her way home.

"hey baby. I haven't seen you around here." A dark-haired man glanced at Lina as she walked down the sidestreets. Lina had always had a way o panicking over silly things and she, of course, paniced.

"Well, i'm going home. Good-bye!" Lina tried being rude and firm even though she was completely frieghtened inside. The man walked straight up to Lina and grabbed her shoulders in the traditional greeting in France. Lina paniced again.

"Get away from me!" Lina screamed as the man flew several feet away from her. As she ran, she could feel the familiar yet unpleasant burning of eyes watching her. Once she rounded the next corner she spotted a briliantly lit tavern. There was a violinist playing beautiful music inside. The only thing keeping her from seeing who could play so amazingly was the elegant framed doorway. Lina couldn't resist going in. Once she walked in, her heart beat out a rhythm she'd never heard before and the room got so small and heated. Her body had caught on fire and her breathing came in labored sips. Her senses flaired and her gaze focused on the masculine guy playing the violin. Her gaze fixed on his pulse, that seemed to beat out the same rhythm as hers, her hunger clawing at her insides. The man's gaze finally locked on hers.

Olivier had been in France for some time, hunting vampires where ever needed. Vlad had sent him off once he had found out that he had taken making love to a human woman when he was still just a few hundred years old. He's been searching for a lifemate and could feel the darkness within him every long, miserable moment. As soon as that blonde hair young woman walked into the tavern, his heart called to hers, yet he saw nothing but gray shades and still could only feel the rhythm under his fingers. She looked so beautiful. Only then did he realize he could see her in color but nothing else. He was mesmerized, but not fooled but mere lonliness.

Lina began walking towards the unknown man as if compelled by some greater froce to do so. Olivier was trying to probe the woman's mind, but all he could see was lust and hunger as if he was reading his own mind.

"Hello, sir. May i ask how you've become such an amazing musician. Your work seems to be quite exquiste." Lina was swallowing deeply trying to fight her urges. She'd never fought for control so hard in her life. Her body was on fire, her blood racing to taste such a perfect specimen. He seemed perfect: long chocolate hair, beautiful muscles, and even gorgeous hazel eyes. She wanted him so badly.

"How about we go somewhere private to discuss my short-comings as a musician and you could tell me more about yourself." Olivier wanted to get her alone. He needed to take her blood so he could read her mind. He wasn't sure how easy that'd be but it'd have to work. Lina gracefully extended her hand as her eyes glazed over with hunger as he touched her. The couple walked through the small tavern into a smaller back room. The lights were off, yet both could see perfectly and neither realized the other was trying to lead the way.

"My name is Olivier. What is yours?" He said as he tried to unlock the secrets to her mind. Lina's contorl was at her limit and she'd never been pushed so close to her limit. She was half carpathian and half human and she had extreme strength mentally and physically. Olivier could only read her increasing hunger and desire, then read it was for him!

"My name is Lina Dubrinsky." Lina began to keep control. She needed to get out of there as quickly as possible and, she knew, she'd never be able to see him again.

"Dubrinsky? No, that's impossible!" Olivier comtenplated out loud. Once he talked in his elegant and confident voice, Lina lost her control.

"My father's name was Vlad. Olivier you need to run and get away from me." Lina begged as she fought to remain under control.

"No. Vlad couldn't have had a daughter we were unaware of. Wait...when he was still a fledgingly. No that couldn't be?!" Olivier was confused for the first time. He had ignored her warning thinking she was just being silly. As he left off his last sentence, he saw Lina transform. Her blonde hair turned a beautiful red and her blue eyes a deep green. Her chest and bottom got slightly larger and more feminine and her gaze fixed impatiently on his pulse. All at once emotions leapt at him. Realizing then, Olivier bursted at the seems with joy, and confusion. His body suddenly got extremely excited and he wanted to take Lina then and there. All at once a white-hot jagged light streaked through his body, his pleasure was increasing every moment he was in Lina's presence now. He could feel his life force pouring into her body and his mind was bombarded with so many emotions, his head actually hurt.

"OH MY GOD! I'm so sorry!" Lina flicked her tongue over the pinpricks and they were gone. her body was a living, breathing flame and she wanted to make love to him right there on the floor. Her body roared fro release and she gained some semblance of control as she tried to wipe his memories.

"Wait...Your mind wont let me erase these last few moments..." Lina said in an almost inaudiable vioce as she went completely pale even after taking his blood.

"Lina. Who are you?" Olivier tried to speak, his vioce a husky temptation yet he was barely able to speak. He was ashamed of his lack of control in vioce and body as he wrapped his arms around her slander figure. His confidence pouring out of his pours knowing now he could penetrate her mind. His plan seemed a little backwards but he would eventually be able to take her blood whenever he wanted. She was his lifemate and he would claim her there and then if he pleased. The only thing bothering him was that he didn't know who or what she was.

"I'm so sorry..." Lina said as she began to pull out of his arms. Her defense wasn't kicking in, she couldn't shield herself from Olivier.

"Who and what are you?" Olivier swallowed hard breathing in her feminine scent as his hunger fro her grew. He bent his head down to taste her skin, his tongue gently caressed the frantically beating pulse in the neck. Their skins leapt with flames as their bodies rubbed against one another. The only barrier from her soft, pliant body was the small lace garmets she was wearing. Olivier bent to take his fill of his newly found lifemate even while she gently resisted. He held her firmly in his arms as the white-hot streaks raced through her body. Her body nestled against his as he drank his fill keeping her in his arms, coaxing her into submission.

"I'm sorry..." Lina said as a barrier between them was suddenly thrown up and she flicked the pinpricks on her neck with her tongue and strode off away from his gorgeous, tempting body.

"My lovely red-headed mystery. Lina Dubrinsky." Olivier thought to himself as his body blistered with sudden regret that she had gotten away from him.