I hope you all enjoy this new story of mine…I'm not used to dealing with a lot of vampire/lycan stories as the myths surrounding both is vast. This is inspired by the Underworld series but is also vastly different from them. You all will be the first readers so let me know what you think, it hasn't been proofread besides myself so please let me know. let's see how well my knowledge of vampires and lycan's go from watching 'supernatural, 'buffy', 'the Underworld series' and meshing that mythology up to create this. Thank you to those that sent title ideas. I meshed those up for this to. 😊 😊 😊 😊

A vampire's forbidden love

Bargaining and sacrifice

Ch.1

1800

Usagi POV

I awoke from my bed in a start as I heard noises down stairs. I pulled the thin sheet up and off of me before pulling my night shift back into place as it had risen up during the night. Getting out of bed I pulled the robe I had from the edge of the bed and used it to cover myself as the shift was a bit to translucent to be seen in the daylight hours. Mother told me at one point while I was a beautiful girl I should allow such aspects of me to be more visible. Less is more she would say in response.

I didn't see what she saw but I was grateful for the compliment none the less. I looked out the window and saw that it was only an hour left till sun rise and I knew that papa would have wanted to get outside for early morning feeding of the animals. I would help on occasion but mama had been preparing me to be a bride for the last few years. Especially for Diamond even more so since he had proposed.

He had asked me to marry him a fortnight ago by the blossoming trees nearby. It had been so sweet I honestly hadn't seen it coming. I had been friends with him for a year now and we were just that friends. Its why the engagement had taken me by surprise. I hadn't before seen him in such a manner but at least we had a good friendship to base our marriage out on now. That's how mama told me to look at it.

After all he was a good man, a bit cocky to some degree when he talked but still a good man in the end. From what I could tell. I didn't spent that much time with him these days. His efforts to become his father's progeny had taken on a more serious note these last few months. The proposal had been during a reconnecting picnic between our families. We had become more like acquaintances now than to how we used to be.

At one point we had been so close that his mother insisted I call her mother to. Then our families got busy and I couldn't see him as much. So the picnic had been a nice venture and resulted in our engagement. After all if we married then our families would have a lovely unity. Plus it would keep me away from the farm that papa wanted me to become more accustom to if I didn't marry anyone.

I loved our home but I much preferred to be riding my horse or to be secretly working on my aim for my crossbow. I had found one months ago that someone trashed, so I fixed it up and now was training myself on how to use it. Papa went hunting for animals though nothing bigger than a deer as he didn't always have the proper tools to get it home. So he mostly stuck with rabbit or squirrel. Whichever one he could bring home and skin within reason. Very select few times would he bring in anything bigger than a deer or wild boar.

With the deer he would bring it in on a few occasions. Very few though. He was honestly afraid that if he did go after a deer again another hunter if he had to leave it would find it and take it for themselves. I was honestly excited to show off my new skills with a crossbow and I wanted to prove to him that I could help him out there with it rather than just in the barn. Women weren't supposed to do the hunting but I just knew my job wasn't to be cleaning up manure or merely feeding chickens and the few horses that we had.

With Diamond I knew he'd let me explore options to a degree that papa didn't. He was raised that a woman does the cooking and cleaning and men do the hunting. I tried to respect that but I felt like I could do more and I wanted to do more. So with Diamond I felt a bit excited to be able to use the opportunity to do so…or at least I'd have more freedoms to do it on my own and not be under house rules.

Diamond I knew wasn't like most men. I felt that his cockiness was something that made people look at him differently in a respectable yet slightly warry demeanor. People were unaware of how to view him but if anything the wariness that he had in his direction he merely used it to his advantage. I had been expecting to see him today in fact so when the noises I heard sounded off I was rushing downstairs to greet him.

We had so few guests that came to visit being that our home was a little bit further off the beaten path. We had a lovely cottage for a home. It wasn't terribly big but had a second floor for the bedrooms. Papa put the addition on the home when mama got pregnant with myself before years later having my little brother. They kept the master room downstairs. So when I reached half way down I heard mama cry out in pain before begging, "Please leave our family alone!" my heart went from racing with glee to seeing Diamond to terror at the fear in her voice.

I ducked down realizing I hadn't been discovered. I could only thank the heavens right now that no one had heard my footfalls as I had been rushing to the stairs. I looked over to my brother's room and found the door slightly ajar. I peaked inside and found him not in his bed. I knew he would sometimes go downstairs for a glass of water so he had to be down there now with whomever else was down there.

I hoped that if I could figure out what was going on I could help out in some form. What I saw scared me to freeze on the steps I was on. I didn't even bother to blink even as my sheer gown clung to my form. The static of it clinging to my skin as I watched what little I could from my perch. The things that go bump in the night were there. In our living room. The child in me was fascinated by them but the young woman in me felt the fear of having strangers period in the home we lived in. Vampires was a whole new level.

We had heard tales of vampires and lycans, the war that raged on between the two in the dark of the night was what kept a lot of people from the streets at night. It kept papa from going to taverns and prompted him to stay at home with us. We saw that as the only good thing with their war but now…it seemed the war was spilling into our home in the wee early hours of the morning. I just hoped that they would show mercy to us. Vampires were known to be more reasonable than lycans.

I saw papa was being held by one. The hand on his throat was muscular in a beefy type of way and the angered look told me he would harm him without so much as blinking if the occasion rose for it. He was a big tall man that was easily twice my father's average size. I feared for my papa's life as he held him up by his throat. "Please leave our family alone we have nothing!" my mama cried out.

She held my brother tightly to her as he muffled his own cries of fear. Trying to remain strong in front of the monsters in our home even as mama held him close. "We just came in for a little snack. We'll leave shortly after. No one else needs to get hurt." The man that spoke was tall and dark haired. His eyes were the deepest brown I'd ever seen. His fangs were visible but barely as he was talking. I couldn't help but be curious on how such a man could be a monster.

You heard stories on alluring beasts that lured you to an early grave. Like a mermaid would to a sailor on the high seas. Stories were always told on how ships went down in the deepest part of the ocean over it. I was finally starting to grasp it. He was handsome but my own anger at his actions against my family killed off any possible romantic notions my young heart had. Besides I was betrothed to Diamond.

He turned his head and his fangs came out showcasing his vampire status. Before he could sink his teeth into papa's neck I heard a shout, "Wait!" it was Diamond. He was here…for but a moment I felt relief that he would help us. I felt a rush go through me until I wondered how would he help us? Diamond was more of a business man not a man of sword and steel. He was not trained in the art of defense. Not as far as I knew.

I bit my lip trying to figure out a way to help them. I thought of my crossbow but remembered it was safety hidden away outside and I was trapped inside. I had no way of getting from the second floor to the main floor. The windows we had were weren't attached to anything on the outside so we couldn't sneak out at night time unless we went down the stairs and out the front or back door.

I cursed my situation as I couldn't get to the only weapon I knew how to use. I could stop them and make them leave. I just had to show that I was a formidable opponent…I hoped. "This man is a good friend of my fathers, please spare their lives and leave. I will give you whatever you desire." He commanded. I smiled and felt the urge to run to his side. How brave he was to make such a statement.

It showed a true testament to his character. He cared not for what it cost him only to protect those that mattered to me. Granted our fathers were friends but still he didn't have to make such a grand offer to him. The bigger vampire grunted in humor as if anything was of more value to them than the life blood of my father. It wasn't till the dark-haired man sniffed the air that he almost looked to be highly pleased.

He even closed his eyes as his lips turned into a bigger smile. "Where's the girl in her prime?" my eyes widened and admittedly my cheeks blushed red. I unconsciously clenched my legs together. I may not have been on my time at that moment but by the gods how often do you hear such a statement? I mean seriously…He could smell me?! "She smells delicious. Like candy to be savored." He looked about the room and I was suddenly feeling very self-conscious about my current state of dress.

"Come out young one. I can smell your delicious scent. Smelled it for a moment now." He closed his eyes momentarily and I could almost hear the sounds of primal need coming from him. It was alluring and scary all at once. I came down the stairs the rest of the way. There was no reason to hide now. "Serenity!" mama called out as I walked with caution in my steps towards my family. Diamond engulfed me into a hug once I was within range, "Why are you dressed in your night gown still?" he reprimanded.

I frowned at him, "I hardly think that that's a relevant issue right now." I muttered. I looked to the dark haired man, "What do you want of me? A snack?" I snapped, upset that they were here and still holding my father hostage. He tilted his head and looked at me, "I will admit you would be a delicious treat…" I didn't like the look on his face. It was a cross between lust and curiosity, something I wasn't used to. I had seen Diamond looked at me similarly but not with as much of an evil glint in his eyes, "But no I don't want you dead…"

He blurred to me. That was the only way to describe his movements. One moment he was ten feet away the next he was directly in front of me. My breath caught in my throat as the wind from his movement pushed my night gown back a bit, showing off a bit of my body beneath. I felt very vulnerable and exposed now. The robe I had on did very little to hide anything especially since I didn't secure it around my waist. Diamond had a bit of a point. Plus as much as I hated to say it, even with Diamonds arms around me I still felt a bit unsafe.

Hiding behind him I knew would do no good. I darted my eyes briefly to my father as he was starting to phase in and out of consciousness. I bit my lip again, trying to figure out a solution to this problem. "Though I do want to taste your flesh…" his hand touched my neck delicately, as if he himself didn't want to mare my skin. I was stunned but to shaken right now to put more thought into it.

Besides I was pressed between slapping his hand away and letting him do as he pleased to avoid further harm from coming to my family. I let him do so but Diamond pulled me back behind himself which only made the dark-haired vampire frown. "Do NOT dare to lay your hands on her you beast." I saw the angry red flare up behind the blue in the vampire's eyes as he reacted to Diamond's words.

They were his last words from that point on as the dark-haired man hit him hard enough to send him into the wall with a dull thud, hard enough to indent the wood. I gasped at the power he displayed, "I will touch whatever I want to." Was the man's reply. His tone cold and uncaring of what Diamond had said. I felt for Diamond he was merely trying to protect me and here was this man beast harming those I cared for.

He faced me. I resisted the urge to gulp, "What- what's your name?" I asked, trying to grasp onto anything to stall and come up with a plan. I had none right now. "Damon and you my dear are…?" he was waiting for me now, "Serenity…please I beg of you, leave my family alone. We don't want any trouble." I pleaded. He smiled but only looked at me oddly once more, "You are in your prime as a woman." He noted.

Seeing where this was going I couldn't help but look over at Diamond as he moaned. I felt bad but I had to save my family. "What do we do?" the bigger guy asked. "Drain them dry. After tonight's hero antic's I would rather not deal with another angry mob of idiots." Damon remarked in a bored tone. I heard a cry from mama and my little brother. I had to do something to stop this.

I gulped as he gripped my neck and embarked on a taste. Before he could I spoke up, "You can have me, no fight I promise but ONLY if you let my family go." I brokered. He backed his head up. "What's to stop me from taking you either way?" he asked. "You may take me but would you rather have a willing partner or an unwilling shell of a woman?" I bartered. He looked at me, "I will do anything you ask of me, I don't care as long as it saves them. If they die I die." Understanding what I meant he looked at my family.

"Serenity! Don't you dare!" Mama begged. My head whipped over to see her, "Don't you dare try to bargain with these creatures!" she ordered. Still trying to maintain a sense of purpose and control in the moment. Damon took a moment to ponder, "Lets just kill and drain them all." The bigger guy said, "No…draining them all would only encourage more people to hunt us down." Damon said. "But…" he touched my face in a delicate yet almost creepy manner. "I like the idea of willing versus unwilling..." he muttered.

His face drawing closer to mine as he gripped my chin, "Especially when the willing has such a sweet scent." He pulled me closer to him as Diamond got up off the ground, "Unhand her." He ordered before trying to take a swing at Damon. I gasped in shock as Damon flung him away like it was nothing. I wondered why he feared more people finding out they were around when he was so strong but I guess one of him versus an angry mob and strength or no strength even they could be taken down.

Damon grabbed him by the throat as Diamond made a last ditch effort to protect me, "Please don't kill him! He's a good man! He's just trying to protect me!" I cried out. I looked at the scene as Damon said, "I will grant you your life to live as I to would do the same for such a beauty…" then he pulled Diamond in closer, "But there is still a penalty to pay for attacking me!" he sunk his fangs into Diamond eliciting a horrific cry of pain as Damon grabbed into him and drank till Diamond went limp.

He released but only enough to have a weary Diamond look up at him before cutting his wrist and force-feeding Diamond his own blood. I gasped as once Diamond was forced to gulp it down Damon twisted his neck till it snapped. It was so quick I would have even called it painless. It was just shocking to see. Diamond fell down in a heap to the floor. Not even mama dared to go near him.

I heard my brother issue a whimper of fear, "Serenity…?" he was confused and mama was trying her best to console him. I felt the onset of tears coming forth. I held them back not wanting him or even mama to see my fear. I had to be strong for them both. "There…" Damon licked the blood from his lips before wiping the rest from his mouth, "Now you will live out your days as a vampire." He then nudged him with his foot.

There was no movement. Not even a flutter from Diamond as he lay dead and turning on the ground. "That should be punishment enough for your actions. Being the one thing you hate the most." I couldn't help but speak up, "Please don't hurt the rest of my family. They didn't do anything wrong." He looked at my mother then my brother before my father and motioned for the big brute of a guy to release him.

He then went back to me from his few steps and took my face in his hands. I showed what little courage by standing up to him and keeping my eyes on him. "For your bravery and your sacrifice I will allow them to live. But if ANY of them come looking for you, it will be a death sentence." He warned loudly. Mama wept. Papa I could tell was beyond pissed. My brother was trying so hard no to cry after what he'd just seen. So when Damon held out his hand for me to take, I reluctantly took it.

Next thing I knew his teeth were in my neck. I screamed loudly, not having expected the pain. It felt like an explosion in my neck as he held me in place. I gripped onto him only because it was out of natural reaction. But even as I gripped him I felt how he held me. There was firmness but tenderness as well. That is right before he removed his face from my neck, "My dear Serenity, you do taste delicious." His words though sweet were filled more with a need to possess and control rather than to care for.

Then he broke the skin of his own wrist and held it up for me. This he wanted me to accept as part of him. He was testing me. To see if I was truly willing to make the sacrifice and for my family I would do it a thousand times over. I would take in his blood and what he would do to me as long as it gained a long life for my family. I took one last look at them. Mama's eyes begged me not to. Papa's eyes were firm…if he had to he would help me end it. My brother's eyes were of that of losing his only sibling.

I pulled Damon's arm in closer to my lips and tasted his blood. He then forced me into his grasp so that I had my back to his chest. I felt his body behind me so damned close that I could feel it reacting to my own. The coppery taste was almost instantly rejected till I forced down the first gulp. I had to do this. So when I got another gulp in Damon released me from his hold. I turned around to find his hands on my face.

"Soon you will learn how to master what you are becoming and be by my side for eternity." No sooner had the words been spoken…words that I was stunned by…words that in all honestly terrified me…that he spun my own neck around till I heard and felt a tiny crack. The crack however was enough to remove any and all bodily function. I felt my arms begin to fall but didn't feel them after a few seconds.

I literally felt nothing as my body fell to the ground in a clumping heap. I didn't hear anything anymore. I didn't hear my mother screaming for me. I didn't hear my little brother sobbing that he lost his sister. I didn't hear my father cry out in his own pain. I didn't even see anything now. Everything was blank. My last fleeting though was to my family, that I hadn't made the sacrifice in vain before my eyes closed.

I woke up in a bed made of some of the finer softer sheets I had ever been on. Very rarely did one feel silk as it was expensive to have or to own. Papa said he preferred sheets where you could breathe in them. For a moment I forgot why I was there until I remembered what had happened to me just the other morning. I got up and a wave of dizziness over-came me along with an intense hunger that made my stomach curl so badly that it felt like it was caving in on itself within moments.

I gasped for breath as my bodies reactions were starting to create panic within me. I sat back down in the bed and pulled the sheets closer to my form. Something to cling to while my head sorted itself out now as being awake set off a tremendous headache and my stomach rebelled against my movements. I didn't even want to touch my own stomach in fear of it rebelling and anything in there would come up.

I truly felt sick as a dog and was trying to keep the contents of my stomach down and at bay. Staying still seemed to work but what I really wanted to do was lay back down. My head was ready to explode or implode from the nausea and my body was starting to lose the fight against the symptoms I was feeling.

"Drink." I heard being said. My heart damn near imploded from fright at the intrusion. Or was it really an intrusion as this was where he lived…presumably. I looked over and it was Damon dressed differently than the morning before. Sitting on a chair at the foot of the bed. "It's coffee with blood in it. Whether you like it or not you'll need it. Your body will hate you less if you do." He stood up and placed it on the night stand next to me.

What could I do but do as told. "Drink and then get dressed. There's much to be discussed." He said and left the room. I looked over and found clothing there for me. Nothing like I would normally wear but it did look like it covered everything I wanted to have covered so I decided to first take a sip. The blood within the coffee was coppery but minimal also and not the worst taste out there.

The coffee flavor covered it up. It almost tasted like animal blood. Months of learning to skin animals with papa resulted in some blood somehow getting into my mouth. Papa gave up after a few months of me not going as fast as he preferred. Plus I didn't have the heart to hurt rabbits and skin them so he took over and left me out of the process. Didn't mean that he wouldn't feed me rabbit still.

Then it hit me…papa…mama…my brother…the tears began to well up in my eyes as I took another sip of the coffee with its additive. Oddly enough it was actually helping me out with both my head for focus and on my stomach to. I didn't feel like emptying the contents at every little movement. Though I really felt the need to eat something. My stomach even gurgled a little bit at the thought of food.

I had forgotten that I hadn't eaten since dinner two nights ago. My stomach was probably starved by now. So I downed half the enriched coffee and waited a few moments as it hit and began to settle my stomach just enough to be mobile at this point as I stood up slowly and gently to as not to upset it further and put the mug back down on the end table in the room. I touched my stomach tentatively before looking at the outfit.

The outfit left for me had a long sleeved greyish silver under shirt that went to my lower thighs with a black form fitting sleeveless dress over it. It was long enough to fall to my knees and had two slits going up to my hips making me look further and finding form fitting pants of the same material to go on as well. That coupled with tall black boots and socks and I was dressed and oddly enough, being dressed like this made me feel better. More covered up. Despite the form fitting way it looked it was definitely better than my night shift.

I walked out and down the stairs with the coffee in my hands. I wasn't a huge coffee drinker but when you needed it you needed it. I saw Damon and the hulk of a brute down stairs. They were enjoying what looked like a breakfast feast. Most with mugs like me but some with glasses that were filled with the red substance. I still couldn't believe my situation. My biggest worry yesterday was working on wedding plans with mama coming up and now… "Ahh our guest of honor has arrived." Damon motioned for me.

All eyes were on me. I suddenly felt embarrassed as I walked in trying to seem nonchalant even as I had several dozen eyes on me. Both in part from the table and the guards in the room. I felt like prey being watched. "Damon who is this young slip of a girl?" a girl with raven hair asked him as she sipped on her mug, "She's going to be my new chosen." I wasn't a hundred percent sure on what that meant but the raven haired girl seemed stunned.

She looked over at him from her seat at the table and swallowed before putting her mug down gently on the table. "Excuse me?" she asked, her tone indicating her dislike of the idea. He looked at her sharply before setting his own mug back down. Not having taken a sip just yet as her words pulled him away from it, "Mind your tongue Rei – chan…" he warned before walking over to me.

"She and her 'friend'…" he used the term loosely as if it wasn't going to last that way for long, it had me questioning where Diamond was. I had no idea where he was or if he was in a position where I could save him from this. "Are newly made vampires. They will require us to be patient till they can control their blood lust. I will personally be taking more attention towards Serenity here as Diamond will be looked after by our usual trainers in the field." I turned around when I heard noise behind me and found Diamond standing there.

He looked worse for wear and he was still in the clothes that came from the prior morning. I wondered if they offered him new clothes as they did me and he declined them or if they didn't simply to be cruel for amusement. It wouldn't surprise me either way. Diamond seemed to be treated more like a nuisance than I was. "What have you done to me?" he demanded. Even more trying to act like he was in charge.

I had a feeling his usual way of trying to be himself was not only more magnified in a bad way but also less controllable to. Damon smirked, "I made you powerful…immortal. Say thank you." He quipped. I closed my eyes at that. I knew Diamond he would never, not unless his own family's fate was at stake, would he ever say thank you to a vampire that turned him and me both. I knew he wouldn't say it.

"You made me a monster." Diamond snapped. The refusal clear in his eyes. I could see the red in them becoming more apparent. His anger boiling over. I had never seen Diamond exert much of any type of anger until last night and now he looked positively furious. Then he saw me in my new clothing and looked torn. He and I were both considered monsters now in our new world and yet here we were in a beautiful dark mansion that held such beautiful décor that I couldn't deny the allure it held.

Damon came forward as if in greeting to him and even I could tell he was testing Diamond's ability to control himself within other vampires present. Diamond turned the foot he was at while seeing me and lunged for Damon. His anger so intense that I knew he was going to do something foolish especially now and possibly get himself killed. Before I could even think I reacted and stood in front of Damon.

My previously held cup of coffee sat on the table where the others were. I stood in front in a protective manner. Not that I cared to protect him but I couldn't the risk that Diamond would get hurt again or that he would anger Damon to the point where he or my family were at risk of harm just because he was unable to control his new craving. I was barely holding on and it was only by sheer will power and the thought of my family that kept me somewhat sane.

I backed up only a foot as my back soon hit Damon's chest. He didn't seem to mind and even felt relaxed behind me. Or perhaps he was just that confident in himself that he didn't feel any type of fear of Diamond losing control. The man had several guards and other vampires around him what fear could he hold with a new vampire around? "Please Diamond stop and think about this." I tried. My hands to his chest as he came that close to contact with me.

The blood lust was clear as day in his eyes. He wanted revenge so very badly and I had to now save him from himself. "You're protecting him now?" he demanded. He was beginning to get upset with me now. "No she's protecting you." Damon explained. Diamond looked at him as he seemed to barely ease off, "You see if you attack me now I'll simply rip your throat out and my men here will feed your remains to the crows." Diamond looked around and saw the many guards in the room. I hadn't noticed all of them.

I was still getting used to being a vampire here myself. "Serenity we need to get out of here." Was Diamonds response. He tried to say it low but that was a moot point as some of the vampires actually started to chuckle at his trying to be discrete. "She's…" Damon put a hand that clamped onto my shoulder, "Not going anywhere." I closed my eyes, "It was the only way to save my family. Please Diamond let it go." I pleaded with him.

He stood back from us both and with red still in his eyes that grew darker at my unwillingness to simply run off with him. His thoughts so jumbled from the blood lust he could think straight nor see straight. I was beginning to look like the enemy now and he didn't like that. "Don't think for a second that I won't be watching your every move." Diamond stated. It was his way of trying to maintain some semblance of control.

"I would expect nothing less but just remember…" Damon walked out from around me, "I've got multiple sets of eyes on your every move." Diamond hated him that much I could see and there's wasn't anything I could do about it. "Serenity." Damon called. I merely looked to him, "Walk with me." It wasn't a question. I did as instructed and followed. I promised willingness for my family's safety and that's what he was going to get.

He showed me around back where there was a green house. The glass painted over with some kind of film that I noticed gave them the ability to see the day sky without burning. I tested my own hand in the glimmer of sun that came through. "The myth of vampires isn't all true." He remarked, "We feed on more than just blood." He smiled as if it were true and genuine and maybe it was.

Didn't mean I liked him or accepted what had happened I just mean he was showing humanity towards me. Something that he doesn't readily show towards Diamond. "We enjoy the finer things in life and…" he pick a white rose for me to smell. I remembered different flowers held different meanings. This one meant marriage and new starts and I supposed that's what this was for me. A new start and his picking of me for…that. Didn't mean I accepted it.

I took the proffered flower and enjoyed its fragrance. "Why me?" I asked. Still not completely understanding why. Just because of my being untouched? Mama and papa would have been furious with me had I been claimed before marriage. I respected them to much and was a little to shy to have done anything of the sort before marriage. The most I'd ever felt from a man was a hug or a peck on the cheek. Only ever Diamond dared to do more and even then it wasn't a lot more just longing kisses.

He touched my face and while there was a warmth there, there was also a coldness that wasn't from his being a vampire. I didn't like how it felt either way. It felt dead in a way that went beyond vampirism. I had to resist the urge to shudder as I really didn't like his hand on me. He reminded me of a suitor that needed to learn I didn't care for him nor did I want his hands on me, it didn't feel right.

Plus taking me from my home and nearly killing my family doesn't exactly get a girls trust earned swiftly. "Your skin is so smooth…" he remarked instead. I caught his hand, "Tell me." I near demanded. Trying to ease my own unease at his touch by changed the subject back to what we were discussing. I thought he wanted to talk? "Careful my sweet…" he leaned in and licked a small trail from my neck to my left ear.

I resisted the desire to turn my head away from the simple yet personal act as I was feeling repulsed by the action taken upon me. He was worse than those suitors. Taking what wasn't his and in the process hurting people. A man of any kind should know when to act and when to give time before acting when it comes to these matters. He leaned his head in closer to my ear, appearing seductive but it just made me feel more on edge.

His grip on my face tightened just enough to exert pressure but not enough to cause harm. My hand clasped onto his own but only out of reflex rather than anything. Though my instincts were telling me to scratch at him. To breathe fire or just do something but I couldn't. I made an agreement and I had to stick to it. "You're still a guest here till I make you mine." He whispered his veiled threat into my ear.

"I would hate for your family to suffer any harm due to your wayward tongue…" his words were calm and cold. No care at all and in those moments I was reminded more clearly of how dangerous he could be. The vampire before me was capable of anything. I bit my lip in slight frustration but knew I was in this situation to save my family. It was willing but not for the right reasons so I had to be submissive.

So if asking 'why' me was still too much to ask right now I'd bid my time. It's all I had now anyways but what he said next took the breath from me and made me feel weak in the knees and not in a positive notion, "Besides I can think of much more pleasing things that that tongue can do." He leaned his head further down and gave me a half a peck on my cheek. His lips lingering for a moment longer than necessary.

It may not have sounded like much but when the man in front of you had no more than a day ago snapped your neck after force feeding you vampire blood it can raise some feelings of disgust and even fear. He could do whatever he wanted with me but he preferred willingness. And that was the only thing I held in my favor with him. I was a willing slave to his wants and desires and I agreed to it.

So I merely nodded my acceptance. I couldn't speak nor voice out anything without it coming out sounding weak and distasteful. I didn't want to upset him by allowing him to hear me sound as disgusted as I was with the prospect as I was. I wanted to punch him. I wanted to scream and yell and run away back to my family but I honestly didn't believe I'd get far at all. I had to be willing with what he wanted so if all he wanted now was to talk I would. I wasn't going to ask to many things that could make him want to speed up when he was going to take me.

I wanted to delay that as long as possible. "Now…" he walked over to where there were more flowers, "Join me." I accepted his hand as we went for a walk. He gave me the details of the estate along with viewing the gardens as he spoke here and there about the mansion where we were at. How far out the lands that they owned went. It was a distance and made me realize how well and truly isolated I really was here. "So I wouldn't try anything ill-advised." He stated delicately. I understood why.

The grounds were coved with guards, vampires that were carefully hidden all over. I wouldn't make it to the first set of guards covering the area let alone the second at the end of the estate we were on. It was a very secluded piece of property far removed from that of any real town or regular housing. At least a mile from the next nearest home and a ten minute horse ride to the nearest town that held even a small village of people.

It was well and truly isolated from anyone hearing anything out here. I was well and truly stuck here and there wasn't anything I could do. I was a new weak vampire that had to be careful about where she was now. I may have been stronger than a regular human but I wasn't stronger than him, not by a long shot. I had to be careful being around new people that aren't turned like myself so that I didn't accidentally or otherwise hurt them.

Not to mention accepting my new abilities and learning how to control them so that I don't become a true monster. One that can kills without fear or care about whom gets hurt or why. I cared and I wanted to keep that humanity in me awake. I had to keep some part of who I was before all of this alive and well so that the girl my parents raised didn't die that night. Not completely that is.

"Not that you can." He smirked then turned towards me. I ignored the urge to sneer at him and role my eyes. He knew I couldn't and was enjoying the slight bout of misery I was having. I couldn't voice it but I could certainly look it. My only way of appearing so was I my eyes and I couldn't roll them at him without it being a visual to his eyes so I let it go. "You see as strong as you are now, you not nearly as strong or as fast as I am." I hated to admit when he was right but he was.

He was stronger, faster…he could snap my neck before I knew what hit me. I was afraid and he knew it but he didn't exploit it. He was just giving me timid little reminders of what my limitations here were. "After all I would hate for you to have a lapse in memory and forget." I swallowed and continued along with him. I couldn't believe the sudden turn about my life took within the last day. From young girl to be married soon to a vampire by her…what is Damon to me? Master? Sire? Mate?