Welcome to a piece of work that has been sitting in the dark depths of my hard drive and is crawling to the surface. I have been listening and watching the videos and I thought, "Oh what the heck." Let's post it here.

Please enjoy! If you recall from the end of episode 10, Asteroth has found a way into human form and both Mike Celluci and Henry Fitzroy have turned against our heroine because of the choice she made. Now she is truly alone.

See what happens!

Chapter One: Be mine

Nelson Investigations

The evening led onward as the night came alive with all that hunted upon the innocent while Victoria Nelson returned to her office for the night. She had been up for several days without rest in trying to locate Asteroth who had possessed the body of Father Cascioli. Finally, her body could no longer take the abuse. She came

She only took off her turtleneck and jeans and tossed them to the floor before collapsing onto her pulled out couch bed.

She needed to make sure that she could simply get dressed and continue in her search for Asteroth and destroy him.

Vicki had told Coreen to wake her before dawn when she returned to the office to wake her.

But her sleep held her tightly in its grasp and her dreams took control of the mind.

Dream-state

Victoria Nelson awoke when she saw that it was light that was shining in her face. She stretched out, but was suddenly upset when she saw that it was almost five in the evening.

"Coreen," she called. "Coreen, you were supposed to wake me up at dawn."

She bent down to reach for her clothes when she stared out the window.

It was not light out.

Toronto was on fire.

There was fire all around the city as buildings burned and fell while she could hear people screaming in her ears.

Her building was not burning, but she could feel the intense heat all around her.

"Coreen!" she shouted.

"She is not here Vicki," she heard a familiar voice call out to her.

Vicki turned and saw her mother standing in the doorway.

"Mom," she said her name.

"You are the gateway Vicki," she heard and saw Coreen standing now beside her mother.

"What has gotten into you two?" she said as she backed away.

"You can't defeat him Vick," she heard Mike's voice say as she backed into his body. "You are the key to ending all the pain."

"What are you talking about?" Vicki demanded to know.

Real world

"What are you talking about?" her sleeping form whispered out loud to the empty room.

But she was not alone.

Raymond Cascioli walked into the bedroom and observed the object of his lust lying there on the bed. He smoothed his tender finger across her leg that was uncovered from the thin sheet. Her skin was delicate and smooth, covered in sweat from the heat she was enveloped in.

It was his dream world that he had trapped her in, forcing her to submit to him. She and her assistant had been tracking him for several months now, but he needed to gain his strength before he came for her.

Now was that time.

He crawled over across the bed and hovered over her body and smoothed back a lock of her hair from the front of her face.

"Come to me Vicki," he whispered to her.

Dream-state

"Come to me Vicki," she heard another familiar voice say to her.

Vicki turned and saw the object of her anger and hate: Asteroth in the form of Raymond Cascioli standing there behind her. Suddenly, her friends and family were gone; leaving the two of them there.

"You are even more beautiful in here than you are in the real world," he told her.

She was confused. Was this her dream or was she awake and he was playing with her?

She reached down and grabbed her asp on the floor, snapping it open so she could use it. "You want me, come and get me!" she cried out.

With a quick wave of his hand, the asp was thrown across the room and pierced the wall.

"I was never much for toys in the bedroom," he joked with her.

"You're not going to be much when I am done with you," she dared him and tried to attack with her hands.

Cascioli was too fast for and merely toyed, by holding her wrists in his hands.

"Don't you understand Vicki," he told her. "I don't want to hurt you."

"Yeah, I'm sure you say that to all the girls before you kill them," she told him.

Real-world

Cascioli seductively moved aside the sheet that covered her body and took her cursed wrists in his hands. He pinned her to the bed as he waited for the apparition in her dream to get her to say the words that he wanted to hear.

Only then, would he take her.

"You're the only one I want now Vicki," he whispered to her.

Dream-state

"You're the only one I want now Vicki," Cascioli told her. He pinned her to the wall of her room, feeling the heat as a fire no doubt burned behind her. "All you have to say is yes, and you can stop everything from happening this way. Stop all this destruction. Stop all the death. Stop all the suffering…especially your family and friends."

Vicki looked behind him and could see Mike, Coreen, and her mother all trapped within the next room as they were suffering.

They were trapped and burning alive in the flames that she had seen outside earlier. All of them screamed and tried to save one another.

"No!" she howled, but the demon grabbed her into a bear hug and held her against his body. She was forced to watch as those she cared about died before her eyes.

"You can end this Vicki," he told her. "Just one little commitment to me and I promise you, no harm will come to them."

"Never!" she shouted. "I can't! I won't."

"Is this what you want?" he asked her, shaking her in the hug as if to harm her. "Do you want to lose everyone? You have already lost Henry. Do you want to lose them too?"

"Henry?" she repeated his name.

Real-world

"Henry?" her body repeated.

It was working, he thought. Just the mentioning of the vampire that had abandoned her would be the final tip of the scales to seal her to him for all eternity.

His plan was only possible if she was alongside him. He needed her to succeed.

"Yes, your vampire lover…he has abandoned you," he told her. "Now all you have is family…"

Dream-state

"…and without them, what is there worth fighting for anymore?" he told her.

She could see the image of Henry Fitzroy as he stared at her.

"Henry," she called out to him.

Henry turned and walked away from her, vanishing into a burst of flame.

"Henry, don't leave me!" she cried out, but he did not come back.

Victoria began to cry in his embrace. Her legs became weak and he struggled to hold her up, but he did keep her standing.

"Say it Victoria," he whispered in her ear. He used a hand to outstretch her arm where they could see her icon. It glowed with him touching her, but faded. "Say it and I will grant you the power to protect those that you love."

He felt her tears rush down her eyes while holding her face in his hands.

She looked again at the vision of her family dying was slowly vanishing away.

The flames ignited her mother, Coreen, and Mike and she howled in agony. It was as he wanted her to do.

"All right!" she screamed.

Cascioli spun her around sharply and stared into her eyes. "Say it Victoria," he said. "Say to me that you are mine and I am yours, from now to eternity."

Real-world

"You are mine and I am yours," he watched her whisper towards him.

"Yes," he longed for her to finish the statement. "Say it."

"From now until eternity," Vicki finished the statement.

"YES!" he cried out and plunged his hand deep into her abdomen.

Her body cried out at the shock, but it was necessary in order to ensure he got what he wanted.

Dream-state

Vicki Nelson noticed the fire instantly cease from the city and the world was restored to its former self. The people that had been burning filled the streets and her family members were standing there with smiles on their faces.

All was normal again.

Real-world

Cascioli pulled out a glowing blue essence from Vicki's body and retracted his hand from her abdomen. It was a magical vortex that granted him access to her soul. With her permission to be his, he was granted access to every part of her.

The light became a crystal ball and he gently placed it into his jacket pocket.

Vicki suddenly sat up, wrapping her arms around him as she breathed heavily; trying to regain her balance.

"It's all right my love," he whispered to her. He held her gently in his arms, feeling her perspiration covered and trembling skin. "It was all a bad dream, you are safe now."

She pulled back to look at him. Her eyes examined and scanned him as a hand slowly made its way up to stroke his cheekbone.

"What is it?" he asked her.

"Nothing," she replied. "It's just…"

"It's just what?"

Suddenly, she thrusted herself at him to kiss him with her full force possible.

He had not experienced this type of passion before, but returned her force with his in his own. He pulled one of her legs up behind him and could quite possibly have her in this instant.

He however restrained himself and pulled back from her.

"All in due time my love," he told her tenderly, smoothing her hair back. "All in due time." He left one gentle kiss on her mouth.

As he brought her against his body, he could foresee that he was about to have everything that he desired: the world gone to Hell and Victoria Nelson to bear his demonic children…

…and no one would be able to stop them.

Before anyone writes and reports about plagiarism, let me dispel the rumor. I AM THE WRITER who wrote on Retrogression when Blood Ties was at its peak and beyond. I assure you, I have the work on my drive saved and dated. I just finally decided that since I cannot seem to find the time to write new stuff, I would post stuff that already exists. Please feel free to let me know what you think of this story as it will determine if it stays up and if the rest of the series makes it way online as well.