Author: Jessamyn
Rated: R
Summary: Harmony has a new Childe.
Feedback: Yes, please.
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"Wakey, wakey sunshine," said Harmony, giggling at her own little joke. The tingles of fresh and potent blood in her veins making her giddy all over. Bouncing on the bed a little she shook the body that was just beginning to come to life again.
Her newest Childe blinked up at her in confusion for a moment before her ravenous hunger brought the demon inside to the fore.
"Aww, is my baby hungry?" Harmony cooed, sitting back on her legs. She snapped her fingers imperiously.
Her minions simply looked at each other in bewilderment.
After a moment Harmony scoffed at them in utter disbelief and then turned a glare in their direction. "Go! Bring the food in already...." she ordered shooing them off in the direction of the other cavern.
"Geez" she muttered, flicking her long blonde hair from her shoulder as she turned back. Maybe she should think about changing her tactics. Positive reinforcement didn't seem to be working out that well.
Her frown quickly faded as she looked down at the vampire in her bed. Smiling as she soothingly stroked her Childe's hair Harmony reassured her "Don't worry, food'll be here in just a sec."
Dawn nuzzled the palm of her Sire and her features smoothed out into that of her human guise for an instant as she was calmed. But she was very, *very* hungry so it didn't last long. Even her own blood, flowing slowly through the dead veins of Harmony's wrist was a sore temptation and she was very close to stealing a nip when the others came back in.
"Please... What are you doing? Just let me go okay?" cried the voice of a terrified boy as he was physically thrust into the room by the minions. They paid him no heed except to handle him even more roughly than before and the boy's fire died out.
"I know that voice..." she said wonderingly to Harmony, her face once more turning human as she lifted herself from the bed and went to see her little happy-meal. She smiled at the boy, his face purple bruised all along one side of his jaw, and it was only in her eyes that one could tell she wasn't the same innocent girl she was only the night before. "Kevin! Hey..." she greeted him.
"Dawn?" he asked, confused to see his schoolmate here in this place. He stepped toward her as the burly guy let go of him. "Are you okay, they didn't hurt you did they?" Kevin asked, always the gallant. Although she didn't look hurt he knew there were things, bad things, that could happen that could be covered by clothing.
She stepped up close and slid her hand up along his jaw, making Kevin wince a little as her fingers brushed across the bruise, and breathed "You're so sweet..." His breathing and heart rate increased at her nearness and she smiled.
For his part Kevin was almost hypnotized by her, the moment painfully intimate, and his body responded automatically. Her kiss was smooth and cool, utterly delicious. He didn't even mind when Dawn's fingers dug into the uber-tender flesh of his face when the kiss deepened. Kevin even forgot about where they were, the situation they were in, and that other 'people' were watching them. The trail she nibbled down his throat blazed with pleasure. God, why hadn't he gotten the courage to ask her out before?
It was a complete shock when she bit into him and he cried out in pain. Suddenly her embrace wasn't so nice and he couldn't understand why he couldn't get out of it as he struggled against her at first. What was happening? Why was she doing this to him? "Dawn?" he asked softly, his life already fading as his heart skipped a beat.
He was already dead by the time he hit the hard, unforgiving stone floor.
Hands clapped spontaneously in delight.
"Bravo sweetie, very well done." Harmony praised from where she still sat. Her baby had all the markings of a Master-to be. The way she played with her food, even on her first try, was a very good sign of that. And very ... exciting.
Her brow furrowed slightly when Dawn turned a pout on her though. "Aww, what's wrong?" she asked, patting the mattress invitingly.
As one of the minions picked up the body and they walked out to dispose of it Dawn complained "Im still hungry..." She walked back to join her mistress on the bed again as she continued to work her pout. Years as 'the baby' coming into play as she tried to get what she wanted. More.
When she was near enough Harmony pulled Dawn into her lap, hands moving to stroke her face and hair as she promised "I'll get one of the guys to go out for more later."
"For now though..." she said, licking up a small trail of blood from Dawn's chin and lower lip. Dawn purred as that within her started to respond to her meal and the stimulating tongue on her flesh. "Let's play." Harmony said with a smirk, hands slipping up under the back of Dawn's shirt.
Almost as one they moved in for a kiss, soft lips against soft lips, warming with the heat of friction and new blood as they moved. Careless as to whether the others would walk in on them or not, they parted time and again to remove bits of clothing, but always returned for more.
And so Sire and Childe became lovers, falling asleep in eachother's arms deep down in the caverns of Sunnydale as first light glowed along the horizon.
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