DISCALIMER: I don't own CSI: Crime scene investigation and i don't make any money from it
Summary: The dark lady talks about how she became a vampire........
DARK LADY.
"You can not kill me because I have already been dead for ages," she said with a dignified sigh looking at the man sitting across her.
"How old are you then as you don't look older than mid forties," he said.
"Lost count when it became over hundredth, but I will believe that I am around five hundred and thirteen," she said thoughtfully.
"So you are in fact a real vampire?" he asked her.
"I am yes," she said.
"You were born one or did you as they say become one?" he asked.
"I became one," she answered looking over at her little girl that now was about three and a mirror image of her.
"Can you tell me about it? Or the life before if you remember it?" he asked her.
"I can, now let's see, where am I going to start?" she said leaning her head against her hand thinking back.
"I do suggest from the beginning," he said with a little smile.
She returned the smile and said, "I was born the thirteenth of July fourteen ninety six, my parents were noble and I did have anything I wanted at all times, maybe that was the problem."
"How so?" he asked.
"There was no challenges in having it all and I wanted more in a way, but what I did want the most was love, to fall in love and marry the prefect guy," she said with a dreamy smile.
"Did you?" he asked.
"No, because then you were to marry for wealth not love and my parents had already selected the guy for me," she answered sadly.
"I take it you didn't like him," he concluded.
"He was too old and too boring for me, I wanted someone younger that made my heart beat and didn't use me as his slave. I wanted to be loved for me not because of what I brought into the marriage. And I didn't care much for the marital duties as he only took what he wanted and dominated me in the harshest ways. He of course wanted and offspring which I didn't want to provide as I felt I was too young at the time, and he didn't approve on this," she said.
"What did he do if you don't mind me asking?" he said as he could tell she was on the verge of crying, yet he knew she would never allow her self to do that in front of him.
"Mummy sad?" they suddenly heard her little girl ask looking at her with her beautiful blue eyes.
"Just a little sweetheart, but it's OK," she said with a little smile.
"Sure?" she asked not completely convinced.
"Yes," she said and let her daughter give her a hug before she went back to the spot she had sat on the floor to continue playing with her dolls.
"She's cute, sure you don't mind discussing this in front of her?" he asked.
"No, she'll be al right and thank you," she said smiling over at her daughter that gave careful glances over at her and a tad hateful eyes at the man that was making her mother sad. She did not like him.
"Now where were we, oh yes my first husband. John Caine, a noble man with great estate, but he had his bad sides as well as he liked his drinks, thankfully we could afford it. But he also liked to sodomise me in the worst way you can think of. He also could tie me up and let me hang there so that he could beat me and have me hang there after for hours just for the fun of it. He liked to tell me how useless I was as a wife mostly because I didn't produce him a child and he also did other stuff I do prefer not to mention right here," she said nodding towards her little girl.
He nodded back, what did amaze him was how telling him this didn't seem to affect her at all in any way at least not if you looked into her blue eyes that seemed completely calm.
"How old were you when you got married?" he asked.
"Uhm, seventeen and by the age of nineteen I had really had it with his ways, I was feed up by being treated like an animal," she said with a sigh.
"You divorced him?" the question hangs in the air.
"Heavens no, that kind of thing were not acceptable in those days I was a noble lady," she said.
"What did you do then?" he asked.
"I was sure I was going to kill him and I needed time to think and cool down so I left for a while," she said thinking a little.
"Was it when you become a vampire?" he asked.
"It was not," she answered.
"Then what did you do when you were away?" he asked.
"Cassandra would you mind playing with Aunt Lindsey for a little while?" she asked.
"Uhm OK, but..." she said looking at the man with a not to happy face.
"We'll be fine, I'll come and get you in not too long," she said.
The little girl nodded and left the room.
The man looked at her as she put some of her dark red strands behind her ear before continuing," I was with some friends of mine, or sexual partners if you like. Before I got married I sneaked over to see them a lot. We laughed, cried and made love together in a condescending and loving, but also brutal way of needed. I needed to be with them, I so desperately needed to be with someone that understood me and my boundaries to feel loved in the way I deserved to be loved. But the thing was being with them it didn't feel the same anymore, what once felt like love were now only lust and nothing more. They didn't hurt me like my husband, yet I felt used. I realized it was no love, only hate and sorrow. And I came back to the lashes as lost and confused as when I left. I was again his slave," she said. Her blue eyes were looking sad and hollow.
"But it had to have change at some point," he said.
"Eventually, it was the eve of my twentieth birthday when I meet the love of my life," she said with a dreamy look in her eyes.
"What was he like?" he asked.
"The handsomest man in the room, brown hair, tall, blue eyes and he was smiling at me from across the room," she started as her blue eyes sparkled like before as she continued, "He came over and introduced him self as Jerome Kessler, he was the same age as me and his father an earl, we stood talking all night."
"And your husband approved?" he asked.
"He punished me later, I couldn't walk for days," she said looking down, so he assumed she was taken both anal and vaginal pretty rough.
"Did you see Jerome again?" he asked.
"Frequently over the next years and we become really close," she said, he just assumed they had sex and so on.
"And when did you become...?" he asked.
"When I was about twenty seven," she answered.
"But you look as I said in the mid forties, did you age as a vampire then, I thought you couldn't get older, he said confused.
"We do, just slower," she said thoughtfully.
"So?" he asked her.
"I had as I said been seeing Jerome, not without complications for about six years and that night I was going over to his place to....But once I got there I could tell something was wrong a the door was wide open and I cold hear some unfamiliar voice arguing about something. I entered some what on alert and saw Jerome badly beaten on the ground. I quickly ran over and knelt down on the ground next to him not caring about the rest. He was still alive, but barely. As I tried to bring him back to the three others stood looking at me with shiny eyes. I begged them not to harm him anymore, that I would do anything. They just smiled and dragged me along with them. At that moment I had to leave the love of my life behind not knowing if I ever would see him again. I followed them to an abandon house where I discovered what they really were. Creatures of the night."
She stopped and walked over to a desk that was behind them, opened a drawer, took out a bottle, pored some of it into a glass, before continuing, "They turned me by force as I fought against them, trying to get away. Back then I had of course heard storied of them, but I didn't believe them. Not before the three of them stood there before me looking at me as I was a prey. They didn't look so much different from other humans only their skin reflections were paler. Their eyes glassier and their fangs. It took two of them to hold me down as the third bit me. It didn't hurt much as it felt more like an insect bite. Then darkness. The next week I just remember in flashbacks going in and out of consciousness, I do remember a tasted a few drops of blood at some point, but that was it. When I finally woke up I knew I had turned and cursed loudly, all I wanted was to go back to my Jerome, but I knew that couldn't happen. I was bound to walk the planet, half dead, half alive, feed on innocent souls that didn't deserve to be killed, just so that I could live."
"Was it easy, I mean to just start feeding on humans?" he asked.
"No it was not, first I actually went for animals, but that wasn't enough, then the others forced me to hunt for them and since I was an attractive woman, it wasn't a problem to get new prey, the problem was however that people started to discover all the death, so we had to move territory," she said.
"Where do you originally come from?" he asked.
"Scotland," she answered.
"Before you left did you get back at your husband?" he asked.
"I did," she answered, not saying anything more as they got interrupted by a bad flying in the window, he flew over gave her a message. Then it settled in a corner.
"If you would excuse me," she said and left the room.
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A moment later she walked into her daughter's bedroom where she found the young girl play with couple of my little ponies. Her mother looked at her and said, "No fun with your aunt Linds huh?"
"No, plus she was going out with uncle Kyro, mummy how did she loose little bat?" she asked.
"Why do you ask?" her mother said confused.
"Cause I heard her and uncle Kyro talk and he said it had been a little over three years and it's time they started trying again, and that he really wanted one, but she said it was just too hard, but I mean she already have Caspar and I thought it was common to have one," she said confused.
"She wasn't talking about a messenger bat, she was talking about a baby as she as pregnant same tie as I was, but she lost it," said her mother.
"What do you mean she lost it?" asked Cassandra confused.
"Well sometimes if you get really stressed your baby die and that was what happened here and that broke her heart," she said.
"Awwww, poor Aunt Linds," said Cassandra in a sympathetic tone.
"Yes, but Kyro helped her through it," she said.
She thought for a second before she asked, "Mummy, can we go out shopping?"
"Now is really not a good time as I still have company," she said.
"Please, I really wanna buy something for aunt Linds," Cassandra said.
"I'm sorry sweetheart, but it have to wait until tomorrow," she said.
The young girl looked at her mother with disappointed eyes as there was a knock on the door and Grissom entered looking at them before asking, "Why so grumpy?"
"Cause mum don't wanna take me shopping," she said.
"Is that so?" he said.
"Uh-huh and I really need to," she said.
"You're three," said Grissom with a chuckle.
"Still need to," she said.
He looked at the dark lady's tired eyes before saying, "I could take her as I was going downtown either way."
"You sure?" she asked.
"I am, yes, come on little princess," he said.
"On moment," said the dark lady.
"Yes mummy," said the young girl and turned with wondering eyes.
"You be a good girl, because I don't want to hear you caused a lot of trouble," she said.
"I promise," she said and gave her mother a hug before leaving and the dark lady headed back to her guest.
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"Sorry about that," said the dark lady as she returned to the room where her guest was waiting.
"That's OK, where were you?" he asked curiously.
"With the love of my life," she said.
"Your daughter?" he asked.
"Yes, that she will forever be as I lost my first born, or it's more fair to say that she got killed as that is what happened," she said.
"How?" he almost spat out.
"That I do not wish to speak about," she said looking away. It was still hard for her.
"It might do you good to talk about it," he said.
"If I do choose to talk about it it will not be with a stranger so leave it be," she said in a way which made him take the hint.
"So you changed living address sort of speak, but what happened then?" he asked.
"I came here, but making it wasn't exactly easy. First I escaped those who had held me trapped for so long then, not without consequences. Then I managed to find my self a place to live somewhere else and an occupation," she said.
"You just kept the same occupation for centuries?" he asked.
"Uhm more or less, but as time went by I also did manage to get to know more vampires and started this hierarchy you see today," she said.
"What about Jerome, did you see him again?" he asked.
"I did actually, but it got complicated as I hid who I was to avoid complications and he thought I was having an affair. Either way it ended up with me being pregnant and by then I knew I had no choice but to tell him as the child was a half bread and he needed to know," she said.
"How did he react?" he asked.
"Well he didn't sound that surprised and it was then it occurred to me that he was still as young as he had been a couple of centuries back," she said.
"He was one as well?" he asked.
"I'm actually nor sure about what he was, but it can not have been human as they don't live as long, yet he was warm as one so I dunno if he could have been a vampire either," she said.
"You say could have been, did he die?" he asked.
"He passed away about four years ago," she said.
"So he's not the father of your second child I assume," he said.
"No, that he is not, although we did keep in touch after it ended for the second time, or rather after out little girl died is more correct," she said.
"What went wrong the second time since you two seemed to have been in love," he said.
"We were so much, and the day Chloe was born was the happiest day of our life," she said with a smiled before continuing, "He thought it was wrong that the mother of his child was what I was and a child should not grow up like that, while I said that she should be with her mother and she would be affected by it at all. He said she already had as she in my womb had been nurturing on the blood I was feeding of, but that it was time to stop. But after a lot of back and forth, he said he had it and left us."
"So what happened after that?" he asked.
"I cried and life went on," she said which was true. She had cried for weeks, months even by the loss of her darling Jerome.
"How was it being a mother and a queen?" he asked.
"Challenging, but I managed," she said.
"Were you with a man after Jerome?" he asked.
"Not before with Cassandra's father," she said.
"Which is?" he asked.
"A very dear old friend of mine," she said thoughtfully.
"I see," he said.
"So have you got everything you needed?" she asked.
"Just one more question, does Cassandra's father live at the castle?" he asked.
"He does yes," she said as he did.
He nodded and shook her hand saying, "Thank you for seeing me your highness."
"You are welcome, when will this be printed?" she asked.
"In about a month or so, I'll leave out the names," he said.
"Thank you, what are you going to call it if I wished to see it?" she asked.
"Interview with the dark lady," he answered as he headed out of the castle unaware of two hungry eyes followed as he mingled with the night before slowly following as the dark lady on the other hand went to bed.
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