Xigbar was hunched precariously on the edge of his seat, teetering in a way that appeared as if he would fall over at any moment. Axel had seated himself a several seats away staring curiously at his friend who smelled faintly of the specimen they had encountered the other night. The redhead opened his mouth to ask the question before anyone else did. Xigbar answered before he could even utter a single word.
"I drank her blood." The statement echoed throughout the room and even Axel had the grace to look mildly shocked. Sucking his lips in, Axel let them out with a boisterous pop.
"Wow, that's new. How did that happen?" Axel spun around in the office style chair and began to toy with a rubber band stretching it out with his slender fingers attempting to be cautious enough to not snap the band in a single pull. Xigbar rested his elbows on his knees and placed his fist in front of his mouth looking straight out with an introspective stare.
"She offered it to me, without any resistance or demanding for anything in return." This caused Axel's spin stop noiselessly as the rubber band he had been playing with snapped. There as a mountain of curses following a crash of the chair into the wall. Xigbar wasn't startled; he had expected a similar response.
"Dam it man! Why didn't you call me back? That blood smelled…" The thinner one stopped in the middle of his sentence with a dreamy gaze and faint lust still sprinkled in his eyes at the mere memory of it.
"She's a person, not a fountain, do you think she was going to just stand there waiting for you to come?" Xigbar growled under his breath as he made the obvious clear to the suddenly startled Axel who looked his friend straight in the eyes with bared teeth.
"Still!" Indignant he turned and pulled the door from its hinges and sprinted outside, still grumbling with hunger. Xigbar's stomach quivered as he felt that same jealousy that his friend was able to handle himself in the sun unlike most vampires they were in acquaintance with. If anyone tried to kill him using the light method, they would find themselves watching the spectacle that was Axel playing dead only to have their relief crushed by the twitching of the redhead's lips forming into a malicious smirk.
Xigbar lifted himself off the chair and grasped the side of his head in frustration. The taste of the blood had him hooked like a red faced teenager on fresh cocaine, it twisted him inwardly. The quality of the blood was incredible; he had never tasted anything like it in his many years. He had to have it again. Just the thought of it pierced his incisors like daggers and his throat like a flaming torch in pure desire. He himself knew that he didn't need to feed just yet since he had recently done so, but it was that irresistible.
"Dam it." He grasped around the chair's arm and clasped his fingers to withstand the craving and heard the splinters of the wood hit the floor rapidly like rain as they slid away from his impenetrable flesh. He let out a groan of pain, kicking the chair away from him and instead grasped his own arm and leaned back against the wall with his teeth clamped tightly together.
He stood that way for a long while, letting out a heavy sigh that sounded more like a gasp then anything when the moon finally overtook the sun. Without even fixing his clothes or hair he was out the entryway and back into the forest to the same spot where they had been yesterday. Sure enough, the sweet humming filled the air. Pressing the bushes out, he stood in the clearing with his intent clear in his now ruby eyes. Helly turned around and held out her arm wordlessly.
"You sure are greedy." Helly mumbled as she looked the other way only hearing the sound of her blood leaving her body into the vampire's mouth and vague noises of the animals' conversations.
"Sorry. I can usually suppress it." He assured her releasing his hold on her arm and looked towards her curiously.
"Nice to know." The werewolf let out sarcastically looking back now at the kneeling man, she hadn't really had a clear view of him before, but now that she saw him, he wasn't half bad with his clear eyes and rugged looks. Licking her lips unconsciously, she jumped off the rock she had seated herself on with undeniable grace turning to leave. A sudden hand on her wrist stopped her in place.
"Wait, let's talk." His sudden request made her face fill with irrevocable disbelief, she even leaned in further in a sign for him to repeat what he had possibly just uttered. He didn't miss the doubt and near disgust that his words had created. His fingers loosened.
"Never mind, just forget I said anything." He dismissed it with a sigh and expected to feel a gust of wind that would be her departing, but it didn't come. Instead his ear aligned itself to the noise of a light tap of some object on the rock. He looked up and saw that she had again placed herself on the rock and was holding her hand out for him to join him with an unfathomable grin. He found himself beaming straight back at her, it was a wild and questionably content one that was illuminated by the faint glow of the moon. Preparing himself for the jump, he let his smile become crooked as one side lifted higher then the other in a sort of semi smirk a preparation to show off. Even from where she stood on the highest point of that rock, he could see the gradual arch of one of her eyebrows. He lifted himself off like a bullet and was in the air higher then he needed to be, as he descended he performed a flip and landed elegantly with one of his knees on the stone and one jutted up in front and his hands touching either side of him.
"I'd give it a four out of ten." Helly told him standing with one of her legs behind the other with one of her hands by her side and the other tilting sideways and straight up again emphasizing the mediocrity of his performance.
"What? That deserved at least a nine!" His reply made her release a bubble of laughter as she smacked him in the back a few times with her hand.
"You're such a child." The incredulity that had been on his face loosened into one of wary delight as he joined her with hushed chuckles and smiled and looked upwards and then now at the werewolf. There was something about this person that made him feel so at ease, he was already talking to her as he did to Axel and she had so easily adjusted without pointing out the brief moment that they had known each other. If anything, there was the fact that she carried the most aromatic blood in his lifetime within her skin made him twitch with indisputable animalism. Even so, he carried out his most subtle signs of extreme suppression, he refused to breathe or take in any scent.
"Why did you offer me your blood that first time?" He had smothered that question for those first few moments, but it kept clawing its way to the surface of his mind and inevitably out of his mouth. Instead of a detailed answer or even an ambiguous one word answer, she simply shrugged as if it hadn't occurred to her and discarded the subject with a sweep of her hand and waited for him to talk about something more interesting.
"My name is Xigbar, just in case you cared." He looked awkwardly to the side with a lack of words and tried to remember why he had even stopped her to begin with. All he was able to recall was a snap inside his mind that controlled his movements; suddenly he had held her there, for some reason afraid that she would leave, maybe his hunger hadn't fulfilled itself yet? No, he was sure that the ache had completely dissolved for the moment.
"You do know that this is illegal between our two clans right?" Helly suddenly pointed out airily.
"Like you need to remind me, I don't even know why I did that in first place." He let out with a frustrated scoff straightening up to his full height, noticing his obvious advance over Helly, throwing out his arm on top of her head like an armrest.
"You're so short."
"No, you're just abnormally tall."
"Nope, I'm sure it's that you're a midget." It wasn't Xigbar's voice that pointed this out; Helly didn't turn, but instead thought he had a lapse of tone.
"Excuse me? Did you say something giant?" An arm slipped around her shoulder, she turned to look and saw a familiar redhead.
"Well hello there, I'm Axel and I'm going to have to punish you for breaking the rules."