Beta: Ancholia
Disclaimer: I don't own CBS' characters.
A/N: This is still about Coraline, and here we will know more about why she is who she is... I hope you'll like it!

Chapter 2:

Blood… I can smell blood…

Coraline opened her eyes. Lance was standing in front of her, holding the arm of a tall man with brown hair who looked deadscared.

"Lunch time, sister".

I can't move… I'm so hungry. Her eyes became blue and her fangs showed that she wanted fresh blood. She couldn't move because of the stake still in her heart.

Lance gave the man to his little servant and went to the starved vampire. Coraline was lying in a freezer. He took the stake away and in a wink she jumped on the human not even noticing that she was naked. She sucked the blood out of the man. She wasn't vulnerable any more: she could feel the fresh blood running through her veins that made her stronger. The taste of it in her mouth made her forget everything that happened before. She forgot where she was, only thinking of feeding. Coraline was draining him, she needed every drops from his body. The flesh was so sweet and tender; she was biting him with hunger and apetite. The man was no longer feeling excitation but it was hurting him. He could feel his own flesh between her fangs and how hard she sucked his blood. The young man felt life leaving his body, he saw that the wall in front of him was becoming more and more fuzzy and lost consciousness. When she was finished, she just let fall the dead body at her feet. She wasn't starving anymore and she could see where she was. That remembered her why she was here and where she was going. She took a gown and looked around.

Coraline was in a beautiful room on a huge yacht. It wasn't an ordinary room, the wood was everywhere, dark red and shining. There were white curtains and white carpet. The decoration was very simple but with taste. There were no pictures, only orchids and vases. Instead of beds, there were freezers. Not only one, but enough for having vampire guests on the boat, and one of them was the one where Coraline had slept in.

"So sister, if you're good, I can take you to the living room. But if you try to do anything, I will put the stake back in its place!"

"Please Lance, you know that he will kill me. You know that I didn't do that against him. You know that I respect him to much!"

"Don't use the pity-thing with me! I'm not like Henry, he's the good one, your sweet lovely brother. And that's the reason why I came here to get you. So don't even try to change my mind!"

Coraline began to feel really bad. This is the end…

"So what do you want to do? Do you want to stay here? There's no other place to go. We're in the ocean: no escape sister!" Lance was smiling.

"I want to be alone. I'll stay here."

Lance sent his servant to find sailors to take the dead body and destroy it. He looked at her and before he left the room, he said: "don't try to jump in the water, you know I hate swimming!"

Coraline sat on a little chair. She had never felt so lonely and despaired. She could remember the dream she just made before she woke up. She felt strange. Why did I remember this time? It is so long time ago. But he came back in her mind. He was going to kill her! He will never apologize for what I've made and the punition will be horrible. Fear was becoming stronger and Coraline knew that she needed to think of what she would say to him. And for that, she needed some good rest. So she went to her freezer and lay down. The cold felt good on her skin but she was still feeling fear all over her body and mind. She closed her eyes and then saw candelabras, a sweet warm light…

That's really something this place!

Coraline was going in a long corridor following Lady Dubois. Her meeting with her majesty Marie de Medicis had been unreal! She could still hear everything that she had said to her.

I can see that Lady Dubois was right. You are a beautiful young girl and I heard that you are especially smart. I assume that Lady Dubois hasn't told you what you are going to do for me. Well, we are leaving in a hard world for women. My son, Louis XIII, is a young man and I want him to be a good King. But there are things in politics that aren't made for men and they don't know that. I have the chance to have an easy position where I can still make decisions. But since I'm a woman, sometimes the ministers don't listen to my advices. So I use something that my ancestor Catherine de Medicis found out: I use women to trouble the mind of my ministers!

I see that it intrigues you, and I'm happy to see it. Well Lady Dubois is a kind of agent that I send to the ministers to change their mind and follow my decisions. And this is what you are going to do. Times are difficults in our country and more ministers try to change the laws. Lady Dubois is no more enough to do this work, so I need you to help her and change the mind of my ministers.

She didn't really understood how she would change the mind of old men who were also ministers! She had followed Lady Dubois and came to a wonderful room. She hadn't seen such room before. It was a beautiful place with many warm colours, flowers and even animals: a birdcage in the corner with many small red, green and yellow ones. Wow that's impressive!

"Welcome to my apartments, miss Coraline. Here is the room where I receive people. Usually this is where I have my friends and particularly where the marchands come. You'll see, you will have many new dresses!"

A new life for me! No more Comte Delatour in my drawing room!

"And here is my bedroom." Lady Dubois showed Coraline the place where she entered with wild opened eyes. It was a red room with red roses on tables near a huge bed. There were many small pictures on the wall but she couldn't see what was on. She heard a weird sound and turned to see a little monkey playing on a little chair.

"This is Rufeo, he always stays in my bedroom. He is a nice little friend and the ministers like him."

"Oh, so you don't receive them in the living room?"

"No, this is where they come. I will explain you later. But for now, we have to make you a new garderobe and I will show your one room."

They went out of the room and Coraline followed Lady Dubois to a door in front of her. Lady Dubois opened it and let Coraline come in. There was an other huge bed with white sheets and pink rosepetals on it. It smelt sweet. The walls were yellow and pink and the velvetcurtains were dark red. She could feel that this place was a real pleasure to stay in.

" It is the place where you will stay."

"I really like it. It's beautiful. Will the ministers come here too?"

"No, first you will be sent to their room. But if you do exactly what I tell you to do, they'll come very soon to your own room."

Well I'm not sure what she meens, but I can't wait to see what I will do!

A servant came in the livingroom and said that a Mister Foucault was here.

"Oh Coraline, we are going to choose your new dresses!"

That's a good thing! New dresses!

The two women sat on their coaches and they were watching all the wonderful materials Mister Foucault was showing them. There were cakes and tea on the table in the middle of the room, and Coraline was feeling like living in a dream. She just had to tell which cloth she liked and the man noted the command. Then people came to see how they could change her hair. They tried many differents grey, white or even pink wigs. First it looked weard and she thought that she began to look like Comte Delatour. But then Lady Dubois chose one that fitted her perfectly! She no more looked like a young girl but like a lady. I like my new style, I'm more desirable…

When Coraline got her new dresses, Lady Dubois teached her how to walk on her new shoes. They were very different from the one she had before: they were more fragile and higher. She teached her how to make up and choose the good parfums. Then they were walking in the gardens where Lady Dubois told her all about what happened in the country: she explained the economy, the army and the relations between the other countries. The good relations with some and the difficulties with the others. Coraline became known with all the society and political topics.

One evening, when she was thinking to go to bed, Lady Dubois came in the living the room and said:

"Coraline, I think it's time for you to see what will be your real job." That was about time!

"I am ready to hear what you have to say. But I'm not dressed, I was thinking to go to bed."

"You don't need a dress and I won't talk, Coraline. This time it will be some practise. Come with me in my room."

Coraline was feeling a little nervous. She wasn't quite sure what to expect. She came in the room, the sun was quite low in the horizon, so the light that came through the windows was gold and warm. Lady Dubois lighted up candles and told Coraline to sit down. Coraline went to a chair near the one where Rufeo was playing. She left the eyes and saw one of the pictures on the wall. First she saw romantic scenes where a man and a woman where lying in the nature. But then she saw that they were making love. The man was in erection and the woman was holding his penis. Coraline felt that she was blushing, but she had no time to look at something else because Lady Dubois, who was standing near the bed, opened the door. A young blond man, very handsome came in. Coraline raised from her chair, feeling very nervous. She heard that Lady Dubois was talking german to him. And after she had finished to speak, the man began to undress and went naked on the bed.

Lady Dubois came to Coraline and said slowly: "come here Coraline. I want you to look at his body."

Coraline felt the blood coming in her brain and felt very warm. she came near the bed where she saw the naked man. Well he has a nice face. Finally a good looking man…

"Coraline, I want you to come closer."

She obeyed and went closer. She was at the edge of the bed. She could see the man breathing on the bed. He said nothing and wasn't moving.

"I want you to discover the secrets of the male body. I want you to see how they react with the pleasure. Because, you have to know Coraline, that the pleasure is the key for everything. So that's how the Queen change the mind of her ministers! That's pretty smart…And when you'll know everything about it and all the ways to use it, you will be able to do everything with men! You will be powerful. I like the idea. Come on Coraline, touch him slowly."

Coraline sat her hand on the chest of the young man. She felt that his breathing went a little faster. Her eyes went down and she saw his penis. She first hesitated but then she let her hand go carefully down to it and began to caress it slowly. With surprise she saw that it went harder and stand proud. Her heart was beating faster and she was warm. she had never felt like this before and it felt good. She saw that the young man liked what she was doing.

Lady Dubois said nothing, she was standing near the window and saw her student discovering the secrets of the greatest pleasure. Coraline was still caressing his penis and she liked it. Then she turned to Lady Dubois looking at her like she was asking a permission. Lady Dubois understood what she wanted and nodded. Coraline took off her silkgown. She was completely naked. She wasn't cold because the pleasure made her warm. She was excited and she instantly knew what to do. She sat on the top of the man still caressing his penis. His was moaning. So she took the penis, she wanted to feel it inside her. It was hurting at the beginning, but then it felt good, really good. She moved in rhythm on him. She liked to feel him inside her. They were both moaning with pleasure. Her hands went on his chest, her nipples were hard and she was accelerating the rhythm. It was good, she felt very warm and went faster and faster and then the pleasure exploded. It was like a firework. That was an amazing feeling and she couldn't understand how she could have lived before that.

Lady Dubois, who was still in the room, was smiling. She was proud of her student and knew that Coraline was talented. Coraline got down from the bed and took her gown. Lady Dubois said something in german and the young man tok his clothes and left the room. Coraline knew that she wouldn't see him again, but that it wasn't the last time she would make love.

"I'm very proud of you Coraline. You're talented. I will teach you some few things, and you will be a real master."

That night, Coraline knew that she would like her new life. She was becoming someone with power and she enjoyed that. Power meant something new for her, a kind of hope. She was the only girl of six brothers, where they had all the power to decide what was good for her. For the first time, she felt that she would be the one who will make the decisions and she saw that men could be armless in front of women. She decided that she would take the power on men and use sex to succeed.

She looked at Lady Dubois and smiled to her. She saw that her master understood what she was thinking. And for the first time, she saw something strange in the way Lady Dubois looked at her. It looks like her eyes changed their own colours…