The man with the demon eyes lay under the bloodstained sheets now, the candles low and a smirk upon his face as he leaned over and buried his face in a naked girls neck with a snarl, but she wasn't fighting him off, merely lying there and let him drink her blood as if it was normal.

I stood in the doorway now, taking in the entire scene, then felt a gasp in my throat at the bodies, the seemingly endless dead that littered the bedroom, the demon and his prey surrounded by drained bodies, all of them female, blood adorning their necks and eyes blank or full of fear.

The demon let his prey go now, then looked at me, blood staining his devilishly handsome, but hard lined face. He smirked now, then said softly into his girls, his preys ear. "Glad you could join me, Sweetheart."

Now the only girl that was alive looked up and met my eyes, shocking me when I saw that it was myself, my own bedroom, but my eyes were like his- like a demons, my mouth turning into a feral smirk as I watched myself lean over and kiss that demon passionately, a hand running up his bloodied chest before she turned and smirked at me once more, eyes glinting dangerously, her, my, pose sexy and seductive with fangs bared.

"Even the best of us fall sometimes, Antonia. You can't fight nature."

I awoke with a gasp, sitting up and felt my chest heaving. Oh god... that had all been a dream. Another dream-?

But it had seemed so vivid, every aspect of my room present, all the way down to the creases in the silken sheet.

I looked around now- no dead bodies, no blood, and once I had raised a hand to my mouth and found no fangs, then my reflection that assured me my eyes were fine, I sighed in relief.

It really had been an intensely vivid dream.

But this Klaus... my god he had gotten embedded into my mind somehow, and now my subconcious was playing tricks on me, turning us both into monsters with a taste for each other, and by my dream, not just for blood either.

I shivered now for no reason, then the door opened and Willow walked in, then frowned at my heaving chest.

"Are you ok Miss?"

A laugh escaped me at her words, then I nodded. "Bad dream, that is all. Nothing to worry about." then got up and let her dress me, thinking the entire time...

Who was this Klaus-?

-SUNFLOWERS-

I went down to breakfast now, then stopped outside the door to arrange my hair, but then there was a tap on my shoulder, then a voice... so horribly familiar from last nights dreams.

"Antonia?"

I turned to face him now, a shiver going down my spine at the thought of him biting into my neck, his hands holding me in that possessive way that clearly meant that I belonged to him.

"Oh Klaus, you startled me." I apologized, feeling flustered and rather embarrassed that I had thought about him in such a way... and dreamed about him in a way that would make my fiance... horrified. Horrified that I had "slept" with another man... even if it was a dream.

Klaus nodded now, then chuckled. "I apologize. I merely wondered if you were dining early like me, or waiting a while?"

It took me a moment to process, then I smiled, nodding in the process. "Oh, yes. Yes I am."

He nodded once more, thn pushed the double doors open, allowing me to walk in first where he sat down opposite me after going into the kitchen to get the servents working.

Klaus sighed now as the tea was bought out and served to us. I sipped my own, then asked. "Is there something troubling you?"

"No, no, it's all just fine. I was merely thinking about something unimportant."

"Oh? May I be of any help?"

"Only if you agree to spend the day with me."

A silence.
"Oh! Not in that way of course! I am not trying to steal you from Raoul. I have already asked him, and he says yes."

I nodded now, then felt a smile tugging at my mouth. "Then yes. I would love to spend the day in your company, Niklaus."

There, that was normal, right? I was ignoring those dreams...

But what if they became reality-?

-SUNFLOWERS-

Niklaus was waiting at the door now with a pair of horses, reins in hand. One of them was a midnight black, the other whiter than snow. He gave me the white one now, then helped me up into the saddle, arranging my dress so it would flow behind me as I rode.

He got up onto his own now, then nudged his horse into a canter, me following the back of him as we rode through the country lanes, the trees passing us by in a blur.

But as we rounded a corner, my horse reared up at nothing in particular, making me scream and fall of backwards as it shook me off and cantered away past Klaus, who I heard stop, then footsteps approached me, then hands helped me into a sitting position where I met curious blue eyes.

"Are you ok? That was quite the fall you had." he said, checking me for cuts, but the only one was on my lip where he raised a hand to it, brushing the blood away carefully with a thumb and leaving me silent. As he met my eyes, a strange sensation, a feeling was going though my stomach at his touch.

"I am fine." I said, softer than I meant it to sound, my eyes still gazing into his, but now I looked away, allowing him to help me to my feet, brushing the dirt from my pale pink dress, then sighed.

"You get into so much trouble. Does Raoul know what he is marrying?"

"I hope he does, because I love him."

Why I said 'love' in such a harsh way. It was almost like I was being defiant in the face of this new and rather alluring gentleman who had somehow invaded my dreams, making me feel things that a soon-to-be married woman shouldn't be feeling.

But why I felt them eluded me.

Klaus took me back to the chateau now on the back of his horse where Raoul was waiting, then looked worried at the blood on my dress.

"Dearest mon cherie, what has happened?"

I let a chuckle escape me now as he fussed over me, then I swatted his hand away and said. "I fell from my horse, Niklaus was my knight in shining armour."

Raoul now looked to Klaus and nodded. "I thank you, Niklaus. Thank you for helping my fiancee."

Klaus inclined his head. "It was a pleasure."

I stood between the pair now, feeling awkward as none of us had anything else to say, but then Raoul said. "In just two days, Antonia. And the official party shall be the night before, yes? And tomorrow we shall have a dinner with the rest of the family. Your friends!"

"Thank sounds lovely."

He now took my hand and pressed his lips to it, making me smile, but a pang of uncertainty in my stomach...

Why was I feeling a kind of attraction to Klaus? It was like he had gotten inside my own mind, twisting my thoughts and actions to suit him...

This was all so very strange.

How could it get any stranger?

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