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three weeks later...

Dick felt empty and trapped as he listened to Zatanna and M'gann chatter about dresses and what shop they should hit up next, The vampire just sighed he exhausted he'd been a avoiding Ashlynn hoping he thirst and lust for her would go away, but it didn't. It only made him want her more... blood packs just weren't doing it for him anymore. They were mostly congealed and tasted stale.

Dark bags started to form under Dick's eyes because of how tired and starved he was for Ashlynn's blood and touch. But he couldn't just break up Zee they've been dating for three years had sex weeks ago! and now suddenly he wants to break up? oh... that'll definitely look good to everyone.

Dick was brought out of his thoughts when his nose found a familiar scent he breathed in and looked around before his eyes found her... Ashlynn, She was wearing his jacket, Dick mouth felt dry. but the same time he was salivating at the thought of Ashlynn's sweet blood rolling down his throat, the memories of the little noises she'd make if he bit down too hard, The way her scent would mix and mingle with his, how warm her body always felt pressed against his own...Dick wanted that! he wanted Ashlynn. "Dick?" Zatanna's voice caused him to snap out of it.

"..uh, duh what?" He said turned to Zatanna who was pouting at him. "I asked if this looks good on me?" she said holding up a light blue dress "uh I guess?" he said unsure causing the magician girl to roll her eyes "Boys can't take them anywhere." she muttered then grabbed a purple dress "How about-" She blinked seeing Dick gone Zatanna let out annoyed huff and continued her shopping.

Meanwhile

Ashlynn was browsing through some of the shops trying to get grasp on some normalcy after the incident A lot girls really liked Dr. Nigel so when it came to light that She was the one who was attacked and reported him. Well Ashlynn had been getting a lot threats and her house was egged and TP'd more than once, and someone had trashed and spray painted some very classy names on her car. She suddenly understood why girls were always scared of telling anyone about their ordeals.

the taupe haired girl figured she'd give school a break for while let everything blow over, and let the Nigel fan-club's anger and infatuation simmer down and let them grow a conscious or disbanded. she looked down at her scarred wrist "Oh it won't scar it's not that deep..." she mumbled mocking her doctor, then she felt the healed punctures from Dick bite itch her brows furrow they did that when...

in seconds her good arm was in a firm hold and the green eyed girl was suddenly being dragged through the mall she went to scream only to spy a familiar mop of black hair peeking out from under the stranger's dark blue hoodie. "Dick?" she said only to be shushed and be pulled in to a dark room where the stores keep the spare mannequins.

Ashlynn's breath hitched when she saw the faint red glow of Dick's eyes from under his sunglasses, he was breathing hard as he kept his eyes glued on her. something didn't feel right, It took a sec for her eyes to adjust. but when Ashlynn got good look a Dick, he look rough... like he hadn't slept in days and was sweating and swaying about like he was drunk "Dick are you okay?" she asked warily he let out a chuckle causing a shiver to go down Ashlynn's spine it sound... off husky and forced not like Dick at all...

"Asking if I'm alright...after what happen to you, hehe classic Ash.~"

"Dick you ghost me for weeks then drag me into dark room-"

"I'm hungry."

"Then drink a blood pack co's I kinda pissed at you right now."

Ashlynn huffed and tried get around him, only for Dick let out an inhuman growl and suddenly trap her against the wall and himself. His lips crashed against hers and forced his tongue down her throat, Ashlynn tried pushing him away, but he was stronger then any human man was, she'd seen him throw grown man 10 ft across a parking lot for groping her ass once. Then taupe haired girl tried to see if she could pull the same trick she pulled on Nigel, but she found herself stuck, Dick used his body to keep her still as he moved from her lips to licking nibbling at her neck as his fangs scraped her along jugular.

Ashlynn took a sharp breath when she felt Dick's hand slip under her skirt and she thought out carefully what she was going to say "If you do this...You're no better than Nigel..." She said listlessly that seem to snapped Dick out of whatever came over him, his eyes slowly lost the red color turned back to blue and he immediately pulled away from Ashlynn distraught and horrified at what he almost did...He looked sick and threw a hand over his mouth he felt like throwing up. "I'm Sorry..." was all he said before running out of the room leaving Ashlynn alone she pulled her knees to her chest and hugged herself "no...I'm sorry." she whimpered.

later

Dick got back to the manor distressed and disgusted with himself he hid in his room, Ignoring calls from Zee and Wally asking where he disappeared too? he ignored Alfred who left a cooler of blood-packs and plate of cookies on his dresser, Bruce eventually got involved and that's where Dick came clean, he told his adopted father everything. His and Ashlynn's pact, Nigel, the urges and what he almost did to her. Bruce being a dhampire was silent as he took everything in.

"How long?" Bruce asked referring to Dick and Ashlynn's Bloodbond, his son hugged pillow to himself. "almost seven years...this has never hap-I don't know." Bruce held up a hand to silence him. "And no one else's blood can keep you full or calm? just Ashlynn's?" the boy nodded Bruce felt his stomach drop he knew exactly what was happening because his father would act the exact same way towards his mother."I think you may have accidentally formed a marriage pact with Ashlynn somehow."

Dick looked at his foster father confused. Marriage pact? not possible He and Ashlynn would had to have mixed their blood and consumed- his eyes widened when he remember an accident when they were twelve...

he and a kidnapped Y/n were caught in an explosion by Penguin they got buried under some rubble, Dick and her got hurt real bad like cut up and coughing up blood bad, they were trapped he was scared and thought they were both going to die... he kissed Y/n without even thinking! their blood must've mixed from their wounds...

And once an marriage pact has formed there's no breaking it unless one of them dies, and the only way to calm Dick down was for him to consummate with Ashlynn and drink from her every now and then.

Now Dick felt even more distraught because this meant he was technically cheating on Ashlynn with Zatanna, which was making him feel sick and Zee doesn't even know he's a vampire! which made him feel more crumby,

because and this very shitty to admit, he was never actually in love with Zatanna through out their whole relationship, he was just using her to make Ashlynn jealous! He was in Love with Ashlynn, he always had been since they were kids. But always assumed she viewed him as a brother and would never see him like a lover.

So when Dick found out Zatanna liked him, He used that in an attempt to get Ashlynn's attention, but she didn't seem too interested if fact the green eyed girl just smiled and said she was happy for them, Which put a wrench in the vampire's plans and Dick not wanting to look like his namesake, was forced to continue on with the relationship hoping he'd come to love Zatanna and he did...as a good friend.

Everytime he was with Zee, his thoughts would always wonder back to Ashlynn, picturing her green eyes, a smile that bright smile, her quick wit and how brave she was to stand up to him and try to calm down when he was blood raged, or the way she stood up for any vamps being harassed at school or on the street.

...As for Zatanna? Well, He's heard and seen the way she views vampires it's been very... intolerant. She would absolutely refuse to go on missions with any vamp teammates unless she had no choice and stays as far from them as possible, or doesn't even bother to help any Vampire civilians who were injured in mission crossfire.

"I need to be alone, I need to think..." He croaked Bruce nodded and left him alone.

Dick avoided Ashlynn after that for months, every time she stop by to see Dick and try to talk to him, But Alfred would tell her he was on a mission or busy with Bruce. She heard from Wally that he'd broken up with Zatanna which came to a shock to her, Ashlynn actually tried to force her way into the manor give Dick a piece of her mind. But he good at hiding soon she just stopped showing up all together.

Dick would find himself standing anxiously at his window waiting to see her walking up the driveway. or he'd find himself standing out in front of her house debating if he should knock or not? only to walk away or be scared off by one of Ashlynn's neighbors.

Then the vials started showing up, little wrapped boxes with vials of red liquid that Bruce had tested and found out they were Ashlynn's blood. she must have started dropping them off as way of keep Dick healthy and calm...keep Dick calm? Bruce's eyes widened and he rush of the Bat-cave and drove to the girl's home leaving the vials for Alfred to send to Dick. The taupe haired girl nearly jumped out of her skin when she saw Bruce standing in her living room.

"You knew..."

"I knew what?"

"About the marriage pact!"

"Oh...that, yeah. I guess I did."

Batman eyed her incredulously wondering why she hadn't she said anything? or rather how had she known. Y/n got to work putting her groceries away and explained. "One of my neighbors is a vamp, I would go to her for advice about Dick...then we got on the subject of pacts." she rubbed her neck looking sadly at wall.

"I said something must be wrong with mine, because I could feel a tug or an itch when he was near by, She congratulated me on my engagement." Ashlynn seemed nonchalant about the whole mess, not true. She'd been binging on chocolate ice cream and crappy hallmark movies for weeks.

While thinking about Dick and how stupid she was about not telling him about the pact or her feelings before all this happened, all because she didn't want him to be forced to stay with her because of the pact, So she hid behind a smile and witty jokes every time he introduced her to a girl he seemed interested in.

Bruce saw the bandages on her arms and the bags under Ashlynn eyes and stressed and sick she looked and realized this whole thing was taking a toll on her health. "Why didn't you tell him?" he asked the green eyed girl sighed as she tried to come up with an answer.

"He looked happier with Zatanna and everyone kept saying how they looked good together...all I could do was smile." She felt she was standing in Dicks way and figured she should step aside and let him be happy despite her own feelings, "And I figured he'd tell Zee he's a vamp form a pact with her and forget about me all together..." with a shaky breath she looked up at Bruce.

"Am I a bad person?" she asked crying without realizing it, Batman was silent before he reached out and pat her head "No, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise." He said in a fatherly tone a ghost of a smile played on his lips and just like he was gone leaving Ashlynn alone to think...

A few days later.

Ashlynn decided that the best way to deal with this mess was to try to ignore it and get over it. and try and move on... find normal boring human boy to love and let Dick hate her for the rest of her miserable life, It was gonna be hard. Her first course of action hide or get rid of anything that reminded her of Dick...

The taupe haired girl snorted as she looked around her house, it was gonna be a busy day, the place was practically Dick's second home he had clothes, toys, decorations hung up and even kept a few back up Robin or rather now Nightwing suits hidden around, in case his was too damaged or dirty. Ashlynn sighed sadly as she searched around her house filling a three Rubbermaid bins with Dick's things and begrudging began the task of pulling the bins up into her attic.

She pulled the stairs down and hummed Goodbye horses under her breath then paused her 'Shenan-Dick-gans' senses were tingling she glared into the dark attic it seemed too innocent...

she went back down to the main floor, went into her bathroom grabbed a can of air freshener went back up the attic stairs and sprayed and sure enough blue lasers from a motion security system filled her vision. "Son of a..." She dug through one of the bins and found a code sequencer and after a few minutes of tweaking and breaking through Dick's firewalls she was in.

Ashlynn heard the hum of the security system shutting down. she tossed the gadget back into the bin and turned on the attic lights and rolled her eyes. "When fuck did he...how did he even.." She was impressed, Of course Dick Grayson would somehow smuggle a god damn bat computer into her house...The green eyed girl was flabbergasted that she never noticed, but then again, looking back on it Dick was oddly insistent on getting her holiday decorations out himself. she always thought he was just being chivalrous...

"God I suck." she grumbled before going the get the bins when something fell out of one of them. a collapsible escrima stick... Dick gave it to her saying he'll teach her how to use it later...

Later never really happened. But she'd seen and trained enough with Bruce to know at least the basic art of self-defense, After some thought Y/n decided to keep it, you never know in Gotham city. The h/c didn't know right she was.

Later that night.

Y/n was shaking due to the cold or nerves, She hated feeling this exposed she wince tugging her dress down only for it ride back up, it was too damn short, she wasn't used to it yes Y/n has worn a dress before, but those were fancy gowns at galas Dick invited her to.

and those dresses cost more than her bills and covered her ass and legs, not whatever the hell this was...She glared down at the black and blue cocktail dress that Mandy lent her...speaking of which where the fuck was Amanda? she let out a hiss as the clacking of heels echoed down the sidewalk.

"Finally what took you..." Ashlynn felt her skin prickle when she, looked up and saw the ditzy blond she'd somehow befriended at work come prancing down the sidewalk and not alone like she said she be, Ashlynn grabbed the blond and pulled her into a huddle.

"I thought this was girls night, who are they?" The taupe haired girl hissed glaring at the two men standing idly by the brown haired winked at her, the green eyed girl felt her stomach flop and not in a good way. "These two yummy boys are Matt and Derek." Mandy chirped oblivious to her friend's mood.

"Okay and?"

They are our wait for it... dates!~"

"...What?! why didn't you tell me?"

"Because you would've said no."

Ashlynn was floored "and with good reason, We don't know them!" Mandy rolled her eyes ignorantly as the brown haired guy approached them "Everything all right?" he ask with feigned concern before the green eyed girl could even protest, her blond friend threw a hand over her mouth. "Oh, don't mind her she's just down because her boyfriend dumped her.~" If looks could kill Ashlynn was glaring daggers at Mandy as the man standing before smirked.

"Well, then I'll be sure to have some extra fun with you tonight.~" He purred giving her a once over Ashlynn felt like throwing up as Mandy dragged her into the club, the h/c felt her skin crawl for the last hour they've been here she hadn't touched her drink.

instead she was focusing on the surroundings years of being with the Bats had taught her to always be on guard when her instincts are telling her to get out! and right now? Her instincts were screaming for her to miraculously develop speedster abilities and get the fuck out of dodge!

They're called Fodder bars, vamps use them as a front to trick unsuspecting humans into false sense of security, The vamps would get the human drunk or drugged up and then it was free game, Men were the "lucky losers" in this sort of situation they were killed once they were drained. women however...well they were usually 'used' and sold to human trafficking once the male Vamps were done with them.

Ashlynn could see the passed out drunks and 'necking' couples scattered through out the bar, She looked over at Mandy who was barely on her second drink and was already tipsy

...So, sedatives then, Ashlynn noticed Matt eyeing her like a piece of meat the way he licked his lips, she could see his fangs occasionally peeking from his gums. the h/c swallowed she felt more eyes watching her.

She heard Mandy giggle and looked over and saw Derek trying to lead her into a darker part in the bar that's it! "Get the hell away from her!" Ashlynn snapped her voice seem to resonate over the bars music everything went quiet and everyone was looking right at her

"Ashley!~ you're embarrassing me!~" Mandy whined stomping her foot, While Y/n pulled the blond away from Derek who was glaring. "Mandy we have to go..." The green eyed girl, saw red glowing eyes glaring in the dark and heard a few thumps in the from somewhere in the bar, drained bodies being thrown aside no doubt.

"Now." Ashlynn hissed Mandy protest whining about how she was having fun. "Man-" before she could saying thing else Ashlynn had taken out the escrima stick and just as Matt lunged at her, he went flying into the booth stunned clutching his stomach.*goddammit my arm, Why is it always my arm!?* Ashlynn winced in pain as blood streamed from her arm but held her ground she felt her skin itch. Dick...He was somewhere outside she could feel him.

She felt Mandy grab her hand hid behind her back shaking. "We're leaving... Don't like it? kiss my warm blooded ass!" she snarled Derek tried to grab her only to get 50,0000 volts to the manhood. He screamed like a little girl before looking up at the girls, holding his crotch.

"Kill the bitch..." He squeaked and like that all hell broke lose, the women were surrounded. "Mandy, I'm going to distract them...When I tell you, You're gonna go outside." The blond started shaking her head no as the taupe haired shushed her and looked back at her "Your going go outside and you're going to scream for help as loud as you can..." The blond whimpered as Ashlynn backed them toward an open window.

One of the vamps lunged at Ashlynn manage to knock them back, then turned to Mandy "Now Amanda go,go!" the crying blond climbed up the bar she and crawled out the window, and landed out into the alley below and started screaming as figured landed from the rooftops, The gray eyed woman sobbed in relief as she recognized the figure as Nightwing she threw herself at him.

Vigilante was surprised as the blond hugged him and she sobbed into his chest, "Help her! help her please!" He looked around confused he couldn't see anyone else in the alley. "Who?" he asked the blond pointed at the bar "Ashlynn! they'll kill her!" Nightwing felt his heart sink into his feet. and he rushed into to the bar and felt bile rise in his throat when he realized it was a fodder bar.

He dodged a body being thrown in his direction, his nose just barely caught Ashlynn's scent through the dwindling sage incense in the air and saw her, To say Dick was stunned was understatement he was absolutely gobsmacked he had no idea Ashlynn could fight...her reactions were sloppy, but she was holding her own.

He noticed Ashlynn was favoring her right side she winced and hugged her waist, the vigilante saw a female vampire sneaking up behind her Dick got his sticks out "Ashlynn, Duck!" He barked The taupe haired girl dodged an escrima flying towards her.

it hit the female vamp knocking her out cold, the green eyed girl looked behind her at the knock out Vampire then back Dick who ran up to her he felt prideful 'my girl just took on an entire den of Vampires!' that pride slowly turned terror, when he realized why she was favor her side Ashlynn was bleeding heavily he saw her arm cut open again... and there was a tear in her dress showing a large gash on her hip.

Nightwing saw the other vamps slowly advancing on them he wouldn't be able to take them all and watch over Ashlynn at the same time, So he did something he never thought he'd ever do, he released his aura field the pressure from it caused the bar's foundation to groan in protest.

The Vampire's looked around fearfully wondering where this scary energy was coming from? they looked at Nightwing who had gathered Ashlynn in his arms then turned to them "Move..." he ordered they gave them a wide birth as Dick walked out of the bar, He found Mandy sitting on the curve crying into her phone she gasped seeing the vigilante walk out of the bar, with a bloody girl in his arms; sirens could be heard in the distances coming in fast. He left Ashlynn with her and took off into the Night.

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At Gotham general hospital

After everything was taken care of Nightwing snuck into Ashlynn's hospital room his sensitive ears could hear everything and everyone moving about their business, He stared at the taupe haired woman passed out in the bed then checked up her chart 24 stitches..and an unknown sedative was found in her bloodstream.

What the hell was Ashlynn even doing in that bar? it was too seedy for her tastes. "It was Mandy's idea..." He blinked and saw green eyes staring at him warily. Dick sat down at the edge of her bed. "She said I needed to lighten up and invited me to "girl's night" except it wasn't just us girls.." She stood up wincing as her stitched stretched.

"She tricked me, It was a double date." she missed how Dick's eye twitched when she mentioned it was a date, He felt rot slowly settle in him as the taupe haired girl continued explaining how she ended up in that bar, and what led to her fighting off a hoard of vampires. But Dick was stuck on the fact that she still with those two guys despite knowing what they were up to and what could've happened to her if he hadn't gotten there in time." So, that's what you been up to, hanging out with other guys?" he spat venom lacing his tone, Ashlynn brows furrowed why the hell is he upset about that?

"It wasn't my Idea -."

"Oh yeah "Mandy"~ the bimbo you barely know from work, convinced you hang out at a seedy bar."

"I don'y know what..."

"You wanted go out tonight didn't you, Wanted to find some weak human male to replace me with, is that it?!"

His voice got louder and his face contorted into a snarl "Dick that's not fair-" She gasped when he grabbed her injured arm and squeezed Ashlynn yelped in pain as the vampire growled at her. "No, what's not fair is you trying to replaced me someone, am I that easy to forget?" His eyes were red under his mask as he glared Ashlynn wince she was having major Jason flashbacks, when he found out about her and Dick's ...arrangement."Answer me! why you are trying to forget me?!" Tears were threatening to fall from her eyes as she felt her bone creaking under Dick's hand threatening to break.

"Because of the pact!" She shrieked Dick eyes widened in shocked when he heard her say that he let go of her arm the stitches had ripped open, But Dick wasn't focus on the blood he focused on Ashlynn How did she find out about... then it hit him. "You knew..." His broken tone caused Ashlynn to break down crying as the raven haired vampire stared at her he's was angry, but also confused. Air He needed air he couldn't be here and with that he left Ashlynn alone crying in the hospital.