The Twilight Twenty-Five
Prompt: Jealousy
Pen name: stolenxsanity
Pairing: JamesxAlice
Rating: T
My desire for her was no longer a simple want to consume, to glut myself on her ambrosial blood. It had built into a manic longing, acute and stinging with unbridled desperation for her body and mind as well. I was ready to take her, to have her, to make her mine as I watched from my perch outside her window. Her eyes wide – irises the color of liquid steel and clouded over – as she stared off into the distance, into the future. I hadn't figured it out immediately, what her ability was or why she had been placed here, but I knew without a doubt that I needed to claim her.
She would be mine.
It was true that the way her blood called to me, setting my throat on fire with every delectable inhale, was cause for concern. I could drain her, kill her, so easily, swift and unrepentant in my actions.
So, I watched and waited, biding my time while attempting to acclimate myself to her scent; the stone, glass and metal that separated us holding me at bay, even if only temporarily. I knew that I could easily force my way through, but the presence of this flimsy structure helped keep me in check, cognizant of my baser, primal instincts; my vampiric nature.
And then he came, his scent all over and around her hitting me like a searing inferno, burning me from the inside out. I knew that he could smell me every time he visited; doting on her like she was kin, a granddaughter perhaps. I didn't know how he could bear it, being so close to humans all the time, but he did and I envied him that.
Alice, he called her as he ran his fingers through the wayward spikes that stuck out in tufts from her head. Soothing and calming, his ministrations meant to ease her back into the real world slowly. I seethed silently over the way she looked at him, adoration clear in her eyes as the corners of her mouth curved upwards, a whisper of thanks leaving her parted lips. Unrecognizable emotions bubbled up in my chest as she slid into his arms and curled against his chest with a relieved sigh, her eyes falling closed shortly after.
He smiled – a wicked grin that showed him for what he really was – in my direction, knowing that I was there, that I had been an astute observer of their oddly normal rituals. His eyes remained trained on me as he lowered his face to her neck, tilting her sleeping head to the side for better access. Inhuman teeth glinted in the waning moonlight, proclaiming his victory over me and what was to be mine. Rising with a vampire's speed he fled, cradling her gently in his arms, taunting me to follow though it was obvious I could not without alerting anyone else to my presence.
Little did he know, however, that I would find her again one day. With that assurance, I forced myself to uncoil from my slightly crouched stance and acknowledged that, today, he had bested me.
Miss RAEcouter, le beta extraordinaire, thank you for going over this so quickly and efficiently. I couldn't do it without you, bb. All my love to gypsysue and AHelm for putting up with my constant badgering and read through requests; you guys are so fucking win, jsyk.
