~The Evil and the Innocent~

Marty awakened cuddled in Todd's arms. "How do you feel right now?" he asked after he tenderly kissed her lips.

"I feel perfect," she said as she gave him a beautiful smile. "I'm not sick... and that terrible pain is gone."

"I'm so glad. I was so worried about you, baby. I thought you were dying... and I would lose you..." he lamented.

"You will never lose me," she said as she stared into his eyes. She took his hand in hers and raised it gently to her lips. With soft kisses, she placed her lips on each of his fingertips.

"It's like I did not live until I loved you," she told him. "You're everything to me... and after what we shared last night, I never want to leave your arms."

"From this point on, I want to spend every night in your arms, too," Todd stated. "Marty, I love you. You are my heart."

Very gently, he tugged the blankets away, revealing her beautiful naked body. "I want to make love again," he told her.

"So soon?" she asked him quietly.

"I will want to make love often... and in many ways."

"There are other ways?" she asked him innocently.

"Yes," Todd chuckled. "I will show you. Today we will make love with our lips... and our tongues."

"Ohhh my gosh, Todd! Why would we want to do that?!" Marty gasped.

"Because it feels good... and because you will be too sore for me to enter you this soon," Todd explained.

"I am a little sore," she agreed. She winced slightly when he tugged her closer to his body.

"I hurt you," he whispered as he looked into her eyes.

"It's alright, Todd. You gave me the sweetest pleasure."

"I want to pleasure you again."

"You'll show me?" she asked eagerly as she reached under the sheet that covered him and began to caress his cock.

"Ohhhh yes. I can't wait to show you," Todd agreed.

~*~o~*~

In her lonely jail cell, Vickie awaited her fate. She wanted someone to save her and she wondered where John McBain had gone. After awhile, a guard appeared. "A visitor is here to see you," he stated.

Vickie stood up eagerly as footsteps came down the hall. Her heart pounded as she waited to see who had come to visit her in her tiny cell. "Barnabas!" she gasped when she saw him standing outside the bars.

"Victoria, I am sorry I haven't gotten here sooner. Todd and Marty were just married and there were so many guests. I could not get away."

"Do not apologize, Barnabas. I am just glad you are here now."

"Victoria, I know you are not a witch. I know you do not have an evil bone in your body. You do not belong behind those bars. I am going to get you out of there and make sure you are freed. You just have to trust me. I wouldn't let anything happen to you."

"Thank you, Barnabas. I am not a witch, but I do believe that evil exists and it has come to Collinwood. No one is safe."

"I know. Many of us are doomed. I can feel it," Barnabas quipped.

~*~o~*~

In her bedroom in the servants quarters, Angelique stirred a connoction over the fireplace within a cast iron pot. She had been consulting her book of dark spells. So far the evil she had created at Collinwood hadn't been enough. Marty and Todd were together and happy, and Barnabas was trying to free Victoria from her jail cell.

"I must stop Todd and Barnabas from attaining happiness. They will suffer for rejecting me- both of them. They will regret the day they chose to turn me away," Angelique said as she found the wicked spell that she sought.

She needed fresh blood for the spell to come to life. Why not use her own? She had plenty to spare.

She reached for a blade and cut a gash into her own wrist. She cackled as the crimson fluid spilled into the iron pot. With a wicked smirk on her face, Angelique stirred her smoking brew. It wouldn't be long now. Not long at all until Todd and Barnabas both suffered a fate far worse than death.

Angelique chanted the ancient words to make the spell complete:

Ohhhh king of the darkness.
Father of hell.
Let them suffer a dark fate.
Let your darkness absorb their light.

Allow them passage into the darkness.
Into the fires of hell.
Let them suffer.
And become one with the night.

Ohhh dark lord.
Let them be reborn as your children.
I give them unto you.
So they shall be born again.