Of Summer Nights

Chapter 10

Heyya

Well we've got as far as chapter 10! Thanks to everyone who's stuck by my babbling on and enjoyed the story.

I read over the last chapter and Stark seemed a bit OOC sorry, I haven't grasped writing for a fit cocky shit.

I also realise I forget the conditions there has to be for Stevie Rae and Stark, I get confused with their days and nights, so I'm gonna say for the purposed of this story they have normal days like us and the sun doesn't hurt the Red Vamps. Sorry.

Oh and might I suggest that you listen to Whispers in the Dark by Skillet; the songs really loud, but if you listen to the lyrics I find they represent Zoey and Stark's relationship.

Enjoy

Stevie Rae's POV

She turned around tears streaming from her eyes; I couldn't understand why she was so upset. I made to run after her but Rephaim's arm snuck round my waist and pulled me back murmuring,

"I don't know much about her. But I'm sure she wouldn't want to see you right now." I sniffed and nodded, he was right. "She'll talk to you when she ready don't you think?" he paused for me to nod and then continued, "I can, also, feel your confused, fly with me." It wasn't a demand as his voice portrayed it but a request, if it was any other time I would've been scared as heck to fly dangling from a man a couple of hundred feet in the sky. But right now I was desperate for anything that would take my mind from the reality I had created. I turned to faced him in the tight grip he held me in; he was staring down at me with no hint of the malice I'd seen in his eyes when we first met. I wrapped my arms around his hard waist and stepped up on his feet; if it was uncomfortable he didn't say anything, though he lifted me under the arms and wrapped my legs around where my arms had been resting each of my arms on either shoulder. "Hold tight." He whispered, before leaping into the air, the breath was nearly knocked from me, and my just-tightened grip round his neck relaxed with the force of his take off. Gravity was pulling me down but he had his arms wrapped tenderly around my torso, pushing me to his chest. We held our silent embrace thinking only of each other, the one who was locked in our arms.

The day turned to night and we held together like our love was glue sticking us together. Although he was a creature of the underworld and his being should repulse me, I had grown quite attached to Rephaim and I was sure of the same feeling were me of him. I loved Rephaim, and I now wasn't afraid to say it.

While we flew across the sky I prayed to Nyx, I had my eyes closed and my lover in my arms, I prayed to her to ask, do you accept me? She was quiet for the whole night I thought she had turned her back on me. If she had then had she taken my tattoo's that were intricately woven across my face? My face grew hot and though I did not open my eye for a long time I knew Rephaim was starting down at my face that I had rested on his chest. If he was staring that my they must be gone I thought, but I was surprised too hear him speak,

"Your Marks are truly breathtaking." I breathed a sigh of relief, and nuzzled my face into his torso.

"Thank you." I whispered sleepily, to Rephaim and Nyx. I kept my eyes closed and was still concentrating on getting a reply from my goddess. When the sun broke the clouds at dawn a small portion of light seeped into my eyes, as well as an unspoken sentence. I accept you, child, you chose him because of what you saw inside not because you chose to step out of the Light.

I whispered a Thank you to her as another question formed in my head. What about Zoey and the guys? She replied quicker this time, They will forgive you in time; you cannot expect them to accept it straight away. Follow your heart it will not falter your choices. Follow it, Daughter.

Her final words made me open my eyes. Although I had let go of Rephaim's neck during the night he still held me, close to his heart,

"Awake are we?" the vibrations of his voice buzzed in my ears. I raised my arms to grab his shoulders, when my grip was strong enough I pulled my self so I was level with his face,

"I did not sleep. Though I was thinking..." I didn't say what I had been thinking of I just made to kiss him but instead nuzzled my head into his neck making a small nick in a vein I knew ran to his heart as I got comfortable. He winced slightly, but when the cut began to pulsate blood which I caught quickly with my tongue, he moaned. I curved my tongue to fit the shape of the cut; the blood ran across it and overflowed dripping on our chests. The liquid was ruining my favourite dress but it was worth it to have to gulps of pleasure mend its way down my throat.

I moved my tongue away from his neck and let the blood run free; instead I began to climb down his frozen body licking the drips and dribbles that had run free from the source. It was all still wet and it tasted better than any blood I'd ever tasted.

I climbed back up Rephaim's body to latch my lips onto his neck that was still pumping out blood. I sucked on it like some kind of old fashioned Vampire, I had my feet wrapped under his arms and I was gripping his jaw too keep myself steady. He had been shocked that I had done anything, but after I began really drinking from the small gash he unfroze and crossed his legs like he was sitting down in midair, he held me close willing me to relish in his scarlet liquid. We both moaned at the same time, me for the taste him for the feeling. Through our Imprint we both felt the reason for the pleasurable sounds.

When I had finished I ran my tongue across the widened cut and the stream of blood immediately stopped and looked like a puckered scar. I circled the pink line and caught any blood that had escaped my clutches. Rephaim laughed, "Careful." I began leaning over his shoulder to lick the feathers clean, "As much as I enjoy that, have you forgotten how far up we are?" I slipped back down so my legs were wrapped around his waist once again.

"Damn, I was enjoying that." I cursed the danger of height. "Well if I can't have that part I'll have to settle for a kiss." I started to reach up but he held my shoulders,

"Dont you think you owe Sylvia Redbird an explanation, for why her granddaughter walked out last night? I'm sure Zoey will tell her about us, would it be better from us?" I thought about it, it was the most logical option,

"Okay, we'll go back, and tell Grandma. But while were flying you owe me a kiss." He flung his head back and laughed, then took flight from our stationary position over Philbrook museum. I claimed his lips. He laughed, though it was muffled, then began to fly horizontally; I was dangling from round his neck in mid air. I pulled my lips from Rephaim's too look over my shoulder, we were very high up. I tightened my hands and legs, clinging to my Daemon lover. This was clearly the response he anticipated and wanted, because he wrapped his arms around my thin body and squeezed me to him. He pulled me up further so I was his eye level, pulled up more vertically and then kissed me flying towards the lilac horizon.

I parted my lips slightly and used my tongue to lick the crease between each lip, asking for access. Which he granted letting our tongues entwine, though their contact was more like a fight for dominance over the united mouths. I could stay like this forever but he pulled back and then proceeded to pull my clinging limbs off of him so all that he held was my hand, tightly. But it was only so we could touch down on the gravel of the Lavender Farm hand in hand.

We walked up the steps together though when we got to the door I dropped his hand. I told him to stay there until I called him, and after a swift kiss I slid into the door that had been left unlocked.

Grandma was sitting at the dinning table sipping a lavender tea, I felt guilty for interrupting her when she looked at peace. She looked at me when I came on the room, her faced paled. Ah crap, I was still covered in blood.

"Grandma, I've got something to tell you. Uh it has too do with this." I gestured to my sodden clothes. "Please don't react to the name, or who it is." I begged. She nodded looking confused. I coughed and looked over my shoulder, "Rephaim?" I heard Sylvia mutter curses at the name. I mentally cursed, she was going to freak when she saw him. Rephaim ducked into the room,

"Oh my ancestors." She shouted. She looked at the closeness of which he had stopped next too me and guessed our relationship. "Stevie Rae? He is the child of so many nightmares! Why did you bring him into my home?" I was about to reply when Rephaim snapped back,

"And you are the descendent of the women that sent me into the fiery breaths of Hell." I looked at him, he looked defensive. I grabbed his wrists and gave him a shut-up-your-not-helping look, "Sorry." He spat at Grandma

"Accepted, Ti-Hi." She sounded sincere though she was using the Cherokee word for Killer. She turned away from him and stared at me. "What have you done, U-we-tsi-a-ge-yv?"

"He saved me after I saved him. I needed blood, he gave it. Please Grandma, he loves me, and I him." It was the best explanation I could give without going into detail. I took Rephaim's hand; he had it tensed, though at my touch he relaxed it slightly.

"I see." She murmured. She sat thinking for a while, and then looked at Rephaim, "What's your story, tsi-s?" I squeezed his hand signalling him to talk.

"I was shot down, and Stevie Rae found me. She patched me up and then sent me away, but there were others that wanted her killed. They told me to help kill her or be killed. I agreed though I remembered that I owed her. They lured her on to the roof and tried to burn her with the sun, but I saved her. She lost blood and told me she needed some, so I gave her some from a cut I had got saving her, and we Imprinted. I despised her, but after she made love to her boyfriend I realised I had feelings for her. And when she kissed the human this week I came over to see what it was and that's about it. We told Zoey yesterday and she got annoyed and left. We're sorry."

I was grateful that he hadn't been rude. I remembered that Zoey had said that if you concentrated hard enough you can communicate with your Imprintee, I closed my eyes, and mentally whispered Thank You. He squeezed my hand but held his eye contact with Grandma.

She opened her mouth to reply, as her phone rang not bothering too look at the caller ID she answered the phone and didn't say hello to the person at the other end of the line. After a couple of seconds she held the phone out at me. I knew who it was,

"Zoey? Oh Z-"

"Dont be giving me all your apologising crap," Zoey spat. I heard Aphrodite in the background whispering 'Did she actually cuss?' Then, the sound of a cushion hitting something semi-solid. Great they all knew.

"Z, you didn't give us a chance to explain." I tired to argue my point. She wasn't listening, I heard her shouting orders at the others 'Stay in here I'm going to talk to her alone.' "You haven't told them?" she was unbelievable.

"No." She said sharply, "But I will unless you tell me what I want to know." She sounded genuinely upset; I hated doing this sort of thing to my friends. I dropped Rephaim's hand nodding from him to Grandma. He sat down with her and she immediately began firing questions to him. I walked into Zoey's room and sat on the bed, deflated.

"What do you wanna know?" I asked

"How long exactly have you and him..." she couldn't even finish the question but I understood how to answer.

"Back in the Benedictine Abbey, when you told us to make sure they were all gone, that when I found him. Though as in us two days ago." I heard her take a sharp intake of breathe.

"Why?" it was a short question but it required a lot of thought,

"Because- Seriously Z I don't know why I didn't just let him die back then." She laughed sarcastically. "But there being us, I didn't want it, but he told me that he didn't want us to be enemies and I asked what he'd do to you. And, Zoey, he said he wouldn't do anything if it upset me!" I said it again to myself while she considered my answer.

"Well, that's all but one question out of the window." She said sounding less angry and more like my best friend.

"What's that?" I asked hoping it wasn't a really hard one.

"Who's gonna tell everyone else?" I gulped.

"Uh, I guess your going to have to put me on speaker with them. At least they won't kill me. Much." I took a few deep breathes, while Zoey carried the phone back into the same room as the rest of our gang, I hoped she still had it too her ear. "Do you think I need Rephaim with me?" I asked.

"Uh, I guess." She said. "Tell him I said sorry 'bout yesterday will ya." The line went crackly then the amplified sound of a group of people came through from the other end.

"Ermmm, one sec." I said to the room full of invisible people. I ran out of the room and to where I'd left Grandma and Rephaim. To my surprise they were sat across the table, hands clasped, looking quite close in the circumstances. "Rephaim, your needed so we can tell everyone on the phone." He looked up and nodded, then stood up and made sure his wings were folded close to his body to get through the narrow door way in to Zoey's room. It was only when I went into the room that I realised there was a picture that had a appeared to have fallen down, I went over and stood it up, but there was a finger print on either side that indicated that it had been out down. I looked at the bird man that was now my lover, "Same as before. Dont talk till I introduce you please." He nodded. I felt different it was as if I was doing something wrong. I reached up on my tiptoes and kissed him as a thank you.

I put the phone on speaker phone so we wouldn't have to share the phone.

"Uh, right. Who exactly am I talking to?" I asked unsure of how much I wanted to tell people.

"There's me, Stark, the Twins, Erik, Venus, Aphrodite, where's Jack and Damien? Oh there they are. And Jack and Damien." Zoey told me

"Well getting one thing straight I'm not saying anything in front of Erik and Venus. I saw enough of Aphrodite's mind to know that Venus is a gossiping cow and we better not send away Venus with out something to sucker too, so getting rid of Erik too. Bye, Bye too them or Bye, Bye too me." Zoey shooed the ass and the octopus out of the room. "Right please don't say anything until I-we've explained." There were a number of comments,

"Who?"

"Who're we?"

"Why are you all being secretive?"

"Will you dammed hurry up, I got a Darius to slobber over."

After Aphrodite commented everyone cried 'Eww' then quietened down, "Well I have to reintroduce you to – to Rephai-" I broke off, the name caused them to cry out. "Not a Raven Mocker!" one of them cried. "Zoey, I'm going to have to go. We're leaving to come home now. Bye."

Well? What ya'll think

Sorry it was a bit longer than normal, and sorry for the OOC of Stevie Rae! That is Shameful!

Hope you enjoyed it all the same.

Merry Xmas !

Pixx xx