Part 11

"So are you happy?" Dave asked Penelope has a two danced together at their wedding reception.

The double wedding had been beautiful and it was a bright sunny day, which had made a perfect setting for the double wedding. Dave and Penelope had gotten married first followed by Hotch and Persephone. Each couple had written personal vows to each other before the minister had announced them husbands and wives

Now though, Dave's place that was in the middle of nowhere, had been set up for a reception with plenty of both ladies favorite foods, because after this they would never be able to eat again. The two couples were going to spend their wedding night at their homes making love and then the very next day they would be changed into vampires, which would take anywhere from 24 to 72 hours.

There was plenty of blood in the house for the four of them, plus Dave and his two siblings who had agreed to help out as both Dave and Aaron knew from experience that as newborns Penelope and Persephone would be constantly thirsty for the next year and it would only be a day or two between feeds for awhile. Eventually though they'd be able to go two or three weeks depending on how much blood they drank at one time.

It was over two months later and both Persephone and Penelope had lost the weight from when they had been pregnant with determination, as they didn't want to be fat for the rest of their existences, as once they were vampires they would be unable to lose or gain weight, which made them happy.

Dave had told Penelope that he thought that she was beautiful no matter what and Garcia knew he meant it, which made her love him just a little bit more, which she didn't think was possible, as she already loved him so deeply that she missed him intensely while he was gone with the team, despite the fact that they talked every day.

"Yes, Dave, so happy," Penelope promised him kissing his cheek softly. "So long as the two of us are together then I'm always happy, but when you're gone for work I'm kind of sad and melancholy until you return. I used to be able to forget about how much I missed you when I slept, even though I had intense dreams, but soon I'm not going to be able to sleep and I know it. The loneliness is going to be worse, because I won't be able to escape into dreams. I'll be busy enough looking after the children and also working to get you and the team information you require for each case, but the nights are going to be the worst, I just know it."

"I know I am sorry about that," Dave said sympathetically. "Believe me, I know exactly how you feel, because while the rest of the team is spending the time sleeping Aaron and I are usually sitting in a bar drinking. Believe me, when I say both of us miss you and Persephone, just as intensely as you miss us, but we won't be doing this job forever and maybe in 20 years or so we'll retire, travel a little, have some more children and so forth. 20 or 30 years is nothing to a vampire and it will pass by in what seems a blink of an eye. There's no reason that you can't take on a hobby when you're not working, write a computer program and sell it for instance, since you're so good in that particular medium. I mean after all I write books in my spare time, and I've written 30 or thereabouts. Of course, until recently I had a lot more free time, which is how I was able to write so many. Now though, since you and I are together I don't have as much free time, as I used to thanks to our relationship and the work I do with the BAU."

"You don't seem at all disappointed in that," Penelope observed with a little smile playing on her lips.

"I'm not," Dave told her honestly. "My life was very boring as I've told you before until you and I finally met again. I've been much happier this last year and a half than I have been ever since you died in my arms 600 years ago. I would gladly give up writing totally just to have you back in my life, for eternity."

"That's really sweet and thoughtful, but there's no need to do that I don't see why you can't still write the occasional book," said Penelope. "I mean you can type really fast and so long as you're careful not to burn out the computer keyboard you can have a book ready in a matter of a few weeks, maybe a little longer since we'll be spending so much of our free time together. I don't see why you can't work on it for an hour of so every day, because as much as we love each other we're still going to have to have little breaks from the other, even if it's only for an hour, as that's the way to keep a relationship healthy to give the couple time to be by themselves and do their own things."

"Yes, even the couples who are mated need time to do their own thing without their spouse interfering," Dave agreed. "While mates do spend a great deal of their time together, much more then most other couples, you should be able to go shopping or do anything else you want without me urging you just to stay in or spend all your time with me. We're just like any other couple and no matter how close, so we will begin snapping at each other if we don't have at least an hour or two to ourselves every week or two. Distance and maintaining your separate sense of self are essential to any relationship and making sure it stays healthy."

"I think you've been doing wonderfully with that," Penelope said, "even when you're home you give me time by myself if I need it, not that that happens too often, since you are gone a lot."

"No, it hasn't happened a lot so far," Dave agreed, "but since soon you won't have to waste time sleeping that's about to change. At some point, I will retire from the FBI, so we're going to be spending a lot more time together when that occurs, even if it doesn't happen for a few decades."

The two continued speaking quietly, as they danced together and Penelope finally said, "I need to take a break if you don't mind my feet are aching and I'm starving."

"It's fine with me," Dave assured her, as he escorted his gorgeous wife off the dance floor. "You need to eat what you can now of all your favorite foods, because after this party is over starting early evening tomorrow you will be going through the transformation into a vampire. I might hate to see you in pain, as I know our three children will as well, we all know it's necessary, because after you finish your transformation you'll be, just like us and therefore, invulnerable to everything, except fire and will never leave us due to old age."

"Which I know will make it easier on you to leave me, since I'm well aware you fear for my safety when you're gone," Penelope said

"I can't hide anything from you can I?" Dave asked with a genuine smile. "You would make a decent profiler yourself, if you didn't love your computers so much."

"Maybe so," Penelope said with a smile, "but I'm perfectly happy with my job as a technical analyst, even if I miss you fiercely when you're gone. Besides, I might make a decent profiler, but I doubt very much I could pass the physical requirements at the Academy to become a field agent. Well, come to think of it, once I'm a vampire that won't be a problem, but still I have no intention of becoming anything, but a technical analyst. I'm not interested in fieldwork as it is bad enough seeing what human beings can do to each other on my computer screens, much less in person."

"You're such a gentle soul and that's one of the many reasons I love you so much," Dave said, as he watched his mate consume a great amount of food, although normally she ate a lot less, but she wouldn't have time to gain weight from it as she would soon be a vampire, so Dave was glad to see that Penelope wasn't stinting herself.

"So do you want to have more children right away, once you are a vampire or you want to wait awhile?" asked Dave.

"Well, I wouldn't mind having more right away, as the ones we have now are already over a year old," Penelope answered. "Our three are already so intelligent and look like they're at least five years old and really it won't be long at all, just another two or three years before they're off to college as they're look 18 and have the knowledge to do well in their studies."

"Yeah, I know, as Italy has the oldest university in the world as it was established in 1088, shortly after I was born, although I was all grown up by the time it was, but I was less than 50 which is still pretty young for a vampire. I had left my family, as I decided to travel, but I was still in Italy at that time and hadn't yet emigrated to the United States. Of course, the United States didn't even exist back then and wasn't founded until Christopher Columbus discovered it in 1492. The first university in America was established in 1636."

"You must have seen a lot of history in the making," Penelope said appreciatively, although normally she was no history buff, but Dave made it come alive.

"I have, but so has every vampire who is centuries old," Dave agreed. "Ready to go back out to the dance floor?" Dave asked once he saw that Penelope was done with a plate of food.

"No, what I really want is to get out of here, go into the house that is so close and yet so far and make love to you," Penelope said honestly.

"We can do that another couple of hours," Dave promised with an understanding smile. "Believe me, I want the same thing, but this is the last time you're going to see your friends for at least six months and maybe up to a year, as they won't be allowed to visit until I am sure you have control of your bloodlust and the same goes for your sister. You can talk to them online if you like, once you get control of your strength, but you won't be allowed to actually be within physical touching distance."

"I know," Penelope said quietly. "I suppose I had better go spend some time with Emily, Morgan, Reid and JJ, as I'll be seeing Hotch on and off over the next few months. You know Morgan still isn't happy about our relationship despite the fact that I love you."

"He has a crush on you that's all," Dave said calmly, as he drank a glass a pure scotch unmixed with blood. "I believe he was hoping that the two of you would eventually get together, but since you were having those dreams it was never meant to be."

"Yeah, we didn't meet until after I had started having them," Penelope said, as she and Dave sat closely together holding hands under the table. "I like Morgan, just not in that way. I like our very flirtatious relationship, but it doesn't mean anything, as that's just who the two of us are. Friends who like to flirt lightly with each other, but that doesn't mean anything or at least it doesn't to me."

"Morgan will get over it and he knows better and try to steal you from me, because my response will be extremely fierce and he probably won't live through it," Dave growled suddenly.

"Hey there is no need to get angry," Penelope soothed as she ran a gentle hand through Dave's short black hair. "You know I'm not interested in Morgan that way, as you're the only one for me and have been since I started having those dreams at 25. Morgan knows that the two of us are made for each other and so he maintains our relationship at just the friendship level, even if he is not happy about it. I've told him on several different occasions that he needs to find a woman that isn't already taken and that I'm not interested in him in that way. Morgan knows that I'm happy with you and if I wasn't I never would've agreed to marry you, had our three children or agreed to be turned into a vampire. I'm not the type of person to get married or have children unless I truly love them, so you have nothing to be concerned about."

"I know that," Dave said more calmly. "I'm very well aware that they are going to be other men that develop a crush on you in our centuries together if we stay in any one place for very long."

"Look who's talking," Penelope teased him. "Don't think I haven't noticed how some of the women that work at Quantico look at you and I can see them undressing you with their eyes, as a lot of them aren't very subtle. I know they wonder what you can possibly see in me, considering that I have a fuller figure then most of those women, but that just happens to be how I'm shaped and 90% of men prefer skinny women and not bigger busted ones like me."

"I know, believe me, I'm aware of their looks, but I ignore it as I'm not interested in anybody, except you," Dave said, sincerely.

"I know that," Penelope promised him. "I'm not worried about your loyalty to me at all, although normally, I would be, simply because I would think that you were leading me on or that you had a woman or two on the side. However, in our case, we were together 600 years ago, before I was killed by my own father and I have at least most of those memories back now, so I know very well how you felt about me and how my previous incarnation felt about you. I also realize that back then women with my body shape, well, they were more desired, then skinnier women, simply because they could birth many children with fewer problems. I remember that back then that having as many children as possible was essential, as so many of them died from various diseases that have mostly been eradicated in the early 21st century."

"Yes, it's only in the last hundred years or so that skinnier women have taken precedence over woman of your size, all because technology has improved, particularly medical technology and women rarely die from giving birth anymore unless they have other problems, like a heart condition. Humans change over the centuries, in fact, all mortals do and so slowly skinnier model type women have taken precedence over women that are bustier and fuller figured like you are. You also have to take into account since I was born back in the time where women didn't diet constantly to supposedly maintain their figures I personally, prefer a woman of your size rather then somebody like JJ. Don't get me wrong I like JJ and Emily as friends, but that's as far as it goes," Dave said.

"Well, we might as well get back out there on the dance floor, although I suspect we'll be dancing at various places, in various countries all over the world in our centuries together," Penelope said

"We will," Dave promised with a smile, as he offered his mate his hand in order to help her rise from where she was sitting.

Penelope didn't really need to help, but knew that it was just ingrained into Dave to be a gentleman, which meant helping her up from her seat, holding the door open for her always offering up his arm and so forth, so she accepted the gesture graciously, as it was just part of who the man she loved was. Besides, she liked that Dave was old-fashioned enough to do the things for her unconsciously, as he considered her his lady and that was fine with her.

"You know I've had more than one person comment on the roses you're always sending me at work," Penelope mentioned as a two of them returned to the dance floor. "Some of those women have been giving me dirty looks and they're extremely jealous that you spoil me so much. I know they wonder what you see in me and if they could find someone that spoils them the way you do me they'd be happy, but those type of men are few and far between."

"Let them be jealous, just so long as they don't let their jealousy get out of control," Dave said shrugging nonchalantly. "I'll be much happier and will be able to relax more when I'm away once you are a vampire, because I know very well that when someone is jealous of what others have can blow it all out of proportion and do something they later come to regret, but by then it's too late. You'll be a lot harder to injure once you're like I am and you'll be able to defend yourself much more effectively if somebody does decide that they're going to get back at you for supposedly stealing me, even though I was never interested in any of them. I know they are in for a surprise if that does happen. Not many people, unless they are vampires themselves, understand about mate bonds, well, except for werewolves who have something similar."

"I don't think anybody would go that far, as after all there are plenty of fish in the sea and you're not the only handsome man out there," Penelope said.

"True enough, but still you never know as humans in particular, get jealous over what others have, so I'll just feel better when I have to go out of town, that you're like I am as you'll be nearly impossible to injure. I know that Aaron feels the same way I do about your sister as he worries constantly when he's gone about her. However, that's only natural, because if anything were to happen to a vampire's mate while they weren't there to protect them, they would find a way to meet their own ends. Of course, normally, this only happens if a vampire's mate is mortal and before they can be changed, which is why so many vampires prefer just to kidnap the person that is their mate and change them immediately."

"You and Hotch didn't," Penelope said.

"For us it's a little different," Dave said. "For one thing both of us are careful men and we never take any action without thinking it through first, while other vampires cannot say the same, particularly those that are less than a hundred years old. It takes time to gain wisdom, even if you're extremely intelligent and that only comes through experience, not just book learning. If I had taken that route with you, you would have been missed almost immediately, since you are a government employee, so you are not someone that can just disappear without it being investigated and I would be the prime suspect once I quit the BAU when I had just come back after 10 years away. It's only a few vampires that haven't been civilized or don't care about the problems it causes, that kidnap their mates, as they don't have the social skills in order to win their affections. Most of the time if some human or other species disappears it isn't very noticeable, unless they're high profile, because unfortunately, mortals disappear all the time for one reason or another whether they'll killed or they just want to disappear on their own. Besides, I knew all about a witch's ability to dream of their past lives or about their future, although I realize that not every single magical has those abilities. However, I was hoping beyond hope, that you did and that you had been dreaming of me, because that would make things easier for us to get back together if you remembered our previous relationship," Dave said. "I was so glad to find out that you did remember, even if it was only bits and pieces and it was mostly about our lovemaking at that time."

"You never told me that before," Penelope said in a small quiet voice.

"I didn't see any need to," Dave shrugged.

The two fell silent and simply danced to the music as Dave had gone so far as to hire a professional band.

"I love you so much, David Rossi and I'm looking forward to spending eternity together," Penelope told her mate softly, kissing him tenderly on the lips.

"And I love you, Penelope Garcia Rossi," Dave said sincerely. "You were my past and now you're my present and my future and believe me, I couldn't be happier about that."

The two fell silent and couldn't wait until it was time to say goodbye to everyone so that they could escape to their home where they would spend the night making love and the very next day Penelope would be changed into a vampire.

Persephone, of course, would also be changed, but she and Hotch were going to join them tomorrow sometime just before sunset, as Dave wanted at least 24 hours with his mate. The two of them would be making love for all that time, before she was injected by needle with his venom where he would not only become her mate and husband, but her sire as well.

Hotch, of course, would be doing the same to Persephone, except using his own venom.

Hotch had already taken the next several days off, as he wanted to be by his mate's side as she went through her transformation and be there for her when she awoke. How the team was going to manage considering, now that they were much reduced they didn't know, although they did understand the need and it was only for a week and then Hotch at least would return.

Finally the reception came to an end at 10 o'clock at night and Dave and Penelope immediately escaped into the house after seeing all their guests off not caring about the mess as they could deal with it later.

~~~Future Reincarnation of a Lost Love~~~

Penelope suddenly realized that the pain she had been under for she didn't know how long had suddenly vanished. She had felt like she was in hell as her bones felt as if they were melting under the intense heat and the burning sensation was excruciating enough to make her scream. She wasn't sure what she had done exactly that to deserve the pain she was experiencing, as nobody could stand the amount of agony she had been in without screaming loud enough to wake the dead. Along with the burning sensation she felt as if she was being stuck with 1000 hot knives and that her very skin was being sliced from her body and her bones were being ground into powder until there was nothing left of what had used to be Penelope Garcia Rossi. Was that actually her name or was she imagining things as her memory was very fuzzy she was sure due to the intense earthshattering pain. Her throat was burning fiercely and she wonder if that was, because she had screamed until her throat was raw or for another reason?"

Slowly her senses came back and she felt the softness beneath her body. Was she lying on a bed? Or somewhere else that was soft and comfortable against her body? Slowly she remembered a voice that had been talking to her for the whole time she had been in such excruciating intense pain, although she felt there really was no word in the English language for what she had been through for the word pain just wasn't enough.

She remembered a male voice that had been talking to her and telling her about how much he loved her, that the pain was unfortunately, necessary for her to go through and that it would be over soon, although it hadn't come soon enough for her.

Who was that man that had been talking to her the whole time and why did he say the pain was necessary? The pain and agony in the man's voice had been real enough and so was the fact that he loved her, but if he loved her why would he put her through such excruciating agony?

She thought about all she knew and slowly her mind started to clear and certain memories immediately flashed to the forefront.

The first memory was of a handsome man, with short black hair and warm, but ancient dark brown eyes. She remembered the man distinctly saying that the pain would be over soon and then the two of them would always be together.

She well remembered the man kissing her tenderly and telling her that he would love her forever and that he was looking forward to spending eternity with her.

Eternity? Now there was a word with a wealth of meaning. Eternity meant existence without end or infinite time. From the way the man talked she would never grow any older from the age she was now, but she wondered how that was possible.

Slowly a word seeped into her consciousness. A word that had even more wealth of meaning then eternity did. Vampire. Was that what the man was? What she was also now? She remembered that she had loved this man with every fiber of her soul and come to think of it she still loved him so much that the feeling infused her body with a gentle, but intense warmth. She instinctively felt, as if he was nearby, although she wasn't sure how she knew.

Suddenly as she was contemplating how she knew that the man that had been talking to her, that she felt her love was nearby she heard a warm, slightly worried voice filled with love.

"Come on, my love, open those beautiful eyes of yours," Dave said infusing as much warmth and love into his voice as he could when his Penelope hadn't moved for a solid 15 minutes. Dave was very well aware that it took a new vampire a few minutes to process the absence of pain and for their much expanded brains to clear enough for them to be truly conscious of their surroundings, even if they weren't actually unconscious. It just took their brains time to process exactly what had happened to them, for enough of their memories to return for them to open their eyes and begin to explore wherever they were located, as it would look totally different from before, the colors brighter, the smells more intense, the sounds louder. They would be able to see the dust motes in the air, see the grain of the wood of the bed, the nightstand, the dresser and the chest of drawers both of which were on the other side of the room. They would be able to see the grain of the wood of the door to the bathroom, which was on the opposite side from the chest and dresser much more clearly, despite the distance then most humans would have been able to. The transformation would also have fixed his, Penelope eyes, so she would never again need glasses and as soon as her time as a newborn was over and she had drank enough of the artificial stuff the newborn redness of her eyes would disappear and the beautiful brown she had been born with would once again emerge.

Dave had known the instant that the transformation completed, as his, Penelope who had been screaming, as if she was being consumed by fire or something even more painful for nearly 3 days straight had suddenly just stopped abruptly.

Dave gave Penelope a few minutes to process her new situation, but her silence and stillness were driving him crazy and so finally he spoke.

Dave was unsurprised when his, Penelope suddenly opened her eyes and looked around the room rapidly for the source of the voice.

"Who are you?" came a voice he loved that was several octaves lower and more musical than it had been before. "Where am I?"

"Don't you remember?" Dave asked her gently not approaching her quite yet as much as he would have liked to, because at the moment she was strong enough to tear an arm off and that would be true for the next year. It could be reattached, it was still painful to lose a limb and then have it put back on, so he'd rather not. "Your name is Penelope Garcia Rossi and you and I were married less than a week ago. I am your husband as well as your mate David Rossi."

Penelope closed her eyes as more memories came into her mind at the mention of the man's name and all of them were beyond pleasant. She remembered scolding him playfully for spoiling her so much and buying her flowers so frequently, even though she remembered being secretly pleased, but if felt it was her duty to do so. She remembered how Dave had cut her off by holding her and then kissing her on the lips tenderly and how he knew that she wasn't really mad at him. She remembered about half a dozen other women being jealous at all the attention she was receiving from the drop dead gorgeous David Rossi and how he never paid any attention to anyone but her. She remembered all the malicious comments behind her back about what somebody as handsome as David Rossi could possibly see in someone like her and how she just ignored them knowing where his feelings lay and trusting him to always be faithful to her. She remembered Dave giving her a beautiful diamond tennis bracelet that she didn't need to be told that gems were real and not cubic zirconia. She remembered how there were always fresh roses on the mantle in the living room of their home and in her office at work as Dave never forgot to send her new ones, even when he was out of town. She remembered the beautiful, exquisite necklace and ring with rubies and some sort of crest on it that she never took off, except in bed when the two of them were making love and knew they were worth a fortune. She remembered all the times that she and Dave had spent talking about general things, but also learning everything they could about each other and how they would kiss every few minutes, two people very much in love. She remembered instinctively knowing that Dave was not mortal as he was far to handsome for that, but a vampire and she immediately understood why he had taken an interest in somebody like her.

Wait a minute if Dave was a vampire, that meant that he would've eventually wanted to transform her into one, so was that what she was now? Is that why she had been in so much pain for what seemed like a century or more?

Now that she was more aware she could feel the very strong connection that seemed to flow between her and her husband David Rossi and she knew instinctively this meant that the two of them were soulmates meant to be together through the centuries.

Penelope opened her eyes and looked directly into the warm brown ones of her husband and mate and said, "I remember."

"What do you remember?" Dave asked just a little cautiously.

"I remembered that I love you with every fiber of my soul and that that you were a vampire and I'm assuming that the pain I just went through was because you were transforming me into one."

"Yes and you agreed to it," Dave agreed daring to hope that he would soon be able to take the woman he loved so deeply into his arms once more, because listening to her screaming in agony had been torture. However, he had known that it was necessary and so he had been able to survive it. Luckily, his siblings had been keeping his and Penelope's children occupied for the last 2 1/2 days that it had taken to complete transformation, so they hadn't had to listen to their mother and aunt scream in unimaginable, but necessary agony. It had been hard enough on him a mature, centuries old vampire and it wasn't something he wanted to put his children, who were only a little bit over a year old, through.

"I know, I did, as I remember that to," Penelope said truthfully. "I remember that you described the process to me and that it was necessary, so that the two of us would never be parted by death as I grew older naturally and you stayed the same."

"I would never have allowed that to occur," Dave said his tone firm, "and I would've been forced to turn you into what I am if you had refused, but luckily, I didn't have to do that."

"I know that too. Besides, I love you so much that there is no way I would have refused to become what you are, even though I was well aware that the process would be extremely painful," Penelope said.

"Well, now you don't have to ever worry about being in pain again," Dave said, as he took a step closer watching Penelope's reactions closely just in case his mate got it in her head to attack him, as it had happened in the past, although not usually between two vampires that were soulmates. Still it was better to be safe then to lose an arm and then have to have it reattached as that was extremely painful.

"I promise I'm safe to be around and I'm not going to tear an arm off," Penelope laughed at him seeming to be able to tell what he was thinking. "I know exactly what my feelings for you are, as I can now feel the bond that I remember you saying was between us and I love you far too much to do you any damage, even if it's only temporary."

"You might actually do me some damage when we're making love as you're going to be stronger than I am for the next year," Dave told her, as he approached her slowly, as if not to frighten her. "I won't be mad at you if you do, because I know that you have to learn how to control your strength as well as other things and besides, any injury is easy to repair with the right amount of blood."

"Is that why my throat is burning?" Penelope asked. "I need blood?"

"Yes, I'm surprised that you haven't gone to try to find some considering that you're a newborn and every newborn I've ever changed has needed blood within minutes of finishing the transformation.

"You're very good at distracting me," Penelope smiled causing Dave to laugh, as he finally held his mate in his arms for the first time in almost three days and he reveled in the sensation breathing in his Penelope's slightly changed scent and loving it immediately.

"Well, I might be good distracting you from the burning in your throat, but we still need to get you some blood. Luckily, I have some all prepared as I knew you'd be waking soon, since I could tell the transformation was nearly complete. I left you just long enough to get some out of the fridge in the kitchen and warmed up for you, but it should be at room temperature now as I did that two hours ago."

"Alright, give me that blood and no one gets hurt," Penelope joked and Dave complied immediately, because even though he knew his mate was joking she was also very serious. Besides, he was well aware that her throat must be causing her a great deal of discomfort and so he handed over an entire container of blood.

"Be careful with that it's only very thick glass after all, so you need to remember to be gentle as you could destroy the container and have blood everywhere if you aren't very careful," Dave instructed before he allowed her to touch it.

Penelope knew that Dave was speaking the truth, as she remembered a conversation when she was still human where Dave had been telling her exactly what she could expect once she was turned into a vampire and extremely enhanced strength was one of them, along with advanced hearing, eyesight, sense of smell and so forth.

Penelope grasped the handle of the pitcher gently remembering to only touch it very lightly. Once Dave was sure that she wasn't going to crush the glass he released it and Penelope lifted it to her mouth and begin to drink directly out of the container not bothering with a glass, although normally she would have. She could go back to drinking out of glasses and cups once she had control of her new immense strength, but right now she had enough to deal with to worry about her manners. Besides, there was no one here to see what she was doing other than Dave and whatever other vampires were in the house and they would certainly more than understand what she was going through at the moment. She had no doubt they would forgive her rudeness by drinking out of the pitcher instead of a glass or a cup which would've been the polite thing to do.

"That really hit the spot," Penelope sighed, as she finished the entire pitcher in less than 2 minutes.

"So do you need more or do you feel full?" Dave asked casually. "In other words, is your throat still burning or does it feel normal? If it's still tingling, even a little bit you tell me and I'll get you some more blood, as you're going to need to drink blood every couple of days for at least next year and possibly for longer, but that depends on the vampire in question. Eventually, you'll be able to go up to two or three weeks without drinking anything, so long as you drink large amounts every time you feed. Of course, it also depends on how much physical activity you've been doing. Fucking each other senseless for instance drains energy and therefore, makes you thirsty, so you will need to feed more often."

Penelope considered how she really felt and if she needed more blood and decided that yes, she did, as it was apparently going to take quite a bit of blood to keep her very large body going. Besides, her throat was still tingling madly, even if it wasn't precisely burning and Dave had said that it shouldn't be tingling at all if she was truly full.

"Yes, I do believe that I need some more as the back of my throat is still tingling, even if it's not really burning," Penelope decided.

"I figured as much," Dave said with a nod of understanding, "as a new vampire can drain an entire human at one time when we were allowed to do that and as a newborn you will be thirsty more often then I am. This is despite the fact that you will have drank either 3 or 4 pints of blood at one time. Unfortunately you'll be thirsty again only two or three days later. The artificial stuff, while it is effective in controlling a vampire's thirst, you're still going to need more of it for at least the next year, so it's a good thing that I made sure there was over hundred gallons of it in the freezers outside in the garage."

"That sounds like a lot," Penelope said.

"It's not when there are other vampires in the house," Dave explained. "Your twin sister Persephone should've finished the transformation about the same time you did and having two newborns in the house means that we would have had to make sure that a great amount of blood was available."

At the mention of her sister's name a lot of memories flashed through Penelope's mind and she remembered her twin sister who was identical to her in every way, at least physically. She also saw in her memories a tall dark haired man that was a similar to Dave in a lot of ways, his handsomeness for one thing, which meant he was also a vampire and likely her sister's mate.

"I remember her," Penelope said finally, "and also a tall dark handsome vampire that is a little bit over you in height with broader shoulders."

"That would be your sister's mate, Aaron Hotchner," Dave said. "I was his mentor at the place where I work for many years, but now he is the unit chief. You also work at the behavioral analysis unit of the FBI as the technical analyst and that's where we met as I had come back after retiring over a decade before."

"So that would make him my boss then," Penelope said.

"Yes, it would, but you are also friends outside the job, just like me and your sister are. You both knew that it would be good to be friends since Aaron is your sister's mate, just as you are mine and the two of us have been good friends for many years. Also since Aaron married your sister Persephone we're now also tentatively related, but we all four share bonds that goes deeper than any mere piece of paper."

"I seem to remember that vampires don't really care whether they ever marry the person that they're with, even if the union produces children," Penelope said.

"We don't, normally," Dave admitted. "However when your mate happens to be human or a magical or a werewolf that believes in the sanctity of marriage, then the vampire usually goes along with whatever their mate wants as their happiness matters to the vampire. You wouldn't have felt right about being turned and spending the rest of your forever with me, if we hadn't gotten married first and your sister felt the same way about Aaron, as the two of you were raised to believe in the sanctity of marriage. Now if you two had been born vampires then it would have been different as our kind, the ones that have been born that way, don't care about such things as a piece of paper that says they are legally married."

Penelope absorbed that and then threw her arms around her mate's neck and kissed him breathless. "Now get me that second pitcher of blood and I'll show you how much I love you for being so thoughtful, understanding and compassionate."

"Yes, ma'am," Dave answered immediately and opened the bedroom door racing downstairs to prepare that second pitcher of blood for his mate, before they could get to other activities, ones that he was more than looking forward to.

Penelope just watched Dave disappear out the door and laughed softly, as she had known very well how to get Dave to hurry, as the promise of sex, especially when he hadn't had any in awhile was the way to any man's cock, not just her mate's and also the way to get that man's instant obedience. Besides, she would freely admit to herself anyway, that she was feeling rather horny at the moment and knew that Dave likely was as well, since they had been abstinent for several days.

~~~Future Reincarnation of a Lost Love~~~