Hiya, nothing to say except HERE IS IS!
Annabel: You're evil, Claymaker! Pairing me with that creep! He don't like me though.
Claymaker: I know. (cackles evilly.) {but he will} (sprinkles love dust over Annabel.)
Alucard: Spaz, what have you done to- (drools at Annabel) Annabel, i want you.
Annabel: Eeek! (Glomps her.)
Claymaker: My work here is done. (walking away.)
Disclaimer: I'm only borrowing the characters. I'll give them back i promise -crossing fingers behind back-
-Chapter 19 She Fears
It was three days later. Her punishment over, however she remained in her room for the time being. Only once, she ventured out, to see Walter. Once she spotted him in the kitchen, she held out her wrist.
"Hook me up, Walter. I think Big Red needs some mood juice." Walter obliged, knowing full well how strange Alucard was acting lately. Receiving his favorite treat may lighten up his mood.
That was two days ago. She was still confused by his actions in her room. First, he demands to know her actions, and then he comforts her, and finally throws her on the bed ready to what? Kiss her? Drink her? She treated him to a pint of blood in case it was the latter. She twirled a lock of hair with her fingers, pondering what would have happened without the interruption. She would have let him do both at this point. She recalled how his vampire's body heated up next to hers. She did not understand it. Despite what she read back in her world, she still did not know many of the inner workings of the vampire world. 'Could he actually be attracted to me?' She didn't want to hope, however that didn't stop her legs and thighs from twitching in need and her heart to pine. "Damn it!" Annabel punched her pillow hard burning a fist size whole in it.
She stalked out into the sunny training grounds and selected a durable rubber dummy to pummel her frustration at it. No one came near her as her 'victim' slowly became a melted mass of nothing. She returned to her room after decimating her second dummy and after she finally felt much better.
She sat against the headboard absorbed in her depressing thoughts. She wore a tank top and form fitting blue jeans. Integra requested her presence in her office at seven pm. The clock read seven-twenty. Annabel was feeling too antisocial to go to a meeting.
Integra was fuming. Alucard and Seras arrived on time to meet the new guest; a tall young man in his twenties, dirty-blond short hair, hooked nose, brown eyes, and a mustache over thin lips. He wore casual and expensive clothes.
"Alucard, go get her now!"
"Yes, my Master."
Annabel saw the vampire appear before her.
"You're looking chipper. Hey hey hieeeeee." He scooped her up and plopped her over his broad left shoulder. He had an ample view of buttocks. She thumped on his lower back.
"Let me go you Rat! What's this for?" She kicked at his lower stomach hoping to hit the typically sensitive area in rude, arrogant men. His left arm locked her legs preventing any further hits.
"Stop that struggling, Spaz." He spanked her rump, clearly not in the mood for games. Her recent treat of her blood did nothing to sooth it.
"Eeek!" Two can play at that game. She clawed her hands and grabbed two handfuls of ass.
"Guh" Alucard's eyes widened. He released her legs.
*Thump*
"Oooww. You bastard." She lay on her backside. Already in a bad mood, Alucard twirled to face her.
"I will slowly disembowel you and strangle you for what you just did!" He growled in his most fear inspiring tone. All he got was raised eyebrows.
"Well you can put my foot up your ass while your at it!" barking a tart reply.
*Growl!*
"Alucard, would you help Miss Phoenix up." Integra spoke, cutting off any further insults.
Annabel finally took note of the change of scenery as Alucard pulled her off the floor. Annabel shrugged him off and stepped away from him. Aside from Seras, which she was happy to see, Alucard, which she was going to kick later, and Integra, which she should apologize to, there was another figure in the room, who was staring out a darkened window.
"Annabel, I would like you to meet my cousin. He will be staying here a few weeks while his house is being remodeled." Integra said. The young man walked out of shadows and held out his hand.
"Hello, I am David Obrien Tayler." Her eyes widened and she felt her pulse sky rocket.
The color drained from her face, her breath came in gasps, and she shook visibly.
She pressed her back against Alucard's chest, trying to distance herself from the young man. Alucard smelled her anxiety and trembling fear. 'She's deathly afraid of this pathetic human male? Impossible, she is not even afraid of me.'
Mr. Tayler stepped forward. "Miss?"
"Don't touch me!" She screamed, her hands now inside Alucard's coat holding him to her. She fumbled around trying to get a hold of one of Alucard's guns. Alucard stopped her before she could pull his Jackal out of its holster.
"David, leave the room now."
"Yes Integra," and he left.
As soon as he did, Annabel turned around pressed her hands at his collarbone still trembling, and laid her head on his chest. His right arm draped around her. His left hand lightly stroked her hair, while his eyes looked confused at Integra.
In a shaky voice, "disembowelment is preferable to the ex-boyfriend." Alucard raised an eyebrow.
-Chapter 20 The Ex
"You fear me not at all, killed a freak with ease, brushed off a near-death encounter, and yet you are petrified of a plushy, weak, human male whose thoughts stray only to his personal comfort and well being." Alucard said the last part with disgust.
She took a deep breath to relieve her tension. Alucard's scent unexpectedly calmed her somewhat. "I'm sorry Integra. Your cousin's resemblance to my ex is uncanny. He even has the same name." She gave Alucard a small smile and brushed a finger on his chin before pulling away and sitting in a nearby chair. "Of all the things that are different here, he had to be the one constant."
"What did this ex-boyfriend do to make you fear him so?" Seras spoke up.
"Miss Victoria, it is rude to ask personal questions." Integra counseled Seras.
"No, its okay. I'm sure you all want an explanation for my behavior." Alucard eyed her crudely, taking a seat. Integra sat as well. Seras stood beside her master.
'I have an audience.' she mused. "Okay. The David in my world was very sweet and romantic when I fist met him four years ago. He took me out to fancy dinners, carnivals, concerts, majestic places, and all other places. Every date was exciting, fun, or romantic. I could find nothing wrong with David. He was wealthy, handsome, courteous, thoughtful, and spontaneous. I fancied myself in love.
About eight months later, he quite literally swept me out my feet when he asked if I wanted to move in together. I said yes." She paused.
"That's when everything changed. That's when I met the real David. The very night I moved into his place, he drugged me. I woke up naked and chained up to his bed.
Flashback:
"Ah, you're awake, Sweetheart. Do you like the new arrangements?" David smiled, holding a camera.
"David what is this? I'm rather cold right now. Is this a joke, David, because I'm not laughing." She shivered.
"This is no joke, sweetheart," the endearment dripped with emphasis. "The cold will definitely make you appear more vulnerable. It brings out what such a pathetic whore you are. I do love your vulnerability. He snapped pictures of her nudity. She struggled from the restraints. Both her legs and arms bound.
"Stop this David!" She cried. "Take the cuffs off me please."
"Ah yes, fear looks good on you too." He clicked more pictures.
She screamed at the top of her lungs.
*SMACK!*
He hit her in the jaw. "No no, we won't be having any of that now. Now, sweetheart, if you do that again, I'll have to take a whip to your backside." He pointed a hanging whip on the wall to back up his threat. He left the room. 'Who is this man? He is not my David.' Rivers of tears flowed from her the rest of the night.
The next morning the restraints came off. She was allowed put clothes on, however they were two sizes to big, and very dingy. As soon as she spotted the door, she bolted for it. Unfortunately, David tazored her before making halfway.
"I'll let this go this time since it's the first time. However you are to obey my every word if you want to avoid pain." he spoke over her spazing body. "Make me a nice breakfast when you can get up."
Thirty-five minutes later, she had eggs Benedict, sliced ham, jellied bagels, and fresh orange juice ready for him.
"Why do you do this to me?" She asked in a small voice. She sat at the table adjacent to him, not touching her food.
"You are to remain silent during meals. I do this because you are a worthless woman, and unwanted, except for your cooking, and easy to control. I take pictures to show others your worthlessness, and advise them how to avoid women like you. You are not even a virgin. In olden times that would have at least brought you some worth."
"Unfortunately, most women are like you. Weak and unimaginative, looking for mister perfect in order to live happily ever after. I had thought you different. Alas, not to be." He forked a piece of ham in his mouth.
"I hate you." Annabel spoke. David grabbed her wrist, took his fork, and plunged it into her hand.
"Aaaahh!" He pulled out the fork and continued to eat with it.
"I told you." watching her hold her hand while she held back a whimper. David did not even allow her to stand up to bandage her hand.
Later, after breakfast when Annabel was thrown down before the fireplace to scrub it spotless, he scorned her again.
"You are an idiot woman to fall for my lies. A smarter woman would have seen through it months ago. You are nothing but the spawn of a mongrel bitch." spitting on her head.
"Your worse," She muttered and gained a face smack onto the brick fireplace. He tugged a fistful of hair and leaned into her ear.
"You are not to speak unless I tell you to, like the stupid mutt you are. You understand?" She responded in a whimpering nod. "Good! Now get to work, Miss Tracey!" saying her surname in vile disdain and let her go.
End Flashback
"It was like that for the next two weeks. Chained to the bed every night and forced to do his bidding everyday, and endured his low opinion of me. I was punished for the smallest things. I was fortunate to find the vial he drugged me with, and hid it in his food the last night. I grabbed my purse. He did not even bother to hide it, and ran out of there. I moved, changed my name, and started a new life. David went to jail for six months for domestic abuse."
"Only six months?" asked Seras.
"He's wealthy, remember?" Annabel replied.
Seras was hesitant about her next question. "Did he um, did he…?"
"No Seras, He did not. He said I was too ugly and useless for a 'rut in the hay' as he put it and he did not want to give any of himself believing that I would enjoy it, thinking that I was a slut and a whore."
'That David is an idiot if he thought her ugly, and she's definitely no whore.' Alucard reflected.
"Sir Integra, I sincerely hope your cousin is as benign as he seems or he may be seen wearing a flaming sword in his gut."
"He is, but if it makes you feel better I'll have his temporary quarters moved to the opposite end of the manor from yours."
"Thank you, Sir Integra." She got up to leave, however, she paused at the door. 'Sighs,' "Seras, this is going to sound silly, but could you walk me to my room?"
"Sure, Annabel." She chirped completely understanding her request.
"That did not sound silly, Spaz. That was completely normal for one who always sounds like an idiot." Alucard scorned, putting his two cents in.
Her eyes shoot daggers at him, her mouth open ready to retort. Seras opened hers to speak as well.
"Shut up Alucard. You are not helping the situation." Integra addressed him.
Annabel nodded and left the room with Seras, peeved at the vampire.
Reveiw is a must -ding ding ding -V
