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Someone to watch over me.

Chapter 20 – Pierce the skin.

At the end of this chapter You will get a small preview of an upcomming story.

Tori's POV

I don't know how long Jade just lay in my arms, this devastated look on her face. In all that time, she didn't say so much as a single word. Eventually she closed her eyes and fell into a deathlike sleep.

I felt terrible about what I said and how it had dredged up probably her most painful memory. But there was little I could do but hold her.

When she finally fell asleep, I carefully took the piece of quartz that her son had given her and carefully placed it on her night stand. That done and being tired myself, readied myself for bed and joined Jade in sleep.

Several hours later I woke up at my normal time of 10:30 to get ready for school. I found myself not wanting to leave Jade alone. But I forced myself and headed off to class. I kept feeling that last night was all my fault and it made me miserable pretty much the entire day.

I was already dark when I came home so I knew Jade would be awake. Coming inside, I found her in the living room watching some old black and white horror movie. As I walked in I could see a rather morose expression on her face.

"Hello Jade." I said cautiously, not sure what kind of mood she was in.

She looked at me and her expression turned to one of relief. "Come here." She said quietly.

I walked over and took her hand, though she pulled me so I was sitting on her lap. She then wrapped her arms around me and leaned her forehead against my arm.

"Are you ok?"

"Now that you're here, I'm better."

Jade then lifted her head and looked me in the eyes. I could still see the pain in her eyes and all I wanted to do was take it away.

"I'm so sorry about last night Jade. I had no idea, I feel terrible for doing this to you. I feel responsible for all this." I said still feeling tons of guilt.

Jade shook her head. "You didn't know. You had no idea. Don't beat yourself up. I handled it badly."

"I still feel bad."

Jade then only seemed to grip me tighter.

We stayed like this for a few more moments, then I kissed her. "Come on, let's just lay together for a while. We don't have to do anything if you don't feel up to it. I just want to lie with you."

Jade smiled weakly, let me go and took my hand. I could tell just by the way she was looking at me, she was craving love and attention.

I led her back to our crypt and after undressing we just lay together in bed. Her on her back and me wrapped around her. Neither of us did anything, other than just lay there for almost an hour.

"That feels nice." I said softly as I could feel Jade's cool fingers gently stroke my back.

"Thank you." Jade paused for a moment. "I love you Tori. You're my personal angel. Every time you touch me, I feel special. Only you can take away my pain. Make me feel loved again."

Hearing those words, I couldn't feel more loved and special myself. With a smile I moved up on top of her and gazed deeply into her green eyes. "You're everything to me Jade. I love you with all my being. All my love is for you. We're meant to be together."

Jade lifted up her hand and slowly ran it through my hair. "Let's make love."

Not needing any more prompting I leaned in and began to kiss her. Slow soft kisses, not just on her lips but her cheeks and neck, her jawbone and ear. I wanted every inch of her to feel loved and wanted. I wanted to fill her soul with all the love I could possibly give.

While I kissed her, Jade kept running her hands all over my body. Though her skin was cool to the touch, I more than welcomed her soft touch as she touched was only meant for her.

We kept going and going. Each of us giving as much as we could to the other. After a time as Jade got excited and she vamped out. Her fangs extended and her eyes grew red. It was a bit odd at first, but I now take it as a welcome sign my Jade was aroused. I've grown to find it a rather sexy look.

I've gently touched the fangs with my tongue several times. It's amazing how sharp they are. I wonder what it feels like to have them pierce the skin. I've thought about it a few times recently. Found myself wanting to be even closer to Jade. Now I know she won't turn me and I understand why. I would have to drink her blood anyway, but what if I want to give mine to her. As we got more into lovemaking, it kept running through my head. I want to give myself to her fully. Maybe it's just the passion clouding my brain.

I moved my mouth to her ear and snaked my tongue in and out several times, causing Jade to tremble with pleasure. I was hers, completely and totally, just as she was mine.

"Feed on me." I whispered in her ear.

Jade turned her head, her eyes opened wide with a rather surprised expression. "What?"

I smiled and decided to go through with it. "Feed on me. I want not only feed your soul with my love, but feed your body with mine. I want my blood to nourish you. I want to know what it's like, just once. I love you that much. I can tell you haven't fed tonight. You have that look you have when you haven't fed for a while."

Jade looked at me, her mouth open as if she was trying to decide what to do. "Tori. I won't turn you. Never.

I shook my head. "No, I won't drink your blood. I just want to know, be closer to you than we've ever been. I trust you without question. I place my life in your hands. Just this once, let's bond like no other lovers can. Our blood mixing in your body, as our souls intertwine."

Jade extended pulled back her lips, showing more of her gleaming white fangs. "I'd be lying if I said didn't want to taste you. I had never even considered asking you. Just the fact that you trust me. I can't believe it."

Committing to a course of action that some may find crazy, I moved off Jade and lay back on the bed. "Then taste me."

Jade got on top of me, her eyes blood red and her gleaming fangs now ready to strike. I would be her willing prey.

"I'm going to bite your shoulder, so it will hurt. You don't have to do this."

I hardened my resolve to give myself to Jade. "Go ahead."

"I love you Tori." She said tenderly.

Then with a lighting move, she lunged at my shoulder and a second later I felt a quick piercing of my shoulder. It was painful for a moment then suddenly I felt her cool lips press tightly against my shoulder. As she did it, I could feel her whole body go stiff and a second later I felt her gently sucking away at my blood. It was an odd feeling of coldness, but at the same time I couldn't be happier. Jade and I were now one. I was sustaining not just her soul, but her body.

Does that lessen me? I personally don't care. The strange experience lasted a few more seconds before she suddenly stopped and removed her fangs. She then licked the wound carefully and got back up so she was straddling me.

I could see a bit more color flush into her cheeks as a single drop of blood tried to escape her lips. But her tongue gingerly darted out and claimed the last drop. I felt a bit weaker and more tired than before, but seeing the look of immense satisfaction Jade's face was more than worth it.

After that Jade closed her eyes and tilted back her head.

"My saliva will quickly close your wound, you won't have to worry about bleeding. I only took a short drink. Little more than a sip. Thank you."

I ran my hand up her thigh. "So how did I taste?"

Jade opened her eyes and smiled. "Like someone I love with all my heart. In other words, divine. Now you're a bit weakened, so just lie there and let me repay you."

With a strange burst of energy, Jade suddenly and furiously began to kiss and caress me. With an unbridled passion she quickly brought me to orgasm. Not merely satisfied with that, she kept going until I had climaxed 2 more times. Her lovemaking was full of energy, passion and most importantly love itself.

Having recovered by this point, I quickly pounced on my lover and our lovemaking continued. We kept going until we were both worn out. Exhausted, we lay there for a while then made our way to the shower where we both got cleaned off.

I was starving by this time and it nearing midnight, Jade made me a midnight dinner. She took a couple of steaks she had and tossed them on the patio grill. Both of our spirits seemed much improved but I still could see the lingering sadness in Jade's eyes. I knew that that probably would never completely go away.

Jade did remain in a semi depressed state for the next few days before she returned to normal. I made a point not to mention her son. There wasn't really any point to it. I'm sure there is more of the story, but I don't need to know it. Of course Jade being almost 3000 years old, I'd have to be naive to think that her past didn't hold more surprises.

But all I care about is the fact that she loves me and I love her. To us, that's all that matters.

No one's POV

Tori and Jade had been living together for several months now. At Jade's insistence Tori continued her studies and things between them were going well. Jade endlessly doted on her lover, treating her like a queen. Tori of course doted on Jade just as much.

They took long evening winters walk in the park, ate at restaurants all over town, saw Broadway shows and enjoyed all life had to offer. But most importantly they just enjoyed being with each other. Once in a while when Tori felt like being just a bit closer to Jade would offer her blood to Jade. Jade each time accepted and took a small drink. But Tori quickly noticed that Jade would never actually ask her to do it. Jade always took the resulting burst of energy and used it to bring Tori to the heights of pleasure.

Still there were bumps in the road as there are in any relationship. Jade had a darker nature and it would come to the surface on occasion. Some nights she would be moody and sullen for no real reason at all. Sometimes it would show up as a rather morbid sense of humor. Occasionally Jade would fondly reminisce about killing someone who killing someone who the misfortune to annoy her. The only death that ever seemed to bother Jade was that of her own son.

Once in a while when they were out a clerk at a store or some person on the street would treat Tori rudely. A rather murderous look would then quickly form in Jade's eyes. Tori had learned at these times to give Jade a gentle kiss or to put her arm around the Vampire. That would always calm her instinct to kill which Tori realized hadn't gone away, but Jade merely suppressed.

Jade hated seeing Tori treated rudely and her first instinct was to simply murder anyone who so much as looked her love with scorn. But Tori's touch would always make her feel better and help her suppress those instincts. She wanted to suppress her instinct to kill, because it just wasn't right. She wanted to be a better person, for the sake of not only Tori, but her own son.

It was mid April and Tori and Jade were eating at brand new Turkish restaurant, when Jade heard a voice that gave her chills.

"Oh my God, Jade." Turing in her chair, Jade could see the unmistakable form of her old vampire friend Cassandra coming towards her.

She was well dressed as if for a night on the town in a black evening dress. Walking behind her was what Jade could see was a handsome young male vampire with dark hair. He was also well dressed in an Armani suit.

Tori looked at Jade with a raised eyebrow. "Friends of yours?"

Jade merely grunted in reply.

The last thing Jade wanted was for one of her old cohorts to show up. She just wanted a nice evening with her girlfriend. But Jade didn't to be needlessly rude so she plastered on a fake smile.

"Cassandra, how nice to see you. Who's your new friend?"

Cassandra turned to her companion. "He's newly sired and a member of the Larus clan. His name is Michael. We're out for an evening on the town to celebrate his new life."

Jade nodded to Michael. "Hello"

Michael gave a curt nod in return.

Cassandra then turned her attention to Tori. "And who is this?"

Jade then made the introduction. "Tori this is Cassandra, Cassandra this is Tori."

"Oh." Cassandra said suddenly lighting up. "This must be your pet you rescued from the clutches of Angela."

"I'm not anyone's pet. I'm her girlfriend!" Tori suddenly snapped at Cassandra with a harsh glare.

Cassandra merely scowled, but Michael stepped forward with a contemptuous look. "How dare you speak to her like that? Watch your tongue, before someone tears it out." He then turned to Jade. "Why don't you try keeping your pet in line and have it show some respect."

Jade's face suddenly flushed with rage as she made a tight fist. "Cassandra. Since he's new and you're a friend of mine. I'll spare him. But if this thing so much as speaks to me or my girlfriend again, I'll destroy him on the spot." Jade said through gritted teeth.

Michael stood there defiantly until Cassandra, who suddenly looked pissed, poked him in the chest. "If you know what's good for you, you'll shut the fuck up. You're lucky you're not already a pile of dust. Wait in the car!"

His ego suddenly deflated, Michael dropped his shoulders and walked away.

Cassandra huffed and turned to Jade. "I do apologize. I hadn't realized you were so serious about this one. She looks quite lovely." Cassandra then turned to Tori. "I apologize for Michael's behavior and my rather callous comment. If you've won Jade's heart, then you must be something very special. I will then leave you to your evening. Have a good night."

With that Cassandra gave Jade a respectful bow and quietly left.

Jade lowered her head and for a few moments rubbed the back of her neck. Tori could see that her whole body still looked quite tense.

"It's always the newly sired. They suddenly feel like their fucking invincible. Full of bravado and sheer stupidity. I'm sorry Tori. Over the years, I've destroyed at least a dozen newly sired vampires that managed to piss me off."

Tori reached across the table and took Jade's hand. "I'm proud of you holding back your anger. I love you."

Jade looked up and Tori's loving gaze help melt a good portion of her anger away. "What would I do without you?"

Tori didn't want to answer that as she knew someday Jade would be without her. So instead she redirected it. "Tell you what. When we're done eating, how about we go home and you can work off that anger in bed." Tori then smiled seductively "Something much more productive."

Jade who now felt much better, smiled in return.

A few hours later as Tori and Jade were making love, Cassandra was standing in the underground council room, beneath the large mansion outside New York City.

The room was empty save for Cassandra, a vampire named Hans who was a member of the council and Serapis who was head of the council. Cassandra had just finished detailing the events of the encounter that happened only a few hours earlier.

"That is my report sir. My plan to encounter and check out how Jade felt about this Tori went well. Though Michael wasn't supposed to say anything, I feel his rather impulsive threat to Tori only further demonstrated Jade's attachment to this Tori Vega."

Serapis sat quietly for a moment and rested his hand on his chin as he thought for a moment.

"Michael?" Serapis said.

"Though his threat to Tori did aid me in my quest to gauge the extent of Jade's attachment to Tori, I destroyed him for his insubordination as soon as we were alone. He had been told to remain quiet, other than a pleasant greeting." Cassandra said coldly.

"Excellent. You are dismissed Cassandra."

"Thank you Sir." Cassandra bowed before departing.

Hans waited to speak until after Cassandra had left the room. "Jade truly seems to be in love with this Tori."

"I agree." Serapis said.

"What next?"

"We'll have to have the full council discuss the matter in more detail at a later date."

"What about our truce with Jade? She stays out of our business and she stays out of ours. She has held to her end of the bargain." Hans remarked.

"The truce is only a matter of convenience and always has been, as far as I'm concerned. I'm beginning to feel more and more that she's growing too powerful to remain independent of our influence. Our previous offer having been turned down, we may need to take further measures. Until if and or when the council decides to act, keep having them watched. Discretely of course."

Hans nodded and got up from the table. "I shall see that it's done."

I hoped you enjoyed this latest installment. The next chapter probably won't be out for at least another week. I want to get some chapters written for my other stories.

But here is something for fun. I'm working on a yet to be published Jori story. It's an AU story involving time travel. I won't put it out until at least one of my current stories ends, but here's a sneak peek.

Setup: It started with a long forgotten photograph of a beautiful young woman named Victoria found by Jade in an antique shop. A photograph of a woman that would immediately capture the Goth's heart. Though seperated by more than a century, Jade would do anything to find the woman of her dreams. Even risk her life.

Half in a daze of disbelief, Jade, listened to the old song as she wandered down through the racks of the record store. Every one filled with brand new record albums. Like in the back, each and every album was from the early 70's. She saw a display advertising the brand new album by the Rolling Stones, "Sticky Fingers

Knowing music, Jade continued to look. Not one single album she could find was from past 1971. There was, Let it Be, by the Beatles, Atom Heart Mother by Pink Floyd and Bridge over Trouble waters by Simon and Garfunkel. It looked more and more that the test was in fact a success.

Slowly but surely Jade began to believe what she was seeing. If this was a fake, than it was a perfect fake. Every album was brand new.

At one point a young man wearing a name tag that read Kevin walked up to him.

"May I help you?"

Jade smiled as she thought. "Do you have any CD's, compact Disks?"

Kevin gave Jade a very puzzled look. "I'm sorry, I don't know what a compact disk is. We carry all the latest record albums and 8 track tapes."

Not that she liked the group, but she figured she ask anyway. "Do you have anything by One Direction?"

"I'm sorry, I can look, but I've never heard of that group. Are they new?"

Jade nodded. "You could say that. What about Nirvana. Justin Beiber, Adele, or Daft Punk."

Kevin looked even more confused. "I'm sorry. I haven't heard of any them either."

Jade studied Kevin carefully, to see if he was an actor. Jade being an actress knew a performance when she saw one. A second later Jade realized, Kevin wasn't acting. He had never heard of One Direction, Nirvana or the others.

The thought as impossible as it was ran across Jade's head. "He hasn't heard of them because it's 1971."

"I'm just going to look, thank you." Jade said as it finally sank in.

Jade laughed out loud. "Holy shit, it's 1971."

"What other year would it be?" Said some young girl in 70's clothes said sarcastically.

Jade just shook her head and rushed out of the store to see the street. Just like the inside, it looked like the early 1970's. The people's clothes, the cars, everything. Jade even noticed the Starbucks down the street was no longer there. In its place sat a very old looking warehouse.

Jade couldn't help but jump for Joy. "I did it. I did it. That stupid thing actually worked." She has happy because it meant one thing. She could see Tori. What was impossible, now no longer was.

But as much as Jade wanted to explore she remembered her mission for the test. She fished the coins out of her pocket and ran across the street to the newsstand. There, she bought a brand new copy of The Times dated, May 2nd, 1971

Glancing at the headline, Jade could see it was about some group called the Angry Brigade, who had taken responsibility for a bomb that had gone off in a Bilba clothing store in London the previous day.

Looking away from the paper Jade couldn't help but laugh as she stood in the London street, looking at the old cars. All of them looked shiny and new. "Holy fuck, A world where No one's heard of Justin Beiber, Kim Kardashian or One Direction and Led Zeppelin is still together. I may never want to leave."

It was almost too much for Jade. Her head was practically spinning, but it was a good thing. From her purse Jade pulled the faded old Victorian era photograph of Tori that started it all. As always she found herself not wanting to look away from the girl's beautiful features. A smile immediately came to the Goth's lips.

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