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Chapter 20

I found myself on a private plane a few hours after the armored men had came to the mansion. Rebeca had explained to her family what the armored men wanted. At first they refused but soon realized that any fighting would be useless and most likely get them all killed. The Fists as they called themselves were the personal guards of Salina who was the matriarch of Rebeca's family. I didn't like it as much as Rebeca did but we didn't have much of a choice in the matter. Salina had got the Fists to The US by private plane which we were on right now. Going to London to go answer Salina's envoy. We had been riding for just an hour so we still had about 8 hours left. The Fists were in a different compartment then me or Salina. I wondered what explanation Rebeca's family would generate to explain my disappearance. Probably a surprise trip... Or something like that. I sighed. Rebeca was laying across the seats. Her head in my lap. I cradled her head with one arm and stroke her hair with the other. I smiled down at her and kissed her lips softly. She started to stir and woke up looking up at me and she smiled. She wrapped her arms around my neck and pushed me back down to her and kissed me. I smiled and she smiled too.

"I love you Mich," She told me.

"I love you too Rebeca," I said. She and I both smiled I leaned back down to her and kissed her deeply. She held me where I was and kissed me back with just as much passion as I had given her. She lowered her head and stared at me. She raised a hand and creased my cheek.

"I would do anything for you," She told me with a small smile.

"And I would too," I said with the same smile as she had.

She smiled a little and looked up to me differently.

"I'm thirsty," She said like a little kid that wanted water before going to bed. I smiled.

"I'm the tap," I said. She smiled and laughed.

"Yes you are," She said agreeing with me. She sat up. I laid my head on her lap. She smiled at me.

"Want a comfortable pillow?" She asked with a smile.

"Maybe," I answered with a smile. She leaned down to me and kissed my lips. I kissed her back and tilted my head. She smiled and bit deep into my neck. The pleasure washed through me as she drank. I wrapped one arm around her neck and one arm around her back. I smiled as she drank from me. I leaned to her neck and kissed it once to warn her before I bit into her neck too. We were giving and reciving blood. I bit deeper with her and I felt her arms wrap around me like mine were around her. We were finished and took our fangs out of each other's neck and we stared into each other's eyes. We fell asleep, her head resting on the seat and mine resting on her lap.

I felt a shaking of my shoulder and opened my eyes. Rebeca smiled and I did too.

"We are here," She whispered to me and I got up off her lap and stood and realized that the Fists were around us waiting. Rebeca got up and we exited the plane. We were on an airfield, I saw mostly small planes but some commercial sized planes. We were in a large hanger. I could hear a small plane taking off in the distance. I followed Rebeca into a black limo. One of the Fists entered too. Entering the car with little trouble despite the plate armor. I saw one enter the driver side door and one into the passenger's side door. I heard the car start. I tried to look out the window. I saw the window was heavily tinted, but I could see perfectly with my enhanced sight. Once the car started the Fist that was across from us took off the helmet. For once. She had long silvery hair that was straight that had been outside the helmet rather than bunched up inside. She had bright purple eyes with black irises. I was a little put off by the purple eyes but Rebeca didn't flinch. She smiled at my reaction.

"You get used to it," She told me and I nodded. We drove for what seemed like a few hours before the limo stopped and the door was opened for us and we stepped out into the late afternoon air. We were in front of a large mason. It was built Victorian style. Pure white columns and picket fence and all. I didn't see any guards at the door though. The girl had put her helmet back on and the three guards escorted us to the door and they opened it and we walked in. Only one of the Fists were behind us and urged us forward. We were in an antechamber and we moved forward, though arched doors and into a large central chamber. It was incredible the pilers that supported the ceiling seem to stretch into the very heavens themselves. Rebeca didn't seem as impressed as I was, she had probably gone here at least once before. We kept walking in pace. I looked to where we were going. At the end of the chamber I saw a stone old style thrown with a woman sitting at it. I saw several guards like those who had picked us up. Plate mail, claymores. This time if we fought I'd be ready. I had several spades hidden on my person, they were literally made back in the 13 century to pierce heavy plate mail. I saw Rebeca's mom and dad at the end of the all along with the guards and the woman who I assumed was Salina. She didn't look that tough. But then again. Rebeca didn't look like she could kill with a touch and I would be wrong there so I should assume that I might be able to keep a guard or two at bay but I'd have absolutely no chance if she got bored.

"Follow my lead," Rebeca whispered to me as we got closer to the end. About 20 paces from the throne, Rebeca stopped and I did too and she bowed to one knee and I did the same.

"Up my child," She said. "Both of you," She added. Her voice was honeyed and seductive but it didn't seem like she was trying to sound like that. Like it was her natural voice. Rebeca and I got to our feet. I could see others in my perifial vision. They weren't behind us but on the sides, next to the pillars. Watching.

"Allow me to introduce myself Michel. My name is Salina Borno, Matriarch of the Borno family. One of the cannibalistic clans of the Dark Ages, or vampire if you prefer to call it that," she said.

"Hmmm... All records that we've uncovered says that your family can't be traced to any of the cannibal clans, which is strange in itself because you don't have at least one descendant who is a descendant of one of the clans. Blood gets around," She said simplifying it if I couldn't follow but I could.

"Hmmm..." She trailed and looked at me.

"No records reveal those powers that you have to any of the clans... And your appearance... is also strange. It's more befitting of what normal humans have put an image to us," She said. She stood up from her throne and walked towards us she stopped about 10 paces from us.

"I also understand you're impervious to Jene's charm," She said.

"Yes I am," I told her. I wasn't' going to question how she knew because well... Someone must have told her. She smiled more.

"Let us put it to the test," She said and held her arms out to me.

"Come to me," She said and I felt a power similar in nature to Jene's but that's when the similarities end because her draw was much more powerful than Jene's. I felt weak, standing where I was. I felt myself stop breathing and I collapsed to the ground , I felt my vision blurring and my throat tighten so I couldn't breath. I felt my hands grasp my neck in a reflex but was in vain. My hearing was going too because I knew Rebeca was yelling but it sounded like a whisper, I could barely make it out but it was probably something along the lines of 'stop, can't you see your killing him'. I blacked out.

When I came to I was laying in a bed, not mine in my room, not the one in guest room of Rebeca's house, telling me that this nightmare was just a nightmare in what was happening not that it wasn't happening. I stirred a little and I saw Rebeca's face. She sat down on the bed I was laying on and laid down on top of me smiling.

"You scared me for a second," She said.

"Sorry," I said.

"It's not your fault, I think Jene and Salina have the same complex about when their powers don't work," She told me. I smiled lightly at her.

"Where am I?" I asked her.

"Your quarters are being provided by Salina," She said.

"But where am I?" I asked. She shrugged.

"I don't know, she doesn't let people know where she lives," Rebeca said. I shrugged back.

"I guess I can understand that," I said.

"So what now?" I asked.

"Salina still has some questions but she'll ask them when she's cooled down. She was pretty pissed when you didn't come to her. That's why she nearly killed you using another power. It's kind of like what my dad's power is but only in the beginning like when you feel his presence, it only feels like it'll suffocate you. Salina's actually does," She explained. I nodded.

"You ok?" She asked getting a little closer. I smiled up at her and nodded, she smiled back, I could never get bored of that smile of hers.

"Good," She said kissing my lips lightly. I heard a knock at the door. Rebeca moved away and walked to the door. She looked through the peek hole and opened the door. It was Rebeca's mother.

"It's good to see you alive," She said with a small smile.

"Rebeca can we talk to you?" She asked. Rebeca looked back to me and I smiled and nodded.

"Ok," She said and left with her mother, I saw her father in the background and her mom closed the door. I laid back on the bed and closed my eyes. I sighed. I couldn't for the life of me condemn what I had become. It made me one step closer to Rebeca. I knew I wasn't the same as her but I was close enough. I started to hear some yelling coming from outside my door. I stood up and walked to the door and looked through the peek hole. Rebeca was the one yelling at her parents. They seemed to be taking it, it seemed like they felt guilty, Rebeca's rant seemed to be dying down and I stepped away from the door and walked to the window. I looked out. It was a rolling plain of green grass. It was impressive, no sign of the building we were in.

"It's a illusion," I heard Rebeca's voice. I hadn't heard her come in, which was strange I must have been pretty absorbed by the scenery.

"Sorry for surprising you," She said. I didn't think I jumped but I guess I did.

"Don't worry about it, so was their any particular reason you were yelling at your parents, you know, other than the nearly killing me thing," I said.

"Salina wants to talk to you again, alone," She said. I could tell why she'd yell. I would too if I were in her position.

"I'm not sure if I want to if she gets angry so easily she might actually succeed in killing me next time," I said.

"I know," She said looking down.

"I guess I don't have a choice?" I asked. She shook her head. I put my hands on her shoulders she looked up to me.

"Don't worry. I'll be back, I promise," I said.

"You better. I'll bring you back to life somehow and kill you if you don't," She growled. I smiled at her and stroked her cheek. I heard a knock at my door.

"You should go," She said. I nodded and kissed her lips softly. Before departing and opened the door. It was a Fist.

"Follow me," He said with no emotion. I nodded and he turned around and I followed him though what seemed like endless passages. I felt like we were going to the bowls of the earth. We finally stopped at a door. The Fist knocked.

"Enter," I heard Salina's voice say. The Fist opened the door and gestured for me to enter I gulped and did as she said and entered. I walked into a large bedroom. In one corner was a desk with computer. It was huge, the monitor. I saw a large bed in the center of the red room. I saw Salina in another corner painting on a canvas. She kept painting for a minute before stopping.

"Sorry, I needed to finish up," She said and stood up and turned to me.

"I'm also sorry about earlier today, I... lost my composure. You see I'm not used to getting my way, and it was probably just me and I felt anger. I thought you were resisting and didn't' take into consideration that you probably felt no pull at all," She apologized. I nodded.

"Thanks for the apology," I said. She walked closer to me and just walked around me, she seemed to examine me.

"Quite strange," She said.

"It's absolutely frustrating," She said.

"Tell me, how did this come to pass?" She asked me.

"Well Rebeca and I were in her car. She was... she couldn't control herself and needed a drink but we were in the middle of the school parking lot. While she was drinking we heard a knocking at the window and she pulled away sharply and she must have cut herself on something and her wound rubbed against mine, I'm not sure exactly how it happened but I know that's what happen," I told her.

"Hmmm... Maybe Rebeca's blood awakened yours but... still their should be some record of a connection..." She trailed thinking hard.

"The guard will take you back to your room. I need to check something," She said. I was surprised but happy to leave and nodded and opened the door and the guard took me back to my room. I opened the door and Rebeca was waiting for me, sitting on the bed. She smiled and ran over to me and jumped on me. Wrapping her arms and legs around me holding me close, I smiled but didn't fall down this time and held her too. She kissed me over and over furiously.

"You have no idea how happy I am that your ok," She said giving me another intense bout of kissing I returned her kisses the best I could. I sat down on the bed and she loosened her grip on me slightly. She smiled at me. She put her hands on my chest and pushed me down on the bed. She was on top of me straddling my chest. She kissed me over and over getting softer and more lovingly. I returned her kisses easier. She smiled down at me. I heard a knock at the door. She growled but got off me. She walked to the door and looked through the peek hole, she sighed in frustration and I got up to sitting on my bed. She opened the door.

"Yes?" She asked, it was her dad.

"Bed time," He said.

"WHAT?" She asked outraged.

"I've never had a bed time in my life," She complained, and frowned.

"Now," He said not quite as firm to make the point across but she knew.

"Night Mich," She said sighing.

"Night Rebeca," I said. She closed the door softly. I sighed and laid down normally on my bed. Wondering what Salina had to check. I fell asleep soon after.