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Kate had taken the sofa to start off with but found she couldn't get comfortable and woke up the next evening down on the floor with Castle, wrapped up in his arms.

"How did I get here?" Kate looked around and found that they were both still naked. None of Sirene's clothes would fit Kate except for the big baggy stuff and absolutely nothing would fit Castle.

Kate went back to trying to figure out how she got down here. She knew that when the sun came up she was on the sofa. That should have meant that she should still be there. Had Castle gotten up and placed her on the floor next to him so that he could hold her all night.

Kate however knew that Castle had told her that he had tried that at first, but she got too cold for him to hold her close. At any rate Kate liked where she was so she snuggled in a little closer and pressed her nose into his skin.

Then it occurred to her that Castle was no longer wearing his chastity device. Which gave her another question. How had Castle woken up with a monstrous erection that was being constricted by the device? The point of the device was to prevent erections and prolong the need for one so that when he was released his orgasms would be that much more powerful.

Kate already knew why she had given him a blow job. Castle was in pain and needed release. Sure she could have just let him take care of it himself but she just couldn't do that. Besides she loved the taste of him.

Kate reached down to see if Castle wanted to play this morning. It didn't take long for Kate to feel a reaction. "You keep that up and you're going to have to finish what you started Mistress." Rick warns her as her turns his head to look at her.

"I should probably stop, not sure Sirene is interested in coming downstairs to find me riding you while squirting all over me, you and the floor." Kate points out and reluctantly removes her hand and curls it back into the space between their bodies.

"We're going to need clothes and soon." Rick points out. "We'll have to give Sirene and Irene our sizes and let them go into Victoria for all of us. Including Alexis and Paige." Kate offers a solution.

"You think Paige will be ok? She looked so out of it earlier." Rick was worried about both of them.

"Blood rage is not unusual. I encountered it every time I did it. Though I planned ahead and had bags of blood with me. In this case Sirene didn't have the time. I don't know how long it will take Paige to be Paige again." Kate answers his question.

"You believe her that we both should be dead?" Rick asks another question.

"If you mean do I think Sirene is telling the truth? Sirene is telling the truth as she knows it. Your Lycan blood is now my blood and my vampire blood is now your blood. Though our systems should be converting it. Vampire in my case and Lycan in your case. It's just that there are some weird things taking place." Kate tells him.

"I've never seen you eat food before." Rick mentions.

"I haven't, not since I was nineteen. That steak was actually pretty tasty. That other stuff not so much." Kate didn't understand what that meant.

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Paige had been awake for a few minutes now and was still surprised to find herself wrapped up in Alexis's arms. Had they slept the entire daytime like this? It didn't make sense to Paige. Still she couldn't stop her from praying that there was a meaning to this. That it meant Alexis still wanted her, that she still loved her.

It wasn't until Alexis suddenly wiped away one of Paige's tears that Paige knew Alexis was awake. "Feeling better now?" Alexis asks as she adjusts herself so she can look into Paige's eyes.

"I, … How can you even look at me?" Paige averted her eyes away from Alexis's, anywhere but there. Only to move them again away from Alexis's naked breasts, and then away from her lips. GOD, why did this have to be so hard?

"How can I, … " Alexis didn't have a clue what she was talking about. "I almost died when I saw the gunshot wounds to your chest. I had such fear that you were going to die on me. … Even after Sirene began the process of turning you into a vampire I was still so scared. I know what the percentages are of you surviving it.

I was still scared when you came back alive but was acting like you were out of your mind till Sirene explained what blood rage is." Alexis ran a finger down Paige's cheek and lifted her face up so that she could look at her. "Why would you think I wouldn't want to look at you? … I love you and I didn't lose you. I still don't want to lose you." Alexis tells her.

"But I'm a vampire now instead of a human. I was a human when you fell in love with me. Now that I'm a vampire you can't love me." To Paige things had changed.

"OH PAIGE! Of course I love you and want you. I didn't fall in love with you because you were human. I actually feared that you would reject me when you found out I was a vampire." Alexis corrects her.

"But I won't taste the same anymore. You said you loved my taste." Paige was sure that would change now.

"I did, … do love your taste and I haven't tasted you since you turned, so how do you know I won't like the new you?" Alexis questions her.

"My blood is gone and replaced by Sirene's blood. I won't taste the same anymore. You won't like my new taste." Paige couldn't help but lower her head from Alexis's eyes.

Alexis however lifted her head back up. "You have a lot to learn about being a vampire. First off, yes your blood is presently Sirene's blood and in a couple of weeks your system will have purged her blood after you have had time to create your own. And I'll bet when that time comes you'll taste the same. But your taste isn't why I love you.

Now stop worrying and kiss me." Alexis asks of her and leans in to kiss her. Paige resisted at first, but she wanted what she thought she had lost, so she kissed Alexis back. To Alexis, yes she did have a slightly different taste, but it wasn't bad. Just not as good. However she also knew that that would change in time.

"Better?" Alexis asks after breaking from the kiss and watches Paige nod her head. "Good, now make love to me because I've missed you while you've been gone."

The sun had been down about 30 minutes when Sirene and Irene came downstairs together, dressed and ready to meet the day (night). "How are you feeling?" Sirene asks as she heads for the refrigerator to get some breakfast.

"Better actually. … I don't suppose I could have one of those." Kate points to the blood bag that Sirene was putting into the microwave. "Sure." Sirene opens the refrigerator again. "I think you should make that two." Kate suggests, thinking Castle was going to need one also.

Kate slaps a warm blood bag into Castle's chest. "Here, eat up Castle." Kate was grinning wide at this role reversal.

Rick gives Kate a face. "I'm going to miss Paige's cooking, aren't I?" Rick looked at the stupid bag of blood in his hand.

"Better hurry up Castle, it tastes better when it's warm. Besides maybe this one is type O." Kate teased since Castle had hated the AB- type last time.

What Rick wanted to do was dump it on her head. But Rick groaned and took the damn straw out of her hand and poked it and took a couple of deep breathes and put the straw into his mouth. He just didn't start sucking on it because he knew it was going to taste yucky.

Rick turned his head to see that Kate was watching him while sucking on her straw, barely holding in a grin if not a full blown laughing attack.

Rick let his hands and his bag of blood fall into his lap, and Kate lost her grin. "I'm sorry Castle, I really am. I liked you as a human and I'm going to miss my human Castle. But you were going to die Castle and that would have broken my heart." Kate knew she wasn't going to shoot him. At least not until he turned into a Lycan in wolf form and tried to kill her, or Alexis, or anyone else for that matter.

"Now what am I?" Rick questions out loud for the first time and likely the tenth time to himself.

"I don't know Castle, I really don't. I just know that we're both in the same boat. … Now drink Castle. If I need it so do you. I'll teach you what it takes to be a vampire, I promise." Kate ran a hand down the side of his face. "Now drink, if you don't like it warm you're going to hate it even more cold." Kate warns him.

"Can I go home now?" Irene asks since she hasn't been home in days now.

"I don't know Irene, I really don't know. If the Lycans have been watching my house for weeks or even days, they may have seen you come and go. Which might make you a target. I just don't know. … I'm sorry." Kate feels like she has failed a lot of people.

"I have classes and a job. Everything I own is there." Her life, such as it was, was back there.

Sirene drops her bag in the trash and wraps her arms around Irene. "I'm sorry my love, but Kate is right. If they have spotted you, you just became a target in our war."

"Great! Now what do I do?" Irene had dreams and still wanted those dreams.

"Well for one thing you're going to go shopping with me. We have four people with no clothes to wear and I have a credit card. We just need sizes for everything from everyone." Sirene points out.

"I get to go shopping with someone else's money? Count me in." Irene was excited now. "Can we find something to eat along the way? I'm starving." Sex takes up a lot of energy.

"Yes we can stop and feed the human." Sirene teases.

"OH GOD. I'm the only human now aren't I? I am so going to get drained dry now I just know it." Irene teases and ends up even further into Sirene's arms. "Over my dead body." Sirene counters.

It had Kate chuckling. "DAD!" And a barely dressed Alexis came crashing down the stairs and came up short of Castle. "What are you drinking dad?"

Rick instantly took the straw out of his mouth. "It's uhm, … Oooo Yuk, this stuff is disgusting." And tries to hand it to Kate who doesn't take it. Kate simply glares at him.

"It's uhm, … Sirene found a single bottle of wine that I could drink." Rick offers.

"In a blood bag?" Alexis bends down and sniffs. "That smells suspiciously like blood." Alexis squints her eyes at him.

"It's wine that has gone bad, so it smells like that." Rick tries again. "Would you believe Klingon blood wine?"

"Wine that goes bad smells like vinegar dad, not blood and there is no such thing as Klingon Blood wine." Alexis counters and crosses her arms to stare him down. And then bends down to hug him. "I'm just glad you're alive dad."

Then all eyes turn on Paige as she walks down the stairs slowly feeling like holes are being burned into her. True she was wearing some borrowed clothes that didn't fit properly but it felt like more than that. It had Kate up off the loveseat and over to wrap her arms around Paige. "Feeling better now?" Kate pulled back to look her in the eyes.

"Alexis and I had a talk though we could probably do with another one, but yeah, I feel better. A little weird, but better." Paige tells her the truth.

"Weird how? Weird cold, weird hot or just weird?" Kate asks.

"I feel like I want something but don't know what it is. If I didn't know better I'd say I was pregnant and was having a craving. If that makes sense." Paige tries to explain.

"Two warm bags of blood coming right up. Unless Castle wants to give up his?" Sirene looks at Castle how was just sitting there with his straw in his mouth sucking blood out of a bag, shaking his head. Which gets Kate to start laughing.

"I suppose this means I don't get to cook anymore? I kinda liked cooking. I thought I was pretty good at it too." Paige moaned. Her life was changing.

"You can cook for me. I'm still human. … Except we don't have a way to cook anything in this house." Irene looked into the kitchen as Sirene pulled the first bag out of the microwave and tossed it to Alexis.

Thirty minutes later Sirene was handing out pieces of paper along with as many pens as she had, which wasn't enough. "For your test today class, I want you to write down your sizes. Pant size, shirt size, shoe size, sock size, panty size, bra size, boxer size or tighty whities size, belt size and any other size I've left off.

Oh also write down the color of your eyes and your favorite color. I have some make-up but not much and it likely isn't going to work for all of you so write that down too. Including nail polish and lipstick. And that means you Kitty." Sirene glared at her only to get glared at back. Both knew Kate didn't use lipstick. … Much.

Sirene had all of the papers and took a hold of Irene and jumped for Victoria so they could go shopping. "You take Alexis and Paige while I take Kate and Castle." Sirene divided up the papers.

"Sirene, can I ask a question?" Irene was beyond curious after all this time.

"Of course, ask me anything you want. If I have an answer its yours." Sirene would answer any question she has.

"Why do you call Kate, Kitty sometimes?" Irene really wanted an answer.

"Lets go over there and sit down."Sirene offers and sits where most people will not pass by them.

"This goes back to a long time ago. I was with Lord Hunt and he brought in a new vampire that turned out to be Kate. I decided to take her under my wing and teach her everything it took to be a vampire and how to avoid some of the pitfalls.

It took both of us a few months, well maybe years for us to finally acknowledge the attraction we had for each other. You need to remember this was close to 600 years ago. In the human world being a lesbian was, … it just wasn't accepted.

We finally started having sex and slowly fell in love with each other. I don't know about now, but back then after we would make love to each other we would lay there holding each other and, … well basically do what we are doing.

I was sure I heard it each time but I never said anything about it till my curiosity got the better of me. We were laying in each others arms when I finally brought up the sound that I was sure she was making.

Remember our house at the time was a farm. We had a lot of animals and several herds of horses, which is where we got most of our blood in that time. We also had 3 barns which also had several cats to kill the mice or rats.

I mentioned that I was sure that Kate was purring when she was in my arms. She thought it was funny, but I was serious. I was convinced that I heard her purring like a contented kitty.

Kate, Kat with a K turned into Kitty and the name stuck with me. Even today." Sirene explains.

"And you don't love Kate anymore?" Irene whispers out.

Sirene wrapped her arms around Irene. "Irene my love, yes I still love Kate. We were together for just over 10 years until I got stupid. I suppose like Kate will love me forever I will love her forever. We're just not IN LOVE with each other anymore and that's my fault.

You are in my life now and I'm falling in love with you. I want you in my life. I promise to do everything I can to keep you safe and not to do what I did to Kate and myself all those years ago.

Understand?" Sirene hoped she did.

It earned Sirene a hug from Irene. "I'm falling in love with you too. You and Paige are my two best friends. Well maybe my only friends." Irene had, had a tough life till now.

"Sirene?" Irene had a question. "Yes, my love?" Sirene wanted to answer any question she had.

"I'm human and I'll grow old and die on you, … " Irene was forced to stop talking when Sirene kissed her.

"I'm not biting you and trying to turn you into a vampire. That is out of the question. I know you'll grow old on me and even when we stop having sex I'll always love you. Even when you're 90 and trapped in a wheelchair or bed ridden.

Converting a human into a vampire only has at best a 20% success rate. It's part of the reasons there are so few of us. I'm not taking that chance Irene, I'm just not. If I bite you and lose you, I'll have killed you and that would destroy me.

You're staying a human my love, like it or not. If that means I'm being selfish, so be it. But I'm not losing you simply on the off chance that I could love you for even longer. However long we have is enough for me." Sirene wiped away a tear that escaped and kissed Irene for all she was worth.