My fingers were itching to imbed themselves into his flesh and tear it away into a million pieces, I craved the finality of his final death. He was practically salivating as we circled one another, our movements were lightning quick, it was a dance that we did without ever practicing, each few step one of us would take a step closer and the other would dance away.

Erik and Karin were standing to the side but were in a completely submissive state, only Erik was watching our movement with his eyes betraying his struggle. Who do you save, your maker or your lover?

This battle needed to end quickly, I didn't want him getting the idea to command Erik to attack me through his makers command, I also didn't wish for him to escape a second time. I teleported myself behind him and jumped directly on his back, I bit down hard into the crook of his neck, the smell of burning flesh stung my nose and his piercing scream made me wince for a second. I jumped off his back and teleported in front of him, he couldn't keep up the dance anymore.

As I bit down on his flesh, I made sure the caps of pure silver broke off into his neck, he was on the floor scratching his neck to try and rip it out before it disintegrated. This was magical silver however, the minute it's taken off our teeth it disintegrates instantly into the bloodstream, making our last bite our most fatal to our enemy.

I slowed my dance to a walk, with my throwing knives ready as I stalked towards him like a panther stalking its prey. Appius was trying to scoot away from me, pushing himself along the ground with his hands, his vampire speed completely gone as the silver turns his veins into nothing but burning ash.

I threw a knife into his left foot, hearing the sizzle of flesh and the sound of the knife hitting the floor. An evil grin warped my face as I watched his react in horror before screaming again, it was even better when he pulled his foot completely free of the knife before I threw another dagger in the opposite foot.

So, he continued to try and drag himself against the marble, a pool of blood being left behind his pathetic movements. I looked back to the king and saw him with a look of disgust on his face, but he continued to do nothing. Appius was now at the massive doors, screaming for help, for someone to open the doors but his words fell on deaf ears. I now stood above him, looking down at him with hate filling my gaze.
I grabbed his hair and yanked him to his feet which sent another scream rippling through his mouth, he fell the floor straight away the second I released him. "Hold him up." I ordered to Preston, who immediately appeared behind him and held him up by his arms.

The guards didn't react to another Faery appearing, they knew that we do not travel alone, so my final actions towards Appius were going to be endorsed by one person who's known me since I was a child, his face was completely devoid of emotion as were his thoughts.

Using my dagger, I cut away Appius clothes so he stood in front of the court completely naked, I could see the silver travelling through his body and leaving streams of steam all over his body, his eyes normally were filled with hatred and such extreme evil but now they were filled with bloody tears.

"Please, mercy." His words were harsh as his struggled to breath. I laughed at his request and went to stand behind him, I knew not being able to see your torturer made it a million times worse, every second before my knife touches him, he will be in continuous, delicious torturous suspense.

Erik had never stopped watching me, but I could tell he was fighting himself. "Are you commanding your progeny to kill me Appi?" I whispered in his ear. "You know it's futile right? I've commanded a statis spell to keep him from harm. I knew you were too much a coward to fight me yourself, with no way to run you were forced to fight me and I'm simply too quick, too skilled and too deadly for you to be any kind of challenge to me."

"You also don't fight alone."

"Oh Appi, baby… I had the chance to kill you before, you are too weak to even stand. I didn't want you to miss my next punishment upon you, and I couldn't do it with you lying on the ground." I looked at Erik and saw recognition in his eyes, he sent me the briefest nods.

"What does a Faery have to do with punishing a Vampire?" He spat.

"My punishment doesn't come from me, your death certainly does since you took something that is mine and was to be mine alone. Your death is compensation for that. Your punishment comes from your progeny. I'm giving you the ultimate Viking punishment for him." He went completely still as he thought through the multiple different ways he could be tortured to death, but this was something that made nearly every stomach churn.

I looked to the king and sent my thought directly to him. I need his legs and arms pinned down. He nodded but sent his guards to assist, Preston let him go and the four vampire guards took an arm and leg each. I looked to all of them and nodded in turn. I looked at Erik one more time and he nodded before I performed the worst Viking execution known, the blood eagle. Once he was in the position, I came back to stand in front of him and saw the pain and horror on his face as he began to face his true death, being vampire made him stay alive longer than any human would have been able to. "This is for the young men and boys everywhere you have hurt and degraded with your actions. This is for the Viking warrior behind me, when you die, he will truly be free from your tyranny." The King threw me a Stake and with slow pressure I forced the wood through his chest stopping just before his heart. I looked deeply in his eyes before slamming the stake home.

He turned to goo at my feet and Erik was released from his spell. He let out a loud wail of pain that I knew was more the bond breaking between maker and child. I went to him expecting to be screamed at or turned away. Instead, he got from his feet and held me in his arms in the tightest hold I'd ever experienced. Red tears were running down his face that I couldn't help but wipe away and whisper to him that it was over.

"Thank you." He whispered. He was happy, beyond happy I could feel his emotions pouring out of him.

"You do not need to thank me Erik. I am here for you and will be until the end of times." We kissed each other with all the love we could muster in that second before a coughing came from the end of the room, we pulled away from one another and moved to stand in front of the King. Erik and Karin to one side, Preston, and I to the other.

"Now, now… Erik, I had no idea you had a Faery wife." His fangs were present as he talked, I raised my eyebrows and watched him watching me.

"She is not my wife majesty, but we are lovers."

"So, you're not bonded?" His eyes were travelling all over my body with a hungry look I hadn't seen since I was in Fae last, I kept my expression completely neutral.

"Not yet, but we plan to." Well, we hadn't discussed it, but it seemed the logical step.

"Plans change Viking." Eric refrained from hissing, surprising me and Preston considering his age it was a worthy achievement, Karin however being very young hissed dramatically at the king.

"I disagree your majesty." My words were like ice.

"You have no voice here Faery."

"I disagree with that too. I could kill every single one of your guards without a thought to what I'm doing, I could kill you in your slumber through the day, I could transform into any animal in the world real or mythological and kill you. This is not a threat Vampire king; this is a promise."

"How dare you threaten me." He roared, rolling my eyes I transported myself directly in front of him with my knife directly against his neck, Preston remained beside Erik to keep him from harm.

I leaned in close to the King. "This is a promise king, I spent 200 years tracking down that kiddy fucker back there. I fucking tore out his ribs and lungs before slowing plunging a wooden stake through his chest, once I knew it reached his heart I looked into his eyes and watched him die with pleasure. That is for someone I love; now imagine how little a fuck I give about your meaningless pathetic life and how much I would love to train with a new plaything. I've got some knew silver toys at home… Would you like to come try them out?" As my whispered words registered into his mind he began to tremble and shake with fear, if vampires pissed, I'm sure he would have pissed himself.

I transported next to Preston again as if I had never moved.

"I want you out of my area Northman."

"No." He responded.

"You will leave."

"No, I won't. Our land and house is here, we will leave when we are ready not when you demand it." He was standing tall arms crossed staring down this weakling.

"Get out." Finally defeated, Preston and I started walking outside the room first before Erik turned back towards him with a finality in his voice he replied.

"You could have had the strongest ally in the whole of England tonight, but you wasted it trying to steal her for yourself. You watched her kill with such precision and lethality, but you tried to dismiss her. You've made instead an enemy I'm afraid. I would think of this and try to make amends."

Preston and Karin took the coach to head back to our home, Erik and I flew across the lands, we were home first and went straight into our bedroom and fell into one another in the most primal of ways. I ripped his clothes from his body and ripped mine as well in the process. I forced him down on the bed and straddled him only stopping for a second to look into his eyes and see a hunger of passion there as well as a nod of acceptance.

I slid him inside of me, feeling every inch of him touching every inch of me. His hands were resting on my hips, them to push, pull and grind me onto him. My hair was flowing down my back, just reaching Erik's legs when I throw my head back in passion. Just as I met the heavens, he pulled me back to him with his lips upon mine, he had moved me to be underneath him with him furiously pounding into me.

I was trapped in his body his arms keeping me still like a cage, his thick cock stretching me as he thrust in and out of me, groans and hisses came from each of us. My whole body tightening like a coil as every sensation in my body went into overdrive, every instinct inside of me was screaming for release of every particle of tension in my body.

His fangs descended and he looked for permission and the second it was given his fangs were in my neck gulping greedily. This was the first time the instinct to bite back became present, his thrusting became more impatient and increasingly harder. His fangs remained in my neck, but he had stopped drinking from me but his blood in his neck screamed at me.

Not waiting for permission, I bit into his neck and swallowed greedily, he grunted and spasmed as the blood poured into my mouth the sweetness of it coated my tongue. He pulled out of my neck and grinned at me before kissing me deeply, tongues intertwining. I tasted my blood as he tasted his, his fingers in my hips would leave bruises of that I had no doubt. Erik's movements became jerkier until he spent himself completely inside of me.

We lay beside one another; Erik mimicked my breathing whilst I was exhausted. "What the actual hell happened?" I felt a buzzing in my brain like being able to read minds, only this couldn't be turned off, I sent my mind out to the buzzing and felt a warmth radiating from it.

"We claimed one another." I rolled my eyes at the simplicity of his answer.

"I realized that, why did it happen the way it did?" He tucked an arm under my neck and pulled me close to him.

"I'm surprised it did not happen earlier lover, we've been together a while, but this is our first mutual blood exchange. Maybe after devoting yourself to me so publicly forced it to the forefront of your mind?"

"Maybe, maybe that's it. Do you mind that it happened?" His laugh was booming.

"No lover, not at all. You're everything I've been waiting for; you are all I will ever have in the future. You are mine as much as I'm yours."

"I am yours you know…"

"As you are mine." His death day was coming quickly, his movement began sluggish and his eyes began to close against their will, I kissed him and fell to sleep beside him.

AN:

I hope you like this chapter - I'm working over Saturday and Sunday as well as taking care of an entire home by myself whilst hubby is away at work. -.- leaving me very little time to write.
Three German Shepherds + full housework to complete makes life a little messy.

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