Chapter five -
"Kai?" Tirza's voice floated up from her waking body, "Kai are you there?"
"Looks like girlfriend wants you. Remember what I said about Rei." With that Raven pulled a disappearing act in the swish of her cloak.
Tirza groaned on the floor, "What happened?"
Kai looked her, a faint bruise smeared the side of her face turning it a reddish purple.
"You fell pretty hard, don't you remember?" his face and voice had become soft and gentle, no sign that minutes ago he had been feeding off some ones arm. "Can you stand?"
She nodded, "They want the TV, we should get that."
"You sure you want to?" Kai asked, he sounded so concerned that Tirza didn't trust her memory, which screamed that before she passed out he bite her.
"Yeah, Yeah I am fine." Kai smiled at her answer, he still tasted her blood in his mouth, but she would never know that she had almost been his meal if it weren't for Raven.
Five minutes later they were back in the dinning room sprawled out in among the cushions and pillows sighing about how cute Ewan McGregor, looked in Moulin rouge. Kai had slithered his way over to Rei and lay in her lap. By the time all the food had been eaten and the group were on their fifth film most of them were asleep and the two that weren't, were giggling as they wandered round their friends sleeping bodies putting cream in their hand and doodling on faces with a black felt tip.
Kai was awake but he lay besides Rei, an arm draped over her waist. The position was less compromising than the one he had woken up in last time he'd a bed with her, though technically the weren't really in a bed, they were on pillows and cushions. He watched as Talia and Odette artfully give Emma a moustache and pirate scar, and then fill her open mouth with spray cream. Both girls had to stifle their laughs as the doubled over with joy. Kai resisted a smile till Rei moved and curled her self closer to him, her warmth cradling him. Her sent clung to nose and Ravens words played in his head, he thought about biting her and drinking her dry, though it wasn't necessary just yet. He was still full of Ravens blood, her life force still warmed his stomach quenching the hunger that had bayed there not too long ago. Also the two girls wondering around would have been incontinent it they saw Kai bite some one. He moved his head slightly so he was looking down at her pale face. Her black hair was still pulled neck in the white wrap she wore, he could imagine it acting like a blanket if she left it up wrapped, it was thick and seemed o flow as if it were all stuck as once piece.
The thought of Rei calmed in to a light sleep and he dreamed. An image of Rei standing in a room where everything was white, from the wall to the floor and there was nothing else in the room. She wore nothing but her ankle length black hair twisting around her hid her body. She smiled at him when she glanced up to see him and signalled for him to come to her. Kai complied, the carpet was soft under foot like walking on the finest fur. Rei reached out to him and hooked her arms round his waist, she looked up at her eyes shining in their golden glory and then leaned up to meet his lips. The kiss was long and lingering, too real for just a dream. Rei pulled away, she walked towards the door, which was now shut and was black and defiant against the white room. "It's the way home," Rei told him, her naked torso still hidden by hair that swirled and twisted around her. "Do you want to know how to get there?" Kai shook his head, Rei ignored him. The way she was speaking and behaving was child like, a knowing innocence. Raven behaved like that. "This is the way." She held her hand up, blood had swirled round her wrist but there was no wound. Kai looked at her face, and she was looking behind him. He turned round to see a mirror framed in a dark wood and gold leaf threaded through it, in the mirror he saw himself. Fangs shined like a silver blade and his all of eyes were black, even the whites were pure black. "That's what you have become. You still might have more changes to endure. Do you really want that?" Kai didn't answer he took a step closer to the mirror and Rei appeared behind him, he turned to face her again.
"Would you still like me?" he was aware of the child innocence and unsure ness his voice had taken on as he spoke.
Rei laughed, "like you? Never!" she let out another laugh as she did so Kai noticed her lips turning red. Then they seemed to begin to drip, he reached forward and wiped whatever was dripping from her. The moment he touched it he wished he hadn't, it was blood and it was awakening his hunger, strong and demanding. Demanding for blood. The rest of Rei began to discolour and melt away, leaving a new form of a familiar face; Raven.
Kai sprang up, waking Rei as he did so. A thin layer of sweat covered him and showed through his clothes in damp small patches.
"What's wrong?" Rei asked him.
"Bad dream, it's nothing to worry about."
"Your all wet, wanna change?" she wiped the sleep from her eyes and waited for an answer.
"No, I want to stay here." He told her, suddenly he didn't want to lose Rei he just wanted to be near her to hold her. It was pure lust nothing to do with hunger. He slipped his arm round her and tried to pull her closer to him but she resisted, for a second she was doing what she did in the dream; rejecting him.
"No offence, but I don't want to get sweaty so go change." She held a light smile on her face, it wasn't meant as an insult she was just being honest.
Kai smirked and stood, surprisingly Rei followed suit. She followed him up to his room and went straight for his closet.
"What are you doing?" he inquired. Rei turned didn't turn out of the closet, instead she ordered him to take a shower. Kai cocked his head giving her a disbelieving look, "Since when were you my mother?"
"I'm not. Talia said we were all going out today and I want you to look great." She pouted, then with a mischievous smile she added "And I wanted to see you with your shirt off again."
"So you pick out my clothes?" his voice carried a questioning tone that was almost drowned out by anger.
Rei shrugged "it was an excuse" with that she moved away from the closet and sat on his bed, creasing the silk sheets as she made her self-comfortable. "You going to shower or stare at me all day?"
Kai's mood switched, his anger faded as quickly ass it had come. "I like the second option" he smirked "unless you were thinking of joining me in the shower"
Rei blushed and looked away, a light giggle left her throat.
"Well?" Kai asked walking towards then bed removing his shirt at the same time. He sat next to her pulling him self close to her side.
Rei ran her hand along his skin and gazed in to his crimson eyes, they were such a deep red that it made her shiver. Kai leaned forward his arms winding round her and he met her lips.
It was the first kiss he'd ever shared that wasn't going to end in bloodshed. Rei kissed back parting her lips letting his tongue roam her mouth, exploring and tasting her. Rei let out a small moan as Kai shifted his weight on to her deepening the kiss.
An intrusive Cough echoed from the door. Someone was making their presence known, Talia stood in the door way with a few blushing girls behind her, "They wanted to know if they could borrow your shower and a few towels."
Kai pulled off Rei to her disappointment, "Yeah, you know where it is" he told her Talia winked and shut the door behind her. Kai would have showed them where bathroom was but he wasn't quite sure himself. He' had only been in the house a few days and hadn't really looked around. He knew there was a shower and toilet attached to his room and he knew where the kitchen was, that was about the extent of his knowledge of the house layout.
He looked back at Rei wanting to go back they were doing before they were interrupted but some how it didn't seem to be right. He left her sitting on the bed and went to take a shower. The water cascaded down his body, red marks trailed the hot water to fade once relieved from the heat. He pulled the shower curtain back to be greeted by a mirror image of him. He stared in to the mirrors that cover the walls giving the illusion the room was bigger that it really was. He looked at himself, his grey hair hung flatly over his shoulders, it wasn't long hair but it wasn't short. It made him look like he belonged in a rock group like Finch or some other young group. He didn't look like the reflection in his dream. His eyes were crimson, which was odd but he'd always been told that was something to do with albinism. He checked his teeth, no fangs showed. Did his face transform? "Does blood make me change?" he asked his reflection who answered him with his own questioning stare.
A light cold breeze ran over him, he was still wearing nothing from coming out the shower. Picking up a white towel from a rack that leaned against the wall between the toilet and door, he drapes it round his waist and then reached for his clothes, which were no where to be seen. He forgot to bring them in with him. He cursed then poked his head round the door of his room.
Rei had gone from the bed and Kai could see her standing at the veranda. She looked so fragile against the morning sun, it took his breath away and for a few seconds he simple watched her. Something jogged him back in to reality and her hurried to grab a few clothes for his draws and closet.
"You going to change in here?" Rei had turned to face in the room, the sun rising behind her framed her face with gold that emphasised her eyes.
"Your so beautiful" Kai responded earning a blush from her. He couldn't help himself but to walk to wards her, her blush grew redder and she looked away. Always the modest one. Her brushed his hand against her cheek and her warmth flooded in him like a fire that would never be extinguished. He lowered his lips the inch they were away from hers.
"I have to get changed too," she whispered to him. Kai nodded but didn't move he let her gently tug away after they held the position for nearly a full minute.
Kai let out the breath he had been holding when she shut the door, he hadn't even realised he was holding his breath.
Two hours later everyone had showered, had breakfast and teased both Rei and Kai about what they were doing in his bedroom. Talia seemed to take the most joy from being able to tease them both.
"I have to go." Tirza announced and left, she didn't bother hiding her jealously of Rei and became very brash with her. The other girls didn't say anything but they stopped drawing attention to Kai and Rei while Tirza was around. Everyone bid goodbye and left till only Talia, Rei and Kai were left.
Talia took charge of the clean up crew, she ordered Rei to wash the dishes while she and Kai started collecting the pillows of the dinning room floor.
"Kai?" Tirza's voice floated up from her waking body, "Kai are you there?"
"Looks like girlfriend wants you. Remember what I said about Rei." With that Raven pulled a disappearing act in the swish of her cloak.
Tirza groaned on the floor, "What happened?"
Kai looked her, a faint bruise smeared the side of her face turning it a reddish purple.
"You fell pretty hard, don't you remember?" his face and voice had become soft and gentle, no sign that minutes ago he had been feeding off some ones arm. "Can you stand?"
She nodded, "They want the TV, we should get that."
"You sure you want to?" Kai asked, he sounded so concerned that Tirza didn't trust her memory, which screamed that before she passed out he bite her.
"Yeah, Yeah I am fine." Kai smiled at her answer, he still tasted her blood in his mouth, but she would never know that she had almost been his meal if it weren't for Raven.
Five minutes later they were back in the dinning room sprawled out in among the cushions and pillows sighing about how cute Ewan McGregor, looked in Moulin rouge. Kai had slithered his way over to Rei and lay in her lap. By the time all the food had been eaten and the group were on their fifth film most of them were asleep and the two that weren't, were giggling as they wandered round their friends sleeping bodies putting cream in their hand and doodling on faces with a black felt tip.
Kai was awake but he lay besides Rei, an arm draped over her waist. The position was less compromising than the one he had woken up in last time he'd a bed with her, though technically the weren't really in a bed, they were on pillows and cushions. He watched as Talia and Odette artfully give Emma a moustache and pirate scar, and then fill her open mouth with spray cream. Both girls had to stifle their laughs as the doubled over with joy. Kai resisted a smile till Rei moved and curled her self closer to him, her warmth cradling him. Her sent clung to nose and Ravens words played in his head, he thought about biting her and drinking her dry, though it wasn't necessary just yet. He was still full of Ravens blood, her life force still warmed his stomach quenching the hunger that had bayed there not too long ago. Also the two girls wondering around would have been incontinent it they saw Kai bite some one. He moved his head slightly so he was looking down at her pale face. Her black hair was still pulled neck in the white wrap she wore, he could imagine it acting like a blanket if she left it up wrapped, it was thick and seemed o flow as if it were all stuck as once piece.
The thought of Rei calmed in to a light sleep and he dreamed. An image of Rei standing in a room where everything was white, from the wall to the floor and there was nothing else in the room. She wore nothing but her ankle length black hair twisting around her hid her body. She smiled at him when she glanced up to see him and signalled for him to come to her. Kai complied, the carpet was soft under foot like walking on the finest fur. Rei reached out to him and hooked her arms round his waist, she looked up at her eyes shining in their golden glory and then leaned up to meet his lips. The kiss was long and lingering, too real for just a dream. Rei pulled away, she walked towards the door, which was now shut and was black and defiant against the white room. "It's the way home," Rei told him, her naked torso still hidden by hair that swirled and twisted around her. "Do you want to know how to get there?" Kai shook his head, Rei ignored him. The way she was speaking and behaving was child like, a knowing innocence. Raven behaved like that. "This is the way." She held her hand up, blood had swirled round her wrist but there was no wound. Kai looked at her face, and she was looking behind him. He turned round to see a mirror framed in a dark wood and gold leaf threaded through it, in the mirror he saw himself. Fangs shined like a silver blade and his all of eyes were black, even the whites were pure black. "That's what you have become. You still might have more changes to endure. Do you really want that?" Kai didn't answer he took a step closer to the mirror and Rei appeared behind him, he turned to face her again.
"Would you still like me?" he was aware of the child innocence and unsure ness his voice had taken on as he spoke.
Rei laughed, "like you? Never!" she let out another laugh as she did so Kai noticed her lips turning red. Then they seemed to begin to drip, he reached forward and wiped whatever was dripping from her. The moment he touched it he wished he hadn't, it was blood and it was awakening his hunger, strong and demanding. Demanding for blood. The rest of Rei began to discolour and melt away, leaving a new form of a familiar face; Raven.
Kai sprang up, waking Rei as he did so. A thin layer of sweat covered him and showed through his clothes in damp small patches.
"What's wrong?" Rei asked him.
"Bad dream, it's nothing to worry about."
"Your all wet, wanna change?" she wiped the sleep from her eyes and waited for an answer.
"No, I want to stay here." He told her, suddenly he didn't want to lose Rei he just wanted to be near her to hold her. It was pure lust nothing to do with hunger. He slipped his arm round her and tried to pull her closer to him but she resisted, for a second she was doing what she did in the dream; rejecting him.
"No offence, but I don't want to get sweaty so go change." She held a light smile on her face, it wasn't meant as an insult she was just being honest.
Kai smirked and stood, surprisingly Rei followed suit. She followed him up to his room and went straight for his closet.
"What are you doing?" he inquired. Rei turned didn't turn out of the closet, instead she ordered him to take a shower. Kai cocked his head giving her a disbelieving look, "Since when were you my mother?"
"I'm not. Talia said we were all going out today and I want you to look great." She pouted, then with a mischievous smile she added "And I wanted to see you with your shirt off again."
"So you pick out my clothes?" his voice carried a questioning tone that was almost drowned out by anger.
Rei shrugged "it was an excuse" with that she moved away from the closet and sat on his bed, creasing the silk sheets as she made her self-comfortable. "You going to shower or stare at me all day?"
Kai's mood switched, his anger faded as quickly ass it had come. "I like the second option" he smirked "unless you were thinking of joining me in the shower"
Rei blushed and looked away, a light giggle left her throat.
"Well?" Kai asked walking towards then bed removing his shirt at the same time. He sat next to her pulling him self close to her side.
Rei ran her hand along his skin and gazed in to his crimson eyes, they were such a deep red that it made her shiver. Kai leaned forward his arms winding round her and he met her lips.
It was the first kiss he'd ever shared that wasn't going to end in bloodshed. Rei kissed back parting her lips letting his tongue roam her mouth, exploring and tasting her. Rei let out a small moan as Kai shifted his weight on to her deepening the kiss.
An intrusive Cough echoed from the door. Someone was making their presence known, Talia stood in the door way with a few blushing girls behind her, "They wanted to know if they could borrow your shower and a few towels."
Kai pulled off Rei to her disappointment, "Yeah, you know where it is" he told her Talia winked and shut the door behind her. Kai would have showed them where bathroom was but he wasn't quite sure himself. He' had only been in the house a few days and hadn't really looked around. He knew there was a shower and toilet attached to his room and he knew where the kitchen was, that was about the extent of his knowledge of the house layout.
He looked back at Rei wanting to go back they were doing before they were interrupted but some how it didn't seem to be right. He left her sitting on the bed and went to take a shower. The water cascaded down his body, red marks trailed the hot water to fade once relieved from the heat. He pulled the shower curtain back to be greeted by a mirror image of him. He stared in to the mirrors that cover the walls giving the illusion the room was bigger that it really was. He looked at himself, his grey hair hung flatly over his shoulders, it wasn't long hair but it wasn't short. It made him look like he belonged in a rock group like Finch or some other young group. He didn't look like the reflection in his dream. His eyes were crimson, which was odd but he'd always been told that was something to do with albinism. He checked his teeth, no fangs showed. Did his face transform? "Does blood make me change?" he asked his reflection who answered him with his own questioning stare.
A light cold breeze ran over him, he was still wearing nothing from coming out the shower. Picking up a white towel from a rack that leaned against the wall between the toilet and door, he drapes it round his waist and then reached for his clothes, which were no where to be seen. He forgot to bring them in with him. He cursed then poked his head round the door of his room.
Rei had gone from the bed and Kai could see her standing at the veranda. She looked so fragile against the morning sun, it took his breath away and for a few seconds he simple watched her. Something jogged him back in to reality and her hurried to grab a few clothes for his draws and closet.
"You going to change in here?" Rei had turned to face in the room, the sun rising behind her framed her face with gold that emphasised her eyes.
"Your so beautiful" Kai responded earning a blush from her. He couldn't help himself but to walk to wards her, her blush grew redder and she looked away. Always the modest one. Her brushed his hand against her cheek and her warmth flooded in him like a fire that would never be extinguished. He lowered his lips the inch they were away from hers.
"I have to get changed too," she whispered to him. Kai nodded but didn't move he let her gently tug away after they held the position for nearly a full minute.
Kai let out the breath he had been holding when she shut the door, he hadn't even realised he was holding his breath.
Two hours later everyone had showered, had breakfast and teased both Rei and Kai about what they were doing in his bedroom. Talia seemed to take the most joy from being able to tease them both.
"I have to go." Tirza announced and left, she didn't bother hiding her jealously of Rei and became very brash with her. The other girls didn't say anything but they stopped drawing attention to Kai and Rei while Tirza was around. Everyone bid goodbye and left till only Talia, Rei and Kai were left.
Talia took charge of the clean up crew, she ordered Rei to wash the dishes while she and Kai started collecting the pillows of the dinning room floor.
