Chapter 13 – Alternate Ending – Raziel's Playtime
The warmth of the Razielim lord's familiar bed washed over him, as the master slept. He was only half asleep, he had heard Mioko stirring in the next room and was waiting for her to start attacking him at any moment, jumping on the bed or as the case had been for the past few days, creeping into the vampire's chamber to paint his face with make up as he slept.
As he expected, a few moments after her waking, Mioko bounded into the room and started jumping on the bed in order to wake her father. Raziel groaned as he sat up in bed, trying to protect his body from her heavy feet.
"Come on daddy, wake up!" Mioko sang, loudly even though the vampire was clearly awake. Raziel waited for her to jump again and before she landed, he held out his arms and caught her, playfully pretending to drop her over the edge of the bed. Mioko laughed and fell into her father's arms. She nuzzled against him, resting against his bare chest.
"Ahem," a loud, scornful cough came from very close to them. Raziel and Mioko froze and both of them cast their eyes over to the female vampire who was lying in Raziel's bed. Raziel froze, as he had played with Mioko, he had completely forgotten about the female who he had spent the night with. One of the first females of Razielim, Isaris. Mioko stopped laughing, abruptly and looked up at her father, disgusted,
"Eww," she moaned, "You had sex!" she shouted. Raziel hesitated for a moment before he realized just what it was she had said.
"Who taught you that?" he demanded, though he feared he already knew the answer.
"Dumah," the child replied, innocently as Raziel mouthed the name with her.
"I really will have to have words with what he talks to you about," Raziel muttered. Isaris moved closer to the lord, pressing her body against his, ignoring Mioko completely. Mioko watched her, disgusted but mildly amused that this woman obviously resented the child's presence in Raziel's bedchamber.
"Mioko," Raziel said, gently, "You go wake Azrael up, then you can go and get dressed." Mioko nodded and left her father returning Isaris' embrace.
Mioko toddled down the corridor down to the firstborn's chamber to find him, sleeping peacefully. This was soon to change as she approached him silently before screaming his name in his ear.
Azrael roared as he was jolted to reality. He snapped a furious glare down onto the child before beginning the morning chase. Mioko screamed as the firstborn tried to catch her. He eventually caught her leg and took great pleasure, as he often did, holding her upside down over the balcony.
"I'm sorry!" Mioko shrieked, "Daddy told me to! He wanted to get rid of me so he could have sex!" Azrael stopped cursing her abruptly,
"What did you say?" he asked, curiously, certain he'd misheard the child. Mioko kicked and thrashed until Azrael stopped holding her by the foot and returned her to a standing position.
"Daddy told me to go and wake you up so he could have sex with the ugly woman." Azrael was silent for a long time before he finally asked,
"What ugly woman?" he asked, but by now Mioko was obviously annoyed,
"The ugly woman in daddy's bed, by Kain!" she shouted, "Do I have to tell you everything?!" Azrael chuckled at the child's sudden change in attitude and watched her move back into the chamber and sit on the bed.
"Daddy and the woman had sex," she said, poking her tongue out, then thinking for a moment, "Azrael?" she asked, innocently, "What's sex."
Azrael froze for a moment, "Uh…Raziel will tell you when you're older." Mioko shrugged,
"Ok, I'll just ask Dumah when I see him next." Azrael laughed,
"Yeah, you do that, now will you please bugger off so I can get dressed?" He froze, realizing what he had said, though the child didn't seem at all perturbed. She slipped off the bed without a word and returned to her father's chambers, however Isaris and Raziel looked far too busy to notice the child.
"Daddy?" Mioko murmured, Raziel jumped and looked down at Mioko. She was sitting on the chair opposite them, watching in silence.
"I thought I told you were waking Azrael up?" Raziel asked, curiously. He didn't seemed at all disturbed by the child's wanderings, Isaris on the other hand looked furious.
"I did," Mioko said, "he is awake. He told me to bugger off so he could get dressed." Raziel rolled his eyes, between Dumah and Azrael, he was beginning to get extremely concerned for his daughter's upbringing. "Daddy?" she asked, suddenly, "You never play with me when you're doing clan stuff…will you play with me today? Just for today? Jade's staying at home today."
Raziel thought for a moment. It was certainly true that even though they slept in the chambers beside eachother, he didn't spend much time with his daughter while he was being the lord of Razielim. He smiled upon the child and nodded, "Of course I will." Isaris snapped her head up to look up at her sire,
"But we were going to spend the day together," she reminded him. Mioko jumped on the bed and smiled at her daddy,
"Daddy's playing with me instead," she smirked at Isaris, "You have grown up friends to play with." Raziel laughed at his daughter's response, which of course annoyed Isaris further.
She watched Mioko give her father a silk robe from his wardrobe for him to get up, Isaris lying forgotten. Mioko sat on the bed, a contented smile on her lips, clearly looking forward to the day ahead, just as Isaris had been.
Raziel kissed the females hand, "Til next time Isaris," he said, softly. Mioko poked her tongue out at the romantic gesture before her. She turned to Isaris,
"Azrael'll have sex with you, he's never had a woman in his bed before."
"Mioko!" Raziel snapped, almost laughing. Isaris was clearly not impressed.
"What?" Mioko asked, innocently, "I wake Azrael up every morning…or I just hide his trousers, and he has never ever ever ever ever had a woman lying next to him." Raziel shook his head and dragged his daughter into the next room, leaving Isaris dejected in her sire's bed.
"Good morning Isaris," Azrael called, seeing the female pass him in the halls, "enjoyable evening?" Isaris sneered as she leaned against the wall beside the firstborn,
"It was until that little brat interfered," she snarled, glaring at the door she had just used to leave her sire's chambers. Azrael chuckled,
"Ah don't worry, I'm sure you will see Raziel soon."
"Do you know he gave up our day together to play with her?" the woman moaned, her lips curling in jealousy.
"It isn't often that our lord takes a day away from the business of the clan," Azrael sighed, knowing full well he was rubbing salt into the wound, infuriating the female further.
"Exactly, and he chose her over me!" she wailed, almost refusing to believe it.
"He loves her. She's his baby girl," Azrael told her, repeating the words Lonni had told him many a time.
"No she is a human brat, She is not his daughter, she just got lucky," Isaris scorned. Azrael looked down on the female,
"Raziel loves her like his daughter," he said, slowly and clearly, "he will give up many more days just to be with her, now and when she grows up. You might as well accept it, Isaris, there is only one woman in our lord's life," Azrael broke off as his sire burst out of the chamber, laughing as he eluded his child, who followed closely behind. Azrael chuckled as they vanished down the hall, Mioko still trying to tickle her father. He turned back to the female before he followed them,
"and she isn't you."
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