Of Blood and boxes Ch. 22 Of Family Units Joe Casto Dave showed a sly smile as he followed Seras down the dark stairs, contemplating when he should break the news to her about the wandering faithfulness of her master. He could have told you that Lizz was going to bang the tall, dark individual the second that he laid eyes on her as Alucard walked into the room. He couldn't, for the life on him, figure out this Seras character in regards to Alucard. It made no logical sense for him to turn this particular female into a nightwalker. He would even call it preposterous, because since she'd been a vampire nearly one year, not only had she refused to drink blood, but she had talked beck, annoyed, and been a basic nuisance to her master already…That must be it. Dave smiled again, only this time at his inadvertent logic instead of Seras' well-formed posterior. Spirit is what makes the man a man or the vampire capable of mass slaughter, as the case may be. It seems that, since her physical strength surpasses even Elizabeth's that he's looking either to start a war, or to defend a post. This must be his lovely, deadly, wondrous little Pandora's Box waiting to be opened as one would a can of whoop-ass upon the unsuspecting heads of this facility's enemies, nay, the enemies of vampire kind. His subconscious thought process had brewed up a decent way for him to inform Seras of her master's infidelity, so he stopped thinking and spoke. "Seras?" "Yes?" she turned around, only a few of the enormous steps farther down the actual staircase than he. He tore his gaze away from her breasts, framed beautifully against the blue lighting on the edge of the staircase. "Let's have a seat and chat for a bit…If you don't mind that is…" he motioned gently to a long leather seat on the outer edge of the staircase. "Oh…not al all." Seras Graced Dave with a sizeable grin and went to sit, as did Dave. "There." Dave said with finality. Seras raised an eyebrow and he turned to face her and scooted a bit closer to Seras, careful not to touch her anywhere suggestive. "Do you understand what this place is?" he asked, not as a belittling question but as a simple inquiry. "Not really, other than a huge congregation of vampires." She said honestly. "Okay…Let me start from the beginning." Dave said, sighing heavily. "Once upon a time here were a bunch of vampires that were all alone." He looked at Seras as she smiled at the childish tone of the story. She however seemed intent on, even desperate to find out about the history of her new 'race'. "So, after a long time of these vampires snacking on whoever they pleased, a bunch of people got together and captured vampires and tortured them and found out various ways to destroy them. Those humans, now called, inquisitors marched out of their towns and created fortresses and went on hunts, killing thousands of your kind because they fed on the blood of men and were vastly superior to them in more ways then just their lifespan." He looked over at her to check for understanding. She leaned towards him and stared into his eyes intently, urging him on some unknown level to go on. He looked back across the floor to the far corner of the step and continued. "So…Some of these vampires were older and wiser than a vast majority of them, even then, and they proposed that all of these rogue vampires come together to form one massive resistance. Everything was going very well and hey started digging at the bottom of a mass grave and they made an enormous cave underground, which is where they lived during the day. Because it was under a mass grave, it was still within a place where death has lingered, and thus, they could survive easily. As the ages progressed and their numbers dwindled due to betrayal and cowardice, they decided it was time to split up and form another group. They did, and because one of them had patriarch, the second oldest was appointed to be the leader of the second group, which they called a family. The families grew without regard for space since they could now spread unhindered, until there were dozens of them all over the world. Occasionally, the Vatican inquisitors would find out about one and destroy it. That's what happened to the first colony." He stole a glance at Seras and saw that she was on the verge of tears. "The patriarch of that settlement died, and the second oldest vampire remaining is Elizabeth, the matriarch of this colony. The oldest vampire is the original…" "Alucard." She finished for him. "Yes." He said. "Now, sometimes, when a vampire is very powerful, he can write his own check and join a house because it is strong. The house considers this an honor. Now, when dealing with a family, it's usually good to "get acquainted" with the head of the house and some of the other people that are house members. He looked at Seras to see if she understood. He couldn't tell. She had a cute inquisitive look on her face as if to say… 'Just what are you getting at?' Dave sighed again and tried to make the hint more obvious. "Well…remember how when you were human, you had all kinds of preconceptions about sex and it was all immoral and taboo and convoluted and hypocritical and bullshitty? Well…when you live forever and you have absolutely no chance of getting any sort of infection, it sort of does away with that. Not only does it logically make semse, but it's a form of pleasure and exercise, as well as a type of social interaction, which can be in short supply." "And… you're saying that I should whore myself out to those drooling cocks down there!" Seras looked more than a bit pissed and there were two holes being singed into Dave's temple because of her death gaze. "No. I'm saying that Alucard and Lizz just got friendly upstairs, and that I know neither of them would want you to get upset by it because I can tell already that they like you alot." "Oh. Alright." "That's it?...No offense, but I was expecting you to be upset by that…" "Naah. I've been with worse men and I've thought about the whole undead sex thing myself. I can see where you're coming from because I am a reasonable individual. I was planning on asking you if you'd like to get cozy for a bit while Alucard and Lizz finish up, and probably go again…It sounds like they're almost done." Dave's eyes widened on a planetary scale and he sat for a moment, dumbstruck. He blinked after bout thirty seconds and Seras could practically hear the gears in his head turning as he contemplated the ramifications. "Come on…it's not like I'll bite…really." She leaned towards him and sat one hand on top of his thigh, snaking the other around his broad shoulders and staring deep into his eyes. "I'm not kidding hon." She pecked him on the cheek and grabbed his hand, gently tugging him, to his feet and hugging him. "They're planning a surprise for you, You know." "And I….want…first…dibs." She ran her index finger down his chest and nuzzled his chest "But first I think we might want to get to know each other a bit more…personally." Dave contemplated the gravity of the situation. Should he have sex with this corpse who he barely knows, and who's master could kill him with a thought; or make passionate love to the sexiest woman he's ever seen… "Well…My room is down." He says, kissing her lightly. "So…what are they saying about me up there?" Seras, who had been slowly growing more spacey as they'd sat, was now almost in a state of deleirum. "That your time is now."