Title: Acquaintances

Genre: General and Romance

Rating: T

Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing, and these characters are not mine, except the one I created.

Acquaintances

Chapter 6

"Well, Hello there, nice of you to join me, movie?" King held out the remote and the woman just looked at him, while raising an apprehensive brow.

The woman looked down at herself and saw the thin black tank top that covered her and the cotton pants that were warmly hugging her legs.

'Such warmth, haven't felt this way in a long time, not counting the times when he…' She looked a little lost in thought to King, who was just staring at her as she pulled the covers around her, seemingly wanting to get lost in the bed covers.

"Hmm, who are you? Where am I?" She said in a gentle but clam, clipped voice. She suddenly happened to feel better because she sat up, letting the covers pool down over her waist and bringing her arms around the front of the covers, slowly trying to not disturb the tubes and IV's that were currently attached to her arms.

" Well, yours truly here is Hannibal King, no need for applauses, " Seeing he got no reaction from her only a bewildered expression that came and went as if it had never been there, he continued, " Abby is the girl (of course) she has…weapons. Blade, tall, dark and dangerous. Of course there's Sommerfield, she wears the sunglasses because she's well, blind, but don't let that fool you, she sees EVERYTHING. Her daughter Zoë, she's a giant purple alligator with three eyes one which is located on her tail, don't stare at it though…she gets a little snippy." King continued raving until this point before being interrupted by the woman.

" You'll meet them later… there not here right now." King covered for himself as he saw that she was looking around the room trying to locate the people he was talking about, and when seeing none, she looked at him like he was crazy, which, she knew, must be partly right.

" Purple alligator?" She seemed to be considering jumping out of the bed and running out the door.

" Don't worry about it, she only comes out when she smells cheese." He laughed at his little joke, and was interrupted by her.

" My name is Audrey Knight, please tell me why I'm here and why do I feel like shit?" She looked at him expectantly. The name sounded a little British to him, but he didn't think much of it.

" Uh, Audrey? Yes, um, do you remember anything at all?" King looked at her closely while she stared into space.

He then REALLY looked at her. Even with the vampire-y skin that was pale and now (thanks to the medications and healing pills Sommerfield had grounded into the water) nearly flawless, she still had a charming quality to her. Her chest was filed out and the outline of a hourglass figure was accentuated by the thin covers that covered the rest of her body. Her big, silver pupils stared a little over his shoulder. He noticed that there was some brown around the edges, letting him know that her lovely dead eyes were once a toffee color. Her straight, but delicate nose sat above full lips, not overly big but just right ( figures, would Drake choose any less?), and her tongue would dart out once in a while to draw her bottom lip in for some thoughtful chewing. He was memorized by this, so much so, that he would mimic the movement every time it was preformed. Her chest was a good size, a bit small but he could have handled that, and delicate, long fingers were pale but artistic in a way in which it seemed she could mold a porcelain figurine out of a brick. Her long, thick hair was like a honey chestnut color, and rest on her shoulders in long, thick waves that brushed up on a delicate, long neck. He let his gaze linger there, almost feeling like a vampire himself again.

He shook out of his lustful thoughts and thought about the mark he had yet to see on her. He was taken out of another lustful thought as she spoke.

" Yes, I do remember, of course, how could I not?" She looked at him and smiled, coldly, but smiled. She shook her head, her hair moving lazily with her, and continued on with what she had started saying.

" Dracula took me in, turned me, then left me, simple as that…right?" Her eyes held something he couldn't really place…was it sadness? Loneliness? Anger? He couldn't tell…he wasn't as talented at reading people…hence his constant arguments with Blade.

" Well, it wasn't that simple for me, Danica kept me for five years" King raised an eyebrow and look closely for a reaction from her, but getting none, he moved on with the next subject.

" Do you know what year it is?" He watched her sigh again and reply.

" I don't know, I don't know how long I've been there" She looked at him suddenly, and said " No more than a week right? Or two at the most, although it did seem longer, like years, but I always heard that time passes slowly when your not enjoying yourself, of course."

" Well, its 2005, and Abby seems to think you've been there one to two years."

"Yes, well, I guess so then, last time I was alive, I remember looking at the wall calendar in this room, it said June, 12 or 13, 2003?" She looked exasperated, like she just wanted to jump out of the bed and run.

'What are you running away from? Your safe here, safe…' The voice in her head was not the same as always, maybe this time it was her conscious talking, not him.

" Of course you know you're a vampire, I was once too, we needed you to wake up so we, or rather, you can give Sommerfield the O.K. to go ahead and change you back, you'll be weak for a while, and you may take a little longer to heal. But its worth it, I know I spent my first three weeks tanning.

" See, I was a vampire once too, I don't know if you heard Drake talking about someone named Danica, but she's' a pretty big "IT" vampire around here. I met her in a bar, and we went to her house and from then on I was caught as her little Cabana boy playing hide-and- go-suck with her. I was there for five years , and then Abby found me.

" Not very simple when you think about the details, the last few years I refused to feed, she'd trick me into it, at first, but I found that she would sneak little pill like sacks into my food when I wasn't looking, or give me 'wine', when Abby found me I was shriveled up like a raisin , a very pale raisin. She only turned me the last couple of weeks, so curing me wasn't that hard. I think she likes humans more than she thinks.

" You, we think you were turned a long time ago, like the first week. You'll need a lot of healing time so you'll need to rest for a few days after. I'll cut straight to the chase, we need you to tell us everything you can about Drake, were he lives when he's not with you, did he have anyone over to see you, did he talk with you?"

Audrey was watching him talk all the while thinking of Drake. Drake had not been so bad…save for times where it seemed she would never survive. She erased those thoughts and focus in on King talking.

He had his hands in his pockets and they would occasionally leave to make motions in the air as he was talking. Whenever he would put his hands back into his pockets a little too forcefully, he would show a little bit of his lower muscles before bringing his hands up again.

She had to admit he was one hot piece of man candy. His sharp, dark eyes watched her as he talked and his beard was just wonderful. His mouth…Wow, now that was one whole other thing, he would talk and those lips would move revealing a pink tongue and straight teeth inside. Always appreciate straight, clean teeth. No fangs were visible, which she wasn't sure if she missed or not.

' Of COURSE I DO!' she chided herself. She had noticed he would smirk every so often when he was talking, making her wonder if he knew she was checking him out.

' I'm not checking him out, I'm making sure If he's a threat.'

She continued downward, his hard shoulders the perfect shape and muscle clad, his biceps which were all visible courtesy of his white tank top were looking yummier by the minute, his neck… oh….ohh.

" Stop talking. Leave." She took deep breaths and let out a small moan in spite of herself. She shut her eyes tightly and spoke in raspy tones.

" Do what you want with me, just. Leave. Now!" She frowned when she heard, no felt, that he hadn't gone anywhere. Mustering all the courage she could, she bared her teeth without noticing and opened her eyes slowly.

He was standing there, left hand in his pockets and his other hand had pulled down the top of his pants, showing her his mark.

" Just fight it, I had to when Abby was holding me down when they were curing me. She's very pretty you know, and had…has a nice neck." He smiled at her reassuringly and nodded, pulling back his pants, much to her dismay.

She nodded at him, and closed her mouth while laying back on the pillows that were piled behind her back. Nodding again, she relaxed her muscles and took a deep breath.

" They'll be back soon, I hope, for now I'll stay here." He smirked and looked over her again. " I know you want me…but try to control yourself alright young lady?" He chuckled at his own joke, smiling bigger when she closed her eyes once more.

She smiled at him, a real smile and nodded once more, trying to get some sleep.

It had been an hour since Audrey had awoken and King felt it hard to not sleep and even harder to not look at her while she closed her eyes, not so much in sleep but more in thought.

He was taken out of his thoughts when she spoke up, filing the room with the sound of her quite, happy voice.

" He wasn't all that bad, beautiful man really, he had his moments." She opened her eyes and glanced at him. He met her eyes and smiled.

" Yeah, Danica too, but I didn't love her, it was more physical at first then anything. It just got worse later

on.

" Where's your mark, if you don't mind me asking. Every one seems to know, not that they were staring at you, though Abby did change your clothes. But she's straight as a plank , so no touching was involved." He said, although he looked sad at the last part.

" Well, its funny really. When you live for someone that long, I guess you give in hopelessly. I did, and the one time I allowed him to…you know, he took advantage of it and bit me. Its on the inside of my left thigh."

She looked at him when she told her. King was looking down on her, his mouth turned into a little 'o'.

" Well, I guess It always happens that way then, same thing with Danica but I bit her first, only my bite didn't mean a hell of curse though." He grinned, almost asking her to show him, after all, he'd shown her his, did he not?

" Well, save yourself, Abby and Blade should be back in a couple of hours, and everybody else should be back, well, what time is it?" He looked at the clock next to the bed, reading 8:41 pm.

" Pretty early, looks like we got a long night. What do you want to watch, or are you hungry?"

" No, thank you. Um, anything is alright, do you get the Style Network?" She looked expectantly at him as he grabbed the remote and put on her channel of choice.

He watched as a woman and a man ran to and fro in a mall, trying on pieces of clothing and the man holding up a photo of a model in some weird clothing. He much rather preferred his cargos and white tank tops, but also favored the all naked look on women. They continued running and shopping and he dozed of for a while, hearing Audrey say something like ,

" Is that what there wearing now, wow. What do you think?" It seemed Mrs. Audrey was getting used to him, he just hoped he wouldn't fall asleep and wake up a vampire in the morning. Although the thought of her on him as she sucked his neck tenderly was not a bad one at all.

' I'll just have to wait.' His lustful thoughts returned again and he felt an all too familiar tightening in his pants. He doubted that he could go anywhere too long and leave her here.

He sighed, tonight was going to be a long night. He just hope Abby and Blade would return before he stabbed his head in a miserable way to get rid of his naughty thoughts.

Authors Note: Thanks again for those of you who reviewed, and everyone else reading this fic please tell me what you think, it means a lot and it gives me more inspiration to know people are reading this. I have made up my mind about the pairings. I will post that information in the main summary. Thanks again and I'll try to write the next chapter as quickly as I can.