Sorry i know i rushed to get the chapter posted tonight so if there are any mistakes ill go bak and change them tomarrow! bye bye! -Brittany
Dracula: No one cares about typos! I'm getting some action! YES!
o sheesh, ohay guys here it is!
She thought she heard the large clock chime twelve times. That meant it was noon, it has been about five hours since the candle was burnt out around sunrise, he has to be asleep by now. Sophia took a deep breath and slowly pulled the heavy velvet blanket off of her. She then pulled her long legs out from under it and began to sit up holding her breath.
Nothing, he didn't move. whew, was the only thing that went though her head has she began to swing her legs over and climb out of the humongous four poster. But instead of gracefully landing on her feet on the wood floor she landed on her discarded shoes and to her complete and utter horror tripped and landed with a sounding crash unto the floor.
She took in a breath and held it so long she thought the top of her corset might burst open. But again, nothing ,he didn't even twitch. And he said he was a light sleeper, what a liar. She then got up and slid her feet into her slipper shoes and grabbed her cloak. She felt so dirty, the skirts from her Masquerade gown were soiled with mud from the forest and her long spiral curls where a fuzzy mess. She sighed deeply and started to creep towards the doors of the room.
She made it across the room silently enough and managed to turn the knob without him waking. But then as she opened the door , he moved. It took all the might she could muster to keep from letting out a scream and bolting. It seemed that all he was doing was turning in his sleep do she safely made it into the hallway.
Across from the room was another one, which she assumed was Nicolae's ,she figured they seemed close and friends would want to be near each other. She then felt a pang in her chest looking at Nicolae's door, he was so sweet and very caring, unlike the snappy and sarcastic Drake, she would actually would regret leaving the solemn vampire. She sighed again to herself and then looked down the hall in search for a staircase.
Looking down the right she saw that the hallway got darker and by squinting she thought the could make out a wall so she assumed it was a dead end. So she started to go left. The further she went down the hallway the clearer her surroundings got. There was a candle sitting on a small table and two chairs sitting against the wall, the light from the candle she decided would come in handy if she had to wonder through the dark house to find a way out. Then she heard the jingling of a doorknob and scooped up the candle and bolted down the hall.
She eventually found the stairs and took them by twos because she could almost feel someone behind her. She knew it was probably paranoia but she thought she heard the light pounding of distant but hurried footsteps. The thought of someone pursuing her made her run down flight after flight only faster until finally she found her self on a centered and larger grand staircase. The room it was in had high ceilings that grew dark and shadowed towards the top, so that there was no telling how high they really went, she stood and stared at the stone floors and red velvet stairs and the dusty cobwebbed covered chandelier that was hanging crooked in the center of the room, slightly lower than it should be. She then heard a stumble from the shadows to her left, she gasped aloud and pounded down the grand staircase to the huge wood doors at the entrance.
She reached the doors and busted through to the outside and to her absolute shock it wasn't a bright like it normally should be at noon. Oh no it wasn't noon, I was wrong oh god oh god! The thought screamed in her head. It was sunset and she knew she would never make it out of the woods alive, but she was going to try damn it. She started a flat out run ahead straight into the woods. Her dress got ripped and snagged by branches and twigs were pulling at her hair, but she kept running she had to escape she had to get home. Why? The fleeting question made her stop in her tracks. Why did she need to escape, what kind of life had she had with Ralph anyway, she didn't love him and he treated her like a child, or a doll that might break.
She shook her head, she couldn't stay in some vampires lair what kind of life was that? She then heard a growl sound behind her and she then hung a right and started towards the sound of running water.
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Romulus was following her as fast as he could, Drake asked him to once he realized she had left his room. The moon was about to rise and then Drake could pursue her, but the sun was still only slightly out and the exposure would kill his good friend. So here was Romulus in the form of the golden wolf following the girl through the dense forest.
The minute he let out a growl in frustration he realized that it was a mistake, in doing so he caused her to go off her straight course and towards the river. In about three minutes the sun would be down and he would hear the sweeping of Drakes battered bat wings overhead.
Huffing and puffing Romulus leapt over fallen limbs and glided between thick trunks, he knew that in his human form it would be difficult to maneuver in the dense forest, but now her wondered if all this fur and two extra legs was the smarter choice of the two when it came to perusing stealthy young women.
Then Romulus heard the sound of great wings and knew that was his sign to stop running after the already frightened girl.
The wolf let out a to human sigh and collapsed on the ground for a little nap.
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Sophia had almost reached the river when she tripped over a fallen branch and went flying into deep bank mud. She struggled to get back up with her skirts heavy with all of the mud and her soft soled slippers slipping in the watery soil.
Then she heard the close and steady beat of swooping wings and knew that she was doomed.
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Eeerr…these damn sticks are bothering my fleas. Romulus thought as he groggily got up and lazily walked to softer ground.
He eventually found himself at the grassy bank of the river by the castle. Romulus then nestled behind a scarcely leaved bush and went to sleep. Only minutes after he closed his eyes he heard voices and jerked them back open to see Sophia at the bank crying with Drake swooping down behind her.
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Sophia was holding her tear stained face in her elegant hands as she wept, she knew that a vampire was coming towards her, the beat of wings were all to familiar. Her only hope in her mind was if it was Nicolae, Drake would surely want her dead and any other vampire would surely kill her.
Maybe it was just better that way.
" Why did you leave?" she heard a familiar and almost hurt sounding whisper come from behind her. The beating had stopped and she knew all to well who was standing behind her right now.
"Because I was scared…" she breathed and turned to face the intimidating figure of Drake.
She was kneeling in the mud looking hurt and afraid. Drake wanted nothing more than to scoop her up and take her worries as his own. But that would be impossible irrational, she was frightened, frightened of him, and him touching her would only multiply her pain. " I'm not going to hurt you…"
" Then why did you take me in the first place…" she practically whispered.
" I don't know….you where so sweet…sweet like her." he whispered again feeling the familiar sting behind his eyes, he shook his head and held his hand out to her, and she took it and got up from the ground.
" Who is she that you feel such pain over?" Sophia had stopped her crying and stood very close to Drake trying to peer into his multicolored irises.
" You need a bath…" Drake trailed off noticing her mud covered dress.
" Your not answering the question who is the girl you mentioned? The one I remind you of?" She said softly moving even closer into him.
"My wife." Drake said flatly looking her square in the face.
" I-I didn't know you where married…" Sophia said shocked pulling farther away.
"I'm not any longer, she left me after it happened….she's long dead, and you still need a bath." he raked his long fingers through his wavy locks and sighed.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know, um yea I guess I do." Sophia looked down at her disgusting display of a dress. "uh, if it isn't to much to ask could you wash this as I bathe in the river?" she turned her skirts his direction.
" Err, sure." Drake said to shocked to think it through.
" Well go behind there while I get undressed, okay? I'll throw you my dress when I'm covered up." she smiled and Drake went behind the tree and rested his head on it, hearing her pleasant humming sounding from the bank.
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Sophia stripped off her soiled gown and corset. She then stepped out of her slip and under garments and threw them at the base of the tree she knew Drake was standing behind. Then she waded into the cold river water until it was up to her slender hips. She bent down far enough to cover her chest and then called out to Drake. " Okay I'm in, can you take me gown for me?"
She saw him come out from behind the tree with his head bowed and she almost wanted to let out the chuckle she was holding in so tightly. He bent down and picked up her clothing. " I'm going downstream to give you some privacy…" he called. "You'll be fine, I'll be close enough so that I can hear anything." he then walked down stream behind some brush.
Sophia watched him sulk away and then sighed dipping her curly hair under the chilly water. She than began to scrub at her scalp and rubbed the dried dirt from her skin. She cleaned from under her long nails and between her tiny toes. She was so deliriously happy she didn't know what to do with herself. Standing up she began to rub her flat tummy of any dirt traces and stretched examining the woods around her, feeling so free with her chest exposed to the trees and the cool air licking at the sensitive skin of her abdomen.
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Drake carelessly scrubbed her garments dirt free bored with such a lowly task. After feeling like the gown had been washed enough to be dubbed clean he got up and began to head back to where Sophia was most likely done getting a bath and was waiting for him to return her clothes. He sighed walking through the bush and then he stopped dead in his tracks.
She wasn't done bathing…oh she really wasn't done…
The thoughts raced through his head as he watched the girl stand in the water running her long fingers through her elegant spiral curls completely naked from the waist up. Thank goodness she was not facing him or he might have fallen to his knees and cried prayers of thanks to any god that was willing to listen.
He watched her wash herself clean of anything that was obstructing the ivory that was her skin. He began to move closer to her without thinking he reached the bank causing the water to splash. The sound then caused Sophia turn to face him wide eyed. She didn't run away screaming though she just stood there in shocked silence as his disobedient feet drug him deeper into the river and closer to the beautiful angel before him.
So long since he had seen a woman so long since he touch and really tasted a woman. And she was so much like her.
Finally he reached Sophia and stood a breath away from her. She wasn't covering herself and was fully exposed to his greedy selfish gaze. He traced his fingers up her damp arms and drew his face closer to hers. His mouth was hovering just above hers wanting so bad to taste her.
But then to his complete and utter shock she covered his cold lips with hers.
There was a distant ringing of charging blood sounding in his head as she parted her mouth inviting his tongue into the warm wet envelope of her mouth. He wrapped his fully clothed arms around her as their kiss became more heated and desperate. He heard her sigh at the same time he groaned for more. She pressed her wet nude body against him and said his name.
He pulled her away at that moment, he thought the sighing sound of his name on her lips is what brought him back to this new heated reality. She wrapped her arms around his neck and looked into his eyes with a almost caring light. Unlike the normal blood lust he saw in the other women he had kissed of late.
"Why did you kiss me?" he whispered to her.
" Because I wanted to." she said kissing his neck and grazing her soft hand over his beautiful face.
He then took off his cape and wrapped her in it pulling her into his arms and carrying her to the bank. At the bank he unsheathed his great wings and heard her gasp in shocked pleasure. He then carried the two of them back to the castle and onto his balcony.
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Romulus yawned and woke up from his short nap in the riverside brush. His bones cracked back into a human form allowing him to stretch to a very impressive height. He walked to the bank and then halted when he saw an all to familiar gown and undergarments bundled up in a wad at the riverside.
Drake! sounded in Romulus's head as he grabbed the dress and ran flat out back to the lair. If he had taken time to sniff out his surroundings he would have caught the sent of a certain female vampire.
" So Dracula, you've taken a certain fancy to this mortal whore ,hmn?" Alhandra folded her strong arms over her ample breasts and flew into the forest for some dinner.