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Victoria
If it weren't for James, I don't think I could deal with Laurent. He was always taking precautions, hunting outside of cities, only feeding when necessary. It's a far cry from the uninhibited life I led before. But, I would do anything for my mate.
James and Laurent have traveled together for a few decades now, and there is a comfortable agreement between them that has allowed them to stay together for so long. Laurent is more cautious, where James is more instinct. Together they balance one another out. It was a bit for Laurent to handle me being thrown in the mix. Laurent thinks I am impatient and too needy. I can't help that I have always gotten what I want, when I want it. But they thought it best if we all tried to stay together and the last ten years or so have been bearable at least.
But James is more than worth changing my life for. A loneliness I didn't realize clouded my heart lifted the day he walked into my life. How I lived without him before, I will never know. As much as he balances out Laurent, it is more so for me. A natural hunter, tracker, he is patient and calm. He gives me what I need and can handle my temper like a pro. And he loves me.
I resigned myself long ago to never finding someone to love or love me back. I thank whatever higher power there is everyday that I was traveling through that particular forest in North Carolina the same day he and Laurent were.
Now we find ourselves running through Washington, not too far from the ocean. For such a beautiful place, there is something living here that smells awful. I don't imagine we will be here long.
It's must be our lucky day, because we just caught the scent of some humans, probably some males pretending to know how to live in the wild.
We stop just far enough away to scope out the situation, but not so close that they may hear us. There are three of them, males like I thought, sitting around a camp site and laughing at some unintelligent human joke.
Never ones to be picky, we agree quickly to take which ever is closest to us.
We move so fast, the humans have no idea what happened. One second they are talking with their buddies and the next second they are lying on their back on the ground with a stone hard, cold person pinning them to the ground and biting their neck. It only takes a few seconds for the loss of blood to make them light headed and then pass out before they feel their own life leave their body.
I always feel so energetic after feeding, like I could run forever or fuck James six ways from Sunday. Usually he doesn't mind when I get like that. And I do enjoy when Laurent takes off for a couple days to give us some peace.
I can feel the blood coursing through me, my grip tighter on the almost lifeless body beneath me and the thoughts of what James might do to me in a matter of minutes cloud my mind.
But my hopes crash down around me when that God awful smell increases ten fold, and before any of us realize it there are eight wolves descending on us in semi-circular formation. What the fuck?
Everything inside of me is screaming to run away. I flick my eyes over to James and see the same thing I feel on his face. So we take off North as fast as we can. I've never come across any creatures like those wolves. And I've never had instincts to run away so strongly before.
As vampires, we are ruled by our instincts and it doesn't take long to trust them. But I've never come across another creature, save for other vampires, that I could not intimidate or over-power. But something inside of me knew that was a fight the three of us could not win.
Somehow we make it to Canada without being caught. We run further just in case and then stop to stare at each other.
"Have either of you ever seen wolves like those before?" Laurent asked, but we shook our heads.
"They smelled awful. I just don't understand. We are vampires, how were we just run off by animals?" I look to them pleadingly, trying to understand what just happened.
James walks over to me and pulls me into his arms. The embrace calms me down a little bit, but I don't let him go.
"I don't know babe. But we need to figure out what they are, and we need to kill them. There were too many of them and they just feel too dangerous to be running around and no one knowing about them." James' words make sense but all I can feel is how bad of an idea it would be to go back.
James can always tell what I'm thinking. "Don't worry. We know what they smell like now. And they can't all run around together all the time. We will catch them in a more manageable group and then attack. They may be intimidating but there hasn't been anything that our teeth could not tare through."
I sigh in defeat, knowing that no matter what I say James will do this and Laurent will follow. And the group will only be stronger with me in it. I look over at Laurent and he seems as disturbed by this as us, but his head seems to be unconsciously shaking in agreement.
"Can we at least wait a couple days? Make it seem like we took off so they won't be waiting for us?" James smirks down at me.
Laurent seems to focus on the conversation again and says, "That would be best, I think. We can go back in two days and stick with James' plan."
"When did you become a tracker, Vic?" He pecks my nose with a kiss and my mood lifts a little, stupid mushy feelings.
"I learned from watching the best." I wink at him and then suddenly his mouth is on mine, his tongue lapping at every surface in my mouth and a low growl starting in the back of his throat. I smile around his tongue when I hear Laurent groan and take off mumbling that he will be back in two days.
Maybe I do get to have my wicked way with James after all.
AN:Thanks for reading and reviewing. Next update should be around next Friday. Thanks to Dreamingpoet1988 for beta-ing for me. Go check out her page for some great stories.
