Jagger watched with excitement as Henry began to kiss and lick Christina's neck. Henry was repulsed by the taste and what he was doing but knowing he was about to end the the life of the woman that had given him immortality was bittersweet. A tear slipped from Henry's eye as he plunged his fangs deep into her neck. Christina screamed and clawed at Henry realizing this was nothing sexual or sensual but deadly. Her fingernails raked his face but still, Henry didn't let up. He drank deeply, gulping her hot, evil blood as it rolled over his tongue and burned down his throat. He wanted to throw it back up but continued to drink. Henry held Christina tight as she struggled against him and fought Henry with all of her strength. Jagger joined him as he plunged his fangs into her wrist and began to drain Christina as well. Both vampires gulped and swallowed while Christina's screams died out as her body jerked and spasmed it's way to death. When she fought no more and they were sure they had drained her sufficiently, both vampires threw their heads back and roared with triumph as their beasts had been fed unwillingly by Christina lacking the sensuality that normally accompanies a feeding. With blood still dripping from his mouth, Henry gently put Christina's lifeless body on the floor and stood. He licked the remaining blood from his lips, wiped the stray tear from his cheek and stared down at his sire, the one who had made him immortal. It was surreal to see her dead at his feet and more surreal the realization it was by his own hand.
Though he no longer loved her as he once did, he still felt some type of pull and guilt for killing her. Jagger could sense this in Henry and stood up next to the other vampire, putting a hand on his shoulder. Jagger had cleaned the blood from his mouth as well but his red lips still pulsed with the intensity of the feeding and the erotica of both vampires draining the female as it had been almost sexual in nature for Jagger.
"Henry, there was no alternative. You did well, you should be proud for standing firm with your threat," Jagger spoke with a quiet confindence trying to reassure Henry that what they had done was right in every sense of the word.
"I know," Henry hoarsed out. It was lacking pride, conflicting to him and yet it truly was the only thing that could have been done. The task at hand now would be convincing Vicki this was nothing more than him ridding them of Christina, not one last fling with her as it had appeared to Vicki before she left in Mike's arms. Henry swallowed back more tears. Tears not for Christina's death but that he hadn't done it sooner, that he had seemed to show his loyalty to Christina rather than Vicki. Tears of hurt wondering who's baby Vicki was carrying then wondering if it really mattered at all. He loved her regardless of who's baby it was but mostly the tears were for the woman Christina, the one he had fallen in love with at seventeen. This was the woman that had made him a true man, the woman that had brought him to Vicki Nelson in this time by making him a vampire. The decades he spent killing for survival were all worth being with Vicki but now, he should feel some remorse, just a twinge for Christina for without her, there would be no Vicki and Henry. That's what the tears were really for, the fact he felt no remorse at all. Jagger knew this and understood. He turned to Henry and shook him away from his thoughts.
"Henry, I must get her body stashed away so that I may take her to the alliance," he reminded him. Henry nodded and bent once more to the lifeless body of Christina. His eyes caught the glint of something around her neck. Gently, he pushed away her thick, black hair and saw that it was a necklace. Shock washed over his face as he realized it was the necklace he had given her when he was still mortal. All these years later, she still wore it. It was a medallion, a crest of sorts that belonged in his father's kingdom.
"Would you like that?" Jagger asked. Henry stood up and stared at the other vampire.
Finally composed he said, "No, I want nothing to remind me of her, nothing at all."
"Understood," Jagger bent to pick up her body.
"And remember, do not stray into my territory again," Henry reminded him. Jagger nodded and was gone. Henry had almost shared the information about the serum with Jagger but not knowing him well, he thought better of it.
Henry only hoped he could make ammends with Vicki and get to the bottom of all that had occurred.