Lorraine was walking in a field where the fog was so thick that she couldn't see her own hands, but she knew where she was going. She was going to Valentina. She could feel her essence with every step, but with every step she also felt dread. She suddenly stops: there was Valentina. She was smiling, had her hair down as if lounging at home, and she was wearing a white dress.
Lorraine was happy to see her old friend again and wanted to run to her but feared if she made the slightest move, Valentina would vanish.
"I miss you so much." Lorraine tells her friend, "What happened?" she asks, "Where's your body?"
Valentina's smile then faded away as she slowly lifts her arm to point at a direction. Lorraine turns her head to look and screams at what she saw: Valentina being held down on the floor by a faceless man with brown hair. He had his hand around her neck and seemed like he was biting her. Blood was dripping from her neck to her white dress that started changing from white to red.
"Stop! You're hurting her! Why are you hurting her! Who are you? Valentina, who is he?" As Lorraine keeps on looking at the scene, she sees Valentina trying to tell her the name of the man murdering her but no sound was coming out of her mouth. Lorraine then started running to her friend's aid still screaming for him to let Valentina go.
"Lorraine! Lorraine! Wake up, you're having a nightmare." Demetri says as she shakes her.
She quickly sits on the bed and starts taking a deep breath. She was shaking by what she saw. Murder. Her friend was murdered. When the realization hits her, it was all too much to bear and she starts crying. Demetri tries consoling her by putting his arms around her.
"It was just a nightmare, you're now awake. I'm right here." He tells her.
"She was murdered, Demetri. Valentina was murdered."
That startled him for a second, "What are you talking about?"
"That's what my dream was. Valentina was showing me her murder. It was a man, with brown hair, dressed in black. He was holding her down and biting her neck. She was wearing the red dress that I hated. God, I hated that dress and that's the dress she died in! Oh, and it was in a building. The dream was in a field but I know that it was in a building. I know it." She rambles on.
If Demetri still had a heartbeat then it would be on overload and beating out of his chest. Lorraine just described Valentina's death without her actually being there.
"Were you able to see his face?" He quietly asks.
"No. I only know that he has brown hair and wore all black."
This calmed Demetri down. 'How was this possible?' he asked himself. Being a vampire, one had no choice but to believe in the supernatural, but out of all the humans, she had to have some sort of gift? Was it clairvoyance?
Lorraine got up to go to the bathroom to splash some water on her face. Demetri follows her.
"Do you feel better now?" He asks.
"Slightly," she responds but then she notices the time, "Oh I am so sorry for waking you so early, Demetri. I feel terrible!"
"It is alright. I do not sleep."
"Seriously, I feel so bad now. I'm such a terrible girlfriend and I just got the job."
He puts both hands on each side of her face, "No, you're not. And as I said before I was not asleep." He leans over and kisses her on the lips. This simple gesture calms both of them.
"Don't ever stop kissing me." She whispers to him as their foreheads touch.
"And I never will. I don't remember the last time I was emotionally with someone. And not that I've found you…" he kisses her some more.
"Hey," she says as they parted, "Your friend never came to pick you up."
"Well, I never called him."
"What?" she says laughingly, "Why not?"
"Well even though I did not plan on making love to you last night, I had planned on sleeping over."
"Oh really?" she responds crossing her arms. "And who says that I would have let you stayed?"
"Because, my darling child, the little while that I've known you I noticed that you're good-hearted. You always want to help others. Surely, you wouldn't have let a helpless soul like me wander alone?"
She play punches his chest while laughing.
"You are evil!" she tells him. "Pure evil!"
"But I'm smart and lovable as well."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Right as they're about to embrace again, Lorraine's cell rings. She picks up the phone but doesn't recognize the number.
"Hello?"
"Hey babe! Did I wake you?"
"What do you want?" Lorraine answers Kyle, her ex-boyfriend.
Demetri could clearly hear that the person on the other end was a man but he also heard the annoyance in Lorraine's voice.
"A) I have to come over your place later on today because you need to sign some paperwork that needs to be faxed ASAP. And B) most importantly B) I miss you and us, and think that we should give it another shot."
"A) At what time. B) Feelings are not mutual."
Demetri was growing angry about the conversation. He heard every word that the man was saying and truth be told, he was jealous. Vampires have always been possessive race.
"Lorraine, hang up." Demetri he says through his teeth.
"Kyle, I have to go. Text me the time and place." She quickly hangs up, "I don't appreciate that tone of voice."
"I am sorry. I just don't appreciate being ignored for another man. And one you obviously had a 'connection' with."
"I have to say Demetri, you are observant, but I wasn't ignoring you. Kyle is my ex-boyfriend, true, but we work together. I apparently have some papers that need signing in the embassy and he wanted to have me signed them as soon as possible. The embassy is 30 minutes away and since today he had errands to run down here, he's bringing them with him. That's it." She responded omitting the fact that Kyle was interested in getting back together.
"When will you be meeting him?"
"He said around 9:30 – 10 but I told him to text me the exact time and the place."
"I will not be able to go with you. I have to leave here at 8 to be at work." Truth is he had to leave because today would be a sunny day, unlike yesterday.
"That's okay."
"I have a mobile, so you may text me throughout the day. I'll text back when I can. Will that be okay?"
"Yes, it will. Now let's go back to sleep, you need to rest before you go to work. Oh, at what time will you be off?" she asks him as they get into bed.
"I will let you know when I get to work. I do not have a fixed schedule."
"Okay. Maybe we can have dinner or do something later on." She says as she puts her head on his chest.
"That would be good." And Lorraine drifted to sleep.
Demetri was awake rethinking about today's events. He had to admit that Felix was right, there was no point in beating around the bush: this woman was his mate. She was meant as a mission but now he's lying in bed with her. That's not his regular behavior during missions or in general. Normally after having sex with his lovers he would just leave a rose by their bedsides and leave. However, with Lorraine, it was a different story. He did not want to leave. He just wanted to lie there and listen to her heartbeat and her breathing. The sounds soothed him. He loved the fact that when going to bed, she puts her head on his chest and her leg over his own. Demetri can easily see this as being their routine.
Yesterday, he had followed her throughout the day with Simon, from the outside market to her getting ready to him "accidentally" bumping into them at the restaurant. He was on high alert: watching everything that she did and how she did them, who she was talking to and who she smiled at. It would hit a raw nerve every time she spoke to a man, even Simon, but that was before he got a closer look at their relationship. And now this Kyle is calling her and telling her that he's missing her, missing them. Kyle lifespan has suddenly shortened by several decades. Yes, his behavior was out of the ordinary.
However, her dream about Valentina was on his mind as well. She described the event perfectly, yet she wasn't there. When she had told him that she couldn't see the killer's face, a wave of calm ran right through him. But how long is that going to last? If Lorraine is a clairvoyant, he will not share that knowledge with anyone, not even Felix.
His thoughts were interrupted by Lorraine accidently rubbing her leg on Felix's crotch. This mad him hard again but he's always been at the ready for certain nightly activities. Being a vampire, stamina was never an issue. 'She just started sleeping, would it be wise to wake her?' he asks himself. No, it wouldn't. Still, today he will need relief from her, and that relief will come from several sessions.
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