Meet the Ancients: Chapter 12

"But why did you not leave when you heard what I was saying?"

"I was too amused, and I felt as if something was holding me there. I knew it wasn't you, but I wasn't sure what it was. I definitely didn't plan on allowing you any of my blood – but then when you asked I couldn't resist. I used Swedish because I wanted to knock you off balance mentally."

I started feeling extreme desire and yearning. "Is that you?" I asked.

She nodded and added intense lust to the equation. I closed my eyes.

She whispered in my ear, "Remember last night when I borrowed your throne?"

I let out a low growl and managed to scare the vermin closest to my throne. "Head for downstairs", I said in a low voice. I am not going to lose control in here.

She removed the silver torque, got up and placed it on the seat. Then she leaned over to kiss me while puncturing her finger on the silver tusks. She pulled away, ran her finger on my lower lip ands said, "Don't be long My Love." Then turned and walked for the door.

I slowly licked the blood off my lip as I watched her go, then gave in and followed her. Neither of us had noticed the vampire pair who had just walked in the bar.

She was already through the door before I got there. When I went through she grabbed me and pulled me against her. "Here . . . Now!" She said as she started undoing my pants. I groaned and went with it. I reached under her dress with one hand and ripped her underwear off while with the other I unzipped the back of her dress to release her bountiful breasts. As she pulled me free I pushed her up against the wall and entered her. She wrapped her legs around me as I began thrusting into her. "Yes . . . yes . . . yes . . . don't stop!" I bit her above her breast and she screamed, "ERIK ! ! !"

The next thing I knew I was halfway down the hall laying on my back. WHAT . . . I thought, and then saw a strange male and female vampire in the hall with us. I jumped to my feet to go to Magan and heard her yelling at the pair. "What the hell is your problem David? Why did you just attack him like that?" The female was moving to get between Magan and I, she turned and yelled, "Valerie – STOP !" The two of them both stopped and looked at Magan. The female, Valerie, asked her, "Are you okay? We were trying to protect you." At that moment Pam, Chou and four more of my vampires charged thru the door. "Hold", I said. They froze.

Magan answered her, "I am perfectly safe in Erik's bar with him. You are the ones who injured me, not him."

That was when I noticed that there were deep tears above her breast where there should have been puncture marks. I rushed to her side, "Are you okay Lover?" I bit into my wrist and held it in front of her, "Drink." I thought that she would refuse me - this was not even close to the damage she had last night, but she took my wrist. As she started to drink deeply I proceeded to lick the blood off of her. While I was doing so I looked up at my vampires, "Leave us." By the time I finished cleaning the blood off of her the marks had mostly faded.

Magan released my wrist. She commented, "It looks like you were right last night. This is David and Valerie, and I have never seen David without Elise being nearby." I felt as if she wanted to say something else to me also.

Valerie and David looked at each other and back at her before Valerie said, "We saw him follow you though the door and then heard you scream. We thought you were in danger."

She replied, "I was in no danger with Erik, in fact he has a vested interest in keeping me safe. Have you been to see Alric and Wolf yet?"

They looked confused, glanced at each other again and shook their heads.

Magan went on, "Yes, I know that Rick's name is really Alric and that he is Wolfram's Sire. And I know that Alric was Godric's Sire as well, plus I know that Godric was Erik's Sire." She nodded in my direction, "We all had a very interesting discussion last night."

David told her, "We just got into town tonight. Wolfram told us that he had a surprise he wanted to show us here. We came straight here; Elise went ahead to meet Alric and Wolfram. We didn't know what to expect and saw you headed for the door when we entered. We thought you were in trouble."

"Is Godric okay?" Valerie asked, "You keep referring to him in the past tense."

I answered her, "Godric is dead. He decided to greet the sun a few weeks ago." That news clearly upset her. I asked, "What was he to you?"

She looked at me and sighed, "He was my brother, I was his sister."

"And what of David?"

He answered me, "No. We have different lineages. Elise is my Sire."

Magan looked from them to me, "I had better go call Wolf or we will have all five of them here. That is not the way I want to spend tonight." She came over to me, "Zip me up Lover." All of a sudden she looked over at my closed office door, "You still need to deal with what is in your office."

I had completely forgotten about the drainers. As I zipped myself back up I said to David and Valerie, "Go back out into the bar, one of us will be out there in half an hour." After they had left I told Magan, "Call Wolfram and tell him what you need to, then join me in my office. I may need your help."

She answered, "They are going to want to know when we want to meet with them – how about Monday night at midnight at my place?" I nodded. She bit me, gave me a lingering kiss and headed for the stairs, "I'll call him from my cell – I'll be right with you in about 10 minutes."

I want into my office and sat down behind my desk. The drainers had been handcuffed to their chairs. They were quiet at first when they saw me, but quickly started asking me questions. I ignored them and texted Pam and Chou to inform them Magan or I would be out in half an hour to deal with our vampire guests. I wonder how old these two are. Valerie has to be younger than Alric, but older that Wolfram. I have no idea as to how old David could be.

I sternly looked over at the two humans. "Why have you come into my bar looking for V?"

They started babbling, "You must have made a mistake, we don't use V."

I interrupted them, "I can smell it in you. I have no use for drainers in my bar."

They visibly blanched at this. "N-n-no . . . not us. Why would you think that? Did someone accuse us?"

"QUIET! You were broadcasting loudly when you came in. My telepath knew you for what you are immediately."

They were quiet for a moment. The man started shaking. But the woman looked at me defiantly, "There is no such thing, you are just trying to trick us somehow."

I looked her in the eye, "10 years ago we did not exist – yet I am over 1000 years old."

I got an idea. I can not hear Magan, but she can hear me. Magan I am going to need you to listen to me like this and play along with what I say and do. Nod when you come in so I know that you are listening.

I sat back in my chair and said, "I am not sure what I am going to . . . "Magan walked in then, I glanced up and she nodded. Good. I changed tactics, "Ah, my meal is here. I was beginning to think I would need to make a snack out of one of you two." Nothing like a little fear. I looked at Magan and pushed my chair back. Come sit on my lap with your head turned so you can whisper in my ear. Talk as low as possible, I can hear you. When she sat down I let out my fangs and bit into her neck. Normally I am not a messy feeder – but I thought I would make more of an impression on them if I made sure there was plenty of blood for them to see. After a short time I stopped and licked the blood that I had allowed to continue to flowing until it stopped.

I looked over at the scum in their chairs. "Now you are going to tell me if you are working with anyone else. How long you have been dealing V. How many vampires you have drained. Who your customers are. Everything. Leave no details out."

"Why should we tell you anything?" The woman stated, "You are just going to kill us either way." She has a backbone – she must be the leader of the two.

"If you do not tell me what I want to know you will die", I conceded, "but if . . ."

"Kill them." Magan interrupted, "They work alone. They've dealt V for a year and a half, killed 26 vampires scattered across the United States. There is a notebook in her purse listing their customers. I know where their car and equipment is. She paused, "That is not why you should kill them though. You should kill them because they are psychopathic sadistic bastards who enjoy torturing whomever the vampire is that they have kidnapped, for as long as they can, before they end up killing him or her."

"You . . . you're the telepath?" The woman said incredulously, "You bitch!"

I growled, "Watch what you say to my mate."

Magan was suddenly off my lap and across the room. She hit the male hard across the face. His head flew back and fell forward – unconscious, or dead.

"Temper, temper Lover. I did not know that you were bloodthirsty enough to want to kill them yourself."

She glared at the woman, "I wanted him to shut up. For some reason I can't shield as well against humans anymore when I am close to you. It's a good thing you couldn't hear the sadistic perverted things he wanted to do to me or else you would have done worse." She checked him for a pulse."He's still alive," she looked over at the female, "For now."

She looked back at me. "I am going to go talk to our visitors. Do you want me to tell Chou that there is some trash in here that needs to be taken out?"

I thought for a moment, "Yes, take our friends downstairs and I will join you as soon as Chou gets back here. Tell him I said to pick three to help him."

Magan turned to go to the door, then hesitated and picked the woman's purse off of a shelf. She reached inside, pulled out a set of keys and a light blue book - and then tossed them to me. "You'll need to keep these." Then she turned again and exited the room.

I slide the keys in a drawer and flipped through the book. Hhmmm some of these humans are well known figures. After a short time I heard a knock and looked up.

"Enter."

Chou came in followed by three more of my vampires. "Chou it seems we have a pair of sadistic vampire-torturing drainers here. Do what you want with them and then make sure they are never found."

The woman started to scream.

I slipped the book into the same drawer as the keys, got up and walked behind her. I whispered in her ear, "Scream all you like – my office is soundproof for just this reason." I walked back to the credenza and withdrew a bottle of Viognier. "Gag her while I open the door. You might want to wake the other one up after I leave."

I watched as all four snicked their fangs into place. One reached into a box and withdrew a gag which he promptly used. I opened the door and walked out. Good riddance.

I saw the door to the bar open and Magan came through, followed by David and Valerie. "Lover, you keep surprising me. I never would have guessed you would react the way you did."

"I told you I think more like a vampire sometimes."

I looked over at our guests, "Welcome, do you want anything before you go down to my private quarters?" I handed the bottle of wine to Magan and she smiled approvingly.

Valerie said, "A positive." I looked at David, "B negative." I called Pam. "Have someone bring three True Bloods downstairs; A positive, B negative and B positive." I led the way downstairs. Magan went and opened the wine; I lit the fire. While we were occupied they sat down in a pair of chairs.

A vampire with a sullen attitude came down with the True Blood. When she felt the power coming off of my guests, however, her jaw dropped and her attitude did a 180 degree flip. She looked over at me; I indicated Valerie and said, "A positive." Then did the same in David's direction, "B negative." She passed the blood and glasses out to them and looked at the remaining bottle with a perplexed look.

"That one is mine." She was surprised; it is well known that I prefer not to drink synthetic. "Leave us." She was gone as fast as she could move.

I went over to what was becoming "our" sofa and sat down. I took the opportunity to observe them. I had noticed earlier that Valerie was tall, about a foot taller than David. She was red haired and had tattoos running down both arms. David had been older when he was made. His hair was so blonde it was almost white. I did not see any tattoos on him. Both had piercing blue eyes.

Magan soon joined us, sitting down by my side. "I talked to Wolf." She started, "Elise wasn't there yet. He is very annoyed that the two of you decided to come here first – he planned to surprise you with Erik and I. We arranged for the seven of us to get together Monday night at the house I am renting."

She paused, "So, Vala, how have you been? I haven't seen you for a long time."

Vala and David looked shocked.

David exclaimed, "He didn't."

She answered, "He did Oddvar. He was furious when he heard that you had attacked Erik."

Hesitantly he asked, "Did you also tell him that you were injured?"

"I'm not stupid. I know better than that. He would already be here if I had, and I don't feel like dealing with him tonight. I'm fine now, don't worry about it."

I was a little confused by what I was hearing, and asked, "I thought Wolfram was the youngest."

"He is", Vala answered, "But he is also Alric's favorite. He probably is stronger than Da . . . Oddvar – but not me." She looked me over and said, "So, you are Godric's Viking. It must be driving Wolfram crazy."

"How so? He seemed fine to me."

"He would be . . . to you. Wolfram was as obsessed with Godric as Alric is with him. As you are Godric's only remaining child, he is not going to let anything happen to you. Magan is his other obsession. He wanted her back. You are probably the only vampire he could accept being with her. How did you manage to meet her?"

Magan answered her, "Pure chance. I'm down here picking out some new Friesian bloodlines and I had a bad day. I decided to go out for a drink, didn't want to have to heavily shield, remembered seeing this place and thought it would be the perfect place to go. Soon after I sat down Erik decided to try and glamour me, failed of course – but he had a telepath seated next to him who he asked to read my mind. I decided to have some fun so I confronted Erik. He questioned me, couldn't believe how old I was, threatened to kill me and then invited me to be his guest for a vampire band."

"All the while he was conversing with his second as to the fact he was considering me for a meal, then a pet, then decided he wanted me as "his" and wanted her to find out everything possible about me before I returned – in Swedish."

Vala and Oddvar both burst out laughing at this.

She continued on, "Then when I went to leave he asked . . . how did he put it . . . Oh yes, "what would you say if I asked to taste your blood?" And I asked him back, "What would you say if I asked you the same?" – in Swedish."

This elicited even harder laughter from our guests. I suppose it is humorous.

"You always have been vampire catnip Magan." Vala blurted out between laughs.