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Slowly light filtered beneath my eye lids and into my dream. I moaned as it coaxed me to return back to the land of the living. I groaned and cuddled into my living ice pack. James' arms were holding me onto his chest while his hands made small designs on my back. Sometime over the night I had rolled on top of him, intertwining our legs together. "James, make the sun go away."

"I thought you liked the sun?" James teased.

"Only when it's not waking me up and making you glitter." I replied. I tried to curl back into his chest and trying to go back to sleep.

"But I am glittering." James replied. He held his hand up and I finally noticed how his entire left side was glittering.

"But it's still waking me up." I replied.

"I bet I can give you one good reason to wake up." James grinned.

"Really now? I think you're going to have to prove this." I mumbled. James just smiled before switching our positions and starting round two.

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I fell asleep after rounds two and three only to wake up without James next to me. I looked around the room and found him sitting in a chair on the other side of the bed. "James? What are you doing over there?" I asked.

"Watching you sleep." James replied. "I need to go feed." Before I could reply he was out the door, and I'm sure out of the house. I shrugged, passing off his behavior as a side effect of him being hungry. So I just shrugged and fell back to sleep, hoping when I woke back up James would be back.

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I woke up for the second time this morning to an empty bed. James was now 2/2 for not being next to me. I couldn't help my feelings of rejection, but shoved them away and found a new outfit, towel, and all of my toiletries. I made it to the shower, but not without grimacing with every step. Apparently, I have muscles I didn't know I had.

Luckily, I didn't see anyone as I made my way to the shower. I heard screams coming from Laurent's room so I could figure that one out, but I knew the others could be lurking anywhere. I took a quick shower and dropped off my towel and dirty clothes. Once more I ventured outside for food. Like James, I was now being controlled by my hunger. I grabbed some cereal and milk and pulled a chair out of the table.

"Someone looks happy and tired this morning."

"Good morning Tanya." I said as I kept my attention on the cereal.

"So you and James finally… consummated your relationship?" She grinned.

"I think you can answer that yourself." I replied.

"True. Where is the lucky vampire anyway?" Tanya asked. "I didn't think either of you would be separated or seen all day… if not longer."

"James said he had to go feed." I shrugged.

"I thought I saw something in the forest while I was hunting, but he wasn't hunting any deer." Tanya replied. "It seemed he was on a hunt."

"I don't know. It wasn't like I went out and told him what to hunt. I haven't really been all here today. It's sort of been like a haze since I woke up the second time." I said.

"Good afternoon Tanya." A deep voice rolled through the kitchen.

"Afternoon James. Have a good hunt?" Tanya asked.

"It was satisfying enough." James replied. I heard a gasp and turned around after eating another spoonful of cereal. I nearly choked on the crunchy morsels when I noticed James' eyes.

"James… your… your eyes." I said. "They're red again."

"I had something in particular I was hunting." He replied. He remained on the opposite side of the room from me, but kept his intent stare on me as I finished my cereal.

"Would that be a certain someone from a certain club?" Tanya asked.

"Don't worry; no one is going to figure it out. I've learned how to cover my tracks over the years." James replied.

"You went after that guy from last night?" I asked, dropping my bowl in the sink a little harder than I meant to.

"He hurt you, he needed to pay."

"James, we took care of him before he hurt me!" I nearly screamed.

"Are you sure? Did you look in the mirror when you took your shower?" James asked.

"Uh… not really. I just took a shower then came out here." I replied. James pulled me out of the kitchen and into the bathroom. He shredded my t-shirt and jeans so I was left in my bra and underwear. "James!"

"I'll buy you new ones. Just look, I think this is more important." I looked in the mirror and was surprised to see two identical hand marks on either side of my hips. They weren't dark blue, but they were quite visible. There were a few more on my arms and higher on my chest.

"You did the others though?" I whispered confused. James nodded and walked slowly to the other side of the room.

"James, stop avoiding me!" I growled.

"But I hurt you. Just like that guy from last night." He replied. "I've torn people apart before you, but I barely want to touch you know since I know it's so easy to bruise and break you."

"No, don't say that. I didn't like him and he hurt me when I tried to fight back. I love you and you hurt me when you weren't fully in control, but instead your passion was in control." I said, coming right up to James and confronting him.

"But, but I should have been in control." He replied. It was the first sign of weakness I had ever scene from James.

"Did you break any of my bones?" I asked.

"No." He replied.

"Did you hurt me so bad I had to get medical attention?" I asked.

"No."

"Did you make me bleed?"

"Well…"

"James, you know what I'm talking about."

"No."

"Did you turn me into a vampire when you said you wouldn't?"

"No."

"Then I believe you were in control. Passion controlled me just as much as it controlled you. So if you want to blame anyone for the bruises blame me, or at least blame it on both of us."

"Are you sure?" James asked.

"I'm sure." I relied. I wrapped my hand around James' neck and pulled him down for a kiss. James replied by wrapping his arms around my waist.

"So what was Tanya saying before I walked in?"

"Um, something about not seeing us for the rest of the day?" I suggested.

"That was it. Now let's make her prediction come true." James grinned. I smiled and nodded before finding myself back in our room with James kissing each bruise as though each kiss would completely heal the bruises. Instead of the kisses remaining innocent, I found it far more erotic and was soon moaning under James' hands… again.