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It was a half an hour past midnight on the third night since the woman's painful transformation had begun. She was now sleeping restful, naked on top of an old bed in a small attic. The man was sitting on the floor in a corner in the opposite direction of the room. He was looking very bored, this had been a couple of long nights, and he knew that the transformation had been taking long time considering how much blood he took from that young woman.
The pain! Her head ached. Her body was so weak, owning not strength enough to even move her limbs. Her whole body was awake, but she was powerless. Something had happened to her senses, they where sharper, much sharper than before. She heard sounds that a human being wouldn't recognize. She smelled new but still familiar scents. Memories of the past rushed through her mind. She was lying in a catlike position on her stomach with her forehead resting on her lower arms. She opened her eyes; she knew exactly where to look, directly at the man in the corner.
"You!" She spitted out, her voice was harsh and dry. She barred her teeth even though it was costing her a lot of strength. The man woke up from his thoughts and draw instant attention to the woman on the bed, he grinned pleased. "Damn it Rahl! How much blood did you take from her? I can't move and even less, think clear. Disgusting parasite."
"So you remember me?" He rose from his corner and slowly walking towards the weakened woman.
"Don't you dare come near me or I'll scratch your eyes out!"
He just laughed at her "My pore bat, it hurts me to see you like this. Weak and dependent scarcely able to do anything" He was standing one an arm length from her. She tried to wave her arm towards the man in a failing attempt to claw him. She could hardly lift it, which made her furious.
"I'm not your bat, have never been and never will be!"
He kneeled besides her looking straight into her eyes, he whispered"But you are." He stroked her hair and kissed her forehead. "I have missed you Celeste."
"Ha! Of course you have other wise you wouldn't have found me. I must say that I didn't think you where ever going to do so. How long was it since I sold my undead soul?" Her tired eyes looked unfriendly at the man kneeling beside the bed.
"Fifteen years."
"Not longer than? Oh my…You must have been desperate." Celeste grinned coldly.
"Not the best hiding place you could have chosen. A tasty young woman in the middle of London of course I would find you." He laughed coldly"You choose one in London when you could have chosen any woman in the whole world? "
"Well, I was thinking that you thought London would be a most too obvious place for me to hide so you would never look here or not at first any how." She was purring in triumph as she stretched the puny body on the bed"Too tasty? I would rather choose a too tasty one than one you wouldn't drink. I know how hard it is for you to stop once you have started drinking a too tasty one. I wished you would have drunk yourself and that girl to death. But I must say that I am surprised that you could control yourself in the last moment."
"If I hadn't been convinced it was you I had stopped earlier, I just wanted you as weak and strength less as possible."
"I don't believe you the slightest bit" She grabbed hold on the sheets and snarled while she tried to sit up but her head was just too heavy to even rise from the bed.
"Celeste! You need to rest now. There is no use wasting the little strength you still have. We have to leave the attic before the dawn."
"Typical you concerned about being caught."
"If you are in that mood, I can just leave you here to die."
Once again she barred her fangs, this time not to drive him away but in a pain that made her whole body to moving in spasm "Blood, I need blood!!" The desperate desire and need in Celeste's voice was painful to listen to. "Blood! Give me blood now!" She was whining and sounded so feebly.
"Lestie…Listen to me! I will get you some really good blood, but just if you calm yourself down and don't wake up the whole house!" He stroke her cheek, she nodded. "Good girl." Rahl opened the small round window and slunk out into the night.
It seemed like forever before he finally returned with two bottles of warm fresh blood. Celeste who had been slumbering woke up when she smelled the blood and heard footsteps on the roof. She was aching for blood. The man walked up to the bed, he had been eating some too, his breath was heavy from the blood and there where still some left in the corner of his mouth. She was looking full of desire towards the two bottles which were put on the floor next to the bed. Rahl sat down on the edge of the bed and took a steady grip around Celeste's waist and sat her up, leaning her body against his own. She was resting her head on his shoulder.
"Blood…" She hissed.
Rahl took one of the full bottles. "Its blood from a young man just the way you want it."
"Give me!" Celeste begged rubbing herself against him, trying to get hold on the bottle Rahl was holding in his hand.
"Calm down my bat. You will get it." Rahl placed a kiss on her cheek which she ignored, just snarling with frustration. He placed the bottle opening on her lips and carefully tipped it over. Celeste drank greedy mouths full of the blood making moaning sounds while she drank. Her strength was soon coming back to her and she grabbed the second bottle right out from his hand and sank it in a couple big mouths.
"Do you have any more?"
"No, that was all I could get hold on."
She exposed her fangs while she rubbed her back against his chest "I want more!"
"There is no more!" Rahl snapped at her. Celeste turned around and looked at him, there where still some half dried blood in the corner of his mouth. Greedy for more of that delicious tasted blood she bent over placing her both hands on each cheek and kissed him on the mouth. Sucking the blood out between his teeth, he kissed her back cleansing her teeth as well wrapping his arms around her waist. "Celeste…?"
"NO! I'm not in the mood." She nibbled his lower lip before she retreated from the vampire's lap. She was standing on the floor in the middle of the little room looking down at her new body; she had obviously chosen a very tasty woman not only by her blood but in her appearance too. Celeste was very pleased with herself. She walked over to the mirror, she purred with pleasure at the pale and superior features in the face. The only thing she disliked about her new self was the blond hair. "Blond." She wrinkled her nose in disliking.
"It fits into your huge ego my little bat." Rahl smiled at his own baldness "I must say that such a young girl… How old was she?"
"Twenty…"
Rahl looked pleased at the vampress before him "…is quite a nice change."
"Are you hitting that the mature woman I was before of thirty four wasn't good enough for you?" She slowly walked towards the man on the bed.
"She sure was…" Celeste entered Rahl's lap once again.
"Then…don't be a naught boy" Celeste placed kisses on his mouth letting them wander down the cheek and jaw line. She started to place kisses all over his neck and travelled up behind his ear, leaving a wet and reddish trace behind. The vampire was sliding his hands up and down the woman's back while he enjoyed the treat he was given. He nibbled her shoulder which made Celeste press herself up against him…
Somewhere in the house a clock stroked four, this made the both vampires react immediately which put an end to their little kissing game.
"Four o'clock! We better move now" Rahl pushed Celeste away from him and got up on his feet. Celeste was just standing on the floor looking helpless. "What…? I don't have any cloths."
Rahl laughed at her "Take one of her dresses…"
"They are all ghastly!" Celeste snapped off.
"All your dresses are at home."
"Really! Do you mean that?!"
"Of course I do…Please hurry now."
Celeste finally put on the dress that she thought the least horrible one and then they slunk out the little round attic-window and started their way home.
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