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Chapter 38:
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For the rest of the night the five of us made love on the rug in front of the fireplace until the fireplace burnt out and Bella passed out. Bella was laying on her side in the dying light of the last embers, corpse-like herself next to the dead woman, and we covered her with some blankets and stroked her hair before moving to the bed.
Irena had shed her corset and Tanya's stockings were gone as well and Carmen's dress lay in a shredded heap on the floor and all of us had lost our shoes. The frenzy had calmed considerably and we spent the hour or so few hours before dawn making gentle love to Carmen. All three of us, taking turns at her vagina and kissing it and nibbling at it and licking it to orgasm after orgasm in a combined effort to make her feel wanted and at home. Carmen accepted each climax with moans of happiness and gratefulness and even covered in dried blood with a corpse in the room she seemed utterly at peace to finally be back within her coven.
Eventually the sun began to rise behind the curtains and the room was filled with a dim light. The four of us were laying there in the bed, on our sides, and for a long time we just talked and petted each other. Quietly, in very soft voices, so as not to wake Bella. Carmen was overwhelmed at the warm reception she had received from her coven sisters and she apologized to Tanya all over again and reiterated how much she missed her. Tanya smiled and stroked one of Carmen's breasts, caressing the globe of it fondly, and her red eyes were filled with happiness as she gazed into Carmen's own newly red eyes.
"Words truly cannot express how happy we are to have you home, Carmen," she said.
Carmen gave a slightly bashful smile. "Your actions speak much louder than words."
Tanya smiled at that and leaned to her mouth. I watched their lips connect in a luscious kiss and I felt an odd twang of jealousy.
A groan came from the floor over by the dead ashes of the fireplace. Tanya broke the kiss and smiled and we all rose up slightly to look over. Bella was rousing from her sleep, grimacing at the ache from sleeping on the wooden floor with only a rug for padding, and the blanket slipped away from her breasts as she sat up. There was blood on her chest which had dried to a dark brown and her hair was tangled and her eyes were squinting in the pale sunlight in the window. She shifted on her hip, wincing, and began rubbing her side.
"Ugh," she said. "I really wish I was a vampire right now."
Carmen smiled at her. They had shared quite a few intimate moments together last night and she seemed to have at last acquired a strange sort of respect for the human girl. I shared glances with Tanya and Irena, the three of us rolling our eyes, and then I turned back to my mate.
"Soon, my love," I told her, as always.
Bella groaned again, frowning, and then she saw the corpse laying there on the rug beside her with its pale face and glassed over eyes and she recoiled in disgust quickly.
"Oh my god," she said, "you left me laying right next to the dead chick? Thanks a lot. You could've at least moved her."
I giggled an shrugged. "Sorry, baby."
Bella staggered to her feet, stiff limbed and wild haired, and wrapped the blanket around herself before padding toward the door.
"I gotta pee," she mumbled, and then disappeared through the door.
I sighed and climbed out of the bed.
"I better go with her," I said. "We still have lots of hunting to do."
Irena followed me out of the bed as well. "And I have prisoners to take care of. I think today I will take Claire for a walk in the gardens. On a leash, of course."
I smirked at her comment and together we began gathering up our things from the floor in front of the fire. Irena fetched up the chrysalis of her black leather corset and I gathered up the dresses that belonged to Bella and I and our underwear as well. The dead woman didn't move. She just lay there with the gag in her mouth and her naked body white as a sheet.
Carmen was watching us, frowning at the mess on the floor and all the dried blood, and Tanya smiled at her and began stroking her breast again affectionately.
"I guess that leaves me and you alone, Carmen," she said.
Again I felt a twang of jealousy. Tanya really was happy to have Carmen back. Which was great and all but suddenly I didn't feel like number one in Tanya's heart anymore. I hadn't known how important that was to me—until now.
Carmen flashed Tanya a smile but she was now very preoccupied with the mess on the floor that had become very stark in the gray light of morning.
"But what about the mess? We can't just leave it there. Don't worry, I'll take care of it. The rest of the mansion is filthy too, by the way. Didn't anyone dust the chandelier in the foyer even once while I was away? I noticed last night, it was dreadful."
Carmen was already out of the bed and busying about, grabbing up scraps of panties and stockings, her shredded dress, stepping over the corpse and shaking her head. The dead woman lay there like something lazy that didn't want to help.
Tanya sighed and settled on the bed to watch her body while she did it. Irena and I flashed her a smile and then quickly left the room.
Bella had gone back to our bedroom and she was in the ensuite bathroom when I returned. She had finished peeing and she was getting into the shower. She had only had a couple hours of passed out sleep and she was actually grouchy until I got her under the warm water and soaped her up. Soapy Bella is a happy Bella. She was still very tired, though, so after we were done in the shower I perked her up a bit more by taking her back to bed and spreading her legs and eating her out to a nice little orgasm. She enjoyed it quite a bit and she was smiling afterwards. She thanked me and went down on me in return, licking me to a lovely climax, and then we got dressed.
Hunting clothes, hoodies and jeans or cargo pants. Bella didn't often eat in the morning these days but when we went into the kitchen for coffee we found eggs scrambling in a pan and toast in a toaster and Carmen in a housedress and apron ushering Bella to one of the stools at the breakfast counter. Bella and I glanced at each other. Carmen's switch into housemaid-mode was rather incredible but perhaps she was just eager to get back into some kind of routine. Things were still a little awkward between her and Bella but Bella thanked her for the breakfast and told her how delicious it was and Carmen smiled and petted her hair once before pulling off her apron and scuttling away to some other area of the mansion that required attention. Perhaps to dust the chandelier that had been bothering her.
It was midmorning by the time Bella and I set out, Bella in the front seat of the SUV, pale and yawning and texting on her phone to Kate. Kate was thrilled that Carmen had returned to the mansion but she also confessed that she had known all about it. Bella asked her what she meant but Kate only told her to come over to her place tonight so they could talk in person. She also specified to wear a costume. It was Halloween and they were having a party with a bunch of Leah's friends over. Bella grinned at that, finally waking up, and wondered out loud if maybe any of Leah's friends were hot enough to be added to the cellar. I laughed and assumed she was joking. At least I hoped she was.
Bella and I had both completely forgotten about Halloween but now with these new evening plans we decided to go costume shopping right away. We went to several different stores and browsed for hours before finding a place that carried a variety of comic book characters—which would probably score us some nice comments from Kate and Leah. I found one that was particularly sexy. The character herself was some sort of red haired femme fatale named Poison Ivy. The costume was green tights with a green bodysuit that had vines crawling over it. According to Bella's limited comic book knowledge she was some sort of plant villain who used enhanced pheromones to seduce and control people. I liked it and I'm sure Kate would as well. Bella mentioned that this Poison Ivy character once had a fling with another female character called Harley Quinn and happily they had a Harley Quinn costume as well so that we could go as a couple. Harley Quinn, apparently, was a psychotic blonde with pigtails who liked to kill people with knives and laugh about it. Aside from the blonde hair the resemblance to Bella herself was uncanny. Luckily the costume came with a wig.
After that it was time to go hunting. It was early afternoon, just after lunch, and I drove us to a nearby high school. I parked across the street and Bella asked what we were doing here. I told her it was an idea I'd had a while ago. I figured we could simply wait till school lets out and nab a girl or two on their way home or wherever they were going. Bella thought it was a pretty good idea and so we settled down to wait.
It was still almost an hour before school was done for the day. Bella had her phone to occupy herself but I had patience. I waited, watching out the windows of the SUV, and eventually the yards and sidewalks began to fill with teenagers. It was a cloudy afternoon, but no rain, and I kept watch for any girls who might be walking home. Bella noticed a pair of prospects first and pointed them out to me. Two girls who seemed to be sisters, maybe three years apart. The older sister appeared to be somewhat goth, eighteen years old or so with black hair and heavy black eye makeup, while her sister was her opposite, a tiny and petite blonde with her hair in ringlets, perhaps only fourteen. They were both wearing the school uniform, which was a white blouse and pleated skirt, and the older sister had her blouse untucked and half unbuttoned to give herself a more slutty look. I liked it. The little sister was perhaps borderline too young but she had perky bumps in her blouse and that was enough for me. I asked Bella if she approved and Bella nodded with a smirk. I put the SUV in drive and began to follow them.
The two sisters started down the sidewalk and at first I was worried they would stop and wait at the bus stop on the corner with many of the other students. But they continued on and crossed the road and turned into the next neighbourhood. They must live very nearby which meant we had to move fast. I scanned the streets through the windows and the suburb seemed empty enough. I pulled up the SUV beside them. They kept walking, the older one with the earbuds of an iPod in her ears and the younger one kicking along a pebble. I sprang out of the SUV and came up behind them and grabbed their heads and clunked them together. They collapsed into the sidewalk, dazed and groaning. I looked up and down the street. Empty. Just rows of houses brooding under the clouds. Bella was already out of the car with the duct tape and she was looping it around the younger girl's wrists. The older one was struggling to rise but I put my boot on her head and stomped her face into the concrete. Gently, of course, all things considered.
Soon we had them gagged and taped and on their way back to the mansion. They were both completely conscious as we dragged them out of the car, the older one with a gash in her forehead, and they were crying and sobbing into their gags. In the foyer of the mansion Carmen had set up a large ladder and Carmen herself was at the top of the ladder with a rag and a can of polish. The chandelier was looking lovely. Upon seeing the two girls who were taped up in their school uniforms she quickly climbed down from the ladder and approached them in distress as if she meant to help them. The two sisters begged at her with their eyes, gibbering feverishly into their gags, but in the end Carmen only seemed disappointed that these measures were required and all she did was offer each girl a reassuring smile. As if we would at least be gentle when we raped and killed them. I smiled at her and complimented her work on the chandelier and then Bella and I marched our victims toward the cellar and remanded them to Irena's custody.
Pretty soon we would have to get ready for the party so there wasn't time to go hunting again. Our total of victims was up to eight including the two sisters and all we needed was one or two more before Bella could finally be turned.
We had about an hour to kill so we spent it down in the cellar. Unfortunately it was only the hour we could kill and not any of these lovely young women. Not yet, anyway. Our newest victims, the two sisters, were chained up side by side and they were both completely naked. The younger one had the most adorable pink nipples and the other one had quite voluptuous breasts for an eighteen year old. Bella smiled at the younger one removed her gag and instantly the girl began begging and crying in a trembling voice. The other prisoners looked away, as if they were embarrassed for her. Bella listened to her and ignored her and began wiping the tears away from her child-like face. After that she leaned and teased her lips against the younger girl's mouth, causing her to shudder and whimper, and then slowly Bella pressed them firmer into a kiss. The girl didn't like that but there was nothing she could do. Her sister was watching her hopelessly with tears streaming down her cheeks. Irena hadn't washed her off yet and her eye makeup had left streaks all down her face. I went up to her and smirked and then I took one of her sexy breasts in my hand and stroked it. She stared at me in sadness and I continued to feel her up. Tits, ass, neck. Bella had deepened her kiss on the younger girl and the younger girl was whimpering and standing there in her chains with her mouth open. Her first ever kiss. Here, in this place. Bella continued to kiss her, long and deep and with consummate skill until the younger girl's face began to turn pink with excitement in the candlelight.
After that she shoved the gag back in her mouth and grabbed a paddle and began spanking her taut fourteen year old ass. Bella's whims were often very random. We had a bit of fun with our other guests too, including another butt-raping of the large amazon woman, but soon it was time to go. We gave Claire a kiss on the cheek each and left her to Irena's mercies.
The other members of the coven had been invited to the party as well, of course, but Irena had her duties in the cellar and both Carmen and Tanya considered themselves too old for that kind of party. Bella and I got dressed in our rooms, and I had to admit, my costume did make me feel sexy. The pale green tights conformed perfectly to my legs and the bodysuit was basically an emerald piece of lingerie. It came with a red wig but naturally I didn't need it. All I needed was a bit of red lipstick and some green eyeshadow and I was the perfect image of a deadly villainess with an affinity for flowers. Bella's costume was in the style of a harlequin or a female clown. A very slutty one. The miniskirt was frilly and leather and it had hearts and spades on it like playing cards and it came with two thigh high stockings, one plain white and the other with a checkered print. The bodice displayed a gorgeous amount of cleavage, further accentuated by a push up bra, and the costume came with a stick-on tattoo of a bleeding heart to paste on the swell of one of her tits. The sleeves were puffed at the shoulders and there was lace on the boots and all these articles were artificially marred with burns or tears or bullet holes to give the ensemble a look of ragged girlishness, evil cuteness, sadistic sluttery. Just like Bella herself. The pigtails on the blonde wig fell to her hips and there was a tiny top hat on a string of elastic that went on her head. The makeup was mostly just a caking of pure white foundation with dark red lipstick and a smearing of dark eyeshadow, like an evil clown. She looked insanely cute—literally—and before we left I set her down on the bed and lifted her skirt and ate her pussy for her in full costume, much like the characters we represented.
It was dark outside by now and we took the SUV to the party. In a strange way we had begun to prefer it to the sportscar. It was oddly more our style. We arrived fashionably late when the music was already loud and Leah's house was already full. The door was answered by a cowboy in a trenchcoat who greeted us in a fake southern accent and told us to come on in and that out costumes were super-hot. I thanked him, for the invitation, not the compliment, and entered with Bella.
The inside was filled with people in costume, lounging on the couch or standing in groups with beers and even a small cluster dancing by the stereo. Many of the costumes had a Halloween theme but many of them were more like ours, based on popular characters from comics or games or TV. There was a witch with a wooden broom, a French maid, Jason Voorhees, a doctor, a ninja, a prisoner, a few zombies and devil girls with red horns in their hair, several Elsa's and Anna's, and of course a parade of vampires in capes and fake fangs that were not at all authentic. Bella checked out all the chicks and she wasn't sure whether to ogle them or gloat that own costume was so much better. I felt much the same. There was another Poison Ivy there as well but she was shorter than me and less sexier than me and altogether so inferior that she visibly wilted like a flower as I went by in my own incredible costume.
It actually took us several minutes before we found Kate or Leah and by then Bella had hit on two chicks and danced with one of them. A rakish young man in an Elvis costume gave Bella a paper cup of beer drawn from the keg in the corner and called her ma'am. Bella took the beer and told him to fuck off. He slank away woundedly in his blue suede shoes. Bella took one sip but then remembered that alcohol and hunting weren't the best combination and said maybe she should have soda. But I laughed and told her we were only here to have a good time and see Kate.
Eventually we finally bumped into Leah. She was dressed as Catwoman, ironically enough, complete with a skin-tight black leather bodysuit and a black cat-mask and a headband with black cat-ears. She lit up when she saw our costumes and she had a cup of beer in her hand that almost spilled as she barrelled into Bella for a hug. The two girls hugged and Leah gave me a more composed nod of greeting and I smiled at her and told her it was a lovely party. Leah grinned and nodded and looked us over in amazement.
"Wow, you guy's costumes are incredible," she said. "You're gonna die when you see Kate."
Bella was already excited. "Why, what's Kate dressed as?"
"You'll find out soon. But hey, thanks for getting dressed up and all. I know the party was kind of short notice. It was sort of a last minute idea kind of thing."
I smiled and shook my head for her to think nothing of it. She nodded and sipped her beer, still grinning at our costumes.
"So are you guys ever gonna move back next door?" she asked loudly over the music. "Or should I just lease the place out again?"
I laughed and looked at her in amusement. "After you've already taken all my money, you mean?"
She laughed at that as well but then she sobered a little. Something seemed to have occurred to her, something that might've been on her mind for a while. She took a sip of her beer and laughed again just once.
"You know I still have no idea how come you had so much cash on you," she said. "You said you were between banks, but that was bullshit. Right? I mean, you don't work, you don't go to school. I thought maybe you were a criminal or something, but you don't even have any friends aside from Kate and all them—who are basically just as weird as you are."
She chuckled to try and lessen the accusation. Bella bit her lip anxiously, like a little girl who might've been caught lying. She glanced at me but I only smiled at Leah. Leah wasn't stupid and there was no sense trying to patronize her.
"What are you trying to say, Leah?" I asked her, daring her to outright confront it instead of edging around it.
She returned my gaze for a moment through her cat-mask but hesitated. She knew that I knew that she knew something was weird here but at the same time she seemed to trust us. Or maybe she only trusted Kate. The music was throbbing in the background and after a while she shrugged and sipped her beer.
"Nothing," she said. "I guess it's none of my business."
I smiled and nodded. Bella seemed relieved and she nodded as well.
"So where's Kate, anyway?" she asked, trying to deflect the awkwardness, and then all the sudden Kate appeared.
First she wasn't there, then she was there. A blur of black, a flutter of cape. She was dressed top to bottom in heavy-duty black rubber with a bat-shaped symbol on her chest and on her head was a black cowl with tiny bat-ears on top. The mask covered all of her face but her mouth and in a low gravelly voice she said:
"I'm Batman."
Bella burst out giggling, much like the character of Harley Quinn might do when confronted by the Caped Crusader. Kate burst out giggling as well, dropping character, and then she flung her arms around Bella.
Leah laughed as well and even I had to smile. Kate looked utterly ridiculous. I knew very little about Batman but I was certain he was rather bigger than tiny little Kate. But the cutest thing was the coincidence of all of us being dressed as comic book characters.
Bella chuckled and almost spilled her beer in returning the hug with one hand. Kate squeezed her and rocked her side to side.
"Oooh, I missed you so much already," she said. "But I told you we'd still see each other all the time, right?"
Bella grinned as she untangled herself from the other girl's hug. "Yeah, you did," she said. "I just wish we could still fuck all the time too."
Kate giggled brightly at that but then she took Leah's arm possessively.
"Sorry, Batman only loves Catwoman," she said.
Leah grinned and tried not to blush but it was impossible. The taller girl positively radiated pride to have a girlfriend like Kate. Which was natural enough. Kate was virtually perfect. Blonde, pretty, fun to be with, and quite a little sex bunny as well. Her only flaw, if you could call it that, was the fact that she was a blood drinking vampire—although in fairness, she did refrain from inflicting her lusts on people.
Bella pouted at their lack of enthusiasm for group sex and Leah gave her a cocky wink.
"Ask us again in a couple months when we're bored of each other," she said.
Kate pretended to be aghast. "You're gonna be bored of me in just a couple months? Not fair. I was kind of hoping for the rest of eternity."
I smirked at how she phrased it. Subtle vampire hint, there. Leah grinned at her and the suspicions she had of Bella and I obviously didn't extend to the girl she loved.
"Eternity's a long time, babe," she said.
Kate smirked and gave a little shrug. "Not to me."
Leah didn't quite get it and Kate quickly giggled and rose on her toes in her bat-boots and placed a kiss on the much taller Catwoman's lips. Perhaps they should've switched costumes. Kate just didn't have the size to be convincing as Batman.
Bella and I shared a glance and a smile as well. Kate had been hinting at it pretty strong but Leah still seemed mostly oblivious. I guess when it comes to people you love you always see what you want to see.
Leah chuckled at the kiss and then she noticed Kate had no drink.
"I'll get you a beer," she said. "I'll be right back."
Kate nodded eagerly, as if to say thank you, and then after Leah was gone she let her face collapse with a groan.
"She keeps forcing drinks on me," she said, as if it was the worst thing ever. "Which is sweet and all, but I just can't drink them. I'm running out of ways to pretend. Hey, speaking of drinking, how's the big hunt going?"
Bella was surprised Kate had mentioned it so casually and glanced at me. I was slightly surprised as well but I was glad to know she had no issue with it as long as she wasn't involved.
"We have a total of eight," I told her.
"And Carmen's cool with it?"
"Oh, yes," I said with a laugh. "In fact, if she wasn't so cool with it, we'd have nine."
Kate's eyebrows shot up in her bat-mask. She looked at both of us, as if she couldn't believe it, and then she chuckled once.
"Wow," she said.
Bella had been bobbing and swaying her hips to the music and now she smiled at Kate. "So how long did you know she was going to come back?"
"Not long," Kate said. "She came to see me the night before. She felt she could confide in me. She thought that Tanya and Irena had lost their way but I assured her that Tanya and Irena were the same as they ever were. So was I. It was Carmen who changed. After that she finally began to understand."
I nodded with a smile. Those were the exact sentiments Carmen had expressed to Tanya last night.
"Well, thank you so much for doing that, Kate," I told her sincerely. "Tanya is overjoyed to have her back."
Kate smiled and gave me a bright nod. Bella grinned and touched Kate's waist.
"Now we're just waiting on you to come back," she said flirtily. "You know, I'm gonna be a vampire soon, and I'm gonna need all the fucking I can get. Vicky ain't gonna be able to keep up."
"I beg to differ," I said with a smirk, drawing Bella back to my side.
Kate grinned at us but her fidelity remained firm. "Well, I guess it depends on Leah," she said. "I just think we need to focus on each other right now. I still have no idea how I'm going to tell her what I am."
I nodded and looked about for Leah. She had been chatting to someone by the beer keg and now she was filling a paper cup for Kate. I turned back to Kate. I was glad she mentioned that and I took the opportunity to speak to her seriously.
"I can understand how difficult it will be," I said, lowering my voice, "but you must do it soon. It will be much more difficult for her to accept if she has to figure it out on her own."
Kate went serious as well and looked over at Leah. "You really think she'll be cool with it?"
"Yes, but that's why you need to tell her as soon as possible. The longer you lie to her, the harder it will be to forgive. And if she has to figure it out on her own, then the concealment becomes deception. And she might not be able to forgive you at all. Do you understand?"
Kate nodded at all that slowly and Bella nodded sagely too, a peculiar scene in our costumes, Batman receiving relationship advice from his arch femme villains.
Leah came back with a beer for Kate and Kate instantly replaced her smile and took the beer gratefully.
"Thanks, babe," she said, and took a sip—before discreetly spitting it into a pot plant as soon as Leah turned away.
"Hey, Leah," Bella said quickly, trying to distract her from Kate. "You got any bi friends?"
Kate grinned and nodded. "Sure. Male or female?"
Bella gave her a bland look, as if it was the most stupid question she ever heard. Leah chuckled and looked out across her house. The house was completely crowded and over in the kitchen area there was a girl by the refrigerator dressed as a slutty nurse with a short white dress, white stockings, and a white cap on her head.
"How about Chrissy over there?" she suggested, nodding her head toward the nurse. "We went to high school together. She was the first girl I lezzed out with—which is probably why I never did it again till you guys."
Leah laughed at that but Bella seemed to like the look of this Chrissy.
"She looks hot," she said.
Leah nodded in agreement. "She is, she's just a total bitch. I fucked her, but I sure as hell wasn't thinking about a relationship afterwards."
"Does she have a boyfriend or anything?"
"Not that I know of."
Bella looked at the nurse over there and after a while she nodded.
"Cool," she said.
Then she flashed me a smirk with her white face and sinister makeup and turned and went over to the nurse.
The rest of us watched her go and I admit I felt a stirring of anxiety for the nurse in question. The glint in Bella's eyes had been just a little evil and it wasn't only the costume. Earlier in the night she had mentioned snatching one of the party-goers but I had made it clear we were only here for fun, hadn't I? She couldn't possibly be silly enough to attempt an abduction here.
Could she?
Kate seemed to be thinking the same thing and she spoke to me as if she hoped she was joking.
"Bella's not going to…? Is she?"
I watched as Bella crossed the party and directly approached the nurse. The nurse looked at her and at first she just smirked superiorly but then Bella smiled at her and pawed at her hips and said something slutty that made the smirk curve into a grin.
Now I was very anxious.
"I hope not," I said.
Leah chuckled in confusion, not knowing what Kate and I were talking about. "What's the problem?" she asked me. "I thought you guys were cool with each other seeing other chicks?"
Kate and I glanced at each other but there wasn't really any way to explain that we were more concerned about Bella hitting this Chrissy over the head and dragging her into a van outside.
I turned back to Bella and I saw that she had taken the nurse's hand and she was tugging her toward the stairs. Fast work. They were threading their way through the party, hand in hand, and they looked like exactly what they were; a couple of sluts who were going upstairs to fuck.
Leah noticed as well and cringed under her cat-mask.
"Eww, they're gonna fuck on my bed," she said.
Kate giggled in her Batman costume and patted Leah's hand daintily. "Don't worry, we'll change the sheets."
I hope the solution would be that simple but I had my doubts. I was holding Bella's beer and now I passed the beer to Leah.
"I'm so sorry, Bella has such little decorum," I said. "I'll tell her to take it out to the car if she really must."
"Nah, it's cool, just let her—"
"I'll be back in just one sec," I told her, and then I turned and hurried toward the stairs.
The house was empty upstairs and one of the bedroom doors was half open. I was less than a minute behind them but I already had a feeling that I was too late. My tall green heels clicked on the floorboards, moving along in my emerald green bodysuit, and I pushed the bedroom door open and—
Yep.
I was too late.
Leah's room was a mess as it always was. Bong on the nightstand. Clothes on the floor. Bras. I recognized a lot of the clothes as Kate's. Neither of the room's occupants seemed to have bothered making the bed in the morning and currently, right now, in the center of the bed was a nurse being choked by a psychotic female clown in harlequin grab.
Fuck.
Bella glanced at me with a grin as I came in but she kept her hands locked around the other woman's throat. I wandered closer in disbelief. Bella was straddling the nurse's hips and keeping her pinned down. The nurse was struggling and making gagging sounds. Her white latex dress had a zip up the front and it was unzipped to her belly in order to reveal her tits. Perhaps they had begun with a bit of light petting before the choking began. Her tits were fully exposed and wobbling about as she struggled and clubbed at Bella's wrists but Bella only strangled her even harder.
I watched and I honestly had no idea what to do. There was no point stopping her. Sexual assault and attempted murder were basically as bad as murder itself. It was too late to do anything. So I just watched. The nurse's legs were kicking and both of her shoes had flung across the room and clattered against the wall. I went to fetch them since obviously we couldn't leave evidence in Leah's own bedroom of all places.
Bella was panting from the exertion of maintaining her strangle hold and finally the nurse was beginning to fade. Her legs in their white stockings were trembling and jerking but they had stopped kicking. Her face was turning blue. I shook my head at the poor technique but I wasn't inclined to offer instruction right now. Bella was grinning and squeezing the throat of this nurse who lay there with her tits out and finally the nurse stopped moving. Bella held on a little longer, making sure, and then she released her grip abruptly and puffed out a breath.
Bella's bodice was pushed down and her own boobs were exposed as well. They were heaving from how she was panting so hard and there was a sheen of sweat on her makeup caked forehead.
"Number nine," she announced breathlessly. "And all by myself, too."
She giggled proudly and began tucking her breasts back into her costume, still straddling the dead nurse. I put my hands on my hips and shook my head.
"Oh, Bella," I said. "You stupid, stupid, stupid girl."
Bella froze with her mouth open and one of her tits hanging out. Then she frowned and tucked it in.
"Why?" she asked me, no idea.
I exhaled angrily and touched my fingers to the nurse's throat. The skin there was already covered in bruises. I was looking for a pulse but you only needed to look at her purple face and bulging tongue to know she was dead.
I shook my head and put my hands back on my hips.
"First of all, you killed her," I said. "It's a delicate technique to render someone unconscious, you can't just strangle them."
Bella looked down at her victim. "Oh."
"Second of all," I went on, "this is Leah's friend. At Leah's party."
"Yeah, but Leah doesn't even like her," Bella said, trying to defend herself. "She said so herself, remember?"
I shook my head and I was honestly disappointed. Until now her moments of stupidity had been nothing but charming but this was very serious. Bella could see from my expression that she had fucked up big time, even if she didn't quite understand it, and I made an effort to soften my voice in order to explain it.
"That's not the point, baby," I said. "Sometime soon this girl is going to be reported missing. Then her friends and family are going to mention this party. Then the police are going to knock on Leah's door and ask her when was the last time she saw Chrissy. And what is Leah going to tell them?"
Bella followed my train of thought and her expression drained behind the caked white makeup.
"Oh fuck," she said.
I nodded with my arms folded. "Exactly."
Bella put a hand in her wig, still sitting on top of the dead nurse. "Oh shit," she said. "I didn't think. I thought I was helping. Goddamn it, how could I be so stupid? You've already explained this stuff a million times, and I still…"
She was getting upset at herself and I was glad at least she had genuine regret. I drew her into a hug and held her to let her know I wasn't too angry at her.
"It's okay, baby, we all make mistakes," I said. "Just please make sure to learn from this one, okay?"
Bella nodded into my shoulder. I held her for a little more and then I released her.
"Let's just hurry and get the body out of here," I said. "If we're lucky, the girl's absence might go unnoticed for a while. Let's hope she doesn't live with concerned parents, hm?"
Bella giggled slightly at my joke and wiped her eyes of the few tears that had sprung into them over her mistake. I cupped her cheek and gave her a quick kiss and then I grabbed the nurse's shoes and put them back onto her feet. Bella watched me anxiously.
"What are we going to do?" she asked.
I slung the body over my shoulder and took it over to the window. I opened the window and looked out. It was an alleyway down there, dark, empty. Perfect.
I sat the corpse on the windowsill and shoved it out. It tumbled and spun in the air in its white dress and landed on its tits in a puddle of rainwater with a wet smacking sound.
I turned back to Bella.
"Go get the car and pull it up at the mouth of the alley," I said. "I'll make excuses to Kate."
Bella nodded quickly and hurried out the room, eager to redeem herself. I bent to the mirror over the dresser and fixed my hair a little. There were flowers woven into my red locks and I really did look amazing in my Poison Ivy costume. Shame we had to leave the party so early. But when one's girlfriend brutally murders a slutty nurse in a bedroom upstairs one has no choice.
I found Kate downstairs with Leah and a couple of her friends. She was bobbing to the music in her tiny black batsuit and she took one look at my face and knew something had happened. I didn't go over. Kate glanced at Leah in alarm and then looked at me furiously. I almost smiled but I managed to restrain myself. Instead I gestured with my head and she hurried to meet me over in the corner where we could talk alone.
"Kate, I'm so sorry," I said to her.
Kate's mouth dropped open. "She didn't."
I made an apologetic face and nodded. "I'm afraid so. We're going to get rid of the body, but you know what this means, don't you?"
Kate shook her head but she replied in the affirmative. "Yeah."
"The police will come investigating any day," I said. "Maybe even as early as tomorrow morning. Try to intercept them from Leah if you can. Or at least try to make sure Leah doesn't mention Bella. Once again, I'm so sorry. It was a mistake, but Bella really didn't—"
Kate smacked my shoulder suddenly but her bat-gauntlets didn't really hurt.
"This is what I get for inviting super-villains into my home," she hissed. "I should shove you both in the Batmobile and take you down to Arkham right now."
"What's Arkham?"
"It's an institution for the criminally insane."
"Really, Kate, Bella has her issues, but I hardly think she deserves to be—"
Kate smacked my shoulder again but thankfully she didn't whip out any batarangs.
"Get out of here," she hissed. "I'll take care of it."
I giggled and gave her a nod and a quick kiss on the cheek before spinning and hurrying outside.
The SUV wasn't parked in front anymore. Thank god the girl could at least do something right. I went around the side of the building, glancing back and forth in the darkness for any witnesses, and found the SUV parked backwards into the mouth of the alley. Bella had already opened the hatch in the back and she was attempting to drag the dead nurse over by herself. The sight made me smile and warmed me a little. She was still a very stupid girl but she did at least try her hardest.
Bella noticed me there and strained at the weight of the dead nurse.
"Fuck, this bitch is heavy," she said.
I smiled and took over for her, grabbing the corpse by her hair and just dragging her across the concrete. Thankfully the fall from the second story window hadn't split her open. Blood in the alleyway would've been even worse than an entire party of witnesses.
The woman was face down and her tits were all grazed up as I shoved her into the back of the SUV. Her stockings were torn but at least she had kept her shoes. Poor thing. Not quite the evening she had planned. My last feeding was only last night so there wasn't any point in even draining her. Just a waste of meat. Oh well. I closed the hatch with a melancholy thump.
Bella was standing there guiltily but I didn't have the heart to be angry at her. I gave her a kiss on the forehead and even chuckled once.
It was a quiet drive back to the mansion, without even the usual thumps and groans from a victim in the back, and still before midnight when we got there. I should've called ahead but for some reason it had slipped my mind. Irena was at work in the cellar but I found Tanya in her bedchambers. Unfortunately she wasn't alone. Carmen was there with her and I felt another pang of jealousy at walking in on a scene of lovemaking by firelight. Carmen was wearing red lingerie, my color, and Tanya was lavishing her whole body with kisses. I apologized immediately for interrupting them and told Tanya we had a bit of a situation. Tanya was instantly concerned and she quickly excused herself for a moment from Carmen. It gave me a small thrill at how she left Carmen in the bed like that and I watched as Tanya slipped a white satin robe over the white lace lingerie that adorned her heavenly body before tying the robe closed with a sash as she followed me out.
Along the way I briefly explained the situation and half an hour later we were at the rear of the estate. The grounds here was mostly just a patch of woods with tall trees and there was a thin fog moving among the trunks. It was freezing cold but I hadn't let Bella get changed or put any other clothes on. Instead I had handed her a shovel and told her to start digging. There was already a patch of tilled earth here where the woman from last night was buried. Now she would have a friend. The nurse was laying there in the grass with her eyes open and her face dark and swollen from the strangulation. No one had bothered to fix her dress and her tits looked hard and waxy in the moonlight. Bella was already exhausted from digging and she wasn't even close to half done. She was sweating and shivering at the same time, thrusting the blade of the shovel into the earth and stomping it deeper with a heeled boot before grunting and shovelling away the dirt, still clad in her costume with its outlandish hearts and diamonds on the skirt and bodice, the puffed sleeves, one checkered stocking and one plain, the long blonde pigtails of her wig swinging down below her hips.
Tanya and I were standing somewhat behind her, watching. I was still in my costume as well, wrapped in green tights with flowers in my hair, and I felt rather foolish. Tanya was wearing that white satin robe and she was serene and shimmering in the moonlight. Bella went to stomp in the blade of the shovel again but her heeled boot slipped off.
"Ugh," she groaned. "I can't believe you're making me dig the hole. Do you have any idea how much faster you could do it? God. Can I at least put on some real boots? These heels are killing me."
I smiled with my arms folded. "This is your punishment, baby."
"Couldn't I get some kind of sexual punishment instead?"
"Then it wouldn't be punishment, would it? Keep digging."
Bella groaned again and continued to shovel with floundering girlish motions, making a big issue of how difficult it was. At first she had accepted her punishment gracefully enough but now I suppose her humility was as exhausted as her body.
I glanced again at Tanya. Her face was perfectly still in the cold moonlight. I wish I knew what she was thinking. She noticed me glance and she smiled and unfolded my arms for me and laced one of them with hers. I smiled at the gesture and sighed and spoke to her softly so that Bella wouldn't hear.
"I'm worried, Tanya," I said. "Ever since we came to Seattle, I've been so careless. Before that, even. Ever since I met Bella, I suppose."
Tanya smiled at me. "She does have that effect on you, doesn't she?"
I nodded and gazed at my darling mate with an odd sadness.
"It almost reminds me of what happened with James," I said. "We got careless. And then he…"
Tanya didn't answer. She only patted my arm. I looked at her anxiously. Tonight had taught me that things can always go wrong and I realized that there was something I needed to talk to her about before it was too late.
"Tanya," I whispered. "There's something I haven't told you. There's been women going missing all through the city. Many more than Bella and I are responsible for. I'm convinced there's another vampire in town. Or a coven. Or even…"
Tanya tilted her head slightly. "Even what?"
I looked at her worriedly.
"A newborn army," I said.
She didn't reply to that. Bella continued grunting and labouring away at the grave. These things had been on my mind for a while and it was past due to tell her about them.
"My fear is that Heidi is plotting something," I confessed. "I thought she had left town, but the more I remember how badly Bella and I humiliated her, the more I realize she might not ever live it down. I think she's been building strength this entire time and soon she's going to strike. And if my fears are correct, she's going to kill Bella. And take me for herself."
"Aww, fuck," Bella said loudly. "My shoe broke."
Tanya and I looked over. The heel of her boot had come off and it was sitting there in the dirt. Bella kicked it into the grave and kept digging.
I turned back to Tanya.
"I'm sorry for not mentioning this earlier," I said. "I had hoped I'd be wrong, but I don't want to take that chance. I do think, at least, that Heidi's ire is for Bella and I alone. I don't think she intends any harm for you or your coven. But I'm afraid I must ask for your help and protection. I've already imposed upon you so much, Tanya my dear, and I've already caused so much trouble, but—"
Tanya lifted a finger and placed it on my lips to silence me. It surprised me. My heart gave a pang and she smiled at me and shook her head and lowered the finger.
"You will always have my support, Victoria dearest," she said softly.
Strange feelings coursed through my chest. I looked at her with my eyes prickling with phantom tears. Tanya smiled at me for a long moment and then she cupped my cheek tenderly in the moonlight.
"I love you, Victoria," she said. "No woman has ever affected me the way you do. I know I should not say this, but now may be my only opportunity. I know you will never be able to return my feelings, but I want you to know so that you will also know never to doubt my support. Now that you've entered my life I cannot picture it without you. I will protect you and care for you as if you were my own mate."
I didn't know what to say. I blinked at her emotionally. She smiled at me and then she leaned and placed her lips on mine. They were so soft and gentle. So loving. I wrapped my arms around her and returned the kiss in a way I would never be able to return her love and—
"Oh fuck this," Bella said suddenly. "I can't dig anymore. My shoe keeps slipping. Guys? I can't dig anymore. Guys?"
Tanya broke the kiss gently and smiled at me in a shy way. I felt so strongly for her and yet we both knew this was the way it had to be. I looked at her for a moment, holding her face in my hands, and then I released her and turned to Bella.
My mate. She was standing there in her harlequin outfit and her clown makeup, psycho in starlight, and I smiled at her and took the shovel from her.
"Thanks," she said in relief, and then she sat down on the grass beside the dead nurse and began playing with her dead tits.
I rolled my eyes at her antics and then I thrust the blade of the shovel into the dirt and began digging.
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AN: First I want to apologize if this chapter wasn't quite up to scratch. I've been pretty sick these last few days, but I didn't want to stop writing, even though my concentration hasn't been that great. Hopefully my cloudy imagination wasn't too noticeable, lol.
The Halloween party was a reviewer's idea, lol. I actually had to rewrite a huge chunk of the chapter, because I originally wrote it as a regular party. But then I saw the review and I thought, hey, that's a great idea. I hate rewriting, but I want the story to be as best as it can be, lol. I won't mention who gave me the idea because I don't want to embarrass her. ;)
Aside from that, quite a few things happened in this chapter. Two new victims. I apologize if they were a little unimaginative, my head was really blank, lol. I also liked how Vicky had a little bit of jealousy about Carmen before right at the end when Tanya reaffirmed that she loves Victoria. I really like the idea of graceful selfless unrequited love, so Tanya's a favorite of mine. There were also scenes with Kate and Leah, a bit of comedy. Bella fucked up pretty big. She also got to strangle someone, which is something I've wanted her to do for a while. Asphyxiation is so hot, lol.
So, yeah. Lots of stuff, lol. Hope you liked it. New chapter soon. :)