Children Of The Night
By: Veronica Leigh Marquette
CHAPTER 3
It had taken another hour to finally get Kris to believe that she could
leave the place that had been the point of her rebirth. Even though she knew,
her masters' ashes in the backyard proof enough, that her master was dead, that
he would never return for her. She still didn't want to leave him. She had
cried, begged and argued that she needed to stay that she couldn't leave now.
This, was, her home, her master had said so. This was her, home, and the place
where she belonged.
But no amount of argument would ever be enough to stop Janis from taking the
girl from this place. She knew that even though Kris still felt bound to this
place, it was the point of her making, if she didn't get her out of here, when
the girl finally made it back to herself, there would be hell to pay.
Finally she had to resort to almost being harsh to get the girl into the
car. She felt wretched as she pulled from the drive, listening to Kris who had
finally been belted in beside her, cry. "Hush Childe, trust me, I will see you
cared for. I go even now to place you into the care of my son. I will leave
you with him, he will see to it that nothing ever hurts you again." She patted
Kris on the arm.
* * *
It wasn't an overly fancy looking place, the house that she pulled up to.
But it was solid; the sun never filtered in to do the horrible things to any
that lived within it what it had done to her brother. "We are home honey. I
know you don't understand this right now, but you will. This will be your home
now. And if I have any say to it, your, home for many years to come."
Janis smiled at the young, frightened Childe as she led her into the house.
"This is where my son lives, he, before you, was the youngest of our race. That
is why, more than any other reason, your, father placed you in my care. He knew
I would see to it that you were raised right. Jessy is all the proof he needed.
You will come to love your older cousin. And trust me honey, he will simply
adore you." She squeezed Kris gently. "Now, speaking of your older cousin, I
wonder where that scamp is?"
"He was in the middle of losing himself in all the wonderful things that two
people could do with and to each other when Patty burst in to tell me that you
had come calling Mother." An amused voice behind her. "So, what can I do you
out of this time, Janis?"
Janis chuckled as she looked over her youngest Childe, standing there at the
door, dressed in a loose pair of pajama bottoms and leaning on a delicious
looking boy. "You can do me out of almost anything Jessy. And well you know
it. But this time, it is what I am going to entrust to you, that has me
calling." She never got tired of looking at him. He had been beautiful when
she made him, and was beautiful still. With a mane of near black hair,
sparkling green eyes and a face that was so perfect, it could make women weep.
He just grinned at her. "So, who is that pretty little thing with you,
Mother? Another mortal for me, a May Day present perhaps, you do realize that
you are spoiling me rotten." He moved from the mortal that he had been leaning
on to come closer. But stopped, nostril's flaring as he got a good scent of
Kris. "No, it isn't possible, who?" This girl was a vampire. A young, newly
made Fledgling Childe. But that couldn't be. There were no more new children,
he had been the last. Nor would there ever be another as long as the ban held
for making them, unless, "who died Mother?"
"Marcus, he took her night before last, made her his, and went to the sun
this morning." Then to the little Childe at her side, "Kris, this is my son
Jessy. Jessy this is your uncle's Childe Kris. I gave him my word that I would
see to it that not only was she protected while she was still lost to herself,
but that I would see that she was seen to always. So it is to you I bring her.
You were the last Childe that was made, and before her, the youngest of the
blood. You of all people should empathize with her most strongly."
Jessy looked from his mother to the Childe at her side. "Oh," he wasn't
sure what to say. The fact that she was alive, still, had him struck at a loss
for words. "Janis, I, she," he had no idea what to say. This poor little
Childe, was his cousin. True he had not seen Marcus in almost forty years, he
has still been his uncle. "How long has she been like this? I might not be the
wisest of us all, but I know the look of one that is lost, well enough. Just
walked Danny though it last month." Another of those he kept here. For the
most part, the mortals in his house, they were here because they wanted to. Or
at least in the beginning. And once he had fed them from his own body, it no
longer mattered. No matter if they wish to remain with him or not. Once a
mortal drank from one of his race. They were never the same. None of those he
held, loved and cherished could ever make it on their own, ever again. But
Danny, the boy had tried to break into his house, was going to steal from him.
To him he had to dominate him completely, stole any trace of free will from him
to get him to remain. Because little thief or not, he had wanted to keep Danny
the moment he had saw him.
"Anise says she should be coming back from where they lose themselves when
their will is taken, if not by the rising of the sun at dawn, then by night.
Don't, feel bad, Jessy, I had never seen one who wasn't mortal lost like she is
at this moment either, that wasn't permanently crippled. And I have been around
for far longer than this ban has been in effect. Just hold her, speak slowly
and see that none of those you keep here as toys and food, hurt her, until she
makes it back to herself."
Jessy looked at his mother is shock, "hurt her? Janis, Mother, she is far
more likely to hurt one of the kids I keep here than they are her."
"You won't hurt any of my son's toys, will you Kris?" She looked to the
girl that still huddled against her, looking around at all that was in the room,
eyes wide with fear. "Oh, girl, do stop that. Jessy is the last creature in
the world that you have anything to fear. He has almost done himself bodily
harm going out of his way to keep those in his care from feeling any pain. And
though he might not look like much, I assure you, he can and will take care of
you. He is my Childe, and I am the fifth oldest of our kind in this state. You
have met both Asha and Anise. Have the sworn bond of the eldest in this area,
that you will be safe." She leaned in to kiss the girl softly. "I promise you,
I will never let any do you ill. Not now, and not when you return to yourself,
not ever. I would never let anyone hurt my brother's Childe. You are my niece
and as such, of all the blood in this area, save Jessy, my most precious, and
protected."
Kris looked at her, then to Jessy. "This one, she is going to be living
here, with him?"
Jessy just laughed, reaching to take her into his grasp. Shushing at her
softly as she froze. Not pulling away, but not at all willing to be taken from
where she stood. "Relax little cousin. My Mother would string me up and feed
me to the buzzards if she ever thought I hurt you in any way. We're family, and
family don't hurt other members of it. You just come on with me, and I'll see
to it that not only are you fed, but are introduced to the joys that this new
life has in store for you."
Kris just shook her head, trying to pull away from him. "This one isn't
hungry. Not for the stuff that has to be heated only thirty seconds, it tastes
bad."
Jessy just dropped his hands from her, laughing softly. "No, little cousin,
I don't keep my food in the fridge." Then he looked around to the mortal man
that he had been toying with before Janis had brought this one here. "Pet,
baby, go see if you can talk Danny out of the bed for me. I haven't fed from
him in almost a week. He looks harmless enough, even this one, as lost as she
is right now, won't feel threatened by him."
"Yes, Master." The mortal turned to go see if he could talk the newest of
his masters bunch into crawling out of between which ever pair of legs he was
sure to be between. "I think he is with Sally, or Tracy. For someone who was
so shy with you, he has become the most hedonistic of us all. Worse even than
you, Master."
Kris looked up, master, that was a name she knew well. "Master," she
reached for Jessy. "You mean to do this, to give this one blood that isn't
cold?"
Jessy shook his head violently. "Not, master, cousin, my 'toys', as my
Mother calls them they call me that, but for you, who are related to me, you
call me Jessy, okay?" Oh she was just too sweet. He looked forward to the time
when she would be fully herself again. He had no doubt with as darling as she
was now, with her shoulder length sable hair and bright hazel eyes, and a face
that was near perfect. She would only become even more so when she got past
referring to herself in the third person, that all who were lost did. "Trust
me, pretty girl, you will just love him. He'll try to eat you alive even as you
feed from him. Randy is right, of all of my darlings, he is the most ready to
give himself to anyone."
Janis watched her Childe, as he patiently went to reassure this lost little
one that she had put in his keep. "Well, if you have things under control, I
will leave you with her. Don't worry Jess, I won't be far. Until she finally
recovers and begins to find her way in this new life, I will be close, always
close." Then she stopped. "Oh, wait, I almost forgot. I need to have you come
out the to the car with me, I have things I need to put in your hands to hold
for her until such time as she can understand all that she has now. Marcus was
no fool. He made sure that she is quite financially liquid. She will never
have anything to want for money wise, now that he is gone. She is far from
being without means. Hell, after looking at all that he left her, she is better
off financially than you are."
"That isn't saying much Mother, I live off of you. This house and
everything in it comes from you. I am the worlds oldest gigolo." He winked at
her. "After all, old habits die hard, and that is how I started this, the night
you decided that I looked good enough to eat, I was thinking pretty much you
looked good for a few free meals and place to live for a while. How was I to
know that when you led me up the stairs to your bedroom, that when I can out, I
would discover that you were worth so very much more." He looked to where
another of those that lived with him stood watching all of this with curious
eyes. "Patty, do me a favor, Girl, could you please keep an eye on," he looked
to his mother again. "Kris, right Mother?"
The woman nodded. "She might, at the moment, just barely answer to it, but
that is her name."
"Okay, fine," he bent and kissed Janis, lightly, before turning his
attention back to the young woman that was waiting for him to finish giving her
his instructions. "Come over here, Girl. Keep an eye on Kris. I'll be back in
just a few minutes. So you don't have to worry, she isn't going to do anything
to hurt any of you. She can barely think for herself right now. Remember how
Danny was that first week or so that I had him here. She is pretty much in the
same shape. Just keep an eye on her, and tell my boys that I will be back soon
enough and then she can feed." He pulled the girl that was listening to him
nodding, close. "We'll take care of her tonight, show her how much fun this
life can be, won't we pretty girl?" He loved the feelings he got when ever he
held any of those that were part of this place, and him. But Patty, his Girl
second, only, to Randy, who had been his first toy. True, when he had been as
mortal as those that were in his keep. He had never really thought of selling
his time to the men that would troll for his kind, those that were willing to
share pleasure for a price, but since his birth, oh the things he had come to
fancy. Up to and including the sweet feel of a young lover making love to him.
"Well come on, scamp, I don't have all night, and if you want to see to her,
you need to hurry along, and get back so you can do just that." Janis moved
towards the door.
Jessy just laughed softly as he followed. "Hurry, and here I thought, that
once I was given forever to do things, I would never have to hurry again."
* * *
Jessy looked over the papers that Janis had given him, the stock
certificates, and the bankbooks the deeds to not just the house that Kris has
just left, but eleven other properties, and two in Europe. All of which were
rented for hefty sums of money. "Fuck me." He shook his head. Had he still
been in the profession that had been his last before Janis had made him hers, he
would be seeing dollar signs and the promise that if he could keep this girl
interested in him, he would never have to ever worry about money again. "These
are all hers? Marcus really signed this all over to her?"
"Well if her name, her full one at any rate is Amanda Kristin Shepherd, then
yes, it is all hers. Like I told you, she is better off now than you, even me
for that matter, my bother always had the devils own luck when it came to
money."
"But, the cash in the accounts alone is more than three hundred I don't know
million, trillion, it comes with more zero's behind it than I have ever seen
behind a number before in my life. Forget the stocks and the properties. She
is now a CPA's wet dream, hell, she is a whole firm of CPA's wet dreams."
"Yes, and before you lose your head, this is all in trust to her, for the
next five years, she won't fully inherit it all until she has reached her fifth
birthday. So you won't be able to sweet-talk her into giving you any of it
until then."
Jessy looked up at her in shock, wounded pride stamped clear on his face.
"Mother, what do you take me for? Okay, so I started out my life with you as a
whore, and I might joke that I am the world's oldest of what I used to be, but
she is my cousin. The First Childe that has been made since you made me, a
hundred and forty years ago. I would never, how can you think that?"
Janis only laughed at him. "I don't Childe, if I did, I would have never
shown you this. I was only teasing you. Remember that you were the one that
came to me, positive that you had a sure thing. That, I, would keep you in
trinkets and the like for years.
Jessy just shook his head, chuckling. "And you have, dear lady, and you
have. Well, I'll put these things in a safe place for her, and once she returns
to herself from wherever her mind has taken to wandering. I will let her see
this. No, it will in no way lessen the pain of finally, and fully coming to
terms with the fact that she is alone, that he who made her is forever gone from
her. But it might help her to know that he didn't leave her destitute."
"No, I leave helping her to come to peace with the fact that she is orphaned
to you, and those little toys you keep. Between the lot of you, I do think she
will come through this just fine. Now run back in and see to her, I will leave
you for now. Just remember, all you have to do is call, and I will be here."
She held him for one more moment, kissing him. Recalling all the times that he
had loved her, and seen to it that she never regretted staying alive. Before
pulling away to slide into the seat if her car. "Please, Jess, I gave my
brother my word that I would see her cared for, show me that I haven't made a
mistake in in-trusting her to you." The door closed and the engine cranked as
she blew him one more kiss before pulling out of his driveway.
* * *
When he entered his house again, it was to complete silence. Randy had
returned, dragging Danny along with him. His three, other, mortal toy's, pets,
or cherished darlings, which ever he wanted to call them. Stood back, watching
Patty as the young mortal tried to keep a close eye on this new one. "Okay,
guys." He smiled, trying to lighten the mood, which was very heavy at the
moment. "This is Kris, she's going to be living with me from this point on, so
I suppose you all will have to learn to share me with her."
"Who is she, Master?" An overly pretty, blonde girl asked watching her
closely.
"Her name is Kris, Princess, and she was my uncle's Childe. Janis put her
in my keeping." He walked slowly to where Kris sat, looking at them all with a
mixture of confusion and hunger in her eyes. "Kris, let me introduce you to the
mortal's I keep here for my nourishment and amusement." He sat by her. "I'll
tell you their name first, and what I named them second. You have met Patty,
she's my Girl, she is the one that has been trying to make sure you didn't end
up hurting yourself while I was out. And that boy over there, who, is,
watching, you so closely, that is Danny, my Little One, and newest of the
mortal's in my house. The one that is hovering over him is Tracy, or Baby and
the blonde is Sally, Princess if you will. You've seen Randy, Pet, all ready,
and last but not least is my Boy, there, Jake." He listed the mortals in the
room, pointing each out to her. "I know that I will probably have to introduce
them all to you a couple of more times, till you get the hang of this. But they
are all here for me," then he smiled even softer at her. "Well perhaps I should
say for us now that you are living with me."
Kris looked from one to the other as Jessy listed off the names. They were
all here for him. "Jessy," she tried out his name, watching closely to see how
he reacted. "This one is sorry, but she doesn't understand. Why are you doing
this for her?"
Jessy sighed. Okay, so much for easy intro.'s, "do you remember how you got
here?" She nodded. "Well that is my mother. Her name is Janis. She brought
you here so that you would be taken care of. Your father was her brother. He
died this morning. You remember that?" She looked at him for a moment, mind
trying hard to recall all that he was saying. But she did remember, waking this
evening, and her master, had been gone. Tears glistened in her eyes as she
nodded. "Ow, baby, you aren't as lost as I thought. I'm sorry." Now he was
more worried than ever. Until she finally was able to work her way back
completely to herself. She was in the most danger. He silently cursed Marcus
for doing this to her. It didn't matter how much the old vampire had wanted to
make a Childe before he died. But he had no right to first take her will to
make her. Then to die, leaving her like she was. He sighed softly, oh well,
suppose I have to clean up the mess he made. So be it. "Okay, Kris, you still
following me?" She just nodded. "Okay honey, well when your father died, Janis
took you from there and brought you here to me. I was the youngest of our race.
So Janis knew I would be more than happy to take care of you. You're my uncle's
Childe, baby, that makes us cousins."
She looked at him for a moment. "Cousins?"
He nodded. "Your father was my mother's brother. Thus we are cousins."
She just sat there, looking at him. She knew that what he was telling her
was important, but she just couldn't seem to focus right now. No matter how
hard she tried, everything just seemed to float away from her. "Jessy," she
whispered, trying to reach out to him. "This one, no," she shook her head
trying to clear the cobwebs. "I am very hungry."
He sighed. She was beginning to come back to herself. Maybe by this time
tomorrow, he wouldn't have to worry as much about her. "Well, I think we can
see to that. Do you remember Danny?" Again she just nodded. "Well, I sent for
him back a little while ago. Believe it or not, I still remember being as young
as you, are. And one of the things I remember the most, is I was always hungry.
So, you want to feed off of him, or shall, I, and then you take from me. It
would probably be better that way. As vampires go, your still fairly weak, but
I would really hate for you to accidentally hurt him." He held out a hand to
Danny. "Come here Little One. I know that I will seem to be mean, I usually
take care of you after I feed, but I have Kris with me right now, and she is
just now beginning to work her way back, so she needs me much more than you
will."
The boy in question was all of nineteen, but looked to be maybe fifteen,
sixteen, at the most. And he would readily admit that in the last month, since
coming here, he was the happiest he could remember being in a very long time.
"It's okay Master, I can always go and play with Randy or Sally." He didn't
hesitate to go into his masters arms, didn't even protest as Jessy pushed his
head gently to one side, moaning softly as he felt his masters fangs sink into
his neck. His fingers tangled into Jessy's hair as his body felt the heat and
lust that he always felt whenever his master fed from him. Shuddering softly as
he felt Jessy's hands on him.
"You taste so good baby." Jessy licked at the bite marks until they closed.
Still toying with the boy. "Fuck it, why don't you come and join Kris and I, I
am sure that once she feeds, she won't have a problem with you keeping us
company." He smiled at the girl who sat beside him, a burning hunger in her
eyes. "Will you cousin?"
"Can this one feed? I'm real hungry Jessy?" She didn't care who was there,
as long as she could ease the gnawing that was beginning in her belly.
"Sure you can honey, dinner is one me. Just hold on a minute more, I have a
strong feeling that the only place we are going to be needed in is a bed for
some time to come." He eased Danny off his lap, reaching to pull Kris close.
"Come on honey, it's, feeding time."
* * *
Jessy led Kris by the hand to his sleeping room, downstairs. "Ssshh, it's,
okay cousin. I'm not going to hurt you." He tried to sooth her as she pulled
back at the sight of the bed.'
"That was what he told me." She was beginning to find her way back. "Then
he, he messed with my head." She still pulled at his arm that was holding hers.
"He, he made me blow him." It was all coming back in a rush. "He made me beg
him to make me blow him." She began to cry. "He, he made me play with myself.
Told me that I couldn't cum, then he made me. Then he fucked me in the ass, and
when I begged him to stop, he punished me again. All so he could beat me." She
began to fight him as he stopped and pulled her close. "I, I was a virgin, he
raped me, then he made me like this. And all I wanted was for him to do it.
Why, can you help me to understand why he did that?"
Jessy finally got her sitting on the bed, but he didn't dare let her go.
Because he knew, for certain, that she would be up and out of there the second
he did. She wasn't quite as lost anymore, but she wasn't fully herself yet,
either. And with ever minute, her mind returned more and more to her, but it
was very obvious that with it's return, she was even more in danger than she had
been while she was lost in herself. "He kidnapped me, messed with my head so he
wouldn't have to hurt me, and then he did anyway. And now, he's dead. And you
are the one saying how safe I am. If I am so damn safe, why don't you just
leave me alone?" She was like ice as she sat against him, as he tried to begin
to rock her in his arms. "He did this to me, and then he, he," the reality of
what had happened to her in the last two days was painful, and sharp as it
returned to her. "He died. He made me like this, and then he left."
Jessy cursed his uncle again as he began to realize what the crazed man had
done to this one. "I'm sorry, Kris, I wish I could explain all of this to you.
But I can't. He can't even be held responsible for his actions. He was nuts
baby. I've been told that age sometimes does that to us. But he wasn't that
old. My mother is almost two thousand years old, her mother six, and her father
seven. Your father was only a little over three hundred. Maybe it was because
when Asha made him her Childe, he was already so old, I don't know. But you
have to listen to me. Yes what he did to you was wrong. But you can get past
all of that. You are now the youngest of our kind anywhere. Not just in the
states, but in the world." He stroked her hair as she just sat there against
him and cried.
"He punished me because I thought he was a freak of nature. He made me beg
him to let me blow him, and that wasn't enough. He made me lay of the bed, on
my stomach, he raped me that first time, while I lay on my stomach. Wanted to
see just how 'tight' my ass really was. And when I begged him to stop, he beat
me, I thought he was going to kill me, it lasted so long." She was trying hard
to ignore the burning in her gut. "He beat me until I bled, and then he licked
my blood from me, and then." Oh god, how could she have let him do that to her.
"He, he had me roll over and he, I was a virgin. And he, when he killed me he
raped me, again."
"Kris, let it go for now. You can pick up your hate for him later. No the
way he did it was dead wrong. He should have never touched you. Should have
come to Janis and told her what he wanted out of you, then left it to her. But
all I can say was he didn't trust anyone there at the end for a while, and he
had to make sure that he made his replacement." Janis had never done any of
what this girl was telling him that Marcus had done to her. He knew she would
never have. "He is dead now, Kris, so he can't hurt you anymore, and I will
never do anything like that to you. I swear, from this point on, you will want
anything that happens. But let it go for now. I've fed, so you don't have to
worry about hurting anyone. You can't hurt me, come on up here, I know you have
to be starving, I can feel how hungry you are. Just feed little cousin. Dinner
is on me." He knew that if he could just get her to feed from him, he could
link with her and then all would be all right, or at least for the night.
Tomorrow night was a different story. He had no idea when he accepted her care
from Janis that Marcus had done anything like this to her.
She didn't want to, needed to say no, but her body, it just wouldn't pull
back as Jessy gently pulled her head to his neck, pressing her face into his
throat. "Go on Kris, be strong, survive, if only to spite the bastard that did
this to you." He sighed as he felt her fangs latch on to his throat, as she
began to feed. He moaned softly, feeling the press of her body against his.
"Yes, that's the way baby." He pulled at the thin oversized T-shirt that Kris
had been given to wear, seeking to touch her flesh, as she sobbed against his
throat.
Deep in her soul, she knew she should be fighting the hands that seemed to
move so slowly up under her shirt to caress her breasts, but she couldn't, all
she could do was hold on to him as his blood filled her mouth,
Enough, Kris, time to pull away. Jessy's mind touched hers, even as the
shirt in his hands ripped, exposing her flesh to his as he held her to him.
Pulling away was so very hard for her; all she wanted to do was stay lost in
this warm, wonderful world that she had found. But as she pulled back, trying
to regain some semblance of control, she felt him with her, his hands, and mouth
on her. And God help her, she wanted this. The memory of her last night with
the thing that had made her what she, now, was, and the sweet promise of
pleasure. It was all she could remember as she leaned into his hands, mouth
open to his, tongue going to dance with his as she felt him push her back on the
bed. She desperately wanted to say no, to say stop, but all she could do was
moan softly hips rising as Jessy began to finished undressing her, his hands,
his mouth, they were everywhere, and where they touched, there was such
wonderful feelings. Her hands, they seemed to have developed a will of their
own as the returned his touches. She knew what was happening, and not only
accepted it, as she felt his mouth move to her breasts, but wanted it. Perhaps,
the first time she had lay under Marcus it had been rape. But this time, no,
this time she was fully aware of herself, and she wanted this.
Jessy knew he was taking unfair advantage of her feelings from her feeding,
but at this moment, it didn't matter. She was so sweet, so unbelievably sweet.
And as his fangs sank deep into the flesh of her breast, and he felt, more than
heard her shocked response, he know that here and now, as they were. Both
locked in the heat that their race always felt when feeding. He would not only
make love to her, but she would welcome him, and meet him in their lovemaking.
There were no words, words would have broken the spell that he was weaving
over her with his hands, and mouth as they began to explore her body. Words
would call her back to conscious awareness of what was going on, might even
shatter the moment. And that would be almost as cruel as her making had been.
She had been a virgin the first time that Marcus had taken her, and as lost as
she had been when he had, Kris was right, it had been rape. But this time, here
like this, he would see to it that she was treated as carefully and gently as
she should have been to begin with. He could only thank everything that he held
holy, that even as lost as Danny had been. That he had gone out of his way to
gently bring to boy to him, and lost as he was, when he promised him that there
would be no pain, the boy had believed him and was willing to give himself to
him. And he was powerful enough to see to it that no, it did not hurt, he had
made the Danny's deflowering a beautiful thing. The boys continued wantonness
every time he touched him was proof of that.
This time, when hands went to part her thighs, she was willing, almost to
the point of aggression as she held to him, hips lifting to ease his way into
her. She cried out softly as she felt him move inside her. Oh this was so
good, so unbelievably good. Why couldn't it been him, if she had to be this
way, Why couldn't it have been Jessy that had taken her the first time?
Danny had been forgotten in the midst of their lovemaking, but the boy
wouldn't let Jessy forget him for long as he reached out kissing his shoulder as
his hands began to add to what he was feeling already. And as Jessy felt, soft
gently fingers part his cheeks, and begin their teasing thrust, he was lost.
* * *
Afterwards, Jessy held Kris as she cried. "Ssshh, what's wrong baby? I
didn't hurt you. I know I didn't."
Kris just lay there, crying. "What am I now? I, you, Jessy it was so good,
but I don't know you. I don't know you and I let you." Harsh wracking sobs and
she buried her face into his chest. "You must think I'm some kind of slut."
His chuckle was not the response Kris had expected from her painful
admission. "Slut, honey, you're one of the blood now, a vampire. Trust me, I
would have been much more worried about you if after sharing blood as we did,
had you still not wanted to have anything to do with me. This is what I meant
when I told you that I was going to introduce you to the wonders of your new
life. It only gets better from this point on. And as soon as you get a better
grip on your hunger, then I can stop feeding you, and just throw you to the
kids. Believe me Kris, what you felt with me you; will feel every time your
feed. Don't' ask me why, Janis thinks that originally it was some kind of
self-defense. It is very hard to fight someone when you are as lost as all the
mortals get when we fed from him or her. Now it's just a very handy thing to be
able to do. You should see them when I feed." He laughed pulling Danny close
to join them. "There are times, I am very glad that I am a vampire, if I
wasn't, I think my lot would end up eating me alive." He lightly nipped at
Danny's nose, before lowering his mouth to cover his. "Ain't that so, Little
One?"
"Master," the boy just pressed himself even farther into his hands.
Kris watched as Jessy toyed with the young man in his arms. "Master?"
Jessy pulled back from Danny, trying to focus on her. "No, little cousin,
my bunch can get away with calling me that, but not you. Please, I know what
was done to you was wrong, there is no way I can ever undo what that lunatic
did, but please, just call me Jessy."
Kris shook her head. "No, I wasn't calling you that, just asking why they
did."
He grinned, rubbing the side of his nose, looking down sheepishly. "That
was Janis's doing. When she brought Randy to me, to shut m e up because I had
been obsessing about what it would feel like to have a man. So she found him on
the street, offered to let him come and live for, we don't know how long the
mortals in our keep will live, but it is obviously longer and better than they
would usually. Well anyway, she offered him a chance, if only he would give
himself to all that I asked. Poor Randy, he'd been all of eighteen back then.
Living out on the street, because back then, you just weren't gay and open about
it. His folks found out what he was and, then, threw him out. So Janis brought
him to me, and he's been living here ever since. It's been oh, what, nineteen,
almost twenty years now. Keeping humans with us, is a real new 'fad', as my
mother likes to call it. Well anyway, when she brought him to me, she was the
one that had him calling me master, and it's just kinda stuck. Being the one
that was here first, he has either fussed, brow beat or in Jake's case, out
right threatened that if he didn't do the same thing, he was going to do
physical damage to him. So that is how I got stuck being master to all of my
kids. Danny here, was the only one that I ever took his will from. So when Pet
and Boy kept telling him who I was, I guess it just took on a very ultra
personal level with him. And with each time I let them have a share my blood,
it just makes them that much more connected."
Maybe it was because, she wasn't fully back up to speed yet, or maybe it was
because, now, she was just like him and a vampire. But whatever the reason, it
just seemed to make perfect sense. "Oh, okay. So, they aren't going to run
around calling me 'master' too are they?"
This time it wasn't, just, Jessy who laughed at her, but Danny as well.
"Mistress, you're not a man, how in the world would you think we would call you
Master?"
Kris visibly flinched at the name. "Jessy?"
He raised an eyebrow at her. "Kris?"
She blushed a little. "Stop that." She fussed. "No seriously, they aren't
going to keep calling me that, are they?"
"Yeah, and you might as well get used to it. The, lot of them are more
afraid of Pet, here, and what he will do to them if they don't. Me, they don't
even think about. They all know that I am not gonna hurt them, hell I don't
even punish them, Randy does that if one of them gets too far out of line. And
he is far more afraid of Janis than he has ever been of me. I guess he's got to
the kids already, you're gonna be the mistress of this house, and there is
nothing you can do about it. Trust me, I have been trying for years to get them
to call me by my name, but you see how much effect my efforts have had.
She just groaned. Things just kept getting weirder and weirder. And it all
started with that strange man, her 'father' deciding before he was to die, he
just had to make her like him. And it had snowballed down hill ever since.
Jessy laughed at her again. "It's okay cousin. You'll get the hang of
things soon enough. Just you wait, before too many more weeks, you'll be
answering to it without even thinking. I didn't think I would ever get the a
grip on hearing the word 'master' either, but now, I'm used to them calling me
that, hell, I even sorta expect it out of them now."
"Great, oh all right, what the hey. I just don't understand why they are
all so afraid of Randy, I mean, he's no bigger than Alex, and he looks like he
could be knocked down in a stiff breeze. Jake, yeah, he's the big one, but
Randy?"
Jessy nodded. "That's right, you don't know snot about the advantages of
being mortal and belonging to one of us, do you?" She shook her head. "Okay,
sweety, I know that you aren't fully yourself yet, but with as on top of
everything as you are right now, you should understand this." He pulled Danny
close again, planting light kisses along the back of his neck. "Like I told you
already, keeping mortals as toys, pets, whatever, is still a pretty new idea.
Janis and Anise keep calling it the newest fad for our kind. So we don't fully
know what the long-term effect that our blood will have on them. But the
short-term is, first they live, longer, and healthier lives with our blood in
their veins than without it. They lose most of their body hair, that isn't on
their heads, eyebrows, or lashes. Randy has been with me for damn neat the last
twenty years, he has been taking my blood pretty heavily for that whole time.
I'm pretty sure, he's as close as any mortal can get to, being a vampire without
dying and growing fangs. He was my first, and has a good twelve years on Jake.
I know you don't know this yet, but as a vampire, you are stronger than any
mortal that ever lived. Doesn't matter how big they are, or how nasty they can
get. You could mop the floor with the World Heavy Weight Champion of the World,
and do it without even trying. So Jake knows that as little as Randy may look,
he has been with me long enough that my blood has altered him, and made him damn
dangerous. Baby, forget you being able to take on the Champion of the World,
Randy could now that he is as much mine as he is. Sometimes, I let him go out
and pick fights with those who think that just because he's little, and he
doesn't look butch at all, they can wreck his day. That is how I got Jake to
begin with. He was like Danny and an accident. But after Randy came running
home to me, freaked because he thought he had just killed this guy that had been
pushing him around. I had to go and yeah, Jake would have been worm food by
now, but I stopped him from dying. I had to, like I said I know three or four
times already. I don't hurt those in my house, and they all know it. And if I
had let Jake just die, I don't know if my Pet would have ever gotten over it.
So I saved him. He's been with me ever since. And trust me, he doesn't make
any ugly comments about gender biased boys anymore. I think after I saved him.
Randy took almost sadistic delight in fucking him every night for the nest few
years. Poor Jake, I ended up taking Sally just to make him feel a little more
like a man. My Girl was still way too connected to me at the time. Then Tracy,
well I felt sorry for her, she was sick, I mean real sick as in dying sick.
Sally and Jake talked me into roping her on in with them, so I did, and well
Danny was my last, I didn't want any others, though now that you are living
here, I just might have to see about finding one or two more."
It was all just too much to take in, all at one time. She didn't want to
think anymore. "Jessy, do me a favor." She pulled close, capturing Danny
between them. "Stop talking for now, and make love to me. No blood, no loss of
will, nothing, just make love to me."
