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Bethany

Bethany’s memory was fuzzy through the whole trip. She vaguely remembered looking into Andrei… Kevin… whatever his name was, she’d stared into his eyes and agreed to something and next thing she knew she was standing in the middle of a living room and the vampire was still bleeding.

“W-where am I?” Beth asked softly as she approached the man, who in turn hissed at her baring huge white fangs. She hesitated, fear rippling from her again. Damning her curse she gasped softly as every cell in her body awakened all at once.

“Can’t you stop that?” the vampire snarled. He was winding a roll of gauze around the wound awkwardly. Even a vampire would get sickly if he lost too much blood. “Your pheromones are making it hard to think beyond wanting to fuck you and eat you.”

Beth frowned and crossed her arms over her chest. “If you’d quit scaring me maybe I could!” she snapped and steeled herself. Forcing herself to walk forward she kneeled down beside him and took the gauze from him.

“Here, let me help,” she said looking him in the eyes. Making herself look at the wound she went about wrapping it. Between having a brother who was a doctor and sister for a vet tech Bethany knew a fair bit about generic first aid. Once the roll was done she fastened it off and looked back up at him. Biting her lip she tried to control her fear, but was failing.

“I-I’m sorry. I’m trying but- I just… someone tried to kill me tonight and now I don’t know where I am,” she said shakily and felt her eyes well with tears. Brushing at her eyes quickly she sniffed. “Oh… oh I’m sorry. Crying wont help things at all.”

“Relax,” the vampire told her placing a hand on her head. “You’re safe here. This is my home.”

Beth nodded and sniffed. “Oh… okay… I… do you have something more comfortable I could change into while we talk?” she asked.

When he gave her the directions to a bedroom she walked up the stairs and into a bedroom. Without turning on the light she made her way to a closet and pulled out a burgundy dress shirt. And then she realized she was trapped in her corset without someone to help her untie it.

“I uhm… Shit how do I ask a guy for help with a corset? Men don’t know about corsets,” she muttered trying to reach for the strings. Maybe if she could just untie the first bit she could work out the rest of it. But to her surprise her hands touched another set of hands.

“AAHHH!” Beth started to scream and a hand clapped over her mouth. She struggled at first until he turned her around.

“Are you going to stop screaming? My ears are sensitive,” Kevin/Andrei asked wincing and looking less than amused. His eyes flickered red and she shivered again.

He dropped his hand when she nodded. “Why’d you sneak up on me like that?” Beth complained trying to slow her rapidly thundering heart.

“I didn’t mean to sneak, I’m just quiet. I forget how much noise you have to make around humans for them to hear you coming,” Andrei/Kevin replied rolling his eyes. “I came to help you with your corset.”

“My- How did you know I needed help?” Beth asked looking stunned.

“Sensitive ears,” he said tapping one of his ears and turning her around to begin to work on the strings of the corset.

“But I only just said that. Did you follow me up to peep at me?” Beth asked peeking back at him and doing her best not to move so he could figure out the corset.

“No. I’m also very fast. And this being my house I don’t have to worry about surprise corners,” he replied. The corset fell limp to the ground and Beth stared at it in awe.

“How did you…”

“I’m very old, Bethany Summers,” he answered sounding tired.

Beth turned to look at him, instinctively positioning her arms to cover her chest. She stared at him in silence for a few moments and then nodded. Right, Vampires were old. Well not all of them, but they had the capacity to be.

“How old are you?” she whispered.