The small town of Beauclerk, Maine.

"Ms. Witch I think you scared your friend." Aiyano said in a calm voice. "You should work on you temper. Besides vagabonds is hardly hurtful to what I've gone through anyways." With that she left the scene wrecked scene, yet going the other way. This lead towards another vamp or so she thought. "So you going to try for Samantha too?" She asked in an empty voice.

"I guess I'm fine with that." Derek's voice was emotionless now and he walked away from the room. "Might as well go for some fresh air..." He yawned as he walked out to the garden surrounding the manor and found his way with ease. Right now he just might go and see what Deme was up to. He found it strange why Demetrius would be out anyways, Damien was supposed to be trying to get Samantha. He followed his older brother's scent only to find him spying on Damien and some girls. One had cast a spell and one had found Deme spying. His eyes sparkled with a bit of interest as he walked over to him and gave him a poke in the head.

Continued to grin even though the little witch girl was obviously trying to direct a spell at him. Damien expected Samantha to run his eyes flickering towards Deme an Derek the eye flicker was more of a command. He wanted them to deal with the little spell caster while he chased after his prize. The Witches threats had become tiring so he himself stood up just in time for the gust of wind to blow towards him. Reaching down to the concrete step he pushed off launching himself high up into the air and over the spell caster. "Your gonna half to be a hell of a lot faster then that to catch me", he muttered disappearing within a flash. Damien took his time he would allow Samantha to think she had gotten away it would add a little flare to the chase like the joy of stealing away some one's hope. With the wicked grin on his lips he ran past his brothers chuckling as he went by knowing that only their super hearing would justify that he was laughing at all. Waiting further in the woods Damien watched Samantha through the trees he would make noises that would hopefully draw her in a different direction, all the while he smiled humming loudly a song to himself. "You can run but you'll never be able to hide, not from me my love".
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Stared at the girl known as Ai watching her as he spoke to him his eyes staring keenly on her lips and then her throat, he listened to the blood churning up and down her throat, and found it hard to admit but he was excited. Hearing foot steps he cocked his head to the side in time to be poked in the temple, his eyes lingered on the non chalant Derek his younger brother. "Well you finally leave the castle and judging by your eyes, Father is displeased with you", he uttered a grin blossoming across his face. His eyes then shifted back to Ai to whom he shook his head, "There are no such thing as vampires", he said flashing her a fanged smile.

Samantha had stopped walking when she closed her eyes from exhaustion. She rested against a tree, her heart starting to slow down finally from the adrenaline and the fear that had been pulsing through her veins and her temples and her entire body. But then... she heard noises rustle around her and she flinched, jerking one way and then the next. She swallowed thickly as she stood there and then started running again, one noise making her jerk to the right and then to the left as she thought she heard a noise to the north but then it would repeat to the south. When she heard the humming coming from all around her, her eyes went wide as she was shaking and sweat dripped off her forehead, landing on the dead leaves and the cold ground beneath her.

Should she run? All these noises, banging in her ears and shifting her everywhere as her heart started to pound extremely hard again and her flesh grew goosebumps as the song he was humming, the rune, rang around in her head, her mind, echoing over and over as she felt her heart pump even faster. She stayed still, everything seeming to move faster and faster around her, like a spinning vortex appeared in front of her. She had gripped a tree with her back against it, almost like she was afraid the invisible vortex she thought she saw was going to suck her into it.

She finally dropped to the ground, sitting against the tree as the vortex was gone and she kept her eyes closed, breathing heavily as more sweat dripped down her throat and her forehead, part of her hair matted with sweat as her sweater became hotter on her body. She didn't know where in the woods she was... she was lost now. She kept her eyes closed, her body shaking slightly from all the confusion and all the fear. She felt like she was going insane.

Kyros shut the door, and sat back down. He was annoyed at his son’s attitude, and briefly wondered why he could not have any sons that he could be proud to call sons. None of them were as regal and respectful as he was, and he doubted any of them would ever be able to surpass him and claim his throne. He would have to wait for his grandchild… or have another child. Leaning against his wife once more, he lifted his wrist "Are you thirsty, my love?"

Finding the fear around her the dark figure walked through the trees merely floating above the ground a sort of hover which even an unpracticed fledgling could do. Samantha's fear possibly made her weaker easier for him to influence with a hop in his step he walked into the clearing where she death gripped a tree. Damien could smell the sweat from nearly two miles away, was she truly this afraid of him her husband to be, her eternal lover and guardian. No doubt Demetrius and Derek had dealt with witch problem. Shaking his head he shoved his hands deep down into his pocket and strolled across the grass towards Samantha. He glasped his hands together and clapped smiling as he walked towards her, his applause stopped when he neared her. Damien crouched down and put a cold pale hand to her cheek lifting her face up towards him. "You know its hard for us to swoon over one another when you run, and yes your fears are correct I could have caught you at the exact moment you moved but for me it wouldn't have been as fun, you see when you run it becomes a game not a hunt but more like a mission to catch you, you'll never have to be afraid of me or scared for your life when I am near I will protect you with everything I am and have, Samantha my love please don't quiver any more lower your heartbeat or I will be forced to do something about it", he threatened his hand loose on her chin.

Samantha had opened her eyes when she heard the clapping and she cringed slightly when she watched Damien strolling towards her as her heart continued to pound faster and faster. When his cold hand touched her cheek, it was like ice against her flesh and she swallowed thickly as she stared up at him when his hand moved her sapphire eyes to meet his. "You kill people... you kill innocent people..." she said in a quiet, strained voice as she kept gazing up at him. "Doesn't it suck to have your marriage arranged for you, years before you even know it yet?" she asked in a nervous voice but laughed slightly, her voice growing slightly stronger when she let her back straighten up. But the smile on her face, the nervous anxious one, soon faded.

When she heard the threat in his voice she bit her lip, chewing on it with anxiety as she kept staring up at him but then closed her eyes, her mind working as though she was telling herself to calm down. He wasn't going to hurt her... yet. This was all so new to her and it scared her so much, he scared her... these vampires scared her, Kisha had scared her. She never knew the paranormal, the supernatural, even existed and how they just showed up was a surprise she hadn't expected at all in her dull life. Her eyes suddenly flashed open, the bright blue shining again. "I can't lower it..." she said in almost a whisper as she kept staring at him. "It doesn't want to lower.." her heart had lowered slightly, but she figured not enough as Damien had wanted. She swallowed again as she continued to stare at him, another drop of sweat sliding down her forehead and dropping onto the ground. She was starting to grow cold as her body was still.

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Katie smiled at Kyros with a seductive grin and took his wrist, slowly lowering her mouth to it and she bit into it gently. She started to suck from his wrist, the blood warm and sweet and tangy on her tongue but she maintained the urge to drink faster and faster. She made no mess, not spilling a single drop as she kept feeding from him. Her black curls fell beside her face on her neck as she would keep drinking.

She finally stopped, panting slightly and then she smiled at him, wiping a single drop of blood from her lips. "Thank you, my husband." she said softly.

Looking away from Samantha he let go of her face and leaned up against the back side of the tree he would now give her a glance into his way of thinking. The idea of a an arranged marriage was given to him around the time Demetrius had found the woman he would hopefully marry one day. And then of course Deme botched it up just like he did with just about everything, there was no one more useless then Demetrius Blacke. In fact he knew at these moments Deme was probably letting the less careful Derek Blacke his older brother take care of the matter. Damien wanted to reach for her and hold her to kiss away her fears but he had the feeling in her current mood this would not be a welcoming move. "Your looking at it all wrong your seeing it as being forced into it", he whispered reaching up to his forehead with hi left hand, brushing away his fallen bangs. Although before he thought the same way he didn't want to marry anyone he just wanted to continue cruising through life the way he had for nearly two hundred years. And then he saw her caught a whiff of her scent and followed her about with out her knowing and then love grasped his heart in a iron clad ruling fist and grappled his negative feelings to the ground. "Innocent people really your gonna play that game, everyone lies, everyone steals, and everyone has at least dark thoughts once in a while, no on is innocent its just a word with a meaning that has been dashed and scarred with so many lies that its true meaning anymore ins truly inconcievable".

Samantha watched as he stood up, wondering if her questions had really gotten into him. She slowly stood up, dusting herself off as the wind was blowing through the forest and making her shiver lightly, cutting through the thin threads of her sweater. She walked towards him but kept her distance as she listened to him. She bit her lip. "I never knew much about vampires... except they were pale... they drank blood... they were fast. Didn't think they existed.." she trailed off and then looked down at her shoes. She was silent for a moment.

"What... What happened to my mother, Damien? Her picture... on the paper... it was crossed out.." she said, swallowing thickly. She knew her mother had died... but from what? What had happened to make her die? Did she kill herself so she wouldn't marry Demetrius, or did she die from blood loss or... what? "I'm just... curious.." she hoped that didn't make him mad as she looked down at the ground again, chewing on her lip. Thinking of her mother just made her stomach clench and her heart hurt but she needed to know.

Darla let out a sigh, finding no entertainment. There was a scent in the air, it was Damien's and a girl, might be his partners she didn't know but followed the smell. Eve walked behind her, she was sure he smelt it too. It was tiring walking, finally leaping on Eve she yelled "Go" in a manly voice and he did as told.

Kisha's eyes returned from their freakish color.The ground returned to normal despite some cracks in it."Shit....what have I done...Sam's probably freaked..."Kisha sat on the cold ground and sighed."GODAMMIT!STUPID VAMPIRES!"She let out a yell and buried her head in her arms.Small tears began to drip down her face and she just continued to cry.

Turning his head he stared into her pleading eyes the answer she wanted weren't his to give her and once again he shook his head. "Your mother is not my concern nor my business, Deme is your answer man if you want to go about asking questions I'm not at liberty to tell you after all when he returned to Romania I stayed in the states, I was in Miami soaking up the sun and anything that looked like it would taste good". With his left hand he reached up and caressed her cheek, and eventually turned to face her, the stench of sweat was thick and it must have been caused by the sweater she practically begged for just minutes before the harrowing chase. His right hand flashed forward moving to fast to be seen, using his nails he would strike down the middle of her sweater hoping it would cut free of her body and relieve her from sweating to death. "You know theres more to us the speed, beauty, skin complection, and death", he whispered leaning down to her.

She had stared at him. "You mean... the boy who had followed me to school?" she asked, her voice thick. She looked down at her shoes as she listened to him and licked her lips a bit and then chewed on them. When she felt him touch her cheek, she closed her eyes against his cold touch.

When his nails cut down her sweater she had jumped slightly when it fell off. She was tearing a black tang-top underneath and her bare arms and shoulders and neck were now exposed, a pale ivory color as she looked at him. She folded her arms under her covered breasts, her cheeks going slightly red as she watched her cut open sweater fall to her feet. She then would look up at him as he leaned down towards her. "Are there... different kinds of vampires?" she asked, her heart not pounding as hard as it had when she first met him. Asking questions distracted her, made her feel more calm when she was giving the curiosity a chance to replace the fear. She swallowed thickly and left her lips alone, the bottom bleeding a little from her chewing on it so much. She went silent as she kept staring up at him with her sapphire eyes.

Arriving at the forest Darla saw her brother and a girl maybe Samantha... She didn't want to hide or spy on them so going up she bowed down "Good day, my dear brother." Her eyes darted to the girl "And you may be Samantha...,Right...?" she asked in a serious voice. "Damien, what are you doing stripping people without there permission" she shakes her head.
"Miss, are you cold...?"

Cocked his head to the left thinking about her question, sure there were different kinds of vampires many in fact. Evil one, Good ones, and Neutral ones. The Blacke family itself was so into being aristocratic that everyone considered them evil, even he himself considered the family bound to the darkness. Damien then thought about the last time he had seen another vampire outside of his family, maybe it was lacking because of the ideals gained by being a Blacke to the vampire world the Blacke family was ancient darkness, maybe it had to do with the fact that they would stop at nothing to get what they wanted. Nothing. "Yeah theres other vampires out there but they don't really communicate with the Blacke Clan", he answered. "They say that were all evil but were not really all that bad". His eyes lingered to her lips where the blood dripped off her bottom lip. "Let me show you", he smiled and leaned down to kiss her for the first time. Seconds away from kissing his soon to be bride he found himself distracted by the familiar voice that disturbed his actions. Darla his sister had appeared, which in turn caused him to become extremely angry. Damien pulled his long sleeved unbottoned black shirt off and draped it on Samantha's shoulders, he then spun around casting an angry glare on Darla. "Your all like moths to the flame, you, Derek, and Deme, don't I get any time with my future wife or do you screw ups have to keep coming over and stealing my moments", he spit out in anger.

Samantha had kept looking at him when he was speaking, tilting her head slightly as she blinked a few times. When his lips had lowered to meet hers, her heart almost stopped and her cheeks had already started to turn a slight pink but when another voice sounded, Samantha jumped and looked towards the girl speaking to her. She opened her mouth to reply but her thoughts were flooding her mind again. How many vampires were there?! Especially, how many siblings did Damien have!? She didn't have much time to think about it when she watched Damien's expression and she kept her mouth shut, holding the long sleeved shirt around her shoulders. She did NOT want to get in the middle of a vampire sibling fight, because considering how strong and fast and agile these things were, physical fights had to be awful but Damien wouldn't hurt a female vampire would he? Or were they equally as strong? She didn't know much about the vampire world, how fights started and how gruesome or painful they must be against each other, two powerful fanged creatures with strong limbs and fast legs and sharp teeth and nails.

She looked at Damien as he spoke. She looked back at the girl and then she looked at Damien again. She quickly leaned up on her tip toes, kissing his cheek and she slowly help his hand, linking her fingers with his cold ones, as her heart pounded, hoping this would calm him down. If it did, she would introduce herself to Damien's Sister. If it didn't calm him down, she would be hiding behind a tree.

Darla sighed "I think my cross dressing wasn't that successful right...?"
She stared at the girl for a while and sighed once again "Don't mix me up with those disrespectful people with no manners, and you too, daring to speak to your elder sister in such a way...."
How did she have such a disrespectful brother…? And the others might even be worst then he especially that Demetrius was the worst of all even though he is the eldest… She coughed a fake cough and then smiled…
“Sorry, no fighting for me today Damien, I have brought no weapons, only Eve…”

Before the kiss he was ready to still square off his mouth running a million miles a minute, "Yes thats right dear sister play the weak card, I've been wanting to kill that stupid animal for years maybe tonight I'll stake my claim over its life, and I can see the way your looking at me", he whispered his voice as sharp as his fangs. Damien took a step forward jabbing his index finger in the air yet in her direction. "Don't you dare compare me to the brat prince or the wondering imbecile, I have half a mind to rip this tree out of the ground and have some batting practice with your ancient face". He was so ready to attack until Samantha kiss his cheek and took his hand, instantly he turned towards her his pale face lighting up to a gentle scarlet his own slow heartbeat rose. Shame crossed his face there was no reason for him to act this way it was jealously, after finally meeting Samantha he only wanted to envelope himself around her with no one else, he didn't want to be distracted. "Your mother died from blood loss in the Romanian tundra, Demetrius went out for her but in his anger confusion crossed his senses making it nearly impossible for him to find her before she died from the elements, she loved him but she loved you more and the thought of leaving you alone killed her so she ran hoping to make it to the nearest town so she could escape back here to the states, but as I said it was two hundred miles from the nearest town even the horse she stole from the stables couldn't survive the blizzard that waged war with the land that day, for your loss I am deeply sorry", he finished his head lowerng in his shame. Maybe for the first time in his eternal life did he feel for someone other then himself, he had known she was afraid of him and he had known the truth of her mother but his selfish mind wanted never to discuss what he really knew. "Everyone deserves a chance to live, I'll give you two days to speak your peace be with your family and friends, but on the second days end I will return for you, if you run I will find you, its hard enough that taking a step away from you makes me feel like I'm alone, Darla here will be my witness to this oath and testimony, if you want I will take you home just to make sure you make it there safely", he said leaning his head down to her. Damien's lips hovered just above her own but the true first kiss was not his to have so he craned his head to the right and kissed her cheek. Then his lips lingered just past her right ear, he knew Darla would be able to hear him but he didn't care these words were only a foot note in the future that would be coming, "I'll make him pay for what he took from you", he uttered lifting his face back up to look into her eyes.

Samantha's eyes went slightly wide as she looked up at him and she listened to his words, her heart hurting now as she envisioned her poor mother running through a blizzard and falling to bleed out and die frozen in the snow, doing that for Samantha and in hope she would make it home. Samantha bit her lip again as it gushed out more blood and she didn't speak for several moments before looking down at her own two feet and thinking for a minute or so. But... she had loved Demetrius, and Demetrius had loved her. She didn't know if Demetrius cared or if he was still hurting from what happened... she should ask him sometime when she saw him, even if it was a sensitive subject.

After a few moments and when he spoke again, the two days rung around in her head as she looked back up at him. Two days? Why not a week? She was turning 18 in a week... she bit her lip again and sighed softly, before glancing side to side and then back up at him. "Sure... alright." she whispered, nodded to his offer to take her home instead of her having to walk by herself. She glanced at Darla but then stared at his chest while he whispered in her ear.

As she listened, she shivered slightly and then looked up at him. She opened her mouth to speak but she shut it then, she didn't know what to say to that but she did want to say it wasn't completely Demetrius's fault. But she decided against it, not wanting to get into an argument with him.

Ai cocked her head as if trying to understand. "Fangs and then glances at my neck. Vampires are real if I must say, but you already know this answer since you are one." She said with a small smile and brought her hand to her head to ruffle her hair. "Something tells me you are related." She said eying the next person to join the group.

Derek just took out a bag of pretzels from his pocket and started munching them, ignoring Deme's comment. "There's nothing wrong with being anti-social." He said stating the fact after he swallowed. "Anyways if you are thirsty might as well just drain the girl. She knows about vampires so it would be good to eliminate her or turn her...a witch girl turned into a vampire..." He mused. "I wonder what the result is..."

Shaking his head he decided to bring his left hand up swiftly aiming for the back of Derek's head it would be more of a pay attention snap, "Derek, the witch is the girl over there crying on the steps this is just your ordinary by stander and to tell you the truth I'm not very thirsty", he said staring at Ai. "Wait you think we look alike, is it the black hair and the eyes, I happen to think we look nothing a like, my fangs are bigger", he muttered grinning.