• Alexis and her friends stood in a dark club with strobe lights surrounds by lots of bodies. a rhythmic beat made the ground vibrate. they moved to a corner booth and sat down. "Hey remember the time jenny sniffed a bag of cat nipp and started laughing uncontrollably like she was high." jack said to the group

    "yea and she fell off the couch in hysterics talking about cat nipp makes you 'feel funny' "

    Jillian jumped in. "oh and then she tried to climb a tree like she was cat women or something."

    "hey! hey, ok wait, there really was something in that cat n**!" jenny said incredulously. "
    "didn't you fall out of the tree?"Alexis asked

    "yea, you should have been there. she fell on her a** laughing." David added "completely hysterical."

    jack condoned. Alexis started laughing at the image of jenny up in a tree crouching like a cat about to pounce. she touched Jillian's hand to share the picture with her and they both were laughing. Jillian was the only other person Alexis talked to who was like her so it wasn't weird to Jillian when she used her magic. David looked at Jillian and she said.

    "we were just picturing jenny in the tree looking like a cat about to pounce."

    "yea now really want to know what was in that cat nipp."

    "you'd better stay away" she teased "very dangerous stuff."

    "only if you dance with me." he said in a sultry voice.

    Jillian smiled suggestively "i would love nothing better." they got up and went to the dance floor.
    jack asked "anyone want a drink?"
    "i'm good" alexis replied.
    "i'd like a bloody mary" said jenny
    "wait isn't that what pregnant women drink?" "that's Virgin Mary's you twit!"
    jack put his palms up "ok,ok don't have a litter cat women." jenny shoved him out the booth. he left to go get the drinks. Alexis stood up. "jenny i'm going to head out." "your leaving" she said sounding disappointed "yea, for now." "ok."

    Alexis left the club and walked outside. the fresh air felt good, cool and refreshing, but something didn't feel right. the shadows were...wrong. was she being followed? she couldn't quite tell the alcohol messed with her senses. she knew the dark spots were sometimes dangerous, they were sometimes portal. she called them shadow portals. she and Jillian use them sometimes to explore places or to go to magic night clubs where she could be around others like her. magic users and other supernaturals.Two girls left the club laughing beautiful and full of excitement to their left was a tall handsom guy leaning against the wall smiling. the girls stopped and walked over to him hips swaying flirtatiously. Alexis looked at the guy. was he there before? she didn't think so. he wasn't human her mind registered this just as he took the girls to a shadow on the wall, wait that was a shadow portal. he lead the girls to that portal and vanished. Alexis knew sometimes the supernaturals liked to "play" with humans and she could handle that as long as it wasn't harmful and they knew what they were doing, but she never liked it when the girls were oblivious to what they were about to do. she walked over to the wall. should she go after them? or would they be ok? suddenly she had a hand around her waist and another covering her mouth and was pulled through the shadow portal.


    She was in a room, the lighting was dim, she saw the two girls from the club siting on the couch along with five other people, all with blank expressions. well at least they're ok. then she looked up in a corner and saw another man standing in the back behind the couch. she looked at his eyes and they glowed bright, hungrily. Alexis jumped slightly, she backed up more into the man holding her and her heart raced. oh s**t. vampires. the man siting on the couch smiled knowingly.

    "well hell, damn portal" she muttered the man holding her tightened his grip on her only a little.

    she didn't struggle. he walked her over to the couch and she sat down.

    "what do you want?" she said besides a midnight snack...

    no one answered one guy just looked her in the eyes. And they glowed, she knew what he was about to do. she let him try it anyway, she put a mental block on her mind. Then the guy spoke in a smooth hypnotic voice. "tonight you will attend the Royal Convocation Hosted by Lord Gabriel. You will serve tonight and give yourself willingly to anyone who approaches you." by the time he stopped speaking she was almost in a daze, not because of the persuasion he tried to put on her but because his voice was so soft and smooth she almost spaced out. she imagined she also had a blank look on her face too. Alexis slid off the couch on her knees and bowed.
    "may i see the Lord Gabriel, so that i may know whom i serve?" the vampires were silent for a moment then suddenly she was standing looking into glowing eyes.

    she made her face look as blank as possible. the voice behind the couch spoke.

    "she can see him" the man in front of her let her go.

    "this way." he walked out of the room and she followed.

    she went down what seemed to be the grand stair case, she passed through a door and there he was sitting under a oil lamp the lighting was perfect on him almost like a halo. His was hair looked like pure bronze with strips of sunlight. he looked up at her calmly. the voice behind her said "she asked if she could see you." Gabriel nodded and the man left. Alexis had to resist taking a step back. she wasn't really one for resisting temptation and if snow white hadn't takin a bite of the beautifully tempting apple she never would have been poisoned.

    "that damn apple" Alexis mutter.

    Gabriel looked at her curious. She crossed her arms.she studied his aura

    "i have a question, how would you like it some creep grabbed you and dragged you through a shadow portal in the middle of the night took you to some layer and told your suppose to be a walking side bar."

    Gabriel half smiled. "your point" Alexis just stared incredulously.

    "look you arrogant b*****d-" Gabriel's eyes flashed darker and his aura changed.

    next thing she knew, she was up against the wall, arms on either side of her heart rate spiked and him smirking at her as if he found it amusing to scare her. he thought she was scared. she wasn't, she was excited. she kind of liked it, he looked at her and realized this. she put her palms on his chest and tried to push, he wouldn't move.

    she frowned "I could take you." he smiled. she moved from under him.

    "I'm Leaving" Alxis said back turned to him. he moved to block her way.

    "i could take you" he threw her own words back at him.

    "only if you pinned me down." she scoffed.
    "i could just bite you."
    "No."she kicked his feet from under him and jumped on top of him.
    she went for her blade. he snatched it from her hands and tossed it. then he flipped her over and and pinned her down.

    "damn." she said frestrated.Gabriel smirked.

    then he lean forward close to the curve of her neck. she lifted her head. he thought she was offering, he eaned closer. Alexis bit down on his shoulder, Gabriel stopped. after a few moments he started shaking, Alexis looked at him. he was laughing. Alexis gave a frustrated sigh. and let her muscles relax. she wasn't in any real danger. she could see his aura. he stopped laughing and she said.

    "you've had your fun, now its time to let me go." he just looked at her.
    his eyes started to glow bright.

    "you will serve here and you will not leave, ever." he added with the arrogance of someone who people never said no to. she rolled her eyes and then looked at him. she sifted behind him.

    "oh i'm sorry" she cocked her head and looked innocent.

    "is this the part where i become a mindless side bar and become you personal little pet?"

    Gabriel turned around and stood, expressionless. his aura was changing, but Alexis didn't notice.
    "who the hell do you think you are?"

    Alexis didn't have time to move Gabriel came up behind her and held her arms behind her back. caught between him and the wall she was really starting to hate walls.

    "tell me who you are or i'll make it hurt."

    Aeis didn't answer. He bit her and her neck felt like it was on fire. she struggled, he pressed her to the wall. the burning sensation started to spread. she wasn't weak willed and it wasn't that she couldn't handle a little pain. she just had panic attacks whenever she got into situations where she felt trapped or "helpless" even if that wasn't necessarily the case. Her emotions sometimes spike and go into over drive and she stopps thinking clearly and makes potentially fetal mistakes. she could usually tell when her emotions were about to spike and she would yield to keep herself from going into a very irrational state-of-mind. This was one of those times. so she did the the only thing she could do, she left. not physically but mentally.she went deep inside her mind behind the mental walls. she went into her study. it was a place inside her mind isolated and warded against mental invasion attacks. Alexis went over to a wall with a mirror on it, she touched it and it shimmered.

    "Jillian." she called out.

    she hoped her friend was some where close to water or another mirror. after a momnet jillian's annoyed face came into focus. without even a 'glad to see your ok' jillian just said "i been in here five times in the last hour. they probably think i'm either really vain or i'm horribly ill. where the hell are you!"

    "where are you?"

    "the bathroom,obviously." jillian replied coldly.
    "oh."
    "well!?" jillian exclaim frustratedly.
    "i don't know where i am, probably some old victorian gothic mansion or a castle. not sure."
    "wait? what? never mind, how?"

    "some creep draggd me through a shadow portal."

    "are you still in the city? "

    "not sure but i think i'm in some vampre coven"

    "vampires, oh." jillian bowed her head

    "exactly."

    "not the pick a girl up at a bar and take her out back for a midnight snack?"

    "i should be so lucky" Alexis said. sarcastically.

    "if your not some midnight pick me up they what do they want?"

    "for me to walk around at a royal party as a side bar for all the stuck up guest."

    "really? sounds like fun." she said with renewed interest.

    "yea a room full of hungry vamps and i'm the special, its what i always wanted. my life's goal."

    Jillian frowned "do you even have a life goal?"

    "not the point."

    "yea looks like someone's already tried to take a bite out of you."

    Jillian watched the spot where Gabriel bit her. "i bit him first" Jillian looked surprised for a moment then chuckled.
    "i bet you did. you would be the only chick who goes around biting vampires. looks like vamps aren't the only 'bogey men' wondering the night."

    "oh shut up. i didn't know what else to do. he had me pinned down and was about to just help himself"

    "so you bit him?" she shook her head. "X has anyone ever told you, you are quite possibly insane?"

    "on many occasions and i believe all of them came from you."

    'X' was the name Jillian called Alexis when she considered her to be unpredictable and dangerous. X was used for things considered to be an unknown, and that was what Jillian thought of Alexis. she was undefined, unpredictable and sometimes dangerous.


    Jillian sobered. "what do you need me to do." i'm thinking red...no, purple. yea."

    "so your going" Jillian Clarified.

    "Only if there's wine." Alexis teased. Jillian rolled her eyes.

    "ever heard of OVER indulgence?"



    "not in my vocabulary. so what dress are you wearing?"

    "magenta" Alexis lit up with excitement. "Damn."

    Jillian smiled suggestively "Sexy."

    they smiled at each other.

    "so where's the shadow portal?"
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    Alexis came back to herself and noticed she was now laying down on a couch. she looked over and there was Gabriel sitting in a chair across from her, staring at her with an unreadable expression. his Aura was calm.
    they were quite for a moment. she looked away from him, searching the ceiling

    "i'll go," she said. she looked at him. "i want to see what's it like, I will not serve, and i will leave when i want. you can't keep me here."

    she knew she was challenging him, but she wanted to stand her ground. who was he to take her away from her friends in the dead of night and try to own her? and if she let him? who would she be then? he would make her as he saw fit or he would break her. and she would not be made slave to the will of others. Gabriel stood up. Alexis got up to. When Gabriel spoke it was with a calm voice with out the arrogance and superiority from before.

    "Very well, shall we find you something to wear?"
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    Alexis entered the ball room at Gabriel's side in a gold smooth silk halter dress with a side slit. Grabriel attended to his diplomatic duties of greeting his guest with Alexis at his side introducing her as his companion for the evening. she received glances of mild curiosity but nothing more. Alexis looked to survey her surroundings. The room was big and open at the far end were glass doors which led outside to a woodsy back yard. on her right was a fire place and above the fireplace hung a painting of an Angel. she started to walk towards it but Gabriel lightly grab her hand. she turned to look at him. she met a set of intense Amber eyes. for a moment she was lost in them. she couldn't remember what she was doing, her last moments. she backed away.

    "i'll be right back" she said barely getting the words out before she lost them.

    he said simply "as you wish."

    Alexis turned searching for the reason she wanted to leave in the first place. finding the painting once again she walked over standing right in front of it. feeling the heat from the fireplace she lost herself in the painting. it held a sense of eminence. The Angel had bronze hair, pure amber liquid eyes that stared back at you with an itensity she's only seen in Gabriel. She looked back at Gabriel, his back was turned, but she could see his broad shoulders and was picturing wings. as if he could sense her watching him, he turned and met her gaze, then he looked above her to the painting she had been admiring. Alexis went back to the painting. She studied the wings they too, were bronze and they seemed to shimmer as if they were covered in gold dust. she reached out her hand like she wanted to stoke it, to see if she could feel the softness, but she stopped short.

    "That one is alway a favorite, admired by many." came a dark seductive voice with an italian accent.

    "Yes, the artist has amazing talent" alexis answered with out turning to see the new admirer. she continued. "The artist' skill in capturing the spirit of the subject is breathtaking, it's like you can feel the Majesty in it. like you can just reach out and touch, just to feel..." she reached her hand out towards the painting.

    "you have quite the taste for art." the voice spoke again. she pulled her hand away from the painting and turn to look man behind her. He was tall with dark hair, olive skin and bright green eyes. she saw decades of late night love affairs, innocent girls seeking a thrill, faithful wives throwing away their marriage, and beautiful Temptresses seeking a lover in him.

    she put voice to her thoughts and whispered one word "Casanova."

    He smiled at her, pleased. "There was a time i was once called be that name, but now i am called Salvio."

    he took her hand and kissed it lightly. A man who looked to be about in his fiftties came over to them and looked her over like he was judgeing the quality of the wine he was about to taste. he spoke with a detached voice. "you were always one to play with your food." The older man had his hand around her neck as if to hold her there. before he could bite her Gabriel was there.


    "my apologies Count Rehdel, but she is my companion for this evening."


    he let go of her and she backed away and went to stand by Gabriel. Count Rehdel bowed slightly.

    "no, my apologies sire. I did not know this lesser severed for you exclusively."

    Alexis spoke up "my apologies gentlemen but,"

    she pushed Gabriel against the wall, "Lord Gabriel is mine."

    At this point two other young men came over.

    "well, well Gabriel what have we here?" said a tall blond.

    "she seems to have you pinned to...the wall..." he said with slight bemusement in his voice.

    "how interesting..." came another voice, and dark haired boy. "did i hear her say you belonged to her?"

    "i believe i heard that too" said the blond.

    "tell me," Alexis turned to the two new comers "when you bite someone doesn't that in your community put some kind of claim on them?"

    "essentially yes..." replied the blond "but how did you manage to put a claim on our lord Gabriel?"

    "she bit me." Gabriel replied with amusement, everyone looked stunned

    "she BIT you?" the dark haired boy asked confused.

    Rehdel spoke in a dark tone. "you let a a lesser Bite you?"

    Salvio the Italian who had been quite thoughout the coversation smiled with amusement and the to boys laughed.


    "my, my Gabriel where did you find this feisty beauty?"

    "i don't know...." he replied.

    "we have this amazing bond of undying love." she said dramatically.

    the blond laughed again "Gabriel, wow why didn't you say? this one is so amusing...where have you been hiding her all this time?"

    Count Rahdel looked out outraged "Solomon this is not something to luagh about. this is unacceptable. No lesser has any right to put a claim on Lord Gabriel! She is meant to serve, obviously she does not know her place. the very idea she could be involved with-"

    "father, please...she was just joking.no need to go on a tyrant. "

    Count Rehdel glared at his son. Alexis dropped to her knees and bowed low "oh your grace please, i beg your forgiveness, I do not deserve such an honor as to be in your presence."

    she looked up at him and he smiled "she learns fast."

    "how shameful to be human, such an undesirable act to be born so weak."

    she stood up and walked up to him grabbing his hand slowly, tenderly.

    "your grace, it must be hard for you, knowing that you existence depends so greatly on the lessers as you call us. our blood is the life elixir which your immortal soul will forever crave. Such a weakness must be hard for you to accept, because without the blood of the lesser your immortal soul would be powerless, you would be weak and vulnerable, ceceptable to death!"
    she made her eyes go wide with horror,

    "the blood of the lessers is what gives you, your strength,"

    she dropped his hand with disgust and stepped away.

    "therefore you owe us your gratitude for being your source of strength, of life. that you should ever receive such a gift as the blood of a human is an honor, and you sir will Never have the honor of receiving anything from me."

    The room was silent, all the royals and nobles were watching the scene. the count himself looked shocked and incredulous. Solomon and the dark haired boy looked apprehensive, Salvio looked more amused then ever as did lord Gabriel. Alexis stood next to Gabriel looking smug. she looked down at her watch and pushed a button, a razor slid out. she pulled out the razor and held up the palm of her hand and slid the razor across drawing out her own sweet crimson nectar of life. every vampire in the room's eyes darkened but she didn't notice. she only looked at the count, then at her palm, the blood was about to spill she caught it on two fingers before it hit the marble floor and licked her fingers. Gabriel moved behind her slightly, as Alexis brought her palm up to her mouth Gabriel grabbed her wrist gently and she looked at him. his eyes were a molten amber.

    ''may i?" he whispered, she nodded.

    he wrapped his free arm around her waist and held her against him, possessively. pulling her hand up to his mouth and licked a it, his tongue was warm, soft and the sensation felt good. her body relaxed against him, and then he bit her and she was overwhelmed by the euphoria. she felt a heat rise up in her, Gabriel stopped and looked at her the same heat in his eyes, and then he turned her slightly and kissed her. wink wink wink lol