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Valley of the Hunted (Frelance & Kikora)

As soon as Teyha's pulse quickened Ross tensed and slowly turned to face her. He listened to every word that left her mouth and judged if she could have been meaning something more than just the two of them. He stopped a smile from forming on his lips as he listened. she was using we or implying that there were more than them a lot as she spoke.

He waited until she started to stop before he stood up slowly. He smiled as he realized that this was one of the few times he should use his speed and strength. He used his speed as he dashed across the room in the blink of an eye and his speed as he exposed teyha's neck and sunk his teeth into it. He waited until he felt the connection before he pushed towards her mind. He let out the mental equivalent of a snarl as he felt her defenses. Tell me what you know! Who set it up? He would not give up without a fight but he hoped she would be shocked enough to let her defenses falter long enough for him to get through.
 
Teyha didn't have time to react, almost the instant the words left her mouth Ross was smirking. He moved like lightning across the room, and grabbed her, wrenching her head to the side to expose her neck. In one swift move he sank his fangs into her, and was shouting in her mind.

She spent the day training with Janek on keeping her mental shield raised, but for a moment in her terror it slipped. An image flickered through her mind briefly of a young elf with brown hair tied back from her face, a snowy white stripe sprout from the crown of her head. A second image, an older Elf soon followed, dark hair and eye he looked like a man to be feared, his lips pressed into a thin line and eyes narrowed in thought.

"No!" She cried, and lashed out, driving her fist into Ross' ribs. "Let me go, I don't know anything!"
 
Ross made sure the images of the two elves were burned into his memoire as soon as he saw them. He fought to keep her defences down but he knew the only way to keep them down was to drain her. He his fangs out of her neck as she started to slam her fists into his ribs. He did not want to kill her and so he would not drain her again. He had to wait until she had more strength. He let go of Teyha and stood up. "Wait here, I will be right back." He turned and went back into his room.

When he came back he had a few pouches in his hands. "Take you pick. All of these will stop the bleeding." He tossed them onto the bed. He went back to the window sill without saying another word. He sat there as he took another look at the people he had seen. He did not know what to make of the women. The man on the other hand did not sit well with him. He looked off to the horizon as he spoke. “He is high in this rebellion isn’t he?” He was sure that there was one now. IT made sense to him, there was always an enemy. The question was how did they hide.
 
Teyha stumbled numbly backwards when released, her mind reeling after the second draining. She had to press herself against the wall to keep from crumbling to the ground, her body weakened to the point of exhaustion. Ross turned to leave, returning moments later with several pouches. She almost pouched on them, her fingers trembling as she spilled the contents out, and pressed them to the wound. "No." She told him softly, pulling herself onto the bed with some effort. "There is no rebellion.We got lucky. Nothing more."
 
He watched as she used the herbs to heal her wounds. He waited until she had finished before he spoke anything. "If they aren't part of a rebellion then who are they and where do they live." He didn't make a move to attack her. He wanted to know who the two people were and why they were the first people to come to mind when he asked about the rebellion.
 
Teyha finished stopping the bloodflow, trying to think and consider her options. "Kaura." She after a moment, "I don't know the male, he just told me the folk remedy." She lied, and moved to the edge of the bed, the beginnings of a plan forming in her mind. She was already prone to fits of dizziness when she moved too fast, which had to be especially bad following the drainings. "Kaura lives in the woods, I'll show you the direction." She offered in what she hoped was a helpful voice. She pushed herself quickly to her feet, and sure enough the wave hit. Her senses failed her in a moment, and she found herself staring blankly forward, only dimply aware that she was crumbling like a rag-doll onto the floor.
 
Ross didn't believe for a second that she didn't know the man but he would come back to that later. He thought about what she was telling him. It was not unlikely that she women lived in the forest but he was not going to be satisfied with just a direction. "You don't kno-" He stopped talking as soon as she fell to the ground. He was at her side in seconds. "Why is it that humans always try to do more than they can." He shook his head as he slipped his arms under her knees and her shoulder. picking her up her watched for her reaction as he set her down on the bed. "Don't try to do anything to fast. You should know better. You are a healer." He sat down at the end of the bed just in case she tried anything else. "Now, as i was saying. Do you know where she lives?"
 
Surprisingly, Ross didn't seem angry that she was cut off, delaying any attempt he had to find where the young Elf lived. Instead he picked her up as delicately as if she were a child, and laid her back down carefully on the bed. She had hoped he would leave, with her there on the floor so she could think of something to say. Now she was dizzy and had no more of an idea what she wanted to tell him. "No." She said fuzzily, trying to play up how weak she felt. She paused for a moment to groan, but didn't try to sit up yet, it was pointless with him watching her so intently. "She comes and goes." Teyha said honestly with a sigh. "A lot of rumor about her, but all anyone knows for sure is she does not live in any of the surrounding villages, but she'll leave food for the villagers now and then, rabbits, fruits and vegetables, berries, sometimes a deer, if she is lucky. She even brings me herbs." She cut off there, nearly biting her tongue to keep from speaking further. 'Leave a note on the door.' She was told when she was thirteen. 'If it is gone in the morning she will bring back what you need, or what she can get instead.' Another myth she had thought, but it was true. Her lists were always gone the next day, and within the week she received what she needed.
 
Ross was patient as she spoke to him. He couldn't say that he believed her but for now he could only listen. He had heard of hermits and met a few in his travels, but ones that helped other people. They were not all that common. "Sounds more like a guardian angle than anything else." He stood up and paced around the room slowly as he thought. "It's amazing, I leave here and when I come back it's only a bit better than what I saw out-" He realized he had been thinking out loud. What the hell was he doing? He should not have been saying anything in front of Teyha of all people. "How did you meet the man? You must know him or know something about of him if he is in your head." He sat back down on the bed.
 
Teyha shrugged slightly. "It's not uncommon for the Elves to assume a guardian role over humans in the valley." She explained softly, managing to push herself up onto her arms. "They are far older and more experienced, and capable of thriving under hardships humans cannot. It's an unspoken rule that they help care for the villages."

She ignored his question, instead moving to sit at the edge of the bed, an eyebrow raised as she watched him carefully. "You came from outside the valley?" She asked, the revelation suddenly making sense to her. That was why he didn't fit the profile of any of the vampires they knew of before, he was an outsider! A wave of excitement washed over her for a moment, and she leaned towards him, eyes bright and excited. "What is it like on the outside?" She asked before she could stop herself. "It is different there, right? Why did you leave, and what did you see?"
 
Ross watched Teyha with interest. So much for her being weak. He should have known she would try something. He didn't really care anymore through, she was talking an now maybe he could get something useful out of her. "Yes, we all are from outside the Valley." In a way this was true, there was only a few Vampires that came from this valley. He thought that everyone would have known that. "Yes, it's different out there. But not they way you think it is." He didn't get why she would not have known that he was not from the valley. "Wait, what do you know of my people history?"
 
'Well that was disappointing.' Teyha thought when Ross didn't tell her anything interesting beyond a cryptic 'it's not the way you think' answer. She sighed and sank back again, but her interest didn't fade too much. "Not a lot." She admitted. "There are some Elves that might remember, but for the most part everything we hear are legends. We know you have control, and keep humans and Elves as livestock... Beyond that your kind has been very secretive."

She shrugged slightly. "If you keep an open mind then it is very obvious why Vampires aren't trusted. You do not live among us, you do not speak to us, you do not aid the villages when we are in distress. You come down at night to take people to feed on, without much care to if they are injured or sickly, without so much as a bag of coin to pay for how long they will be unable to work when done. With these habits, is it any wonder that people do not want to be under your rule any longer?"
 
"They were secretive about something the really don't need to worry about." He shook his head and lay down on the bed. "Lets play a game, I will tell you something about the outside and you will tell me about here." He paused for a moment. "I will go first." He wondered dimly if she knew that she had told him that the rebels had numbers on there side. He just shrugged, she would figure it out eventually. "Well, the biggest thing to know about the outside is that the humans have taken control of most of the land. Now they fight over it. The elves have backed off to the forests. It is a cruel world out there." He wondered if that would be enough to get her to open up some more. He decided that he would give her something he thought would really get her thinking. "In answer of your question earlier, I was summoned back to this Valley."
 
Without putting any thought behind the action, Teyha did something she would never have done under any other circumstances. She laid back as well, turning on her side to face Ross, a curious look on her face. Her anger fled her, and in it's place a new sensation was rising. One lesser known effect of vampire venom that she managed to keep suppressed through a single minded hatred of his kind. "Alright." She whispered, and paused to listen carefully, her expression slightly sad. She considered her answer for a few long moments, wondering what to say that wouldn't put the villagers in danger. "In the valley humans and Elves co-exist very well." She said at last. "Some even wonder why we cannot with your kind." Her expression was slightly glazed over, the corners of her mouth turned up in a cat-like smile as she spoke. "Wonder what it is your kind finds so repulsive about ours.... That we are only to be fed upon.

She still smiled as it dawned on her what she was doing. The aphrodisiac in her system she had reached out to Ross, and her fingers played briefly in his hair, twirling the lock briefly. Her touch strayed lower, across his skin and to his lips. He ran her thumb over the full lower lip, still slightly stained from her blood, slick and sticky. She froze there, as if suddenly aware of what she was doing, and drew back with a cry, clutching her hand to her as if the contact had hurt her. She sat up quickly, ignoring her dizziness by pressing her free hand to the mattress for support. Her eyes tore from him, and she focused on the wall, ignoring the burning in her cheeks. "Why were you summoned back?" She asked, pulling the conversation back to a safer direction.
 
Ross smiled slightly as he heard Teyha's heart rate increase slightly. He had wondered what her reaction to the venom would be like. He let his eyes close slightly while she played with his hair. "You would want to know wouldn't you." He turned his head towards Teyha and watched her as her finger made its way to his lips. He liked what he saw. It was not that he had not seen her beauty but it was more that he had never seen it this way.

He almost laughed when she jumped away but licked the blood off his lips instead. He watched her reaction but just shook his head. He sat up and looked her over before he spoke. "I probably shouldn't tell you why I came back." He smiled and shrugged. What harm could it do. she was trapped in the castle and anyway he didn't care if anyone found out what was happening. "A new Elder is being chosen and so all the members of the Coven need to be present so they can choose the new Elder." He stood up and started pacing again.
 
Slowly Teyha lowered her hand into her lap, a red smear across her thumb where she traced her own blood on his lips. She watched him stand, and begin to pace, and she traced him with her eyes, almost hypnotized by his movements. "I see..." Teyha murmured, the monumental importance of this revelation lost to her in her current condition. Immediately she assumed she was lightheaded, sick from bloodloss and not thinking clearly. That had to be why she couldn't tear her eyes from the vampire as he moved, why she felt her cheeks heat when he glanced her way.

"Are you planning on being one of the elders?" She asked finally, glancing back at him. Again without conscious thought she raised her hand to her mouth, and pressed the stained thumb to her lips. Her eyes fluttered closed and she sighed softly. The blood held no appeal to her, but her thumb had touched his lips, and her own seemed to tingle in excitement from the second-hand exposure to his contact. "So... Why do vampires despise humans?" She asked, her thumb still resting against her plump and pouty lower lip. "Good for nothing more than sustaining your lives...."
 
Ross turned and smiled at Teyha. "That is the plan. That and I have other changes in mind for this valley." He watched her and raised and eyebrow as she put her finger to her lips. He walked back to her and gentle ran his fingers up her neck almost not touching her. He let his fingers stop on her chin. "I think that most of my kind don't like to remember what they were like before they became what we are now." He crouched down so that he was at her eye level. "I on the other hand don't see humans in that respect." He took her hand his and pulled her thumb to his lips. He smiled and licked of the small amount of blood from her finger.
 
It wasn't often that Teyha displayed the subtle naivete that came with youth, but the mixture of Ross' venom and her blood loss was quickly catching up to her. She stared back at him with wide, curious eyes as he approached and knelt before her. His fingers danced across her collarbone with a butterflies delicacy, barely making contact before fluttering away again. She shivered in delight, her eyes locking onto his as her pulse sped up another notch. "You don't want to hurt us?" She asked softly, leaning forward to lick lightly at the mostly dry blood that painted her thumb. She shivered again, and slowly slid off the bed, hypnotized by the deep pools of the vampire's eyes. Bright silver flecked with crimson the same color as the blood he needed for his survival. A gorgeous color not found in nature, so unlike Teyha's own grey-green orbs.

With her free she hitched her skirts to her knees, and slid off the bed. Driven by impulse she let herself settle onto the vampire, her knees on either side of his, but their hips deliberately kept apart... The last bit of will power she still possessed. "So I don't repulse you?" She whispered, not breaking their gaze. "Even now? This close?" And they were close, close enough that she could feel his breath on her, and smell the lingering scent of iron there.
 
Ross just smiled at Teyha like you might smile at a child who is asking a question that the answer is obvious to to. He ran his hands down her side slowly then let them rest on her hips. "No, you don't repulse me. You have the beauty and innocence that only someone as young as you can posses." Ross could hear her heart beating as it sent her sweet blood pulsing though her veins. He took a deep breath as his eyes started to roll back in his head. HE didn't answer her other questions right away. instead he tightened his grip on her hips and lifted her back onto the bed. He lay her down on the bed gently as he leaned over her so that his lips were just grazing hers. "Not even this close do you repulse me." He voice was lower as he spoke. He didn't give her time to react before he pressed his lips against hers in light kiss.
 
Teyha's heart pounded, sending the venom coursing faster through her veins. Ross gripped her hips lightly, drawing her in close to him as he spoke softly to her. Her cheeks heated slightly, creating a soft pink flush on her now pale skin. She felt the man's hands tighten, and she was lifted, laid back on the bed lightly as he hovered over her, and before she realized it, he was kissing her. She responded without thinking, lifting her head slightly to press to him a little firmer. For a moment she was lose in bliss, her head swimming with joy as the aphrodisiac served it's purpose.

And just as suddenly, she froze. 'What the hell, Teyha?' She snapped to herself when she realized that -she- was kissing a man... A vampire man at that! She drew back as if he burned her, pressing herself against the bed as she raised her arms, and hit him as hard as she could manage in an attempt to urge him off. "Stop it!" Teyha cried out, her face turning away from his. "Don't you dare do this... You.... Vampire!"
 
Ross felt her kiss him back for a moment then she pulled away from him. He let his eyes close as he leaned forward and started to kiss her neck. He heard her protest but he was to far gone to be want to stop. His let his knees lower to the bed between her legs and spread apart to make sure she did not close her legs. His lips moved up her neck to her ear as he whispered to her. "Just let go and relax. This can be pleasurable for both of us. Just listen to your body and relax." His hands had been moving up her sides and now he ran his fingers down her arms. He grabbed her wrists once he found them and slowly moved them above her head. "I don't want to hurt you now just let go."
 
Ross didn't take her protest, even when she tore her lips from his he dipped down, and kissed her neck, his body moving between hers. Her skirts fell, bunched around her hips and her legs exposed to the air. She tensed, and tried to lash out again when he grabbed her arms, and pinned them above her head. "Please stop!" She cried, her voice cracking in the desperate plea. She twisted and pushed against him, trying to break her hands free, to push him off her... Anything. "I wont let go! Damnit, don't do this, please!"

Janek! She called in desperation, her eyes closing as Ross moved over her. Janek, help! He's going to rape me!

There was a brief pause before the Elf's started voice entered her mind, Are you hurt? He demanded, an obvious note of concern in his voice.

No. Teyha responded quickly. But... He has me pinned... I can't get away!

Again there was a pause as Janek seemed to think of what to do, before he spoke once more, his voice heavy with sorrow. There is nothing I can do. He said at last. Don't struggle. Do you hear me witch? Do not struggle.

Teyha let out a sob, but didn't listen, kicking violently at the back of Ross' legs with her own. "You monster!" She cried, "Perverted, rapist, vampire leach! Let me go damnit!"
 
In the back of his mind Ross could sense that Teyha had done something but he did not know what or how. If it weren't for the fact that he had just made a connection with her he would not have been able to tell that anything had happened.

Ross shifted his grip so that he held both of Teyha's wrists in one hand. "I am getting really tired of you insults." He hated the way she insulted him. He knew that she had good reason for hating Vampires but that didn't mean she could insult him and not get hurt. "There is know reason for you to keep fighting." His free hand had been moving down her body and gently tracing the curves of it. He smiled as his fingers found her slit and slowly brushed over it. " There is know one here to stop me and know one here to tell your friends either." He started to run his fingers up and down her outer lips. each time his fingers traveled down them he would apply a bit more pressure. "Just relax and enjoy it."
 
Teyha jerked again, twisting until she was sure she was bruising her wrists. "You if don't want to be insulted, then don't act the way you do!" Teyha snapped, "Don't rape me!" His hand moved down her body, and Teyha tensed considerably, her eyes wide and frightened, locked onto Ross' eyes. His fingers moved up her skirts and found her slit, brushing against her slit. She was already damp from the aphrodisiac, unwillingly turned on. She leaned forward, close to Ross' ear, opened her mouth, and screamed as loudly as she could.
 
Ross could feel that her body was responding to his touch even if she didn't want it to. He was about to speak when she raised her mouth to his ear and let out a earsplitting scream. It was made worse because he hearing was stronger than humans. Ross let go of her wrists and used both hands to cover his ears as he rolled off the bed and onto the floor with a thud.

He didn't move for a minute as he waited for his ears to stop ringing. The only warning of his next move was a short snarl right before he jumped up and clamped his hand on her throat. "Never do that again!" His voice had lost its level tone. It was filled with rage and pain. "If you ever scream like that again I will rip out your tongue myself. Is that understood?" He stood there watching her as he felt the first rays of light creep over his legs.
 
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