A covert drive across the desert Southwest and Texas returns @MirandaLaney and I to Texas, there to meet up with @NanvFlanaganx to pass on the video evidence of @Irina_297 being taken. Nan returns to Area 8 with the evidence for safekeeping. I wanted at least one in vampire hands as soon as possible given the assumed gravity of the evidence to the AVL. Exhausted, I return to my Dallas apartment with Miranda and after setting up the guest room, return to my own. There I'm overwhelmed with memories of having slept with @AlexeiRomanov1 in my arms and leave the room to collapse on the couch, letting Godric know I've returned.
Nan arrives a day later to escort me to @SheriffArea_9's estate. There @Ari_RP greets us and Godric arrives but the solution he offers is not the one I expected. Based on his prior relationship with the Magister his solution is for me to turn myself over to him in exchange for Alexei's release. I agree after a moment, assuming that I can do what I've always done, somehow outsmart the vampire I might have been up against. There is one trick I have left I've shared with no one... a little tool I've seen used by prostitutes who fed and serviced vampires in the event they started to become a problem.
Waiting for the trade off to take place as Godric has arranged, I am surprised when Nan Flanagan comes to my door. The evidence I've brought and the AVL's own doubts about @FyodorGlazunov have inspired them to use me as bait. He's old, he's powerful and without distraction he could order his forces to a much more substantial defense if he were in a position to order them. The AVL wants to move on his compound for more evidence but if I can "keep him busy" they can move at an appropriate time.
I agree immediately, not simply to take Fyodor down, but because the AVL's primary motive, to prevent an sweeping international incident, is to free @Alexei_Romanov1 and @Irina_297. Before we leave, Nan implants me with an electronic tracker to prevent me being spirited off and we do a quick, shallow blood exchange, enough that my senses are heightened and Nan is aware of my presence and my feelings when the are extreme.
I grab a dress and the device I'd seen the prostitute use and head to the rendevous point where I am to turn myself over to Nikita Steel to be brought to the magister. I board the plane to be taken to the Magister with the knowledge that Nan is following behind us... and with her is Alexei's personal guard, intercepted by Nan based on her authority with the AVL. @MirandaLaney is there also, waiting to go with Nan Flanagan in a jet that will follow the one the Magister has sent to retrieve me. Miranda uses her powers to hide its presence as it comes along behind.
On the jet, Nikita and I trade verbal barbs and I am shown the head of Herbert Montcrief - he is the one who has been in league with Fyodor all along according to Nikita, who brags of killing him as he'd been a threat to Glazunov. I stare for a moment, caught up in a bitter blend of emotions. I've succeeded, at least, in my original mission - finding Montcrief and had allowed the entire time for the fact that he might well have been in on the entire affair. Sinking back in the seat of the luxury jet I reflect that his case ended me up in places I never would have imagined.
Arriving at Fyodor's stronghold on Long Island, an abandoned asylum called King's Park, I am taken to a luxurious room to await the Magister's arrival. Nikita Steel follows me into the room and with a vicious snarl asks if I want to see Alexei. I glare at her angrily, torn, knowing what I'm likely to see since he's been imprisoned by a vampire who is crazed and jealous, I still can't help but turn my eyes to the television screen mounted on the wall.
Nikita turns it on and leaves the room and I see what I fear, Alexei held in silver and bearing the marks of having been whipped. For my "benefit" two guards are there with him, beating him briefly before leaving him hanging in the silver again. Furious and powerless and griefstricken but not afraid of what I'll have to do to free him, I succumb to tears and sink to the floor, crying with exhaustion until I fall asleep on the floor, next to a luxurious bed.
After a few days of making me wait, @FyodorGlazunov shows up at my room. I've had time to recoup myself and I'm ready for him. After receiving reassurances I pretend to believe I settle back in a chair and begin to give in to the Magister's advances, to the point where I remove my clothing and slip into bed with him. Distracting him, I roll us so that he is beneath me and from my discarded dress, remove a set of artificial fangs made with pure silver and slip them into my mouth. As the magister brings his lips to my breasts... I kiss down his neck and then bring my head back and slam the silver fangs into his throat, taking three deep pulls of his ancient blood into my body. Viciously empowered, I throw him across the room, the pure silver fangs still embedded in his throat.
Fyodor's blood in my system, with a flash of magical help from Miranda, eliminates the thin bond I have with Nan and signals her to have the forces move in, that I had Fyodor Glazunov more than distracted. I flee the room, grabbing a set of fatigues from Nan and run outside, figuring out where Alexei and Irina have been taken.
Hidden from view until the last moment by another of Miranda's powerful spells, the AVL forces at Nan's command swarm the facility and Fyo, weakened and spouting rage at my entrapping him, is taken into custody.
Free at last, I run from the building and spot the concentration of troops and fighting around the former slaughterhouse/isolation facility and fight my way to it, powered by vampire blood from a descendant of Vlad Dracul himself. I head toward it and to my surprise see Nikita_Steel but before I can reach her see her shift into a bird and vanish. Moving on with a vow to take her down later, I reach a chamber where I battle a vampire barehanded and find I have the strength to break his neck. My senses still enhanced, I hear a crash and turn, seeing Irina holding up Alexei. I can only assume she has has been left unguarded and freed herself in the confusion of the attack. Seeing Alexei has apparently collapsed at seeing my breaking the neck of a vampire soldier I realize that my throat and chest are covered in the Magister's blood that escaped my drinking it.
I realize that on top of everything else, Alexei is now seeing a nightmare come true for him, that he thinks I have been turned to have the strength to save him. I rush to his side and reassure him, letting Irina sniff my hand and tell him that I am still human. Relieved to know that I am still human I learn yet one more thing that makes me want @Nikita_Steel's blood, that she forced Alexei to watch my seduction of Fyodor Glazunov and left him thinking I had had sex with him to gain Alexei's freedom. I reassure him that that isn't the case, that I might have taken him to bed, but for no longer than it took to fool him into being bitten with silver.
Having ended his ferars, I look at his unhealing wounds and his exhausted state and ease him down into a chair and have him feed from me, my blood still empowered by the Magister's. He fully heals very quickly and we prepare to leave as soon as he's able. In another part of the facility, @Nikita_Steel has been taken into custody by Alexei Romanov's personal guards to await interrogation.
Safe at last (for now... )Alexei and I retreat to the safety of his privately guarded suite at the Waldorf Astoria and fully indulge in the comfort of one another's company. I ask Alexei to stay a few days more and to my surprise... in the brilliant glare of the lights of Times Square - I am given the honor of his asking to officially court me and knowing it might be the greatest adventure I've had yet... I agree.
Nan arrives a day later to escort me to @SheriffArea_9's estate. There @Ari_RP greets us and Godric arrives but the solution he offers is not the one I expected. Based on his prior relationship with the Magister his solution is for me to turn myself over to him in exchange for Alexei's release. I agree after a moment, assuming that I can do what I've always done, somehow outsmart the vampire I might have been up against. There is one trick I have left I've shared with no one... a little tool I've seen used by prostitutes who fed and serviced vampires in the event they started to become a problem.
Waiting for the trade off to take place as Godric has arranged, I am surprised when Nan Flanagan comes to my door. The evidence I've brought and the AVL's own doubts about @FyodorGlazunov have inspired them to use me as bait. He's old, he's powerful and without distraction he could order his forces to a much more substantial defense if he were in a position to order them. The AVL wants to move on his compound for more evidence but if I can "keep him busy" they can move at an appropriate time.
I agree immediately, not simply to take Fyodor down, but because the AVL's primary motive, to prevent an sweeping international incident, is to free @Alexei_Romanov1 and @Irina_297. Before we leave, Nan implants me with an electronic tracker to prevent me being spirited off and we do a quick, shallow blood exchange, enough that my senses are heightened and Nan is aware of my presence and my feelings when the are extreme.
I grab a dress and the device I'd seen the prostitute use and head to the rendevous point where I am to turn myself over to Nikita Steel to be brought to the magister. I board the plane to be taken to the Magister with the knowledge that Nan is following behind us... and with her is Alexei's personal guard, intercepted by Nan based on her authority with the AVL. @MirandaLaney is there also, waiting to go with Nan Flanagan in a jet that will follow the one the Magister has sent to retrieve me. Miranda uses her powers to hide its presence as it comes along behind.
On the jet, Nikita and I trade verbal barbs and I am shown the head of Herbert Montcrief - he is the one who has been in league with Fyodor all along according to Nikita, who brags of killing him as he'd been a threat to Glazunov. I stare for a moment, caught up in a bitter blend of emotions. I've succeeded, at least, in my original mission - finding Montcrief and had allowed the entire time for the fact that he might well have been in on the entire affair. Sinking back in the seat of the luxury jet I reflect that his case ended me up in places I never would have imagined.
Arriving at Fyodor's stronghold on Long Island, an abandoned asylum called King's Park, I am taken to a luxurious room to await the Magister's arrival. Nikita Steel follows me into the room and with a vicious snarl asks if I want to see Alexei. I glare at her angrily, torn, knowing what I'm likely to see since he's been imprisoned by a vampire who is crazed and jealous, I still can't help but turn my eyes to the television screen mounted on the wall.
Nikita turns it on and leaves the room and I see what I fear, Alexei held in silver and bearing the marks of having been whipped. For my "benefit" two guards are there with him, beating him briefly before leaving him hanging in the silver again. Furious and powerless and griefstricken but not afraid of what I'll have to do to free him, I succumb to tears and sink to the floor, crying with exhaustion until I fall asleep on the floor, next to a luxurious bed.
After a few days of making me wait, @FyodorGlazunov shows up at my room. I've had time to recoup myself and I'm ready for him. After receiving reassurances I pretend to believe I settle back in a chair and begin to give in to the Magister's advances, to the point where I remove my clothing and slip into bed with him. Distracting him, I roll us so that he is beneath me and from my discarded dress, remove a set of artificial fangs made with pure silver and slip them into my mouth. As the magister brings his lips to my breasts... I kiss down his neck and then bring my head back and slam the silver fangs into his throat, taking three deep pulls of his ancient blood into my body. Viciously empowered, I throw him across the room, the pure silver fangs still embedded in his throat.
Fyodor's blood in my system, with a flash of magical help from Miranda, eliminates the thin bond I have with Nan and signals her to have the forces move in, that I had Fyodor Glazunov more than distracted. I flee the room, grabbing a set of fatigues from Nan and run outside, figuring out where Alexei and Irina have been taken.
Hidden from view until the last moment by another of Miranda's powerful spells, the AVL forces at Nan's command swarm the facility and Fyo, weakened and spouting rage at my entrapping him, is taken into custody.
Free at last, I run from the building and spot the concentration of troops and fighting around the former slaughterhouse/isolation facility and fight my way to it, powered by vampire blood from a descendant of Vlad Dracul himself. I head toward it and to my surprise see Nikita_Steel but before I can reach her see her shift into a bird and vanish. Moving on with a vow to take her down later, I reach a chamber where I battle a vampire barehanded and find I have the strength to break his neck. My senses still enhanced, I hear a crash and turn, seeing Irina holding up Alexei. I can only assume she has has been left unguarded and freed herself in the confusion of the attack. Seeing Alexei has apparently collapsed at seeing my breaking the neck of a vampire soldier I realize that my throat and chest are covered in the Magister's blood that escaped my drinking it.
I realize that on top of everything else, Alexei is now seeing a nightmare come true for him, that he thinks I have been turned to have the strength to save him. I rush to his side and reassure him, letting Irina sniff my hand and tell him that I am still human. Relieved to know that I am still human I learn yet one more thing that makes me want @Nikita_Steel's blood, that she forced Alexei to watch my seduction of Fyodor Glazunov and left him thinking I had had sex with him to gain Alexei's freedom. I reassure him that that isn't the case, that I might have taken him to bed, but for no longer than it took to fool him into being bitten with silver.
Having ended his ferars, I look at his unhealing wounds and his exhausted state and ease him down into a chair and have him feed from me, my blood still empowered by the Magister's. He fully heals very quickly and we prepare to leave as soon as he's able. In another part of the facility, @Nikita_Steel has been taken into custody by Alexei Romanov's personal guards to await interrogation.
Safe at last (for now... )Alexei and I retreat to the safety of his privately guarded suite at the Waldorf Astoria and fully indulge in the comfort of one another's company. I ask Alexei to stay a few days more and to my surprise... in the brilliant glare of the lights of Times Square - I am given the honor of his asking to officially court me and knowing it might be the greatest adventure I've had yet... I agree.
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