Electrickery

Damn this heat! Kaia had decided to move back to Vegas soon after his enslavement so, of course, he'd been forced to come with her, willing or not. He'd left his whole life back in Chicago and hadn't even been allowed back to his apartment for any personal things. Not only had he literally uprooted his whole life, she'd brought him to a place that threatened to dry him up like a damn raisin! At least he'd gotten used to the frigid temperatures of Chicago after growing up in Italy but he felt like it had been easier to go from hot to cold than cold to hot. He wanted nothing more than to strip himself naked and lay around in a tub of ice. Being half human, he was still susceptible to dehydration and heat flashes. He didn't know if was the fact he literally had no connection to this city or  if Kaia was testing him but she'd literally thrown him out of the house and into the streets of Vegas and told him not to touch anything. Really? Not to touch anything... That was like asking a dog not to lick it's own balls.... Vegas was like a dream world to Nykolae. Around every corner, elicit sex and gentleman's clubs, drugs and blood, and gambling. LOTS and lots of gambling. Why hadn't he thought to come to Vegas sooner?! It was easy for him to fall back into old habits as soon as he felt far enough away from her house. He was like a kid finally without a babysitter. His predatory instincts kicked in and he found himself finding his first prey. He hadn't drank fresh human blood since the night Kaia had him ripped from his own apartment. Sure, he'd had Kaia's blood, fresh from the vein, but it hadn't been human. He loved the way it made him feel; hyper-aware and powerful. He didn't even know how many blocks he walked till he found his first victim. What was even better, her blood had a hint of magi in it and he found himself drawn to her like a cat to fish. 

She was easy to walk up to. Especially with his looks. He quickly deducted she was one of the University students and he also quickly realized she was almost too willing to hang out with him when she sent her friends on ahead. He felt like it was Christmas. He never got this lucky. Normally, he had to play his game awhile.

It wasn't long till they were in an unused classroom, door locked and the smell of blood filling the room. At first, she'd found their "naughtiness" a major turn on. She'd wrapped her legs around him, opened the buttons of her blouse and literally threw herself at him. It wasn't until they were half way through did the girl realize who she was really messing with. Sex aside, Nykolae hadn't eaten fresh human blood in a long time and he'd rather have that first. She didn't even notice what he was doing to her until blood started to run down her chest and she began to panic. Nykolae covered her mouth with his hand as she screamed, essentially muffling the sound from leaving the room. He was too in the moment to be stopped now. He knew if he kept going, she was going to die but he was just so fucking hungry. She writhed beneath him, attempting to get away but it was his sheer power that kept her in place. Damn Kaia and letting him starve... he didn't care if this was her city. He would kill what he had to, to survive.    

 Hello. Anyone in there? It was like a bell ringing through his exterior, bringing him conscience of what he was doing. The girl beneath him was shaking, her skin cold and her body weak. He still wasn't satisfied but he opted to let go of her and leaned up, keeping his hand over her mouth in case she still had fight left in her to scream. Just before he was about to call back, the door opened and he quickly wiped his mouth on his sleeve, heart pounding against his chest. Shit. He was too careless. Maybe this had been a test from Kaia already and he'd blown it out of the water. Dickhead one and two were coming to get him and drag him back to Queen Bee. 

But when she walked through the doorway, looking thoroughly concerned and curious, he knew he'd found himself yet another easy victim and he grinned, red ring in his eyes seeming to glow with excitement. This was just his lucky day. "Um, excuse me but we're busy in-" That was when her scent finally found him, beneath the blanket smell of blood. Vampire. And not just any vampire, but a progeny of Andrei. Great. Exactly the person he wanted to deal with today, even if he wasn't there. Suddenly, he lost interest in everything he was doing and released the girl. As soon as she realized he'd let her go, she managed to scramble to her feet, and hurry out of the room, probably too shocked to really process what had happened to her. 

"Look what you did. You scared her. We were really bonding just now." he told her, pulling some clothes back on to look at least a little more presentable. 

And just like, she was gone. He snorted. Even if he could, he wouldn't have glamoured. He liked when they ran away in terror. He too her small absence as a moment to collect himself. He found a small mirror, cleaned the blood from his face and put his hair back into a reasonable place. By the time she returned, like a bee when the hive was attacked, he was ready to face her, red ring gone and smirk on his face. "Actually, I don't really give a shit about this city or it's people. In fact, I'm looking to piss off the woman who rules this city. Tell me, how am I doing so far?" He crossed the room and came to stand rather close to her, leaning in close to her neck as he breathed in her scent. He frowned slightly. It was going to be hard to seduce her when she smelled like him but he'd dealt with worse. He pulled his face away, green eyes mischievous.  "Since you scared away my prize, I'm assuming you'd like to take her place?" The red ring appeared in his eyes again as he reached a hand up and gently touched her cheek. "I can show you some things you'll never want to forget..." He wasn't expecting her to agree to him, let alone allow him to touch her but this was all part of his fun, no matter which way she decided to go.


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Sorry it's short XD

He loved feeling powerful. He didn't even have to use his vampire skills to become dominant in a situation. All he had needed here was his own charming skills. Not that he'd given her his best. Just a piece. She was a vampire after all. No matter how hot she was, he wouldn't take her to bed. He despised vampires; males more so than females but Kaia was doing a very good job of making him hate them too. It was the matter of them being too less than human. They forgot their humanity, forgot how easy it was to hurt others and clearly forgot that they had experienced the most basic of human weaknesses; death. When she pulled away, angrily snapping her retort, he allowed her to, taking a few steps back as she bent to pick up her bag. "You're only saying that because you've never actually experienced me, before." he told her, leaning back casually on one of the tables, arms crossed over his chest. "I'm an experience you never want to forget." 

Just as she made to leave, a group of students appeared and pushed their way into the room, chatting absently. They didn't even seem to notice the two standing there. Nykolae moved away from the table and grabbed her wrist, pulling her from the classroom with irritation. He didn't let her go until they had gone down the hall and around the corner. He looked around them, making sure they were alone before he put hands on either side of her head against the wall and caged her between his arms, eyes suddenly serious. "I will leave you alone, stop feeding from random people on campus and even leave as soon as we are done talking just as long as you don't tell Andrei what happened here today. Especially don't mention my name to him. Are we in agreement?" He kept his voice barely above a whisper, his eyes locked with hers, heart thudding in his chest. It was clearer than day, Andrei's scent on her, and after what he'd discovered about the vampire, he was pretty fucking close to Kaia. She had kept him on a strict diet of bottled blood and her blood since she'd enslaved him and, though she had let him wander the city today, probably would punish him if she found out what he did today. And he knew Andrei wouldn't have a problem reporting such an incident to Kaia with that infuriating smirk on his damn face. "Do we have a deal?" he growled, green eyes glaring.

He sighed and finally straightened up, removing his arms so she was free to move away from him if she so desired. Of course the question would arise as to how he knew Andrei. He didn't suppose the vampire cared much about him to loosely throw his name around like he was. A group of students walked by, discussing in depth a lecture they'd just been a part of. Something geek Nykolae didn't understand. He sidestepped Alex and turned, leaning his back against the wall as he shoved his hands into his pockets. "Long story short, I own him a favor. Plus, he knows the person I'm staying with and she's probably not the greatest fan of me being outside." he frowned, realizing what he was saying probably made it sound as if he was in a domestic situation. As soon as the hallways cleared out and quieted down, Nykolae stood up from the wall and took a few steps away from her. "The name's Nykolae, but you can just call me Nyk. Nykolae is so old century anymore." his trademark smirk reappeared. "But I should probably get going. A promise is a promise, after all. See you around?" Not that he wanted to leave but he needed to ensure she wouldn't say anything to Andrei. Besides, he liked the way she reacted when he overpowered her. He wasn't ready to walk away from her yet.


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Sorry it's short. x.x

Campus security? Great. Once more, he was no longer free. He made a mental note that if he were to ever get free of Kaia, he'd never take his freedom for granted again. He followed her as she led him towards, what he assumed, to be a safe route. She was right. He wasn't a student. In fact, Nykolae had never attended a school in his life. The nuns at the orphanage had taught him the basics of reading and writing and everything else he'd learned over the centuries. He'd only come on campus because the chick he'd found on the street had suggested they go back to her place, which had been in the dorms but he'd been impatient and had suggested the classroom instead. He honestly didn't even know if he'd be able to find his way off campus anyway. It was a calm, warm evening, and, just like Alex, much preferred the cold than this strange suffocating heat. He'd grown up in Italy as a child so had gotten used to the humid heat but then he moved to Chicago and got used to the ugly winters. 

But the weather wasn't his or, apparently, her first concern. She looked around before turning her attention back to him and he found himself frowning. He supposed since she was showing him a bit of kindness, he could at least grant her an inside look into himself. "I've currently been, enslaved, you see. Long story short, Andrei saw me at my worst and decided to get me something to eat. Considering how controlling she's been on my intake lately, he really didn't have to.  In fact, only moments before, he tried to kill me." A flashlight beam blinked on in front of them and Nykolae, with years of living on his own, acted on instinct and grabbed her wrist, yanking her after him, around the side of the building where he threw his back against the brick exterior wall and peeked around the corner towards the direction they'd come. Luckily, no one was coming after them. Either campus security had put on too much weight or he'd managed to disappear before the guard had seen anything. He let out a deep breath, not realizing he'd been holding it, unaware that she still hadn't figured out he was a hybrid. "Well, that was too damn close for comfort." He said with a smirk, turning mischievous eyes on her. He didn't know if he was ready to admit it yet but he was actually having fun. He didn't meet vampires his own age. Even if he had a couple hundred years on her, she was still closer to his age than others he'd come across. "Well, I'll give you a hint of my age." he told her. "There had been a King who had ruled over my village when I'd been born but Italy is still as beautiful as it was then."

He couldn't help but be distracted by her as she leaned across him to peek around the corner. He could smell her and was certainly not disappointed but because she was vampire, he didn't have the uncontrollable urge to grab her and sink his teeth into a vein. What also helped was the faint smell of Andrei. Who ever she was to him, she was certainly something special or he wouldn't be able to smell him on her and he wasn't looking forward to making the vampire mad. He'd already stabbed him once. Even if it had been gentle, it had been a stabbing nonetheless and he wasn't looking forward to what kind of stabbing he would receive if he actually pissed him off. So, it was in his best interest to ignored the typical male feelings that came with her body being so close to him and managed to focus himself as she returned to his side with a sigh, giving him room to breath again. Pistol?

He swung around to peek around the corner, spotting the weapon laying not far off. The fat security guard who probably thought he was a police officer, was bending down and examining the gun with the butt of his pen as he spoke into the walkie attached to his shoulder. "Yeah, this is Glenn. I'm patrolling outside the science building and I've spotted a weapon. Heard someone run off not too long ago and I'm requesting back up in case something happens." There was static on the walkie and then a faint voice answered as he security guard stood, shining his flash light around the area.

Nykolae ducked back behind the wall just as the flashlight beam grazed over their corner, missing him by a hair. Guns had been a new thing when he'd been born. Totally unreliable things that only killed people by accident, not on purpose. Their aim was so awful that they were only ever used by the military or pirates. It wasn't until recently that Nykolae realized he'd had an affinity for them. He'd had a bunch of military friends a while back who had thought, one Saturday night at a party, that it would be fun to hold a competition to see who could tear down and put back together, a Glock 18 the fastest. Of course, they immediately put Nykolae first, knowing full well he wasn't part of the military and had no chance of beating their Sergeant. In fact, Nykolae blew them all away; tearing down and putting back together the gun in less than fifteen seconds. For a more dramatic effect, he'd even managed to load it, pull the slide back and aim at his friend before taking the blind fold off. Impressed, they snuck him onto base and handed him hundreds of different kinds of guns, some he'd never even heard of before. Flawless, each time. The real magic happened when they took him to the firing range. He had too much fun writing their names on targets with bullet holes. All he had to do was touch a weapon and he knew everything about it, whether the sights were off, whether it shot to the left or right and how to take them apart exactly to put them back together in less than half the time to take it apart. When he tried to explain this particular skill, his military friends wrote him off as a liar and refused to talk to him. But that didn't stop him with his fascination with his new affinity. He dabbled in weaponry, getting his hands on all the ones he could,  just for the learning benefit. It almost sort of made him obsessed. So obsessed, in fact, he felt the need to get her pistol for her. 

"Wait here!" he hissed and before she could try and stop him, he left the comfort of the corner and made his way towards the weapon. The guard was busy scanning the other side of the building with his flashlight beam to notice. However, it wasn't until he'd bent to retrieve it, did the security guard get an itch and he turned, spotting Nykolae holding the gun. There was a five second pause in which they both stared at each other before the security guard reached for his gun and Nykolae moved. But he didn't move to run away. Instead, he met the security guard half way, snatching the gun barrel with his free hand and breaking it down to it's pieces faster than the eye could see, leaving the guard with nothing more than a handle of plastic. Nykolae smirked at him, giving him a half salute with his fingers before running back towards the direction of Alex, unable to rid himself of his humored smirk. He loved how befuddled he could make human minds. The security guard was going to try and figure that one out for the rest of his life. 

With a laugh, Nykolae threw himself back against the wall around the corner and handed Alex her gun, his eyes dancing with excitement. "Here ya go." he said. "That fat ass never knew what hit him!"