May you live in 'Interesting Times'

I yawn and stretch before sitting up in bed and looking about the room, As I take notice that the room is oddly dark all the memories from the night before come back to me.

"Holy shit..." I whisper to myself as I glance around my room, relocating the shapes of the sleeping boys in the dim light of my apartment.

I squeeze my eyes shut and lie back, fighting the urge to laugh, after that moment passes I carefully slip out of the blankets and off the bed, I tip toe over to my closet and fish out a black satin tank top and some shorts and put them on, quietly walking into the kitchen to press the 'on' switch on the Coffee pot and wait for it to finish making coffee.

After pouring some of the fresh coffee onto my coffee cup and adding sugar, I sneak out and carefully slip out the door making sure not to let much light in as I do and locking the door with my key as I leave, I take a sip of my coffee and head to the Stairs up to Julie's Apartment.

Once there I knock softly on the door, A moment later it is answered by Julie, who looks awake as ever in her Sailor Moon PJ's. I laugh at her as I step past her into her apartment.

"Well!?" She demands.

"Well!? What?" I fight to keep a straight face as I sip my coffee.

"What the hell happened last night? And Were they who they looked like?!" She sounds amused and excited.

"To the first, not much, mostly a bit of talking before I embarrassed myself by passing out..." I snicker softly and smirk at her excited expression.

"But did you find out? Are they? ...Why did you pass out?"

"Weeeellll... I passed out because I almost finished that entire bottle" I laugh "You know Alcohol makes me sleepy and unwinds me" I wounder how much longer I can dance around answering the question she is dieing to know, knowing her I don't have much longer. "besides, we didn't talk much aside from the fact that they are here because I was being annoying and I know about them and don't care... also, I have great resources and not to mention money..." I finish and she shoots me an annoyed look.

"One, there has GOT to be more to it than that! I'll help with that later if you need, and Two, GET TO the Frekkin point of my question already!" She leans against the wall and I try and look innocent.

"Okay, okay... Fine..." I lean a bit closer. "Just because you are DIEING to know and just to let you know 'for the record' once... So far anyway, they seem to be who they say they are, and YES that means who they look like!" I grin happily at her before pausing and looking thoughtful "I haven't demanded proof yet though..."

"I KNEW IT!" she shrieks before calming at my last statement. "Awwww... But you are not -Really- sure! that is no fun..." She sighs.

"What do you propose?"

I look at her thoughtfully before turning to look out the window, only in passing noticing her grin and excited twinkle in her eyes. I am promptly brought back to reality as she swipes my keys from me and races out of her apartment and toward mine, I curse and drop my coffee to race after her, very concerned she may do something stupid.

I tear down the stairs after her only to trip on the last step and fall, I immediately roll and jump to my feet and catch her just as she starts to open the door to my apartment, I grab her shoulder and roughly shove her against the door frame.

"What the hell are you thinking?! If it IS true ANYTHING you had been thinking could wind up bad, very bad! And I don't want any of you hurt! ...Or worse..." I hiss out between clenched teeth. Worry and a flash of panic fills her eyes.

"Oh, shit... I so wasn't thinking... Oh my god..." The potential 'what if's dance in her thoughts and mine for a time before I hug her tightly as she murmurs thanks to me for catching up to her.

We stand there like that for a few moments before I drag her into my apartment and I close and lock the door behind us, I motion her to follow me quietly and then we walk into the kitchen, I pause when I hear her breath catch as she looks around the room, I sigh and reach out and take her hand and lead her the rest of the way into the kitchen.

"Holy shit." she whispers as I fix myself another cup of coffee and take a sip.

"No kidding... If you weren't here I'm damn sure I'd be having 'Irish coffee' at the moment, the possibilities and probability's are.... Neat..." I whisper into my coffee cup.

"We have to know!" she steps closer to me and whispers excitedly.

"Yes... But I only have a billion half-truths to go on and likely they won't wake til sundown anyway..." I sigh quietly.

"So... There's not much help for it at the moment?" she sounds disappointed.

"I didn't say that... Just that it isn't too likely... And before you EVEN think it, no way in HELL am I trying anything remotely harmful." I hiss, she looks dismayed.

"Fine... But what can we do...?" she ponders out loud.

"I have some ideas..." I shrug and quietly set down my coffee cup.

I motion for her to follow me quietly if she wants to and I pad over to the bathroom and slowly ease open the nearest drawer so I can slip out my lancette, It is a small device used by diabetics to test they're blood sugar levels, I keep them around for mild blood play because they are neat and nearly painless.

I think for a moment as I look about the dark room, trying to quell my fears that this could go so wrong for me and trying to decide who to test my theory on, with a sigh I walk over to the bed and carefully crawl onto it and over to Marko, I take a deep breath as I carefully crawl over him to rest on my knees straddling his hips lightly, a small blush I can barely feel in the dark crawls across my cheeks as I try and decide were on my hand to use the lancette.

"What are you doing?" Julie whispers.

"Shhhh..." I shush her quietly before pressing the lancette to the tip of my index finger and pressing the switch.

I blink at the feeling of the small metal tip puncturing my finger and jerk my hand away from the lancette, I look down at Marko in thought as I press around the puncture to ease a bit more blood out, quickly before the droplet of blood can fall I lean forward and press my finger to his lips, dropping the lancette and reaching forward to pet his hair lightly with my other hand.

Watching him closely in the darkness as I slowly withdraw my hand from his lips, I shiver at the sight of him with the smallest bit of blood there on his lips, less than a second later he licks his lips and smirks slightly before opening his eyes to look at me. I gasp and push back from him in shock as I take notice that he has now changed slightly in appearance and his eyes are red streaked with gold, he reaches up quickly and grabs my shoulders tightly, all I can do is let out an undignified squeal as he abruptly reverses our places and straddles me. I have just enough time to grab his arms and try to sit up before I am shoved back and he has quickly leaned forward and bitten deeply into my throat, The sudden and immense pain causes me to tense up and growl between clenched teeth, I claw viciously at his arms for a few seconds before giving in and relaxing into the pain, I let a low keen of pleasure escape me as I reach up to bury my fingers in his hair, holding him tightly to me as I let my pain/pleasure response carry me for a while.

'what is that noise?' I come back to myself trying to place the sounds that broke me from my haze only to be momentarily over come with dizziness, the dizziness triggers my memory and prompts me to want to squirm free of the person I am under, I reach up and grab a hold of Marko's hair and begin tugging, whimpering in pain as I try to pull him from me, only to quickly realize this is only causing him to bite harder and dig his claws into my shoulders.

"Oh, no... no... Oh god..." I whimper as I close my eyes tightly, refusing to let the tears of fear get free. 'Oh god, He's probably still completely out of it for the day!'

In passing I notice that the sound I had heard earlier was Julie cursing and crying as she backed herself into a wall.

"Oh, to hell with this..." I whimper again before moving one hand to the bed, digging my fingers into the blankets trying to fight the growing dizziness and slowly creeping weakness I feel.

With a growl and a curse I turn my head a bit, nuzzling the curve of his neck briefly, I momentarily marvel at how much cooler his skin is than mine before I remember my intent, I mutter a soft apology against his skin before I bite him, I let go of my worries and bite him the way I had always wanted to but no one would ever allow, digging my blunt teeth into his skin hard enough to draw blood, not stopping at all to think of any possible consequences, I let his blood trickle into my mouth and I let myself drink it without thinking.

Within moments I feel him pull back and softly lick the wounds he left on my neck, I gasp and press myself against him as I fully enjoy the sensation, I drink another mouthful of his blood before copying him and softly lapping at the messy wounds I left on his neck, I lay back on the bed and look up at him in wonder, as I catch my breath I watch as his appearance shifts back to how he looked last night, his eye color returning to normal, I gasp softly as I watch the bite mark on his neck heal slowly before me.

I watch as awareness floods into his expression and he sits up quickly and scoots back from me, his gaze fixed on my neck and the marks I knew were there, I sit up slowly.

"Are you... ok now?" I whisper to him and he glances at my face.

"I... think so... what about you?" He sounds concerned and for no apparent reason I find my mood lightened by the sound of his voice alone, I tilt my head in confusion.

"Well... I've had worse I think." I slowly shake my head. "The dizziness seems to be to a minimum and I feel more like a cat than a kitten a far as the weakness goes... so I think I'm fine..." I smile shyly.

"Good..." He raises a hand to lightly touch his neck were I had bitten him. "But it is possible that after a while that will be the least of you're worries... and mine..." he glances over to his sleeping companions briefly.

"What do... oh..." I trail off, flashes of movie running through my mind, so caught up in my memories I am that I notice but fail to immediately react to his worried expression.

"Oh... oh my... I..." I pause and snap my attention back to him. "Sorry, was lost in thought. I'm not too worried about it... besides, I expect David may have been expecting a stupid stunt like this from me... But, even if he wasn't..." I lean forward and drop my voice back to a whisper. "I'll take care of you if I have to..." I hum softly as I scoot forward to him, as I move to hold him he grabs my shoulders lightly.

"Damn, I wish I knew you better to know if that was an appropriate statement from you or not... damn it... David will be pissed if you bond to just me..." he kneads my shoulders lightly with his fingertips as he whispers this.

"That was a 100% Candice statement, just for verification..." Julie states from the floor near the bed, a slight tremor of fear still in her voice, he glances to her and then back to me.

"Well, that might be good..." he looks me over hopefully and I shiver slightly at this and I doubt his assessment.

"I don't know..." I thread my fingers through his hair, murmuring in pleasure. "What would a bond feel like?" he looks unsure at my question.

"Strong attraction, a want to be close..." he closes his eyes and thinks for a moment before opening them again. "A desire to defend who you are bound to..." he murmurs.

"Well, I'm always defensive of what I deem to be mine... and I decided that last night... but..." I lean forward and rub my cheek along his arm. "I think we are screwed anyway... I want to keep you, lock you away with me for weeks and never leave this room..." I purr briefly before he moves me back to a full arms length away and a small whine escapes my lips before I can suppress it, he sighs at this.

"Then yes... we likely are bonded, thankfully it is still new so David can help us fix it if you wish, turn the bond into a pack bond opposed to what we have at the moment..." he looks down at the bed as he says this.

"I..." A shot of fear shoots through me. "Don't you like me?" I feel a tear trace its way down my cheek and I wipe it away quickly with my hand before staring at the wet drop on my hand in shock. 'Why does that thought seem to bother me so...?'

"No, it isn't like that at all... I just don't want you to have no choice in the matter... It is very important for you to choose..." he murmurs as he reaches forward to take my tear stained hand and softly lick the tear away.

"I see..." I shiver and fight the urge to throw myself into his lap. "What would a pack bond feel like?" I ask to distract myself.

"Well, It would likely only slightly intensify the feelings you already have toward us... Protective feelings, a desire to be close and at least keep tabs on were each of us are..." he whispers into the palm of my hand.

"Not that I don't want this... right this minute, but... I think you are right..." I close my eyes to fight the erotic images my mind is trying to give me as I scoot toward the edge of the bed. "God... I want nothing more than for Julie to leave right this second... the only reason I may have the strength to go is because every thing I desire to do this moment would probably kill me..." a small amount of caution reenters my mind at that realization, his eyes widen briefly before clouding slightly with desire, at his expression I slip and fall off the edge of the bed to land hard on my hands and knees, a small whimper of pain and pleasure escapes me. I close my eyes 'Oh fuck...'.

"Julie, was it? If you are her friend at all, please get her out of this room and don't let her come back until sunset... Please? I have to talk to David when he wakes up so we can help her..." a sad expression crosses his face and it makes me want to cry as I look up at him from the floor.

"Alright, no problem, just are you Completely Sure you will be ok talking to the others alone, once she comes back to herself she will claw me up trying to get up here if I am not 100% positive..." Julie asks him as she grabs my hands and pulls me to my feet, I accept her help but do not look away from Marko.

"I'm sure, as you say, 100% as well... Besides, even if they want to hurt me, they won't because she will know." he points to me. "And she will get very pissed off and try to hurt them severely, if not try and kill them outright... and none of them want that kind of mess." I ponder this 'sounds as if they may have been through it before... It would make since with what I know...'

"Alright, consider us gone..." She tugs on my arm and pulls me toward the door to my apartment.

I only force us to stop long enough to grab my glass studded cat-o-nine tails from next to the recliner and to glance at Marko one last time before Julie drags me from the apartment, closes and locks the door behind us and pockets the keys. She holds my hand and walks down the stairs with me before siting me down at the bar and setting a fresh pack of Vanilla Dreams Cigarettes and a lighter in front of me before she steps behind the bar to mix a drink, My hands shake slightly as I open the pack and pull out a cigarette, I steady my hands before bringing the cigarette to my lips and flicking the lighter on to light it.

As I set down the lighter and exhale my first breath of smoke I start to think back over the last half hour, at some point during my thoughts I am brought out of my deep thoughts to Julie setting a drink in front of me, I hesitantly take a sip and find it to be a weakly mixed Rum and Coke, I take a long gulp before sighing and looking up to Julie.

"I wish you didn't have to see that, you're probably still shaky from being scared shitless... you should be the one drinking and smoking." I laugh in amusement, my tone laced with lingering shock.

"Scared shitless, yes. But you are the one hip deep in Vampires and now chest deep in some strange Supernatural Vampire bond... And Providing I read some of that conversation right, you are now half way to becoming one as well..." She replies, looking momentarily uneasy at that last part.

"Well, fuck... When you put it that way... Damn..." I shake my head and take another large sip of the rum and coke "You have always been a 'straight to the point' kinda girl..." I point to her with my cigarette before sighing. "It is the best way to keep me on my toes I guess though." The muscles in my shoulders twitch as some of the information sinks in.

"That is oh so true" she states with a smile.

"Well, oddly none of it bothers me... Much... The bond is a bit intense but that will be dealt with..." I sigh and fight the un-characteristic flash of disappointment. "Everything else pleases me to no end, actually..." I smile.

"I admit... It has me worried..." She murmurs, I glance up at her in shock.

"Why?" My tone is a bit more defensive and harsh than normal and she looks at me in shock.

"You say 'Why?' in that tone, that is why, this whole thing has me worried!" she drops her voice down from the frantic volume she had starting. "What if they are like in the movie? what if they kill people?!" she demands quietly, her tone rough, I narrow my eyes at her. 'Damn fine time for her to be getting realistic on me, she can piss off!'

"Don't you start this 'there is only black and white and Grey doesn't exist' crap! Life sucks, get the fuck over it and don't think for ONE damn second there aren't hundreds of people out there that deserve to die!" I snarl.

"No one deserves to die, Candice, Damnit! don't you get that?!" she demands. 'When the fuck did she EVER believe that?!'

"Fine if you are going to believe that, that YES, NOONE deserves to die, but in some cases some people have to for others to live... maybe one day you will grow up and realize that there are shades of Grey and people like murders, rapist, and child molesters should all die, no repeat chances to fuck someones life seven ways to Sunday..." I sigh and shake my head, clearing the temptation to end with a more hurtful remark.

"I know..." She sighs and rubs the bridge of her nose lightly "This is an old argument between us... I know you are right but I can't help but, you know, try to fight for the side of Fluff..." She shrugs.

"I know." I try and clear my head of the mild fog of anger "This whole bond thing is just effecting me pretty strongly, so I'm getting pretty defensive about a lot of things..." I pocket my keys she had dropped on the bar and pick up my Cigarettes, Lighter and drink. "I'm going outside to check some stuff... I'll be back in when I have to..." I shrug, trying to relieve a bit of tension from my shoulders.

"Try not to think too much on all this... I'll play some music and wait down here for you to come back in." I smile at her and silently thank her for letting me know were she will be and I walk to the front door and pause to gather my wits a moment before stepping out into the sunlight.

I pause to gather my thoughts as the sun washes over me, I feel suddenly dizzy and light headed so I lean against the window ledge to steady myself, I blink at the now burned down cigarette before dropping it and scuffing the embers out with my foot.

Time passes, I know I have finished around 4 cigarettes and let 3 others burn to nothing as I am thinking, but beyond that, time has no meaning to me at the moment only the ever growing tint of darkness to the sky means anything to me...