My Vampire Queen

Waking up again in the hallway I hope that this is one of the last times. Not because I don’t want to visit Rue anymore, but because I want to find her. I’m hoping Keith and Laura will find out something soon. Moving down the hall and through the closed door I find her, this time she’s in the middle of her bed. Her knees are pulled up, her face buried between her knees, and her arms wrapped around her legs. Her arms and legs are both bare, allowing me to see the colorful bruises on the skinny limbs and my heart feels like it breaks seeing her like this.

Slowly I move over to her, my hand going out to touch her arm but my fingers just pass through. Her shoulders tense up and then relax. “I can smell you here.”

Well, that’s something to note. “I’m working on finding you.”

“Why?” The question is mumbled into her legs.

“Because no one should be put through something like this,” I said as I run my transparent fingers over the large bruise on her arm. Goosebumps follow my fingers and she shivers before looking up. Her face is that of a child, she had tried so hard before to hide everything. Now it was just the face of a broken child. “I have a close relationship with the shifter pack near me, they are going to be looking into where you could be.”

Rue’s eyes cast down and her shoulders tense up to her ears. “I don’t want to go to a pack.”

“When I find you, you can decide where you go,” I tell her and her shoulders drop but her eyes stay down. “Is there anything you can tell me to give me an idea of where you are?”

Rue shakes her head. “I haven’t left the house and just outside of the garden since I got here. There are just woods around the house.”

The woods help, it means she’s not in a city or at least close enough for her to notice. “Is there anything else you can tell me?”

Rue starts to shake her head then stops. She seems to think over something and decide as she looks up at me. “My parents sold me to her.”

“Her?” I try to keep my voice soft, to not scare her. I needed everything I could get out of her tonight.

“The Queen that lives here.” Her voice is more of a whisper like she doesn’t want anyone to hear. It makes me still, a Queen? “She bought me from my dad a long time ago, she thinks if she drinks my blood when I’m old enough she’ll have a baby.”

I shake my head anger taking up the sadness I feel for Rue. It’s a stupid old speculation that put her into this situation, but what would it of been like if her parents had kept her? Or would they have sold her to someone else for a different purpose? “That is so fucking stupid, I have my doubts that even works.”

Her eyes and head move down, and I quickly shake my head. “No, no the Queen your with is fucking stupid. As far as I know, Queens have been trying to do the same thing for a long time. You would think they would have learned by now if it works or not.”

Rue smiles and then frowns, hugging her legs to her chest harder. “I overheard something... Elizabeth the Queen said she felt another Queen around. They are going to go looking for her in the city.”

“Do you think she was speaking about me?” I ask Rue and she shrugs. This should freak me out, I’m not completely out of my protective spell which means I can’t use everything I have.. well I can’t use everything because I have no idea how to.

“Elizabeth has other Queens with her, but they are scared of her. She stole them and forced them to be under her.” Rue said, finally she is telling me more that could help me. I have the fact that she is a Queen, her name, and that she’ll be in a city tonight.

“Did she say she was going to Chicago? Or did she mention a name of a place?” I ask.

Rue shakes her head back and forth. “You can’t, I don’t want you to be stuck here too.”

I feel myself being moved in my body. It’s pretty fucking weird to feel myself move without actually seeing myself move. I shake my head and pass my hand over her leg to get her attention, when she finally looks up at me I give her a small smile. “Rue, I have some tricks up my sleeve. This Queen is used to the old Queens, she won’t know how to deal with me.”

Rue frowns at me. “You have never lied to me but that was as close as you’ve come to lying.”

That was also something to remember. She could tell if I was lying, even a white lie. I have to give her a big smile for letting that slip. “It’s called fake it till you make it, if you believe it enough it’ll be true.”

She keeps her frown on her face and shakes her head. “I didn’t hear anything other than her going out to find the new Queen.”

“Well, that helps,” I said. “I’ll probably be seeing you soon then.”

I hate leaving her so abruptly but I didn’t want her to try to talk me out of going after her. It wouldn’t work, I felt like this was something I was meant to do. This is why my Goddess sent me to her, to stop this Queen from harming more people. An idea forms in my head as I push myself to go back to my body, trying to slow my back as much as I can handle it.I can’t fucking believe I’m here. This is the last place I thought I would be, actually, it’s somewhere I never thought I would be. I would have bet that I’d be sent to the Beast Lord first and put down like a rabid dog before being sent to live with a vampire. After I had gotten here I had gone to sulk, until the smell of food drew me back out. I left again and listened to the vampire chick get dicked down by one of the Blood. And I hated myself for being jealous that I wasn’t the one drawing moans out of her. But let’s be real, it wouldn’t be moans. It would be screams.

Soon after I heard them go upstairs, heard music, and then stomping feet. I decided to make my way up, to find Luna with the pretty boy dancing to a game. She offered for me to join, fuck that. I moved to one of the chairs and watched as she played the dancing game in a tank top and shorts. I’d at least get a show of it. Sadly it didn’t last long until a movie was put on and everyone settled down. Halfway through the movie, I notice Luna fast asleep curled up against her Alpha Blood, Grumpy and Goofy get up from their spots and start picking up all the dishes and snacks. They tell their Alpha they will do a walk around the property before splitting.

Once they leave Bjorn manages to get out of the chair, and pulls Luna to himself in his arms as her arm dangles lifelessly. I thought he’d take the sleeping Queen to bed, he doesn’t, he brings her to me. Speaking in a low quiet tone he said. “She’s sleepwalking, don’t move her too much, and don’t speak if you can manage. I need to piss.”

He starts settling her into the chair with me and I ask. “Your gonna leave her with me?”

“I rather leave her with you for two minutes than alone.” I wanted to ask what the fuck sleepwalking was since it wasn’t what I thought it was apparently. Sleeping walking to me meant she was asleep, but walking around. Luna looks dead to the world as she curled up to me, her Alpha walking off to the stairs leaving me with her. It felt, awkward. I could see her breathing, and hear her heartbeat but lifting her hand slightly she doesn’t make any move, nothing in her face changed showing she can feel me touching her. My hand skims over her side, Bjorn had placed her so she was half laying on me, laying face down her head on my chest. She looked so peaceful like this.

I soak it in for a moment knowing no one else could see me with her, even her. She starts to take in a deep breath slowly at first and then into a sharp gasp, her eyes squeeze closed. Her little hands fist my shirt and her face bury’s into my chest. My instincts to grab and hold her tightly to my body take over and I ask her. “What’s happening?”

“Don’t move.” She said in a rushed whisper. I still as much as I can, even holding my breath until she relaxes enough to free my shirt of her death grip. Her eyes slowly open and she finds my face, some reason she isn’t surprised to see me. “I don’t need to puke I’m okay.”

“Why would you need to puke?” I ask.

“When I come back from sleepwalking it’s like my soul is being snapped back into place. Feels like an intense elevator, like that feeling you get in your stomach when an elevator descends.” She had started moving her hand up and down, to mimic an elevator I guess.

I frown at her. “Yes I know how an elevator works and I know the feeling.”

“Yeah, that, but times twenty.” She says leaning her head back onto the chair. She doesn’t bother moving her body off of mine, I guess holding onto her like I am she really can’t. I let go and she only moves a little, more of a natural movement to get comfortable. I can’t help but like that. “Bjorn says a Queen’s nest boundary is something really hard to get through, does that count just for Amina or everything supernatural?”

I think about that for a second and tell her. “Some probably can get through but it would be like a human walking through without being invited. The Queen would know someone was there uninvited.”

“Could you get through one?” She asks and I shrug.

“Depends on how strong it is I guess.” Were-animals are better in some ways, magically we are stronger because we have witch magic in us. We just can’t really use it. It helps with breaking spells and curses though, we can direct the magic if we learn how to and focus it. It can come with drawbacks, like losing yourself to your beast for days at a time. That could get you killed.

She pulls her bottom lip through her teeth in thought. I have to adjust myself in the chair so I wouldn’t be poking her with my dick. As much as I found her hot as fuck, I couldn’t be sticking my dick into her yet. She’d want too much from me and I’m not ready to ride this crazy train. She looks at me, considering. “Keith said you liked to fight?”

I tense up and she pats my chest making me let out a growl. Her brows raise and she asks. “Do you want to get into a fight? Cause we’re about to be in one.”