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Post by Ro on Oct 22, 2009 19:28:05 GMT -6
So you think you can waltz back in here whenever you want to steal, do you?
The words were almost as razor sharp as the claws that had sliced down her back, adding deep cuts that were sure to scare and add to the already vicious one that had been a gift from an angry Drow princess. Following those scratches had been a few blows to the face, busting her lip open so that it bled freely and bruising her pretty face. Many of the vampires had laughed at this and added to the cruelty by leaving long scratches down her cheeks.
Looks like you won't even be fit to whore yourself out anymore. One had laughed. Another thought his friend cute and said, As long as the flesh is still warm, I don't it matters what she looks like. I hear she's a good fuck anyways.
Too bad she's about to die.
Ro had taken all this abuse with nary a word, instead biting her tongue till it bled just to keep from crying out. While the excess blood had pleased them for a while, the vampires had soon become annoyed that she wouldn't even whimper and beat her harder. It was only when they began to feed from the open wounds that she dared speak.
"Morpheus," she'd moaned. If she had the strength, she would have cursed the beginner mistake that had gotten her caught.
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 22, 2009 19:40:49 GMT -6
To say the djinn was angry was an understatement. To say he was enraged was getting close. To say that he was murderous was probably as close as one could get to describing how the djinn felt at that moment. Appearing and startling the vampires, his dark eyes narrowed at Ro's form, taking it all in with one look as his eyes began to smolder.
One of the vampires moved, assuming he was some errant human or another, but Morpheus was faster by far. Soon the vampire was burning alive, shrieking his pain for the world to hear. The others stared at him uneasily and the djinn grinned, shifting into one of his more terrifying forms. Crow appeared on his shoulder, smiling that toothy grin that echoed the djinn's. It took the vampires a moment before they decided they were going to leave.
But they decided they weren't leaving without a fight. The djinn cackled, his voice growing eerie with each passing second as he unleashed his magic on them, frying them and dismembering them, generally making as much of a mess and inflicting as much pain as he could on them. Crow aided as well, stealing life essence from them before taking off after the one vampire that had run away mostly unscathed.
It was then that the djinn shifted back into the form Ro was used to, his dark eyes swirling with all different emotions as he held a hand out over her, healing her and bringing her in to him so he cradled her against his body. He decided then that she would need shelter so he used magic to teleport them to the Inn, still carefully holding the human against his body. He got them a room, his deep voice rumbling with concern for her as he carefully held her and made his way to the room.
Laying her down gently, he held his hands above her as white light flowed between his hands and her body, healing the damage that had been done by the vampires. She would still need rest, but any and all physical damage was healed. The djinn sat back, his eyes awash with emotions as he watched her.
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Post by Ro on Oct 22, 2009 19:48:29 GMT -6
Ro was barelt concious during all this, but knew enough that the gentle arms that had held her belonged to a friend. She let them hold her and take her where they wished, eyes closed as her head rested against a strong shoulder, trying to figure out who would have the power and know how to find and rescue her. It was only when she heard Morpheus' voice that she realized that he had saved her. She must have summoned him, she thought idlly as she did her best to yank her conciousness back from the inky blackness.
"Morph?" she asked as she cracked her eyes open. Her voice was rough and wispy at the same time, as if afraid of being wrong despite how right she knew she was. The image of his worried face made her smile. "Guess I messed up big this time, huh?"
It was weird that she found all this funny, but she did. After all, it had been a really stupid mistake.
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 22, 2009 19:54:33 GMT -6
The look he gave her flatly told her he wasn't amused as he moved back from where he was to sit by the fireplace, expending magic to light a fire. "You did. Quite spectacularly at that," he said flatly, his voice holding none of the emotions that his eyes did.
That was the reason he had retreated, putting distance between her and him, so she couldn't read his eyes. He also knew that she wouldn't take kindly to some of the emotions in them, so it was his way of distancing himself, emotionally and physically from her.
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Post by Ro on Oct 22, 2009 20:11:17 GMT -6
Her brows knitted as she hoisted herself into a sitting position, wincing despite the fact there was no pain. The memory was enough to make her feel. "Morpheus?" she asked, cocking her head to the side as she regarded him. "Hey, are you okay? Those vamps didn't get you, did they? I hear they have a nasty bite." The joke was innappropriate, but it was all she could think of to try and get him to crack a smile.
He seemed mad, but she couldn't for the life of her figure out why. She hadn't done anything wrong, had she? "Morpheus?" she tried again, her voice worried.
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 22, 2009 20:15:53 GMT -6
He leveled a look at her his hands coming up to steeple his fingers in front of his mouth. "As if those weak, pathetic things could touch me," he said, his tone condescending. There were few things that could injure him and a bunch of low level vampires were not even on that list.
For the time being, he moved his gaze away from her, instead staring at the flames. He was upset because he loved her and was worried about her, but not calling him when she had gotten caught first off had pissed him off. Now, to have saved her from a certain death had pissed him off even more. She just didn't understand the djinn was truly in love with her and would stay by her side, even if she released him.
"Now go to sleep," he commanded.
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Post by Ro on Oct 22, 2009 20:23:48 GMT -6
But she had seen the anger in his eyes when he looked at her. She shrank away from it instinctively. "Hey, are you sure?" she asked in a small voice as she edged closer to the edge of the bed. "They really didn't get you? You seem kind of...angry."
And it was true; there was jerkiness to his movements, and he refused to look at her, and usually when he refused to meet her gaze, he was either mad or hiding something. And he deffinitely wasn't hiding something if the holes he was trying to glare into the floor was anything to think about.
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 22, 2009 20:32:57 GMT -6
The laugh he gave sounded like broken glass; it was just unpleasant to hear at all and coming from between his lips showed he was not at all human and had decided to stop pretending to be. His magic moved out around him, filling the room with the power. At the moment, it was hot, almost like a bath but thicker than water.
"They didn't touch me. They couldn't, when will you understand that?" he asked in a sort of rhetorical manner. He didn't want an answer from her and he didn't expect one at all.
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Post by Ro on Oct 22, 2009 20:43:47 GMT -6
The power of his magic made her shrink away even more, desperate to bury herself in the pillows. "I was just worried," she squeaked, trying to tear her gaze away from him. She couldn't, and he seemed to grow more and more terrifying as the seconds ticked by; his laugh was the scariest thing of all. "Sorry that I asked," she said again, proud that her voice didn't quavor.
Ro feared very little, but even she was starting to discover she had a powerful fight or flight instinct, and right now it was telling her to run for the hills. Shame she was so weak from the beating.
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 22, 2009 20:51:59 GMT -6
There was a pause and the magic was suddenly gone, like a tide receding from the shores as he shook his head, glaring at the fire, which in response seemed to crackle even more and grow. Blinking, he brought himself under control as he glared at her again, taking in her cowering form. Part of him thought good, now she understands who and what I am, while a larger part of him was sad that she was shrinking away from him.
"Yes, indeed, shame you are so weak. Perhaps this will teach you a lesson when you have allies use them when you get caught," he said, the warm edge of anger flavoring his words.
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Post by Ro on Oct 22, 2009 20:58:40 GMT -6
His words stung, but they made her angrier then hurt. "If I'm so weak, then why am I your master? You could have found someone much better then a lowly human to save your ass, I'm sure," she sneered as she squared her shoulders for battle. "I didn't call you because I was trying really hard not to scream you ass. If I'd had a thought to spare, you can be sure I would have come running to 'Papa-Morph'."
Her cheeks were flushed with anger and by now she had found a reserve of strength to sit up straight and crawl to the edge of the bed again so that she could spit poison at him.
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 22, 2009 21:04:27 GMT -6
The djinn just glared at her, tamping down his magic to keep it from flooding the room again and drawing attention to them. "I had thought that I could trust you, but since it seems you can't even keep your own life out of jeopardy, I have to risk my own to save you," he said, his anger growing with each passing minute.
He knew without a doubt that he would give his life for hers, but at the moment, he needed to get away. "Now shut up and go to sleep," he said, glaring at her as he disappeared.
If she called him back, he would definitely appear in a way that would be his own sort of petty revenge.
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Post by Ro on Oct 22, 2009 21:10:47 GMT -6
She fumed silently for a few moments before letting out an irritated scream, and God did it feel good. "Don't you DARE tell me what to do," she screamed at the ceiling, swinging her legs over the edge of the bed and getting to her feet. Her world swam for a few moments before she steadied herself; he may have been able to heal the wounds, but not the bloodloss. "Get your ass back here! MORPHEUS!"
She'd said his name with such force that it would have rattled the walls if she had had any real power. But she was human, and the most she could do was rattle the windows. Either way, she was mad and anyone within hearing distance could see.
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 22, 2009 21:14:06 GMT -6
The call was strong enough that he appeared with a rather loud noise and suddenly on the floor, sprawled out on his back. The only problem was he was completely naked. It was his own sort of petty revenge in a way, but usually when called there was another form they took, clothes were second nature.
This had it's own advantages, but since she had almost given him a command, he merely arched an eyebrow from his position on the floor, looking attractively disheveled with a knowing grin in his eyes about how she would react. Petty revenge at its finest.
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Post by Ro on Oct 22, 2009 21:21:12 GMT -6
This time the red that dusted her cheeks was for some other reason besides blind rage, but she did her best to make it look like it was. She threw her tattered cloak over him, secretly mourning the shreds they had almost torn it into; she was going to have to sew it back together. "What right do you have to lecture me about summoning you whenever I get into trouble, huh? You were the one who told me that you hated it when your 'masters' abused your powers," she snapped, crossing her arms over chest to hide the tears in her blouse. "But I guess that I must be missing something, since you get mad whenever I don't call you. You want to be free and short one person who knows your name, right? Why not just let me die?"
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 22, 2009 21:27:06 GMT -6
Morpheus grinned, knowing she was looking at him. She was never able to help it, always looking and reacting to him. "I like you," he said bluntly, keeping it at that small white lie. "Of course, I'm supposed to guard your life, so unless you want me to shift into some other form and follow you around constantly, you don't let me. So tell me," he said as he stood, carefully placing her cloak to the side before cupping her chin in his hand.
"What am I supposed to do?" he asked as he looked down at her.
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Post by Ro on Oct 23, 2009 11:13:55 GMT -6
This time she knew he knew that the red heating her cheeks wasn't from anger. Hell, he knew everytime he messed with like this that she couldn't help but react, and man did she react. Her body was tingling and suddenly her mouth was very dry; her tongue darted out to moisten her lips. "Stop trying to control me, please," she murmured, still very concious of her words. That had very nearly been an order, and she was lucky she remembered at the last second. "You know I won't listen, and then you get mad when I get hurt. I'm human, I'm stubborn, and I get into more trouble then a three year old, so of course I'm going to get hurt. Or course I'm not going to call you over every little scrape. And besides, my very job is a hazard; I've been risking my life since before I can remember every time I steal."
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 23, 2009 11:21:18 GMT -6
His eyes took in her form as he leaned in, his hand holding her chin still as he stopped a hair's breath away from kissing her. When he spoke, his lips brushed over hers as his voice was low. "However, you have me now. It's what I'm created for, Ro. To protect you and take care of you," he said before he straightened up, pulling away.
When he walked away to sit down, he magicked a pair of pants onto his form, despite how low slung they were, they essentially did more harm than good, but propriety was the last thing on his mind.
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Post by Ro on Oct 23, 2009 11:49:30 GMT -6
Ro was on him faster then ants on a picnic, arms wrapped around his waist and hands teasing the skin above his pants while she kissed his back. "Then you do a shitty job," she murmured, blowing warm breaths across his skin in an attempt to get a rise out of him. "Be cause you do more harm then you do good, and you know it." She was around him in a second, standing on her toes to nip at his collar bone as nimble fingers dipped below the pant-line to tease him and make him tremble. When she looked up at him, her eyes were pleading.
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Post by Morpheus on Oct 23, 2009 11:57:23 GMT -6
"Only to your self control," he said, arching an eyebrow as he hooked his hands around her legs, holding her up easily with the strength that belied how he looked. One arm secured her legs around his waist before the other cradled the back of her head and he kissed her fully this time.
She also did a few things to his self control, but he was by far older and had more of it than she did. He was also no stranger to people attempting to seduce him, he thought as he let one hand slide through her hair before he moved back to sit on the bed.
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