Vampires and Slaves (Enter This Realm To Die)

Arlan

Fidelis returns and I try to come out of my daze, terrified that I'd been under the same roof as my killer.

"It's alright now, dear heart. We're together again as we were when you were mortal. My Arlan, my restored sacred treasure. I never let you go and never will. Without you, I'm never home. You're my new generation, the son I never had." He holds me, our chests together.

I flash a smile and hesitate before kissing him.

Fidelis

His lips touched mine as I held him in my arms. I kissed him back, sliding my hand into his hair and tangling my fingers in it. I gently broke our kiss. "Arlan, my sacred treasure. You may not remember, but I admitted in the old apartment that I loved you. I still do." I stroked his hair. "I love you so much, I'd go to the Underworld and back for you."

Arlan

He kisses me back, tangling his fingers in my hair. He breaks the kiss and strokes my hair.

"Arlan, my sacred treasure. You may not remember, but I admitted in the old apartment that I loved you. I still do." He says, "I love you so much, I'd go to the Underworld and back for you."

I smile, blushing a little.

"Love you too," I say, and I mean it.

Fidelis

I took him to my room and laid down with him in bed. "Like in the first apartment, this bed is ours. No one can seperate us this time. This bed is our bed, now and forever." I held him close in my arms, deliberately exposing my throat to his lips.

Arlan

He takes me to the bed and lays at my side, telling me something that sounds distantly familiar. He exposes his throat to my lips and I hesitate before kissing it and then feeding, wanting him to feed from me back.

Fidelis

I groaned a little as he fed from me. After he unlatched from me, I sank my fangs into his throat and began feeding from him. The familiar taste of bliss and sweet surrender flooded my senses, causing my hands to shake and myself to moan in pleasure. I unlatched from him after only four mouthfuls, still lost in the sweet surrender of his blood. "Oh gods. The sweet surrender that your blood offers. It still floods my senses, even when you're a vampire. It's a little stronger than your blood was as a mortal, but it still floods me in a sweet surrender just the same."

Arlan

I smile as he feeds from me, in heaven as he does just as I was when feeding from him. When he unlatches, I smile at his words and tell him his is the same for me. I kiss him again, my arms around him, lost in the bliss of his blood.

Fidelis

For ages, we were lost in the taste of each other's blood, the act of kissing, and one another's arms. What happened beyond that, I could barely remember because my senses were flooded in the sweet surrender of Arlan's blood. When I woke up, I was bare with Arlan's head on my chest. I didn't feel in the mood for hunting, so I just laid there with Arlan. I couldn't remember what happened between us, but I never felt so mortal with him in my eternal lifetime. I let Arlan sleep, setting my hand on his back and brushing my thumb against it gently.

Arlan

We lost ourselves in the act of kissing and then everything goes blank. As I sleep, only the most peaceful of dreams visit me. I feel him close to me with his hand on my back and wake, yawning. I don't want to move, so I keep my eyes closed, waiting for him to speak or to move.

Fidelis

Nine months later...

I found myself fiddling with some orange clay, which Arlan often jokingly said looks more like red mud. I made a chalice out of the clay, then put it in the kiln to be fired. I cleansed my hands of the clay and went to the living room where Arlan was. I took his hand while smiling shyly. It was obvious to the both of us that we couldn't keep our hands or fangs to ourselves, but it wasn't our fault. Being lovers, it just had to happen.

Arlan

After expressing himself through his art, Fidelis comes out to me in the living room and takes my hand. I feel so different around him, as shy as his smile still, yet so free. I smile at him and wonder what he's thinking.

Delariva Des

I climbed the stone steps as dawn was soon breaking, I couldn't handle it anymore my days without Fidelis have taken a toll on me, both emotionally and physically. I stood on the edge of the castle as I watched the sun about to rise over the horizon one last time.

"Madam Des! Please no!" Kenia yells behind me.

"It's to late Kenia, I gotta finish what I started. Get back inside." I order her.

"But Madam Des think of your child please!" Kenia pleads.

"You watch after my child. Tell her of her mother and that someday unknown I will return to rule once more. But for now Kenia, you must act as her mother, turn her once she has finally lost her innocent blood, so that I may meet her some day soon." I said.

"And that is my last order to you Kenia, as your mistress." I finish.

She looks away disapprovingly, but soon closes the hatch and dives back into darkness as the sun rises over the horizon, I begin to turn into ash I soon scatter to the winds as I am ready to face the ancient god's of Egypt to be finally judged and punished. Fidelis, I will return to face you once more.

Fidelis

I was about to tell Arlan something when I fainted. The next thing I knew, I was standing before the gods. I was about to recite my 42 confessions when I saw Delariva. I wondered what was going on. Anubis was minding the scales with Maat behind him and tending Ammit. I feared the worse to Delariva. If her heart wasn't pure, Ammit would have the pleasure of devouring it. I hoped it wouldn't come out like that, but unfortunately it did. There was nothing I could do to figure it out. Ammit devoured Delariva's heart and I could hear Maat state in perfect English, "You should've told her husband the truth when you still had the chance. You should've confessed your crime and told him the news before taking your own life."

Delariva Des

"Take your chances Maat, I did this appease him, as the saying goes. And eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth. But I must return to the mortal world soon, if I don't I fear she will only have hate in her heart for him. And I fear she will only end up killing him in the end. Allow me to return to the mortal world and stop it all from happening and allow me to tell Fidelis of the new's. I should have confessed my crime to him, but he was only going to kill me if I did, he's with Arlan now isn't he? Or is Arlan only punishment for me? Either way Maat, take your chances if I don't return soon, then Fidelis will only die to her. And only I can stop it from happening." I said

Maat seemed to be in deep thought, she looked off to her side for Anubis as if to ask help in her decision. Orsias was with him, and they seemed to be communacating somehow. I didn't care, I was waiting for my sentence to see what I would get, or will I be free to return and save Fidelis from her wrath.

Fidelis

I was confused. What was it that Delariva wanted to tell me? Did Maat call me Delariva's husband? I looked at Anubis and Osiris. Their discussion was rather heavy on me, spoken in rapid Egyptian. Isis spoke up and reminded Osiris and Anubis that they've done what Delariva's requested before. They did it to Allan because of my love for him, hence my devotion to him. Whether she liked it or not, Delariva will also have to inform me of my ultimate test.
Maat looked at Delariva. "He couldn't kill you because his heart wouldn't allow it. You had your chance to save him, yet you let him slip through your fingers."
Anubis stopped Maat from going on. "You will have this one chance to save him. However, he is deathly aware that his ultimate test will result in his own death if he fails. If you want him to pass, you must confess your crime not just to him but also the one whose life you took in your eternal lifetime."