Change

by J. A. Smith

  “OWE” Quinn complained. I immediately let it go shocked hoping this was a really good dream but knowing it was reality.

  “What are you doing in here?” I asked trying to cover as much as my body as I could with my hands, he didn’t seem to care in the least that he was naked.

  I wasn’t prepared to be joined in the shower. This was a new experience, an area in which I was completely naïve.

  “Look, tell me you don’t want to do this and I’ll stop, I promise” he said taking a step forward and since my back was already to the wall I had nowhere to go. He had to drench his head to get to me, I watched his teal eyes assess my mood, when I made no comment he slowly lowered his head until his lips met mine. It was slow at first then grew into something wild. His kisses were hard and demanding, yet sensual and seductive. Every nerve in my body was ignited and screamed for more. His hands started sliding down my shoulders where they had been resting, down my back, until they stopped on my hips.

  His erection pressed firm and hard against my stomach causing a flutter to start in my core. We broke from the kiss to catch our breath we were both panting, his eyes were dilated with passion I could only imagine how mine looked, probably desperate. “Do you want to stop?” he asked. I couldn’t speak so I just shook my head no, hell if he stopped now I would become violent.

  Quinn turned off the water and was out of the shower with lightning speed.

  Taking my hand, he assisted me in stepping out of the shower and then lowered his hands to my bottom. After a gentle caress, he pulled me upwards until I had no choice but to wrap my legs around his hips as he began walking towards the bed. He slowly began kissing my neck which seemed directly connected to the empty part of me which was screaming to hurry up and be filled.

  “Oh my god,” I cried out. I had never felt so much pleasure, and I wanted much more. He gently lowered me to the bed and crawled on top of me with the grace of a cat prowling after his prey. His weight felt wonderful against my body; so safe, secure and warm. He nuzzled my neck and moved his mouth down to my breasts. I felt the biggest serge of heat radiate from below my belly button that spread out quickly covering my whole body. I moaned at every lick Quinn made on my nipples as his tongue circles each one. He began trailing that talented tounge and lips down to my navel, where he paused for just a moment of anticipation before continuing his descent.

  He wrapped his arms around my legs, holding me in position while lifting my buttocks up and placing the heat of his tongue against my small bud and began working magic.

  “Don’t stop!” I yelled as I felt a pressure starting low in my belly, I was on the verge of something huge and had a pretty good idea I would never be the same after I exploded into space. It was a good thing that there wasn’t anyone else in the house, I was making very loud incoherent noises writhing against the mattress like… well a cat in heat. I grabbed on to the headboard to help steady myself from crawling away with pleasure, I felt it crack then break into two pieces but didn’t care or give it a second thought. The sensation I felt was beyond words. I felt the pressure building as Quinn began going faster. I screamed something to the heavens as I shot off towards space, my body seemed to be going through some kind of convulsions, but if this was death then I would go happily.

  Quinn returned to my mouth and began kissing me. I was feeling the tension build again in my body and responded by digging my nails into his back. He moaned when he broke the kiss.

  “Are you ready babe? You feel ready.” he said in a deeper voice than normal.

  “Please” I pleaded I needed to fill full soon or I was going to do something rash. He smiled and then pulled away for a moment. I felt a moment of sadness, emptiness when he left me as if someone had ripped my security blanket away. I was about to ask him if there was something wrong since his extended absence was starting to feel like abandonment. He retrieved his pants from where ever he had dropped them. He fished around in his pocket pulling out his wallet, quickly flipping it open and taking out a condom from its secret hiding place behind his driver’s license. I had completely forgotten about birth control luckily he hadn’t.

  “This might hurt a little.” he said with his breath as ragged as mine.

  “Be gentle.” I whispered as I began relaxing my body for the invasion.

  “Of course,” he replied as he guided his manhood towards my entrance. I brought my hips to meet him, he very gently started to push his way in, slowly parting my folds. I felt the burn letting me know he was at my hymen, with a growl he pushed through causing me to scream with pleasure.

  “Hold on babe. Hold on,” he said as I held on to him.

  “I can’t hold on anymore,” I said screaming as another orgasm crash through my body. Quinn then started moving in a quick rhythm in and out. He seemed to hit just the spot then retreat, then hit it again like a game of cat and mouse. He began going faster and harder causing both our bodies to shake with overload until he gave a guttered cry signaling his completion.

  We laid there holding each other for a while afterwards allowing our heart beats to reach a level that allowed the roaring to leave our ears from blood flow. Quinn slowly pulled out and got up to dispose of the condom. I was bleeding a little, very tender, and sore which was intensifying as time worn on without him inside me. I wondered if I was going to walk weird later.

  Still enjoying the afterglow of lovemaking, I just lay on the bed; not bothering to cover up my body, modesty seemed like a distant memory. Quinn paused in the doorway of the bathroom, just looking at me. The pleasure of our encounter was evident on his face. He returned to the bed and gathered me close to his chest, aligning his body with mine. He kissed me slowly, gently and lovingly. I didn’t take long for us both to fall asleep.

  I woke up purring with contentment thankfully in human form. My dad would kill us both if he ever found out what we had done. Shrugging off the unpleasant thought I untangled myself from Quinn’s still sleeping form. The soreness I felt earlier now was more intense making me watch my steps carefully as I made my way into the bathroom to get dressed. I was very careful when putting my pants on. I felt swollen and the pressure from my jeans gave me a constant reminder of the past night’s event, not that I would ever forget such a night. I came out of the bathroom to see that Quinn was awake and getting dressed as well. I watched him pull his jeans up over his taught butt, and nearly growled at the satisfaction of watching him.

  “So you like what you see,” he said turning around. His pants weren’t zipped or buttoned yet, so you could see his package even through his boxer briefs, bulging against the thin cotton.

  “MMM, I liked what I felt… ” I responded as saliva gathered in my mouth. We kissed briefly before he asked me if I wanted to go for round two.

  After informing him I was a little sore right now, then reassuring him I would be alright we made our way downstairs to the kitchen for food to replenish the energy we had spent. I liked Quinn, maybe a little more than I should have but he wouldn’t have slept with me at all if he wasn’t a little interested in where it would go, right? With the disturbing thought at the forefront of my mind I leaned against the kitchen counter and looked at Quinn.

  “What?” he asked when he caught me staring.

  “You’re not one of those guys are you?” I said looking at him with worried eyes coming to the conclusion I really didn’t know him very well.

  “What guys?” he asked crossing in a defensive move. His charming smile was gone, didn’t I know how to break a mood.

  “The one night stand kind” I clarified. His eyes widened for a second before he burst out laughing, it was so sudden I jumped.

  “I don’t want you just for one night. I’d like it to be more permanent if you’re interested,” he said. I stood there a moment stunned, this all felt like a crazy dream and had been in that suspended state for a long time, I pinched myself just to mak
e sure. Nope I was awake alright, so I thought about his offer. “Girlfriend” What would that entitle? He was Pride Master but other than that I didn’t know too much about him and it didn’t seem like a good idea to start dating anyone without some information. Maybe I had been to rash about my decision to bed him as well. Plus it would be a very short courting if we didn’t survive tonight with the vampire’s.

  “Where do you live?” I asked conversationally. He smirked seeming to understand the conclusion I had come up with. We were almost strangers.

  “I own a place about an hour away from here.”

  “Where do you work?” I continued questioning

  “I work for my father’s surveying company.” he told me.

  “Okay,” I said. “And how will I see you, if we date?” I asked.

  “I was going to ask you to live with me,” he stated calmly like that wasn’t a fast move and had it planned all along, though after our conversation last night, it shouldn’t have surprised me as much as it did. “Don’t you think that is a little fast?” I asked now revaluating the situation wondering if I had indeed made a mistake. Quinn came over to me, wrapping me in his arms and resting his chin on my head. “I want you to be with me babe, but if that was a little much then I will make the drive here as much as possible to see you” he compromised making me let out a breath of relief. We would try it out and see where it would lead us, he wasn’t asking for a marriage commitment. I smiled as I told him “yes”. We kissed until I had goose bump all over my body, but knowing I couldn’t go for another round had us both detangling to finish breakfast.

  Once we were finished eating we began going over the plans for tonight’s events. Quinn decided to start with the basic 101 of killing vampires.

  “Stakes through the heart works, but it is hard to get that close to one, fire is another, and now we also know that decapitation works just fine” he stated reminding me of Byron.

  “Ok” I said looking around the kitchen trying to think happy thoughts and not panic, “Maybe we should set booby traps” I said happily looking back at Quinn he began laughing thinking I was making a joke but I had been very serious about it.

  “Lana, come on, this isn’t the movies. We don’t have enough time to set traps. These are vampires, they would see anything we tried to put together”. I began thinking it through; we had a lot of supplies here at Uncle Alan’s house. Basic things the vamps wouldn’t think twice about looking at.

  “There’s a propane tank on the grill that could easily be blown up, there are a lot of tree branches that have fallen down around here that we can sharpen to a point” Quinn started pounder the possibilities. “Okay, show me what you have in mind” he said standing up and began walking outside; I followed quickly behind him excited with the plan I had in mind. We grabbed some fishing line from Uncle Alan’s shed, since it wouldn’t be seen as well as rope would be. I climbed up the tree in the back yard to tie off one end to the branches.

  It took about six hours to get the whole clearing booby trapped, nothing looked out of place since we had camouflaged everything with the falling leaves from the trees.

  After we were through with dinner we both went back outside to watch the sun set knowing the time had come. I was shaking a little from fear, what if this didn’t work? This needed to work and negative thoughts weren’t going to help the situation.

  Quinn began the process of undressing I followed his procedure until we both stood naked. We knelt and looked into each other’s eyes as we changed. We were just waiting for the vampires to show up which ended up happening as soon as we were in our tiger forms. They came from the roof of the house. I heard them first and looked up, Quinn followed my gaze. There were nine of them that I could count. I guess the vamp bitch didn’t trust us; I couldn’t really blame her there. The female vamp didn’t come from the roof; no she came around the side of the house holding Bill by the back of the neck. Bill was black and blue, he had a deep gash going from the right side of his forehead to his chin, blood was covering his shirt and still leaking from the wound. I growled at the site of him, until she tossed him at my feet. Bill looked up at me not saying a word out loud only in thought, Quinn and I had decided it would be best to drop all of my shields for this night.

  “Run Lana! Don’t tell her know who you are please” he thought. I bent my head to Bill’s and whined “Everything will be okay” I reassured him as I started licking the deep wound on his face. The vampires just waited, watching me closely they had kept their end of the bargain. The female vamp started tapping her foot on the ground, she was becoming impatient.

  “I didn’t get a chance to introduce myself last time we met, I am Emily, right hand to Amelia Queen of the States” I had quite licking Bill’s wound knowing he was going to need some serious stitches once this was over. I looked at the female that now had a name “Emily”. At least I would have a name to associate her ashes with.

  Bill tried to sit up and grab my neck, but he was just too weak. I needed to get this over with. The vampire’s had already circled Quinn and me, moving into position for a kill no doubt. What they didn’t know was I had a few tricks up my sleeve. I had rigged the propane take to blow, the minute anyone stepped on the fishing line I had covered with dirt, there were two vampires standing by the grill now. I began walking towards Emily slowly; I felt the string under my paw a second before the explosion triggered. The two vampires closest to the grill caught fire quickly turning to ash. Emily jumped up into the air like lightning while the other vamps were turning around to hide their faces from the fire. Quinn crawled under Bill until he was secured on his back, we needed to get the wounded out of here.

  “Tell Quinn to take you to the truck and leave! I got this” I thought to bill. Bill whispered my demands into Quinn’s large tiger ear. Quinn gave a low huff of agitation not wanting me to be alone but knowing there were no other choices if we wanted Bill to live. Once Quinn and Bill were gone I began running for the tree that over looked the house. I had hooked a rope to the end of it that was attached to the broken branches we had sharpened to points. I pulled the rope with my teeth unleashing the wave of stakes right at the vampires. Three were killed, instantly turning into ash just like the firebug twins earlier. There were two that had dodged my air borne attack on the ground; I didn’t know where Emily went. I started ran in a large circle trying to gain momentum, then with all my strength I pushed off a tree with my paws to launch myself at one of the vampires. I did it so fast he didn’t even see me coming till we were both on the ground I was on top of him, his eyes were glowing red, but before he realized I wasn’t burning I ripped his head off in a smooth motion, yes decapitation worked just fine I thought as he turned to ash.

  I suddenly felt a tugging on my tail, looking behind me I had a second to see the other vampire before he threw me across the yard. The wind had been knocked clean out of me, but i knew if i didn’t get up I would die right here. The vampire came over to me in a blur, fangs out, ready for killing. I hurt all over, but knew I had to do defend myself, I wasn’t about to be this vampire’s snack. He was standing a foot away from me now and wouldn’t be expecting me to get up so when I did he had a look of complete surprise. I lunged from the ground pushing him into the dirt, with one swift swipe, his head detached from his shoulders, tumbling across the yard, like a basketball tumbling down a street. I stood there panting taking inventory of my injuries, I was left back hind leg was in the process of healing the break I knew was there.

  Hearing a hiss above me I looked up to see Emily. She came at me fast I attempted to back petal but my hind leg gave out causing me to fall to on my side. I expected a quick death like I had given to her comrades instead she pulled some sort of device from behind her back and clamped it around my neck like a collar before quickly stepping out of my reach. I watched her push a button on a little remote before I felt a shock that rendered me unconscious.

  C
hapter 8

  I awoke naked on what felt like a stretcher covered from neck to ankle in heavy silver chains. A small dome light hung from the ceiling swinging lightly, illuminating the concrete walls. I could see red glowing eyes from the shadows telling me I was surrounded by the enemy.

  “Welcome back” Emily stated reveling herself from the shadows following behind a man and woman.

  “She’s quite tense, I had expected her to fight a little more for her freedom” the little man said observing me with a slight accent I didn’t recognize. Did he not see the heavy chains holding me down were silver and seemed to weaken me? He had light brown hair almost golden, from my position on the table I couldn’t tell how tall he was. The woman who had accompanied him had long red hair that hung in ringlets to her waist. They were both dressed as royalty causing me to remember the comment Emily had made about a Queen of the States. The so called Queen was in the process of lightly running her fingernail across my ankle bone; I heard her growl when I began struggling away from her touch. “Emily, you said she does not burn, let’s see if it is true” The man stated as though testing out a theory, before wrapping his hand around my arm from underneath the silver chains. I watched his eyes change color from brown to red like someone had lite the fire within his soul. When nothing happened he seemed to reevaluate me like I was a puzzle he couldn’t quite piece together.

  “Quite entertaining” he said squeezing my arm as if in reassurance. If he thought I was reassured he needed to work on his bedside manner.

  “What is your name?” he asked, looking like he was searching for something in my eyes.