Walking the city during the early morning hours was not the most brilliant thing, for normal people. They weren’t normal though. Darkness hugged their skin like magnets and rolled around them, caressing comforting, concealing. She finally chose an alley and tugged his hand for him to follow. Gliding silently through the depths of shadows, they came across a heartbeat, a target. The man stood and walked to her and stopped as she moved toward him. Dipping her head to his throat, she gently whispered an apology and punctured his skin. Drawing in the succulent liquid, she groaned as ecstasy captured her body. Blood rushing past her senses and damming the hunger inside her. As she heard Darius approach, she stopped and tidied the flesh on the man’s neck as best as she could. Feel better? He queried. When she didn’t reply, he took her hand and lifted it to his lips, kissing the palm, and leading her from the alley. The warm night breeze caught her hair and blew her scent to him. His fists tightened automatically, and released just as suddenly, but not quick enough for her not to notice. She looked at him, alarmed, and seen the heat in his eyes, and the set of his jaw, and knew he wanted her, all of her. He reached out to her with his other hand and touched her necklace, Do you know why I gave this to you? Looking down, she shook her head. Letting it drop back against her chest he moved her closer to him and kissed the top of her head, inhaling the smell that was uniquely her. Folding her in his arms, he moved them to a nearby alcove, faster than any human eye could imagine. There he held her where no eye could see and asked her a single question. Are you sure you want this? She replied with a single word, Yes. He pushed her back into the building. Loose pebbles and crushed stone clung to her bare shoulders from the wall against her back. Waiting for him to finish what he had started so long ago had her stomach doing loops and her skin prickling with anticipation. He leaned in and brushed his lips against hers, starting a low fire in her core, and continued with his lips and tongue across her jawline, and down the curve of her throat. Her anticipation bordered on impatience as she waited for the sharp quick pain. All at once she felt a sigh against her throat and a calm settle over her shoulders, the tension rolling away from her body. Darius manipulatng her emotions. A slow steady pain errupted calmly in her neck and a small panic quickened her blood again as she felt the slow emptying of herself into Darius. The feeling quickly fading as the low fire in her blazed and she clawed at his clothes needing him inside her. Unable to want anything else. His hands trailed up her outter thighs under her skirt much too slowly for her liking as she still squirmed and shimmied against him trying to get closer to him. Blood from her throat cruised a leisurely path across her collar bone and down the center of chest briefly making contact with the ruby before it continued on into her cleavage. Her skirt now around her waist and his shorts around his ankles she wrapped one boot clad calf around his lower back. Darius thrust forward finding his mark as lightning skittered across the sky and fat drops fell to the sidewalk outside the small alcove. Her muscles clenched around him in a death grip and his head flew back. Pheonix seen the blood on his face in the same moment he trust deeper into her, and both their orgams struck with a force neither had ever fet before. Shuddering and clutching eachother they collapsed back against the wall. Darius, still inside her, took her chin in his fingers and she looked into his hard eyes " You are this now Pheonix. You are the night and shadow and all the darkness belonging to it." A tear slowly escaped her eye as she stared at him, into him. Darius could feel the saddness and longing bubble up insider her, but only briefly as joy and lust swallowed it up. Perplexed he slowly pulled himself away from her straightening her skirt and brushing the pebbles off her shoulders. After pulling up his shorts he slid his hand into hers and walked into the blackness.