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Titania
Titania is sitting in her study hall looking over a few books. Books from the restricted section as it were. Books she hasn't opened since the war.
Her phone sitting on the table, a message from Bones. A hint of a smile touching her face.
Tommy
Bones 'knocked' from the entry way. Really it was a conversion of light to sound to make it occur, since knocking on stone hurts.
As the knock went throough the chambers, he entered from the stairs, holding his satchel still. A smile was on his face as he approached Titania.
"Hello, my marble statue," he tried to match her petname, "How are you doing this eve?"
Titania
She stands up closing the book and embracing his in a hug and a kiss.
"Hello my beating heart. I'm. Here."
Tommy
Tommy returned the hug and kiss, smiling, "Are you thirsty my sweet? I also have some notes about 'being nice' when you're ready."
Titania
"Always a little but Vinny gave me a top up last night and its easier on his body than yours. Though I can have a snack if you want it because its nice?"
Then she chuckles. "It seems we both have notes to compare."
Tommy
They pulled up their sight to study Titania for a moment first, before tilting their head to reveal their neck, "For you, Titania, my dear."
Titania
She leans into that neck kissing a few times before biting a few times before the Kiss. Taking a mouthful of that Blood and taking the effort to not waste it. Taking a moment to turn it into Vitae.
Tommy
"Mmm.. that is so... thank you for sharing it with me, my ancient."
His hand reaches into her hair as they bite and drink.
"You... you said something to tell me?" they were very earnest for their lover's words, especially so soon after a Kiss.
Titania
She drags them both over to the desk, a second chair having been obtained. A pat at the books, that Bones would recognize as the ones that are her Journals.
"I, was reading. And." there is a pause. "Its an odd thing to read back on so much, the dreams of Torpor, the person that I was, yes Person is correct there."
Tommy
He happily went with the diminutive monster, before being plopped in the chair.
"Oh?" he glanced down at the books, "The off-limit, someday books?"
Titania
A nod. "Yeah. Someday is tonight apparently."
Tommy
Before Titania replied, Bones lifted their hand brushed against Titania's hip, speaking a single sound, "Ba." Magic flickered into Titania's mind boosting her, and sat there, waiting to do it again.
"Really? Any specific ones that you care for me to read? Or in general?"
Titania
Her head tilts at that, feeling it in her mind. A smile before she turns back to the books.
"Theres like three I want you to look at, or parts anyway." Then she pulls up the first book the oldest one and hands it to them. It is written in a crude hand of old German. It is an account of her first nights as a Kindred. When it was all new, when she was still more human than monster.
"I havent read this in centuries and reading it now, it feels like. Like im reading someone elses account. It doesnt sound or feel like me."
Tommy
A touch of magic as they sign language something quick, before reading over the book. No matter the age or the changes between then and modern German, he understood it perfectly.
"Which parts specifically would you like me to read? I don't wish to learn any secrets that you, your organization, or your Kindred would dislike me to know, unless you wish me to know it."
Titania
"Theres nothing in here like that. Its mostly rambling, letting out my emotions, how it felt to not have a beating heart, how it felt to have to feed on the Kine. How it felt when my sire fed on me or made me feed on her."
She pulls over some black cards. "Ill make sure to cover anything that is sensitive information."
Tommy
They began to read in depth then.
Titania
She leans on them as they read. Her head on their shoulder. Letting them read at their own pace. Any private information in this volume has long since become useless.
Tommy
After six seconds of focus, They read faster than humanly possible, flipping page after page and finishing the task in half the time or less than they should have.
"Wow... you're... those early days were something else, weren't they?"
Titania
"Yeah. I sound. Well. Human." She chuckles giving their shoulder a kiss and a little playful nibble without drawing blood.
Tommy
"Mmm... which one next, my ancient?"
They clearly liked the bites.
Titania
Then she passes him one that was written in the 1600's in Latin.
"Just a few sections. Towards the end. Right before I was Torpered. My interactions with Amaranth. My last friend. Well. You'll see."
Tommy
He read through those pages, just as swiftly, a few tears falling at the interactions and the notations.
At that point he turned and pulled Titania to him before kissing her with emotion.
Titania
She let's him read before sinking into that kiss. Kissing his lips and cheeks and neck and eventually nibbling at him gently.
Tommy
As she sunk into his Kiss, he pulled her across his lap so she could lounge and lean against his shoulder. When the kisses moved further across his chin, cheeks, jaw and neck, sounds of pleasure growled through his throat.
"Is...more... or... no..?"
Titania
"These are the important ones. The other one is for you to see what made me like this. The war. But. I need to black out a bunch of stuff in that before you can read it."
Then she tilts her head. "Or do you mean more of this."
Her fangs sink playfully into his neck.
Tommy
"Both, yes," he sighed happily, flexing his fingers on her hip, "But first... I ... should tell you... my lessons, just in case, upsets you." The Swooning was definitely messing with Tommy.
Titania
She gently bites at his neck again before pulling back. A trace of his blood on her extended fangs.
"Hmmm?"
Tommy
"So, the other night on my roof... I know I was a little out of it, between the magical weight, being fed on by Vincent, and everything elsse... but do you recall when Evan left upset?"
Titania
There is a nod of her head but nothing more. She is sitting on his lap paying attention. Doing her best to not be distracted.
Tommy
"Do you remember what upset him, or could you identify what upset him?"
Titania
"I don't no. Vinny was talking about scamming people and I said he would make a good Kindred one day."
There is a genuinely confused look on her face.
Tommy
"So... I didn't butt in for a few reasons. One, you were talking Kindred business, but two, because I didn't wish to chastise you at all in public.
"I..." they took a deep breath, " Well, you know the Lost are taken away from this world, and manipulated and changed by the Fae, yes?
"Then you have to think that they're still living, breathing, beings, that are human-adjacent. I am human. Talking about manipulating humans, giving them broken dreams... Oh, apparently Dreams are important to the Lost as well. And to the Awakened.... and I'm all about Truth, as an Obrimos, and a member of the Mysterium.
"Those kind of comments... they... well... I think it would be best if those kind of comments, potentially hurtful, or manipulative or predatory.... those kind might be best behind... what was the word you used? Elysium doors."
Titania
She nods following along.
"So for them and for you and other Mages the idea of selling them half truths is hurtful? Because its kind of like the Fae and for you because its not a truth?"
Tommy
"Yes. Not all mages, or all Lost, of course, but for many. Also, because we are human, or close enough, you're basically talking about us."
Titania
Another nod.
"I understand and will endeavor to not do so again."
Tommy
"Good girl," he muttered in her ear and then nibbled on it and her neck.
Titania
She chuckles at that.
"Is this you trying to flirt with me dear Bones?"
Her mouth moving down to his neck. Another gentle nibble. Well a nibble that includes razor sharp fangs but still.
Tommy
"You could call it that... just trying new things, to see what you like. It's been a few hundred years after all."
Titania
"Hmm." There is a tilt of her head.
"Im not sure i like that one. Feels. Diminutive. At least to me."
Tommy
"Yes, Ma'am," he replied on the other end of the spectrum that time, nibbling on the other side of her neck with the tilt.
Titania
She leans back letting him nibble. Pushing his head harder into her neck.
Tommy
As she pushed, he got an idea and suddenly had fangs. He bit into her neck, returning the favor, though without the absolute pleasure of the Kiss.
Titania
There is a hiss and she leans her head back with a smile letting him enjoy the feeling.
Tommy
He bit and sucked on her, his fangs as sharp as a jaguar's.
He pulled her closer during it.
Tommy
And then his mind went deeper into the kindred's thrall, for now at least. The grip, the drinking, it all became fiercer. She'd likely recognize the signs
Titania
There is a smile as she watches him drink. Feels that sensation wash over him. Feels him sink deeper for it and she let's him. Eventually she slides a clawed finger over her wrist and then pulls him back feeding him more from her wrist.
Tommy
"Oh... my ancient..." he was lost in the swoon, the blood, the fix. It was unlike anything he had ever experienced...
When she moved his mouth, he whined like a baby or puppy moved from the teat, before the wrist was there in place.
He began to drink from there and doing other more private actions to her.
Titania
She chuckles as he whined then moaned from the feeling at her wrist and then the more private actions.
"Oh you are just the nicest pet."
Tommy
"Why... is...this so... good..." the mage was lost in the feeling for the moment growling out words from the wrist.
Titania
"Welcome to the world of Vitae dear. Welcome to the world of Vitae."
She just smiles her sick little smile. Letting him take as much as he wants and pleasuring her intimately while feeding on her.
Tommy
That snapped something distant in the back of his mind, to the surface. The word He had read it at some point. There was something there... what was it... addiction... slaves... blood.
While pulling back, the magic in Titania's mind, and the time magics snapped.
The vitae that was on his body flew off and wouldn't get closer to him. Even that leaking from her wounds would push away from him, like rain running uphill.
"Vitae... is... addicting..."
Titania
She leans down closing the wound on her wrist.
"Yes. I would have told you but, well, we sort of got carried away."
Tommy
Blood started to run down from their left ear, as magic flowed from his Imago into his own mind.
Titania
"Hmm?" She tilts her head at the leaking blood.
Tommy
"I got rid of the addiction. It hurt," his voice was in pain, and slightly angry. If she noticed with her removal from humanity.
"Sometimes... we have to hurt ourselves for the magic to work."
Titania
"Are you pushing yourself because of the Vitae taken. Too much?"
Tommy
"It... it addicted me. I could identify it. I can make temporary things like that burn out. I can also magically remove them. It's the equivalent of..." he was going to make a weight lifting comment, and then realized he'd seen her clear a forest.
"In whatever scale you wish to use, it's the equivalent of lifting weights, and lifting heavier than you normally lift. If you're not careful you can pull am uscle, or sprain something. I basically sprained my brain is the closest way to push that analogy."
Titania
She leans down kissing his cheek.
"No more Vitae for you then. Do you need to lie down?"
Tommy
His eyes studied her, really trying to see what her thoughts were regarding his addiction to the vitae, temporary as it was, and if it was intentional.
Titania
There is a tilt of her head watching him. Another kiss to the other cheek.
"You okay?"
Tommy
"Yes. Just... I care for you, but I do remember you are an ancient predator... just needed to see if you did that on purpose," he decided to stand with her and head to the bed however, "We can certainly lay down though, my ancient."
Titania
She picks him up carrying him to the bed. Little kisses on the way.
"Not on purpose. I don't want another Thrall." A pause. "Especially not of you."
Tommy
"My Ancient, I might be willing to do it, even for a time more than a night. It's just... scary, I hope you understand my perspective," he returned the kisses and whispered to her, "Do you want me to change anything for tonight, or stay masculine for you?"
Titania
"I. Struggle to but am trying to. Its. I'm trying to compare it to how I felt at the beginning."
As she sets him down on the bed. A few more kisses.
"You don't need to change for me. Whatever makes you happy. If this is you tonight then its you."
Then a tilt of her head. "Do you want me to blush? So I'm not a corpse. Or so I don't feel like a corpse to you."
Tommy
"Yes please. Hard to do that with a corpse..." he said softly, though his heart beat increased, "you're kind to accept me as I am. I try to accept you as you are, even the parts that are hard by Modern, Non-Kindred, Standards."
Titania
She blushes laying her head on his chest.
"For you my beating heart of course."
She rests there a moment. "Im trying to learn. To be more, kinder."
She slowly removed his shirt kissing his chest. Extra attention to where the bruise was the other night.
Tommy
The bruise had finally gone to that, it's not currently injured, but there's still blood in the system, bruised.
"For you my ancient..." he kissed the top of her head and then let her give him attention, enjoying it.
Titania
Her hands trace along his body finally sitting upon him. "Now. Lets see what you can make me feel like this?"
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