First impressions lasts!

[Zeth Gali]

Zeth gnarled his teeth as Jaess first scream of joy was overwhelming, he loved the sound of her happiness, but hated the fact that it was Drey giving it to her. He had turned his back on them when the little brat had said.

“You forget who you are in the presence off old man. You might have years on my but your quarrelling with a Prince. You are so far out of your league its laughable to me, I'll do what ever this one damned wants me to do, even if it means I'm hoping out of the window and 4am. Whatd'ya say Darl' ? “

He had pushed the right buttons with her, she was loving every beat of it, unfortunately the beat that was a stake was her heartbeat.

“You have no worry for that luv, your thinking the wrong royalty.”

Had she been worried about royalty? He smirked oh well that was always a way in should it come to that.

Zeth was not impressed, and he frowned, but it looked like his little princess had found herself a prince, at least for as long as it took Zeth to get him away from her. He wasn’t really paying attention when her second scream reached him, but this one was filled with pain, and if he could he would have turned pale. He turned to face Jaess and saw her lying in the snow passed out, he frowned, that bastard had not had her in his arams for more than a few seconds and he had already hurt her, Zeth ran towards Jaess, he had to fix her first, then kill the bastard. She was gone, no memory nothing, she was totally gone, something was very wrong, he had only seen her like this once before, but it could not be?

The bastard had a look on his face as if he was innocent, but Zeth knew he had to be the reason to her pain and unconsciousness. He had to be, Zeth would fix her, and make her understand that the brat was endangering her and him. She would understand and follow him.

Somehow the little bastard got between her and Zeth this would not end well, and he could only hope the only one dying tonight was the spoiled prince.

“This is what happens when you meddle with human minds old man. I can smell her in you... your related too her... ”

Maybe, it was true he had once triggered her memory as he had tried to kill Nat, given her a stroke, but he had fixed it before she had gotten permanent damage, and now this brat was lecturing him? He got ready for a fight, he could only hope the little brat would move out of the way, he had to fix her, as soon as possible. He was not entirely happy about the fact that the little piece of shit had figured out she was his kin, but this would all be dealt with later. Right now only one thing mattered. He ran towards the youngster, he gathered all his force and when he reached him he hit him so hard he flew across the road, but Zeth had forgotten one thing, the electricity, so he was thrown back too, but he was on his feet faster giving Zeth time to get down beside Jaess and feel how bad it was. He kept his focus on Jaess but at the same time at Drey.

“Jessie baby, stay with me, its okay I got you. Just don’t do this to me, I’ll let you have a little fun with him, just stay with me.”

His voice sounded so strange to him, this was not his usually voice, this was his panicking voice filled with pain, he couldn’t even remember the last time he had used it. He would kill that kid just as soon as Jaess was back, he just had to find her weak spot right now, there it was. He put his hands on her head, holding her softly as if he was scared to break more on his favorite toy. His hands felt her warmth, and he knew that in a few seconds his hands would be warm from healing her. His hands did their magic, he could tell it had been bad, a few more seconds and she had been gone for ever.

He frowned as he let her down in the snow, as he healed her, the snow around her melted away as his healing touch came with a curtain warmth. This was not your normal stroke, no he had caused it, he was angry with himself, well looked like he was just as bad news for Jaess as the royal hound was. He closed his eyes and “saw” her injury before fixing it, making sure there were no weak spots left.

He moved away slowly, he wanted to be the first thing she saw, but he was quite clear that she wouldn’t be happy with him in her face this soon again, no matter what he had done for her. He looked at the brat, this meant war, he knew it, but he had to keep the last of his kin out of court. Even with her knowledge. He just needed a split second where the brat wasn’t paying attention, and he would make his move. He would not fool around with Jaess anymore, only if it was for her own good, namely if she ended up in court. He knew that claiming her as his mate, would get him killed if he was exposed, and meddling with her mind would most likely be something the court would keep an eye on if Drey got to them first.

He looked at Drey with hate, but he moved away, giving Drey room for either attacking him, or getting Jaess into the warmth of the pub, either way he had lost this round. But that didn’t mean he had lost the war.

[Draigen Alexander]

Drey managed to catch himself, using his electric to land on his feet before his head shot up, the problem with that move however was that it fired Drey further away from Jeass than Zeth had thrown himself. Although he couldn't help the smirk that crossed his mind that he had actually electrocuted Zeth a little. Served the old vampyre right. Zeth however got to her first, Drey was there in barely a second however but Zeth already had his hands on her head and was back in her mind again. He gleaned into both of their minds to see exactly what he was up to in there. He wasn't so much of an idiot to tear him of her now, he might be in her head again.

“Jessie baby, stay with me, its okay I got you. Just don’t do this to me, I’ll let you have a little fun with him, just stay with me.”

Eurch. Like he had any control over what she would do with him, it was totally up to her what the hell she was planning on doing with him. Heck on this one Drey was along for the ride and fact he was driving the old vampyre seven shades of crazy was just the awesome. He could see that the old vampyres other ability was seemingly healing. An ability that several people would likely kill for to see back in the courts. However this guy had been proved to be despicable when it came down to it. He dodged the courts like no ones business, yes he was known as the courts bad boy but if the courts came under attack he would damned well be on the front line instead of fleeing all over the place.

He watched as the man healed Jaess, concentrating more on how his ability worked rather than what the effect was. Drey was good at analysing peoples abilities, he had a document on virtually every single persons ability with the French and the British courts, he was also spreading out to the rest of the courts as well. It had been him who had spotted Lucies ability and what it could actually turn into one day, people had been blind about that one. He'd barely seen her use it once before he had completely and utterly worked everything out about what her ability could become one day. He had a very good mapping for how it would advance, and heck if she found her mate that little broad was going to be powerful.

Zeth's abilities however seemed linked, if it wasn't for his latter ability with the healing his first may of killed his only family. His mental manipulation however, that was a whole new ball game, he was definitely going to have to do some looking into that and see where that could go. He checked his walls in his mind and double checked they where full defended against him.

He pulled Jaess of the cold wet ground before she had a chance to freeze, he wasn't much better what with being cold himself but he could at least get her inside. “Good move old man, lets try and make sure you don't need to go and do it again.” He glanced down too Jaess as she was rousing slowly now what every had happened to her had been healed. “You're going to catch your death out here.” Drey pointedly looked at Zeth on that comment even though he was talking about the cold and the wet.

[Jaess/Nat Autumn]

She heard voices far away, but the pain was gone, she barely remembered it, she felt cold and wet, but before she could open her eyes she felt someone lifted her up in someone’s arms, it smelled like the cute stranger, but she wasn’t sure. She put her arms around whoever it was and heard the cute stranger talk.

“Good move old man, let’s try and make sure you don't need to go and do it again.” He continued, “You're going to catch your death out here.” She wasn’t sure he was talking to her, but she hid her face into his neck, kissing it gently as she started to shiver from the cold. She couldn’t help but wonder if she had lost more memory again, but she went over her memories and couldn’t be sure, wait what had the stranger meant with wrong royalty? She couldn’t help but feel safe in his arms, hell if it was up to her she would never leave this place, and if she was the rebound girl, well she could only hope that it would take him more than the famous week or two to get over it.

She was falling for him, and she had no idea how to stop it, and if she knew how to stop it if she wanted to. He felt safe, his arms felt like home. She would just need to figure out how come she felt so safe with him, and why Zeth had chosen to appear right now. Oh she had some ideas, beside… wait… family? What… She... what the hell was going on here. If she had the strength she would have jumped down, but she didn’t, and beside it really felt good with his arms around her like this. This was what love felt like in Jaess’ world.

She was inside, she heard Grumpy commanding to know what had happened to her, she opened up her eyes and smiled, as she told him she had slipped in the snow and had hit her head, but that she was fine, oh yeah she was fine as long as those eyes and arms were on and around her. She mumbled something about the two bottles on the stairs and she hoped the stranger would pick them up, because with all that had happened tonight she needed a drink, or a bottle.

When they reached her room, she wriggled until she was on the floor standing. She wanted to know what had happened, but then again she needed to know a lot of things right about now. she pulled the curtains shut and grabbed her tee and yanked it of, making her stand in front of the stranger topless, she blushed but she was really cold, so there was no time to be shy. She started to undo her belt, as she started to talk.

“Okay, we need to make some new house rules here. Since you’re not your everyday guy, there will be your not everyday rules, and I would appreciate it if you accepted my rules. I promise they won’t be that hard to follow, or maybe they will, but try.”

She pulled her belt out and smiled oh she would tie him up with it, and since he also had a belt, she would be able to tie him down so he couldn’t shift and get on top of her. Or well that was the plan, but she had some very confusing ideas of what was happening and everything inside her told her to be scared, she wasn’t. she undid her button in her jeans, as she smiled a little teasing smile towards the cuteness.

“Okay rule number one, no sneak views into my mind to night, I have a few plans for tonight and I’d like the element of surprise to be on my side, now that shouldn’t be too hard, should it?”

She grinned as she unzipped her jeans.

“Rule number two, we take things in my pace, and I’d really appreciate it if you would be gentleman enough to keep Nat away, the first time. I’d like to be myself and feel everything the first time, and don’t worry, Nat will have her field day with you later on, should you be interested.”

She crawled out of her jeans, and stood naked in front of him, she kicked the wet jeans over to a corner and walked up to him, letting her hand caress his cheek, as she let the other hand sneak down between his leather pants her his skin, he was really cold, but she didn’t mind it, she was quite sure he wasn’t going to die on her, he was quite alerted and fresh, he didn’t speak slow or have other tell, tell signs of hyperthermia.

“Rule number three. If you’re planning on ditching me later on this evening, please do so, when I sleep, if you go before I’ll be hurt.”

She started to pull of his shirt, as she leaned closer to him, kissing her way up as she revealed more skin. Pressing him up against the wall, she threw away the shirt and lifted his arms over his head, she could just reach as she held him with one hand as she let the other wander all over his chest.

“Rule number four, is quite simple, you better have some protection on you, I’m not having sex, without protection. Damned if I’m gonna end up pregnant or having an STD.”

She bit him gently as she played with his nipples, oh he was really a god, she was so going to get hurt when he ran for cover. But right now she didn’t care, she would enjoy every second he gave her, and after she would have to get back up, one way or another.

“Now I really do think I’m entitled to know, what you are, because there is no way in hell or other places that you’re a simple human, so I’m gonna play 20 question to the professor, and if I don’t guess what you are, I’ll do anything you want me too for as long as you want me. But I will need to know what you are willing to at stake on your behalf should I guess your origin.”

She started to undo his belt with one hand, as she held his arms over his head. Damn she needed a box to stay on, he was really tall. Tall and strong, he was a player, but for some reason he wanted to play with her, and she was not going to say no, she would literally do anything to please him, no matter what the cost. She got his belt unbuckled and quickly got his pants undone, getting them of him was an entirely other thing. She let go of his hands and pulled them down as she knelt down in front of him, blushing as she kept her eyes of IT!

[Zeth Gali]

Zeth saw him picking her up, this was his job, but he stood his ground, not saying anything that would upset her. He would wait, one benefit of being a vampire was, and he really did have all the time in the world. Zeth heard the pub owner almost attacking Drey and he couldn’t hold back a smile, at least he wasn’t the only one that didn’t like the brat. He hears Jaess voice, she told the pub owner that she had fallen, and that she was okay.

When they reached Jaess’ room, Zeth had to distance himself, this was tricky since he had no access to her thoughts only memories, and he was sure as hell not going to look at the memories of her undressing herself or the hound.

He stayed close by, very close, he actually abandoned the old church and snuck up and into Jaess room at the Smith’s, he knew they wouldn’t go into her room, it was her privacy and they were very strict so not even the kids would stumble upon him there. Should he be so lucky that she came home alone to change clothes he would snatch her, and leave this god forsaken country. He took a sneak peak into Jaess memories and snarled as he saw the look in the kid’s eyes, he liked what he saw, and Zeth didn’t want to know what he saw.

He laid down on Jaess’ bed and smelled her, he loved her scent, it was almost like a drug to him. He was lost, he grabbed his phone making a few calls calling in favors as he got a plan in together, thank god he had some friends in high places, he would really call in every favor he had collecting over the millenniums. If he couldn’t help Jaess from being turned, he would make damn sure she was claimed by anyone but Drey. Beside he had not lost yet, Drey would have to get past him and a few friends to reach the court. And he would be damned if he would let Jaess even near a court.

He closed his eyes as he heard Jaess voice as if she was right next to him. Vampires abilities like extremely good hearing was at this moment a plus. Though he did not like what he heard.

“Now I really do think I’m entitled to know, what you are, because there is no way in hell or other places that you’re a simple human, so I’m gonna play 20 question to the professor, and if I don’t guess what you are, I’ll do anything you want me too for as long as you want me. But I will need to know what you are willing to at stake on your behalf should I guess your origin.”

“No baby don’t go there, don’t ask him what he is, please baby, its your death sentence.”

He hoped the kid would be a little more careful and keep his mouth shut about this one thing. But he doubted it, he would have to endure, and if she was to be turned, he would do the turning himself, making damn sure that they were connected by that too.