Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Vampire Redux

 

(this was inspired by three things -- that mistaken interpretation of her poem about truth, that night at the German bar, and the brilliant surrealistic story she posted at the end of the summer of 2011. This is magic realism but pales in comparison to her piece. I can't do what she does in prose, but come close in some of my poetry.)


 I hear the blood flowing in her veins and I get thirsty.

It stirs from her lips, her hips, her breasts, churned up, her cheeks red from some bout of lovemaking that makes me all that much more crazy for my wanting that, too.

I hear her blood, hot blood, blood I can almost taste for its scent, only I’m do not how to get at it, she is as remote as a Greek goddess.

We see each other only in public places like this, seated at her desk on the third floor or across the table in the meeting room, always under the scrutiny of others – too many nosy people already suspicious, all ready to expose even the faintest irregularity, in him, in her, or anybody.

Then, she looks across the table at me as if seeing me for the first time, a spark in her eyes, stirring up my blood this time.

I lick my lips and stare deep into those eyes, swirling around as if in moss agate, shapes of things there I do not suspect to find.

She is far from stupid and things, about me, dangerous things other don’t know, and she is attracted.

“Would you like to get a drink?” she asks me, sounding so innocent I’m baffled again.

 Drink of what? Does she know what she is saying? Is she offering it freely to me?

In ancient times, my kind relied on the church to provide virgins, whose blood tastes pure. These days, my kind has to settle for what we can find, flavoring our diet with something different if not pure.

And I can already taste it, line fine wine, a vintage maybe not as rare as in the past, but with its own attractions.

“Where?” I ask, hoping some place private, some place where we can get down to it, where I can sip from her uninterrupted by the snoopy society.

I’m a little disappointed when she mentions the bar down the street from where we sit.

And at the bar, she studies me closely again, suspicious, her instincts telling her things about me, perhaps things I don’t even know about myself, this weakness, this ache to get more from her than just another sip of blood.

I’m nervous, glancing around, aware of others in the bar, not all of them unfamiliar, we all part of some odd collective of familiarity, faces we see to whom we can put no name, and yet recognize each other in passing.

I wait, a quaking hunter, looking for the right moment to pounce, realizing it when she says she needs to go outside for a smoke, and I follow her out, my teeth aching like the wolf in the woods on the track of Little Red Ridinghood.

Oh, how sharp these teeth are!

Outside, she sucks in smoke and stares into the remoteness of the dark, her thoughts caught on something far away, and so, when she is distracted, a steal a kiss on her lips, and then, a nip on her neck, drawing a dribble of blood. I lick it up. It is very much as sweet as I imagined it would be, and I want more.

She shudders, her long fingers reaching to the place of her wound, touching the blood, looking at the drops dripping from her forefinger, her a bewildered expression coming to her face.

Is she pleased or pissed?

I can’t tell, and she won’t say.

She just hurries back inside, where at the bar, she starts to talk to someone else, someone we both know, someone who seems puzzled at the fact that we are here together.

Yet, she looks at me out of the corner of her eyes, scared maybe, certainly alarmed.

But the taste of blood had set my blood to boil, and I can’t stop lusting after her, a pang as deep as any I have ever felt, even in my reckless youth when I sucked as much as I could find and was still unfulfilled.

After a time, she seems less put off, maybe even attracted, the way innocent women get attracted to dangerous men, knowing we can hurt them, knowing we will likely cause them pain, and yet for some mysterious reason, needing to play on the edge of it, a dance of defiance.

When I suggest we go to her place, she nods in a distracted way.

“Will it hurt?” she asks.

“Not in the way you think,” I say. “You might even like it.”

Her fingers rise to her neck, touching the place where my nip drew blood.

“Will I die?” she asks.

“I would never take things as far as that.”

“Will I turn into someone like you?”

“You could,” I admit. “Would that bother you?”

She does not reply. She simply gets up and I follow, out to the street, out to her car for the short drive in silence to the place where she lives, then up the stairs and into her apartment, where I sit on the couch and she says she needs to change, only she doesn’t come out from the other room right away.

“Are you okay” I ask.

“No,” she says, still not visible. “I’ve changed my mind. I think you should go.”

“What if I promise I won’t hurt you?”

“I don’t believe that,” she says. “I don’t want to be alone with you.”

When she appears, the blood has drained from her face and she looks more like a vampire than I do.

“Please go,” she says, sensing the intensity of my desire, the deep hunger I can no longer hide, the lust for blood I’ve already tasted and need to taste again.

“What if I promise I’ll only fuck you,” I ask.

“You would be satisfied with that?”

“I want that nearly as much,” I say, imaging what it’s like to touch her, to run my lips down her long neck, to ease my tongue into her welcoming mouth, to have her breasts pressed against my chest as I plunge my cock deep into her pussy.

“But will that be enough?” she asks.

“I don’t want it to be,” I admit. “But if that’s all you’re offering, I’ll have to be satisfied.”

Although I know, I won’t be, know I’m already disappointed.

She sits next to me on the couch, and I kiss her lips softly, and then as I imagined, run my lips down her neck, passed the wound my nip gave her, down to her breasts, and I suck on the tip of one, then the other, drawing out liquid that is not yet blood, and then sink one tooth into that tender flesh and draw blood, but not a lot, and no more painful as to cause her to retreat. I run my lips down, pausing at her belly button, and then get into the mix between her legs, the taste of her wet pussy nearly as potent as her blood, dripping into my mouth as I lick her click, circling the little nub with the tip of my tongue and when I’m about to plunge in, she stops me.

“Don’t.”

“Why not?”

“I have my period,” she says looking down at me as I kneel at her feet, her legs to either side of me.

I smile.

“Perfect!”

I plunge in, lapping it up, but aching for more, rising slightly, pressing my chest against her chest, my lips against her lips, as I thrust my cock into the deep darkness where my mouth had been, riding her, forcing moans out of her as we go in and out, in and out, her cunt closing around my cock as if we have bonded completely, a single entity of pure joy neither of us wants to abandon.

But being who I am, wanting what I want, I am not satisfied, waiting for that moment when she cries out with passion and cums, to plunge my teeth into the vein of her neck, as deep and passionate embrace as that which goes on between our legs, my cum filling up those dark places below as I feed from her, sucking deeply her essence into my mouth, her moans telling me she likes this, too, and wants it as much as I do, trading off her blood for the gift of cum I give her.

When I fall to one side sated, she touches her neck where my teeth had been, her fingers covered with her own blood, testing it with the tip of her tongue, then putting her bloody fingers into my mouth.

“I feed you,” she says.

“I know,” I say, and cum inside her again.


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