By Nuit du Loup
Five hours later Aina was riding in her mother’s car with both Janet and Krista in the back seat with her as they traveled toward the city’s main hospital campus.. The mood was light and they were all feeling an almost celebratory, now that her grandmother had finally, at long last, departed for her own home.
She had left just as abruptly as she had arrived. Aina had come home after school and had just been in time to see grandmother forcing her mom, who was moving as fast as she could to get rid of her, to load her car back up. She’d only paused to give each of them a scathing torrent of parting complaints and then climbed into that boat of a car she owns and took off.
As soon as she was out of sight she and mom had been almost ecstatically happy and they hugged for almost ten minutes in shear joy at being rid of the woman. Then they’d gone inside and Aina had told her all about what had happened at school, though mom wasn’t too surprised since as promised, the Principal had called ahead. And mom agreed that it was appropriate to help the principal in turn if they could.
Then Raina had called Tina. Aina had been grinning like idiot as Mom almost bashfully took her girlfriend back to her bedroom to made love to her. Aina was very happy that Mom and Tina were getting on so well. And she didn’t blame mom at all for wanting to celebrate grandmother’s leaving by getting Tina over and into her bed. Tina certainly hadn’t minded either; she’d just given her a jaunty wave and followed Raina back to the room.
They only emerged a couple hours later, showered and clean, just before they had to leave to meet Mrs. Maviers at the hospital. Mom had been blushing red, but Aina hadn’t made any mention of what she knew to have been going on.
Now Tina was sitting up front with mom while she, Janet and Krista all sat in the back. It was an arraignment they were all happy with. Tina’s joining them hadn’t even been questioned. Aina was already thinking ahead to the fact that Tina just might become family, and that meant letting things like this go by without comment. Not that she’d felt any inclination to anyways.
“Here we are,” Raina said, as they pulled into the clearly marked entrance for the hospital building they wanted. Aina recognized it because it was the exact same one she had been in when she had been turned into a vampire.
Raina parked way back in the very full lot of cars, but none of them minded. It was a nice day out and they were all in far too good a mood to complain about walking. They probably even raised a few eyebrows when they entered the facility because they were all talking and laughing with each other, continuing conversations from the car ride. But the nurse that greeted them at the front desk seemed pleased by their good attitudes.
“Oh! You’re the one’s who are coming for the Maviers girl?” the nurse seemed very happy with them. “No one has been able to figure out what to do with that poor girl; I hope you really can help somehow. ”
“Me too,” Aina replied.
“You seem really familiar?” the nurse said looking at Aina closer.
“That’s because I was a patient here once,” Aina grinned. “There were a lot of nurses in that room; maybe you were one of them.”
“The vampire girl!” the nurse smiled wide. “Now I remember you. You look like you’re doing well. The doctor will be glad you’re still doing well; we’re headed down to see him now. Follow me.”
The nurse led them into the same maze of hospital passages she remembered from before. The only indication of where there were, was the occasional wall map or esoteric signs. They went up several flights of stairs and then when they reached a heavy looking set of double doors, the nurse swiped a keycard on a wall mounted reader. A beep sounded and the doors swung open to admit them. Inside the halls looked mostly the same, except for the sign on the wall that said: Supernatural Section: Non-humans/part-humans. It was the same section she had been brought to before.
“Right this way!” the nurse turned them down a side hallway. The walls here had the usual hospital decorations that consisted of paintings of flowers and the like. But from her other senses she could feel all the rooms’ occupants and some of them felt really odd.
They were taken to a room that looked just like the hundreds of others, but inside the Principal was sitting in a comfortable chair talking to the same doctor that had treated Aina when she had been admitted. A screen hanging on ceiling sliders divided off the rest of the room.
“Aina!” Mrs. Maviers said in greeting. “Is this your mother?”
“Yes, I’m Raina Dennet,” Aina’s mom said, shaking the woman’s hand. “Thank you for helping my daughter today.”
“It was only the appropriate thing to do,” Mrs. Maviers answered with a smile. “I just hope you can help us too.”
“So do I,” the doctor said in that rumble that Aina remember. She had forgotten his name, so she peered at his name badge. Dr. Chawas. “Good to see you doing well Aina.”
“Thanks,” Aina said politely. “Who am I helping, or trying to help?”
“Her,” the doctor walked over to the curtain and pulled it aside, and what Aina saw made her flinch, hard. In a large hospital bed laid a small girl, maybe eleven or twelve years in age. She would have been very pretty with shoulder length sunny blonde hair, pale skin and a cute face, but she was covered in strange, open wounds and cuts. They just sat there, gaping, yet no blood was coming out. There was some blood on the girl, and it looked wet, yet none of it seemed to flow and she couldn’t smell it at all. Then she saw and felt outward with her vampiric senses, and felt something was covering the girl.
“Her name is Ally,” Mrs. Maviers said sadly. “She’s my niece. While she and her parents were coming to visit me and my two daughters, Triela and Larissa, they were struck side-on by a large dump truck that was fully loaded with dirt. It tore their car apart and almost killed them all. But my sister, like me, was a mage, and a very powerful one. She cast a strong stasis spell on Ally before she died which prevented my niece from dying on the spot from blood loss. But that was two years ago, and as you can see, she is still stuck inside it. Until now we haven’t met anyone capable of getting her out of it.”
“You think I can get her out?” Aina asked. She was intrigued and touched by the story; it was terrible that the girl was trapped. “Can she hear us?”
“Yes, that’s what we’d like you to try,” the doctor answered. “And no, the stasis has pretty much stopped time for her. She experiences nothing.”
“What happens if I can break her out? Won’t she just start bleeding and dying again?”
“That’s the other, bigger thing I’d like you to do,” Mrs. Maviers said softly. “Vampires can heal at a stupendous rate from almost any wound. I’d like you to share some of your blood with her because those who do so can share in that gift for a short time.”
“It’s usually a short time,” the doctor corrected, not sounding really happy now. “There is a very high chance of her turning into a vampire herself, or only partially doing so. There are a number of documented side effects as well. But most of these are better options than her dying, though we would like her consent before turning her if at all possible.”
“I might be able to do that,” Aina said thoughtfully. She thought she saw a way of doing it….maybe. Yes, she was sure it would work.
“Then I’ll call the nurses and have them on stand-by,” the doctor said.
He left and then ten minutes later he returned in full scrubs along with a team of similarly attired nurses. They brought in a whole array of medical tools on a rolling cart thing and two nurses wheeled in a blood transfusion set-up. Aina waited patiently as they set up around the bed, preparing for the worst. She spent the time reviewing what she thought she could do. She knew she had power, and it seemed right to use it to help someone like this.
“We’re ready,” the doctor announced after he triple checked everything in tiny detail. “You can start when you’re ready Aina.”
“I don’t really need to get ready,” Aina said with a smile. “But it’s a good thing I fed really well today.”
She approached the side of the bed and stopped two paces away. The looked down at the poor, heavily injured girl and grimaced. She reached deep inside herself and felt at the power she had used intuitively for the most part, until now. She had done many things with it that hadn’t been in that book of Danni’s, so she was sure she could do something now. So she pulled from deep within.
Her power obeyed her command and seemed to explode up from inside her. The lights of the room flickered wildly under the sudden onslaught and she felt several people drop to their knees. But she didn’t stop. She kept pulling. Then she lifted her right arm, which throbbed with the dark power she had gathered and it looked like a black void in a vaguely arm-like shape. She reached out with it and touched the girl. Or tried to.
Her hand stopped at something that felt as smooth and as hard as glass, but she didn’t let it stop her. She unleashed her gathered power and she heard many voices crying out in pain from being in close proximity to the raw energy release she wielded. Like a dark spear, her power punctured the stasis spell like a needle and quickly spread over and swallowed the girl inside. She heard voices gasping at what she was doing but she tuned them out. She also ignored the fact that she could feel her body shape changing because from her use of such strong vampiric magic. She looked like she had earlier.
When her magic had fully surrounded and swallowed the injured girl she heaved with her mind and in the blink of the eye, literally, the girl vanished as if the black void that had encased her body and been sucked through a tiny hole in reality. It looked that way because that’s exactly what Aina had done, and now it was her turn.
She regathered the power back to her, all except the small black sphere floating in the air in front of the bed. The power filled her body and suddenly, she was weightless and incorporeal. As soon as she felt that way she looked at that small dark hole in reality and dove into it.
The place she shot into was absolutely lightless and black in any direction she looked. Yet it felt natural for her to be there. She could feel things around her, moving around and checking her out, but they stayed away. They could feel her power so they remained wary. And in that dark nether space, that space other than reality Aina had used before to move things and to summon her panther familiars was Ally.
The girl was the only solid thing in that space and Aina moved to her with just her will. She had been very careful about bringing the girl here because in this place, almost anything was malleable. So with her power, she kept Ally’s body the way it was, preventing her injuries from bleeding out or feeling pain. But now Aina reached out an invisible hand only she could see and touched the girl, laying her hand on her forehead.
“Ally,” she said, speaking directly into the girl’s mind. This was an ability that she had only used once at Danni’s. Her much older friend had found the experience of a voice in her head to be unnerving.
“Who are you?” a ghostly voice replied in surprise. Then it changed to panic. “Where am I? Why can’t I open my eyes?!”
“My name is Aina,” she replied calmly. “You can’t open your eyes because I am in control of your body at the moment and you are in another reality where it would be useless for you to see anyway.”
“Another reality?” the girl sounded scared and confused. Aina didn’t blame her; it had to be weird to only be able talk to someone inside your head. Especially when all her other senses were telling her nothing. “Why did you bring me here?”
“You were hurt very badly Ally,” Aina said kindly. “Do you remember an accident?”
“Yes, I was confused because I thought I should still be there, I don’t remember being rescued.” The girl’s sounded a little calmer. “Are you helping me now?”
“Yes,” Aina said in a voice she hoped radiated confidence and comfort. “Your mom was the one who saved you Ally, she incased you in a spell, a stasis, in order to keep you alive, and you’ve been trapped inside it for two years.”
“Two years!” Ally sounded stricken. “What about my mom, it was her spell, that means she could dismiss it at any time, right?”
“I’m sorry Ally,” Aina wrapped her presence like a warm hug around the girl’s mind and felt the girl desperately reaching mental fingers for her to receive that comfort. “Your parents didn’t survive. Your aunt was the one who asked me to help you. So I came.”
“No! They can’t be dead!” The mental shout was deafening. “They can’t be!”
“Look, Ally,” Aina said quickly. “You can’t stay here forever. Unlike me, you are still mostly human and this place will eventually harm you. I know you are hurting, and I wish it wasn’t so, but you have to make a choice right now.”
“What choice?” Ally cried. Aina knew that had her body been under her control, Ally would have been on the ground sobbing. “What am I supposed to do?”
“Live!” Aina sent out a lash of power into the girls mind and felt Ally recoil. She had meant it to be like a light slap to the face, a way to get the girls attention, and it seemed to work. She felt that she had the girl’s full attention. “You’re supposed to live. That’s why your mom saved you and your aunt asked me to help you now. So you need to let me do that. And now I need to know something.”
“What?” the girl asked timidly.
“Do you know what it means if I tell you that I am a vampire?”
“You’re a vampire?!” Aina heard surprise and shock slowly overcoming pain again, that had to be good. “I know what that means; I was training with my mom as a mage. But you seem…well…young, even though I can only hear you and feel you in my mind.”
“That’s because I am,” Aina laughed. She felt a sense of Ally’s mood lifting a little more from that deep despair. Ally responded well to humor. “But now there’s a choice. I can save you the easy way, by giving you my blood, or the hard way, by taking you straight out of here and risking death by blood loss with the doctor and his nurses. But there are risks from my blood too.”
“I know what those are,” Ally said quietly. “There’s a chance I might become like you, right?”
“Yeah, and according to the doctor there’s also a chance of only a partial turning where you’d still be mortal, but with some of the same traits as me. But on the plus side, you’d be able to heal much more rapidly, and do it here in this place where I can blank your pain for you. You’ll be whole in mere moments.”
She felt a moment of contemplative thought from the girl. “But, Aina, no one but my Aunt will even remember me after two years, and my cousins. All my friends have probably already forgotten me. And you said my family is gone.”
“If that’s something you’re worried about I wouldn’t mind being your friend Ally, and my girlfriends will probably like you too.” Aina sent a wave of comfort to her. “You seem nice to me.”
“Girlfriends?” Ally asked now in confusion again. “You have more than one? Wait! You like girls?!” The incredulous question came as a mental shout.
“Ally,” Aina said in amusement. “This really isn’t the place for this kind of conversation. But yes, and you can meet them as soon as you make your choice and recover. You’ll like ’em. They are both pretty amazing people and I love them dearly.”
“I know already,” Ally said, her decision firming up. “I’ll risk drinking your blood. It sounds like a lot better prospect than potentially bleeding out in a hospital. Am I in a hospital?”
“Yes, now get ready; I’m not sure how this is going to feel.”
Aina resumed her own physical form, which felt odd in the strange shadow place, and bit into her own arm. She absently smothered her own spike of pain and withheld her own healing. She brought that wound to Ally’s mouth and pulled her lips open. When Ally’s mouth was full she relaxed her control over the girl’s body just slightly and massaged her throat to get her to swallow. She did that twice more and then fully relaxed her control to let Ally’s body do what it was going to do.
“Oh god!” Ally yelled out with her own voice now. “I feel really strange. Aina are you there?! Where did you go?!”
“I’m here,” Aina said, hugging the girl to her in the impenetrable darkness. She’d forgotten that Ally would be able to see anything at all. The girl felt so warm in her arms and she was trembling.
“You’re so small,” Ally commented in a pained giggle as she snuggled close. Warm breath tickled her cheek. Though, what Ally was breathing in this place was a question for someone of a greater mind than her. “But I feel like I’m filled with worms or something, my whole body is squirming. Is that normal?”
“Sorry, no idea,” Aina apologized. She stroked the girls back soothingly “I wasn’t awake when I was turned. But do you feel any pain?”
“Only a little,” Ally replied thoughtfully. But I can actually feel the holes in me closing up. It feels really weird. And my stomach feels hot.”
“But at least you’re healing, just let me know when it’s done. We need to leave as soon as we can.”
So they just floated there as Ally healed herself from Aina’s blood. Aina didn’t know how long it took, there was no reference for time in the dark place, but it wasn’t too long before she started to feel Ally’s heartbeat slow way down. She started to worry that she had actually turned Ally into a vampire and the girl was dying, but it seemed to level out at a really sluggish pace, only a few beats per minute.
“Ally?” Aina asked.
“Yeah,” Ally sounded sleepy. “I’m okay, I think it stopped. But I still feel a little funny. And I’m really tired all of a sudden.”
“I conked out too when I changed,” Aina laughed. “But since you’re feeling better, and I don’t feel any wounds either, its time to go back. Okay?”
“Okay,” Ally said sadly. “You still promise to be my friend? I don’t know what I’m doing to do since my parents are…dead…but you’ll talk to me, right? Whenever I want?”
“Sure, I guess I don’t mind,” Aina said reassuringly. “And once you meet Janet and Krista, they will too. Even if all you want to do is cry. We’re pretty good people I think.”
“Thank you,” Ally said softly. Then her tone shifted to a considering one. “How old are you Aina?”
“Twelve, why?”
******
Janet felt really, really awkward. She sat in one of the chairs a nurse brought in for her and the others, but she fidgeted in it. And she saw Krista didn’t feel much better. She didn’t know whether or not to feel worried about Aina or not. Aina had seemed to know what she as doing, but now….
Aina had shocked everyone by what she had done. Janet had expected the shear amount of power Aina had thrown around with such casual ease, but not what she did with it. One moment Aina was punching through the stasis thing, and the next thing they all knew, Ally’s darkness covered body was sucking itself into a dark hole as if it was made of liquid and Aina had followed it in.
So now they were all sitting in a circle, doctors, nurses and all, around that tiny black marble that was floating in the air over the bed Ally had laid in a few minutes before. And some of the group wasn’t handling the waiting well.
Aina’s mom was visibly fretting, but Tina was with her and keeping her calm. But Mrs. Maviers was another matter. She was almost as pale as Aina had been earlier today and she was gripping her chair’s arms tightly. Janet was trying very hard not to worry because she knew as soon as she looked like she was, Krista would panic. So instead, she pulled Krista to her across their chairs and just held her as they waited.
“What’s going on here?” Janet’s head shot up from the top of Krista’s head, from where she’d been resting it, to the door where two very familiar people were walking in and the names Mrs. Maviers had said earlier clicked and she looked at the woman.
“You’re Triela and Larissa’s mom?!” Janet said in shock.
“Yes, I mentioned that,” Mrs. Maviers said in confusion. “Do you know them?”
“Yeah, we know Janet pretty well, Mom,” Triela, the younger fifteen year-old sister said with a grin. She was wearing a heavy winter coat with her long blonde hair running down the back and jeans “She’s part of our group that gets together for games and stuff. Is that Krista I see with you Janet? I thought you two didn’t get along?”
“Yeah,” Larissa, the eighteen year old older sister said. She was dressed a lot like her younger sibling. “You two used to stare daggers at each other.”
“Aina solved that problem,” Janet replied with a grin. “We’re all good now. Very good in fact.” She hugged a smiling and blushing Krista to her a little tighter.
“That was that vampire friend of yours wasn’t it, the one that came last time?” Triela mused. “She was pretty fun.”
“So why did you need us Mom?” Larissa said. “You said something about finally finding help for Ally. Where is she?”
“In there,” Mrs. Maviers said, pointing at the dark sphere.
Both girls stared at the thing. “What is that?!” Larissa said, walking toward it.
“I wouldn’t touch it Larissa,” Mrs. Maviers said sternly. “I’m pretty sure that’s a dimensional interface. And Aina was the one who made it. She was the one who I brought to help Ally…but now…it’s like this.”
Both of the older teens looked stunned. Triela opened her mouth as if to say something more, but a sudden cracking sound like gunshot popped from the dark hole in reality and it started to pulse and change shape. It bulged as if something was trying to shove out of it.
Then there was another cracking sound, but this time it was followed by a sound that was similar to a howling wind, yet no such wind was felt. The sound grew louder and louder until the absolutely black sphere exploded outward and engulfed the room before anyone had a chance to move. The darkness held for several heartbeats and then it seemed to dissipate like smoke. And there on the bed were both of the missing girls. They were kneeling and facing each other with Ally leaning forward into Aina’s cradling arms, and Ally was very, very naked. Janet noticed that her skin was a kind nice pale color all over. But the two didn’t even seem to notice at first because they seemed to be in the middle of a conversation.
“…because, you don’t sound like your twelve!” Ally said in an accusatory, yet joking tone. “How can you be the same age as me?” Then she blinked and looked around in confusion, and then she looked at Aina and at herself. Her smile dropped away like a stone.
Had she not been just as stunned as everyone else by the sudden return, Janet would have been laughing at how Ally suddenly turned pink all over in a full body blush and squeaked like a mouse and tried to hide her naked body behind Aina.
The skinny blonde girl quickly maneuvered a highly amused Aina around so that she was looking over Aina’s shoulder at them while remaining hidden behind Aina. It mostly worked but Janet still got some nice glimpses of Ally’s small, bright pink nipple capped mounds and her small wisp of pubic hair. Ally was really cute. She saw Krista agreed because redheaded girlfriend was leaning her head as if to get a better look.
“Aina!” Ally said in a horrified whine. “Why didn’t you say that I was naked?”
“Because you weren’t when we left,” Aina answered with a smile. Janet knew Aina probably wasn’t regretting at all that Ally was naked. “Apparently only I kept my clothes. I have no idea what happened to yours. But they were all messed up anyway.”
“Ally?!” Mrs. Maviers sounded like someone who was making very sure what she was seeing was real. “Are you okay?”
“Aunt Gerri?” Ally turned her head toward her aunt. Then the girl smiled slightly. Janet thought the girl was actually very attractive now that she wasn’t covered in wounds, and she noticed that Krista was staring at her closely too.. “Yeah, Aina helped me. I drank her blood.” Her voice grew sad. “And she told me about mom and dad.”
“Oh Ally,” Mrs. Maviers jerked forward like she wanted to hug Ally, but the girl was already hugging Aina and the woman was stumped by Ally being naked.
Then Aina solved the problem for her and Ally at the same time. The blanket beneath them vanished in an instant and Aina reach out her hand. When she closed it she was suddenly holding the sheet, which she drew in and then around Ally with a flourish. Ally snuggled into it thankfully and let Mrs. Maviers hug her when she leapt at her. Larissa and Triela joined their mother in welcoming their cousin back.
Aina dismounted the bed and came toward them, so Janet got up with Krista and they both hugged Aina tightly. Janet really hadn’t had any idea how worried she’d really been, but now that Aina was back she wanted nothing more than to touch her, and since Krista was hugging just as hard on Aina’s other side, she included her too.
“Are you alright Aina?” Aina’s mom said, coming to them as well with Tina at her side holding her hand.
“Yeah mom,” Aina smiled at them all. “It went very well. I just feel a little tired from it and a little drained and thirsty, though I think Ally is probably going to feel a bit confused for a bit because she’s missed out on two years.”
“Good,” Aina’s mom smiled wide. “And don’t worry about feeling thirsty. I already got permission for Janet and Krista to stay the night tonight. I think you deserve a reward for today. ”
“Seriously?” Janet snapped to look at her girlfriends’ mother. “My mom said it was alright?”
“Yes Janet,” Raina laughed. “So you three can have the night to yourselves.”
“Am I staying too?” Tina asked with a grin. “Or is it just the girls?”
“Of course you are,” Raina smiled.
“Aina?!”
They all turned toward the bed at Ally’s voice. Ally was looking at them intently from the cluster of her family members. The two teenagers were sitting on the bed with the girl and Mrs. Maviers stood in front with one had stroking Ally’s silky, golden hair. They were all looking at Aina now too since Ally had called out to her.
“Yeah?” Aina inquired good naturedly.
“Are those two the girlfriends you mentioned?” Ally sounded very interested.
“You mentioned us?” Krista said with a happy smile. Janet grinned two. It was nice to know that Aina was introducing them as her girlfriends to people she me. She felt…proud.
“Yeah, she said you were awesome people,” Ally grinned a little despite her sad eyes. The girl wormed out of the familial attention and crossed over, draped in her sheet which gave tantalizing views of her nakedness. They let the girl go but all three looked confused by what Ally was doing. Ally stopped a couple steps away “Aina said we could be friends. The one’s I had will be older and they’ll have forgotten about me. Is that alright?”
“I don’t a have a problem with it,” Janet shrugged with a smile. The girl seemed nice. “If Aina says you’re cool than I’m not gonna say no. And she was right about us being awesome. You’ll never meet better!”
“Such modestly Janet,” Krista laughed. “But I agree too.”
“Thank you so much!” Ally flung herself at them and Janet couldn’t do anything but stand in befuddlement as an unfamiliar but naked girl in a bed sheet threw her arms around all three of them and pulled them all into a hug. And then, before they could do anything at all, Ally started crying, hard. They were the hard, wracking sobs of someone who had lost a great deal and suddenly needed to get it out.
An unspoken agreement seemed to pass around the room and all the watching nurses left. This wasn’t an emergency any longer and the consoling of a little girl was best left to family and friends. And the doctor simply took a seat to wait to one side, politely out of the way.
Janet along with Aina and Krista just held the crying girl as Mrs. Maviers and the sisters came over to lay hands on their cousin. For a long twenty minutes they just let Ally cry and get her grief for her dead parents out. No one tried or wanted to stop her. How could they? To Ally, it was as if her parent’s had died just minutes ago. But there was only so long a person could cry and Ally seemed to be fairly strong because she was soon wiping her face with a bemused Krista’s shirt sleeve and calming down again. She wasn’t over the pain obviously, but she had calmed herself enough to be rational again. Janet was just glad to have helped her at all. She couldn’t imagine her own parents being gone.
“Are you good for now?” Aina asked gently when the girl looked up at them with clear, and vibrant, blue eyes.
“Yeah, thanks, all three of you, I really needed that,” Ally gave a week smile. “I know they are gone, but to me it seems like it just happened. I really miss them already, but I do understand that they are gone. ”
“We know it’s hurting right now,” Aina said with that casual yet caring shrug she did sometimes. She raised a hand and brushed a hand through Ally’s hair. “That’s why I said we would be here if you need it. Your Aunt and cousins too, they are still your family. We would be perfectly happy to hold you for as long as you want.”
“I know,” Ally smiled. Then she cocked her head to the side in a thinking gesture. She held the pose for a moment, and then, confusing everyone, except for Aina Janet noted, and sniffed. Aina just looked speculative.
“What’s up Ally?” Aina asked in an ominous tone. Janet thought she looked a bit apprehensive now.
“Umh, well, you smell really good for some reason Aina, and the others too a little bit,” Ally said in a thoughtful voice. “For some reason it makes me a bit thirsty.”
Everyone, Janet, Krista and the doctor included all looked right at Aina for confirmation of what that statement. All except a now confused looking Ally and her family who, of course, didn’t know anything. They were simply listening close.
“Yeah, it’s probably that,” Aina confirmed with a resigned sigh. “This is going to be interesting.”
“What are you talking about?” Ally asked. “Is something wrong?”
No one answered her for a long minute, though Mrs. Maviers and her daughters merely looked lost and baffled now.
Janet though, for some reason she found it greatly amusing and she slapped Aina hard on the back. She had a feeling that she was going to end up knowing Ally very closely soon, and oddly enough, that didn’t bother her. Nothing would disturb her love for Aina and Krista, it was already growing so strong, but this would be interesting. “This is your area of expertise Aina; looks like you get to explain it to her. Congrats teach’!”
Krista gave her a concerned frown, but Janet simply shook her head and smiled. Krista got the hint though and smiled as well, reassured.
“What are they talking about?” Ally asked, now sounding a bit miffed. “Please tell me Aina. What don’t I know?”
“Well Ally,” Aina said slowly and with an abashed smile. “I’m not exactly a normal vampire. And this isn’t the best place to explain it. But the short answer is that it’s not necessarily bad, but it is going to be interesting.”
Janet snorted at the understatement. “Very interesting.”
“Huh? I don’t get it?” Ally frowned.
“Uhm, excuse me,” they all turned toward the doctor. “I’m sorry to interrupt, but I would like to get Ally examined before things get too carried away.”
“Why? She’s fine now isn’t she?” Mrs. Maviers said in concern.
“I believe so,” the doctor answered, raising his hands in a calming gesture. “But as Aina just pointed out, there appears to be at least one side-effect from consuming Aina’s blood. I think it would be good for her to get checked out before we send her home.”
“I suppose that makes sense, but I’m really confused by what you all seem to know and I don’t,” Mrs. Maviers. “But Ally, can you go with the doctor?”
“I suppose,” Ally sighed. “But I really want to know what’s going on!” she pouted at Janet, Aina and Krista. “Will you tell me later?”
“Yes,” Aina assured her. “But not here. So go.”
“How about at our place?” Aina’s mom said, speaking up. She was smiling as if she’d had a good idea. “Once we’re done here, why don’t we go to our house and hash this out.” She gave the principal and her daughters a friendly smile. “I can make us some sandwiches and coffee?”
“That would be nice, thank you,” Mrs. Maviers answered.
“Yeah, that’s cool of yah, Ms…Uhh…Aina’s mom,” Larissa said, stumbling over the unknown name.
“Just call me Raina.” she smiled warmly.
“Yeah, thanks,” Triela said smiling back.
“Good, now Ally, if you could come with me,” Dr. Chawas said cheerily. “We’ll do this as quickly as we can so you can be on you way.”
“Alright,” Ally said resignedly. “But can I get some clothes sometime?”
“Yes, we’ll get you a hospital gown…”
“No!” several voices, Ally’s included, said that denial and Janet had to giggle a little. No girl wanted to walk around in one of those embarrassing things.
“I have some clean gym clothes in the car,” Aina volunteered. “They’re in my backpack, in the trunk.”
“I’ll take those,” Ally readily agreed.
“Good,” the doctor said again. “Then let’s get this done.
******
Several hours later, with the sun already well on its way down, an entire cavalcade of people poured into Aina’s house and as she came in last with Janet and Krista, she found it all greatly amusing. Everyone but the doctor and the nurses had come here for the promised discussion in a mini convoy of vehicles.
“You have a very lovely home, Raina” Mrs. Maviers said as she kicked off her shoes in the foyer. Triela and Larissa, who Aina recognized as the two mage girls from that day she’d played capture the flag with Janet, were looking around interestedly.
“Nice place!” Triela, the younger of the two said. “So this is where you live Aina?”
“Yeah,” Aina smiled. “Just me and my mom.” She grinned over at her mom and Tina who were taking everyone’s coats in turn to hang in the closet. “For now anyways.”
“Are you talking about these two?” Larissa asked, pointing at Krista and Janet.
“No, unfortunately,” that drew smiles from both her girlfriends. “I’m talking about Mom and Tina over there.”
“Aina!” Raina said, her face turning red a little.
“What, I’m not blind, or deaf, or…whatever it’s called when you can’t smell.” Aina grinned at the confusion on their guests faces. It took a moment but they each got it a moment later.
“You and this young woman…?” Mrs. Maviers started to say.
“Are together, and happily so,” Tina finished. “Raina, do you mind if I go and start the coffee?”
“Yes, thank you Tina,” Raina said, now blushing even more, but smiling broadly.
“I guess things are interesting around here,” Triela laughed, noticing her mom’s face she laughed even harder. “Chill out Mom, how did you not notice them at the hospital?”
“Even I noticed,” Ally remarked idly as she handed Raina the coat Krista had lent her. “And I had the least time to do so, since you all threw me at the quacks.” Ally was dressed in a pair of her own athletic shorts and a very short-sleeved shirt, but her feet were still bare, Mrs. Maviers was going to have to buy her some shoe because none of them it turned out wore her size. Aina had carried her to the door in her arms.
“It couldn’t have been that bad Ally,” Aina laughed. “I did the whole thing too, and it wasn’t that big of a deal.”
“Okay, so I just don’t like needles!” Ally huffed, but she was smiling in better humor. She was still prone to moments of sadness and crying that came out of nowhere, but Aina was impressed but how Ally was already pushing forward. “I’m just glad it’s done.”
“Understandable,” Raina said. “But we’re all still standing around, why don’t you all go and have a seat while I go and make the sandwiches I promised.”
Properly chastened, everyone moved into the living room. The two teens and their mother each took one of the chairs. Aina sat in the middle of the couch with Krista and Janet, and smiled when they both leaned into her. She really liked that. And it was good to see and know that they weren’t concerned about the implications Ally might represent. Ally though, surprised everyone, Aina would have thought she would have sat with her aunt or one of her cousins, but nope, she walked right to the couch with them and sat herself on the floor between Aina’s legs and leaned back against the couch and rested her head on Aina’s left thigh and rubbed it there a little.
“Why are you sitting there on the floor, Ally,” Mrs. Maviers asked. “I know there are no more spaces, but no one would mind you squeezing in or even sitting on a lap.”
“This spot is fine Aunt Gerri,” Ally shrugged. “I really like this one.”
“It’s fine with me if she’s there,” Aina said. She could feel Janet and Krista thinking away. Ally’s behavior was definitely suggestive.
“Here you go everyone!” Raina came into the room with a large serving sized plate full of cold-cut sandwiches and a stack of paper plate. Behind her was Tina with a pitcher of lemonade and a carafe of coffee in her hands. A sleeve of Styrofoam cups was tucked under her right arm. They spread everything out onto the center coffee table. “Go ahead and start eating.”
There was a murmur of thanks from everyone as they all took a turn taking a plate, grabbing a sandwich, and filling a cup with their beverage of choice. Aina simply watched on since she had no need for the food. Raina and Tina both sat on the floor at the open TV end of the table.
Aina did however, pay close attention to Ally. Since the girl’s comment about how good she smelled back at the hospital, she had watched for anything that resembled her own nature. Mrs. Maviers had the doctor’s preliminary findings in a folder she had kept with her, but they hadn’t opened it yet. The woman took a bit from her food and then after swallowing, picked up that folder.
“Do you think we should open this now?”
“Yes!” Ally said impatiently. “No one has told me anything!” Aina noticed that Ally didn’t hesitate at all to eat, but that didn’t necessarily mean anything yet.
“May as well,” Raina seconded. “I doubt there’s anything in there that would disturb our meal.”
Mrs. Maviers nodded and undid the fastener that held the folder flap closed. She withdrew several sheets of crisp, white, printer paper. “Okay,” she said, her gaze flickering over Ally and then Aina. “Let’s see what it says.”
Her eyes went to the paper and for a long moment everyone just sat there eating as Mrs. Maviers scanned over the front page.
“Most of the pages are the raw test results,” Mrs. Maviers said slowly. “But the short answer is that they confirm that Ally is definitely not fully human anymore. It says that even the quick and dirty DNA sample shows that there are massive changes. Many of them match similar ones they have on file from Aina. That makes sense I guess. But their end result is a massive change to Ally’s physiology. The resonance scan shows major alterations to internal organs consistent with those in Aina; though also like Aina it notes that it is different than known vampires on record.”
She paused to sip at her coffee. “But it says she is very much alive, and not an immortal. She has a consistent if oddly sluggish heartbeat and everything else seems to be functioning normally. Ally still needs to breathe and eat, but it notes that her metabolism is very high. One test also confirmed a near vampiric healing ability. The opinion of the medical test concludes that Ally is a demi-vampire, shortened in nomenclature to Dhampire.”
“I’m a dhampire now?” Ally said, tasting the word. “So what did all that mean?”
“That you are both human and vampire at the same time, I think,” Janet said. “Do you feel any different than before?”
“A little,” Ally agreed. “Like the cold outside, I didn’t feel it at all, yet I can still feel warmth when I touch Aina’s legs right now. And something about a few people in this room smells really good.”
“What about this?” Aina stuck a finger into her own mouth and used her sharp fang to cut its tip. She then leaned down and held it in front of Ally’s face. “Does blood, even my vampiric blood, smell good?”
“Yes, very much so!” Ally agreed. She smiled, and even as everyone was watching her, quickly darted her head forward and took Aina’s slim digit into her mouth. Aina heard surprised gasps, but she was floored by the shock of arousal that exploded through her body. She felt her nipples harden under her shirt and her pussy moistening. It was the same response other girls had to her saliva and she shivered. But it did feel really good. Ally seemed to like it too since she was making noises of appreciation.
She felt that her girlfriends had noticed her change, so she turned to each and then nodded to confirm what they thought. Ally though, she just suckled on her finger and Aina found that surprisingly arousing too. No one had ever sucked on her fingers before and it felt kinds of nice. But she felt a tongue trace over her cut and it closed behind it. Ally moaned her disappointment.
“That was your fault,” Aina grinned, and flicked Ally playfully on the forehead with her spit wet finger. “You healed it closed with your tongue. Do you feel like you need blood? Do you feel a deep, hungry feeling that comes from your whole body?”
“A little bit I think,” Ally said in a contemplative tone, and then she smiled. “Yeah, that’s exactly it!”
Aina saw that everyone was watching them so she smiled at them. “I must not have given her quite enough before.”
“What is a Dhampir?” Tina asked, looking at Mrs. Maviers.
“It says here that Ally will still digest foods to gain essential proteins and a few other nutrients,” Mrs. Maviers read. “But she will require blood for everything else, including energy. It notes that food consumption should be kept to small volumes because large meals will cause discomfort in passing it.”
“It means it feels really, extremely odd when we poop,” Aina clarified with a bit a giggle. Ally, Krista and Janet all laughed with her and the adults and older girls just smiled. Proving that potty humor crosses interspecies boundaries, or at least that’s what Aina thought of the moment. “But I guess my blood smells really good because it’s already been processed by my body for what a vampire needs.” She looked at Mrs. Maviers, “what about powers, does she get what I get?”
“It says that Dhampiric powers are pretty much a crap shoot,” the woman replied. “What can you do Aina?”
“More like what can’t she do,” Krista laughed.
“Yeah,” Triela agreed. “You should have seen her at our capture-the-flag game. She was right up there with Larissa and me.”
“An overachiever,” Janet said with a playful grin.
“Ignore them please,” Aina answered with her own grin. The evening was turning out to be kind of fun. “But yeah, I can do a lot. My power seems to be intuitive, it just responds to what I desire when I want it too. Like how I pulled Ally into that shadow space earlier.”
“Whoa, cool,” Ally sounded impressed. “Should I try something?”
“Maybe something simple?” Aina asked the room in general.
“Nothing that damages the house,” mom confirmed. She and Tina were watching on, seemingly unconcerned.
“Okay Ally, how about something like this?” Aina reached out with her mind and mom’s car keys snapped through the air and into her hand from where they’d sat on a small table.
“I could do that with magic before,” Ally whined. “But okay, do I just think about it?”
“Yeah, you just demand with your mind for it to happen,” she tossed the keys a ways out on the carpet.
Ally frowned and her pale, almost invisible eyebrows drew together. Then the keys jiggled once before they yet again zipped across the room, this time to Ally who smiled now. “That was so much easier than the other way.”
“Does that mean you don’t want to continue learning magic?” Mrs. Maviers asked.
“Oh, no way!” Ally giggled. “I’m not gonna stop. But this is something else to learn too.”
“Okay,” Mrs. Maviers sounded mollified. “But what was that business you all seemed concerned about at the hospital, about Ally smelling something?”
“Hmmm,” Aina frowned. She really didn’t want to freak her principal out. And she wanted to confirm it first anyways. “Let me test something first, Krista, Janet, can I borrow one of you in the kitchen for a second?”
“I think I know what Aina has in mind,” Janet said. “Krista, you can do it you want. I don’t mind.”
“Thanks Janet,” Krista replied.
“We’ll be right back,” Aina promised as she stood, stepped around a confused Ally, and took Krista into the kitchen with her.
“So what do you need me for?” Krista asked with that wonderful smile of hers.
“Well, would you mind it if I fingered you for a moment?” Aina asked with a grin.
“Not at all, but why does that have to do with anything?” Krista asked. Then she blinked, “Oh! You want to see if it’s just you she smells or everyone, right?”
“Yep, exactly, so I need a ‘sample’ from you and from me,” she stepped up to Krista and shared a brief kiss with her. “Thanks for volunteering.”
“Hey, it’s an easy job,” Krista giggled, leaning into the embrace. “You already know I have plenty available, so go ahead.”
“God, I love you two,” Aina laughed. She ran a hand down Krista’s stomach and under the hem of her jeans and panties. When her fingers found Krista’s slit it was just as wet as it smelled. Aina smiled and entered her girlfriend with two fingers.
“Oooh!” Krista slumped even closed. “Sorry, but that feels really good.”
“Didn’t complain did I?” Aina said with a smile. She continued to finger Krista rapidly for several minutes, just enough to get her good and worked up and flowing. Then she pulled her fingers out.
“Aina!” Krista whined.
“Shush, Janet and I will finish it later, I promise,” Aina giggled.
“Okay, but I hope that isn’t too long,” Krista moved in and gave her a kiss. “But I’ll be good.”
“Heh, but now it’s my turn,” Aina grinned. She slid her dry left hand down into her own wet panties and vigorously pumped her pussy. It was really kind of exciting that Krista was watching on.
“You can’t cum either!” Krista sudden announced. She reached out and pulled Aina’s arm and hand away. “That wouldn’t be fair!”
“I suppose,” Aina agreed easily, even though she really was very horny right then. And her fingers on both hands glistened tastily. It was hard not to slurp Krista’s sample herself. “Let’s get back.”
Once back in the living room Aina noted that Ally had moved up onto the soft and was talking affably with Janet. But the conversations died at their approach.
“Alright, Ally, close your eyes for me,” Aina instructed as she and Krista approached the couch. Ally almost turned to look, but she stopped and then obediently closed her eyes and faced forward toward her cousins.
“What is that?” Mrs. Maviers ask, noticing her wet fingers.
“It’s the same thing Janet and Krista helped to feed me earlier today,” Aina answered. Mrs. Maviers wasn’t a stupid woman, Aina could see it in her eyes as she connected dots and came to a conclusion.
“You mean you eat…?” she trailed of with a look at Ally. Then she pointed down toward her own crotch. “That?” Triela and Larissa had also caught on and they too looked to want an answer to that.
Aina just nodded. She stood directly behind Ally, and after giving Janet a smile, she snaked her right hand, the one covered in Krista’s juices around in front of her small, perky nose. “Alright Ally, tell me what you think—” she cut off abruptly as Ally captured her fingers again, slurping happily at the wetness. Aina heard Mrs. Maviers and the cousin’s gasp in surprise.
“What is that?!” Ally exclaimed, still with her eyes closed when she had finished cleaning Aina’s hand of any trace of Krista.
“My other food,” Aina said, amused, one question had certainly been answered. But she moved her other hand around. This time Ally’s hands flew up and practically shoved the wet digits into her mouth. Since was already really aroused, Aina found it extraordinarily stimulating to have Ally sucking happily on her fingers again and she also found it kind of funny that Ally didn’t seem to have any problem doing it.
Ally pulled her fingers back out and gave them one final lick, and then turned in her seat to open her eye and look up at Aina. Her blue eye seemed to shine with eagerness. “Come on Aina, what was that? Is there any more?”
Laughing openly now, Aina rested her hand on Ally’ shoulder,” Yeah, there’s plenty more. But let me talk to the others first. Please trust me on this, okay?”
Ally started to pout, but Janet gave her a playful whack on the back of her head. “She’s not being mean,” Janet chuckled. “Just let Aina do it her way.”
Ally looked to her for confirmation, so Aina nodded reassuringly and then looked at Mrs. Maviers and the older girls. “What you saw means that Ally is just like I was when I turned. Only needing a little blood, but low on the other.”
Mrs. Maviers winced visibly. “I don’t suppose there’s a way to…uhm…bottle it for her or something is there?”
“Mom, it’s not like there company for that and I doubt those three are going to be willing to do it. I mean, just quantity alone would be a problem,” Triela pointed out. Aina noted that the two teens seem remarkably undisturbed. That was good. It would be bad if they freaked about the implications of Ally’s new feeding requirements.
“Actually, quantity probably wouldn’t be a problem anymore,” Krista laughed. This drew the attention to her. She blushed but she remained grinning. “We’ve found that there are a few interesting side-effect from being with Aina repeatedly. But I agree, there’s no way I’m turning into a cow! I *like* the normal way, thank you very much.”
“Seconded!” Janet called out cheerfully. “It’s not really all that bad Mrs. Maviers, you haven’t heard anything bad about the three of us at school have you? Or felt anything weird until today?”
“Well, no,” Mrs. Maviers. “I actually did look up the records of you three up after you left my office, and you’re all down as well-behaved and with high grades.”
“See?” Janet reasoned.
“But,” she looked around at everyone, “what about her age? She only just turned twelve?”
“Hey, technically I’m fourteen now,” Ally interjected.
“Actually, Geraldine,” mom said slowly. “I had the same reservations you did at first, and in my case the only ‘food sources’ for Aina was an adult. But I’ve since seen nothing but good things from my daughter. She’s grown much more mature over last month and her relationships with her partners are all wholesome ones. If you are worried about a corrupting effect, I don’t think there’s a chance of it happening. Especially if you let Aina guide her, my daughter would never let anything harm her.”
“Certainly not!” Aina agreed hotly. She always felt a bit testy when someone implied she couldn’t protect the people who were hers. That territorialism had only shown up after she turned, but she didn’t dislike the instinct.
“I don’t see what the big deal is,” Ally said in open frustration. “Aina has already helped me once, what are you so worried about now Aunt Gerri?”
“I’m not really worried Ally, just really uncomfortable,” the woman replied. She turned to mom. “I’m still a school administrator and a teacher Raina. The whole idea is anathema to what we teach. I feel like I’d be a hypocrite to let my niece do that.”
“There’s not to much choice I think,” Aina pointed out. “One way or another, she has to feed.”
Mrs. Maviers sighed heavily. “I know Aina. And I suppose I’ll have to relent. Will she need it every twelve hours like you? And from whom?”
“No idea, that’s something we’ll have to work out,” Aina shrugged. “As for who…” she looked to both her girlfriends for their opinion on the matter, and their thoughts were plain as day. They wanted to talk about this alone with Ally and she agreed with them. “I think we’ll work something out there too.”
“Is there anything else on the sheets mom,” Larissa asked.
“Only a small comments section about dhampirs in general. It just says that they tend to show great devotion to their maker,” Mrs. Maviers smiled at that. “That I’ve already seen. The last is a note about how they each age differently and sometime not at all.”
“Than can you all *please* explain what you were talking about to me now?” Ally asked. She was clearly tired of waiting and Aina really didn’t blame her at all. She’d be just as frustrated in her place.
“Mrs. Maviers, would it be possible to explain it to her in private?” Aina asked. “I would like to take her back to my room with Janet and Krista. Doing it here would probably be…embarrassing at the very least.”
“Phhht, I’ll say!” Tricia agreed with a grin. “Sorry mom but no way would I ever want you around for that kind of discussion or activity.”
“Agreed,” Larissa said with a heartfelt nod. “It was bad enough when you caught me with that boy when he was feeling me up.”
Aina could almost feel Ally’s ears trying to grow from her cousins’ comments.
“I suppose that will have to be alright,” Mrs. Maviers. “Does that mean that you will…do it now?”
“I’d say it’s up to her, and the others,” Aina said with a gesture to Janet and Krista. “I won’t be doing anything they don’t want me to do.”
“Then go ahead.” She sounded like she was resigned to something she didn’t like. It was pretty much the response Aina had expected.
“Thank you,” Aina nodded her thanks as well. “Alright Ally, it’s truth time so follow me. We’re going to my room now.”
“Finally!” Ally laughed. She quickly dismounted the couch and met Aina and Krista at the end of the couch with Janet right behind her. Then, together as a group, they all followed Aina down the hallway, leaving the adults alone. When they got to her room Aina held the door open for the others and then entered behind them, shutting the door behind her.
“Nice room Aina,” Ally commented affably as she took in her surroundings. Then her face shifted into a thoughtful expression. “Hey Aina, did anyone say anything about what happened to my room and my stuff? I can’t remember.”
“No, but I’m sure your Aunt must have some of it. Maybe it’s in storage or something,” Aina answered amusedly. “Now scoot over there and get on the bed. Janet, Krista, could you join her?”
The three did as she asked and sat in a line with Ally at one end next to Krista. Once they were comfortable Aina cast out a blanket of her power to shield the room from sound and from intrusion. Ally did not need her Aunt coming back here if things got moving. Then she took a place a few paces from the bed and then promptly grinned as she felt like a real teacher for a moment. Ally noticed her use of power and frowned interestedly.
“So, Ally, do you want the straight and blunt version?” Aina asked.
“Yeah, I’m tired of everyone talking around me and not to me,” Ally replied. “I want to know why Aunt Gerri was so worried.”
Aina nodded her acceptance. “Okay, so, as you’ve probably figured out, I, and now you because I made you this way, need to feed on more than just blood.”
“Yeah, I got that much since whatever that was you gave me, definitely wasn’t blood,” Ally said with a slightly reminiscent expression. “It was really good though.”
“Right,” Aina smiled. “But that stuff you licked came from us. The first was from Krista there and the second was from me.”
“You mean it came from your bodies?” Ally asked. “What is it?”
Aina nodded “It came from here,” she tapped her skirt over her crotch.
“Wait! You mean from your… down there?” Aina nodded her affirmative with a smile at the funny look on Ally’s face. “Whoa. Aina that’s really weird!”
“I know its weird, I thought so too, but it wasn’t bad was it?”
“Well, no,” Ally mused. “It tasted amazing actually.”
“Isn’t it?” Aina laughed. “I don’t think I can get enough sometimes.”
“Oh god!” Janet rolled her eyes and grinned at Krista. “Now there are two of ’em!”
“That’s not necessarily a bad thing Janet,” Krista replied in equal good humor.
Ally’s eyes flicked from Krista, to Janet and then to Aina, and then widened. “Oh my god! Now I get it! You three actually have sex with each other?! Like real lesbians?!”
“Of course,” Aina answered with a truthful smile. “We love each other and they are my girlfriends. I told you that earlier. And don’t complain until you’ve tried it. . It’s very pleasant in fact, for all involved.”
“But what about me then?” Ally asked in a stunned tone. “Does that mean I have to have sex with a girl too?”
“You will have to as well,” Aina confirmed. “Does being with a girl in that way bother you?”
“I don’t really know!” Ally sputtered. “Yeah, I got what you meant when you told me you had girlfriends in that dark place, but I guess I thought it was a joke. And even after I met them I didn’t really think about the details, I only saw that you cared about each other. I don’t think I’ve ever thought about being with another girl.
“Well, what do you think about when you masturbate?” Janet asked bluntly.
“D-do what now?” Ally asked, her smile long gone.
“Oh come on!” Janet laughed. “I know you do. All three of us do it frequently.”
“Especially me,” Krista said with a grin of her own. “So it’s alright to admit to it. It’s not like we’d make fun of you for it or spread it around.”
“I guess,” Ally conceded slowly. “But I never really think of anything. I just feel like doing it, and then I start touching myself”
“Hmmm,” Aina hummed thoughtfully. “Okay then, how about this. Who do you find to be very attractive and appealing?”
“I dunno,” Ally said thoughtfully. “I’ve never really looked. But, now that I think about it, I do think you three are all really cute.” She grinned again. “Especially you Aina, you’re so small and adorable!”
“You do realize that you aren’t much taller or bigger than she is, right?” Janet said dryly. “But I don’t disagree that Aina is very cute.”
“I know, but she’s still good looking,” Ally chuckled. “And I think some of the friends I had were attractive. But I don’t think of you or them as something sexual.”
“Hmmm,” Aina frowned again. “Then maybe we need to go for a practical example.” She looked at Janet and Krista. “Do you guys mind?”
“I don’t,” Janet laughed. “I want see too. So I don’t mind sharing a little.”
“Me too,” Krista smiled. “I always like seeing you Aina.”
“Alrighty then,” Aina grinned. “You just sit there and look with the others.” Ally nodded her confused agreement.
But Ally didn’t stay confused for very long because Aina reached a hand down to her waist and undid the button catch of her skirt, when it opened the garment dropped down to the floor in a puddle, which revealed Aina’s wetness darkened pair of blue panties. Ally’s eyes opened wide, but she stayed silent. So Aina grabbed her shirt and pulled it over her head in one clean yank. Her little nipples were at full attention. She tossed the shirt aside and grinned when she saw the almost hungry looks coming from Janet and Krista. Ally though, she was staring open mouthed.
“Well?” Aina asked. She walked closer to Ally until her legs were touching Ally’s knees. She didn’t object at all when Krista reached out a hand to touch and stroke her naked thighs. Ally still said nothing.
So she sniffed the air a little and felt out towards Ally with her other senses. What she found was that Ally was starting to feel a little aroused, and she smelled really nice too.
“I think she likes how you look, Aina,” Janet chuckled. She was staring hard too and licking her lips. Aina really loved having that effect on her loved ones.
“Do you?” Aina asked Ally again, even though she’d already divined the answer by other means.
Ally’s eyes flicked over to Janet and then Krista nervously. “Okay, maybe I do…a little bit,” she admitted. “I’ve never been this close to another mostly naked girl before.”
“You should touch her,” Krista suggested as she continued to touch Aina on her legs. “I think I could be content to just hold her and Janet for hours, doing nothing else but holding and touching.”
“Same here,” Janet agreed. She leaned over and pulled Krista’s face around to give her a quick but meaningful kiss and then smiled. “We know much you like kissing Krista, and both Aina and I are always pleased to do it with you.” Aina saw that Ally had paid close attention to that kiss and her face said she was very intrigued.
Then Ally looked up to her face in a thoughtful frown. They locked gazes for a moment and Aina felt her power flick through the gap as it always did. She saw the surprise in Ally’s features, the girl didn’t move her eyes right away, but held them there for almost a full minute more. When she did adjust her gaze, she slowly raised and stretched out her right hand. But it stopped about six inches from her face.
“Can I really?” Ally asked.
“Of course,” Aina told her pleasantly. “We are doing this for you.”
The hand crossed the remainder and cupped her cheek. For a minute or so Ally just stroked her face, probably because she wanted to start somewhere ‘safe’ but Aina found the sensation very pleasant. But Ally worked up her courage or whatever, and that hand traveled downward. Ally paused just over her chest, but Aina grabbed it in her own and moved it to cup one of her tiny breasts. She sighed at the very nice feeling coming from that nipple.
“It’s so hard!” Ally said wonderingly. She lifted her hand a little and tweaked at Aina’s nipple in fascination. Aina breathed deeply, sighed, and moaned a little from the wonderful attention.
“Try pinching it a little,” Krista suggested with a grin. “Aina likes that, Janet too.”
Janet gave Krista a smirk as Ally complied. “By the time you’re done with us Ally, you’ll probably know all our secrets.
“That’s very nice Ally,” Aina complimented as Ally pinched and then tugged on her nipples.
“Thanks,” Ally replied, smiling happily. “I will admit. That I really do like touching you Aina, and it feels really good to know that I’m making you feel good. And your nipples are fun.”
“Hehe, glad you like ’em,” Aina laughed. She reached down and slipped her right hand into her panties. She saw Ally watching it closely, and when she slipped her middle finger into very wet slit, Ally’s eyes widened. Then Aina pulled her wetness recoated finger back out. She lifted it up and Ally’s eyes were locked onto that finger.
“Here,” Aina said. She reached out her right hand and traced her wet finger over Ally’s lower lip. Ally’s tongue flicked out and immediately cleaned it off, and then the girl’s free hand reached out to and took Aina’s fingers back to her face. She sucked in her middle finger and began sucking on it like before. Even though she knew now where it was from and had seen Aina get it. She looked over she saw both Krista and Janet were touching themselves through their clothing.
“What?” Janet grinned, not stopping. “It’s kind of hot for some reason to watch her suck on your finger like that.”
“Yeah,” Krista agreed.
Hearing that, Ally quickly pulled her face back and spat out Aina’s finger with alacrity. Her face turned red and her hand stopped playing with Aina’s nipples.
“What are you getting all embarrassed about?” Aina laughed and then even harder when the girl looked up at her in shock. “Sorry Ally, I don’t mean to laugh, but if you like doing something, none of us are going to make fun of you for it. We all have out little quirks. Like Krista here and how she likes being kissed all over, and Janet, she likes being teased.”
“Let’s not forget you Aina,” Janet laughed and then gave a conspiratorial smile to Ally. “Aina here likes girl’s butts, and the first time I had sex with her she surprised me by licking me there. And now she’s corrupting Krista to doing it.”
“You do?!” Ally looked up, her embarrassment fading.
“Yeah,” Aina laughed. “And just so you know you have a really nice butt Ally. And if you get the chance, get a good feel of Janet’s, it’s so nice and round and firm.”
“Ahh, you and my butt,” Janet sighed dramatically. Everyone laughed, even Ally.
“See?” Aina said.
“I guess,” Ally answered, she resumed feeling up Aina’s chest and now her stomach. “I did like it. My mom,” a tear formed at that. “She used to always joke that I had an oral fixation since I was always sucking on candies and suckers and the like. So sucking on your finger, especially when it tasted so good, felt nice.”
“I was enjoying it too,” Aina told her. “Now skooch back and lay down on my bed. Yeah, like that.” Ally had pushed back from the bed and laid on it lengthwise. Janet and Krista, already understanding what was going on, moved to kneel on either side of her. Aina climbed up and straddled her, then sat back on her haunches over Ally’s shins. She took both of Ally’s hands and placed them on her own chest. She sighed as Ally resumed feeling her up. “Comfy?” she asked.
“Uh-huh,” Ally answered idly. She was becoming engrossed in what she was doing. So she didn’t notice when Aina flicked a finger and Janet leaned down toward her. “Mph!” she did notice however when Janet’s small lips came down onto her own. She protested for a moment, one hand flying to hold Janet’s face, but then she relaxed and closed her eyes. Janet was a wonderful kisser Aina knew, it was always so sweet. When Janet pulled back, Krista leaned in and took her place with her own soft lips. When she was done and had lifted back up, Ally had an almost dreamy look on her face.
“That was my first time kissing someone,” Ally said in a wondering tone. Her eyes flicked to Janet and Krista. “That felt really awesome.” Aina could feel her new, sluggish heartbeat increasing. “Both of you felt so nice.”
“Thank you, but you haven’t felt anything yet,” Janet giggled with a slight flush of her own. “Aina?”
Aina nodded. She leaned down, with Ally’s fingers still on her chest, and laid herself on top of Ally and then kissed her. Their saliva mingled as they kissed and pleasure exploded inside both of them like a stick of dynamite. The other two had kissed Ally rather chastely, but Aina enticed Ally’s lips open and slipped her touch inside. She played with Ally’s tongue and sucked on it a little when the girl finally extended it out. When Aina pulled back up, Ally was completely flushed and breathing hard and Aina was horny as hell. And from the smell, Ally as too.
“Wow,” Ally said after a moment. “That was something else.”
“See!” Janet and Krista were both cackling with amusement at Ally’s facial expression. “Aina’s kiss packs a punch!” Janet finished. “You should see it when she really gets Krista going with them.”
“Being with a girl is nice though, isn’t it?” Krista asked.
“Yeah, it’s a lot nicer than I thought it could be,” Ally sighed.
“Janet, Krista, why don’t you get undressed too?” Aina asked.
“Sure thing!” Janet agreed eagerly.
She and Janet both got off the bed on their respective sides and quickly disrobed. Unlike Aina they didn’t keep their panties. Aina saw that Ally watched them closely and appreciatively.
“Okay, I was wrong,” Ally said slowly when the two naked girls got back onto the bed. “You guys all look so good!”
“Thank you,” Krista said, smiling.
“But you aren’t so bad yourself you know,” Janet quipped. “I that nice smooth skin of yours.”
“You saw?!” Ally blushed hard. Her hands were inches from the top of Aina’s panties now.
“It’s kind of hard to hide behind someone as small as Aina in a room full of people,” Janet giggles. So we got a good look at you. And don’t forget that Aina was holding you while you were naked, so she probably got an even better look.”
“I know,” Ally blushed and looked up at Aina. “But it just felt like you were the person who could protect me. I wasn’t really thinking yet. But you think I’m good looking?”
“Very cute,” Aina said immediately
“You have such nice skin and cute pink nipples,” Krista answered tight behind her.
“And really pretty hair,” Janet said, finishing it up.
Ally was blushing furiously, but she was smiling. “Does that mean that you all want to have sex with me?”
“Ally,” Aina said with a gentle smile. “You need to feed, just like I do, and we are willing to do so. We all find you attractive so doing so isn’t a problem from that angle. Do you think you can do that now? Can you take what you need from between my legs, or from one of the other two? It’s an experience I am sure you will love and enjoy.”
“I can admit that what we’ve been doing has been really nice and I am really aroused,” Ally smirked at that. “But I’ve never done it before; won’t it be disappointing for you? And what will other people think?”
“Ally, don’t be silly,” Janet smiled. “I know I said the exact same thing the first time I made love to Aina and Krista did too, but I highly doubt there is anything you could do that would be disappointing. We all know this is new for you and coming out of nowhere. The reason we are doing this is so that you can learn, both to enjoy receiving it and to give it. Theirs is no way Aina will be disappointed in you.”
“And as for what other people think,” Krista laughed. “Bugger them! Do you think we openly tell people at school that the three of use are girlfriends and lovers? No way! We know better than that. So anything we do is in confidence. If you come to our school with us, the only thing people will know is that you are our new and very close friend.”
“Yeah,” Janet nodded. “So stop fussing, shut up, and let Aina have sex with you! You’ll both enjoy it and you’ll get the sustenance you need. And when you’re done you’ll know that you have three friends who are willing and able to help you out.”
“What about you?” Ally asked.
“Me?” Janet smirked and gave Krista a grin that was returned. “Krista and I are going to have some fun too.”
“It’s a good thing I have such a big bed, right?” Aina laughed. Then she looked down at Ally and smiled wide. “You just leave things to me now.”
Before Ally could get one word of protest out, Aina was down and kissing her again. This time Aina didn’t pull away after a couple of minutes, she kept it up and enticed Ally’s passions higher. Ally was a quick learner and they made out wantonly until Aina could feel a hungry arousal building in Ally. She felt it too since Ally’s saliva was doing the same to her.
As they made out and kissed each other passionately, Aina felt movements through the bed and heard a similar cacophony of smooching start up nearby. Krista’s rising moans said that she must have already been pretty turned on. She glanced over at one point and saw that Janet already had a hand between Krista’s legs and was working her good with it.
Aina worked Ally’s borrowed shirt up and when she saw those tiny pink nubs again, she had to taste one. So she slid down and took one in her mouth. It felt wonderful and Ally started making funny squeaking sounds. Ally somehow managed to remove her shirt the rest of the way and Aina got an idea. She’d work Ally like she would Janet and really get her new lover going. It would show Ally just what sex could be like.
She slid back up and took Ally’s right arm in both of her hands. She held it up in front of her and then began to kiss it and lick it. Up and down she went, even getting at that sensitive spot inside the elbow and around the edges of her armpit.
“Ahhhm Aina!” She felt Ally’s hand running through her hair.
“Shhh,” Aina admonished gently. She pecked the worked up girl on the lips, then she kissed almost painfully slow down her neck.
She worked her way back to Ally’s small chest and bathed both nipples with licking and suckling. She kept at it until she could hear the girl’s breath becoming a little ragged.
Then she relented and kissed softly with small nibbles over Ally’s skinny stomach and belly. She licked round and inside the little belly button and enjoyed the girlish and aroused laugh that brought. As she did this she tugged down the pair shorts until they were far enough down for Ally to kick of impatiently.
By that time Ally seemed to be one huge horny mess. She was breathing hard, her heart rate was way up, and Aina could smell her wonderful pussy heavily on the air. And the sight of her slit showed that the very aroused lips were a little spread open and in the inner ones were peaking out from the tight and puffy outer ones. A surprisingly large clit was there too, demanding attention.
Aina nuzzled her way down and kissed through the wiry yet soft mound of hair and then, when she was almost at that slit and she could feel Ally raising her hips in encouragement to hurry up and get there, she skipped over it.
Ally moaned loudly in frustration, but Aina ignored her. She wanted to make this as intense as she could make it for the girl’s first time and she as using everything she had learned.
Her hands caressed and massaged Ally’s skinny and toned legs. Her pale skin was smooth and wonderful to touch. One hand went around to touch and play with that nice spot behind the knee and Ally squirmed nicely. Her mouth was busy kissing at the hollow where Ally’s legs met her crotch and down and across at the perineum. Every time she touched that sensitive spot Ally’s hips bucked toward her face.
And since she wanted to test Ally’s waters a little bit, she lowered her mouth further and flickered her tongue over Ally’s tightly closed anus. Ally bucked hard, and let out a loud cry that contained no words. Liking that response, Aina did it some more, even slowly working her tongue inside that spot that was a particular favorite of hers. Meanwhile Ally thrashed and groaned on the bed. Had Aina not set up the soundproofing she probably would have been heard a block away. But all things must come to an end.
Aina felt tremors begin to pass through Ally’s small body. So she moved quickly and planted her mouth over Ally’s tight, formally unused pussy and slipped her tongue as deep with her saliva as she could get it. Ally screamed out and her pussy clamped down hard as it started to spasm in orgasm. As she came Aina’s right hand flew up and one finger found Ally’s clit to rub circles on it. As she came and came again, Ally started humping her face hard and shot loads of wonderful juices into her mouth. When she sensed that it would soon start to become painful for Ally, Aina disengaged from Ally’s sweet tasting pussy and kissed up her hypersensitive skin. When she captured Ally’s mouth, the girl seemed almost delirious. But Ally returned the kisses eagerly.
But she slowly, very slowly, began to calm down and returned to normal thought. To Aina it was like watching someone slowly come up from a deep pool for a breath of fresh air. Ally’s eyes refocused on her and when intelligence sparked in them, Ally’s arms flung around her in a nearly crushing hug and she began to return the kisses hard. This too wore down until the kisses became light and casual. Aina was happy to let her and they kissed for a long while.
“How was it?” said a soft, sweet voice.
They looked to the right and saw that Janet and Krista were looking at them. They were facing opposite directions and from the sheens covering faces and chests; they had both cum hard on each other. But it was Krista who had addressed them. “Was it nice Ally?” she asked again.
“Very,” Ally smiled dreamily. “My whole body is still trembling. I can’t believe sex could be like this.”
“It looked like you were going to explode!” Janet giggled. “But Aina is probably the best lover you could ever have for your first time. She cares so much about making it feel almost perfect.” Krista eagerly nodded her agreement.
This time Aina was the one who wanted to blush, but her body didn’t let her do that anymore. It was very nice to know how much they appreciated what she did for them.
“It was amazing,” Ally sighed and then looked up. “I suppose it’s my turn now?”
“Yes,” Aina agreed. “You don’t have to do it with me if you don’t want to, but you have to drink from one of us. Though selfishly, I would like it if you did it with me.” This brought giggles from everyone, Ally included.
“It has to be you,” Ally replied seriously. “There’s no way I couldn’t return the favor for what you just did to me. But what do I do?”
“Whatever you want really,” Aina shrugged. “Just think about what felt good on you. Do it on me and you can’t go wrong.”
“I don’t think I’m ready for sticking my tongue in your ass though,” Ally giggled.
“Got you right away did she?” Janet laughed. “But Aina is actually pretty clean back there Ally. She doesn’t ever sweat and since she only poops when she eats a lot of normal food there’s nothing to get it dirty. And I know from personal experience that she keeps herself clean.”
“Oh, I never thought of that,” Ally said, then looked back at Aina. “Maybe, but no promises with the butt, okay?”
“Ally, playing with my butt is not essential,” Aina laughed. “It’s just something that I like. But I also like everything else, so not doing it to me doesn’t detract from the experience.”
Aina reach down to her panties and tugged them off. Then she pressed her wetness into Ally. “See? I got like this just from touching you Ally!” She hugged the smiling girl tight and rolled them over so that their positions were reversed. “So feel free to use me to learn.”
Aina felt the bed shifting and turned to see Janet and Krista were crawling over to watch. Both their faces, chests and pussies were drenched in their copious fluids. Aina wanted to clean them with her mouth, but Ally would have to come first.
“Are you going to watch me?” Ally asked them nervously.
“Is it going to bother you,” Krista asked nicely. “Janet and I both love Aina; we just want to participate in this little way.”
“I guess,” Ally said slowly, and still nervously.
“Good, now come back here!” Aina laughed. She pulled the surprised Ally back to her lips and kissed her again. She was still extremely turned on and desperate to cum. She suspected Ally’s first time giving would be short.
At first Ally was a bit stiff, knowing they were being watched, but Aina’s kissing got her back into the mood very quickly. She was soon returning every kiss with passion and fervor and ignoring everything else.
But Aina really needed attention elsewhere, so she gently pushed down on Ally’s shoulders. Ally got the message and smiled shyly before she moved down. Aina felt lips on her small breasts and smiled in pleasure. Ally grew more confident from her noises of being sexually pleased and began eagerly sucking on her nipples. She even started to nibble on them lightly with her teeth, which about sent her through the roof.
“That’s the way Ally,” Janet said softly. “Aina loves that.”
The pleasure got so great that Aina found her eyes closing. She wasn’t going to cum this way, but she’d get pretty close and it felt amazing. So she didn’t complain at all when Ally spent a very long time with her nipples. She just made a mental note in the future that Ally really did like sucking on things like that and quivered inside when she thought about Ally doing this to her clit.
Seeming to sense her desire, Ally kissed down her stomach toward her slit. Aina knew she was soaked down there.
“It’s so pretty,” Ally said, pausing. Aina felt fingers running over her lower lips and moaned encouragingly. “And really wet.” Ally raised the wet fingers up in front of them. Aina nodded for her to do what she obviously wanted. Ally smiled and then licked her fingers eagerly clean. “Mmmm, so good!”
“That’a girl!” Janet laughed from the sideline.
Ally smiled widely and then shuffled down so that her face was even with Aina’s pussy. Aina heard and felt the girl smelling her down there and made herself wait patiently. It was important that Ally’s first time be as good as possible and forcing Ally into her pussy to put out the fire she started would be high on the bad list.
But Ally must have noticed something on her face because she murmured, “sorry,” and then Aina felt a long, wonderful tongue swipe up her pussy. She and Ally both moaned happily for different reasons. Then the next lick came and Ally put enough pressure on it to enter her lips, so she moaned even harder. Like herself, Ally’s saliva was affecting her in a major way with every lick. Encouraged by her noises, Ally began to more vigorously lick her and deeply. Then she seemed to try and lick her entire vagina clean because that wonderful tongue was suddenly shoved in as far as it would go and it slurped around wildly. And Aina felt first-hand what her saliva did to the others
“Oh god,” Aina whimpered softly. Her eyes were closed tight as the sensations from her pussy flooded through her. Ally was making an excellent first effort.
Ally’s mouth found her tiny clit, and the girl treated it just as she had her nipples, just like Aina had hoped. And it was Amazing. The suckling and nibbling of her most sensitive place kicked her hard into a powerful orgasm. She could feel herself flooding onto Ally’s small face.
Ally felt it too and that tongue was soon slipped into her vagina again as the girl tried to suck her dry. But Aina just kept on cumming. With Ally’s tongue and saliva working on and into her, it just wouldn’t stop. So when Ally finally did relent and move away from her pussy to kiss her, it took a bit for her to come back to earth.
“I think you did well for your first time Ally,” Krista giggled. “When Aina makes that face it means she came really good.”
“You did?” Ally asked now, looking down at her face.
“Uh-huh,” Aina smiled. “Whew! That was definitely good.” She gave the girl a thanking kiss and then looked over at her two girlfriends. “Time to learn one last thing Ally, can you slip off me now?”
“Aww,” Ally smiled playfully. But she did as she was asked and moved off to sit between her body and Krista, which was perfect. “I was learning to enjoy being like that.”
“One of the best feelings ever,” Janet agreed.
“Alright Ally, the last thing we need to do is clean up my girlfriends here. It’s a waste leaving those nice juices there.”
Ally smiled and moved to go to Krista, but Aina reached out and stopped her. Ally then looked at her in confusion.
“Not with your body,” Aina admonished gently. “But with your powers. Like this.”
Aina drew the wetness from Janet’s face and chest and it flew in a stream through the air and into her mouth. She savored the taste for long moment, and then nodded to Ally. “Your turn.”
Ally turned to the patiently smiling Krista and frowned. But after a moment a look of understanding came over Ally and liquid was soon flowing from Krista to her mouth too. Ally took it all in with a pleased expression. When she swallowed, she looked to Aina. “Like that?”
“Exactly, now fished cleaning Krista, you can’t leave her all sticky. I expect you to clean every last drop!” Aina said in joking command.
“Aye ma’am,” Ally laughed. Then they were both drawing fluids from their respective partner and drinking it all down. The sheer quantity the two were producing now was amazing, and it took a while. But soon they were both licking their lips and feeling content inside.
“You clean now Krista?” Aina asked with a grin.
“Yeah,” Krista laughed amusedly. “She sucks it off just as thoroughly as you do. I don’t see or feel a speck left anywhere.”
“How about you Ally,” Aina said. “You aren’t thirsty anymore?”
“No!” Ally laughed. “Definitely not. I actually feel kind of full.”
“Good!” Aina nodded in satisfaction at a job well done and from the truly excellent sex.
“So what did you think of your first time?” Janet asked Ally as she and Krista both moved closer so that all four of them were in a very tight circle on the bed. This had their naked bodies in very pleasant close proximity and everyone’s eyes were roaming a bit. “Do you think you can stomach being with girls now?”
“Without question,” Ally agreed with a smile. “This has to be the most intense day I’ve ever had.” Then her smile slowly faded and Aina saw deep sadness quickly taking its place. Ally was moving into another round of depression. “I’m really thankful for you three. And for you especially Aina, for everything you’ve done. I…” she snuffled her nose and tears began to roll down her pale cheeks. “I’ll never see my mom or dad again. I know that. And it’s really confusing since it feels like they just left me today. But this whole day Aina, I’ve drawn strength from you and you haven’t once complained. Whenever dark thoughts started to crawl up I just looked at you, or during the tests, thought about you. And now the three of you have done this for me, to help me now that I’m not who I was and with a strange new body.”
Ally started to cry in earnest, and Aina drew the girl to her, hugging her face to her naked chest. Ally threw her arms around her, seeking protection and strength. Janet and Krista shuffled over and put their arms around Ally too, putting her in the middle of a warm and comforting embrace. Hands stroked and comforted where they could.
“What am I supposed to do right now Aina?” Ally mumbled against her. “I’ve managed to not think about it all day, somehow. But my family is gone! I know my Aunt and my cousins love me and they will care for me. But it hurts!” Ally started sobbing and all three of them held her even tighter. Aina saw sympathetic tears forming in Janet and Krista’s closed eyes. “All I have is this feeling inside that I absolutely need you; that you can protect me and help me when I need it. That you are the strength I need to rely on. It’s really confusing Aina, but its there. I feel like I have to be near you so you can take away my pain.”
“Stop it!” Aina whispered harshly. Her hands petted and stroked Ally’s head and her fingers slid through silken hair. She was a bit surprised by the fact that she could feel Ally’s tears like a burning sensation on her chest, but she ignored it. She had known that giving Ally her blood would change the girl irrevocably. But this was something she hadn’t contemplated. But it matched some of the things she’d seen in vampire movies were created vampires were always very close and loyal to their sires. So this was something she would have to be responsible for. Though she didn’t really find that all too onerous. Ally was a really nice girl and she’d been very sweet so far. She was just in a great deal of pain.
“Stop talking,” Aina said more gently now. “I know you are hurting, and that it’s all been really confusing, that’s why I’ve tried to keep you smiling today. It’s why I introduced you to Janet and Krista right away like this. Because I knew losing your parents would be painful. And waking up like you did today, knowing that events have left you behind, I know it has you all turned around. So you just be quiet now and led us hold you. If you need me, then just ask. You feel that way because it’s true. I made you what you are now, and I won’t leave you alone, not so long as you want or need it. I know we just met today, but your life and mine are now tied. So just shut up and cry!”
And she did. Ally cried for what seemed like hours. But they just held her and let her tears flow. Her crying moved in phases, sometimes loud and in body wracking heaves, and sometimes soft and wet, but they never left her alone. Sometime during that they had all laid her down so that they were all laying together in a protective clump. But eventually Ally’s tired body and mind ran out of gas and she slipped tearfully into sleep. Aina saw Janet and Krista looked equally tired and drained from the emotional storm of their new friend.
Aina slowly and very carefully extricated herself from the group and looked over them. Janet and Krista looked at her questioningly. “Just stay with her,” Aina whispered. “She needs people with her. But I need to go and talk to the adults.” She saw understanding in their eyes, and they both snuggled into Ally and closed them.
Aina dressed, silently made her way to the door, made a small hole in her barrier, and after a fond, parting look, she turned out the light and left for the moment.
*****
After her niece left the room with Aina and her two girlfriends, Mrs. Maviers felt her emotional stress levels quivering. The whole situation smacked of impropriety. She had been a teacher and now a principal for twenty-five of her years, so it went against the grain to allow such a young child engage in anything sexual.
It had been bad enough when she had figured out what it was Aina was going to do at school earlier. But now her niece would be required to do the same thing. And from Aina’s description of her own needs, Ally would need to do so often. Every twelve hours Aina had said she felt thirsty. That meant twice a day at a minimum.
After they had left the room had descended into an uncomfortable silence. Aina’s mother Raina and her youthful girlfriend Tina looked the worst in that regard. Her teenage daughters both had that look on their faces that teenagers get when they get stuck unfairly in adult affairs they believe have nothing to do with themselves. They probably didn’t mind what Ally was doing. They’d been brought up in this more accepting age. So Raina had turned on the television and they had spent the last two hours watching the news.
“This is freaking stupid!”
Everyone turned in shock as Tina’s angry snap broke the sound of the newscaster’s nasal tone. Gerri found that she was the one being glared at by the young woman.
“Are you going to be like this when Ally comes back?” Tina growled angrily. “She’s going to live with you, right?”
“Yes,” Gerri said in a fumbled tone that was very much unlike her. She was unused to being one on the receiving end of someone else’s powerful ire. And she was realizing quickly that Tina was a strong willed woman when she wanted to be.
“Then you are going to ruin her life if all you can do us frown and glare in disapproval when she’s around,” Tina went on. “This is the reality you have to live with from now on, Mrs. Maviers. Your niece, a barely twelve year old girl, has to have sex.” Gerri visibly flinched at the word and Tina snorted scornfully. “Stop acting like some stuck-up, religious prude. You’re a mature woman with two daughters, so I know you know what sex is. So quit acting like this is terrible thing. I mean look at Raina!”
Aina’s mom frowned at having attention drawn to her but she didn’t shy from it.
“Aina has been the way she is for almost a month now,” Tina went on. “Raina has told me what she went through during that, but as you can she has accepted Aina as she is and helps her daughter live her life. It’s strange and unusual and probably against what society would say is ‘normal’,” she voice dripped with dislike at the word. “But as you can see from Aina and the other two girls, they are perfectly behaved, they get good grades and in Aina’s case she’s actually shown a great deal more maturity.
“But, I’m a teacher and a principal of a school,” Gerri objected a bit lamely. “I can’t just—”
“Yes, you can just ignore it,” Tina snapped, cutting her off. “If you look at Ally like you are right now, when she’s gotten over the death of her parents and has settled into what she had become, she will come to hate you.”
“Mom, she’s definitely right about that,” Larissa said, interjecting into the conversation. “Heck, I’m actually kind of pissed at you and I’m not even her. No one can change how she is now except for Aina, and that would only be to become a full vampire.”
“Everyone is against you on this Mom,” Triela agreed. “I plan on fully supporting my little cousin.”
Gerri’s mind was in turmoil with this. It made sense but…she looked over and locked eyes on Aina’s mother who was calmly listening to the discussion. “What did you do Raina?” she asked. “When Aina was changed?”
Raina smiled now. “Freaked out, fought with myself, complained, whined, behaved like an idiot for a bit, and then after a good friend of mine bashed sense into my head, I calmed down and realized that Aina was still Aina, even with the new and very different body. I love her and care for her; so much so that I’ve even fed her myself when I had to.”
That pronouncement hit the room like a bomb, at least for Gerri and her daughters. Tina she saw simply smiled. So she had already known and didn’t care. But it really made Geri think hard. To think that Raina had been forced to have sex with her own daughter in order to feed her, it was definitely a shock. But both Raina and Tina were absolutely calm and resolute about it.
“I don’t think I can do that with Ally,” Gerri said tightly in a controlled voice.
“Hah!” this time Riana was grinning. “If I know Aina, and I really do, she’ll be back there coming up with something on her own. She’ll feel that this is her responsibility and for her to take care of. Ally’s feeding needs are as good as settled.”
“But, she’s twelve!” Gerri said in surprise.
“So? Like Tina mentioned, my daughter can be surprisingly mature. And she knows about being as she is more than anyone. She is never inconsiderate and has very rarely ever lied to me. I trust her and know that she will let us know anything she decides on. So she won’t just dump something on you. And those other girls are back there too. Neither of them would do a damn thing to harm Ally. The best thing to do is to simply relax, breathe and take things as the come.”
“Okay, I think I might be able to do that,” Gerri said as she did forcibly calm herself back down. “But didn’t you just have some sort of problem with Aina?”
“Oh…that,” Raina’s face grew stormy and Tina glowered openly. “That was because my estimable mother,” her voice reeked with sarcasm, “decided to pay a visit. Because of events in own past, mostly involving becoming a teenage mother, my credit was destroyed. So I rented this house from my mother. And as Tina can attest to, she’s genuinely crazy. So any time she’s around we have to bend to her will because if she wanted to, she has the full legal right to toss us out. And I refuse to raise my daughter in one of those crummy apartments in a bad neighborhood, even if she could cream any creep that tried to mess with her.”
That was an understatement Gerri knew, she’d seen a bare hint of Aina’s anger. And that was a protective fury. If some weirdo tried to mug or rape Aina, she would tear the guy apart. And if anyone at all messed with those girls? It didn’t even bare thinking on.
“I like the school she is in,” Raina continued. “I refuse to mess up her future because of something like this. And I know she’ll probably tell you similar reasons about me if you ask Aina. If I could do something about it, I would.”
“Okay,” Gerri said. She was slowly coming to grips with the whole thing. “I guess I’ll just have to learn and grow into this whole thing.” She saw smiles bloom in nearly every face, though Raina’s still looked at bit unhappy from her remembered problem. And that brought something else to her mind. And it was very appropriate in this situation. “Raina?”
“Hmm?” the other woman acknowledged.
“You know, I might be able to do something about that problem of yours?”
“You can?!” disbelief and surprise warred on Raina’s face. “How?”
“First, let me ask, do you have anything set aside?”
“Of course!” Raina said immediately. “I’ve been putting money aside for over a decade.”
“Then I know someone who can definitely help you out. I would really like to introduce you to her, she’s a specialist in property sales and it would be a great way for me to repay you and your family for today.”
“Considering that we were doing it to repay you for helping Aina out, it think we’re going to keep swapping favors at this rate,” Raina smiled. “But I really would be thankful if this person you know could help me. Getting out from under the control and fear of my mother would be an immense blessing. And to finally own my house…that would make this favor beyond ever repaying.”
“Then I’ll call her tomorrow and have her call you as soon as possible,” Gerri said smiling wide now.
“Aina?” They all turned and looked at Triela’s questioning tone. Gerri had to turn in her seat to look toward the hallway, but sure enough, the young girl was entering the room with a serious and business-like expression of her face, which went badly with her messed-up and tussled hair. Her ponytail had been really loosened at the tie and was bunched up strangely.
“Why is everyone looking at me funny?” Aina asked in bemusement. She continued walking until she was in the middle by the table.
“Fix your hair, Aina,” Raina answered.
Aina frowned in momentary annoyance, reached up, and simply pulled the tie in her hair out. With that her hair simply fell down to her shoulders and she tucked the front edges behind her ears. Gerri thought it made her look even younger that her small frame already suggested. “Better?”
“Yes, very,” Raina nodded.
“Where are Ally and the others?” Gerri asked, she knew concern laced her voice.
“Ally is currently sleeping; Janet and Krista are keeping her comforted.” Aina looked directly at her and she could see a steely determination behind her two brown eyes. “It would really be for the best if she stayed the way she is for the night at least. The loss of her parents finally hit fully home and she became very upset. I will object very strongly to moving her at all tonight.”
Gerri was a little surprised by the fact that she knew Aina meant exactly what she was saying right now. She could well believe that Aina would do anything to let Ally remain undisturbed.
“That’s fine with me Aina,” she said finally. “But did you and the others…feed her.”
Some of her former opinion was have lingered in the tone of her voice or body language, because Aina turned fully toward her and her face grew stony. Her eyes blazed and Gerri knew that she’d just lost a large chunk of respect from the girl, and that really bothered her. No matter what happened from now on, Ally would probably have very close relations with Aina and if Aina thought she was being hostile to her niece…she shivered.
“Aina, calmly,” Raina interjected. Aina turned toward her mother and they seemed to share an unspoken conversation for a few moments. Then Aina sighed, which meant a lot since she didn’t need to breathe, and turned back to her.
“Yes, we did.” Aina finally answered. Her displeasure was still evident, but it contained none of the hostility of a moment before.
“Look, Aina,” she said. “This hard for me to take in, you know what my job is and that makes me instinctively reject this kind of thing. Your mother and Tina were just disabusing me of my opinions before you showed up, but it’s going to take a bit for me to adjust fully.”
“Then you should do so quickly,” Aina said pointedly. “She is in a great deal of pain already, she does not need to live in a household that shows any rejection of who and what she is. That would crush her. And that is something I won’t allow.”
“I understand that,” Gerri found it a little odd to be arguing so stridently with a twelve year old girl and one of her school’s students. “But what else can I do?”
Aina’s eyes again flicked to her mother and back. “Let her stay with me for a few days, and you can get your house and thoughts in order. That will give you time to reconcile with her change, get her things from wherever they are, set up a room for her, and all that kind of stuff. If you don’t have any of her stuff, that will give you a chance to buy her some clothes. It will also give us and me specifically time to help her mourn the loss of her parents, though I would suggest bringing her to her parent’s gravesite for her to say a formal farewell. But that’s a personal opinion.”
It made a great deal of sense. All those things did need taking care of. Today had simply been an opportunity not to pass up, so she’d leapt at getting Ally help, but her niece’s belongings and stuff were in an environment controlled storage unit. And she needed to get the basement turned into a bedroom too. She hadn’t even thought about what to do for tonight. So letting Ally stay here with the increasingly protective Aina would make a lot of sense. “Why you?” she asked.
Aina’s face took on an even more determined look somehow. “In making Ally the way she is, it seems that some form of bond was also created. She looks to me, out of her own words, for strength and protection. So in a way that makes me her sister. And it’s a responsibility I refuse to fail. She and I are now tied together and I will not reject it. In fact, I embrace it. She is mine to hold and to protect.”
“That possibility was in the papers,” Gerri said slowly, and it matched exactly Raina’s prediction of Aina’s probably stance. Aina was all but saying that she considered Ally to be her charge and not Gerri’s. Life was going to be really interesting from now on. “What do we do about feeding her?” she asked now as levelly as she could.
Aina actually smiled now, though it was a shark’s smile. “I will be responsible for that for now. I will guide her as necessary. Though whenever she does need to drink blood, it would be beneficial if at least one of you three were willing to let her drink from you.”
“I don’t mind at all,” Larissa said at once.
Aina nodded her thanks, “Then when that time comes I will show her what to do, and why. As for the other requirement, considering your current mindset, my own current arrangements wouldn’t work for her. So, would it be possible to have her come here before school every morning and then go there with me and to come home that way as well? If her feeding requirements are less frequent than every 12 hours, then that could be adjusted some, and we would work around anything that came up. Janet and Krista are also willing to provide as necessary. They genuinely like her and will consider her at the very least, to be a close friend. There is chance that eventually she will find another loved one who can help her. But for now, it is for me to see to.”
Gerri had to stare in long thought. Aina had clearly outlined a basic early plan for this and in only a brief bit of time. And from her face, it was something she felt strongly about. And that she was very serious about being Ally’s ‘sister’ as well. There were plenty of places for something to come up and disrupt things, but she believed that Aina had probably thought of that. But for now this idea would work. She left early for work every morning, so she could just drop Ally off in the morning and let her take the bus with Aina and then pick her back up later. It would also give Ally close access to friends she would desperately need.
“I don’t see anything wrong with doing it that way,” she told Aina after a moment. “I suppose we can always move things around for any problems that crop up.” Aina nodded and smiled in a better natured manner. “How long do you think she should stay here with you?”
“I like how I was consulted for this decision,” Raina chuckled her way into the conversation. “Aina, how about at least until the party on Friday ? We can re-evaluate her mental state then. She can just wear some of your clothing while she’s with us.”
Aina was nodding even before she finished. “I think the party would be good.”
“What party?” Gerri asked.
“Oh, we’re having a little get together dinner thing with a bunch of friends to watch the big announcement,” Raina answered. “I’m hosting and making a lot of food. You and your daughters are invited now too. I think you’ll like the others.”
“Cool,” Larissa and Triela responded almost as one. They were both grinning.
“That would be nice, and I agree to the plan so far. I’ll leave off her starting school until next Monday. It’ll take me at least that long to do the paperwork anyways.”
“Good!” something very like parental satisfaction glowed in Aina’s intelligent brown eyes and Gerri realized that Aina’s words about being responsible for Ally’s care had been absolute. It was something Aina had already decided that she would do, and damn any obstacles. Aina gave them all a nod and a smile. “Since things are worked out for now, I need to go back. I need to be there if Ally wakes up. Good night.”
“Good night Aina” Larissa called out, she was immediately echoed by her sister.
“See you in the morning,” Raina smiled. “You guys have tomorrow off from school for the teacher-in-service day, so I’ll hold off on breakfast until the girls are awake and ready.”
“Thanks Mom,” Aina returned and she cast a smile at Tina. “Enjoy your evening.”
“Thank you!” Tina giggled
With that Aina nodded one last time in a leave-taking gesture, and left the room. Returning to those she loved and considered under her care.
“See what I meant?” Raina asked once they heard the door shut down the hall. Amusement was clearly evident on her face. “Aina protects what she considers ‘hers’ in any way. And Ally has already been put quite firmly into that circle.”
“But isn’t that kind of possessive?” Gerri asked.
“From what my friend Danni, the woman who helped Aina and me after she was turned, says that vampires are almost always territorial and possessive. And it helped that Aina was already very protective even before becoming as she is. So I pity anything that should ever, ever threaten any of the girls in that room, me, Danni or her girlfriend’s families. I suspect that doing so would be extremely unfortunate for those involved. And I would feel no remorse for them.”
“I did see how she reacted to anything that suggested she might harm them herself,” Gerri said after a moment. From what Raina was saying, Aina was possibly the very best person Ally could form a close relation with. Not only did Aina truly care, she would back it up and enforce it to the hilt.
“Yes, she doesn’t like that,” Raina laughed. “So as you can see, Ally will be in very good hands for as long as she wants it. Aina will never push her away and Janet and Krista will be right there along beside her. I’ve already been considering those two as part of the family.”
“Though, ‘family’ is getting to be an interesting word now,” Tina smiled and hugged Raina around the shoulders.
“Heh, very true,” Raina grinned.
Gerri checked the time on her cell phone and then sighed. “Then since things are mostly settled for now, I need to head home. I have a lot to do and unlike the middle school, my daughters still have school tomorrow.” She stood and gestured to her daughters.
“Damn,” Larissa cursed, humorously.
“I hate being older sometimes,” Triela agreed as she stood with her sister. “But thanks for having us over and for helping out little cousin.”
“It was nice to meet you too,” Raina smiled and stood as well with Tina. She walked them to the door and helped them retrieve their coats. Once they were bundled up against the evening chill of the slowly waning winter, she opened and held the door politely.
“I’ll make sure my friend calls you tomorrow,” Gerri promised.
“Thank you, so drive safe. Ally will be just fine with us,” Raina smiled.
“Good night then.”
And with that they left with Gerri feeling much surer about her young niece’s future.
******
When Aina returned to her bedroom, the three girls were as she had left them. Krista was holding Ally tightly from behind to her chest and Janet was hugging them both with one arm from the front. She didn’t want to disturb them so she went to her closet and took out one of the spare comforters that were kept there for when the winters got really cold at night. Not that that was a problem for her anymore.
She covered all the others with the warm comforter and smiled as they all seemed to relax a little under it. She then slipped under it herself and sat upright against the wall next to Janet. She wanted to think about things for a bit, and she needed far less rest than the others, though Ally was an unknown about that just yet. But as she settled in and got comfortable, she felt Janet stir against her leg and then slowly slide up next to her. Aina smiled at her naked form.
“How did it go?” Janet whispered sleep tainting her voice.
“About how I expected it to go,” Aina answered. “Ally will be staying here for a few days to grieve and reconcile herself to her new life and situation. She seems strong, so I suspect that she will be able to say good-bye to her parents and move on. But until then we will help her along.”
Janet nodded her understanding, though Aina was the only one who could have possibly seen it in the gloom.
“But,” Aina went on,” I want you and Krista involved. Ally is my responsibility and can’t turn away from it. But I love both of you and want your input and help too. I’m even thinking of asking if you could also stay here for the days she’s here.”
“That’s nice of you, and I hope I can,” Janet smiled and looked down at the two slumbering girls. “I can probably speak for Krista when I say this Aina, but we trust and love you. If Ally proves to be the persons he has hinted at, neither of us will likely have a problem with her. And if out happy little triumvirate is Fated to become four? Then that will happen as it happens I suppose and we’ll deal with it. But I don’t foresee any problems. And she’s really cute Aina.”
“I know,” Aina replied, and squeezed on Janet’s smooth thigh in thanks. “That means a lot. I know life with me has been interesting and sometimes difficult, but I’m grateful to both of you for having patience.”
“Heh,” Janet’s soft snort said volumes. “Aina, that interestingness of yours is one of the multitudes of reasons I love you. And I don’t doubt that Krista would agree with me. But it would be nice if we could have some nice quiet time too.”
“I’ll work on it,” Aina smiled.
“Good,” Janet answered. “Now switch places. Ally will be looking for you when she wakes up. Though I can’t say I’ve minded doing this for her at all. She’s been so nice.”
They slowly and carefully moved places so that Aina was now the one next to Ally. In response, one of the sleeping girl’s hands quested out and touched her leg. Aina just smiled and gave her pillow to Janet since she didn’t really need it. Janet snuggled in close on her other side and she wrapped an arm around her when Janet ignored the pillow and simply laid her head on Aina.”
“This is much nicer,” Janet said tiredly, and a moment later Aina felt and heard hr breathing slow into sleep. Aina simply smiled and enjoyed the sensations for a little while, and then, willed her body into sleep as well.
Continue on to Chapter 10
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