His home had obviously been moved as I woke up, above ground, in his bed, with him sitting in a large cerulean armchair in front of the large bed. I could see him through the white curtains that covered the bed from the outside, and I could see his anger with me. I had not gone willingly, and his own morals kept him from touching me while I slept in his bed. The white coverlet was heavy, full of what had to be down, and I knew that when I crawled out of the bed, I would be wearing something different then what I had started the night out in. . Sighing, he grasped those pure white curtains, and pulled them away with a rip, silk sounds the most like flesh, like wet meat being ripped to shreds by a tiger. He was grinning like a cat still, and I knew that I was ending up as the canary.

"Welcome to my new abode, I had it made with you in mind mi amo." He said as he crawled onto the bed and I scooted backwards, he held that ripped silk in his hands and stalked me like the prey I was.

"Nice and cold don't you think?" I said as I scooted back even more, just a little more and I would be off the bed, which was yet again larger than it needed to be. Fear pounded through my veins as he stalked me, and finally, like I knew it would happen, I fell off the bed, only to never hit the floor. Only to fall right into his pale, strong arms as he scooped me up and tied the silk around my wrists, so tight that it was cutting off the circulation. Now his grin turned evil as he stood me on my feet and pulled me to him, causing me to stumble in the white stilettos I now wore. A white teddy left little to the imagination as he drug me out of the room.

"You haven't seen cold yet Lara" He growled as he strode down the hall, painted black and purple. His people cowered in front of him, he had become a monster.

"Let go of me Constantine" I demanded, he was scary full of power, and deep down I knew he wouldn't but I had to try to appeal to the old human within him. "Let go of me, and we can go back to the bedroom, I will be yours if only for a little while" I then pleaded

"You are already mine in part Lara, and until the council leaves us you shall be fully mine." He said, and I understood. My making him look weak had invited the elders here, and unless I acted like I would stay, they would kill all the vampires that had lived in this area, murdered them and their human supporters. But then again, they could potentially free me from his grasp, but doing so would only kill the vampires that were at one time my friends. What a puzzling matter. Constantine stopped when we reached a large conference room, and shoved me inside, causing me to flail as i fell into the room. The elders we sitting down, having just arrived, as Constantine strode gracefully in the room, pulled me up with a jerking motion that looked graceful, and caring, though in reality he nearly jerked my shoulder out of its socket. His anger, invisible to everyone else, seemed to be aimed directly at me. He sat down and pulled me onto his lap, so that I could lean on his one shoulder and drape my legs over the arm of the large ebony leather chair. The position, though slightly uncomfortable kept me the safest, I was in Constantines reach in case one of the council members went after me, and they were all scowling right at me.

"As you all can see, my human servant is on the premises and has been for about a week now after getting back from a slight vacation spent doing her outside job. Who would I be if I limited her freedom, since she came to me so freely" He asked to the council. I just stared at his face, I had been unconscious for a week?

"Yes, but then again Constantine, she is not fully marked yet, how can we trust that she wont turn on you, or on the rest of us?" A council woman with long pale blonde hair said, she was old, very old, though in looks she was only twentiesh. Her eyes were a pale jade green, and her power rattled through my skull as she attempted to taste mine.

"I hold power over her, I have for as long as she has been under just one mark of mine. Just last year when my own sire was here, the sire who murdered her family, she never once attempted to murder him, because of the knowledge she had which suggests that killing Edward Skynner would kill both myself and her. Does that answer your question Lady Analiese?" He asked the truth of his words rolling of his tongue in his greek accent. "Polyagapimenos has done nothing to endanger those who follow the laws of this country, only track those that be the killers and breakers of the law of the one country as to which our kind is seen as people, and has rights, and are legal"

"Is this true Lara?" she asked this time directly to me. I could tell a lie, and let them kill me now, or at least see if they would let me be free of his grasp, but that would be a lie, and Vampires can smell a lie.

"Had that small problem not arisen, I would have avenged the death of both of my loves, and my parents." I said, it was the truth. "Had killing Skynner not have killed me I would have done it." There any disgust towards Constantine was apparent so they now knew of that, as his grasp around my waist became painful.

"Constantine, the only thing keeping her tied to you is those marks" Another councilman said, he was tall, with curly hair, pale skin and midnight blue eyes. He flashed a little fang as I stared at him.

"And her love for her own life" Constantine said as I turned towards him. Everyone looked like they were going to kill me, so I buried my hands in his long silver hair, And pulled myself up so that my eyes were in level with his, tilted my head slightly to the right and kissed him. He was surprised for a second or so as I softly kissed him, his cheeks, nose forehead, and when I made it back to his lips, he pulled me closer, one of my hands came down and pressed against his chest as he kissed back. A minute later I pulled out and smiled at him. He was stunned still as he allowed me to move back from where I was sitting astride him, back to sitting across his lap, his arms wrapped around my waist.

"may I speak?" I asked softly, trying to appeal to the councils happy side. They looked like they had been hit by a train. "Then when I had wanted to kill Skynner and Constantine, I had not known that I would come to love him. I don't have all the marks, because I want just a little freedom before finally becoming his, and he has graciously allowed me that little bit of freedom." I said and Constantine recovered from his surprise quickly as his hand started to make small circles along my thigh. "His allowance of some time in what we humans call a dating phase has only made me come to love him even more."

"Why should we have any reason to believe the human slayer of our own kind?" Lady Analiese asked as I sighed. They were not going to believe me unless we fucked then and there on the table. Not that Constantine would complain, he needed laid, badly by the looks of it. "you did run away from your master did you not?" She said again, this time to be answered by Constantine.

"she did run away for a short time my Lady, and for that, the punishment shall be dealt once I finish planning it. Lara knows that what she did was wrong, and decided to allow me to deal out the punishment, as a master should" He said and I looked up at him. Punishment, that was a new one.

"And shall we be given proof of her punishment?" She asked as one of the men grinned. There was obviously another reason why they were here.

"Of course, now what are you hiding behind the smile Lance?" Constantine asked as the man with short wavy golden hair laughed.

"Constantine, we brought you a gift, one to watch over you and your servant as a help to us all." He said and waved in a few more vampires, one was just as stunning as Constantine had always been, but something cold hid behind his deep blue eyes. His black hair held a slight curl and came down to his shoulders, his body a tanned bronze, the same bronze that Constantine's own skin had been before I ran. Constantine held me tighter to him, not out of protection, but out of fear. Something about this man gave him a fright.

"Hello again brother" The man said in disdain as the elders grinned. What better way to keep Constantine under their control then to introduce the person who wanted him dead to the picture.

"Dane, it has been a long time has it not?" Constantine said as he stood up, dropping me to the floor, and hugged the man as though nothing was wrong, but I could feel it. I could feel the malice in the room as I stood back up and put my hands gently on Constatine's arm as he backed away from the hug.

"ma Cherie, you are as beautiful as they say you are. No wonder you have murdered so many of our kind, they must flock to you" Dane said as he took my hand and kissed right over the veins of my wrist. This move was a trust play, one that could kill me if he bit down, or show that I was also slightly afraid of the man by snatching my hand back. There was nothing I could do besides allow him to lay one smack on the vein. He pressed his memories into me, forcing them into my head as I stumbled backwards onto Constantine. The sight of them both sandwiching a girl between them, sucking her dry as they both fucked her. I could feel it all as though I was her, the sweat of their bodies, the coppery smell of the blood, the feeling of release, it was too much as I screamed out. The elders laughed as the room swirled around them, as they were about to disappear from which they once came as Constantine held me up in front of him, giving me room to breathe as the pressure which had filled the room dissipated.

"Dane, those days have been over for a long while, now, thrust the images of times of old into my polyagapimenos's head again, and I will tear your throat out" Constantine said as I steadied myself against him.

"the days of old are beginning again Constantine, besides, the reason why they decided it would be me to be here, is so that if they see it fit, I may be the one to take over, and take your servant as my own." He said as a few of Constantines own vampires rushed into the tiny conference room, as they had sensed that something had gone wrong.

"It is alright my darlings" Constantine said as his tigers entered the area too. "Will one of you please show Damien to his quarters, as he shall be with us for a while" He said as I pressed myself up against Constantine. Make no mistake, Damien would die if he did not get over whatever grudge he had, I would kill him, turn him to dust, and make the home of my friends safe again.

"Yes master" One of the new tigers said as they looked up at Damien, grabbed his hand, and led him out with the group. Constantine and I stood in the doorway for a short while, before he lifted me and carried me back to his room, which had been cleaned up from when we had been there earlier. He set me down gently on the bed, and knelt in front of me. Hugging me, his head against my stomach, as I felt him turn warmer.

"Can I kill him? It would make our people safer." I said and he sighed from his position as his hands began to kneed my butt, slipping under the lace as I gasped. His hands always did that, and if our relationship was only sex based, it would be great. But it wasn't. He was a vampire, a master vampire, and I was a slayer who carried two of his marks. He looked up at me, his face hardened with seriousness.

"Cuciolla mia, we cannot kill him, as it would declare war between my flock and the council. They would be slaughtered and we would be in no position to stop them. Now we have to find a punishment for you that will include Damien, or else they will be back, he said as he pushed me back and spread my legs with his knee.

"Constantine, please, not now" I said as he placed his hands to either side of my head. He looked down at me, his face slightly grinning.

"Were you lying earlier Lara when you said that you could be mine?" He said as he kissed my neck, as he adjusted his hands so that one was holding him up, the other grabbed both of mine and help them above my head.

"You know better Constantine" I said as he pulled the white teddy down off my right shoulder as he kissed there too, my heart beat raced. "You know that as soon as you even begin, I will be willing, so what does it matter?"

"It matters due to you stating you would be mine, that means I would be allowed to take blood from you polyagapimenos" He said and I sighed, his mouth had made its way to the opposite side of my chest, and was resting right over my beating heart.