Stolen Soul

Maddison squealed, "Crap!", when she felt the heat from the bright sunlight beaming through the edge of the curtains in the bedroom.

The clock was screaming 10:00 AM at her as she struggled to get out of Marcus' embrace. He murmured sleepily and pulled her against him more tightly.

"Marcus, wake up please. I have to go!", exclaimed Maddison as she desperately tried to get his arms off her which were steadily refusing to move, only grasping her more strongly.

"Wha..?", murmured Marcus sleepily as Maddison managed to pull one of his arms off her.

"Let me go Marcus! I have to go, my mum or Michael or worse both will kill me if I don't get home like 3 hours ago!", she said as she pulled his arms away from her and jumped off the bed looking around for her clothes.

"Shit..", Marcus murmured as he regarded the clock stating 10:15 AM.

"I'll come over here tonight if I don't get imprisoned in my room", said Maddison.

"Well if that happens I can easily break you out", grinned Marcus sleepily.

Maddison smiled at him before racing out the door.

She ran the whole way home, rustling up the drainpipe she hurriedly made into her room. She decided to try and use a cooling spell on herself as Michael would certainly smell the scent of sweat and sex on her. After she quickly finished the spell there was a knock at her door.

When she opened it, Michael stood on the other side, looking quite cheerful.

"You’re up finally", he said.

"Yeah, I slept in", said Maddison, hopeful that Michael wouldn't pick up any scents on her.

"Well your mother sent me here because she’s not feeling well and she'd like you to go and get her some flu tablets from the pharmacy", said Michael.

"Ok. You’re looking pretty cheerful this morning Michael", said Maddison observantly.

He grinned and said, "Yeah.. Alex can be such a hellcat in the mornings when she wants to be, you need to take a shower and change your clothes before going out Maddison".

"Yeah sure, I'll just be a minute", said Maddison, wondering if he could smell something after all but had decided not to make an issue of it.

After the door closed she couldn't believe her luck at the situation.

After getting over the surprise that nobody even knew that she hadn’t slept in her bed, she got into the shower and cleaned up. She got her things together and went to get her mother the medication.

After paying for the medication and walking out of the store, she felt something brush against her back. Turning she saw the faint shimmers of something standing behind her, it turned and moved down the alley between the pharmacy and the building next door.

"Hello?", Maddison called out as she followed.

"Maddison, I'm glad you've finally come to accept Marcus. Now we need to move you on to the next part of this. The vampire witch's resting place is where you find what you seek", said the spirit as it shimmered in front of her.

"I was wondering when you would show up again, where is this resting place?", asked Maddison.

"Its a.. secret", said the spirit.

"Well could you be more specific? You sent me on this quest. A secret isn't much help if you don't know what it is", said Maddison.

"I'm sorry Maddison you'll have to find that out on your own, I'm just an enchantment, I wasn't given that answer", said the spirit.

"Well that's just great, hopefully what I’ve found is right though", said Maddison.

The spirit smiled and vanished.

When Maddison got back to the mansion, she found Michael in the common room heavily making out with Alexandria.

"Sorry to interrupt Michael, but where is mum? I got her tablets", said Maddison.

"In her room Maddison", said Michael sounding slightly breathless.

Maddison headed upstairs.

"Hi mum, I got your flu tablets", she said as she entered the bedroom.

"Thank you Maddison", said Marianne, coughing slightly. "I would have asked Alexandria, but you know what werewolves are like this close to the full moon".

"Yeah I know, Michael is always in such a good mood this time of month. They are making out in the common room", said Maddison.

"Oh, it won't be long before they move back to their room then", said Marianne smiling, "Why don't you have anybody yet Maddison?".

Maddison froze for a second before coming up with something.

"I'm just not really all that interested right now. I'm more interested in studying my spells. I found a cooling spell that works quite nicely".

"That's great dear, now get out before I infect you", chuckled Marianne, then coughed.

"Ok mum, I'll see you later then", said Maddison leaving and closing the door. 'I need to do some research on the witches lair, it would really help if I knew the witches’ name', she thought as she headed back downstairs.

After several hours of digging through the ancient musty texts she found something that she thought might give her something to go on.

'The Haunted Caves' - A set of caves just outside of the residential district of eastern Paris, though there’s nothing inside the caves except for rock and moulds, it’s reported that anybody that goes into the caves never come out.

A group of people that went into the cave went mad, only two out of the group of eight that last went into the cave are still alive. The two living are inside a secure section of Paris's psychiatric hospital.

After reading that passage Maddison thought to herself, Hmmm, that sounds like a befuddlement curse. It would have to be immensely powerful to still be active and to cause so much harm'.

She decided to search more on the cave system and found a health warning from the French Government proclaiming the caves off limit and closed. Not knowing what was causing the problems the authorities shut down the caves to prevent people from going in.

'This certainly does sound very promising', thought Maddison. She regarded the late time as her stomach growled.

'I'll just grab dinner, then go see Marcus'.

After dinner she went to tell Michael she was going to bed but all she heard was growling from inside his room, so she thought that he'd be out of it until the morning. The full moon being tomorrow night, he'd be occupied until then. She went to check on her mother to tell her goodnight.

"Goodnight mum, I’m going to go to bed to study my spell books", said Maddison as she thought, 'I really do need to do that, I need to get some offensive magic working'.

"Goodnight dear, I’m going to be going to sleep soon", said Marianne tiredly.

"Night, hope you feel better tomorrow", said Maddison.

After closing the door she went into her room and decided to wait five minutes to be safe. She climbed out the window and left a large enough gap in her window for her to get back in. Quietly as possible she climbed down the drainpipe and made her way off the estate.

Some time later with the bright, near full moon shining on her she approached Marcus' house. She rang the doorbell and waited for him to come.

When he opened the door his shirt was hanging open and he got a shock as her beauty was illuminated by the bright moonlight shining on her.

"Are you just going to stand there like that, or are you going to let me in Marcus?", asked Maddison.

He grinned at her and stepped back, letting her in.

Her mind tried to remember for a second what she had come there to say when she got a nice view of Marcus' chest. Having taken the bandages off, the scar was now neatly formed over his strong chest.

Her fingers itched to trace the new mark.

"I have found some information that seems to be very promising", she said as Marcus led her upstairs to his bedroom.

She laid down on the large bed and said to Marcus, who still incidentally, hadn't buttoned up his shirt,

"We have to go to Paris, there is a cave system there that looks very promising. It looks to be guarded by a befuddlement curse and an illusions enchantment. The locals call it haunted as the only people to come out of there have gone clinically insane".

"Well tell me this, how are we going to get to Paris and back before dawn and without your mother or Michael or any of the warlocks finding out?", asked Marcus, lying down beside her.

"I don't know yet, but I’ll think of something", said Maddison, his close proximity to her burning her up.

"So what happened this morning?", asked Marcus.

"Nothing actually, my mother was sick so I went to the shops to get her some flu tablets. Michael looked well fucked when he came into my room just after I managed to get inside, so he couldn't smell what we'd been doing because of what he'd been doing with Alex. The full moon is tomorrow.. ", said Maddison.

"That's good", said Marcus, moving closer to her.

Maddison felt that she was burning up.

Her fingers itched and burned to touch him.

When he smiled it was the end for her and she captured his face in a steamy kiss. She grasped his shirt and pushed it off his shoulders and then she pushed him onto his back. He shuddered in pleasure when she dragged her nail across the still tender scar tissue.

He shoved her onto her back, yanking her shirt and bra off. He kissed her passionately as she grasped for his belt buckle. They hurriedly rid one another of their clothes and Marcus pressed her into his bed, growling as she grinded against him.

He bit into her shoulder thrusting quickly into her and they yelled in pleasure as the sensations washed over them. Marcus claimed her mouth in a searing kiss as he drove into her.

Moaning in pleasure, Maddison's release quickly washed over her, clamping on Marcus as he grunted and thrust even harder into her. Maddison twisted her waist on his and he shouted in pleasure as he released himself into her.

Marcus eventually slid off of her and laid next to her, spooning her against his body.

After Maddison's breathing slowed to normal she said, "You should tell me about the woman from the club…who is she Marcus?”.