Silken Sheets

Title: Silken Sheets
Author: Graeye Desires
AN: The story idea does belong to me, as do the characters. Though I\'ll be happy to lend them out! ::Grin.:: Thanks to all my reviews, I live for all comments!


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I didn\'t know what woke me, maybe it was the soft scurrying of feet or the sound of a metal door clanging shut, but all the sounds seemed to overwelm me at once. Opening my eyes I looked sharply around the small cell that I occupied. Big mistake. Light filled the half of the room that I wasn\'t sitting on and the bright light seemed to burn through my vision. Groaning I closed my eyes, wishing that it was actually night all ready. Hah, that was first.

Feeling the beginning of a headache form at my temple I tried to raise my hand as if to push it back, at least hold it off for a little while. I was stopped short by the feel of cool metal jerking at my wrist, biting into the soft flesh. Daring to open my eyes I glared down at the handcuff that wrapped itself around my slender joint. But that wasn\'t the worst of it, only the other end of the handcuff, his own cuff wrapped around his wrist too, it was Keenan. Gasping, mostly with anger asI searched through my mind for some possible explanation of why I was in some sort of cell with only one window and door, chained to some yummy lookinh vampire guy. Leaning over i softly poked his shoulder, when that didn\'t move him I shoved, hard, into his side.

His hand reached out, grabbing mine for more leverage to swing on top of me, pressing me against the fllor. I gasped, struggling against him, but all that succeded in getting me was him pressed ... um ... more firmly against me. I could tell that although he was probably angry at me for waking him in that rude way, he wasn\'t completely unhappy to be there.

He leaned down, head close to my ear, sniffing. \"Who are you?\"

I struggled against him more, already knowing in my mind that it was a futile attempt to get away. Sighing, my hair ruffling the dark hair streaming around his face I lay passive, trying to control my anger for the most part. My mind was working, I could almost audibly hear myself trying to decide if I should tell him my real name, and risk him using \"the ones I love\" agianst me. Or I could tell him the name I was known by as a V.H. and risk him getting angry and killing me, perhaps even chewing off my arm to release himself from my person. He could probably smell a lie, but if I told him one of my two names, I would be safe.

\"I am Rashida.\" I held my breath for awhile, scrunching my nose at the possibility that he would kill me right there on the spot.

He ground against me, leaning back so angry midnight blue eyes flashed at me. \"You\'re whole name, that means first and last.\"

I shighed once more. \"Rashida Thorne.\" It was a strange name, that I admit, but weren\'t all V.H. alias?

he didn\'t something that I was quite expwcting, he arched his back and let out a deep, stomach grumbling laugh that traveled through my body, sending shivers to race upon my spine. \"God, they handcuffed me to a vampire hunter. They must really wish one of us to die, bit if push comes to shove, believe me, it will be I who survives.\"

I snorted but any words that I would\'ve said were caught in my throat when he jerked my head by my hair. He leaned down, tongue darting down to snake along the pulse of my throat, I fought the urge to throw up even as his body touched mine intimatly. \"You smell too good to be a real vampire unter though, you must be how do you Americans say it now-a-days .. \'yanking my chain\'.\" He smiled smugly.

I let a strangled breath of air. \"You have the power equivalent to a master vamp, can\'t you tell if I was lying or not.\"

At this, eyes straining to see his face, I saw a look of said longing cross over his face, or maybe it was another emotion that I couldn\'t truly decipher as of yet. \"Ah, but you must not truly be a vampire hunter if you do not know that not all vampires have that power, master or not. Either that or you are just a babe in the ways of the supernatural world.\"

At those words he released me, moving as far away as he could and not have to pull me along with him because of the handcuffs. I had almost forgotten about them, and all V.H.\'s knew that was a no-no. Forgetting important details in the prescence of vampires, or any supernatural animal for that matter, was a sign that you wee beginning to trust the monsters. Sneering I jerked at the cool metal band, only succeeding in chafing my wrist. I was shocked when keenan reached over and smaked away my hands.

\"Stop that, you\'re doing more harm then you are helping. These are magically enhanced handcuffs, no matter what kind of stealth or strenth you have, you will not be able to get out of these cuffs unless you know the right words, and knowing our capturer we\'ll never figure it out.\"

I shot him my dealiest look. \"When we get out of here you\'ll have to tell me all you know about \'our capturer\'.\"

He looked suprised, eyes going wide, and a smile appeared on my lips, it was rare that a girl ever suprised a vmpire, let alone a master. It was a great confidence booster. \"You mean you don\'t know anything about him?\"

I shook my head, looking at him as if he were some three headed monster, since only one part of that was true I spokeout loud. \"Why, shouldI? All I know is this \'child\' kidnapped me because I supposed i was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Why don-\"

He laughed, shocking me and robbing me of all words. \"I can\'t believe it, he is getting sloppy in all this buisness of trying to catch me.\"

I narrowed my eyes suspiciously. \"What do y-\"

He stood up dusting his pants off for little specks of dust that had gathered when we had been knocked out in such. \"I will explain, but only after we escape from this ...\" He looked around, mouth drawn up in discust, \"this prison.\"

Before I could say anything he grabbed my unhandcuffed hand and jerked me up so I fell against him. Anger falred deep inside of me, welling up into the furocious thing that I knew was hard to contain, and what this Keenan person would soon learn soon. I glared up into his deep, dark, mudnight blue eyes. Instantly I forgot everything, only the soft feel of a warm breeze against my skin and the thought that everything was fine, I was surrounded by silken thoughts .....


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2nd AN: Sorry for the long wait folks. Hopefully I\'ll be able to post more often, I was simply stuck on this part. *wrinkles nose* Not completely satisfied with it either but I suppose I\'ll be back to change it. Remember ... I live for reviews!