Humans serve only one purpose in this world Who: Ariana and Lena Where: Jacobs Estate When: Evening, well after sunset
A fiery red 1999 Ferrari 360 roared past the open gates of the estate to take the long paved road up to the grand house of Luke and Lena Jacobs. It had been sometime since the blonde had seen Lena, and tiring of traveling through Europe on her own, Ari made the decision to make her way to the Americas, specifically the city known as Los Angeles. Screeching the vehicle to a stop at the front doors Ari killed the engine and climbed out of the sports car dressed in a short, black and white sleeveless Versace dress and two inch black heels. The girl looking ever the seventeen year old she did well over one hundred years ago walked casually up to the front door to press an index finger to the be to sound her unexpected arrival. Taking a small step back Ari ran her hands over her dress to smooth out any wrinkles that the garment might have acquired during the drive into the city.
Lena was still doing a bit of thinking after her meeting and conversation with Devon a few days ago. When she heard the car pull up outside, she briefly hoped that it was Luke so that she wouldn't have to think of such things as morals but saw that it was instead one of her children. She smiled when she realized which one it was. "Ariana," she said when she opened the door. "Do come in. What do I owe the pleasure?"
"I can't simply pay a visit to my "mother"? The blonde questioned stepping through the threshold after having been invited in to give a brief hug and kiss to each of Lena's cheeks when she reached the other woman. "You do have a man servant to go fetch my luggage, don't you?" Looking up to her sire with a soft little smile. Ariana really couldn't be expected to lug her matching designer luggage from the car all the way into the house and then up god only knew how many stairs to the room Lena surely would allow her to stay in during her time in the City of Angels. That task was simply beneath her as was most manual labor.
"You're right. You can," Lena said to her. As Ariana asked if there was someone to fetch her luggage Lena waved to a nearby butler who would do just that. "So how was your journey?" Lena asked her as they went into the parlor.
"Long and tiresome. Europe is such a boresom place this time of year." Ari explained briefly following Lena from the entryway into the parlor. "So, how have you been, mother?" The blonde inquired with a smile as she settled herself onto one of the chairs with a crossing of her legs. "I hope you have been well and happy."
"Not so much, actually," Lena admitted to her. "Luke's gone and doesn't seem to want to be found by anyone, myself included. I'm not sure what to make of this recent development."
"That seems quite out of character for Luke." Ariana responded to the older woman quite obvious not liking what she had just been informed of. "Maybe he just needed a bit of alone time." Which the blonde vamp was of the opinion of being highly unlikely. Ariana hadn't recalled a time in all the years she had been a part of Lena's family that Luke had pulled a disappearing act like this before.
That's because there was no time that Luke had run off like this before. It *was* out of character for him to disappear. It was why she was worried, after all. She hadn't been aware that vampires could worry, either, for that matter. For being over five hundred years old, it seemed that she was learning new things all the time about being a vampire, at least as of late. "You may be right," Lena said to her, although she didn't sound convinced. "Can I get you something to drink or anything?"
"I am fine," at least for the moment, "I shall go out for a little bit of take out later," Ariana answered with a look that was unmistakable in meaning along with the bit of wickedness relayed within the grin that spread slowly across the younger vampire's features. LA had such a variety that Ari knew she'd find something to satisfy her tastes of the moment.
Lena smiled back at her. She had always liked Ariana, after all, and certainly wouldn't deny her getting her own food in LA. "I think you'll like LA," she said to Ariana. "It has a lot of variety that will allow you find exactly what you are looking for, whatever that might be."
"Shall I bring you back a tasty little morsel?" The blonde offered with the thought that a place as grand as the mansion Lena was living in surely had a containment area below ground to house a few little pets that'd be at their disposal anytime they wished. A little blood puppy or two to use at their convenience.
Lena thought on that for a moment. "Sure," she said finally. "I'm sure that a snack will put me in better spirits."
"I shall bring you back something special, then." Ariana promised with a smile when she stood up from her seat. "Something sweet that will surely lift you spirits."
Lena smiled up at her. "Thank you," she said to her daughter. Well, daughter of a sort, anyway. "I'm sure that you'll pick out something fitting."
"And after we feast we must catch up on each other lives. It has been much to long since we chatted." With a smile Ariana approached Lena to lean down slightly and press a tender kiss to the older woman's cheek. I shan't be long, mother." The girl smiled bright before turning on her heels to head for the front door.
Having Ariana around was already making her feel better. She was glad that the other girl would be here with her, even if it was just for a little while. "Take care," she said as the girl turned to leave. "We'll catch up when you return."
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Ariana couldn't help herself after she arrived at one of the upscale clubs over on Santa Monica Blvd. The place was a virtual blood bank to the blonde vampire, and the sounds of so many beating hearts had Ariana's mouth watering at the thought of all the warm red wine flowing through virtually every person crowded into the place. It didn't take her long to zero in on her target, a petite scrumptious looking brunette. So human creatures were so easily led, especially when they were needy little things and had a little bit of alcohol inside them. And this sweet little thing was no different as she most willingly accompanied Ari out of the club and into the back alley cloaked mostly in darkness. The girl barely squeaked out a cry of pain pressed up against the outside wall of the club when Ariana sunk her teeth into the pulsating vein of the girl's neck after a little bit of foreplay. The blonde drank to her unbeating heart's content, letting the girl then slump in an unbreathing lump onto the alley floor completely drained of her life's blood. Licking her lips clean of the sweet red nectar, Ariana back up to disappear into the mouth of the darkened alleyway.
Ariana was pulling back up to the house with that little sweet something she had promised Lena. A tall, dark and handsome looking model type she had picked up in another section of LA, well away from where she had sucked the little brunette dry. "This is like a who's who party where anybody who's anybody is bound to show up." Ari cooed the lie expertly as she pressed closer into the guy's side with her arm linked through his as she led him up toward the house. Like the girl the guy was ever so willingly to follow Ariana with promises of her giving him the best night of his life. Pressing a finger to ring the bell, Ariana nuzzled the guy's neck while they waited for the door to be opened.
Lena had actually spent the last little while that Ariana was gone preparing the house for the 'company' that she was going to be having soon. Sure, she had sort of said to Devon that she wouldn't kill innocent people anymore. Sure, she could have gone with eating animals and avoided temptation all together, but she was certainly not going to do a crazy thing like that. She was sure that the person that Ariana would bring her wouldn't be some rapist or murderer (although, in LA, you never knew what a person was up to behind closed doors), but she figured that she just wouldn't kill whomever it was. She could always let them go home in the morning, if nothing else.
When she heard the door bell ring, she smiled and ran for it before the butler could answer it for her. "Ariana, so good to have you back," she said with a toothy smile. "And you brought a friend. Do come in," she said, backing out of the doorway so that the two of them could come inside.
"Steven was quite generous in offering to escort me home, how could I decline such a sweet offer." Ariana returned sweetly still keeping herself quite close to the man as she guided him in through the open doorway and onto the premises. "If he made the willing agreement to stay around for our little party." Ari added with a glance back toward Lena. Of course that hadn't been quite what she relayed to the unsuspecting Steven. He was under the impression that Ariana was bringing him to some type of A-List party where he'd be hob nobbing with the high society. And the words being exchanged by the two women had the guy starting to reassess his thinking as he glanced from Ari to Lena, and then back to the younger vampire.
Lena saw that the boy was a little disappointed that the party wasn't apparently what he had been told at first, but the prospect of being with these two girls as he saw them still seemed to perk him up a bit. Men were so easy to read. Lena shut the door behind the two of them as they walked inside. "So, Steven, is there anything I can get for you to drink?"
"Yeah, you got any scotch around here." The guy requested giving a sweeping glance around the place while keeping to Ariana's side as the girl continued keeping herself attached to the man.
"Can you bring some wine for us as well, Lena." The blonde put in before moving to lead Steven into the living room where she'd settle them both on the sofa so that Ari sat on one side and Lena on the other once she joined them with the drinks. By the time the guy knew what hit him, or in this case when it happened, what bit him it'd be too late.
"Of course," Lena said, snapping her fingers to the waiting butler, who walked to one of the several liquor cabinets in the place to fetch some scotch for their guest. He also knew which bottles of wine to get for Lena and Ariana specifically. It was actually a special brand made by a vampire in Italy who mixed wine with blood just so.
"So, Steven, tell us a little something about yourself." Ariana requested of the man when the butler brought over their drinks, the blonde crossing her legs slowly letting the hem of her dress ride up just a bit to expose a little more flesh. An action that caught the man's attention and look that lasted a just a little bit longer then would be appropriate in most instances.
Lena listened to Steven as he talked a little about what it was that he wanted to do for a living. He wanted to be a Hollywood producer, and said that he had already done a few 'small time' movies, which Lena wasn't sure if that meant B-movies or porn these days. From her experience, that was usually the code for one or the other, anyway. "Sounds exciting," Lena said, taking a sip of her drink. She shifted in her seat a little, moving her blouse down just an inch to reveal more cleavage,
Lena's subtle movements caught the guy's attention and Steven's gaze shifted slightly to better view the cleavage he was a bit unsure if Lena had purposely let be exposed or not, it really didn't matter to the guy as the flash of additional flesh was certainly being appreciatively viewed.
"Quite exciting." Ariana purred with a sip of her blood wine. "Perhaps you'd be willing to indulge us, or just myself with a viewing of one of your films sometime." The blonde voiced with a seductive tone inching just a little bit closer to the man until her leg brushed against his and fingers stroke lightly through his hair. Ariana could practically taste the budding arousal of the man as the scent slowly filled her senses.
Lena smiled when Steven's gaze shifted. Just what she wanted. She wanted to get the blood flowing properly and get him warm and flushed. It just made him all the tastier when they actually got down to the biting.
"I wouldn't mind seeing one of his films myself," Lena said. She inched closer to him as well, making a sort of Steven sandwich right now. She took a sip of her wine. She was practically ready to pounce upon him, but she'd rather make this slow and sweet. Well, sweet for her, anyway.
"You'll let us preview one of your films, won't you Steven." Ari purred into the man's ear while a hand grazed over his thigh to dip between his legs with a gentle rub. His reaction to her touch was instantaneous. A reaction that curved the edges of her mouth up into a malicious grin.
"Of course." The man answered with a gulp as he could feel the temperature inside him rise a couple of degrees. And that wasn't the only thing that the two women had rising by their constant attention to him. Steven was certainly thinking he was the man at that moment sandwiched between two women who were seemingly wanting him. And they were just wasn't in the way he was imagining.
Lena watched as Steven nodded when Ari asked if they could preview one of his films. It seemed that he was about to forget his own name being in between these two girls. "Thank you so much," Lena said, running her fingers through his hair when he said that they could. They did both want him, but not for his body, but for his blood. Lena shared a glance with Ari that said that they should take this to the next phase.
Ariana didn't hesitate at the indication from the shared glance. "You are so desirable." The blonde breathed out with the laying of her hand on the guy's cheek to maneuver his head so that she could catch his mouth with her own and at the same time exposing more of the guy's neck to Lena. Sure she would drink from him, but Ariana wanted her sire to have that first taste of the warm sweetness that flowed through the man's veins.
Lena leaned over and began to kiss his neck as well, so Steven basically didn't know what hit him. All he knew was that two hot women were suddenly all over him, and that was pretty much OK with him. Lena ran her tongue over his pulse point before letting her face change and sinking her teeth into his flesh.
When Ariana felt the man's lips beneath her own she knew that Lena had begun her feasting. Stroking fingers downward along his chest Ari leaned herself further into the man's side to sandwich him even more between herself and her sire essentially pinning the man between their two bodies so no matter how much he might try to struggle his way from from the his predators it would prove useless.
Kissing her way down to his neck Ari licked the length of it as her features shifted and before Steven recognized what she was doing the blonde sank her teeth into the curve of his neck to hungrily consume the sweet red nectar that started to flow freely from his vein into the depths of her mouth.
Lena felt him struggle a bit as he cried out, but she held him fast, making sure that he couldn't get away as the two of them fed from him. She was too hungry to allow him to get away now.
His blood to Ari was like drugs to an addict, she simply couldn't get enough of it and planted her teeth deeper into the pulsing vein in the man's neck to ravenously consume the male's life's blood. The deeper she drank and the more Lena took was slowly weakening the man and Ari could feel him starting to go limp between them.
Lena had initially intended to just feed from him and let him go, but, with Ariana there, feeding on him as well, that just probably wasn't going to happen. Still, she ended up pulling away before she herself did too much damage to him. Ari, on the other hand...
Ariana was too involved with her feeding to have noticed that Lena had ceased and essentially had pulled herself away from the boy. She didn't have the will power her sire possessed, which is why none of the blonde's prey had ever escaped her feedings. She had always fed until she drained her food dry and then discarded the human like they were a piece of trash to be carelessly thrown away.
Lena simply watched. Sure, she could have tried pulling Ariana away, but she remembered just how hard that was, and, well, she still didn't exactly have the ability to feel for others yet, at least not very well. Besides, it wasn't like she killed him, after all. Ariana would have. She simply grabbed her glass of wine and sipped at it while Ariana had her fill.
It was a few moments later when Ari finally pulled away from the limp, lifeless man licking the small traces of blood from his neck as her features shifted back to normal and Steven pushed away so he fell back against the rise of the sofa they were sitting on. "There's nothing like the taste of pure sweet red wine." Ariana relayed lazily with a slow swipe of her tongue across her lips to savor the last traces of the sweet nectar as she looked over to Lena.
Lena made a simple call over her shoulder to the butler, who, after he was what he was needed for, went to fetch some 'help' and soon the body was taken away to be disposed of. "I take it that you found him tasty?" Lena asked her.
"It's the only thing humans are good for." Ari answered lowering her head back to rest against the back of the couch a bit drowsy now that she had fed to her little unbeating hearts content. "Some of them can be entertaining for a while," Lena said. It didn't matter, though. The ones who usually were entertaining never lasted long. Tended to usually get themselves killed doing something entertaining.
"Those are quite few and far between." Ariana commented to her sire. Most humans bored her and the only use Ariana had for the creatures was to feed, which was why she normally didn't leave her prey alive or turned.
"Well, it's something that I'm told, anyway," Lena said to her with a slight laugh. "Then again, most of the so called interesting ones usually do something stupid to get themselves hurt or killed. Then again, that's part of what makes them interesting."
"No truer words have ever been spoken." Ariana smiled in agreement with the older woman. "And now I think I've kept you up far too long, or at least kept you from something more productive then sitting here keeping me engaged in conversation." Smiling softly Ariana grasped her wine glass gently within her hand as she eased herself up and off the couch. The two feedings she had enjoyed that evening were leaving her a bit on the sleepy side as well as full and content. A nice little nap would do her well and still leave Ari a little bit of time to explore the city before she needed to hide herself away to avoid the rising of the sun.