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Tweak says, "More expensive than my dignity"

jax (burning) wrote in labyrinth_rpg,
@ 2009-04-05 15:32:00

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complete, day five, hermione granger, pandora

Day 5
Who: Pandora and Hermione
What: Boredom Is Bad
When: Day 5, Evening
Where: Swimming Pool
Warnings: Nudity and FYI she will puncture your canon (if she knows it), so if you don't want that, don't play with her
Status: Complete

Pandora was bored. With her, that was never a good thing. It led to bad things. People got hurt when the vampire was bored. She had been dropped into the middle of a fantastic ball the night before, but it hadn't lasted nearly as long as she would have liked. Afterward she'd been shown to a room that was less than impressive but that had no windows and allowed no natural light to enter. She slept like the dead for most of the next day woke just before the sun went down. She hadn't seen the sun in two thousand years and still had no desire to.

Rising from the bed she had been given to sleep in, she knew instinctively that the sun was on its way down. She showered and dressed in the clothing provided in her closet. It was nothing as lavish and elegant as her ballgown the night before, but they were suitable clothes. She selected a dark gray sundress and a pair of black heels. She left her hair down in the usual waves and decided against any sort of makeup. She didn't really need it to begin with, but she liked to accentuate her eyes or cheekbones at times.

Leaving her room after the sun was completely set, she wandered down the hall of the dorm she'd been assigned to and exited into the stifling evening air. She stuck her room key in one pocket of the sundress and then stopped walking. She hadn't had the chance to explore the city the day before. She'd only seen bits and pieces when she was directed to her room after the ball. It was a joke. The place looked nothing like it had during the Renaissance, and Pandora knew that was the look they were going for. Whoever they were. Probably that King she hadn't had a chance to speak to.

Pandora had no trouble seeing things in the dark. Her eyes picked up things a mortal's could not. The firelight from torches wasn't necessary, but as she could see others moving about, she knew it was vital for them. She shook her head in mild disgust and walked toward the main building. She walked faster than a human, but generally not on purpose. She'd made it her life's work to appear mortal. Tonight, however, she cared little for appearances. She pulled open the door to the main building and several things hit her at once.

One was the smells of food coming from a set of doors down the hall. The next was the smell of chlorine and water. Other smells assailed her, but she paid them little mind. As she didn't eat, she ignored the food and followed her senses to the indoor pool. No one else was about and she hadn't been swimming in such a long time. She peeled the sundress away and draped it over one of the lounge chairs that surrounded the rectangular body of water. Her heels were similarly discarded, and with nothing left to remove, she dove into the water.

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grangerdanger
2009-04-06 10:50 pm UTC (link)

Hermione was feeling the effects of a lack of sleep since she was late going to bed last night due to the ball but still woke up the same time she usually does this morning, she was use to living off a lack of sleep with deep studying sessions and late night trips around the castle back in Hogwarts. Not wanting to give into the calls of her bed Hermione pulled on a blue sweater over her white t-shirt that came down just a bit over her jeans and left her room hoping a walk in the cool night air might wake her up as she walked down the hall towards the door, she stepped outside into a nice welcomed cool breeze as she expected woke up her dormant senses.

“Lumos” she muttered raising her wand while walking down the path towards the main building with her wand now giving extra light as she made her way lazily down the path taking in her surroundings. As she opened the door to the main building she was welcomed with the smell of food which tempted her to follow her nose to find out where it came from. She looked into a few door looking for the source of the nice smell but failing to find it, she opened another door and was hit with the smell of chlorine and she entered to do some exploring.

Hermione walked along the poolside looking around, she found a gray sundress draped over a chair with a pair of black heels peeking out from under it, she touched the chair as she walked by wondering who these items belonged to as she walked towards the pool. She kneeled down and splashed her face with some water letting it awaken her some more as she finished she looked up to see a naked woman swimming around the pool which answered the question about the dress, what’s with all the woman here parading around in nothing? “Oh sorry I hope I never intruded on anything” she said turning red.

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burning
2009-04-09 07:55 pm UTC (link)

It seemed to take a long time for the girl to finally notice her presence. Pandora, on the other hand, had smelled her from the moment she entered the pool room. The smell of soft flesh was far different from the smell of the chlorine and she had noticed it immediately. When Hermione's gaze finally focused on her Pandora was treading water and staring at her intently. Her dark hair was plastered against her head, but fanned out where it touched the surface of the water.

She wasn't wearing her sunglasses and her strangely pale eyes were watching Hermione with great interest. Pandora was anything but modest and held no qualms with exposing her body. After so many years, she was more sculpture than human. Her skin was flawless and stony to the touch. It was also many degrees cooler than a normal human's. The warm water was bringing her temperature up, but only slightly. "You have nothing to apologize for." A gentle probe had her lips twitching slightly. "It's Hermione, isn't it?"

Not only did she recognize the girl from her movies, but the gentle probe of her mind had given her the name as well. Pandora swam over to the side of the pool where Hermione stood and folded her arms on the cement, her body coming up flush against the side of the pool. Pandora read enough literature to know that this girl was a character in a book series that had been quite popular with the youth of the world in recent years. What the vampire couldn't figure out was what she was doing here.

"As far as I know, this is a public pool. You're free to join me, if you like."

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grangerdanger
2009-04-09 09:56 pm UTC (link)

When Hermione got a better look at the woman she noticed her eyes where quite different and her skin was so pale it never took her that long to put two and two together this woman was not human but in fact as far as she knew a vampire. She had read much about vampires in her studies at Hogwarts and this woman basically fit the profile and knowing this place she would never put it past Jareth to have at least one vampire kicking around. Hermione got a bit defensive taking a few steps back but never ran like others might but shes was really curious besides one of the rules was no killing right?

“Yes I'm Hermione umm you are?” she was not that surprised that this woman knew her name Willow had known her after all so their was bound to be someone who might be able know her by looks. “I think I will actually” she wanted to know more about this strange possible vampire woman so she accepted the invitation and slowly walked over to the other chair and thought for a moment with a sigh she took off both her sweater and shirt at the same time discarding them on the chair exposing her youthful slim body and pink hello kitty bra then wiggling out of her jeans.

Hermione stood their exposed more then she was use too and feeling a bit naked standing in her hello kitty bra and matching knickers. It was not that she was insecure, she was perfectly comfortable with her body but not use to showing it but their was a naked woman in the pool so showing skin seemed less uncomfortable. “So if you don't mind me asking are you a vampire?” she asked half hesitantly kicking her shoes and under the chair then walking towards the pool sitting down on the edge with her legs dipped in the cool water slowly moving them back and forward, she figured if this woman really was a vampire she had no intentions on eating her right this moment because she would have already done so.

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burning
2009-04-19 06:43 pm UTC (link)

Pandora's smile was predatory. The glint in her pale, strange eyes was wicked and spoke volumes of her danger. Her voice was honey smooth and just as sickly sweet. "Call me Pandora." She watched the girl shed her clothes and then sit on the edge of the pool. Pandora pushed off the edge she was propped against and began to swim in lazy circles.

It seemed that ever since the books had been published about their race and Lestat had done everything but give away the address of known vampires, everyone knew who they were. It didn't surprise her that this girl, Hermione, knew that she was a vampire. Weren't vampires mentioned in those books about Potter anyway? She slowed her circles until she came to rest in one place, treading water.

"I am, yes. And you are human. A witch, but human nonetheless." She could smell her humanity. It was enticing and heady in the air, but Pandora wasn't really very hungry. "How did you come to be here?" She moved through the water until she came to the side where Hermione sat. She lifted one arm and rested it on the side of the pool, her other moving out and back in in small strokes. Her skin glistened with water and with the ethereal beauty given to those of her race.

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grangerdanger
2009-04-29 05:40 pm UTC (link)

Hermione watched Pandora swim around the pool, the vampire woman was like no other she ever saw her skin pale and flawless, her eyes were strangely pale as well, her voice sweet and inviting all things she knew vampires use to draw their victims in, their beauty . Hermione felt like no harm was to come her way but she was not sure if that was really Pandora's vibes or that she was being charmed by her.

She had never seen a vampire before and was quit curious about them, She hoped she would never upset Pandora if she asked a few questions. She sat their watching Pandora in amazement while thinking which question to ask first. Maybe she should ask to see if what she read about them was true? Were to start?

“Well I came from my world when it was in the middle of a war, I don't know if you have ever read this book I'm apparently from so I don't really know how much you already know or not” she slid herself into the water slipping under so now her bushy hair was wet and more or less flat, she turned into a butterfly stroke then made her way back to Pandora.

“Do you mind if I ask how old you are and how you became a vampire?” she let her eyes meet Pandora's for a quick second just to get a better look at her eyes which were just as fascinating as the rest of her but something she was told was not wise to do so quickly broke away looking to the left, trying not to be rude and stare while she was lacking clothing.

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burning
2009-05-03 11:09 pm UTC (link)

"Yes, I have read your books, my dear. All of them. I just wondered how you got here." She wasn't entirely sure how she'd come to be here herself. She was hoping someone else could shed some light on the subject, even if she was a child. Of course, to Pandora, everyone was a mere child.

"I don't mind you asking. I would have thought at least someone would have read the book David published about us, but I guess it's not really something a witch would read anyway." She fanned her arms out in the water, keeping herself afloat. "I was born 4 AD which makes me about 2,013." She grinned because she knew she was old by anyone's standards.

"How I became a vampire is a much more complex answer. I met Marius when I was a young girl. He asked for my hand twice but my father refused both times. After the second rejection I didn't think I would ever see him again. My youngest brother, Lucius, betrayed my family and they were all killed but me. I was an adult, twice married with no children, but I had never lived alone.

I hired servants and lived comfortably for a time until I ran into Lucius one day on the street. He was surprised to see me and wanted me dead like the rest of my family." She frowned to think of it, but smiled at her own revenge. "It was so long ago, but I remember it clearly. I had dreams of the goddess Isis. She called to me. But it wasn't Isis, it was the mother Akasha. Marius was their guardian and I found him again in her temple.

I knew he was different, there was something about him. But Marius didn't make me a vampire because he wanted to. In fact he vowed never to make another vampire. But Akbar, one of the vampires who had been burned in the sun, followed him and me and he drank me to the point of death and gave Marius no choice. And thus it was and so it happened."

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grangerdanger
2009-05-07 06:33 pm UTC (link)

“Well I was having a drink at the Three Broomsticks and it just felt like I was apperating then I was just here” Hermione never really understood how Jareth was getting everyone here but it must have been with pretty powerful magic. She paid much attention to Pandora as she told her tale, staying in one place as she listened.

“Wow” Hermione could not imagine what Pandora must have gone though at the times both before she was a vampire and the process of becoming one. “I bet it was interesting seeing things change over all that time” she said with a small smile trying not to think about the pain she must have gone through to get were she was today.

In a way vampire life was a good thing she guessed the chance to learn over centuries and seeing thing evolve and change with the world defiantly appealed to her. It also had its bad parts like the whole blood sucking and no sunlight thing, its not that she found it wrong they needed it to live which she understood and was ok with along as her friends of herself was not the meal.

Hermione just could not see herself hurting or evening killing someone to live and wondered how this affected a vampire’s conscience. She gave in to her thirst for this knowledge and swam a bit closer to Pandora “Did it hurt…you know when…” she said awkwardly not wanting to maybe bring up some unwanted conversation, she swam away turning red with embarrassment.

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burning
2009-05-14 10:48 am UTC (link)

"You arrived in the pool, then?" Pandora was teasing her. She knew that when the girl said "here" she really meant the city itself, not her exact position right now. She smirked and tipped her head back to wet it again, keeping the generous curls under control.

"It was interesting. Heartbreaking sometimes, and fascinating at others." Pandora had a lot of pain in her life. If she grew close to anyone, they were vampires. She couldn't handle befriending humans who would ultimately die while she remained youthful and immortal.

"When I was embraced? Yes. It is impossible to describe the way one feels when completely drained of life's blood. And then forced to drink such a viscous fluid. Once restored and embraced, the blood is sweet and inviting, but it is torture the first time." She took a swim from one side of the pool to the other.

The human girl was starting to bore her. It really wasn't much fun getting to know someone you already knew everything about from their books. She sighed and headed for the steps of the pool, gracefully exiting and wringing out her curly hair. "I should be going. Enjoy your swim." She pulled her sundress over her head and slipped her heels on, twiddled her fingers at the witch and then pushed through the doors.

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