Laura is a pragmatic superhero (nomorestrings) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2014-03-16 22:55:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, jubilation lee (jubilee), laura kinney (wolverine) |
Who: Jubilee, Laura
What: Jubilee teaches Laura how to hunt.
When: A few days ago, after this text message
Where: Out and about.
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for vampires being vampires.
Status: Complete!
Black was a good color for this kind of thing. Jubilee even left her jacket at home. Too easy to identify and she didn’t want blood on it anyway. First they needed to find a deserving victim, then they needed to catch them. Then she could coach Laura through feeding without killing him.
She sat perched on a wall and waited for her … girlfriend. Were they still girlfriends? The whole space thing left Jubilee confused and aching.
It was difficult to say where they stood. Laura had needed that space, mainly because Jubilee's reaction to turning her had been... problematic, from where she was sitting. But Laura was never the type to panic. She liked to keep a clear head and there was no space in her life for overwhelming amounts of remorse. Decisions were made and life moved forward.
But if she was honest, it had been more than that. She didn't want Jubilee to watch her turn into the killer she'd dreamed of. For her, the change had been like coming home again; Nothing argued with her state of mind and she could finally be at peace with what she was. Laura knew that Jubilee didn't agree with her on that one. Her girlfriend would have fought her on it.
So Laura had chosen to go it alone, but that was hard for other reasons. The place inside of her that had feelings for Jubilee still existed, but it was often hard to wake that place up. It still wasn't awake a she walked around the corner. She, also, was dressed in black.
Jubilee looked at Laura as she approached. In the dim light from the street lamps she looked even paler than usual and her eyes had a red glint that Laura’s now shared. Laura felt like a wall that Jubilee was running head long into, and her expression fell, just a little. Maybe this was all for the best. Her memories of her marriage were one hundred and sixty-five years in the past. She wasn’t sure any of that had even been real now.
If she could cry, she would, but instead the numbness she always tried to fight overtook her. The vampire hopped off of the wall. “Okay, here’s how it’s going to go. We’ll patrol a little bit, find some skeevy guy and bait him. Then I’ll show you how much you can drink without killing the bastard.”
Laura nodded her head, "This should be... interesting."
She wasn't completely monotone. The sight of Jubilee jumping off the wall had moved something in her. If she was living, that might have been her heart beat. This was something different and more primal.
Then she remembered that she connected feeding with intimacy and wondered how that would work out. She'd tried to feed on her own a few times and ended up quietly dumping a few bodies in someone's morgue. The sexual part of it hadn't mattered as much when her victims were too dead to count.
"Keep up," Jubilee told her. She'd never hunted with someone else. The last deadly hunt had been in Nanking in the 30s, but she didn't like to think about Nanking in the 30s or what it had done to her mental state.
This she would more treat like New York in the 70s. Attacking muggers and killers, and leaving them just on this side of life. She also liked to target child molesters.
Some of those memories had transferred to Laura when Jubilee had turned her, but Laura didn't think it was polite to bring that up. What Jubilee had done to survive without Logan to feed off of was Jubilee's business.
The main thing she held onto - because Jubilee had held onto it for over a hundred years - was the face of a girl who looked a lot like her. Jubilee's feelings for that Laura existed without question. Laura had no doubt about the way the other Vampire felt. Her only doubts were about herself.
She took off after Jubilee, claws instinctively popping out as she ran.
This area was usually pretty good when it came to hunting. Girls liked to cut through the alleys and predators would follow them hoping for easy prey. They found one right off and Jubilee snatched the man before the woman even knew he was there. She jumped up onto a roof with him and grinned.
As she was the student in this scenario, Laura waited on the roof for Jubilee to snatch someone, though she watched her lover's every move. It didn't seem that hard to pick out the right prey. The part of Laura that still wanted to be human appreciated the idea that they were picking the streets clean of scumbags.
She smirked a bit as Jubilee brought him over, "That didn't seem that arduous a task. What do you do next?"
Jubilee punched the guy, then clapped her hand over his mouth. “Make sure he doesn’t scream.” She sounded distinctly less hyperactive than usual. “Come here, bite like usual, but don’t hit his jugular.”
"This isn't easy to do... The jugular is exactly where I want to go," Laura pointed out. She almost didn't want to try at all, unsure she could restrain herself.
Still, she was hungry - and it was hard to ignore all of that blood pumping right there next to her. The guy was understandably afraid.
Good.
She got a little closer, and pushed the man's shirt to the side. It was probably easier to get somewhere else, like the shoulder, than to go for anywhere on the neck. That's where she sunk her teeth in, though it wasn't as satisfying.
Jubilee grabbed Laura’s head, tangling her fingers in the woman’s hair. To keep her in place, and to also add that intimacy that Laura was accustomed to. “Just close your eyes. Let the warmth into your mouth, swallow slowly, steadily. Count to fifteen.”
Maybe this was a good thing to do together. Not just because Jubilee would restrain her killer side, but also because this was the closest they'd been since she'd died.
The warmth of the blood flowed into her and she resisted the instinct to be greedy. She wanted all of it, to feel that warmth flow through her entire body, but that wasn't what they were here for.
She counted to fifteen - and a little past fifteen, if she was honest, then finally pulled her face away from the man. Her claws had pushed out a little bit at some point, and she darted her eyes to the side as she pushed them back in, "If we leave him alive, he'll talk. The next step is... to erase his memory?"
“Yeah. Watch me do it.” Jubilee slid one hand up Laura’s back as she pulled the man’s head to face her. Her eyes flared a deep maroon, and the man’s rolled up into the back of his head. “I also gave him the suggestion to be a better person. Did you get anything … bad… from his memories?”
Laura wiped at her mouth, and nodded, "This is not his first prey. He's not innocent by any means. I don't think you should feel bad for grabbing him."
If vampires were capable of guilt. She wasn't sure she was, yet. She also wasn't sure how Jubilee had done what she'd just done, "I think I missed the technique, though."
“We’ve got all night,” Jubilee promised, dropping the man on the ground. He fell with a thud, and she turned to Laura, wiping some blood off of her lip and then sucking it off of her finger. “I’ll do it slower next time…” She looked at the man. “Maybe if we’re lucky he’ll turn himself in.” Or worse.
"You should have mezzed him into turning himself in," Laura pointed out. The blood was stirring other things in her. She was suddenly hungry for more than just food, but she wasn't sure what to do about that. The last time they'd done something it had put them in this mess.
“Next time.” It was hard to not touch Laura. The situation left her buzzing, and she hadn’t even fed yet. She tilted her head, and her eyes dilated. “We’ve got another guy. C’mon.” She took Laura’s hand and they literally flew across the roof tops. She stopped over an alley, where a man had another cornered with a knife. “You want a crack at him?”
Laura smirked a bit, and nodded her head. She jumped down off the roof, landing between the knife and the guy that was being threatened with it. With the quick popping of a claw in and out, the knife was cut in half and fell apart.
The guy behind her was so relieved that Laura could hear her slump to the ground. She grabbed the man before another word could be spoken, and dashed up the wall with him, "Do not even think of screaming. You can live without a voice box and my claws are very precise."
“I love you,” Jubilee said, grinning. “My turn.” She bit her teeth into his shoulder to feed, sucking lightly, and then lapping with a groan. “Oh, you’re a little bastard aren’t you.”
She looked at Laura. “Okay, stare into his eyes. Focus on them, it’ll come like… naturally. Feel like buzzing in your head.”
"What happens after that?" Laura arched a brow and crouched down a bit, to be more on eye level with the guy. Who was apparently a scumbag. They were definitely doing some fine dining this evening.
"Is it similar to telepathy? Or is it more like a Jedi Mind Trick?"
“A little of both,” Jubilee said, forcing the man to look at Laura. “Don’t do too much or you’ll turn him into a veggie and we don’t want that.”
She was getting kinky ideas but she’d rather do it with a good person.
And mind controlling someone into doing that with them was definitely wrong. Now was probably a bad time to bring it up. There was no knowing if Laura would have taken her seriously or not.
She looked the man in the eyes, just like Jubilee had instructed her. For a few moments, nothing happened at all. Then she started to feel that fuzziness Jubilee mentioned, and her eyes started to glow.
You will go to the police and turn yourself in for the murders you committed. If they ask about the bite, a wild animal did it.
That seemed good enough for her. She broke eye contact with the man and asked, "How do you know if it worked?"
“It’s kind of like feedback. Instinct. Does it feel like it worked? It’s kind of like hearing his voice answering you inside your head. Did you hear that response?”
Laura looked back at the man, and focused on him again. It felt like she was getting some kind of response, but she wasn't sure. So she gently tried to get her message across a second time.
This time, she knew what to look for and she broke the connection as she nodded her head, "I think I need practice, but that worked. Hopefully he will turn himself in later."
Jubilee took Laura’s hand and squeezed it. “I’m still a little hungry. Lets find someone to top off and...share…” She waggled her eyebrows at Laura, though she was only half-joking on that count. She liked the intimacy of sharing a meal, as it were.
"It is a shame that the only person who could really survive something like that is Logan. I cannot feed off of him at all, it's too... intimate for me." Laura admitted. She let the man go and got to her feet, then cracked her knuckles, "Sharing would be... I would like that."
It would be sexy. It would make her feel like a person.
The older vampire slid her hand down Laura’s spine, then cupped her rear end and kissed her, the taste of blood on her lips and fresh humanity pumping through her veins. “Yeah. Lets find someone, I’ll keep a grip on you so you don’t lose yourself.”
Warmth and Life were in that kiss, and Laura found herself leaning into it. She felt a little dazed when Jubilee broke it off, but for once she actually felt like her smirk was genuine, "And I will make sure that you find yourself. We will both find ourselves."