My New Toy (Completed)

Chapter 5: Only Human

It was early next morning, Irene fluttering her eyes open and stirring in the bed. Somehow she had been coaxed into wearing nothing to sleep in. Her hair was a mess more so than when it was pulled up in clips. She laid there for a moment and tried to remember what happened between them laying in the bed to this. Her memory only went as far back to when she woke up in the middle of the night a tad stuffy and forgot to strip down into her sleeping clothes. Irene could still feel the mistress' arms around her waist, looking back to see her still asleep peacefully. The red headed girl never saw her mistress like this. She turned around slowly and careful to not wake Alcina, feeling her pull her in closer when she did move. A hand went to the woman's face and stared at her silky black hair, pushing it away slowly. Irene saw her mistress in a different light when she slept.

The girl went back to rest and laid the way she was before waking up, allowing herself to be pulled back into sleep. After sleeping a little more, it was daylight before Alcina woke up and got out of bed. She got properly dressed and hair fixed up, going back to sit next to Irene who was still asleep. Her hand gently pet her pale face and moved down to her neck, feeling the gentle beat of her pulse against her fingers. She could see the girl stir and let her stretch, watching her sit up and rub her eyes. Irene forgot that she had no clothes on underneath the bedsheets, covering herself when they fell off her figure. Her face flushed from embarrassment and looked away from her mistress' gaze.

"I've seen you without your clothes before, so why even cover yourself?" Alcina asked her as she pried the girls arms away from her exposed breasts, whispering close to her ear, "Don't you remember how you got out of those clothes?"

"Not really...I-I can't recall..." Irene stuttered out, breathing a bit more shallow than it was before. She couldn't keep her mistress from nibbling at her neck, drawing out her blood just a little.

"You were complaining that it was hot and you couldn't breathe, so I helped you remove your clothing."

"Did you have to remove everything? I would have been fine in my underwear or at least the gown I had on the night before..."

Alcina smirked and licked the blood off her neck from where it trickled, getting hungrier by the second for more. Irene's face flushed red more and the more her pulse pounded, the more her mistress wanted her blood. "Well you are so easy to embarrass and you complained in your sleep so I complied. Again you're welcome.~" With that she pulled Irene in closer, kissing slowly on her neck right under her ear. Not even trying to resist, Irene could only wrap her arms around her mistress' neck and thankful she didn't try to drain her this time. It was a big relief.

"Thank you, ma'am. I'm surprised though..."

"By what?"

She stayed still and wondered if she should say anything to Alcina about it. It took her a couple minutes before she gathered the courage to speak up, knowing her mistress would only force her to say it if she stayed silent. "That you're not trying to drain me dry."

"Well there are other things I can do to be satisfied. You are my main source yes but I can't just let you die if I also want to have my way with you, Irene. That would be pretty unfair to you." Her gloved covered hands made contact with Irene's back, making her shiver at the cold fabric. "Humans like you are so delicate. I can't just take everything from you in one feeding session. I don't want to just eat you.~"

This made more sense to Irene now than when she had confronted that man in the underground area. This woman didn't just want to use her as food. She was her literal toy. A play thing or companion for when she was lonely. It made her wonder now how long Alcina had been without someone to love on or hold for just herself. She knew that feeling when her and her girlfriend broke it off almost a year ago. That's why she wanted to travel was to get away from all the depressing thoughts and memories of that girl. Irene needed something new and it was right there. Her fingers latched on tightly to her mistress' dress and leaned into her a little smiling, "Well...I'll do my best to serve you then, my lady."

Alcina smiled as well and pulled back, getting the girl her corset and other under clothes. She helped Irene lace the corset and led her to the other room to get a different dress for the day. "You never told me where you came from, Irene. You don't sound like a local and you're definitely not European. Perhaps you're from the United States?"

She searched in the wardrobe for a cleaner dress to give to Irene and the red head drew her attention back to the mistress quickly. "Yes ma'am. I actually came from New Orleans, Louisiana. I was only starting to travel through Europe when I graduated from college."

"Oh?~ What did you attend school to achieve?" Alcina asked curiously and turned around to put on the new dress for her, buttoning it up while she listened in.

"Bioengineering in Science. I wanted to study that field so that I can help people whether it's anything artificial attached to their bodies or anything related to their health care. It's a very well needed field right now in the world." Irene answered in detail, amazing her mistress before she began to fix up her hair neatly.

"You...want to help humans if they're severely hurt or...if they need you...Aren't you worried they'll be ungrateful?"

"As long as I can help them then that's all that really matters."

Soon the mistress was lost in thought about how more useful Irene could be to her and the others. She could definitely help with the experimentation or help her go back to normal. How she longed to go back to humanity and be a regular civilian again. It had been nearly seventy years since she was altered with the Cadou parasite. It prolonged her life and made her, especially her daughters, into what they were today.

"You said Louisiana...I...I used to sing there. Well in my younger years before all of this..." The painful memory dug up from her mind, hitting a little closer to home than she wanted. Irene could hear the break in her mistress' voice, looking back slightly and remembering back to when she saw the photo album.

"I saw a photo album yesterday...it had you in there. You looked very happy...you had someone special then too...didn't you...?"

This made Alcina look in Irene's direction, furious she had gotten into something private and close to that human side. Her claws appeared and caught the human girl by the throat, pulling her back into her tightly. "You went through my things...?! Don't you have any respect for someone's personal belongings...?! Of course you don't...I had someone I cared about but only to find out they didn't want me after I became this! Those memories are nothing to me now! They're just that!"

The hold she had Irene in was tight and the claws grazing her skin like Alcina could rip her apart in mere seconds. Her anger was clear and it was obvious something hurt her not only physically but emotionally. "Lady Dimitrescu I'm sorry...Please...I won't pry again...It was out in the open and I got curious...I just wanted to know more about you..."

"You're damn right you won't pry again because if I do...your head is mine..." Alcina could hear the fear in Irene's voice as she tightened her hand around her neck, the girl shaking in her arms. "For now I'll let you off but you're still getting punished later...Now let's go. I have some business to take care of and I can use your help."

She let go and began to walk out of the room, Irene holding onto her neck when she followed close behind. Her hands shook from the adrenaline of almost being killed, stomach feeling sick as if knots were tying up inside. One day she would get her mistress to tell what happened but right now wasn't the right time.