Becoming Vampire

5. Starting all over again

In a frenzy, having found something they didn't even know they were craving, they climb up the stairs to go to Jeff's bedroom and start all over again.

They cannot get enough of each other. They are able to feel the other's intense pleasure in their minds, feeding their own desire. All clothes are quickly discarded to start leaving marks on each other's skin, they will fade in a matter of minutes.

In the darkened room, blinds and curtains are tightly shut, so they can continue their intense lovemaking well after sunrise.

Hours later, lying naked on the bed, limbs interlaced and their skin slightly sweaty, an exhausted Bible is languidly caressing Jeff's long neck. It must be mid morning.

The clopping of hooves and a sudden loud noise coming from the lower floors disturb their peaceful moment: a horseman just arrived.

It's one of Jeff's trusted valets with an urgent message for Jeff, so he receives him in the antechamber, both Bible and him wearing matching silk dressing-gowns.

-Monsieur, I bring good news. The marquis has swallowed the bait - he says with a triumphant smile.

Bible looks at Jeff, questioning.

It's about that Claude who brought you to my house to hunt me. We cannot let him live after what he did, right? Tells Jeff to Bible in his mind.

-He believed Pierre's story and he's planning to meet him near Amiens, this evening at 7 pm - the man says excitedly - It was all exactly as you said, he lowered the guard as soon as he was promised information on your whereabouts. Also, we managed to break his pendant as you requested.

The plan is very simple. Make the marquis go on a clandestine rendezvous with an informant called Pierre, in a secluded area, but instead of meeting the informant, Claude will be meeting his fate from Jeff's hands.

The pendant Jeff asked them to break is the cross the marquis was wearing last time they saw him, he will probably still carry it on him but hopefully not around his neck.

The meeting point is in a small woodland not far from the south west entrance to the city of Amiens.

Bible and Jeff arrive at the agreed time and from a safe distance they can see the marquis waiting impatiently. The man has done everything Pierre told him to do, including coming to the rendezvous on his own. Idiot.

Vampires move silently as shadows. Claude doesn't even realise they are there before collapsing on the floor like a broken puppet, his neck twisted in a fluid fast movement of Jeff's hands.

Bible feels it's a shame he didn't suffer more, he would at least have tortured him a bit, but Jeff doesn't even want to give the man the privilege of his attention any longer than necessary. He's like a vermin he needs to eliminate.

They leave the body there, but they take his valuables, so his death can be blamed on bandits. Some distance away they ditch their bounty, everything except the cross, that the marquis is still holding tightly in one hand.

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Jeff mood is serious. He starts saying to Bible in his mind that now it's time for him to go away. Jeff wants to cross the channel to the British isles and start a new life there.

Would you want to come with me?
You don't need to escape, no-one is chasing you. Says Jeff in Bible's mind.

Bible is annoyed with the thought. Of course he wants to follow Jeff. Him doubting that after what they've passed through and the lovemaking only a few hours ago is irking.

Jeff reads Bible's mind with a mix of relief and tender feelings, but he can't dwell on them, there's too much to prepare. They need to travel by night, so they don't even go back. At the next inn they find near Amiens, they get two horses and, riding at a good rhythm thanks to the almost-full moon, they arrive to the outskirts of Calais near dawn.