Sink My Teeth Into This Nightmare

Part 2

"So this is where you grew up?" Andy asked, pausing at the steps of a white victorian style house.

"Yep," Ashley responded. "Well, the whole neighborhood, but yes."

"Neighborhood? Ashley, we're in the middle of the woods," Andy pointed out.

"No. The woods are in the middle of the neighborhood. Vampires build entire communities within the boundaries of wooded areas. Plenty of nearby hunting, plenty of privacy from each other, plenty of isolation from humans and even other vampire high lines. Welcome to Deviant territory."

Andy gulped. "Well, shall we?"

Ashley looped his arm in his boyfriend's and they proceeded together up the stairs.

"Ashley, is that you?" A woman's voice called from somewhere in the house.

The bassist let out and audible sigh. "Yes, Mama," he called back with an eye roll.

"Oh, and you brought lunch. How sweet of you," she said, rounding the corner and hanging a dish rag over her shoulder.

"Yeah, not exactly." Ashley responded. He reached over and clamped a hand on the singer's wrist, pushing him just the slightest bit backwards.

"Don't be silly, Ashley. Sure, he's skinny, but there's plenty blood to go around." Ashley's mom leaned forward, deeply inhaling the human's scent. "Wait, a minute. Why does he smell like you?"

"Mama...Andy's not food."

"You're being stupid, again, Ashley."

"No, you're not listening, Mama. Pins and needles. I bit him and we both felt pins and needles."

Ashley now had his mother's attention. "That's not possible, Ashley," she insisted with a confused smile. "Humans can't be true mates to Vampires. It just doesn't happen."

"No, it happens quite frequently. You pureblood, high line stuck-ups just refuse to acknowledge the bondings."

"You're just as much pureblood as we are, Ashley," a deep voice responded. Andy glanced up to see a tall man with dark hair leaning over the edge of the stairs.

"Yes, but unlike you, Papa, I don't drain humans," Ashley bit back.

"You clearly intended to do so. You say you bit him?"

"It was nothing like that," Andy interrupted. "It was my fault, really. When he told me he was a vampire I wanted to see his fangs. I should have known better, as much as I've read about vampires but the idea of fangs was so...exciting."

"Andy-" Ashley said, warningly. He placed a protective hand on the human's shoulder.

"I didn't realize the trigger for the fangs to come out would send him into blood frenzy," Andy continued as if his boyfriend hadn't said a word. "He turned...animalistic. And, hell, I loved it. He bit my shoulder, here." He pulled the edge of his shirt off his shoulder to reveal the now scarred over fang marks. "And I swear I just lit up. This was followed by probably the best blow job I've had in my life, then Ashley gulping down at least a gallon of cougar blood that Sandra brought over."

"Best blow job in your life, hmm?" Ashley whispered.

"You're hot when you're desperate," Andy whispered back, biting at the corner of his mouth to try and hold back a smile.

"You've...what?" Ashley's father demanded.

"Look, I've been with Andy for just over two years. Your bigotry isn't going to change the fact that I love him and that we're true mates. If you're going to have a problem with it, I'll take my mate and go stay with Aunt Leslie."