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Adela => Draconi Forest => Topic started by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 07:44:06 AM

Title: Twice Cursed [Goblin] [M]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 07:44:06 AM
Conrey sat calmly in the room he'd been led to, quietly awaiting his new clients. The furnishings were familiar and of the world he knew but not the one he called home. He always wore his best clothes to meet new clients but he still felt slightly out of place among all the finery.

His chair uncomfortably short to accommodate his height and long legs, the werewolf was forced to either stretch out his legs or set an ankle on one knee. He chose the latter for comfort, though he hoped his hosts took no offense to the casualness of it. Feeling like a giant indoors was nothing new to him.

Fully expecting them soon he brushed nonexistent dust from his coat, straightened the already straight collar, and brushed a hand over his hair to flip his ponytail over the opposite shoulder it had been on. Staring into the fire across the room, he waited in silence. He had a vague idea of why he was here, but he was going to leave it to his clients to explain the situation and why they had requested his services.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 08:50:20 AM
Quietly, Lord and Lady Fairchild observed their guest waiting within their parlor. They only wanted was best for their precious baby and planned to protect her to the best of their ability even if it meant being a bit rude and breaking the rules of propriety in order to get to know the man for who he really was in the quiet moments he thought himself alone.

Seeing nothing untoward, Lady Fairchild nudged her husband to enter who in turn shook his head and gestured for her as a Lady to enter first. Lips pursed together and eyes flashing with mild anger she in turn shook her head violently and gestured more wildly that he should go first. This continued for a few more moments before she finally elbowed her husband in the ribs and shoved him into the room as he hurried to compose himself and enter properly.

"Good afternoon," Lord Fairchild greeted the younger man, his little wife right behind him. "I hope you did not wait long, do forgive our tardiness. It was good of you to come. Shall we begin?" The older man motioned with his hand towards the couch where he and his wife would sit and the tray of hot drinks, his eyes never leaving those of his guest as his wife kept always at her husband's back, choosing to sit furthest from Conrey without appearing rude.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 09:21:22 AM
"Good afternoon," Conrey greeted immediately, lifting his head slightly to observe their entrance. Nodding as they took their seats, he noticed the outward tension in the woman and the way she sat near the end of the couch. Not wanting to offend them but being quite curious, he trained hard eyes upon her for a few moments before directing his eyes back to the man of the home as he knew very well was proper.

"...Of course, let's begin," he agreed, smiling softly and knowing he had probably created an awkward silence in satisfying his curiosities. "I am at your service," he bowed his head slightly. "What can I do for you?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 10:38:36 AM
Lord Fairchild cleared his throat while raising a brow at his wife to take the lead. She smiled sweetly at Conrey, her hands wringing tightly in her lap having felt the scrutiny of his gaze upon her and it doing nothing to settle her nerves.

"It was good of you to join us Mister Shaw. We have heard good things about you and hope that you will be a good match for our little girl." The woman smiled fondly as she mentioned her daughter before continuing, still struggling to meet the man's gaze. "You see our precious child, our only child, our little girl is in great danger. Her condition leaves her quite delicate and we only want what is best for her. She must be protected. In the past we have had some disappointing individuals to guard her though based on your reputation we hope that will not be the case this time." With a look only a mother could give, Lady Fairchild challenged Conrey to defy her.

"Should this interview conclude favorably," Lord Fairchild interceded quickly, "then it will be your duty first to oversee the transport of our daughter to a secluded location where you will act as guardian and protector to her. It is the hope of my wife and I that a change of scenery will do her some good and help her recover from her ailment."

"Provided of course that this is all acceptable to you Mister Shaw, do you have any questions? We ask the utmost discretion on your part of course," Lady Fairchild stated evenly.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 11:24:54 AM
He listened quietly, breathing calmly and trying to process what he was being told. He had no idea the age of this daughter they kept referring to, but it did strike him as sad that their child was 'ill.'

"I will do everything in my power to protect her, I assure you," he tried to soothe them. "She will be as important to me as I see she is to you both. Transporting her would be no problem, I will do anything you ask of me while under your employ and I would not question your judgment, I am just curious: is it safe to transport a girl as ill as you make her sound?"

He shifted to sit up some in his seat, his long legs making the action a bit awkward. "And may I ask... What was so disappointing about them? Your previous guards? I wouldn't wish to make the same mistakes they did," he chuckled, offering a gentle but serious smile.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 11:36:18 AM
The pair relaxed slightly to hear his reassuring concern. "Yes as long as you ensure she remains within the carriage we see no issue with her transport. While secluded it is not too far from here in Ketra, just enough to give her peace as it were," Lord Fairchild responded carefully. "As for your other query-"

"I ate them," a new voice interrupted haughtily from the doorway behind Conrey. The much talked about Yasmine stood stiffly observing the trio, her lips in a pout as she clutched her hands daintily in front of her.

"Heavens child!" Lady Fairchild cried, rising to her feet, one hand clasping her husband's shoulder tightly even as her other clasped her breast. "You gave us a fright! I thought I told you to rest in your room. You should not be up and about with your condition sweetpea." While her tone was motherly, her eyes hinted at the fear she felt, fear that Yasmine herself readily recognized and wilted to see.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 11:57:08 AM
It all sounded easy enough and he was a little confused in his wonderings about their previous guards and why they could not fulfill such a task that they asked of him, but the voice that answered him honestly came with surprise but did nothing to unnerve him. Watching Lady Fairchild react to what he now understood to be her daughter, Conrey lifted his head to look back over his shoulder at the girl who stood at the door.

Silently studying her, his eyes flashed with interest as he came to realize that it wasn't a metaphor of the previous guards being weak of heart but a plainly stated truth. Even at such a distance he could tell she did not hold the scent of a human, and it intrigued him that she would be so open about it when it was clear to him that the family did not want to go into great detail.

"Ate them you say?" Conrey turned to sit sideways in his chair so he could get a better look at her, aware of how unprofessional it was. "Well I do hope they were worth the coin! Is cannibalism a...symptom of your illness, then?" he wondered, entirely serious though he doubted his nose was wrong. She certainly did not have a scent quite like the Lord and Lady of the house.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 12:17:59 PM
Yasmine giggled slightly before remembering to compose herself and instead took to glaring at the stranger. "No, but blood lust is," she replied coolly while moving to circle around his chair towards where her parents were seated.

"Sugar you really should be resting in your room!" Lady Fairchild commented again beginning to sound a bit shrill.

Yasmine only blinked lazily in response at her before sighing. "Relax mother, I am not hungry. I just wanted to see the newest failure." The sixteen year old eyed the bodyguard up and down before shrugging and crossing her arms. "Rather unimpressive I must say. How unfortunate." Turning to address her still tense and slightly cowering mother, Yasmine add, "he won't do. How could you send me off with some commoner when even the so-called best did not manage the week? This is ridiculous," she dismissed while flopping down into a chair.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 12:33:02 PM
Conrey snorted at the very idea, though it seemed to entirely terrify Lady Fairchild. He turned to right himself in his chair to face his hosts once more. He paid no mind to the harsh criticism of the girl and instead addressed Lord Fairchild.

"If my potential employers still feel confident in my ability to do this job I would not be against starting work as early as today," he informed them, flashing a knowing, challenging smile to the girl before returning his attention to her parents. "Or any other time that you wish. If you wish for her to remain in her room I would be happy to escort her there, Lady Fairchild. And I will ensure that she is safe and gets plenty of rest.

"And if you stand with your daughter's opinions of me... Well, then. I would not wish to waste any more of your time in your search," he told them kindly and entirely sincere, though he was certain that he would not be permitted to leave if they were desperate.

Rising to his feet, the werewolf bowed his head to each of them and turned to head for the door to escape the parlor.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 12:42:44 PM
Moving to flip her legs over the arm of the chair and lean back against the other arm, Yasmine snorted and scoffed with a sassy head-bob, "as if you could."

Lord Fairchild pursed his lips at his daughter, giving her a warning glare before nodding his head sharply and decisively at Conrey. Much to his wife's startled shock, he took a step forward and offered his gloved hand to he bodyguard. "Welcome to the family Mister Shaw, your work with us begins now."

"What?!" squawked Yasmine from her unladylike perch. "He most certainly does not!"
"Yasmine go to your room please sweetie," Lady Fairchild stage whispered from across the room.
"I will not!" the child replied indignantly, now oblivious to what the men were doing.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 12:55:24 PM
He stopped as soon as he heard those magical words, smiling to himself as he turned to shake Lord Fairchild's hand confidently. "Thank you, sir. I assure you you are not mistaken to trust me with her care." Ignoring the complaints of the girl Conrey stepped around his new employer to stand before her still sitting in the most unladylike fashion.

"Yasmine was it? You look like a nice girl. Really, you do. Would you please come with me?" he asked, determined to be gentle with his initial query. Holding out a hand to offer her his help, he added in a low whisper that was only for her ears. "Before you send your parents to an early grave. Your poor mother looks about ready to have an episode."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 01:12:08 PM
Yasmine sneered and rolled her eyes, refusing to look at him or acknowledge his offer. "Why do you think I'm here," she replied with whispered attitude. "This is about much fun as I get these days. You really going to be the one to take that away from me, just like everything else has been?" She teared up, looking truly heartbroken as she sniffled and curled in on herself. "It's just now fair," she sobbed, as her mother looked truly pained and torn, unable to cross the room to comfort her only child.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 01:56:56 PM
Conrey raised a brow, not entirely buying what she was offering. "If tormenting your parents is the best of your fun we need to find you a few new hobbies," he chuckled, crouching to kneel before her  as he heard the sniffles and cries.

"They just want what's best for you," he defended, not knowing whether that was true or not but trusting that they would be good enough parents to do what they thought was right for her. "But I won't be a bore, I promise," he offered with a playful wink, hoping it wouldn't take him a terribly long time to gain her trust.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 02:00:45 PM
"You already are," she groaned through her tears while squeezing her eyes tight. Her breathing picked up slightly as his scent washed over her and with it the sound of his heartbeat, steady and strong within his broad chest. "They just want to get rid of their little freak monster is all it is!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 02:35:59 PM
He didn't let her words faze him, but her words about being a freak and a monster he completely understood. He frowned in empathy and extended a hand to her once more, determined to keep it offered despite her harsh words.

"Now why would you think you're a monster? Or a freak?" he asked gently, his warm eyes searching her face. "I see someone who's afraid, not who should be feared."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 02:56:03 PM
Yasmine looked at him like he was the biggest idiot she had ever met proposing that they give a dragon's tail a yank to see what it would do. Her fangs dropped suddenly and her eyes seem to darken as she leaned right into his face and hissed fiercely. Lady Fairchild squealed involuntarily at the sound and sight, immediately dashing off to cry in her husband's embrace.

The effect however was lost as the teenager rolled her eyes and mumbled around the sensation of her teeth. "What a ninny!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 03:17:32 PM
Conrey just stared at her, curiously admiring the fangs she showed in what he could only guess was her attempt at appearing menacing. Noting that her teeth appeared healthy if nothing else, he shrugged and glanced over his shoulder at her crying mother.

"Be kind. Humans have instincts same as us all. Now...why do you think you're a monster, Yasmine?" he asked again, not willing to accept fangs as an excuse. The pieces of this puzzle were slowly coming together in his mind, though. What she was exactly was not something he was entirely sure of just yet.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 03:24:45 PM
The girl pouted, slumping more in her chair as she let her tongue play with her now fully extended teeth. Her speech was a bit slurred from trying to talk around the teeth that still were not comfortable in her mouth but it was nevertheless the tone of a weary child that spoke when she voiced her opinions.

"Not 'uman anymore. Not me anymore. Jus' lemme alone," she petulantly grumbled, shoving at his shoulder and trying to curl more into her chair. "You all win." Giving up and wishing to try and escape further conversation now that she knew he was not afraid of her, Yasmine squirmed to try and get up from the chair and away from Conrey to stomp her way back to her room.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 03:38:18 PM
Puzzled as to why she said such things when he was speaking of her mother, Conrey stood and stepped back without a word as she shoved at him. Letting her get up, he followed her and sent her parents a reassuring smile as he passed them by. Yasmine was stubborn for sure, but he was certain he could still perform the job he'd been hired for. At the very least, he would try to keep other humans from falling to her.

"So...when you say you ate them," he prompted her once they were out the door. "Do you...devour them? I'm honestly not entirely sure what you are, though you do have some marvelous teeth I must admit."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 03:45:20 PM
The Fairchilds nodded their head at the departing pair, already showing signs of relaxing with their daughter out of the room and the apparent comfort of her guardian around her. Yasmine on the other hand was feeling fit to be tied. Now he was following her around after she just told him to leave her alone and she could not seem to manage to get her teeth to retract again no matter how much prodding from her tongue they endured.

She huffed and sighed and stomped her feet, trying to ignore and leave him behind but it was no use as he began to ask questions she would rather not answer. "Don' you know anyt'ing 'bout manners?! You don' ash that 'tuff! And they're not marvelous," she growled whipping around to yell at him before realizing how much taller than her he was. "They're awful! Being a vampire's terrible and I wish I was dead! NOW GO 'WAY!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 03:54:26 PM
Conrey shrugged at her questions, finding her exasperation puzzling. "Your father said I was family now. I figured it was alright for family to ask such questions. I'm your guardian not someone looking to impress a girl of high society," he explained, rolling his eyes at the way she tried to yell at him, the effect far less menacing than it had probably been meant as.

"Oh, a vampire. I should have guessed," he sighed, determined and right on her heels. "See now. That thinking. That thinking is why I'm here. Why would you wish yourself dead? It's so...so liberating to not be limited by human standards, by a human body, by a human mind," he told her confidently, poking at his temple as if his own should serve as an example.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 04:04:47 PM
"Yesh because being an animal is so much better! And you're not family you're just a servant! A commoner and a fool!" With tears in her eyes, Yasmine bolted through the winding halls, up stairs and towards her now vacant wing of the house where no servant dared enter. She hoped she could lose the wolf once and for all by locking herself in her room where she could cry in the sanctity and privacy away from judging eyes and prying minds that thought being a vampire was a gift instead of the awful curse it truly was.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 04:15:20 PM
He snorted, rolling his eyes at being called an animal. "It's much more sophisticated than you make it sound, I assure you," he retorted, ignoring her jabs at calling him a servant and commoner. He most certainly knew he was common of birth but he had risen and grown comfortable in his strange place in the world.

Conrey followed her easily. Her run was hardly more than a jog to a taller, more fit werewolf. When she made for a door he slammed a forearm against the doorframe and stuck a boot inside to keep her from shutting it on his nose. "Nuh-uh," he scolded, holding the door with his other hand to brace himself against it and squeeze inside. "Now why would you want to hide from me of all people?" he wondered. "You can't hide from this forever. And I'm here to help. The sooner you embrace it the better."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 04:25:39 PM
She groaned at his persistence and instead of responding repeatedly tried to shove the door closed, uncaring that his foot was still in the way of it. Yasmine threw all her pathetic strength at the door in hopes of locking him and the truth out together.

"You're no one and not'ing!" She howled childishly, finally slumping down the back of the door like the child she was throwing a temper tantrum. "I don' know you. I don' wanna! You're not my friend! JUST LEEB ME ALONE!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 04:38:49 PM
Wincing at the slight pain in his foot, Conrey quickly finished stepping through the doorway and into her room, shoving the door back against her dead weight at the bottom of it.

He stood in silence, just observing her and listening to her get out her frustration before calmly looking about the room. "I'm sorry, but I must stay with you," he sighed. "This room looks comfortable, though, you should go...lay down. Take a few deep breaths, y'know? I'll just stay right here," he explained as he slid his back down the wall next to the door and sat down.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 04:57:12 PM
"No. You. Mushn't," she growled back. "Kindly wait outside. You are not welcome in a lady's quarters, now you you fiend!" Yasmine jumped to her feet and made to kick Conrey where he sat,  hoping to chase him back out as easily as he had shoved his way in. "Out, out, OUT!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 05:00:36 PM
Conrey stared up at her with a blank face, unflinching even for her abuse. "But you are not a lady. You are a girl. And I am not a man, but a servant, a commoner, a fool, and a fiend. So why should it matter to me what you think about it? I'm doing my job," he stated plainly, tucking his feet together.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 05:17:23 PM
Her bottom lip wobbled as Yasmine finally lost it. Grabbing the nearest thing she could reach, she chucked a stuffed bear at his head before racing and flinging herself onto her bed with a belly flop. "I HATE YOU," she howled into her pillow. Although whom she screamed it to she could not say. She did not know if she meant Conrey, her parents, or even herself. Yasmine hated being outsmarted. Every chance she got she had tried to shut him out and already in less than an hour he had managed to shut down her arguments, withstand her "terrifying" displays, and sent her to bed without so much as raising his voice or a finger.

"S'not fair," the child whined into her pillow when the sobs had settled and she was feeling a bit calmer.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 05:36:37 PM
He had the stifle a laugh at having a toy thrown at him, but he let her scream and cry without bothering her. He remained on the floor as he had promised and simply observed the lump of her on her bed. He didn't like that she was crying and upset, but it was better than being violent in his opinion.

"Do you...know when we're to leave? For this place your parents want you to go?" he asked her calmly.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 06:17:57 PM
Flopping onto her back and staring at the ceiling allowed Yasmine to finally calm herself enough to be civil. "Tomorrow, or tonight even. The sooner they get rid of me the better. I'm a danger to everyone and everything. I'm not safe-they're not safe with me here so they're sending me away. Why are you such a persistent troll anyway? Trying to get brownie points with my parents? They don't care as long as they're not next on the menu. You're disposable, just a garden tool to be used and thrown away at the end of its use."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 06:36:35 PM
Not really caring for her dramatic portrayal of the situation or her analogy for him, Conrey just nodded and said a short, "Thank you." Her parents had indeed seemed fearful of her, but he wondered if they were honestly just as fearful for her. They seemed like good enough people, perhaps a bit spoiling of their daughter judging on her room alone and his own employment, in his opinion, but to him they did not seem like selfish people who feared this young girl.

"So I'm assuming you aren't born of it... How did it happen? Are you alright?" he wondered.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 07:03:11 PM
Yasmine huffed and rolled her eyes. "Brilliant deduction!" She threw an arm over her eyes and shook her head before replying quietly, "if you want to know then ask my parents. I don't want to talk about it." So saying, she rolled to her side, her back to him as she curled into a ball.

"You should find out when we're leaving. I'll stay in my room. You can even lock it to make sure if you don't believe me," she informed him feeling as defeated as she sounded. "The sooner I leave the better for everyone."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 07:55:50 PM
He raised a brow, wary of her promises for he did not know her enough to know if she would keep her word. Judging on the behavior he'd witnessed thus far he didn't think he should trust her to stay, but how far could she really go?

"If you're so eager to leave," he shrugged, climbing to his feet and dusting off his pants before turning to carefully open the door. "Please stay, though, like you promised," he added, hoping it would be enough to deter her from trying to escape. The last thing he needed was trouble with her on his first day.

Quietly leaving the room but choosing not to lock it, Conrey headed back down to the area he'd last seen her parents. "Lord Fairchild? Lady Fairchild?" he called gently, having no idea where they might have gone after he'd left with Yasmine.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 08:45:04 PM
The child only grunted in response as she pulled a heavy quilt over her head, refusing to move even after he had left. She would remain true to her word even as she plotted a new strategy of approach against this new adversary.

The Fairchilds popped their head out from the receiving room, their faces crestfallen at Conrey's speedy return. "Well it could not be helped I suppose," Lord Fairchild commented with a sigh. "Thank you for your trouble my good man. I'm sorry we wasted your time. It was good of you to come and try. How much do we owe you for your services?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 08:49:48 PM
Conrey approached them with an apologetic smile, feeling bad for needing to clarify information with them so quickly. His expression soon changed to one of confusion, though, at his words. It took him a few moments of awkward silence to realize that he thought that he was quitting already.

"Oh! No! Nonono," he chuckled, fiddling with his pockets nervously and blushing some though he had nothing to be embarrassed for. "You haven't wasted my time at all, honest. I...wasn't planning on leaving so soon. I just... I never asked you. When are we to leave? For this secluded location you wish your daughter to live at?" he clarified.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 18, 2014, 09:20:57 PM
Identical waves of relief washed over both adults' faces as they learned it was all a misunderstanding. "Ah well then we had hoped to send you both off as soon as she is ready and you deem it safe enough to travel. My wife and I feel the sooner she is away from these things that upset her, the sooner she can start to find herself again. This whole affair has been mighty distressing to her you see.

"The location itself is a day perhaps two by coach from the city center. It's a quaint little mansion located in the forest which should be able to supply you both with the space and privacy you'll need given your conditions. You'll of course have a footman to assist with getting you settled in before he returns here to us. All of your shared needs will be paid for and provided. Should there be anything else you'll be requiring, you need only write us and we will ensure to provide you with it to the best of our ability as soon as possible. Is there anything else? Other questions perhaps?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 18, 2014, 09:42:13 PM
He nodded as if understanding but he honestly had no idea what there was to be so distressed about. He figured it had to do with the manner she'd become a vampire. "Well, it sounds lovely. And safe. I've secured her in her room for now," he assured them. "But I would be happy to leave in even a couple of hours if I may be permitted to return home and pack my belongings. Or, if it would suit you better, if we could stop by my home along the way I can get my things then. Whichever you feel most comfortable with," he promised, wanting his employers happy and trusting.

"I'm no doctor, but she seems in stable health, though perhaps a bit hungry." He smiled some and gestured at his teeth. "She's having a bit of a problem with...putting them away. Though I assure you I have no fear of being confined with a vampire," he chuckled.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 09:07:14 AM
The pair wordlessly consulted each other before nodding, wincing only slightly at the mention of their daughter's hunger. It was Lady Fairchild though who answered. "Perhaps it is best if you go home now and pack your essentials. We can always have someone sent to gather whatever else you require, but if she is indeed secure in her room for now then the sooner you go and return, the less likely she is to become bored."

Lord Fairchild interrupted, wrapping an arm around his wife's shoulders. "We still need to come to a feeding arrangement for our dear Yasmine. The true problem however lies in the fact that she refuses to eat according to the diet of her condition. It is how we've ended up in this unfortunate cycle and we're at our wits ends trying to find a way to, for her protection of course, keep this private as well as care for her needs accordingly. I'm sure you understand. If you have no other questions, then you should really be on your way. Feel free to ask anything though. Anything that could be useful to you for caring for our little one will be readily given."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 09:35:37 AM
Conrey gave a smile of thanks but continued to listen. He wasn't surprised to hear that Yasmine was refusing to eat properly. That seemed the only thing he hadn't seen from her yet. "Well I can assure you for her health and safety I will do my best to find a solution for that. It might just be the...foreignness of it all. Perhaps she's afraid of it," he shrugged with a slight frown, hoping that would not disturb them further.

"But I will. I'll find some arrangement that suits her. And I will write to you should she need anything or I have any other questions," he promised. "But I think I will be on my way for now, I will return as soon as I am able." With a bow of his head to them he was heading for the front door he'd originally entered their home through, wondering if he should go on foot or if transporting Yasmine was so urgent that he should take advantage of his wolf to get back sooner. He pondered this as he left their home, casting a glance over his shoulder at the windows before starting off in a gentle jog as he pondered a decision.

He was home before he knew it, though, and said not a word to his mother as he passed her to go pack his things and sling the sack over his shoulder. The books weighed on him, but it was manageable. He left as silently as he had come to return to the Fairchilds as dusk burned the sky.

Unsure if he was welcome to just enter again on his own Conrey hesitantly knocked on their door.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 05:46:11 PM
It was Lady Fairchild who opened the door in a frantic hurry, practically dragging Conrey in as she latched onto his arm and moved to shut the door again. "Come in, come in! She's in one of her tizzies again! Yasmine's gone and got some notion in her head that she doesn't need to leave and has barricaded the door. She won't even let us say goodbye! Oh Mister Shaw I'm so sorry it has to be this way," she informed him while trying to lead him to Yasmine's room. "She normally isn't like this I swear!"

Outside of Yasmine's door Lord Fairchild was arguing with his daughter, pleading and shouting to no avail in order to coax his daughter out from her room. He looked towards his wife with a mixture of regret and frustration even as he continued to argue with his only child.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 05:53:22 PM
Wide-eyed for the frantic woman sweeping him inside the house Conrey sighed and shook his head in disappointment as he listened and followed her back to Yasmine's door. Seeing her father there, he shot the man an apologetic smile and stepped up to stand beside him. "Yasmine? Would you please let me in?" he asked gently. "You don't have to come out, but please let me talk to you."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 06:39:00 PM
Lord Fairchild easily stepped aside for Conrey, shaking his head as he moved. Yasmine on the other hand was not as accommodating as attitude practically dripped from he revery word. "I can hear you just fine where you are thank you."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 06:45:32 PM
A bit taken aback that she would not just let him, Conrey rested his forehead against the door and gathered his thoughts for a moment. "Well... What's this about you not wanting to go now? You told me it was best if we leave soon. You going back on your word?" As if he didn't believe she was blocking herself in he tested the door gently and was disappointed to find it really did not want to budge, though he was certain he could force it if it came to that.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 06:47:59 PM
"I never gave my word to begin with, especially not to you of all people!" she hissed at the door. Yasmine paced up and down her room throwing angry glances towards where she had piled everything she could possible move in front of it in the time that Conrey had been gone. "It is they who want me gone! I did not ask for this! This is my HOME. Why would I want to leave?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 06:52:19 PM
Conrey sighed, casting an apologetic look to her parents. "It isn't for forever. You can come back once you have...a better handle on your feeding. Killing innocent people is not an excuse for your hunger," he told her, hoping his honesty was not too harsh for her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 06:58:16 PM
She looked at the door completely hurt and insulted even as she stomped her foot and screeched. "I DIDN'T MEAN TO KILL THOSE PEOPLE! I DIDN'T WANT TO BECOME THIS...THIS...THING! I want my normal life back not that something like you would understand that! Just quit with your meddlesome pestering you...pest!" Yasmine screamed again before throwing herself on her bed and kicking her feet and fists as if beating the bed into submission would somehow cause Conrey pain as well.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 07:03:30 PM
He listened to her scream and complain but it did nothing to affect him. Taking a step back and heaving a deep sigh of disappointment that she could not be mature about this, Conrey looked to her parents and apologized, explaining gently, "I can retrieve her if you don't want to wait for her to come along on her own but...I can't promise your property won't be damaged if I have to force the door open."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 07:20:07 PM
The lady of the house looked like she would faint at the very thought as even Lord Fairchild paled beside her. "Do what you must," he commanded with a defeated sigh. However, on the other side of the door, the vampire's screeches and tantrum had ceased. Instead the sound of something dragging across the floor could be hurried followed by several thumps.

"If you want me gone so badly then look your last because I promise you I am never coming back!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 07:33:18 PM
Conrey nodded tensely, not wishing to upset his clients like that but knowing it might be necessary. He perked up, though, and tilted his head when he heard the noise behind the door. A brief smirk appeared at his lips, knowing he was winning, but he let it fall so as not to throw Yasmine into a rage if she was quick enough to see it. "I trust you've packed your bags in my absence?" the werewolf wondered, acting as though he'd never heard her tantrum at all.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 07:43:43 PM
Yasmine threw the door, just missing Conrey's smile but nevertheless enjoying how the banging of the door made both her parents jump. "All eleven of them to be precise," she stated, flashing her teeth as she crossed her arms and tapped her foot. "You can retrieve them now. And do take care. I will be most disappointed if I arrive to find my things damaged due to your carelessness. I also expect you'll have no trouble retrieving Duchess for me. In the meantime I will be in the carriage saying my goodbyes to this place forever. Goodbye Mother. Goodbye Father," she dismissed them evenly before attempting to walk towards the stairs.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 07:53:08 PM
Conrey stepped back to let her pass, grateful that she was going on her own now. He watched her heading for the stairs and shrugged as he stepped into her room. "I will take exactly two. So grab what's necessary if you must have more. Not sure who Duchess is, but you're not bringing some little friend along," he sighed. "Can't have them getting eaten."

True to his word Conrey grabbed the two bags at the top of her obscene pile of things before heading out to the stairs again. He couldn't be rid of this place fast enough if this was how she acted here. He certainly wasn't going to be a doormat just because he was bought and paid for.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 08:16:20 PM
"Now you wait just a minute!" Yasmine cried out, turning quickly on her heel in horror. "All of these are essential to my health and well-being the entirety of my stay which most likely will be the rest of my very long pathetic life. Are you really going to deny me this? It's all I have to call my own. I will have no friends, no family, no one to see, and nothing but what is in these cases to do. And on top of that you would take from me the only comfort I have had through this whole horrible affair? You would force me to leave behind my precious Duchess? My baby?" Her eyes welled up with true tears at the horror of being left alone and bored for the rest of her days.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 08:46:04 PM
"If they're so important then I don't see why you can't carry them yourself," he shrugged, seeing no reason a vampire who had the energy to throw tantrums could not carry luggage. Her way of speaking of Duchess, though, disturbed him greatly as he misunderstood and thought himself in a situation he had not agreed to. He looked to her parents in panic, wondering how on earth this mess of a girl was expected to look after her baby as well.

"I...wasn't aware you had a baby, Yasmine. I must admit I'm not the best with children, but more than that I think it's even more important that you stay away from your baby until you can control yourself better," he told her, trying to be as gentle as possible as he feared he would throw a 'new mother' into a fit of rage at being told to leave her baby behind.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 09:11:04 PM
Her eyes narrowed at the thought of carrying her luggage but that was quickly forgotten as he spoke of her leaving her Duchess behind. "You're calling me a child now too!" she squealed in shock and disgust. "I will have you know I am sixteen now, a far cry from being called a child! And as for my Duchess she has been my only solace through this entire ordeal. I would never harm her nor have I! Don't you dare take my kitten away from me Mister Shaw or I will make your life a living hell!"

"Yasmine sweetie!" Lady Fairchild gasped. "There is no need for shouting. Inside voices," she whispered to emphasize her point. "I'm sure Mister Shaw would be more than agreeable to allowing you to keep little Duchess, isn't that right Mister Shaw?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 09:18:12 PM
Just listening to her rant and scream and complain, Conrey soon found himself quite embarrassed with the assumption he had made. "Oh," he whispered at last, his features relaxing and his cheeks flushing slightly at the realization she was talking about a pet. A kitten no less. "My apologies," he mumbled. "I thought you meant you had recently... Nevermind. Yes your cat is fine to bring, Yasmine. But fetch her yourself, I don't know of her whereabouts."

Conrey began heading down the stairs with the three bags he carried, not wishing any further conflict or misunderstandings with the stressed teenager.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 19, 2014, 09:23:10 PM
"But Mister Shaw," she called running to the banister. "I asked you as I cannot reach her in my room. She's gone and climbed up on a shelf again. Usually I would ask a servant to get her or anything else down for me but," Yasmine winced, looking sheepish before adding in a whisper, "we don't have anymore of those either.

"Won't you please help me? She's my only companion."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 19, 2014, 09:33:45 PM
Conrey sighed and shook his head. "Perhaps you could ask your parents if they're so keen on having you bring her," he suggested before dumping the bags beside the front door and turning around to head back upstairs. He fully intended on helping her, but the list of requests was already getting on his nerves.

"Alright...where is she?" he asked wearily once he'd reached the top again.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 09:03:31 AM
Yasmine visibly relaxed upon hearing that he would help her as she raced back into her room to point at the tiny white fuzzball mewling on the top shelf. "There, and do be careful. She is such a delicate little baby, my Duchess." With a hawk-like gaze, the young woman kept a wary eye on werewolf and kitten alike to make sure no harm would come to her precious kitten.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 09:22:54 AM
Conrey followed her and stared up at the kitten with unamused, squinting eyes. "Don't you think she can get down if she climbed up there?" he complained even as he approached the shelf and reached up while standing on his toes to retrieve the kitten, carefully holding her scruff as he brought her down enough so Yasmine could take her. "Here," he prompted her, not planning on spending his day holding a useless kitten.

Without a word the guard approached her pile of luggage and took up another four for her, wordlessly leaving the room to take them down the stairs.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 09:34:41 AM
"She's a cat. They go up but don't really come back down." She hurried to claim Duchess, checking her all over for harm and injuries as she gave her little kisses and tucked her close to her chest while baby-talking to her. "Oh you poor thing. You were sooo scared! It's okay now because I've got you."

Yasmine secretly smiled into her pet's fur as she noticed Conrey taking more luggage before she too moved to grab the biggest bag left of the remaining five and attempting to drag it across the floor while holding onto Duchess. The process was slow and Conrey would have already made it to the bottom with all the bags long before she even made it down the hall to the top of the stairs with her one. Yet, she trudged on without complaint, only showing the slightest bit of emotion as her mother declared she would retire from the stress and her father went to escort her to bed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 09:52:39 AM
On his way back from dropping his second round of bags off Conrey sighed and rolled his eyes when he realized her struggle as he met her at the top of the stairs. "Aren't vampires supposed to be strong?" he wondered aloud, unimpressed by her as he reached to just take the bag from her so he could take it the rest of the way.

"And doesn't your pet need....some sort of leash? So it won't run away?" he asked.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 10:44:40 AM
Yasmine huffed and fought back tears as he ridiculed her efforts but nevertheless bit her tongue to keep from letting him see her hurt as she once more turned back to gather another one. However, she was stopped in her paces as he dared to suggest Duchess be chained up like some mongrel.

"Why, I don't see you with one?" she snapped back before stomping into her room to get another bag.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 11:00:38 AM
Conrey just blinked, tilting his head in confusion as to why she'd even say that. Not really offended by it he wondered sincerely with a shrug, "Why would I need one? I'm not an animal and I'm definitely not a pet... Or it that just something you say to try to shame my kind?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 11:10:11 AM
"Well you are my parent's guard dog are you not? Were you not sent to guard and protect me like the good little wolfie you are from the big bad world?" She replied as she came out dragging another albeit smaller bag. "Duchess as much right to go unchained as you or I. Unless you think I should be chained up too then," she challenged haughtily.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 11:20:36 AM
Conrey just rolled his eyes at her theatrics. "It might do you some good," he grumbled, setting the bag atop the rest of the pile and standing beside it instead of returning up the stairs to help her anymore. "I am no more a dog than you are...a cat," he explained, gesturing at the kitten.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 11:24:41 AM
Yasmine huffed and rolled her eyes as she placed the bag down. "She is not a cat. She is Duchess and she is my baby. I won't hear anything more of it Mister Shaw. Now can I at least drop the bags down to you? If we are to appease my Mother and leave at once it will be well past midnight before I get these all down on my own."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 11:35:31 AM
"A cat is a cat, Miss Fairchild," he complained. "Get them yourself," he said with a shrug, opening the door and beginning the process of loading them into the carriage. They weren't going to take all night to get packed if he had anything to say about it, but he wasn't going to turn into an errand boy so quickly, and especially not for a bratty teenager as he saw her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 11:40:51 AM
"I did ask nicely," she pointed out to no one. "I'm just trying to help. Honest Duchess, I don't know why he's treating us both so meanly. We've been through so much already haven't we?" Yasmine made her way back up the stairs before carefully grabbing two small bags and carrying them back down to place them in front of the doorway. Tiredly, she headed back for the final two still muttering under her breath about how unfair having to leave her home with a stranger was.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 11:51:47 AM
Conrey heard her complaints but did nothing else for her and kept his face stoic when he saw her while retrieving more bags. He was certain, with the way they were stacking, that her luggage would take up most of the carriage even after having secured the largest ones to the back of the vessel. Returning inside to watch her descend with the last of them, Conrey opened the door for her and pointed at the carriage. "Just get in, we need to go now." 
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 12:00:28 PM
She nodded her head gently before marching into the carriage as if to her death. Yasmine swallowed heavily several times, fighting the urge to break down and cry especially in front of a stranger of all people. All she wanted were things she could never admit to wanting and believed she would never have the chance again. For all her posturing and snarky attitude, she was just a scared little girl, afraid to leave home.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 12:14:40 PM
Conrey watched her closely, prepared to chase if she decided to run, but was happy that she was at least listening to him for now. "Thank you," he offered as he climbed in after her and shut the door behind himself as he took a seat. "You don't get...ride sick, do you?" he wondered, wincing at the idea of needing to care for an ill vampire.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 12:28:05 PM
Her eyes flashed up glassily before dropping down to her little rolling bundle. Yasmine shook her head, not trusting herself to answer without choking out a sob along with her answer. As the carriage began to move she felt pain accumulate in her belly and her chest as if leaving behind the home she had always known likewise left behind her very soul.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 12:35:01 PM
"Well, that's good at least," he sighed, leaning back to relax as they began moving. This wasn't something he was accustomed to and was genuinely a bit worried about how his own body might take such a long ride. He'd only ever taken a carriage between towns a time or two, but never this distance. He stared out the window, trying not to look at her and the obvious way this was affecting her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 12:45:47 PM
"What do we do when we get there?" Yasmine murmured softly as she stared out the window and stroked her kitten's soft fur. "What happens now? Have you even thought that far ahead? Have they?" she asked referring to her parents that she already missed with all of her heart.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 12:56:34 PM
"Of course I have," he insisted, though he had no idea if her parents shared his same ideas. "You'll have time to get comfortable and situated, but I think most importantly we need to work on your relationship with...your food. I have some ideas. Is there...something you prefer to eat?" he wondered, having no idea what she'd tried so far. "Or just humans?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 01:00:56 PM
She did not mean to but the very mention of food made her gag and reach for her mouth. Duchess, taking the opportunity to be free seized it, leaping from her mistress's lap straight onto Conrey's while purring up a store as she attempted to crawl all over him.

"I do not wish to have any relationship with my food. If I did have one then I would be a vegetarian," she spat, turning slightly green. "I prefer if you must know a good roast dinner with a delicious wine-based gravy and and sweet carrots." Yasmine sighed with pleasure at memories of all the delicious things she had eaten in the past. "Mmm, yes that is definitely best."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 01:04:06 PM
Conrey froze and stared at the cat making his lap her home. It was odd to him, to have an animal so enamored with him. Gently, he picked up the kitten and tried to place her back with Yasmine for fear of the girl becoming upset with him over the cat's preferences.

"Well, that does sound delicious, but I meant real food. Well, your new real food. Blood. What taste do you prefer?" he pressed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 01:06:57 PM
Yasmine shuddered, clutching her kitten closer as she curled in on herself. "Blood is not food and I can survive just fine without it thank you very much," she informed him stubbornly. "It's altogether disgusting."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 01:13:09 PM
Conrey frowned, hoping their whole time together would not be spent fighting her to eat properly. "See that thinking is probably why you're in this situation in the first place. You must drink it. It's the way of vampires, Yasmine. Did you not...feel better when you did eat properly?" he wondered.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 01:29:05 PM
She shook her head fiercely while trying to drown out the memories of just how good the blood had tasted and how she seemed to never want stop drinking it once she had started. "It was foul and gross and horrible! I never want to touch it again. Never!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 01:42:19 PM
"Now Yasmine," he scolded gently, not wanting to further upset her. "I'm sure you just might not be used to it yet. I've never heard of a vampire hating blood," he chuckled, shaking his head at the ridiculousness of that. "Maybe you just...haven't had the best experiences with it," he suggested. "But I promise I'll help find something suitable for you."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 02:11:21 PM
"I don't want to find something suitable! I'm happy with what I have. I'm happy with the things always were. Why do you have to go and change that? Why are you trying to make me into such a monster? You don't even know me and already you're trying to make me into this horrible thing and turn me further from what I was. It's not fair," she declared feeling incredibly hurt.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 02:22:41 PM
"Your parents told me that was part of the problem," he defended, hating that she reacted as though he was attacking her with the idea of eating properly for her new kind. "You can't live off of what you used to. It isn't practical, it could make you sick. I'm not here to change who you are, I'm here to make sure you treat your new self properly and learn not to...lose control."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 03:03:48 PM
She huffed and turned her back on him to stare out the window though her eyes could not focus on the darkened scenery. "And it's hardly any better to be living off what you find practical. It's sick and twisted and horrific! Only an animal eats what I must and-and-and...nevermind," she whispered in defeat. "You wouldn't understand."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 03:14:11 PM
The werewolf rolled his eyes, finding her dramatic and unwilling to listen. He supposed he would have to just force her new needs upon her, much as he hated the idea of force-feeding a teenager. "You aren't an animal for needing what you need," he told her gently. "Nobody will think less of you for eating how you must," he promised, though that promise was simply for his own opinion of her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 03:20:53 PM
"Is that how you console yourself?" she whispered without looking at him. "Is that what you tell yourself when you make that mistake and someone dies because of you? There is no control over this. We can pretend but its always there and always fighting to win. The more I feed the stronger it gets and I will not do this again. Let it go Mister Shaw. I'm not the selfish brat you think I am. My reasons are justified. Pass your judgement when you actually understand me and not before. You have no right to show up, take me from my home, and then consider yourself an expert just on heresay from my parents."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 03:34:50 PM
"I'd never dream of it, but I have my opinions," he shrugged, not wanting to argue it anymore with her. "I did not steal you anyway. I'm being paid for this, mind you. Not that....I've been paid to steal you," he faltered, blushing and just letting it go and hoping his awkward bump could be forgotten. "This is all for your own good."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 03:43:23 PM
Yasmine sighed and shook her head. "That's what everyone keeps telling me." Exhausted from her long day and the even longer nights of no sleep, the teenager could do nothing but slump in her seat as the night continued to pass in their awkward carriage ride. Her only comfort was the tiny ball of fluff purring away on her lap and fast asleep.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 03:52:49 PM
He watched her out of the corner of his eye as the drowsiness overcame her. He said not a word more as he got himself as comfortable as possible for the long ride to come. His eyes half-lidded most of the time, the werewolf fought off the idea of sleep as he watched over her, as if fearing the girl would fly from a moving carriage given the opportunity.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 03:55:01 PM
She was bored to the point of tears, banging her head gently against the back of the seat when the carriage blessedly pulled to a stop and she was all but racing out of it to see her new home. "Finally!" Yasmine called with a relieved shout even as the driver flinched and cowered, moving as quickly as he could to the back of the carriage in order to begin unloading the luggage.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 04:04:27 PM
Conrey was startled awake, fearing the fact that he'd fallen asleep as much as awakening to her shouting. Growling and fixing his mussed hair he climbed out after her on unsteady feet, hurrying to follow after her. "Don't run!" he called after her, though he was quickly catching up to a more comfortable distance.

Looking the place up and down, though, he was shocked at how...big it still was. "Are you sure this is it?" he asked, puzzled as to how anyone could afford something so large as a second home.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 04:16:47 PM
"Aye," she replied with a pleased sigh. "I know it's not very big but I think it'll do for just the three of us, don't you? Surely a wing to yourself is not going to be too little for you right? Beggars can't be choosers after all. Shall we explore Mister Shaw?" Yasmine was practically bouncing with excitement as her vampire problems were forgotten for the moment and replaced with youthful abandon.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 04:25:36 PM
"Not a problem at all," he muttered, still staring at the large structure before him for a moment before snapping back to attention. "Nononono, I don't need that much room, honestly. But sure, we can do that. Just don't get lost," he warned her, cautiously entering and taking in the sights of the place.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 04:28:08 PM
She laughed and dashed into the house, her little Duchess mewling with all the movement but remaining curled up against her chest. The foyer was large with a winding staircase that led off in two directions for either end of the house. In the shadows, Yasmine could see there were also other rooms leading to the lower wings on other side of the foyer but she was far more interested in finding her room.

"Left or right Mister Shaw?" she called over her shoulder, already racing up the stairs.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 04:33:27 PM
It seemed even larger from inside than it had outside, if that was even possible. Conrey was simply in awe as he looked around the foyer, peeking through doorways before turning his head to watch her flying up the stairs. He followed, interested to see what the rest of it might look like. "For what now?" he wondered. "Right...?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 04:36:12 PM
"Fine then I call left wing as mine," she squealed before taking off into the dark. "We're going to need some torches in the future though," her voice projected, echoing through the halls as she pranced about blindly. "Do you think there's a library?" Yasmine poked her head in every room, noting the location of a few guest rooms, a study, and a receiving room for starters.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 05:03:24 PM
"I don't know," he called after her. "Isn't this your house?" He explored the opposite end of the house with curiosity but felt like an intruder despite being sent there. Poking his head inside a few of the dusty rooms, he dreaded the idea of having to clean the place before it was really suitable for living. Still, he found the place fully furnished with bedrooms, a small study that got him wondering if it would fit her criteria for a library, and lots of little sittings rooms that made it clear that several dozen people could call this place home and still have comfortable room for more.

If the other side of the house was just as large he reckoned she could have all the privacy she could ever want and he might be able to live in peace in the area he'd 'claimed.'

Wandering back downstairs to help get the rest of their bags inside, Conrey grabbed a few of hers and brought them up and cautiously approached the wing she'd disappeared into. "I don't know what's down here but you might find the other side better to your liking," he offered. "There was a study at least. Did you want your bags anywhere in particular or do you want to switch...'sides'?" he asked.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 06:04:42 PM
Suddenly a piercing scream echoed through the darkened hall where Yasmine had last disappeared off to followed by the sound of several things banging and a loud crash. Duchess came racing out of the hall, her fur standing on end as if she was a fluffy snowball as the vampire's screams continued to reverberate through the hall.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 06:08:36 PM
Conrey stood startled by the screaming, watching as the kitten raced towards him. Setting the bags down and expecting her to be having some dramatic episode, he scooped up the small cat and entered the darkened hall, his eyes flashing as they adjusted to it. Yes, torches would definitely be in their future. "Yasmine? What's wrong?" he called, unsure which room she'd disappeared to.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 06:31:42 PM
Yasmine was standing on a tiny end table in the hall while another table and a shattered vase were knocked over close by. "There's a mouse!" she squealed pointing in a corner across from her. "Kill it, kill it, kill it," her shrill voice continued as the table wobbled beneath her cowering form. "IT TOUCHED ME!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 06:44:57 PM
Conrey just stared in surprise as he approached her, a look of disbelief clouding him thinking she was pulling his leg about this. "A...mouse? Yasmine a mouse is so harmless. Leave the poor thing alone," he pleaded, offering her a hand. "Get down from there."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 06:49:08 PM
"IT CARRIES PLAGUE AND POISON AND DEATH! KILL IT!" she screeched while shrinking away from his hand and nearly causing the table to dump her in turn. "I'm not coming down until it is disposed of!" Yasmine started to hyperventilate at the very thought of it coming any where near her. "A MOUSE INFESTATION!" she bemoaned aloud, covering her face with her hands in horror.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 07:12:37 PM
Conrey rolled his eyes and searched the immediate area to find...nothing. He set the cat down, shooing her and hoping that her instincts would hunt the mouse down for him instead. "Well it's not here right now, you probably scared it away," he told her with a confident nod. "Now get down before you hurt yourself." It wasn't really a question as he reached up to bodily lift her by her waist.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 07:58:26 PM
 Yasmine squealed and instinctively clung to Conrey as he moved her. Yet when he moved to put her down, she refused to let go, still fearful of the unaccounted for mouse. "It's still here," she cried. "Don't let it get me," she continued to beg. Seconds later Duchess gave off a shriek and flung something across the hall before limping off to hide in the broken vase.

"My baby!" Yasmine cried, now scrambling to get down and get to her kitten, no longer caring about the mouse in the face of her dearest companion's care.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 08:23:29 PM
He was stunned that she was so fearful of such a tiny creature. "She's fine," he insisted, having no idea but rolling his eyes at the way she was reacting to it all. "Surely no vampire's ever died of a mouse. And I would hope no cat either... You sure you want to stay here?" he wondered, trying to resist laughing at the whole ordeal.

Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 08:27:17 PM
"I didn't even want to be here in the first place," she griped angrily while picking up the kitten from the mess. In a flash though, Duchess was thrust at Conrey's chest and Yasmine was darting down the hall, using her full vampire speed to race away.

"Keep her away from me," she called to him, her voice sounding extremely strained. "Her paw is cut," she furthered informed him weakly. "Told you the mouse would hurt her!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 08:50:20 PM
"I'm sorry," he called after her, taking the kitten and thinking her dramatic still and rolling his eyes as he pet Duchess with a soothing hand. "Poor Duchess, your owner is so crazy," he baby talked to the kitten, the moment one of the few normal ones he'd had all day. He took Duchess downstairs, rummaging around all the closets but not finding any suitable bandaging. He finally just opened up his bag and ripped a strip of cloth from one of his shirts to treat the kitten with, tying it in a nice bow around her injured paw.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 09:08:44 PM
While Conrey tended to her precious kitten, Yasmine had found the master bedroom in his wing and had curled up in the middle of it, uncaring of the clouds of dust that had shot up the moment she had flopped on it as she wallowed in her guilt and self-pity. Tears threaten to slide down her face but she stubbornly continued to fight them, not daring to given for fear she would never stop. Nothing was working right for her in her opinion. She had been made into a monster, forced out of her home, torn away from her former life, made to live in a filthy, rat-infested pit, and now could not even seek the comfort of her only distraction life as it was injured and her own affliction meant she was now a danger to Duchess.

"Could it get any worse?" she groaned into her hands moments before the mattress sank through the rotted bed frame and she was pinned in the center.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 09:27:38 PM
He set the kitten free to wander the house of her own free will and bid the footman his goodbyes and thanks for his assistance. He was a bit suspicious of not hearing any more of Yasmine's antics yet, though, and was climbing the stairs again when he heard a dull crashing. He sighed in disbelief, not thinking he'd ever met anyone as destructive as this girl in his entire life. "Yasmine?" he called to her. "What's going on?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 09:31:49 PM
Yasmine struggled to free herself of the bed but it was no use. The more she fought it, the more the mattress sank down, further trapping her in its grasp. Conrey's voice brought her both relief and dread. For several moments, she contemplated not answering but her futile efforts to free herself finally won.

"I'm stuck!" she called back, sounding quite muffled. "Your bed ate me!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 09:53:24 PM
"The blame to me, I see," he called, chuckling as he followed her voice and cautiously entered the darkened room and seeing the mess of the bed with her sunken into it. "Well...I suppose I'll be using a different room." He offered her a hand to help her climb out as he studied the bed, having no idea what she'd done to break it. "You don't look that heavy," he muttered to himself.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 10:07:38 PM
"Be grateful it wasn't you," she replied with a smile once he had freed her. "You can stay in my bed though. I think I'll just explore some more tonight." Yasmine feared admitting how terrified she was of the dark, especially at night when nightmares plagued her nonstop. "If I can find the library then I'll be sure to be stuck in a good book. We'd be wasting space to have me taking up a bed I had no intention of getting any actual sleep in."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 10:22:20 PM
"This whole place is a waste of space," he complained, gesturing at how big this room was alone. "And don't kid yourself, you'll need your sleep. I'm sure there's more than two bedrooms in this entire house. It's been a long day for you, you really should rest.... You wouldn't have been in here on the bed if you weren't at least a little tired," he guessed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2014, 10:38:51 PM
"It wasn't exhaustion but I need to protect Duchess that drove me in here. I'm fine really. Have a good night Mister Shaw,"  Yasmine bid him, as she tried to make her way back out the door and downstairs to explore the old house further.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2014, 10:59:47 PM
"Good...night," he shrugged, following her out and returning to his wanderings before selecting the smallest of the bedrooms. He stripped the bed of its dusty sheets and instead curled up on the bare, thin mattress after kicking off his shoes and stripping himself of his own clothes that rested in a pile on the floor. A restful night of sleep, he felt, was well deserved for the long, strange day he'd had.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 07:37:24 AM
Yasmine wandered down the stairs, exploring through the night with her little Duchess prancing around behind her. By the time that morning's light began to crest through the trees she had already discovered the dining room, kitchen, and living room on the floor to the left of the staircase. On the right of the staircase she had only managed to get as far as the massive library before curling up amongst the shelves and delving into a book while trying to fight away the sleep tugging at her tired eyes.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 08:55:00 AM
He awoke in a fit of sneezes, the dust still being a bit too much for him. His eyes red with irritation the werewolf rose and dragged the sheets about the room, deliriously knocking anything dusty into them before tying it all up in a bundle and tossing it all out into the hall with a roar of pain and frustration. Running about the house in a fit he opened every window and door he could find and set about to cleaning the place room by room.

When he reached the library seeing Yasmine curled up did not give him even a moment's pause as he rushed around, dusting the shelves with a disgusted look on his face.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 09:17:39 AM
She had but a moment to take in the scowling cloud of dust that was Conrey before his actions sent her and Duchess both into a fit of sneezing and hacking. "Mister Shaw!" Yasmine wheezed, her eyes running now with an onslaught of tears. "What do you think you're doing!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 10:01:50 AM
"Cleaning!" he barked, growling as he wiped the dust and grime from the room. "This place is filthy. Disgusting! I don't know about you, but I can live in this dust storm no longer," he complained, his eyes watery with irritation and his nose causing nearly constant sniffles as he shook his head in discomfort. Still, a determined man, he flew across the room leaving a path of slightly-more-clean in his wake.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 10:52:36 AM
As Yasmine continued to stare at him bleary-eyed a sudden realization set in. "MISTER SHAW!" she screeched whipping around and covering her eyes as well as those of Duchess. "This is highly inappropriate! Cleaning is no excuse! You're naked!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 11:10:23 AM
In his rage of cleaning he had not noticed. Looking down at himself and how dust clung to the light sheen of sweat upon his body caused him to gag. A dunk in the river would have to be made sometime soon. "So I am," he called, unrelenting in his task. "Is that a problem?" he wondered, truly feeling no shame for his nakedness.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 11:52:07 AM
"YES! HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT," Yasmine screeched as a book went flying in his general direction. "Put some clothes on your idiot! I will not live in the same house as a pervert who would dare march around in naught but his skin when there is a unwed woman he is meant to protect in the house!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 11:59:45 AM
He rolled his eyes for her fussing, the thrown book bouncing off his back painfully but he ignored her screaming and raving. "Nobody said you have to look. What's the point of getting dressed to clean when I'll be covered in filth at the end of it anyway?" he wondered aloud, almost finished with the room and thankful he could soon be out of her hair.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 12:15:56 PM
"Is it even safe or sanitary to clean when your...your...DANGLY BITS are just dangling about? I certainly hope you didn't clean the kitchen like that!" Yasmine groaned and gagged at the idea of Conrey in the kitchen naked. "Go put clothes on like a normal person! THAT'S AN ORDER!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 12:30:21 PM
"I require payment for orders, Miss Fairchild," he reminded her, rolling his eyes at the ridiculousness of a child telling him how to conduct himself anyway. He did not argue with her any further, though, rushing to finish his work and set his cleaning implements aside as he dragged what he considered to be dusty, broken junk outside to pile up in the otherwise beautiful yard.

Shivering with disgust at the grime caked upon him, Conrey fled the house in a whirl of fur as he shifted, bolting out across the grass to dive into the river.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 01:17:11 PM
Yasmine huffed and slumped against the wall the moment he dashed out. "Heathen! I swear Duchess, I have entered the deepest circle of hell. I don't know what my parents were thinking when they hired him. A naked man with his-his-his THING just bobbing around. Wolves and their stupidity, someone save me! I swear when he comes back there will be words!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 01:39:52 PM
Scrubbed clean and soaked from the water, Conrey returned on carefree paws. His mind at ease with the house clean he trotted about to survey his work as he carried the smell of wet fur through the house. Thinking nothing of it, he returned to the foyer to finish the task of getting their bags upstairs that he had left unfinished the previous night. Shifting back to his human form, he rummaged through his things and threw on clean clothes right there with the door open and not a care in the world as he set himself to work again. "Much better," he mumbled to himself.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 03:13:41 PM
She missed his return home but she certainly did not miss the stench he left behind, using it to locate him in his room. With a hand covering her eyes, Yasmine used the other to knock on the door frame, determined not to burn her eyes with the sight of him naked twice in one day.

"Mister Shaw are you decent? We have some very important things to discuss I believe."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 03:22:43 PM
Not thinking of the permanence of the situation, Conrey had simply settled his bag beside his bed, fulling expecting to live out of it and never store any of his things in the house. Hearing her voice, he closed it up again and stood up to approach the door. "Yes, of course I am," he scoffed, as if he had never been running around naked at all. "What would you like to discuss?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 03:52:40 PM
Clearing her throat and opening her eyes, Yasmine pulled herself up to her full height which in comparison to his was really not much of a difference. "For the health and sanity of this household I feel that we must have a quote-on-quote family meeting. Putting aside our first impressions of yesterday and last night...and this morning," she added the last in an embarrassed whisper. "We really need to in my opinion discuss some ground rules for all three of us. Namely, you need to wear pants. At all times. Especially when doors are open," the teenager said haltingly, her gaze continuously flickering down to his now clothed legs. "Exceptions, in the privacy of your own quarters, the bathing chamber, and incidences when your condition requires it. Now, given that is the first rule of the house and I am open to listening and proposing compromise shall we proceed further, perhaps in a more neutral environment?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 04:02:43 PM
Conrey listened, but as he realized what she was suggesting he simply rolled his eyes, though didn't interrupt. "That, little one, is out of the question. I am here to guard and protect. I will live my life as I please and I will get the job done. Now I am a decent man, don't get me wrong," he told her hurriedly, not wanting her to think he wanted to walk around naked at all times.

"And I enjoy the comforts of clothing as any other, I'm sure. But I will not have you tell me what I can or cannot do. I simply won't. It's the principle of it, Miss Fairchild. I would not insist upon you wearing something particular at all times," he scoffed. "And I will not let you dictate my clothing or when I choose to wear it. Next rule?" he gestured for her to move along, that it was no longer up for discussion.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 04:43:29 PM
"No!" she disagreed. "It is the rules of society that dictates this! What if my parents suddenly came and saw you prancing about in naught but your skin? You are meant to be my chaperone not the reason I need one! It is a valid rule. Remember who I am, a young impressionable lady who is without a suitor, unless your actions wish to indicate you are willing to fill that role too now! You certainly would not take to me running around naked like that now would you? Well? WOULD YOU?" Yasmine stamped her foot as she moved further into the room.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 05:27:29 PM
"Of course not," he scoffed, rolling his eyes at the very impropriety. "But I was doing you a service in cleaning this place, making it liveable! It is not my fault if you were impressed by what you witnessed," he defended, entirely misunderstanding her meaning. "Now please, carry on with your other points, it is a waste of time to fuss and holler over one little detail that is now irrelevant."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 21, 2014, 06:46:24 PM
Yasmine opened and closed her mouth like a fish out of water. "Oh believe me there was nothing impressive about your," she waved her hand towards him, "things! As for other rules I wanted this to be a group household effort to come up with them. Not a case of me standing here dictating like a little tyrant and you shooting me down every chance you get because you underestimate me for something I'm not. Now for one I have a question. What are we doing about living arrangements? We can't simply keep piling stuff our on the front lawn and I do not think it wise we live so close together. You certainly seem to need your...space for...activities."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2014, 07:36:57 PM
He found her floundering amusing, but tried to keep it to himself and put on a serious face as he listened to her explanation of what was wrong with their "living arrangements."
"Not at all," he protested with a shrug. "We live in the same house for now, so I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting. I picked my room," he gestured at the very floor they were standing upon. "And you are free to pick your own. Be as far from me as you'd like. Now I'm curious, Miss Fairchild. What activities do you think I need such space for?" he wondered, raising a brow at her with interest.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 22, 2014, 01:14:31 PM
She blushed darkly and waved a hand at him. "Well you know," Yasmine muttered, refusing to meet his eye. "Activities! Don't you have a lady friend or are you uh more uh gentlemanly inclined? Besides," she hastened to add, "you certainly don't need to be knowing every little thing I'm doing now do you?" Her mind reflected on her nightmares in particular and how she would hate for him to know how they plagued her every time she closed her eyes.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 22, 2014, 03:30:30 PM
Conrey just blinked at her, not seeing how this was any of her business despite that they would be living together for the foreseeable future. "I separate my private life from my work, Miss Fairchild," he sighed, trying to assure her despite that he truly had no private life at the moment. In the past he most certainly had, but for the past couple of years he had spent his time fully engrossed in his work and leaving no time for courting or much fun with the ladies. Not that he ever assumed he had any real prospects with anyone but perhaps an unsavory daughter of some common merchant.

"I believe, though, that knowing your business is a very big part of my job. It would be a disservice to you and your parents to not know everything I can about you and your...habits," he explained, hoping she didn't take offense to it.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 22, 2014, 04:28:21 PM
"Well I don't think you need to know everything that goes on in my private chambers when I'm alone," she told him, sounding flustered and not even realizing what she had unintentionally alluded to. "Besides," Yasmine continued, "don't you have like super-hearing or something? Couldn't you hear well enough across the manor to know what I'm up to?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 22, 2014, 07:41:35 PM
"No," he answered bluntly. "And my point stands. Your business is my business, wherever that may be, no matter how private you may feel it is. That is my charge. I must protect you from anything and everything that threatens your peace, Yasmine. I mean that sincerely." Her resistance was a bit unsettling. He didn't want to have to fight her every step of the way in this process. He was quite certain it would be painful enough without all that.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 22, 2014, 08:04:54 PM
Defeated, Yasmine dropped her head and sighed sadly. "Very well then," she relented. "You're really taking this whole thing very seriously aren't you? You're not just going to...leave, are you?" While the words could be misconstrued as exasperation with being stuck with him, it was the voice of a scared and lonely little girl that had uttered them.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 22, 2014, 08:28:50 PM
"Of course I am. I have honor and I will honestly fulfill my end of the bargain." Seeing the way she hung her head, Conrey sighed and reached out to touch her arm in what he hoped she would take as reassuring. "I won't be too terrible to you, so chin up, yeah?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 22, 2014, 09:04:18 PM
She nodded slightly, feeling so very far from home in that moment. "I never thought you would be," Yasmine admitted quietly. "Is there anything you wish of me or expect of me from the start Mister Shaw??
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 22, 2014, 09:19:31 PM
Scratching at his head, he wasn't sure if this was a trick question or not or what she even expected him to say about it. "I just hope we can get along," he admitted. "I don't wish to be at odds with you and...you seem quite easily offended so..." he trailed off, thinking it unwise to continue talking along that train of thought. "I would like honesty from you. I will promise you my own in return. I only wish to help you...overcome your difficulties."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 22, 2014, 09:56:09 PM
Yasmine nodded again. "I can live with that," she informed him haltingly and nervously. "I should probably let you...get back to whatever it was you were doing." She tried to shuffle out of the room quickly, feeling lost and embarrassed now that the momentum of her ire was lost.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 22, 2014, 10:25:58 PM
"I was just checking my bag," he told her, shrugging and gesturing at the room. "You're free to stay if you'd like." Thinking of the situation that had brought them to their disagreement, Conrey smirked and stepped closer to her. "So...you like reading? You were in the library earlier. Or were you just...seeing what was there?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 23, 2014, 12:20:39 PM
Like a typical teenager, she gave a wordless, one-shouldered shrug. She dug the toe of her delicate slipper into the ground as she peeked up to view the room through the fringe of her bangs. "It passes the time I suppose. Nobody ever goes into libraries anyway. No risk of me being a danger."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 23, 2014, 03:27:49 PM
"Then you may hate that here, I'm quite fond of reading. In my free time... Though I don't suppose I'll have much of that. I'll just...read in the study," he conceded at last, talking himself into settling as he guessed it would be more comfortable for him anyway.

"Is there anything I can get for you? Are you...hungry right now?" he wondered.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 23, 2014, 04:23:59 PM
"Read where you like," she told him nonchalantly. "There is only the three of us. It's hardly like I'll be getting up to much trouble with so many places to be on my own." The mention of food brought an odd reaction though as first Yasmine's eyes darkened and then her face paled as if she was sick. "No, no not hungry thank you. If you are though feel free to...do whatever it is you do to eat."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 23, 2014, 04:34:35 PM
Noticing the change in her eyes Conrey narrowed his eyes at her, shaking his head in disappointment at her denial of food. "Alright... Would you...perhaps be receptive to something if I brought it back for you, then? At least to try?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 23, 2014, 04:54:32 PM
Yasmine narrowed her eyes dangerously. "Absolutely not," she deadpanned. "I will not have good food wasted and I already told you I am not hungry right now. If this relationship between us is going to work Mister Shaw then just as I must be honest you must be trusting. I said I'm not hungry and I meant it."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 23, 2014, 05:16:35 PM
"Alright, alright." He raised his hands defensively before moving to walk past her and head downstairs. "I will trust you. You have my word," he saluted her before going down, taking the steps two at a time in a jog. Once he was outside he cast a guilty look at the pile of dirty junk he'd left just beside the entry of the manor. He was on his way quickly, though, fearing Yasmine following him to fuss about the mess he'd made again.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 23, 2014, 05:48:42 PM
She followed him down the stairs but remained in the house until she could no longer she him from the window. A quick change of her shoes into boots and Yasmine was dashing out the door to start exploring the grounds around the manor, feeling quite adventurous and free. What she did not noticed as she started exploring was that she was getting further and further away from the house.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 23, 2014, 06:12:59 PM
Despite Yasmine's rejection of food, Conrey was quick to bring a pair of rabbits back to his new home. Leaving them in the kitchen he searched the house in silence for her, to make one final offer if only for politeness. "Yasmine?" he called, though it went unanswered. His brow furrowed in concern as he checked the library and a few other rooms for her. "Are you upset with me now?" he wondered as he stepped into the foyer once more. It was there, though, he noticed her slippers by the door. Opening it and shifting into his swifter form, he scented for her and followed the trail she'd left to circle the manor. Moving on silent paws he was determined to find her and whatever trouble he suspected she might have gotten herself into, though he did not suspect danger.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 23, 2014, 06:47:21 PM
The little noble was having a ball exploring and being "naughty," doing things she knew she was not supposed to be doing for a young lady of her station. She ran and skipped and tossed rocks at birds until she grew tired and wanted to return home, believing Conrey would be on his way back anyway.

The problem she quickly learned, was that she was utterly lost. What she did not know though, was that she really was not that far from the manor. Feeling overwhelmed and defeated, she plopped herself down in front of a tree, pulling her knees to her chest while she pouted.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 23, 2014, 10:11:53 PM
Spying her at last and puzzled as to why she was sitting on the ground so close to the manor his first thought was that she was injured. Whining softly, he nervously licked at his muzzle as he approached her. The dark brown wolf looked between the girl and the house in the distance with a puzzled expression, wondering why she was not there and ready to give her a piece of his mind. It was his assumption that she already knew what he looked like in his smaller form and he expected full cooperation.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 24, 2014, 03:54:15 PM
Yasmine did not notice the figure approaching her until he was nearly on top of her. Once she did though she was on her feet with a scream and scrambling backwards in wide-eyed terror. It never once crossed her mind that it was Conrey as she assumed he could only shift with the call of the moon.

"You stay back! Don't come any closer!" She waved a pathetic twig of a branch in front of her as a weapon even as she continued to back up more and more. "Don't even think of eating me or I'll...I'll...I'll bite back!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 24, 2014, 05:05:33 PM
Startled by her scream and the small branch she waved at him, Conrey shied away from it before flattening his ears back to growl at her. Barking in protest, he moved to try and herd her back towards the house as he lunged to headbutt her leg.
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Post by: GoblinFae on December 24, 2014, 06:59:20 PM
Never the brave one of the group, but far from the shiest, Yasmine did the only thing that instinctually came to her, she ran, screaming at the top of her lungs as far away from the beast as possible.

"DON'T EAT ME!" followed her wherever she went as she squealed like a little pig, tripping over logs and brush in an attempt not to be mauled to death. "I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE NOW!" She had no idea where she was headed or even that her pathetic running was sending her almost in a circle around the house that was just out of her sight.
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Post by: Juno on December 24, 2014, 09:00:35 PM
Watching with worry, Conrey followed after her. Whining and yipping, he tried in vain to herd her closer. Once she'd circled the house a few times he growled and leaped for her, shifting as he did so to tackle her to the ground. "Yasmine!" he hissed, huffing to catch his breath. "It's just me, stop running! Not going to die." He rolled his eyes, praying he could keep a hold of her until she got some sense about her.
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Post by: GoblinFae on December 25, 2014, 02:31:52 PM
Yasmine hit the ground hard, completely stunned by the tackle and even more so by the wolf actually talking to her. Realizing that it was Conrey though had the complete opposite effect on her as expected.

With a howl she smacked him upside the head. "YOU IDIOT! You had me scared to death," she shrieked while trying to smack him again and tug at his hair. Why couldn't you have told me from the start! Now you've ruined my dress for sure!" She gave off an exasperated scream again while still fighting to hit him.
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Post by: Juno on December 30, 2014, 03:49:18 PM
Conrey was stunned, staring at her with a dazed expression for being smacked in the head repeatedly. Groggily, he rolled away with a groan and held his head in his hands as much to shield himself as to ease the dull aching, shaking it as she spoke. "No, no, no. No, Yasmine! I was protecting you! Forget your dress, you have plenty of them. Are you...okay, at least?" With a huff he rolled up onto his knees, kneeling in all his naked glory as he fought to calm the ringing in his head. "You knew what I was, why are you so surprised?" he growled.
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Post by: GoblinFae on December 30, 2014, 04:36:39 PM
The moment he was off her, she was sitting up and brushing herself off. Her movements soon ceased though as she took in the naked expanse of chest in front of her that gave way to a firm equally naked stomach and, her eyes abruptly shot upward.

"Rule number one! Rule number one!" She screeched her hands clapping loudly over her eyes to shield herself from the sight. "Go put some clothes on! I can't believe you were touching me naked! Ewwwwww!"
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Post by: Juno on December 30, 2014, 05:18:05 PM
The werewolf shook his head, rolling his eyes as she screeched. Looking at her, he stared in disbelief that she was covering her eyes that way and scoffed at her accusation. "I can't exactly control that. You shouldn't have left, I thought you were in danger. It was only right to come after you," he reasoned, gingerly climbing to his feet as if it didn't matter he was stark naked. "You need to go back to the house, too," he grumbled. "You can't just go...wandering off, Yasmine," he scolded, beginning the slow, awkward walk as a human through the brush.
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Post by: GoblinFae on December 30, 2014, 06:15:33 PM
"Mister Shaw! Can you please shift into your other form or cover yourself with something I. The meantime? We can discuss this all properly once we are home. I can't very well walk around blindfolded and I still need you leading the way and NO not looking is not an option when the person to ignore is a GIANT!" Yasmine was practically hyperventilating as she continued to cover her eyes while peeking between her fingers slightly.
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Post by: Juno on December 30, 2014, 07:10:54 PM
Surprised by how offensive she found his state of dress, Conrey looked back at her over his shoulder and stared for a moment as if he didn't believe her. "You better follow," he grumbled, shifting as she requested and leading her in his canine form instead, though he found it a bit degrading that he could not perform his "job" as he saw it in his preferred form. As he neared the house he kept checking on her, making sure she was still following and hadn't wandered off or gotten too far away from her in her fumblings, as he saw them.
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Post by: GoblinFae on December 31, 2014, 07:31:17 PM
She continued to grble under her breath at him as they walked though little by little she picked up enough speed to catch up to him. All the while Yasmine had been admiring the wolf's form and wondering if his coat was soft or bristly. After finally working up the courage to find out with the door of her new home within sight she finally reached out to strike a hand gently down his side from his shoulder to his hip before trying to scamper inside out of embarassment and shyness.
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Post by: Juno on January 01, 2015, 03:48:50 PM
He was not even aware of her admiring until she was touching him. He flinched in surprise, a soft yelp escaping him that stopped abruptly once he realized she was not hitting him but only feeling his fur. Surprised and perking his ears forward as he watched her slip inside the house, Conrey followed after her to stay right on her heels to not get shut out.

Shifting back to his human form and still entirely unashamed of his nakedness, he shut the door behind himself and turned to stare after her. "Why did you run away? You shouldn't be away from the house," he scolded her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 01, 2015, 05:54:44 PM
His yelp frightened her, leading her to believe that she had caused him injury on top of her insults. "Oh just leave me alone!" She shouted over her shoulder while pounding up the steps blindly, her eyes already filling with unshed tears of fear and grief. His yelling at her had only upset her more and at that moment Yasmine wanted nothing more than to hide herself away forever.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 03, 2015, 04:34:45 PM
He was not about to let her leave his sight, giving chase up the stairs. "If you have forgotten so soon, Miss Fairchild, it is entirely my job not to leave you alone," he reminded her, rolling his eyes at the ridiculousness of her running from her own guard. "You shouldn't be outside without me," he called after her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 04, 2015, 05:13:47 PM
"Well you shouldn't go scaring me then," Yasmine shouted, spinning on her heel to face him. "How was I to know it was you and not some wolf? You never showed me your form. I didn't even know you could change outside of the moon's bounds. You chased me and attacked me, completely frightening me! On top of that, I asked you if you wanted house rules and you refused to be civil about it or consider it. Last I checked you never forbade me from leaving my own house! I didn't do anything wrong!"

Now sobbing and blinded by tears, the young girl once more tried to turn and run. She was angry and scared and hurt. She felt so alone and rejected. The only person she would have contact with for a long time and she had already managed to cause him pain in her eyes and be yelled at. Yasmine was positive he hated her and saw her as nothing but an annoyance and a paycheck. She wanted nothing more than to curl up and sob her heart out and was intent on doing it if he would just leave her be.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 04, 2015, 05:47:51 PM
"It wasn't an attack!" he defended with a groan, letting his head fall into his hand in disbelief at her drama. He winced as she shouted at him, peering at her through his fingers and surprised at the tears he saw as she tried to leave again. "Yasmine wait!" he pleaded, taking off after her again and reaching to try and hold her back by her elbow.

"I'm sorry I caused a misunderstanding, could we please just...talk? About it? I'll talk about your rules. I'm sorry, I'd just thought it was.... Well, obvious that you shouldn't leave and- This has really gotten off to a bad start," he moaned, staring after her with pleading puppy eyes, still completely unaffected by his nakedness.

"I'm sorry I scared you," he offered, hoping she might at least be reasonable and agree to what he wanted. "I'm used to people around me just...knowing about me already."
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Post by: GoblinFae on January 04, 2015, 07:48:05 PM
Yasmine came to a sudden halt courtesy of Conrey but that did not stop her from trying to continue on her way. "Let go of me you barbaric heathen!" she squealed, putting all of her weight into getting away from him. "Put some clothes on and then try and talk to me like a civilized human being. I can't believe my parents would stoop so low to hire you. It's disgusting!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 04, 2015, 08:04:56 PM
Having forgotten his state of dress he nodded quietly and winced for her shrieking. Letting go of her, he headed off to his quarters and dug through his bag to find something he hoped she would find acceptable. Settling on plain trousers and a thin, casual tunic he set off towards her "half" of the upper halls, his bare feet causing the floorboards to squeal as he wandered about. "Yasmine?" he called, looking at each door he passed with confusion. "Which room is yours now?" he wondered, not quite remembering if she'd settled on one and having no idea where she might be hiding. "I'm decent now, I swear," he added hurriedly, hoping it might coax her to show her face.
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Post by: GoblinFae on January 05, 2015, 07:55:48 AM
She was curled up in an overstuffed chair in the little study, mentally cursing and kicking herself for being such a baby and getting her feelings hurt by an overgrown mongrel. "Why do you have to dog my every step?" Yasmine growled quietly, curling even more around herself. "I'm inside and no one's here," she continued huffing to herself. "Next thing I know he'll be wanting to be watching me in the bath and sleeping in the bed too. Men!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 05, 2015, 11:51:02 AM
He did not hear her until he was nearly at the door to the small room, but Conrey paused to listen to the tail end of her mutterings. He felt a bit bad that she might see him as so overbearing, but he certainly felt it was part of his job whether she liked it or not, though not quite to the extent she seemed to imagine.

Knocking gently at the door to announce his presence, Conrey stepped inside and offered a gentle smile at seeing her there in the chair. Crossing the room, he hopped up onto the desk to sit and tried his best not to stare at her out of politeness. "I'm sorry about that, I hadn't meant to frighten you," he explained, leaning back slightly on his palms. "I was just very worried when I returned and you were not here. You should not leave without me with you.

"Can you forgive me for scaring you? I really did not mean for that to happen."
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Post by: GoblinFae on January 06, 2015, 01:18:17 PM
"It's not fair!" She started to sniffle angrily. "You get to come and go all you want and I'm stuck here. You're not even going to let me get fresh air or see the light of day again are you? I'm stuck alone in this big awful house without anyone or anything of home and instead I get stuck with you! And you want me to forgive you? Don't you get it?" Yasmine moaned and buried her face into the arm of her chair. "I'm in hell."
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Post by: Juno on January 06, 2015, 02:07:33 PM
"You're being dramatic," he muttered, trying so hard not to roll his eyes at the ridiculousness of it all. "I never said you couldn't have those things. Simply, you cannot go out alone. For your own safety and the safety of....well, any traveling near here. Not until you've gained control of yourself. All I'm asking is to let me escort you if you want to go out so that I know your whereabouts and can keep you out of danger, understand?" Conrey was trying, hoping she might see reason in his gentleness and would not see her situation as being caged in any way.

"Besides, you have your...kitten thing, right?"
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Post by: GoblinFae on January 06, 2015, 03:43:05 PM
Yasmine glared pointedly at him for daring to call her dramatic before her eyes suddenly widened and she was jumping from her seat. "Her name is Duchess," she barked angrily. "And she isn't a THING anymore than you are!"

Looking distressed a perhaps a bit heartbroken, she turned to start looking for her forgotten kitten, feeling incredibly guilty that she had forgotten the helpless little animal in the midst of her angst and misadventures.
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Post by: Juno on January 06, 2015, 04:21:14 PM
"Fine, fine. Duchess," he mimicked, shaking his head slightly. "But you understand, right? This really is for your own good and I need your full cooperation with me on it so you don't... go around having more accidents with humans," he sighed, watching her closely.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 06, 2015, 04:55:17 PM
She flinched violently at his choice of words while fighting back true and heartfelt tears. "Haven't I had a hard enough day Conrey? Do you have to fight me at every turn? Are my parents paying you to protect me by making me feel constantly miserable? Do you even have a clue what I'm going through? Or better yet do you even care? Because you don't act like it. All you've done is follow me from room to bloody room harping at me for this or that all the while pretending like we're best friends or something. I don't even know what to think anymore. All I want is to be left alone in my room for once! Is that so hard to ask for?!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 07, 2015, 11:01:34 AM
He wasn't quite sure where she'd gotten all of that from as he didn't really see things that way at all. He let her rant and vent with not a word from him but understood very clearly now that while it was his job his way of "helping" was unwanted. With a shrug and a mumbled, dismissive, "Okay," Conrey turned and left the room, shutting the door quietly behind him. He would guard from a distance if that was all she needed, so long as she stayed out of trouble.

Returning to his room he remembered his morning of cleaning and stared at the bare bed with disdain. He fumbled around searching for new bedding to put down and eventually settled on something that appeared clean and free of dust, though its colors were very dull and the fabrics very worn. Plucking a book from his bag, the werewolf settled to sit on his bed, leaning back against the headboard to relax and spend what he now assumed would be a free afternoon with his nose between the pages.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 07, 2015, 11:49:32 AM
When at last Yasmine had located her tiny furball, she was shocked to find Duchess' fur so filthy and matted with dustballs. Feeling even more ashamed for having forgotten the poor dear, the young girl hurried to lavish her attention upon the kitten by bathing and brushing her until her fur shone.

Eventually though she could no longer distract herself with the small kitten even as her own stomach began to rumble with a need for food. A cautious peek outside her door revealed that she was indeed alone and not being guarded like a prisoner so Yasmine decided to make her way down to the kitchen in hopes of trying to make herself a meal. The child had never cooked a day in her life but she knew that if Conrey knew she was hungry he would force her into eating far less satisfactory things in her opinion.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 07, 2015, 12:20:11 PM
Unaware that Yasmine was out and about again, Conrey spent his time reading and dozing off repeatedly, the afternoon light coming through the windows making him drowsy. He slumped on the bed and eventually was pulled into a nap, the book resting open on his stomach as he let himself get some well-deserved rest.
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Post by: GoblinFae on January 07, 2015, 02:08:57 PM
She made her way to the kitchen in what she considered a stealthy manner before setting Duchess down on the counter and taking a look about. The pair of hares that Conrey had captured earlier were still where he left them and Yasmine sneered in disgust at the sight of the dead bodies even as her nose twitched with the scent of fresh blood in the air.

The girl swallowed thickly before covering her nose and mouth. Seeing as there was nothing else in the kitchen she considered edible she came to the conclusion that if she wanted to eat it would be rabbit or nothing. However, having no idea how to cook them she just began to bang pots around haphazardly before managing to fill one nearly as big as her with water and setting it over the fire to bubble. The rabbits were then unceremoniously tossed in completely whole and untouched.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 07, 2015, 03:40:26 PM
Conrey was sound asleep until the scent of cooking flesh made it up to his bedroom. Scrunching his nose he curled in on himself as he slowly awoke, groaning at the, to him, offensive smell. There was something off about it.

Sitting up and pushing his book aside he left the room and wandered down the hall and stairs, wondering silently what was going on and why there was a smell at all. Was Yasmine cooking? Why would a vampire be cooking at all? Puzzled, he made his way to the kitchen and entered warily. He stopped after just entering, though, and stared at the pot over the fire and its contents for a few tense moments before realizing what it was. "Yasmine... What are you doing?" he asked calmly.
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Post by: GoblinFae on January 07, 2015, 04:09:43 PM
"Cooking," she told him matter-of-factly while sitting at the kitchen counter. Duchess batted at the vampire's hair, making the girl giggle as she continued to play with the kitten and ignore the werewolf's intrusion. The way the pot bubbled and gurgled did not seem to effect her even as it rose dangerously to the brim of overflowing.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 07, 2015, 04:43:36 PM
"Cooking what?" he prompted her, his eyes widening with concern as he watched the water bubbling high. Hurrying over to the pot, he grumbled about her filling it too much before his eyes settled upon the contents. "Are those my rabbits?" he asked with a squeak, horrified at the wet fur as he hurried to try to put out the fire. "Yasmine," he groaned, shaking his head at her lack of cooking skill.
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Post by: GoblinFae on January 07, 2015, 06:24:52 PM
"What?" Yasmine asked in a typical teenage-fashion, full of attitude. With a sniff she lifted her head and looked away from him. "Is that what they were. I honestly couldn't tell. Well now that you're here you can finish them off for us. Mind you don't overcook it. Dry meat is so displeasing."
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Post by: Juno on January 07, 2015, 06:46:11 PM
"You didn't even prepare them," he groaned, putting out the fire at the hearth and plucking the poor half-cooked bodies from the water. "Forget dry meat, you can't eat it like this. What a waste," he sighed, searching the kitchen for twine that he used to tie the legs of the rabbits so he could take them outside. "I guess I'll go hunting again," he muttered.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 07, 2015, 07:13:46 PM
The young noblewoman gasped and jumped off her chair to follow him. "What are you doing? There's nothing wrong with it! My food! Mister Shaw where are you going with that? What are you even looking for?" she finally asked, stopping in her following him.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 07, 2015, 08:00:09 PM
"You can't eat this. It's ruined," he stated plainly with not a drop of anger in his voice. "And besides, this is not food for you. It was mine. You should be drinking blood not eating cooked meat," he sighed, bundling the bodies up and heading for the door so he could leave them outside for the foxes, wolves, and bears of the forest.

"Does that mean you're hungry?" he guessed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 08, 2015, 08:22:46 AM
Yasmine scowled, her brows furrowed and lips pressed into a thin line as he told her that she could not eat the rabbits. She hated the constant reminders that she was different now and she still continued to want nothing to do with blood.

"No!" she protested in aghast horror. "I was trying to make it for you!" the young girl hurried to say, even as her face turned beet-red with the lie. "Where are you taking that? I wasn't done!"
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Post by: Juno on January 08, 2015, 08:49:18 AM
He was a bit surprised that she would say that after their disagreements earlier in the day. Shaking his head, Conrey didn't stop for her. "I was going to do it myself, you didn't have to. Thank you for the gesture, but I'm not going to eat this," he sighed, going to the door without pause and stepping out to cross the grass to drop the bodies at the treeline. "You didn't prepare it at all."
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Post by: GoblinFae on January 08, 2015, 10:42:23 AM
Yasmine was right on his tail, feeling completely offended that he would not eat her cooking even though she had not meant for it to be for him anyway. "What do you mean I didn't prepare it? I waited for the water to boil before I placed it in. Even gave it a few good stirs!"
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Post by: Juno on January 08, 2015, 02:45:38 PM
"You didn't skin it," he grumbled. "And if you didn't skin it you didn't gut it." Kicking some leaves over them and satisfied to leave them for the wildlife to pick over, Conrey turned to head back for the house. He meant to leave her there so he could go hunt again and definitely didn't want her following. "Now go back inside," he sighed, pointing at the door.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 08, 2015, 07:05:23 PM
"What do you mean gut it? You're not actually turning your nose up at eating organs are you? I'll have you know they are quite delicious and are in fact a delicacy in some parts of the world! There is no need to be snobbish Mister Shaw!"

Yasmine halted in her steps as she was ordered back inside. Her expression was that of a kicked puppy as she looked at the tall man with a mixture of fear and sadness. "You're leaving me? Again?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 08, 2015, 08:10:27 PM
"Not against eating organs, I just know you didn't clean anything," he muttered, though his features softened as he lifted his head in surprise at her dejection. "Not leaving you, just wanted to go hunting," he explained, briefly looking around himself as he didn't understand why she'd gotten abandonment out of what he'd said. "Just for a little while. I wouldn't want to trouble you with...keeping up," he winced, not even wanting to think about an oblivious young vampire trying to keep pace with him if she'd yet to embrace herself at all.
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Post by: GoblinFae on January 08, 2015, 08:44:10 PM
"Oh," she replied quietly, not really knowing what else to say. "Okay, I'll go back inside I guess then." Her shoulders and head slumped with dejection as she slowly trudged her way wordlessly back into the house. Not even the sight of the tumbling kitten did anything to make her smile. Yasmine instead scooped up the kitten before exiting the kitchen and heading to her room to curl up in bed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 08, 2015, 09:38:39 PM
Conrey watched her, refusing to leave his spot until the door was firmly shut after her. Thinking she would quickly get over it, he fled into the forest again, this time only able to catch one rabbit. Hoping they could share it as a means of making up, he returned to the manor and set it up to bleed into a bowl in the kitchen while he went to go find her. "Yasmine, I have a present for you," he called up the stairs, hoping that would be enough to entice her to emerge.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 09, 2015, 06:36:06 PM
In the time that it had taken him to leave and come back, the stress and exhaustion of fighting sleep for nearly two days finally overwhelmed Yasmine. By the time he was calling for her, she was already fast and deeply asleep, curled up on her dusty bed.

Duchess on the other hand was bored of sleeping and without her vampire to keep her from running off, she was soon on her way out the door and to the stairs. There were a few that the kitten managed to roll or bounce down but she did in the end make it to the bottom relatively unscathed before racing off towards the smell of scrumptious food where she could entwine herself about Conrey's legs in a demand to be fed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 09, 2015, 07:04:13 PM
He wasn't sure if the lack of response was due to her ignoring him or being otherwise occupied but he did not wish to be yelled at anymore that day and did not want to upset her by personally going up to retrieve her. Instead he just listened to the silence for a few moments before returning to the kitchen to finish the job he'd started, setting the bowl aside for her in hopes she might eat later. Setting the hare to roast instead after preparing it, Conrey was surprised at the sudden rubbing at his ankles and snorted at the ridiculousness of the kitten as he looked down to see her fluffy white coat.

Having not been around many cats in his lifetime he did not yet understand that she was asking to be fed. Crouching down, he reached a hand out to pet her and give her head a few scratches while eyeing her forepaws to make sure the bandage he'd applied was still there. "She let you wander off, kitty?" he wondered, still having trouble consistently remembering the feline's name.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 09, 2015, 07:13:38 PM
Duchess purred loudly for all she was worth while trying to playfully bat at the large man's hands. Enticed by the smell of fresh meat and therefore food though, she quickly leaped at the man, her tiny claws hooking into his trousers as she attempted to pull herself up his pantleg in hopes of getting closer to the delicious smells.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 09, 2015, 07:40:40 PM
Conrey winced for the slight pricking of kitten claws against his leg. He scooped her up to hold her by her middle with one hand and her scruff in the other, completely unaware of how he was supposed to hold her. "What are you doing," he scolded gently, tsking at the cat and shaking his head as he held her up close to his face. "I hope you don't treat her clothes like that. I'm sure she'd have a fit," he chuckled, unsure what to do with the small creature and eventually settling on trying to put her up on his shoulder.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 09, 2015, 08:02:35 PM
The cat mewled from her new perch before promptly beginning to play with the werewolf's hair, unaware that her tiny claws were not always retracted as she batted at his face and ear. Spotting the meat on the counter though caught and held her attention leading her to crouch down and begin a full-body wiggle. Seconds later she was trying to leap at it only to slip and start sliding down his chest with a startled yelp.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 10, 2015, 10:22:19 AM
Conrey winced and grunted for the small scratches marking his sensitive skin. "Stop that," he scolded her gently, unaware that her wiggling meant she was going to try to jump. Startled by her sudden movements, he was quick to try and catch her as she slid down, hissing for the feeling of claws raking his skin and tearing through his shirt as well. "Oww," was all he muttered, cradling the cat carefully against him. "Don't do that." He was heading for the door then, away from the scraps on the counter and the small hare roasting over the hearth to take the kitten back to her mistress. "Yasmine must be missing you, let's get you back, kitty," he cooed gently, willing to overlook the harm the small animal had already done.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 10, 2015, 12:19:33 PM
Duchess mewled loudly and pathetically as she fought some to get down and back to the food. When they left the kitchen though, she soon became distracted by the hands holding her and in the playful ways of a young child, she promptly began to try and nibble on Conrey's thumb or use it scratch and cheeks and ears for her.

Her mistress on the other hand was fast asleep but far from pleasantly. Yasmine tossed and turned as nightmares held her firmly in their grasp. Sweat soaked the sheets through and made her shiver with a chill as moans and whimpers began working their way from her dreams into reality.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 10, 2015, 01:06:43 PM
He winced for the nibbling but only rubbed and scratched at her neck and ears to try and soothe her. In the dead quiet of the house it was quite easy to hear the sounds of distress coming from Yasmine's room. Conrey furrowed his brows as he approached, thinking twice about knocking and simply entering the room with the slight worry she might have been in some sort of pain or trouble. "Everything alright?" he wondered aloud, the tail end falling off to a whisper once he realized she was in bed. A bit worried for the girl he tried to set the kitten down on the floor so he could approach her unburdened.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 10, 2015, 02:15:43 PM
The kitten immediately skittered across the floor to crouch right at the edge of the bed as she once more wiggled in an attempt to jump. Her leap however was ill-fated and she only managed to reach halfway up the bed before she started to fall. Thankfully her claws caught her and Duchess was quickly climbing up onto the bed, meowing loudly for attention while climbing onto Yasmine's chest.

With a start, the vampire suddenly sat up, nearly flinging the cat off her. Only quick reflexes caught the furball. However, Yasmine's focus was on neither the werewolf nor the kitten as she panted for breath and shivered with cold. She felt ill and frightened and would have cried if she did not see Conrey at the last minute.

Pulling the covers tighter about herself, she kept her gaze focused on the floral patterns in the quilting. "You're back then."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 10, 2015, 03:03:43 PM
A bit startled by her reaction upon waking, Conrey offered what he hoped would be seen as a friendly, reassuring smile that she was not in harms way. "Yes. I guess you didn't hear me calling for you if you were asleep. Not a problem, though. I have...something you can try for dinner if you'd like," he offered, gesturing at the door behind him. "You should be eating regularly," he added, as if that point was not very obvious in her current situation.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 10, 2015, 05:18:59 PM
She sighed heavily, running a hand through her sleep-tousled hair. "I don't feel well," Yasmine finally told him honestly. "I wish to go back to bed if it is all the same to you Mister Shaw. I'm sorry to have wasted your efforts, sir. I just feel that resting would be better for me right now. I can't face..."

The young woman shook her head and groaned. "I just don't feel well," Yasmine repeated herself while pulling the adventurous kitten to her chest as if the furry snowball could ward off the demons that haunted her sleep.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 10, 2015, 06:24:03 PM
Her sudden politeness left him utterly shocked. There was no screaming, no tantrum, no blaming. Was this the same girl he'd just spent the last day arguing with at seemingly every turn? Conrey said not a word in protest, just giving her a concerned look as he worried over a young vampire that did not feel well. It was certainly not normal or common in his experience for them to become ill.

"Alright," he answered gently, carefully backing towards the door. "I'll leave it in the kitchen for you. Please eat if you're feeling better later," he insisted as he left her at last, quietly shutting the door behind him. He wasn't going to fight her on it, he had no desire to be constantly nagging over the little details like when she chose to eat or sleep. Besides, he was already confident she would come around to it eventually if she got hungry enough.

Happy to leave the rabbit to roast for the evening he returned to his room to pick up where he'd left off in his book. If the mishap with the rabbits was the worst of his day than he would consider it a pretty relaxing one overall.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 10, 2015, 07:36:22 PM
"Thank you," she choked out, trying hard not to think about exactly what he had left out for her. "Good night then Mister Shaw." The moment the door was closed she was crawling out of her bed to splash water on her face and try and find her robe in her still packed bags. She had developed a chill and with the shadows of her mind still dancing about at the edges, sleep was the last thing she wanted to do. Eventually though she was back in bed and falling asleep for there was no escaping it no matter how hard she tried. Duchess too curled up on their shared pillow to sleep only to be disturbed when Yasmine once more took to her thrashing and moaning. There was no rest for the wicked it seemed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 10, 2015, 08:14:00 PM
The rest of the evening was uneventful for Conrey and he had hope that the rest of his employment would remain the same. He finished his book, ate dinner, and then took to lounging by one of the fireplaces downstairs. He built up a roaring fire but it was quick to die down to a few crackling flames as the night wore on and the dozing werewolf too comfortable to continue to feed it. He slept far into the morning, only waking for the perfectly slanted sunlight through the window that aimed for his eyes. He was cold and spent his first waking moments stumbling around to get the fire going again. He wrapped a quilt around himself and warmed his hands by the growing flame, feeling almost sick with how much he had overslept. Perhaps it would be a burden to have it so easy.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 11, 2015, 05:14:49 PM
Several times throughout the night Yasmine had awoken from her nightmares with whimpers. By the time it was morning though she was miserable and even more exhausted. Her belly ached with the need to feed yet she stubbornly continued to refuse to oblige her natural instincts. Instead she busied herself with unpacking her bags and arranging her room to her liking. If there was something she knew how to do it was keeping herself busy to keep her mind off her worries. She had unfortunately had too much practice over the last month or so as she battled her greatest challenge yet.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 11, 2015, 06:38:51 PM
Conrey busied himself as if he had nothing better to do, as if he expected her to be self-sufficient and self-contained since she had asked for privacy. With his hands warmed and his mind a little more awake he was off to properly explore the areas he'd whirled by in his cleaning before. He was intrigued that her family could afford to leave such a large place unoccupied for as long as it had obviously been neglected.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 12, 2015, 01:52:54 PM
When the room had been rearranged for the hundredth time and all the clothes put away by color and size, Yasmine could no longer ignore her hunger. She tried sitting on her bed and reading but her stomach only ached more. Playing with Duchess quickly became boring as the kitten decided to nod off to sleep instead. In the end the noblewoman had no choice but to venture outside of the confines of her room in  hopes of sneaking down to the kitchen for a bit of real food. Perhaps there was still some of Conrey's rabbit meat leftover that she could eat for herself. She did not believe for an instant that he was right and she had to drink blood. Yasmine felt that if she continued to resist then she would survive just fine.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 12, 2015, 02:23:56 PM
The bowl of blood and scraps of rabbit remained untouched, something Conrey had carelessly left for the night and forgotten to clean up. He was fascinated with what he found, though, having wandered back to the small library and going through the shelves. Occasionally he took one down, thumbing through it casually to skim the contents before replacing it in its spot. He made mental notes of the ones he wanted to read later, hoping he would have enough time to devour the collection while he had it at his disposal. When he was satisfied with his exploration he went upstairs to knock on her door, oblivious to the fact that she'd already left. "Yasmine? Are you awake yet?" he called, waiting politely for acknowledgement before he would just barge in on her privacy.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 12, 2015, 04:53:05 PM
Unaware that Conrey was looking for her, Yasmine entered the kitchen and was delighted to find food at the ready even if the kitchen was in need of another cleaning. The acrid scent of the blood though had her recoiling against the wall as she struggled to compose herself. By holding her breath and keeping a hand over her mouth the young vampire was able to grab the bowl and rush it out the back door to toss outside. She most certainly was not going to be having any of that if she had anything to say about it. From there though she began the hurried work of snatching up the scraps and doing everything in her power to wolf them down as fast as she could, already terrified that he was going to walk in the door any minute and take the food away from her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 12, 2015, 07:27:22 PM
"Yasmine?" he called again, a little louder as he knocked on the door. Hearing nothing, though, he opened it to see that she was not in bed. A slight panic seized him for not knowing where she was and he was off and running in an instant. He went door to door to check each room he went by and was distressed to see she was in none of them. Thundering down the stairs, he began the process again with the rooms on the lower level. "Yasmine? Are you down here? Where did you go?" Conrey called, a slight worry in his tone.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 14, 2015, 11:09:18 AM
She was just licking the last of the rabbit juices off her fingers when she heard him come thundering down the stairs. Quick as she could, she dashed out of the kitchen and into another room in the hall so that he would not think she had been doing something he thought she should not have been.

With a few seconds to compose herself, she moved back out the doorway as if she had been there the whole time. "I'm here, why?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 14, 2015, 03:55:57 PM
Her voice at last had him heaving a sigh of relief as he rushed towards her. Her location gave him pause, though. Hadn't he just been there himself? "I was just a little worried. You weren't in your room," he explained. "Are you...well? Feeling any better?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 14, 2015, 04:41:02 PM
"Yes, thank you," Yasmine replied a bit stiffly. A rumbling in her stomach made her wince slightly though and without meaning to she was soon placing a hand over her torso as if doing so would make the slight pains go away. "Did you sleep well?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 14, 2015, 06:36:07 PM
He heard the rumbling but thought nothing of it until he noticed her pressing a hand to her belly. "Well enough, yeah. Thank you," he answered distractedly, studying her closely for a quiet moment before he spoke again. "Are you hungry?" he wondered, feeling a bit bad and hoping she was not too terribly off for her refusal to eat thus far.

"I left a bowl for you if you'd like. From the rabbit," he explained, glancing to the doorway that would lead to the kitchen and having no idea it had already been poured out. "If you're willing to eat."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 14, 2015, 07:46:01 PM
"No, I ate," she told him moments before her stomach was once more making sounds of displeasure and Yasmine was forced into trying to suppress a gag. "If you'll excuse me." She tried to brush past him quickly, already feeling the urge to be ill steadily take over her as her body rebelled against her rebellious desire to eat the rabbit meat he had left out.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 14, 2015, 11:29:20 PM
"Oh, well that's good," he'd told her, sighing with relief that was only momentary. Her angry stomach did not go unnoticed and he worried that he'd made her ill with the animal blood, feeling incredibly guilty as she went by him. He followed but at a distance. "I'm sorry! I didn't know if it would be okay for you but I figured it was worth a try."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 16, 2015, 03:58:27 PM
She tried to shout back over her shoulder that she was fine but one minute her head was spinning and then the next she was violently ill all over the floor. Yasmine coughed and wheezed as every ounce of the meat she had hurriedly stuffed herself with returned to forcefully prove Conrey right, she really was not capable of stomaching human food anymore.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 16, 2015, 06:45:25 PM
The unique sound of retching had him hanging back even more, thankful he was not right on her heels. His eyes widened in shock as he stared at her. He wasn't mortified at all and instead felt extreme regret. It was his fault. He had left food for her and now she sounded terrible. "Oh Yasmine," he groaned, feeling so terribly guilty. "I'm sorry. I'll clean it up, hold on." Conrey was off in a flash to retrieve what he needed and quickly set to work on cleaning up the mess on the floor. What he was slowly coming to realize, though, was that it wasn't blood on the floor.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 16, 2015, 07:43:28 PM
Yasmine felt disgusting and ashamed. Even when there was nothing left in her belly she continued to gag and cough, gasping for air while being assaulted by the acrid scent and taste in her mouth that burned from her stomach to her throat. If she had the energy to run off and hide herself she would have but she felt far too sick to do so. Never in all her years of life had she been so ill and only made her start to cry for what child did not want their mother in a time when they were sick? Yasmine so desperately wanted hers and all she had was a man she was sure would yell at her for her stubbornness.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 16, 2015, 08:05:01 PM
Conrey was focused and silent in his cleaning even as he heard her start to cry. He glanced up at her with startled eyes but it only had him working faster to be rid of the mess he finally knew was the leftovers from his dinner.

After discarding the rags he approached Yasmine cautiously, afraid of hurting her feelings if he was not careful enough with her about this. "Yasmine, did you eat the rabbit? Instead of the blood?" he asked calmly, awkwardly standing there and unsure what he should do, if he should even try to comfort her. Instead he just anxiously played with his hair.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 16, 2015, 09:04:43 PM
Expecting to be chastised she could only sniffle and nod her head weakly. She refused to look at him while she coughed pathetically and thought about how miserable she was. Yasmine did not like how calm the man sounded and in the back of her mind was wondering how cruel he would or what her punishments would be for her stupidity.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 16, 2015, 09:17:35 PM
Conrey only made an audible sigh, both relieved that she seemed to be telling the truth and worried that she had actually done it. "You're a vampire now," he told her gently, not trying to act as though she didn't know that. "You have to eat a vampire's diet. And that is only blood. I suppose that...is just what happens if you don't follow that." He winced slightly, not wanting to make her fearful of trying anything. "Are you hurting?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 17, 2015, 02:12:14 PM
"Uh-huh," she whimpered and nodded her head with tears in her eyes while holding her stomach and wincing. "I don't feel well," Yasmine continued to complain, stating the obvious. "My tummy really hurts."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 17, 2015, 02:29:42 PM
Conrey could only feel bad for her, despite it being entirely her fault she was in pain. "You should rest. And eat something proper for you. Can you walk?" he asked, stepping closer and raising his hands as if he was going to hug her but ended up just barely touching her upper arms, afraid of her reaction if he got too close in trying to comfort her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 18, 2015, 07:02:58 AM
She did not shy away from him, already feeling too miserable to fight him or give him much attitude. "I think I can. I'm going to go lay down," Yasmine commented before adding again, "I don't feel so good. I'm sorry for the mess Mister Shaw."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 18, 2015, 04:49:44 PM
He smiled sadly and nodded in understanding before letting his hands slip away as he took a step back to let her by. "It's alright, nothing too bad. Can I...bring you something?" he wondered, hoping she would at least entertain the idea of feeding properly. "Or do you wish to be left alone?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 18, 2015, 05:45:16 PM
"Can I have Duchess?" she asked referring to her fluffball she had left behind at some point in her escape from the kitchen. "I brought her down with me but," Yasmine paused and blushed with shame a bit, "she must have wandered off somewhere. I think if I hold her a bit and rest I'll feel better."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 18, 2015, 08:03:24 PM
"Oh... Alright. Just hold. No eating," he warned her, heading off in search of the small cat. At first he could not see her in plain sight so he began crouching down to look under furniture while softly calling her name hoping the creature would come out to him willingly for she seemed happy enough with him before.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 19, 2015, 01:49:37 PM
Unbeknownst to Conrey the kitten was hiding behind a pillow on the very chair that he was looking under. At the sound of her name, she waddle her way to the edge of the chair before crouching down stealthily. Seconds before he moved to search somewhere else, Duchess pounced on his rear then immediately raced up his back towards his head where all the fun "string" was to play with.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 19, 2015, 03:18:36 PM
Not expecting to find the cat on his person at all Conrey jumped in surprise when he felt the tiny paws upon his back and the slight pricking of claws as she played with his hair. He bumped his head with a grunt before carefully backing out and awkwardly trying to stand as he reached around to try to pluck her up. "Troublemaker," he teased fondly. "Your owner needs you, will you stop being a brat?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 19, 2015, 05:33:03 PM
Duchess mewled and batted at his nose in answer, completely oblivious to what was going on around her. Yasmine on the other hand had moved to lean against the end of the banister at the bottom of the stairs and was still clutching her stomach with both hands while wincing.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 19, 2015, 05:53:24 PM
"I've got her!" Conrey announced proudly once he'd successfully grabbed the handsy little kitten, rubbing at his nose and arching a brow at her in warning as if she would understand it. Hurrying back to the hall and stairs, he gestured towards the top as he held Duchess more securely against himself. "Go ahead, I'll carry her. Or did you need help getting up?" he wondered, stopping beside her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 19, 2015, 07:22:25 PM
"I can do it," she told him as she turned on heel and ever so slowly dragged herself up the steps. With every step it became more of an effort to pull herself up them by the bannister and less of one to actually walk up them. She regretted her independence even as she made it up the final step and turned to Conrey, thinking he would return Duchess to her now that she was at the top.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 19, 2015, 09:21:09 PM
He watched the way she dragged herself, seeming weaker than the dead. He flinched as he watched her, feeling guilty for not insisting on helping her more. Conrey followed her up, though, carefully cradling the kitten and not offering her back even as he reached the top with her. Stepping around her, he headed down to the room he now understood as her bedroom, fully expecting her to accept his help. He opened the door for her, looking back as if to gesture with that alone that she should let him help her. "You need to feed," he told her, stating it not demanding it or asking it.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 20, 2015, 09:17:21 AM
Yasmine followed in a uncharacteristically subdued manner. The moment the door was open she was through it and already crawling back into her bed to lay on her side and pull her knees to her chest. Her eyes had even already begun to droop.

"What I need is rest," she replied weakly, already missing home and the special soup the servants would make for her when she was ill. She doubted asking Conrey for it though would go over well given that the last time she checked, blood was not one of the ingredients.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 20, 2015, 10:40:43 AM
Conrey sighed, seeing her answer as vague defiance anyway. "I worry about you," he admitted, gently setting Duchess down beside her and quietly shooing the small ball of fluff away from his slightly scratched hands. "It's my job to take care of you and yet you seem so...weak," he told her honestly. "Not in the physical sense. Just... It's obvious you haven't eaten. I'll leave you alone if that's what you really want, but I hope you'll talk to me about it soon. Something has to be done."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 20, 2015, 11:48:33 AM
She tucked the small kitten against her chest, breathing in her fur and feeling it tickle her cheeks. "What do you want to talk about?" came her muffled response from behind the fluffball. Yasmine continued to lay there with her eyes closed. "What is there to say?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 20, 2015, 02:09:00 PM
"You need to eat. It isn't an option," he said, trying to be as gentle as possible. "You can't starve yourself forever and you certainly can't eat..."normal" food anymore. If you don't want animal blood...should I bring a human here for you?" he asked.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 20, 2015, 05:19:51 PM
"No," she replied stubbornly as a lone tear leaked from her eye. "No one else. The curse ends with me. I won't pass this half-life on even if it kills me. I'll figure something else. I just need rest I think. I'll be better soon," Yasmine told him while she blindly reached behind her in search of her covers as she was beginning to feel cold.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 20, 2015, 09:14:31 PM
"Yasmine," he sighed, feeling terrible for a girl who clearly had never asked to be what she was. "You will eat. I wasn't asking. This isn't something you can just sleep off," Conrey explained, running a hand through his hair in frustration.

"I'll leave you alone for now, but you can't avoid this. You have to eat. I won't sit here and watch you starve yourself," he grumbled, missing that she was reaching for the covers as he turned to leave.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 21, 2015, 02:52:52 PM
She sighed sadly as her fingers finally clasped the covers and lumped them on top of her. Yet, the need for companionship was rearing its head within her and before Conrey could leave, Yasmine was calling after him.

"Mister Shaw, what are you going to do now?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 21, 2015, 04:45:16 PM
"Hm? I... Don't really know," he answered her honestly, pausing and looking at her over his shoulder. "Is there something you wanted? Or wanted me to do?" he asked.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 21, 2015, 05:55:50 PM
Yasmine shrugged from under the covers. She had no idea what to ask him to do even if she wanted to. In her mind she still saw him somewhat as the enemy who had been in league with her family to steal her from her home and abandon her in the forest like a sickly animal.

"I want to go home," she ended up whispering softly, not even realizing how deeply the statement affected her until she felt the pillow beneath her head become wet with her tears and Duchess struggling to jump away and follow Conrey. Ignoring the cat, Yasmine yanked the covers over her head in a childish attempt to hide herself from the world and it from her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 21, 2015, 10:31:13 PM
He was disappointed by what he heard from her, an exasperated sigh escaping him as he shooed the kitten and tried to keep her corralled on the bed with his hands. "You can't. Not yet," he answered calmly, turning again to head for the door. "Come find me when you feel better. We'll work something out," Conrey promised, unsure if he even could promise her that.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 22, 2015, 01:41:34 PM
She mmbled something incoherent from her blanket haven. Yasmine felt incredibly tired and was already well onto her way to falling asleep. Duchess on the other hand was having none of the corralling and keeping still. Instead she eagerly pounced onto the front of Conrey's shirt before attempting to climb up it to his tempting hair.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 22, 2015, 02:17:10 PM
He could only sigh, not wanting to fight the young cat or force her to stay if she didn't want to. He let her get perched on his shoulder, even helping her up so she didn't scratch him up too terribly. He left the room with her and wandered the halls in aimless exploration again. His only fear was Yasmine's wrath should she awaken and think he stole the needy animal from her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 22, 2015, 05:03:06 PM
Hours passed as she slept but Yasmine's sleep eventually returned from a dreamless darkness to painfully familiar one filled with blood and screams and excruciating pain. It was not long before her night terrors caused her to toss and turn in her sleep then to start screaming aloud, unable to awaken from her mind's prison.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 23, 2015, 12:02:06 PM
Conrey had spent the rest of the day straightening up the long-neglected manor, the task hampered by the kitten who seemed desperate to cling to him. He gradually brought life back into the rooms, opening curtains to let in the dim evening light and rearranging furniture and knick-knacks to what he preferred.

When at last the moon was high in the sky the werewolf decided to rest for the day, his task, in his mind, monumental and something he would have to resume another time. He was pleased, though, with his progress and he hoped that Yasmine would be as well. Watching through a window, though, he was unsettled by the thought that the night of the next full moon would be upon them in a few days. From her previous reactions he worried that the girl would be fearful of his wolf when the time came.

Returning upstairs he gave the idea of giving Duchess back to her mistress a moment's thought but decided against it, not wishing to disturb her again as he wandered to his room instead. His sleep was relatively peaceful until he heard the first of her screams. He was startled awake and jumping to his feet, his mind a blur of dizziness and the need to protect her from whatever was provoking the terrible sounds. He felt his heart racing as he hurried down the hall and yanked her door open without ceremony. Confused to see nobody there with her, Conrey rushed to her bedside and grasped her shoulders desperately as he stared at her with concern, shaking her a bit as he tried to rouse her. "Yasmine? Yasmine wake up. You're just dreaming, it's just a dream," he pleaded with her, his eyes growing slightly panicked.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 23, 2015, 12:58:25 PM
She woke with a start, her teeth naturally elongating at a perceived threat before her eyes were able to focus on what was shaking her. The screams and growls quickly ceased as Yasmine instead latched onto Conrey as if her life depended upon it, hugging him close and sobbing into his shirt inconsolably.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 23, 2015, 02:05:49 PM
He wasn't startled by the sight of her teeth but he was worried for her, his only guess that she was scared of something from her dreams. He softened his grip on her as she appeared to calm but his eyes widened in surprise for the way she clung to him and sobbed against his chest.

Worry and uncertainty clouded his face. The bodyguard had rarely dealt with such high emotions from his charge and he felt ill-equipped to deal with it. Trying to soothe her, he mirrored her own touch and slipped his arms around her, hugging her cautiously and rubbing at her back as a worried rumble sounded in his throat. "Are you alright?" he asked, sincere in his concern.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 23, 2015, 04:18:31 PM
Yasmine continued to cling to Conrey, even go so far as to burrow closer against him. With a shake of her head and a sound of a negation she sniffled and sobbed out all her fears and frustrations in the arms of the man she had named her enemy when he was nothing more than a scapegoat for her loneliness and self-pity.

"It was happening again. He was coming to kill me this time. He was going to..." Yasmine could not bring herself to finish her sentence as her cries became hysterical and painful. Her whole body trembled and shook as she hugged Conrey as if afraid he would try and leave her. "Don't let him get me!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 24, 2015, 02:52:02 AM
Certainly she had to be delusional. This was not the same girl he had met before, but it was the first time he'd actually felt needed by her and was determined to do his job well if she was giving him the opportunity. "Nobody's going to get you," he promised her, hugging her closer in reaction to her tight grip upon him.

"Is someone trying to hurt you?" Conrey asked calmly, feeling now that he had never truly been briefed on the situation he'd come upon.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 24, 2015, 06:43:04 PM
"Him, him, him!" she shouted through her tears. "Why won't he leave me alone, that monster? I want to go home! I want my mother and father back! I don't want to be in this awful house with someone who hates me and that thing never letting me sleep. Why did this happen to me?" Her words deteriorated into incoherent sobs as her fists balled in Conrey's shirt and she snuggled against his chest, seeking the comfort he was trying to offer her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 25, 2015, 12:47:03 AM
Hoping she wouldn't mind, Conrey lowered himself to sit beside her on the edge of the bed, wincing as she explained her troubles. "Perhaps I could ask them to visit," he sighed, cautiously rubbing at her back in what he hoped was a soothing gesture.

"I hope you aren't talking about me, though. I don't hate you. And I know your cat doesn't hate you. About your dreams, though... Does it happen every time? I'm worried if you aren't sleeping at all."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 25, 2015, 11:10:33 AM
Yasmine shook her head sadly and all but crawled into Conrey's lap. "They won't. They hate me and what I've become. That's why they sent me away," she told him. "They can't stand the sight of me anymore or bear the danger of having a monster in their home."

Mention of her dreams made her shudder violently and hide her face away against his chest. "He won't let me sleep. He comes for me every night. I can never sleep again. It won't stop. It never stops."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 25, 2015, 01:50:20 PM
"I'm sure it isn't like that," he tried to tell her, his voice calm but wary as he wasn't quite sure himself what their intentions were. They seemed like good people and hadn't seemed to be lacking in feelings about her when he'd first visited their home. But he had to admit he didn't know them and didn't know what her life had been like before he arrived.

"Is it...someone you know?" he asked gently, uncertain what the circumstances of the incident had been.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 25, 2015, 06:28:33 PM
"The monster," she whispered to him in a hoarse voice while shivering violently in his arms. "He never sleeps. Always there in the darkness waiting for me. I'll never, never free of him. I wish no one had found me!" Yasmine suddenly shouted. "I wish I was dead, that none of this had ever happened, that..." The young woman's voice wavered as she resumed her cry and wore herself out in the warm arms that offered her the very comfort she had been unknowingly longing for since she had first woken from the living nightmare.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 25, 2015, 07:18:37 PM
Conrey was sad to see someone so young speak of death so flippantly. He was certain that she must have been quite disturbed to wish she was dead. "I'm sure the worst of it is behind you," he tried to soothe. "It is just a different way of living. I know it's...scary to be different sometimes but I think things will be better for you once you...get the hang of things and these dreams go away." He nodded against her, hugging the crying girl close and certain that his logical words would be helpful for her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 25, 2015, 07:40:40 PM
Yasmine shook her head against him, not believing him for a second but too worn out to fight him or argue. She knew the truth and that was all that there was to it. There was no way an outsider like him could understand what she was suffering and would continue to suffer until she finally succumbed to the darkness forever. So drained of energy from a combination of crying, lack of sleep, and hunger, Yasmine quickly fell back asleep in Conrey's arms, finally able to start finding peace with her protector cradling her close.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 26, 2015, 04:32:37 PM
He held her carefully, as if she would break if he moved wrong. He waited patiently for her to answer him but when nothing came from her he tilted his head to look down at her, leaning back slightly as he did so. "Oh," Conrey sighed once he realized she was asleep. Momentarily he was worried that she would be awake and screaming again in an instant but he decided to remain as he was even though it was quite precarious.

Once his legs tired the werewolf slumped sleepily and laid back across the foot of her bed, exhaustion pulling him back to sleep even as he could not dare to disentangle them for fear of waking her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 26, 2015, 04:57:47 PM
She slept the night, snuggled up with Conrey. Not even the early morning rays of sunshine woke her, instead forcing her to burrow closer into his chest to enjoy the warmth and lack of light he provided for her. It was only the pitiful cries of Duchess demanding food and running over them both that finally woke her enough to try and push the kitten away only to realize she was not alone in her bed.

With a thump to his shoulder,  Yasmine tried to groggily demand an explanation from Conrey. "Oy! Why're you in my bed?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 26, 2015, 05:53:39 PM
It was not the cat that roused him but the dull ache in his shoulder. Groggily opening his eyes the werewolf groaned for her perceived whining. At first he only grunted in answer and shut his eyes again. How dare she ask such a thing when she had clung to him like she had. "...Helping you sleep," he finally answered, as if his explanation made perfect sense, "You couldn't sleep. And now you did." Conrey, however, wasn't feeling quite ready to get up.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 27, 2015, 10:22:27 AM
"Doesn't mean you have to trap all the covers," she grumbled, trying to yank some more out from under him. "And you're hogging the bed!" Yasmine fidgeted around in an attempt to reclaim her bed and covers from him while fending off Duchess' playful pounces.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 27, 2015, 11:10:49 AM
Conrey gave a warning, but harmless, growl as the covers were slowly being yanked from under him. He could not believe her drama, he was hardly on the bed at all and he didn't think he was trapping her or hogging anything. "Fine," he sighed, sitting up and scooting himself off the bed to stand. He swayed slightly for getting up so quickly after waking up but he was still stable enough to scoop up the squirming kitten.

"You're eating today," he announced, tucking the cat under his arm as he went to the door to gently toss her out into the hall. "Stay inside, I need to hunt," he sighed as he stepped out himself.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 27, 2015, 04:45:59 PM
Like a typical teenager, Yasmine proceeded to stretch out and take up the entire space of the bed while burying her face back into her pillow. "Feed Duchess," she ordered in a muffled tone as she shifted about to try and get comfortable in the warm spot Conrey had left behind.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 27, 2015, 05:48:50 PM
He smiled faintly for his own benefit, fully intending on sharing the spoils of his hunt with the cat. He raced down the hall and back outside. He let his wolf take over from there as he scented for potential prey and followed what he could of the stronger trails. His search was fruitful at least, yielding a small doe that took him ages to drag back to the manor.

Conrey was disgruntled by the smearing of blood he dragged through the door but made quick work of preparing the meat and draining what blood he could. He set a dish down for Duchess with some of the best of the meat and filled a small pitcher for Yasmine. With it and a mug in hand he mounted the stairs once he was hurriedly dressed again, carrying it proudly as he went straight to her room and entered without ceremony. "I wasn't sure how you'd prefer to drink it, but here's your breakfast," he chirped.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 27, 2015, 06:40:37 PM
Yasmine laid in bed, lightly dozing during the time of Conrey's absence. His return however, was not as appreciated as he may have expected. She grumbled and growled at him for waking her while pulling the duvet over her head and burrowing deeper into her warm covers. "I'm sleeping," she whined at him. "Why you bringing nasty smelling things in my room?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 27, 2015, 09:31:58 PM
"Nasty?" he scoffed, setting the pitcher on the table at her bedside and holding out a half-full mug towards the lump she was under the covers. "This is better than fine wine, I'll have you know. And sleeping girls don't talk," he pointed out, rolling his eyes and shaking his head goodnaturedly.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 28, 2015, 03:42:34 PM
She grunted at him, blindly flailing her arm out in his general direction to give him a swat but smacking the pitcher accidentally instead and sending its contents splashing all over the floor and the werewolf. Surprised, she immediately sat up before hissing and shooting back across the room at the sight of the spilled liquid. Her entire body shook with the urge to drink that she continued to fight. With a tight squeezing of her eyes that leaked unwanted tears, Yasmine shook her head violently in protest.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 28, 2015, 04:29:38 PM
Her seemingly fearful reaction to the spill left him puzzled. Was there something wrong with her? She was a vampire, right? He stared at the floor for a long time, silent as he could not even fathom how he would be able to clean so much blood from it. The wetness that soaked one side of the bottom half of his tunic and seeped against his thigh drew a growl from his throat once he noticed it. "Yasmine," he barked, impatience there as he flew to her, the cup still tightly clenched in his hand. "You will drink," he ordered her, holding the cup up to her expectantly.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 29, 2015, 01:58:59 PM
Yasmine turned her head away from Conrey, pressing her cheek firmly against the wall behind her to avoid having to face the cup. "I didn't mean to! Don't make me it was an accident! Please don't hurt me!" she continued to cry fearfully, expecting him manhandle her into doing so.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 29, 2015, 02:17:22 PM
"I'm not going to hurt you," he growled, a bit upset she would even think him capable when he had shown her no violence thus far. "You stubborn girl. You are not well. You are not thinking. You need to feed. You must," he begged her, lowering the cup slightly but still holding it at what he hoped was an unavoidably close proximity. "Please."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 29, 2015, 03:22:31 PM
"Not that!" she squealed, trying to slide along the wall to get further away from him. "It smells horrid and makes me feel sick. Take it away, please Mister Conrey! I don't like it! I don't want to be sick again. Please don't make me, please, please, please," Yasmine continued to beg him fearfully.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 29, 2015, 03:50:33 PM
"How can blood make you sick?" he asked incredulously, rolling his eyes with a disbelieving snort at the very notion. "I will not see you starve yourself to death. You will not. You cannot," he pleaded, growling in frustration as his eyes flickered in a moment of lost control that he quickly reined back in. He drew away from her and slammed the cup on the table before he dropped to his knees to begin cleaning her mess from the floor in silence.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 29, 2015, 04:32:48 PM
The bang made her jump with fright and squeak just as loud, her hands coming up to cover her ears and cower before she realized what had caused it. Overwhelmed and in shock, Yasmine slid down the wall to curl up in a heap on the floor. "You don't understand," she told him softly. "It doesn't smell right, honest! It smells...foul." Her nose crinkled up as she said the word, recognizing it for what it was.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 29, 2015, 05:13:15 PM
"...Perhaps because you did not drain it yourself," he sighed, his words bearing a silent apology for assuming she would drink from a container of any sort. There would be little need for fangs if her kind did not have need to use them.

"Would you...drink from a live animal?" he wondered, glancing over at her pleadingly as he continued to clean, seemingly unmoved by the blood upon his clothing and body.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 30, 2015, 04:52:20 AM
"A live animal! Absolutely not! I would never drink from Duchess, how could you suggest such a thing?" Yasmine cried out in disgust, completely misunderstanding what Conrey was trying to suggest. Then gasping in horror, she looked from the blood on the floor to the werewolf cleaning it up.

"You didn't! Where did this-this-this stuff come from?" She was once more on her feet, worry and anger shining in her dark eyes as she feared the worst with the lack of presence of her precious baby.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 30, 2015, 09:17:51 AM
"Unless you would keep the entire forest as your pet, I don't see what the problem is," he sighed, shaking his head as he thought more on what he could possibly do to feed her if she refused anything he offered. He was not about to watch a young vampire slowly kill herself.

He tilted his head slightly, though, lifting it and raising a brow in question as he was confused by her anger. "Didn't what? I hunted a doe and it was what I managed to drain from her," he explained as if it were the most normal thing in the world.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 30, 2015, 11:31:28 AM
Yasmine relaxed slightly, though she still felt worried. "But where is my Duchess? You took her with you when you left and she never returned. She never stays far from me. Did she get hurt? What if she's trapped in a room or fell through a rotten floorboard!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 30, 2015, 11:44:42 AM
"I left her in the hall and... I set out some food for her, so she probably went to eat," he answered thoughtfully, his cleaning nearly done. "If you want to go get her, feel free, but if I see even a sliver of meat missing, I swear, Yasmine," he warned her, not wanting a repeat of the pain and trouble it had been when she was sick the day before.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 30, 2015, 02:21:14 PM
"Are you threatening me Mister Shaw?" she asked, pausing in the doorway as she had been on her way out the door to find Duchess. "Because it certainly was not my fault I was trying to be normal and it smelled so good. I thought it would be okay! How was I to know I wouldn't be able to stomach normal food once becoming this thing. I mean you eat normal food, don't you?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 30, 2015, 02:38:02 PM
Conrey sighed, he knew he had been a bit harsh with her. "I was, but I'm sorry," he apologized. "I do eat normally... Or can. I know you don't have that option and I just assumed you would know that about yourself as well... Does blood not...call to you at all?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 30, 2015, 04:03:40 PM
Yasmine shook her head before speaking in a pained whisper. "Only human blood," she admitted fearfully. "But, I don't want to eat anyone," the girl hurried to say. "I couldn't live with myself if it came to that...again."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 30, 2015, 04:12:25 PM
He nodded in understanding, knowing at least that about her unfortunate past. With the mess cleaned he carefully rose to his feet again, pondering what he could possibly do to help her. "And...if they were willing to let you drink from them? What if I was with you? To make sure things didn't get out of control?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 31, 2015, 07:12:48 AM
She shook her head again as if she were a broken doll only able to do one action. "There is no stopping it once it starts. Nothing!" Yasmine trained her gaze at the floor, too ashamed to even look the man in the eye. "I'm a murderess."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 31, 2015, 12:20:10 PM
Conrey watched her with sadness, noticing the fear, the fear of herself. "Accidents are not murder," he pointed out. "It is in the past, please don't torture yourself over it. We will come up with a solution," he promised her, standing and cradling the soaked fabric against his already soiled clothing as he approached her at the door.

He raised a hand slightly wanting to give her a reassuring pat on the shoulder, but he decided against it and lowered his hand again once he noticed his palm was blood-tinged. Instead, he leaned in close and whispered to her sadly, fearful of what might happen if he had to chase down a hungry, unstable young vampire. "Please stay in the house." He stepped around her then and headed out to the river to wash the blood-soaked fabrics and clear himself of any signs of the mess she had caused.

He hung pieces here and there from the low-hanging branches of the trees to dry for the rest of the day before returning to the house as a wolf. The last thing he needed or wanted was more shit from her about his state of dress, as if it really mattered out in the middle of nowhere. He supposed she was the type of person that insisted on formal wear to sit and have tea and coffee as well, at least in her former life.

It took him quite a lot of effort to get the door open without hands but he scrambled back inside. Slinking his way up the stairs, he hoped he could be changed and out again before she noticed he was running around in his other form, one she seemed to despise from their previous interaction.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 31, 2015, 03:09:44 PM
"But I wanted it," she whispered after him, remembering how she had given in to the siren's call of blood and readily drank from some of her victims without a care for stopping. It was that that she feared the most, the feeling she had of losing herself in the blood-lust.

What upset her even more though was the constantly being told to stay. It made her feel even more like a prisoner in her own isolated and lonely home. Yasmine pouted and sulked as she waited for Conrey's return. The jingling of the door had her moving to the rail to look down and see the wolf trot up the steps and unknowingly towards her. She waited until he turned the corner before walking quickly over to him.

"So you're back?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 31, 2015, 05:20:41 PM
He was startled by her voice and visibly jumped as he spun to look at her. Panicked, he did his best to appear as gentle as possible, perking his ears up and wagging his tail softly. He nodded in answer but didn't approach her, hoping she understood by his other form that he did not have clothes. He waited, though, to see if she would approach him on her own instead of disappearing to his room as he had intended to.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 01, 2015, 08:15:58 AM
Yasmine stared right down at him as she stood directly in front of him, a bit surprised by his massive height compared to her own. "You know maybe you should stay in this form more often," she commented. "You certainly are more attractive when you're not being all big and scary chasing young women around the forest. Besides I doubt you could boss me around too much as a giant fluffball. Would also probably help with your whole penchant for running about the manor stark naked."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 01, 2015, 10:32:44 AM
The compliment floundered in a sea of criticisms, in his mind. He did not growl but his tail stilled and he heaved a huge sigh. His eyes lost some of their brightness but seeing as she did not try to move away he cautiously stepped closer to nuzzle at her hand in acceptance. At least she had not called him a monster. It was a win for him despite the underwhelming praise.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 01, 2015, 03:26:47 PM
She giggled at his believed cry for attention, readily stepping in closer to rub at his ears vigorously. "Such a good wolfy likin' his wittle ears rubbed," Yasmine baby-talked to him as she let her hands move on to scratching behind the ears as well as roughly petting his chin and cheeks. "Such a good fluffy boy, yes you are!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 01, 2015, 04:28:14 PM
Conrey looked as surprised as an animal could, his ears relaxing under her touch even as he whined for her baby-talk. He was a werewolf, not a dog. He wasn't quite offended, but he knew there were far more respectful things she could have called him than "wolfy" and "fluffy." He endured it for a little while but eventually turned his head up to lick her wrist as if to stay her hand and say, "Enough."

Turning away, he eyed the door to his quarters and gestured at it a few times with his snout before heading inside so that he would not be stuck in a form that could not speak with her and could shift freely again.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 03, 2015, 02:10:42 PM
Oblivious to what he was trying to say to her and entranced by the softness of his fur, Yasmine continued to trail beside Conrey and pet him enthusiastically. "Such a pwetty boy," she cooed while allowing her hands to drop to scratch and rub his shoulders and back. ""Look at you, big stwong, wolfy wit' his big fluffy fur."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 03, 2015, 05:01:10 PM
Conrey gave a grumpy grumble for her continued baby-talk. The wolf rolled his eyes and gently tried to shake her as he entered the room and stood before his bag on the floor. He looked back at her once more with a quizzical tilt of his head, wondering why she'd followed him. The scratches were quite enjoyable, though, and he stilled for a few moments more to appreciate the feeling.

It was not much longer before he was crouching down, hoping to shield her from her inevitable view of most of his backside. He shifted, letting it happen slowly as a sort of warning to her before he assumed his human form once more. Conrey was quick to pluck fresh clothes from his bag and tugged them on hurriedly. "You aren't afraid of my wolf?" he laughed, quirking an amused brow as he turned towards her once he'd secured his pants. His top he struggled with, the tunic catching a bit on his elbows as he stretched the fabric.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 06, 2015, 12:50:12 PM
It took her too long to realize what he was doing and by the time she did, Conrey was already standing stark naked before her as he wiggled into his clothes. Once he started asking his question though, her senses returned and Yasmine was soon racing down the hall at an accelerated speed with a high-pitched squeal following her all the way back to her room.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 06, 2015, 01:10:14 PM
Conrey winced, scrunching his face in guilt and disappointment that she suddenly seemed aware of her fear again, or so he guessed. Of course she was afraid of him, how else could it have been? Perhaps she had seen an image of an old family dog in his other form, but Conrey was certain the girl saw him only as a monster for his shifting abilities. Perhaps it was better that way.

The werewolf decided to keep to himself once he was clothed again. He crossed the room to shut the door firmly without so much as a peek to see if she might have been in the hall. Returning to lounge on the bed, he found himself hoping that her kitten had found her meal. Conrey felt guilt in knowing the poor creature had not had much of anything since they'd arrived, but he hoped what he'd left as an offering would be enough to make up for that.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 06, 2015, 05:28:41 PM
While Yasmine hid herself within her room, trying to forget the sight of naked male, Duchess managed to drag herself back up the steps now that her belly was sated and distended with gorging. She climbed up to the top step and mewled for attention. But, when her vampire did not come for her, the kitten took to awkwardly racing down the hall to her new favorite two-legger's room. With several scratches at the closed door and paw-swipes under it, she began a litany of complaints in her tiny voice, hoping to gain the attention she most certainly deserved.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 06, 2015, 06:19:09 PM
It did not take long for the incessant scratching and muted thumps against his door to become irritating to the werewolf. He couldn't just lay there in peace and relax, of course. No, there was always something to be done for either Yasmine or her princess of a cat. With a grumbling growl he rose at last and went to the door to let her in. "Why aren't you bothering your real owner, hm?" he scolded her gently, shaking his head in playful disapproval. He couldn't deny that the small creature was growing on him, becoming more of a routine concern every day instead of an afterthought or attachment to Yasmine.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 07, 2015, 02:08:08 PM
Ignoring his chastisement, Duchess immediately made her way into the room, her tail and head held high as she did so. She attempted to jump onto the bed once she reached the edge of it, but her overly full belly caused her to only leap a tiny bit off the ground before causing her to land awkwardly, her paws going in all four directions as she failed. With a grumpy yowl, the kitten attempted to do so again, wiggling her rear excessively in preparation for the jump.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 07, 2015, 04:42:38 PM
Conrey watched the kitten making herself at home and couldn't stifle a bark of laughter for her struggles. Seeing she was determined to make it, he hurried over and scooped her up to help her along, setting her down at the foot of the bed. "Don't leave your fur sticking to everything," he warned, though he knew she could not control if it happened. "Has your mistress abandoned you?" he wondered, crawling back up to sit on the bed to stare at her with conversational interest despite her lack of any ability to speak.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 09, 2015, 05:28:21 PM
Duchess let out a yowl of discontent at being plopped onto the bed and as soon as she had gotten her bearings again and Conrey was likewise on the bed, she jumped down to race under it, batting at the bedskirt wherever she could. Eventually though she popped up on the other side of the bed, using the comforter to claw her way back up onto the mattress where she promptly began the fastidious task of bathing herself and spitting out bits of matted fur.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 09, 2015, 08:54:01 PM
The werewolf watched with a twinkle of amusement in his eyes, scoffing as the kitten made herself right at home in the room he'd chosen for himself. "She's going to say that I stole you and it's all your fault," he scolded her gently, laying back to get comfortable for an afternoon nap. He was careful to let Duchess have a section of the bed all to herself, and he stretched his legs out to lay diagonally across the bed so as not to disturb her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 10, 2015, 09:20:50 AM
Tiny kitten cleaned her fur until it met her standards and then she was racing all over the mattress, chasing ripples in the fabric. She soon grew board though and took to swatting playfully at Conrey's hands and trying to curl up under his tunic where she was finding it to be quite warm.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 10, 2015, 12:14:23 PM
It didn't exactly surprise him, but he was a bit disappointed that Duchess was so playful. Weren't cats supposed to be solitary?

The feel of her fur brushing against bare skin startled him. He jumped, hollered a strangled yelp and immediately set his hands in front of her way on top of the shirt to try and block her. "Get out of there," he whined, fighting twitches and  the urge to laugh at being tickled by her. "Please?" he added in a tense voice, his sides trembling with the effort of resisting the urge to force her out. He was worried about hurting her, being as small as she was. But, the last thing he wanted today was to bleed for upsetting the princess.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 10, 2015, 01:44:21 PM
Duchess purred loudly, gently kneading at his stomach while trying to find a comfortable spot to lay. His squirming though was doing nothing to help her but the small cat was fiercely determined to snuggle with him. She yawned, leaning down to lick some of his exposed skin with her tiny sandpaper tongue before resting her chin on his side and closing her eyes.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 10, 2015, 03:01:15 PM
To him, her small claws were like knives against the tender flesh of his belly. Conrey was almost constantly flinching until she settled from her kneading, a shaky, tense sigh escaping him as he tried in vain to move her off of him.

The raspy tongue had him at last admitting defeat, slightly fearful that her next move would be to take a bite out of him. He was pleased, at least, that she seemed to stop making a nest of him the moment he stopped resisting her. "Needy cat," he complained under his breath, his hands sliding away to rest at his sides as he watched the lump under his tunic with interest as she moved in time with his breaths.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 10, 2015, 03:29:48 PM
She continued to purr deeply in her sleep, her tail brushing back and forth from time to time as she dreamed her little kitten dreams, feeling completely safe and protected. Her nap was quick though as she found the rise and fall of being on his stomach was too much for her and so Duchess raced her way up his chest to curl up at the neck of his tunic, tucking her tail back over her nose to pass out once more.

Elsewhere in the house Yasmine paced her room, feeling bored and embarrassed at having seen Conrey naked again. Part of her wanted to yell at him for it but she did not dare for fear she would find him without clothes yet again. Another reason she kept away though was pangs of hunger squeezing her insides, demanding blood. She hoped by ignoring it as she had done in the past, she could make them go away. Without Conrey to see, surely she would not have any other close encounters as he had tried to force upon her earlier in the day.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 10, 2015, 07:21:24 PM
The werewolf relaxed once Duchess moved to a more comfortable, albeit suffocating spot. She was small, but still noticeably heavier than clothes. He sincerely hoped Yasmine would not be worried after her pet. Part of him feared what Duchess would do if he disturbed her again. Cautiously, he lifted a hand to adjust his tunic, peeking under to look at the kitten with a curious quirk to his brow.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 11, 2015, 01:32:03 PM
The kitten trilled softly at the disturbance, rolling slightly so that she was more on her side and her cheek nuzzled further into his chest. Duchess was completely oblivious to the rest of the world as she dreamed of chasing mice and being lavished with attention. The little cat did not even twitch an ear as Yasmine hesitantly brushed her knuckles against Conrey's door as a nervous attempt to knock.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 11, 2015, 02:45:40 PM
Conrey sighed, uncertain how he was going to coax her out once he eventually needed to move. He startled slightly at the sound at his door and leaned over to stare at it and the dim shadow he saw under it. "Yes? Yasmine?" he called, careful to be a little quieter than he would have normally been for Duchess's sake.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 11, 2015, 03:39:24 PM
The vampire jumped, not expecting him to have heard her gentle knock. For several long moments she fretted about staying or running while biting her thumbnail. "Are you...naked?" she finally weakly asked, still further with what she really wanted.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 11, 2015, 04:12:20 PM
Her question caught him off guard, not understanding where she'd gained the fear of his nakedness. To him the incidents at the secluded manor were but mere anomalies. He quite liked the comfort of being clothed.

"No, of course not," he answered gently, not wanting to upset her by laughing at her question. After a moment of silence he added, "You can come inside if you want."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 11, 2015, 04:51:46 PM
Carefully she slipped into his room and finding him laying down, Yasmine hesitated in the doorway. "Should I come back later? I didn't realize you were sleeping. I won't bother you. Sorry for disturbing," she hurriedly apologized, already trying to shoot back out the door.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 11, 2015, 05:49:34 PM
"No, I wasn't sleeping," he insisted, beckoning her over with a careful movement of his hand as he lowered his shirt over the lump of kitten on his chest again. "Duchess decided to make a bed of me," he explained, as if it might have been something she was familiar with handling concerning her kitten.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 15, 2015, 07:15:29 PM
"She likes you," Yasmine commented neutrally, not really sure how she felt about that revelation. "Maybe you're not so bad after all," she unconsciously added, her eyes never leaving the little ball of fur tucked under the man's shirt. Suddenly unsure of herself again though, the young girl shuffled about, staring at the floor.

"Sorry for disturbing really. I don't know why I bothered coming here. I'll go. Have a good evening!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 15, 2015, 08:38:53 PM
"Of course I'm not bad," he snorted in disbelief, though his expression became troubled at her continued insistence at leaving. "You came here for a reason," he reminded her. "At least tell me why before you go. Are you...afraid of me?" he guessed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 16, 2015, 03:14:23 PM
"No!" Yasmine all but shouted, her eyes wide in shock. "I just...I wanted to ask something...indecent of you and I don't- that is I'm- well the truth is," she sighed heavily and shook her head. "I don't know how to ask," she finally mumbled out in a rush.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 16, 2015, 04:06:09 PM
Conrey watched her distress with curiosity. He wasn't sure he'd seen her so worked up over something concerning him and was very interested to know why. That she called it indecent had his thoughts immediately wandering towards similar ideas. An uncharacteristic flush graced his cheeks at one particular guess that crossed his mind, though he would not assume such things. Almost anything could be indecent, especially to someone like Yasmine.

"Try?" he urged her, clearing his throat and carefully sitting up. He tucked an arm against his chest to support Duchess so she would not fall down to his lap. "I would not shun you for merely asking," he told her honestly. "Though it may be... too inappropriate to genuinely consider."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 16, 2015, 05:54:27 PM
Duchess grunted at the movement and tried to roll over so that her back rested in his palm. Yasmine kept her eyes trained worriedly on her kitten until she saw that the little animal was alright before finally speaking.

Her words though came out in a stumbling tumble as she hurried to just get it all out. "Will you stay with me at night so I can sleep," she mumbled quietly without looking at him, her cheeks flushing darkly as she waited for the rejection that she was sure was coming.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 16, 2015, 06:41:54 PM
He waited for other words or an explanation as to why she was requesting such a thing to come, but her silence and the color he could see at her face and throat told him that she would not be explaining further. He furrowed his brow, staring at her cautiously as he considered her question. "You mean stay only to sleep, correct? Like...how I did for you last night?" he prompted. "Because of the...dreams?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 17, 2015, 08:30:53 AM
"Nightmares," the young woman automatically replied, her voice sounding hollow. "It would just be your wolf form though," she hurried to continue. "No need to break all the rules of propriety after all. That is, if you will agree."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 17, 2015, 06:54:16 PM
He was relieved once he'd heard the full explanation of her reasoning, but her additional request made him wince. "I don't really like sleeping as my wolf," he whispered, glancing down at Duchess as he took a few moments to think it over. "But if you think it might help you, truly, then I will do anything in my power to ease your troubles. Even that," he agreed.

"May I ask why you were so worried about asking me such a thing? It is a bit unconventional, but we are not exactly conventional people. I don't really see the harm in it."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 18, 2015, 10:17:10 AM
Yasmine blushed darkly. "It is highly inappropriate for an unmarried unrelated couple to sleep in the same bed. What happened last night should never have happened. But, it helped and your other form is less...intimidating, I feel."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 18, 2015, 10:42:36 AM
Conrey frowned a bit for the way she made it sound like they'd committed such a scandal. Still, he could not deny that he was willing to help her and wanted her sleep to be restful instead of filled with terror. He heaved a heavy sigh, as if pondering her request with uncertainty when he already knew the answer. "Okay. How about I try it tonight. If it doesn't help you anymore or you're uncomfortable we won't do it again. If it does help, well. I'll stay with you until you don't need me anymore, whenever I return you to your parents. Does that sound fair?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 18, 2015, 01:52:22 PM
She let out an enormous sigh of relief and nodded her head eagerly. "It's a deal then. Or until I say otherwise if I change my mind." Yasmine nodded her head again, this time letting her eyes once more drop to where her kitten was purring and lightly snoring. "Is she bothering you?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 18, 2015, 03:49:45 PM
"Of course," he agreed, happy to have a way to feel like he was doing his job with her that she found acceptable. "What, Duchess? No, she's fine, she's just sleeping." He looked down at the sleeping lump and adjusted his arm carefully. "Though you are free to take her back if you wish. I won't hold her hostage," he teased.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 19, 2015, 02:01:04 PM
"No, no. Leave her be. She'd only come back to you in the end anyway. She's been through a lot already because of me. Duchess doesn't need upsetting because of her pathetic, mistress. Should I let you be then?" Yasmine asked, hurrying to change the subject. "I didn't mean to wake you."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 19, 2015, 04:43:20 PM
He wanted to ask but felt it wise to keep his mouth shut about her most recent trauma for the time being. Conrey rolled his eyes, beckoning to her with his free hand. "I wasn't sleeping," he reminded her playfully. "Is this the signal for young girls now that they are tired?" he asked, raising a brow curiously for her continued insistence. "Come, sit."

Conrey patted the empty space on the bed and carefully scooted over to allow her more room if she would join him. "I'm sorry about earlier, Yasmine. I was just worried about your...lack of appetite."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 19, 2015, 05:51:04 PM
She tensed at his offer, wrapping her arms tightly about herself in a self-hug even as she sat on the very edge of the bed, her feet the only thing from keeping her from sliding right off the end. "Nothing works," Yasmine said softly, her head hanging with shame. "I eat. I don't eat. Either way I'm still a danger. I lose myself, I...I hurt someone by accident. It's always the same in the end and it just gets worse and worse the longer I am this way. It makes me feel sick inside," she told him, her face scrunching up in disgust.

"The taste is...horrible." The vampire swallowed thickly, her eyes dilating some as she remembered it. "And wonderful. It makes you want to gorge yourself on it and even when you're full you still want more. But, the taste is still the same as it's always been. It's still blood. Still tastes of metal on your tongue and makes you want to vomit with so much coating your mouth and throat." Yasmine shuddered and closed her eyes. "I hate it."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 19, 2015, 06:59:44 PM
"Perhaps you've just had some bad experiences," he mused, feeling a bit bad for her and hoping to encourage her. "Maybe what you tasted was fear of yourself or denial of what you are. If you have killed every time then I think it's fair to say you don't have any good experiences with it, nothing calm or relaxing. Maybe that's all you need.

"I still think a willing...food person might help you. I can't imagine it's very comfortable being hungry all the time." Conrey frowned, watching her with concern. "If I went and found someone would you consider it?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 21, 2015, 07:18:14 PM
Yasmine visibly shuddered and shrank into the bed at the very thought. "I don't want to feed from someone. I don't want to be the same monster that did this to me. Please Mister Shaw you have to understand!" She raised her eyes to look at him painfully. "I can't stop and you won't be able to stop me. I...I don't trust myself and you shouldn't either. That's why I'm here after all," the young woman whispered dejectedly as she dragged herself back to her feet.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 22, 2015, 02:03:36 PM
Conrey shrugged dismissively, not really thinking the situation as terrible as she described. "You are here so that you are safe. Some are not nice to your kind or mine for that matter. I just hope you do not think yourself a monster simply because of what you are. You cannot control that, and I would never fault you for it, but it is the truth that you have hurt people. Wouldn't you rather go on living a life without fears, Yasmine? What kind of life is it to be afraid to feed?" he questioned, genuinely concerned for her health should she continue to refuse.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 23, 2015, 04:52:11 PM
"I'm here to be safe not to hurt more people," she argued back hoarsely. "Bringing people to me just tempts fate. There is no hope of control for me. Is not the one that did this to me proof enough of that? He-IT mutilated and destroyed an innocent child, leaving behind only a monster in her shell. I don't even know who I am anymore," Yasmine spoke, her voice shaking with despair. "I feel so alone."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 23, 2015, 05:37:31 PM
He watched her with sadness as she explained her feelings, his heart thumping at the catch in her voice. He could see, sense even, the alienation she was feeling. The way she distanced herself from even him was telling enough, someone he was certain she saw as not much better than herself.

Mindful of Duchess, he swapped the arm supporting her and sat up to lean closer to Yasmine as he quickly wrapped his arm around her shoulders to tug her towards him. He hoped her kitten would not be squished, but if nothing else he knew she was frightened and needed comfort, even if she would not accept his gesture of it.

What he saw was a beautiful young woman who seemed ill and mad with the hunger she was desperately denying. His expression was guarded, ready for rejection, but he leaned even closer to press his lips to her cheek. "You're still Yasmine," he whispered against her cheek. "I know you're afraid, but you're still you." He gave her a gentle squeeze with his arm, hoping she might find some comfort in his words. "You have a lot to get used to, but it will get better. Give yourself some time, give yourself a chance to feel better. Please."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 23, 2015, 06:46:30 PM
Yasmine squeaked slightly at suddenly being pulled against Conrey but she made no move to protest, nor did she yell at him about the impropriety as she had about other things in the recent past. She found comfort in his gentle embrace and could only blush darkly at the chaste kiss to her cheek and his soft whispers.

"But, how many more chances do I get before I've lost myself entirely to this thing that kills with no remorse?" she whispered back, leaning into him more firmly. "I'm a murderer and should be put to death for my crimes yet, instead I am being treated like a baby who keeps dropping her spoon on the floor and doesn't know any better. It's disgusting!" The young woman groaned before suddenly turning into his chest and crying weakly against him once more.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on February 24, 2015, 10:32:22 AM
"I'm sure you can learn to eat without killing," he suggested, not really seeing it as an option for her to never drink blood again. "You must try. It's what you are now." He frowned sadly as he held onto her, listening to her cry and feeling a little helpless. Conrey rubbed at her back and scrambled to think of something else he might be able to do for her. What could he possibly say to comfort her, though? She'd rejected everything else he'd said before. Perhaps there really was no changing her mind.

"I'm sorry," he murmured, hanging his head dejectedly as he realized there was very little he could do as a bodyguard and companion to protect her against her own thoughts. Teaching her seemed to be the only option, but he had no idea where to start in such lessons.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 24, 2015, 01:23:37 PM
"I'm sorry too," she whispered against him. In his arms, Duchess finally woke with a yawn before placing her paws on his chest and licking at his chin. The flip of her tail brushed against Yasmine's cheek and despite the tears, the young woman giggled softly. "Such a silly girl." Tenderly, Yasmine stroked the kitten's back and ears but otherwise left her alone as Duchess continued to nuzzle and purr up at Conrey.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on March 09, 2015, 02:16:22 PM
The small sound of happiness was encouraging and for that he did not let her go immediately. Continuing to hold her and her small kitten close, Conrey looked down at the feline that had broken some of the tension in the air. He chuckled for the tickling of her raspy tongue against him and didn't try to stop her. "I guess she's warming up to me. I'm surprised, I've never had a cat take such a liking to me before. You know, with what I am and all. They sense that kind of thing, I think. Very smart animals."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on March 09, 2015, 05:03:30 PM
"That's because cats are better than dogs and wolves," Yasmine smugly replied as she smiled fondly up at her little pet. "And she's the smartest of them all. Aren't you pretty girl?" The young woman leaned closer to the kitten to place a gentle kiss to her shoulder before nuzzling her face against the soft fur. "My precious little friend."

'The only one I have,' her mind finished sadly.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on March 11, 2015, 11:12:32 AM
"Oh are they?" he snorted, shaking his head in playful disbelief as he lifted the kitten gently to try and place her back with her owner again. The way Yasmine was so close to him as she cuddled with her kitten was making him uncomfortable in a way he didn't quite recognize. "She does seem very bright for a kitten, but I think she's getting a bit too comfortable with me, don't you think?" he chuckled, trying to laugh it off.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on March 11, 2015, 03:09:22 PM
Yasmine eagerly took her precious baby, tucking the kitten in close against her heart as the young woman nuzzled her face in Duchess' soft fur. "Of course they are. Everyone knows that," she huffed with a slight roll of her eyes.

The young woman just shrugged though at his question. "You're stuck with us for the foreseeable future. Would you rather she try to attack you every chance she got?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on July 01, 2015, 10:00:27 AM
"Of course not," Conrey scoffed, pouting far more than he should have for being teased by someone who was still a child. "Just meant that she seems so warmed up to me for still being close to a stranger to her, don't you think? Or has she always just been friendly like that?

"And, you know... I'm not stuck with you. You're stuck with me. Don't forget that."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on July 01, 2015, 11:40:42 AM
The young woman snorted and rolled her eyes in an unsightly manner. "Right, because I'm paid to live with you." Yasmine scoffed and shook her head even as her little kitten looked her nose, causing a faint smile to brighten her features. "She likes whom she likes and that means you right now."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on July 31, 2015, 04:38:05 PM
"Well, I'm honored to be in her good graces for now. At least someone here can tolerate me." Gingerly, Conrey tried to disentangle himself from them. Distance was a boundary, and boundaries were good.

The last thing he needed was Yasmine believing she could walk over him even more than she already did. "Is there anything else you can eat? I'm not going to sit here and watch you starve yourself. Whatever you need to be....healthy, is what you will get. What do your...instincts tell you to do right now, hm?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on September 27, 2015, 09:01:42 AM
"Probably because she hasn't seen you naked," Yasmine muttered darkly under her breath, refusing to meet his eyes. His line of questions though made her visibly flinch and wish to flee immediately upon their utterance.

After a shaky breath that caused her nostrils to flare, the young woman looked up at Conrey with dark, hooded eyes. "My instincts tell me to tear into your throat right above the collarbone where the pulsing is loudest and drain you dry of every last drop. But even then I'll still be hungry and seek the next living source I can find one after another until there's nothing left. It only gets worse," she claimed looking away from him moodily. "It never lessens."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on September 30, 2015, 11:58:12 AM
The truth in her words didn't bother him. While his experience with vampires was quite limited all he saw in her eyes was fear, of herself if nothing else.

"If you refuse to feed," he mused. "How do you know it won't lessen? How do you know that feeding from me would not quench your thirst?

"Perhaps," Conrey sighed, giving her a look of sympathy. "You're having trouble controlling your thirst because you aren't allowing yourself to feed at a normal pace for a young vampire. You keep driving yourself to a point where you feel starving and desperate and that's what you act on. I could be entirely wrong." He waved a hand dismissively before reaching out to pet the kitten thoughtfully. "But I think you need to trust your instincts a bit more."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on October 22, 2015, 10:54:33 AM
Yasmine sulked and sighed. "And what about my other instincts? The ones that tell me to faint or be ill at the very sight and smell of it? What about those? Feeding if you'll call it that," she spat, "has never lessened it before ever. It just makes me want more. It's awful and I hate it!"

She pouted and hugged the kitten closer. "Don't want to," she whined pitifully against baby-fine fur.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on October 22, 2015, 02:12:08 PM
"Then perhaps," he thought out loud. "Those feelings are a signal that you haven't had enough. Have you ever allowed yourself to drink until you were no longer hungry?" Conrey questioned her seriously, his brows drawn slightly in concern.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 16, 2015, 02:25:00 PM
She shuddered, remembering things she wished to keep forgotten and buried deep inside herself. "So much death," Yasmine whispered instead, curling in on herself. Finally though she nodded slightly, refusing to look at her guardian and see the disgust on his face like everyone else in her life had shown. "Once," she rasped, feeling as if the single word was tearing her throat apart.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on November 16, 2015, 09:19:31 PM
He stared at her with confusion, not quite understanding why she had such a negative view of eating how she was meant to, even with the downsides. "And death is a part of life sometimes," he tried to assure her, reaching to give a cautious rub at her shoulder. "You'll have to learn not to starve yourself, I think, Yasmine. My guess is that you could eat smaller amounts more frequently and have no trouble with managing your appetite."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 18, 2015, 09:02:51 AM
Yasmine flinched and tensed at his words and touch. "I'm a murderer, a criminal, disgusting abomination. Why can't this just go away? I just want it to go away," she whimpered pitifully. "Want to wake up and it was all a nightmare I won't remember in a few hours. I want to go home." Her voice cracked and she sniffled quietly, fighting back more tears. "I want to go home."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on November 19, 2015, 08:05:51 AM
Conrey drew his hand back from her when he saw the way she flinched away. His frown deepened for the way she spoke about herself, but he wasn't sure what he could do to change her mind since she didn't seem to want to listen to reason.

He didn't really know how to handle the crying either. The werewolf was accustomed to protecting his charges from outside sources instead of themselves. He felt for the girl, but he was as lost and clueless as she was about how to make her desire a reality. "You can't go home just yet," he told her firmly, trying his best to not speak too harshly with her. "This is your life for now and we really do need to figure out something that will work. I refuse to see you suffer," he announced stubbornly.

Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 19, 2015, 12:26:07 PM
"If you're going to be anything then at least be honest," she pleaded brokenly. "I'm never going to get to go home. I'm not wanted there and I don't belong there no matter," Yasmine choked on tears, clenching her eyes shut even as salty drops of water leaked forth, "no matter how much I want to. This is my life, you're right and I'm stuck with it." The tears returned full force as she squeezed the kitten so close to her it protested and attempted to squirm away.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on November 19, 2015, 07:01:07 PM
"That isn't true," he nearly barked, his brow furrowing. "I'm not being dishonest, I simply don't know the future." Conrey stared at her, trying to relax all his pent up tension for essentially being called a liar while faced with a crying female. Perhaps she'd only said it out of emotion, but he hated it no matter the reason. "I just want to see you get the care you need," he grumbled.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 19, 2015, 07:38:30 PM
Whatever protest she had died upon her lips as a screeching yowl interrupted her followed a pained squeal and heavy hissing. Yasmine dropped her precious kitten in favor of clutching her now weeping arm while the small animal continued puff itself up to nearly twice its size and hiss and bat at the retreating vampire.

"That hurt Duchess! How could you?" she cried out even as she watched with somewhat horrified eyes as blood dripped down her arm to her elbow.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on November 20, 2015, 12:53:35 PM
The werewolf stared at her in shocked disbelief of the whole situation. He gave a brief glance to the kitten, but she seemed more than okay with the way she was behaving and hissing at her mistress.

With a wincing hiss he leaned closer to look at her arm. "I think that's why you're not supposed to hold animals," he stated bluntly, clicking his tongue and shaking his head for the sight of her wound. "Let me help you get that wrapped up, come on," he urged her, moving to stand and go to the door.

Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 20, 2015, 02:08:10 PM
"Well she's never done that before!" Yasmine exclaimed back, still fighting the urge to breathe in the scent of her blood or to look away in sickened disgust. Her stomach rumbled at the idea of either. "Make it stop! I feel sick," she whined, starting to look paler than normal.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on November 21, 2015, 04:26:45 PM
"Hush," Conrey sighed, having great difficulty not rolling his eyes at her antics over such a small wound. Knowing he would have to leave her to get any proper bandaging he assessed her wound for a moment before quietly tearing into the bottom of his shirt to rip off a section of the cloth. Using it as a makeshift bandage, he wrapped the scratch snugly with the hope that the lack of visible blood might calm her. "Just a tiny scratch, it'll be okay," he tried to assure her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 22, 2015, 06:57:48 AM
Yasmine relaxed slightly as the sight was covered though that only lasted as long as the blood had not stained through the cloth. With her focus shifted, she could not help but sulk and whine gratingly about her newest disfigurement. "It's not tiny! Just look at it! It's going to scar and I'm going to look as horrific on the outside as I am on the inside now. I can't believe she did that! How could she betray me like that? How? After all I've done for her."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on November 25, 2015, 07:39:03 AM
Conrey couldn't help but wince at the way she complained and whined about such a little thing. "She was probably frightened," he mumbled tiredly, already a little exhausted by her complaining. "She's just a kitten after all, no need to squeeze her like a toy. I wouldn't worry, though. Just a scratch. It'll heal. You'll be fine, you'll live, nobody will care." He tried so hard not to roll his eyes at her theatrics, but he was sure his feelings about it were leaking out and his voice betraying him.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 25, 2015, 01:30:13 PM
The young vampire's gaze immediately snapped to her guardian so that she could glare coldly at him. If looks could kill, Conrey would have been charbroiled five times over under the heat of Yasmine's eyes.

"I'll have you know I am still the daughter of a nobleman and I do not appreciate that tone you're taking with me. I will be accorded the respect my station deserves whether I live with my parents or not. Is that understood?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on November 25, 2015, 03:16:56 PM
Conrey barely kept from laughing over her ridiculous claim. "Tone? What tone do you think I have?" he practically laughed while asking, shaking his head at how paranoid the girl seemed. "Apparently bandaging wounds is no longer respectful, huh?" he snorted.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 26, 2015, 12:20:02 PM
"It has nothing to do with bandaging the grievous wound," she scowled at her arm in disgust before continuing, "and everything to do with your mocking me with your lack of care. You think I like this situation any better than you? At least you're getting paid so at the very least you can act like you even care about what happens to me." Yasmine huffed and sighed with displeasure before attempting to push her way past the man and squeeze through the doorway.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on November 26, 2015, 12:25:52 PM
"Lack of care," he scoffed, unable to stop himself this time as he rolled his eyes and shook his head in disgust. "Because I haven't been trying to get you to eat properly since we got here. Because I didn't just bandage you. Because I haven't let you cry when you needed me to. Right. Okay. Go on, then, go have your tantrum somewhere else, Yasmine," he bid her, gesturing with his hand to shoo her away. "Moody child," he growled under his breath, his brows drawn in as he left after her to go get some fresh air.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 01, 2015, 12:29:30 PM
Yasmine scowled as she flounced her way out of the room. "Insufferable mutt," she shouted back, having heard his mutterings. "I don't know why my parents thought hiring you was a good idea," she continued to gripe while stomping her way violently down the stairs.

She did her best to try and ignore the blood-soaked cloth on her arm even as her nose twitched, desiring more of the alluring scent and her mouth watered in anticipation. Yasmine was starving but it was a plight that she was not about to admit. It was still too much of a horror for her to face. Her fears were still too present in her mind. The idea of leaving again was tempting but she knew there was no getting out of the house as long as Conrey was within ear shot. He would be down the stairs in a heartbeat and probably ruin her dress in the process as well.

The noblewoman slowed her footsteps as the steam of her anger lessened. She crossed her arms over her as she cast angry glares up towards the banister as if to melt Conrey through the walls with her rage. It did not last long though as she soon was distracted by exploring more of the house. A scratching sound coming from one of the many disused closets caught her attention. Jiggling the handle revealed that it was locked but also resulted in several frantic squeaks and the sound of hurried scuttling that thumped and shook the door. Yasmine back away from it, eyes wide as her earlier argument was forgotten.

"Mister Conrey, Mister Conrey there's something in here!" she squealed, eyes never leaving the door for fear it would suddenly burst up with whatever was trapped behind it, ready to attack her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 01, 2015, 04:20:21 PM
Conrey paced about the upper hall to cool off a bit, always keeping an ear out for her despite his frustrations. He knew she was just being an ungrateful child, but it was hard to not let it get to him when she seemed so mature in other ways.

Perhaps there really was no reasoning with her or breaking through her wall about eating, but he wasn't ready to give up on her just yet when they'd barely started. He didn't have much of a reprieve at all, though, before she was calling for him.

At first he just sighed and shook his head. She was cruel if she thought he would just forget about what she'd said to him and go help, but he could at least be useful and check out what nonsense she was talking about with "something" being in the house. "Alright, alright," he called gently, turning on his route to head back towards the stairs and hurry down to the lower level of the house.

Once he found her he looked between her and the door but wasn't realizing what was bothering her about it. "Did it look at you funny?" he asked teasingly, stepping closer to investigate it and press his ear to the door as he gave the handle a jiggle.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 02, 2015, 09:32:09 AM
She glared daggers at him, her lips pursing into a thin white line of ultimate displeasure. "There's something in there!" Yasmine insisted petulantly, arms crossed and foot tapping in irritation. "I tried to open the door and there was all this scratching and heavy banging in there. It must be enormous!"

His jingling of door did not allow it to budge but did indeed cause more sounds of rustling and struggling as whatever was inside frantically fought to get out. "See see!" The young woman shouted jumping up and down and pointing her finger at the door. "I told you something was in there!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 04, 2015, 12:22:40 PM
The sounds of struggle and scratching inside startled him enough to visibly jump, but Conrey was skeptical of whatever it was being some terrible monster. "Oh, it can't be that bad," he tried to assure her, putting more weight into pulling at the door to try and unstick it from the frame.

After a few good tugs the door squealed and creaked terribly as it opened to reveal the dark closet. His jaw dropped to see how trashed it way: broken jars were strewn across the floor and various seeds, nuts, and grains were littered amongst them. Louder, frantic scratching startled the werewolf again as he peered into the dimly lit space to see a dark blob of dusty fur convulsing in the corner. A ringed tail whipped around as small paws worked frantically to push through and, after giving up, pull back from what seemed to be a hole that had been gnawed into the wall. The creature seemed entirely stuck, though, as it alternated the direction of its attempted escape over and over again. Sharp huffs and muffled growls signaled its displeasure at being found and essentially trapped.

"Oh," he muttered, staring dumbly at the creature for a long while before glancing to Yasmine in confusion. "Well what do you want me to do about it?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 07, 2015, 04:07:09 PM
Yasmine cringed and recoiled further back against the wall at the sounds. Her hands covered her face, eyes barely peaking out between fingers as if she expected some massive and horrible demon to suddenly jump out at her.

Her jaw dropped in disbelief though once the door was opened, not because of the abhorrent mess but because of how unbelievable and ridiculous his question was. "We'll get rid of it of course!" The young woman all but sputtered, her arms pinwheeling in distress. "It'll probably try to kill us in our sleep or eat my little Duchess if we leave it alone to get from by itself! I won't have my precious baby harmed because of your negligence!"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 07, 2015, 06:52:29 PM
It was difficult to not roll his eyes at the notion of a mere raccoon murdering them all, though he supposed her worries for Duchess were not entirely off since she was such a small creature. "Negligence, right. You have a strange way of speaking, girl," he snorted, gingerly stepping into the cramped space to grab the fat creature by it's belly and then, once it was free, snatched it out by its scruff to avoid the flailing of thrashing claws that eventually came.

The creature hissed, growled, and snorted its displeasure for being displaced despite how it had gotten itself stuck. He did not see Conrey as his savior. Seeing as much quite easily, though, the werewolf was quick to hop back out of the messy closet and hurried down to the front door to deposit the snarling raccoon on the front porch. There, he shooed at him and made a few tsking clicks to try and affirm that he was not welcome.

After closing the door, satisfied they would be left alone, he returned to her with a strange look of hesitant pride. "Taken care of, my most fearful Yasmine," he bid her, swiftly turning on his heel to return upstairs to resume their separation. He would not forget so easily the way she had insulted him when she'd yet to apologize properly or show even a vague sign of remorse.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 09, 2015, 04:21:16 PM
"Hey! Who are you calling fearful?" Yasmine called after him, skirts in her hands as she stomped up the stairs after him. "You saw that thing! It was massive! It completely destroyed that pantry. Who's to say we weren't next? Excuse me for being concerned since you seem to have already forgotten but it wasn't all that long ago that something else decided I was tasty enough to chew on.

"You know I wouldn't even have to deal with you and all of this awfulness if it hadn't been for that. I could be at home right now where I belong instead of having to deal with vile creatures and dirt and all this unpleasantness. So forgive me if I don't get down on my knees singing your praises for getting rid of it. It's not like I put it there. You don't have to be so grumpy." Yasmine scoffed and shook her head. She had forgotten their argument earlier in the surprise of the unwanted furry guest but found herself rubbed the wrong way by his dismissive attitude.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 09, 2015, 06:36:18 PM
Her lack of true thankfulness unsettled him, but he tried very hard to not let it get to him too much. He had to keep reminding himself that he was dealing with a child essentially despite his limited experience with them.

Conrey let her talk but said nothing to her at first, letting her chase him back to his room without complaint. He fussed with his things, rearranging items on his side table while casting an irritated look at her over his shoulder. "You're alive aren't you? Not a scratch on you. I've done my job so far. The moment you're eating well and stop hating yourself I'm sure you'll be accepted home again," he shrugged.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 10, 2015, 10:15:10 PM
Yasmine snorted and turned away to leave. "Yes because that's ever going to happen. Monsters like us don't fit into civilized society or haven't you noticed that yet? You're the hired help and I'm the sickly and unseen child that my parents will probably pass off as dead in a few years. Don't see why you care so much anyway," she continued to mutter as she moved to her own dusty room. "Longer I'm here the longer he probably gets paid. Isn't that delightful. At least someone can enjoy my misery."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 10, 2015, 11:23:21 PM
Conrey raised a brow at her implication about them being monsters. He pitied her a bit for her narrow mindedness. "Apparently you still bear a childish imagination," he snorted, looking away from her. "When I am not working I live in society as any human would. I care to see you well because that means I have done my job and I am free to do other work. Perhaps some with a bit less...nannying involved. I don't care much about the pay, but I don't expect you to be able to understand why when all you've ever known is money." He shrugged, as if that should be enough of a description for her and he expected her to accept it.

"Not sure what gave you the impression I enjoy misery, either," he added, his lips twisting into a half-frown, half-snarl as he tried to decide how to feel about it.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 12, 2015, 04:35:08 PM
She flinched violently at the sound of his snarling voice but it did not deter her. "Then why are you doing this? If not for money or a brand of sadism then why do you care?" She turned to look at him with an expression full of pain but also curiosity. "Someone else could have been found and yet you chose to accept. If not for money then for what? Your reputation? I don't understand why you think this is so important and worthwhile. Isn't it obvious yet how impossible it is for me? I wasn't supposed to live," Yasmine spat, her face contorting with anger and disgust. "If you don't enjoy my misery then why do you prolong it?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 12, 2015, 09:19:10 PM
Her bombardment of questions was tiring. Did she ever rest? Or was this just the way of the privileged youth? "Don't get me wrong," Conrey sighed, watching her warily. "This is my job. I do my job for money. That doesn't mean I wish to see you miserable the whole time we are here. You are still a person, despite what you see in yourself." He rubbed at his head in frustration, unsure why he had to justify everything to her.

"You are young and you are obviously very afraid. What happened to you wasn't your fault, but you are still alive now... I'm sure you don't even see a life for yourself outside of this place again, but I'm sorry if it seems odd that I wish for that to change."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 15, 2015, 07:59:19 PM
Yasmine listened, truly listened not to his words but to the meaning and emotions behind them. He was wrong. She was not afraid, she was terrified. Nothing was as it had meant to be. She was not having the perfect life of a dainty young lady she was told she would always have. She did not understand the whys of what happened to her or why she survived or why her fate was so cursed as to be seemingly abandoned and cast aside by her own family. But, she did know she was hurting not only herself but also the man who was trying to help her.

Her expression melted from anger and disgust into sadness and shame. Yasmine shook with heartbreak and fear instead of fury and Conrey would have but a moment of silence and stillness before suddenly a choking croak strangled its way out of her throat and she was moving towards him. Her arms came to wrap about his middle as her face buried itself into his torso.

"I'm so afraid," she cried against him over and over. "I'm sorry. It won't change. I'm sorry you have to be here, have to live this, have to live with me. I'm sorry I'm sorry." Yasmine sobbed and sobbed, clinging desperately to him as a child clings to a parent when in the presence of the bogeyman. There was no care for propriety or ladylike behavior in that moment. There was no one to see nor care but them. "I'm so sorry."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 17, 2015, 05:11:31 PM
Conrey stared at her wearily prior to her breakdown. His eyes widened with surprise for her sudden closeness and concern for the sounds she was making now, much different compared to her shrieks of rage and immature fears before.

Not having been in a position where so much consoling was necessary in so long, the werewolf truly was at a loss for how to handle the situation. Should he hug her? Would that be inappropriate? Her apologies seemed sincere enough, but her sobbing was troubling to him. Being so close, she smelled faintly of her blood still but it wasn't bothersome to him. "Yasmine," he spoke softly, eyes shifting all around in discomfort before finally lowering his arms to wrap her in a loose hug. He rubbed his palm at her shoulders a bit before moving a hand up to cautiously stroke her hair in what he hoped would be a soothing manner for her.

"There's nothing to be sorry for about your circumstances. I don't blame you and it really isn't as bad and terrible as you seem to think," he tried to assure her. "I understand that it's scary... but you will need to move past this eventually, you don't need to live in fear for the rest of your life.

"Try to relax?" he begged her gently.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 17, 2015, 10:11:51 PM
For all his uncertain feelings, his touch hit the mark. It did not stop the tears but they slowed under the gentle ministrations of his hand through her hair. She still clung fiercely but the sounds of her sobs quieted until only a few stray tears remained. "You should though," Yasmine murmured back. "Neither of us know how to be a vampire. Mother and Father tried everything to fix it and it wouldn't fix. So they gave me up because there's no hope. I'm stuck here with only you who I've just barely met even. What if something happens to you? Or me? What happens when it decides you're tasty? What am I supposed to do then?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 17, 2015, 11:22:02 PM
"You know, it's okay to not know everything," he teased her gently, shaking his head at the ridiculousness of the situations she seemed to be imagining. Even though she seemed to be calming down he continued trying to soothe her, hopeful that she would relax if he kept petting up the hugging and petting. "I'll do my best to make sure nothing happens to you. That is what I'm here for, after all. What do you mean by 'it,' though?" he wondered skeptically, already thinking he knew what she was referring to. "You don't mean...when you get hungry, do you? Or did you mean the one that attacked you?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2015, 01:58:48 PM
She nodded her head slightly against him. "The monster inside that says such horrible things. It wants to hurt you. To hurt everyone I care about. What happens then Mister Conrey? What happens when I lose and attack you? I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to hurt anyone." Yasmine shuddered as his words suddenly made her focus on a new fear. "You don't think he'll come back for me do you? The one that did this?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 20, 2015, 03:44:04 PM
"I don't think you'll lose, Yasmine. I think you'll learn to control your feelings. It's just an urge, an instinct like any other that can be trained. You just have to work for it and give it time," he tried to assure her, continuing to pet her hair even as he frowned for what she was implying. "I don't think he will. Those sorts of....monsters don't care to know what happens to other people once they're done with them. I know you're better than him already. Just because you care and don't want to hurt people.

"That's noble of you, Yasmine, but pain is inevitable. It's part of life, especially for you I think. Learn to live with what you must do to survive and I think you'll have an easier time." Conrey thought about it for a little while as he stood there trying to comfort her with gentle touch. "If you must... 'attack' me, I think I would live through it just fine. I'm not as fragile as you might think me to be."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 20, 2015, 09:44:19 PM
"How can I learn when the very sight and smell of it makes my stomach turn? I'm not worried about you being fragile; you're too big and strong for that. I'm worried about you hating me like all the rest. I can't stop myself. I can't control it and I can't eat what it wants. How many times will it take me attacking you before you leave me though? Once? Twice? I won't be able to stop Mister Conrey. It only gets worse the more I fight the impulse."

Yasmine shuddered at her own memories despite his soothing touches. Those at least were the only thing keeping her as calm as she was. She wanted to just curl up into a ball in his arms. He felt safe to her and for as much as she hated her situation, she was finding comfort being near him. Conrey may have been a werewolf and a stranger, two things she was meant to shy away form, but he was also her only contact in a now very small and lonely world.

"You really think he won't come to finish the job though? I mean, this house doesn't seem all that safe for keeping out a vampire even with a werewolf to defend it."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 21, 2015, 12:07:22 PM
While her fears were definitely valid, Conrey was a bit insulted that she felt he would be scared away by her. "You learn through exposure, I'm afraid. Let it happen. I'm sure your...instincts may take over and let you learn to accept it. I'm not afraid of you attacking me, Yasmine. If you wish to...eat from me then I will accept it as part of my duties to care for your well being," he explained, truly having no fear of such a thing.

"And the...other vampire... Well, if he values his life he won't bother you here," he stated simply, confident in his abilities to defend and protect her as was his duty. "If he tries to come here I will handle it so don't even get yourself worried. You're safe, I promise."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 22, 2015, 06:42:21 PM
Yasmine sniffled and rubbed her cheek against his shirt. "But that doesn't mean you won't resent me, that you won't hate me for it. I couldn't live with that, with the only person I'll probably ever see in a long time hate me and what I am. I already have enough hate for myself as it is."

She sighed, trying to keep control of herself before giving him a squeeze. "Thank you Mister Conrey. I trust you for what it's worth. I'm just so afraid. It's just all so miserable and new."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 22, 2015, 07:59:55 PM
Conrey just rolled his eyes at the notion of hating her over her needs as a vampire. She still held a childlike mindset in that regard, in his opinion. He gave her a her a gentle pat to the shoulder and quick squeeze in return for her own. "Hopefully you can learn to embrace it," he sighed, placing a soft kiss to the top of her head. "I know it's difficult to trust someone new, but believe me I have your best interests at heart. I cannot promise I will enjoy doing that, but I will not hate you or resent you for something you need to survive. All I ask is that you not abuse my willingness to help you."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 22, 2015, 09:38:50 PM
"I'm sorry, Mister Conrey. I'm really, really sorry. I'll try not to make it something you find miserable and I do promise not to abuse your trust knowingly. I have no idea what I'm capable of though." Yasmine sighed sadly before looking up at the man. "Will you still stay with me at night or is that abusing you?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 22, 2015, 11:51:50 PM
Dark eyes blinked stupidly for a moment, uncertain if her question was sincere or not. "Stay with you? That's alright, I suppose... As long as you don't fuss at me about hogging space again," he teased. "Would you like to go now?"

He lifted his head to look out through the open doorway to the hall, thinking she might find her "personal" bedroom more comfortable than the one he'd chosen for himself. It was certainly an odd request for his station but not one he was against in the least. All he cared about was her health, safety, and happiness while they remained in the manor and it would be against everything he stood for to deny her such a simple, innocent comfort. Her wording seemed to imply she wished it to be an everyday occurrence but he would sort out those details with her later once she was of sounder mind.

"And...just so I am not startled by it, should I expect you to, um, want to eat at any point tonight?" he asked, crouching slightly to lift her up off the floor.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 23, 2015, 10:19:57 PM
She softly squeaked as she was lifted up but her arms moved instinctively up to loosely drape about his neck. Her head violently shook from side to side in an adamant 'no' for she wanted absolutely nothing to do with feeding if she could help it. "Just sleep, please. I'm so very tired," Yasmine whispered as her head came to rest against his shoulder and her eyes slid closed. For several moments she was quiet as he carried her to her room but a question preyed upon her mind and she found herself voicing it despite her reservations. "You really won't give up on me, Mister Conrey?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 23, 2015, 11:28:15 PM
"Fair enough," he agreed, cradling her carefully against him as he took her to her room. He glanced down at her, surprised by the question considering all the times he had tried to reassuring her of that very thing. "I really won't, Yasmine," he promised, rubbing a gentle hand at her back before entering the room and sitting his tired body down with her. It wasn't long before he was leaning back against a pillow, uncaring of where she decided to settle for the night having done his duty. "Don't worry yourself with it. I'm sturdier and more stubborn than you might think."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 24, 2015, 09:38:40 AM
Yasmine curled into his side, uncaring of the impropriety of the moment in the face of her complete and utter emotional exhaustion. Her fingers tangled in the fabric of his tunic as her eyes quickly shuttered under the weight of being kept open. She was tired in fact that she did not even bother protesting him remaining in his human form instead of his previously promised wolf one. Just before she fell asleep in a voice that was as soft as a gentle breeze she mumbled a 'thank you' before adding, "I don't want to be alone."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 24, 2015, 05:11:28 PM
Her sleepy words earned her a few pats of reassurance, but Conrey was too tired to respond. The werewolf slept deeply, peaceful with the knowledge that he'd made some progress with the young vampire. At least she seemed to accept him now.

By morning he had curled himself up with her, thoroughly entangling them together as he sought out the warmth of his bed partner. Oblivious to the fact that he'd forgotten to sleep as a wolf for her, Conrey lay quietly with her even once he'd woken. He stretched, yawning softly as he gathered her in closer to his chest.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 27, 2015, 12:09:14 PM
The little lady slept through the night without care or worry. Whatever nightmares she normally suffered were kept at bay by the warmth and protection of her werewolf bodyguard. Her sleep was heavy and deep, only to be disturbed by the movement of her bed partner dragging her more snugly against himself. This earned him a grunt and a mild protest. "You're squishin' me," she muttered under her breath while burrowing her face further into the warmth and darkness of his chest.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 27, 2015, 02:30:29 PM
"Hm?" he grunted, surprised that she would say that while still trying to keep close to him. "Don't lie, you're alright," he scolded gently, giving her a quick squeeze to prove his point as he buried his nose against her hair. "Do you feel any better? Did you sleep well?" the werewolf asked quietly, content to just lie together and talk.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 27, 2015, 05:28:35 PM
"Squishin' me more," she complained at his gentle squeezing. With a sigh though she peeked one tired eye up at him to gauge his seriousness. "I slept and there were no nightmares," Yasmine conceded quietly. "Thank you."

For a moment she closed her eyes again to try and fall back asleep but her fingers tangled in his shirt gave her pause. "Wait a moment here. Mind explaining why you're not all furry right now Mister Conrey? Thought that was part of the agreement."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 27, 2015, 05:43:59 PM
"Good," he sighed, rubbing at her back gently, content with the momentary comfort and peace. Her question had him furrowing his brow, though, the werewolf only vaguely recalling his agreement with her. "It slipped my mind," he shrugged, not thinking it any better or worse regardless of the form he chose to sleep in.

"I was very tired and I fell asleep without thinking. I'm sorry," Conrey apologized, thinking she was merely disappointed at not having a wolf to cuddle. "So I must be a wolf forever with you?" he wondered, chuckling as he had not remembered his own promise.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 27, 2015, 10:43:57 PM
Yasmine shook her head slightly, causing her nose to drag back and forth over the front of his tunic. "Well you did promise for propriety's sake that you would spend the nights keeping the nightmares away in your wolf form. It isn't proper for an unwed young lady to share a bed with a man that is not her husband. If my parents found out then they'd probably run you out of the country and me...well I would be all alone now wouldn't I?" She sighed softly. "If I promise not to tell at you will you PROMOSE to remember in the future?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 27, 2015, 11:35:03 PM
Despite his promises to her he was still a bit offended by the proposal. "It is not as if I am unaware of myself or my surroundings as a wolf, you know. If I was going to have thoughts like that they could happen just as easily in my other form. My mind is no different and I see you just the same." Conrey sighed, thinking his explanation pointless for she did seem a very determined young woman regardless.

"But if that is your wish it is still my goal to make you happy, so I will do as you ask. Starting tomorrow, though, it's too late now, I'm too comfortable like this." Conrey nuzzled against her to prove his point, the werewolf not worried about their sleeping arrangements either way. "Will you eat today?" he asked gently.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 28, 2015, 05:23:11 PM
"It is not you but others I worry about. What if on the extremely rare and improbably moment fortune decides to consider itself useful and my parents come to visit and burst into the room. Would it not be better to have a full-grown wolf in my bed rather than a full-grown man? You know some people would rather run you through first then ask questions later. I would rather not have to go through this awful process of finding someone new to suffer in this hell alone with me if it's all the same to you, thank you very much."

Yasmine huffed as if miffed but her grumpiness was soon proven otherwise as he nuzzled against her causing her to squirm and giggle. This newfound mirth was also short-lived however. She stilled at his question as if the very life had been sapped from her. "Must you ask?" she replied in turn, her voice sounding very small.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 28, 2015, 05:30:06 PM
He merely rolled his eyes at her explanation, not surprised at all she only seemed to care for her own self preservation. "Yes?" He was confused by how quiet she was, certain she might have been used to him asking by then. "You'll need to eventually. Wouldn't it be easier to just...get it over with?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 29, 2015, 04:39:08 PM
Yasmine sighed and shook her head. "The longer I wait the longer before I have to again. It means the longer I get to still be "me," Mister Conrey. I don't want to give that up. I'm scared of myself, and disgusted. I didn't even really like eating meat before and now I have to eat...," she shuddered, unable to finish her sentence. "Why does it have to be all so horrible and unpleasant?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 29, 2015, 07:18:30 PM
"That makes no sense," Conrey huffed, shaking his head at her failed logic. "You prolong your suffering, you prolong your pain and hunger. I don't care what you did before, you have to adapt to how you are now. If you neglect yourself I'm worried how you will affect your health with this...foolishness." The werewolf had to remind himself that didn't know any better, she didn't know what a healthy relationship with her food was as a vampire. She'd only starved herself to desperation and killed.

"Do you want to be so out of control when it happens that you kill again? Would that make you happy? To kill me whenever you've starved yourself so horribly you don't even remember yourself or what you're doing? To just act on 'hunger' like some wild animal?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on December 31, 2015, 04:10:07 PM
She scowled up at him with both eyes. "You said I couldn't kill you. I become an animal in the face of it anyway. What difference does it make if I wait longer and do not have to become that thing as often? Do you know what it is like Mister Conrey to be trapped in your own body and fear you may never be free of it? Every time I feed that is what it is like for me. What if I become it and am never free? What then? Is that not what happened to the one that did this to me, the one that left me to die only because he could not finish his meal in peace."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on December 31, 2015, 05:14:55 PM
"Well, I am confident that you could not do so knowingly. If you become what you say, though, I cannot guarantee my safety against it should you lash out at me. That is why I wish you would see that sooner is better. It gives you a chance to take control of the situation, to be aware of yourself.

"But if that is not what you want then by all means, continue to wait," Conrey sighed. "It isn't my place to force you, but I feel it would be less...risky if you listened to my advice, Yasmine." The werewolf stroked at her back, as much in an attempt to soothe her as his own nerves.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 03, 2016, 08:32:34 PM
Yasmine whimpered softly, not liking the sound of her options but understanding the truth in his words. She clutched him closer, enjoying his soothing touch while she attempted to think things through. "I don't want to kill anything," she admitted, "not even a rabbit or a mouse! I just don't know what to do Mister Conrey. It makes me sick just thinking about it and yet there is still no...solution."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 05, 2016, 08:14:08 AM
"There is a solution," he chuckled, shaking his head slightly in disbelief that she was still avoiding the obvious so desperately. "Perhaps one day you'll see it."

Conrey was silent for a short while just listening to the sounds of the house before determining it would be best to not lay about in bed all day. He loosened his hold on her and attempted to sit up and shake the drowsiness from his limbs. "We should go out and get some fresh air at least, don't you think?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 09, 2016, 07:50:05 PM
She let him drag himself away from her even as she curled in more on herself, holding firmly to the edge of the covers to keep them up by her shoulders where it was warm. "What if there are people outside? Would you," Yasmine paused, looking up at him with deep concern, "will you stop me from hurting anyone?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 09, 2016, 10:42:25 PM
The werewolf shot her a stern look at her question, studying her face to try and judge her seriousness. "There shouldn't be anyone here, not for miles I'd think. But if there happened to be some poor person wandering too close I will certainly keep you away from them so that doesn't happen.

"If you are too afraid, though, you can remain indoors," Conrey suggested, though he didn't really like the idea of her staying cooped up by choice because of her fears. "Would you still drink water or does that not...interest you anymore?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 10, 2016, 01:55:40 PM
"You promise?" she asked him hopefully. Yasmine gave up on going back to sleep and dragged herself up into a seated position with her knees tucked under her chin and against her chest. "You really won't let me hurt anyone? Because it would be nice to go outside I think, at least for a little while." The young woman sighed and looked out towards the window longingly. "Water does sound delightful though," she added hopefully, glancing towards Conrey from the corner of her eye.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 10, 2016, 08:29:46 PM
"Yes, really. I promise," Conrey repeated, rolling his eyes at the continued assurances she seemed to so desperately need. He offered an outstretched hand to her in case she wished to stand. "We can go to the river. Could spend the day out there if you wish, I'm sure the sunshine might lift your spirits from all this doom and gloom," he teased, though he was confident it might help anyway.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 11, 2016, 07:59:11 PM
Yasmine relaxed and smiled genuinely. "That does sound rather wonderful." Reaching out she accepted his hand and allowed herself to be pulled off the bed to a standing position. "Should I meet you downstairs then? I'll need to um," the young woman looked down at the dress she had slept in, "get changed and whatnot. Is the river far? I would hate to go traipsing around through the woods in my best dress and ruin it just for a bit of sun."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 11, 2016, 09:17:22 PM
Conrey's features immediately screwed in confusion, not understanding why she would endanger her "best dress" knowing full well they would be going out. "Well, don't do that," he warned her gently. "I don't want to hear any screeching when you snag it on a branch or get a bit of dirt on it. Wear something you wouldn't be sad to see a bit...muddied? The bank seemed a bit soft, but it no, not terribly far." It wasn't a lie, but he was uncertain what her delicate standards of far might be.

"I'll give you privacy, though, if you wish to...get changed," he spoke slowly, giving her a not-so-hidden once over. He didn't think she looked all that disheveled but he wouldn't argue it if it made her comfortable when they had so much free time on their hands anyway.

He smiled kindly, not saying a word more as he released her hand and moved to step out. The stairs were taken quickly. He peeked out the front door cautiously, though opened it fully once he saw their striped friend had not loitered. Stepping out, he felt much more at home than in the stuffy manor.

He was able to breathe and feel the light breeze tickling the bareness of his arms. The sun caused him to squint a bit for its brightness, but he welcomed the warmth enveloping him. Conrey pondered the thought of taking the trip as a wolf, but he knew how the girl liked to chatter and thought better of it. He sat himself upon the bottom step to wait for her, his hands folded patiently as he stared out in the direction of the river as he listened to the sounds of life.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 12, 2016, 01:14:30 PM
"Yes you do that," she replied distractedly. Her face flushed as she noticed his look. She could not understand why he made her feel flustered, perhaps it was because they had spent the night together with her cuddled up against him but now Yasmine just felt awkward and self-conscious in his presence.

Once he had left she hurried to change, first removing her mussed dress before flitting about back and forth tossing dresses from her trunks to find the perfect one. His advice had been heard but was not necessarily being heeded as she searched for the perfect thing. Yasmine wanted something nice for outdoor wear but then that would also not make her look like a commoner. She was a nobleman's daughter after all and there were just some privledges of her past life that she was not willing to give up yet. She was no heathen, she reasoned with herself. There were protocols that still needed adhering to.

When she at last made her way down the main stairs to the front door, Yasmine had adorned a rusty-copper dress that reached down to the tops of her booted feet with bell sleeves that were nearly as long. Her hair was kept long and free down her back except for the sides which were twisted and pinned in the back as best as she could manage without a servant. She had wanted to do something more complex but lacked the knowledge or ability therefore giving up altogether. If she knew that it was crooked and she had stray hairs sticking out oddly she would have been mortified.

"Shall we be off then?" the noblewoman asked, coming to stand behind the seated man. Her hands were clasped loosely in front of her as she looked down at him politely with a gentle smile. "It seems like it will be a beautiful day today."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 12, 2016, 04:20:17 PM
Conrey was still in his own world when she arrived and it was only her voice that reminded him he was not being caught up by some stranger. "If you'd like," he answered easily, tilting his head back to peer up at her.

Reaching out, he ran his hand gently along the skirt of the dress and then the sleeve that dangled near, genuinely fascinated by the color. It was certainly fine in its making but he hoped she would not be upset if it were damaged away from the shelter of the manor. "Pretty, but don't you think that's too nice to be going out it?" he scolded gently as he righted his posture and stood up to finally step out into the grass.

The werewolf turned to face her properly, his eyes studying the changes she'd made from a better vantage as he tried to pin what she'd done with her hair. He was oblivious to the ways of women's grooming and simply nodded approvingly once he'd given up his silent guessing. "I hope it stays nice," he answered with an easy smile, turning away to lead her out into the sunlight and make their way to the more sheltered and shadowed woods beyond. "I know the way still," he added, unsure if she might be wary of taking direction from him.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 13, 2016, 02:50:08 PM
She blushed with pleasure at his praise, her face completely lighting up like a summer day. "Well you can't expect me to dress in rags now could you? This is all I have that's a few seasons old. Everything else is newer." Yasmine lowered her head feeling a bit as if she had disappointed him with her pretty dress. "I trust your lead then. You said it's not far?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 13, 2016, 03:05:54 PM
The idea of clothing having seasons seemed strange to him, though he'd heard it mentioned before from other noblewomen. Fashion was an odd thing to him, coming from a world of relative poverty. He was used to living off the land not investing fortunes into a wardrobe that might be worn only occasionally. He did not disapprove, though, knowing she was merely exercising the luxuries of her class.

Conrey did not know her disappointment but turned slightly to give her a pleasant enough smile as he hummed his agreement. "Yeah, maybe just half a mile or so," he clarified. His long legs carried him swiftly yet gracefully onto towards the treeline and through it into the more shadowed woods. The dull path he'd taken from his previous trip still remained, the signs of it mostly being the unsettled leaves and broken sticks.

He pointed ahead at what seemed so obvious to him. "This trail, but just follow me if there's no rush."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 13, 2016, 08:45:15 PM
Yasmine held up some of her skirts in order to try and navigate her way behind Conrey. Her shorter legs kept her from being able to keep up with him easily and it was therefore not long before he was strides upon strides ahead of her. "If there's really no rush Mister Conrey then would you mind slowing down? Ladies I'm afraid aren't taught how to march along through the woods like naughty schoolboys. I would hate to get lost simply because I could not keep up."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 13, 2016, 09:32:18 PM
He didn't quite realize how far behind he'd left her until she spoke up about it. He stilled for a moment, his eyes horrified as he realized that had she thought of it she could have easily given him the slip right then and there, at least for the moment.

Conrey rushed back to her, his eyes serious as he made note to keep her in his sight. "And am I a 'naughty schoolboy' to you, Yasmine?" he wondered, skeptical of the phrase for he personally did not understand what it meant.

"Am I to carry you everywhere then? It isn't that it's a rush so much that I worry if you cannot keep up with a normal pace that you might not be...of fitness to be hiking through the woods. Especially wearing something like that," he added, thinking her choice of clothes might have been constricting in some way. Unfortunately being so much bigger than she his concept of normal pace was also quite skewed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 14, 2016, 11:45:20 AM
"You're something," she muttered, feeling dejected and disappointed by his comments regarding her clothes. "I'm not a ragdoll and there's nothing wrong with my clothes," Yasmine pouted while feeling like she would cry at any moment for his lack of confidence in her. "I just asked that you slow down not that you carry me! I'm not broken," she said with teary eyes. "Do you really hate my dress that much, Mister Conrey?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 14, 2016, 05:11:41 PM
The sadness in her voice stunned him, the werewolf completely oblivious to what could have upset her so much. If he'd had the ears for it they would have drooped for all her scolding, but he hung his head instead and winced every so often as some of her words stung to hear when it was only his intention to protect her and keep her happy.

"I don't know what gave you that idea, but I do not hate your dress," he hissed, feeling a bit defensive about her accusation. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you, I just... It seems far too fine, is all I meant. I thought you might have been taking it easy for the sake of the dress," he explained, hurrying to placate her and clear up the misunderstanding.

"It's something you'd wear to one of those...fancy people parties," he elaborated with a frustrated gesture of his hand as he could not find the proper words to describe what he'd meant. "Where there's all that proper dancing and drinking and music. Not a dress for the woods and animals and water. Too pretty for that," he muttered.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 15, 2016, 10:24:34 PM
Yasmine huffed and sniffled, digging the toe of her boot into the dirt petulantly. "And what would you have me wear? This is one of the least fancy ones I have let along brought with me. Frankly the dress is inconsequential and I wasn't 'taking it easy' as you put it. It's not my fault I can't keep up with your tree trunk legs with their league steps." Taking a deep breath to try and calm herself, Yasmine swiped at her face to clear it of a stray tear.

"Now are we going to argue about my dress or are you going to show me the nice place you found and suggested with sunshine and fish and plenty of fresh air? Personally I prefer the latter over the former."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 15, 2016, 11:30:49 PM
He tried not to be insulted by her words, harsh as they seemed about something he had no control over. His natural gait was what it was. A brow raised in confusion to hear that her dress wasn't even all that fancy to her. Conrey remained silent and just nodded, his eyes betraying how bad he still felt for upsetting her.

"The not arguing one," he said evenly, not thinking it a real choice in the slightest anyway. "I think you'll like it," he added. Noting her mention of fish he decided to probe a bit deeper despite the poor topic choice in the past few days. "Does fish mean...that you would like some? Or did you only want to watch them?" Conrey slowly moved to step out and head down the path once more, only taking steps when she was within a few feet or so every time.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 17, 2016, 06:27:55 PM
"I can eat fish?" she exclaimed, perking up instantly at the idea of real food. "You'll cook it for me and everything? Really? I'd love that!" Yasmine was all but bouncing off the trees now as they moved. She still struggled with keeping up given her shorter stride but she made the best of it she could. At one point when she was forced to navigate over a fallen tree that would have been nothing for Conrey to step over she did mutter to herself over how unfairly short her own legs were. Her dress hem snagged slightly on the rough bark causing her to pause and look at it before shrugging her shoulders and hurrying to follow once more. "What do the fish look like? Are they pretty? Are they big or small? Do you think they're good eating?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 17, 2016, 07:28:00 PM
Conrey hung his head slightly for her excitement, wincing at her misunderstanding of him, though he wasn't sure he would have the heart to correct her. "Well, that is if you were wanting fish," he finally agreed. "I don't think that would be too difficult to manage. Would you still want to eat them if they were too pretty?" he wondered, though his smile said he was only teasing her.

"They might be, I haven't tried them myself. They were....all sizes, really. Just silver and black river fish," he shrugged, frowning slightly as he noticed the slightly tattered section of her hem. I suppose I'm to learn how to mend ladies' clothes, too, the werewolf thought, slightly disgruntled but knowing he was paid well enough to manage such a thing for her should she allow him.

"Are you sure you want them cooked?" he ventured at last, uncertain if that was something she should even be allowed to do. "Wouldn't raw be more....well, bloody?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 19, 2016, 05:01:23 PM
Yasmine blinked up at him, unsure of what he was really suggesting at first. "Well you...wouldn't eat them with all the scales on and stuff...would you?" She certainly had never done such a thing and hoped that Conrey was not of such a different background that he ate those parts along with the rest of the meat. The young woman did not have long to consider that train of thought though before her servant's next words caused to her gag suddenly. Her body jerked strongly while her hand moved to cover her mouth. "Don't say such things," she gasped, feeling ill and dizzy. "I don't wish such images in my head."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 19, 2016, 06:29:59 PM
While such a thing was certainly not uncommon with his wolf Conrey immediately knew he'd been caught out by her reaction to the dreaded word. It hadn't been such a good plan after all, and it truly gave him pause to wonder if he should really be pressing the issue any more. "Was just saying," he muttered, quietly ashamed that he'd caused her such disgust again.

"I'll cook them for you, it really isn't all that much trouble," he agreed after a few awkward moments of silence on his part. Truly he had no idea what might come of her indulging in such a way, but he hoped it would not be something he regretted allowing. "It's not much further," he added in encouragement, pointing out at the sparkling in the distance his keen eyes could already see.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 22, 2016, 01:05:52 PM
"Sounds like a plan then." she replied, trying to forget the images of blood in her mind and move past their painfully awkward moment. The mention of the river had her head shooting up to try and see. Able to make out faint glimmers in the sunlight, Yasmine suddenly burst through the foliage to the bank with a speed that she neither realized that she was using nor possessed. "It's wonderful!" she cried, looking back with a brilliant smile to where she thought Conrey would be.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 22, 2016, 03:14:04 PM
The way she'd shot out towards the river startled even the werewolf, the man completely unaware she'd possessed any particular skill before. He stared at her from the trees, his jaw slightly slack as he watched her taking in the sight of it.

Conrey rushed out to her several moments later already painfully aware of how much he lagged behind her. He hoped she did not notice her advantage and instead was quick to join her at her side in more a defensive posture than a protective one. If she could bolt like that once she could certainly do it again and he needed to be ready to give chase at any moment. "Yes... It is, isn't it? Just a river, though, did you never take any trips by the water with your parents?" he wondered, hoping to distract her with conversation.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 22, 2016, 05:28:02 PM
Oblivious to what she had done and Conrey's apprehensions, Yasmine beamed up at him in pure pleasure. "Well of course we've been out and seen the lakes and whatnot but that hardly makes this any less beautiful. It's peaceful don't you think?" Without thinking, she reached out and took his hand to pull him along with her further down the bank, pointing out the fish she could see and cheering with innocence of a child as they glittered in the sunlight.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 22, 2016, 10:08:31 PM
"As much as it can be in such isolation," he agreed, stunned at the turn in her attitude. Here she was suddenly happy again and even touching him voluntarily. He allowed her to pull him along, though he was careful not to grip too firmly despite how he was certain it wouldn't have hurt her even if he had. She was a vampire, as he had to keep reminding himself, not some girl being rehabilitated. He did wonder if she might keep her childlike excitement eternally.

"Shall I catch some, then?" he asked, leaning over the bank slightly to peer into the depths where more of the fish were hiding themselves. He wasn't about to yank away from her, though, thinking her hold upon him meant she didn't yet want to be separated.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 23, 2016, 05:53:38 PM
"What do you mean about that?" Yasmine asked, tilted her head to the side in confusion. "Are things more beautiful when not isolated? I thought that was part of the point of the beauty of the land, that it's so vast and peaceful without the hustle and bustle of the city. Granted I have always felt that it gets increasingly boring the longer you're enduring it but not like I have much choice now." She sighed and shrugged, peering over the bank edge again curiously. "You think you can really catch some? They seem to swim so quickly."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 23, 2016, 07:05:32 PM
"I only meant that it was perfect because it is isolated," Conrey chuckled, amused that she thought such a beautiful place boring when there were already endless possibilities to what she could get up to compared to city life.

"And of course I can," he scoffed, looking down to watch the fish and study where they were going.

"I'd advise you not look at me, Yasmine," he warned her, letting go of her hand and tugging his tunic up over his head as he stalked along the shore at his own, quicker pace. He didn't want to hear any of her complaining if she saw something she didn't like after a fair warning. Once he'd observed the fish moving through a particularly shallow section of the water he quickly hopped out of his trousers as well before shifting to his wolf and pouncing immediately.

He crashed through the water but was already well ahead of the panicked school that he'd herded towards the shallows with his commotion. One by one he picked them off and tossed them to the bank before emerging from the water with the last firmly secured between his teeth.

Setting the fish down he pushed them all closer together by his snout before shaking out his coat and returning to his clothes. He worked quickly out of necessity of the cold more than for her benefit to dress himself again once he'd returned to his human form. "Now we just need a fire," he prompted her, pointing out towards the trees. "Think you could gather some firewood? Or would you rather gut these?" he asked, moving his hand to gesture instead at the small pile of fish. He didn't intend to spoil her by doing everything, but he knew his willpower would be quite weak if she was insistent upon it.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 26, 2016, 12:49:20 PM
Yasmine had but a moment to look at Conrey in confusion before he was shimmying out of his clothes, causing a great squeak to escape her as she whipped around to offer him her back. The sound of his splashing into the water had her taking a peek over her shoulder and much to her relief finding a furry beast rather than a nude man. She watched with delight as he corralled and chased the fish about, clapping her hands in delight as she danced up and down the shore, following where he and the fish went. Each fish caught and tossed onto the bank made her squeal and cheer before she was pointing out another one he could catch, whether he was paying attention to her or not.

Her cheeks were flushed by the time the werewolf was dragging himself out of the shallows and back onto the sodden shore where the fish still flopped about in a demand to be returned home. His shaking fur that sprayed water in every which way though was enough to cause her to retreat, covering her face with her arms to avoid the water and thereby also missing his transformation back.

"You should be careful where you do that," the young woman chided as she uncovered her face once more to notice that he was a clothed man again. It gave her a moment to pause and blink at him before she too was shaking her head. Mention of gutting made her cringe in disgust before taking off into the treeline. "I'll get the wood!" she shouted over her shoulder, wanting absolutely nothing to do with the preparing of the fish. Never in her life had she seen anything killed until she had become a monster that did the killing. It was not a sight she relished and she was so eager to escape it that she did not even realize she had been given an order and a task to complete until she was far enough away in her opinion.

By the time she did realize it though, it was already too late as she had agreed. With a heavy sigh and a few kicks in the brush, Yasmine began scooping up what she considered to be sizable amounts of wood. In reality however, the noblewoman was collecting twigs and thin, flimsy branches. She soon returned to the river and declared in a triumphant manner, "finished" as she came into sight carrying two small handfuls of sticks and the largest grin of pride the world had ever seen.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 26, 2016, 01:47:05 PM
Conrey watched her go with a lopsided smile. He chuckled to himself for her eagerness to be away as he set to his own task of swift killing and gutting of each of the fish. Setting them aside, he cleared an area for a fire nearby for when she would return but aside from that there was little else for him to do. He was beginning to think he might actually have an easier time of looking after her that day than the previous ones.

When Yasmine returned from the trees, though, he looked up at her expectantly. His eyes searched her hands, arms, and all around as his face twisted to a look of pure confusion at the lack of firewood that he'd asked for.

"Finished? With...? That's all you got?" Conrey couldn't hide the disappointment from his voice now, his shoulders slumping visibly as he gestured at the area he'd cleared. "Set those there. We can use it for...starting wood," he added slowly as he thought it over. He didn't want to tell her that she was entirely wrong when it was not true.

"Stay here, please," he commanded, turning to look out at the woods between the manor and their riverside spot. "I'll be back soon."

He was off and picking his way through the brush until he found the remains of a long-dead and fallen tree. A good portion of it was exposed and looked to be in relatively good condition so the werewolf took to pulling off chunks of it as well as a few branches so they could keep a fire going long enough to enjoy a meal and a bit of warmth outside of the house.

Returning with his arms stacked with the stuff Conrey swiftly dumped it all nearby so that he could set to sparking the actual starting flame with her more modest offerings. He was quiet as he got it going and added piece by piece to build it up to a small roar.

Casting an understanding smile to her once that was done he patiently stuck the fish in a haphazard row along the sharpest stick he'd found. Settling to sit down beside the fire he turned them over this way and that to monitor their cooking progress. "Might take a while," he murmured apologetically, patting the ground beside him to welcome her if she wished to join him.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 29, 2016, 06:44:58 PM
Yasmine's bright smile faltered as she caught his tone. There was no mistaking the disappointment that laced it when it was a sound she had heard all her life in the voices of servants, tutors, and even her parents on occasion. She tossed down her sticks where directed before wilting down to sit beside them like a kicked puppy. She did not even bother whining or complaining that he was leaving her alone or that she had nowhere to wander off to. She just say there, her chin on her palm and sulked.

She sulked and sulked that is until he returned with an impressive amount of wood in his arms. Then, her eyes nearly popped right out of her skull in shear shock and surprise. "Where did you find all that? How did you even carry all that?" She exclaimed, jumping to her feet and rushing over to him.  "You're so strong, Mister Conrey! How come you didn't just get the wood yourself? I never could have carried that much," she added, feeling low once more.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [GoblinFae]
Post by: Juno on January 29, 2016, 11:30:45 PM
He watched her from the corner of his eye, highly amused by her sudden look of wonder and amazement. "Because I can't have you being a lazy lady, Yasmine. Not when we're left to fend for ourselves out here," he teased gently. "And why not? Have you tried since you...? Well, you know."

Conrey feared actually saying the word. For all he knew she would cry, yell, storm off...or all of them, really. He didn't want that when they'd just settled down for a nice riverside meal. "Perhaps you just need to build your strength," he suggested.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 03, 2016, 09:33:30 PM
Yasmine scowled at his comments. "Ladies aren't lazy or strong. A lady is busy but gentle. The rest is men's work. Besides, what man would want to marry a woman that can lug around half a tree all on her own? She'd probably scare the poor man off with antics like that. It's simply distasteful, it is!" She looked at him curiously but unhappily. "And what does that have to do with anything?" referring to the life even they were both skirting about. "There's not point in trying when I'm no different than I was. I'm a nobleman's daughter, trained since birth to be soft and genteel."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on February 04, 2016, 04:22:17 PM
Conrey scowled at her comments. It took nearly all of his willpower to not turn and glare and growl at her directly for all her ridiculous words that just oozed with how spoiled she was.

"I'm your guard and protector. I will give you a comfortable life but I will not be your personal little servant," the werewolf warned. "There are some things you'll need to learn to do on your own with me. I don't really care what your suitors think of you dragging firewood. Especially when they aren't here to see it."

He readjusted his legs and turned the fish some but his mood was already pretty soured by her attitude as he glared at them instead. He wasn't really about to keep the bite from his tone any longer. "The only person you inconvenience with that shit is me. And yes, I'm paid to take care of you and teach you. That doesn't mean I play slave to a nobleman's daughter," he growled, mocking the way she'd said it.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 11, 2016, 02:22:12 PM
She physically wilted at his words as she slid into a slumped heap upon the ground. Yasmine did not understand what had caused him to suddenly become so cruel when just a moment prior they had seemed to be in better spirits. She had no words for him, nothing more to say now that he seemed to truly despise and hate her so much. Instead the young woman retreated in on herself, mentally berating herself for being so useless and so weak. She did not believe she was treating him like a slave and she certainly knew that she did not view him as one. Yasmine did not think she deserved his ire for not knowing how to do certain things when she also knew there were many things she knew how to do and that he probably did not know, not of course that he had even bothered to ask her.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on February 12, 2016, 08:40:36 AM
Conrey noticed immediately the way she shrunk down within herself. Part of him felt she deserved it. It was their reality as far as he could see it and it was time the young vampire saw it for what it was.

He busied himself with the fish until they were fully cooked and drew them away from the fire to cool. He felt a bit of shame in what he'd done. Lashing out at her was certainly not what he was being paid for. Surely if her parents had seen what he'd done they would have fired him and separated them immediately.

As the flare of his temper cooled he breathed a shuddering sigh and looked to her with regret. "My apologies, Miss Fairchild. Please forgive me, that was rude and presumptuous of me," he murmured as he transferred some fish for her to a smaller stick. Holding it out in offering he kept his head down, wary of the backlash he expected from her as the one truly in a position of power between them.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 17, 2016, 02:48:35 PM
Yasmine deflated further with his apologies. She had noticed his referral to her in a more formal manner and it just seemed to add more insult to injury. He was like everyone else in her eyes, just someone passing through her life and with no intention to remain very long. Her hopes of finding a friend at last in the only person able to remain in her presence had quickly just dived off the nearest cliff with his words.

She accepted the food with a weak nod, avoiding his eyes as she mumbled her thanks. The young woman picked at the meat having lost her appetite in lieu of the massive migraine that was building up behind her eyes and at the bridge of her delicate nose. She felt weak and lethargic the longer she was outside and when she felt that Conrey was not watching her Yasmine would rub at her head and eyes in hopes of relieving some of the uncomfortable pressure. It was no use though as it just became worse and worse until she found herself curling in on herself, her head bowed almost entirely into her lap and her stick of fish forgotten limply in her hand.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on February 17, 2016, 03:32:35 PM
He barely waited for her to start eating first, or at least as close to eating as she seemed to want all of a sudden. It unnerved him, knowing she'd seemed so very hungry and yet she didn't seem interested in some of the only food she'd been willing to eat.

Digging in, he was done in a matter of minutes and left cleaning up bones as he watched her out of the corner of his eye. The odd, gradual slumping caught his attention, as did the eye-rubbing.

When she finally looked about ready to pass out he turned to her with a sharp growl and threw down his stick. "What's wrong?" he demanded, grabbing her shoulder and giving her a short, firm shake. "Why aren't you eating?"
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on February 21, 2016, 06:53:23 PM
She instantly snapped to attention and attempted to recoil at his seemingly hostile attitude. Yasmine stared at him with wide, scared eyes before allowing her gaze to drop to her uneaten fish. Hurriedly she broke off a piece of meat and popped it into her mouth to chew quickly. "I'm fine! I'm eating!" the young woman protested. "See, see!" She huffed and shook her head. "No need to be grumpy."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on February 21, 2016, 10:03:06 PM
He flinched and gave an involuntary growl for the way she retreated from him, not realizing she'd mistaken his gruff concern as aggression. As she ate he watched through narrowed slits, eyes flickering to give her an accusing once over as well. "You look.... Tired?" he decided, though that confused him as well. She'd been so full of energy before and the sun was still out. Had their river trip really been so exhausting for the pampered noblewoman?

"Is it no good?" he guessed, wondering if she was just trying to avoid insulting his cooking. That would be just like her, he assumed, to ask for fish and then turn her nose up at it because it wasn't fine enough being cooked by her dirty servant werewolf. At least that was what he assumed she would do as someone of her status. He'd never been asked to cook for anyone in his charge before.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on August 28, 2016, 07:52:35 PM
His growling and fierce expression served only to set her more on edge. Yasmine hunched further over her food, her head bowed close to her meal as if doing so would allow her to escape such intense scrutiny. "It is good!" the noblewoman hurried to tell him, peeking up through her lashes at him briefly. "I'm eating it after all, aren't I?"

Though Yasmine did not say it though she was tired. Her head was truly beginning to throb in earnest now. Her very skin felt achy as if she had come down with a bad case of the flu. The young woman's stomach turned at the idea of swallowing another mouthful and she felt it stick in her throat before she was able to force it down like a mouthful of sawdust.

She opened her mouth to tell Conrey that she was feeling fine and to thank him for the meal but when she looked up her vision swam violently as her stomach somersaulted and the world faded to black. Her eyes rolled back into her skull moments before she was suddenly falling backwards off the log.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on September 30, 2016, 12:56:16 PM
Conrey huffed, watching her closely and still not entirely believing her. Leaning closer to her he sniffed, trying to see if he could scent out the problem. Maybe she was lying and her portion really was undercooked or had something wrong with it.

“Eating doesn’t mean anything if you don’t enjoy it,” he pointed out gently, his brow furrowed in concern as he just couldn’t pinpoint the issue. It was slowly beginning to drive him mad.

But suddenly Yasmine looked...weird. His charge suddenly had such a...vacant and weak look about her and he frowned deeply in concern. What was wrong with her? “Yasmine?”

And then she was teetering. Or falling, he wasn’t sure which but she was rapidly becoming non-upright and the werewolf grumbled his concern as he reached out quickly to catch her before she hit her head.

She was so limp in his arms and he couldn’t help the pang of alarm that seized his heart at that realization. “Yasmine, are you alright?” he asked, trying to keep panic from his voice as he gently shook her by her shoulders.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on January 10, 2017, 07:53:01 AM
Yasmine moaned in pain, her body flailing weakly with Conrey's shaking but remained otherwise unconscious. Distantly she thought she could hear his voice though it felt like he was speaking from miles and miles away in a thick fog.

Eventually, the young noble felt herself being moved. She opened her eyes, catching glimpses of blurred green and brown ringed in an encroaching black. Her vision continued to go in and out and from time to time she thought she may have heard a voice, but Yasmine could no longer focus on it nor determine what was real and what was just her imagination.

"So hot," she attempted to say, her tongue feeling heavy and thick in her mouth. Yasmine did not even know if her words made sense but her arms flailed in failed tries at tugging her clothes down from her heated skin. "Hurts," the young woman slurred before finally giving up and becoming limp once more.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on March 09, 2017, 07:11:23 AM
Hot? Hurts? Conrey frowned deeply with concern, looking her over again as if he'd missed some obvious sign of pain or illness, but...there was nothing. Though she clawed at her clothing nothing seemed amiss. At least until he adjusted her in his arms and lifted a hand to her face, feeling her forehead and then her cheek in disbelief. She must have been burning up to feel so warm. It was a little alarming that a vampire could come down with fever so quickly, but he didn't really know the first thing about illness for them or what had caused her to suddenly become so weak.

"I'm taking you home," he decided, hopeful that a bit of rest would fix her up because a trip out to find a healer for a vampire would certainly be an ordeal.

Gathering her up carefully he settled her against his chest before he stood, cradling her against him as he kicked out the fire and set out for their temporary home. He didn't mind abandoning their dinner, certain some scavenger would come along for the rest.

He navigated rocks and fallen branches, distractedly following the path they'd come through before. It seemed like every few moments he was checking to make sure she was even alive, relieved every time he felt the gentle movement of her breathing.

Once he broke through to the clearing that held their new home he hurried inside, ignoring the tiny feline that appeared at his heels as he took the stairs two at a time. "We're here, Yasmine," he announced softly, uncertain if she was conscious but feeling it necessary to tell her anyway.

Setting her down atop her bed finally he hovered nervously, uncertain if she would appreciate blankets but deciding against them considering her earlier complaints. Instead he pulled up a chair to her bedside, ready and watching for signs that she was getting worse and she needed help.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on May 07, 2017, 12:38:37 PM
She was in and out of consciousness as they traveled. It was both a blessing and a curse. For the moments she was conscious the speed with which they were moving was enough to turn her stomach. It was therefore a massive relief when all the movement finally ended and she was placed upon cool sheets in her own bed.

Her breathing was labored and she kept her eyes closed but already she could begin to feel the headache receding. The problem though was Yasmine was rapidly beginning to feel ravenous. Her stomach gurgled as her fingers sought out Conrey. She could hear his heartbeat in the room and despite her human heart wanting nothing to do with feeding on blood, her creature mind was starving for fuel.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on May 07, 2017, 01:04:16 PM
A small sense of relief washed over him to see her moving of her own accord and seemingly beginning to come to at last. Conrey reached out to clasp her smaller hand between both of his own, quickly up out of his chair and leaning over her to scrutinize the young vampire for signs of discomfort while being none the wiser to her growing hunger.

"You scared me out there," he sighed, shaking his head slightly with a thoughtful frown, his panicked heartbeat beginning to settle to a steadier rhythm at last. "Didn't have to force yourself if it tasted that bad."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on August 05, 2017, 04:56:32 PM
Yasmine latched onto his shoulders once he was within range and pulled herself up close against him. A pained whine escaped her mouth as she nosed against his shoulder. She could smell it now. The tangy, metal taste was so close and he was so deliciously warm. Despite his heart rate beginning to settle, the vampire had already located the thing that she now desired above all else, food.

The young woman wrapped her arms around his shoulders to embrace him close as she placed a chaste kiss to his pulse point. The act was incredibly sweet and gentle in comparison to the sudden hunger-fueled strength she found within her to crush him close and violently sink her teeth into his neck. His blood would be hers and she was not about to let her prey escape her no matter who or what he was. In that moment he was no longer Conrey the Werewolf Bodyguard. He was simply her favorite meal served at last.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on August 11, 2017, 08:49:38 PM
Her embrace was unexpected, but the sudden strength in it startled him. All he could think was to comfort her, his chest ached at the thought of her bursting into tears again over things that were out of her control. In preparation he was already murmuring words of comfort to her, his arms snaking across her back to hold her in a warm hug. At least that's what he thought was happening.

Conrey froze briefly for the touch of her lips against his skin, the contact so strange from her his immediate thought was that it was some gesture of gratitude for what he'd done. The pain that followed took his breath away. The werewolf hissed through his teeth and tightened his grip on her slightly but he didn't dare pull away. While abrupt and without notice, he had offered her his blood and it was only fair to allow her to drink unless the pain became too much. To his surprise, he hardly felt anything aside from a light sting and the strange, tugging flow of blood from her bite.

Her willingness to follow her instincts came so suddenly, but whatever the reason behind it he was relieved and happy for it. "No rush," he murmured gently, relaxing his hold on her slightly and stroking a steady hand along her back. Uncertain if it might encourage her to truly drink her fill he added, "Just a pinch, I feel fine."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on October 17, 2017, 11:55:03 AM
She guzzled down the life-giving fuel as quickly as she could. Yasmine could not get enough. She wanted more; she needed more and quickly. her nails dug into his skin deeper as she continued to crush him close. His touch to hold her closer was ignored for the most part though she did growl in warning though should he decide to separate her from his person.

After a few minutes she was able to finally slow enough to actually savor what she was drinking. A few more after that and she was just lazily suckling, as she was not really still hungry but was enjoying herself. Her eyes closed to slits as she practically purred in his arms, finally fed and content. Her regrets would come later but for now, Yasmine was content. She swirled her tongue over his wounds instinctively to help with their healing before pressing light kisses to his neck and shoulder.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on November 07, 2017, 06:16:37 AM
Conrey winced and grimaced towards the end of her feeding, the wounds on his neck feeling tender from being open so long. He shuddered slightly once she was finished, eyes mostly closing as he relaxed his hold on her and simply stayed still to allow her to kiss at his skin.

"Feel better?" he asked softly, hopeful that her finally feeding was all her body had needed to recover from her odd collapse outside. "You scared me out there." With a soft grunt he moved to lay beside her, uncertain if he was even welcome but feeling increasingly tired from allowing her to feed.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 10, 2017, 10:09:17 AM
Yasmine followed him down onto the bed, her face still buried against his neck. His words only caused her to growl and purr slightly as she continued to nuzzle her face against him. She was sated at last at least in hunger, but the young vampire had no interest in letting her prey escape her.

She was beginning to feel a new hunger taking hold of her. It was not one she understood as Yasmine had yet to experience lust before. She had been a young woman just coming of age when she had been bitten and now had been spending all her time trying to adjust to all the current changes she was undergoing.

The noblewoman rubbed her nose against Conrey's throat before running her tongue up it to the bottom of his chin. "Taste good," she lisped lightly around her still elongated fangs. Yasmine nipped his chin then and chuckled darkly as she pressed closer to him. Had she been more herself she would have been mortified at her own behavior, but the primal beast of her vampire nature was in charge and this new part of her knew exactly what she wanted.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on November 11, 2017, 02:38:59 PM
Conrey shivered for the sensation of her brushing against his skin. He could feel his pulse as a dull thrum through his throat and the small ache from her bite gradually fading. It was such a contrast to the intimacy she was suddenly showing him.

The werewolf shuddered for the feel of her tongue slowly running along his throat. Instinctively something felt a little wrong about it, being so vulnerable to her and allowing her to touch his neck at all. He supposed, though, that it was a little too late to be having those thoughts since he'd willingly allowed her to feed from him. If that sort of behavior came along with it, who was he to deny her a few extra moments?

He flinched slightly for the nip but settled once he realized she wouldn't be sinking her teeth into him again. The gold in his eyes flashed briefly, his wolf right at the surface for being made so vulnerable to her and the man within him doing nothing to stop her from taking what she wanted.

"Good," Conrey gruffed, the hair on the back of his neck rising at the sound of her dark laughter. Something was different, she was not the delicate lady who feared the mere sight of blood anymore. Perhaps, he assumed, feeding had changed her opinion altogether.

"What happened out there?" he asked calmly, still fixated on understanding her collapse. He settled his larger hand against her shoulder in a gentle attempt at holding her away slightly, in hopes of speaking properly face to face.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 11, 2017, 06:42:27 PM
She rolled her eyes at his questions. Yasmine as focused on other things but Conrey did not seem to be anywhere near the same page as her. The real issue though came when he placed a hand on her shoulder to steady her. A deep snarling growl broke out from her lips then as the vampire bared her teeth angrily at him.

Yasmine refused to be kept from her prey, especially by him. He would submit or he would pay the consequences. There were not other alternatives. She dug her hands into his shoulders, forcefully attempting to drag their bodies flush together again as she lowered her head to hiss warningly in his ear. She had had her meal and now she would have her fun.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on November 11, 2017, 07:06:40 PM
Conrey stilled at the strange snarling sound coming from her. He tilted his head to eye her questioningly, not quite understanding why she bared her teeth at him still after getting what she'd wanted and needed for so long.

He winced at the slight smarting of her fingers digging into his shoulders, relaxing his hold on her and allowing Yasmine to pull them closer again. "Okay," he grumbled, narrowing his eyes at her sidelong for the hissing.

"No need to rip my shoulder up anymore," Conrey complained, wincing at the slight burning she'd caused for applying pressure to his still-healing wounds. His features softened gradually, though, and he cautiously circled his arms around her in a hug instead.

"Are you...feeling okay? Are you still hurting?" he tried again more gently.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 11, 2017, 08:00:02 PM
Her grip relaxed once she was sure that he was sincere in his submission to her. The hissing stopped and instead turned to kissing and nibbling of his ear. Her teeth were gentle as she tugged the lob into her mouth and sucked on it softly. "Need you," Yasmine moaned against his ear once she had let it go with a wet pop.

"Please," she begged further, squashing her chest firmly against his. "So...hungry." Yasmine frowned as she struggled with the word. Hungry was not right but it was close. She had no words to describe the lust she was feeling for Conrey. It was a novel concept to her and one that she was only just now starting to scratch the surface on.

"Make it better, Conrey." Her breath puffed in his ear as she squrimed against him.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on November 11, 2017, 08:34:14 PM
The additional kisses stunned him, uncertain why she might have been so affectionate. She'd gotten her fill already, hadn't she? He certainly felt the effects of allowing her to take blood.

He shuddered as she tugged and sucked on his ear, the open act not any kind of mistake he could have explained away easily. With the way she pressed against him it made him very suddenly aware of what she wanted even though she didn't have the words to ask. As her guardian it felt entirely wrong to even think about it and it felt worse to mentally acknowledge how his pants were feeling tighter for all her squirming and needy affections. The idea of giving into her sudden desire was terrifyingly tempting, but Conrey was sure she wasn't in her right mind and wouldn't understand what she was asking.

"Yasmine, that's- If you want more blood you can bite me again. Just the other side this time, please," he offered quietly, fidgeting in small movements to gradually inch his hips away from her as he tilted his head to offer up the unblemished side of his throat to her. He didn't want to acknowledge what he knew or how she was beginning to affect him. He was her protector and he was convinced the prudish girl he knew wasn't feeling herself after suddenly satisfying what her body had craved and needed for so long.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 11, 2017, 09:16:12 PM
At the offering of his neck, Yasmine moaned softly before once more slowly running her tongue along the warm, taut skin. It was tempting but not what she was after. His squirming was not helping matters either. With a frustrated grunt, the vampire gave him a shove, forcing him to his back before climbing a top him.

Once she was over him, she locked her legs about his waist and planted her rear firmly in his lap. Only once she was sure that she was secure from potentially being bucked off did she begin to run her hands up his arms to his shoulders and neck. Her chest once more flattened against his own as she brought her lips to graze across the stubble along his chin and cheeks.

"Different hunger," she whispered against his skin. Her fingers sunk into his hair as her nails raked gently across his scalp. "Feel so warm. Too hot."
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on November 11, 2017, 09:54:40 PM
The werewolf shuddered for her uncharacteristically wanton behavior, but he rolled to his back at her insistence even though it left him more exposed and in a much more difficult position to hide his growing desire for her. With a grunt he made a few attempts at rolling her off or pushing her back but the young vampire ended up nestled against him instead. He could have forced the issue if he'd wanted to, but he really didn't want to that badly and he certainly had no desire to hurt her.

Conrey brought his hands to her waist as she felt along his body, as much to keep in contact with her as to hold them just barely apart. His breathing went a bit shaky as he felt her lips trailing across his face, nostrils flaring slightly at her words as he grit his teeth.

He groaned softly for the light touch of her nails against his sensitive scalp, frowning thoughtfully at her and pleading with his eyes for her to understand why he shouldn't and couldn't agree with her demands. As beautiful and tempting as he thought her she was still his to protect and breaking that trust was inexcusable. What would she think once she was in her right mind again? What would her parents think if they found out what they'd paid him for? Even the primal side of him craved a mate more than a quick fuck to satisfy their urges. And still he pulsed against her, the fabric between them feeling uncomfortably hot as he squirmed beneath her.

"This isn't you, this isn't what you want," he murmured even as he leaned his head up a bit to nose at her jaw while he lightly squeezed her waist. It probably wasn't his best idea to reciprocate the affections of his ward while trying to convince her she wanted no part in them.

"You weren't feeling well, let this pass," he begged softly, desperate for her to see that she was still feeling whatever she'd felt outside instead of the lust he could practically feel radiating off her body.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 13, 2017, 01:27:45 PM
"I do want this," she whined in his ear, moaning softly as he reciprocated her attentions at last. He felt so warm pressed up against her body, making her want to be closer against him, to feel their skin flush against each other without anything hindering them. Yasmine growled softly as she raked her nails over his chest and tugged down on his shirt, trying to get to more skin.

She could feel his excitement straining between them and intentionally wiggled back more against him, hoping to relieve both of their growing tensions. For Yasmine her primal nature was much more in charge than the innocent little noblewoman she had been raised to be. She buried her nose against his throat, breathing in his scent and moaning again at how good it smelled.

"Make it stop," she begged lustily against his skin. "So hot." Yasmine let go of his tunic to pull at her dress, attempting to tear herself free of it just so she could cool off a bit. "Conrey make me feel better. I need something," she admitted, not knowing what even as she squirmed  and tried to press down more firmly in his lap once more.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: Juno on November 13, 2017, 02:25:09 PM
Conrey bared his teeth, growling low as he heard the sounds of tearing fabric and felt the kiss of air upon his chest. She hadn't managed to split it in half but the young vampire had solidly ripped and ruined his tunic with her tearing. Even so he wasn't truly angry with her, just annoyed that she was destroying a good shirt with her wildness.

"Yasmine," he growled, eyeing her hungrily as she tugged at her own clothing. His hands trailed down along her sides, holding her firmly by the curve of her hips through her dress as he ground against her for her squirming.

Her sweet sounds were nearly impossible for him to resist, gradually breaking down what little front he still put up until he at last started to give in. The werewolf surged forward to pepper her neck in kisses, growling quietly as he brushed a few soft nips along her jaw and firmer ones along her throat and shoulder. His hands moved up quickly to help free her from her dress and tug it down low enough to brush hungry kisses along her chest, hopeful that slightly more intimate affection might be all that she craved despite the way she'd been dancing on his lap.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 15, 2017, 07:22:37 AM
Yasmine shivered at his growling voice. The way he said her name made her hum in delight that was only increased as he showered her in kisses, good enough to make her melt. It was a start though Yasmine did not know if it was easing the feelings inside her or was just stoking the flames, perhaps it was both.

She moaned and pushed herself further against him. It was a silent unspoken demand for more as she tangled her fingers into his hair, her nails raking against his scale as she did so. Yasmine used her grip to try and pull him closer and lower to her chest in a desperate plea for more. The little vampire was running purely on instinct and lust now. What was left of the proper little noblewoman was buried deep somewhere to be released at a later time. For now, only the monster within was in control and it wanted to play.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin] [M]
Post by: Juno on November 15, 2017, 08:09:31 AM
The side of Conrey that was still grounded could not believe that the prim noblewoman he'd come to know was behaving in such a way, and with him of all people. He shuddered for the way she pressed against him, hardly believing he was even allowing himself to put his hands on her at all. There was something about her that called to him, though, something that told him deep down that it was alright to give in to her demands and what she made him desire in turn despite their differences.

As he tugged at her dress more he grew increasingly frustrated with the way it caught between them, a low growl rumbling in his chest. He made the quick decision to flip her over, pressing her back into the bed as he caged her in. The gold in his eyes glinted again as he drank in the disheveled sight of her, though he only hesitated briefly before swooping low to continue lavishing her in kisses and the gentle bites he reserved for the tenderest flesh he revealed while slowly undressing her.

A satisfied hum vibrated through his chest once she was naked before him, her flesh warm against his own body even through his clothes. Conrey trailed greedy fingers along her front, lingering to press against her hip and tease along her thigh. The rational side of him knew he shouldn't take things any further and gave him pause as he brushed light kisses between her breasts. He was already violating what foundation of trust they might have had by taking advantage of her lust. With that in mind he made to pull away and tried to sit up, thinking that he could perhaps talk her down if they could just speak with unclouded minds.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin] [M]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 15, 2017, 04:06:36 PM
She gasped and growled at being moved about so forcefully but those sounds quickly died down as he returned to caressing and undressing her. Yasmine felt as if her body was on fire, she had never been so flushed in all her life. Every single one of his touches on her bare skin was heaven and hell all wrapped in one delightful package just for her.

The young vampire pressed her body further up into him, not realizing at first that he was leaving her until cool air brushed against her pale skin. At first she mewled, looking up at him through half-lidded eyes. "No," she moaned piteously, reaching out towards him to bring him back to her. Her body arched off the bed and undulated as Yasmine squirmed, desperate for more of his intoxicating touch. "Please," she begged, not at all within her right mind as she bared her fangs and ran her tongue along them.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin] [M]
Post by: Juno on November 16, 2017, 04:03:14 PM
Conrey shrugged off her attempts at keeping them close, much as he wanted to give in to her wishes more than he already had. It wasn't the right thing, she was clearly out of her mind with whatever had possessed her. She'd been such a different person before she'd fed from him and he could only guess that her behavior was due to that.

Shaking his head and running his fingers through his hair with an exasperated sigh Conrey eyed her skeptically, before pulling away entirely to stand beside the bed. "No," he grumbled, tugging at his ripped shirt to try to place it back how it should have been.

"I don't think this is what you want," he tried to explain again, moving towards the door and hoping he wouldn't have to fight with her to leave and give her some peace.

"I'll come see you later. I think it would be best if we were apart right now," he offered, walking quickly to the door and leaving the room quickly. He practically leaped down the stairs, rushing back outside to sit on the steps and get some air that didn't smell of her scent mixed with his blood.
Title: Re: Twice Cursed [Goblin] [M]
Post by: GoblinFae on November 16, 2017, 07:40:41 PM
"Conrey," she moaned, begging him raggedly as he escaped her and she attempted to lift herself up enough to reach for him. Then he was gone and the door was shut against her. Weakly, Yasmine flopped back onto the bed and groaned at the fire within her veins that had been left unsated. Tears of frustration filled her eyes, knowing that he really had abandoned her without a means to make all the discomfort stop.

Sounds of whining, mewling, and sniffling echoed through the room ash the vampire tossed this way and that on the bed. Nothing was making it go away though. She remembered how it had briefly abated at his touch and in a haze of lust wondered if her own would be enough. Yasmine dragged her hands down her shoulders and along her rips, moaning as gooseflesh sprouted all across her exposed skin.

Again and again she stroked her hands along her warm skin, unsure of what she was doing but enjoying the sensation none the less. Some primal part of her knew that it was not enough or right but it would have to do. Yasmine had been too young and proper a lady to know about the pleasures of the flesh and so was unable to even care for herself.

Eventually she grew exhausted and further frustrated by her inability to make it end. Whimpering and feeling tears slide down her face pitifully, the vampire dragged up the wool blanket on the bed and allowed its scratchy texture to drag up against her heated skin. If she just closed her eyes and kept very still, enough so to almost not breathe then perhaps she could fall asleep and forget it altogether. In time it would pass, or so she hoped. Only time could truly tell.
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Post by: Juno on November 17, 2017, 09:40:20 AM
The werewolf watched the front door out of the corner of his eye, tense and worried for what might happen if she had followed him out. Thankfully she remained inside and eventually Conrey began to relax, the intensity of their situation weighing on him once he was able to see it with clear eyes.

He hated himself for what he'd already done to her, what he had wanted to do to her and sincerely still wanted to. He had taken far too many liberties with her, enough that he grew concerned what she might do once she'd had time to process things. Would she want to run back to her parents? Fire him? It would be a shame considering the coin they were paying him, but Conrey also didn't feel he deserved to stay on if Yasmine's trust in him was gone. He'd crossed a line.

Once his nerves had calmed Conrey stood and made his way back into the trees, out to the river so he could bathe in peace and wash her scent from his skin. When he returned it was as his wolf, his torn clothes carried delicately by his teeth. He set them down by the front door but curled up to rest on the porch beside them instead of going inside. The house was a dangerous trap in his mind, at least until Yasmine emerged to him sane again.
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 17, 2017, 11:32:24 AM
It was hours later when Yasmine was able to drag herself from the fog of lust and sleep that had consumed after the bloodlust had abated. Stretching mad eh er feel stiff and uncomfortable while also bringing to her attention that she was naked. The noblewoman looked down at her body, catching the torn dress beneath her and feeling the horror and mortification bloom deeply within her stomach.

She threw herself from the bed with a squeak and looked at the rumbled bedspread as if it was a snake about to strike. The memories were slow to come back and hazy but still present. She had lost whatever shred of sanity she ever had to begin with. Not only had she attacked Conrey and drank his blood, the thought of which made her want to vomit, but she had also thrown herself at him, literally begging him to bed her.

How could she ever look him in the face again? Had he left for good? Was she alone? Would he forgive her? Did he understand? The questions swirled around and around in her head, making her dizzy and sick with anxiety and fear. She tugged at her soft hair, hoping to drag the thoughts out and cast them aside. Out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of the destroyed dress as she paced in front of the bed and she suddenly leaped toward it, yanking it down before balling it up and throwing it across the room into a dark corner. Yasmine never wanted to be reminded of her gross loss of control.

Sniffling and whimpering in shame, she moved with shaking hands to dress herself appropriately and go out to find her keeper. There were apologies that needed making before it became any later. Already she could see the sun low in the sky when it had been so bright and beautiful when they had been enjoying the little river. As she exited the room, Yasmine wrapped her arms about herself, half-expecting him to be outside her door with a disapproving and disgusted look. When she did not see him though her stomach sunk further. Perhaps her initial thought had been right. Maybe he had left and abandoned her here.

Standing at the top of the stairs revealed him nowhere in sight and with each step she took down the steps, the worse she felt. "Mister Shaw?" she called out quietly, looking left and right without seeing him. "Are you still here?" Without seeing him immediately, Yasmine hesitated on the foot of the staircase, unsure if she should try venturing outside without him.She had promised to be good after all.
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Post by: Juno on November 17, 2017, 12:03:02 PM
He hadn't heard her muffled movements in her room from outside, but as she made her way towards the stairs Conrey perked up. Lifting his head he eyed the door warily as he heard his name, and the name he was accustomed to her using at that. He tilted his head one way and then the other before deciding to stand. She'd never called him that during her unusual, blood fueled lust.

Conrey huffed softly, approaching and headbutting the door gently and scratching at it just enough so she might hear that he was still there. As much as he wanted to see her he didn't want to force the issue. It was very possible in his mind she simply feared being alone but wanted nothing to do with him.
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 21, 2017, 12:33:01 AM
She froze as she caught the sound knocking and scratching at the door. Without thinking it could be anyone else but Conrey, she rushed forward and whipped the door open. It was a relief to see the recognizable furry snout and warm eyes staring up at her. For a moment, Yasmine said nothing as she swallowed thickly and tried to collect her thoughts.

The tears came again and she hurried to lower her head and hide her face in her hair so he could not see them. She was here to apologize, not make him feel guilty for what she had done. "I'm sorry, Mister Shaw," she sniffled none the less. "I shouldn't have done that. It was all my fault. I don't know what happened but it'll never happen again I swear! Please believe me! I'll be good!"
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Post by: Juno on November 21, 2017, 12:20:25 PM
The werewolf eyed her apprehensively, not at all expecting the tears and shame that followed. His eyes went wide in disbelief, not understanding what she had to apologize for. He was her protector, her best interests were his duty to uphold and he never should have allowed things to go even as far as they had.

Conrey whined softly for her pleading, uncomfortable with her being the only one to apologize. He stepped closer, pressing his cheek to her leg and then brushing past her to leap his way up the stairs. Quickly he shifted back and changed into fresh clothes after nosing his way into his bedroom, his hair a tousled mess as he stormed his way downstairs again.

He approached the young noblewoman cautiously, wary of the waves of sadness and despair that seemed to be rolling off of her. "Please don't be upset with yourself," he asked of her gently, reaching out to touch her arm and uncertain how he could comfort her in what he assumed was a terribly awkward situation for his charge.

"I acted...very inappropriately towards you and I understand if you are angry with me or do not want to speak with me or see me after today, but please don't be mad at yourself. You did nothing wrong," Conrey tried to assure her, genuinely seeing things that way. He was older, he was paid to ensure she was cared for and he had grossly taken advantage of that position in his own eyes. Worse, he had wanted what she'd offered to him and though her scent had left his skin the werewolf understood that the desire still simmering beneath the surface was very real and had hardly abated since the end of her episode of lust.
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 21, 2017, 03:13:00 PM
Yasmine's tears flowed faster to hear his whining moments before he brushed past her. She had stood there, her arms wrapped around her middle, quietly sobbing and completely expecting him to be packing his stuff to leave her. She may not have killed him like she had the other humans but he was still going to leave her all the same. Another failure and another loss, that was all Yasmine was good for.

Conrey's voice beside her was therefore completely unexpected and made her jump and squeak loudly in shock. His touch caused her to tense but her red-rimmed and teary eyes stared up at him in confusion and surprise.

"You didn't do anything wrong," she protested through her sniffles. "I bit you. I made all this happen. I'm so sorry." Yasmine backed up a step, her hands covering her mouth as she shook with the force of her tears. "You're going to leave, aren't you, Mister Shaw?"
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Post by: Juno on November 21, 2017, 03:58:12 PM
His face twisted with concern, a frown fixed upon his brow at her emotional reaction. Truly he felt for her, her pain so clear in her eyes and the way she shook like a leaf. Without thinking he stepped closer, reaching further up along her arm to rest his hand at her shoulder instead. His thumb made nervous circles against her collarbone, worried for whether or not she even wanted to be touched but feeling compelled to comfort her all the same.

"You didn't hurt me," he tried to assure her, tilting his head slightly to show her the already-healing wounds. "I don't want to leave you but I understand I've done plenty today that I shouldn't have.

I... I've broken your trust and I would fully understand and respect your wishes if you asked me to go," he told her, bowing his head slightly in shame. "I'm sorry that I took advantage of you, Yasmine."
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 21, 2017, 07:12:52 PM
She sniffled and finally found herself thoughtlessly reaching out to him, pressing herself into his chest as she cried into his tunic. "You tried to stop me," she sobbed. "I'm the monster. I couldn't stop it, any of it. I wanted to drink, and hurt , and and and...I don't know what that was but I wanted you and...no please don't go. I want you to stay! Don't leave me!"

Her fingers reached up to lightly touch the place where she bit him even as she clung tighter to him. "I can't do this alone. I don't want to hurt you again but I don't want to be alone either. I'm so, so sorry. Please forgive me, Mister Shaw. You don't need to leave. I'll be good, honest."
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Post by: Juno on November 21, 2017, 07:20:38 PM
When she reached for him a piece of his barrier fell, a sadness for her becoming overwhelmingly heavy in his chest. He immediately circled his arms around her, pulling her in close against his chest as she cried and pleaded. It seemed amazing to him that she didn't want him to leave and that she was the one begging forgiveness. He didn't see any of what had happened as her own slight.

"Okay, okay," he rushed to say, giving her a small squeeze and rubbing a hand along her shoulders. "If you really don't want me to leave I'll stay, but if you change your mind about that you let me know." He breathed a heavy sigh of relief, holding her closer than he probably should have as her all too familiar scent swirled around him.

"There's nothing to forgive, but- I forgive you if that helps you feel better. I offered my blood to you, if you remember. I just didn't want things to get...too out of hand for you," he mumbled the last, not wanting to dive into that topic if he didn't have to. He hoped she might spare him the shame and conveniently forget anything had almost happened at all.
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 21, 2017, 09:35:25 PM
His forgiveness lifted a heavy burden from her shoulders and for a moment Yasmine cried harder, her hands grasping his shirt fiercely as if afraid he would try to push her away at any moment. "Thank you," she wept, burying her face against his chest and letting the smell of clean soap and earth calm her. "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

"I'll be better. I promise!" Pulling back enough to look at him through bleary eyes, she hoped that he would see the determination and honesty in her eyes. Yasmine was determined not to be weak again, to not hurt him again and give him a reason to want to leave. "You're all I've got. No one else wants me so please believe me. I'll try harder to control it, honest I will."
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Post by: Juno on November 22, 2017, 02:33:59 PM
"You didn't hurt me, honest," he assured her calmly, gently running a hand along her back in an attempt to soothe the distressed young noblewoman. "You don't have to control it around me. If you are hungry I want you to tell me, I don't want you putting it off anymore when you need to feed."

Conrey sighed softly and -in what was an incredibly poor decision- buried his nose against her hair to just breathe in her scent while trying not to think about how it affected him. "Let's go get you settled, you've had a long day," he prompted in a gravelly voice, pulling away enough to take her by her arm and move to lead her away down the hall to the sitting room of the manor. "I'll go find your kitten. You just go sit and relax, all right?"
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 22, 2017, 09:30:01 PM
She sniffled and nodded against him. It was easy to allow him to lead her along, so she went easily and quietly. Wordlessly she plopped herself down onto one of the room's couches, tucking her legs up against her chest as she did so. "Alright," she murmured, burying her face into her knees.

While Conrey was busy searching for Duchess, Yasmine worked on calming herself back down. All would be well. Conrey had agreed to stay. He had tried to assure her that things were alright. She needed to trust him on this. Otherwise what would be left for her but loneliness and misery. She could not do this on her own and he at least made life bearable in the short time they had been together.

Yasmine scrubbed her face and eyes on the hem of her skirt, determined to be better and calmer by the time he returned. All she wanted though was to curl up and hide from the world. Her legs were clutched closer to her as she half sat half lead against the arm of the couch and stared anxiously at the doorway. Part of her feared he still would leave her and this was just a ploy to keep her out of the way and from seeing. The other half begged her to wait and see.
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Post by: Juno on November 23, 2017, 07:51:42 AM
He'd felt better having Yasmine settled comfortably, not standing in the doorway crying anymore. It didn't take long to find the kitten that lingered along the stairs, seemingly anxious about the sounds of her mistress crying. Conrey thought the cat might have just been hungry, though, for she approached him eagerly once he caught sight of her.

Scooping her up his arms his first stop was the kitchen, offering up the best of what was left of their meat and watching affectionately as she gobbled it down. He made a mental note that he needed to go hunting again soon. Once she'd had her fill he took her back to the room he'd left Yasmine in, a little anxious she might have moved somewhere else until he saw her again curled up just as he'd left her.

Conrey smiled and breathed a small sigh of relief as he released her kitten to pad over to her, meowing eagerly and pitifully until she was right up against her owner on the cushion. "I think she might have missed you," he chuckled, stepping inside to sit beside her. "I fed her, so don't let her fool you into thinking she's starved."
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 23, 2017, 11:35:52 AM
Yasmine scooped up her precious kitten and snuggled the little form close to her face and chest. She nuzzled her face against Duchess's squirming back for several moments before Shifting to lean fully against Contry's side. "Thank you for taking care of her. And me. I know I'm terrible to deal with most days, just a spoiled little brat." Her head hung low at her words as she felt shame wash over her. "Money must be really good for you to stay through all this. I don't know why else you would otherwise."
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Post by: Juno on November 23, 2017, 11:52:34 AM
He watched the pair with relief, happy enough to see a bit of Yasmine's light return with the company of her kitten even if Duchess was not entirely thrilled with the forced snuggles. "You're welcome," he murmured sincerely, not understanding why she spoke badly about herself or questioned his motives. It was true that he was being paid well, but he would have been lying if he'd said he didn't also enjoy her company as strange a pair as they were. "You aren't a brat or terrible, you just have some things to learn still. I'm here to teach you."

Conrey sighed, shifting the arm she was leaning against to gently slip around her shoulders instead. "You act like it's torture to be around you," he snorted, shaking his head and eyeing her pointedly. "No need to be so dramatic. I like it here just fine."
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 23, 2017, 05:43:52 PM
She sighed softly, glad that he was receptive to her leaning as she was still too worn out to fight with him. Duchess was allowed to roam free again as Yasmine relaxed her grip. The fluffy kitten immediately hopped out of her mistress's arms and onto Conrey's far shoulder where she curled up to take a small nap.

"Isn't it though?" Yasmine questioned sullenly, shifting to snuggle in close and comfortable against him. The beat of his heart was no longer enticing but was none the less soothing to her. She buried her ear against it hoping that it would lull her into feeling better. "It's so lonely. Don't you get bored of just me? Don't you miss being around people?"

She huffed sadly, hugging herself tightly at the thought. "I miss people."
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Post by: Juno on November 25, 2017, 01:46:01 PM
Conrey eyed the kitten warily as she hopped over to him, kneading with her sharp claws against his tunic before she entirely settled. It wasn't the worst place for her to be but he dreaded the thought of having to move her whenever he would get up again.

"No. And I don't," he offered with a small shrug, not understanding her cravings for human companionship. The werewolf had always preferred quiet and privacy wherever he might find it to the bustle of a busy house.

He ran a hand through his hair, awkwardly trying to avoid jostling Duchess too much in the process. "Maybe we could find things to do here together that you might like. Might help with the loneliness if we got to know each other better. Became...friends," he pointed out, though he had no idea what in the world might interest her enough. "Do you enjoy reading? Cooking? Art? Anything like that?"
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 28, 2017, 09:12:10 PM
Yasmine looked up at him sadly at his answer before dropping her chin to her chest. Of course she would be the only one miserable here, stuck in the middle of nowhere as they were. She missed home and family. She missed being able to walk around and see even the faces of servants going about their tasks like silent ghosts. Here there was only dust and cobwebs that greeted her wherever she turned. It killed her inside and it had hardly been very long at all. What was she do to in the coming years? Yasmine highly doubted her family would ever take her back. There was no chance of her mastering this. After what had happened to Conrey, that much had to be true.

She sighed at him suggesting they be friends. If only it were that simple. "I...used to sew?" Yasmine sighed petulantly again and scowled. "I don't know how to cook and books are stuffy. I'm terrible at art too. I'm not very good at anything, Mister Shaw. I did my studies mostly with my tutors and that was about it. They were always telling me how disappointing I was, how I needed to focus more." Her voice went up an octave as she bobbled her head side to side, mocking the voices of her former tutors.

"You don't have to be my friend, Mister Shaw. I understand you're just doing your job. I don't need your pity too."
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Post by: Juno on November 29, 2017, 05:56:49 AM
Conrey tried not to laugh, struggling through as an amused smile tugged at his lips while she explained a bit of her life at home. It wasn't a laughing matter, but the way she'd mocked her tutors was endearing. "I don't pity you," he clarified with a small shrug, mulling over her words again for a few moments.

"I think you just might not have read the right books," he offered stubbornly, determined to share his passion with her if only to earn himself the occasional guilt-free afternoon to read if she might as well. "I could teach you some basic cooking myself, but I'm not sure that you would enjoy it. It's a lot of staring and waiting... But perhaps I can fetch you some threads to sew with, if you'd like to continue that?"
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Post by: GoblinFae on November 30, 2017, 02:39:35 PM
"Right books?" she scoffed, looking up at him in a mixed expression of disbelief and disgust. "I had a fine education thank you very much! I've learned languages. I've read the classics and the histories. What more could you possibly think I should be reading that I haven't?" Yasmine clicked her tongue and shook her head, not believing for a second that he could be right, that her education was anything less than perfect.

Doing her best to let her her attitude go in the face of his earnest offer, the young noblewoman sighed and shook her head. "What good is learning to cook when it doesn't even taste good? Too little, too late, Mister Shaw," she murmured with a heavy pout. "I would have loved to cook before." Yasmine sighed and slumped more where she sat, all but sinking into the couch like an amorphous blob.

"Are you saying I'm impatient though? You know sewing takes a lot of patience too. I miss it. Time seemed to go so much faster when you were just focused on watching the thread go in and out of the fabric. Maybe I could teach you to sew!" She perked up enough to tilt her head back to look at him. "You mentioned before that you didn't know how to sew, correct? It's not that hard. You might even become halfway proficient at it what with me as your teacher." Her words were cocky though her eyes shone with her fear of rejection and abandonment. They were still wet and red-rimmed, so ready to spill more tears if her fragile emotions were poked and prodded any further.
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Post by: Juno on November 30, 2017, 06:07:12 PM
Conrey winced at the idea, chewing at his lip in indecision for a moment. "I suppose you could teach me, yes. I've never tried it before, I think I'd be too clumsy with it," he offered in explanation, outstretching his free hand to stare at it for a moment. No, his hands were far too large to make deft work with the delicate needles he'd seen before.

"And I wouldn't mind if you ever wanted to cook for my benefit," he continued with a more relaxed grin, dropping his hand to his lap and clutching her closer against his side with the arm he'd draped around her. "As for books- It's not that I think your education was lacking, it's just that I enjoy reading for the sake of reading, not just learning. Maybe that isn't for you, maybe you can sew while I read when those times come."
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Post by: GoblinFae on December 01, 2017, 08:01:42 PM
"I was clumsy when I first started too," she offered, hoping to encourage him some. "I bet I'd make a good teacher though. You couldn't ask for a better one really. I know all the stitches!" Yasmine twitched slightly as his arm came down around her and tucked her in close to him. He was warm and soothing to be around. Within seconds she was completely nestled and relaxed against him again.

"My luck I'd poison you with my cooking and then where would we be? You'd hate it and I'd make you sick. I'm not good at it at all, Mister Shaw. Honest!" The young woman huffed and sighed in exasperation then as he moved back to the topic of books. "I don't understand what you see in them. They stink and are filled with just boring words. There's no pictures or anything to make them exciting at all!"
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Post by: Juno on December 02, 2017, 07:38:57 AM
"I'd like you to at least try," he told her, feeling apprehensive about sewing but feeling it would be more fair if they both had to step out of their comfort zones. "I'll try your sewing and you'll try to cook- with my help, I mean. And maybe I'll let you read one of my books one day, too.

"I think you'd like if it you just had the...right attitude. Opened your mind up a little," he mumbled the last, feeling a little defensive for how she so easily shot down his ideas. As far as he was concerned she wouldn't learn a thing if he didn't have her try and it was part of his job as he saw it to teach her things. Even though it might not have been entirely necessary, if she was to live a more solitary life as a result of her affliction he was not going to allow her to go through that life bored and frustrated. Boredom bred destruction and he certainly didn't want her going out and killing, even if she didn't want to.
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Post by: GoblinFae on December 03, 2017, 12:14:26 PM
Her lips pursed tightly in displeasure at his suggestion. His offer though was fair and the noblewoman knew that she had to find compromise in her existence here with him or life was going to be unbearably miserable for her going forward. It was already difficult to begin with, she did not need to suffer more out of her own stubbornness. Slowly and begrudgingly, Yasmine nodded her head at him.

"It's a...deal then. "You sew and I'll...cook." She scowled in displeasure at the distasteful word before a thought popped into her head and she hurried to add, "and you're not allowed to complain when it's bad!" Nervously, she looked up to him to confirm he would agree to her additional terms.

"Same goes with the books I suppose," Yasmine added with a scrunch of her face. "Not like their is much else to do around her. Don't expect me to like any of them though. As I said there isn't anything I will find enjoyable. I've read so much of it already and it's all the same." Her arms crossed over her chest as some of her usual teenager attitude began to return bit by bit. She would be alright and it seemed he already was. Things could go back to the way they had before, at least until the next time she became overwhelmed and needed to feed.
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Post by: Juno on December 05, 2017, 04:43:18 PM
Conrey couldn't keep the small smirk of triumph from his lips at her agreement. He wasn't worried in the least about the quality of her cooking. After all, he planned on guiding her every step of the way and if he had a hand in it he didn't believe it could ever go as poorly as she seemed to imagine.

"You'll never know until you try," he pointed out with a chuckle, glad to see her somewhat return to her regular self. "You don't have to like any of it, but I would be happy if you'd be willing to try them. I won't complain but...I'd hoped you might be open to constructive criticism. Same goes for me, tell me what I can improve upon once we've tried a few...lessons.

"The sooner the better, I think. We'll start tomorrow morning, it's getting a bit late now," he pointed out, casting a look towards the darkening woods through the window.
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Post by: GoblinFae on July 12, 2018, 05:41:19 PM
"Oh I know I won't" she declared with all the confidence of a self-assured teenager. "And I won't need any corrections. I learn everything quickly. That's why I'm superior to you after all. You're just a commoner hired as labor. I'm sure it will take you some time to master sewing. Lucky for you, you have such a good teacher," Yasmine noted smugly.

With the topic off food and her self-perceived misdeeds, she was feeling more herself again. She crossed her arms over her chest and raised a brow as if waiting for him to challenge her opinion. "We could start right now if you wanted. Unless you're afraid you won't manage to keep up with  my perfect skill." She yawned as if bored while pretending to examine her nails. "No matter. You'll learn all the same," Yasmine sighed and shook her head, "eventually."
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Post by: Juno on July 13, 2018, 06:18:02 AM
The werewolf just stared at her for a long moment, eyes wide before they narrowed and his lips twisted into an irritated scowl. Sure he was a commoner, but she was the one who couldn't be trusted by her own parents. He certainly thought it was better to be common or even poor than feared by your noble family.

"In the morning," he repeated firmly, a growl rising up his throat for her haughtiness. He wanted to take back his earlier denial of her brattiness, venom on his tongue poised to strike. Was there really anything worse than a brat who thought she was better than everyone else?

Perhaps one day it would be relevant again for him to save her life and health, perhaps he would remember her coldness... To think he'd nearly bedded such a harsh woman. But...she'd been different then, hadn't she? Something whispered inside him that he should be kind and gentle with the fledgling vampire, that she was not always the woman she was showing him now.

"Teach me tomorrow. Goodnight," Conrey finally gruffed with a sigh. He turned to leave, quite eager to put some distance between them and return to his own room before he said something he might regret. Tomorrow would be better. It had to be, right?