Sylvie

“You look happy.  You should see the look in your eyes, they are not moving.  Full moons.”  Casey held a small plastic bag and hopped back on the motorcycle. “I hope that look is because I came out of the store showing my sexy walk.”  Casey laughed for a second before it faded, and she reached out to touch Sylvie on her shoulder. “Taini.  Where are you?”

“I think I was wrong about something.”  Sylvie revved her purring engine once more and after putting the bike in gear, did a couple more loops on her makeshift Bike speedway then merged onto another road leading the two back home. “Nothing to fear, Casey.  Just a little confusing is all, berry-bear.”

Once she heard Sylvie create another name for her, Casey relaxed and snuggled tightly to Sylvie’s back. “Confusion huh?”  Casey soothed, “We will figure it all out, I promise.  I can’t have you all mixed up inside.”  Casey lightly kissed Sylvie on the shoulder. “My pookie-pudding.”

Minutes later, Sylvie pulled into the apartment complex. “This won’t take long, I just..”

“I know, Taini.  Pay the debt, I will be here.”  Casey assured Sylvie, “Unless you want me to come with you.”

Flicking the visor that protected Casey’s bright loving eyes, Sylvie shook her head. “I am just going to knock on the door.  Think you can be two feet from me for a couple of minutes?”

“No clue.  Do you want to take the chance?”  Casey laughed.

Impulsively picking Casey up without any issue, she cradled her partner and walked up to Vera’s back door. “Nope.”

When Amos answered the door, he snorted with a smile and twisted his mustache. “What a greeting.  I didn’t know you could fit in her arms like that Sylvie.”

“You don’t want to know who I learned it from.”  With her free hand, Sylvie handed Amos the small bundle of books. “All yours.  I consider us even, right?”

Nodding, “We’re square and I’ll keep my word.  Sam…Samantha…um, yeah.”  He looked at Sylvie wide-eyed. “Yeah..”

“Don’t look now Sylvie, but I think Amos likes his new vampire.”  Casey chuckled, “Looks like it’s just us, Sugar-snap.”

“Thankfully.”  Sylvie turned and planted a generous kiss on Casey’s bloodstained lips, holding them together until she heard Amos clear his throat.  Sylvie pulled away and watched Casey’s eyes flutter open, and let out a pleasing purr. “Sorry, Amos.”  She looked back at Casey and then to Amos and winked. “We will be leaving now.”

“If you need anything.  Just ask.  Don’t forget about the council meeting tomorrow night.  Alan is frantic.”  Amos rolled his eyes.

“Unbelievable bastard.” Both Casey and Sylvie said at the same time.

“Jinx.”  Sylve quickly shouted

“Jinx.” Casey replied in unison.

The two said the word for another couple of minutes until Amos shook them both. “Stop already.  No one is going to win.”  He laughed. “Just go home, or you will be here until sunrise yelling jinx.”

With the business with Amos complete, Sylvie got the two of them home in record time.  Walking through the door and throwing her keys on the table like they didn’t matter, Sylvie flopped and spread out on the sofa. “I feel like I have been driving all night, you know dizzy like you play in the ocean all day?” Sylvie dug around in her pocket and pulled out the little lens case and pulled the AI contacts from her new moon eyes and looked up at Casey. “That’s bunches better.”  Sylvie rolled onto her stomach and shoved a pillow under her head. 

“Cutie.”  Casey lightly chuckled as Sylvie took up all the space on the sofa. “Where exactly am I supposed to sit, my candy-kitty?”  Casey tapped her foot, “We have things to discuss, young lady…plus I have to show you what I got from the store.”  She shrugged when Sylvie rolled on her side. “That will work.  The good thing is you can tell me what you want to, what I am doing requires very little actual skill.”

“Candy-kitty, is it?”  Sylvie slinked herself around Casey and ended up in her lover's lap. “How’s this, angel-apple?”  Sylvie smiled and reflected on the fact her own body was the one that smelled like baked apples at the right time.  She watched Casey pull ten packs of blue ribbons that appeared to snap closed. “What are those for?”  She inquired, fearful that the childlike bows would somehow be pinned in her hair.

Pulling the first bow from the cardboard, Casey pulled off a rubber band that held one of Sylvie’s cornrows tight then snapped the little blue bow into place. “Playful vengeance.”  Casey chirped. “You put me in underwear with a pink bow right on my swwwweeet spot.”

With another three plastic hair holders snapped in place, Sylvie tried to rebel. “I didn’t think a thong was appropriate while you were turning into a vampire.  I picked something cute..”  Another click echoed in Sylvie’s ear. “..oh come on.”

Ignoring Sylvie’s light protests, Casey changed the subject. “You mentioned you were wrong about something and confused?”  Casey snapped another plastic bow to Sylvie and then leaned down for a quick but heartfelt kiss. “No secrets.”  She offered quietly. “I have had my fill of hiding things, Sylvie.”

Taking an unnecessary deep breath to steady herself, Sylvie let herself see the first vision that drew her to Casey. “I told you about the vision I had in the manor?  The reason I stuck to you like glue?”

“I remember, You said it came true with us at the lake.”  Casey stopped clipping bows into Sylvie’s hair. “Are you telling me that you were wrong about us?”  Casey jumped up and pointed both of her fingers at Sylvie, shaking. “We’ve been together twenty-four hours and you are breaking up with me?”  She threw her arms in the air and huffed.

Upon sitting up, Sylvie raised her eyebrow and rolled her eyes as she heard the clacks of the cute bows in her hair. “Will you settle down?  I wasn’t wrong about us…That part of the vision has come true and I understand it.”  Sylvie stood up and almost floated over to her partner. “Do you think I would take the time to change you, teach you, cherish you…”  She took Casey’s hand into her own, then brought it to her lips. “I told you, that first touch.  I was connected to you in that one touch.”  Sylvie slipped behind Casey and took a deep breath and purred as Casey’s copper-strawberry hair tantalized her senses. “My visions are always right, love.  It is me that can be wrong.”  Sylvie slipped her arms around Casey’s thin waist and began swaying to a silent song. “The vision was you..It came to pass exactly like it was supposed to.”

Suddenly relaxed by Sylvie’s sensual fingers and calming words, Casey leaned back into her girlfriend and stepped in beat with Sylvie. “Sorry.  I overreacted.  I guess there is still a little fear of being left.”  She twisted just enough to kiss Sylvie on her cheek. “You told me that you used your glamor to set Rose free…What…if…”  Casey choked and began crying lightly, sending thin rose-colored tears running down her beautiful cheeks. “I never want to forget you…us..”

Sylvie closed her eyes and summoned a healthy portion of her blood, switching into her ghost form.  Once she was a warm blue and gray mist, she wrapped herself around Casey.  Forming many sets of lips out of her loving cloud, Sylvie kissed Casey at dozens of spots at once.  Counting to ten, Sylvie reformed her physical body in front of her partner and slowly dropped to her knees. “Bound by blood, Casey.  I will give you all I have..you only have to ask.”  Sylvie looked up and into Casey’s gleaming eyes. “I. Love. You, Casey Rivers.”

Even though the dainty vampire had knelt in front of Casey, She felt too far away from her partner.  One slow leg at a time, Casey knelt as well. “That…that..Sylvie, I could feel you all through me.  It was like you touched…”  She sighed and flopped into Sylvie’s waiting arms. “Sorry…so sorry.  Viv called me reckless and impulsive….look at what happened…”  Casey sniffled.

“No damage done, Casey.”  Sylvie softly chuckled, “I am just as reckless and impulsive.  I think that is why we get along so well.”  Tired beyond belief, Sylvie crawled over to the couch and climbed up. “Would you mind …”

Jumping to her feet, Casey didn’t hesitate and ran to the kitchen and back with a couple of bottles of blood. “Let me.  Just open your lovely lips and I will do the work.  You tell me the rest of the problem, and I promise not to freak out.”