daywalkingblade | First Date (Tag M-)

First Date (Tag M-)

The black muscle car rumbled into the gravel parking lot of what looked to be a bar/saloon in the middle of nowhere, upstate New York. The place was south of Rochester by about forty miles. Above the entrance, a tacky red neon sign read "The Roadhouse". There was no one hanging around outside, but thee were several cars and motorcycles. It was pretty quiet for what one might expect of a bar, at least from the outside. As the car pulled to a stop, Blade glanced at his passenger. This was going to be...interesting. She was too pretty and far to classy for a place like this. Hell, she was probably too stunningly beautiful to be in this car with someone as rough around the edges as Blade. But here they were. People would notice as they went into the bar, but nobody would say anything. Of that fact at least, Blade was certain.

"We're here. Stay close, and order whatever you want. The food's actually pretty good, and the drinks are better. Once I get some information on where to find some suckheads, we'll be out." He flashed a little bit of a toothy grin. "Guess you could say this is the closest to a "date" portion of this outing as we'll get."

They both pushed their doors open and stood up out of the car. The parking lot remained silent. Hunters and mercenaries were probably inside drinking quietly, enjoying a bit of peace. There were the occasional loud, rowdy drinkers - usually the mercs - but most just wanted a place to rest and get information before the next big job. Also, most didn't trust the night enough to be drunk out in it. Blade knew the bartender inside. A good woman by the name of Ellen who really knew her shit. It was why he liked coming here. Of course, he knew the bartenders in most of the Roadhouses around the country. It was a bit of a chain, but not in the corporate sense. When a place was named "The Roadhouse" in some back country nowhere, it was a kind of secret sign to all hunters and some mercenaries that this was a safe haven and a good place to exchange information and get jobs. They were also neutral zones. Any who dared cause any trouble in these kinds of places was blacklisted, and that was as good as being fired in this line of work. In some cases, it was a death sentence because it also meant no assistance in any job ever again.

"You ready?"

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His name on her lips sends another warm, delicious shiver down his spine. Somehow, he hasn't ever heard quite that much power in his chosen name. He feels as though she speaks directly to the innermost parts of his being, as if she both addresses and even to some degree claims him with that name. On her lips, his name is almost a different language, a mark that is unique only to him. Actually, he has felt some power in his name before, but only in the fear it could invoke. He had worked for that, but this...she gave him this.

"Oooooh...."

It's all he can vocalize as she finally slips down over him. Being inside her is everything he had dared not imagine before he had seen her in action, and more. There is something primal in being so connected, more primal than a name even and yet connected. Otherwise why would people cry out names in the height of passion? Something about her brought out a poetic side to his thoughts that he didn't know he had, but that was all right. There was no image here to maintain other than the one that would keep her in his arms for as long as possible.

His hands slid down to her buttocks and he held them, helping her move along his length. The moans shift to a few low growls as he claims her, she claims him, and he works to control himself. Slow, long, and steady. It is not because she is a fragile thing - she is anything but - but because this is a moment deserving of absolute respect. This is Maeve's virginal night in more ways than one, and she has given it to him. That is awe inspiring, and it shows in his eyes as he looks up at her before beginning to kiss her chest.

She might note that despite his licks, kisses, and nips, despite the fact that he is somewhat more at peace with what he is around her, never once do the fangs come out. There is a line, and giving in to what is vampiric in him crosses that line.

There are moments and ways to set magic. Rituals for the people who function under the need, and acts for those with a wilder magic. Sex is one of those acts, and while the list is long, it's one of the least destructive when used with good intent. Tonight, with the naming, there's no doubt that is a part of making it real. Her name will stick, and they will both be able to walk away no more bound by the magic of the naming than by what their emotions leave them to. She is not a succubus, nor is she any of the fae equivalents. Freely given, freely taken.

The sense of coiled muscle and barely contained control is far more intoxicating than the scrape of his fangs against her skin ever could be. Tonight is not a night for blood,and it is his choice to be careful and slow that is so sharply sweet she can't help but gasp like laughter, a very different sound from what she made during the fight. Every movement of her hips in his hands, her legs curled around him for leverage, her hand that range over his skin, invites him in and welcomes him to the next touch. She offers no threat to him.

The very fact of her head falling back, drawing all their hair over her shoulders and exposing all the skin from her throat to her breasts to him as he kisses down is an act of trust. The way he rewards her skin has her moving more deeply against him with just he barest hint of increased speed. Enough to make the friction where their bodies join sing along her nerves. Muscles she's never quite had cause to use before play over his body, tightening and responding to her instincts, surprising her with the ease of response.

"Oh keep doing that please."

Her tinkling gasps that are like laughter are quite possibly the most beautiful thing he has ever heard. The beautiful sounds are highlighted even further by a life of facing down the ugly. To know beauty, now, was very nearly like a blind man suddenly being able to see. Or rather, to accept that beauty as something he could enjoy was like that. Certainly he'd seen beauty in the world before, but that had never been his world. Right here, right now, this was.

"Maeve..." It was just a pleasurable name to say. It was even more fun to repeat in time with the rhythm that they set.

Of course, that is interspersed by his moaning and moving under her as he thrusts deeper up into her, feeling those muscles contract and move around him. His hands sometimes slide further up her back, and his short nails scratch that pale white skin as their lovemaking flares in intensity here and there. It is never enough to break skin or draw blood, just enough for her him to communicate the effect she's having on him.

"Maeve, Maeve, beautiful Maeve..." He reaches up to tuck some hair that has come loose behind her ear and then he leans up to kiss her. The kiss is tender and loving even as there is fire below.

She doesn't quite make the sound again, detouring as she finds line of his shoulder with her mouth, kissing and nibbling in equal measure until she reaches his neck. There, she simple nuzzles, letting her chilled breath caress his skin. She might have stayed there, but he says her name, and gets another gasping laugh as it sends a sprawling bolt of sensation through parts of her that are anything but physical and all too real. Her hands tighten against his skin, pressing her chest to his so that her might almost feel the rapid beat of her heart beneath her breasts.

"Blade!" Soft and carrying, her exclamation is about all she can manage before the kiss. The repetition of her name is utterly dizzying and narcotic. His lips, the taste of him on her tongue, his smell and touch all hep to steady her so she can offer him all she has to give for the moment. Her name, affection, and desire range through the light brushes of her hands over his chest to the every careful movement below.

The kiss is messy and passionate, the kind of thing that has no forethought or planning. It is just another physical expression, another way to be that much closer to her. He feels the life in her as her body presses against his, and he revels in it. Perhaps she too can feel how alive he feels in the beat of his heart and the movement of his body against hers. It is more alive than he has felt in, well, in ever. He is happy.

His motions below begin to grow more erratic. Slowly, bit by bit, the control of a man who values control above all else begins to unravel. He keeps up a rhythm, but he has slid his hands downward again and he his thrusting up and pushing her body over him with increasing intensity and speed. So far, he has been telling himself that he will release after she does, that he will put the needs of this woman that he and he alone now knows as Maeve above his own, and that is the last thread of control he will hold onto.

"Yes, yes, Maeve, oh Maeve, yes..." His head lolls back from the kiss for just a moment, his teeth catching her lower lip in a soft nip that releases as his head drops further from hers. Then he is up again and kissing along her shoulder with a fever of lust and infatuation.

The increasing rhythm of his hips does wonders for her. Maeve would be scrambling for more of him if he weren't so good at giving it to her on his own. It would be so easy to call what comes over her an animal abandon, but it's the most human thing in the world to give over to the need and want of the flesh with someone you care for. Perhaps human is the wrong word, but it will have to try encompasses that shared drive for inhuman and variously human things to feel connection and satisfaction.

She draws him into herself over and over again as his mouth offers her skin so many sensation, before she feels that beautiful moment of culmination. She can't gather enough to yell his name, but "Blade" tumbles breathlessly from her mouth with a depth of power that she couldn't manage if she tried to. Only here, only now, lost in a moment where her conscious mind can't interfere can she spend it and the burst of power that has them surrounded by a fairy ring of ice as Maeve collapses against him, holding him tightly through the shuddering waves that was through her.

The moment that he has been striving for happens. He almost can't focus on looking up at her through the frame of her hair and the stars in the sky above her. Almost. But he knows that this is the most beautiful sight he has ever seen and will likely ever see. He watches her face as the waves of her pleasure wash over it before she crumples against him, holding on tightly. He holds her to him in turn, whispering his affections of her in her ear as he nibbles at it.

And then his control is swept out from under him by her own loss of it. He gasps, his eyes going wide. At first, it is hard, but in a very sweet way. There is some reptilian part of his brain that just doesn't want to let go, that doesn't want to give up control to anybody, not even the woman that he is making love to. Perhaps especially not her, because the implications of giving her the keys to that control are far reaching and, on some level, terrifying. That part is overwhelmed, though, by the rest of him and by the sheer force of her own climax which seems to demand that he come with her down that path. His yells are guttural as he shouts her name to the night sky above her head over and over, his climax rocking his body under her as he holds on tightly. His nails leave grooves in her buttocks and his vision actually blanks out for a few seconds (maybe more, he has no concept of time).

And then he is back inside himself, panting, His broken control starts to return to him, and he finds that this woman means so much more to him now than she did even several minutes ago. This is the woman that he lost that precious control for, and that has established a bond of trust that goes deep. And the wonder of it is that she may never know just how deeply that moment affected him.

"Maeve...that was..." There are no words to describe it, but that's okay. He sees that she understands, and that is good enough for him.

She wraps herself around him for just a little bit longer, nuzzling him softly when he is unable to finish his sentence. She knows as much as she can from the other side of the equation. He found something in her she didn't know she had, and she won't forget that anytime soon. There's something about the man in her arms that says the same thing happened to him, and he's unexpectedly vulnerable for it.

Which leads to the question of whether or not Maeve finds herself equally so. She doesn't. If anything whatever she found in the naming and the sex set a part of her free. Nothing she has words for, but the flair of power and the fact the stars seems to literally shine in her eyes for moments afterwords says a lot. It's the name, and the choice. She'll learn that later. Magic for her kind is about choices and words and need and things that teeter between being entirely substantial and ephemeral. Which is what made this perfect.

"I'm glad you wanted me, Blade," her voice is soft, a note or two lower like something had settled in her in this moment. The way she says his name has changed in some unmeasurable way, like she's forgotten how to say it like she doesn't know it's something with power. Maybe she doesn't. It's hard for those new to that kind of power to remember and learn how to put distance there. Especially when they've never been instructed in the need for such a thing.

He kisses her, a few aftershocks still running through his system. The taste of her is just as sweet as ever, and perhaps more. There is something magical about her that virtually glows now, and there is some part of him that senses it. It isn't exactly a conscious part, though. It is just a stronger infatuation with her beauty, a beauty that he knows he noticed before, but that he just doesn't feel he appreciated enough until this moment.

"Still do want you."

And he did. The way she says his name briefly binds him to her again in all the right ways. No, it wasn't a permanent thing, but it was a powerful thing. What was more powerful still was that she hadn't asked him for his birth name, but for a brief moment he was tempted to tell her. But no...the man she cared for right now was Blade, not Eric.

"Thank you." It was a simple statement, but it encompassed everything. For continually finding him, for coming out here on this test which in retrospect felt so silly in comparison to the gravity of the lovemaking they'd just done, for the lovemaking itself, and for helping him briefly let loose that control that he valued so much in such a spectacular way.

She grins against his shoulder, kissing and nibbling along the line when he says he still wants her. Maeve imagines he'll get to satisfy that want again at some point in the near future. Perhaps neither of them were the kind to assume permanent bindings, but there is something here worth revisiting. She's hardly going to stop talking to him. If nothing else, her social life would be a sad remnant of what it was, but there was more. Of course there was, or she wouldn't have trusted him with this secret or found the name when she did. Blade was stuck with her for a while, at least.

Then he thanks her, and the shiver that runs through her is almost alien. Little tendrils of connection happened with every thoughtless thanks in the city, but that was absolutely sincere and something with meaning. She isn't sure if she's sad or grateful for that moment and connection. Does he feel it or is just something that is for her alone to notice and and keep? Would he gnaw his leg off to get out of that particular trap if he knew? Her eyes are sad for a moment, but then she catches herself and smiles. "You're welcome."

"Mmm..."

This kisses and the nibbles feel good. It's a different kind of connection from what he had with Whistler, but it's still a connection. And he hasn't felt any kind of connection in a long time. There's a comfort here. A flash of light catches his eye, and he looks over to see the moon gleaming off a cluster of ice. His eyes return to her and his eyebrows raise, but he smiles.

"Well that's a first. Good thing we went outside." His turn to grin.

Of course, that brought back thoughts of the house. What would he do with it? Standard protocol was to burn it down, leave no evidence. But it was so isolated and off the beaten path. Part of him wanted to just clean it out and have it as a place to call his own. Sure, he'd be gone for months on end hunting and staying in shitholes in various cities, but it'd be nice to have a place that was untouched by the suckheads. Well, untouched by any suckheads after this bunch that he and Maeve exterminated. Something to think about, at least.

But later. For now, he caught the sadness that looked older than she did in her eyes. Those were old eyes, he just noticed. No less beautiful, but where her mind forgot, it seemed her eyes remembered. He lifted a hand to hold her cheek, concern evident in his own.

"Hey, Maeve, what's the matter?" She'd caught herself, but not in time for a hunter that lived or died by how quickly he perceived things.

"In a few different ways, really. Both the first and the going outside." She smiles slightly glancing over the ice that's much slower to melt than the first frost. Well, it certainly brings an entertaining element to the possibility of fairy rings, didn't? She explains some of it in exchange for the connection he made without knowing. "Though I think being outside is part of why it was possible. It's different here than in the city."

The ease of that moment strains just slightly. Small lies hurt, big lies feel like they can kill. What would answering 'nothing end up being? Take too long and it's clear that there's something bigger she's holding back. Tell a lie that hurts, and he'll notice it this close. She picks her words carefully. "Just a moment when something fell into place. Not all the almost memories and realizations are beautiful. None of them are worth ruining this moment."

There. Not a lie at all.

Blade listens to her talk, glancing between her and the ring of ice. That was some kind of natural power she had there. It lent credibility to the idea that she was a queen in a previous life. If this was her when she lost some control in her pleasure, then when she had full control it must be a sight to see. Again he found himself glad that she was one of the angels. He was glad of that in a few different ways, of course. The thought made him grin a little.

"You know, I was going to torch the house. Then I thought I might keep it. But on second thought, maybe you should. You clearly ain't meant for the city. Maybe you can find more of yourself here."

The difficulty she had dancing around what had seemed to be wrong for a moment just underlined how big the issue probably was. It also highlighted the importance of not pursuing it further. She was right, no need to ruin the moment. He perfectly understood the need to keep some things private, and he wouldn't push her on the point. If she wanted to mention it, she would later. If not, she wouldn't.

"Guess they wouldn't be. But it's okay." His hand caressed her face once more before it fell away. "You'll sort through them, Maeve, and figure out who Maeve is. That's what's important."

Maeve smiles back at him, considering his thought and offer. She certainly wouldn't mind the escape, but there's a reason she always returns to the city. Something in her wants to stay where there are so many people so close, even with all the risk and toxicity that it exposes her to. She could take his offered house, and stay for a time. She'd enjoy it, and find some answers, but time would call her back. New York called to her.

"As much as I want to agree with you, I think the house is better in your hands. A quiet place for the time between hunts. If you take it, and need someone to check on the place when you disappear into the hunt, I think it could be good for me."

Maeve assumes he trusts her that much instinctively. The moment he let his guard down completely something changed. That isn't why she assumes. Something about the night has reminded her of what it was when she used to have duties. A time when she was trusted because there was no other choice. That may not be the case anymore, but she walks away knowing she is still capable though she is a child compared to the woman she was. That is no small victory.

Her smile is small, but sincere this time. "Complicated still seems to be the forerunner on that particular definition."

He nods. Keeping the house is fine with him, although he is surprised that she wouldn't want it. There must be a reason, something going on in her mind, but he must trust that its a good one. No reason to argue the point. The rim of ice should be proof enough that this woman he has just slept with is a free spirit in every sense of the term, not just the metaphorical kind. She might not remember it, but she's a force of nature. Hadn't he felt a little of that? He had. It was a good thing he wasn't the type to want to tame any woman, let alone a woman like her. But it was also good that she wasn't the type of woman to want to tame a man either.

"Yeah. I like that. But you should check on it while I'm here, too." He smiles a little.

The truth is, he does trust her. Not completely, no, but as much as he trusts anybody. Also, as much as he trusts anybody with an unknown past that could come back to bite any number of people including her in the ass. Thing is, Blade doesn't trust anyone completely, and hasn't since the old man. But he trusts enough.

"We can be complicated together, every now and then."

It is good that they are who they are for the moment. Too many ties would force her to break them, and the only possible exception to that rule had decided to break the ties himself. Something waits in her, but that something needs time. A day, a week, months, years? A century? It's impossible to tell other than that anyone who expects too much in the meantime is all too likely to be disappointed or hurt.

"I didn't want to assume that I was welcome where I might not be." There's a clear teasing to her voice as she says it, but an honesty, too. She will take the connections that Blade offers, but will not make any unwelcome demands of him.

She looks down at him and presses a line of kisses along his cheek before catching his lips. "Sounds like a good plan to me. We can explore the fun side of complicated when that happens."

If Blade was a man who thought more deeply about the things that did not matter to him, a man who thought beyond what was directly relevant, he might understand the sadness that he had seen in her moments ago. He might ask if there was a part of her that was still married to her crazy redman on some level, no matter what he decided to say or do. It was perhaps fortunate for them both that he was not the type to think in those convoluted circles. Taking things at face value, taking her at face value, was what was best in that moment and any other. Maeve had decided to be his for an evening, and perhaps several other evenings in the future, and that meant a lot to him. It was all that mattered, and the insane mercenary never entered his head at all, for better or for worse. He knew she was a recent ex to someone, and that was the end of it.

"After tonight?" He chuckled. "Yeah, you could say your welcome any time. Any time. And anywhere I am."

He returns her kiss, a smile curling at his lips. "I think I like that. I might fear for any who experience the less fun sides of your complicated, though. You really fucked up some suckheads back there. Should thank you for the help with that, too."

It's the same sadness, but it's a very different sadness. Part of her wants to bind and be bound, but there's something so very dangerous about that possibility. She isn't ready to be that person yet, or to risk pushing him away as completely as the act would by its very nature. She wants to hold on to something for a while. Something as good and comforting as this connection she found with a hunter who might regret it one day. Maeve hopes not, but it's difficult to tell with her current state.

She really can't resist the urge to kiss him after that. He should laugh more. She wants to make him laugh more. It suits him, for all it looks to be something he's not used to. "I will certainly keep that in mind for the future."

That is a necessary think to consider. How dark are her dark places? How much will she exercise that particular need and desire? She doesn't intend to indulge more than the occasional impulse, but it might not always be a matter of choice. It might not even be a matter of choice occasionally. "It was a good exercise to see what I'm actually capable of."

His hands tangle in her long red hair again as they kiss. It's a good feeling. Holding her close is a good feeling. Still being inside her as he softens is a good feeling. There are just so many good feelings tonight. It's something he could get used to, if he allowed himself to. But if he did, he might never return to the hunt again. Then all the human deaths to vampires from this moment forward would be on him. It wasn't exactly something he could deal with. That was his own sadness, but fortunately his eyes were closed as he kissed her. No need for her to see it.

"You do that. And your remember one thing for me. It's something I've learned over my life, and it might help you quicker than it helped me. You're capable of whatever the fuck you want to be capable of. Nothing more, nothing less. You get to choose. Not your memories, not the people who remember you, not even the people you let into this life like me. You. If you remember that, everything else just falls into place."

She runs her fingers over his cheek as the kiss ends, wondering if this island of good feeling is a chance to escape and rest or if it's a distraction. Blade is a knight Templar for a new world, with all the costs and obligations. Whatever they said at the time about devotion to God, there was a certain mercy to a level of abstinence. Nothing to miss when the fight demands everything they have. In the end, it's his words that save her from that line of thought.

This is a thing that she needs to do. This moment with him, and near him, loving some part of the man for a time under the moon, in the wild, is enough. Her needs and wants from others are very simple things so far. Time might change that, but she hopes not. This place is so much more beautiful than the pain from the moment before.

"I think that his the best advice I've gotten about this life so far."

He smiles, nuzzling into her touch. "Glad to hear it. You don't want to be capable of darkness, then don't be. Maeve is a new person. You might have some...side effects...from your previous life," he nods to the ice around them, "but hey, you want to be human? Then be it. If you don't, then don't. I won't judge. I'll just be here waiting for you when you want to visit."

Of course, "here" was a relative term in his world. Despite that, he was pretty sure she could find him if she wanted to. He'd given her his number, for one thing. For another, one of those side effects was that she was a magical woman. They'd shared a bond tonight with the names and the lovemaking. It might not be permanent, but it probably was a beacon of some sort.

"Just be Maeve. And maybe try to help me take my own advice." Because this knight templar desperately wanted to make himself capable of slowing down and enjoying the good moments in life like this.

"I doubt I'll be able to manage human, so that is exceptionally good to hear." She lets her fingers trail further along his jaw before stopping to just cup the side of his face in her hand. "Because I would be very sad not to be able to come and visit you while I'm still working to figure out who and what I shall be."

She kisses him slowly with a banked but definite desire that contains a promise in itself. Maeve wants to explore his body and him again. With time and thoroughly. More than just a night. "I shall do my best in that endeavor. It will probably take time, though, you are a stubborn man."

"Honestly? Wouldn't be fair of me to expect human out of you. Wouldn't be fair of me to be with a human. Cause I'm not, and you're not. So you visit all you want, Maeve."

The desire is like a breath on the flame which had gone down in him with the afterglow. The fire sparks up again a bit, but it is more at the promise of future nights than the desire to push the night here further. He didn't want to kill this afterglow any time soon. Hell, he figured that he'd be fine if it was dawn that chased them out of this field after a pleasant nap in each other's arms.

"Yeah. I am. But I'll give you this. I'm not already planning the next hunt in my mind. Right now, you're all there is for me. You're it. And that's nice."

"So then we will find a way to be comfortably other than human together when we are together. After all, we both make it look good." For all the humor in her eyes, she clearly means it. A pleasant chance to brag about herself and compliment him on his appearance while drawing her fingernails lightly along the back of his neck. Playing with his hair and enjoying the warmth of his skin.

His words make her want to curl up more closely with him, and nap. Or stay awake. She feels so alive and aware at the moment. It's the night, and the touch and the time with someone who doesn't want her to be anyone but herself as she is a the moment. "Sounds like I've already won quite a victory, then."

"You can say that again." He grinned, but he was serious too. Of course, he was more enamored of her own appearance than his own, but that was likely to be expected. He nuzzled along the side of her face and kissed her neck a little.

"And you have. Just as easy as that, too. Now all you gotta do is tell me you don't have anywhere else to be and we can enjoy the rest of the night right here. I could stay like this for days, but guess I can settle for hours if you can."

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I somehow knew that would happen eventually. Have a bit of surreality in your RP!

Somewhere in your head DP is dealing with the body switch somehow, isn't he?

Yeeeaahh...whooboy.

Poor DP, bad, bad timing.

And the guilt! He's trying to leave her to be her without interferance!