The conversation we were having was cut short when we could all hear the yelling start from down in the dungeon.

Alex may have a lot of areas in which he is severely lacking, but apparently his ability to make loud noises with his mouth is not in that department of failures.

"What should we do with him?" I asked Jamie. I'd never kept a prisoner after all, even if they were deserving of it.

"Interrogate him I suppose." He answered. "It may be a good time for putting your fondness for breaking the weasel's bones to good use."

Everyone smiled at that comment. We didn't need an emphatic connection to know that we all agreed.

The four Ethereals descended the slightly hidden stairs to the dungeon and it's cages, one of which held the vampire who'd just woken up.

"What the hell!" was the only statement that Alex gave as the four of us came into view. None of us were bothering to hide the glow in our eyes anymore.

"I could ask you the same thing." I stepped towards the cage that held the pitiful vampire, threateningly. "I have a few questions and you're going to answer them or I'm going to slice your body parts off and repeat the procedure when they grow back. Got it?"

"Why don't you shut up and let me out of this damn cage and handcuffs." Alex demanded.

Even when we was literally imprisoned and about to be tortured for information, he tried to be all high and mighty.

"Question one." I shot at him, ignoring his complaints. "Where is your hideout with the other Royals?"

Alex just shut up when that question was asked and wouldn't say another word.

I kept asking him questions of the same general sort, which he wouldn't answer no matter how much I hurt him.

I sighed, "Last question, what have you done to Gabe to make her so frightened of everything?" I practically growled the last question at the Royal.

He still refused to answer but he went deathly pale. So I took it as an invitation to grab his ankle and twist it and twist it and twist it until, yep, it went snap.

I then turned around and left the dungeon with the useless Royal howling in pain. Jamie stayed down there with him but Leah and Audrey followed me back up.

I had to take a shower, just being in the same room as that filth made me feel dirty, so I stomped my way up the stairs and entered my room. I completely forgot that Gabe was still in there and not expecting a sudden entrance.

At least Gabe was sitting on the edge of my massive bed instead of still out cold. I would have hated to have woken her up.

"Something pissed you off?" she asked me, keeping her face blank.

"That Royal prick," was my curt answer. "I need a quick shower." I said as I shuddered.

"Can we talk after?" It's not a question I would have expected Gabe to ask all things considering, but I'm glad she did. It meant progress was being made, well I hoped anyway.

"Of course." I replied before heading into my bathroom and stripping off for a shower.

I finished, got dressed and came out of the bathroom with my flaming hair still damp. Gabe was still sitting exactly where she was when I came into my room the first time half an hour ago.

"What would you like to discuss? Like I said before, I'll answer any question you have." I said while sitting down next to Gabe. She didn't move away which can only be taken as a good sign.

"You've made me a lot of promises," Gabe began slowly. "So I'd like for you to prove them to me."

"Just tell me how and I will." It was an easy answer. Of course I'd do everything in my power to make the girl next to me not frightened of me anymore and relax around me, I still wasn't expecting the answer she gave me though.

"I want you to bite me." She told me with a dead straight, serious face.

"What?! Why on earth would you want to be bitten more? One of the reasons you're here is to get away from being used as a food source." I was anxious now.

Gabe chuckled at that. "You really don't know much about Original vampires do you?" I was kind of insulted by that but she continued anyway. "I asked you to bite me, not feed on me. Did you know that if an Original vampire bites you, the victim gets a sense of the vampires emotions and intentions? It's the easiest way to tell if what you're saying is true."

That had me stumped, I definitely did not know that. "For example, I can tell you that Alex's personality perfectly matches his outside persona." Gabe continued.

"But I don't want to hurt you." I know it almost sounded like a weak argument, but I really didn't want to hurt Gabe in anyway.

She just shrugged. "I've been bitten over 100 times, at least, already. One more bite isn't going to make that much of a difference and it will help me believe what you're telling me. It really will help me tremendously."

I caved in at that point. "Ok then, if you're sure then where would you like it?"

Gabe replied simply by pulling the collar of her shirt down to expose her neck and probably the only bit of her body that wasn't already full of bite scars.

"I'll make this as quick and painless as I can" I promised her, as I came over to her and put my mouth to her neck. "God this is an intimate position." was a thought that ran through my mind before I pushed my fangs out of their protective sacs.

I bit down into the soft part of Gabe neck, fully expecting her to try and pull away. However the moment my fangs pierced her skin, one of her arms snaked its way around my torso and the other became tangled in my hair. Not letting me pull my fangs away even when I wanted to.

As for me, the moment blood entered my mouth I had the feelings of protection and forever flow through me. I know they're not a taste but it's the closest way I can describe what Gabe's blood tasted like.

I would protect this girl forever. There was no if, buts or maybes about it. Her blood in my mouth confirmed what I'd already suspected.

The hand in my hair still wasn't letting me pull my face away so I simply retracted my fangs back into my mouth and lightly kissed the puncture wounds that where already healing.

It must have been a full minute before Gabe's hand untangled from my damp hair and she let me go. Just like Rose, her face was flushed red.

"Ok, I believe you and I'm sorry I ever doubted you." Was all she said, still red as a beetroot.

Her face took on a peaceful look as the virus in my fangs went to work properly repairing the wound I'd just given her.

"Did you know the only time I've been bitten and it hasn't hurt at all was just then." Gabe said, a dreamy, high like state slurring her words.

I started to pat Gabe's short hair when she suddenly laid back on my bed and pulled my pillow in to cuddle it like a body pillow.

She giggled before saying "It's mine now."

I furrowed my eyebrows, wondering what she was talking about. "What's yours?"

"This bed and these pillows, they smell nice and it's soooooooo comfy. So now they're mine." Ok, this girl was obviously high from my bite.

"But your own bed is just as comfy." I pointed out softly, trying but failing to not treat her like a five year old at this point.

"Then you go sleep in it if it's so comfy." Gabe giggled. "This one's mine." She was slurring quite badly now and a few seconds after that, I could hear her breathing change as she fell into a deep slumber.

I smiled at the pile of cuteness on my bed and went to pull the blanket over her and tuck her in when I noticed that ALL the scars on her body were starting to fade rapidly.

"No wonder she's gone loopy." I thought to myself. "All that healing in such a short time."

Admittedly, I had no idea that the virus in my fangs could cure old wounds. On such a mass scale as well, it was quite frightening to think about what would be cured with the virus sitting in my fang sacs.

"She can have the bed for tonight." I thought to myself. She had been WAY too cute in her half out of it state to convince me to pick her up and take her to her own room.

I tucked her in just like a princess and kissed her forehead goodnight before sneaking out of my room quietly as not to disturb her.

I'd just shut the door to my room when I heard the doorbell ring downstairs and someone answered it.

Only a few seconds later Jamie came up the stairs with a worried look on his face.

"What is it?" I asked of him.

"Alex's mother is here to collect him." Jamie said, making my face go pale. "What's more is that she's already aware that an Original vampire lives here and seems to think we're all drones."

Well, shit.