𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭: 1,800 words

𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐣𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐠

Uncaringly, his body was dragged out of their meeting and down into the hallway before they made a turn down the stairs into a dark, hidden room. The demon aimed his noisy kicks at the taller prince with careless precision while frothing at him to fucking let go before he shouldn't fear for his life every time he was asleep. But the threats were as if damned unheard and he gained nothing else but a silence that couldn't even soothe his unsated hunger for chaos.

The door slammed shut behind them and deep, pitch-black onyxes glistered through the darkness with devious mind-play.

"Couldn't wait to have me all to yourself?" the demon prince's lips curled until his white teeth were showing through the tainting smirk.

Hongjoong's back suddenly slammed into the contour of a staircase, arms forced above his head as the weight of drilling blood-red eyes gave him no other choice but to stay put. Groaning at the sudden impact, the demon's brows gathered while his eyes squeezed shut with a gut-twisting delight, smiling smugly. 

He breathed like he was out of breath, "I take that as a yes."

"Shut up, demon," the vampire prince growled and let his hands tighten around the demon's wrists instead.

"Oh, make me, bloodsucker," Hongjoong giggled until a knee jabbed straight into his groin and made his breath tumble into a coughing mass.

The vampire punched him in the stomach then, making him jolt forward, forehead right into the other's chest, more than silenced.

"You know that's not why I dragged you here." The prince's voice was cold and firm and eerily also quite a lot relieving in some sort of sickly twisted way that could make Hongjoong puke his dinner right up again. And he fucking basked in the feeling like some starving man.

"Why then?" he forced out a sly smile and strained his neck to look up at the much taller prince.

But Prince Mingi only stared blankly down at him. Not even his eyes moved from where they fixed on the tip of his dainty little nose. Hongjoong felt fantastic though the emotions swirling around the other weren't strong enough for him to feed off.

His head tilted a little to the side while his smile broadened, "Oooh yeah, the fishes' lil' supposedly solution of breaking the curse... yeah no, that's surely not gonna work if you ask me."

"What do you know of that?"

When Mingi leaned forward, Hongjoong lifted his hands and warped his clinging fingers around the other's shoulders, tugging them closer. But the vampire didn't budge. Giving a sly smile, the demon prince gave up his work of pulling and instead, let a few of his fingers dance up the length of his neck, brushing against his cold skin with the lightest of tension.

"But I'm sure that you're more than willing to give their solution a little try.." the demon moved his mouth from the vampire's right side to his left, slow breath blowing against a skin he sensed was prickling, "Especially if that brings you back to your bitch-"

Hongjoong's gasp strangled in his throat before he got to finish his sentence, Mingi cutting off every possible access to air when he clamped around the devious prince's gorge.

"Do not call Yunho that!" the taller prince hissed through drawn fangs, red eyes giving his skin a faint pink glow in the darkness whenever Hongjoong looked up after he had clenched them shut.

"No?" he coughed, "But I am right, yeah?"

His jaws tensed at his sass for a long moment until his mouth closed with a deep sigh. Suddenly Prince Mingi pulled off and turned to look away from him. Air rushed down his lungs again, filling his being with whirls of emotions the other prince printed in the room. It tasted sugary. 

The demon found his throat and started massaging the red marks with soothing fingers, "See, you don't really believe that nonsense is true, hm? We devious creatures do not fall in love. It's rather called obsession. And I'm sure you know everything about that.."

Hollow steps had Hongjoong lick his lips before he gathered himself and silently followed the other further into the darkness.

"So, you do not wish to escape this castle?"

Squinting his eyes, the demon prince scrutinized the hind of the vampire's head, momentarily glancing up at the rubies sitting in his crown. Then he shrugged, uncaring if the other saw him or not, "I don't really care."

Speckles of dark dust spread around the taller prince as Hongjoong deformed and twisted around to stand right in front of the other, "But you, huh? Miss your daddy? Or are you just too nervous that your bitch will attach himself too much to sweet Prince Wooyoung if we don't get out of here soon?"

A hiss caught in Mingi's throat as he seemed to swallow every feeling of irritation. It had Hongjoong grin up at the troubled expression he saw in the darkness.

"I guess I'm right then."

Suddenly Prince Hongjoong's smirk was torn off his face when rough hands shoved him back into a stone pillar, making him groan in pain when his elbow, followed by his shoulder and head, slammed into the hard surface. He hadn't seen it coming when the vampire had looked so adamant about forcing away his burst of anger - but he played his cards well.

Hongjoong smiled crookedly up at the other prince when he had him pressed up against the cool surface, the heels of his loafers bumping against the pillar, "Let me guess, you're scared that Prince Wooyoung's pregnant with Yunho's child?"

The vampire let out a nasty snarl, shoving his tiny body impossibly further into the pillar and making his spine pop. The demon groaned loudly through clenched teeth without breaking their eye contact a single time. No doubt Mingi could crush him entirely.. with only one hand if he wished to do so.

"How is it even possible that every time you open your little defiant mouth only brainless gibberish seems to come out?" grabbing his chin between long fingers, Mingi tilted his head back until his crown scraped against the stones with a sudden jarring sound., "Is it just your personal streak of flaw or are all demons like this?"

The demon prince's mouth fell open with a silent moan when his throat was entirely bared for the taller male above him.

"Please," he purred, "Now you're just flattering me."

Seeing how the other's upper lip curled with distaste, Hongjoong chuckled. His dark eyes secretly split and enshrouded the vampire's head with sizzling heat. Suddenly Prince Mingi shifted closer, his fingernails digging into his chin and his other hand fisted into the black locks on the hind of his head, ravenously pulling at his scalp. Hongjoong hummed wickedly at each good yank, eyesight rolling around when the vampire's middle pressed against his.

"Do you like my personal flaw this much it has you grind your dick up against me?" he taunted, resulting in Mingi giving his hair an even stronger pull.

For a moment, the prince actually feared he would be taking strands of hair out. However, when the other's pointy nose pressed to his neck, he already let the worry rest and let his own arms stretch around the Mingi's broad shoulders. A button popped on his black shirt, but the demon barely even registered the nimble fingers pulling the fabric apart to make way for even more skin when the vampire prince was nosing along the very prominent veins running from behind his ear and along the tendons down to his collarbone.

He rasped a shallow breath, taking in how red orbs licked down his throbbing pulse, "Are you still resisting me?" Hongjoong whispered breathlessly.

Mingi didn't answer him when the intensity of all his swirling energies suddenly escalated the more buttons popped open. The black, crinkling fabric slowly slid down his naked shoulder and fingertips caressed him like was he just waiting for the right fucking moment to eat him whole and alive. When a tongue suddenly pressed flat against him and unhurriedly dragged up his neck, flicking his tendon up to his ear where his nose nestled behind it - Hongjoong drew out a reaction he could not even remember when he had last done.

Hongjoong tensed when the vampire parted his lips and let his fangs scrape over his fair skin.

"Mingi, wait."

Urging desperation coiled within him when the taller prince had him hook his pointer fingers behind his head while the pointy teeth pressed a pattern down along his neck. The demon prince stomped his foot down at Prince Mingi's when he didn't fucking stop.

"You can't drink my blood, it'll get you killed!" he hissed at the other, yet not fully trying to pull him away.

A bored look raised to his level, making Hongjoong's heart skip a beat at his coming words, "And honestly, what should you care?"

What the fuck was happening?

The demon prince was at a loss for shrewd remarks or snappy comments as he was more than stunned at how maddening right the vampire prince was.

Mingi's fangs drilled deep down under his skin where black blood coursed through his throbbing body. Hongjoong swallowed his whimpers when his teeth twisted around until blood spurted out of the breakage and was licked up by the other. His hands quickly adjusted a new clutch around Prince Mingi's shoulders as his head rolled to the side, teeth clenching with all-new excitement. Fuck.

His arousal in his pants responded the second Mingi shifted impossibly closer, straining against the thigh that teasingly rubbed against him. But with the amount of blood leaving his body at once, Hongjoong's conscious mind swerved between the prickling sensation of his fluids being sucked out of him and the sudden crammed need of getting off.

Parting his lips, the prince squeezed his eyes shut when the vampire hoisted him further up the stone pillar until his feet dangled in the air and his crotch pressed against the other's hipbone. Hongjoong's breath punched out into the air, blending with the wet growls against his stained skin. It didn't make any sense. Mingi shouldn't find his blood so addicting when it was literally pure poison he was filling himself with.

Unhingedly letting himself swallow so much that he couldn't keep up with the flow and liquids suddenly ran from his mouth and splashed against the floor until his limbs started trembling, making his strong hold slip from Hongjoong. Wobbly, Hongjoong stumbled back to the ground, falling right into Mingi when the dizziness hit him hard and they both tumbled to the floor.

His night vision faded.. Everything turned pitch black.

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