Rick was against the wall powerless to stop the woman he loved from choking him to death. He thought back to when he was doing this to Nessira and began to wonder if this was her way of getting back at him. He struggled to catch his breath as Victoria looked at him with glowing red eyes but just as he was about to black out he saw her expression change and her grip loosen before he fell to the floor struggling for air.
"Oh god... Rick?" She said in her own voice unsure of what had just transpired.
"Cough!" All Rick could do was cough and try to catch his breath.
He was on all fours trying to steady himself as he felt very light headed and hurt from her attack. He looked up at her and tried to reassure her he was alright though the look on his face said otherwise as she fell back on the bed with a look of confusion on her.
"Victoria...cough... are you alright?"
"What is going on, what happened?"
"Long...story..."
"Oh my God Rick," she said dropping to the floor to check on him. "I am so sorry!" She said throwing her arms around him.
For a moment Rick forgot about everything that had happened. In her embrace he felt her warmth and breathed in her scent and had forgotten about everything with Nessira and the woman downstairs in the refrigerator. Everything was perfect again as he had the woman he loved in his arms.
"Please, let me make it up to you." She said before planting her lips against his.
She tasted just as sweet as always and he could feel himself getting hard. He kissed her back placing his hand on her cheek as he wanted nothing more than to take her right here and now. Things began to get hot and heavy as they both fell to the floor as she pulled her shirt off before reaching for his pants pulling them off as she slid her hands in to his underwear. The feeling of her hand caressing his swelling member sent a chill through him until he remembered what was done to him.
"Wait... wait wait wait... we can't." He said pulling away from her.
"But I want you so bad right now!" She said kissing him again unsure why he was resisting her.
"No seriously, we have to stop."
"Why?"
"Because there are things you don't know."
"Like what?"
"Like I am human now, having sex with you could... well kill me."
"What? That doesn't make any sence, how is that even possible."
"Because Nessira... She did this to me, and she's... she's alive in you."
"What?" Victoria said as she thought back to the last thing she remembered.
She could hear the laughter followed by flashes of different things. She saw herself having sex with Rick, followed by images of some Red Headed woman whom he fucked to death. She saw him choking her at some point as well which she enjoyed a little bit they were just flashes and not solid memories.
"It wasn't a dream was it?" She asked.
"No, it wasn't, and it gets worse."
"What did she do?"
"It's what I did."
She looked at him with a worried look in her eye's unsure of what he was going to say to her. "What did you do?"
"I killed an innocent woman, I fucked Nessira thinking it was you, then she took my power before she tricked me again in a dream and she... we fucked again."
Victoria looked at him and he could see the anger building in her eyes until it changed to a guilty look. Rick wasn't sure what she had to be guilty about but now he wasn't sure how to feel or how she was feeling as well.
"Rick I... I need to tell you something."
"Anything."
"I killed someone as well."
"What? When?"
"The night we used that spell on the Johnson's, I went and invaded some guys dreams and... sucked the life out of him.
"Why?"
"Because I had to, I was starving and what we were doing wasn't working, I had to so something."
"Why didn't you just tell me?"
"Because I didn't want to let you down, I don't want to be a killer, I don't want either of us to kill but it's what we are, and I didn't want to put that burden on you, I have killed before and you hadn't."
"I think we both have plenty to be sorry about, but about Nessira."
"That bitch is going to pay, nobody tricks my man and fucks him." She said standing up with fire in her eyes. "I will cut the bitch out of me if I have to."
"Well first we have to so this ritual, that woman I killed is in the freezer downstairs."
"Oh, you found that?"
"I'm assuming it was for me?"
"Um..."
"Yeah I figured as much, anyway there is a ritual we have to do that will separate you two and place Nessira in to her."
"And then we kill her again!"
"Well..."
"Well what?"
"Nothing, I just don't know what's going to happen when this is over."
"The ritual is pretty standard, as long as the symbols are correct it should be short and sweet."
"How do you know that?"
"Because I've done it before."
"What?"
"I don't want to talk about it."
"No, no more secrets, what happened?"