Author's Note: This story depicts graphic lesbian sex, female masturbation, incest between twin sisters, vampirism and mind control. If these topics do not interest you or are prohibited in your area please back out now.
This is the eighth installment of a long story. Those that have read my other stories will know that I tend to have some story behind the sex so if you're looking for a quickie this story may not be to your liking.
My apologies to those who have been awaiting the next chapter. Sometimes life has a way of getting in the way. I hope this latest installment of Vala's journey will be worth the wait.
For those of you that haven't backed out, I hope you will enjoy my words.
~CD
Chapter Eight
Another Time...
Berlin, German Empire, 1913
Rae sat on the small balcony and looked out over the darkened skyline. Night was well down over the city and all was peaceful, or at least as peaceful as a city the size of Berlin ever got. There was no one walking on the streets below and the last streetcar had passed over an hour ago. Somewhere off in the distance she thought she just caught a hint of music. Not constantly, just intermittently, a snatch of melody when the wind was just right. It made her smile. Life. The night was alive if you knew where to look and were patient. Rae knew where to look and over the last three centuries she had come to know patience well.
Her eyes drifted slowly, almost hesitantly up to the stars overhead. The air was crystal clear tonight and they gleamed brightly, exactly the same as they had always been. The same as they had on that first night she had lain with Vala all those years ago.
She held out her hand and studied it in the darkness. Smooth and flawless as a newborn babe. She knew it should not be so. Years of hard work growing up in the lumber camps with her father had left her hands rough and scarred in many places. But the scars were all gone, just as her former life was. Thoughts of her former life made her think of her father and a familiar lump formed in the back of her throat. It was a lump long softened by time, but it was still there.
She blinked back a single tear and thought,
Can it really have been three hundred years since you died, Papa? Has all this really happened to me?
She wondered for not the first time what her father would think of her if he could see her now. Sitting on the balcony of the huge mansion in the heart of Berlin, only a few blocks from the Kaiser's Palace, wearing a beautiful gown and jewels that cost more than small town. A proper woman of court, a Lady... a Vampire.
Her predator's hearing picked up a whisper of movement from inside her rooms and she turned to look. Even with her superior night vision she could only see a dim shape moving through her rooms in her direction. She didn't bother to get up, even without seeing the face she knew who it was. After three centuries together she knew the way the woman moved all too well. "Come join me Vala, the night is beautiful." Rae called softly.
Vala walked out onto the balcony, smiled at Rae and went to stand at the railing. She breathed in deeply, held it for a long moment the let it out with a contented sigh. "Yes, it is lovely." She stood there in silence for so long that Rae wondered if she had a reason for coming to see her at all. Did she have news or not?
In the silence Rae studied her longtime friend and lover. Vala was just as breathtaking now as she had been on the day they had first met all those centuries ago. Even dressed as she had been long ago, in clothes that were little more than dirty rags, disheveled and sweaty from helping out with chores at the lumber camp she had still been beautiful. Her hair had shown like spun gold and her eyes were as deep as midnight. Rae hadn't been initially been attracted to her in any physical way. Before that first night together she had never even considered lying with another woman. But even so, she had been able to appreciate Vala's great beauty on that first day so long ago.
But now... now... Rae couldn't help herself from staring at Vala. Since her transformation into a vampire all those centuries ago, Vala had somehow grown even more beautiful as the years and decades rolled slowly past. Standing there at the rail, dressed in an expensive gown, wearing fine jewelry, her long hair brushed until it gleamed in the moonlight she was more achingly lovely than any other woman Rae had seen in her long life.
The silence dragged out for several moments as Rae admired Vala silently while waiting for her to continue. Eventually the silence outlived even Rae's long practiced patience and she clucked her tongue in irritation, "Well?" she prompted.
"Yes?" Vala asked distractedly without looking over.
Rae tried without much success to suppress her irritation, "Did the Mistress come back with any news?"
Vala sighed again but this time Rae could detect a hint of strain in her voice. "Yes."
Rae waited for several long moments and was just on the verge of another prompting when Vala spoke again.
"War."
"War?" Rae breathed disbelievingly. Could it really happen? Yes, she chided herself. Of course it could happen. It had happened countless times in the past and it would undoubtedly happen countless times again. But it had been years since the last major conflict and Rae had grown used to the calm. "What does the Mistress say?"
With a shrug Vala said "That war is coming and soon. Within a year she thinks. She spoke with the Kaiser over dinner and he basically confirmed it. Of course he rambled on for hours about the glory and valor of battle and the gallantry of men and the honor of the Empire and all that nonsense. But she finally got him to admit that yes, plans are in motion and that war is coming, soon."
"When?"
"That part is not certain. Not yet, that is all he would say. She got the impression that they weren't ready yet but that's just her speculation."
