Ch. 1: I've Missed You
Miranda was a special woman; she was perpetually 24 years old. Not because of plastic surgery, but because she was half vampire and half succubus. Miranda was despised by the vampire community because she could not turn someone into a vampire, she could only drink their life energy or their blood, killing them. The only way she could bring another life into the world was through her succubus side, which was no easy feat. Succubi need a lot of sperm collecting to get them pregnant, but even then her vampiric undead womb may prevent that from happening. Regardless, she had an insatiable sexual appetite. Humans are just like glasses of lemonade; they're wonderful refreshments but only made her thirstier. A true satisfier was her partner, Virgil.
As an incubus, Virgil could shape-shift into anybody or anything, but he preferred to be a 27-year-old male with short, light brown hair, a strong jaw and dimples covered in eternal 5-o-clock shadow. His dark brown eyes had a depth of color to them, a purple undertone that captivated anyone who gazed into them, even men.
The two of them together wore timeless clothing, but in the winter their pea coats, hats and boots disguised them. They enjoyed their walk through the night in the city of London,, arm in arm, breathing in the cold air as flurries blew against their colder cheeks. While Virgil ganderd at the women who walked past, Miranda could hear the hearts beating -- Ba-dum ba-dum in the people passing by. She could see their red cheeks and red noses glaring at her, the warmth leaving their fingertips into their torso, the down-feather coats keeping in all the heat to keep their hearts pumping warm, thick blood. Virgil nudged her with his elbow to snap her out of whatever she was thinking. She looked up into his eyes (oh, so gorgeous!), he raised his eyebrows slightly at her and looked forward; She blinked her eyes tightly and kept her composure.
"Virgil darling, I hope we're almost home. All this walking has me parched." Miranda said in her British accent.
"Patience my precious; I assure you we've only a few blocks more. You're going to be thrilled." Virgil replied.
"It better be, what with all this glorification you speak of. Oh, how I'll miss our ranch in America." She commented. Virgil remained silent, smiling to himself. He reminisced on good times in an abandoned shelter; privacy, yet vulnerability.
"Here we are, as I promised," Virgil announced as he fumbled with the lock. He opened the door of a two-family apartment and went up the stairs. They creaked underneath their feet. He opened the next door; it was indeed an improvement from the literal barnyard they squatted at in America. The furniture was already moved in, from the cashmere rugs to the ultra suede couch, Virgil went through his phases of interior decor to suit the ages, but remained his taste for lavish goods. For once he picked something they could both agree on. Even otherworldly men had bad taste.
Whether it was some sort of instinct, or she was just savagely horny, Miranda lurked into their new bedroom. The king-sized bed just barely fit with two mahogany dressers.
"Ehh, I see the cowhide rug is still along for the ride." Miranda said to herself a little too loudly, dropping her British accent, back to her natural slurry American one. Her words sound like a cat purring with the rhythm of a jazz tenor saxophone; seductive, yet interesting.
"Oh, posh! As eef you don't loike 'im!" Virgil laid on the British to a comical thickness.
Miranda slid off the muff from her arm and smacked him in the chest with it as she smiled big without audible laughter. She threw it on their bed.
"So..." Miranda purred. "I do believe it's time for a house warming party." She proposed while unbuttoning his wool coat.
"Yes, indeed." Virgil spoke like a snake, super smooth, with a booming, testosterone-fueled bass powering every word like a staccato. Every word was deliberate. Every word emphasized, sounding precisely picked, as if rehearsed, but that snake tongue smoothed over any hesitation or in-a-can predictability. It wasn't rehearsal, it was centuries of experience.
"However," Virgil interrupted as she was on the last button. "I do believe you are parched." Virgil rubbed the back of his hand along her pale, cold cheek and presented a pint-sized glass bottle filled with blood. "I warn you, it may be a tad cold."
His words blurred out of Miranda's ears as she snatched it out of his hand before he even finished his words. She twisted off the Bat-winged top and chugged. The blood was in fact cold, but the consistency remained thick and velvety like a runny egg yolk. She licked her lips and thanked him, embarrassed for not thanking him before the drink. She looked in to his kaleidoscope eyes with her light brown and pink eyes. They were large and shiny, lined black underneath, not from eye liner, but from excessive bottom eye lashes. As a vampire-succubus she was exceptionally alluring. Her eye size and color made her look cute, to the point of gullibility, but the stares she gave with them indicated otherwise. Her eyes made women envious, but magnetized male prey.
"How about we down-size the house warming," Virgil pushed her hair behind her ear, bent down to it and hissed. "...Into a bedroom-warming party."
The words froze Miranda, her undead heart skipping a beat. Virgil was full-bred incubus, and quite possibly a thousand years older than she, maybe even older. It was evident in his powers of seduction. While Vampires were only pretty to attract prey, a full succubus or incubus is born for sexual pleasure, their abilities rely on their physical appearance, only getting more and more exaggerated through years of strength by soul-sucking prowess.
Virgil smiled wryly. "I'll take that as a 'yes'." He sat her down on their bed and kneeled down to begin unzipping her knee-high boots. She took her coat off and pulled her turtleneck over her head. Her C-cup breasts were contained in a cleavage-showing bra. It wasn't a push-up bra, that's just the way her breasts looked. The boots were off, showing her black opaque stockings under a knitted pencil-skirt. She slid the skirt off her 37" hips. The stockings were full, going up to her waist.
"Oh come now, one can't have drinks without dinner. I hope you didn't think of resisting me this evening." Virgil teased as he rolled the stocking off with his manicured fingers, gliding down her porcelain thighs, moving constantly as they collected more fabric underneath them. Running along the side of her knees, then her shapely calves, and finally at her delicate ankles, he reveled in her beautiful legs. He yanked off the collected fabric off her curvy feet and held them in his hands as he remained kneeling on the floor.