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She felt his voice wrap around her and pull her in once again....the dead rising in her mind....
Then he touched her....and time seemed to freeze as he pushed her onto the bed and held her there....her mind freezing and finally....she heard a scream, high pitched and bloody painful, one that tore through her eardrums and beat at her very being.
As the scream got louder voices traced through her mind, until the scream mixed with slight laughter and his words echoed at her....'You disgust me....'....then she tasted blood....sweet and tainted with an odd metallic flavor that she knew instantly to be blood.
It was in that moment, when her canines tore through her bottom lip, blood spilling across her chin mixed with a blend of saliva, that she realized who was screaming, and it was at that moment with one hard upward thrust of her legs and her arms did she free herself from under him, and dashed to the bathroom, slamming the door behind her.
She never realized it, and never would unless he asked her about it later in their life together, but the entire time between screaming and laughing she kept muttering a single name, over and over and over and over and over....until it faded away in her voice, and she cried herself to sleep curled up in the bathroom (claw marks dug into both arms in various places and skin stuck under her nails from violent rocking)
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Her mind didn't dream that night. Not once did a thought rush through it, and it wasn't even until the first rays of the morning sun dripped onto her face did she realize she wasn't dead.
She lay there, most of her mind still blank and empty, and slowly ran her tongue on the inside of her bottom lip, where she could still taste fresh blood; it would take a while for a wound constantly attacked by saliva to heal; and it wasn't until she forced herself to roll over did she notice the tears in her arm (the pain of being touched and moved shotting into her body and forcing her to cringe)
As her nerves stopped screaming she allowed herself to relax, and lay there staring up at the ceiling...completely unaware of what had happened last night.

She felt herself wake, stand, and dress, careful to avoid the wounds on her arm. She heard the water running in the shower, and for the first time in her life wished she could see, only to see how badly she had disfigured her face and arms.
The wound on her lip was small, only a small puncture wound showed and the flesh was slightly swollen, but nothing 'disfiguring'. The wounds on her arm were different though, her flesh torn only slightly in some placed, but a solid slice down her arm from the back of both her shoulders and down the front of her arms, long and deep but not that wide, the perfect nail marks; but it wasn't just one mark, it was five perfectly individual lines on each arm.
She felt them with her finger tips, wincing every time she hit a sore spot, the skin directly around the wounds bruised, and she instantly thought against putting the arm wrap on today, it wasn't worth it.
She sat on the bed, and waited for him to come out of the shower while she pulled the wrap around her legs.

She turned to face him, a sharp grin pushed over her lips; a grin that forced the wound to start bleeding slightly again, and she spoke softly and calmly, yet with that same empty cold.
"We need to do something about my arms first, they are liable to get infected....then we can eat."
She didn't wait for a response, since it was more of a command than anything.

She blushed slightly at his voice and his touch, and quickly pushed it aside in order to allow him to examine the wounds....she was silent, taking in his scent and everything else that made him him...then finally spoke, her words actually hurt this time...
"...what happened?"
She felt his pulse quicken, and at that moment wished dearly she could take back the question, but held herself back from doing so.

She grinned slightly, her right hand moving to gently lock around his wrist, and pull him slightly closer to her; her dead eye staring into him.
"You lie, I can taste it."
Her words were cruel and harsh, yet at the same time soft and joking. She didn't care what really happened...
She stood, her body now inches from his, and she sighed softly, just barely loud enough for him to hear.
"Where do we get bandage from?"
By now she was at the door, opening it slowly and waiting for his response.

She stepped aside to let him through the doorway, blushing at the sudden grip on her hand; his flesh warm and soft...and oddly inviting...
She walked with him out the doorway, then pulled her hand free, rubbing it as she walked as if it had been put under some mindless torture.
"Improvise, with what?"
She didn't speak until they were in the lobby, where she dropped the key on the drunkards desk without saying a word.

She stood still a moment, then randomly groped at his outfit until she clung to the leather.
"Why?"
Her question was quick and simple, and she was clearly waiting for a response even as she released his clothing and began to walk again.