Books, Blood, and a war for Bliss (open)

[Alice Tudor]

( I can't tell the difference between them all! XD; I'll just start calling them creatures..LOL! I'm sorry I suck at remembering and telling the difference... even though I can just... read... )

At least he had gotten the sylph that was feeding off his hand off himself, taking his hand from his pocket and stumbling slightly as he headed towards the nightstand. Holy crap, that creature had one heck of a ... well it did a number on him. It made his head ever so light headed, and it made him ever so happy. No only that, it made something else... well. He wasn't going to think about that, or at least he'll try not to think about it. Grabbing the necklace from the nightstand, he held it out towards Adrian, his blood starting to run down the necklace strap.

"Be..because those things.. are doing something. Sssuure they're ... healing.. I think and... making things oh s..soo... hahaa... happy... " Shaking his head quickly, he couldn't imagine how Adrian must be feeling especially since his words were starting to slur only after one lick from the creature. He quickly held his hand out again towards Adrian, trying to emphasize that.. maybe they did need help right now.

[Taylor]

(Lol since I made them up... and haven’t given them a name... thats entirely reasonable... its just a sylph would be very offended if it heard John say that... )

Adrian Reached out for the necklace, his face a mask of innocent delight. But the drug twisted it somehow. And the blood just made him look a little creepy. He took it and opened the lid, calling to the Undine that resided in it. ”The Uneens –an playtoo!” He laughed hysterically as he said it, the drug in the saliva of these parasites was overwhelming... he was free of most inhibitions.

Responding to his call, an Undine emerged from the vial. This time she took in her surroundings in an instant and immediately took action, not with the calming nature that was specific to water, but with all the anger of a waterfall, a flash flood, and a tidal wave. Immediately the bloody water in the pool was teeming with motion as vaguely female figures burst from it, launching themselves at the parasites and dragging them back into the pool.

In an instant everything was wet, Adrian was left standing with an insipid smile on his face, and only one Undine was left. She drew up the water as she looked over both John and Adrian. She revealed herself to John, in all her glory, increasing her size as she drew on the water in the pool as well as the power of her sisters. Eventually she stood at roughly John’s height.

She spoke then, with a voice that was no long filled with her anger, each word was pronounced specifically, each syllable made clear, and yet it all seemed to run together. Her voice had a calming affect that washed over the two boys... for any man in her presence was a boy.

”You have aided him we thank you for your assistance Adrian is but a child his pride and anger often lead him where we can not help he often refuses to yield We are grateful I will cleanse you of the taint” she paused then as her form shrank and the bloody water was returned to the pool. ”You will feel pain when Adrian spoke of his first encounter he compared it toOh God, the worst hang over I have ever had... which isn’t saying much, because I’ve only gotten drunk like twice, but all the same I would take those times and add them together and then subtract the nausea and multiply the headache 10 fold” Her voice replicated Adrian’s perfectly.

Adrian almost jumped, and opened his mouth confused, trying to catch up with the words that sounded like he had spoken them.

The Undine turned back to Adrian, ”You my child will feel something hundreds of times worse if the taint would allow a slow recovery would be better but I will not suffer the taint in you. She approached Adrian and stepped into him, her form breaking up and flowing into his remaining cuts, leaving the water behind and taking only her purest essence. Another woman who looked remarkably similar emerged from the water, taking care to leave the blood behind. She approached John and bowed implying that she wished to do the same.

[Alice Tudor]

Quite honestly, if John did not know about Adrian's friends, he would have thought he was tripping out as water soaked everything and then went back into the pool from whence it came. It didn't help his senses either when a female appeared in front of him, having appeared to be the same height as he and grown from something...smaller? He wasn't sure at the moment. All he knew was she was purdy...

He leaned forward slightly as her form shrank once more, looking to Adrian as he heard his voice. Thing was, his lips weren't moving. Quickly looking back to the small woman who spoke to him before, her lips were moving, imitating Adrian's voice. That... was just awesome. Of course, if he were to say any of this out loud, he would quite literally make a fool of himself. Hence why he was keeping his big mouth shut for now. He had grinned a bit as Adrian jumped, being just as confused as he was for a moment about where his voice came from. When the undine had went into his cuts, though, John's jaw dropped a bit.

When another woman who looked remarkably similar to the one before emerged from the water and bowed to him, a grin slipped on his lips once more and he held his hands out, opening his big mouth. "It would... be my pleasure, miss~" Letting out a laugh at the end of his sentence, it was obvious that.. he too was intoxicated by whatever the creatures did to him. That mixed with his flirty nature was not a good thing.

[Taylor]

The second Undine was less powerful than the one bound directly to Adrian, she couldn’t actually communicate with John, but she responded to his flirtation in kind, walking up invisible steps to carress his face before she pressed herself provocatively against him and lost shape as her true body flowed down his arm and into the cut on his hand.

Adrian, lost without his Undine to focus on, looked to John, he hadn’t yet started to feel the cleansing affects of the Undines powers and didn’t posses much in the way of inhibitions or any other deterrents. So he went over and leaned against John, pressing his face into the taller mans chest. ”I like John... John... John.” He felt the name on his tongue, then looked up curiously as he smeared his blood on his clothes, ”Is that short for Johnothan?” He rested his chin at the top of Johns sternum. ”I like John” He repeated himself, but now sounded much more complacent as he began to feel lethargic, the first sign of his withdrawl as the Undine removed the drug from his veins.

Apparently the drug was easy to locate in his body... simply because there was so much of it. He backed up as blood and clear pus was expelled from his cuts. It made him strangely sad to see it, but when he looked at John... he wasn’t so sad anymore.

[Alice Tudor]

"Ooh." Blinking his eyes a bit as he felt the undine flow into his hand, he looked to Adrian who had ...somehow gotten in front of him without him noticing. What surprised John more was that Adrian had leaned against him, pressing his face into his chest and smearing blood upon his shirt. John tried to blink his eyes once more, trying to make sure this all just wasn't an illusion. He lifted his hand to the back of Adrian's head, trying to hold him steady in case he somehow got... well, he just wanted to hold him. His excuse would be because Adrian was getting "wobbly" and was going to fall down. If he needed an excuse.

"No.. it's.. just John. Well.. might.. have been short for.. Johnothan but... John is better." He reluctantly let go of Adrian as he backed up, though, slowly holding his hand out and looking at his own cut. So that was what was going to come out of his cut? Well... not as much, he hoped. He did not... get.. that infected with the taint did he? Whatever that was. Looking back to Adrian, he motioned over his shoulder to his bed. "Best you lay down, eh, Adrian?"

[Taylor]

Adrian shook his head and wrapped his arms around John not wanting to leave him. If he lacked inhibitions he probably wouldn’t leave Johns side when he was thinking straight, but the implications and the harassment he feared kept him from doing so... especially if his parents ever found out. ”I don’t wanna” The pus continued to seep out with his blood from the remaining openings in his flesh, upon closer inspection it was the saliva of the creatures, being ejected from the bloodstream as well as anything else it had leeched into. If anything leached out of John, it would be nothing like as much as Adrian... but that was if the Undine could ever find it.

He repeated himself again as he nuzzled at John. ”I like John” He pressed his head against John, trying to do something about the pressure he could feel building there. It wasn’t much now, and even though Adrian didn’t know it... the pain would escalate... and quickly.

[Alice Tudor]

The taint that was in him was... well, probably much smaller than that of Adrian's and might be even harder for the undine in him to find it. He didn't mind if she found it or not, as long as ... well, nothing serious happened to him. Feeling a blush come to his cheeks as Adrian nuzzled against him, John had swallowed lightly. He was trying with all his might not to give into the urges that he was having right now. He slowly moved over towards the bed, keeping a hold on Adrian as he did. "Well, John says let's..get you to the bed... "

When he had finally made his way there, he sat down, kind of falling backwards since adrian was pushing against him. Blushing more from this, John let out a sigh. "Oh what did I get myself into this time..." He muttered quietly to himself. Not to say he wasn't enjoying it he just... he just kind of felt like this was the wrong circumstance for this sort of thing. Let alone, he still wasn't sure if... Adrian felt the same about him. He wasn't even sure about his own feelings. But who said anything would happen? He was just watching out for his friend, was all..

[Taylor]

Adrian fell onto the bed with John, laughing. He pressed himself more tightly against John, partially because of a wave of predicted pain that washed over him... Partially because he wanted to. Even as the pain came, so too did a bit of his consciousness, not enough to actually return to normal, but at least to act with a little more intelligence.

He was able to form whole sentences and the slurring was completely gone. ”I suppose that’s best... Beds are comfortable... and ever so useful.” he said in a drowsy voice as he pulled one arm out from John and trailed it across his arm.

Without the fear of being rejected, he was rather forward. He squirmed until his head was closer to Johns. Adrian’s eyes were irritated and the blood vessels were swelled, their color tinted slightly pink. ”I can think of a few things useful about a bed, uses and such with nothing to do with sleeping... of course studying is one of them, but that isn’t really what I meant. A flash of his normal personality showed through, showing not only his regaining some semblance of himself... but also a lack of tact that might or might not have been an affect of the creatures saliva.

[Alice Tudor]

John had grinned slightly, having a playfulness about his smile and grin. Other things than sleeping? Oh he had plenty of ideas for what beds were for. The thing was, they weren't very appropriate. At least, not at the moment. Lifting his hand up to place it gently on Adrian's back, John watched Adrian's pink and irritated eyes, keeping a good eye on his friend. "Really now...? I can too, but I'm not sure this is the right time for anything but you sleeping. Your eyes are irritated and probably want to rest... not to mention you're probably going to feel that horrible hang over soon."

And he would be here to help him through it. It was partially his fault that this happened, wasn't it? He was the one who angered Adrian and... well, for some reason John just felt like this was ..somewhat his fault. He was still upset about what had happened, the way things went down, how Adrian had yelled at him, but ... he stood by what he said. He wouldn't argue with Adrian right now, he just wanted him to be okay. Staying with him until he had his full senses back. Perhaps staying..even longer.. if possible.

[Taylor]

Adrian shook his head, fully intent on advancing on John. But this attitude was somewhat ruined when the pressure inside his skull changed. It wasn’t just pressure anymore there were knives, and not the happy fun kind either. He closed his eyes and bit down on his lip and waiting for the pain to subside as this type usually did, coming with peaks and ebbs. It didn’t though, and with the pain, came the rest of his rationality, though whether it was due to the last of the saliva exiting his wounds, or the pain shocking his mind free... was unclear.

As Adrian reacted the undine pulled itself wand what little taint it could find, out of Johns body. She emerged to see Adrian and John in a rather compromising position. She made a mock gasp inaudible to Adrian and John alike, then played at feeling scorned as she oh so grievously removed the rest of the taint from John.

When it became clear that the pain wasn’t going to go away, Adrian opened his eyes to look at John. When he opened his eyes, a transparent band followed his eyelids up along his eyeball. The undine washed the taint from his eyes, draining the saliva from the blood vessels there, removing what coated the outside. Some of her essence escaped her, creating false tears that would precede those soon to come.

Adrian pulled himself back from John, sitting up and reaching over to scramble through the droor in his night stand. ”You should go.” His voice was carefully controlled as he pulled out a bottle of Advil and tossed 4 pills into his mouth. ”We can talk later... but for now, just go.” He wanted to be alone in his pain, didn’t want to bear down on John, who might be suffering in the same matter, because he had been so high on whatever the hell he had been doing he hadn’t thought to control those... things.

[Alice Tudor]

John felt the pain starting to form in his head as some of the taint was removed from his wound, looking to the undine that had pulled itself and the little taint that was in him from his body. As she made the inaudible gasp and scorned at him, he only winked at her. "Thanks love~"

Turning his attention back to Adrian as he sat up, he noticed the band go across his eyes as well as some tears running down his cheeks. This made a pang of guilt run through John, him keeping quiet as Adrian went to rummage through the drawer. Sitting up himself, he hesitated for a moment. Should he.. listen? Or should he stay and keep watch over his friend? Wasn't he the one who caused most of the problems by showing up in the first place? If he stayed, what other problems would he create... and... would Adrian... let him stay?

Shaking his head of the thoughts, he decided he would take the consequences later. Leaning forward, he wrapped his arms around Adrian's waist, resting his head upon Adrian's shoulder and closing his eyes. He had a smile on his lips, slowly opening his eyes and looking to Adrian out of the corner of his eye. "I'll stay. I know you want me to leave but... I want to make sure you're feeling better before I leave."

Turning his head slightly, he kissed the side of Adrian's head, hoping that might help with some of the pain, though really, what would a kiss do?

[Taylor]

Adrian tensed when John placed his arms around him, but he didn’t quite pull away. He wasn’t opposed to it, quite the opposite. He wanted John to hold him, but at the moment... he was a little messed up. His head was pounding, he was covered in his own blood –admittedly the latter wasn’t actually a problem for him-, he was still feeling a little disconcerted from the creatures... on top of that he was in his boxers. So while he had been aiming for this to happen, this was the wrong circumstance.

When John kissed Adrian’s head however, Adrian flinched back and pulled away. Once again he wasn’t opposed to John kissing him on the side of his head... or anywhere else for that matter. He was reacting for an entirely different reason, because while he was pretty sure he liked John and wanted a relationship with him... any kiss was intimate. Intimacy was foreign to him on so many levels. So all he could manage in response was the aforementioned reaction and a confused what is the matter with you look. People can’t just go around kissing people... thats a gesture for someone deeply meshed in your trust... and he was a guy. Normal people don’t do that.... he did, but he was pretty fucked up as it was.

For all of the time it took him to process that, he forgot about the pain... but it returned quickly with knives in head... and while, admittedly pain and pleasure often had similar meanings to Adrian... at this point in time they had never been farther apart. He winced outwardly as the Undine exited his wounds, pulling with her the rest of the taint, and fled towards her pool... presumably to recover, the only thing she did do, was manage to give Adrian a look that promised he was going to get a long lecture the moment he was feeling better.

Adrian ignored her and looked to John, plastering an almost convincing smile on his face, ”I’m fine, it only hurts a little, it’s just like a bad headache.” he stopped there, afraid he wouldn’t be able to keep his voice steady as the pain got worse. It rose not slowly, but all at once, he winced at one such range as it pushed past his threshold.

[Alice Tudor]

John was slightly surprised as Adrian had pulled away, quickly hiding his shock. He knew that was too soon, he was so stupid to try and push this! Seeing the look on Adrian's face only made him feel worse, and a bit guilty. Really who was he to try and kiss Adrian? He said before that his entire family would be against their relationship,and it was never stated that they in fact did have a relationship. He was pushing, rushing, forcing... a lot of words he did not want for a relationship. Really, he was never sure if he would ever have one, and his flirting and pushing... might have stopped that.

Watching Adrian as the undine exited from his wounds, John had only sighed when Adrian spoke. He was not fine. He knew what the undine had told him. That it was the worse headache he had ever had, ten fold worse than that of a hang over. John had his number of hang overs over the years, and he knew what that pain was. Pointing over towards the pool where the undine had gone to with his thumb, he spoke with a somewhat apologetic and... upset tone. "She told me otherwise. This isn't just a bad headache, and it hurts a lot. If mine hurts this much yours must hurt more. Look I'm.... I'm sorry that I... pushed that.... I know we.. haven't... "

Looking down to his feet, he let his sentence trail for a moment. His arms fell into his lap as he stared down at his feet, trying to find the right words to say. "Neither.. of us have said.. if we want to be in a relationship, or if that is even what either of us is feeling. I could lie to you and say that... that kiss was... just one to... kiss the wound and make it better... which it was but.. it was more than that for me. I think I have feelings for you, and.. if you don't, then I shouldn't have... forced that kiss on you. I can understand if you want me to leave, and if you don't ... have the..same confusing feelings I have. I mean, there is nothing wrong if... we have an attraction to each other... nothing at all... but.. I just..want to make sure you're okay. It hurts ... me to ... know that... you got hurt this badly because of me. If I hadn't have angered you then.. those.. creatures wouldn't have been called and you wouldn't have gotten so hurt.. "

[Taylor]

(I realised I can’t spell the sound that precedes the ch in ouch... so the crossed out ch will have to do)

Adrian took all of a moment to be delighted by what John was saying before he focused once again on his own pain. His body was going a little numb, whether that was a blessing or a curse he didn’t know yet... especially since the pain was focused on his head. It spreading would be fairly unpleasant. ”Thats... great. I really mean it; glad to hear it... but now, now probably isn’t the best time- Ouch. He winced as a lance of pain shot through his head, cutting off everything else he wanted to say and distracting him enough to be a little confused in what he said next. Forgiveness ins’t what you should be seeking right now, I have my pride, you’re the one who just happened to spark it... it is after all the worst of the sins. And the kiss was... yes, or rather no... I mean you didn’t.” He let out a sigh and tried to refocus before he went on, clenching his hands at the pain.

” At the moment I’m a little confused... but I didn’t mind, well I did, but not because it was anything... I mean, I’m a guy. Uhhg grant me my ramblings in this my last hour.” The last bit was an exaggeration, but at the moment he didn’t think it could get much worse. He couldn’t focus, but for some reason he was obsessing about a story he had heard, about someone biting their tongue off while he was in pain... so Adrian was trying really hard not to bite his lip.

[Alice Tudor]

John listened closely as Adrian had began speaking. It was important to listen, and even though Adrian was not necessarily making any sense.. neither was John. He did not understand his feelings, and apparently neither did Adrian. That was okay, though. That was the point of having a relationship, whether it be a friendship, lover, or otherwise. Working things out and not understanding some things in the very beginning. Heck, not understanding might be a part of the relationship for a very long time.

When he saw Adrian's pain get a bit worse, John had patted Adrian's shoulder ever so gently. He stood up from the bed and went to try and find a cloth to soak in cold water. Cold water always helped his headaches, so perhaps the cold water would help Adrian's pain a bit. Since he couldn't find one, at least, not as quickly as he wanted, he looked down to his shirt. He was only wearing a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Looking to Adrian out of the corner of his eye, he sighed lightly before starting to tear a piece off the bottom of his shirt. "Hold on a sec, okay?" Actually taking his shirt off might be..a bit much at this point in time.

Once he had the small piece of cloth from his shirt, he walked to the sink and doused it in cold water. Ringing the extra water out, he returned back to Adrian. He hesitated for a moment before sitting down on the bed and reaching his hand out with the cloth. "It might be best if you lay down. This might sting a bit at first, since its cold, but.. it helps sooth the pain for me. If it doesn't for you just let me know." With that, he placed the cold piece of cloth onto Adrian's forehead, hoping this would help even if just a little bit.