Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 18:56:46 -0700
From: Sellar Dhor <sellardhor@gmail.com>
Subject: Evil is a Man: Blood In Blood Out chapter 29

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

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       FEBRUARY 16th


       Vasos's alarm went off in the morning, and though I felt well
rested, Vasos looked like he could barely keep his eyes open and went
straight for the coffee, which was sitting waiting for him outside the
bedroom door.  He then unlocked my bag from his safe.
       I grabbed my things and headed into the bathroom.  Just as I had
started my shower, Vasos barged in again.  This time, I didn't let myself
be startled by his intrusion.  "You couldn't wait again?" I asked.
       "I had to urinate," he said, pulling his huge, olive dick out of his
pajamas and starting to piss into the toilet.  It intrigued me how the
foreskin covered most of his dickhead, leaving just the dickhole free.
       As soon as he was done washing his hands, I said, to him, "Alright,
you can wait in your bedroom for me to finish now."
       "I would, but I'd risk being late for work.  I need to shower right
away."
       "You took a shower last night!"
       "I shower twice a day," he said.
       "Well, I'm clearly using the shower at the moment."
       "It's a two person shower, sort of like the ones at the gyms," he
said, coming into the shower and walking to the other side of the stall,
where indeed I saw a second showerhead on the wall.
       Without even asking my permission, he pulled off his pajamas and
stood behind me in his side of the stall.
       "It's a pretty small shower for two," I said.  "I think this is
really meant as a romantic shower for lovers to share, a far cry from a
functional multi-person shower room."
       "No, it's not that at all, it's totally functional, and is much too
large to be considered a honeymoon shower.  It could be total strangers
that share a shower like this, and they'd never even notice each other."
       He turned on his showerhead, and next thing I knew, he spun around
and jumped towards me, moving quickly out of the spray of the water as if
it had erupted burning acid instead of soft water.  Suddenly, I felt his
naked muscles touching my wet skin.  I felt furry, muscled pecs against my
upper back, his nipples against me.  I felt his fury abs against my lower
back.  I felt his large bush tickle my tailbone.  And most distinctly of
all, I felt his soft, uncut unit against my butt.  The thick, veiny shaft
was totally pressed into my crack, his soft dickhead kissing my hole.
       "Why do I feel your body all over mine?  Why do I feel your dick on
my butt?"
       "Sorry, the water was frigid."
       "You've lived in this wintry city for a long time.  Shouldn't you be
able to handle a little cold water hitting you?
       "It will just take a moment for my water to heat up.  There's
nowhere else to stand besides against you."
       "And what were you just saying about this shower being so big we
could shower without ever getting in anyone's space?  Here, you can have my
warm shower.  I was just finishing anyway."
       I grabbed a towel and left the shower, drying off.
       "Done so soon?" he asked, clearly disappointed.
       "Take your time, I'll just be hanging out in the room."  I grabbed
my things and headed for the bedroom.
       "Wait, don't go!" he said in alarm.
       "Why not?"
       "Because, um, because I need you to scrub my back.  I fear my arms
are far too muscled to reach easily behind me."
       "I'll pass, but I will chip in so you can buy your own back
scrubber."
       I shut the bathroom door and felt good that I had a few moments to
myself.  I got dressed and then pulled out my cell phone, happy that I
still got service, and I walked all the way across the massive room so
Vasos wouldn't hear me.
       I decided to give Ahmad a call, wanting to make sure he wasn't upset
with me for cancelling my visit with him.  It was, what, like fifteen hours
time difference between us.  When he didn't answer, I was worried I had
miscalculated the time difference.  His voice mail came on, and I left a
message.  Better to leave a message then have to talk to him live and risk
him asking me questions I couldn't answer.
       Just as I finished my message, I heard the bathroom door open behind
me, and I spun around, surprised since I still heard the shower running.
       There was Vasos, standing across the room in the bathroom doorway,
naked and soaking wet, his soft dick swining back and forth.  In his hands
was a pistol that looked about a half century more advanced than the ones
I'd used in the Territory, and it was pointed straight at me.  "You move,
and I'll be forced to discharge my Borchardt pistol," he said.  "I knew
you'd try to contact your people the second I turned my back!"
       I followed his gaze to the phone in my hand.  "No, you it's not what
you think.  It was just a harmless little phone call."
       "To who, exactly?"
       Telling him the truth was not an option.  I had already made the
mistake of letting the Logan Blood know about my friends and family, and
wasn't going to tell anyone here about them.  "I just called work to let
them know I'd be coming in to bartend today."
       "You called the Sneg Dvorec's kitchen staff, did you?"
       "That's right."
       "I am looking at your phone, and I can see the name you just called.
Ahmad Achar.  Not exactly the most Carstvo sounding name, is it?"
       "How can you possibly read that from all the way over there?"
       "Your handlers must have not primed you very well if they didn't
warn you that telescopic vision is one of the benefits of being a part of
the Petrov Blood."
       I quickly stuffed my phone in my pants.
       "Hands up!" he said, walking towards me as I raised my hands.  "I'm
placing you under arrest."
       "For using a cell phone?!"
       "No, for espionage."
       "That's outrageous.  I am not a spy."
       "Which is exactly what a spy would say," he said.  "You don't become
the leader of the Ministerstvo by being a fool.  I knew exactly who you
were from the moment you botched my drink.  You have as much training as a
bartender as I do as a circus clown."
       "Okay, so I may have lied about that."
       "Who let you in?  How did you get past security?  Do you have some
sort of mole already in place?"
       "No, nothing like that.  I just lied my way in, that's all.  No one
in your staff knows."
       "You're lying.  When I find out who betrayed me, they will be
punished, let me assure you."
       "Oh, so that's why you made a big fuss and tried to get me fired
last night."
       "I'd do anything to protect my people."
       "And everything you've done since has all been some clumsy way of
keeping tabs on me, hasn't it?  Inviting me to sleep in your room, never
leaving me alone."
       "Everytime you made the slightest movement in bed last night, I woke
myself up.  I knew you'd use any alone time to call your people, and you
just proved me right.  I had hoped I would be able to separate you from
your phone, but when that didn't work, I had to resort to using all my
tricks against you.  Tell me who Ahmad Achar is!  It sounds like it could
be a name from the Shankar Blood.  Is that who you work for?  Tell me!"
       "No, I don't work for them."
       "I knew it, you have an American accent, and you must be a Logan
spy."
       "I most certainly am not."
       "Who is it then, the Bridge?  Or, no, it's the Zhao Blood, isn't it?
We've never gotten along with them, that's never been a secret.  And them
hiring an American spy would only throw us off their scent."
       "I am not a spy.  What can I tell you that would make you believe
me?"
       "You hold your sugar tongue to yourself.  I sentence you to
permanent banishing from our lands."
       "I demand a fair trial," I said.  "Preferably in front of the Tsar."
       "In matters of espionage, I don't need a trial to carry down
sentence, unless I intend to have the spy executed.  Don't try to argue the
law with me, good man."
       "No, if you banish me, I'm as good as dead," I said.  "That's not an
option.  Okay, the truth is, I've been lying to you.  Let me come clean
about who I am, and then maybe you'll believe me.  The man I just got off
the phone with is my college roommate, and he knows nothing of any of this
vampire stuff, and that's the way it's going to stay.  The truth of the
matter is, I've got some weird, activated gene.  I've heard some others in
the Logan Blood call me the One."
       "The One?  So are you saying you're here to kill us?" he raised the
gun directly to my face.
       "No, I mean you no harm!  I'm here because the Logan Blood leader
wanted to kill me, but that's only a choice the Vampire Council can make.
So, I have two years to notify all heads of Bloods that they need to
reassemble the Council and vote on my fate, or else I die anyway.  That's
why I snuck in as a bartender, because I hoped it would bring me to the
Tsar."
       Vasos narrowed his eyes.  "I don't believe you.  You've been lying
from the start, so nothing you can say will ever sway me."
       "I swear it's true!"
       "If you want me to believe you, you're going to have to stop with
your empty assurances and prove yourself to me with actions."
       "You want me to prove that I'm the One?  How am I supposed to do
that?"
       "I don't know, do something One-ish."
       I had no idea what he was talking about.  "Well, I guess I can't age
anymore."
       "Shall I lock you away for a couple decades and see if you get any
gray hair?  Nope, that's not going to convince me."
       "Oh, I know.  They say my blood tastes unique somehow.  I can't
believe I'm saying this, but here."  I held my hand up to his face.  "Bite
me."
       He took a deep whiff of me, surely smelling my bloodtype, and his
fangs popped out.  I looked away as he bit into my wrist and started to
feed.
       "Oh my god!" he yelled as the blood hit his lips.  At the same time,
his dick, which had been nothing but soft every time I had seen it,
suddenly went rock hard and jutting out in a matter of a half a second.  I
could not believe a penis could act that fast, and it actually ended up
hitting me in my shirt.
       Finally, he got back in control and pulled away from me.  He noticed
the state of his dick, grabbed it, and turned away from me.
       "Sorry, didn't expect to lose control over my anatomy like this.
Your blood is something else."
       "See?  Just as I told you.  I am the One."
       "But I've never heard that having this special blood is a One
trait."
       "What else could explain this?"
       "You could be some new bloodtype," he said.  "Something I've never
tasted before."
       "Well, what's something that you know would only be true about the
One?"
       "Well, one thing's for sure, I wouldn't be able to glamour the One."
       "Glamour me?  That's not just a Logan Blood ability?"
       "No, all vampires have it.  If you're a normal human, I should be
able to glamour you.  Make you do as I instruct.  If your claim is true,
you should be able to withstand my instructions."
       "Yes, try to glamour me then, that will prove my case," I said.
       "Right now?"
       "Yes."
       "As you wish."
       Next thing I knew, the wet, naked man took me roughly in his strong
arms and kissed me hard on the lips, while at the same time, pushing me
backwards onto the bed and landing on top of me, grinding his hard dick
against my shirt, getting me wet with his furry muscles.
       "Whoa, what are you doing?" I asked, breaking the kiss.
       "Oh, I'm sorry," he said.  "Are you one of those types that dislikes
the kissing and just wants to get straight to the sex?"
       "No, I'm actually a big fan of kissing."
       "Wait, you're not a top, are you?  Because if so this will never
work."
       "No, I'm not a top."
       "Then what's the problem?"
       "Can't you just bite me?  Why does there need to be sex involved?"
       "I can't glamour someone unless I bite them during intercourse.  I
didn't make up vampire physiology, that's how it works for all of us."
       "And are we sure that me having sex with you is the only method
you'll be convinced I'm the One and agree to help me?"
       "That's right.  If you'd rather not, I understand entirely.  I'll
simply have you tossed out of my lands with haste."  The way he said it, it
actually sounded like he would prefer the latter option.
       "Alright, I'll do it.  Let's make this as quick as possible.  Do you
have any lube?"
       "Of course."
       "If we use a lot, hopefully I won't feel much pain.  I can just lie
down and read while you do your thing, and I'll try not to think about it."
       "No, I think you're missing entirely what glamouring really means,"
he said.  "This is not just about me using your body to get myself off.  In
order for the trance to take effect, you have to be sexually pleasured
too."
       "Oh, I do?"
       "Which means you absolutely need to orgasm during our union.
Otherwise I'll never be able to glamour you."
       "Hmm, I might be able to make that work," I said, thinking I'd jerk
myself off during the whole deal.
       "Now, someone who was trying to lie to me about being the one would
likely pretend they were enrapt in lust during the sex while really they
felt nothing.  If you were a girl, you'd likely fake your orgasm, so it's
lucky you're not.  But here's what I need from you in order to be sure my
spell is being cast: I want your body to show me how turned on you are, and
most importantly, I want you to come without ever touching yourself."
       I raised an eyebrow.  "Wait a second, that's quite a tall order.
Maybe I had been able to do that when my ex was topping me, but this is
totally different.  I don't know if I can do that."
       "If you cannot do that, it'll be your end here."
       "Now wait a second," I said.  "If I have any shot at doing that, I
need to think of you more like my ex and less like an adversary.  Because,
this may sound weird to you, but to me, a huge part of my attraction and
desire is psychological.  You are a very handsome man with a superb body,
that's not the issue here.  The issue is, I need to feel romantically about
you in order to react so explosively during sex, and right now, that's not
happening."
       "What should I do differently?  We could light some romantic
candles, and I could put on some mood music."
       "No, that's not nearly enough.  I need to get to know you better.
Right now, all I know about you is that you'd do a lot to protect your
Blood.  That's not enough for me to have any feelings for you."
       "I'll make you a deal," he said.  "You have one day.  I'll try to do
everything I can in this one day for you to fall for me.  And at the end of
today, you'll either know if you'll be able to go through with the sex or
not."
       "It's quite a task to fall for a guy in one day," I said.
       "Well, that's all that's on the table."
       "Alright, agreed," I said.  "Of course, there's the risk that even
if we had years to get to know each other, I would never end up falling for
you."
       "We'll have to hope that's not what's going to happen.  You'll have
to give me hints, if you would, about what sort of activities I could do
that would make you properly weak in the knees."
       "I only arrived in the city yesterday, and I barely have seen it.
Why don't you show me your favorite parts?"
       "Yes, agreed."
       "And if some of that involves getting a little exercise, I would be
most appreciative," I said, trying to figure out when the last time it was
that I had worked out.
       "I know just the ticket," he said.
       There was a knock at the door.  "Breakfast, your lordship."
       Vasos rolled off of me and lay on his back in bed beside me.  He
grabbed a pillow and placed it over his genitals, suddenly imagining
himself covered up.
       "Ah, do bring it in, thanks."
       The servant woman came in with a tray of food, the kind meant to
serve someone food in bed, and carried it towards us.  Her quick step
faltered and her face turned red when she reached the bed, and I followed
her gaze to Vasos's crotch area.  He had somehow and unfortunately grabbed
the smallest decorative pillow from his bed to place over his dick, which
was totally inadequate.  Clearly it was the first time this woman had
gotten a glimpse of the large instrument on her boss's body.
       I grabbed the tray from the shocked woman and placed it over his
body, pushing aside the pillow as I covered his crotch much more
effectively.
       "Thank you, but could you in fact get another tray for our honored
guest here?" he asked.
       "Of course, I wasn't aware we had a guest, your lordship."
       "Actually, we have a long day of exercise ahead of us and will be
needing a lot more than this fruit and porridge.  Would you be so kind as
to tell the kitchen to make a full brunch for us?"
       "Right away, sir," she said.
       Vasos was kind enough to share his food with me as a first course of
brunch while the rest of the food was procured, and I have to admit, the
sight of the wonderfully attractive man, covered only by the wooden
breakfast tray, did excite me.  As did the fact that I got to lean over and
eat off his tray, knowing it was just inches from his delicious-looking
dick was sexy.
       During brunch, Vasos and I shared a very nice conversation, the
first we had really had together, as the servants brought more and more
breakfast food for us.
       Later, when Vasos spied me putting on my neat, functional winter
clothing to prepare for being out in the snow, he made a face.  "That
outfit is totally inadequate," he said.
       "Actually, it keeps me plenty warm."
       "That's not what I was speaking to," he said.  "It's not dressy
enough for today.  I think it best that you wear some of my clothes, even
if they are a bit on the large side."
       Since all of my nice clothes weren't meant to withstand the
elements, I had to agree.  Soon, I was dressed in one of Vasos's suits, tie
and all, and I was actually amazed at how more comfortable his nice clothes
were than mine.  I put layers of his coats on until I felt prepared to face
the elements, and then we were off.

       *****

       "I should have known THIS was what you had in mind when you
mentioned exercise," I said as Vasos handed me a pair of skis.  "What else
would a denizen of a city covered in snow and ice suggest?"
       "If you are ill-trained for skiing, I can help you learn," he said.
       We had ridden out in Vasos's warm, heated stagecoach to the edge of
a gorgeous, icy-blue lake.  The city didn't just border the lake, it
encircled it, with large, urban buildings on our side, and smaller,
suburban manor homes on the far shore.
       "I'll make do.  Just please tell me that we won't be tackling any
black diamond runs today."
       "We're not doing any kinds of runs today at all, Jake," he said.
"We're just doing cross country skiing around the lake trails, which are
all pretty much flat."
       "Oh, bless you, Vasos, bless you."
       Cross-country skiing turned out to be much easier to pick up than
perilous downhill.  We skied for many hours, stopping only once halfway
through the day at a sandwich and hot chocolate stand.  But I only fell
down three times, and I was moving a lot slower than in downhill, making
the falls seem like nothing but a minor annoyance.  Vasos offered to teach
me some techniques when we started out, but I really didn't need any.
Interestingly though, it turned out that cross-country skiing was more
physically strenuous than downhill, because I had to do the work that
gravity did before.
       We only passed a couple dozen other skiers that day.  Just before we
reached the end of our trail, we ascended a slight hill, and came to a
place where we had our very best, picturesque view of the lake and city.
The clouds had parted and the light blue skies bathed everything in
gorgeous light, and I was just too moved by it all not to stop and admire
it.
       "This view is awe inspiring," I said to Vasos as he stopped with me.
       I'm not sure if he too felt the same way, or if he looked at the
expression on my face and mirrored my emotions, but when he grabbed my hand
suddenly, I grabbed his back.  And next thing I knew, he was leaning in to
kiss me, and the awe I was feeling about the view turned into romance as I
kissed him sweetly, no tongue needed to share this emotion with each other.
       I felt Vasos embrace me from behind.  "If you love views, I know
just the place for dinner," he said.

       *****

       "Somehow, this city is even more beautiful at sunset," I said to
Vasos as we sat at our table, looking out the huge windows at all the
gorgeous European architecture below us, and the glistening lake beyond.
The dinner restaurant had turned out to be the best one I'd ever been to,
on the top floor of one of the tallest buildings in the city.  Romance was
in the air in the whole dining room, with the place filled with couples.
But Vasos's last name was enough to get us whisked off to our own private
dining room, and I think he got a kick out of how much I loved the views.
       In order to really appreciate them, he had suggested we be seated
side by side at our table, staring out.  As soon as we began eating, he
pressed his strong leg against mine, and I couldn't resist reaching out and
holding his hand from time to time.
       Before dinner, we had both changed clothes from his more casual
suits meant for athletic activities to our formal wear.  For me, that meant
a fancy suit, but for him, that meant one of his fancy, military- leader's
formals, like the one I had first met him in.  I just loved those on him,
and once he had it on, everyone noticed him and nodded respectfully, and
the clothes clearly were meant to be a sign of great position.
       The more we talked, the more it became clear to me that we had a lot
of common interests.  He went over his love of history and architecture,
and I trusted him enough to tell him about my upbringing, though to be safe
I didn't mention which town I grew up in or even that I had a little
brother.
       After dinner, he told me he was taking me out to his favorite place
in the city, and as we rode there in his heated stagecoach, we sat side by
side and held hands, in the same position we had been in during dinner.

       *****

       That's exactly the position we found ourselves in as we reached our
destination, seated side by side holding hands as the lights went down and
the curtain went up on the neatly dressed orchestra beneath us.  Vasos had
led me to the nicest looking old-fashioned European symphony hall I could
have envisioned, right in the heart of the city, and led me to the one of
the best box seats in the place.
       They were playing a Yermakov symphony, not a musician I had ever
heard of, which I admitted to Vasos.  He told me that she was one the most
well renounced Petrov Blood classical musicians.  When the symphony began,
I could see why.  Her music was immediately catchy and accessible, like
Beethoven crossed with Tchaikovsky.
       While we listened together, our hands separated and he put his on my
knee and I put mine on his thigh, rubbing the muscles through his pants.
       About a half hour into the music, I became so moved that I leaned
over and kissed Vasos appreciatively, knowing that our box seats prevented
anyone from seeing us.  This time, when his tongue entered my mouth, I
responded in kind, opening up the kiss and turning it more passionate than
romantic.  His black moustache tickled my upper lip.
       I was surprised when my hand on his leg started to feel something
large and even harder than his thigh muscle.  His unit was pointed down his
pants leg, and clearly our kiss was having an effect on him, sending the
thing snaking down all the way to my hand as it grew.  I excitedly rubbed
the head with my hand through his tight military pants.  I noticed a tiny
bit of precum soaking through at the head.
       And then, even after I broke the kiss and turned back to the stage,
I used my hand to absent- mindedly play with the rod in his trousers as the
music continued.  I eventually got the nerve to unbutton his pants and see
if he would stop me from taking the thing out.
       He didn't object, and I found myself working to pull his dick out.
It wasn't an easy task at all, considering how big and hard her was, and
how tight his pants were, but I was determined.  There were times where I
would have sworn hurt him as I almost forced his dick to bend, but he said
no protests, so I figured it was just one of the benefits of being a
vampire.
       Once I had freed the huge thing, I relished playing with it freely.
The uncut, olive pole was covered in veins.  The purple head was shiny.  I
continued to yank on his unit as the symphony went on.
       I got myself so turned on when I saw his purple head start to leak
precum that I felt particularly naughty.  I looked around, making sure no
one could see us in our box, and then I crawled between his legs and licked
the precum off his pissslit.  Then I went on and kept on licking all over
the purple, swollen knob.
       Soon, I had his uncut head in my mouth, and I played with the
foreskin with my tongue, This caused Vasos to put his hands on the back of
my head and push me farther down and down onto his dick.
        "Oh no!" I heard him whisper sharply to me, and then I could hear
the door of our box opening.
       Frightened, I yanked my head off of his dick and spun around to face
the stage again, as I was supposed to be.  At the same time, Vasos pulled
me onto him, protectively blocking the exposed part of himself.
       Just as two women in fine gowns entered the box, I sat on Vasos's
lap, blocking his exposed unit from sight.  The women nodded hello at us
and then sat down next to us, and our romantic, private box ended there.
They didn't seem alarmed that I was sitting on my date's lap instead of
sitting beside him, perhaps just finding it romantic.  And in fact, the
women were holding hands themselves, so they must have been on a date as
well.  Only now clearly I was stuck in this position until the women left
again.
       Even though my horniness subsided after that, I could feel no sign
that Vasos was any less affected.  Beneath me, I could feel his hardness
push into me from behind, could feel his wet precum soaking through the
rear of my pants.  He hugged me with his arms and pulled my body back into
a spooning position with him.  As I watched the orchestra, he started to
kiss the side of my face.
       And then the music ended, and Vasos still hadn't gone down in the
least bit.
       "Aren't you leaving?" asked one of the women as they faced us on
their way to the exit.
       After Vasos said nothing, I was forced to say, "We're staying just
in case they return for an encore."
       "Oh, maybe we should do the same?" asked one of the women.
       Luckily, they decided against it, and exited our box.
       "That's the second time today I've had to cover up your penis from
female eyes," I said as I jumped off his lap.
       "You make an excellent penis obscurer."
       "Perhaps I've found a new profession.  Can't wait to call my high
school guidance counselor to tell her the good news.  How come you're not
zipping up?  What if they come in here to clean up?"
       "I'm trying, it's just proving impossible with the state of my dick.
Just let me soften up."  It that had been Syd, he would have pleaded with
me to get him off right then and there as the only clear solution to the
problem.  "It would help if you walked out of the box and I'll meet you
there."
       "So you won't be able to see me?"
       "That and I won't be able to smell you."

       *****

       As we got into our stagecoach, which had already been pre-heated for
us, Vasos asked if I was interested in a possibly time consuming but
aesthetically pleasing ride around the lake, and I of course agreed.
       "Oh my goodness, I'm glad we are just lazy passengers tonight
because I can barely walk," I said, stumbling onto the booth seat of the
stagecoach.
       "Were you raiding the bar there when I wasn't looking?" he asked
seriously.
       "No, I resent that allegation.  I'm not intoxicated, it's just my
whole body is in agonizing soreness after spending the day skiing."
       "Ah yes, I forgot that could happen to your people.  You humankind
are such fragile creatures."
       "Last time I skied, I needed a full body massage before I could
function."
       "I might be able to help with that," he said.
       "Are you a skilled masseur?"
       "Not exactly, but I've had one of those before, and might be able to
replicate it.  Why don't you lie down and I'll give it my best."
       "You mean, right here in the stagecoach?"
       "Why not?"
       "Do you have any lotion or anything to rub with?"
       "I have a large bottle of lube that doubles as body oil, so that
should work fine."
       "Alright, deal.  Oh, I know."  I pulled my phone out and started
making selections.  "I have some relaxing classical on here that my ex and
I both liked.  Mozart, Chopin, Bach, Debussy."  The phone started to play
the music, and I set it down.  "Instant car stereo."
       "Lovely," he said.  "Of course, if you want me to massage you,
you'll have to strip down."
       "Are you sure no one will see me?"
       "Quite."
       I began removing and folding my clothing.  After I was naked, Vasos
grabbed my tie and put it around my eyes.
       "What's that for?"
       "So you'll shut your eyes and relax."
       I laid face down on the long bench seat of the stagecoach, which was
large enough for me to lie down comfortably.  The motion of the stagecoach,
the relaxing music of the second movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto
combined with the horse steps, and the soothing smell of the oil all made
me feel very peaceful.  I turned my head to the right, towards Vasos and
the edge of the bench, and got comfortable.
       As he started to massage the oil into my left calf, I realized he
wasn't nearly as skilled with his hands as Parker had been, yet he was good
enough to make me quickly drift off to sleep.
       I awoke again when he was massaging my arms, requiring him to stand
beside me and reach over me.  As he did this, something hard inadvertently
poked me in the face.  Curious, I opened my lips and gave it a lick, but
before I could taste anything, the intruder was gone.
       He finished my arms and went back down my body to work on my right
hamstring, moving his way up my leg.  I felt his oily hands rub all of my
aching thigh muscles.  His hands started in on the muscles of my butt, and
then I felt him rub the oil all along my crack.
       I wasn't expecting him to do anything but rub my hole, but then I
felt surprise as his finger wormed its way inside me.  My first impulse was
to be annoyed, but I realized that the finger really did feel good, and he
was ultimately just doing me a favor by loosening me up.
       When he put two more fingers inside me, I concentrated only on the
pleasure they were causing me.  And then he pulled them out and started
massaging his way up my lower back.  He repositioned himself so that he was
on his knees between my legs.  Once again, I got poked by something hard,
this time in my left buttcheek.  I thought he might have pulled his unit
out of his pants, but the touch didn't feel like skin, but something else.
       He worked his way slowly up the muscles of my back.  When he got to
my lats, he laid down on top of me in order to get high enough.  My first
reaction was concern that he would end up ruining his clothes with the oil
on my body, but then I realized there was nothing but his bare skin against
me.  He must have stripped down when I was asleep, and it felt so good to
have all of the muscles from the front of his body rub into the back part
of mine, all of the fur of his tickling my skin.
       And I definitely felt that hardness again, now totally invading my
crack.  The reason it hadn't felt like flesh before occurred to me: he had
put a condom on.  So, he was expecting more out of this massage than I had
bargained for, did he?  Well, I was so turned on by this incredibly hot man
that I wasn't about to refuse him, especially since I knew it had to happen
tonight at some point.  Instead of in bed, why not take advantage of this
romantic atmosphere?  I stomped out thoughts in the back of my mind that
the fact that he was so quick to use a condom probably meant that he still
didn't trust me about who I claimed to be.  Those thoughts would only lead
me away from being as swept up in passion as he needed me to be tonight.
Instead, I just concentrated on the romance of the moment.
       His hands worked up my shoulders, and at the same time, he used the
oil that filled my crack to help him start to thrust himself up and down
against me there.  And then he stopped thrusting and just held his head
teasingly against my hole.  "Mmm, do you want this as much as I do?" he
asked.
       "More," I lied.
       I felt his lips against mine, and I twisted my head back around
further to accept his kiss.  He invaded me simultaneously with his tongue
as he did his dick, pushing each one inside me with gusto.
       And that's when the awful pain cane back, and flashes of being
literally torn apart by Jericho's penis invaded my mind.  I knew the level
of pain I was feeling wasn't logical, but it still affected me.  I felt
myself start to go soft, which I knew was totally unacceptable, so I
quickly shut my mind out to his touch, and not being able to see him only
helped my efforts.  I mentally went back to Parker, I focused on Parker's
sweet smile, and his wonderful body, the warmth of every single kind of his
touches, from the innocuous to the sexual.  And Parker kept my other demons
at bay, and my dick hardened again, the pleasure finally taking root, and I
could quickly focus on the pleasure he was creating in my prostate.
       Vasos gave up all pretense of a massage and instead used his arms to
cradle me from behind, definitely the right move as far as my body was
concerned, something Parker would have certainly done, and I still blocked
Vasos out of my mind and instead replaced him with Parker.  His thrusts
were just gentle enough to keep me from feeling pain, to keep me from
realizing just who it was I was bottoming for, and my pleasure increased.
       He broke our kiss and devoted his full concentration on the thrusts
of our lovemaking, grunting softly with every horizontal movement.  I
concentrated on the slap, slap noise his balls were making against my own.
I felt him reach around and grab my dick in his hands.
       "Yes, see how hard I am?" I asked him.  "I can't fake the pleasure
you're creating in my body."
       "Mmm, that drives me wild," he said, using that as an excuse to
increase the rhythm of his strokes.  But he still kept his hand on me
there, making sure I stayed hard and perhaps making sure I wasn't rubbing
myself on anything.  Clearly he didn't want any stimulation there.
       Our lovemaking continued on like that for twenty minutes or longer
before he became fully convinced that I wasn't faking my pleasure.  It was
difficult to keep focused on Parker the whole time, but somehow I managed
it, and the fact that he spoke very little to me helped the illusion
immensely.  Only then did I feel his fangs enter my throat.
       The last time a vampire that had bit me under positive, willing
contexts was Parker, and I could feel his same fangs in my throat even now.
I let the pleasure of the bite roll over my whole body, noticing it had a
subtly different flavor to it than Parker's sweet bite had held, but
quickly pushing that potential fantasy breaker aside.  As my lover drank
from the wound on my throat, my whole body ignited with his fire.  When he
pushed himself hard inside me, I pushed back equally as hard.
       I was the first to reach my climax, erupting in his hands.  "Yes,
that's it, that's exactly it!" yelled Vasos happily, letting that set him
off, and at the same time, totally breaking my spell.  But I had
accomplished what I needed to, and I felt sweet relief.
       He shouted as he started to come as well, pouring seed into his
condom.
       He shut my wound.  Our rapid breathing slowed down as he lay there
on top of me for a while, holding me, again making the right choice.  After
a few minutes, he pulled up off me.
       "Can I remove the blindfold?" I asked.
       "Indeed."
       I pulled my necktie from off my head and watched as Vasos pulled off
his condom, his muscled glistening with sweat.
       He looked at me in the eye.  "I want you to hop up on one foot and
quack like a duck."  He seemed stone cold serious.
       "Please tell me that's not the standard behavior you expect from
your partners after making love."
       He squinted his eyes.  "Jake, I command you to do it!"
       "Oh, right, this is you trying to glamour me, isn't it?  Well, the
answer is no.  I'm much too tired to hop around right now, and far too
dignified to ever quack like a duck."
       "I command you to put your arms in the air."
       "Nope, I told you, it won't work on me."
       "Quite right," he said.
       He came back to the seat bench and we ended up lying naked together
for the rest of the trip around the lake, with me feeling so comforted by
it all that I fell asleep.

       *****

        I woke up as our stagecoach reached home, and the two of us put our
clothes back on.  They certainly didn't remain on for long, however, as we
found ourselves going into his mansion, greeting the servants, and then
going straight up to bed, sleeping in each other's arms.  I was starting to
feel like my experiences in the Petrov Blood would be worlds better than
the ones I had at the Logan Blood, and I probably fell asleep with a smile
on my face.


       FEBRUARY 17th


       When I woke up in the morning, any smile I had on my face quickly
dissipated as I found my right wrist handcuffed to Vasos's bedpost.  I saw
Vasos getting dressed across the room from me.
       "Please tell me these handcuffs are just your idea of foreplay."
       "Does this answer your question?"  He grabbed his Borchardt pistol l
and pointed it at me.
       "Unless you've got a fairly bloody idea of eroticism, I'm going to
guess you've again convinced yourself that I'm a spy."
       "I have."
       "But Vasos, I thought we had moved on from the held at gunpoint
stage of our romance.  Didn't I convince you last night?"
       "Yesterday was magnificent, yes," he said.  "But this morning, I
couldn't shake this nagging doubt that you had used me as a patsy by
somehow managing to fake your pleasure on our tryst in the stagecoach and
thus escape the persuasion of my glamour."
       "I swear on my life, I wasn't faking anything."
       "That assertion would be enough for me if this was just about the
two of us.  I so want to believe the person I delighted myself with
yesterday wasn't fiction.  But this isn't about me or my desires.  This is
about my whole Blood, and I just can't risk it when there's one small shred
of doubt still residing within."
       "So, you're going to exile me?  Is that the plan?"
       "Yes," he said.  "Unless Dr. Günter Herzog can use his medical
expertise to prove that you are the One."
       "Yes, perfect, the doctor I met the other day.  He'll be able to
find a way to prove to you the truth."
       I convinced Vasos to unlock the handcuffs, but afterwards he
insisted on following me everywhere with his weapon drawn.  And so, I had
breakfast, took a shower, and got dressed all with the threat of being shot
over my head.
       The stagecoach drove us to Dr. Herzog's clinic, a large building on
the lake that looked highly steampunk, all steel and concrete, with large
brass pipes plunging into the lake water, the roof containing industrial
revolution era smoke stacks and windmills.  It certainly didn't seem like
any medical clinic I had ever seen, and yet was far too beautiful to be
written off as some ordinary factory.  It made me think of a mad
scientist's lair.
       We found the mad scientist himself on the first floor of the
building, after walking through the beautifully crafted mechanical spaces
where piston motors all hummed with electric life, pulling something,
perhaps oil, from the water and pushing it through filtration processes, I
guessed.  The Engineering student in me bristled with excitement.
Günter Herzog was repairing one of the pipes, using an antique blowtorch
to do so.  He was dressed like Dr. Jekyll, with a steel protective facemask
with round goggles, a tan, ornate labcoat that had long sleeves and ended
just past his knees.  The coat's front was stitched with protective brown
leather, and a number of leather straps kept the suit on properly.  He was
wearing leather gloves and high leather boots.  Amidst all of this
function, he had a tie on, appearing above the neck of his coat.
       "Did Dr. Herzog tell you he was just as much an engineer as he is a
scientist?" asked Vasos.  "Günter!"
       "Greetings, Mr. Spiros," he said, not bothering to turn off his
blowtorch.  "And Mr. Groves, wasn't it?"
       "Günter, I've got a favor to ask you," he said.
       "Another one?"
       "Yes, I'm afraid, only this one isn't personal business, it's about
the perseverance of the Blood.  Jake Groves here claims to be the One."
       "Did I hear you correctly?" he asked, finally turning off his
blowtorch and removing his mask.
       "Indeed.  But claims mean little without validation, and on that
front, I have been most fruitless.  I'm hoping that there might be some way
you can medically ascertain the truth?  If not, I'm afraid I'll have to
excommunicate the lad."
       "Leave him with me," said Günter.  "I'll run some tests.  Either
I'll find something or I won't.  I'll call you when I'm finished with him."
       "I'd rather stay here.  I have some personal investment in this
one."
       "You know I don't work with people looking over my shoulder.  Either
you'll leave him alone with me or you'll find another Doctor."
       "Fine, Dr. Herzog, I'll leave.  Try to keep in mind that unless you
can prove him honest, we have to assume he's here under malicious intent.
He could be capable of anything."
       "I think I'm old and strong enough to handle him, Lord Spiros.  Good
day, then."
       "Good day."
       Vasos was too ashamed to look me in the eyes as he left the
premises, leaving me alone with Dr.  Herzog.
       "I thought Vasos said this was a clinic?"
       "The hospital is on the adjoining building."
       Günter led me through the factory, outside into a little
courtyard, and then into another large, severe building that fit right in
with previous one, clearly the hospital.  The outside was all dark metal
and glass, whose industrialist function gave the building a harsh beauty.
And inside, the place wasn't any more cheerful.  Doctors in white coats and
nurses in long white dresses and fancy hats helped patients without showing
the slightest sign of humanity.
       Günter seemed to be the head doctor here, because everyone showed
him respect as we walked through the facility.  We ended up in a medical
lab that seemed to belong only to him, and he locked the door.
       "I'm going to run tests on you, Mr. Groves, to see if I can find
anything that strikes me as abnormal."
       "Does that include a blood test?"
       "Certainly."
       "I'd better lie down for that."
       "First, if you could, put on the patient gown."
       I undressed and slipped on one of the very Edwardian gowns.  I
jumped into the raised patient bed.  Dr. Herzog put me through a series of
simple tests, pretty much a standard physical.  I shivered whenever he put
his hands on me, and I at first thought his hands were cold.  And then I
realized his hands were actually warm, it wasn't the temperature of the
hands but their disposition that was making me shiver.
       The more I interacted with Günter, the more I realized how
foolish it had been to assume he was this Blood's Parker.  There was not
the slightest hint of Parker's trademark warm sweetness.  In fact, Vasos
actually had a lot more in common with Parker than this man did: even
though he never smiled, he still had emotion.  Dr. Herzog was absolutely
icy cold, just like this building we were in.  But he wasn't cold in a
sarcastic, mean way.  He was cold like one of the machines he built.  He
was all logic and muscle power and no heart or soul.
       After an hour of tests, he told me it would take all day for him and
his labs to run the results.  So I was free to entertain myself in the
hospital in the meantime.  I found a physical rehabilitation room and was
able to get a good weight lifting workout in.  And then I ate a drab lunch
at the hospital's restaurant.

       *****

       "After exhaustive examinations, I cannot find anything the least bit
supernatural about your physiology," he said to me once we were alone in
his lab again.  "I'm going to recommend to Mr. Spiros that you be banished
by the end of the day."
       "Wait a second, there must be something that's different," I said.
"Like, for instance, I can't get sick anymore.  This is a hospital, you
must have some germs in here somewhere, right?  Expose me to them, and I'll
prove it."
       "How could you really prove anything to me except that you have a
top notch immune system?  Plenty of people are blessed with that,
Mr. Groves.  It proves nothing."  He mulled that over for a moment.  "But
now that I know this piece of information about you, there might be a way
to prove it."
       "Which is?"
       "Did Vasos inform you that I am a special?"
       "No, he didn't."
       "My unique skill is all but useless to me, I'm afraid.  I produce
dangerous bacteria in my body.  If properly exposed, the patient always
dies, and it takes only a matter of minutes to happen."
       "Great.  So, if you inject me with that bacteria and I don't get
sick and die, will you believe me?"
       "Injection will do nothing, because this bacterium is harmless in
the bloodstream."
       "So, I have to swallow it?" I asked, not liking the idea of having
to put his mucus in my mouth.
       "Nope, that won't work either.  You see, the bacteria have the
nature of a highly infectious sexually transmitted disease.  It's only
dangerous if contamination occurs vaginally, anally, or through the tip of
the penis."
       "Well, why don't you get some of this stuff, and I'll smear it all
over my penis.  Would that kill me?"
       "Yes.  But I don't exactly have this laying around."
       "Wait a second, what part of you produces these bacteria, exactly?"
       "Only my semen," he said without any trace of embarrassment.
       "I see," I said, being embarrassed enough for both of us.
       "It's untraceable," he said.  "My semen tastes, smells, looks, and
feels just like any other man's.  And yet, as I discovered quite
horrifically in my youth, any man or woman I have intercourse with dies
painfully within seconds of climax."  Could it be that there was the
slightest bit of emotion that broke through that iciness at that moment?
"It's what's led me to pursue medicine even when my natural interests tend
towards engineering.  But no amount of tests I've done to myself had netted
any useful result.  I'm still just as unable to have a normal romantic or
sexual function as I was when I was a kid."
       "I'm sorry to hear that.  Listen, if you masturbate into a cup, I'll
press the semen against my penis, and that should prove my innocence."
       "That would work, yes, but I'm unable to masturbate anymore.  I've
so strongly conditioned myself against it, I can't even get an erection
that way."
       "It sounds like you're fishing for a way to get a free handjob from
me," I said.  "How do I know you're not making this whole thing up?"
       "Everyone knows about my special ability, it's no secret.  Ask
anyone.  Call Vasos."
       "No, I believe you," I said.  "Alright, fine.  Get the beaker, pull
your pants off, and let me get this over with."
       He pulled open his labcoat and unzipped his pants, fishing out his
soft, uncut penis.  The milky slab of meat was mouthwatering to look at,
with a bright pink, shiny head.
       "Oh goodness," I said.
       "What?"
       "I'm asking you this because I know you're a highly respected
Doctor.  How come it seems like the entire male vampire population is well
endowed?  The smallest penis I've seen was still my size."
       "I hate to say it, but it's a strong, unsaid priority to keep
vampires physically attractive."
       I reached over and grabbed his penis in my hand, and started to
shake it around, loving squeezing the weighty thing.
        "When it comes to the males, that means men who are turned usually,
but not always, need to meet a certain code.  Since it's often heterosexual
female specials who turn the men into vampires or male bottoms, they tend
to be more attracted to men of a certain endowment.  Penis size, height,
and bone structure become the most important qualifications when turning
males.  Because fat or too scrawny men turn muscled and lean as soon as
they are turned, and any ugly faces are turned beautiful, these are less
important for the turned man to possess."
       "But aren't you a born vampire?"
       "Yes.  Born vampires just have really good genetics to thank for
their endowment."
       "Well, you may be endowed, but so far you seem downright impotent."
       "That's precisely the case.  Lucky for you, not too long ago there
was a new antibiotic I wanted to test out on my semen.  It unfortunately
had no effect, but in order to test that out I needed to make myself get an
erection."
       "Couldn't you take Viagra or something?"
       "No fanged vampire has ever used it or others like it because it
just isn't ever physically necessary, but I heard that it wasn't effective
on us, and so I didn't want to risk unnecessary side effects in order to
use something like that.  So I developed something for myself to use.  Only
I have to inject it directly into my penis."
       "Eew, gross," I said as he pulled out his syringe and started to do
just that.  I had to look away.
       "Oh, the injection doesn't bother me.  And now, I'll get an erection
without being aroused, and the erection will go away after I ejaculate."
       I started to jerk his soft unit again, and next thing I knew, the
penis I was shaking around finally gained weight and hardened, and I
started to stroke him with both hands.  It sure did look swollen and angry
when it was totally erect.
       "My arms feel like they are about to fall off," I said after about
twenty minutes of hard work without any results.  "Please tell me you're
close."
       "Not at all.  You see, I find it really difficult to climax like
this."
       "Ah, I get the picture, you're just not that into handjobs.  If I
could give you oral until you came, and then I spit out your load and
rubbed it on my penis, would that still convince you?"
       "Well, yes."
       I knelt down and put his pink tip in my mouth, hoping I could get
him to blow with just a little head.  After a couple minutes without any
response from him, I pushed down until I was about two-thirds down, and
gave him what I considered a proper blowjob, figuring that would work for
sure.
       But after a long while, he still showed no response, so I pushed all
the way down, my throat stretching to take him in.  Still no sign of him
enjoying that at all.
       "I'm afraid this isn't going to work for me," he said, and I pulled
off.
       "You're just not that into me, is that it?" I asked.
       "No, that's not it.  I think I need to tell you a little about my
history before we continue."
       "Okay."
       "When I was much younger, I was asked by Kirrill, the current Tsar,
to go on a diplomatic mission to the Zhao Blood in China.  While I was
there, I met and fell in love with a fanged vampire woman named Min.  She
was just like me, even smarter than I was, a person ruled by logic, a
research physician like I was."
       "She sounds like the other half of your soul," I said, thinking of
Parker.
       "Yes, and the two of us knew right away we were in love.  I told her
about my odd physical curse, and she didn't bat an eyelash, was completely
supportive.  She asked me to marry her and move into her home, and I said
yes.  I came back home to announce my resignation and move.  And then I
hauled my personal items to China.  As soon as I crossed onto Zhao soil, I
was ambushed and taken prisoner."
       "By whom?"
       "Well, I wasn't sure at first.  They had me blindfolded the entire
time.  But they chained me up and kept me there for so long, feeding me
blood to keep me alive, that I developed a really good sense of hearing.
And I realized I could hear them talking in some distant room, and they
were speaking Chinese often.  When they did speak English, I heard them
talk about Min.  They were her men who had captured me, as of course only
she in all of the Zhao Blood would have known my location."
       "Why would she do that?  Just because you weren't from her Blood?"
       "No.  Because she wanted to exploit my special ability, being the
first to recognize it for the power it had as a weapon."
       "How did she exploit you, Dr. Herzog?"
       "Her men chained me up and masturbated me several times a day,
always carefully saving every drop of semen.  Being a very virile male
vampire, I was just oozing semen, used to masturbating several times a day
already, so this was no stretch on my body.  When I started to realize my
semen was being used to kill enemies for the Zhao Blood, I started focusing
every waking second on forcing myself to stop myself sexually.  While at
first they were able to get me off even when I tried to mentally resist
them, I was eventually able to overpower them.  And then, no one could
succeed in getting me to climax just with hand stimulation."
       "Very clever of you.  So that explains why my handjob went nowhere.
What about the oral?"
       "Well, that was their second strategy too.  They would have people
give me oral, bringing me to climax, and then spitting out the results.
So, I made myself stop responding to oral as well."
       "Ah ha.  This little background story would have been more helpful
before I just used up a day's worth of saliva on a useless pursuit.  So,
how did you escape?"
       "Well, as soon as they knew I was of no more use to them, they were
going to kill me.  Luckily, I was rescued by Kirrill Petrov and his men.
He saved my life and freed me.  And that's why I've since devoted my time
to helping him.  Fearing I might again be the target of kidnapping, I fully
conditioned myself, psychologically speaking to not being able to climax by
being touched by hand or given oral."
       "What happens if you try to jerk yourself off?"
       "I can't," he said.  "The conditioning is all encompassing."
       "Please tell me the point of that rather touching story wasn't so
you could convince me to let you top me."  The idea sent chills through me.
I had already told myself that me bottoming for Vasos would be the last
time for me.  I hated it.
       "It's the only way we'll accomplish our goal of exposing you to the
bacteria, I'm afraid."
       "Hold on, can't you just find someone who wants to have sex with
you, put five condoms on to make sure they're safe, and then bring the
semen filled condom to me afterwards to rub into my dick?  And then I'd
never have to bottom at all."
       "That's the other thing about my condition.  My semen burns through
all condoms or any other physical contraceptives.  It actually burns
through pretty much everything except flesh and skin.  It means I can't
ever expect condoms will save the life of whoever I'm with."
       "Wait a second.  So, if you can't masturbate and you can't get oral,
and now you're saying you can't have any sort of intercourse either, how do
you get off?"
       "I don't.  I haven't for many decades."
       "Well, you're a strapping male vampire.  Where does all that semen
go?  Nocturnal emissions?"
       "No, that would ruin my bed and be potentially dangerous.  I use a
syringe to drain my semen a few times a day from my testicles."
       "Ouch!  Couldn't you just do that now and give me the results?"
       "The semen I extract is not dangerous because it's something in the
tip of my penis that adds the bacteria when it travels through the urethra.
Otherwise, that strategy would be meaningless."
       "Of course not.  Of course my only choice right now is to either let
a perfect stranger top me or get excommunicated."  Which, of course, led to
death at Jericho's hands.  "Are you sure you're not making the pieces of
this ability up as you are going along?"  I knew it was something Syd would
have totally invented in order to get me to bed.
       "I'm not making this up, I swear it.  Listen, it may sound to you
like I'm the one lucking out here while you are forced to suffer.  But in
fact, I'm on the fence about whether or not to go through with this at
all."
       "Because you're worried about the pain you'll cause me?" I asked,
thinking of how much Parker hadn't liked topping me at first.
       "No, it has nothing to do with you.  Because I've told myself that
I'd never orgasm ever again.  Don't you see?  I'm phobic of my own semen.
It's no easy thing for me to do, and I don't even know if I'm physically
capable of it."
       "Well, you have to do it.  Listen, think of me as your patient.  You
have to do what is physically best for your patient, right?  As a Doctor?
Well, let me promise you, if I get excommunicated, my fate will be deadly."
       "What are you talking about?"
       "The truth is, Jericho Logan was going to have me executed.  To
escape America with my life, I had to invoke the power of the Vampire
Council.  Which means I have less than two years to inform all five of the
other Blood leaders that the Vampire Council is reformed, and then hope
that enough of them agree with me to vote to save my life.  Otherwise,
Jericho is free to track me down and kill me, and with his special power of
being able to easily track down whomever he bites, that will be a cakewalk.
Therefore, getting kicked out of this Blood means I never get to deliver my
message to your leader.  And so, if you fail to come inside me, you'll end
up killing me."
       "Or, if you're lying about being the One, you'll die.  I'll kill you
instead of saving you."
       "I'm not lying!"
       "Well, what if you're mistaken then?  You'll die."
       "And you'll die if I have an STD to infect you, did you think about
that?"
       "Of course, I'm quite wary of STDs, being a physician and all.  But
this morning I tested you for all the dangerous STDs, so that's not a worry
for me."
       "The point is, you have to do your duty as a Doctor here to save
me."
       "What if I can't perform?"
       "You're already hard," I said.  "We'll get you inside me."
       "I mean, what if I can't climax?"
       "Is there anything you want me to do that would help?  I know, if it
was me that had to climax, it would help to get to know you better and have
us do something romantic.  Would that help you too?"
       "Absolutely not," he said.  "That would only make this worse.  No,
the only way I can accomplish this is if I see it as a fascinating science
experiment that requires this exact method from me.  I need to see you as
the patient, and I'm the doctor who needs to administer a cure to your
ailment, and that cure happens to require me to do this.  There needs to be
absolutely nothing romantic about this at all."
       "Alright," I said, more and more thankful that I wasn't the one who
had to climax, like I had been the night before.
       "So, Mr. Groves, are you ready for your medical procedure today?"
asked Günter, moving into Doctor mode.
       "Yes, Dr. Herzog."
       "Why don't you lie down on the exam table."
       While I got up on the table and lied down, he put on a pair of latex
gloves and got some bottle and brought it over to me.
       "Alright Mr. Groves, I'm going to need to pull up your gown.  Good.
Now, I need you to tuck your legs up.  That's it."  He poured the liquid
all over his latex-covered fingers.  "I'm going to need to provide
lubrication for you."
       "Okay."
       "This may feel cold."
       He used his index finger to rub the very cold liquid inside me.  And
then he rubbed more liquid all over his gorgeouserection.  He placed his
dickhead against my hole.
       "Alright, Mr. Groves," he said in his totally bored, professional
voice.  "I'm going to need to push this probing instrument inside you now."
       "Go ahead."
       He firmly, slowly pushed himself inside me.  The lube he had used
liberally didn't just allow him easy entry, it also was so cold, it felt
like someone was shoving a very large icicle inside me, which wasn't doing
much for me sexually.  And the pain was making me have sickening flashbacks
to Jericho.
       "Yes, good," he said encouragingly when he was all the way in.
"Now, Mr. Groves, I'm going to have to scrape this medical instrument back
and forth until we achieve the desired result."
       "Yes, Doctor."
       He began to plunge back and forth, thrusting in and out.  He quickly
developed a rhythm that almost mechanical in its consistency.  His face
showed no sign of pleasure, but then again, there wasn't really any sign of
anything.  He wasn't even sweating or breathing rapidly.
       At least as his strokes went on, the coldness faded away and I could
feel the warm flesh of his hardness inside me.  But that was the only sign
I was having sex with a human instead of a machine.
       "This isn't working," I said after about twenty minutes.  "Would it
help if I kissed you?"
       "Heavens, no," he said, and then he flipped back into his Doctor
persona.  "I'm going to just shut my eyes momentarily."
       "Yes, Doctor."
       His thrusts gained in their pace, and his breathing accelerated.
       "Alright, Mr. Groves, I'm going to inject some solution into you
now.  Nothing to worry about."
       "Yes, Dr. Herzog."
       He stopped his thrusts as he plunged deep inside me, and then I
could feel him erupt.  And oh my goodness, was there ever a lot of it,
filling up inside me, taking up every little bit of room.
       "Good.  Now, Mr. Groves, I'm going to wait until all of the solution
has been ejected before removing the probe.  I need you to hold still."
       "Yes, Doctor."
       He stayed inside me for a couple minutes longer.  "Alright, now,
Mr. Groves, I'll be extracting the instrument from you."
       He pulled himself out, rubbing the last of the semen onto my hole.
       "Now, it's important, Mr. Groves, that you stay on the table in that
position with your knees tucked.  I don't want any of the solution coming
out."
       "Yes, Dr. Herzog."
       He put his pants back on and took off his gloves while I waited in
that position.  After a few minutes he came over to me.  "How are you
feeling, Mr. Groves?"
       "Excellently.  Not the least bit sick."
       "Well then, I deem this procedure a success."
       "And what chance is there that you'll change your mind and need to
inject me a second time?"
       "None.  I've done my duty, and I'll never perform that procedure
again, I promise that.  I don't care how many patients claiming to be the
One come through this hospital, I won't do it again."  It was clear to me
that the experience had been very difficult for him.  "Now, it would be
unwise to let that remain inside you, so I'm going to use this syringe to
extract all of it."  After he had pulled it out, he said, "See?  Already
burning through my syringe.  Whatever you do, make sure to hold off from
intercourse with another party for two hours.  You can put your clothes
back on now, Mr. Groves.  I'll call Vasos to let him know he can pick you
up."

       *****

       I was waiting outside the hospital, shivering in the dark, cold
night from being still wet after the thorough shower I had just
taken. Vasos pulled up in his stagecoach and came out to see me.
       "Do you believe me now?" I asked him.
       He walked over to me and kissed me, his hands on my butt and back.
"Does that answer your question?  Günter told me just how it was he
proved what you are.  I'm sorry, I had no idea what that would entail."
       "It's okay."
       He took my hand in his and looked me in the eyes.  "Now that that's
finally over, I want you to consider moving in with me."
       "But I feel like we barely know each other."
       "I'd disagree, I think we already know each other quite well.  And
it's not like I'm asking for you to marry me here.  Besides, you don't
really have anywhere else to go, do you?"
       "I suppose not," I said.
       "Is there something about me that you dislike?"
       "No, there isn't.  We seem to have a lot in common."
       "Then why wouldn't you accept?"
       "I guess I will accept.  Will I get my own room?"
       "There's no need," he said.  "We've been about as intimate with each
other as two people can."
       As we boarded his stagecoach, his driver asked where we were headed.
       "We have cause to celebrate," said Vasos.  "Let's live it up
tonight."
       "You know, it's late already, and I'm too tired to do anything
tonight besides go to bed early.  You fed from me late last night, this
morning I had all a ridiculous amount of blood drawn, and this evening Dr.
Herzog fed from me a good deal.  I can barely walk around, frankly.  I need
to eat something quickly and go to bed early.  You can go have fun without
me, Vasos.  I promise I'll feel more like myself tomorrow."
       "That's fine, a cozy evening at home sounds just as pleasant.
Driver, take us home."

       *****

       That night, after a very pleasant dinner at home in Vasos's formal
dining room, the two of us lay naked in bed together.  "Goodnight," I said
to him, turning away and lying on my side.  "Will you promise I won't wake
up again to the comfort of steel handcuffs on my wrist tomorrow?"
       "No more of any of that, I swear it," he said.  He took wrapped his
arms around my body and started to spoon me from behind, a very comforting
position for me, loving his muscled fur rubbing my back..  "Now that you've
officially moved in, I was thinking of how I can help you out.  I think if
I tell the Tsar that I have someone he needs to meet without letting him
know who it is, he'll accept.  He completely trusts me.  I'll bring you to
him, and you can deliver your message in person."
       "That sounds great," I said, already feeling relieved.
       "I may even be able to connect you with the Matsoua Blood in Africa.
I've always gotten along well with their Patriarch, Jomo."
       "That would be kind of you," I said.  "Finally, this is the first
time since I arrived in this Blood that I've felt close to accomplishing
why I came here.  Is there anything I can do to repay you for helping me?"
       "Well, I can think of one or two ways," he said.  "And now that I
know I won't ever have to worry about getting sick from you, I'm that much
more excited by you."
       For the first time, I realized just how hard his dick was as it
poked me directly in my hole.  I hoped he didn't think I would ever
willingly want to bottom with him again, but I figured he was just
stimulating one of my pleasure zones instead of actually seeking entrance.
But the way he was smearing his precum into my hole was cause to worry.
       "Mmm," I said.  "Intimacy sounds nice, Vasos, but I'm just too tired
to enjoy myself with that activity tonight.  Especially since I already had
to do it just hours ago under very unpleasant circumstances.  Could you
take a rain check?"
       "Of course," he said.  "If you're too tired tonight, then of course,
just rest up.  My penis will still be here tomorrow morning."