M.S. 8 "Destiny 2"

Author note: Hi my friends


I let you here the second part of "Destiny" about the original episode "Arrested Development". This chapter is special because includes three scenes:

- Games of seduction

- The Sex Thing

- Stay with me

I hope you enjoy it. Kisses

Selene

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"DESTINY I"

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*DESTINO 2ª Parte*

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BETH:After our meeting at the Morgue and my proposal about working together on the case, Mick returned to his silence and I had to silence my hopes too, but this time I was sure that sooner or later I would have an answer.

MICK:No matter what you want, if the universe has other plans for you, the battle is already lost, especially when the fight is against yourself. She had again arrived at my door and knocked, and I had no strength left to keep it closed. I wanted to have her around… I needed to know she was there in some way and that would be enough for me. I know that if I stayed away from her, there would come a time when she would stop trying and would disappear.
It is true that having her close to me would be painfully dangerous, but there are times when the thought of not seeing her again was really unbearable for me, so I ended up accepting her proposal about the case. That was the excuse that I used to soothe my conscience for letting me give in, but I also knew that once the barrier was down, I would be vulnerable to her. It was only a matter of time.

I opened the door again, yes, but this time I would not let her come in, I couldn’t let what happened in the desert happen again. That was the condition and the limit I imposed on myself. However it would not take long to realize that this limit would not be so easy to enforce ... not with Beth...Believe me, it doesn’t matter what you think, in the end all that matters is what you do.

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*GAMES OF SEDUCTION*

MICK: osef called me the next day, and he said he had an idea to catch the guy, after all, a vampire murderer loose in the city could also pose a danger to our community.

When I arrived at Josef’s apartment, Rider had gotten into Cherishe´s profile and had tracked all the calls that she had received on her phone in the last twenty four hours. With a little luck, perhaps among those numbers would be the murderer that Beth was seeking. The question was how to contact him without alerting him. The perfect plan would be to find someone who could pose as the girl in question and make contact with him. Cherish was an escort, so we needed a soft and sensual female voice and I had the perfect candidate.

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BETH: Finally the phone rang again the next evening after our meeting in the Morgue and it happened when I was talking to my friend Marisa about what happened last night with Josh. He seemed able to forgive the unforgivable and I acknowledge that leaving the anniversary celebration was certainly inexcusable but when I tried to think about it, I didn’t feel any guilt. My friend Marisa insisted that the time had come to define our situation, take a step forward if that was what I wanted to do with Josh... But, did I want it? Even Marisa had realized my doubts, but before I could answer her, the phone rang again, saving me one more time. "Here you go" Marisa told me. "The universe sends you a sign and you just have to follow it, but you have to take the call." Yes, destiny was giving me another sign, but it was not about Josh.

I took the call and I heard Mick's voice on the other side, I could feel butterflies fluttering in my stomach again. He asked me if I was willing to work on a plan to catch the murderer and I accepted it without question. Then he gave me an address and said "I'll be waiting for you" sentence uttered by him shook me from head to toe. There was not time to lose and I ran from Buzzwire, took a cab and I went to the place where he told me to meet him.

The place in question was a luxury penthouse in the city center, a burly man with the appearance of nightclub doorman and manners of an English butler, guided me through one entrance hall with travertine marbled, decorated with pictures and sculptures that looked like genuine works art. The strange atmosphere made me nervous and I wondered where Mick was? But I heard his voice I knew that he had kept his promise and instinctively I felt calm again. If Mick was there, nothing bad could happen or at least that was what I was willing to believe over everything.

MICK: Beth arrived at Josef’s penthouse at the agreed time. She was going to help us find the murderer but before that could happen I had to introduce her in accordance with our rules. It was a way to protect her and my vampire side had to do this part, it was the only way my proposal would work. I confess that it was easy, maybe too much so. I smelled her scent and looked at her when Josef´s butler announced her presence. That was enough for me and I felt my protective instinct awake and I became territorial when I went to meet her.

BETH:When I started to walk down the corridor leading to the room, I saw him walking towards me. God! I've never seen a man walk like this. His body swayed gently to the rhythm of his arms with each step he took, making him look as awesome and manly with every move and yet so irresistibly seductive that it was impossible to take my eyes off him. His soft movements let me see the perfect masculinity of his body and that coupled with his half smile that was so charming, shy, and his warm glance, between hunger and tenderness, and his beautiful eyes, blue and deep like the ocean but eternally seductive. His dark clothes adjusted to each inch of his chest, of his arms, of his body, highlighting the perfect waves of his muscles and letting my imagination about the generous power of his manhood. He could make any woman delirious who had blood in her veins. It took me a moment to focus on something other than him and the dream of sinking my face into that chest and him wrap me into his arms. As I see him walk toward me like that ... I wonder ... what had happened with the reluctant and elusive Mick of the previous day? Why had he changed so his attitude?

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Once he came up to me, he extended his arm protectively and at the same time possessively and took me by the waist to gently lead me to where two men who looked more or less the same age that Mick were waiting. They looked at me in a strange way and for a moment I thought they seemed like two hungry lions watching a succulent prey that was approaching them and that idea scared me. I didn’t understand who these men were or what was going on.

MICK: When they saw Beth appear, Rider and Josef stood silently staring at her. Beth was everything and more than I had could have told them, though she could never even imagine. Beth was not aware of the attraction that she could awake and that was another of her many charms, her sensual innocence. When she looked up at me for a moment, there was fear and confusion in her eyes and then she looked back at them while I was dying to tell her "Quiet, don’t be afraid, I will not let anyone hurt you, baby.”

BETH:Maybe it was his eyes, his touch, his hand gently on my back like a shy caress ... maybe it was his scent, that aroma that always made me feel at home or maybe it was the feel of his strong, yet soft arm, protecting my body while he introduced me to those two men with a strange attitude. He was being proud and defiant and he seemed to say "She belongs to me so do not touch”

The point is that I let myself be guided by him despite what my eyes were seeing before them. I don’t know why, but then I wouldn’t have minded being at the gates of hell or that the devil himself had been waiting to devour me. And as long as Mick was with me, I was sure that everything would be fine.

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MICK: We, the vampires, have certain codes, unwritten, that are sacred and that all of us, or most, respect. Such codes are dictated by primal instinct, which is the pillar that dominates our race. It´s called territoriality, taking the word in its broadest meaning and in its most concrete meaning too. The courtship of vampires with human women is within that scope, any vampire who appreciates his life would not take the risk for messing with the "property" of other vampire without his permission. Josef knew I had drank Beth’s blood and that meant that she was mine and I wanted to show them that I was not willing to share her. There was a time that Josef and I shared our freshies, but Beth was not a freshie to me. She didn’t offer her blood for pleasure like others did, she saved my life and she saved my soul. Beth is something pure and clean in my life, she´s too special to me and I couldn’t let Josef offend her even with his thoughts.

Josef, of course, made his attempt, he wouldn’t be Josef if he didn´t. My friend defined himself as a worshiper of beauty, he loves flirting with beautiful women and all of them end up fall surrendering to the attraction that the centenary vampire awakens in them. Beth could be a temptation for him, but what I wanted to know was what would Beth’s reaction be in front of him.

BETH:One of the men, who seemed the host judging by his clothes and his manners, got up and walked toward us. I stood next to Mick and he with me, while the other man came toward us, took my hand and gave me a compliment that I was not sure how to take because I kept seeing in his face and in the face of the other man, who was sitting, the same hungry expression I had seen when I came in. Then I turned to Mick and at that instant I noticed that he also seemed to be watching me in the same way. Then he glanced at the other guy. There was some kind of warning in the Mick´s gaze because Josef, that was his name, replied with a kind of apology.

MICK:She thanked him for the compliment though there was distrust in her voice. There was a moment that was felt a strange tension in the air and she also noticed that. Josef's flirtation bothered me more than ever... and as far as I'm concerned I confess that her closeness, her scent and testosterone floating in the air made me lose track of time and space for a few seconds. It was hard to avoid the desire and for me it was more so than any of those who were there, because I, somehow, had already had her and that was something that I didn’t need to remind Josef of, just my gaze was enough for him to realize that there was a limit and immediately he let her hand go and stepped back.

BETH: I didn’t quite understand what was happening so I asked for what I was there. When the guy that was sat said that in opinion of Mick I had a beautiful voice, I turned to him, not knowing what to think. At that time, Mick stopped looking at me and reacted.

MICK: Her gaze turned hard, she seemed offended, and so I hurried to explain the plan. I took her by the waist placing myself between her and Josef while we passed in front of him. He was still staring at her avidly but soon he read in my eyes "no more games" and he quickly understood that it was my last warning. She was sacred and it didn’t matter that he was my best friend, I would never let him go beyond speaking with her and he knew it.

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BETH:It was a strange situation, I felt flattered on the one hand and on the other uncomfortable. I was surprised by his change and I didn’t quite know how to react or what to think. Mick had been avoiding me all this time and now his attitude was so different from what I had seen in him before. The way in which he introduced me, his movements, his gestures, his look at those two guys. I was sure that everything had a reason. I realized that Mick had not been away from me for a moment, keeping himself between Josef and I all the time, it was like that man or whatever, could pose a danger to me, and surely it was about that. I didn’t know too much about how vampires were or about their rules, but that situation made me think that probably the other two men were the same thing as Mick and because of that he introduced me in that way, like I was something that belonged to him, like the alpha male would do in his pack when he chooses his female and he want to mark his territory to keeping others away. Mick was just marking his territory to protect me. If that was how things worked for them, I thought maybe I should also make it clear what my choice was, especially seeing the insistent look in Josef, so I decided to play along.

Mick shyly asked me to take Cherishes place on the phone ... not even daring to finish the sentence for fear of offending me. So I just looked in his eyes as I took off my coat, ready to do what he asked and rehearsing a more sensual tone that the situation merited, I verbalized my thoughts saying "whatever you want." In normal circumstances, I would never have dared to say that, or even hint anything like that, no mattered how much I wanted it. I think I would have died of shame, but in that situation I felt it was appropriate. That was the answer he needed and deserved at that time and seeing the look on Josef and Mick’s face, I realized that it had worked.

MICK:Beth was not only deliciously beautiful… she was also an intelligent observer. She was always able to hear beyond the words, to see beyond appearances and to say the right word at the right time. She had the ability to surprise me at every turn, leaving me speechless. I could just worship her for all that she was./span>

Beth made my plan work with that answer, but it also caused me to remember the dangerous limit that I had imposed on myself when I was caught again in the crystal blue of her eyes and I felt seduced by what there was behind that hot gaze.

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BETH: Impersonate a hot girl on the phone while you have three men, or rather three vampires, watching you and maybe a serial murderer on the other end of the line, it´s not at all easy, believe me. And yet I had to try to be as credible as possible so as not to spoil the trap. So when the call was taken on the other end and I started to feel my stomach up in my throat, the only thing that helped me was to look into Mick´s eyes. His gaze made me feel calmer, safer and more sensual too. I focused on his eyes as if nobody else was there, just me and him. His warm glance calmed my fear, mitigating somehow my insecurity. But it began to reawaken the basic instinct of the female that was sleeping inside of me. Only he knew how to awaken all of me even unintentionally. That game of gazes, that silent sexual tension was warming me little by little and I began to speak without realizing anything else. I simply was voicing what his gaze was causing me to feel at that moment, because there was only one thing that I could think about while having him in front of me looking at me in that way.

MICK:Yeah, definitely respect the limit was not going to be easy. In fact at that time I had just cross the forbidden line with the thought. She had me totally spellbound with her voice, with the naive yet irresistible sensuality pouring from her eyes, with the insinuation, between shy and sensual, that I saw on her lips and I fell back into the sin of desire. But the spell was broken instantly when I heard the answer given by the lout who was on the other end of the phone. That was the painful reminder that restored my sanity and I focus on the real reason for our meeting. Finding the murderer and his potential next victim.

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BETH: My impersonation paid off, the murderer took the call and I got the name of the place where he was going to meet with Cherish. But I have to confess that the previous situation in that place, aroused in me a curiosity that until then had only been in the hidden corner of my subconscious and now seemed to jump inside of me, threatening to boil over. It wasn’t just because of Mick’s attitude there was something more ... something I saw while I was impersonating Cherish and we began to look at each other. It was like a language only for he and I and maybe it began as a naive game but when it finished it had lit a flame that I could see when I looked in his eyes…it was desire.

When the guy on the other end had insulted me and ended the call, I tried to re-focus on the case. This time I had decided not to invade his space because, although I must admit that his attitude got me confused, the truth is that deep down I couldn’t help feeling afraid that he disappear again if I did. Also there was the fact that a girl's life could be in danger and it was not the time to play with fire.

However, the flame was turned on now, he had rekindled it without wanting to or maybe it was never turned off.

The facet of seduction I had seen in the other vampires and his reaction about that was arousing my curiosity about him more and more until that curiosity emerged between us searching for answers and it happened at the most unexpected moment.

*THE SEX THING*

It happened in his car...

We had left the murderer's apartment after a small conflict with the police who had taken us for robbers or something worse only because we used a metallic tine instead of a key to enter the apartment of an alleged murderer. Fortunately it was just a mistake that was elucidated when Mick showed his identification as PI. At that place we found the killer´s phonebook and a picture of the dead woman with a friend, Cherish. Finally everything was alright again, and while we got closer to the murderer that I was searching; we also were getting closer to the girl that Mick was searching for.

Once into Mick´s car, out of the sight of the police, I took a look to the killer´s phonebook more calmly without worrying that the police were watching us. On the photo there was written the name of a place, maybe it was the same place where he was going to have the date with Cherish, and also there was a phone number. While Mick started the car to head to that place, I dialed the number and got the voicemail and it was then, while I was waiting to try again when I began watching him handle the wheel of his car. It was then when it happened.

It wasn’t the first time that I had watched him driving, but it was the first time I noticed his hands.

His fingers were long and perfect, his hands were strong, powerful, and beautiful and he had slight hair covering his forearm and protruded very slightly on the back of his hands, giving him a more masculine and virile look. He wore that strange gold ring on his right hand. I had not realized until now how attractive it looked on his index finger, as if that feminine symbol could flatter even more of his manhood. But not only was it his physical appearance what caught my attention, but the way he grab the steering wheel. He looked firm and secure and at the same time delicate and soft. I found it extremely sensual the way he slid his hands as he drove. It was as if he were caressing the steering wheel while he was guiding it to where he wanted and immediately my mind strayed to other thoughts. From what I had seen that afternoon, vampires were clearly sexual beings and I wondered what it would be like to feel those powerful hands gliding over my skin, wandering my body, exploring every corner, guiding me smooth and accurately along the road of passion. I wondered how it would be to make love with a vampire. How it would be to make love with Mick.

It was not the first time I thought about it, but this time I decided I had to know if it was possible, and my curiosity finally jumped from my thoughts to my mouth without giving any chance to conscience to mediate in this when I asked him. "So ... how does it work?" At that time he couldn’t even imagine what was going through my mind and he didn’t understand what I meant, so I went a little further. "You know ... the sex thing."

He looked at me for a moment and then joked about it with that half smile that drove me crazy. "Your parents never told you?" He was going to make it difficult, but I would not give up so I continued with his joke. "They somehow skipped the part involving vampires."

MICK:Ahem ...was it just my imagination or were things starting to get dangerous.

BETH:He kept staring straight ahead; his expression became more serious, gripped his hands around the wheel, accelerated the engine and remained silent. It was clear that he was not going to play the game and this time the female subtlety was not going to be enough to get an answer. Time was running out, we would soon reach our destination where it was supposed that Cherish had met with the murderer, and I would no longer have option to keep asking. So I went back to attack mode and asked his directly. “I mean vampires and humans"

MICK:Definitely too dangerous.

BETH: This time there was no smile or joke, just silence, a silence so intense that it was more eloquent than any words. I turned to him to see his reaction, the dark glasses didn’t let me see his eyes and the tense expression that I could see on his face was halfway between surprise and discomfort. I realized that my curiosity had crossed the line again… the question was so direct that it left him speechless. So I tried to soften it immediately by claiming it was just a hypothetical question, but the correction came too late, he was already on alert..

MICK:After fighting my desire especially after what happened in the desert between Beth and me, that question hung in the air like a hangman’s noose. Maybe it was something that, knowing her, I should have foreseen, but I was beginning to discover that nothing with Beth was entirely predictable and much less avoidable. In any case it was too late to think or regret. She wanted an answer and I had to give her the only one I had at the time, the only one that could serve me. "You want to know how it works ... Well, it doesn´t, It never turns out well." It is true that the word "never" might be too radical but it was better not to give her any room for doubt. After all, the best way to avoid falling into temptation is to let it go, though probably with Beth this rule was not going to work because the temptation was her.

The answer I gave her and the moment when I did, allowed me to escape the conversation, but I knew it was just the beginning. She would not settle for a simple refusal and her innate curiosity would drive her eventually to find her own answers. The question was whether I would be willing to take the risk.

BETH:I couldn’t hide my frustration with that answer. The word "never" closed all doors to hope, but it was also true that the word "never" had long ceased to have the same meaning for me beginning with the moment I met him.

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BETH:After crossing the line, silence came again...

Mick managed to find to Cherish in time, but the murderer escaped and our paths were separated. The sun was still bright and Mick decided to wait for another night to hunt him. He knew he would not be too far away. Meanwhile I took care of Sherry. The poor girl was on the verge of an anxiety attack after what happened. I guess we are who we choose to be and she had just received the hardest lesson of her life precisely because of her choice.

MICK:I decided to escape the sun until night fell to start my hunt. That night my prey was a murderer caught in time and in his own ghosts. One way or another, all of us have to live with our ghosts, the difference is in the way you choose to do so ... guilt, anger or resignation ... in my personal case, the second option drove me until the firts opcion, no mattered what steps I could take, I would be always trapped in my remorse.

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*STAY WITH ME*

BETH: Once we found the victim, I still had a story to conclude, although this time, and for a change, it´ll have a happy ending for Buzzwire. Cherishes parents were going to come at any time and she and I were waiting in a small office for the emotional meeting with her parents and both of us were sharing a strange sense of restlessness, though obviously for different reasons . She was embarrassed and didn’t know how her parents were going to receive her after discovering her lifestyle during this time. And I ... well, I feared that with the case finished and after my little slip in the car, Mick would choose silence again and distance himself from me.

Then I saw him appear alongside Cherishes parents, he stood in the doorway and just I saw him arrive, I got up and left the small office, staying by the door. Cherishes parents went to meet their daughter but we (Mick and I) continued waiting, staring at each other. For a few seconds we both kept looking at each other but without taking a step forward.

He had such a serious expression on his face again and it spoke of resignation and farewell, and I decided not to wait any longer. This time I would not sit still behind the door as he disappeared again. So I decided to take the first step forward. After all, I didn’t want to keep my pride if I could lose him. But just I decided go to him, Maurine stopped me. She was always thinking about the news ... Probably earlier in my life; the news had also been the most important thing to me, but not this time. This time he was more important than anything ... Only him.

MICK:I saw her talking to her editor and then, when she stopped looking at me, I realized that maybe it was best to leave well enough alone. She had her story and I had solved my case, my conscience had run out of excuses to keep tempting fate and I knew that if she took another step, I might not be able resist. Yes, I´m sure, I’d tempt fate if I stood there looking at her because one part of me wanted to, I wanted to have her by my side, dreaming about loving her, about feeling her warm and silky lips on mine and wake up with her in my arms. I dreamed of being able to leave my eternal loneliness every time she looked at me and every time she gave me a smile. But maybe it was better not to dream when you´re dreaming of an impossible.

BETH: While Maurine talked to me, he disappeared again. I barely noticed that he was gone, I left Maureen with the word in her mouth and I went after him. If fate had been on my side all this time, it could not leave me at this moment.

MICK: Maybe it's the sum of a million coincidences we don’t control which leads us to a particular place at a particular time. Or maybe they are the choices we make, the actions we take. If I have learned anything in these 85 years it’s that what you want doesn’t always matter.

I went out to the parking, but when I was going to open the door of my car, the keys fell to the ground and they ended up under the car.

BETH: I ran to the parking lot to where his car was parked but there was no sign of him anywhere. Where was he? Anguish came over me at that moment so I walked slowly to the car as I looked at one side of the car and then other side, praying to see him walking toward me from somewhere in the parking lot. But there was no one in sight. At that moment, when I turned around again, his body appeared against mine. He had appeared out of nowhere leaving me breathless. He shook his car keys in his defense and I smiled, but anxiety had not yet left me. "You just took off..."

He gave me the excuse of I was talking with Maureen, my editor, but I feared something worse, so I said "You could at least have said goodbye" He smiled, slightly moistening his lips and started to say something, but just as he began to pronounce the first syllable, I had an impulse I couldn’t control. I couldn’t let him say goodbye. I suddenly felt that that word was a curse. No more goodbyes between us, no more silences ...No more distances... I wanted him to know I couldn’t stand him disappearing from my life one more time. I needed him and I didn’t care what he was, what he could be or what he wasn’t, I didn’t mind the how and why ... I just wanted him close to me because I loved him, so I kissed him. My kiss took him by surprise, there was no time and no choice for him to refuse. I kissed him and while my lips caressed his, I felt like that "goodbye" was broken and muted forever between his lips and mine.

MICK: Suddenly her lips were on mine, her touch gentle and warm, her sweet flavor, intense, delicious and unique scent caressed me, shooting thousands of sensations in one fleeting second. One second that left me caught between surprise and desire when her lips moved away from mine. Her distressed gaze had turned into a satisfied and serene look after that kiss. Then she smiled and I was hooked on that sweet smile, so innocent and yet so beautiful. Her hand, soft and white, rose up to caress my face, while mine rested timidly on the soft skin of her wrist. She looked at me with an infinite tenderness and, during that moment, all the ghosts that obscured my soul were gone and I was lost in her eyes, unable to do or say anything for fear that the dream would fade. Then her eyes looked down until her lips found mine again. It was like having the sky within reach, and I closed my eyes, letting myself fall into that dream, and to taste again the sweet honey she offered me. But again the moment was fleeting and when she broke contact, my lips were more thirsty for her than before. The sense of loss scratched my soul when I saw her walk away from me and at that moment my eyes were filled with anguish begging her "Don’t go, stay with me”. But she went away leaving me with the sweet taste of her mouth on mine and the promise of an unattainable dream that had come true for a moment thanks to the magic of fate.

She taught me with that kiss that sometimes what you want is the only thing that matters.

TO BE CONTINUED...

I´LL SEE YOU ON THE NEXT MOONLIGHT


"BLACK CRYSTAL 1. I WANNA BE CLOSE TO YOU"

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