"The Mount of Venus, it’s called." She pursed her thin lips primly 
together, though the corners turned irrepressibly up. "In a
man, ye’d say it means he likes the lasses. For a woman, ‘tis a bit 
different. To be polite about it, I’ll make a bit of a
prediction for you, and say your husband isna like to stray far from 
your bed." She gave a surprisingly deep and bawdy
chuckle, and I blushed slightly.

The elderly housekeeper poured over my hand again, stabbing a pointed 
forefinger here and there to mark her words.

"Now, there, a well-marked lifeline; you’re in good health, and 
likely to stay so. The lifeline’s interrupted, meaning your life’s
changed markedly – well, that’s true of all of us, is it not? But 
yours is more chopped up, like, than I usually see; all bits and
pieces. And your marriage-line, now" – she shook her head again –
"it’s divided; that’s not unusual, means two
marriages…"……

-excerpt from the Outlander by Diana Gabaldon-

Caleb was sitting on the couch watching Real World on MTV while Lyza 
reclined between his legs reading her new book
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. It had a bit of a slow start, her 
concentration was so intensely focused on the book that she
missed everything that went on around her. This included Caleb’s 
attempts to distract her by nibbling on her neck or
caressing her breasts. Normally this would have been hard to ignore, 
but she knew the attempts were empty teasing cause
he couldn’t go "all the way" with it being the night before the full 
moon. So when his show resumed he would stop and her
concentration would tighten back up on her book.

Once Real World went off he began channel surfing which he knew drove 
her up a wall. However, she stood her ground
cause she knew after a while it lost its appeal to him as well. He 
finally landed on the Pleasure channel, which was showing
Hot Pink Double Pleasure 4. Lyza looked up at the TV from her book 
and then back at Caleb who was smiling from ear to
ear. Porno didn’t bother her, but it had to have at least a little 
taste…and this one had NONE. She huffed at her defeat and
started to get up and go in the bedroom to continue reading. He 
quickly grabbed her around the waist and pulled her back
down to sit where she once was. "I knew that would get you out of 
that damn book," he laughed and kissed her on the
cheek. "I’ll change it now. Promise," and so he did, finally landing 
on the Cartoon Network and placing the remote control on
the floor so he could wrap his arms around her waist.

She settled against his chest and tried unsuccessfully to get back 
into the book. She sighed and laid it against her chest
deciding to watch a few cartoons with her kitten. They laughed at one 
or two before Damien came in the house and shook
his head at the two "children" on the couch watching what he liked to 
call insipid-vision. Lyza said "Hi!" and Caleb waved
just before Damien made his way to the bedroom. After a few moments, 
he called Caleb to come and join him, said that he
needed to ask him something. Lyza turned with raised eyebrows to 
Caleb with a question written all over her face. He just
shrugged and excused himself to the room. As long as they were 
getting along…which they seemed to be doing more and
more of everyday…she didn’t mind and could really care less. She 
finished watching the cartoon that was on and tried her
book again, succeeding this time.

Caleb walked in the bedroom to find Damien gazing out the window. He 
knew what the vampire wanted and wasn’t sure if
he was ready, which is exactly what Damien asked when he turned to 
face him. "Are you ready for what we are about to
do? Are you certain you can handle this without ill incident the 
night prior to a full moon? I will NOT have you hurt Lyza
anymore then we have to."

Caleb shook his head but his verbal response contradicted his 
motion. "I’m as ready as I will be. You refuse to drop the
issue of turning her and I refuse to loose her to vampirism so I have 
no choice." He continues with obvious irritation. "Are
YOU sure you want to do this? Damien she loves you damn! As Jean-
Claude would say, as much as she possibly can. You
turning her is NOT going to bring you the closeness you’re looking 
for."

Obvious anger filled Damien’s eyes, as he responded, "Do not assume 
you know what I am after in doing this. You have a
bond with her that I do not. Even SHE has said that no one will fully 
have her heart. And loving me as much as she can is not
enough. Not when the two of you seem to share something more. A 
deeper understanding that she will not allow with me."
He restrained from stalking towards the kitty by instead turning back 
towards the window. "You have no idea what I have
been through, what I feel, or what I want. The only reason I am 
allowing you in on this is because I know you will interfere
otherwise. Yes, part of the reason I am doing this is for the 
closeness…another part is for HER protection." Finally turning to
face Caleb, he added, "And I will NOT explain my reasoning any 
further."

It was obvious to Caleb that arguing with a now agitated vampire was 
like banging his head against a brick wall. He flung
open the bedroom door and stormed out into the living room where Lyza 
was so enthralled in her reading she hadn’t even
noticed. He walked over to the couch and taped her shoulder so he 
could resume his position. She leaned forward without
removing her eyes from the words on the page and leaned back once he 
was settled. He wrapped his arms tightly around
her waist and planted several kisses along her neck and cheek. She 
peeled her eyes away from the book to smile up at
Caleb. "Everything okay?"

"No, but it will be." He tried to sound nonchalant about but it 
didn’t work. She could see right through him and heard the
despair in his voice. 

She closed the book, holding her spot with her finger, and turned to 
get a better look at her leopard. "Hey? What’s going
on? You two have been getting along so well and now I get the sense 
there is a problem. Talk to me."

Caleb just smiled at her and replied, "Just a difference in opinion. 
Nothing for you to worry about at that the moment." He
kissed her forehead and returned his attention to the television. She 
looked at him for a heartbeat, shrugged it off, not
wanting to push, and returned to her book. She continued to read for 
an hour or so with slight added affections from Caleb
here and there. Though these were not the teasing touches of moment 
ago. These felt more like security caresses, or small
intimacy for added reassurance. Caleb had his moments and being that 
he was a lycanthrope and thrived on touch, Lyza
didn’t really dwell too much on it.

Damien stepped in the room and leaned against the far wall. He gazed 
at the woman who stole his heart buried in the
pages of her book on the couch, oblivious to the eyes that were 
watching him. Caleb knew it was time and fought the
building tension. There was no turning back now. Damien walked over 
to the two, stopping when his shins hit the couch.
Lyza hadn’t noticed him till that moment. She peeled her herself away 
from the book to look at her beloved vampire, smiling
when she met his knowing eyes. He took the book from her and placed 
it on the coffee table. Caleb worked her nightshirt
up around her waist and slid his hands up to cup her breasts as 
Damien leaned forward to devour her lips. She wrapped
her arms around his neck and gave a slight moan when Caleb gave her 
nipples a slight pinch. Feeling the thrill in her voice,
Damien deepened the kiss nicking her tongue on his sharp fangs. The 
metallic taste spilled into their mouth as he pressed
the lower half of his body against her, causing her to squirm at the 
hardness of the sword between his legs. The harder he
ground, the more she felt Caleb’s stiffness in her lower back. 

She wrapped her legs around the slender waist of the vampire that had 
been sharing her bed for almost a year now.
Needing a breath, she broke the kiss causing the blood pooling in her 
mouth to run down her chin. Damien worked his way
to the swell of her breasts gently suckling on each nipple, careful 
not to break skin in the process. She look back into the
brown eyes of the kitten that hand been sharing her with the vampire. 
He leaned forward and placed a chaste kiss on her
lips before closing his eyes and running his tongue along the blood 
trail that ran down her neck. When he made his way
back to her lips, he opened his eyes revealing the emerald green 
jewels that adorned his leopard. Just before he drove is
tongue into her mouth he whisper "I’m sorry." Minutes latter he came 
up for air and slid from behind her, walking off to the
bathroom. She figured this close to the full moon, he couldn’t take 
the tension and not shift, and she was partially right. He
went to change forms, but not for the reasons she thought. 

With Caleb no longer behind her, she was now flat against the couch. 
Damien lifted his gaze to meet hers and began to roll
her. She thought nothing of it for this was not something out of the 
ordinary. What concerned her was that this would be his
third time feeding on her this month and she didn’t know if THAT was 
wise. He broke her train of thought when he removed
his shirt baring the expanse of chest that she had come to love. 
Tossing it to the floor he reached for her, pulling her up into
a sitting position so he could rid her of the confinement wrapped 
around her upper body. After tossing her next to his, he
crawled up the length of her causing her to lay back. Getting rid of 
the shirts left him in his fitting black jeans and her in
nothing but her cotton panties. Once he was slightly pressed against 
her she gazed deeply into his eyes and found herself
getting lost. She knew he could roll her deeper then he usually did, 
but he had never actually done it. She was overlooking
what this could mean because the sensation he was creating was 
breathtaking. "I love you as much as I know how to Lyza
and I refuse to loose you..." He said, then placed a chaste kiss 
against her lips. When he pulled back, something wet
against her arm drew her attention to the spotted leopard caressing 
her with his tongue. She started at the cat as Damien
continued to speak, "…and Caleb refuses to loose you to me." Her 
heart started racing at the implications that were being
implied, but she was so far under, she couldn’t speak or protest. It 
was as if she were trapped in her own body. 

Damien leaned forward and began placing kisses here and there along 
her jaw line down her neck, causing her to moan
with every new touch. Each one seeming ten times more sensitive, it 
was almost unbearable. "Since you can not seem to
decide whether you will allow me to turn you or not, WE have made a 
decision for you." Damien continued. Now working on
her breasts, devouring each one slowly. He slid his hand to the 
burning warmth between her legs and began stroking her
through the moist fabric. "I have found that there are people with 
the best of both world out there. Half vampire half
Lycanthrope." Now at her belly button he circled a wet line around 
it. Caleb sat on the side of both of them as though waiting
for his cue. 

Now drawing a wet line at the top of her panties, he slid his hands 
underneath her thighs and circled his arms around them.
Teasingly, he nibbled on her inner thigh, causing her to arch her 
back and moan the louder. At this rate she was going to
climax before they even got started. Caleb moved in closer and placed 
a single paw against her stomach and licked the
closest nipple to him several times. "This is what we are going to 
give you. Eternal life without as many sacrifices as a
full-fledged vampire. I will not regret this, but I do apologize for 
doing it without your permission." With that, he looked at
Caleb and nodded. On cue, Caleb ran his four paws the width of her 
stomach. Not deep enough that she would die, but
deep enough for her to contract lycanthropy without a doubt. She was 
so far gone that she didn’t notice that as Caleb’s
claws pierced her stomach, Damien pierced her inner thigh and fed, 
both of them making there mark. Just as they
completed their task Lyza climaxed with a force strong enough to move 
mountains. Her moaning continued as Damien
raised to sit on his hunches and removed a six-inch blade from the 
back of his jeans. Holding his hand over her abdomen,
he sliced open the center, causing a deep gash, a little deeper then 
he intended. Placing the blood edged knife on the near
coffee table, he turned his hand to the side, making a fist and 
allowing the blood to run off the edge and into the wounds on
Lyza stomach. "Absorb that which gives me life Lyza. Take of my blood 
and become my own, my child, my love." With that
he leaned forward and placed his lips against hers. "And of my 
breath, take eternal life." He kissed her long enough to
complete the transitions and pulled away and waited. Unfortunately, 
Damien not being a Master Vampire, he could no
longer hold her. Just as he released her lips, he released her mind 
and reality came crashing down.

She bowed her spine so high that the tip of her head and Damien’s 
hold on her legs was all that anchored her to the couch.
Caleb dashed to the bathroom to change back to human form, which was 
really hard with it being the night before a full
moon. He successfully changed, grabbed a robe and staggered back to 
the living room where Lyza was now screaming.
To weak to stay upright, he fell to his knees and made his way back 
to the side of the couch where he once was. "What
wrong with her? I knew this was a bad idea." Caleb began passing the 
floor looking back and forth between the vampire
and the woman he had grown to love.

Damien scooped Lyza in his arms and carried her to the bedroom. Caleb 
followed close behind. By this time Lyza’s
convulsing had ceased and she was dead silent and limp. Damien laid 
her on the bed and sat beside her still form calmly
while Caleb ranted and raved. "Shit we killed her didn’t we? I told 
and I told you this…"

"If you would but shut your mouth and look with more then you eyes 
you would see that she is not dead. She is resting. The
change had to take place and you knew that." Damien calmly stated 
after cutting off the frantic were’s thoughts. "She needs
to rest and that is precisely what we will allow her to do. I will 
remain here with her tonight as will you. You will stay with her
tomorrow while I am sleeping and when I wake you will go with the 
pard as normal to shift. Nothing changes! She should
wake by tomorrow, especially with the full moon. The stirring of her 
beast alone should wake her. Feel her, her temperature
is higher then normal already. It worked. Stop worrying."

Caleb made his way to the other side of the bed and lay beside her. 
Her rubbed his hand across her blood soaked
stomach and noticed that the scars were not completely closed but 
close. Damien was right it had worked. Her
temperature was as hot as his was. He wondered if she would be more 
were then vamp and felt a slight smile cross his
face. "Your right. But what will we tell the girls? You know her 
friends will ask where she is, especially Tamara. She talks to
her almost everyday."

Damien stood and went to the bathroom, retrieving a damp towel to 
wipe some of the blood off of Lyza’s abdomen. "We
tell them nothing. She should not be out long, if they happen to ask 
we tell them she is sleeping. YOU try and stay away from
them. You are to easy to read when something is not right, or rather 
you have been with the particular event. Now get some
rest. You have a long day tomorrow. You will need to keep a close eye 
on her, since we do not really know what to expect."

With that, the two men lay on the bed beside Lyza, one either side. 
Damien placed a protective hand across her, just below
her bust and Caleb intertwined his legs in hers and wrapped an arm 
just under Damien’s. They both TRIED to get some
rest, unfortunately the well being of their love weighed heavily on 
them and the rising sun was the only thing that took
Damien out of his misery, leaving Caleb to be the watch dog of the 
day…of would that be cat?