"What are you doing?" She snapped as he got a hold of both her arms and was holding her right in front of him.
"Let go." She said darkly, Orion's grip was really strong and he felt like an immovable force at the moment. Because she tried and he didn't even sway a little.
"Is that a command?" His tone was really eerie to be honest. An odd kind of echo to it, and hearing it made her really pay attention to the fact he was not like her at all. He wasn't human like she was if she admitted the things he said, and some of the things she saw him do.
"I…" She stopped and narrowed her own gaze at him realizing right there what he was doing or probably doing.
"No, be a decent person and let me go." She told him, because she was sure that he was holding on to her to make her command him to let go. That would put him closer to making a request from her, and with this conversation it was clear what he was going to get. Though she wasn't sure if having to give him energy or feed him was the request or just part of it. She wasn't willing to find out with his current mood, he just held onto her.
"We could just stand here all day, I don't have anywhere I need to be." She straightened slightly and didn't shy away at all.
"Then I guess we are standing here all day."
"Really? When you were so concerned about others finding you crazy? They won't see me but you standing here acting oddly." She leaned a bit closer to him, her own gaze a bit darker. She would not be intimidated.
"I wasn't worried about others seeing me as crazy, I was worried about myself actually being insane. I know I'm not, so let them see me standing here. I won't play your game and I'm not going to give you the satisfaction of telling me what to do. For someone that must hate being treated like a slave you sure seem ready to treat someone else like one." His grip on her arms tightened a bit and they continued to stand there at a stalemate for several more minutes.
Orion had never come across someone like her before. She really seemed to mean what she said. Kora was like none of the others that he'd had dealings with. She wasn't commanding of him and she was also refusing to do it. The others didn't care if they had to give him energy, it meant they got what they wanted in the end. Yes he was tired of being treated like a slave, and he wasn't doing this to treat her like one. But if she was going to starve him then he was going to have to force it out of her because she was being cruel in a different way. Regardless if she realized it or not.
"You're so ready to see me as a horrible person, but you are the one that is going to starve someone for your own selfishness. I didn't ask you to read that book, I didn't ask for this at all. You want to look at me so negatively, go ahead, but a slave is only the reflection of their master." She pursed her lips clearly she didn't like being told she was a cruel person. Which she was the first decent person he had dealt with in forever, but she didn't get the severity of what had been done.
"You already said you don't know what will happen. You don't look like you are hurting yet. We can wait and see." Yeah well he didn't trust her either, hence why he hadn't let her go yet. She did try to move again but he didn't let her. She let out an irritated sound and he just kept his hold on her. His gaze moved to her throat for a moment. What would happen if he just took what he needed outside the fifth command?
It didn't say he couldn't, just that since he provided what she needed, did as she commanded she had to give to him. Technically she had three times, and that should count. Him gaining a command to give her was reliant on her five. Glancing at the side of her throat he felt that latent hunger kind of surge forward a bit. He suddenly really wanted it, and his brain went to the fact she might not be a horrible taste. Those he fed from were like cardboard, their energy so dulled and polluted by the darkness it wasn't exactly pleasurable for him like it had when he was younger. Just something he had to do because he needed, hence why he tended to mix it with sex. If he wasn't going to get pleasure out of life in anything else, he'd figure out a way to do it. Like she was going to do anything of the sort willingly. Figures that he'd get stripped of the one final thing he did enjoy.
"Orion." Kora said sharply. She wasn't sure she liked what was going through his gaze. Something was, because it went from near anger to what almost seemed lustful. He wasn't meeting her gaze either but looking a bit lower. His eyes came up rather slowly to look back at her and the warning tone.
"What?" He asked in an odd voice. She did take a step back annoyed but he didn't budge and she was kind of at an odd angle doing so. He just pulled her forward again and she let out a rush of breath.
"If you want me to let go you know what you have to say." She very seriously met his gaze in a pointed tone spoke.
"Try harder. I won't crack that easily." The sound he made didn't sound human even though it wasn't very loud. He also moved faster than she expected. Her one hand hit his chest and the other more struck out at his shoulder digging in slightly because of the way he yanked her forward. She gave a sharp cry at the white hot pain in the side of her throat.
He bit her, he was biting her and his grip was like being bound by steel. His one arm went around her waist and the other held the opposite side of her head so she couldn't move. It was really painful that initial bite, and she hissed slightly through her teeth. A moment after that she gave an odd gasp. She couldn't remember a time in her life that she went weak kneed. It literally felt like her legs gave out for a second with the pull of his mouth at the side of her neck.
It was a hard strong pull, she'd had a hickey before. This was a lot different than that. It sent a rush through her body that she couldn't control, and was pretty much standing because he held her there. What was he doing? The sensations he sent through her were intense. Holy hell, it felt like sex without having it. He made what sounded like a moan at the side of her throat and the next pull her nails pretty much dug into his skin. It kind of felt like he was crushing her to him. With the amazing feeling running through her it didn't feel bad how tight the embrace was. Not an ounce of fat on this man, and the few seconds of this clearly excited him like it excited her. Like a match to dry kindling, because no way in hell she'd have thought she'd react in such a way to him.
Orion would drain her dry if he could, just because of how she tasted. Best god damn thing he'd had in forever. It was like a junkie getting a fix when they hit the withdrawal phase. You didn't know how bad you had it until that drug hit you. Because he was right, after all the years of feeding from the deprived it was marvelous to feed from something real. The energy in her blood was alive and unpolluted. Nothing was happening to him doing this outside the norm. He took a step and the table there slid back a bit from the forceful step forward of them hitting it. It stopped at the wall, he could taste the arousal now in the blood and energy and it just fed his own. Potent, they were a potent mix and he really didn't give a shit about the rest. He'd take what he could fucking get. Which he pulled even harder at the side of her throat and the sound she gave was close to ecstasy.
She was half sitting on the table and his one hand was gripping her hair harshly. Holding her head back to make it easier to get at her throat and his other dug more into her thigh and backside having moved. He could feel how her nails had dug into him and tore at his skin a bit. That didn't bother him at all. What was pleasure without a bit of pain?
Kora struggled for a second to think straight. Talk about zero to a hundred, with the way he was starting to pull at her and move it was pretty clear the direction this was going to go. She managed to pull herself back from that blissful feeling, not that she didn't want to feel like this. Who the hell wouldn't? Even a nun would want to feel so good in her opinion. However she also wasn't going to fold and be caught in some web she couldn't get out of. He was a dangerous being on more levels than one. Clearly he wanted to take from her, and they were combustible, she couldn't deny that. Another first for her, meeting someone with matching chemistry.
"Stop." She said really harshly. Though he didn't really and she hooked onto her anger at that. "I command you stop!" It was like someone pulled him back by strings and he let go of her. She nearly went down from where he'd been bracing her up on the table and she immediately felt light headed.
He was breathing oddly and his eyes were jet black, she could see the point to his teeth. She touched the side of her throat and there was blood there, but not much. His gaze immediately went to it, and she tried to bring her own heart rate back under control. He looked really tense, like he wanted to come forward and pounce, but struggled against something invisible.
"What the hell?" She said a bit breathlessly and he took in a breath and let it out. His eye color changing to normal but his gaze was far from neutral.
"If you are looking for an apology you're going to be disappointed." The fuck he was going to apologize or even feel remotely bad about it. If he had his way he'd have done a lot more than what he just did. Orion did not have scruples like she did.
"You are an ass." She moved between the tables. The one she'd been against now nearly all the items on the floor. She was quick through the room. She needed to go to the bathroom and see if the side of her neck was alright. It was definitely sore, she was moving fast and he followed her. To be honest she felt more like she was being stalked.
"I did what you were going to deny me, and you enjoyed it." She gave him a glare over her shoulder, happy no one was in the hall and they left her alone back there most days. She opened the door to the bathroom and stepped in. He stepped right up to where she was and she blocked the door.
"You stay here, leave me alone."
"Is that a command?" She nearly reached up and slapped him.
"No it's not, but fuck you." She slammed the door right in his face. She turned around to the mirror there and looked at the side of her throat. There was a bit of blood, but no puncture marks. While it looked bruised, it also looked like it was fading rather fast.