Looking hesitantly at his wrist, Amelia bit her lower lip before taking a long, slow, deep breath. Looking into his eyes, Amelia whispered, "My name is Amelia VanHaggart." With that, Amelia brought her lips to his wrist and covered the bite marks with her mouth. After four or five sucks, Amelia pulled back and looked up at Judes once more. "Judes? What will happen to me now?" Amelia asked softly, her eyes and voice tinted with fear of what was to come.

"Nothing much... you will be more prone to my influence, but at the same time you will live beyond a normal human lifespan..." And with that, he licked his wrist to heal himself. "Amelia..." He whispered to himself afterwards. "Pretty name.. I will surely be used to that..."

"Thank you.. I was named after my mother," Amelia explained with a sad smile, "I never met her, but I am told I look just like her.." Amelia whispered as she trailed off.

"I won't hurt.. will I? And my family will believe me to be dead?" Amelia suddenly asked hesitantly with a small blush upon her cheeks, "Where will we live? For surely we cannot stay here.. And what about my dress? I have nothing to repair it with, nor do I have any way to make another.."

He simply smiled and patted her head a little. "Don't worry... they might presume you dead, as long as you haven't been seen. While I don't intend to move for a while, I do have some dresses that I have reserved for someone like you..." He dropped how he got them, though...

Amelia nodded as she looked down at her lap, not daring to press the subject, "Thank you, I appreciate it. Where shall I sleep?" Amelia inquired hesitantly with a scarlet blush, almost afraid of the answer after what he did to her when he drank her blood.

"I could offer my room to sleep with me in... but if you're that uncomfortable with me.. then I suppose I can get you your own room to sleep in.." He told her.

"I've slept in the same bed as my brother many a time when I was frightened.. B-But this is different.. You are not blood related; you've kissed me.. Do you promise not to suck my blood while I sleep? Speaking of bed, however, what will I wear? I have nothing from.. home," Amelia said softly as she looked up at Judes. Blushing, Amelia added quickly, "Please forgive me for asking so many questions... This is the first time I have ever done anything like this.. This is the first time I have ever sworn myself to a man before," Amelia added in a whisper with a deeper blush.

"Don't worry... I will not bite you while you sleep. But I do have a few changes of night clothes that you could wear since it is so late..." With that, he finally let go of her and stood, motioning her to come with him.

Amelia nodded as she stood and walked over to her sword. Picking it up and sheathing it, Amelia carried her crossbow in her hands as she followed Judes to wherever he was taking her. Looking around, Amelia sighed as she thought aloud to herself, "I fear I shall never be able to navigate this house properly.. There are too many empty rooms.."

"Hm... then you should be thankful that where we're going is only a few feet near each other..." He chuckled, before they came to another room. He opened the door for her, and inside was a room full of dressers and clothes on racks; a dressing room. On one side was clothes for men, of which there was a handful left after his broters' leave, and the other consited of clothing for women, which there were more of, though mostly they were unused...

"You have a room the size of the first floor of my house dedicated to clothing?" asked Amelia, completely amazed by how vast the room was, "You must have had many a vampire living here.."

Walking over to the dresser, Amelia began going through the drawers. Only finding lace undergarments in dark colors, Amelia sighed and decided upon an indigo set before moving on to another drawer. Only finding nightgowns, Amelia chose the least revealing, even thought it did have a somewhat low cut on the front and at the hem, and held them in her arms.

"Do I change here?" Amelia inquired with a blush.

"If you wish..." He said with a cunning smirk. "Though I will step outside if you would like your privacy..."

Amelia scowled at the vampire before her. "If I wasn't keen on you kissing me and sucking my blood, what makes you think I wish you to be the first man to see me without my clothing on? For your information, only my husband will see me like that. And since I no longer have the option of having a husband, no one will ever see me other than myself and the doctor," Amelia assured him before making a hand movement to shoo him out the door. "Please wait outside. I will need to be shown to our... bedroom," Amelia said with a blush as she held the clothing tight to her chest, looking down at her feet as she bit her lower lip.

"Ah, but I will be the closest to a husband you would have now.. but if you must..." And with that, he left her alone in the room.

Amelia blushed as his words sunk in.

I will be the closest to a husband you would have

'Will the vampire truly be the closest thing to a husband I will ever have?' Amelia thought as she stripped down, her clothing pooling around her at her feet. Stepping out of the clothing, Amelia quickly put on the undergarments and nightgown. Sighing, Amelia took her hair down from the ponytail and let it fall down to the small of her back in straight tresses. Carrying the ribbon, as well as her clothing and shoes, Amelia made her way to the door and opened it.

"I am finished," Amelia said softly as she emerged from the room, shutting the door behind her, "What will I do with my dirty clothing? I will mend my dress if you have the supplies I need," added Amelia with a nod.

"If you wish to mend your dress, you may mix it with the supplies that are in one of the trunks in there.." He told her, smirking as he caught a glimpse of her in the nightgown. "I do not mind waiting a little longer while you tend to that..."

Amelia nodded with a smile, "Thank you, Judes. I appreciate your kindness. 'Tis a shame you were not kind to me before," Amelia said with a small laugh before returning to the room and setting the clothes down upon the floor.

Walking over to a nearby trunk, Amelia knelt before it and opened it to search through it's contents.

"Do you know where the trunk may be located?" called Amelia to Judes as she dug through the trunk before her.

"As I have said before, I was desperate... I apologize for my behavior then, if that's the case." Judes then went over to a trunk as he opened it up. "The supplies are in here."

"Nothing to worry about now," Amelia said with a smile as she closed the trunk and went over to the one that Judes was at. Kneeling beside him, Amelia added softly, "If I am to live with you and sleep beside you from now until you send me away, I had best not hold grudges, correct?"

Taking out the supplies she needed to fix the bodice and the back of her dress, Amelia smiled at Judes before returning to her dress. Kneeling beside it, Amelia began work on fixing the tear in the bodice.

"Judes? May I ask you something? Did you know I was coming before I arrived?" Amelia asked softly as she worked.

"That is correct. To be fair, I will do my best not to hold a grudge as well."

He leaned against a nearby wall while he watched Amelia get to work.

"The nearest I could detect you was the doors opening... Though if we were bound then, as we are now, I could sense you from miles away... it's from the telepathic bond we now share..."

Amelia sighed as she continued her work, "I wish John would have warned me of that.. or at least Father.. But enough of that. What else do we now share? How does this telepathic bond work? Will I be able to sense you as well?"

"If you focus on it, then yes... Aside from that, we could also be able to communicate through our minds..." He then paused for a moment. She could then hear an echo in her mind. 'Like this...' His voice in her head whispered.

Amelia jumped a bit as the voice filled her mind, resulting in poking her finger with a needle. Sighing as the ruby liquid bubbled on her fingertip, Amelia looked up at Judes, "Does that mean you can read my thoughts at all times?" 'Even what I am thinking now?' Amelia added in her thoughts as she brought her finger to her lips and began sucking on her finger, trying to stop the bleeding.

"I can... but I can avoid that if you don't want them read..." Looking at her suckling her finger, he smirked a bit as he knelt down. "Mind if I see that..?" He asked.

Amelia nodded as she held out her finger to him, "I would appreciate it if you didn't read my thoughts if you could help it unless I ask you to.. It is not that I am ashamed of what I think, or that I think secrets.. It is just that it is the one small bit of normal human privacy I have left, is all," Amelia said softly as the blood began to bubble upon her skin once more.