Bloody Kisses
Part 10
By Missy

SERIES: Bloody Kisses
PART: Nine of an undetermined length
RATING: R-ish (For bloodletting, character death, and general supernatural/horror themes)
PAIRING(s): Shirley/Carmine, Lenny/Laverne
DISTRIBUTION: To Squeaky, LW, Kai and FG so far; any other archives are welcome to ask, but disclaimers must be included, my email left intact. send a URL, and provide full disclaimers as well as credit me fully. Please inform me if you are going to submit my work to any sort of search engine. Please do not submit my work to a search engine that picks out random sets of words and uses them as key words, such as "Google"
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CATEGORY: Horror, Drama, S/C, L/L
FEEDBACK: PLEASE?!
SETTING IN TIMELINE: Slip it in anywhere during the Milwaukee years.
SPOILLER/SUMMARY: Carmine learns too late just the lesson Shirley's been trying to teach him for years: don't fraternize with strange women...
NOTES: I've been planning this fic for over a year ;-). Thought it would be interesting to see what kind of a vampfic could come out of the L&Sverse...

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Laverne heaved against Lenny's palm, valiently trying to control herself. Lenny simply held onto her, willing her fear down to a manageable level.

Like he had any right to wish that upon her. He cursed his own cowardice in silence.

"Pop, pop..." she babbled mournfully. "Oh God, what are we gonna do?"

"We're gonna do what we hafta." H whispered. "Anything ta stay alive." His eyes widened; there was an empty closet. "Don't open this door for no one but me and Squiggy, you understand? And take this." He shoved a piece of broken bottle into her hand, careful not to cut her.

"Lenny!" She cried, but found herself bundled into the closet against her will. He pressed his prayer beads into her other palm, an act that felt oddly comforting and touching. "Where are you goin'?" The look of determination in his eyes sent pure fear dancing down her spine.

His hand tightened around the bottle. "Vampire huntin'." He said, and shut the door.

***

"Shirley Feeney, there's somethin' different about you..."

"Oh, Andrew..." She purred. "You noticed!"

"Yeah!" He smiled viciously. "And I know just what it is!"

Shirley managed to dodge his first strike, rolling him onto the floor. To Shirley's shock, he was more than her equal, squirming free of her grasp and running to the door. She tackled him, wrecking a chair with the force of her body. Squiggy was so damn strong that he crawled away from her; she wondered briefly how the little worm could be so strong.

Wondered so deeply that his sharp kick to her temple came as an unexpected but painful surprise.

The sudden pain caused the blood lust that had consumed her vision to clear suddenly. "Oh my God, Squiggy, what did I do?" She whimpered. Horror overcame her at her manner of dress and the mess she had made.

"You know what ya did, ya she-devil!" Squiggy shouted. "Mark my words, woman; you an' Carmine are dead!" He stormed out of the room, leaving Shirley in a sobbing heap on the floor.

It was there that Carmine found her an hour later.

"Shirl," He cooed, scooping her up. "I could hear ya crying..."

She whimpered. "It hurts so bad, Carmine. It just hurts."

He smiled. "I can make the pain go away, Shirl. Just ask me to."

"Will.."Her soft eyes searched his face. "Will it really stop, Carmine?"

"I promise." He swore.

She bared her throat, taking a deep breath.

Carmine briefly hesitated. His old, former guilt threading through his form. It felt wrong, dishonorable.

But he was hungry...

***

Laverne was on her fourth rosary by the time Lenny returned to the closet. "I couldn't find 'im."

She patted his shoulder comfortingly, but Lenny slumped against the wall, sadness covering his features.

"Vernie, I'm sorry it's goin' down this way. I'm sorry...I'm sorry I'm wreckin' things so bad."

She kissed his forehead, and he leapt at the comforting touch. "Vernie, don't..."

"Len..."

"Don't! I know ya don't love me, so don't even bother!"

She winced at his words, recalling her cruelty a few weeks prior. "Len, I said I was sorry..."

"Sorry don't make it right, Vernie." He said sadly, facing away from her.

She pressed her face to the middle of his back. "I was wrong." She mumbled. "I was so wrong..."

He turned, into her embrace. Finding his lips against hers, he whispered, "Too late."

And kissed her.

The sensations racing through Laverne were painfully familiar. They were the same ones she had harbored for Randy.

She shoved against Lenny's shoulders, but he held her wrist tightly. They released at the sharp sound of knocking.

"That was the weirdest thing I ever did." Laverne said sheepishly, opening the door.

"Hello!" Squiggy whispered, entering the closet.

"No sign of 'em?" Laverne asked.

"Oh, there were signs, Laverne; I just met up with one Miss Shirley Feeney, who tried to seduce me, then drink from my neck."

Laverne shook her head. "This can't be happenin'...Shirl can't be..."

"Yeah, well, she is..." Squiggy twirled his broken bottle like a samurai sword. "I think we oughta take turn."

"Turns?" Lenny asked.

"Turns, ya dope! I'll stay out here for a few hours, then we switch and sleep."

"Sounds good." Laverne said quickly.

"Uh-huh." Lenny said. Squiggy pressed through the door, squatting down like a ninja. The look of concentration on his face deeply frightened Laverne. She knew that they were in deep trouble.

But Laverne rushed into Lenny's arms as the door closed. They kissed, sinking to the floor, and she was heedless in her rush for comfort.

She only knew that she she didn't want to leave the planet a virgin.







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