1x1 rp; Pleth x Sora

[gam]

"Well, it's better than two weeks." Delphis said, trying to be optimistic, but still feeling she had failed at doing so again. As his vague, and painfully short answer came in, she gave him a glance. "That's it?" she sighed in disappointment. She was hoping for something a bit more...intricate. She had been out of breath after her long speech and all she got was four words. Whatever...guess I can't change anything about it, can I...
The girl took a step away with an subtle injured expression as he flinched; but it was more than understandable. She had just bitten him, and she had no idea what she was to expect. "You don't trust me; smart." she said, giving him a green-eyed glance. "I guess there isn't, but I swear I'm not going to hurt you. I said about not taking the chain off, and look what happened. I don't lie...usually..." she said, muttering the last word quietly. "Just don't take this off. Ever. Unless you want to get bitten, or you want someone else to get bitten...don't take it off." she repeated, but managing to end her solemn words with a brief "But don't worry; I'll keep my distance, Price. Just tell me if you don't feel comfortable, okay?"

[Fatal Star Syndrome]

Price sighed, letting his shoulders sag at Delphis' words. Reluctantly he opened his mouth again, though keeping his dark eyes straying. "I'm from a huge city," He began, not wanting to share the actual name,"A community so unlike this one. Every house was the same, every hedge cut to perfection. Everyone had money there, including my parents. I had everything anyone could ever want, you know." He muttered darkly, shaking his head with disgust. "I had everything but I had no life to waste it on." It was clear Price was not entirely comfortable explaining himself, especially to someone like Delphis. He hardly knew the girl, and hell, she'd just been sucking out his blood. Placing a hand on his forehead he looked back at her, letting her go on again as he crossed his arms.

It was simple things, empty words to Price until she implied that he may actually want to get bitten again. At first it made him scoff at her, but he suddenly became very quiet and awkward, like he'd been put on the spot. What an idea that was, too want to go through that again. But, hadn't he been enjoying it at one point or another? Price gave a curt nod towards the end of her words, trying not to draw attention to his hesitance.

[gam]

Delphis was rather triumphant in her successful attempt to pry information out of him. She gave him her almost undivided attention. As she listened to the end of his curt words, she said, "So you had ample luxuries...but it just wasn't enough for you? I would call you selfish, considering there are people who could use a place like that....but I'm not, since I can see how...unexciting it would be." she chose her words carefully, but they still felt odd. She brushed it to the side and scorned at her failed empathy. But, she noticed, after her other words, he had fallen silent. Oddly so. "Hah, I got you there." she managed to say, disliking the awkward silence.
"So, where are you going?" she said, her green eyes looking back up ahead.
"Well, maybe I should say 'we' instead of 'you'."
She said it in an almost teasing manner, but she was dead serious. "Yeah, that's right, you're stuck with me." her voice adopted a darker tone and she gave him a glance. Still keeping at least a foot long distance between them, she pointed at the bite on his shoulder. "That," she said, scampering away a bit when she noticed she was edging closer, "would be my mark. Each vampire's teeth are different...some have tiny ridges, barbs, you name it. But that would be my distinct mark. It can be recognized, kinda like a fingerprint." she explained. "So in another vampire's mind, you're mine. Of course I can't make you do anything. The only reason other vampires think that is because you have my mark." she sighed and said what she knew he wouldn't want to hear. "So, because of that, anything I inflict a bite on that ends up living, I'm stuck with. You know how animals have territory? Well, they have to defend it. I have to defend you from other vampires who want to eat you alive. Thank goodness for this chain." she said with a sigh, wondering if she was babbling by now. She took the rather shocking news and brushed it off, with a somewhat out of place smile, repeating her question once more. "So, where are we going?"

[Fatal Star Syndrome]

"Yes, unexciting." Price was trying to make point about how dreadful his life had been, to himself anyways, and as much as Delphis appeared to be going along with it she wasn't entirely sold. The tone of her voice was the giveaway, but he didn't dwell on the fact. He doubted anyone would really understand, especially someone from this sort of place. With a shrug of his shoulders as if he'd given in against his own pondering, Price was suddenly still, raising a glance to the vampire girl across from him.

"Hah, I got you there."

So she had noticed. She'd caught him, but he didn't know how much she had assumed given his obvious awkward silence. Lucky for him, she had other things on her mind, and she didn't leave much room for anymore silence. "I'm leaving this watered down town." Price began, trying to hint he was leaving on his own. "Probably just to the-" Had she just said he was stuck with her? "-next city." With a lost look about him, he met Delphis' eyes, raising an eyebrow. "Wait-Wait-" Price tried to keep up with what he was being told, focusing first on the fact that she was every so slightly creeping nearer. He was still though, instead of trying to put distance between them like he'd insisted on earlier. That strange idea of getting bitten was oddly alluring.

"Y-Your territory? Slow down, you can't honestly mean... I mean-" Price tried to calm himself, gathering that constantly bored attitude he seemed to wear. "I'm not your property." As he spoke he almost instinctively reached for the bite mark, misplaced on his shoulder.

[gam]

Delphis tried to emphasize with the boy, and she managed to put herself in his eyes, but only for a second as her attention was drawn back to him. He was shrugging and soon came her answer for her question; of course it was split in half, by surprise, she guessed. For some reason a grin crept across her face and she skittered away from Price, not forgetting what he had insisted on earlier. But still, some invisible force pulled her closer to him, and her first guess was the pure essence of the blood.
As she shot out stammered question, her quirky grin grew wider. It was so funny how he was shocked one moment then pulled himself together the next. "To another vampire, yes. To me, not necessarily. I'm not such a barbaric creature. Once again, thank goodness for this chain...Just answer me one question, Price: Would you like to have yourself torn to shreds?" If he answered no, then she would have a perfectly good reason to stay--of course other vampires were going to come after him, solely relying on the fact that they want to...well, eat him, but since Delphis had already bitten him, they had to get past her first, since he was her "property". The vampire world worked odd, and she couldn't get herself into the heads of one that ran loose without any concealment. Besides, she wasn't that heartless as to leave a marked human out in the open.

[Fatal Star Syndrome]

Price felt utterly defeated, and his following loud, long sigh was proof of that. It was even worse now, knowing that as he was being bitten, he hadn't even fought that hard to get away. The consequence of that was not something he was looking forward too. Delphis' next question only had him groaning; the answer was terribly obvious. Although he may not look like he had much to live for at the moment, and he was never exactly the happiest person, Price wasn't thrilled with the idea of being brutally murdered. "No," he admitted with his head hung, "Not any time soon. So, you're supposed to... what, protect me?" Price felt like he was stuck with his family again, always accompanied by someone. It was for safety reasons but ironically, it was one of the leading reasons he'd run away.

Price looked back to Delphis quizzically, clearly still trying to get over everything she was saying. The existence of vampires had thrown him off bad enough already, and now he was expected to accept all of this. He felt close to just turning around and sitting in that dinner for the rest of his life, apposed to taking everything he'd been told with a nod of his head and heading off with Delphis. Who, he reminded himself, he still had only met that night. "I guess... then... we should get going?" Price suggested, not liking at all what he was saying.

[gam]

"Hah, I got you there too." Delphis said, though her voice had dropped a level or two of volume. Obviously this was a bit much for her to be bearing down on him, whom she had just met. As his answer to her blunt question was said, she was thoroughly satisfied with herself. "Thats what I thought. And yes, I would probably live the rest of my life in guilt if I didn't protect you. It's almost as bad as tying a lamb to a post and letting six lions have a go after it." she said, glancing over at him. He looked confused and she didn't blame him. She practically dropped a twenty pound block of hidden knowledge on his head. For some reason she was still grinning and drifting closer to Price. It was the same cycle--drift, move over away. But she always found herself creeping closer. As his suggestion for them to get going was said she nodded and didn't give her "parents" a second thought. They probably wouldn't be worried anyways. With a drawn out sigh she looked back over at Price. "Sorry." she murmured simply. "For biting you, for creeping you out, for bringing all this stuff down on you." her voice had dropped in volume, mostly because she was in the "drift closer" part of her "cycle" and she didn't have to talk as loud, since her armed mouth was inches from Price. That smell was so tempting. Already getting annoyed with herself, Delphis walked in a straight line for once. "One more thing. I'm not good at trips. I talk a lot and can be horribly impatient. Bear with me,'kay?"

[Fatal Star Syndrome]

Price noticeably cringed at her comparison of himself and a helpless lamb. He certainly didn't feel that way at that moment, as he was still trying to get over the fact that he was actually in danger of anything. All his life he'd felt completely safe, even after he'd left home. It was probably because of how protected he'd been while living with his family that he had a poor sense of danger. "You're asking a lot of me... Even just to take everything you're saying... It's a lot." Delphis probably knew that, but Price felt the need to remind her, maybe to let her know he wasn't happy with what was happening, and so suddenly too. His lips were set in a frown, and that frown only deepened with her apology. Of course, he had acknowledged the fact that he had been the one to pull off that chain of hers, but he didn't feel entirely responsible. It was in his nature to keep those blaming thoughts away, and he wasn't going to just believe her when she told him she was what she was.

"No, it's fine." Price muttered, looking back at Delphis unflinching as she drew up close to him. She'd been doing it over and over, he only wondered how close she intended to get. "I mean, it's the most exciting thing I've gotten myself into for a long while so..." Of course. No sense of danger at all. Price only nodded at her last words, picking his feet up again as she started off.

[gam]

Delphis noticed the distinct cringe. She knew it was a rather brutal simile. But it was accurate. Other vampires she had ran into had been very barbaric. "I know, I know, I'm sorry..." she apologized again. "But would you rather me to tell you the important things weeks later or something? Better to get it over with now." she said, hoping she didn't sound unempathetic. Her green eye slid over to him once more. It was so hard to tell what he was thinking. She sighed as he said everything was fine. "Don't give it much thought please. I don't want you stressing out over it, but it doesn't seem you will."
Curiosity engulfed her as he didn't care at how close she got. "Does it hurt?" she asked quietly, her eyes on his bite, her face inches from the wound. It smelled good. It almost smelled like nothing, a subtle scent. But it was appealing. Thankfully her otherworldy instincts were concealed. Not waiting for an answer, she jumped onto her next questions. Her mind was a pool of questions. "Price, did you ever have a pet? I used to have a cat." she said tensely, trying to break the ice with the half-stranger, while putting distance between them just in case.

[Fatal Star Syndrome]

Price tried on a smile, slipping his lips up just before Delphis looked back at him. He didn't want to come off as completely miserable, because he didn't quite feel too awful. It was hard to process, yes, and not exactly what he wanted to hear, but he wasn't lying when he said it was exciting. If only she didn't sound so distant, like she just had. It was like she'd been through this so many times, that he was supposed to just get used to it. Price was torn from his thoughts at her question, and without thinking his hand had once again found that bite mark. "Only when I move that arm, touch it, or look at it." He answered, trying to force a hint of humor in his voice. His hand hovered there for a moment, covering the mark before he let it fall to his side again. He was caught off guard by the sudden topic change, but like with everything else, he tried to keep up. "Uh... no. My mom was allergic. An awful reason; she'd never see it in a house that big."