Nightly Lessons Book I: The Book of Beginnings

[Peeker]

Dimitrius suddenly tensed. He could smell the change in the air.

...this... ...this was what he'd been hoping wouldn't happen.

Why had Aleksi taught her that damned spell?

"...nine blazing hells..." The man hissed, turning on his heel, and running back towards the guest room.

*BOOM!*

When the smoke cleared, Dimitrius was standing in the doorway. He was holding a small piece of wood which, if cleaned off, would be exactly the same shade of white that the door to the guest room had been. There was a large patch of blasted dust and ash behind him, which created a perfect outline of the huge man's body. Directly behind him the wall was clean.

Dimitrius was covered in ash and the taint of infernal magic.

He blinked.

The ash and magic vanished.

He smiled.

"...alright Miss Harker. Now that you've stated your case for staying up.. perhaps I can change your mind..."

The blasted piece of wood suddenly shivered and gleamed... lengthened... and turned into a thin rod. The man smiled sharply at Alice. His fangs glittered.

"I strongly recommend you bend over the foot of your bed young lady. ...or this will be very unpleasant."

There was never a good reason to upset a vampire.

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

Alice coughed as the smoke cleared. She had forgotten she still didn't have control control over how much power she used in the spell aso instead of breaking the door, she mostly cremmated it.

"Over kill *cough cough*.. total over *cough* kil..." She would have laughed when she saw Dimitrius standing in front of her covered in ash, had he not beensmiling so coldly at her. "Eeeerrr, told you I wasn't tir-ed?"

"...alright Miss Harker. Now that you've stated your case for staying up.. perhaps I can change your mind..." She watched him in a mazement as he simply willed away the ash covering his persona much like Aleks would. No matter how many times she had sseen it, it still surpirsed her. It wasn't enough however to distract her of the thin rob he was making out of the remains of the door. She visibly gulped as her hands covered her rear while he flashed her a sharp smile. "I strongly recommend you bend over the foot of your bed young lady. ...or this will be very unpleasant."

She looked at the rod and whimpered quickly, her first experinece still unforgotten in her mind. She looked up and tried to force on a sweet smile, but couldn't bring it forth as her fear more or less flooded the room.

"...I'll just go to bed then and fix the door after..." She inched backwards, never turning her back on him. "Good night Grand sire..."

*Ssssssswish!*

Dimitrisu swung the rod threw the air and tested it on his palm lightly causing Alice to jump.

"....I don't think so little one. ...now, maybe, that we've scared manners into you.... we can put the attitude where it belongs too?" He demanded in a tight voice and used the rod then to point at the bed. "Over the bed. Now."

Alice winced at his tone and backed into the bed, tripping a little backwards and sat on the bed. Dimitrius didn't look like he was playing around, not in the lest, and it wasn't the same like the first time where it had been out of concern for her health. This was a lot like the time she was grouchy with Aleks at Mikeal's place. Shrivering, She slowly inched and turned around, finding that she couldn't really kneel over the side since it was too hid, but didn't want to stand with her arms stretched out, so she stood straight legged with her arms folded infront of her and resting most of her upper body on the cushion.

"Is it too late to say sorry?" She whimpered just as Klo hopped down, looking at the rod. It was the strangest looking stick he had ever seen and he wasn't sure why this older man held it. Did he know fetch belonged outside?

[Peeker]

"No.... you can say you are sorry, Miss Harker... but that doesn't change the fact that you just blasted a door open and could have hurt someone rather badly with that spell. Magic is not a toy. Power is not a game. ...you are going to be punished... and then you are going to be given blood, and put to bed as you should have been a minute ago... Is that understood?"

As she'd found herself previously, the girl's clothing found itself mysteriously removed - though this time, for her dignity's sake, her froggy bottoms were puddled around her ankles, and her top was on her. Unlike the library, the girl was unbound by magic... only gravity kept her in place as the long thin rod came down for what would be the first of many disciplinary strikes.

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

Alice flinched as she looked over her shoulder, at the rod and then turned away. Even if he had 'dressed' her in her pajamas, she suddenly felt exstremely little again and not because of his larger frame. The foot board of the bed worked as an excellent leaver to make sure her bottom was presented as a perfect target, the sitting spots well exposed and her spine well out of the way so even if Dimitrius didn't have the amzing aim he had, he wouldn't risk hitting the fragil bone.

"Y-y-y-yes Grandsire...." She whimpered as she squeezed her eyes klose facing the head board , her hair working a curtain around the sides of her face. "I-I'm so-so-sorry. I did call out f-f-irst though..."

She knew it didn't excuse her acttions in the lest even if she had called out a warning. Aleks wouldn't have been pleased either if she had done the same to her own door although she wasn't sure if he would have been as exstreme as to use a cane. A belt maybe, or the strap. It seemed to be what he was now giving her when she really stepped out of line.

The thought of Aleks brought another whimper out of herSire. What if Dimitrius toldhim of what she did? There was no way Aleksandr was going to be thrilled by that kind of news, no way! Her shoulders tightened as she let out another whimper of fear escape her throut but it wasn't for the cane. It was her imagination of what Aleks possibly would do to her if he heard about her foolish escapaid with magic. If the book wasn't bad enough to be a repeat, blasting apart Dimitrius' propert so as hell was.


"Please....please don't tell him..." She didn't look up, almost wishing she had grabbed one of the pillows along with her to hide her face in and muffle any cries from the caning. Now that she new what it felt like, it shocked her again that Janus could handle half a dose so well. And Razziel looked like he really put his back into it. "I'll be good and go to sleep, Just... just don't tell Aleks,please."

[Peeker]

The long thin rod, which was probably closer to a switch than to a cane - even if Alice was too frightened to realize it - answered for Dimitrius.

Swack!

""I most certainly will be telling Aleksi, Miss Harker. I will be telling him what you did, just as I will be telling him what I did."

Swack!

"...and I am shocked that you would even think to lie to your Sire!"

Swack!

"One can only reap what she sows, Miss Harker... and this is your reward for such dangerous and immature behavior."

Swack!

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

Alice didn't know what surprised her more. The sudden whiplash pain the cane crossing her bottom, or the fact that despite the hard jump she gave, she hadn't lifted her hands from the the bed. She let out a howl of pain and tightened her grip on the sheets.

"Owwwwwww!" She wanted to rub just as the second lash landed ony a millimeter away from the first. "AHHH! Owieowie!!!"

"I most certainly will be telling Aleksi, Miss Harker. I will be telling him what you did, just as I will be telling him what I did."

"Nooooo...." She whimpered turning to look slightly at him only sheriked was another sswish SWACK! cut through the air and gave a tiny sob as Dimitrius continued to scold. "I'm so-so-sorry! Please! He-he-he'll get ma-mad at meEEEEEEEEE! Owwwwwww!"

She started to shift from leg to leg, not really escaping anything, only agroing the welts

"Ooooww!" She left hand was itching to just rub the four welts that crossed her rear so neatly it was almost unbeleivable that it was a single cane that had done them.

[Peeker]

Swack! Swack!

"Yes, he will be upset, Miss, but that is what happens when you do something upsetting! While I somehow doubt that your master will consider my hand too light in this matter-" Swack! "-it is fully within his rights to know exactly what you have done, and decide what you deserve for it!"

Swack!

"-and don't you dare put those hands back."

The rod moved down to the girl's thighs.

Swack!

"...I am appalled at your behavior, Miss Harker. You overreacted violently to a reasonable command... and far worse, you ignored that command. You don't have a choice, little one: what I say is law."

Swack! Swack! Swack!

Dimitrius rested the point of the rod on the small of the wailing fledgling's back. "...perhaps I will stop now. If your Sire is displeased with you, then he shall need you to be healed enough to express his displeasure."

The elder bent down, and hefted the girl right over the foot of her bed, onto her pillow, as easily as one might lift a baby. The sounds of Klo whimpering could finally be heard, now that the din had quieted down.

"...its time to rest, Miss Alice. You have been punished, and forgiven. ...sleep now, and I will see you shortly. ...is that understood?"

Dimitrius stood at the edge of the girl's bed, watching her poor body process the sudden amount of pain it had just been given.

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

Alice's sobbed into the pillow one hand reaching back to pull her pajama bottoms up for modesty's sake, but stopped just short of the first lash across her thighs. Nothing had changed from the first caning, it was still very painful and too the point. She felt little dressed in the bag long pastel yellow pajams, curled up on the bed crying. She finally resulted on rubbing her bottom, wincing as she felt the welts left behind.

"Ooooowwwhicwwww...." She sniffed as she finally felt the covers of the bed materialize over her. She lay on her side turned towards the doorway, unable to really see the damage she had caused, but knowing it was still there. "Ye-ye-yes Gr-gr-hicgrahicgsire... awwwwwhicweeeee, it hurts."

Klo whimpered, struggling to get back up on the bed when Dimitrius calmly picked the pup up and set on the bouncy mattress. Woddling on his feet, the tiny hellhound hopped over to Alice and licked a few of her tears away, sensing his mistress was upset.

Which Alice of course was. She was thinking about the pain in her rear and imaginiing just how pissed Aleks was going to be when Dimitrius would tell him about the book and attitude, and distorying the door with the spell she had learned. It made her sob louder into the pillow just thinking about it. Finally lookng up, Alice sent Dimitrius a pleading look, begging to be comforted and possibly held, only to bury her head into the pillow again when Dimitrius shook his head. Wrapping an arm around Klo, Alice tucked him under the sheets and cried softly, allowing a few moans of 'ooow's and hic ups escape her lips as she slowly but surely fell asleep, a few tears trapped by her eye lashes.

[Peeker]

Strangely satisfied at Alice's need... the fact that even she knew that what cut the deepest was not being comforted when comfort was needed... Dimitrius left the room, stroking Vangi's head. The girl would sleep, and calm down... and when she recovered, she'd be fairly aching to be forgiven, be it by himself or Aleksi...

Yes, this would be just fine.

Vangi honked softly, one head looking back at Alice's door.

"I know. It is difficult to leave her alone. ...yet we must, Vangi."

Another honk was the dragonette's only response, and the two made their way down the hall.

~~~

It was nearly two full hours later when Aleksandr came to the House of Rastline. After some pleasant greetings and exchanges, and after handing to his Sire the first of the many wards he'd been working on this week, and would be in the week ahead, the two turned their conversation to Alice.

...and upon hearing everything, Aleksandr allowed himself to be escorted up to the (repaired) door, and opened it...

Dimitrius remained outside, letting the Sire deal with his daughter as he saw fit, in the way they'd discussed before heading upstairs.



Aleksandr sat down next to Alice's bed, and leaned forward.

"Alice." He called softly. "Wake up."

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

Alice groaned under the covers, hersleep having been rather uneasy compared to what she was use to. Something was robbing her off her sleep. Althought she didn't want to go to sleep but once she had found it, she wasn't quiet ready to wake up.

"Nughh?" Her eyes were a little blury and looked at a fuzzy white form turning solid and into her Sire. "Aleks?... ALEKS!!!"

She shot up with a visibly wince and flung her arms around Aleks, holding him tight.