Jamie peered over the lip of his cup, the sweet taste of the mocha frappe still clinging to his own lips, as he scanned the sprinkling of customers that were scattered about in the small cafe. A boring pair reading their papers and magazines. Two others ensnared in a heated embrace. Another writing busily. All bored him. But there was one man, hunkered over his own cup, brow furrowed in concentration, who caught Jamie's curiousity. And as the man rose, a few token coins dropped casually on the table before he stepped out of the cafe, Jamie hastily swallowed the rest of his mocha, and began to slide out of his own booth to follow the intriguing man.
The cup remained untouched as Jackal decided it was a waste of his time and there was the smell he preferred hiding in the back alley, near the kitchen of the cafe. Rising, he dumped a few coins and then some and smiled at the waitress who bumbled and sidestepped to let the tall dark man pass. Jackal nodded and casually pushed open the back door where he spotted the middle aged manager squatted against the brick, slowly puffing at a joint in the shadows.
"Mike." Jackal said softly. "This is a bit much, don't you think? You've been bad too often lately."
The other man only shrugged and sucked the joint hungrily, offering it to Jackal who shook his head and grabbed him by the neck instead. "You didn't bring what I wanted, after this." Jackal ripped the joint out of the man's trembling hand and then bared his teeth. "Never mind. It seems I must do it myself yet again." he said as he carefully bit into the neck of the man and watched as his eyes rolled back in dead faint. But oh the blood was precious and thick and rich and heady with the taste of the cannabis - it would give him a little high, but being who he was he wouldn't be so affected.
Jackal didn't notice the little redhead who followed him into the alley.
The door let out a ding-a-ling as the bell was rattled when the door closed, only serving to set Jamie's nerves on edge and heighten the suspense. Following a mysterious stranger into an alleyway wasn't normally one of Jamie's past-times, and so already he was riding an adrenaline rush -- one that caused him to jump when a low hiss was issued forth from the dark man, and the body of the other slumped with a dull thud against the wall.
Jamie found himself frozen with a mixture of fear and revulsion, and yet he felt a strange curiosity overcome him as he continued watching. He simply marveled at the way the taller man doubled over his prey, lapping at the wound he'd created with an almost erotic tenderness.
Only the tinkling of the bell caused Jackal to pause and he nearly dropped the unconscious man on the hard ground when he spotted the lone witness to the only act he was ever only a little ashamed of doing.
Wiping his mouth with the back of this sleeve, he looked almost threateningly at the skinny young man who stood rooted to his spot with the oddest look on his face. Most people would've screamed and ran and Jackal would have to hunt them down and do something about it...but this one only looked on with fascination. There was a long pause and Jackal let Mike down on the ground as carefully as he could. He hadn't taken enough to really kill him, interrupted as he was. "Who are you?" He asked a little ruder then usual.
Tilting his head to the side, he blurted out his name, "Jamie" before he could really contemplate the risks associated with saying his name. Oops. "And you're...?" Mentally the question was finished in Jamie's mind -- vampiric, bloodied, damn sexy when you lick your lips hungrily in that predatory fashion. ...And then the stream of thoughts were brought to a halt too, because just what if this being could read thoughts like he could? Another oops.
And then it was Jackal's turn to blink...he had been straightforward enough, he did have the means to force the information out of any individual but this one remained unafraid. A slight buzzing in the back of his head made him jerk back in alarm as he realized that this one was no ordinary human but possibly a mind-reader of sorts. Jackal quickly clouded his mind - precautions he had learned over hundreds of years of existence and stepped forward, out of the dark and toward Jamie. "I'm a vampire. As you so obviously saw..." He smiled and licked his lips again, reaching out to brush the hair of the shorter man, red like the blood he had just taken. "Jackal. You...are not scared?" He raised his eyebrow in amusement and laughed low in his throat.
As the other advanced toward him, reached out and stroked back stray strands of hair, Jamie found himself unable to move. He was helpless, as if he was caught under a bewitching spell.
"Jackal..." Jamie repeated his name, testing the way it sounded with his own voice, the way it fell from his lips. "Not afraid of you.." Quite the opposite -- he found himself strangely allured, captivated by every action the taller man made. He ached to touch and kiss those blood-stained lips, but found no matter how much he willed his body to move, it wouldn't.
Jackal chuckled. "I...see and so you followed me? Were you curious? Or are you...you can read my mind, can you not?" He leaned and wrapped long arms around the slender body and licked his lips again before touching his forehead to Jamie's. "Here...tell me what you see." Jackal carefully let out a stream of thoughts, utterly random but enough to heighten the senses. There was cool water and frenzied dancing around a fire and jungle cats prowling the night for unsuspecting prey.
Without removing his forehead from Jamie's, he pushed the redhead to the wall and smiled as he could slightly read his thoughts, not something he was particularly good at but he managed it after a fashion. Laughing again, he drew back and smiled down at Jamie. "You are a talented one, are you."
Jamie gasped as he felt the comforting support of the wall press against his back. Surrounded by Jackal, his senses were filled entirely by him -- his touch, smooth and gentle, but with hidden strength accentuating every movement; his scent, unique and enthralling, with the smell of leather and blood and coffee intermingling; and those thoughts, a trickle of tantilizing and exotic images filling his mind.