Content Warnings:
This story includes lots of bratting, degrading dirty talk about the submissive's intelligence, sapphic usage of "daddy", vampire venom that acts as an aphrodisiac, and forced orgasms as punishment.
Watching Carmilla drink a man into head-lolling bliss on the other side of the bar made me understand why vampire hunters are always so obsessed with staking in the books and movies. My wife was a sensual, almost feral apex predator when she was out at night. She didn't so much hunt her prey as seduce them, coaxing them into shadowy corners with a few bats of her long lashes and a flash of soft-looking, pale cleavage. They always smiled dopily as she ran them to ground, thrilled at their luck, unaware that agreeing to have a beautiful woman sip from their veins didn't guarantee her presence in their beds. She struck with the ferocity of a viper, drank with the hunger of a starving animal, then walked away with the sway in her step of a well-fucked woman. When Carmilla fed, she was the most powerful creature in the room and she knew it. It made me want to nail her to the floor with my strap like staking her into a coffin, and she knew that too.
I watched her lick the blood off her lips in self-satisfied arrogance as she walked away from the schmuck with glazed eyes and a wet spot on the front of his jeans. Her hips switched in that way that made me want to paddle her black and blue for the way it invited everyone else to stare at her ass. Not because I was all that jealous or possessive, but because the covetous looks made her an absolutely insufferable brat. Her blood-colored eyes were smug and excited when she met my gaze.
"All done?" I asked coolly, not wanting to make a spectacle of the violent lust I knew she could hear pumping through my veins.
"Mmhmm."
I stood and let her help me put on my lavender trench coat. Looking at us, people probably guessed I was the more submissive, demure partner. My dress was pristine white, my makeup sweetly pastel, my accessories whimsical. Meanwhile Carmilla was dressed in her signature black and sky high stilettos that made her tower over me, with a cat eye nearly as sharp as her discreet fangs. There was a reason her name had starred in hundreds of "predatory lesbian" stories, penned by the men she drained then left for a woman. She
was
a predator, in the more animal sense of the word, and when we were standing side by side, most people couldn't tell that so was I.
As we walked the few blocks from the bar to our apartment, Carmilla slid her cold fingers into mine. When we paused for traffic at a crosswalk, she lifted our entwined hands up to her black-painted lips and kissed my knuckles. The mischievous, disrespectful sparkle in her eyes gave credence to the sillier stories of vampires that glittered in the daylight. She looked at me over my knuckles like she was in charge, like I could be manipulated and hunted the same as her dinners.
"Sass me all you want," I drawled, "I'm not playing hard tonight."
"I made him cum," she purred. "I could've stopped before he did, but I didn't."
I tugged her forward by our hands as the crosswalk light changed. My brain buzzed with the need to put her in her place, to punish her until she cried, to tie her down and make her cum again and again until she broke. Was this how she felt before she fed? What was the difference between regular lust and bloodlust when my regular lust included a blunt edge of violence?
It didn't matter. The needs throbbing in my clit and the flats of my palms didn't matter. Neither did Carmilla's needs that sometimes seemed to match mine so well it felt as magical as immortality. I'd had a god awful week at work and we'd gotten in a fight just this Tuesday. Hard play was great stress relief but it wasn't the right place to vent my frustrations, especially not when some part of both of us might wonder if I was fucking her up because I loved her or because I was still a little pissed off. Inflicting pain wasn't really the point. The trust and the control and the fucked up fantasy head games were. I didn't ever want to make Carmilla cry or bruise for anything except ecstasy. Certainly not for signing me up for her annoying friend's year-long pottery class and paying the hefty deposit out of our joint account without talking to me first.
Besides, she wasn't totally in her right mind tonight anyway.
"You're blood drunk," I reminded her.
"Come onnn," she whined as we turned the corner onto our street. "It's not like I'm alcohol drunk. My head's just a little buzzy."
"Not happening."
"I'm totally sober!"
I didn't respond as we reached our building and trudged up the stairs. I fished my keys out of my favorite purse, a red sequin shoulder bag that looked like a Heinz ketchup bottle. It had been Carmilla's first present she ever got me, and I kept my eyes on it as we walked up the stairs to our apartment to remember how much I loved her when she pulled out The Brat Voice.
I didn't think of myself as a Brat Tamer because Carmilla wasn't really a brat. She was a centuries-old powerful monster with enough beauty, money, and magic to get basically everything she wanted whenever she wanted it. Carmilla was a brat like children were bratsβshe hadn't been told 'no' enough, and now it was everyone else's problem.
My
problem. She wanted a Domme, wanted to be submissive and agreeable, wanted to be praised and spanked and fucked into oblivion. She had years of experience as a trained submissive. But she had even more years of experience having her way. Calling me a Brat Tamer was like calling a mothman hunter a lepidopterist.
I wasn't a Brat Tamer, I was a Countess Domesticator.
"You just don't have the strength to make it hurt when I've just fed," Carmila said airily, trying to bait me. "You should have me on a cross right now for making a boy cum without your permission."
"Oh, you will get your punishments for that," I warned her darkly, kicking off my boots as we walked through the door. "But not tonight. You're blood drunk."
"Am not!"
Carmilla's foot landed in a spoiled child's stomp, only she wasn't a child. She wasn't human at all. The hardwoods she stomped cracked, splitting a plank in two. I rubbed the fuzzy ring on my right hand with my thumb to self-soothe while I stared at where her bare, colorless foot had damaged the floor.
"Yes, because that was the act of a sober person," I said dryly.
"Fuck!"