slayers_desire | Take one week of training, add a dash of slaying

After their first night together at the new training center, April established a new schedule for Rain to maintain. For the next week, she was very insistent on certain things. He woke at 8 a.m., ate a healthy breakfast and then after a half-hour would start stretching exercises. From 9 a.m. to noon, Rain would go through a series of martial practices. One hour with a familiar weapon, one hour with an unfamiliar weapon, and one hour with two weapons.

At noon he was have lunch, and time enough to have a nap. At 2 p.m., he would be directed to the library to study for one hour, then from 3 to 5 p.m., he would return to the training center. He would be run through a multi-dimensional session, with April tracking how well he was doing (so he could break his own records in the future).

After a supper at 5 p.m., April would insist again on a nap, then when he woke at 7 p.m., to stretch before heading to his world. And to his job. The night would be spent protecting his city. Slaying. Of course, when he returned to the training center, by 4 a.m., April would get all the information on his performance. And give him a massage, and sent him to bed.

Some nights they would share a bed. Other nights, if he was too tired, they would take to their separate beds. The nights that they had enough energy to share passion, it was tender and wouldn't extend Rain's energy.

By the end of the week, judging from Rain's scores on the training missions, and his increasing accomplishments in the field, April knew he was ready for something stronger than a mere vampire. And from some investigating, she discovered a low-level demon that was creating troubles for some innocents in Rain's neck of the woods.

So when it came to just before night, this time April brought Rain to a table that had several occult items laying on it. "Okay Rain, tonight you have to deal with a Der Kindestod. The name means "child death" and it feeds off of children by sucking the life out of them. He has been affecting a Children's Hospital nearby your city."

"One of the difficulties is that the Der Kindestod is invisible to all adults and can only be seen by children, madmen and the feverishly ill. His eyeballs extend and latch onto people, leeching their life force." April bit at her bottom lip, looking up at Rain, "For you to fight him, I am going to have to make you sick."

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Rain heard the satisfying crack. He waited a second just to make sure. "Yeah kids.. it won't be bothering you again. Get back to bed ok?" he said, taking the creature's sleeve and wiping the blood from his face before rolling it off him. He dragged the creature a few feet down the hall and heaved the body into the garbage chute. He staggered back down the hall to the children's room, holding onto the wall as his head swam. He took a couple steps into the room and fell to the floor, unconscious.

The kids had been going to bed, when they paused when Rain fell to the floor. They rushed around him, when a portal opened and April stepped through. The kids looked up at her in confusion, she gave them a smile and said, "Your guardian angel needs rest. Go to bed children."

Lifting Rain into her arms, April returned him back to their training centre. Taking him to his bed, to lay down. Where she started to wash him from the blood, puke and sweat from his body with a damp cloth.

This is a time when it's convenient that April has vampire strength. Rain isn't a lightweight.

As she washes him, he shivers occasionally. Still out like a light but his body reacting to the sickness. After awhile his eyes open, searching the room. Where was he? He hadn't been in the new home long enough to recognize his room at a glance when delusional.

"Mom?" he groaned, out of it.

"Shush Rain. It is okay." April continued to keep his forehead moist with the cloth.

He blinked a couple times, his mind catching up. It couldn't be his mom, mom was dead. Everything gradually reeled back together and he remembered why he felt horrible.

"April? What happened? I remember dumping the body and then nothing."

"You fainted. I had to find you." April explained. It had been dangerous for her to enter his dimension, but he was worth it.

"How did you know I fainted?" He wondered if she had some way of watching him. "Someone would have found me.. put me to bed... wouldn't they?" He didn't know how sick he was but he hated the thought of being a burden on April.

"Thank you."

"I had cast a scrying spell. To note how well you had done. And you performed perfectly." April praised him. "And I wanted to make sure that you got home safely."

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"I did?" He groaned. "Didn't feel perfect." he lurched. "How much longer am I gonna be sick?" He groaned.

"Still about 20 hours or so." She nursed over him again.

"Mama didn't make a cure huh?" he sighed and shivered.

"Mother made sure it would not last longer than 24 hours, but the bug still has to work through your body."

"This sucks" he grumped, almost childlike cuteness in his voice as he broke into a cold sweat.

Bathing him with the wet rag again, "Mmm my poor whiny bitch." April could not help but find him cute in this state.

"Hey!" he whimpered. "Not cool. I saved some people today." He mock pouted.

"You did." She kissed his forehead. "And you helped some children take strength over their fears."

"You performed like a champion."

"A Champion... I like the sound of that."

"You missed." he pointed to his lips. "Oh wait... do I have puke breath?"

"I did not think you wanted me kissing you, after all you have to save your strength." April explained. Kissing his lips softly.

"I never want you to NOT kiss me." he said quietly.

"Awwww sweet." April kissed his lips again. It was very hard not to take advantage of him in this situation.

"Can you cuddle with me? I'm a little big for a teddy bear and I don't feel so hot."

"Give me one sec..." April pulled off the patient's gown from him. Then she moved to lay beside him, concentrating to slightly chill her body to provide him with some comfort.

"Are you okay?" he asked, concerned. "You feel cold. I didn't make you sick did I?"

"Too cold?" April returned some warmth to her body. "I was trying to make you feel comfortable."

"How are you doing that?" he asked. He wasn't sure what temperature he'd prefer with the cold sweats... yes, he did.

"Just your own temperature is fine, I just want to feel you close."