Gabrielle
Part Four

When the sun set and the room darkened, Matthew opened his eyes. He didn't have trouble seeing in the semi-dark room. His eyes now able to make out detail like never before. He reached his arms up and held Gabrielle as she slept against him. He took in her scent and realized how little humans used their senses. He looked over at Angel and remembered her holding him so he wouldn't hurt himself. She stirred as if sensing his eyes on her and she opened her eyes and smiled at him as Gabrielle also woke against him.

"How do you feel? Do you still have pain?" Gabrielle was over him, her eyes looking into his face. "I feel fine. I don't have any pain at all. When I tried to come too before my chest was on fire and I felt like my heart was going to burst. But now I don't feel any pain at all. My mind couldn't really comprehend the pain I was in when I was trying to absorb your blood but I know it was bad. I felt like I was burning up from the inside."

"Yes each of us remembers the pain we felt when we took Michael's blood so we know what you mean. I didn't stop you from drinking too much and I didn't have the strength to keep you from scratching your self up pretty bad before Angel finally got back to help you. If she hadn't returned when you did you may have done some damage to yourself in the process." Gabrielle smiled down at him knowing the pleasure of having his senses so acute now. He looked at her as if he was seeing her for the first time. In a way he was.

"I need to feed so I'm going to leave you two alone for a few hours now that I know you're ok Matthew. Gabrielle, I'll be back before sunrise, so don't worry over me. I didn't sense anyone when I went out the last two times. I don't think we need to worry about anyone else coming looking for Michael. When I get back we can decide what to do next. Feed him and let him enjoy his new senses and I'll be back later." She had to smile knowing the senses he would enjoy the most.

Gabrielle heard the elevator descend as she helped Matthew to his feet. She knew he would need to feed as well now that he was awake but in smaller amounts more often just as a newborn would. She could feed him the first couple of times now that she had fed but soon she would have to take him out and teach him to hunt. He looked at his paintings on the wall and touched the figures, the colors more vibrant and alive even in the darkness that they had ever been when he painted them. He saw the colors and the textures of the brushstrokes and heard noises from outside as if he was standing on the sidewalk rather than four stories up. He smelled the blood on Gabrielle's clothes and knew some of it was his. He felt hunger as the smell of the blood entered his mind and he turned to her.

"Help me learn. Help me know how to take care of myself. I don't want to be dependent on you for things, so teach me. I can smell the blood on your clothes and it makes me hungry." Gabrielle smiled up at him and took his hand.

"There is much I have to teach you. Feeding is the most important to start. You have to be able to do it discretely and not kill unless it is unavoidable. I will teach you how to sense who to take and who not too. Some of the sicknesses in humans can't kill us but it will make us wish we could die is we drink it so there is much for you to learn. For now you will drink from me and tomorrow night I will take you out and let you hunt on your own. I will be with you to help you but for now you can drink from me." She sat him down among the pillows and opened her wrist once again and held it to his mouth. He drank eagerly this time and took now coaxing to begin. She was able to enjoy the sensation of him taking her blood now that she didn't have to worry about him as before. He drank and she saw the color come to his face as her blood warmed him. She knew he also felt the same pleasure as his eyes never left hers. She pulled her wrist away after a few moments and bent down and kissed his lips. Tasting her blood on his tongue as he hungrily pulled her to him and enveloped her in his tight embrace.

Matthew seemed to feel every layer of his skin as Gabrielle touched and licked him. It was almost too much for him. He felt the slight roughness of her tongue as she licked across his chest and over his shoulders. She bit into his neck gently and enjoyed taking blood from him and allowed him to enjoy the bite now as a vampire rather than a human. She didn't know if he would still wish to make cuts in his skin but he could decide that in time. She would help him with anything he wished to experience. For now making love as two whose senses where heightened would make a nice beginning.

She knew by his deep moans, he was enjoying what she was doing. She wasn't drinking to feed only for pleasure so she stopped after a short time and went on with her teasing of his skin. He grabbed her face and pulled her to him, kissing her roughly, wanting to taste the blood on her lips and tongue. He became very aggressive as he realized his new strength. He lifted her as he stood and held her against the wall as she wrapped her legs around his waist and held onto him. He entered her quickly and thrust into her making her cry out with each thrust of his hips. He seemed determined to fill her as deeply as he could. She cried out his name as her orgasm began and he didn't slow his assault on her as she continued to cum against him. Only after many minutes when she finally dropped her head against his shoulder, did he slow his thrusts and allow her to rest. He took her hair and brought her face to his and kissed her gently as she caught her breath. He held her tightly to him, bringing his face down to her neck. He bit her gently and only after her blood began to flow into his mouth did he allow his orgasm to release itself inside her. He had never felt anything close to what he experienced at that moment. He felt her passion and excitement in her blood as he drank from her and it intensified his excitement to a level he wouldn't have been able to withstand as a human. Reluctantly he raised his mouth from her neck. Holding her tightly still he tried to give voice to the overwhelming sensations his new body was experiencing, the sound he emitted sounding not quite human. Exhausted he laid her down on the pillows and fell into a deep sleep beside her.

When they woke, the night was not over and they made love again, this time slowly, more deliberate. Drawing out every kiss and caress. They shared many peaks before the sun rose.

Angel came in as the morning was dawning and she laid down beside them and slept while the sun made its way across the sky. Matthew woke before the sunset, his hunger over whelming him. Gabrielle allowed him to drink from her once more and they waited for the darkness for his first lesson of his new vampire life to begin.