It was like her entire being was suspended in the air, floating above herself in a dreamlike state. Charlie could feel the blood slowly draining from her body, but in that moment of pure ecstasy she didn't care. She could have died then, let herself be drained of life on this very couch at this very moment, and she didn't cared. Because she would die with this feeling of pure rapture, with her heart fluttering like a bird caged inside of her chest and the warmth spreading it's way through her skin. Better then any fine wine, good chocolate or sweet lover. A feeling like nothing Charlie had ever experience before in her entire life. A small, whimpering moan filled the quiet around them, a sound that told of it's owners distant intoxication.
She didn't feel any faze as the quivering beats of her heart grew more and more intense as the muscle tried to compensate for the lack of blood circulating through her system. Her chest started to burn like she was on fire and the lack of oxygen made her breaths come more and more quickly as her body struggled fruitless to hold onto some form of life. The internal struggle of her body systems, however, was lost to the woman who was so far gone in her own rhapsody to care that she was dying, slowly and painfully. The burning sensation trailed down her arms to her fingers, that were wrapped in Mila's hair, bringing with it a feeling of numbness. Her arms went slack with the rest of her body as slowly and surely consciousness slipped from between her euphoric grasp and finally eluded her.
She was dropped into a dark cavern so deep that there was absolutely no way she could claw herself back out. Her heart, which moments ago had beat in a furious attempt to save her, now thumped at a slow pace. Thud. Pause. Thud. Pause. Thud. Like the slow sound of a war drum being beating as the savage battle continued below. Despite the inevitable pain in her chest, the weakness of her limbs and the mess of confusion running around inside her skull, Char still hung on to that desirable feeling that made her nerves quake and her eyes water. That is until her body went cold. She was left feeling empty and fearful as the last wisp of euphoria faded away like a feather in the wind. With nothing left to hold her to this world, Charlie slipped fully into the darkness.
She couldn't tell time. Had it been seconds? Minutes? Hours? Years? She didn't know, all she knew was the darkness and the desolation. That is until something cold pressed against her chest, something firm and real that startled her suddenly from the place of woe that she now inhabited. Something was making a noise, a sound she couldn't quite make sense of...
“Charlie..”
That was her name.
“Charlie, can you hear me?”
Yes, yes! She tried to answer but found that her tongue was thick inside her mouth, swollen twice it's size. She tried to grasp some kind of word, tried to make the letters form, yet all that she could manage was a weak noise that whispered through the room and could have been a figment of someones imagination just as much as it could have been reality.
“Char, open your eyes,”
Eyes. Open. She felt herself being pulled more and more into the grasp of tangibility. She could feel how weak her body was, how hard it was to breath and the slight flutter of a heartbeat that fought it's losing battle inside of her. Eyes. Open. That voice was right, she needed to open her eyes, something had just happened to her and she was dying and if she didn't open her eyes, didn't fight, she would soon be all the way gone and there would never be another chance for her to open her eyes, ever again.
“Please wake up,”
Her body was almost entirely present now, bringing with it pain. She was highly aware of the couch cushion squished underneath her, digging into her back uncomfortably, of the convulsion of her hands, the beat of her heart, and the weight of someone on top of her. What had happened? Why did she feel like every breath she took was more painful then the last? The last thing she could coherently remember was sitting close to Mila, very close to Mila. Charlie could remember the gentle kiss and that taste of Mila's lips against her own and then... then everything was a white hot blur of boundless pleasure that had lead her to here. The feel of fingers against her neck made her eyes flutter open slowly. She was still in a daze, still trying to think straight through the wave of different sensations that all stopped as her gaze caught something that froze her labouring heart.
Mila's lips. Mila's bloody lips.
If she could have, Charlie would've backed away, yet try as she might her weak body could hardly conjure the energy that allowed her to lift her body just slightly. Gasps, this time out of fear, escaped through her parted lips as she stared at the scarlet dripping down her roommates chin. With obvious effort, Char's hand fluttered towards her neck, which throbbed as if with it's own pulse, and touched the wet bite marks hesitantly. Tears made cheeks sodden and fear filled her chest. Every fibre of her being wanted to run, run as fast as she could. She settled for sinking back into the cushion, her hand now covering the wounded side of her neck forcefully and more tears filled her eyes as she choked and sputtered trying to say something. "W-what are you?"