The Great Beauty

I am Marissa, for many years I have been considered the great beauty of our species, the vampires. I have lived all my life with my brother Heavers in our home above his hospital; for you see he is the doctor/surgeon of our people. Our family is part of the glymera, the social core of the aristocracy among the vampires, this means amongst other things that my brother is upon the council and I attend all the balls. For around three hundred years I was the Shellan of our true King Wrath, although he would not take the throne and rule I was the one who was mated to him. That was until he met Beth, Darius� daughter and fell hard for her and ended it with me, I resented this for a while but grew used to the idea as it was a loveless mating and our King should be with someone he loves.

One night I arrived at the Brother�s compound when one of Beth�s cop friends had turned up, his name was Butch. From the first moment I saw him I was attracted to the human for no known reason and locked myself up in my room for a while. I only came out for balls and the one and only time I went back to see him at the compound. I distanced myself from him and the brothers and stayed in my room at Heaver�s helping out occasionally in the hospital. There I met a young female and her daughter a pre-trans, they had been beaten by her Hellren and where hiding out. I became friends with them and wished above all that I could help them.

This was when Butch was brought in, he had gone missing for awhile and the Brother�s brought him into the hospital once he was found as there was something terribly wrong with him. Heavers placed him into one of the hidden rooms but I found him, he was in such a state that I could not leave his side. I ignored all the contamination equipment and walked into the room to be by his side. This was how the Brother�s and Heavers found me, curled up on the bed beside him, Heavers wanted to remove me but this made Butch worse so I was left where I was.

Butch finally woke up and we consummated our love, he smelt different to me but I did not care, this was when V saw us and would not talk to either of us for awhile. Once Butch was better Heaver�s threw me out of the house to fend for myself, I had no-where to go so I turned to the Brotherhood and our King Wrath for a place to stay. It was Beth that welcomed me into their home with open arms, I stayed in the Pit for a short time with Butch before he was transformed into one of our kind through his decent from Wrath. I was used to help keep him in this world; hopefully our love was strong enough to keep him here, with us, with me. I am now his Shellan and I help with the running of �Safe Place�, a safe-house for the battered females and their children.