a/n: This is a companion piece to "Bedroom Eyes", the other pov. short, different, a bit darker maybe but not angsty. thank you to Klee who beta'd ^_^

"I am a bonfire I am a vampire I'm waiting for my moment you come on like a drug I just can't get enough I'm like an addict coming at you for a little more

and there's so much at stake I can't afford to waste I never needed anybody like this before. temptation waits."

Electric Storms

Heat. Ah God, the heat pours through me, flashes through my veins. Fire contained within your precious essence and it burns- I always knew it would, sizzling in my core.

I kiss a tender part of your throat and you whimper and the sound makes me shiver. To dominate you, you gave me that for such a beguilingly small price but I didn't know that not only would I get into your skin, I'd also get into your heart. Who would've guessed that you're a kinky little sex kitten? And so I take advantage of what I demanded, I delight in the marks on your skin, the iridescent bruises on the insides of your thighs, because you're mine, I paid the price.

You always keep your eyes closed and I never used to care except now I do- I know you and it just makes me want you even more. There should have been a warning sign- I should have known it was too easy. Now I'm chained to you because I can never give up this intoxicating heat.

Doomed to love you. Damn you. I watch your face twist in pleasure- feels so sugar~good making love to you, fucking you. Gorgeous dark locks tangled in my fingers, and you tighten- I know all the secrets of the universe!- they're in this moment, in your delicious surrender.

I want to crawl into your warm flesh. I cling to you as I never have, can't find the strength to leave anymore and in this moment there is a frightening intimacy like never before. Silently watching you, skinslick against you, moving with our combined breaths, so flushed and beautiful.

You open your eyes. I can't help it, I reach out to cup your face and you arch into my touch. Falling. I can't leave you.

So I stay, sleeping in stolen warmth and hoping that maybe you won't notice that I-

I should have known this was too easy. I've paid my price. Drowsing in your intrinsic muted sunshine I slip into dreams of molasses and butterflies caught in silken threads...

In my arms you stir and I can practically feel the astonishment radiating off of you, rolling waves of your internal glow and I kiss you-

I feel so weak and strong at once- needing you but possessing you. Maybe you let me... It's a feeling I'll have to get used to. Anything for your fire~skin, your eyes so full of painful humanity.

You bite your lip, and blushing in shame you say, "I love you."

I soak up the heat from your cheeks and I whisper, "I can't leave you." which is the same thing anyway.

"leaving you behind, a flash in the pan, a storm in a teacup, a needle in a haystack, a prize for the winning, a dead for the raising, a catch for the chasing, a jewel for the choosing, a man for the making in this blistering heat"

Hope you liked. It's... different from "Bedroom Eyes", which is good I guess because it's a different point of view. Lyrics are from "Temptation Waits" and "Hammering in my Head", both by Garbage. Review please?

~RainShadow