Unintentional Hunger

Fandoms: ANGEL/BONES/CSI Vegas crossover AU

Paring: Booth/Brennan ; Minor Vincent/Vivian (Gil/Sara) mentions.

Rating: ADULT

Includes: Graphic Sexual Scenes, Torture, Graphic Memory Sequences, Violence, Coarse Language.

Notes: It would be wise to read Forbidden Hunger before starting this fic since the universe will not make since. This is the 3rd and possibly the last book in the HUNGER series. Several instances both past and present intertwine with both Forbidden Hunger and Irrational Hunger from the CSI Vegas plotline.

Summary: AU Vampire - Sasha Van Martin took on her new identity with pride, writing books was something she enjoyed and also her love for Anthropology. Armed with a new face and name she went to Egypt to study some remains of some long ago Egyptians. Everything was going according to plan; that was until she met Seeley Booth. He was just on vacation, but there was something about him that made her feel so much more…it was unintended.

AN: I am posting this to keep me motivated to write it. I've been planning a third book for so long and now I'm getting it started. I plan to finish this series, I plan to finish this piece. I apologize in advance if I take too long to update. My muse comes and goes.

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VOCAB

Vampire: A new species of human, not necessarily one with common myth. Feeding from humans is rare and often forbidden, they do not kill, garlic and crosses do no damage, and their only enemy is sunlight. Although sunlight is not fatal, it can be increasingly incapacitating to any vampire in its path. After exposure, a vampire usually needs to feed before being cast to sleep. The longer without blood, the more time it takes for the healing process to begin. Decapitation is the only sure way to kill a vampire. If properly taken care of a vampire can last centuries.

Half-breeds: A cross between a human and a vampire, often known as 'light-walkers' or 'sun-striders', often outcast from their individual clans when a true-blood mates with a human female or vice versa. Half-breeds are often rare since the union between humans and True-bloods are often discouraged and forbidden. Half-breeds usually have the tendency to crave human blood, when their hunger consumes them they often commit suicide.

Bled: Marriage in certain clans; to be bled means that the male and female of a clan have had their blood combined in a basin from slit right wrists and have drank the combined blood under a full moon.

True blood or pure blood: A vampire born into a clan with no human relatives, often regarded with the utmost reverence and respect since there are very few in existence.

Blood-lust: Where a vampire has waited too long to feed. More experienced vampires can hold off the hunger and live for extended periods of time without feeding. Although it is not advised.

Mate: The female or male of a bled couple.

The council: A group of vampires that are high in the hierarchy, usually the only true-bloods within the clan. Councils usually consist of five males and five females. They usually vote on clan laws and which members of their clan should be banished for their indiscretions. In certain clans males or females can be banished for not taking a mate, hungering for human blood, and murder is punished very severely.

Blood-packers: A group of humans that drain vampires of their blood and sell it to the highest bidder. True-bloods are highly hunted for their blood for its healing properties and aging benefits. A human can live for almost as long as a vampire by regular ingestion of a true-bloods life force.

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Prologue

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London 1841
The Society Ballroom

It felt like ages since she was able to stand somewhere without being immediately seen. Being a halfbreed meant that she couldn't witness some of the affairs the normal society members could. Her father's one deed landed her in a life she was not fond of. She watched as the couples danced and how there was one vampire interested in the local servant, one of her closest and dearest friends Vivian Ross. She remembered her father speak of Vincent Rhodock III. He wasn't like the rest of the purebloods, he was in love with the mortal woman and she felt it refreshing that she wasn't the only one who was different.

"Sasha my dear, you know you're not supposed to be here. This is a pureblood ceremony." Her father spoke to her gently with a hand on her shoulder.

She turned to face him and looked into his amber eyes, with a sigh she looked down at her feet. "I don't like it that I'm not like the ones around me. Ever since I can remember I've been left out. The only friend I have is Vivian and she's attending the party."

"She's a servant because her father was one of us before his capture. Edgar promised to look after her as if she was one of their own. Even though she helps others, Edgar still values her like a daughter."

"Yes, but because of your secret you're going to be banished soon." She shook her head and looked at her father once more. "What will become of us? So many purebloods are mixing with humans these days, that's why the society is so strict. Look at Vincent, even he is smitten with my best friend and she's mortal."

"Life is often never fair my child. We have to look at the details laid bare before us. I was able to save your mother a life of torment by refusing my blood to her."

"Yes, now she sits in your room sick and unable to go anywhere. She's dying and you could've been kind enough to delay it."

"And put her through the madness? It is absurd. It's such a horrible way for a human to deal with life, and she'd have to feed off me in timed intervals. Would you rather have your mother the way she is now, or insane?" He pointed out to the dance floor. "Surely you could be happy with what you have. Even though we sometimes stray, the society doesn't turn its eye from us."

"That's where you're wrong, father." She looked out at the couples on the floor. Watching them turn to the soft music being played by the orchestra. "I've watched the society change over the past ten years, out of the original ten four remain, they were cast out for not marrying. So you tell me that the society doesn't turn their eyes from us? I will have you rethink that."

"Why don't you go see to your mother, I'm sure she's been waiting to see you."

"As if she would even remember me." Sasha huffed. "Today is one of her bad days, father. You could stand in front of her and she wouldn't know you."

"Just do as you're told and go to her. She is still your mother no matter how forgetful she is."