Pain in the Neck
AN: Tennously written for fytopkey's challenge of vampire!key. Of course I couldn't resist terrible puns, come on.
Pairing: onkey
Warnings: brief mention of attempted sexual assault
Kibum wasn't one for cliches but when it came to those about vampires, he found some accuracy in them. Like, the dark and mysterious vampire frequenting the local sleazy club after nightfall. That one was pretty spot-on because he was pretty sure he visited S&M's enough to be considered a regular (although Taemin and Jonghyun dragged him along so much he wouldn't have a choice to be one regardless). There was the leather-clad, skinny-jean-wearing, thicker-than-your-dick-eyeliner-rocking vampire cliche he practiced religously, the 'looks like a badass' cliche worked well for him, and he was pretty sure no partner he'd ever had could disagree that he totally exhibited the 'completely great at sex' cliche to a 'T'.
Yes, Kibum could say he may be pretty cliche when it came to being a vampire. He just never thought he'd fall in love in the most typical of vampire cliches out there.
Okay, so it wasn't quite Twilight level cliche, but still.
The night Kibum met Jinki, he'd been in the middle of his bi-nightly attempt at intoxication with Taemin and Jonghyun at S&M's while the sway of hips around him lurred him in. Sure, being a vampire kind of meant getting intoxicated was nearly impossible, (which really fucking sucked) but it didn't stop them from trying. However, that night he had been distracted.
"Oh my god, hyung, just go dance if you want to that badly," Taemin said, startling Kibum as he set his drink down with a heavy clink. While they couldn't get drunk off of alcohol, Taemin sure had managed to get himself fairly buzzed. Kibum studied him for a moment with just a bit of jealousy before his mind was once again drawn back to the niggling in the back of his head that had been bothering him all night.
"I don't want to dance, Tae," Kibum muttered around the rim of his glass as he picked it up and promptly drowned a shot of Bicardi. The burn lasted for a few seconds before vanishing as if it had never been there making Kibum let out a heavy sigh. Sometimes he wished he was young and less powerful like Taemin and Jonghyun who both were able to get admirably intoxicated before the feeling wore off.
Taemin scoffed at Kibum's answer but was distracted as he knocked back his own shot, allowing Jonghyun to lean forward on Kibum's other side and nudge him in the chest with his sharp elbow.
"Oh come on, Bum, we know you love to dance with all your potential prey," Jonghyun teased with a large grin, looking as predatorial as what he was suggesting with his fangs barred. Kibum made a small sound of agreement but went back to staring at the crowd of wriggling bodies littering the dancefloor.
Before Kibum could say much, a scent so heady and strong it actually made him sway for a moment stole his attention away. He inhaled deeply, trying to control the automatic urge to bare his fangs and claws when the amazing smell sent his vampire senses into overdrive. He'd heard other vampires claim they'd found humans with blood so delictable the taste lingered on their tongue even in feedings after and so filling another feeding wasn't needed for weeks. He hadn't believed them, had automatically dismissed them as idiotic gossip between fledglings but the beautiful aroma of the blood he felt suffocating the air around him certainly proved that theory wrong.
Jerking his head up, he was suddenly hyperaware of the way both Jonghyun and Taemin seemed to be reacting to the same thing. With a possessive growl that radiated his dominance over the younger two, he let them both know he had clear intentions to claim the blood for himself. Taemin, being the youngest, whined in submission and ducked his head while Jonghyun looked like he was about to protest. One look from Kibum was all it took, however, for him to duck his head in submission as well.
Satisfied, Kibum scanned the crowd for the mysterious individual with the irresistable blood but frowned after a few moments. While he could clearly smell the blood as if the person was in the same room, he was certain that none of the humans in front of him were that person. Which meant that the person was outside and, for Kibum to smell him so clearly, likely bleeding.
Kibum was off of his stool at the bar in a flash, already making his way to the door he knew would lead him to his prey. The incredible scent only seemed to grow stronger as he followed a few long hallways outside and the tension in his body grew. Kibum shoved the door to the nearby alleyway open far harder than was necessary, nearly blowing it off its hinges and the smell of the blood suddenly overwhelmed him, thick in the air of the dank alley. His eyes didn't need to adjust to the dark thanks to his vampire senses and so his eyes were easily drawn to the two figures struggling on the floor of the alleyway next to a dumpster. It was obvious that one of the figures was the person with the blood he'd been seeking and he was pretty sure it was the one bucking desperately under the brutal hands of the other.
Without thinking, Kibum flew forward and knocked bodily into the offending figure sending him careening into the cold metal of the dumpster. A sharp crack was heard as the man collided before he cried out in pain but Kibum didn't care as he crouched low over the prone body beneath him. "Leave," he growled at the man who was just struggling to get himself onto his feet. The man, obviously an idiot, sneered and instead charged at Kibum who would have been amused at the way the man's useless arm flopped as he ran if he hadn't been so angry at the man for hurting his prey. He patiently awaited the man's approach and then, faster than the poor man had reflexes for, he struck out with his hand in a deadly maneouver he'd learned from Taemin when the kid had gotten into different forms of martial arts. The heel of his palm connected solidly with the underside of the man's jaw at the perfect angle causing the man's head to snap back. Had he put the proper amount of force behind his swing, he would have broken the man's neck.
Apparently realizing the same thing, the man's eyes widened for a brief moment in the dark and then he bolted, running so quickly out of the alley that it almost seemed like he was the one with inhuman speed. Kibum allowed himself to feel pride in his work only for a moment before the scent of the other man's blood overwhelmed him once more and his eyes were immediately drawn down to his prey.
Unlike those vampire cliches, he still totally felt like devouring the human and his irresistable blood even after seeing his very cute face. The man was all wide eyes and thick lips and, if it had been any other situation, Kibum might have made a move. However, the thought of the blood flowing in the veins beneath that pale skin tempted him far more than the prospect of the man's body. His fangs were out before he even had time to think about it properly and he sank his head down, breathing in the skin stretched along the expanse of the man's beautiful collerbone.
If he had bitten down in that moment, the story would have ended promptly and Kibum would have probably had a lot less problems.
Instead, he was stopped with his lips hovering centimeters above the man's neck when the man swallowed deeply, causing his sharp adam's apple to bob just enough to distract Kibum's attention in the moment.
"Thank you," the man whispered, and it came out sounding jolted and a little high-strung but it surprised Kibum nonetheless.
"Why are you thanking me?" Kibum asked as he pulled back enough to stare confusedly down at the man's face. His eyes traced the line of blood trailing from the gash on the man's forehead and he briefly wondered if it was the reason the man seemed to be spewing nonsense at his would-be murderer but the sincerity in the man's shining eyes made him think twice. The man swallowed deeply causing his adam's apple to bob once more before a bright smile suddenly lit up his face.
"For saving me from that guy, of course," the man replied as if it was the most obvious answer in the world. Kibum's eyebrows furrowed and he was definitely reconsidering that knock to the head again but he stopped when he felt the man shake almost imperceptibly beneath him. He thought back to the position he'd found the man in and froze, his mindseye supplying the helpful picture of the man's arms being painfully held above his head by his assailant.
"Wait, was he..." Kibum trailed off with a frown, not really wanting to say what his mind was implying. The man beneath him seemed to understand and he nodded, his smile seeming a little forced for a moment.
"Yeah, he wanted more than a little dance."
Kibum swallowed thickly, his attention momentarily diverted. While he was a pretty sexually active guy himself and prided himself in having many partners of both sexes, he saw nothing worse than someone forcing a person into something that was supposed to be made for pleasure. He shook his head to rid himself of his thoughts, though, as he remembered that yes he had stopped it from happening so it was still totally okay for him to kill this man and drink his delectable blood dry.
He dug his fingers painfully into the other man's arms, watching the way the man's face scrunched up as he winced. However, it only lasted for a moment before he was once again smiling that damn smile up at Kibum, complete with squinting eye-smiles that looked like fucking crescents. "Like I said, thanks for saving me," he said, far too cheerful for someone who was being pinned down on the disgusting alley floor for the second time that night.
"You do realize I'm going to kill you, right?" he asked, his voice borderline incredulous. While the quick little stutters in the man's heartbeats told Kibum he was actually nervous if his words didn't, he'd never had prey react this way to him before. The man merely shrugged his shoulders as well as he could under Kibum's pressing hands, smile never leaving his face.
"Well, you're not going to try to get freaky with me before you do it so it's still a lot better than that guy," the man replied easily. His heart was still fluttering uneasily in his chest but it seemed to be slowing. Probably because of all that blood he's losing Kibum reasoned in his mind, trying not to think of the possibility of his prey feeling safe around him. He couldn't give up on the delectable meal below him for something as foolish as affection for fucks' sake.
"I'm still going to kill you," Kibum growled in his frustration, shaking the shoulders beneath his hands lightly to prove his point. His statement got a response in the man's breathing picking up a little but he was still dissapointed by the man's reaction. "I'm going to bite into your neck and drain your irresistable blood fucking dry," he emphasized, baring his fangs overexaggeratedly and enjoying the way the man's heart lept for a moment.
"So, you're a vampire then?" the man asked in a casual tone, leaning his head back and baring his throat in what Kibum decided was either a subconscious maneouver or a foolish prompting to a very hungry vampire. Kibum's eyes raked down the lines of the man's neck and the way the skin stretched impossibly thin around the man's adam apple. He caught himself wishing there was a vein running over it so he could suck on it instead and his eyes widened at the thought. He was so engrossed in his thoughts he actually jolted a little when the man moved his head once more and made direct eye contact with his soon-to-be murderer.
"I guess that makes you a pain in the neck," the man whispered before his face broke out into a grin and he giggled.
Kibum sat back on the man's legs, observing the anomaly before him. What kind of person finds out he's going to be killed by a vampire and decides to make a fucking pun? The man's laughter died out and Kibum cocked his head, observing the way the man's eyelids were starting to droop in what he assumed was blood loss.
It was stupid, so very stupid, because the man still smelt like the most amazing meal he would ever consume and it would be so easy to just drain the man on the spot but instead he felt idiotically intrigued by the man laying before him.
Maybe vampires could get intoxicated after all.
"What's your name?" he asked, his tone now more annoyed and curious than deep with want. The man blinked for a moment, looking like he himself couldn't seem to remember but then smiled tiredly.
"Jinki," the man managed to get out before his eyelids slipped closed and his head tilted limply to the side.
Cursing softly and realizing he was so totally fucked, his fate was sealed as he made a split second decision and gathered the now unconscious Jinki into his arms.
He would later reason, as he sat in his cushy armchair next to the couch he had laid Jinki on after cleaning him and fixing him up, that he could just get his fun out of his prey, find out why he was so interesting and then kill him.
A week later, he would decide that he needed to know more about Jinki and so couldn't kill him yet, but he would just as soon as he knew enough.
A month later, after saving Jinki from another hungry vampire that had stalked him and attacked him while he was at work (the only part of his day he wasn't with Kibum), he would think it was pretty reasonable to keep Jinki around for just a little while longer to figure out why he felt the need to protect the person he was starting to question killing.
It wouldn't be until a few weeks after that incident, after another incident that had nearly taken his Jinki away from him, that he would realize that despite the pun he'd made about vampires, Jinki was totally his pain in the neck.
And, as he watched Jinki's sleeping form try to curl tighter around him and felt the steady thruming of blood flowing through Jinki's heart under his hand, he thought cliches might not be that bad after all.
AN: So, in my incredibly terrible way, I somehow managed to come up with a whole story for this au and I think I'll probably end up writing a chaptered fic for it that will probably be terrible and remain on my computer solely but I feel the need. It occurs after this one but this is the fic I imagined for fytopkey's wish challenge so I wrote this. Hope it's okay and hopefully I can write more for this au cuz it was actually really fun to write ^-^