Waking up is hard to do

[Alessandra]

Waking a Kindred you put into Torpor. Not a pleasant or easy task.

Waking a Kindred you put into Torpor who was starving? Fucking insane.

And this was the task Ale found herself with. Waking Alice.

Two things would be critical. Restraints, and blood. Alice would need to feed, and if the Savage didn’t have a food source handy, she’d be the target. Well, she could still easily be the target, there was just no way of knowing how this would go.

So she spent some time collecting rats and stuffing them into a duffle bag. In the duffle bag was a glass, which she was going to put some of the rodent blood into. Maybe the smell of the fresh blood would be a deterrent to the Haunt attacking her. Maybe. But that’s what the handcuffs and rope were for, Ale intended to restrain her as safely as possible.

Walking to Alice’s office, her eyes fall upon the still form of her Coterie Mate, the Seneschal, and her friend. She closes the door behind her, locking it if there was a lock. Though she knew a lock wouldn’t stop a frenzied vampire. She lifts Alice and sits her in a chair, using the rope to tie her waist, chest and feet to the chair. Her arms were then brought behind her back and handcuffed. Ale intended to feed Alice the blood of the rats until she was certain Alice was herself, then would remove the restraints.

The bag was carefully opened and rats removed. A knife was used to open their necks, the blood pooling in the glass. When she was sure there was a good amount in there, she looks up at the stake. Pushing her own blood into her body, she steels it against a possible attack. Her guns sat in her holster, safety off, ready to go.

Standing, she reaches out and removes the stake, not placing it far in case she needed it again. And waits, body tense eyes carefully observing Alice, glass held close to her lips.
Saber Sloth Alice Hart

[Alessandra]

Bookkeeping

[Alice Hart]

EverythingiswhiteEverythingis
....Teeth....white....sharp....
blood.hot.wet.redredredredWHITE
everythingiswhiteeverythingiswhite
perfictionneverruinedmesspathetic
fangs.sharp.rancidwhite.Can't.
....everything
..is
.....black.

Gloriously black.

The void.

The truth. The...the...

...blood.

She tries to move and finds that she can't.

Good.Bad.Good. It's good. Precautions. Maybe. Hopefully? It was good. Alice knew it was good.

Her mouth opens feeling the glass on her lips. Ooooh By the Gods. she doesn't know if that moan was internal or external, and she doesn't really care. Impatient, but not frenzied, she presses her lips to the cup, finding not what she sought she reaches her tongue out, Gods she was so empty she just needed....

...a....

....drop...

  2 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-07-23 21:00:15		Alice Hart rolls 4 to Resist Frenzy (Resolve 3 + Comp 3 -2starving ) (10 Again)		8, 7, 9, 6		2 successes

[Yumyumcrow]

Sweet nectar.

Sweet life.

Sweet fire, burning bright.

Lifeline from slumber. Not enough!

A monster lunges for it.

Ale is feeding Alice. Alice needs to collect 5 successes to avoid a Hunger Frenzy (after all, a glass can only hold so much Blood before being refilled). She has accumulated 2 successes so far...

You may make an Extended roll, capped at your current pool Saber Sloth

[Alice Hart]

Ambrosia. Long denied. By herself, and another.

The cup's tilted and Alice gulps it all down. The moment when whomever is kind enough to end her fastStravationpunishment takes the cup away the Doll whimpers pitifully. Only to offer them her stab happy grin the moment the cup's returned, full of that sweet, sweet nectar.

  3 success

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2017-07-24 09:53:16		[04] Alice Hart rolls 4 to Resist Frenzy (Resolve 3 + Comp 3 -2starving ) (10 Again)		4, 7, 6, 10, 3		1 success
2017-07-24 09:53:16		[03] Alice Hart rolls 4 to Resist Frenzy (Resolve 3 + Comp 3 -2starving ) (10 Again)		9, 4, 7, 2		1 success
2017-07-24 09:53:16		[02] Alice Hart rolls 4 to Resist Frenzy (Resolve 3 + Comp 3 -2starving ) (10 Again)		6, 7, 7, 1		failure
2017-07-24 09:53:16		[01] Alice Hart rolls 4 to Resist Frenzy (Resolve 3 + Comp 3 -2starving ) (10 Again)		3, 7, 1, 10, 7		1 success

Hope I did that right!

[Alessandra]

Eyes still carefully watch Alice, watching for the Haunt to lose control.

But she doesn’t see it. At least….not yet.

“Can you hear and understand me Alice?” the Savage asks.

The cup is withdrawn as the rest of the rats were slaughtered, their blood pooled within the glass.

“Alice, I’m refilling the glass.” She says softly.

The glass was once again brought to Alice’s lips, the vitae offered for her to consume.

“I’ve restrained you, and will remove those restraints when we are certain you are in control.” But even she had to admit that Alice was doing remarkably well given the circumstances.

[Alice Hart]

Blood coating her lips and tongue, dripping from her chin. When the cup's pulled away to be refilled, Alice tries to catch the droplets that had escaped her in her eagerness.

It was like her was listening to a symphony of her own, swaying as much as the restraints would allow.

A voice. The first since the blood.

An accent. Familiar, comforting and vexing.

Then, the Beast.

Alice presses herself back, back as far from the monster as she could, her mind picturing whitewhitefangssharpgleaming her face turns instinct driving her ears to listen to learn to make it so the safety of the Black wouldn't be false.

No attack comes.

Only soft words in that accent.

And more blood.

Hesitantly though with no less need, Alice drinks deep of the returned cup.

Her mind straining, working, trying to piece things together when she still couldn't see passed the perfectionwhiteruincan'tescape

Then, because it comes slower then any should like, but it does come.

"Alessandra."

[Alessandra]

She waits, letting Alice drink. This wasn’t something to rush.

And then she stops, and Ale see’s the flinch, no doubt due to her Beast.

Finally, Alice spoke, and seemed to know who she was. This was good.

“Yes, it’s me Alice.” Her voice still soft. “How are you feeling?” meaning are you in control of your Beast. Waking after Torpor was a frightening thing. The darkness lifts, the nightmares cease, and the world crashes into reality.

She wanted nothing more than to remove the restraints, but, she could yet. “Do you want some more? I’m out of rats, but I’m willing to go out and get more should you need it.” She offers.

[Alice Hart]

"Alessandra." Alice repeats, surprised at the sound of her own voice, "Ale."

The Doll opens and closes her mouth, "I'm..." she falls silent. What does she feel? Everything seems, weird. Fuzzy and numb. But the twisting hungry has left her full in ways she hadn't been in months (it had been months, right?) and maybe a little lost but "Good." she says after a while. It's the truth. She's away from the white. That's all that mattered right now.

"Yes." comes from her lips before she can think.

More. Yes. More. She's needs more.

"Don't go." as the rest of Ale's words register. "Please.please.please.please. Don't leave me alone." comes her pitiful whimper.

[Alessandra]

Nodding, “Well, good is a start. How is your control?” she’s fairly certain she would have seen Alice struggle more if the Beast was in control. She would have been trying to get out of those restraints and at her neck by now. But…you never know.

The whimper came as a surprise, “I’m not sure how else to get you some more then. I think my Herd would find a request for rats a little odd.” To say the least, and she didn’t want them at Nox. Cause then they’d be tied to her.

“Only other option is to call Lyssa. Did you want me to call her and ask her to bring some? She doesn’t have to come into the office, we’re in your office by the way. I can meet her outside the door, I’m sure you don’t want her to see you right now.” It was all the Savage could offer. She couldn’t, and wouldn’t offer Alice her own Blood. That went against the Laws. “But that’s up to you. Otherwise I have to leave, and if you don’t want me to, I won’t." and she wouldn't, she'd figure something out, but if Alice wanted her to stay, then she would.

"But we need to get you feed and in control so I can release you.” Surely Alice knew and understood.

She could take a chance and bring Alice to the Barrens or find an alley. But she wasn’t sure how in control she was yet, and didn’t want to chance anything happening.