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[fancypost borderwidth=0px; width: 300px; text-align: justify; font-family: trebuchet ms; color: black; font-size: 10px;]☠ it startled him as he heard the blood-curdling scream coming from down the stairs as they approached the stairwell that led into the basement. instead of showing it, though, the young vampire just sent a questioning gaze towards his mother, who had a soft, chilled smile painted on her features. "their new recruit got a bit too close," she clarified, recognizing the scent of the blood that was wafting up to their noses. nicholai tried to make it his duty to not know the trappers by name, but he sadly knew a few.
they began to walk down the stairwell together. nicholai opened the door for his mother, catching the basement doors being slammed shut after the retreat of the trappers. in their place stood the head trapper darius and his father. his mother instantly detached herself to glide smoothly over to her husband's side, and nicholai turned his attention towards his new 'gift'.
it was a beautiful white-furred pureblood. the male knew he was going to be getting a pureblood, obviously, but this one was even more gorgeous than his older brother's, which was saying something considering alessandro was the prize child. he had the brightest snowy white fur, and the specks of blood littering the large expanse of white contrasted nicely, adding a subtle hint of danger that made the blood in his veins boil. nicholai had always had a thing for danger. the startlingly bright eyes turned on him, glowing with hatred and malice, and nicholai almost had the urge to smile at him. mine.
he snapped out of his daze as quickly as he could, forcing his eyes to turn towards his parents and darius, angry with himself. there was that vampiric instinct again. vampires were very straightforward, possessive creatures by nature. nicholai tried not to be like that, especially because of a filthy dog, but sometimes it happened without him realizing it. maybe it was because it was the first time seeing the werewolf. whatever the case was, he was positive it wasn't going to happen again.
nicholai half-listened to the exchange between darius and his parents, noting that he hated changing shape and inwardly sighing. oh great, he got the problem mutt. his soft blue eyes lazily flicked over to the exchange of the collar, zeroing in on his father as he picked up the syringe which had managed to pull out just enough blood to last the next couple days. fusing the blood into the collar, he glanced up to meet his son's eyes, a silent order glowing in them. nicholai walked forward, strands of his inky black hair falling away from the tight bun he had it done up in to curl around the sides of his pale face.
aurelius handed nicholai the collar, clapping his son on the shoulder and staring him straight in the eye. "now son, this is your gift. i expect you to treat it the way it is meant to be treated. no funny business, alright? you would not want to make your father unhappy, now, would you?" his hand squeezed the young vampire's shoulder with enough force to break a human's, and enough force to make nicholai unintentionally wince. he really didn't like his father. especially as he leaned in and spoke in a whisper that was low enough for only the two of them to hear, even with his mother's and the werewolf's advanced hearing, "this is your last chance to prove you aren't a failure of a son," with that, he released his son's shoulder and escorted his mother out of the basement.
leaving nicholai alone with his charge.
the male stood there for a moment, nothing but the werewolf's breathing and his own thoughts to occupy him for the next few minutes as he stared blankly at the ground, anger seething in his blood and refusing to let it show in front of the mutt. he finally looked up, tucking the loose black strands back behind his ear as he approached the cage, keeping the collar and his side and crouching right down in front of it. he knew the werewolf wasn't dumb enough to attack him. oh no, the brute would be in for an eternity of pain if he ever did that. "you may call me nicholai when we're alone, but master if we are in the company of other people. are we clear?" he spoke in a calm, structured voice. "i really don't want to have you, but as it's my father's gift, i can't refuse. so if you just play along and don't cause any trouble, we'll get along great and you won't get sent to the torture chambers. understood?"
(( ok, sounds good to me! i was thinking there's a pre-taught system to the vampires about latin commands that noble vampire children are taught when they are young that can be said to the werewolf wearing the collar. it has voice recognition so it only works for the werewolf's master, and the blood fused with the collar has to be replaced once every two weeks for it to stay fused and for the collar to keep working on the werewolf. ))