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[stardustg2ma288]

[He's mutated enough as it is, so the virus isn't affecting him. He's got enough issues at the moment.

He's flipped back to Chimera for now, but only because he's keeping away from everyone. Lonely as he is, much as that loneliness triggered Lumiere Noire's emergence, now continued contact with those without loving feelings for him only serves to entice the dark creature within him. He's trying to find a place to hide so he has time to think. His family is gone, what hope does he have to seal the Core again?

He only sees two options left: return to Vide Noir somehow so he can spare everyone here further harm at Lumiere's hands, or find a way to kill himself permanently.]

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[sanguisuge.livejournal.com]

[Well hello there, fledgling, say hi to one of your sires. Or maybe you aren't in the mood. Either way, Jackpire doesn't care. As soon as he sees you, he begins to saunter over, though the overwhelming sensation of loneliness is certainly something that doesn't go without notice.]

**Well now... someone's miserable.**

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[Oh no. No. Please gods no.

Chimera cringes back, trying to pack himself into whatever small, dark corner he can find. Already he can feel the sinister presence stirring in his soul, responding to the negative energies flowing from Jack.]

**... stay back... even you're not safe from it....**

[sanguisuge.livejournal.com]

[Jack just gives a bit of a chuckle, brows raised a bit in amusement and curiosity. He moves in closer, though keeps a bit of a distance at first, tapping his chin as he stops at last and sits on his hip a bit.]

**A curious thing you've become. Safe from "it"?**

[A laugh.]

**What have I to be afraid of?**

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[Chimera wraps his arms around his own torso, as if he wants nothing more than to bear-hug himself to death. He's shaking, his head thrown back, eyes screwed shut against tears.]

**You don't know what you've done to me... what you seeded the night you turned me... it used you....**

[sanguisuge.livejournal.com]

[Such strange, strange behavior. It's as if his fledgling is full of even more self-loathing and despair than usual. It's overflowing, and Jack gives a bit of a flip of his bangs, looking down at Chimera.]

**I don't? Well then--**

[He leans against a nearby... something, perhaps a wall of sorts... just to look more badass and sexy than usual :| it can happen.]

**--explain to me, fledgling. Explain.**

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[Chimera whimpers, clutching his hair as he slumps sharply forward. His tremors approach seizure levels, only to quickly taper off to an odd stillness. He doesn't straighten or look up, but the telepathic voice that reaches Jack is calm and even and overflowing with a disquieting, dark power.]

**You're a foolish child, to not recognize me. Have you truly been absent from my embrace for so long, little one?**

[sanguisuge.livejournal.com]

[Jack cocks a brow at the voice and narrows his eyes. This... presence is familiar, and there's niggling sensation in the back of his mind that makes him feel like he ought to know what this is... He steps back, casually so, guard raised and senses at arms.]

**This power...**

[He fists one hand lightly, the atmosphere runs thick with the disturbing overflowing potency that's almost stifling. Whatever this is... it isn't chimera.]

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[And Chimera finally looks up, but it isn't Chimera. Not with those black eyes like empty voids and that cold, cruel grin.]

**Keep thinking, Jack. Think real hard.**

[The darkness creeps outward from his eyes, turning his skin a pallid gray, the marker on his cheek like his left eye split open the skin and bled its corruption down his face. In seconds, his form is drained of all color, the black mist beginning to seep from his body.

Somewhere in the back of Jack's mind, though the telepathic link, he can hear Chimera screaming over and over before the sound is abruptly cut off.]

[sanguisuge.livejournal.com]

[Jack gives a somewhat startled jerk, lips curling into a slight growl at the sudden invasion, yet for some reason, this voice... is all too familiar. This feeling that raises all sorts of red flags... He doesn't like this at all and gives a step back as Chimera's screams within his mind completely cease.]

**You...**

[It's all he can manage as he holds firm to his ground, guard up, staring at the colorless thing standing before him.]

[stardustg2ma288]

[Lumiere Noire laughs, and it's not a pleasant sound. Quiet as it is, that laugh makes Kalin sound sane.]

**Oh, Jack. If only you understood just what you did that night in the penthouse. You and Kalin destroyed an innocent life, and I rose from his ashes. You must be so proud... the two of you fathered the most powerful being in existence, the very one who created both of you.**

[sanguisuge.livejournal.com]

[Narrowing his eyes slowly, he can feel a slight tingle of disturbance working its way up his spine. The more this one talks, the more it feels like something old, dark, and... too familiar.]

**It is you...**

[He raises his head upwards stiffly and looks at this thing with a slight snarl present in his lips and teeth.]

**You've been using him this whole time...**

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[Lumiere's smile looks like it will split the corners of his mouth. A controlled madness, but madness nonetheless.]

**I've been using him? My dear child, what did you and your beloved Mara do with him all that time? You used him as a slave for slaughter and sex, taught him to revel in the kill, bent his mind into accepting pain as pleasure. You shaped him just for me even if you didn't realize it, and for that you have my sincerest thanks.**

[sanguisuge.livejournal.com]

[Jack isn't quite sure what to say to that, and for the moment, he's struck silent at the fact that he's speaking to what he knows is the city. It's voice within his mind sends his skin crawling. He can sense the madness radiating off of the one standing before him and he steps back once more to keep his distance.]

**And now that you're here?**

[It's taking every fiber of his being to control every sinew and bone in his body to remain absolutely still, to keep his face neutral in stance.]

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**Now that I'm here? Ah, Jack... I'm glad you asked.**

[And suddenly he's right up in Jack's face, those empty eyes staring into the blond's soul. There isn't even the wet sheen of moisture in those eyes, just a hungry abyss. He cups Jack's cheek with a hand as chilly as polar ice.]

**I'm going to thank everyone who had a hand in my creation. Personally.**

:| sorry about lack of icons, once again.

[sanguisuge.livejournal.com]

[Jack can't help but flinch slightly at the feeling against the side of his face. He furrows his brows, narrowing his eyes just as well and pulls away from the hand.]

**I'm sure some could do without your... thanks.**

;_;

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[Lumiere's grin becomes truly toothy, not just the vampire fangs but the rest of his teeth looking sharper, more deadly. Wisps of dark fog drift from his mouth like condensation from dry ice.]

**They don't have a choice.**

[And that fog is drifting toward Jack, coils of it reaching for him, trying to wrap around his limbs and his throat.]