Alex grimaced at how eager Maven was to draw blood from him. He of course expected it to be painful and unpleasant as he expected retribution for speaking back to her so boldly! He had even surprised himself a little. But when she instructed the nurse to be gentle with him and that Lillium would be upset if he was treated poorly, Alex's chest swelled a little feeling somewhat important. He was suddenly give a small perspective on how he fit in the whole thing and it gave him a sense of value... that was a strange feeling, he wasn't just any walking beverage! He was the queen's personal million dollar wine bottle that has been aged for over three hundred years... the very last one kept in its own room and the temperature set exactly right... the one no body else disturbed but her.<br/><br/>He smiled over at the nurse, and blinked a bit shocked when she bowed politely before approaching him... nobody had ever done that to him before. Alex sat up a little straighter in his chair now and glanced over at Maven with a mischievous glint in his green eyes.<br/><br/>Alex glanced over at nurse, smiling as she examined his arms, the nurses alway hated talking his blood pressure as they had to run back and rummage around for the extra large sleeve or else their large blue cuff just popped open.<br/><br/>It was so tempting not to request that she just leave a bit of bruising, just so could tell Her Majesty that her sister pushed him while she was working. Even she didn't consent to his request, he was curious to Maven's reaction for even suggesting it.  Alex felt his chest swelling a bit bigger as the Nurse him thanked for the service to the Queen. Alex was Loving the way she was talking back to Maven, and silently rooting her on inside his head.<br/><br/>Alex groaned as Maven insisted she had a girlfriend again, and he was bit shocked to find out Sara was a Vampire...and then he wondered what Maven was? Then next statement caught him completely off guard and he quickly put his free hand to his mouth and coughed a little.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"> "She was probably embarrassed. I would be too if I had spent the last 500 years existing and hardly enjoying myself due to my lineage. Not to mention my spoiled brat of a young sister." <br/></span></span><br/><br/>The urge to jump in and make a witty comment was bit tempting, but things escalated and he thought better of it. Sara still was Maven's sister, and when it came down to it, he was pretty sure the Queen would take her side over his own and it wouldn't be a good idea to antagonize her any further.<br/><br/>Finally Maven stormed out to the room, and he looked up at the vampiress as she explained the situation. When she introduced herself he was surprised again at her polite bow... now ever more surprised as she was a vampire. Vampires never bowed to humans... at least he had never seen or heard of it before, in some way he wished all nurses could be vampires, he hardly even felt a even a pinch as she took out the needle.<br/><br/>When instructed him to deliver the crystal wine glass of his own blood and to Lillium and apologize, he wanted to insist that he hadn't done anything wrong. But then, Sara was still a vampire and that made him think twice about talking back. Alex swallowed hard and grimaced as accepted the wine glass... the fresh blood made it warm to the touch! The sweat copperish smell made him queazy inside... he couldn't help but wonder how the vampires smelled his blood....<br/><br/>Alex wanted to called back to Sara and request that she put the blood into the empty wine bottle instead but before he could she already had left. Holding his breath, Alex slowly rose up from his chair careful not to spill the deep rich crimson life blood... its just a glass full of ketchup, he told himself over and over again he was he made his way back to Lillium's private chambers.<br/><br/>As he entered into the library, he paused taking in a deep cleansing breaths... he had been concentrating so hard in not spilling the blood that he had almost forgotten what he had to do next as he just wanted to give away the warm wine glass full of blood away as fast as possible.<br/><br/>Now he had to apologize.... maybe he could nock and he could just leave a note! Alex bit his lip, no then Maven would think she had scared him! He couldn't be having that! He would show all them that he wasn't scared!<br/><br/>Alex took in a deep breath cleansing breath and gently nocked on the bedroom door.<br/><br/>When the door opened, he lowered his eyes and offered the wine glass up to her, "Sara wished me to present you with this your majesty," he smiled, he as he was so happy to be rid of it and quite proud that he had managed to walk the whole way up to Lillium bedroom with out spilling a single drop! "I apologize that I was not more forth coming at dinner, I didn't feel it proper to fully express my true feelings toward that woman I had mentioned..." he paused and quickly turned away, a surge of fresh anger and hurt welled up inside him.  "I still have strong feelings for her, when I say that, I mean I can't tell you how much I hate her! she shot my dog!" he confessed, and then looked down at the floor and then took a small step backwards, "I..I should go, I am sorry for disturbing you. I just thought you would like to know," he said.