Allure (Part 2b)
Title: Allure
Fandom: The Gates
Characters & Pairings: Andie Bates/Dylan Radcliff, ensemble cast
Rating: R
Warnings: underaged sex with an adult, initial dub-con due to uncontrollable succubus powers
Summary: A vampire and a succubus meet on an empty street. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but in The Gates community it’s a more than likely occurrence. When Andie refuses to eat life force, her strength wanes and her powers go awry in a desperate attempt to feed and survive. So you can imagine the problems that arise when she bumps into the gorgeous vampire Dylan alone on an empty street in the middle of the night. What’s a succubus to do?
“Look, Brett, I’m telling you. I have no idea what’s up with Andie lately,” Mia said with an annoyed scowl.
“She’s been weird all summer,” Bret complained ignoring the eye roll both Lexi and Lukas gave him.
“Look, there’s Andie now.” Lexi pointed down the street. “Why don’t you just ask her?”
“What the hell is she doing here?” Brett asked instead. “Her house is on the other side of the Gates.”
Lukas looked around. “Isn’t this where that Charlie kid lives?”
Lexi looked around too, recognizing the surroundings. “Yeah, it is,” she replied.
Brett scowled, but before he could say anything, Mia butt in. “No way. I know what you’re thinking, but there’s no way that Andie would go back to seeing Charlie after what happened last time.”
“Wait,” Lukas said as he noticed something. “That isn’t the Monohan’s house.” The four teens watched as she walked up to the front door of the house and simply let herself in. “That’s the Radcliff house.”
“Are you sure?” Brett asked him in worried surprise.
“My dad was alpha. You think I don’t know vampire houses?” Lukas replied incredulously.
“Should we go knock or something?” Brett asked.
Lexi looked at him like he was stupid. “And say what? That you’re stalking your ex-girlfriend and want to know what she’s doing in his house?”
Brett scowled in response but didn’t have a reply. “No,” Mia replied instead. “We’ll just sit it out. She has to come out sometime, right?”
The four teens planted themselves across the street and watched the house, quietly talking amongst themselves, but as the hours wore on and it got later, they began to worry. “What if he did something to her?” Brett finally broke worriedly.
“No way is a vamp dumb enough to break Gate rules,” Lukas responded, though he sounded unsure of his own words.
“That’s it,” Brett said standing up. “I’m going over there.” The other three stood up as well, whether to help him or stop him, he didn’t know because they were soon interrupted.
“Can I help you kids?” Chief Monohan asked as he slowed his car to a stop in front of them. He and his family had just gotten back inside the Gates from a night out when he spotted the four teens lingering on his street in the middle of the night.
“Uhm, no,” Brett hastily replied. Unfortunately he was a terrible liar.
“Uh-huh,” Nick replied, unbelieving.
Lexi nodded. “Honest, we weren’t doing anything.”
“Then why are you sitting out here?” Nick’s wife, Sarah, asked from the passenger’s seat.
“Yeah!” Dana asked, popping up from the back seat.
Charlie scowled. “Shut up, Dana,” he scolded from the back. It was no secret that he and Brett didn’t get along. Brett and Andie had dated until Charlie had moved into town. Then she and Charlie dated before she oddly broke up with him. After that, he wasn’t sure if she went back to dating Brett or if they just became friends again. Then Andie randomly reappeared, claiming to have missed Charlie. When Charlie’s family threatened to move away, she had run away to the woods with him, but something happened and he got sick. Charlie hadn’t heard from her since, but he had seen her out and about with Brett and their friends all around town. Finally, Charlie gave up on Andie. She always seemed to be going back and forth between the two boys.
Nick looked between the four nervous kids before sighing and taking the keys out of the car and opening the door. He stepped out of the car and turned to face the teens fully. “Alright, what’s going on?” he asked.
The teens all looked at each other. “Okay,” Brett finally said.
“Brett!” Lexi scolded immediately.
“She’s been in there for hours!” Brett hissed back. “Who knows what happened to her?”
“What happened to who?” Sarah asked worriedly as she too stepped out of the car, her two kids not far behind.
“Sarah,” Nick said, turning to face his wife. “I’m Chief of Police. I should be asking the questions,” he scolded gently, reminding his wife that this might be official police business and that she needed to let him do his job. “Now, what happened? Who are you worried about?” he asked once more.
“It’s Andie,” Brett said hastily, ignoring the groans of annoyed disapproval from his friends.
“Andie?” Charlie asked, worried.
Brett glanced at him before purposefully ignoring him. “She went into the Radcliff house hours ago and hasn’t come out since,” he said, nodding his head to the house. “I know that you… know,” Brett said carefully, unsure how much the Chief’s family knew about the special residents of the community. “So you should understand how worried we are.”
Nick nodded his head. He didn’t think that Dylan would hurt Andie, but at the same time, it was his job as the Chief to check it out. “Alright, I’ll check it out.” He turned and crossed the street, but noticing that he’d gained a posse, turned to look at them. “Stay here,” he commanded before walking up the drive and knocking on the door.
After a quick second, the door opened. “Nick,” Dylan said in surprise. After the vampires had killed Devon, the Gates had been quiet and the two friends hadn’t seen each other much except on social occasions. “Don’t tell me there’s another supernatural problem.”
“Not exactly,” Nick replied. “Is Andie Bates inside your house by any chance? A bunch of her friends said they saw her go inside.”
Dylan blinked in surprise, but gave nothing away. “I’m not sure I see how that’s any of your business.”
“You’re kidding, right?” Nick asked before realizing the man was serious. “If there’s a teenage girl inside your house alone without parental permission, that is my business. Now, do I need to call up Mr. Bates or are you just going to be straight with me?” Nick gave the other man a moment to come clean, but Dylan remained silent. “Okay, fine,” the Chief muttered, pulling out his cell phone and calling into police headquarters. “Hey, Leigh? Yeah, I need you to patch me to Mr. Bates. Thanks…. Mr. Bates? Yes, hello. This is Chief Monohan. I was wondering if you know where your daughter’s whereabouts are? At Mia’s, huh,” Nick threw a look over his shoulder at said girl who was on the other side of the street, looking nervous. “Yeah, I need you to get down to the station, please. It’s about Andie. Thanks.” Nick hung up the phone to look at an annoyed Dylan. Nick said nothing before waltzing into Dylan’s house and quickly heading up the stairs.
“Technically this is trespassing,” Dylan said wearily, but made no move to stop the man.
Nick methodically searched through every room before reaching the master bedroom. He slammed the door open and was sickened to see Andie, naked under the covers except for a large men’s dress shirt. “Dylan?” she asked sleepily, opening her eyes to find Nick Monohan. “What the-”
Nick shook his head in disgust. “I don’t suppose you’d believe me if I said it wasn’t what it looked like,” Dylan tried but at Nick’s angry look stopped. “No, I guess not.”
“You have the right to remain silent,” Nick said, reading Dylan his Miranda rights as he cuffed the man.
“What the hell is going on?” Andie asked as she threw on a pair of jeans.
“Are you okay?” Nick asked the girl, before wrapping a comforting arm around her. “Let’s get you to the station okay?” he said kindly.
Nick walked Dylan and Andie out to his car. Andie ignored all of her friends’ questions as she figured out what she was going to do about the situation.
“Sarah,” Dylan said, stopping in front of the woman. “Emily’s still inside the house. Could you look after her for a bit?” he asked as though he were merely going out for a stroll.
Sarah looked at him incredulously. She too had noticed the men’s shirt Andie was wearing, but she agreed. Emily was an innocent child in all this.
Andie was forced to sit up front and Dylan in the back in order to keep the two separate. On their way to the station, Andie asked, “Have you called my dad?”
“He’ll meet us there,” Nick replied.
Andie turned in her seat to face Dylan. “Don’t say anything,” she cautioned.
Nick turned to look at the girl out of the corner of his eye. He briefly wondered if Dylan had brainwashed her into believing he loved her or if perhaps there was more going on here than he realized. He hated to believe that he was such a bad judge of character that he would trust a rapist. “Is there something I need to know?” he asked.
The two exchanged looks but remained silent. Nick walked Dylan into his office before coming back out for Andie who was standing in the waiting room. “Leigh,” he called the only female police officer there over. “I think Andie’s been raped,” he muttered lowly. “Can you talk to her? See what you can get. Her dad should be here soon.”
Leigh nodded seriously, looking at the girl in pity. “Of course.”
Andie sat in a chair, making sure to get the one that had the best view into the Chief’s office so she could see what was happening to Dylan. Noticing Leigh, Andie shook her head. “It’s not what you think.”
“Sweetie,” Leigh said solemnly. “We need to take a rape kit.”
“No, you don’t,” Andie replied, not moving.
“Sweetie-” Leigh tried again, but was cut off.
“Andie? Andie!” Mr. Bates called out as soon as he was inside. The minute he saw his daughter he gave her a hug. “What happened? I got a call from Chief Monohan… Where were you tonight?” he asked.
Andie looked up at Leigh. “Can you leave us alone for a second?” Leigh nodded and left. Andie waited until the girl was far enough away to turn to her dad. She noticed that both Dylan and Nick had noticed her father’s arrival and she nodded at Dylan, knowing that she’d be able to help him. “Dad, I’ve been sleeping with Dylan Radcliff,” she started.
“What?” he asked in anger, turning to look at the man in question. Mr. Bates looked torn between anger and confusion at how the man was still alive.
“Dylan is a vampire,” she whispered. “He’s been giving me energy. He’s been helping me.”
“And getting sex with a teenager out of the deal,” Mr. Bates said with a sneer.
“It’s not like that,” Andie insisted. “After Charlie, I stopped feeding,” she confessed.
“But Peg’s medicine?” Mr. Bates asked in confusion.
“I couldn’t go back on that,” Andie despaired. “Do you know what I was like on it? I spent hours throwing up, I couldn’t eat, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t focus on anything. Dad, I was failing out of high school!”
Mr. Bates looked at her in surprise. “I hadn’t realized it was so bad,” he admitted.
“I didn’t feed for three weeks,” she confessed.
“But the Haze,” he said in worry.
Andie nodded. “I would rather die than hurt someone the way I hurt Charlie,” she replied, tears building in her voice. “But I couldn’t control my powers and they ensnared Dylan. The first time, neither of us were in control. Afterwards, I explained what happened. Dad, he should hate me for what I did to him,” she said softly. “If anyone was raped, it was him. But he didn’t. He understood that it wasn’t my fault. He forgave me,” she cried, finally letting her tears fall.
Mr. Bates wrapped a comforting arm around his daughter. He had no idea this had been happening and right underneath his nose. He looked up at Dylan Radcliff once more, this time analyzing the kind of strength this man must have had.
“During the sex, Dylan bit me,” she continued explaining. He looked at her in surprise and a bit of horror, but she quickly ploughed through. “And he wasn’t harmed by my taking his energy at all. His energy lasted me a week and my blood lasted him that long as well. We both realized that this could turn into something beneficial. We could both feed without the worry of killing someone. It’s like we have some sort of symbiotic relationship.”
Mr. Bates looked at her in surprise. This was the oddest thing he had ever heard. “A symbiotic relationship?” Andie nodded. “How do you know there isn’t some sort of long term negative side effect?”
“Dylan owns a biotech research firm. We’ve been testing this,” she admitted. “We think that vampires and succubae are closely related species. We have many similar qualities,” she added. “Please, dad, you have to help.”
Mr. Bates gave a small sigh and nodded. “Yes, it appears I do. It looks wrong, but he’s clearly been helping you. You haven’t hurt him and he hasn’t hurt you, so…”
“And who would I feed on without him?” she also added in. “I would die.”
“Don’t say that!” he scolded but nodded, standing up. “Alright, but we’ll be continuing this discussion later.” The two made their way to the Chief’s door and knocked. Nick opened up and let them into his office.
“Have you decided to take the rape kit?” Nick asked Andie.
Andie scowled. “No. Because I wasn’t raped.”
Nick looked at Mr. Bates as if asking whether or not she was serious. “Ah, yes.” Mr. Bates nodded in agreement. He probably should have come up with a story before entering the office. “Andie has just explained to me that she was babysitting Emily.” That part he hoped was true as that was what Andie had been telling him all summer.
Nick looked at him oddly. “With Dylan there?”
“With Claire gone, Emily’s needed a female figure in her life,” Dylan spoke up for the first time since the arrest. “I’ve hired Andie as her babysitter to do just that.”
“And that required spending the night?” Nick asked skeptically.
“Your daughter’s never had a sleepover?” Dylan replied.
Nick turned to Mr. Bates. “She was in his bed,” he stated clearly.
Mr. Bates winced, but Andie was the one who responded. “Dylan slept in the guest room.”
Nick looked at her oddly for using Dylan’s first name, further proof of something hinky going on. “You were wearing his shirt.”
“I was wearing a shirt,” she stressed. “And I don’t see what my choice in sleepwear has to do with you.”
Nick choked while both Dylan and Mr. Bates looked at Andie in surprise and pride. “Mock trial,” Mr. Bates murmured in thought. “Good program.”
“If that’s all, Chief Monohan,” Dylan said standing up. “Then I believe we’re finished.”
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