Carole Douglas - Vampire Sunrise

“Like those silver whips I glimpsed you wielding at the Karnak, and the silver staff? I thought you’d grabbed them from fallen Egyptian warriors.”

“Not exactly. Wow. Don’t stop doing that! Oh, yes. Definitely.”

That roaming forefinger had made a circle with his thumb and snapped my right silver tassel, making it shimmy-shimmy.

“So this silver familiar has possibilities as a sex toy?” he said.

“Yeah, I guess. So do you.”

Ric laughed. “Your skin is so soft.” He buried his face in my shoulder and hair. “You smell so good.”

Shezmou definitely had a future in the personal products industry.

“I know you’re not telling me something about your latest adventure at the Karnak,” he said, nibbling on my neck. “Confess or we don’t go a step farther.”

“Excessive force, Montoya! You are such an irresistible interrogator. Okay. I woke up on a Karnak embalming table with Hughes’s silly masked vampire nurses circled around. Just like my kiddie alien abduction nightmares. I almost lost me… my current self, for a while there.”

Ric crushed me close. “Damn. I knew something worse had happened, Delilah. That’s it. We’re going to Wichita. Social services or that convent school you attended must have records or staff who can identify the originating trauma.”

“You sound like your adopted mother the shrink. I don’t know, Ric-”

“It might help you find out more about Lilith and your allergy to the missionary position. And, querida, I want you wanting me every which way we can do it.”

I nodded, shakily. “Speaking of which, can we finally do it now? My way.”

Ric resumed leading me up the stairs while my insides did cartwheels. He paused at seeing us in the mirror at the hall’s end.

Did Lilith lurk behind there, in my own reflection? Was she watching? Was Snow spying on our every move through the medium of his lock of white hair in the silver familiar?

Ask me if I cared.

No. I was heading to my bedroom with my lover.

I eyed Ric’s reflection in the mirror. His strong arms around my midriff were holding me up, supporting me. We were about to, yeah, make whoopee and come like crazy.

We were young, mostly alive, and together, despite everyone else’s best and worst efforts.

His embrace was so tight, though, that the vial of my blood-stashed and forgotten between my pumped-up Howard Hughes boobs-squirted free. It smashed to the hardwood floor as Ric crooned major somethings in my ear and swept me away from the mirror into the bedroom.

I glanced back at the tiny glittering splotch of blood and broken glass. Maybe not such a good omen.

But, at the moment-ooh, hombre mío-who the… flying fey cared?

In the distance, a dog or a werewolf howled, or a distant police siren wailed.

Business as usual in post-Millennium Revelation Las Vegas rocked on.

So did we.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

http://www.filmsite.org/adve.html

Dale Arden [played by Jean Rogers (1936, 1938) and Carol Hughes (1940)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Arden

Asta

(see The Thin Man)

The Avengers TV series (1965-69)

http://theavengers.tv/

Theda Bara

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theda_Bara

http://silentladies.com/Ladies.html (see: The Vamps)

http://www.tartcity.com/thedabara.html

Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa)

http://www.ingridbergman.com/

(see also Casablanca)

Rick Blaine

(see Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca)

Humphrey Bogart

http://www.humphreybogart.com/

James Bond (as portrayed by Sean Connery)

http://www.007.info/Sean_Connery.asp

Billie Burke (as Glinda)

http://www.kansasoz.com/infogoodwitch.htm

Casablanca (1942)

http://www.vincasa.com

Lon Chaney Jr.

http://www.lonchaney.com/lc5/jr/lcjrmain.html

(see also The Wolf Man)

Nick and Nora Charles

(see The Thin Man)

Cinderella (1950)

http://disney.go.com/vault/archives/movies/cinderella/cinderella.html

Colin Clive

http://classic-horror.com/masters/colin_clive

Claudette Colbert

http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/colbert/cleopatra.html

Cleopatra (1917)

http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/Cleopatra1917.html

Cleopatra (1934)

http://www.filmsite.org/cleo.html

Cleopatra (1963)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_(1963_film)

Cowardly Lion

(see Bert Lahr)

Joan Crawford

http://www.joancrawfordbest.com/menupage.htm

Bette Davis

http://www.bettedavis.com/about/bio.htm

Cecil B. DeMille

http://www.cecilbdemille.com/bio.html

(see also Sunset Boulevard)

Dracula (1931)

http://www.bmoviecentral.com/bmc/reviews/34-duanesreviews/64-dracula-1931-75-minutes.html

The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/15781/The-Enchanted-Cottage/overview

Carrie Fisher

http://www.answers.com/topic/carrie-fisher

(see also Return of the Jedi)

Frankenstein (1931)

http://www.filmsite.org/fran.html

Clark Gable

http://www.clarkgable.com/

Dorothy Gale (played by Judy Garland)

http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Dorothy_Gale

Gone With the Wind (1939)

http://www.filmsite.org/gone.html

Flash Gordon (played by Buster Crabbe in 1936-40 film serials)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Crabbe

Audrey Hepburn

http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Audrey/audrey.htm

Katharine Hepburn

http://katehepburn.tripod.com/

Charlton Heston

http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Heston/heston.htm

(see also The Ten Commandments)

Howard Hughes

http://www.1st100.com/part3/hughes.html

The Invisible Man (1933)

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/4337/invman.htm

Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford)

http://www.indianajones.com

King Kong (1933)

http://www.filmsite.org/kingk2.html

Bert Lahr

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200675

Hedy Lamarr

http://www.hedylamarr.com

(see also Samson and Delilah)

Dorothy Lamour

http://www.tcmdb.com:80/participant.jsp?participantId=107751

Lash La Rue

http://www.b-westerns.com/lash.htm

Laura (1944)

http://www.filmsite.org/laur.html

Peter Lorre

http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Lorre/lorre.htm

The Lost Weekend (1945)

http://www.filmsite.org/lostw.html

Myrna Loy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna_Loy

(see also The Thin Man)

Bela Lugosi

http://www.belalugosi.com

Perry Mason (played by Raymond Burr)

http://www.perrymasontvshowbook.com

Ray Milland

http://www.reelclassics.com/Actors/Milland/milland.htm

(see also The Lost Weekend)

Ming the Merciless (played by Charles Middleton in 1936-40 film serials)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_the_Merciless

My Man Godfrey (1936)

http://www.filmsite.org/myman.html

The Outlaw (1943)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outlaw

(Mrs.) Emma Peel (played by Diana Rigg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02llSrNfnQ &feature=related

(See also The Avengers and Diana Rigg)

William Powell

http://themave.com/Powell/

Otto Preminger

http://www.reelclassics.com/Directors/Preminger/preminger.htm

Claude Rains

http://www.meredy.com/clauderains/

Return of the Jedi (1983)

http://www.fandango.com/returnofthejedi_40330/movieoverview

Diana Rigg

http://www.nndb.com/people/041/000023969/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F02llSrNfnQ &feature=related