Well, I worked up the prelude to this, yesterday, and the followup, today, putting this part of the story at close to 10,000 words. Leon's met with Gabrielle, who's in a bad mood. She was following another potential Blood Angel and planning to turn him but he died in a skirmish with Korean soldiers before she had a chance to. Leon has asked her for a favor, as brother to sister, and she uses his request to screw him over. So he's pissed off when he goes hunting for food and sport...and happens onto those Marines.
Leon does enjoy himself with Clerik, viciously. Binds him on a bed but doesn't gag him (he has plans for the man's mouth) only in the end doesn't kill him. The man is terrified...thinking God is punishing him...asking if Leon if he's a devil or an angel. Leon's reply? "I'm both." Then he decides to take the man, alive, to his chateau, in France. And use him the entire way. Not because he's beautiful but because he deserves it.
This part is set in 1871, so it will take a while. Leon's purchased a top sail Schooner for the trip back to France, via the Suez Canal, and throughout will have Clerik chained in his ship's cabin. Raped over and over. Begging to be released. Then once at the chateau, Leon lets his minions do with him as they wish, so long as they do not turn him into a vampire. So the killer finds out what hell on earth really is until Geoffrey, as lead vampire, finishes him off.
The interesting direction of this is that Clerik commits a heinous crime, tinged with more than a little xenophobia, and automatically expects to get away with it. Leon is the only reason he's being held accountable, which is what Leonides is all about. It's just...I've started feeling sorry for Clerik. He is, effectively, being tortured and terrorized before he's killed. And as someone who doesn't believe in capital punishment, it's affecting me, harshly.
But I cannot go against the characters, so it is what it is...and will be what it will be. Dammit.
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