Subj: TOUCHED BY THE DEVIL pt. 4
Date: 6/28/00 7:31:05 AM Central Daylight Time
From: Donna Eubanks
They kiss one another for several minutes. Vicki has never been kissed this way before. Never has Barnabas, Burke or Jeff kissed her this passionately. Suddenly, Vicki loses all conciousness.
The next thing Vicki knows, she is sitting in the den on the sofa. She is wearing a beautiful dress, though it is not her own. It is pale pink in color. Her hair is piled on top of her head, in a mass of beautiful curls. She looks beautiful.
Nicholas is staring at her with much adoration. "You look breathtaking, my dear!" He walks to her, and taking her hand, he kisses it gently. For reasons she doesn't understand, Vicki finds that she welcomes his kiss once again.
Suddenly Angelique enters the room and says to Nicholas, "Nicholas, you know that she is not HER!" He looks at her with daggers in his eyes, and says to her, 'GET OUT OF HERE!" Angelique quickly leaves the room.
"Tonight, I shall play for you, my dear." Nicholas states to Vicki. He sits down at the piano and begins to play. It is a melody Vicki has never heard before, but she finds it lovely all the same. Vicki feels strangely calm and peaceful now. She is definitely under Nicholas" spell.
Earlier in the day, Roger and Elizabeth had come to the house by the sea. They were inquiring if Nicholas had seen Miss Winters. She had been missing for two days now. They couldn't imagine what had happened to her. Nicholas lied to them as he said, "How terrible, I hope Miss Winters has not fallen from Widow's Hill!"
Angelique is listening in the next room. She smiles wickedly as he lies to Roger Collins. 'Good god!! Shouts Roger. We shall go and search for her now!" "Oh how terrible!! I hope you are wrong, Mr. Blair!" Exclaims Elizabeth. The two adults run from the house to find Victoria Winters.
Nicholas finishes playing his music. He presents Vicki with a glass of red wine, and a single white rose. She takes a sip of the sweet wine. "The wine, nor the rose, is half as sweet as you, my love. Dance with me now. Nicholas tells her. We shall dance the night away!" He says. Vicki stands up and is soon whisked away by the ever so charming warlock. They dance , until early the early morning.
Nicholas and Vicki sit on the sofa to rest. "I am glad to have found you once again." Nicholas tells her. He stares at her. "It is amazing how much you resemble her! You look exactly like her!! You ARE her!" He tells her. "I will kiss you now and you will enjoy it." He tells her. He kisses her with such force, her wine and rose fall to the floor, the glass shatters as it falls.
"You and I can rule the world, you know. He says to her. Don't you know that? Don't you know that we are better than the rest of them?" Nicholas informs her.
Vicki is being very quiet, but is listening to his every word. She is totally under his control now. "Yes, she says quietly, I believe that we could." "How would you like to destroy the Collins family? How would you like to inherit Collinwood?" He asks once more.
She looks at him with a vacant look in her eyes and says, "Yes, we should do that." Then she becomes confused. She begins to shake her head. 'I-I don't know what I am saying. What are you doing to me?" She asks in confusion and terror.
"My dear, I think it is growing very late, and I think we should go to bed now." He suggests strongly.
"No!! I don't want to sleep again!" She protests.
Nicholas grins at her wickedly. "Alright my dear, if that is what you wish. We shall not sleep." He says with a wink at her.
Vicki looks at him as she suddenly remembers who she is. 'What do you mean.. WE??!! I WILL NOT!! How did I get in this dress? She asks. Who did my hair this way? Was it Angelique?" She continues to ask.
"It is useless to fight me, my dear. He tells her. Don't you know how useless it is? Don't you know I will pursue you to to the ends of the earth?" Vicki looks at him in amazement and horror. She faints before him at his feet.
The next morning, Vicki awakens in a strange room. She is alone in the room. She is lying in a huge canopy bed. What am I doing here? She thinks in confusion and fear. Then she remembers what Nicholas had said to her the night before. She looks to see what she is wearing (lately she couldn't be sure). To her horror, she is wearing the pale blue gown. "No!!! I don't remember putting this on... I DON'T!!!" She cries.
At that moment, Angelique enters the room. 'Hello Victoria. Did you sleep well last night?" She asks.
Vicki sits on the bed staring at the gown, and at Angelique. "Did you dress me this way? She asks the witch. Please tell me!"
"Perhaps I did, perhaps I did not. Angelique replies. She grins at Vicki.
"How do you like sleeping with a warlock, Victoria?" The witch asks her.
"I did not!!" Vicki protests.
"Now you shall want no other. Peter Bradford shall not satisfy you now." Says the witch. Angelique suddenly begins to laugh at her, HA HA HA HA HA HA......HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!"
"I DID NOT!! I DID NOT!! You and Nicholas are trying to confuse me!! I wouldn't let let that happen! I wouldn't!!" Vicki screams, as she runs from the room.
"I'm leaving right now!! Vicki informs Nicholas and Angelique. She runs for the door. Nicholas catches her. "Let me go!!" She screams. She scratches his face in her struggle.
"You are a little tigress!! He says with a wicked laugh. "I noticed that last night....". He informs her.
She looks at him with hatred, and slaps his face. "My, we must DO something about your temper, Victoria! Take her to her room. Nicholas orders. "Lock the door as well." Angelique forces Vicki into the room, and locks the door as instructed.
Vicki falls on the bed and cries bitterly for quite some time. Angeliques laughter is echoing throughout the house. Then the house becomes silent. Angelique says to Nicholas, "Oh Nicholas...what a devil you are!" He replies, "Did you ever have any doubts?" They both smile wickedly as they look at Vickis locked door.
to be continued...