Giving the tour of the lab.

Sliding a gloved finger across the work desk in Reed’s lab and bringing it up to express some surprise that it was clean of any dust, the vampiric Susan Storm looked over her shoulder back at Reed who continued to work on the portal device that brought her and the others here. Her every step was enticing, alluring, and utterly distracting when Reed turned to see her smiling back at him only to quickly dart his attention back to programming the portal engine again when their eyes locked briefly. Her lilting laughter echoing in the lab as she came up from behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist affectionately, leaning her chin over his shoulder to whisper into his ear.

“I will admit, you’re more… Hygienic than MY Reed, so many things similar yet different. It’s refreshing really.”

“T-thank you.”

Smiling more impishly, the pale woman traced a delicate finger down the man’s cheek before it went under his chin and slowly turned his face to look towards hers. Her blood red eyes stared into his blues, with the same intensity as a welding torch. Staring into her eyes, Reed found himself feeling numb again, lost in those swirling red pools that pulled him in, promising delights and pleasures he could not begin to find words to describe.

“No Reed, thank YOU for letting me stay here, I should reward you some time, to show my appreciation… Would you like that Reed?”

“Y-yes… Yes I would…”

Narrowing her eyes softly, the woman leaned forward as if to kiss the man, pursing her lips as she did. Reed did the same, leaning down to kiss the woman who looked and sounded like his wife. But before their lips met, Susan turned and looked away, leaving the man to open his eyes again and blink in confusion, wondering how long he was out.

“Tell me Reed, you were going to show me your lab, aren’t you going to give me the tour?”

“Of… Of course…” Gathering himself, the man nearly stumbled on his feet, making the black gown wearing woman giggle in a way that reminded him so much of his wife whenever she would smile or laugh, but there was a seductive tint to her gestures; the way she would fold her hands behind her back and gracefully take each step to follow him across the lab to a rack of devices and a storage desk.

“Oh my… You’re NOT my Reed after all, he was never this… Prolific.” Purred the pale skinned woman, standing beside Mr. Fantastic as he pointed towards some of his inventions.

“This was something we used on Carnage when he first attacked New York, it gives off a sub-harmonic frequency that stimulates anterior insular cortex of the human brain. It stimulates empathy, I guess you could call it a ‘good’ ray.”

Crossing her arms and rolling her eyes, the woman smirked before pointing towards a couple of devices on the rack that caught her attention. “Oh, what about those?”

“Those? Well, that one is a device we use to help Franklin get through his nightmares, our son… By that I mean our son with MY Susan has the power to alter reality, but if he has a nightmare it tends to manifest, this helps negate it.”

“Interesting… And this?”

“Oh, that’s something we tried to make for Ben a few years ago.” Pulling the rifle looking device off the rack, he showed the item off for the woman. “Back when he found being a big rock covered man unsettling, I created this item to drain cosmic energy from a living being.”

“Is that so…” turning her attention to the floating blue woman in the center of the lab and back to the device in Reed’s hands, the woman tapped her chin with her finger, deep in thought. “So, you built a device that can steal your powers? Cosmic powers?”

“Yes, and it worked too, but in time he made peace with himself, and we sent it to SHIELD for safe storage, this one is a replica.”

Her smile fading, the vampire looked down at the device with some disappointment. “So, this isn’t the REAL one?”

“No, SHIELD has the real one in storage at their facility, the Triskelion. One of many agreements we have with them to operate in the city.” Placing the replica back on its rack, Reed spotted Susan’s black gloved hand gently rest on his hand and pulled his attention back to her.

“You know how to get it, do you?” She asked, her eyes staring into his and making the man feel relaxed, dropping his arms to his sides like they were dead weights. Cupping his chin and face in her hands, she brought him closer, staring into his eyes with her own and using her powers over him. “If I were to ask you to get it for me… Would you?”

“I… I don’t think that would be…”

“Please Reed…” She cooed, staring into his eyes again and caressing his face in her hands, she made the man look deep into her red irises again. “Would you refuse anything I’d ask of you?”

“N-no… But I can’t… I…”

“Do you really want to break my heart Reed? No… Of course, you wouldn’t. You would do anything I’d ask of you; you’d follow my every command without any hesitation. Am I right?”

“Yes…” Reed answered, mesmerized by the red pools of her eyes. “I would do anything you’d ask of me…”

“You would give me anything, anything I would ask… Wouldn’t you Reed?”

“Yes… I would…”

Smiling more wickedly, the vampire exposed her fangs in her smile, still staring into his eyes and keeping him transfixed. “Then you can get me that device… Can you.”

“I… I can’t…”

“Why not?” She asked, pursing her lips, and fluttering her eyes, her grip on his chin becoming tighter. “Why wont you satisfy my wishes Reed? Don’t you want to satisfy me? Don’t you want me to show you what I can do? I could show you pleasures your wife would never DARE offer you, I could send you to paradise over and over again… But only if you do what I say.”

“I… I can’t get it because the device is under storage and containment in a facility, I don’t have access to it… its impossible for me.”

Breathing sharply, the woman’s coy smile cracked, and the hint of a sneer began to form, her hands moved away from his face ever so slightly and her fingers curved into looking like she wanted to strangle the man, or worse before returning to a fake smile again and the woman caressing the mesmerized man’s cheek affectionately.

“Then why not please me another way Reed, why don’t you feed me?”

“I… I have food in the kitchen… I can make some…” Silenced with a silk gloved finger press against his lip with a ‘shush’ from the vampire, Susan pursed her lips into an alluring smile.

“Just close your eyes… And listen to my voice Reed, let it guide you… So I can do the rest…”

Gently closing his eyes with her gloved fingers, she slowly turned his head to expose his neck. Closing her own eyes she opened her mouth wide, exposing sharp teeth tapered with fangs. Like the jaws of some terrible predator, she opened her mouth wide enough that she could clamp her teeth over the man’s neck. Or would have when the blue glow behind her intensified. Opening her blood red eyes in disappointment, the vampiric Susan looked behind her to find the cosmic being floating at the center of the lab point straight at her. Taking the hint, the woman closed her mouth and instead whispered into Reed’s ear.

“Remember none of this when you open your eyes.”

Moving away from Mr. Fantastic, the vampire stared daggers back at the glowing blue woman who lowered her arm after she walked away from the man. Hissing a curse under her breath once she crossed the threshold of the lab doors and looked back to glare at the cosmic being.

“Mark my words bitch! Your time will come.”

Closing the door behind her, the slam was enough to cause Reed to snap to attention and look around his surroundings confused. He swore he remembered being in the living room after Sue’s blow up this morning, so why was he in his lab? Looking up at the digital clock on his screen, he was surprised to find he had been in here for four hours. Looking back to the other being in the lab with him, Reed scratched his head, finding her in the same spot, unmoved like before. Thinking none of it, he returned to the console and checked his work, finding he had already made tweaks to the portal’s programming and got back to where he apparently left off.