Stefan's Manor

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Stefan walked into the manor and walked into the kitchen, laying the small fairy down on the table softly. "Are you okay, miss?"

The tiny figure shifts and groans softly. She opens her eyes and sits up, her hands going to her leg, where the gas is. Her eyes looked up at the male above her. She gasped and covered her head. "Don't hurt me! Please!"

"No, I would never hurt you. Please don't be afraid. Want me to help me with your leg?"

"You would do that?" She squeaked looking up after uncovering her head.

"Of course. It sucks being hurt and not having any help, I should know." He grabbed a paper towel from the counter and ripped it into long strips, wetting one piece and going back over to her. He wiped at her leg softly and delicately, trying not to hurt her too much.

She winced and bit her lip gently. "Ow...er I'm Nereid by the way, thank you for helping me, you didn't have to..."

"No, I suppose I did not.. But I wanted to." He laughed softly and finished his wiping, now wrapping her tiny leg up with the piece of paper towel.

"What's your name? I must know the name of the man I owe my life to..." Nereid looked up at him smiling softly.

"My name is Stefan. And you do not owe me anything."

"Oh, but I do...you saved me...I owe you my life." Nereid stood up shakily and curtsied. "Master."

"Little person say what?" He asked quickly, pulling back slightly to examine her and watch her curtsy.

"What, Master?" Nereid stood shakily

"I don't want a servent... I was sick of them back in Europe.. Just be my friend, and we'll call it even... Good?"

"I'm not a servant, more of a guardian, Master." Nereid reached her hands up to him.

He smiled softly and picked her up, setting her onto his shoulder. "I'm not your master."

"Why not?" Nereid sat on his shoulder close to the outer edge of it.

"Because."

"But you saved my life, I owe it to you." Nereid fluttered her wings.

"Because that would mean I would steal your life anyways.. No."

"No, I have no where else to go and no one...So I suppose my life isn't worth much." Nereid looked at him.

"You can live here with me and my son, but you are no guardian of mine.. I won't do that to you."

"Please? I want to." Nereid looked up at him

"Are you hungry?" he asked, ignoring the request.

"A little..." She wiggled her tiny toes.

"What wou;d you like, Nereid?" He asked, heading over to the fridge and opening it

"mmm...A piece of lettuce, if you have it..." She said softly, her hands taking a strand of his hair and playing with it.

"I'm sure I can scrounge it together, sweetie." He said, reaching into the fridge and pulling out a leftover salad from the morning that his son had put together to eat. He uncovered the top of the lidded bowl and held it up to her. "Take whicever one you'd like."

She pulled up a small piece of it. "May I have a piece of the tomato too?" She looked at him.

"Have whatever you want in the salad. I don't mind."

"Thank you, Master." Nereid hopped carefully onto the edge of the bowl and sat down eating the lettuce and looking at the other things in the bowl

"Are you good with dogs? I hope so, because Kina would love playing with you. She is a sweetheart. And I'm not your master.. I would also like you to meet Serge, the boy whos salad this was this morning."

"I'm good with anything that doesn't try to eat me, Master." Nereid nibbled a piece of a cucumber.

"I'm not your..." He sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I'm not your master, Nereid."

"Yes you are, you did not protest to my request so I assume that you agreed, Master." Nereid took a bite of a carrot piece.

"Don't call me master."

"Why not?" She looked up at him.

"Because I am not your master!" He said in an exasperated sigh, sitting back agaisnt a counter and looking over at her as he contrinued to hold the bowl.

"How aren't you?" Nereid looked up at him

"Because I'm just not, sweetheart. I stopped being anyone's master after I moved here... by choice, and I don't plan on robbing anybody else of their free will and life anymore." He explained.

"But, as I've said, my life had nothing in it worth anything, but if I'm serving someone..." Nereid looked down. "Maybe I can be of use to someone..."

"If you wish to be of use to me then you will keep my son out of trouble." He said, smiling a bit and reaching a finger up to her, caressing the side of her face softly.

Nereid warpped her arms around his finger nuzzling it. "I still wish for you to be my master." She sniffled slightly.

"My my, you are just so cute, Nereid. Cover your ears, dear, I have to raise my voice and wish not to blow your ear drums... Okay?"

"Yes Master." She covered her ears with her hands tightly.

"Serge! Kina!" She called out, now moving away from the sink and out of the kitchen to make his way to the front room of his house, the bowl of salad in his hand. He looked over at her and nodded, caressing his cheek once more with his finger.

Nereid uncovered her ears and hugged his finger nuzzling it gently

A low bark came form the right causing Stefan's head to turn away from the small nymph, a smile coming to his face when he saw the Doberman puppy running at him full speed. Serge, too, had come from the set of stairs that the pup had come from, but he stopped when he saw the small being on his shoulder. "My Prince, father, who is your new friend?" He asked, smiling just as handsomely as his father had at the small blue creature.

"Well, as her yourself, Serge." He said, wiggling his finger in her arms and chuckling a bit.

Neried blushed a bit and hid her face in his finger's skin

Serge walked over to him and looked at the small female, a smile on his face once more. "Hello, little miss. Would I be out of line to ask you or your name?" He asked, reaching up and rubbing the other side of her face with his slightly smaller finger.

Nereid blushed more. "Not at all young Master, my name is Nereid."

"Master? Oh. I could get used to that. How about you call me that, father?'

"No." He said firmly, quirking his brow at him and cocking his lip.

"Fine. So, Nereid. Where are you from?" He asked, picking up up gently from his father's shoulder and holding her in his hand.

Nereid sat in his hand her fingers gently playing with the little lines in his palm. "I came from Luna Shores... I was exploring and got hurt from being chased all the way to Glimmer..."

"Who hurt you, dear?" He asked, reaching his other hand up and caressing her slender leg with his finger.

"I don't know, young Master." Nereid frowned

"That's a real shame. I would've loved to ring their head. How big were thery?"

"Bigger than Master." Nereid pointed to Stefan

His eyes narrowed a bit at this, placing her on his own shoulder. "Nereid.. I want you to tell me who these guys were, I know you know them.. Don't lie to me."

"No, young master, I don't know them, They were chasing me to be cruel..." Nereid looked at him.

He sighed and pat her head, rubbing his temples gently after. "That makes me so mad.. Why would anybody pick on somebody so small and so sweet?"

Nereid kissed his jaw gently. "It's ok Young Master, it's only a little gash."

"To me or my father maybe, but I see your whole leg is wrapped." Serge pointed out, blushing a bit from her kiss.

"But Master wrapped it well." Nereid yawned softly. "Excuse me." She blushed covering her mouth.

"Come on, Nereid.. I'll go tuck you in, alright?" Serge said, smiling warmly at her and heading for the stairs. "I'll be back in a few minutes, father. I'm gonna go grab mum's old doll crib.."

Stefan flicked his wrist and went off back into the kitchen.

"Good night Master!" Nereid called blowing him a kiss.

"Good night Nereid.. And I'm not your master." He called back.

Serge smiled and climbed the stairs slowly so she would not fall from his shoulder, making his way into his father's room and walking aorund the bed to go over to a emerald, sapphire, ruby and amethyst encrusted, transluscent blue glass baby crib his mother had gotten when she was a young child, still in mint condition. "You would not mind sleeping in this, would you? And look, it matches you."

"I don't mind, thank you Young Master." Nereid kissed his cheek

He smiled softly and picked her up, placing her into the soft mattress of the crib, covering her up with the blanket in it. He picked up the crib, gently, and walked over tot he bed, stopping for a moment. "Would youlike to come back downstairs so that you do not have to strain yourself flying down there when you wake up?"

"Yes PLease Young Master." Nereid yawned and curled up in the crib

"You know, I will not be like my father and ask you to stop with the title, but you do not have to call me such if you so wish it." He said, smiling a bit as he reached in and pulled a small bunny bear out from the side of the mattress, something his mother's barbie used to cuddle with. "Here you go."

"Thank you Young Master." Nereid held it tight and nuzzled it, never having felt so much love and caring.

"You're welcome." He walked back out of the room and down the stairs, making his way into the kitchen once more to go to his father. He set the crib gently onto the table in the middle of the room and leaned down, kissing her stomach softly. He pulled back and sat down in the chair, looking over to his father who was niddling on a tomato from the salad/

By time He'd gotten her downstairs the tiny woman was fast asleep curled up the the toy animal

"So, what do you plan on doing with her, father? Plan on letting her stay here? What then? Are you gonna go after the guys who attacked her?" Serge asked, seemingly serious now.

Stefan shook his head and finished off his tomato, wiping his hands on a papertowel and placing his elbows on the table, his chin resting on on his thumbs. "No.. I am not going after those men or women.. Whatever they were.. But I am letting her stay here for as long as she wishes." He was quiet for a moment, looking past the younger male and to his pet in the hallway looking in on them and wagging her stub of a tail. He pointed at her, gesturing for her to come to him. "She will be going after them... Kina, come." He grabbed the crib and gently lowered her down to the pup, letting Kina take in her scent before softly and smoothly placing her back onto the table. He watched her run off quietly and heard her go through the doogy door in the back door, smiling slightly to himself.

Nereid shifted in her sleep curling up tight, shivering slightly.

Stefan smiled a bit and tucked the small comforter around her a bit. "Sweet dreams, Miss Nereid."

After about an hour Nereid woke up and looked around.

Stefan had fallen asleep while propping his head up,, his face just as handsome asleep as it was awake. When she stirred his eyes fluttered open supprisingly fast, a small smile on his face. "Did you sleep well, Nereid?"

"Master were you watching me sleep?" She blushed bright purple.

"Indeed I was, I wanted to make sure you were in no pain or were having no bad dreams.. I am sorry, do you wish me not to?"

"No, I don't mind, Master." Nereid blushed. "No one's ever cared for me enough to do that for me..." She reached out to him

"Please, Nereid.. Don't call me master." He said with a smile, reaching his hand down to her, caressing her cheek a bit.

Nereid took ahold of his finger and held it, blushing softly now. "But you are."

"You know, I think Serge is taking a fancy to you. I mean, earlier he even kissed you in your sleep, he never even did that to his past girlfriends... That is impressive."

She looks down. "But what good does it do me if I am small?" She hugs his finger

"No, what I mean is I think he actually cares about you. He does not care about his ex girlfriends or his recent girlfriend, she is annoying to him he told me."

She blushes bright Purple and hides her face in his knuckle. "Oh."

"Are you hungry sweetheart?"

She blushes more. "No Master." She hugs his finger and flutters her wings.

He smiled and gently piclked her up out of her bed, gently placing her on the table. "Are you sure you are not hungry? There is still more salad for you to eat."

"No thank you Master." Nereid bit her lip gently tracing cirlces on the table with her foot

He nodded and leaned down to her, kissing her head softly and standing up. "Thirsty then?"

"A little." She blushed again.

He smiled and grabbed a small shot glass from a cupboard full of alcohol and whatnot, filling it up with cool water and walking back over to her. the design on the side really stood out when he filled it up, a family crest with a lion and a unicorn clashing past a chield and a dragon ringing around the bottom of it. He held it out to her, smiling a bit. "This can be your cup, if you'd like."

"Thank you Master." She smiled and picked it up taking a drink from it and smiling.

"That is.. was my wife's family crest.." He said with a small sigh, sitting himself back down in the chair and leaning back, watching her and smiling a bit fondly at her.

"It's beautiful, what happened to her, if you don't mind me asking, Master." she set the glass down carefully and walked to the edge of the table looking at him, her face blushing softly

"She was killed by an assassin trying to take out the last of her blood line.. They tried killing serge, too, but I got him out of Europe before they could."

"I'm sorry to hear about your wife, but I'm happy that you're both ok...." She jumped down onto his thigh and walked up to his chest, she was about the weight of a kitten. She kissed his nose gently, blushing

He smiled softly and wrapped his arms around her, cuddling her as if she were a child of his own. "Ich liebe dich... You're just so cute."

Nereid blushed and cuddled into his arms. She looked up at him. "Thank you Master."

He stood up from the chair and placed her on his shoulder, smiling a bit. "What do you wish to do?"

Nereid sat close to his cheek. "I don't know."

"Oh, come now.. I'm sure you wish to do something."

She shook her head. "I can think of nothing."

"Would you like some new clothing, dear?"

"No. You don't have to do that Master." She waves her hands.

"I know, but I want to."

She hugged his neck gently and kissed it. "Thank you Master."

"No worries, and I'm sure we could get them talored down to your size."

She blushed. He's so kind to me... She looked up at him.

"Come on, let's go watch some tv and you tell me what you like, kay? I can find anything and everything celebrities wear and can afford them." He smiled softly and walked into the living room, sitting odnw on the couch and flipping on the television.

"Anything is fine Master." Nereid played with a strand of his hair

"Just choose, sweetheart." He said, gesturing to the movie that was on.

Nereid watched, not seeing much that she thought suited her. "I Don't know master."

He flipped to a different channel, humming patiently.

"There." She pointed out a strapless dress that cut above the knees, it was dark blue

"Oh really? Okay. Tatiana used to have a dress like that when she was a child, it was cute. I'm sure you will look beautiful in it. Okay, pick out another."

"Anything blue really Master." She looked at him.

"But, I do not wish to pick out your clothing forr you."

"Anything is fine, Master." She sat close to his cheek

"Don't make me pick out a bikini." He teased lightly, poking her side and smiling.

Nereid blushed hot purple.

"Just tell me this. Is all you wear are skirts and dresses?"

"Yes Master." She nods

"And you like all blue?"

"Yes Master." She nods again

"No rufflies?" He questioned, not really liking the look of ruffly dresses on women too much.

"Just simple short designs master." Nereid looked up at his eyes

He nodded and let out a small yawn, reaching up and caressing under her chin softly. "I'll go out and get you some tomorrow, alright?"

She nuzzled against his finger liking his touches. "Ok Master."

"So, sweetheart. Do you have any family?"

Nereid looked down. "No Master I have no one, no family, no friends, no...." She bit her lip

"No friends and no... what? I seem to recall that you are my newfound friend, right?"

"Well yes but other than you and your son I have no one, Not even a significant other." She bit her lip again.

"I'm sure you will find someone soon, love." He said, nuzzling his cheek against her form.

She sighed deeply. "No..." She said softly.

"Don't be so hard on yourself, please?"

"Master, I've lived for some time now and I've met many others like me, but all of them cast me away, I don't know what's wrong with me." Nereid sniffled.

"Please don't start crying, I don't like seeing women cry." He said, reaching up and rubbing her eyes softly.

"I'm not crying Master, I've done that enough that I can talk about this without crying." She took his finger, nuzzling it.

He smiled softly and kissed the side of her head, a low purr coming from his throat. "Good."

She blushed bright hot purple and hid her face in his finger that she still had.

He chuckled softly. "Aw, so cute."

She looks at him with one eye then burries her face back in his finger

"Aw, even cuter!" He cooed out, his cooing causing his son to come out of the computer room he was currently in. The sight made him smile, so he went over to them and sat down on the side of his father that Nereid was on. He reached up and caressed her side softly, smiling a bit.

She hugged his finger tighter, the tips of her elf ears were turning purple from the blushing.

"You're so cute when you blush, Nereid." Serge said gently/

She peaked at him through her hair.

"Serge, you can design clothing on your computer, can't you?" Stefan asked, smiling a bit.

Serge nodded and looked up, then back to Nereid. "Yes, and I suppose for you?"

"Yes, Young Master, but if it's too much work you don't have to." She looked at him holding Stefan's finger to her.

"Oh no, no trouble at all sweetheart."

She blushed softly. "Are you sure?"

"Positive. We'll treat you really well, Nereid, don't you doubt that."

Nereid flew over and kissed Serge's lower lip gently. She turned and flew to Stefan blushing more and kissing his lower lip as well. "I don't deserve you two, you're both so wonderful." She blushed and smiled


They both smiled and nodded. "Don't worry about it, dear."

From her tiny shoulders up her skin turned hot purple. She landed on the table and hid behind a bowl.

Serge leaned forward and gently grabbed her inhis hand, pulling her close to his face and kissing her softly on the forehead. "Don't me so shy, Nereid." He sat her down in his lap and ran his fingers through her whitish-blue hair, smiling a bit.

She blushed brighter, her stockings hanging off the ends of her feet, her toes pointed inward at one another. Everytim his fingers would touch her back, her wings fluttered in a shudder. Her hands were folded in her lap

"Come on, let'as go design some clothes, kay?" He asked, picking her up once more and carrying her into the computer room and setitng her down on the computer stand. He cleared out the site he was on, it happen to be a chat room to some of his buds in Europe, and brought a grid paper designed type program. He clicked a few button on the side of the screen and a female body popped up, just an outline. "So, what is it you would like to help me design, hm?"

"Just a simple dress, in a darker blue than me, and above my knees, Young master....Are you Sure this is no problem?" She stood on the stand pulling up her stockings

"Look, already done. Any designs you want on it? Kind of like some you have on your dress right now? Open back, flared ends."

"No, that's perfect Young Master." Nereid smiles

"Reall? Okay.. I can make that dress for you. I am actually good with my hands and am a fast worker."

"You really don't have to fuss with it Young Master." Nereid shook her tiny hands

"Nereid. please, this is no fuss at all. Besides, I really do want to do this, it warms my heart to see you smile and blush."

Nereid blushes and turns her head biting her lip gently.

"Just like him.." He said with a small smile, turning his head back to look at the dress on the screen, adjusting some things on it out of pure wistfullnes.

She sat on the table cross legged, her mind and eyes zoning out looking up at the ceiling thinking of how lonely she's been and how lucky she was to have her new friends, but still feeling like something was missing.

When he was done tweaking the dress a bit, Serge looked down at her and smiled. "Something wrong, hun?"

Nereid jumped when he spoke and looked at him. "N-No. I'm fine, just thinking." She smiled softly.

"Wanna speak to me about it?"

"I was thinking how lucky and am to have you and Master now, who treat me better than I've ever been treated before, but something still seems to be missing...Not because of either of you, please don't think it's something you or master did or didn't do..." Nereid said franticly

"Hm.. A lover, perhaps?" He asked tilting his head a bit.

Nereid blushed softly. "That must be it...I don't even know what love feels like..." She looked down her elf ears drooping softly

"One day you will find the right guy, trust me." He said, petting her hair softly.

"Thank you Young Master, but the fact of the matter is the only people who've ever cared for me are about twenty sizes bigger than me..." She took his hand holding his wrist in her hands then holding her hand flat on his palm

He smiled softly and gripped his hand softly around her's, lifting her up and placing her on his shoulder. "Hey, trust me, please."

She nuzzled into his hair sighing softly. "Yes Young Master."

He turned his head and nuzzled his nose into her neck, his nose cringing up playfully. "Girl you need a bath, and bad.." He poked her stomach with his finger, chuckling a bit.

Nereid blushed and gasped softly, she flew from his shoulder. "I'm sorry I've been chased for so long I haven't had the time..." She blushed brighter

"Hey, Nereid.. I was only kidding. You don't stink so much, just a bit of B.O.... Nothing to worry about.. Come on, I'll show you to the bathroom if you wish to freshen up." He said, standing up from the chair and gesturing for her to get back on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry Young Master I worry about things like that I don't want to offend anyone." She sat back on his shoulder.

"No, that doesn't offend me, what really offends me is my dad after he has had some tacos. I try to avoid all that stink." He chuckled a bit and headed up the stairs, turning and heading into the bathroom door.

She smiles softly and waits to be put down in the bathroom, she figured she'd take a bath in the sink of the bathroom

He placed her on the edge of the tub and bent over, turning the knobs to turn on the warm bathwater, purring a a bit. When he felt there was a enough water in the tub for her he turned it off and sat down on the toilet. "Do you wantg me to stay in here to help you a bit?"

"Yes, please Young Master, if you're not busy and don't mind me being nude..." She blushed from her chest up

He crossed one leg over the other, his hands holding gainst his knee as he looked down at her. "The question is do you mind being nude infront of me, my dear?"

She blushes brighter. "No, Young Master, I trust you." She began to slide her clothes off, she kicked her foot trying to get the last part off and yelped as she wobbled and fell into the tub.

He chuckled from the sight, a handsome smile coming to his face once more. He leaned over and looked in on her, reaching in and grabbing the clothing she was wearing on her foot now. "Cutie." He cooed out, laying the cloth onto the sink ledge.

She coughed and sat up pushing her hair back a bit. "Young Master? I call you young because your father is older how old are you both?" She stood up and walked to the side of the tub grabbing a shampoo bottle carefully

He helped her with the shampoo bottle, not wishing for her to be crushed under it's weight. "Hm, depends on how you describe a year."

"365 human days, a human's year..." She put the bottle on it's side and popping the top open and pushing it sqeezing a bit out in her hand and lathered her long hair

"Well, a Dragilla year is around three-hundred-and-seventy human years, so... Around Six-thousand-six-hundred-and-sixty years old.. I'm still pretty young."

"Wow I'm only about 20 human years." Nereid chuckled softly. She looked around for the soap and pulled the bar down she rubbed her hands on it to lather them then rubbed her hands over her small blue body washing every part even her tiny deliate wings

"Well then, when it is all summe dup into Dragilla years, you are my elder by maybe two years if you are twenty."

"Hm? how?" She looked up at him

"Cause, technically I'm only eighteen."

"And Master?" she looks at him

"Twelve-thousand-five-hundred-and-eighty years old... Or Thirty-four."

Nereid chuckled. "I wish I were big like you two, it would be easier to find someone..." She played with the bubbles in the tub.

"But won't it be worth it once you do find that onhe person you find and claim as your own? It will make you feel like your life was not wasted, hm?" He smiled and her.

"I really doubt it will ever happen." She popped bubbles as if scorning them for having more than one alike

"Hey, cheer up Nereid. Look, listen to me for a minute, alright? There is someone out there for everyone in this world, nobody get's left behind of forgotten when it comes to the matters of the heart."

Her bright blue eyes looked up at him, then away to hide the tears welling in them. "But what if I am?"

He crossed his legs once mroe and shrugged a bit as his hands rested against his knee. "Then you are a freak... I'm just kidding, no... Nobody get's left behind."

"Master was..." She said sadly, feeling badly for him, and the fact that he lost his love.

"He was not forgotten nor left behind, he was simply ripped from his love. He knows this, and I do, that he will see her again one day."

"But he had his love and someone took her from him...No one has the right to do that..." Nereid closed her eyes to stop tears

"Yes, you are right about that, Nereid... But they will meet again in a different time and space" He leaned down into the tub and caressed her cheek with his finger, smiling softly.

She looked at him. "I'm Sorry Young Master I have no place to worry you with my problems."

"Nereid... Please, you are not worrying me or bothereing me."

"Thank you, Young Master." Nereid played in the bubbles.

"Well, are you enjoying yourself?" He asked, taking the paper towel out of the water that had made it slip from her leg.

She examined the gash in her lg that went from her knee to her hip. "Yes, I'm so glad to have you both...you both so kind, caring, and handsome..." She clasped her hand over her mouth blushing bright.

"And you are shy, loving and beautiful... Even cute." He said, smiling a bit.

Down over her breast she turned purple in blush. "Really?"

"Cross my heart." He nodded, handing her the conditioner bottle.

She smiled. "Thank you, Young Master." She rubbed the conditioner into her hair and rinsing it. She shivered after rinsing her hair. "Can you help me out, Young Master? I'm done and the water's cold now..."

he smiled and picked her up out of the tub with one arm, taking her into an embrace and drying her off most of the way. He kissed her head softly and turned, grabbing the dress she had taken off.

She shivered into him clinging to his shirt tight, not being able to fly with wet wings.

He rubbed her back softly and used his sleeve to start drying her wings, walking out of the bathroom and heading back down the stairs. He still held the dress in his hand, a low humming coming from his throat.

She continued to cling to him trying to make his shirt cover her body

He easily took his shirt off with his free hand and wrapped it around her. He did not mind being shirtless. "There you go, sweetheart."

She blushed and smiled. "Thank you Young Master."

"Think nothing of it." He said, walking into the living room and waving to Stefan.

"Hello, Master." She smiled softly and waved

"Hello, Nereid. Have a good bath?"

"Yes, Young Master was vry kind and helped me...I did fall in the tub..." She frowned softly.

He giggled a bit and bit his bottom lip. "Really noiw?"

"I was trying to get my dress off and as I kicked it from my foot I lost balance and fell in..." She rubbed her sore bottom.

"Ouch. I am sorry, love. Perhaps some ice to calm the pain?"

"No, thank you Master, I'm fine." Nereid smiled nuzzling softly into Serge, she was growing quite fond of him, her face blushing softly

He chuckled a bit. "Are you hungry, Nereid? We can go out to eat, I have a few errands to run anyways."

"I'm sort of naked, Master, I can't very well go anywhere like this..." Nereid continued to blush

"Hm? Not Young Master anymore? Sure, fine, I can live with it." Serge said, shrugging his shoulders a bit. "I know you are naked, Nereid, which is why I brought your dress down with you. I'm not inconsiderate."

"Well if Stefan does not wish to be called Master then I will take you as my master." She blushed as she looked up at him. "And I know you are not inconsiderate, master. I would never think such a thing of you."

"I know, Nereid. And I'm flattered that you would call me master." He hugged her gently and sat down on the couch.

"Master? What does love feel like?" Nereid asked suddenly, her hands resting on his arms. "I know it's an odd question but I'm not quite sure what it's like."

"When you care deeply for another person, so deeply that you wish to spend the rest of your life together, bound by an unspeakable bond."

"Well what happens when the other person doesn't feel the same way as you? And Isn't there more to love?" Nereid looked up at him "Master."

"Then, there is nothing you can really do but either try to make the other person love you, like my father and my mother, or you have to move past your feelings like my uncle."

"But won't that be wrong to force someone to like you?" Nereid continued to look at him

Laughing, Serge looked back at his father and grinned. "Yeah, father. Isn't it wrong to make somebody love you?"

"You can never make anybody love you, they choose to love you because deep down they feel the same way of you that you do of them."

"But what if two people feel the same for one another but things get in the way?" Nereid looked to Stefan then back to Serge

Serge smiled at her and pat her head. "I suppose you mean like height, hm, sweetheart?"

Nereid blushed. "Well anything like species or sex...or...yes, I suppose size..." She tried to act like she never thought of it

Chuckling, Serge shook his head and smiled at her. "Nothing can get in the way of love, not species, sex, height, another person and not even marriage, I suppose."

"Have you never been in love either, Master?" Nereid nuzzled his arm affectionately

"Never."

Nereid whimpered softly hearing this. "I'm sure someone has loved you, master."

"I doubt it, dear." He smiled and ran his fingers thorugh her hair,

"No. You mustn't Master! I'm sure someone has had to have loved you! You're such a wonderful person!" Nereid gasped softly clasping her hands over her mouth and blushing bright hot purple

He smiled warmly and began to play with her hair, a low chuckle coming from his throat. "So cute."

She nuzzled into his fingers a bit her hands sliding around his fingers holding them close to her.

"Get dressed, sweetheart.. We can go buy fabric for your dresses."

Nereid nodded and picked up her dress unwrapping the shirt from her form and pulling the dress on in it's place.

"Alright, come on my little bundle of sweetness. Lets get going." Serge said, standing up from the couch and picking her up from her lap.

Nereid blushed softly. "Yes Master!"

He smiled and walked out of the house, not caring that he had no shirt on his form, shutting the door behind him as he entered the streets of glimmer.