Kill for you.

Fandom: gone.

Characters: Caine and Diana.

Genre: Romance, angst.

Set: Just before the end of PLAGUE, if the break-up scene was in the book.

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Diana was the only person he'd ever desired, and the only person he ever will desire, but that wasn't even the most earth-shattering part.

The ground-breaking bit was that, she was the only one who ever wanted him.

Despite all his flaws and faults, despite all ludicrous delusions of grandeur, despite his resentful sociopathic traits, despite all the burdens he must have been- Diana had wanted him.

For that fleeting fortnight on the island, Diana Ladris had wanted him. Yearned for him, craved him like he had her for eons.

And now, that astounding chapter of his life was over.

The finale was a blunt, crushing paragraph with little warning and absolutely no explanation.

Then again, his mother had never offered one, either.

And now Diana was sashaying away, retaining her dignity and whatever shrivelled remnants of a heart she possessed, her hair like a brunette water-fall flowed from her scalp down to her hips.

Caine could have forced her back, and he couldn't deny a segment of him was tempted. He resented the notion that Diana could just saunter off whenever she saw fit. The audacity. She was his. He could just lift a palm and she'd be immobile. And then he'd have her forever.

He almost pulled a similar stunt on the island.

"I could have forced you whenever I liked, but no, I had you willingly..."

But where would be the sense of achievement in that?

"Diana!" He called.

She rotated to meet his cold gaze, her hair falling meticulously into place.

"Caine?"

"I would kill for you. I have killed for you."

For a brief period Diana's gorgeous doe-like eyes appeared to be leaking, like weeping emeralds. Then, the moment demised and she stared at him quizzically; "But would you die for me?"

The silence spoke louder than words ever could.

"Thought not."

And then, turning 180 degrees, she began to make her way to Lake Tramonto. To Sam.

"Would you die for me?"

Caine didn't blame her for inquiring such an enormous thing.

It was a question he'd been pondering for a long time himself.