My breath catches in my throat. My head starts aching with thirst. My blood is pulsing in perfect rhythm with hers. Hers. Yuki's. Yuki's blood. I swallow loudly and wipe a bead of sweat off my nose.

"Zero," her voice is so close but I can't tell where she is. I reach out and my fingers touch something soft; her shirt? It jerks out of my reach and I can hear a muffled scream. I scared her.

"Yu," I try to speak but I can't make my mouth form the words. I want to tell her that my Bloody Rose is in her room. She needs to go and get it. I open my eyes but all I see is red. Deep, dark, blackish red. Like blood.

I hear a door open and close. I didn't hear her move. Am I so far that I'm losing my senses? I lift my hands to my face and I can feel the scowl on my lips. Sweat moves down my jaw and rolls over my arm to my elbow. It's so hot. I take my hands from my face and start to take off my shirt. It makes no difference. I still feel as though someone has lit a match on me…and the fire burns stronger every second.

This is it. This is the end of my nightmare. Yuki will finally have a life she can be happy living. I'll be gone. Half of me wants that. The other half wants to stay alive and live with Yuki; even if I have to watch her live with someone else.

The door opens again and slowly closes. I can smell her blood again…it's faster now; she ran. She's scared and she doesn't want to do this. I nod in the direction I think she's facing and I can hear the gun being cocked back. I close my eyes and wait.

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"Zero," I feel soft fingers touch my cheek. "it's time to wake up." She laughs lightly and brushes her fingers over my eyes. "Zero c'mon," I lift my hand and grab her small wrist gently. She doesn't move and she doesn't make a sound. I open my mouth and her finger traces my fangs.

This has become our routine. I have the same dream every night and she wakes me up the same way every morning. This is what time has given us…and time is what will eventually take it away.

Short but sweet. I haven't written anything in so long…so I'm sorry if this sucks horribly. This was actually going to be a song fic with the song "Leave Out All The Rest" by LP. But I didn't want this to be like a remake of the scene in chapter 24. I kinda like this and I hope you all do to.