The brunette gazed at him, entranced.
He was leaning against the wall lost in thought, chest heaving slowly up and down as a wisp of vapour formed due to the cold when he exhaled. Amethyst eyes shone in the dim moonlight as they looked straight ahead focusing at nothing in particular.
Suddenly, last night's events came back to her.
His feral gaze followed her as she sat up. Absently Zero licked his lips and sighed turning away. He needed to control himself. What was he even doing? But everything about her seemed so… luscious. Her pale soft skin; so smooth, so delicate. He wanted to reach out and sink his fangs into it. And her blood… How he longed for it, wanted to taste the thick liquid slide down his throat. It was sweeter than honey. He licked his lips again. Desperation and hunger grasped him.
He turned in her direction.
Yuki was looking at him curiously.
He turned away.
Yuki pityingly creased her brows and stepped towards him.
Zero felt his heart hammer against his chest as he tried to calm down the tide of desire for her blood that ran through his veins as she closed the distance between them.
"Zero…"
He was about to shove past her that she started unbuttoning the top of her white cotton shirt.
He stared at her for a while, feeling the rush of her blood through her veins call him, lure him in. Her neck was exposed and he could feel himself lean down.
His mind kept signalling for him to seize, to move away. But he didn't.
His lips brushed over the skin and his brain short circuited. Lust for her blood suddenly took over as he grabbed her and jerked her towards himself and bit down.
A wince escaped her. Yuki tried to loosen his grip by shuffling a little but felt his bruising grip toughen. Zero had been neglecting himself blood again and this time he had starved himself for a longer period.
Sucking in, he felt the metallic taste glide upon his tongue as the crimson liquid rushed inside through his lips. His grip tightened.
She was saying something but her voice felt muffled and distant and the vampire hunter was hardly able to focus. Her quivering form tried to hold onto him as he clenched her shirt harder, biting deeper into her skin.
He didn't want to stop.
But he did… after the brunette broke into a series of sobs.
He pulled away and looked at her, blood dripping down his mouth, purple eyes dazed and cloudy.
She collapsed.
"Zero, you're hurting me…"
"Stop, Zero… Please…"
"ZERO! God, stop…"
She was struggling against him, trying to push past him, away from him.
He stared at her arms and saw slight purplish black bruises beginning to appear on her skin.
What was he doing?
This blood lust had blinded him.
But her blood…
The need drove him insane.
He felt helpless against this curse, weak and wretched.
He moves towards her, hands running through his snowy white hair, a scowl set in place.
"What are you looking at?" Zero asks exasperated by her stare.
Breaking out of her daze, she shakes her head, "Nothing."
She finds him staring at blackish spots lining her arms and the bandage covering her neck. A wave of remorse causes his purple orbs to flicker and he moves past her.
Disgusted by himself, Zero keeps walking.
He still could the rush of her blood.
He still longed for it.
He was pathetic.
Slender arms envelope him from his back and he halts.
"You aren't."