I, uh, may have found like one spoiler (is it a spoiler if you think it will happen anyway?), but I'm basically writing this blind after having watched the first episode and having FEEEEEELIIINGSSS
Title and summary from Wonderful by Rob Thomas, which got stuck in my head and sort of helped inspire the fic.
Plz forgive this exercise in WTF. ((also, tfw you check your story months later and see the formatting's gone AWOL D: ))


"How could you let them do this to you?! I thought you were stronger than that!"

"I wasn't ready to die. I had no choice."

"I'd rather die than become a monster!"

"Do you think I wanted this?"

"I think you're a coward."

"If you hate me so much, then you should just kill me now. That's your job, isn't it?"

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He didn't, of course. Yuuchirou ran, and Mikaela didn't follow.

They didn't see each other for six months.

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They sat together on the riverbank, moonlight speeding through the water.

"I thought you were dead," Yuuchirou said.

"I was, for a while. Someone saved me. I don't know who she is. Everything... Everything was such a blur. I slept for a long time. When I finally woke up for real, healed and fed and... different, she was gone. But if I ever see her face again, I'll know." Mikaela clenched a fist in determination. "I need to thank her."

"Thank her? But she turned you!"

"No. She saved my life, Yuu-chan. I owe her everything..."

Yuuchirou felt weak under Mikaela's intense gaze.

"...I have so much to live for."

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"Remember when we were kids, and I wanted to become a knight so I could protect you, and your sister, and the other kids?"

"You wanted us to call you the White Knight. You were insufferable."

"Hah... Now I can do that. Don't you see, Yuu-chan? I have a promise to keep. That's why, back then..."

"So do I. But I can't. Not completely. Because of you."

"Not everyone knows what I am now. We could be knights together!"

"Mika, it's not that simple."

"I know. But we could try."

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Things were complicated enough, Yuuchirou thought, without falling in love with Mika. Clearly the universe was laughing at him.

Maybe, instead, the universe was laughing at both of them, because one night Mikaela kissed him and said he'd wanted to for years.

"I know we can't be together, but..."

"Don't say things like that after you kiss me!" He grabbed Mikaela's hand in both of his, pulling it to his chest. "And who says we can't? We- we can run away. I know secret paths out of here. Let's leave this place and never look back!"

"You mean... self-exile?"

"Yes. There's nothing for us here anymore, Mikaela! If we stay we'll be found out. As a hunter, I..." He shook his head, his hands tightening around Mika's. "We'll both be crucified."

"Yuu-chan..." Mikaela swiftly pulled Yuuchirou into a hug, eyes squeezed shut. "Let's go. Right now. I can't lose you again, not after everything-"

Yuuchirou's lips on his stopped Mika from speaking.

"I'm not going anywhere. Not without you," he said, three long heartbeats later, and Mikaela could only smile. "My sister will meet us. She'll help us get to the safe house." He grabbed Mikaela's hand once more and took off running. "I've never been caught, and with you, I'll be invincible!"

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"Now we really can be knights, Mikaela. We can fight back, all of us. Together."

"They'll never know what hit them."

This time, Mikaela's smile was fanged.