Promises and Pledges

Chapter Two: And So the Snow Fell

Lost.Daydream

Disclaimer: I love Vampire Knight and all of Grimm's Fairytales but I own nothing but the plot!! :)

Note: Well, what can I say? It's been a while, but I've finally come back and done something. I can't promise anything; I was distracted while writing this, so I'm not all that sure what it relates to; crazy stuff, and I don't know if it even makes sense .". Please R.n.R. Tell me what you like etc etc and I'll try to put it in the next instalment.


The snow fell. It was nothing less than perfect. The world outside seemed so quiet, so untouchable. And this is what made Yuuki tremble. White had another meaning. It was not just purity. It was also death.

An omen.

- 'Snow fell, and Yuuki felt herself wraped in warmth.-

Like her first memory, she couldnot remember where she was.

White and silent, the snow was blinding. She sudenly felt her throat constrict, a silent cry threatening to bubble up from within the depths of her memories; her cold, dark and lonely past. She could feel the merciless wind again. All alone. And she was running. There were eyes, half-crazed and starving. And the teeth. The gleam of white fangs in the darkness.

And then there was blood; then there was silence; then there was Kaname-sama among the white snow.

Yuuki breathed. It wasn't then. It was now. She looked out again, and saw the snow fall from behind the window. It was like a completely different world. Shutting her out.

It took her a moment to realise that she was lying in Zero's bed, looking out of Zero's window, breathing in his familiar scent. It calmed her, to know that he had been here. His cold eyes sometimes wanted to make her cry out. Yuuki felt like she could never unlock their secrets, but their red sheen were enough to tell her that there were things he didn't want her to know. Scanning the room, she checked the time. Too early in her opinion. It was the holidays, and Zero's room was empty. There were no classes to attend to, and no more Day Students were around to endanger themselves.There was no reason in the world why he shouldn't be here.

The snow continued falling slowly, softly.

- 'Zero,' she muttered. The Big Bad Wolf was coming. The darkness, the never ending darkness. She could feel it coming. A storm was approaching. All she wanted to do was run and run and run.

But she couldn't.

There she was again. Trapped in a figment of her dreams. A lady, such a sad lady, out of the corner of Yuuki's eye, warning her not to sleep. Not to leave him. -

Slipping out from beneath his sheets, she felt guilty for taking Zero's bed from him. It was almost becoming a regular occurrence. The nightmares, the fear. It was coming back, more and more often. They were the eyes; staring at her like they wanted to eat her whole.

- 'Juuri.'It was just a feeling, but Yuuki knew that it was her name. And her beatiful brown eyes. But she felt them to be sad. It's like she remembered them being sad.-

Her feet soon felt the cold underneath them. Curling her arms around her body, she wandered around his room. It was neat. Neater than her room, at least. Everything had its own order. Everything had its own space. The bookshelf was neat, boasting books in order of height. Zero's desk also had nothing. Even when he was there, the room had an aura of a stranger. It was like he was just a visiter, passing through, not actually living. But Zero was there. In his photos, in his smell. As much as he may not have wanted an existence, he was there. He was definitely alive in this room.

It was strange. The Bloody Rose wasn't there, although Zero was the type to carry a gun around for no reason. Yuuki didn't think twice. There were pictures, of Zero, Yuuki and the Headmaster. It felt like home. But it felt empty, vacant.

She felt the floor and the sofa. Both were cold. And his wardrobe was empty.

- Zero seemed to be quiet. Almost faltering. Yuuki saw him place his hand over his prized tattoo. He never talked about it; never really had to. Yuuki could guess, oh how she hoped that she would guess wrongly, from his eye's red sheen in the moonlight. -

"Zero-" she whispered. But she would wait. It was too like her dream. Zero, the picture, the wardrobe, the Bloody Rose, and the retreating figure. The cold, sad eyes. What she saw last night was definitely a dream, a horrible, terrible dream.

- 'Sayonara. Goodbye.' Perhaps this was an omen. Zero wouldn't leave her alone. The eyes were coming. The Big Bad Wolf. But that wasn't it. She didn't want him to leave her.-

Yuuki felt herself throw frantic glances from the window to the room.

He couldn't have. He wouldn't have.

"Zero!" she yelled, hoping, wishing, willing him to appear, dazed from eating breakfast, but no sound came.

"Zero!"

She flung open the doors in her pyjamas, ready to surprise him as much as he had scared her; frightened her, by not being there, by being lost in her dream. Away from her. Forever. But the doorway remained clear. The hallway remained silent to her pleas. No footsteps, no angered reply. Nothing.

"ZERO!" She crumpled onto the floor. The picture she had given him on their first day of school together was gone.

There was no Zero. There was nothing. Just nothing.

- The snow was falling. So beautifully. He stood by the window. Just standing and staring. It was such a long time before finally, he moved. The silver haired boy, a heroin in her dreams, against the Big Bad Wolf, closed the door, shutting the sleeping snow out of his life, allowing only the cold snow, the falling snow, to accompany him. He knew she had another hero, another to block out her dreams of the Wolf. Se would be safe. It would be enough.

He wouldn't wait. He couldn't wait. The Wolf was coming. And the Wolf would not watch the pretty snow. The Wolf would devour it whole; shred it to pieces.No better than the nightmares of children. And then, among all of that, his snow would melt and be lost. It would never be the same. Everything would be lost.

And then there would be darkness. It always ended in darkness.-


Author's Note: I will try, I promise, promise, promise, to finish this off ... One day OO

Hope you've enjoyed it so far. Darn homework .". It looks like I'll be off again until later.

Toodles .