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((a/n: Flashbacks will be italicized.))

David had his eyes closed, the cigarette having fallen to the floor the moment she touched him. Her touch was like ice and fire at the same time. Willing himself to open his eyes, he looked at the burning ember of the cigarette, trying to ignore the fact that he was like a live wire inside. She is even more beautiful, all these years later from what his vision had showed him. Though she remained the eighteen year old girl she had been when she became one of them, her beauty had somehow grown. She was pure ecstasy, everything about her. David knew, if he looked into those blue eyes, the pale face. He knew he wouldn't be able to control himself.
The boys had turned to David now, curious about this girl. Nobody could just touch David. Not without him either killing them, or anticipating it, moving away, and… well the punch line is that they would die. One hand on the shoulder had broken his icy-cold stare and reduced him to shivers. David never showed any emotion, to anyone. There was much argument about whether or not he felt any emotion. They had lived with him for the past six years and barely seen anything out of him. But this vampire was affecting him without even trying. So who the fuck was she?
Her ice blue stare remained unbroken, staring at the back of his head, waiting for him to face her. She was running one hand of painted black fingernails through the white-blonde ponytail at the nape of David's neck, and the other was gently stroking his shoulder. She moved closer and once again let her pink, glossy lips brush against the edge of his ear, making him shudder with pleasure. She said something none of them heard. But she pulled away, turned on her spiked heels and walked in the other direction. David finally looked up, to reveal a tear in one eye, and his forehead beginning a cold sweat. He looked at them quickly, giving them all a pissed off look and then swung his legs over the fence and also walked away.
Serenity looked up at the brick wall of the old parking garage, thinking of all the memories she had here. David came to the alleyway, starting at the long black hair, still fearful to face her. She had sensed him coming, and she sensed his fear. So she didn't turn. It was one of the many powers they shared. Years of reading people's thoughts, picking up on their feelings made her an expert, but she had always been able to read David's mind, even when they were human. She knew him better than he knew himself, he would come to her. He couldn't resist.
David silently braced himself and took a few steps toward her, placing his hand on her arm and turning her to face him. He felt the long forgotten pang in his stomach when he looked upon her angelic beauty. He took his hand from her arm and brought it up to her heart-shaped face, his finger stroking the smooth, cold surface. He examined her slowly, as if drinking her in. From her pale blue eyes, staring into his, framed by long black eyelashes, to her light pink lips, always in a sexy pout, all framed by skin like porcelain and the mass of wavy hair that fell past her shoulder blades.
"Serenity." He said softly. His hand finally came to rest on her cheek. She half- smiled, then looked down at the floor. Her heels made them the same height, for David vividly remembered that he had been at least four inches taller than she was. He took another step closer, trying to contain himself. His eyes drifted down from her face to her neck, where a tight choker held a silver ring to her neck. His eyes then followed the V shape of the thin, tight fabric, stopping him from touching the milky white skin that was so utterly exposed.
"Oh so you did miss me?" She said again, teasing him even more. Of course he had missed her. He had missed her so much he forgot her, because he couldn't bear to remember her, and how much love they had.
"What are you doing here?" He tried to make his voice as cold as possible, but she could sense his excitement.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Serenity said with a smile. She took another step towards him, closing the gap between their bodies. She smiled wickedly again. Very slowly, without breaking their intense eye contact, she leaned forward and pressed her lips against his. At first he was unsure, but very soon he was running one hand up her thigh, the other hand tangled in the mane of black hair. His lips were pressing hard against hers, almost as if they were the only thing sustaining him.
David felt himself explode inside, like his brain had melted away. The only thing he was aware of was that he wanted Serenity. Water couldn't pass between the two bodies, they were so close. It was Serenity who pulled away from him first, to realize they were hovering a foot off the ground. She simply looked up at him, a content look on her face. He still had his eyes closed, savoring the moment, remembering the rush, and loving every second of it.
"I missed you, too." She said. He opened his eyes, as if just realizing the situation. "It's been ten years now."
"I want you to tell me why you're here. After all these years, why now?" He said, beginning to regain his composure.
"It's a long, boring story. One that I will be sure to tell you. The more important thing is that I was planning on coming back to Santa Carla for a while, and be with you." She added emphasis to the last four words. David narrowed his eyes in suspicion.
"Serenity, what are you up to?" He said, grabbed her face roughly with gloved hands. He also knew her too well to believe her answer.
"I'm going to tell you. But not now." She smirked, loving to see his reactions. It was taking all he had to resist her right now, and she knew which made him feel worse. "But I think there is something else we'd both rather be doing." She leaned forward to kiss him but instead caught his bottom lip between her teeth.
"I forgot you had liked biting people before you were a vampire." He said when he pulled away from her and taking a step back.
"Yeah, and I remember you used to like it." She responded coyly.
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Serenity was eighteen and David was twenty-one. They were your classic love story, not. But it was the classic good girl falling for the older, dangerous guy. Except this girl soon became even more dangerous than the guy. She had run away with him from San Diego to Santa Carla. It was that first night they had drank the 'wine', (but more on that later). They were high on life and enjoying the buzz. They were in the employee parking garage on the pier, where nobody else would be. Serenity was sitting on the hood of a car, her legs wrapped around David's waist. Her shirt lay abandoned on the floor, along with his jacket.
"I love you." She whispered practically out of breath, then pulling his neck to kiss him again. He pulled away from her, also slightly winded, and echoed her words back to her. She smiled then buried her face in his neck. At the same time she undid the belt bucket of his pants and threw it away from them. David's eyes rolled in pleasure when she bit his neck, then up to his earlobe. He purposefully never wore an earring in that ear just because he knew she liked to bite him. She pulled away and lifted his shirt over his head, throwing it to join the pile of clothes. He pressed his chest against hers, enjoying the warmth of each other's skin. Then he starting laying kissing all over her. First her mouth, then her neck, then her collarbone, above the lacy black bra, then all the way down to her belly button before she pulled him back up to kiss her.
They were head over heels in love, and they didn't give a fuck who knew it. They figured they had the rest of their lives to be together, little did they know what immortal fates awaited them.
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His face got cold and he took another step back from her.That was the memory that came flooding back to both of them. David hated that it was this easy for her to overcome him with emotion. He needed to be away to clear his head of her.
"Of course then you used to trust me." He pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and lit it. "Obviously you don't now."
"You still need to tell me why you came back." He said, and then blew out a mouthful of smoke.
"I will, just trying not to kill the romance of the moment." He gave her a stern look and took a long drag on the cigarette. "David, I will. I could never lie to you, remember?" She smiled widely at him and he nodded while blowing out smoke. "So are we going to stand here or are going to bring me home?"
David stamped out the cigarette on the floor.
"My bike is on the pier." He started to leave the alleyway but Serenity caught up with him and laced her fingers into his.
"Stop fighting it, David. Stop fighting me being here."
"I don't--" He started.
"You don't trust me yet. You don't trust me just showing up after all these years. You're hesitant to bring me to the hotel because you don't want to risk putting me or your buddies in danger. I was always unpredictable and you don't know what I'm capable of. And you hate that you want me because you spent years trying to forget me." She said, and then smirked. It was like she had read his mind. He could never hide his emotions from her, she always sensed it, no matter how hard he tried to hide it. Of course this worked in vice versa and he could sense her feelings too. "Oh and there is a girl you've neglected to tell me about." She smirked again, knowing she had got under his skin. All he could sense from her was excitement, partial hunger since she fed so long ago, and the lust they had for each other.
"I'm the leader around here. This can't look like you're coming in here invading the turf because then you'll be the enemy."
"Don't your boys know the rules of seniority? I'm just as old as you are."
"As long as you're with me they won't do a thing. Besides its early, they're probably still out." They walked silently to his motorcycle but then David turned around abruptly. "And don't mind fuck me, okay. I'm not gonna play games. When we get there you're going to tell what in the hell you're doing here." He sat down on the bike and started the engine.
"Someone is feisty. Didn't feed enough tonight?" She said as she wrapped her arms around his waist. They drove fast towards the bluff getting there in five minutes flat. Marko was sitting outside on the ramp smoking in a joint. He gave David a quizzical expression with eyebrows raised when he walked by with Serenity. David return it with a look that said plainly "Don't ask questions, don't say shit. She's with me."
Once inside the dimly lit cave Serenity smiled to herself, remembering when she was one of its inhabitants. David walked briskly over to a beat-up couch and sat down setting his jacket down next to him. Then he pulled a third cigarette from his pocket and began to smoke it. Serenity took a look around, the sound of her heels on the stone echoing off the high walls.
"Why are you here, Serenity?" He asked gruffly. Serenity walked over and straddled his lap, steadying herself by placing her hands on his thighs. "Don't change the subject again." She smirked in response and took the cigarette from his hands and took a long drag.
"Isn't it enough that I missed you?" She said while handing it back to him.
"No. Not after this long, not without giving me a warning. Tell me the truth."
"I needed to get away from there. It was all too much for me. There were new vampires in town, ones that I'd rather not associate with. I asked myself where I could possibly go, and then it hit me. Santa Carla is my home, my haven, my birthplace."
"That's it?" He said while putting out the butt against the edge of couch.
"Yeah." David grabbed her face and brought it two inches from his.
"Don't lie to me. I'm much stronger than I used to be."
"Do you sense me lying to you?" David narrowed his eyes to slits and looked for signs in her face.
"No."
"They for fucks sake, I'm not. Let me go." He released his hand and looked around. Everyone would be coming back soon. "Why are you worrying so much, about them meeting me?" He slid his hands up her thighs and laid them rest on her hips.
"Because they don't know about you. They don't know that much about how all of this shit started. It's just going to awkward, that's all."
"With the boys or with the girl…what's her name, Star?" David said nothing but stared straight ahead. Serenity brought her hands to his face and placed a ring finger on each side of his forehead. "Close your eyes." He hesitated but eventually did what he was told. She was searching his memories and easily found what he was looking for.
He was on the boardwalk, sitting on his bike, Marko and Paul at his sides. That was when they first met the girl, Star. She was wearing a white, green and purple gypsy skirt and a tight black top. She had long curly brown hair and big brown eyes. Then the image changed. They were in the cave and David gave Star an ornamented bottle to drink from. "It will make you one of us." He said simply. Star jumped at the opportunity, drinking in every word David said.
Serenity placed her hands back down and smiled.
"What?" David asked, knowing she couldn't resist interjecting her opinion.
"She doesn't remind you of anyone?" Of course Star had reminded him of Serenity a little. That was the only reason he choose to keep her around.
"You were slightly less innocent." He said with a smirk. She smiled back.
"She is infatuated with you. Maybe even obsessed. She would do anything you say."
"So?"
"I can't really blame her, I'm just saying you need be careful. Innocent looking girls are usually far from it. Does she know what she is becoming?"
"She figured it out." Serenity bit the side of her lip and sat in silence.
"Well I should be going then." She got up from David's lap and tossed some hair over her shoulder.
"Why?" David said without getting up.
"You won't say it but I can sense it. You don't want me here because you don't want to confront anyone about me tonight. Besides I should go before Star gets home."
"Star would never hurt you."
"Not that she could. But she is very possessive of you, David. Like you said we can make it seem like I'm coming in here and trying to take over. I'll see you tomorrow night on the boardwalk. You'll know where you can find me." David sighed.
"Where are you going to stay?"
"Don't worry about it." She said, exiting the cave.

8/2/06
Here is the update I promised, and now this story is also on hiatus. Please review with comments, criticisms, anything.