Queen of his heart

Chapter 3:

The two walked together in silence, down the dark back streets and alleyways, avoiding the public eye. It is hard to hide in the city that never sleeps. When the mismatched pair reached her front door they paused. "he told you to stay didn't he?" she asked, it was a rhetorical question but he nodded any way. "and he's like your king or something so you have to listen…" Demetri nodded again waiting to see where this was going. Tessa opened the door and stepped aside. "might as well make your self comfortable." she told him as she shut the door behind them.

"it really isn't a bad place for you to live considering." he muttered looking around at the random scattering of pictures.

"considering what?" she demanded standing in the middle of the living room, hands on her hips.

"I am not trying to provoke you little one, I was just meaning that you have been alone so long living in a house surrounded by your friends seems like a logical choice, one I'm sure Aro will come to despise…witch makes it even better. You may very well be the only person I have ever heard sass him." Demetri's laugh was some what sinister. He stopped in front of a particularly embarrassing photo of Tess and her best friend Sam making faces and acting like fools. Tessa remembered that day well but doubted she would ever laugh like that again, now that she had a "family".

"I have to try to get back to sleep." she told him. "you can watch TV if you like." she turned her back on the dangerous creature that was Demetri and headed to her room. He didn't sit on the couch instead her followed her in to her room, silently watching as she peeled back the covers and climbed in. when she rolled over to shut off the light she noticed him standing in the door. "I can't sleep if your goanna stand there and watch."

"you won't even notice I'm here." he insisted his face lighting up with a crooked smile.

"yes I will, could you pleas do some thing else?"

"like what." he watched her with amusement in his eyes. It was almost to easy for him that not only was she technically to good for him she was also still human. "just sleep little girl, I'll be standing here when you wake."

"that's the problem. Don't you need sleep?" he chuckled.

"no." his all to handsome smile made her hear do back flips, but he also annoyed her beyond belief.

"I know I'm really goanna regret this but…." his eyes watched her intently, almost cretin of what she was about to ask. "will you at least lay down and pretend to sleep… it might make this seem a little more normal, epically if Sam wakes up. God what would she think?" he pretended to think about it for a moment, nodded , and was in the bed before she could blink.

"I will even close my eyes if you wish it of me." he told her snuggling himself deeper in to the blankets. Tessa rolled to face away from him, it wouldn't have mattered if he shut his eyes or not, hers were shut and she was sleeping before she even knew it.

Demetri lay still as stone next to the sleeping princess for all of two minuets before her body heaved over and she unconsciously threw one of her arms and legs over him. Her hair smelled of lily and jasmine, her breath of minty tooth paste. Her sweet, soft skin had an intoxicating scent of its own, his head spun with the aroma swimming in his brain.

The few hours left to the night dragged on, her soft supple sleeping form pressed into his side. Her melodious murmurings in his ear nearly drove him crazy, she spoke of longing for a family she never knew, of Aro who she did not want to know, and she spoke of love. Demetri's head spun, his mind racing in dizzying circles. Love didn't exist for some one like him, all the lives he had helped to destroy. Tessa longed for family, something he could never give her. how many families had he helped to tare asunder? He'd lost count centuries ago.

Tessa stirred restlessly in his arms, and shivered. Gently he lifted her off his chest and got of the bed. He spent the rest of the night standing over her, watching as she reached out across the bed, searching for him. With the sun a grate realization rose in Demetri's chest… he wanted to be good enough for Tessa, rather than destroying families he wanted to build one.