~Chapter 4: Real pain doesn't lie~

Yumiko awoke again, this time in alot of pain.

She began to slowly open her eyes, trying not to concentrate on the pain in her face. She focused her energy and found the pain located in her lower jaw and cheekbone. They felt broken.

"Awake my precious?" A voice to her side called and she inwardly cringed, knowing this was definetely not a nightmare.

"You...ba...ba-," Yumiko tried to get it out, finding it harder to talk with a swollen cheekbone than she'd previously thought.

"Shhh, such language is unbecoming for a beautiful lady such as yourself. Plus, I'm sure that lovetap I gave you must have done some damage. She flicked her gaze at him, trying to glare but finding it impossible.

She yelped when he suddenly rolled and pinned her body beneath his, lazing ontop of her like it wasn't any problem.

"N-No! No!" She struggled, wincing as tears came to her eyes and finding she didn't have the strength to move him, watching his face get closer to hers.

"You see," Alucard said, tenderly kissing the spot beneath her eye where he had hit her, "if you don't do as you're told and upset me, I have to do these things. I don't want to. I don't want to hurt you," he leaned down and proceeded to lick the side of her face, like a sorrowful puppy, "I want to keep you just the way you are. But you have to remember something my precious angel."

He looked down at her, his dark red eyes piercing into her and even Yumie couldn't hide from them.

"Love can lie. Real pain does not."

She gasped as his hand rested against her breath, the heat from his palm indescribable and she stilled for a second before some sense came back to her.

Screw the jaw.

"No! Get off me! YOU'RE A MONSTER! MONSTER!" She cried and found that little bit of strength, just enough to interrupt his feel.

He snarled and grabbed both her hands, pinning them above her head and glaring at her like a vicious animal.

"It seems you have to learn better manners." That sickening, psychotic smirk and those deadly red eyes set her on edge and she had a feeling she shouldn't have said what she said.

"No! Please! No! Get off me!" She called out over and over again, watching helplessly as he ripped the fabric further off her dress and used it to bind her hands together and to his headboard.

The fabric rubbed and cut into her wrists and she shut her eyes, willing away the nightmare that wouldn't go.

"Please...God, protect me...please." She prayed and whispered to the air, being interrupted by a chuckle.

"God isn't here. Only me and I'M the master."

Yumiko screamed again as she felt his hands pry apart her legs and slip both either side of his waist.

"No! Monster! Nothing more! NEVER!" She thrashed about, knowing if she was going to die, she best go out fighting. She moved her hips and desperately tried to get his prying eyes and grabbing hands off of her.

He skillfully ignored the thrashing (though finding the accidental friction against his own lap immensely pleasurable) and proceeded in his plan. He pulled the torn and shredded dress that lay on her body and got to work on her undergarments.

He let his hand wander up her body from her stomach, feeling the silk slip against her skin as she breathed heavily and gasped. He enjoyed watching her watch him and rejoiced in the sudden fear and shock in her eyes as he grabbed the very top by her chest and yanked the fabric right off of her.

"NO! NO, NO, NO!" Yumiko threw her head back and let pitiful tears fall as she couldn't hide her exposed breasts from him.

"Beautiful, but," he sniggered and let his hands wander around her stomach, purposefully avoiding her chest, "that's not the goal I'm after."

"What...what," Yumiko slowly gazed back to him and saw where he was looking, "..no...no! Oh god please! No!"

"Begging now, that's not what I want. I only want you to beg me for more." Alucard placed his hands either side of her hips, his thumbs creeping and teasing the white panties she wore.

"Stop." She whimpered and tried to sit herself up, finding her hips being held in his firm grip.

"I will never stop. I love you." He whispered without looking at her and grabbed the fabric roughly in his hands, tearing it from her skin again.

She found no more tears, no more screams and instead, something inside her.

"BASTARD! YOU BASTARD! YOU'RE NOTHING MORE THAN A MERE MONSTER! I DON'T WANT A MONSTER'S HANDS ON ME!" She yelled and managed to pull herself away from him, using her arms to pull and digging her feet in the bed and pushing.

Alucard looked at her in surprise at first.

Then he smiled.

"That's what I love about you. THAT fire." To Yumiko's surprise, he sat back and easily stood up from the bed, walking over to a small chair to the side.

She watched him as he lazily sat down and crossed his leg over the other, his hands joining together in front of his face as his elbows rested on the side. Although she couldn't see his smile or most of the face, she saw his eye.

He was just looking at her.

Then, that sickly, dark feeling returned, the same one Yumie had warned her about when he captured them. She watched, whimpering as the black shadows seem to grow out from behind Alucard and stretch towards the ceiling. She desperately tried to move as long limbs, like the shadows of tree trunks and branches reached out and down towards her on the bed and she cast one last look begging look towards Alucard.

His position hadn't changed, nor had his face. He was merely watching her.

She gasped and turned back violently as a limb reached out and clasped one of her legs.

Thinking to use the other one, she tried her best to kick the blackness away from her leg, finding it as thick and sticky as tar. Quicker than the last one, three more shot down, two grabbing one of her legs and the other helping to restrain the already bound one. With surprising force and strength, she found her legs opened and held down to the bed.

"NO! STOP THIS! STOP IT!" She shook her head violently back and forth, praying, hoping, willing something to happen.

She turned and this time kept eye contact with Alucard as the mass of shadow creeped closer yet again.

The shadows closed in on her as she watched Alucard sit back in his chair, his leg crossed over the other still as he smirked and watched her writhe around on the bed, trying to fight off the feelings that the shadows were giving her.

The last thing Yumiko saw was the the mass black close over her vision as another one seemed to bound around her mouth, and yet again, she found solace in the darkness of her mind.