Disclaimer - We do not own Trinity Blood or the "Alter Boy" song and its by Stephen Lynch... very funny..And we do own the OC's. Enjoy!

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Corissa growled to herself and sat down, the door at the end of the hallway opened and they expected to see the Empress standing in front of them but not Radu with a gun. Corissa's eyes widened when she saw the gun.

"Radu what are you doing?" She asked, he smirked and shot Ion in the stomach with it, Ion hissed in pain. Corissa screamed and rushed to him.

"The bullet is silver; it will only sting the wound it won't kill him but the bullet has a virus on it. It will trigger the primal urge to kill and drink blood."

"What?!" She screamed and angrily shot at the bars, she tried to get him through them but he only chuckled at her feeble attempts.

"Oh I wouldn't leave you to fend him off by yourself." She backed away from the bars and sat next to Ion; he tossed her a long dagger and laughed. "Kill him."

"What?! I can't do that!"

"Then let him drink you dry, I don't care either way." She glared at him as he walked off. She looked at Ion and saw that he was trying to keep his pain secret.

"Ion it's ok to feel the pain-" Even before she finished the sentence he was screaming and cursing, she walked to him and looked at the bullet wound, it had passed clear through. "It will only sting for a little while longer I promise…"

"Corissa…" He said and paused she frowned and looked at him.

"What?"

"I can feel it."

"Feel what?" He lifted his head and she saw a wild look in his eyes, they had grown wide and a deep red, his fangs had grown again and protruded over his bottom lip. Her eyes widened in fear.

"I want your blood." He whispered and moved closer to her, if he bit her this time she had a feeling it was going to hurt. She stared at him and fell on her butt, backing away. Just as he was about to reach her he suddenly flung himself to the ground, burring his face into the stone floor. All she could do was watch him, his shoulders were shaking and she heard whimpering sounds.

"Ion?" She asked and moved toward him with her hand out, he swatted her hand away.

"Don't come near me!" He hissed and growled in pain.

"Ion…"

"If you come near me I'll drink you dry!" She took a deep breath in hopes of calming her racing heart; she crawled toward him and placed her hand on his back. He lifted his head and she brought her hand up to wipe away a tear.

"It's ok." She said softly.

"What?" He asked as he stared at her in disbelief.

"It's alright you can drink my blood." She pulled her shirt down and her hair out of the way to expose her smooth neck. His eyes widened and began glowing red again. His breathing sped up and he slowly moved toward her, his fangs pierced her neck and she gasped. Her eyes squeezed closed and she hissed when she felt him begin to gulp her blood down.

"So good." He muttered against her neck but suddenly stopped, her eyes opened when she felt something hit her hand, it was a tear. He was still crying, his fangs left her neck and she watched as he picked up the dagger. "I can't do this to you." He said and lifted it. She let out a short scream as he brought the knife down; she opened her eyes and saw that he had stabbed his leg. Her breathing sped up and she moved toward him. "No!" He screamed and moved away from her. He crawled toward the wall and slowly got to his feet; he pulled the dagger out and held it up again.

"Ion what are you doing?" She asked, she could feel tears stinging her eyes and let them fall, she didn't care. "Ion stop it."

"I'm not going to let myself hurt you." He said and brought the dagger down toward his chest, she screamed and bolted to her feet running toward him. There was a bright flash and a tink, Corissa looked to the left and saw most of the blade on the floor. She looked back and saw Ion looking at the handle and remaining blade with a puzzled expression on his face. They looked to the cell door and saw Abel get up from the floor, pocketing his pistol. Corissa breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Abel.

"Thank god, oh thank you Abel!" She said and walked to the door, and grabbed the antidote that Abel held up. She ran back to Ion and gave it to him then caught him as he slumped forward. She hugged him to her and let out a cracked giggle. Abel opened the door and Danielle rushed in to help her sister who was still bleeding from the neck. Corissa pushed her sister away and helped Ion out of the cell, Danielle followed behind them as Abel lead the front. They went out of the dungeon and into the main building of the palace.

Radu stood before the Empress and frowned.

"I have been informed that the Count and the half Methuselah have been executed without my knowledge." The Empress stated in with anger and disappointment. "I told you I wished to speak with them before they were killed."

"It couldn't be helped my lady, they got to hostile and one of the guards killed them for his own protection."

"They spoke of treason yesterday, am I to assume you were included in the discussion? Did you really attack the Count of Memphis?"

"I have never done anything to deceive the Empire!"

"Did you attack the Count of Memphis?"

"No! I would never-"

"That's a lie!" They turned and saw Ion and Corissa standing next to them.

"I thought you said they were killed by a guard? Radu you better stop lying to me." Radu looked panicked for a moment before he growled. Corissa passed Ion on to Danielle and rushed forward. She picked Radu up mentally and glared at him.

"I'll kill you for calling me a half breed!" She screamed and was about to attack him when Abel stopped her.

"Not in here, not in front of the Empress." She stopped and took a deep breath. The Empress stepped forward.

"Put him down." Corissa did as ordered and let Radu down. The Empress stepped toward Radu. "Would you like to see under my veil?" Radu frowned and the Empress pulled the veil off. Everyone's eyes widened.

"Grandmother?!" Ion screamed and moved closer but couldn't because of his leg. Radu's eyes widened also.

"No it can't be I killed you!" He screamed and Ion snarled, he moved away from Corissa and tackled Radu. He began to punch Radu brutally in the face, if Abel hadn't of lifted him off he would of killed Radu. Abel grabbed Ion and held him against him as Ion angrily vented, cursing and crying about how he thought his grandmother had been dead for over a month. Abel stroked Ion's hair in hopes to calm him down, Ion soon began to calm down and Abel smiled at him.

"There better…" He said soothingly and Ion nodded with an embarrassed blush on his cheeks. He pulled away from Abel and limped back to Corissa, she put her arm around his waist to help support him. They looked up when they heard a voice echo from above.

"Radu I am very disappointed in you." The voice said and they saw a round high backed chair floating down from the ceiling, Radu's eyes widened. Everyone stared in curiosity, the chair rotated to reveal Seth in a puffy elegant dress.

"Who the hell are you?!" Radu asked and stared at her in confusion.

"Seth?" Corissa asked Ion glared at her.

"She's the Empress?" He asked. "Don't speak to her that way! She's the Empress!"

"No I like Seth, she can call me Seth. We're friends after all." Corissa frowned.

"You're odd. You annoy the crap out of me and now you feel we're friends?" Danielle, Abel, Radu and Ion all stared at her like she was insane. Seth however grinned.

"Yeah…it was fun too." Corissa stared at her for a moment before she smiled too.

"I could tell you were good at it, too." The rest of them frowned in confusion, as they were occupied Radu slipped away. When Seth noticed she ordered the guards to find him but they couldn't. They realized that there was nothing left to do so they decided to make their way back to the Vatican. They began boarding the ship and Seth, Mirka Fortuna (Duchess of Moldova) and Ion stood and saw them off. Ion turned his back to them and Seth frowned.

"Why is your back turned?"

"No reason." He muttered, Seth angled her head.

"Count of Memphis, Ion. If you want to go with her or at least say something then by all means go ahead. What's stopping you?" She peered around and saw a bright blush on his cheeks and grinned. "You really are cute, she is very lucky." He blushed deeper.

"I don't know what to say…" He said and began to fiddle with his fingers, interlocking them and then unlocking them, wringing them out and cracking his knuckles. Seth chuckled.

"Just say anything, say good-bye if you have to. Just something." He nodded quickly and rushed over to them, Corissa was last because she was still trying to convince Tigra to get in the ship. When he got to them they were having a staring contest.

'I will win, cub.'

"No you won't, I have an advantage."

'What is that?'

"I have mental powers." With that she lifted Tigra and gently levitated her into the ship.

'I'll remember this Corissa; I'll get you back somehow.'

"Sure, Tigra." Ion smiled at her.

"If I didn't know better I would think you were talking to yourself." She turned around with a surprised look on her face.

"I didn't think you were coming." She said softly.

"I had to see you off, you saved my life." She smiled proudly.

"I did, about 3 times I would say. You know what?" He frowned.

"What?" She grinned evilly.

"I think I should get a kiss for my reward." He blushed and grinned nervously.

"Reward?"

"Yeah! Three's a new record I'm guessing, record holders get a reward."

"Actually my grandmother has saved my life over three times." She rolled her eyes and glared at him when she saw his grin. He was playing her.

"In one night?" She questioned.

"Well if you want to get technical about it…" He replied with a large grin, she raised a brow at him before she got her on her tippy toes and gave him a quick kiss. She pulled away even before he could blink. He stared at her for a moment before he curled his right hand behind her neck and crashed his mouth down on hers, kissing her passionately. She blushed when she felt him slide his tongue inside quickly, searching around tasting everything. Memorizing her mouth and how she tasted. He pulled back and smiled brightly at the blush on her cheeks. "I'll meet you there."

"Huh?" She asked in confusion. "At the Vatican?"

"Yeah, just let me get my things-"

"Your coming with us?!"

"Why don't you want me to go?" He asked slightly hurt, she quickly reassured him.

"No, I do! I was just confused. Won't you be uncomfortable being around Terran's and only Terran's?"

"No, you'll be there." She blushed at the compliment and looked down.

"Ok, hurry though." He nodded and gave her cheek a quick kiss before he ran off to gather his things. She quickly ran back on the ship and sat down next to Tigra, a goofy grin on her lips. Danielle wondered over to her.

"Ion kissed you, huh?" Corissa bit her lower lip with a flirtatious glint her eye and nodded.

"Yup! He's coming to the Vatican with us!" She said and giggled happily.

'The Methuselah is coming along? Shouldn't we wait then?' Tigra asked and Corissa shook her head.

"He's meeting us there." Both Danielle and Tigra nodded. Danielle and Corissa slept out of boredom all the way there and smiled happily when they got off the ship and approached the Vatican's stairs. "Music!" Corissa screamed and ran to her room to get her iPod. She got her docking station and brought them into the garden where she sat at a wooden bench, Abel and Danielle followed her.

"It feels good to be back." Abel said, Danielle nodded.

"Yeah I agree." Corissa nodded absently and scrolled through her songs, one song caught her eye and she grinned evilly. Abel and Danielle frowned at the grin.

"What's with the smile Issa?" Danielle asked cautiously, Corissa showed her the screen, Danielle also grinned. Now Abel was scared.

"What?" He asked.

"Abel we found your theme song!" They exclaimed happily and Corissa put it in the docking station, turning up the volume. A pretty melody came from the speakers and Abel smiled.

"I like it so far." They nodded.

"deep in prayer my cross to bear
i kneel upon the floor
temptations of a catholic priest aren't easy to ignore
but i can not control myself
it rips my soul apart
for one small sheep among my flock has
stolen the shepherd's heart

altar boy, altar boy
confess your sins to me
you will find the grace of god
inside my rectory

at Sunday mass or bible class
i catch him in my view
so i close my eyes but there he lies
spread-eagle on the pew
and when i see him in that frock
my conscience goes awry
I'll give him some communion wine that's
spiked with Spanish fly…." The girls giggled and tried to hide their faces when they saw his face.

"What is this crap?!" He screamed. They had to hold their sides to keep their laughter down.

"Wait it gets better!" Danielle laughed and her whole body began shaking from the force of her laughing.

"altar boy, altar boy
is it gonna be heaven or hell
you can play my organ all night long
if you promise never to tell

our father
who art in heaven
hallowed be thy name
i could dress him up like the pope and then I'd...
oh dear god, the shame!

no no no
lead us not into temptation
deliver us from sin
we could pretend that he was Jesus Christ
and i was Mary Magdalene…." He glared at them.

"Are you kidding me?!" He screamed and they laughed harder.

"You have a crush on the pope? Pedophile." Corissa said and squeaked when Abel glared at her.

"Altar boy, altar boy
confess your sins to me
you will find the grace of god
inside my rectory

oh altar boy, oh altar boy
confess your sins to me
you will find the grace of god
inside my rec...(jerky breathing) tory…

de profundis clamo ad te, domine domine…" Abel had had enough when he heard the panting and jerky breathing; he sprung up from where he was sitting and began chasing the two girls.

"That was the most disgracing song I've ever heard!" He screamed and tried to catch up to them but they were to fast for him.

"Oh it was hilarious! You should have seen your face!" Danielle giggled as she cut a close corner; she ran into Tres and fell hard on her butt. "Move cyborg I have to get away from Abel before he kills us."

"Why would Father Nightroad do that?"

"We played him a song about a catholic priest who had a thing for one of his alter boys and told him it was his theme song. He's mad at us." Tres looked up to see Abel and Corissa doing donuts around the picnic table and cracked a smile. They looked so funny just running in one continuous circle, neither able to catch the other. "Wanna hear the song?" Danielle asked, Tres looked at her and shrugged. She pulled her iPod out and gave him a headphone; she turned on the song and watched his face. He bit his lip hard to keep from laughing (in this androids can laugh).

"Abel didn't find that funny?" Tres asked and Danielle nodded.

"Nope he didn't." Abel looked at them and growled.

"What?!" He screamed, they looked at him and Danielle hid behind Tres.

"You didn't find it funny Nightroad?" Tres asked Abel glared at them.

"No I didn't find it funny Iqus." Tres grinned at Abel, Corissa stopped running around the table when she saw that Abel wasn't following her.

"Oh…" She said and looked at them as Abel and Tres argued; when Corissa saw Tres she smiled and giggled evilly to herself. "Oh cyborg." She said in a sing song voice and saw his left eye start to twitch.

"What do you want little Terran?"

"For one for you to not call me little Terran, Tigra will kill you."

"I am not frightened of a house cat." Corissa grinned and raised a brow.

"Alright, don't say I didn't warn you." She said and whistled for Tigra, they heard a growl and Tigra came out of the bushes. Tres showed only a sliver of fear before it was gone.

"Nice kitty." He said evenly and patted Tigra's head. Tigra growled for a moment before she moved away from him and stood at Corissa's side.

'This Terran doesn't have a scent, I don't trust him.'

'He's an android, don't you smell steel?' Tigra took another sniff and nodded.

'Now I smell it, sorry.' Corissa smiled and dropped to her knees and playfully ruffled Tigra's fur as she hugged her. Tigra lifted her paw and curled it around Corissa's back in a hug. 'I love you my little cub.'

'I love you too Tigra.' Tres looked at her and frowned.

"Little Terran are you sure you should let a tiger so close to you?" Tigra and Corissa growled angrily.

"I am not a Terran!" She said angrily. "I am only half Terran!" Tres rolled his eyes and shrugged.

"Yes little Terran." She narrowed her eyes at him and jumped on him; she sat on his shoulders and began beating the back of his head in annoyance.

"You're so damn infuriating!" She screamed and continued to beat his head, he cleared his throat and put his arm back and grabbed the back of her shirt and pulled her off his shoulders. She was dangling a foot over the ground with her arms crossed and her face a stone graved of annoyance when Ion arrived. He bit his lower lip and chuckled when he saw her look.

"What did you do this time?" He asked, Corissa looked at him and frowned in annoyance again.

"I didn't do anything!" She screamed and tried to get away from Tres, she kicked and flailed but Tres wouldn't let her down. She glared at the ground tiredly and ground her teeth together. "Will you put me down now?!" Tres grinned.

"No, this is fun." Abel sighed and gave Tres a look.

"Put her down, it will save ranting and screaming later." Tres nodded and dropped her; Corissa stood up and glared at him.

"You pompous little asswh-"

"Whoa stop right there missy." Corissa cut herself off and looked to the courtyard, Cardinal Sforza stood in the courtyard glaring at Corissa. Corissa looked down at her shoes in anger and shame.

"Sorry Cardinal, he got on my nerves."

"Yes Tres does that to me too." Tres looked at her in surprise.

"Thank you Cardinal." She smiled at the sarcasm and her look turned to surprise also when she saw Ion standing next to an annoyed Corissa.

"Count of Memphis, what do I owe this honor?"

"I have come here make the arrangements for our treaty final." The Cardinal nodded and turned around.

"Come this way." He nodded and began walking away with her, Cardinal Sforza stopped. "Oh Corissa the pope has been requesting your audience. We're having a party tonight to celebrate his 18th birthday, why don't you all come?" Corissa nodded with a bright smile.

"Sure, that sounds like tons of fun!" Cardinal Sforza nodded and began walking off with Ion again.