A/N: I'll be linking Blood Lust from AO3 to my Amino after I have this chapter up! Woo!
Yuuri made his way downstairs to the master's office with his bodyguard. They didn't say a single word on their walk, they didn't have to. They get to the outside of the office. The two of them stare at each other for only a moment before Yuri excused himself. "I can't go any further while in this wing of the Castle. I'm sorry, Yuuri."
He left Yuuri after that and sprinted down the hallway. Yuuri's hands became to feel clammy as he place one on the door handle, He pushed it down and nudged the door open. The master was sitting at his desk in a big leather chair. He was faced away and instead stared out the window behind him.
The master clearly saw Yuuri's entrance through the reflection in the window. "Yuuri."
His name left the master's mouth like it was natural for him to say it, even though this was his first time Yuuri had heard him say it. Yuuri was in shock after hearing his own name he didn't say anything but the master knew exactly what he was thinking. "That's your name, right? Katsuki Yuuri? That's what I had the priest call you at our wedding. I did my research on you before I had Yuri come get you. I at least wanted to know the name of the man I wanted to marry." he used the first name of the other Yuri too. It was surprising, but it also creeped Yuuri out when the master told him that he found personal information on him.
Yuuri just grew angry at the master. "How dare you look at my personal files?! They're private! Why did you stalk me?!" he yelled at the master, but the master remained calm the entire time.
"I deserve that much. I apologize that I freaked you out."
"You're damn right about that!" Yuuri exclaimed.
The master turned his chair to look at Yuuri. "My name is Victor."
Yuuri was too angry he didn't register what the master had said at first, then it hit him like a rock to the face. "W-Wha - I - Huh?"
"You wanted my information so I'm giving it to you." the master stood from his chair as he said that. He outstretched a hand. "Hello, Yuuri, I'm Victor, your husband."
Yuuri stared at the hand instead of shaking it. Realizing he wasn't going to get a handshake, Victor put his hand back down to his side. "I see. Okay, I guess I should tell you about my past now."
Yuuri was at a loss of words. The master - er - Victor is about tell him everything that he wanted to hear since the beginning.
"My parents had died before their time too. I had come home to visit them one weekend. It was that night, 511 years ago, that'll haunt me forever. My house was broken into by the rival clan that lives south of us. I was in bed trying to get some sleep when I heard the shrill scream of my mother. I jumped out of bed and started for their room. My dad's cry for help came before I even left my bedroom. I sprinted down the hallway to see all the commotion.
"A crazy man with beet red eyes stared back at me as he came out of my parent's room, he looked as if he was peering into my soul. He opened his mouth and bared his gruesome fangs at me. I was stiff still in my tracks. Without anytime to think I was lunged at by him. I was able to make a run for it and had made it out of the house before he caught up and bit the side of my neck.
"I was sure I was dead when my vision blurred to white and I collapsed to the ground. Then, as if by a miracle, I was saved. Yakov. His name was Yakov. At this time period there wasn't any vampire that didn't harm humans, except for Yakov. As he cut a small part of my arm open and dropped my blood back into me he told me he was starting up a rebellion.
"He took me back to his castle, this castle, to live and train me. I was given my own wing, the North Wing, to live and do as I pleased. I was like a son to him, he asked if I would call him father. I did.
"I was his first and only member in his clan. He taught me how to be good, showed me alternative species to drink if I were to become hungry for blood. Drinking the blood of another animal also taught me how to rid of any cravings until I no longer needed to drink. He was a mentor anybody would have loved to look up to.
"His voice, though gruff, sounded so pleasant when he spoke my name. I loved hearing him call out 'Victor' because it reminded me of when my dad would say my name as a child.
"Then he went out to go hunting on a very cold December night. He patted my head, told me to watch over this very castle while he was away. I hugged him goodbye and asked him to stay warm. In reply, he told me that he will and that he loved me before going out.
"He said he would be back by morning. I trusted him. But I didn't relax much that night as I worried over him. It made sense why I did. When I was reenergized that morning I bounced all the way to his room, burst open the door, but he wasn't there. Yakov was always in his room when I came in.
"In a panic, I searched in every corner of the castle, but Yakov was nowhere to be found. I waited, thinking he would turn up and that he was just running late. I kept my hope up for twelve days before I finally gave up and went out to look for him.
"He told me one time that if I ever had to go out and find him then to go south, towards the vampire clan, because that's where he hunted. I did just that. I ran through forests in tears shouting out 'father' and 'Yakov' trying to look for him. I never got a response. I was out for three days before I found his body lying limp in his own pool of blood and bite marks up and down his body. It wasn't just one vampire, it was multiple, and they feasted on him like a vulture would his dinner.
"In fear and depression, I locked myself in this wing for three months. Some of the workers would come in and check on me, but I would scream and cuss at them until they left. It was my wing! Why would they bother intruding on my wing?!
"After three months I slowly began to accept what happened to Yakov that day. I didn't want to believe it, but I understood that I was left to fend for myself. I didn't want that, however. I wanted revenge, friends, other people who suffered from the southern clan to take in as a vampire, because they just didn't deserve to die by those assholes!
"I started this clan to avenge Yakov and help others who were bitten by the clan from the south. So you see, I too lost those most important in my life twice."
Yuuri watched as a few tears had slipped from Victor's eyes and hit the desk. His heart ached for the vampire and his past, but at this same time a new anger bubbled inside of him. Victor had a similar situation Yuuri was in now.
"If you and I have a life that are alike then why do you keep me here? Why can't I go free? You obviously know what it was like to suffer the way I did, why would you keep me suffering?"
Victor jumped over the desk and went after Yuuri. He raised an arm, Yuuri closed his eyes and braced himself to be stricken by the master. He heard the sound of an open palm on skin but he felt no pain. Yuuri opened his eyes and looked up at Victor who struck again. He didn't slap Yuuri, instead he was slapping himself.
"I can't hurt you. . . I'm not like that." Victor whispered.
"Do it. You've hurt me enough emotionally. Physically won't do much more harm." Yuuri spat back.
"CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I LOVE YOU?!" his voice went from soft to booming. "I NEVER MEANT TO HURT YOU! I LIVE EVERYDAY IN REGRET FOR TAKING YOU BUT I CAN'T BEAR HAVING TO SPEND ANOTHER NIGHT WITHOUT YOU!"
Yuuri collapsed to his knees and began sobbing. Victor's raised voice scared him more than anything else that could happen to him. Victor had lowered himself to be at eye-level with Yuuri and took the crying man into his arms. "I'm sorry. Oh God, I hurt you again."
"W-Why-y-y do I h-have to suffer?!"
"You were the first thing to make me happy since Yakov's death. But knowing just what I've done to you means I won't be happy again until you're happy."
Yuuri slowly started to calm down. Happy? Yuuri made Victor happy? How long has Yakov been gone that kept Victor from happiness? He looked into Victor's recognizable blue eyes and it made his soften. He had his own hardships too.
"I want to see home again. I want to keep in contact with Yuuko, Takeshi, and the triplets. That's all."
Victor opened his mouth to speak but the door to the office burst open and interrupted them.
"Master," it was one of the guards. "Christophe has returned."
