This is a Seraph of the End fanfiction only.

In the end, I had enough blood flasks to last me two solid months if I don't fight. I found out that these peons, I rather not call them human, actually worked with the Vampires to lure patrols into their clutches, I guess as long as they could act as bait they wouldn't be treated as livestock.

As soon as we got out of the subway and the peons apologized like their lives depended on it, I guess since Mitsuba was glaring at them like she was their lives really did depend on it. I began walking with them down the streets and began looking at the buildings around us, no prey within a solid four block radius, I was not happy to see that.

As we walked near a ruined part I began to feel the presence of three people, one actually felt a lot like someone I been missing. That is when I heard someone talk I knew too well, "You know we lost contact with an entire brigade of our soldiers around a subway station you wouldn't know anything about that? Would you livestock?"

The second I saw him and he saw me I couldn't help but to smile and start laughing. "CROWLEY!" He was smiling and laughing as he looked and me, "HECTOR!" He ran towards me and try to slap me, and I met his hand, it was a pretty nice game of patty cake, patty cake.

Just as the game finished he punched me hard enough to send me through the walls and through a nearby ruined building, "And here I thought you got soft living with these creatures. Come on, Hector, it's your turn."

I punched him hard enough to send him through two buildings. "As if, I was worried you grow weak drinking that human junk. I know Chess and Skuld are here somewhere, what? Is the love of my life angry?"

Crowley came out of the rubble and began to dust himself off, "No, she is not mad at you at all. I mean why would she be mad that you are surrounded by beautiful babes, with killer figures, always standing so close to you as you patrol. She would have no reason at all to see her husband walking around in what some would call a pervert's idea of nirvana."

I looked and saw Chess and sure enough, Skuld was talking with one of my squad and she did look mad. "Now if you will excuse me old friend, but I need to try and reassure my ball and chain about something, you know I hate to make her feel anything but happiness."

I walked towards her and the second I was within a few feet from her she turned around and immediately pounced on me and gave me a big hug. "Darling, why would you think I was mad. I am truly happy that I can hold you once again. I know you missed me as much as I missed you."

She kissed my lips for some odd reason I heard Shinoa giggling like a school girl, and there were several loud gasps of sheer shock. I didn't care for once in a long time I was kissing the love of my life.

As the kiss ended she rested her head on my shoulder and I could not be happier as we stood close together it seems like forever since could hold each other like this, "I really missed my love, I kept worrying that someone would seduce you and you would forget all about me."

I touched her and I pulled close me in a tight hug, "I wouldn't cheat on you Skuld, you know how much I love you and value our marriage. I missed you too, you are fine with drinking human blood, but to me, it is the even worse stuff I ever tasted."

That is when we both heard a rather nasty comment from both sides of this particular encounter, "Are they always so frigging lovey-dovey?" I should be so surprised that Miria would be the one to ruin our romantic reunion.

"When Hector lived in the city, it was all day, every day." Was even Chess getting in this? Now that was a surprise to me.

"You guys do know we can hear you just fine, don't you?" Crowley looked at us and began shaking his head, "Honestly Hector my friend, if you were going to miss her this much, why leave the city? You had plenty of chances to eat good tasting blood. Why leave if you were going to miss your blushing bride so much?"

Skuld looked at him and then at me, "It was because I asked him to do it, I knew that the Queen would have him killed the second she found out about what my husband really is. I wouldn't be able to live with him if it wasn't because I know he loves me as much as I love him, I would be too scared otherwise."

I looked at my best friend and sparring partner, "The truth is if she had not asked me, I would still be there. People fear that which they don't understand, and fear turns into hate, and people often want to kill that which they hate. I left more for her sake than mine, the Queen could send the entire Vampire army, as long as there is blood on a battlefield I am invulnerable and suffer no fatigue."

"I could easily kill an entire battalion like it was nothing, but Skuld doesn't have that option, the Queen could try to get to me by killing her, she knows that I can't stand to see her die. Too bad she also doesn't know that if Skuld was ever killed, I would destroy this world. I have no need for the world where Skuld is dead."

Shinoa was quick to mention that since she was a Vampire she was already dead. "I am a Crusnick do you think that I am alive in the same sense as you are? I love her, I need her, I want her to be with me! If I must stand the agony of being apart so that she is safe, then I will endure."

Skuld held my hand and placed it on her chest, "No, my darling, no matter how much we may miss each other, we are never truly apart. I have been in you ever since our wedding and you have been inside me since that happy day."

Tomoe seeing that Crowley was not attacking them for some reason decided to walk over to him and ask him something that always seems to bug her, "Excuse me, mind telling me what the hell do they mean that he is inside her and she is inside him? Are they talking about their honeymoon or what?"

Crowley looked at us and then he smiled that mischievous smile I knew so well, "They could be talking about sex, that is true, but no, they are talking about the marriage ceremony between Vampires, a couple drinks each other's blood to become man and wife. It's a private ceremony and no I was not there."

We both looked at Crowley, and couldn't believe what he was telling my squadmate. "CROWLEY!" She looked rather upset, and looked at him, "Seriously progenitor, next thing you will want to tell them how many time we made love per day."

This made everyone but Skuld and me to laugh as they heard what we said, "They do look like a rather happy little couple, if I didn't know Hector felt so protective of his wife, I would probably want to kill her myself."

Crowley looked at Mitsuba as she finished saying that, "The same goes for me, I would kill you all had Hector not been present. Death is the only punishment I would give to traitorous livestock."

Shinoa began looking at the sky and then at the land, "What do you know, the sun didn't explode, the atmosphere didn't erupt in flames, and the land didn't become a molten sea of lava, I thought at least one of those things would happen when a Vampire and a Human actually agreed on anything."

She then turned to Crowley and smiled, "The question I have is can she knock her up?"

I really hate Shinoa sometimes, I never actually thought that one day I would be praying for one of those abominable horsemen of john to show up. "Actually he can, and from the way they were going at it, I figure they were really trying hard to make that happen."

Skuld was blushing, and I was feeling the desire to kill everything that heard this part of the conversation so much that snow started falling and it was not supposed to snow. "Are you two quite done embarrassing my wife?"

Both Shinoa and Crowley looked at us and then at each other, "Why do you feel embarrassed? We are just having a conversation and fostering mutual understanding between our two species."

Shinoa began to nod his head, "Exactly what Lord Crowley here said, a friendly conversation that may lead to world peace and understanding, isn't this a wonderful idea?"

When they started exchanging embarrassing stories we both decided to walk away from them so that we could have a little private conversation. Having her here I felt complete for what felt an eternity.

"So tell me, my love, how you been with the humans?"

I sat down on the only bench that was still usable on the near where my squad was. "I been having a horrible time, first I had to endure substandard lessons about things I already know about, then the lousy taste of their blood, and to make matters worse missing you so much I been having nightmares of you breaking up with me and marrying someone else."

She laughed as she heard me say that last part, "Me too, I dread that you will be seduced by some human bombshell, and you will forget all about me. Yes, I can stand the taste of human blood, but what I can't stand is eating alone, waking up and not seeing you, or receiving a morning kiss."

"Your major problem as I heard is a few people that bother you, and lousy tasting food, mine is that my home doesn't feel like a home, my bed is cold, I have to keep busy or I will just break down crying, you have no idea how much I need you husband. I only agreed because if I didn't it would kill both of us because I would die too if the queen demanded your execution."

I kissed her and she kissed me, and for one second we forgot about the stupid conflict, the humans that didn't know they Vampires needed them more than they let on, and the Vampires with their ego and pride preventing them from seeing that if they respected the humans and the humans understood the Vampires this whole war would seem as pointless to them as it is to me.

"So I am not the only one missing the times we could make love?" She laughed and lay down on the bench, just so that she could rest her head on my lap. She laughed as I ran my fingers through her hair.

"You have no idea, Hector, no idea how much I wish this was near a hotel in our city. A room with some privacy, I don't care if it's in an empty warehouse. I do miss those times we could be together and express just let go and surrender ourselves to our passionate feelings for one another."

I kept playing with her hair until I heard footsteps, "Skuld you know that old saying that all good things must come to and end, I hear people walking towards us. Chances are you are going to go back to your people and tell them that the missing soldiers got killed by a bunch of Horsemen of John, and I will be told that the break is over and to continue my patrol."

I heard Crowley laugh, "I do have to admit that Horsemen excuse would be a good believable report. Sorry to cut your time with each other short but they will send another unit to look after us if we take longer to get back."

Mitsuba was staring at me as I was still playing with my wife's hair. "And you would be correct, the Colonel will not know of your touchy little reunion with your spouse, but we do need to get back on patrol. We have a few miles of monster and Vampire infested land to patrol before we reach our meeting location, no offense."

Crowley looked at Shinoa and smiled, "None taken, be sure to take care of Hector, he is not only my best friend and sparring partner but Skuld would also die out of sheer depression if he dies."

She gave me a brief kiss on the lips and a hug, that is when I felt her press something into my hand as it closed. As she left she touched her earlobe and I realized what exactly she had placed in my hand, it was a new kind of communicator.

"What exactly did your wife give you Hector?" I looked at her and smiled, I told her it was one of her earrings to help me remember her.

"Funny I swear I saw Crowley and that other Vampire who is named Chess wear one just like that. Why don't you let me try it?" I told her if she wanted one she could ask Crowley for one, I made her drop the subject by saying that she was getting quite chummy with my old friend, that maybe the two of them could make quite the lovely little couple.

"Fine, keep your trinket, see if I care. I was being polite for your sake, don't you dare say that sort of thing when we meet with the other units. My father would positively want to order your execution if he heard you saying I would look lovely being in a romantic relationship with a Vampire."