This Chapter will be rated T due to a reference to a sexual crime and minor violence and language. This may be the only rated T chapter beside when the culprit for Roselle's misery comes in. Other than that the rest of the chapter is fine and i hope you enjoy it.
It is night time at cross academy. In fact the night of the attack, Yuki visits Elaine at her dorm to talk to her about the incident earlier and has dragged Zero with her. They both want to ask why she was there but more importantly they wanted to ask why she forgot her gun.
Some knocks at the door.
"UGH! Who is it?"
"It's me Yuki. Zero is here too"
"What do you want? I am trying to sleep."
"We wanted to talk to you about what happened earlier"
"Fine come in the door is unlocked"
Yuki walks in with Zero in tow. Elaine is wondering why they are there and is very irritated that they interrupted her sleep. Elaine is not a happy person when gets woken up by someone.
"I wanted to ask you why you were in town. You do know that you can't go outside the school without permission right?"
"I am well aware of that. Roselle got permission from the headmaster for us to go into to town to find dresses for the talent show and she needed to get a birthday gift for her mother"
Zero gives Elaine a look of disappointment. He is still wondering why she didn't have her gun.
"But why did you not have your gun Elaine. You could have been hurt, or even worse killed by that vampire."
"I just forgot okay I was not thinking. Anyway we were just going dress shopping we were not expecting to get attacked today"
"I don't get why they would kill their own kind though."
"Why don't we go to the moon dorm then? Ichijo did say that if we wanted to know more to go to the moon dorm tonight."
The three of them make their way to the moon dormitory.
Kaname calls Roselle to his room as he is determined to find out who is mysterious man is and why she is so insecure about talking about him.
"You called Kaname? What do you need me for?"
"I wanted to talk about this person you told me about earlier."
"Forget it! I am not talking about it Kaname."
"Why not?"
"I just don't. I'm not trying to be rude I really don't want to talk about it. It was four years ago. It just ended on a bad note. Can we please just ignore the subject?"
"Why are you so insecure about this?"
Roselle starts to get very upset. The break was not just a bad taste in your mouth. It was an arranged marriage that had a very horrific end for Roselle and her family, but mostly Roselle.
"I really do not want to talk about it Kaname." says Roselle who is on the verge of tears.
"Roselle what happened four years ago. Whatever it is you can tell me. I can help you get over it. Now why are you so insistent on not talking about it? Why are you so upset about it Roselle?"
"I don't want to talk about it!" says Roselle practically crying.
"Why?"
"It was just an arranged marriage that ended badly. I don't want to talk about it!"
"Why not Roselle?"
"Just drop it!"
"Why. Why won't you tell me Roselle?"
Roselle screams out and is now hysterically crying almost down on the ground crying her eyes out. What she says next not only shocks Kaname but everyone on the second floor of the moon dorm will hear it as well as they are now outside of his dorm listening to all the commotion.
"I WAS RAPED OKAY!"
Roselle is now on her knees no longer able to hold back the tears. Gasps are heard from outside the room. No one was expecting this to come from such a kind person.
"It's okay Roselle."
"Are you alright Roselle?"
Kaname looks up from the hysterically weeping Roselle to see Ruka standing in the door way with a concerned look on her face as others join her to make sure Roselle is alright.
"If you need anything you can come to me, or anyone else here. You know that right?"
After a few minutes Roselle is finally able to calm down and further explain her dark past.
"His name is Aedan. The marriage was arranged when we were around five years old. That night someone tried to kill me but escaped. Aedan eventually turned out to be an obsessive and controlling lunatic like his father.
"When did it happen?"
"The night I broke up with him. The day after my parents contacted his mother and ended the marriage. The attacks continued. It's the main reason why my family moved here. But from what happened earlier he clearly is aware that I am here. I'm fine now. Shouldn't we be getting ready now for the party?"
Everyone realizes that they had almost forgot, and they leave Kaname's room to go change and get ready for the party. As Roselle leaves to get ready as well she turns around to say one last thing to Kaname.
"Yes Roselle"
"Thank you"
An hour later...
A party is in full swing, Elaine, Yuki and Zero are standing outside the moon dorm gates about to go in.
"ZERO! DON"T GO INSIDE WHEN YOU ARE DYING TO SHOOT SOMEONE! We will be fine without you."
"You don't look okay Yuki so that is why I am coming"
"Same here. It's not like you wouldn't drag me here anyway"
They make their way into the moon dorm. They sense something and bring out their anti-vampire weapons. They turned and point their weapons at Kain and Aidou who have come to escort them into the party.
"Have you come to greet us vampires"
"Kaname sent us to make sure no one tries to hurt you three. Almost all of the night class students are here tonight.
They five of them walk up to a giant table with a big cake and someone standing in front of the table.
"Hello Elaine, Yuki and Zero welcome to my birthday party!"
"Dude are you sure you're a vampire and not just a human mutant"
"Okay now that is hilarious"
"Uh how old are you?"
Yuki feels she has to ask since it is Ichijo's birthday
"In human or vampire years"
"Uh vampire years"
"I'm eighteen now so I am grownup. Oh and I want you to kiss me for my birthday present Elaine."
"T-there is no way in hell I-I-I-I would d-d-do that"
"Back off vampire"
Yuki decides to break the awkward tension.
"Uh we are here to ask you about what happened earlier"
"Go ahead and ask everyone here knows"
"Yeah Yuki it's okay you can ask us even I know why they did it"
"Your here Roselle?"
"Of course… Who doesn't like birthday parties and it is for a friend so I don't mind."
"Uh... Why did you want to kill that vampire?"
"He was a level E."
"But why?"
"I had originally sent them to kill it but Kiryu and I got there before they did"
"Kaname-sama has attended the soiree as well?"
"But why would you kill your own kind?"
"It is the job of us nobles to maintain control of the level E vampires."
"What is a level E?"
"Let me explain. At the top of the pyramid are the class A vampires which are purebloods like Kaname-sama and Roselle-sama, then the class b vampires which are nobles. Everyone here is a class b vampire or higher. The class C vampires are common vampires. Class D vampires are former humans who have not fallen to level E. Level E vampires are vampires who have gone insane."
"Level E vampires eventually go insane. Their brain degenerates. They have uncontrollable bloodlust and eventually reach the 'End' or level E."
"That is correct."
"Roselle come sit."
"Uh sure Kaname…"
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine. Thank you for your concern."
"What do you mean by that?"
"It's nothing Yuki. I'll tell you and Elaine later okay."
"Well we better get going."
Elaine and Yuki turn around to see Zero running out of the moon dorm after seeing Ichijo gets cut 'accidently' by Shiki with a big knife used to cut the cake. Elaine runs to catch up with him.
"WAIT ZERO!"
She sees him kneeling on the ground. He had tried to take a blood tablet to control his thirst but threw it up.
"You can't handle them can you Zero?"
Zero grabs Elaine and attempts to bite her.
"I have to stop him…" Elaine thinks to herself.
Elaine forces both her and Zero into the pool to prevent him from biting her. As they surface a man with a gun walks up and shoots Zero but the bullet misses and brazes his shoulder.
"I never thought that I would be killing my dear student with this gun."
"Ma-ster."
So now things have started to come full circle. Roselle's dark past has been revealed and more of Kaname's compassion for her has come out and she has made a friend out of Ruka and maybe the entire dorm. But they still don't know anything about Elaine's past and why she was there without her family. What is she hiding? Can Zero who has started to show compassion for her bring it out? And who was it that tried to shoot him. Find out next time in Love brings strength