Okay so here's the thing: I totally couldn't wait to write the fight scene, so guess what???! HERE IT IS! Thank you reviewing and I hope this long, boring, fight scene is good for you!

Now that it was midnight, Dan stalked like a cat looking for its prey over to the Rocks, where he and Long used to hang out and drink when they were kids.

He didn't know how Long could project thoughts into people's minds. He thought back to the fight he had with the lycan outside of the hospital; the day he found out he loved Silver. That lycan could do it too! How was it that all these lycans were evolving, shifting into even more supernatural beings and vampires were just…staying the same?

That wasn't good. Not good at all.

And what was he saying about Silver being both Lycan and Vampire? That made no sense. Dan was pretty sure that she was only one; vampire.

And what about him being a lycan? When was that going to happen?

You can't be a lycan, Dan. Even if you got bit, which you probably did once upon a time, Selene found a way to fix that so you could never be a lycan. Don't you remember all the tests she did on you?

First of all, Dan said, hissing in his mind, wanting Long to get over to the Rocks quick because he wanted to end it already, get out of my freaking head. Second of all, how do you know all of this? Have you been stalking me?

I'll obey your first command, Danny boy.

Long was silent.

Dan sat down on the rocks, wondering if Long would bring Silver, and what she looked like. Was she okay? Or had she been in the sun too long; it left permanent damage?

Do you really care, Dan? Does her appearance matter to you? Would you dump her if she was ash?

I thought you said you'd get out of my head! He wanted some freaking privacy. People should be able to think without some other voice protruding through that peace. It was unnatural.

When it has something to do with Silver, I'm going to pay attention to it.

What, are you in love with her?

There was silence.

Dan was shocked. Long…he thought that Long was just playing with him. But there was sincerity in there, along with a twinge of a threat, when he said his last line. Dan sat there, stunned.

Now he really had to kill him.

"Dan!"

He turned his head at the voice, and, for the first time today, felt hope blossom in his dormant chest. "Silver!"

He ran to her and scooped her up in his arms, burying his face in her hair. She wasn't ash, but she did look weak and needed a drink. Dan gave her a peck on her lips and then asked softly, "Are you thirsty?"

Silver only nodded. Long had told her so many things that made her wonder about Dan, but how could he not love her? He was a very good actor if he didn't actually love her.

Dan cut open his wrist again and gave it to her. He was not going to tell her the reason he was giving her his instead of the blood packets. One reason was because he was running out, and he had to save them. Another reason was because, if Dan did die, Silver needed all her strength to get away from Long. And, the one he would never admit to anyone but himself- he even tried not to think about it in his head- was that if he did die, he wanted Silver to have a part of him forever.

Silver opened her eyes after a while and Dan saw, again, they were ice blue. A brilliant color on her, really. "Silver, honey, I love you."

She nodded. Dan took it as too weak to speak, but really, she didn't know what to say.

"Where's Long?"

"Your vampy-senses aren't tingling?" Long came out of the shadows, his hands in his pockets. He still looked the same as ever, as did Dan, but there was a different air to him; Long used to be this wimpy kid who didn't know what was happening with the world, but now he was this macho man that knew everything. "I'm disappointed, Dan."

"Please," Silver moaned, grabbing onto Dan's forearm. "Don't fight. Please."

"I can do this, Silver. I've fought off more mature lycans than him before. He'll be easy."

"But he's…different, Dan. He can make people think things, do things…. And he's stronger Dan. Way stronger."

Dan blinked at Silver, his love, with a blank face. "I can do it, Silver. Why don't you believe me?"

"I do! I do, Dan! But I just don't want to take the chance! I-"

"I'm doing this for you!" he yelled, ripping his arm out of her grasp. In the next few seconds, two things happened: Dan broke Silver's heart, and Dan became a monster.

Eyes turning ice blue, he turned toward Long. "Come on, Long. You want her so badly? Kill me first."

Long smiled, but the smile was more of a grimace. He opened his mouth to say something, and in that time, Dan lunged himself at Long and both of them fell to the ground.

The Rocks were named that for one reason: there was a bunch of rocks. It was literally a mountain of rocks; both of them were thinking the same thing- push the other down the mountain and claim victory.

But Long, of course, had the advantage; he knew what Dan was about to do before he did it. "That's not fair!" Dan said, his voice strangled, as him and Long rolled on top of each other.

"Tough!"

Long grabbed Dan's arm and threw him into one of the boulders surrounding them. Curling like a cat, Dan landed on his knees and hands. "That's enough Mr. Nice Long!" Long yelled from across the rocky clearing.

Silver watched the next part in slow motion. Dan got up without brushing his hands off and ran full speed at Long. The expression on his face was the scariest thing Silver had ever seen; his mouth was pulled back in a grimace, open a little bit, and his ice blue eyes were narrowed, zoomed in on his target. His nose was scrunched up because of that grimace, and Silver knew something bad was going to happen.

Dan lunged on Long, and both of them skidded across the ground, dust from the rocks under them flying up and making Silver squint to see them through it. Dan was on top of Long, yet again, with his hands on his neck…

"NO!"

Silver ran and put her hand on Dan's shoulder; she couldn't let him hurt Long; Long had nothing to do with anything; Long wasn't mean to her-

The next thing she felt was a hard fist on her cheek. It knocked her back so far she felt herself flying through the air. Still weak, she couldn't catch her fall like Dan did; she tumbled to the ground, hitting the rocks with her temple, something that would have killed a normal human. Thoughts raced through her head; Dan hitting her away, hurting her immensely…

And then, "SILVER!"

A hand on her own shoulder. She turned to see Dan, his face covered in blood and worry, and then a growl like thunder from behind him….

And then Dan was gone.

"DAN!"

Silver looked this was and that way. If only she had warned Dan two seconds earlier that Long had been coming up behind him…. "DAN!"

She looked with her newly acquired vampire-senses all around. Then, hearing a terrible and sickening thud, she looked down over the mountain.

Dan and Long were clawing at each other and snarling; claw, snarl, claw, snarl, thud, snarl, claw. "DAN! STOP!" she yelled down.

And then they reached the bottom of the cliff and got up. They circled each other, prey and prey, and then they just stopped.

Silver could hear them.

"Are you done, Dan? Are you going to wimp out?"

Dan just growled.

"Because if you are, Dan, then I can take Silver. I'll love her and respect her more than you ever will."

"Doubt it!" he said, flexing his hands.

Silver couldn't take anymore. She flung herself down the cliff, trusting Dan or even Long to catch her, knowing that it'd break up their fight for at least a little bit. Hitting the rocks one by one didn't hurt as much as her heart hurt right now.

And then, surely, she was caught.

She turned and saw Dan staring at her, smiling the slightest, holding her without any effort, it seemed. The moon reflected off of his pale features, and she never loved him more in her life, even though he hurt her earlier. "Nice of you to drop in."

Silver laughed.

"Get! We're having a discussion!"

"Don't talk to her like that!" Dan hissed. "See? I don't talk to her like that. You really think you could love her more than I do?"

"What was that before? When you growled at her and ripped your arm out? Or when you punched her across the clearing?"

Silver stayed quiet.

"That was an accident. You know that, right Silver?" Slowly his eyes were dimming back to black, and Silver realized that wasn't good. He had to stay in his fighting mode. "I'd never hurt you intentionally."

"I know," she whispered, and somewhere, in her heart and mind, she knew that it was true. But right now it was hard to comprehend. "Could I say something? Please? If this fight is about me, then I think I should be able to say something."

Both of them stayed silent. Both of them knew they wouldn't listen, they still wanted to fight each other.

"Go ahead," Long said quietly.

"Thank you. Even if you do win, Long, what makes you think that I'll stay with you? And anyway, what will we do if someone finds out that a lycan and vampire are hiding away?"

"Selene, Dan's lover, will protect us."

Silver and Dan ignored that comment, but both of them knew it was true. Dan loved Selene, and Silver could guess why; she was probably beautiful; even more beautiful than Silver. But she couldn't worry about that right now. "After you killed Dan? I doubt that."

Long grunted at her logic.

"And Dan? What about you? I don't want to be with a monster. You kill because you need to, right? That's what you told me. You don't need to kill Long. You don't even have to fight him. If you did kill him, you'd become a monster. The worst kind. And I couldn't live with you."

Dan frowned. She made sense.

But both of the creatures of the night wanted to kill each other so bad.

"This isn't about you anymore, Silver," Dan said, eyeing Long eyeing Silver. He put her down and took her hand. "I love you, honey. I really do. But you have to realize that when two monsters of different kinds get together, they have to fight. It's in our DNA."

"I didn't fight Long," she pointed out.

"You're not different than me," Long said, keeping his tense posture. "You're Lycan and Vampire both. Why the vampire came out more, I don't know. I was sent to watch you. I told you this already, but you don't remember it. You were hurting too bad."

"Which I will never forgive you for, Long," Dan said, narrowing his eyes at Long. "You made her go through that pain."

"She was fine!"

"It hurts worse than you could ever imagine, Long."

"I'm fine," Silver said, squeezing Dan's hand.

"Still," Dan said, although he relaxed. He thought of the sun burning vampires like a skillet and an egg; the way the egg bubbles and cooks under the heat is the way vampire skin bubbles and cooks under the sun.

"As I was saying," Long continued, giving a nasty look at Dan. "I watched Silver for a long time. I was the wolf outside your window the first night, Silver."

Silver gasped.

"The other wolf was Michael, Selene's husband and Dan's enemy."

"Michael's like my father!"

"You hate him because he owns Selene."

They were like two kids fighting at the playground. "Do not!"

"Do too!"

Silver almost laughed, but they were getting a bit annoying. "Guys! Long, why in the world were you stalking me?"

"You're supposed to turn into a lycan. You turned into a vampire. Don't ask me why, my dear. You just did."

Dan turned to her. "I'm glad you did, to tell you the truth. I got you then." He smiled and leaned in to rest his lips on hers, but a roar interrupted their connection.

Long was turning.

"No!" Silver moaned, covering her eyes.

"Long, I'm not fighting anymore."

Long looked up, his dark eyes dancing. Silver could swear that he smiled.

And then he lunged.

Dan pushed Silver out of the way as he caught the Lycan by the neck fur and held it back. They didn't fall the floor like they usually did because this author has no imagination, but they stayed upright. Dan threw Long back to his original place, and Silver watched as his nails skidded across the rock.

"NO!"

Silver spread her arms out in front of Dan as Long lunged once more, but at the last second Dan threw her out of the way and Long sprang on his neck.

Silver heard a sound much like the one when a human takes a bite out of an apple.

Long broke away, leaving a huge gash in Dan's neck. The blood called out to her, but she didn't answer it. She stared at Dan's surprised face, and then watched him take Long by the neck and swing him around, like a father does to his daughter, and throw him into a rock wall.

The blood was making the rocks turn a different color. The spot the blood dripped on was a dark red; the surrounding spots were orange.

Long whined and looked over at Silver. He limped some.

I'm HURT!

"Don't listen to him, Silver!" Dan said, looking over at her. "He's trying to get you to stop the fight again so he can attack me."

LIAR! I'm really hurt Silver. Help me.

Silver closed her eyes.

Long growled. Stupid girl.

She didn't see what happened next, but when she heard a thud and a whimper, she opened her eyes. Dan was on top of Long, his hands around his neck.

"IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WON'T DO IT!" Silver screamed, her eyes wild.

"If you love me, you'll understand."

And then Dan turned his hands, and ended the life of Longfellow.

Hmmm…interesting, isn't it? Tell me what you think about Dan. Is he a monster? Is he just a tortured soul? Or is he someone who did the right thing?

And how about Long? Is he the innocent one? Or did he deserve to die?