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A/N: Thank you to DaniD32 and xxericbitesxx for reviewing.

Tears and Fury

I was crying… again. I wondered if I should have seen this coming. After I had been in the kitchen making food, I had remembered a sleep over at the dorms back at the university where my friends and I ended up waking up in the middle of the night and me making scrambled eggs and sausages for everyone. Next thing I knew after I had finished eating, my eyes had been hot, my breathing had been unsteady, and I had been walking for the bathroom.

So here I was, sitting on the floor with my head buried in my knees, the full trauma slamming into my face for the time being of the events in the basement.

They weren't coming back… they just weren't. And as my nails dug into my shins, I took this for all it was worth and tried to swallow down the pain in my throat and keep my sobs silent. The door shut and locked and the lights off of my shower/bath, toilet, and sink equipped bathroom. All I wanted to do was forget it all… but it was something I definitely wouldn't ever forget. It was burned into my mind, the smell, the sounds, the fear…

I felt a burning feeling in my throat that made me crawl over to the toilet and throw up what I had ate, everything being tinted in red as I stared at it then flushed it. Why had it hit when I was at home? Why here? I clenched my hands on the seats as my tears spilled down my face and sluggishly I made my way towards the door but decided to keep from exiting as I let myself sink back to the floor. Curling onto the black fuzzy carpet I fought back a soft moan of anguish.

Please keep it together… I begged with myself and attempted a slow breathing, but as it didn't work I soon gave up and continued my soft sobs. Biting the inside of my cheek accidentally I swallowed the blood that came out on instinct and then gagged and rushed back over to the toilet once again spilling my contents.

A wave of weakness came over me as I hunched there. Hand raising and fumbling around for the toilet handle then pulling it down and flushing the blood that had been in my system. My eyes shut as I simply listened to the sound for a few moments and my breathing was steady and easy. The porcelain base pressing against my skin as my arms hung on either side of it before I slowly with drew from it and laid back down on the long black bathroom rug, facing the door ahead of me that connected to the laundry room.

I felt so dizzy, grief held my heart, tears continued down my face at what seemed like a never-ending process, and I felt my body shake and breathing heave with the sobs that exited me unheard and silent. Curling into a ball I buried my face back into my knees. I should have just gone to the damn Rockies; I should have just stayed with my mother and father, and convinced them that a road trip was a bad idea…

The knock on the door was soft but it was ignored even though it was very audible. Then it returned a few moments later with a light wrapping to be ignored again, I don't think he liked it much but I didn't really care what the vampire thought right now as I had shied away from the door immediately and into the tub. Form shaking like a leaf and grabbing the curtains and pulling them back so they blocked the door as another wave of weakness hit me and dizziness came to my mind again. I leaned my head against the cold tile of the shower as there was silence beyond the curtain and door.

"…Let me in." It was a brisk but also neutral order from Him, and I didn't want to see him at the moment. As the silence of my sobs and voice continued, there was a soft sigh of annoyance that went through the air. "Kylie Let me In."

There was no way I was going to do that at the moment, doing so might make me wet myself, or even go into a hysterical fit faster than I was already making headway on. Biting my lip tightly I felt that warm trickle of blood move down my chin and opened my eyes. Slowly I looked ahead into the darkness that was filling the majority of the room and felt my form relax if only a little in it…

The laundry room door connecting to my bathroom opened and I clenched my body down immediately to keep from screaming. There was shifting and it shut quietly before there was a stilling again and no movement. The tears still flowed as freely as ever and I shut my eyes tightly as my head buried into my knees again. There were the soft footsteps but no other movements as the curtain moved only a fraction and I felt a gaze on me.

He didn't say anything to me at first, just stared before I heard him move quietly and with a soft sound sat down before I heard the thump with his back against wall of the tub. Then his voice moved through the darkness lightly and with an odd annoyance, "You humans grieve so much, get sick too easily, and are often no good for anything but food." Was this his way of trying to cheer me up, or make me more upset?

"You're often heavy, lazy, and know nothing of your world, weak, and likewise minded, at least here in America." He sounded almost like he was pondering this, "Often times I wonder if there is any use for you what so ever besides being livestock." I felt fury mixing rather quickly with my tears and my hand clenching onto my pants. "Very few of you have any abilities worth noting.."

"Shut up Eric." I found myself murmuring softly in my soft sob now as another wave hit me. But he simply continued.

"And even less of you know where your place is in this world…"

"Shut. Up." I felt that anger rising again rather quickly at these comments, I didn't know why either, but the mere sound of his voice was making me mad. The fact he was here in the bathroom was making my blood boil, and sitting so close to me was making me livid. My tears were getting lighter by the second with each word he'd said. But once again, he carried on his lecture.

"And you all never know when to hold your tongue."

My tears stopped and I felt my voice croak out, "So?" And this made the vampire of course pause. My wet face was reduced to damp as I used the back of my hand to wipe it up, the back of it that I would so like to bring across his face just because I wanted him hurt so bad.

"…Exactly like that…" Was the breath that continued, I felt my hand reach for the curtain and move to grab it before I made it stop and clenched it into a fist. Was he trying to break me down? Beg? I shut my eyes tightly and shook my head back and forth forcing myself to stop before I did something extremely stupid. "You're all impulsive, you don't think things through Kylie." He let out a sigh I noticed that was for affect. "Besides blood, and the occasional exception, you're mostly useless… even you, all you're good for is your blood."

It was my sneakered foot that slammed into the area his head was and a snarl of anger exiting me as I did so. I heard him grunt as the curtain rod was yanked down but my legs crashed into his form making him hunch as I straddled him. My mouth opened and my first instinct came through as my mouth planted on his neck and planted down.

I was rewarded with a snarl of surprise while I tightened my bite and then jerked my head away tearing out what was in my mouth. This ferocity new to me but so damn wonderful as I was up and moving past to the light, spitting the flesh out in the sink as I turned it on and immediately turned my gaze to the vampire staring up at me with a wild look in his eyes….

And a big smirk on his face. For a few moments I simply stood staring at him before clenching my hand into a fist then bringing it up and slamming it down, his hand catching it and yanking me forward, slamming me hard, but not his hard, against the tub making me let out a grunt as my arm was twisted behind my back and he was breathing softly in my ear. His wound already healing which was totally unfair…

We just maintained this position of him hovering over me for a few moments with his form pressed closely to my own, keeping my form pinned over the tub wall and his hand clenched on my wrist as it held my arm-twisted. Myself on my knees and his knees on either side of my legs as I breathed heavily facing down into the tub.

"…" His hand came up and moved down my face before he murmured very simply, "You have a very bad Temper Kylie."

"You have a Very fucked up Mouth Eric." I spat back immediately slowly moving to struggle and a soft sound moving from him making me stop, "Le'go!"

"No." He replied back, the amusement not in his voice as he pressed as close as he could on me, I shut my eyes tightly and tried to pull my face away from him as he kept his now free hand down and on my hip. "…You're not crying any more now are you?" I slowly glared at him now turning my face.

"Does it Look like I'm Crying?" He twisted my arm a little more making me wince and hiss, "Owowowow…." I slowly looked down at the tub and felt the tears starting to come up again at the thought of my situation and helplessness before my hair was grasped and he yanked my head backwards. The silence holding for a few moments as pain went through my head.

"Kylie." His voice drew my eyes immediately to him, "If you want to cry, I can easily give you something to cry about." This made my eyes narrow and my lips pull into a frown, "Your grief has no place in my schedule, your friends died, I killed them as the little parasites they were."

His voice was cold liquid to my blood and I fought back the soft sound wanting to run through me as he slowly loosened his hold, "These are facts, you may react how you wish, but as you are bonded to me I will feel them. I do not care what you feel little girl, and make no mistake on that, as you are nothing more than prophet and a figment of interest to me as of right now… But as long as you do not act on your emotions, I will more than likely Never care what they are. So save your tears for when they're worth something as you will not get much more coddling from me." He let go and my head slumped forward as I stared at the tub's shiny clean bottom.

Shutting my eyes I let the tears be locked away for the moment, then clenched my hands into fists, his hand let go…

And I nailed him in the face before stomping out of the bathroom and slamming the door shut behind me. Soon enough I was up on the roof of the house, staring at the starlit sky as a soft breeze moved over me.

A/N: Alright, this one was shorter than the others because I posted in the same day for one, and two, the next is going to a His View pt. So I hoped you enjoy the double update, I'm off to bed as classes start today. Hope to see you next chapter.