* Shards of Glass *
* Chapter 4: Love Vs. Truth and Blood*
* Diaz *
A/N: Sorry everyone. I'm not into the big whole sex scenes. I'm sure everyone knows Raine's secret right? Then no more delay. The fourth chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Hunter D.
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"Who are you?"
That questioned echoed until it thundered into her head.
"Raine, daughter to the late vampire Akira and his late wife, the Lady Trinity."
"They are dead."
"By your hands."
"No. That is where you are wrong."
"But how can I be wrong? I was born to dead parents, D!"
"Shh. calm down and tell me what you know." Gently he pushed her hair away from her face.
"You visited my parents the day they died. A half hour after you left, Margarette, the maid, found both my parents in warm puddles of blood. They were dead. Thankfully, she had been a midwife and removed me from my dead mother's womb. Margarette hates you, and she raised me to do the same. She loved my parents despite their forbidden marriage and love."
"When I left your parents were both alive. Your mother was upset upon finding out your father had killed with no mercy and cold blood with only hate to lead him on. Your mother hung herself, and your father in his grief over her took his own life as well."
"How do you know this?" Her voice was cold and unforgiving.
"I saw them die. I left but I wasn't gone. Raine, you need to understand."
Torn between what she was always taught and love. Torn between family and a lover.
Hot salty tears streamed down her face. "How can I understand? You are telling me the woman who raised me as her own has been lying to me all my life?"
"She couldn't bear the pain of losing her master and mistress as she saw she was. Your mother's parents hired me to get her back. They couldn't."
"Accept vampires. Not even a half-breed with their daughter's own blood. I know. I went to see them before coming here. They threw me out, cursed me, damned me, and blamed me for their daughter's death."
"Raine."
"Now you know me. Are you happy?"
"Not when you are not. Please calm down, Raine."
"D, can't you see I love you?"
"But you can't because of your family. Within time they would accept you, you can't love me because of them."
"Tell the truth, D."
"I do love you, but I want what is best for you. It's not with me, but with your mother's family."
"Clove it in twain."
He gave her an odd look when she uttered the words.
"I read it somewhere. It means split it in two."
"Split what?"
"My heart. A half to you and a half to my blood kin. I can't betray either or so I ally myself to you both."
"You know you can't do that, love. Please try again for my sake."
"Would you then accept how I feel?"
"Yes."
"Okay. Tomorrow. I will go and see my mother's family. Just hold me tonight."
He nodded and kissed her forehead as she drifted to sleep.
"Rain, rain, go away come again another day." The childhood rhyme slipped into his mind.
"This is what is best for you." He looked down at the beauty of the Dunpeal in his arms. "I won't let you hurt anymore. I do love you, Raine."
* Chapter 4: Love Vs. Truth and Blood*
* Diaz *
A/N: Sorry everyone. I'm not into the big whole sex scenes. I'm sure everyone knows Raine's secret right? Then no more delay. The fourth chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Hunter D.
***
"Who are you?"
That questioned echoed until it thundered into her head.
"Raine, daughter to the late vampire Akira and his late wife, the Lady Trinity."
"They are dead."
"By your hands."
"No. That is where you are wrong."
"But how can I be wrong? I was born to dead parents, D!"
"Shh. calm down and tell me what you know." Gently he pushed her hair away from her face.
"You visited my parents the day they died. A half hour after you left, Margarette, the maid, found both my parents in warm puddles of blood. They were dead. Thankfully, she had been a midwife and removed me from my dead mother's womb. Margarette hates you, and she raised me to do the same. She loved my parents despite their forbidden marriage and love."
"When I left your parents were both alive. Your mother was upset upon finding out your father had killed with no mercy and cold blood with only hate to lead him on. Your mother hung herself, and your father in his grief over her took his own life as well."
"How do you know this?" Her voice was cold and unforgiving.
"I saw them die. I left but I wasn't gone. Raine, you need to understand."
Torn between what she was always taught and love. Torn between family and a lover.
Hot salty tears streamed down her face. "How can I understand? You are telling me the woman who raised me as her own has been lying to me all my life?"
"She couldn't bear the pain of losing her master and mistress as she saw she was. Your mother's parents hired me to get her back. They couldn't."
"Accept vampires. Not even a half-breed with their daughter's own blood. I know. I went to see them before coming here. They threw me out, cursed me, damned me, and blamed me for their daughter's death."
"Raine."
"Now you know me. Are you happy?"
"Not when you are not. Please calm down, Raine."
"D, can't you see I love you?"
"But you can't because of your family. Within time they would accept you, you can't love me because of them."
"Tell the truth, D."
"I do love you, but I want what is best for you. It's not with me, but with your mother's family."
"Clove it in twain."
He gave her an odd look when she uttered the words.
"I read it somewhere. It means split it in two."
"Split what?"
"My heart. A half to you and a half to my blood kin. I can't betray either or so I ally myself to you both."
"You know you can't do that, love. Please try again for my sake."
"Would you then accept how I feel?"
"Yes."
"Okay. Tomorrow. I will go and see my mother's family. Just hold me tonight."
He nodded and kissed her forehead as she drifted to sleep.
"Rain, rain, go away come again another day." The childhood rhyme slipped into his mind.
"This is what is best for you." He looked down at the beauty of the Dunpeal in his arms. "I won't let you hurt anymore. I do love you, Raine."