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He just couldn't let her die. Serena please understand, I'm doing this because I love you.' Darien leaned down and kissed Serena's neck gently where Allen had injured her, then he lifted his own palm to his lips and sunk his teeth into them. Blood flowed freely from the two wounds on his palm and he then lifted his hand to Serena's lips. "I'm sorry it has to be this way love. I'm taking you're life from you, and in the same instant tying you to this world I'm so sorry." And with that he gently parted her lips with his fingertips and made her drink his blood.

Serena's body convulsed horribly in his arms, something he knew to be all too common, but it tore his heart out to watch. One he was convinced that she had been made to drink enough he removed his hands from her lips and watched his own small wound heal. Then in the few seconds he had left before it all started he prepared himself for the worst of it all, watching Serena die.

Before she became a vampire she did have to die after all, and he knew it was going to take all his strength to keep her from hurting herself, at the same time he would need that same strength to keep him sane. He was beginning to think he had made the wrong decision, that he should just released her from her pain and let her die and then it started. Serena's eyes popped open and she looked at Darien. He could see the pain and fear in her eyes before she started to scream. Her screams weren't like last time, these screams chilled you to your core. Her body was already dead, and her soul was leaving her, the screams he was hearing was the screams of a demon, the one that was taking over her. Serena thrashed about wildly, as if trying to escape the pain of her soul being torn away, or maybe she was trying to follow it, whatever she was instinctively trying to do it was taking most of Darien's strength to hold her down.

Her thrashing and screaming seemed to go on for hours, but in reality it was only a few minutes. Finally Serena's body stilled, she was dead, utterly and completely dead. In three nights Serena would awaken soulless, a demon replacing her beautiful love filled soul.

Darien held Serena's dead body close and carried her to his apartment. He managed to sneak both of their blood-covered bodies into the building with out anyone noticing and get them both into his apartment. As soon as he opened the door he felt a rush of memories come back to him. All the memories of their date, of their kisses, and of throwing her out when he didn't understand what he was feeling. But now he knew what he was plagued with, it was love. It wasn't suppose to be possible, vampires had no souls, so how could they love?

Darien shook of his thoughts and carried Serena's dead body into his bathroom. Her body was covered with blood, and so was his, he needed to get rid of the clothes they were wearing and get them both cleaned up. When she awoke in three days there was going to be a lot to think about, her body being covered in blood that wasn't even her own should not be one of them. Darien managed to get both of them into the bathroom and then he laid Serena's body in the tub (still empty and she still fully clothed) while he went to the linen closet and got a towel. When he came back he saw her blood covered body lying in the tub and almost broke down. How had he let this happen to her? His beautiful innocent angel. Now she was no longer innocent, she was ruined, and it was entirely his fault. He had let her get hurt, let Allen injure her, and then he had damned her for life.

Quickly before he lost his resolve Darien lifted Serena's body from the tub. He undressed her carefully, hating himself for what he had to do. He had dreamed of what her body might look like, and now he was finding out, without her consent. He did his best not to look at her body as he bathed her in the tub. Washing all the blood from her skin and hair.