The Vampire Heero; Part Eighteen By Lady AngelFiren

Disclaimer: Firen Donna own'um Gundam Wing, and she's not makin the monnies, so donna sue!

Warnings: Vampires, Shounen ai, (2+1/1+2 my first non-lemony fic O.0), violence, blood, sexual assault, deathfic (it's a good thing though, you'll see), some angst, OOC Heero, and probably OOC Duo as well.

Additional warning: I know this is a vampy fic, but there isn't a lot of the traditional vampire lore. I don't really like lore, so there isn't almost any here. I made most of the "vampire stuff" up myself to create a new kind of vampire, I hope it turned out ok, tell me what you think. In any case, the vampires aren't totally run-of-the-mill (or at least I don't think they are, but they very well may be)

Please send C&C! More of this will be up soon!!!! Enjoy!

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The Vampire Heero; Part Eighteen By Lady AngelFiren

When I started to become conscious once more it was only for a few moments at a time. I was someplace dark, dark enough that I could see only a brief outline of the room around me, and nothing beyond that. No colour, no sound, no nothing. I was filled with pain, my head ached as if I'd been shot.but I couldn't make myself stay conscious, I would wake up, take in a little information about my surroundings, and pass out again. I didn't remember anything having happened to me that would hurt this much. I didn't know my name or anything about myself, all I knew was that there was an aching, burning NEED inside of me, and it was more powerful, even, than the pain that was keeping me unconscious most of the time. Each chance I got to be awake for a bit the ache grew stronger, and finally I could think of nothing but how badly I NEEDED, although what I needed was beyond me. For the most part I woke up alone each time, although if you would have asked me, I would have told you that there was definitely someone else in the room with me.

I have no idea how long I spent this way, time wasn't really something I thought about, all I knew was that I NEEDED so incredibly intensely that I couldn't stay sleeping anymore. Not until I had filled the NEED. Unfortunately, by the time I was done having that thought I was out once more, and the next time I awoke there was definitely something in the room with me. This time, there was a little more light. I thought that I was somewhere high up, the sound of traffic came from way below me, a distant hum that pushed through my aching skull ceaselessly from the moment I started to hear it. I thought I might remember something.someone important.but I had to have whatever it is that my body wanted, I couldn't think clearly unless I had what I was craving.

I struggled against the need and managed to get one eye open, the other one wasn't responding to my thoughts at all, but I could feel it was there, just not functioning. It tingled slightly beneath the pain, almost itched, right inside my head. Healing pain, but still sore. My one functioning eye spotted a hazy looking silhouette sitting beside me, watching me. I couldn't tell much else, except that this creature gave me the willies. Creepy. I think it was a he -there weren't any breasts in the silhouette- but the smooth way his face was shaped made me wonder at first if I was wrong.

A soft voice, quieter than I thought I could clearly hear, spoke up from the dark shape sitting by my side. "Duo.how are you feeling?"

His voice sounded good, I almost wanted to smile at its texture, but I was in a bit of a tight spot to be moving around and making facial expressions, I couldn't even think about what was said to me because of the aching that was getting to be unbearable. I opened my mouth to try and express this, but only a dry croak came out, and attempting to move my tongue made me hungrier. I forced my voice into existence as well as I was able.

"Nnnn.I.need.. . please.."

I felt two strong cool hands envelope mine, as the dark figure leaned over me. He didn't smell much.like he wasn't really there. but I think there was a hint of wildflowers on him, mixed with a scent that I could only determine to be appetizing. I was desperate for something to satisfy my poor cringing body, I NEEDED, and this creature had what I needed, or at least he would know how to get it. So I begged him, not knowing what else to do.

"Please.It burns..please..please help."

The hands squeezed mine, and a smile flashed over the handsome face. I could see him now, he had flicked on a light, allowing me to get a look at him. Shaggy brown hair fell over his face, trying to hide his eyes, which were silvery and luminescent. His mouth was small, pouty. When he smiled I could see that his teeth were white and perfect, but there was something that scared me too, he appeared to have fangs, like a vampire would, only smaller. The guy's skin was so white, it freaked me out how pale he was, I didn't think that he could be human, not with the eyes and teeth and skin, plus he didn't really have a scent. But I wasn't really scared, I just felt a deep craving that went straight through me, aching in big painful throbs.

"I know you're hungry Duo.there isn't anything to eat right now, but I could go get you something.is that what you want?"

".Am I Duo?"

Fear went through the boy's eyes, they shifted to blue and he looked at me strangely.

"Yes.of course you are. Do you remember what happened to you?"

My insides squirmed.I had no idea what had happened to me.was it something big? Must be, if I was laid up like this for any length of time. My skull pulsed merrily to the beat of my confused thoughts, intensifying everything I sensed.

"I don't know.I can't think.I need something."

The boy nodded at me, his hands still in mine. "Duo you will remember about yourself soon.you got shot in the face.your head was totaled. The entire back part of your skull was blown to shit, and you lost an eye. You'll be fine, it just takes some time. Do you remember anything? Do you remember me?" There was hope in the guy's face now, he wanted me to remember him, obviously. But I didn't. I thought he looked kind of familiar, but really, when I got down to details, I knew diddly squat.

"I don't think I've seen you before." I said quietly, speaking over an especially intense wave of gnawing need that came from within my body. "What is wrong with me.I feel like I'm going to die.like there's something in me.fuck.what the hell is happening to me?"

"You're hungry Duo.you need to eat something. You were shot a few days ago, three, actually. I got us out safely without too many casualties..but there is something left behind that you still need to get.I suppose I should just wait until you get your memories back, its impossible for you to stay injured, you will get better. I don't know how long it will take though. In the meantime I'll get you something to eat.I should be back in half an hour tops. You'll live that long, guaranteed."

He got up to leave but I quickly snatched his hand in mine so he would look at me. "Wait.what are you?" I asked him, gritting my teeth against the burning in my veins.

He blinked at me in total surprise. "I'm a vampire Duo.the same as you are. You'll remember eventually. Don't get upset.it won't help anything. Now will you stay here until I get back? You aren't exactly a pretty sight just now.I don't think the general public would approve. But we don't have to be seen, so if you want to come with me that's fine too. I expect that you're really hungry.injuries take a lot of blood to help get healed. You haven't had any fresh blood- for too long.nothing at all since you were shot.that's why you're body feels the way it does. Vampire hunger is different from human hunger. Are you following me on this now?"

".I think so."

I swallowed with some difficulty, my brain pulsing with intense hunger. Now that I knew what I was craving, all I could think about was exactly that -blood. I didn't care about the details just now, that could all wait.

"Take me with you.I'm too hungry to wait.I need it now."

The guy, whose name I still didn't know, nodded curtly and pulled me into a sitting position by my hands which were in his. My head spun terribly when I sat up, my vision went completely white and I passed out quite abruptly, leaving him to find food for me on his own.

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My instincts and hunger woke me up at the same time that the other vampire returned to the room with my meal, an elderly woman who appeared to be totally out of it, she was staring ahead at nothing, and she didn't move unless he told her to, from what I could see. The first moment I saw her that was it for me, there was no considering values or morals or anything else, there was only myself and my meal -the woman. I leapt on her from the bed, not knowing I was capable of such feats and performing them anyway. I hit her face with my hands, wrapping my fingers around her head and bringing her towards me.

I encircled her with my arms and tore into her throat with savage glee, getting blood everywhere as I couldn't remember having any experience in taking lives, so I really had no technique at all. It was pure instinct for me to find the major arteries in her throat and bite down on her shriveled skin, piercing it easily and allowing the delicious, hot, wonderful blood to get everywhere, mostly in my mouth. I sucked back several fast mouthfuls before I felt the other vampire's arms wrapping around me from behind. He was trying to take my meal!

I smacked him hard in the face with my fist, sending him flying into the far wall of the small room. He hit it and stuck into the plaster, but I was already going back to the marvelous red life leaking all over me, my eager tongue flicking out to devour random spills of blood before I fastened my lips around the woman's wrinkled neck and pulled on her hard. Great fat mouthfuls of hot blood went into me, but all I could think was that I needed more.

I never did hear the other vampire get himself unstuck from the wall, my body and brain were overcome with a sort of drunken pleasure that caused me to feel lusty and dizzy and violent all at once. I desperately wanted to keep drinking, but I also wanted to kill the woman in my arms quite badly. I ended up rupturing her heart with my incessant drinking, the organ simply couldn't handle me and continue pumping blood. She gasped happily and died in my arms, her eyes wide open, staring up at the ceiling with glassy dullness. It was funny, she looked totally shocked. I grinned and bit the body, sucking out some of what was left, but it wasn't the same now that she was dead. I didn't care that I had destroyed a life just now, I was still hungry for more. I dropped the woman on the floor and let her hit it with a blunt thud. I giggled, picked her up, and dropped her again. The sound was funny too, so I did it once more before a quick hand snapped shut around my wrist.

"Duo what the hell are you doing.don't you have a little more respect for the dead than that?"

"No.should I?" I asked, blinking at the vampire grasping onto my wrist and holding me in place. He growled at me, literally.

"Yes! Hn.I brought you more to drink.but you have to pace yourself. Take a few minutes and let that one sink in before the next.try not to be so violent with them, they are innocent people.also I was going to bring their bodies away with me after you were feeling up to helping me, so the more you dismember them, the more work you get to do cleaning them up."

"Just one question," I said, looking at his face. There was a droplet of blood dried onto his cheek. I leaned close to him and licked it off with a smirk. "What the hell is your name?"

"Heero."

"Nice, thank you. I won't be messy anymore."

My head was still pounding, and the first old lady had only awoken the hunger, it took two more to satisfy me. After that I started to get patches of my memory back. See? All it took was some fresh blood. I remembered things backwards, so the first stuff I got back was the scene with the cops in my dorm, and the last memories were of Solo and a faint glimpse I could sort of recall of my mother.or at least that's who I think it is, she could have been a nurse or just some random lady for all I know.doesn't really matter. By sunrise I was cracking jokes with Heero and asking him if he wanted to pass some time with a little casual sex. He turned me down on the basis that I was a lunatic. I cackled at him and gave him a thorough kiss, squeezing his butt just because I could. Our stone flesh matched, paleness against paleness, and I was happy. I had neglected to ask him how he got me out of the school, and what loose ends were left to be tied up. Also, I wanted to know why he had wasted all this time watching over me, when he could just have well let me heal in prison and bust me out after I did some damage to the guys inside. Maybe he'd thought about this, but maybe he just saw it as a more logical decision to take me now and save himself the trouble later.

I pushed the nagging stream of thoughts out of my poor trampled brain. I needed a break big time, and I knew that it was now or never. Seeing as I was full up on blood and I had nothing particularly significant to do for the rest of the night, I grabbed Heero and pulled him onto the living room couch, forcing him to look at me with his luminescent silver eyes, just so I could see him. I grinned happily and washed his face with small pleasures, kisses that were light, but still an effective method of softening the marble beneath my lips into something more fun to touch.

"Heero I think you're going to have to sleep right here with me now. I'm tired and full and I don't feel like doing anything else."

"Duo. don't you remember how much you complained last time you let bodies lay where they fell? If you do the same thing when we wake up I won't sleep beside you anymore."

"Meh. Like I believe that." I wrapped my arms around Heero and buried my face against his strong chest, closing my eyes and letting the slow, steady rhythm of his heart lead me to slumber. I fell easily asleep laying there, pressed against him. Not like it's a hard thing to do. Heero has this way of making me feel comfortable and stable, no matter how many creepy things are running around my head.

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When I next cracked my lids open to the world I was happy to discover that the room was dark, despite the hot sun baking everything else in the area. It was about eleven am, I could tell just by the way the heat hung in the darkness. it was like I was sensing the sun through the walls of our apartment. I yawned, licking my lips and blinking sleepily at Heero's slack face. I pressed my lips against his with a grin, effectively waking him up.

"Hn. let me sleep Duo."

"Nunh unh. we got lots to do Hee-chan. no more sleeping. We have to get my book back.don't you remember? I decided I'm gonna save Solo. if I offed Erika the least I could do is actually pay her dying statement a little mind, ne? So that's on the top of my list.right after dead body disposal. it stinks in here!"

"Told you."

"Yeah but it still reeks, get off me, I'm getting rid of those things now." I pushed at Heero's chest and he was nice enough to roll off the couch onto the floor. He stood and pulled me up after him, clearly trying to hide the fact that it smelled like a mortuary in our apartment by being unaffected. He totally sucks at hiding things.have I mentioned that one yet? Seriously, he shouldda just got a big red sign that said he was about to keel over and die from the stink. It was too funny, I had to laugh, even though I was in the same boat in the nose department.

Heero Helped me gather everyone into a neat little pile. We wrapped each of them up and I turned to him curiously.

"This is a high-rise. what am I supposed to do.drop them down and hope you can catch? There's no way."

"Duo I honestly can't believe you. You lose yourself for a few days and you think I'm going to do everything for you? No.I'm not. Hn. we are on the nineteenth floor. This building has surveillance throughout.this is not a challenge. We are vampires, yes.but we also happen to be Gundam pilots. If you can't disarm a simple security system that's pretty sad. Think with your head baka."

I blushed in embarrassment.the guy had a point.

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After the stench control crew part of my day was over it was about one in the afternoon, and I was ready to go book hunting. I wanted the stink out of my clothes first, however, so I stopped myself from doing anything else until I had a nice cold shower. With my favourite accessory - Heero. He wasn't really keen on hopping under the spray with me. I swear he's got a modesty problem or something. He blushes more times in one day than I can count on all my fingers and toes put together, and he is always shying out of stuff. Awww, wittle Hee-chan is bashful..kawaii!

I wrapped my arms around his torso, pinning his elbows to his sides and kissing his face while he tried to pretend he wasn't enjoying it. I dragged him out of his clothes and into the shower with me. He was studying my face through the cool spray. I looked up to meet curious slices of silver in his face, studying the way I moved.studying me.

Placing a hand in his I frowned, trying to figure out what he was looking at that was so damned grasping. "Heero.why do I suddenly feel like a centerfold in a porno mag? Yer starin' at me. What's on your mind?"

He swallowed and regarded me stilly.

"I.I had a dream."

"Yeah.and? Me too. I dreamt you were my love slave for all eternity. *cackle* really.why are you staring at me?"

".It isn't important."

"Heero.how stupid exactly do you think I am? When someone pulls this act with the curious staring and the crumbly heart I don't expect them to be dignified about it.pretending you are all hurt and dramatic is sad. Grow up. I don't want to watch you pretend you have to struggle with shit like this. Just spit it out."

Ok, so maybe I could have been a little nicer.. so what. I wasn't feeling so hot. Suddenly I was feeling tired and crabby. I wanted my book back.I wanted my Solo back. I wanted normal Heero back. Ever since he'd changed me he'd been all.weird. I wasn't sure I liked who he was anymore.that's what it was coming down to. I grit my teeth at him and glared into his stupid glowing eyes, feeling like he deserved a kick in the teeth. I neglected to notice the quivery lip that marked his disturbance, and the level that he was taking this on. Over-serious bastard.

"I dreamt about you.and Solo. I know what's going to happen. I think it was like a premonition."

"Well what is going to happen?"

"I can't tell you. If I tell then it wont work out right."

"Gah! Heero if you are just brining shit up to taunt me that is STUPID! Get a life! Man, I don't care if your having premonitions about me, unless yer gonna tell ME about what you see."

"Then I won't tell you when they happen anymore."

The gleeful, sarcastic little voice that liked to reside in the back of my mind stirred with amusement, grinning lazily out from behind my eyes at Heero even as I bitched him out. I was just fed up with his stupid crybaby attitude. If he wanted to skulk for eternity then that was his problem, I was not prepared to stick around and watch. I finished off my shower, climbing out and shaking myself off, then grabbing a towel and wrapping it about my hair. I looked at my smooth cold reflection in the mirror. I smiled into the mirror, and surely the being staring back at me had to be another Duo.Someone who wasn't me. My face. my demeanor.it had changed dramatically since the last time I looked at myself. I was.sinister. Honest.the grin on my lips was evil..my little fangs didn't help matter much, but they weren't the biggest part, I simply didn't look like a very nice young vampire anymore.I looked like I wanted to slit someone's throat. Nothing big had changed about me. my face was back to normal, I could see just fine out of my eyes.who the hell was looking at me in the mirror?

/There are more of you in here than you thought Duo./

#What? Who the hell are you? Get out of my head!#

/No./

#Grrr. Fuck OFF! I'm not nuts.I am gonna be the only one in this head from now on!#

/Don't you wish. no Duo I'm you just as much as you are. I'm just not as nice. You're a vampire now, you need me. Honest. Now you have fun and I'll be back.Ciao!/

Stupid voice in my head #2 evaporated.rather he skipped to the back of my mind. The hateful appearance in me evaporated with him, dissolving into my normal, friendly appearance. /OK.that was strange./

I went back to my room and pulled on my clothes. I'm glad it didn't matter to me if they were dirty or not, they were full of various people's blood. The smell of my own clothing was pretty gross. A thick, old stench swam in the murky black heat of the apartment. I forgot all about my nice refreshing shower as I sank down on the bed, listening to Heero climb out of the tub in the bathroom and dry himself off. He was muttering under his breath -

"Damned fledgling.pig-headed..won't listen to a word I say."

I growled and raised my voice. "Hey Heero if you wanna bad-mouth me do it to my face! I kin take it! ESPECIALLY from you!"

Heero came into the room stark naked. He had a sour, pissed glare on his face. "You are going to get that book back.all that trouble people went though to bring you your stupid prophecy. or fortune.whatever it is.you're going to honour them by getting Solo here."

I nodded to him.

"And how, oh genius Gundam pilot man, am I supposed to get that damned book back!? Surely after three days its gone."

"You will find it. You no longer have a choice."

"Hey.Heero are you.threatening me?"

"I am presenting you with clear options."

"Yes, of course, 'here Duo you can listen to me and get the book, or you can.listen to me and get the book. Nice work Duo. I am so proud.' What the fuck!? You don't own me asshole!"

"Duo calm yourself down and try being more rational. Think. When the city police have a murder case, where do they bring the evidence?"

I offered Heero a knowing look, just daring him to make all my worrying null and void. "To the evidence department in the police station."

"Good. Now what reasons might they have taken your book away from you?"

"Er. maybe they think my slicing up random young girls has something to do with witchcraft? Ooh. I have a better one. they looked in there cause it was locked. right?"

"Either way, don't you think its safe to say that your book is in the police station?"

I knew where Heero was going with this one. It was easy enough to see. obviously we were going to use our happy super powers and terrorist-type skills to sneak into the local police department and snatch back what belonged to me. I recalled the face of the officer who's been carrying it. Hard-ass cop to the max. Definitely the kind of character who would do the right thing and submit any evidence or items found on a crime scene to the appropriate departments. He probably even had all the paperwork done too. Ooh. I love when things go my way.

"Yeah Heero. ok. You have a point. and you're right. there's no place else it would be unless you want to include the possibility that Mr. Policeman decided to take Mr. Book home with him for bathroom reading. So when should we go after it?"

"As soon as possible. If they're still looking for you then they will still have the evidence. However, knowing that you may not be dead might make them paranoid. The could have the book under some kind of lockdown. I had to be quick about it when I took you out of there Duo, I grabbed you, smashed through a window and was gone before they could so much as blink. They might be paranoid. Guess we shouldn't blame them."

From there Heero and I applied out knowledge to make up a nice little plan for retrieving what had been lost without hurting innocent people. It wasn't going to be too difficult from the sound of things. I really hoped I was right.

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Heero and I spent the remainder of the day asleep in our nice, pleasantly dark apartment on the nineteenth floor of the high-rise he'd selected for us. I was one happy vampire, I can tell you that much. Heero subjected himself to teddy bear status, letting me drag him with me into the darkest part of the apartment - which happened to be the coat closet - and glomp onto him as I drifted off into slumber. I figure he must have been sleepier than he'd let on, because he was still snoozing when I felt myself wake up several hours later.

In the same way that I find myself sensing when the sun is out, I can also tell if its gone. I knew instinctively when I woke up, that it was dark outside, but not very late, for there were people bustling about in the city below, driving around, doing groceries, paying babysitters, walking dogs. so on and so forth. I yawned and licked my lips, wetting them and running my tongue over my teeth. I smiled in the pleasant cool darkness as I felt Heero's chest rise and fall beneath my hand. We were both sitting upright, he had his back against the wall and I was laying lazily in his lap, my head and hand resting n his chest.

I leaned upwards and offered a nice little kiss to the sleeping creature beneath me. I took this opportunity to stroke my fingers through his thick silken hair and listen to his heartbeat and breathing. He was very peaceful as he slept, and where I knew I would have been frightened or disturbed by his hardness and coldness as a human, I now found it comforting, safe. He was a creature like to me, in a world where there were no other creatures such as ourselves. This alone drew us together in a way that felt very permanent.

"Wake up sleeping beauty. we've got people to frighten and police stations to rob. you gonna help me or do you plan on sitting in this closet all night?" I punctuated my words with a few kisses to the corners of his mouth. His eyes opened into mine and a small appreciative smile grew on his lips.

"Impatient, aren't you." He said quietly, looking sleepy still.

"You know it baby. C'mon. lets get this over with."

Heero pushed me off of him with a smirk and got to his feet, stretching and hopping from the closet, I followed him out, finding the apartment to be a blue-purple colour from the fading day. We were quite badly in need of fresh clothes, and that quickly became our first problem, as we saw one another to be covered in filth and dried blood.

"Er. heh. I think we might need to go shopping."

"No kidding. We'll just have to do it after. we aren't going to be needing these anyway."

I agreed with Heero after a bit more coaxing on his part. I seem to have a little more vanity than him. I guess it comes from spending an hour brushing my hair every day for my whole life practically. We both agreed on our plans, going over them again and stepping out onto the balcony, shutting the glass behind us. Heero pointed to the police station several blocks away from the building. He explained to me that the easiest, fastest, least conspicuous way to get there was from right where we were standing. I blinked at him in question when he hopped up into the balcony railing and crouched on it with little effort.

The next thing I knew Heero was sailing through the air towards the closest high-rise building. His jump was incredible, he covered what seemed to be an impossible distance, then he smacked the building hands-first, on the side that was plain brick. There was nothing to hold onto but that. I sweatdropped and let a fascinated grin swell my cheeks. Heero crawled up the side of the building with no trouble at all, his fingers gripping the brick powerfully enough that he was able to scurry to the roof in ten seconds flat. He waved me over and stood, waiting for me. I made a nervous face and hopped onto the balcony railing, looking down at the ground nineteen stories below. All the people looked tiny and slow. like bugs. I sucked in a breath. it was really going to hurt when I landed on the ground head-first.

I closed my eyes and tensed, jumping as powerfully as I could in the direction that Heero had gone. I could feel the air whipping past me and snarling my hair into an even greater tangle. Opening my eyes, all I could see was dark brick growing in my vision, getting closer and gaining detail as it fast approached me. I could already feel the pain as I expected myself to slam into it face-first and slide along it down the length of the entire building.

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TBC.

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Ok everyone, can we say PROCRASTINATION!?? Heh. I know its been an impossibly long time since I updated this, but I'm feeling back into things, and I'm realizing that I hate having unfinished fics just sitting around. So, I've decided to get off my sorry ass and update. Cool, huh? ^_^ Hope you guys like the newest part, there's more to come!

Lady AngelFiren

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