So. I'm back, yet again. Hopefully I won't have such long pauses anymore...
But you know, it's a long fic, it's no wonder I'd have a writer's block
somewhere along the line...
I got 33 reviews since the last update? *dies from the shock* What did I do to get so many? That last chapter was the worst ever!!
ATTENTION: The whole fic has been revised now. There's some new things - seemingly insignificant sentences, which will make sense only if you pay attention to the details. But you'll get the most out of this fic if you _do_ notice those small things. So I'd gladly recommend rereading if you sometimes have extra time in your hands.
Thanks to Burning-Yami-Rain (*laughs* I guess it would...), Yume Takato (some more S/J in this chapter... You mean a Yugi POV? It won't show up until the epilogue. But Yugi will be in the next chapter), BluLightning (as stated, Yugi in the next chapter...), Yamis Girlfriend (*sighs* So many want to have Yugi again... I'm beginning to think this chapter should have been longer so I could have added Yugi already...), Princess Strawberry (That happens... I should get around to reading your story, I think I promised at some point X.X I'm sorry, those things tend to slip my mind...), Silver Dragon (Sometimes reviewing is just forgotten... as I know so well -__-), Zypher Dragon a.k.a Diamond (hmmm... A sphinx/dragon muse? That sounds interesting...), MatrixAngel (vampire stories? I really should try to find this Christopher Pike's books in the library...), Seventh Sage (*blushes* 'm sorry...), Neko-chan (*squeals* Battle City! It's the best! ^^ I really hope I do get used to juggling several fics... I can't believe how insistent people are that I should update NtNG, I posted it in January and have gotten many reviews this week O.O), r*a*d*i*a*n*y (hmm... you're busy? That happens... Try to survive ^.~), Asahi Taiga (Yami and Ishtar have secrets? *tries to hide a grin* Oh noo, of course not.... I wouldn't do that *snickers*), Jadesaber (*one more sigh* I'm sorry... But the next chappie in three days!), Cloak*and*Dagger/Aisha Outlaw (Well thank you ^^ I hope you'll get the next chapter of your own story out soon... [YS: *bashes Shenya* Baka! You don't even update your own stories!]), The Dark Star Goddess (sorry to keep you waiting for so long... I guess it _was_ a bit bad time to take a break o.O), Hotaru the Demon Goddess (*grins* fluffiness is fun to write! Although I think things are getting somewhat worse now... *cringes*), Chibizoo (I read from your lj that you have a new fic written... Or to be written? It sounds interesting! Really, do get it out soon, please? It's been such a long time since I read anything you wrote...), Labannya (Umm... Ooops. I think it's been nearly a month since the last update... *cringes* Didn't mean to!), Renee the Rabid Squirrel (Uhh... Sorry, the S/J is hardest for me to write... It should get going now, bit by bit...), Siobhan (yes, Yami has his memories now... But nothing but hints will be written in StD, the actual story of the vampires' lives are in Paths of Blood), ZeZe (I'll try to update faster, and I think it will work. I have the next chapter nearly finished already ^.~), Lady Kaiba (Jealous Malik is funny... And can do nasty things ^^ That's why he's so interesting, he spices up the fic), Ly the werewolf (you practice aikido too? Great! *looks at the reviews* it took you 5 days to read the whole thing? O.O), firedraygon97 (I don't think I keep that good track of all those details... And I have this bad feeling that they're overwhelming me now, there's simply too much to remember... StD is beginning to remind me of the Wheel of Time series the way all the small details come back later and have grave importance O.o), Alana (Don't we all like fluffiness ^__^), abunai vampire sakura (I'm sorry, that _was_ a bad time to leave the story for such a long time..), Kyuugi (Lets see.. you reviewed on 18th, so that would make the wait merely...6 days? ^.~ The next chapter will be up around 27th, maybe earlier), kalie (*nods* I'm trying...), C.M Aeris Queen of Insanity (I thought that a good idea... And it twists the past deliciously to the present. You'll see what I mean when I write more...) and Queen Ali B (Why Yami decided to stop feeding on mortals...? Umm... Well you see... Urgh, forgot about that. I'll add it somewhere X.X And I didn't mean Marik and Ishtar being so funny, but since it works... Yes, I'm from Finland. If you need some specific words in Japanese, I can try to help with what little skill I have... Just contact me, I'd be happy to help. Seto's coat? I dunno. Imagine it being what you wish, I haven't thought on it. Could be the blue one ^.~ And yes, 5th day. Since it's already over midnight in this chapter, it would be Wednesday, but it began as Tuesday (obviously) I think that answers all your questions... O.o)
Slaying the Dreamer, chapter 22: Gathering Darkness
---Ishtar POV---
The sweet wounds on my throat were closing. I savored the fading pain, the dull ache bringing me a certain kind of pleasure. The pleasure that told me I was still alive, in a way. Still alive, despite all those centuries, despite all that pain, despite all those memories. Despite past love, despite past betrayal, despite past madness. Despite present madness. Despite present love.
I grinned. It was all coming together now. Finally. I had no fear of death anymore, what would come would come. Perhaps death would claim me, it's wings folding around me gently, lulling me to eternal sleep. I craved to sleep so badly, but I couldn't. It had always been like that. It felt like forever. My life had been forever. But now it would end.
Very probably.
The Pharaoh still hadn't accepted we would die.
Not my fault. He had had all that time to get used to the idea, and I had even helped him at some point. But no, he was too attached to life. Especially now that he had the mortal boy, now when he needed to embrace death more than ever.
No-one had said that it would be easy. It didn't need to be. It wasn't even supposed to be. It was all an illusion. Illusion of darkness. Illusion of light. Illusion of love. Of blood, even.
Blood that kept us going. Blood that called from the mortal, my mortal, the one that was me. Blood that made us strong. Blood that doomed us to the night.
Oh, how fitting. I could feel my grin widening as I walked after Yami, Malik glued to my side and casting jealous glances at the Pharaoh's back. He was so possessive. Just the way I liked him to be. I couldn't help it, I started to giggle.
Everything was finally coming together, everything was finally coming to an end.
Yami looked back, puzzled. Malik merely glanced at me. He was somewhat used to my behavior now, he could sometimes even understand me. Amazing considering how little time we had been together. And how charming. He was taking the same path that I took, the path of madness. The path of pain and darkness and blood. The path of the night.
That made me stop giggling. He shouldn't take my path, it was too dangerous. Even though I was ready to die, I didn't want _him_ to be. I wanted him to live, live in the light and enjoy the sun and the love and the good things in life. When he still could. I wanted him to be like me, but not like me, I wanted him to enjoy the light but live in the darkness.
I didn't know what I wanted. There were so many possibilities. There were so many paths he could take, and be happy. What would be the most fitting for him?
Perhaps the decision wasn't for me to make.
"Just keep walking, Pharaoh. I want to meet that human of yours"
I could see he hadn't thought he would have to let me close to his precious mortal. He didn't like the idea. At all.
I laughed.
"Relax, I won't harm him. Besides, I let you close to my human, the least you could do is repay the favor..."
He accepted it, but he didn't like it. It all was visible to me, his feelings. For now. The connection that came from having him drink my blood was already fading. But while it was still there, I might as well use it.
"Let's go already!"
Yami glared at me. Perhaps he was having second thoughts about having me help him. I merely grinned at him. He was intelligent enough to see that he needed me if he was to have any chance of passing the next new moon.
"We're already here. This is where Yugi lives"
---Seto POV---
We sat in silence. As we had sat in silence the last hour. There simply was nothing we could talk about. Nothing. What could a vampire and a human have to talk about? The gap between us was too great, our ways of thinking too different.
And it was for the good. It was.
I didn't need any humans to mess up my life, I was perfectly content without any annoying connections to this decade.
The last long sleep I had gone through had lasted for 167 years. It was the longest time I had slept up to this day. But Yami had slept longer. I knew that for a fact, I had sensed his disappearance from the world 249 years before my own withdrawal. That could be called a long sleep. But he did have reason to do so. I wasn't sure yet what that reason had been, but it must have been something devastating for him. He wasn't easily shocked.
I had a suspicion that whatever had caused his sleep would have been enough to kill someone weaker.
But I couldn't very well go and ask him what had happened, now could I? Of course. We had never been in the best of terms after we had been Turned. As in to vampires.
First drinking me nearly dry and then leaving me on the floor like a pile of thrash didn't exactly bring trust and friendship between us. Quite the contrary. But he had been my Pharaoh, I had to obey him. Or so I felt back then.
No. Enough dwelling on the old times. I was starting to feel like a historian, the way all the small details were stored in my memory. Or better yet, ancient. That I was, of course, but I never felt all the years quite like when I was drowning in those old memories. It didn't matter now. This was the present.
And at the present I had an annoying human in my office, brought there by the equally annoying brat that had labeled me his niisan. He kept staring at me.
Not openly, of course, but out of the corner of his eyes. Little glances when I was looking around, conscious of my surroundings, and pondering long looks when he thought I was concentrating on my work.
Little did he know that I couldn't concentrate on my work. I couldn't forget where I was - more like with whom. He kept intruding my thoughts. How could anyone concentrate with someone watching all the time?
Okay, so I was a bit attracted to him. It shouldn't affect me this much. It had never affected me this much to have someone I liked watching me. And I had liked some persons during my long existence, as surprising as that might be to some people. They didn't know me. Not so well as they thought.
"Why are you staring at me?"
A nervous voice jolted me out of my thoughts. Staring? I raised an eyebrow. Who was staring here...?
It took me a while to realize it. I _had_ been staring at him. Jounouchi. The human. Now his gaze kept shifting from me to the window to the door to the bookshelf to me again. He couldn't even keep his hands still, the nervous wreck. Not many people could take me looking at them, no wonder he was so jittery.
Why did he come anyway? He could have avoided Mokuba, no matter what threats the brat had decided to choose.
---Shadi POV---
Yes... I was here now. I was close to my prey. Very close, in fact. One of them, the white-haired one with brown eyes, was in one of these houses on this street, I could feel his presence as I walked onwards. I hadn't been searching for any of them right now, just getting to know the battleground, but perhaps this was for the good. He could certainly feel my aura now...
How would he react when he felt his enemy so close? What would he feel when he noticed that I had finally come to claim him? ...So fascinating. I couldn't kill him yet, of course, but perhaps I could meet him in person. How long had it been since I actually met any of them? So long... Too long. My revenge had waited for too long. The destiny had waited too long to be fulfilled. Perhaps I should kill him now after all.
Oh yes, the potent blood of a vampire of his age, the amazing sights his soul must have seen along the millennia... It would be fascinating indeed to win over him, to feel his pain in the last moments of his so-called life. Perhaps I should.
I walked on. If the opportunity presented itself, perhaps I would. For now, I was content to wait for a while longer. I had never been of the kind to hurry things needlessly, and I wasn't about to start now.
---Ryou POV---
The vampire I had previously been so comfortably cuddled up with bolted up. I could feel his worry. I could feel even the touch of fear hiding behind it.
What did it take to make a vampire afraid? Especially this vampire?
I suddenly got worried. Indeed, what threat could possibly scare him?
"Bakura..?"
He turned to look at me. As if he had forgotten that I was there. And the look in his eyes... I didn't like it. It spoke nothing of his worry or his fear. It spoke of violence and hatred, of bloodlust and rising strength. Those were the eyes of the creature that had come after me that first night. I shrunk away from that gaze. Where had the sweet Bakura of before gone? Was this the extent of his kindness, he was willing to cast me away the moment something came up?
"We need to go. And quick"
"Go? But why?"
"Don't question me, mortal! Get up and move!"
I refused to look at him now. The anger in his eyes was too visible, too raw. I feared him now. I feared for my life, for my sanity. I feared that he would touch me despite his earlier behavior. Had it been an act? No, it couldn't have been. I could still feel his fear, his confusion. And I could feel the threat I had been feeling for several days coming closer.
What was this? What was this feeling? Did _he_ know? Was that why he was so scared?
Suddenly he grasped my arm and drew me to him.
"I said move!"
My eyes met his and found nothing but hatred. Then I was pressed against his chest tightly, my feet left the earth, and he was moving. He opened the window, hesitating for a small moment, perhaps checking the surroundings. Then he was on the move again, his arms surrounding me. The cold wind swept past, stirring my hair.
I felt a small jolt as we hit the ground, but he didn't care, he was going. The doom, the threat, the one I had dreaded for several days came closer. And then I felt it getting more distant again, as if the threat was actually something that could be avoided by moving away from it. But I was sure it would find us again. What was it doing here anyway? What did it mean?
No, I shouldn't think on it. No use doing that, I wasn't going to find out anyway. Not unless someone told me, or the doom decided to walk into my life itself.
I shifted in the vampire's arms, trying to find a better position without greatly disturbing him. The way he acted right now, he might actually do something...bad. I shouldn't think on it. I shouldn't. But I couldn't stop my mind from wandering to directions I didn't want it to go to. How bothersome.
"Stop moving around or you'll fall!"
The low hiss stopped me. Just as I thought, he wasn't very pleased that I dared to move. I tried to be still, but it wasn't very easy even though he was clutching me as if I'd die if he let me go. Or maybe because of it. It made me nervous.
No wonder.
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AN: Hmm... Not as long as it could have been, but I felt like moving on to the next chapter. And because of that this story grows longer yet again X.X I'm _still_ in the fifth night! And as promised (in my bio), I'll try to get the next chapter out three days from posting this one. Please review?
I got 33 reviews since the last update? *dies from the shock* What did I do to get so many? That last chapter was the worst ever!!
ATTENTION: The whole fic has been revised now. There's some new things - seemingly insignificant sentences, which will make sense only if you pay attention to the details. But you'll get the most out of this fic if you _do_ notice those small things. So I'd gladly recommend rereading if you sometimes have extra time in your hands.
Thanks to Burning-Yami-Rain (*laughs* I guess it would...), Yume Takato (some more S/J in this chapter... You mean a Yugi POV? It won't show up until the epilogue. But Yugi will be in the next chapter), BluLightning (as stated, Yugi in the next chapter...), Yamis Girlfriend (*sighs* So many want to have Yugi again... I'm beginning to think this chapter should have been longer so I could have added Yugi already...), Princess Strawberry (That happens... I should get around to reading your story, I think I promised at some point X.X I'm sorry, those things tend to slip my mind...), Silver Dragon (Sometimes reviewing is just forgotten... as I know so well -__-), Zypher Dragon a.k.a Diamond (hmmm... A sphinx/dragon muse? That sounds interesting...), MatrixAngel (vampire stories? I really should try to find this Christopher Pike's books in the library...), Seventh Sage (*blushes* 'm sorry...), Neko-chan (*squeals* Battle City! It's the best! ^^ I really hope I do get used to juggling several fics... I can't believe how insistent people are that I should update NtNG, I posted it in January and have gotten many reviews this week O.O), r*a*d*i*a*n*y (hmm... you're busy? That happens... Try to survive ^.~), Asahi Taiga (Yami and Ishtar have secrets? *tries to hide a grin* Oh noo, of course not.... I wouldn't do that *snickers*), Jadesaber (*one more sigh* I'm sorry... But the next chappie in three days!), Cloak*and*Dagger/Aisha Outlaw (Well thank you ^^ I hope you'll get the next chapter of your own story out soon... [YS: *bashes Shenya* Baka! You don't even update your own stories!]), The Dark Star Goddess (sorry to keep you waiting for so long... I guess it _was_ a bit bad time to take a break o.O), Hotaru the Demon Goddess (*grins* fluffiness is fun to write! Although I think things are getting somewhat worse now... *cringes*), Chibizoo (I read from your lj that you have a new fic written... Or to be written? It sounds interesting! Really, do get it out soon, please? It's been such a long time since I read anything you wrote...), Labannya (Umm... Ooops. I think it's been nearly a month since the last update... *cringes* Didn't mean to!), Renee the Rabid Squirrel (Uhh... Sorry, the S/J is hardest for me to write... It should get going now, bit by bit...), Siobhan (yes, Yami has his memories now... But nothing but hints will be written in StD, the actual story of the vampires' lives are in Paths of Blood), ZeZe (I'll try to update faster, and I think it will work. I have the next chapter nearly finished already ^.~), Lady Kaiba (Jealous Malik is funny... And can do nasty things ^^ That's why he's so interesting, he spices up the fic), Ly the werewolf (you practice aikido too? Great! *looks at the reviews* it took you 5 days to read the whole thing? O.O), firedraygon97 (I don't think I keep that good track of all those details... And I have this bad feeling that they're overwhelming me now, there's simply too much to remember... StD is beginning to remind me of the Wheel of Time series the way all the small details come back later and have grave importance O.o), Alana (Don't we all like fluffiness ^__^), abunai vampire sakura (I'm sorry, that _was_ a bad time to leave the story for such a long time..), Kyuugi (Lets see.. you reviewed on 18th, so that would make the wait merely...6 days? ^.~ The next chapter will be up around 27th, maybe earlier), kalie (*nods* I'm trying...), C.M Aeris Queen of Insanity (I thought that a good idea... And it twists the past deliciously to the present. You'll see what I mean when I write more...) and Queen Ali B (Why Yami decided to stop feeding on mortals...? Umm... Well you see... Urgh, forgot about that. I'll add it somewhere X.X And I didn't mean Marik and Ishtar being so funny, but since it works... Yes, I'm from Finland. If you need some specific words in Japanese, I can try to help with what little skill I have... Just contact me, I'd be happy to help. Seto's coat? I dunno. Imagine it being what you wish, I haven't thought on it. Could be the blue one ^.~ And yes, 5th day. Since it's already over midnight in this chapter, it would be Wednesday, but it began as Tuesday (obviously) I think that answers all your questions... O.o)
Slaying the Dreamer, chapter 22: Gathering Darkness
---Ishtar POV---
The sweet wounds on my throat were closing. I savored the fading pain, the dull ache bringing me a certain kind of pleasure. The pleasure that told me I was still alive, in a way. Still alive, despite all those centuries, despite all that pain, despite all those memories. Despite past love, despite past betrayal, despite past madness. Despite present madness. Despite present love.
I grinned. It was all coming together now. Finally. I had no fear of death anymore, what would come would come. Perhaps death would claim me, it's wings folding around me gently, lulling me to eternal sleep. I craved to sleep so badly, but I couldn't. It had always been like that. It felt like forever. My life had been forever. But now it would end.
Very probably.
The Pharaoh still hadn't accepted we would die.
Not my fault. He had had all that time to get used to the idea, and I had even helped him at some point. But no, he was too attached to life. Especially now that he had the mortal boy, now when he needed to embrace death more than ever.
No-one had said that it would be easy. It didn't need to be. It wasn't even supposed to be. It was all an illusion. Illusion of darkness. Illusion of light. Illusion of love. Of blood, even.
Blood that kept us going. Blood that called from the mortal, my mortal, the one that was me. Blood that made us strong. Blood that doomed us to the night.
Oh, how fitting. I could feel my grin widening as I walked after Yami, Malik glued to my side and casting jealous glances at the Pharaoh's back. He was so possessive. Just the way I liked him to be. I couldn't help it, I started to giggle.
Everything was finally coming together, everything was finally coming to an end.
Yami looked back, puzzled. Malik merely glanced at me. He was somewhat used to my behavior now, he could sometimes even understand me. Amazing considering how little time we had been together. And how charming. He was taking the same path that I took, the path of madness. The path of pain and darkness and blood. The path of the night.
That made me stop giggling. He shouldn't take my path, it was too dangerous. Even though I was ready to die, I didn't want _him_ to be. I wanted him to live, live in the light and enjoy the sun and the love and the good things in life. When he still could. I wanted him to be like me, but not like me, I wanted him to enjoy the light but live in the darkness.
I didn't know what I wanted. There were so many possibilities. There were so many paths he could take, and be happy. What would be the most fitting for him?
Perhaps the decision wasn't for me to make.
"Just keep walking, Pharaoh. I want to meet that human of yours"
I could see he hadn't thought he would have to let me close to his precious mortal. He didn't like the idea. At all.
I laughed.
"Relax, I won't harm him. Besides, I let you close to my human, the least you could do is repay the favor..."
He accepted it, but he didn't like it. It all was visible to me, his feelings. For now. The connection that came from having him drink my blood was already fading. But while it was still there, I might as well use it.
"Let's go already!"
Yami glared at me. Perhaps he was having second thoughts about having me help him. I merely grinned at him. He was intelligent enough to see that he needed me if he was to have any chance of passing the next new moon.
"We're already here. This is where Yugi lives"
---Seto POV---
We sat in silence. As we had sat in silence the last hour. There simply was nothing we could talk about. Nothing. What could a vampire and a human have to talk about? The gap between us was too great, our ways of thinking too different.
And it was for the good. It was.
I didn't need any humans to mess up my life, I was perfectly content without any annoying connections to this decade.
The last long sleep I had gone through had lasted for 167 years. It was the longest time I had slept up to this day. But Yami had slept longer. I knew that for a fact, I had sensed his disappearance from the world 249 years before my own withdrawal. That could be called a long sleep. But he did have reason to do so. I wasn't sure yet what that reason had been, but it must have been something devastating for him. He wasn't easily shocked.
I had a suspicion that whatever had caused his sleep would have been enough to kill someone weaker.
But I couldn't very well go and ask him what had happened, now could I? Of course. We had never been in the best of terms after we had been Turned. As in to vampires.
First drinking me nearly dry and then leaving me on the floor like a pile of thrash didn't exactly bring trust and friendship between us. Quite the contrary. But he had been my Pharaoh, I had to obey him. Or so I felt back then.
No. Enough dwelling on the old times. I was starting to feel like a historian, the way all the small details were stored in my memory. Or better yet, ancient. That I was, of course, but I never felt all the years quite like when I was drowning in those old memories. It didn't matter now. This was the present.
And at the present I had an annoying human in my office, brought there by the equally annoying brat that had labeled me his niisan. He kept staring at me.
Not openly, of course, but out of the corner of his eyes. Little glances when I was looking around, conscious of my surroundings, and pondering long looks when he thought I was concentrating on my work.
Little did he know that I couldn't concentrate on my work. I couldn't forget where I was - more like with whom. He kept intruding my thoughts. How could anyone concentrate with someone watching all the time?
Okay, so I was a bit attracted to him. It shouldn't affect me this much. It had never affected me this much to have someone I liked watching me. And I had liked some persons during my long existence, as surprising as that might be to some people. They didn't know me. Not so well as they thought.
"Why are you staring at me?"
A nervous voice jolted me out of my thoughts. Staring? I raised an eyebrow. Who was staring here...?
It took me a while to realize it. I _had_ been staring at him. Jounouchi. The human. Now his gaze kept shifting from me to the window to the door to the bookshelf to me again. He couldn't even keep his hands still, the nervous wreck. Not many people could take me looking at them, no wonder he was so jittery.
Why did he come anyway? He could have avoided Mokuba, no matter what threats the brat had decided to choose.
---Shadi POV---
Yes... I was here now. I was close to my prey. Very close, in fact. One of them, the white-haired one with brown eyes, was in one of these houses on this street, I could feel his presence as I walked onwards. I hadn't been searching for any of them right now, just getting to know the battleground, but perhaps this was for the good. He could certainly feel my aura now...
How would he react when he felt his enemy so close? What would he feel when he noticed that I had finally come to claim him? ...So fascinating. I couldn't kill him yet, of course, but perhaps I could meet him in person. How long had it been since I actually met any of them? So long... Too long. My revenge had waited for too long. The destiny had waited too long to be fulfilled. Perhaps I should kill him now after all.
Oh yes, the potent blood of a vampire of his age, the amazing sights his soul must have seen along the millennia... It would be fascinating indeed to win over him, to feel his pain in the last moments of his so-called life. Perhaps I should.
I walked on. If the opportunity presented itself, perhaps I would. For now, I was content to wait for a while longer. I had never been of the kind to hurry things needlessly, and I wasn't about to start now.
---Ryou POV---
The vampire I had previously been so comfortably cuddled up with bolted up. I could feel his worry. I could feel even the touch of fear hiding behind it.
What did it take to make a vampire afraid? Especially this vampire?
I suddenly got worried. Indeed, what threat could possibly scare him?
"Bakura..?"
He turned to look at me. As if he had forgotten that I was there. And the look in his eyes... I didn't like it. It spoke nothing of his worry or his fear. It spoke of violence and hatred, of bloodlust and rising strength. Those were the eyes of the creature that had come after me that first night. I shrunk away from that gaze. Where had the sweet Bakura of before gone? Was this the extent of his kindness, he was willing to cast me away the moment something came up?
"We need to go. And quick"
"Go? But why?"
"Don't question me, mortal! Get up and move!"
I refused to look at him now. The anger in his eyes was too visible, too raw. I feared him now. I feared for my life, for my sanity. I feared that he would touch me despite his earlier behavior. Had it been an act? No, it couldn't have been. I could still feel his fear, his confusion. And I could feel the threat I had been feeling for several days coming closer.
What was this? What was this feeling? Did _he_ know? Was that why he was so scared?
Suddenly he grasped my arm and drew me to him.
"I said move!"
My eyes met his and found nothing but hatred. Then I was pressed against his chest tightly, my feet left the earth, and he was moving. He opened the window, hesitating for a small moment, perhaps checking the surroundings. Then he was on the move again, his arms surrounding me. The cold wind swept past, stirring my hair.
I felt a small jolt as we hit the ground, but he didn't care, he was going. The doom, the threat, the one I had dreaded for several days came closer. And then I felt it getting more distant again, as if the threat was actually something that could be avoided by moving away from it. But I was sure it would find us again. What was it doing here anyway? What did it mean?
No, I shouldn't think on it. No use doing that, I wasn't going to find out anyway. Not unless someone told me, or the doom decided to walk into my life itself.
I shifted in the vampire's arms, trying to find a better position without greatly disturbing him. The way he acted right now, he might actually do something...bad. I shouldn't think on it. I shouldn't. But I couldn't stop my mind from wandering to directions I didn't want it to go to. How bothersome.
"Stop moving around or you'll fall!"
The low hiss stopped me. Just as I thought, he wasn't very pleased that I dared to move. I tried to be still, but it wasn't very easy even though he was clutching me as if I'd die if he let me go. Or maybe because of it. It made me nervous.
No wonder.
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AN: Hmm... Not as long as it could have been, but I felt like moving on to the next chapter. And because of that this story grows longer yet again X.X I'm _still_ in the fifth night! And as promised (in my bio), I'll try to get the next chapter out three days from posting this one. Please review?