Dark Love

By: Padfoot-chan

I changed the rating back to PG-13 but I might change it back again depending. I am sorry if this confuses anyone or makes it hard for people to find this story. I guess you could just check "Just In" or type my name in "Search" and then look for Dark Love in my profile to see if I updated or not.

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I am so hungry. I did not eat at all yesterday and I have yet to eat today. As soon as I get off the computer, I am heading into the kitchen to pig out…or pass out. I might be too tiered to eat anything. I wonder if other writers to this. My editor is so going to love me. "Okami! Get your ass off that PS2 and get back to work!" "Mao. I don't want to, editor-sensei. Go away and come back tomorrow. Pick up the trash on your way out." "…" Heh heh.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Golden Sun characters, they belong to Camelot.

Warning: Still shonen-ai. Don't like, don't read.

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Chapter 7: Midnight Tryst

He lets out a sigh and looks out at the giant mansion once before turning back to me, a pleading look in his amethyst eyes, "Uh…one last kiss before I am sentenced to be grounded for the rest of my life?" How could I say no to an invitation like that? I smile at him and lean forward, grabbing the back of my neck gently and pulling him towards me. I am not going to see him until tomorrow night; I might as well make this kiss count.

I feel him slip his arms around my neck before he tangles his fingers through my hair. I deepen the kiss, parting his lips with my own and slipping my tongue inside of his mouth, searching the warm caverns for a long moment. I finally pull away from him, gasping for breath. "You…you better go now." I whisper breathily. He hugs me one last time before turning quickly and getting out of the car. I watch him for a second before slipping off my jacket and undoing my shirt. "Ivan, wait." He turns around as I call out to him and I throw my shirt to him. He catches it out of reflex and blinks down at the article of clothing as I shrug my jacket on again.

"What…? Why are you giving me your shirt?" I smirk at him and wink.

"You said it smells like me, right? I just thought you could use that to help you get through your training. Why do you think there are so few hunters anymore? It's because very few of them can get through the training." It may not lift his spirits but it is the truth and right now, that is what Ivan needs to hear. He does not need to hear anything else. He hugs my shirt to his chest and smiles at me.

"Thank you, Robin." I nod and watch him, waiting for him to turn and run to the academy but when he does not move from the spot, I smirk at him again.

"Are you going to get out of the road or do you want someone to run over you before you can get yelled at." He blushes at this, waves to me and runs off to the academy. I watch him until he is through the doors of the academy before turning back to the steering wheel and starting up my car again. Tonight is going to be boring. Maybe I could read a book…slowly. I let out a sigh and set out for my house.

I park my car in the garage next to my motorcycle before heading up the sidewalk to my door. As I slip the key into the keyhole, I pause. Something feels different. The night air feels tense, as if something dangerous is about. I press my hand against the door and close my eyes, searching for something, anything out of the ordinary. Nothing. Everything feels the same as it always does. I search for the girl from the café and find her aura still at the café, serving her customers as always.

Why do I feel this pain gripping my heart? A force tearing at my very soul, almost brining me to my knees. I struggle to maintain control over my breathing as I pull away from the door; turning the key in the lock and throwing the door open, kicking it close behind me. I have to get my mind off whatever that was. I remove my coat, hanging it up on the coat rack before I walk through the darkened house and up the stairs. I need to think of something distracting…

Ivan. I feel my stomach flutter at the thought of him and I smile to myself. I still cannot believe that he would actually want to be with me and he let me…make love to him and he even wants to do it again. I turn and fall backwards onto my bed, smiling up at the ceiling. Ivan is an amazing person. I am glad that we bumped into each other that one night. I have something far better to live for now. I can forget all about my maker…I know I can. Mother would not have wanted me to throw my life away by trying to seek revenge for her death. She gave her life so I could live. I was foolish to think that she died just so that I could live for revenge and most likely get killed in the process.

I run my tongue on the bottom of my lips. Ivan's taste still lingers there from our last kiss. I bring my hand to my lips, touching them lightly. It has only been thirty minutes and I want to see him. I need to get a hold of myself or I am sure I will snap.

"I know what you are thinking." My eyes widen and I sit up quickly, looking around my room frantically until my eyes fall on a dark figure leaning against the wall in the corner of the room. He has long, pale blue hair draping over his shoulders and ice-blue eyes, similar to my own. "His taste is still on your lips. You revel in his mortal taste, the feel of his mortal body against yours. That tight, warm space when you slide inside of him…and claimed him as only a lover can."

"Alex." I spat the name out as if it were a vile taste on my lips. After all these years of searching, after all these years of nothing but dead ends he suddenly appears in my room, mere inches from me as soon I as decide not to go against him. That is typical of him. He has not changed a bit.

He smiles at me with that all-knowing smile, telling me I am weaker than he is, I know less than him. I know nothing about anything, especially about our race. Our foul, damned race. Damned to walk this filthy earth for the rest of eternity until someone brings us crashing to our knees. Maybe he is right. I do know nothing about our race, but I do know about the world, about the human race, about more important things than the vampires. None of this matters. This past game of cat and mouse. It was only I who was chasing after him and it did not matter how hard I tried. He would always be a step ahead of me, laughing at me as I struggled to catch up. That is all over now.

"Such a mean look, Robin. I would think that you would be happy to see me after all these years. I am the one who gave you this life. In a sense…I am your god, am I not?" I narrow my eyes at him. So conceited. His ego has grown over these years if nothing else. He needs to be beaten one of these days, to put him in his place and deflate ego of his. "You should really be thanking me. If it had not been for me, you would have never met that little boy of yours. You would never have experienced a love so deep that it threatens to consume you, ever inch of your body until you no longer care and just allow yourself to be swept away with the emotion. A sheer ecstasy never before experienced."

What is this…? What is he saying? He speaks as if he himself after felt the emotions that I feel for Ivan…for another person. How can that be? Whom could he have fallen in love with? If someone had told me it was possible for Alex to fall in love with someone, an actual living, breathing person, I would have fallen to the ground laughing right there.

"That is how we love when we do fall in love for the person we have been waiting for…all of our lives. It is rather pathetic…to think that you have to become this…cold thing dependent upon blood before you can find that one person you want to spend the rest of your life with." He lifts his hand up to his face, studying it in the moonlight. It is that he has changed…? I would have never thought it possible for him to change. I mean…he is Alex after all, the man who killed both of my parents before stealing my natural life away from me. What could have made him change?

He lowers his hand and smirks at me, "Are you still going to chase after me, Robin? After you met your lover? I am far stronger than you, far stronger than you shall ever become. If you fight you, I assure you, you shall not win the battle. I made you, do not think I can not as easily take that life away." He waits patiently for my answer, standing before me as still as if he were a statue, barely breathing or even moving.

"If you provoke me, if you kill anyone in Sendai, I will come after you. The hunters do not know you are here, as far as they know, I am the oldest vampire around. I do not need you besmirching my name for your own sick, twisted little pleasures. Do you understand? I want you out of Sendai as soon as possible. I have no more reason to hunt you now." Was it a threat? I do not know myself but I did know that I wanted him out of Sendai and I wanted him out now. He smirks at me.

"Hmm? Is that so? Very well then. I am sure our paths will cross again very soon, Robin. Be sure to take care in the mean time. I will be the one to kill you, no one else." He bows his head to me and in a flash, far faster than even my eyes can follow, me is out of my room. A door opening and closing downstairs tells me that he is soon out of my house as well.

I fall back onto my bed with a sigh. All that hard work for nothing. I could have been doing so much more instead of searching for him, just running towards my death when I should have been running away from it. Even if it were blindly, I should have been running from him. Now what? Where does that leave us now? He is not the type of person to just drop something, especially not me. As far as I know I am the only vampire around that, he has ever created. As much as I hate to admit it, we have a special tie that binds us together.

I have a feeling that this is not over yet, not by a long shot. He will not give up until he wins. Well, I will not give up until he finally dies or learns his place in this world. He is not as great as he thinks he is. How would one measure greatness? From the power that the wield, from the things that you do or the people that you keep close to you. Who will be the victor in this battle, Alex? Will it be you or me? Only time will tell now. I know I am not strong enough to fight you and win on my own but I am not alone. Not anymore. I have someone to be my strength.

What do you have? A past love that you still pine over. A mortal lover who died long ago, as you merely watched her life wilt away like a dying flower. It is scary to think that…I will have to do so with Ivan…unless he asks me to…I shake my head rolling over and burying my face in the rumpled sheets of my bed. That is unthinkable. Even if he asked, I would not do that to him, I would not put him through this life only so that he could be with me. It would be selfish of me…would it not? On the other hand, would it in fact be selfish of me to withhold this from him? If he were to ask me and truly want it perhaps, I could give him what he wants.

I clutch a handful of the bed sheet in my fists, breathing in deeply. Ivan's scent still lingers of them. I smile and roll over, still holding onto the sheets, brining them up to my nose and taking another deep breath. I wish it was tomorrow night already. I want to see him now…

"Ivan…I miss you already."

-TBC-

I was thinking about having Robin go to the academy in this chapter and visiting Ivan but I still need to show what Ivan does on his first day of training and I did not want to repeat anything so I just decided to cut it off here. No, Alex is not in love with Garcia. I'm having Alex and Garcia as far from each other as possible in this. I don't need Garcia jumping on Alex and trying to kill him. Besides, Alex hates Robin far more. He doesn't hate Garcia at all…not in my opinion. Garcia is the one that dislikes Alex…but I don't think he hates him…I think they could actually become friends. Of course Alex hates Robin. After all, Robin is the one who took the power of the Mars Star, so he has part of the power of Golden Sun, the power that Alex needs to control it ::is really into this:: I could talk about that all day but I will stop here.

I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter and I apologize for it being so short. Read and review please!