My Angel
By: Padfoot-chan
::laughs:: A game of "bump bump" eh? Truth be told, I was not planning on having them do that in this story, after hearing that though…I might just change my mind :3 In fact, I think I shall. I can easily figure out where to put something like that. Thank you so much for the reviews, I am glad that you are enjoying the story.
Note: After this chapter, I am changing my username to "Datenshi". If that is taken, I will use either "Datenma" or "Daoni". I thought that it was time for a change and as much as I love Sirius, I cannot use his name forever XD
Disclaimer: I do not own Golden Sun. I do own Silas and Lunae, though.
Warning: Shonen-ai.
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Chapter 3: Recovery
I lay Ivan down on our bed, brushing back the wet blonde strands of hair away from his forehead before turning away and getting him a clean change of clothes and a towel. For some reason, his lithe body is wrapped in cloth here and there. I finger the bandages around his chest gingerly before I slip a dry shirt over his head and pull the covers up to his chin. I turn to leave to check up on Picard and Garcia but he moans in his sleep and subconsciously reaches out to me, grabbing onto the edge of my sleeve and holding me in place. "Ivan?"
I turn back around to see his violet eyes flicker open, a dazed look in his eyes. "Please do not leave me, Robin." So, he was awake this whole time. He offers me a weak, tired smile. "We have not seen each other in a long time. I am a little tired right now, but could you just stay here and hold me?" I lean forward and brush my lips against his.
"Anything for you." I lay down on the bed next to him, resting my head on my arm as I look up at the bare ceiling, Ivan moving closer to me, resting his head on my chest and wrapping his arms around me. I want to ask him about what happened to him but it is too soon. I am just happy that he came back to me at all. It is good to be able to see him again. I begin to stroke his hair subconsciously, my mind drifting off elsewhere.
What could Ivan and Garcia have run into that would keep them held up for longer than they had first anticipated? It could not have been his father's murderer. The vampire was strong but he was not strong enough to keep Ivan and Garcia, even if Ivan had gone on his own, he would have been able to fight the vampire with ease. No, there had been something else, I just cannot figure out what it could possibly have been. Both Ivan and Garcia had been badly wounded when they returned and Ivan's wounds were still hindering him now.
I look down at him, faltering when I see that he is breathing hard. I try to sit up but his grip around me tightens until it is almost painful. I take his hand, "Ivan, I need to get Mary or one of the other healers. You are in pain right now and I hate to see you suffer." He shakes his head, tilting his chin slightly so he can look at me. "I am not just going to sit around here while you are in pain, Ivan. I will carry you if you make me but I need to get one of the healers."
"Can't you do it? You have been studying how to heal wounds, so this should be nothing for you." I sigh and sit up, pushing gently on his shoulders to make him lay back down on the bed. I remove the bandages around his right arm first, blanching at the sight. There is a long bloody gash cutting down from his shoulder to his elbow. Some of the lint from the bandages sticks to the wound, soaking up the blood and turning a pale crimson color.
"Ivan, you idiot." I hiss at him, trying to sound reprehending but failing miserably. "This looks bad. How did you get this? How long has it been like this?" He moans, tossing his head and gripping the bed sheets tightly. "I cannot believe that Garcia would only wrap this up in a pitiful bandage. That idiot…if he was not injured himself; I would kick his ass." I shake my head and touch the wound lightly with my fingertips, his blood warm to the touch. I pull my hand away from the wound and open my mouth, licking the blood from my fingers. Even now, in this mortal form, I still like the taste of blood. I suppose it has become a habit now more than anything else. Years and years of nothing but blood…my body has become immune to it and for all healing purposes…I need to taste the blood of the person I am healing before I can heal them.
Suppressing a shiver of delight, I hold my hand over Ivan's arm and run it down from his shoulder to his elbow, a golden light following my movements down his arm. The light begins to sparkle and sticks to the wound, the skin slowly coming together and closing. That is when I notice a strange black tattoo on Ivan's shoulder, which had been previously shielded from view by the bandages. There is really no way to describe the tattoo; it is like nothing I have ever seen before. If I tilt my head one way, it looks like a sword, another way it looks like a flower. I trace my finger along the edge of the tattoo and Ivan smiles weakly at me. "That…was one of the reasons I took so long to return. It is the marking of a hunter. Before my training was still…incomplete. There was still one more thing that I had to do before I could fight the vampire who killed my father."
"I see." Nodding to him, I turn to remove the other bandages but he grabs my wrist and I turn my eyes back to his, frowning. "Are you going to let me continue?" He smiles weakly but it disappears as he tries to sit up but flinches, falling back onto the bed. "Try not to move even after I am done. I can only heal surface wounds but your body is very tired. You overexerted yourself out there…it must have meant a lot to you to beat that vampire."
"Robin, will you kiss me again?" I hate seeing him like this. It is so different from the Ivan that I am used to seeing. I lift him up carefully and he goes to wrap his arms around my neck but I hold his wrists to the bed, keeping them in place as I lean forward and bring my lips to his again. I release my hold on one of his wrists and bring my hand up to the back of his head, grabbing onto his hair and pulling him back a little roughly. "Un…Robin…?"
"Look what you have gone and done." I whisper, dropping a kiss on his neck, "All because you would not let me go with you. I could have helped you, I could have protected you. If you had allowed me to go with you, none of this would have ever happened."
"I know but I had to do this on my own." I pull away and look at him carefully, my eyes narrowing.
"Then why did you allow Garcia to go with you. If you were to take anyone with you, it should have been me. I could do a lot more for you than he could have. Did you just want to put me through the pain of not being around you for so many months? Was it a test for me as well? To see how long I could go without you before finally snapping?"
"It was not like that, Robin…" He whispers, shaking his head. I sigh and push him down onto the bed again, shifting my weight and tending to the bandages on his left arm. "Robin…I never wanted to live you in the first place but I needed someone with me…I did not want to hurt either you nor Picard when I chose Garcia to come with me. I thought that…"
"Shut up…don't talk anymore. Just enjoy this." I brush his bangs out of his eyes. "I just wish that you had trusted me enough to take care of myself as well as you." He turns his gaze away from me. "I am not mad, if that is what you are thinking. I am very happy that you are back with me again."
"There is something else, though, right?" I nod.
"There is always something else. You are never, under any circumstances to leave my side like that again. I cannot protect you if you are that far from me, not in this body." I look down at my hand, balling it into a fist. "Though, I do not regret most things about being mortal once again. I just feel that I am weak. Maybe you would have let me go if I were still a vampire, if you felt that there was no need to protect me…" He grabs onto my sleeve and pulls me down with what strength he still has left in him.
"Even if you were still immortal, I would not have asked you to come with me. There will always be the fear that I am going to lose you, Robin. You must feel it too, why else would you be acting the way you are now." He hugs me tightly, "There is nothing we can do about it. We live a dangerous life and we cannot help but get into dangerous positions like this. I think that is better though, than living a normal boring life." I kiss his chin and smile to myself.
"We are anything but normal."
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"So they have returned from their mission abroad." The room was blanketed in a thick darkness and the only source of light was from a small wax candle sitting on a marble windowsill next to the frost kissed window. A young man with long, dirty blonde hair and blood red bangs leans back in a large armchair and smirks at the girl standing near the window. "You should know him, Lunae. You have met him before in that lovely little café those people own."
"Ivan Cor Tsunomi, aged seventeen, 5'7", 115 lbs. Son of a very important vampire hunter, one of the descendents of the first vampire hunter." The girl narrowed her amber eyes, "We have met before. He is the one responsible for Alex disappearing."
"Come now, you give the hunter far too much credit. Alex was quite foolish when he thought he could cross Robin, especially if he felt that his young lover's life was threatened. The only reason Alex is missing, is because of Robin, not because of the boy."
"Believe what you will, Silas, and I will believe what I want to believe. I think it is because of Tsunomi. There is something no right about that boy. There is something in him that his father did not have." The man laughed at this.
"Something in him that his father did not have? Yes and that would be another man."
"You sick…"
"Can you go without bickering for at least five minutes? I am still trying to find Lord Alex. If we do not find him, our plans are going to be messed up for sure. I just need some quiet to find him."
"It is hopeless, why are you even wasting your time?" There was a long pause followed by a triumphant shout.
"Ha! Because I just found him."
"Great, we get to play fetch the stick. Let's go get him then, Silas."
-TBC-
The next update should take a little longer since I am still thinking about what should happen. I am also going to go back and fix all grammar errors and typos, which means I have to read over the story a couple of times to catch them all. I would get my best friend to do it but she is drunk at the moment because she just got her wisdom teeth out or whatever and she had an allergic reaction to the medicine. In addition, she is not into Golden Sun. None of my friends offline are into Golden Sun, which is pretty sad because I like to talk about it a lot. I need a beta-reader XD
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