General Cartography Part Three

Yep, one more chapter...::bursts into tears::: I'm sorry, I love Kurda ...I just have to include some terrible memory in chapter five. YES! YOU HEARD RIGHT! THERE'S GOING TO BE FIVE CHAPTERS! Yeah, I know I said I already finished it, but the story needs one more chapter, the sequel wouldn't make much sense without another, So yes, a little more Kurda on Lian action. And for you major pervs (like me!) if you want any perverted chapters, add it into a review by using the word 'klam' there's a message in it and I'll understand it. Now get yerself some Yakisoba (yummy!) and enjoy this homecooked fic with extra ketchup. (You have to admit, that was clever, and I'm high on green tea mint gum)

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Chapter Three:

Over the next weeks, Kurda had taken Lian out every night so she could get used to her newfound abilities, which wasn't much. But that wasn't the unusual thing. It was what Kurda started doing, and not just he, what Lian was doing as well.

From the night Lian was blooded, the two were allowing themselves to sleep with one another. Sometimes Lian would sleep in Kurda's coffin with him, and other times Kurda would sleep in Lian's bed with her until shortly before dawn, then he would transfer down.

One night, during one of their rare, but enjoyable make-out sessions, they received and unwanted visitor.

They were on Lian's living room floor with each other when a creak temporarily interrupted them. They thought nothing of it but then returned to their business.

Footsteps slowly entered the living room. Standing, overseeing the living room, a blonde haired, brown eyed man of about twenty-three, stood holding a knife.

"You cheating bitch!" he shouted holding the knife out in front of him. Kurda and Lian stopped what they were doing and Lian stood up.

"Pat!" she said going over to him slapping him across the face. " You're the only one who was cheating! Almost a week after my accident I saw you making out behind the pub a block from where I work, making out with some brunette! You're the only one cheating here!" Pat didn't reply, she just shoved the knife in her arm.

"Like I care what you think." he snorted. He could say no more. Kurda had him pinned against the wall.

"I dare you to say that again!" Kurda snapped.

"Like I care what she has to say." Pat replied. "That bitch ruined my life. Since that day on our business trip she purposely tripped and tried to get away from me."

"Me falling on purpose?" Lian growled as she grasped her wound. "You tripped me! You wanted me dead so you could open your own strip bar without my knowing! So I decided to break up with you without your knowledge, you dirty piece of filth!" Kurda pulled a dagger from under his cloak and stabbed him in the upper chest.

"Who ever tries to harm her deals with me!" Kurda snarled. He made a deaths touch sign and pulled his dagger lower until he was sure it reached the heart. The he said sarcastically: "Even in death may you be triumphant..." Lian walked over to the vampiric killer cautiously.

"Kurda...?" she asked. "What did you just do?"

"You couldn't smell it?" he asked. "His blood is tainted. He reeked of bad blood. He would have killed you."

"Kurda!" Lian shouted. "You killed him! What's wrong with you! Is that vampire blood making you a killer!?" She looked at the dead body slumped against the wall. There was a stain of blood running down her wall. "You're mad!" She darted away from Kurda and out of the house.

Kurda had never expected that a move in trying to save Lian's life would be the last one he made for her. He expected her to be gone. He couldn't care. He wouldn't. Kurda knew it had to end one day. But he never planned for it to be like this. Killing the one Lian once loved in order to save her. The scent of treachery hung in the air.

Kurda searched Lian's kitchen for a moment and entered her bedroom. He was carrying a notepad and a pencil. He wrote a message on the first sheet of paper saying only two things:

I'm sorry. I'm leaving you in order for you to

maintain who you are now.

He placed the note on her bed and opened the window in her room and left without another word.

Kurda started walking off, alone. He didn't know where to go but he had decided to never fall in love with a human again. Except...he had remembered that Lian wasn't all human.