BLEEDING ANGEL

AN: I do not own Card Captor Sakura

Chapter 3

I awoke with a start and found my lap and the cave empty. Fear rushed through me as I made a wild dash through the empty and crude hallways, my eyes always on the look out for the girl. A loud explosion ruptured through the hollow black rock and the urgent need in me to find her grew too critical. Why did I over sleep? I cursed myself for my reckless behaviour.

My body turned the corner into the large open area I found myself the day before, I looked up to see a mad crowd of men and women scramble in and around cells. My eyes darted to the ceiling and I smirked at the large hole that frowned at me.

A rope dropped down in front of me. "Hurry up!" Meiling's voice roared at me above all the noise and confusion.

"Sakura!"

"We have the wretch." I twisted the rope around my arm, an instant later I found myself scrambling through the gaping hole in the control room's floor and into the ship hovering a few meters away.

"HURRY MEILING! THE SUN IS ABOUT TO RISE!" The pilot yelled at us. Meiling closed the door behind me just as the ship made a violent shudder and we blasted into the dawning atmosphere. Fierce curses ran through the ship and I grinned at the voice.

"Now, now Sakura, that is no way to talk." I teased the heated girl. She made a lunge for me, but stumbled back when the chain on her cuff reached its limit.

"Ahhh!" She growled loudly and beat her arm with the cuff against the wall, trying to damage her restraints to the maximum. The ship gave another violent shudder as we broke free of the forsaken planet's gravity and flung her to the wall before she collapsed to the floor. She moaned slightly and blood dripped down her arm. The metal cut into her flesh. I bent over her to take the thing off and she winched her arm away, letting the metal cut deeper into her skin. "Fuck off!" I ignored her and tried to get to her arm once more. "I said fuck off!"

"What? Would you rather that thing cut through your flesh then through your bone?"

"Yeah, anything is better than having you touch me."

"For goodness sakes Sakura, don't be so childish."

"I AM NOT A CHILD!" She turned her back to me, clutching the cuff with her free hand. "I haven't been one in six years." Meiling strolled into the room playing with a little key between her fingers. She unlocked the cuff and it fell from Sakura's wrist against the wall. The girl immediately rushed out of the room clutching her bleeding wrist.

"I told you that she's not a child anymore."

I looked at the empty room and shifted with my back against the cold wall. My eyes darted to the small droplets of fresh blood on the floor and I pushed a hand through my messy hair before my fingers left the known texture. My index finger glided over the blood I knew belonged to the girl and watched the red liquid on my skin.

I closed my eyes as the taste of the blood, her taste filled me. Such is the custom of my race. "To taste the blood of the one you love is a promise of love beyond the limits death." The voice drifted over my senses and lingered in my mind. "Twice now you have made that promise." The tracker took her seat next to me. "Will you keep it this time?"

"I never stopped."

"True. And you never showed it either." My fingers intertwined and my arms rested on my knees as I listened to her voice.

"It is forbidden."

"She's not a little girl anymore."

"It still doesn't make it right. She's still a kid and I'm…"

"You were twenty when you first laid eyes on a girl. You were both stranded on a planet saturated with the hatred of hell. Desperate to survive she turned her trust to you and you… you found your heart turned to her. Something that never happened to you before. Something you hated and loved at the same damn confusing time."

"At first I dismissed it."

"You thought you only felt protective of her. You felt you had an obligation towards her, that you had to save her. And that saving this girl would somehow right all the wrongs you carried with you for so many years." The memories of my thoughts ran through my mind and the tracker continued to talk. "Then the impossible, unforgivable and incredible happened. A Pretorianer fell in love with some one out side his race, out side his age and with in his reach." I bit my lip as the events unfolded in front of my closed eyes. The first time I realised the sin I have committed.

I saw her laughing face before me and I felt the warm emotions of what I felt that day wash over me. Blood had run down her face from a cut she received when we had crash landed on the new planet of safety. Her short honey brown hair danced in the wind and the first rays of the new day washed over her soft features.

"You are guilty of the ultimate sin known to your race." I felt my skin tingle as the memory of my finger whipping way the red liquid from her face played before me. Her taste played in my blood. "You love someone you were supposed to kill."

I buried my face in my hands.

Forgive me.

Forgive me.

For I have sinned.

AN: I'm a Pretorianer. It's the Afrikaans name given for people who live in Pretoria, the city I live in. Pretoria is located in the province of Gauteng, which is the smallest, but busiest province of South Africa. South Africa is divided in to 9 different provinces.

Thank you

Tella