Author's Notes: Woohoo!! Chapter 12!

Disclaimers: FANDANGO!

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Heaven's Flames

Chapter 12

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Rule #1: Find yourself a place to hide and stay there.

Rule #2: Don't piss off the vampire.

Rule #3: Keep your mouth shut.

Rule #4: Stay away from anything with black eyes.

Rule #5: If you need help, only go to the fairies.

Rule #6: Don't get attached to anyone.

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It was official. Mamoru was going mad. He was using all the restraint in his body not to jump the feverish girl in his arms. She was pressed up against him, arms wrapped around his waist, her hot and quick breaths tickling his skin... and then... to make matters even *worse*... she had her head tilted to one side, the expanse of her neck clearly in the vampire's field-of-view.
Mamoru gulped. All the other times he was around Usagi it was hard too. He could smell her blood within a five foot radius, but he had gotten used to it after the first day or so... But... now... Now that she was so close. So INCREDIBLY close...
He sighed. Pressing his cold lips to her burning forehead, Mamoru slowly eased himself out of Usagi's arms and out of the bed. He had to go to the Fairy Tale Realm and find her some kind of medicine before she got any worse. Before she...
Mamoru clamped his eyes shut. No, he wasn't going to think of that. She was going to be fine. Absolutely, positively --
"Ma... moru...?"
The said vampire gasped slightly in shock. He spun around to face a groggy Usagi.
"Hi, there..." he managed out hoarsely. "I'm sorry to wake you, I was just --"
"Where am I...?" Usagi's eyes darted around nervously. She was lying on her back, chest rising and falling heavily with forced breaths.
She didn't remember... She didn't remember him finding her, or carrying her on his back, or... kissing her... Maybe it was best she didn't then...
"You... um," Mamoru began to stutter, kneeling down on the floor next to the bed. "We're in my little... "home", I suppose you could call it." He resisted the urge to brush his hand against the confused blonde's cheek. "I found you shivering and with a fever yesterday and brought you here. I was just about to leave to get you some medicine..."
"No..." Usagi moaned, desperately trying to reach out to him, "don't leave me here all alone..."
Mamoru's heart clenched. "Dummy," he whispered hoarsely, "if I don't get you some medicine, you could die."
Usagi flinched at how nonchalantly he said that. Never-the-less, she gripped onto his hand, semi-conciously noticing that he was bare-chested and that she was wearing his teeshirt and jacket.
"Usa...gi," Mamoru hastily corrected himself. Right now wasn't the time to profess his feelings toward her... "I really need to go get you some medicine."
"I don't want medicine," the blonde cried out weakly, voice rising. "I want you...!" She coughed a few times at the strain in her throat and chest. Her voice lowered again. "Please, Mamoru..."
"Don't be an idiot!!"
Usagi gasped in suprise, staring into the icy glare that was directed on her. She bit her lip and desperately tried to hold back another cough. Her vision blurred slightly, but she could still see Mamoru's harsh gaze on her.
"Let me go." Mamoru's eyes softened the tiniest bit. He didn't want to be so cruel to her, especially when she was sick and wanted him by her side, but... being ruthless seemed to work anyother time he needed to knock some sense into the girl.
"No!" the blonde's grip on him tightened stubbornly. "Please, don't leave me!!" She couldn't even see him now. All he consisted of was a blur. Her whole entire world was spinning. "I don't want to be alone..." Usagi could feel her tongue going numb. She wondered if the previous sentence even came out properly.
Usagi opened her mouth to protest again, but was interrupted by a hacking cough. It seemed to rip right up from her burning lungs, tear through her worn esophagus, and burst from her chaped lips. Her hands immediately flew from Mamoru's and hovered over her mouth. The coughs racked her small frame causing her to writhe and wheeze. Mamoru watched on in horror as the girl before him, the seventeen year old whom he thought was so lively and could overcome anything, was lying weakly on his bed, tossing in pain. Just as Mamoru was about to reach out to her, the coughs began to subside. That's when the coppery taste filled Usagi's mouth.
Blood dribbled down her chin.
Mamoru's stomach lurched. Not only was the smell overpowering to his vampiric senses, but her to have been coughing so much as to make herself bleed? Or... was it something more dangerous...? Was she bleeding internally...?
"Dammit, Usagi!" Mamoru spat. He quickly rose from the bed and spun on his heel. Just as he was about to go run up the ladder to leave for the Fairy Tale Realm, Usagi called out to him.
"It won't work!" the blonde sobbed. Hot tears made there way down flushed cheeks. "Mamoru... What makes you think that you can find a medicine for me...?"
Mamoru had yet to turn to face her, but was motionless.
"What if I died while you were gone?!"
The vampire gasped.
"No!" he cried, spinning around. "No, Usagi, don't you dare!" His eyes were wild and his fists were clenched. "Don't you dare go around harassing me for the past week and then just die while I'm gone!"
Usagi didn't know whether she should laugh or cry some more. Did he mean that as if she was just some kind of pest to him? Or was he just using that as a cover for something more sincere...?
"I'm not afraid... to die..."
Mamoru blinked.
"Wh-what...?"
"I'm not... Really..."
The vampire trembled. Was she truely not afraid...? Did she laugh in the face of death, when he was terrfied? When he had giving his blood... just to win an unnatural battle against it?
Mamoru desperately tried to push away the memories of six years ago when he was attacked. And when he was turned into the creature he was today...
"I'm going now." He some how managed to keep his voice from wavering.
"I am afraid of one thing though, Mamoru..."
The raven haired man stared at Usagi in curiousity. His stomach flipped for reasons he didn't know.
"I'm not afraid of dying... But I am... afraid to die alone..." Usagi's eyes filled with crystaline tears. One solitary drop of salt water spilled over onto her cheek. Her bottom lip was trembling, although it was clear she was trying to hide it. "So... please..." Her voice cracked. "Please don't leave me alone...!"
Mamoru felt blood filling his mouth at a dramatic rate as he chomped down on his tongue to keep from crying. All of his muscles were tightened to the extent that they were screaming in pain. He blinked away the threatening blur of red that filled in his eyes. He wanted to say something, anything, but he couldn't even breath past the lump in his throat. Thank God he couldn't die from lack of air...
Usagi clung on to Mamoru's make-shift pillow, which was actually much softer that she had thought it to be. The blonde buried her head in the pillow and sobbed harder. Harsh coughs interrupted her crying every few seconds. Her nose ceased to run despite how many times she sniffled. She clamped her eyes down tight, trying to block out the psychedelic colors of fever that was invading her sight.
It was just too much...
Usagi heard shuffling and the sound of footsteps. She hestitantly lifted her head and opened her eyes.
Mamoru was gone.
The opening to above ground had barely even been covered. He must have been in quite the hurry to get out of there...
"DAMN YOU!!" Usagi screamed as loud as she could, cursing not only Mamoru, but the unicorn/pegasus in the Fairy Tale Realm that told her the the vampire was in love with her. She would have screamed all the curses she knew, but was too overcome with coughing and wheezing.
Her head was spinning...
She silently prayed that she *would* die while Mamoru was gone.
On one of the soil walls Mamoru had scraped in with a finger a message. It read:
DON'T YOU DARE!

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Author's Notes: That took me forever to write... ¬_¬ Mamoru's such a meanie... ^_^ Hehe, I'm so evil...! Well, I hope to get the next chapter out much sooner next time... o_O;; Enjoy! I'm on to write Satsugaisha!