Author's Notes: It's 9:00 PM and I just got a sudden urge to write some of this... *shrugs* I'm insane, I know... ^_^;;

Disclaimers: I don't own Sailor Moon... Blah Blah... But I DO own this story! So don't copy it cuz it's copyrighted (seriously, it is)!

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Heaven's Flames

Chapter 13

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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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Mamoru drummed his fingers nervously against the little pouch he held. Inside, he hoped, was the cure for Usagi. That faries had to make the small berries from scratch and it had taken *much* longer than Mamoru had hoped.
He quickened his pace.
The vampire's heart was pounding. What if... What if she *had* she died...?
"No!" Mamoru bit out. "She's stronger than that..."
But, if she really *was* bleeding internaly... Then...
"Oh God..."
Mamoru froze in his steps for a minute. What if she had... And she was all alone...? And...!
Usagi's words ricocheted throughout Mamoru's mind.
'I'm not afraid of dying... But I am... afraid to die alone...'
Mamoru had never ran so fast in his life.

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Usagi moaned. Someone was shaking her shoulder.
"Go away..." she managed hoarsely.
The shaking persisted.
"Usagi, come on... Open your eyes..."
It's was Mamoru's voice...
Usagi noted he sounded slightly annoyed... but there was something else... relieved was it?
The blonde moaned again. She rolled onto her back, erupting a small cough from her lips. She slowly let her eyes flutter open.
Mamoru was leaning over her, a smile gracing his lips. Yes, relieved was definately the word...
Usagi wanted to sit up and throw her arms around him. She wanted to drag him down onto the bed with her and kiss him senless.
"I'm not talking to you," the blonde spat. Being cruel always worked, too...
Her throat was raw, and she was positive that her voice sounded incredibly raspy.
The vampire blinked. His smile didn't falter long, however. Infact, it came back even happier than before and a chuckle came along with it.
"Damn you, Mamoru!" Usagi cried out, causing a short chain of coughs. "How... can you sit there... and laugh...?!" she reprimanded breathlessly.
The raven haired man's face softened. "I'm just glad you're all right."
"Oh?" Usagi replied disbelievingly."Are you so relieved that I'm still actually alive?" She scoffed. "Please, you left me here, when I begged you not to. Am I actually supposed to think you *care*?!"
Mamoru gulped. It was true but... He did it to get her medicine! He stood up in slight agitation and tossed the pouch to her. He turned around and sat down in one of the corners of the soil dwelling they both occupied and began opening a backpack Usagi hadn't noticed earlier.
"What is this...?" the blonde asked, voice raspy.
"The medicine I got for you." Mamoru continued fumbling through the bag. "You better appreciate it. The faries had to make it especially for you."
Usagi coughed, as if finalizing this statement. She weakly picked up the small pouch and eyed it incredulously.
"Well, it better be worth it since it took you *hours* to get back..."
"You're so ungrateful!" Mamoru snapped. "Christ, I was just trying to help!"
"Since when...?" Usagi moaned slightly and held her head. The pschydelic colors flashing through her mind didn't stop her from reprimanding the vampire a few feet away, however. "Just the other day you said you didn't care about me in the slightest..." She tried to sit up, but fell back down. She was just to dizzy, weak, and cold to do anything...
"Just shut up and take the damn medicine!" Mamoru finally pulled a black sketch book out of his bag and flipped a little more than halfway through it.
"If I had enough strength," Usagi groaned, "I'd come over there and slap you."
"Well, you don't," Mamoru glared at her, "so stop being bitching and take the medicine."
Usagi couldn't even see him anymore past the colors of feverish hallucination and the blurring of her tear-filled eyes. She couldn't breath through her nose, due to how incredibly stuffy it was, and the lump in her throat was strangling her as well.
Mamoru was about to open his mouth to, rather rudely, ask her why the hell she hadn't taken the medicine yet, but stopped as she began hacking. His eyes widened in a mixture of fear and sympathy; fear to see the blood again, and sympathy to see her in so much pain.
Usagi rolled over onto her side, coughing terrible. It made her whole body scream in pain. She nearly fell off the bed from all the thrashing about and her delirious state.
It was just too much.
Mamoru clenched his fists. The blood was spurting out of her mouth now, instead of just dribbling innocently like before. It had gotten so much worse while he was gone...
"God dammit, Usagi!!!" Mamoru screeched, voice going up slightly. "Would you take the friggin' medicine already?! You're gonna kill yourself!!!"
Usagi blinked past the tears making their way down her cheeks and the eccentric colors invading her mind. She could barely make out Mamoru's outline, but she could tell that he was next her now. She could hardly feel his hands gripping on to her shoulders past all the numbess, but she knew that he was. It made her heart skip.
"Usagi, you're such a stubborn jackass!!" Mamoru clenched his jaw and furrowed his brow. "Stop being such a moron! Take the medicine!!"
"Mamoru..." Usagi's voice didn't even sound like her own anymore... It was raw, yet gurgly from all the blood... It sounded so... inhuman...
"Shhhh..." Mamoru pressed a finger to her bloody lips. "Don't talk," he whispered gently. Screaming at her wasn't going to help any... "Please, Usagi, just take the medicine... You don't want to die, do you...?"
Usagi whimpered. Did she want to die? Well... no, not necessarily... but... if Mamoru was going to stop protecing her now that the week was pracitcally up... and if he didn't care then...
"Yes..."
The raven-haired teen blinked. "'Yes' what...?" Surely she didn't mean...
"Yes, I want to die..."
Mamoru nearly gagged.
Usagi felt another hot tear make its way down her numb cheek. She adverted her gaze slightly. She couldn't look at him like that... Not when his eyes were so wide, staring into her very soul... Not when he seemed so dissapointed in her like that...
"Usagi..." the vampire whispered in shock. "You...? Why do you...?"
"Why wouldn't I...?!" she cried. "I'm stuck here, in this horrible video game...!! And I'm in love with a guy... who... who...!" Usagi broke down into sob after sob, sometimes erupting a cough or two. Her frame shook tremedously.
Mamoru blinked away the red of his blood-tears that was blurring his vision. Oh God... was she really *that* miserable...?
The vampire shook his head. Now wasn't the time for that... The most important thing was to get her to take the medicine. Then... then once she was better... then he would make it up to her...
"Usagi, please..." he pleaded. "Take the medicine... *please*..."
Usagi's sobs subsided a bit. She managed to gain enough control of her tears and the blood seeping from her mouth to shake her head and mumble a "no".
Mamoru was fed up. Whether she wanted to or not, he would *make* her take the medicine, so help him God.
Mamoru grabbed the pouch from the blonde's trembling and frail hands. He hastily opened it and let the six berry-like objects roll out into his palm.
"You're taking this." It's was a statement that even Usagi dared not fight back against. "Open your mouth."
Usagi weakly parted her chaped lips. Mamoru was grateful that he had something to eat while he was the medicine from the faries. Otherwise, he might not have been able to control himself at the sight and smell of the blood that ruptured from the blonde's throat.
Mamoru popped one of the berries into her mouth. Usagi desperately tried to chew it, but it seem as though she was trying to grind a rock. She was just too weak....
Usagi coughed once and spit the berry out into her hand.
"Mamoru..." she moaned. "I can't-"
"Yes, you *can*," he growled. "Chew it," Mamoru ordered, putting the berry back in her mouth.
Usagi tried, but failed again. Her numb tongue made the berry seem three times it's size. It was too hard...
She spit it out again.
Mamoru sighed in exasperation, taking the berry form her. "Fine," he grumbled.
The vampire popped the berry ito his own mouth and chewed on it longer than needed, that way there would be no excuses...
Usagi blinked slightly in suprise. Despite her blurred vision, she could see what he was doing. Why was he...?
Before Usagi could finish her thought Mamoru was bent over her, mouth pressed against her own. The blonde's lips parted in suprise. She felt a tangy juice fill her mouth.
He was feeding her the medicine...
New tears resurfaced in Usagi's eyes.
Mamoru slowly pulled away, despite his body's protest. He sat up fully, slightly blushing, and began chewing on another berry.
It took Usagi three tries before she could swallow the medicine properly. A small cough made it's way out.
It all hurt so bad. The coughing, the painful numbness... the fact that Mamoru was kissing her, and yet making it into a chore... That's what hurt the most.
Mamoru's lips were against hers again. His body felt buring hot against hers. It felt so hot it almost hurt.
Usagi reluctantly opened her mouth for the juice to flow in. Once it did, Mamoru pulled away, Usagi swallowed, and they repeated the process.
To Usagi it seemed like the berries would never end. How she wished this would finish up...
Mamoru pulled away after another berry. Usagi swallowed and turned her head away. He watched her in confusion for a moment. Then, he noticed it... There were tears streaming down her flushed cheeks.
His heart clenched.
Usagi was trying so hard not to cry, but it was just too much.
The blonde felt Mamoru's fingers under her chin. He tilted her head to face him. He leaned down and pressed his lips against her own for the millionth time. Usagi prayed that it was the last one. She opened her mouth expectantly.
The juice didn't come.
Instead, Mamoru's tongue darted in.
Usagi's eyes flew open.
He was... kissing her...?!


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Author's Notes: (it's six days later form when I started writing this...) Well, ladies and gentlemen... THAT SUCKED!! WOOHOO!!