True Love for a Vampire

Chapter 21

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Thanks to everyone who reviewed, you guys are great. Sorry I haven't been updating to often I have been busy with other things. I hope everyone likes this chapter. Well on with the story.

It was nearly four am before Serenity awoke. Her mined was still hazy and she didn't move partially from the pain she was in and partially from fear of being beat again. She had been owned once before by a brutal owner, a drunk, Joey's father. She wasn't sure where he had gotten the money to buy her but she feared him more than anything in the world.

When Seto realized that Serenity was awake he rushed to her side to make sure there was no permanent damage done to her. When he reached out to pet her smooth black fair she flinched. He pulled his hand away slowly to make sure he didn't scare her.

"Are you alright?" Seto asked in a quiet warm loving voice.

Serenity didn't speak but nodded. It was barely noticeable because she was in to much pain to make a proper nod. She tried to push herself up into a sitting position but her arms buckled under the weight of her body.

Seto sat on the bed and helped Serenity into a sitting position. She was leaning against the wall because she was to weak to sit up on her own.. She had many cuts. The most noticeable was one that run from the right side of her neck down in-between her breasts and to her left side stopping just above her last rib. It was a very thin cut that looked like it was made by the edge of paper; it was only extremely noticeable because it cut though her top.

Seto pulled Serenity into his lap letting her lean against his chest for support. He began to undo her corset and she went extremely tense.

"I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to get you out of these damaged clothes." His voice was reassuring and kind.

Serenity relaxed slightly and Seto finished undoing her corset. He wrapped his arms around her waist careful not to hold her to tight. He gently slid his hands around her waist and as he let go he realized that the cut under his hand had healed. He carefully placed his hand on the cut again further up from he had just healed it, and again when he removed his hand the cut was healed.

He didn't know how he was doing this it was just happening. It was almost like his wish for Serenity to not be harmed was being granted.

Seto hesitated for a moment before removing Serenity's top. He didn't want to make her uncomfortable or afraid but he wanted to know what other damage Damian had caused her. He tenderly removed the top and as he did Serenity crossed her arms over her chest because she had not worn a bra with her corset that day.

Seto reached into one of the draws in his night table next to his bed and pulled out a large black t-shirt. After seeing many long red, purple, and blue marks that looked like they had been made by a whip on her back and several semi-circle bruises on her side and stomach that appeared to be from being kicked he let her put on the shirt. Seto gingerly removed Serenity's skirt revealing scraped knees, and what looked like rug burned upper legs and hips. He had no idea how this had happened but was almost certain he did hot want to know.

Serenity managed to move herself out of Seto's lap so that she could lay flat on the bed. It was a more comfortable position that sitting.

Seto stood and was about to walk away when he felt a light tug on his shirt sleeve. He looked back and saw that Serenity was the one holding his sleeve.

"Would you stay with me?" she asked in a barely audible voice that was slightly shaky.

"Alright." Seto said unable to deny the beautiful helpless creature lying on his bed.

Seto laid down on the bed next to Serenity and she cuddled up against him.

At first Seto was unable to comprehend why he could not deny Serenity.

'It isn't because she is beautiful, I have denied many good looking women what they have asked of he, and it is not because I own her.' those last three words bothered Seto more than anything in the world.

'I own her.' He thought to himself again, 'It sounds so wrong, something as lovely, sweet and innocent should not be owned, it should be protected and shown off for the world to see.'

His mined then traveled back to it's original train of thought.

'Why do I want to sat with her so badly?' he asked himself again in his mined.

'She is helpless right now, weak and vulnerable, and your love for her is telling you that you must keep her from harm.' A voice drifted across Seto's mined woth nothing but sincerity in it.

Amithist was back but not to nag Seto or egg him on, just simply to point out what he was having a hard time seeing for himself.

Upon hearing Amithist's statement he realized for the first time how deep his love for Serenity truly was. He found himself thinking that he would have given anything to have stopped her pain, to remove the damage that had been done. Not just the physical damage but the mental and physiological damage as well. If only he could take it all away.

21 is done. I am thinking of winding up the story in the next few chapters R&R and tell me what you think.