Loving Evil by Moonlight

Chapter Five - Usagi-chan Finds Courage!

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Usagi was currently blushing her head off. Seriously, her face practically lit the pitch black room like the sun! If the sun was red, but it's more of an orangey-yellow color.

As for why our dear Bunny was blushing; well, let's start at the beginning:

The Master--the really hot vampire--had fallen unconscious, on top of Usagi. He's not that light either. Then, Usagi had to drag him into the castle--a difficult task, then again, the whole thing was difficult. She had to close the door--even though she really needed some light at that point--the Master's health was more important though, at least she had enough light when the door was open to make out a couch.

It was a very nice couch, Usagi could tell. She'd drug the vampire--he was of no help, being unconscious and draped over her bent back--to the couch. She proceeded to lay him down--more like throw--but ended up getting her leg caught on his cape, so when he fell, his cape was yanked from underneath Usagi's foot.

She fell, and dear Master somehow ended on top of her in the next five minutes. Which is how she is now. Blushing her head off--probably because she liked it, and he had wrapped his arms around her, and he was very warm. Usagi berated herself for finding the position so comfortable!

"Usagi, Usagi, you're such..." she muttered, "...an idiot." She began wriggling around again--hard to do with him squishing her--and managed to get him to slip inbetween her and the back of the couch. So now they were next to eachother.

"Okay! You should have just left him to die." she growled, angry with herself. She wasn't even sleepy!

Usagi turned, she was now facing...whatever was in front of her, no longer being turned into the Master's warm chest. She missed the warmth.

'Ew, you're becoming a pervert!' she thought, wincing. Usagi sighed. This...was going to be so much fun. The party hadn't even really started yet, either.

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"...she loves me, she loves me not..." Wufei sighed. He'd found a flower in the castle--as well as a new hobby. He'd better remember to thank Usagi for teaching him the new love game--if she didn't kill him on sight for ditching her. Unless the Master was going to kill her. Then she would never know how grateful he was. And he was pretty grateful--he just had to know if she loved him!

Wufei sighed again, picking off another petal. "Oh, my sweet Dorothy..."

Yes, he was madly in love with the blue-eyed beauty, he loved everything about her--well, almost. First he had to get over the fact that her eyebrows were scary. And that she loved violence. And hated his guts. Dorothy also found the Master funny, and hot.

Dorothy was Relena's half-fairy--only Relena didn't know it. Dorothy--she'd been cursed with the rest of them when she'd gone snooping around. Dorothy used to be one of Relena's best friends, then Relena had left--Dorothy saying that she would be right behind her.

The blonde had really just wanted to find out if Wufei's friend Quatre was gay or not--and this was when they were all human too. So while Dorothy had been going through all of Quatre's belongings some evil thing had cursed them for eternity.

Okay, it wasn't eternity and Quatre wasn't gay. He was very straight and in love with Dorothy as well--luckily for him Dorothy didn't know it. Plus the curse could be broken when the Master died or a power stronger than the evil being's overpowered the evil spell.

"Curse you, Chaos!" Wufei cried out angrily--he would seek revenge on the evil being that had cursed them! ...Or maybe he would just get Usagi to do it--apparently she had some all-powerful crystal that could blow Chaos to smithereens.

Relena thought that Dorothy had gone on a long vacation to America! Or at least that was Milliardo's excuse. Relena believed him, though she ended up becoming a bit suspicious. The woman wasn't stupid, that was for sure.

Wufei had a feeling. Whenever he got these feelings, Dorothy would come around. The only times she came was when Relena came. So even though Wufei was going to love seeing his love, the Master would have to deal with the nosy Relena. Plus, he was pretty sure she would have a good number of questions about Usagi.

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"...wake up." Usagi opened her eyes slowly. This was quite pointless, as the castle was still completely dark. The voice sounded kind of familiar.

"...get up!" the voice growled irritatedly. Usagi squirmed,

"I'm awake, I'm awake, mom." she grumbled. She attempted to stretch, this was impossible due to unseen forces of nature.

"I'm not your mother." came the male voice. Usagi smiled, she knew it was the vampire. Then she frowned, what had happened again? Oh yeah...how long had he been awake? Seriously, if it was longer than two minutes the pervert could have at least moved--it was his fault they were in this embarassing position! She shouldn't have to suffer!

"Right, mom." she said. She heard the vampire grunt--she grinned. This was fun! Now all she had to do was die peacefully, at least then she wouldn't have to deal with the vampire's mood swings. What was he, a pregnant woman in disguise? The guy was evil and scary at one point, then he's all lovey-dovey and about to bite her, then he's all like, 'get-away-from-me-you-freak!'.

The vampire's arms shifted, now no longer wrapped around Usagi, she was able to get up. So...she did, then he did, then the couch began to feel a little lonely.

Usagi then got her chance to stretch, unfortunately, in doing so she smacked the vampire in the face. He recovered quickly and she let out a little eep! and an apology.

"Oh, gosh! I'm so sorry!" she said quickly. The vampire growled. It was a pretty nice sound...

The vampire rubbed his cheek, he sighed, yes--sighed. Usagi heard this, then got the feeling that he was tired--she'd seen him earlier and he looked hot, though still like crap too.

"You should probably go lay down." she instructed. The vampire quirked an eyebrow at her--she missed this, being unable to see--it was weird, hearing his kidnappee suggest ideas of rest and 'getting better'.

"You must feel horrible after being out in the sun like that! You are a vampire afterall. But I thought that you turn to dust? I saw a Dracula movie once and--"

Usagi was suddenly cut off by his hand covering her mouth. He spoke quietly, almost gently:

"Why?" a simple enough question. Usagi wasn't sure how to answer though...

"What do you mean?" she asked as his hand fell back to his side.

"Why would you wish for me to lay down? Why should you care if I'm sick--or turn to dust?" he stared at her. She didn't know this though--he could see her perfectly fine.

"Well...I don't really know." she said, she scratched the back of her neck and smiled sheepishly, "It's just normal for me--plus you really should lie down! You don't want to get even sicker, do you?" Normal...for her?

The Master contemplated the girl's words. She could prove to be more than just a power source. A friend even. Maybe. If she lived. He wasn't sure whether or not he should kill her after she broke the spell.

"Fine then, princess." he replied, "But you are to come with me, we shall both rest. You'll have to get used to sleeping during the day anyway--a friend of mine is coming over tomorrow as well and she is quite unpredictable. You'll have to be ready to meet her, as well as come up with a story as to why you are here." it was the most he'd ever spoken to her at once and Usagi was still trying to figure out what he meant about sleeping even while he was leading her to his room.

His room. Man, and this vampire did not sleep in no coffin either! He had the works, and more! The king-sized bed, even a wardrobe and a shelf of thick leather-bound books. Of course, the only reason Usagi could see this was because the vampire was nice enough to light a bunch of candles.

Actually, as soon as she stepped in little lights popped up in the darkness--these lights being the candles--and Usagi realized how romantic a setting this was. Her heart sped up, this was just like the last manga she had read! Except this was in a castle with a vampire and there was no candlit dinner. It wasn't even dinnertime.

She looked at the vampire, who was staring at her. What was up with him? His skin was still ghost-white, and unhealthy looking, Usagi figured that what she had read about vampires was somewhat incorrect, there was something really wrong with how he looked. Vampires probably didn't even turn into bats either! Okay, maybe some of them probably did. Probably.

"Do you...like it?" he asked suddenly. Usagi could still feel his hand covering hers. She looked away, and nodded, trying her hardest not to start blushing. This was eerily like that movie she watched, something that Minako and Makoto had begged her to see--some 'Phantom' movie or whatever...

Usagi sighed, she missed her friends. Sure, here she had Wufei and Nataku--and the Master was hot--but the fact that he had taken her here and stuff was so wrong! She suddenly felt like hitting him, she had never felt this mad--except for when she had first met her Mamo-chan and he'd made fun of her paper.

So she did. Hit him, I mean. She actually stepped up to him--glaring 'evily' (she looked more like someone who'd just gotten spit on) and took her hand from his--gaining a look of confusion from the vampire.

And slapped him.

His head whipped to the side, she pulled her now somewhat sore hand back. He looked at her, not even moving his head, his eyes--they looked scary. An intense look appeared on his tired, pale face. He was angry now. Usagi almost regretted hitting him.

Almost.

He turned his head and glared down at her. She glared up at him. You don't mess with The Bunny. Then again, you don't mess with evil vampires either. Especially not this one.

"I should hope you've had the chance to revel in your new-found courage, girl." he growled. (he sure likes growling! ooh, sexy!)

Okay, now she was regretting it. Even moreso when he bent down, his forehead nearly touching her own.

"Because fearing me will become your top priority." and his hand suddenly reached up, she flinched, expecting him to strike her. Instead he grabbed her neck, not so gently, but not hard enough to actually choke her to death. She shut her eyes.

Something told her that she would finally understand what he meant about her sleeping during the day...

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Notes:

Cliffhanger!

I'm keeping my promise! A chapter every Saturday! And kudos to the reviewer who called me... 'A Piece of Crap'