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You'd Never Guess That Evil Would Win One Day

Coulda Woulda Shoulda Fought Back

~Benny's P.O.V.~

"You don't really wanna be with me. After all I've done, you're lying. You're a liar!" He looked afraid when he said it, so suddenly, so loudly. Too loudly for the small kitchen. The words rang out, echoed in my ears. Then I was angry. After all this time, being the bad-ass, laugh-in-dangers-face type, he has a meltdown when I tell him I like him. The words came tumbling out.

"What? Do you think I didn't think this through already? Going after every doubt for an excuse? Of all the people I could fall in love with, why did I have to choose you? You're a monster! You're a freak! A pervert! A lowlife! A sadist!"

after the first real question, I said the first hurtful thing to come to mind.

"Shut up." He said lowly.

"Excuse me?" I couldn't think straight. But suddenly, that bad-ass was back, but not the way I wanted it to be. He looked ready to kill.

"I said, shut up. And get the fuck off of me before I kill you." I shuffled off and he stood up, looming over me. I shrank down, all anger gone. With the way I was raised, the thoughts that came to mind were freaking spells. Anything that could defend me against the vampire, trembling with rage and ready to kill.

"Jesse?" Was all I could manage.

"Got anything else to say?" He said, even his voice deadly. I shook my head and braced myself for the impact.

All the spells swirling in my mind were mixing together. I couldn't concentrate on one before it warped with another. I soon stopped trying to hold onto one, clearing my mind until my only thought was one of resignation. 'Let him do what he wants. It will all be over soon.'

"Good." He said. Then his eyes turned black, his fangs unsheethed, and his fists raised. Even before he hit me the first time, I cried out in terror.

The first hit went to my stomach, and he kept his fist there, pushing me into the wall. He panted as he beat me against the wall. At one point, he jerked forward, baring his fangs and bit my shoulder. I screamed. Several times there were cracks, and pain would shoot from one place to everywhere. My shoulder, my knee, and quite a few ribs. Eventally, my body stopped trying to fight back, and I was barely concious.

My pulse was weak. Blood was everywhere. My body throbbed, and felt bent into unnatrual angles. I heard him sob slightly once, but I couldn't move my mouth to tell him I was okay.

I couldn't try to stay awake any longer. I knew if I closed my eyes, they wouldn't open, but I was just so tired. I was running to low on blood, and my breaths - however shaky - were failing to come back once they left my lungs.

Goodbye. I wanted to say to him. I wanted to say a lot of things to him - that I forgave him, that I would try harder to keep my mouth shut next time, that I was okay now - but I knew I couldn't. If I had the breath, if I had the strengh.

But just as I exhaled for what would be the last time, fangs were in my forearm, and venom washed over me, and I couldn't recall anything being more painful then that substance flowing through me.

~Ben's P.O.V.~

All through scrambling eggs for Ethan, I felt chills so strong, my teeth chattered, or my knees buckled and I fell on the wooden floor. The venom in my double was still working, and a few times it lingered in his shoulder, or knee, but mostly his ribcage. It made me so cold I was shivering. I haven't felt temperature since I was Turned.

Ethan didn't come in till eleven, and by then, I was sitting and shivering, wrapping my arms around my legs, which were pulled against my chest.

"Good morning, B- what's wrong?" He looked alarmed, so I untangled myself and stood, that cold feeling never changing.

"Nothing. I just got a chill. Good morning." I hugged into him, mainly for the heat. It worked very much, and I couldn't think of letting go. He hugged back for a while, then seemed uncomfortable.

"Um, Ben, you can let go now." His breath tickled my neck. A sudden chill went up my spine, having nothing to do with the venom. I bit onto my tongue and pulled away, smiling tightly.

"Are you hungry? I made eggs and toast." I moved back to the stove and turned the flame off, stirring the eggs once more. He sat at the table and I felf his eyes on me.

"How are you feeling?" He asked suddenly, as I put a heaping serving on a plate and slid it in front of him.

"Depends - what are you referring to?" I was still shaking, but I balled my hands into fists and tried to hide it.

"Your thrist, of course." He knitted his eyebrows together.

"Oh. Um, fine." I lied. I was craving again, but there was no way I was gonna tell him. He would shove his wrist in my face and dare me. But he had lost so much blood by now, the only reason he's walking has to be sheer will.

"Alright. Good. What else would you think I meant?" I hesitated, and he saw it. "Ben, what's wrong?"

I sighed. "Benny was Turned."

He was silent for a moment. "What? How can you tell?"

"I feel it. I can feel any pain he feels. It's really cold right now. I know it's venom."

"Th-that's not right though." Ethan said, pale-faced. "It's a mistake. He's human. He- he has to be." He said the last part quietly. I was afraid he was going hysterical. I stood up and wrapped my arms around him from behind.

"it's okay, Ethan. He'll be fine." I contemplated telling him that after a beating like the one he got, it was better. But I didn't want him panicking again. "Now he can never die again. It will all be okay."

His breath evened out again, and his pulse calmed down again, fortunatly

"Thanks, Ben." He turned around and kissed my cheek, making me freeze. He stood and grabbed his plate, moving into the living room. "Now, since youre cold, we can snuggle, and watch TV, huh? How's that sound?"

I watched him sit down, and even from here I heard him panting from the effort of walking. He rested his food on the arm of the chair and covered himself with half a blanket and looked at me expectedly.

"Sounds... good." I said as I moved toward him.

He let me wrap my arms around him and fold myself around him.

He let me tuck my chin in the grove off his neck.

And he turned around and let me kiss him.

Aww! So cute, I swear! Well, the second part, anyway. Review! ~TrampledRose