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You can never have TOO much happiness in anything
or you lose sight of what makes it so happy in the first place.
-Sin Maxwell
Chapter FifteenTo Die Without Happiness, To Love Without Consequence
Rai walked in on a scene that made his blood boil. Duo and Heero stood watching Kinau die, daring to feel regret and fear for him. Tom was using the link they shared to keep the boy stable. Quatre, taking charge after he had pulled himself together, was directing people to where they needed to be while Trowa kept to his side with adoring devotion. Wu Fei was refusing to let the two mournful pilots anywhere near where Kinau was laying. Good for him. They didn't deserve him anyways. The Lady nodded to him as he approached his soon to be fledgling's bedside. His wrists had been heavily bandaged and the hospital gown he had been magicked into hung loosely off of his thin frame. Dark bags sat under his usually bright eyes and a tube protruded fromhis throat that supplied im with the oxygen he needed. It was the most pitiful state he had ever seen him in. Rai sat down on the bed at his side and, immediately, Duo's angry voice cut in.
"Hey! Get away from him!" He yelled, a hint of desperation leaking into his annoying voice.
Rai turned his overwhelming fury towards him at once.
"You have no say in this! It was Kinau's choice!" He hissed and picked up the teen as gently as he could, being mindful of the tubes as he cradled Kinau to his chest.
"He's unconcious! How can it be his choice?!" Duo retorted.
Rai flashed fang, silently warning the man to back off.
"He chose to give up his humanity in exchange for your life. He chose even before this." He gestured down to the monitors and the tubes with disgust.
That shut up Duo effectively. That and the death glare that Tom, and Wu Fei were giving him. Kinau had never looked so frail before. Rai sighed, moving a piece of his sweat dampened hair away from his clammy face. It was now or never.He unsheathed his fangs once more, burying his face into the damp crook of Kinau's neck. Duo made a high pitched moan as Rai bit down. Just as his fangs pierced his Kitten's soft flesh and the first drop of blood hit his tongue, a wave of magic hit him,rocking his whole psyche.He took his first drink and the power surged through him, curling inside him like some great feline stretching from it's sleep. It whispered like a seductive lover, making him swoon under the strain. He would certainly not regret ever turning Kinau.Rai groaned out loud and his grip on the unconcious teen tightened.Kinau's power running through him was addicting. He indulged in a few more drinks, relishing in the feel of it in his body. Unwillingly, however, he forced himself to stop. Kinau cherished his humanity more than anything. He would only thank him later for preserving even part of it. He would be a half blooded vampire. Rai languidly licked the two pinprick holes closed, his eyes finding Tom's red ones. The Dark Lord's face was empty but in his eyes, Rai could read his envy.
If there was anything he could do to make Kinau love him, even a little, it was this. To save his human side even if there was nothing else left of the life he knew. Keeping that gaze, he slit his wrist with a small blade the Lady handed to him. She had come prepared. It was a beautiful piece of artwork, attached to a tiny silver chain. The blade itself was made of what looked like shining crystal glass with tiny silver runes carved down it's spine. The handle was the same type of moonlight silver.
'Give it to Kinau when he wakes. I made it for him.' She whispered in his mind in the wind on the surface of a pond. Never intruding, but there all the same.
He nodded to her but his gaze was still with the man before him. It was obvious that Voldemort cared about Kinau. They shared more history together than even Duo and Heero shared with him. Perhaps he could make an ally of the Dark Lord yet. Suddenly, someone wholly unexpected came through the door with Quatre. Sirius Black was fretting nervously while the blonde tried to calm him, his lover, Lupin, stood behind him. Rai supposed it was appropriate. Black was Kinau's only family relation. Rai gently removed the breathing tube. It was good that they had come. Lupin was obviously a werewolf so Kinau wouldn't feel quite so alone. He would have to have them come stay at the manor when they left.
He pressed his bleeding wound gently to the sweet chapped lips and used his "vampire mind tricks", as the ten had called them, to compel the boy to drink. And he did. Rai felt the first weak movement on his skin and his stone heart softened. It was expected that the sire and the fledgling would develope an intimate and deep bond during the Turning. It was an emotional, physical and mental link that they would use for the rest of their lives. Kinau would probabaly find it invasive. Without warning, Kinau's whole body stiffened. The gaunt hand came out of now where to clutch at the wrist provided to him, trying desperately to pull it away.
"Shhh, Kinau...Shhh..." Rai whispered.
His voice had the desired effect. Kinau eased immediately as if recognizing Rai's presence as something familiar in an unfamiliar situation. Instead of pulling the blood away, Kinau pressed it closer, sucking the nourishment down hard. Rai had to draw him in close to his body to get him to release his arm which now had red marks on it from the boy's fast hold. Heero and Duo both looked sickened and horrified. After a moment of still quiet, Kinau took his first labored breath in Rai's arms. The room collectively sighe din relief. It was another moment more before he opened his emerald eyes, fixing them on the face before him with a new light. As if he were an infant looking upon his father for the first time. His pale hand raised to touch Rai's cheek like he half believed he were still a spirit and the appendage would pass right through. As if he weren't sure it were real.
"Rai..." He whispered huskily and then he caught sight of his bandaged wrist and the world came crashing back down on him.
Kinau's face closed up immediately.