Chapter 13

Darren was walking down the hall with a couple of guards as he headed back to his room from the meeting. Thinking that Roma might still be there, he wanted to head back as quick as he can.

"I hope she's still-"

"Sire, there's your apprentice." One of the guards said as Darren looked up. Walking towards them was Roma, a very angry Roma. Her face was a bright red color and there was tears streaming down her cheeks. She suddenly stopped. Darren saw her nostrils flare as she picked up his scent.

"Roma, how are-"

"How dare you?" Roma's eyes suddenly flared with an angry light. She stormed up to Darren and slapped him across the face. His head turned from the force as his hair flipped to the side dramatically. The guards rushed towards Roma and grabbed her roughly, "Bastard!" she shouted.

Darren looked slowly back at her, his neck cracking painfully, "Roma, what in the name of the gods are you talking about?" he took a step toward her; Roma heard his feet shuffling towards her and she let out a sob.

"Stay away from me!"

The young vampire prince was taken aback, "Roma?" he reached a large hand to her tear stained face. Roma blinked as his hand touched her cheek; for a moment she felt like she could stay like that forever. But the moment didn't last. Roma let out a fierce yell as she yanked away from the guards and hurtled herself into Darren's stomach. He let out a whoosh of air as his oxygen was driven out of him.

Roma bit his shoulder with the ferocity of an animal, tearing the cloth of Darren's robe. Darren let out a hiss as her sharp claws dug into his stomach. The guards stood back with eyes wide, not knowing what to do, or believing what they were seeing. Who in the right damn mind would attack a prince?

The two started to roll over in a flurry of Darren's blue robes and Roma's brown hair. Darren finally went on top of Roma, pinning her with his hands. He glared down at her, and for a moment, the two stopped fighting. Brown eyes met green ones as vampire and vampire store each other down.

"Roma, why?" the dark haired vampire prince breathed. Roma looked at him; he was barely out of breath. Darren felt Roma's sharp toe nails dig into his pants. He just realized she wasn't wearing any shoes.

"Because you don't want me anymore." Roma whispered. Confused, Darren opened his mouth to speak, but then he saw Roma's leg draw back quickly to her chest. He knew what she wanted to kick. Twisting his bottom half, Darren was barely a hair's length from protecting his package as Roma brought down her leg with powerful force, striking his hip instead.

Darren felt her toe nails bury deep into his flesh, him nearly blacking out with the pain.

"Get her away from him!" one of the guards shouted as they saw Roma strike their prince. Grabbing her arms, they yanked her away from Darren. The young prince twisted in pain as he felt something warm and sticky as he whimpered.

Blood. Thank the gods she didn't hit my...UGH! Darren let out a violent shudder, I think she broke something! He thought as he tried to get up, but failed.

"Sire!" a guard yelled and let go of Roma as he ran over to his Sire. He helped Darren up as he supported him with his shoulder, "You're crazy." The guard said a he looked at Roma with a look of horror and disgust, "We ought to throw you in the stakes for this."

Darren growled, "There will be no killing today." He looked between the two guards, "You will say nothing of this, understand?" the prince then looked at Roma. She flinched. His green eyes studied her for a moment. Then they blazed with fury, he curled his lip. Roma felt as if she could melt from the anger that was radiating from them.

Oh Gods, I screwed up...what have I done?

'You done exactly what you thought you did. You attacked a prince. Good going.' The Voice murmured. Roma thought it sounded a little worried, 'Yeah right. Me, worried? I'm more worried about you than anything else right now'

A/N: OMG, sorry for the slow update :( was kinda drifting away from FFnet for a while there...the only thing that made me come back on was this story...Haha.
Anyway, thanks for the people who read and -cough- reviewed -cough-