Authors' Note: So. We completely failed at the updating monthly thing. We think, however, that everyone will be happy at the fact that the school year is almost over (4 more days to go! Woot!) And we shall soon be able to dedicate all of our time back to our fanfics. We warned you at the beginning of the year that there were gonna be some lags in updates, so hopefully you took us seriously when we told you, 'cause if not, well, nasty surprise came to you, huh? But, anyhow, almost over. Give us 4 more days to get back on track. :3
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"Yuu…ki."
Poor Zero. He lay on the ground, hand over his tattered shirt in a half-effort to keep it closed over his chest. Blood covered his fingers and his chest, flowing down onto the ground. His eyes flashed, not their normal silver; how long had he been like this?
Yuuki took one step toward the snow, stained with a deep red, where Zero lay, and froze in her tracks. She could hear his heartbeat, faint as it was, the blood running through his veins, and the familiar throbbing of hunger began to shake her.
"Elle-sama," said Yuuki, fists gripping tightly. She needed to cover her nose, try to block the scent from getting to her, but couldn't find the strength to do so, somehow. "I can't-,"
"I'm on it." Elle removed herself from the tree on which she leaned, and in the blink of an eye was kneeling over Zero, head tilted slightly to better hear his heart beat.
"Damn vampire." She began ripping open his shirt, throwing his hand carelessly aside, her hands sliding freely on his chilled skin. "I can't tell what's wrong; your wounds healed too quickly. You've definitely lost a lot of blood; I can tell that much."
Zero rolled his eyes, a wince causing one of his eyes to suddenly close at the pain of Elle running her hand over his navel. One of her eyebrows rose in amusement.
"So your brother shanked you in the tummy, huh? Big baby." Although she was sure Ichiru had done much more; he'd been given the perfect opportunity to do so. She just couldn't see it, was all. She made a move to rise, thought better of it, and tossed her jacket down on top of his slender tummy. "You'll be fine. Your internal organs need a few moments to finish healing. All the blood is from you slugging yourself all this way from the house. I don't suppose you feel much like telling us why it was that you felt it necessary to venture out here to see your obviously sadistic brother, but anyhow." She wrapped her arms around her knees after dropping his container of blood tablets into one of his open hands. "Take five of those; it'll make you feel better." Meanwhile, she would work on making him look halfway presentable for when they arrived back at the campus. Had to make everything look like it was safe, after all. The students would start a riot so loud...
He swallowed them in one gulp, shook out some more, and swallowed those too. He took a deep intake of breath, wishing he had something that tasted slightly more like the real thing, before noticing-, "Elle-,"
Her head barely moved from the way as Yuuki hurtled past, fangs at the ready. The smell of blood had slowly been affecting her until finally, finally, she couldn't take the pain of her hunger anymore and gave in to it. Her fangs dug deeply into his neck after her tongue slid over the smooth skin of it, deepening the dark color stained into the snow. Zero gasped, his head rising slightly with the movement, but otherwise made no movement to stop her.
"Had enough yet?" asked Elle, pulling Yuuki from where Zero lay. Bright tears shone in her dark, chocolate covered eyes as she stared up at Elle, her face covered with guilt.
"I'm sorry, Zero, I didn't mean to-,"
"It's whatever. It's not as if he's going to being to hate you all of a sudden," said Elle, pulling Zero to a position where he was sitting up. The cleaner blood could have hopefully had a chance to circulate better that way. "As if he could. We need to get him back to the manner, out of this cold." A familiar presence flittered behind her and she glanced up at the tree she'd been standing at before; a bat hung from one of its branches.
"Damn. You're gonna have some explaining to do when we get back. And I don't think it's 'cause you came out here to see what was wrong with lover boy, here."
"Kaname, I-,"
"You drank his blood, Yuuki." He gave her no chance to say any more before his fangs pierced into the flesh of her slender wrists, already dirtied with blood.
Her breath came in short, exhausted puffs, each one pushed on quicker and quicker with the throbbing pain of him drinking from her.
"I couldn't-, It wasn't-,"
He bit her again, this time near the curve of her shoulder. She took a sharp intake of breath with the feel of him, her eyes sliding over to the walls. He'd waited until she'd gone to bed after she'd come back and checked on Kaori, then straddled her so that she couldn't make an attempt to escape. It'd been going on for what felt like hours; the sheets were soaked beneath her with her own blood.
"You're hurting me-,"
"You broke your promise," he said, kissing her softly, kindly, something different from how he'd been feeding off of her. He hadn't even started, yet. "This is your punishment for it."
Authors' Note: Okay. That's it for today. Hopefully, we'll remember to update next month. Love and jiggly pudding to ya! :3