A/N: I um, just found out today (3/3/2010) that I didn't make my schools musical. But a bitch I know who never did anything in our theater company, while I did everything went to every meeting tried out for everything got a part in a play, didn't even get in the choir, it was a huge slap in the face and I cried all day and had emotional breakdowns. Now, I hate music, I hate the director and choir teacher, hate choir, hate singing, and I'm dropping choir. Naturally, I'm very pissed off and about ready to punch someone. No lie. So, here, my little steam-off.
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight.
Circe sat on the ground. It was kind of cold, and she couldn't see a thing. Leaning over and touching the wall, she pulled herself up. She counted her steps as she slowly walked forward. After about twenty steps, she began to pitch forward again. Circe reached out blindly behind her.
"Oh!" her shoulders were roughly caught before she hit the ground, "Why won't you just let me carry you? Or at the very least, guide you." Zero growled in her ear.
She smiled nervously, "Yuuki put this blindfold on me and is forcing me to go blindly into something, so I'll do whatever I want now." From behind the two of them, the brown haired girl and other twin chuckled at her tone. Circe pushed on.
"Careful," Yuuki started, "there are-"Circe screamed as she stepped onto a flight of stairs, missing, and began tumbling down. Zero dashed down the stairs and caught her, the force of the descent knocking him down. His arms formed an iron clad cage around the young girl as they fell down the last few steps.
"Ugh" Zero grunted as Circe landed on top of him. "I got you, are you okay?" she didn't answer at first. "Circe? Are you alright?"
"Um… yea, which way is up? I'm really disoriented. Can I take this off? Wait! Are you okay?" Circe's mind couldn't focus on one thing, she couldn't tell where she was or how she was sprawled out, all she knew was she was safely in Zero's arms.
"I'm fine, and yea, take that off" Zero untied the knot behind the girl's head. "There." He removed the bandana from her eyes and smiled at her. "Now, can you get off me?"
"Oh!" Circe jumped up. "Thanks." Zero laughed as he stood up.
"Are you ok?" Ichiru looked down the stairs worriedly.
Zero stood up slowly, "My back hurts, but otherwise we're fine." Ichiru rolled his eyes at his brother.
"Come on or we'll be late!" Yuuki bounced as she anticipated her plan, "Pick her up, cover her eyes and go!" She began to skip down the steps. Zero picked up Circe and Ichiru wrapped the blindfold on her eyes again. They had to run to keep up. Circe bounced up and down in her eldest cousin's arms.
"Here!" Circe heard Yuuki squeak, "Set her down there," Circe was set on a couch. "Yes, hhmm…. Don't take the blindfold off! Oh, good you're here! No, don't speak. Just… sit there."
"I'm starting to not like this plan now, what if something goes wrong?" Circe couldn't tell which one of the twins it was. For some reason, everyday it was getting harder to tell the voices apart, unless she really listened. Zero's voice was flat and emotionless when they first met, but now, he had begun to use expression to try to not worry her.
"Oh she'll be fine!" Yuuki's voice was getting farther away. A door slammed shut.
"Yuuki?" Circe jumped and spun around on the couch, her heart racing. "Hello?"
"Let me go back in and get her, she scared!" Her cousin's voice was muffled.
"No. Circe, you can take the blind fold off, we'll see you in a half hour." Three pairs of footsteps walked away.
Her mind was everywhere. "Okay, first I have to get this damned blindfold off." Circe said out loud. She fumbled with the knot for five minutes before she heard a voice.
"Here, let me help you." A bored, male voice said. Her body stiffened as he leaned toward her and unknotted the blindfold. That's when she knew. He was a vampire.
"There," The blindfold fell away from her eyes. Circe slowly looked up at the vampire.
"Hey," he leaned back in his chair, "I'm Akatsuki Kain. You're cousins, Yuuki, and my leader, Kaname Kuran, wanted to get you used to vampires. So they decided that once a day for the next two weeks they would have you sit in this room with one of the vampires in the Night Class for a half hour. Then they would make the time longer or something like that I'm not sure. Here, this will explain it." He reached into his breast pocket, pulled out an envelope, and handed it to her.
Circe opened the letter with shaky hands. Slowly, she got up and walked farther away from the vampire. She unfolded the letter and read both her cousins' hand written letter:
Dear Circe Kiryuu No, it's Turner. Remember when she was on the wall, and she said Kiryuu? Fine.
It took her a second to realize that the lighter writing was Ichiru and the darker was Zero's. She made a mental note to legally change her name and read on:
We're sorry that you are locked in a room with a vampire, but it was the only thing we could do to help heal your fear of the vampires here. I was absolutely against it. I wanted to just go kill the vampire who attacked you and just keep you away from them all but Yuuki and my brother disagreed with me. Anyways, for the next few weeks we will rotate you through some of the vampires to get used to them. For now it will be three times a week for a half hour. Then it will be an hour, an hour and a half, two hours, and so on and so on, until you are up to an entire day. Eventually, on a break, we would like you do spend all day everyday with the vampires here. I was all for keeping them away from you all the time and killing anyone that came by you. You're too over protective. You're too carefree. You're too morbid. Shut-up. Today you are with the calmest of the vampires we have here. His name is Akatsuki Kain. I wanted to start you off with the most human of them. She's most scared of him, why would you do that to her? I trust Kain enough to not hurt you. He is a relatively calm vampire, not too intimidating. He is very laid back and should be easy for you to talk to. You can ask him about vampire society. I will be back to get you soon, I promise. We will both come get you at 4:30.
Sincerely, Ichiru and Zero
Circe looked at the clock on the wall, she had twenty minutes still. She looked over at Kain. He was tall, with orange-ish hair and red-orange eyes. He was thin and good looking, like most vampires.
"You okay?" his voice shocked her and she flew back into the wall. "Oh, sorry." Kain didn't get up from his seat to check on her. Zero had told him how scared she was, but she was trying to hide it. Ichiru had wanted him to talk to her and everything, but Zero told him to keep things minimal for now. Zero and Kain had always had a bit of a similar personality. They were both pretty quiet and calm. That was about it.
"S-so, you're a vampire?" Circe tried not to let her voice shake.
He looked across the room at her. "Yea."
"How'd that happen?"
"I was born this way."
"Born?"
"I'm an Aristocrat Vampire. We are born with vampire blood and human blood. Purebloods are only vampire blood, never tainted with human. They are our leaders, sort of. You've met one before, Kaname." He smiled slightly at her.
Circe moved a piece of her hair out of her face and slowly moved forward. "Tell me more."
"Where do you want me to start?" Kain tried not to chuckle at how little she looked, how innocent.
"Well, can people be turned into vampires? I mean, they can because, well, Zero's one…." Circe's voice trailed off, she had almost forgotten that.
"It's okay, we all know about him. Only if a person is bitten by a Pureblood will they turn into a vampire. Well, they could turn into one. There's also a chance they might die or turn into a Level E."
"What's a Level E?"
"An ex-human who has fallen so low into bloodlust they can't stop themselves from killing. Your cousin is fighting really hard to not become one. He hates vampire, you know that? Absolutely hates them. He hates himself actually; he would do anything to not be a vampire. Zero hides it from you, doesn't he?" Kain looked into her eyes.
"He….he almost attacked me the first day I got here, Saturday. I was so scared. Then, I was taken out of that room, calmed down, and when Zero came back, he was fine. I-I had forgotten, because he hasn't shown any sighs, radiated any of that aura again. How does he do that?"
"Blood tablets, we invented them here, the Night Class. They taste like blood, but it's artificial. If you put it in a glass of water, it makes a glass of blood, or you could just eat the tablet. Your cousin usually has a bad reaction to them. If he got out of hand, if he hurt anyone or fell to Level E…. well, we'd have to kill him." Kain dropped his head. He really did not want to kill Kiryuu.
Circe mind stopped. Kill him? Kill one of the only two people she had left? No. Before she even knew what she was doing, she had reached into her jacket and had her gun out of its holster. It was cocked and aimed at Kain's, no, the vampire's head. "What did you say?" Her voice was steely.
"Wow, you're as fast as him with that, quick to draw." He tried not to smirk.
"What did you say?" Circe pushed the end of the gun into his head.
"If Zero loses it and falls to Level E, we'll have to kill him. It's either us, or the Hunter's Society. Zero would probably rather be killed by Yuuki, they made a deal long ago that is anything did happen, she would kill him. But, if he ever does fall, he will have to be killed, in order not to hurt anyone else." He looked up at her.
A tear fell down her cheek, "He won't fall" her words were gritted out of her teeth. She pushed the gun harder against his head; she couldn't comprehend what she was hearing.
The door swung open behind her, "Circe!" Ichiru stood in the doorway.
Yuuki walked in, "What are you doing? Stop that!" She ran over to Circe and Kain.
"STAY BACK!" Circe's head was spinning, Zero will never die, that can't happen.
"What's going on?" Zero casually walked into the room. He stopped dead when he saw Circe's wild face. Her eyes were wide and bloodshot, cheeks tear stained. The makeup she had put on before school was smeared. "Circe?"
The pistol clattered to the floor. Circe sprinted and jumped onto Zero. He was shocked as the force almost knocked him over. She wrapped her arms tightly around his waist, buried her head in his shirt, and sobbed. Zero carefully wrapped his arms around her. She was shaking badly.
"Circe? Um... Circe, honey?" Everyone in the room stared at Zero. He had just called someone honey. He would never have done that before. Yuuki realized how much Circe was warming her cousin's heart.
Zero bent down so his face was by the girl's. "Circe, what's wrong? Were you that scared of Kain?"
"She would have run out of the room when I opened the door, or hid behind me, it's something about you then." The twin's looked into each other's eyes, and Zero knew Ichiru was right.
"Kain, what did you tell her?" Yuuki looked at the vampire lounging in the chair.
"Level E" was all he said, he knew they would understand.
"Zero, I don't want you to die!" Circe sobbed harder.
"I won't. I promise you." He held her head to his chest as he stood up, "I think that's enough for today. Thank-you Kain" Zero wrapped his arm around the girls waist and pulled her out of the room. He led her to the stair case and set her down. "Circe, I want you to know, I try everything to keep it under control. I am determined not to fall to Level E."
Circe mumbled something he couldn't hear.
"What did you say?"
"Don't hate yourself anymore. I love you." Circe looked up from her lashes, and Zero realized how much this child needed him.
A/N: Sorry for the late update! It's really hard to write when you are super depressed! At least it's really long, right? If you haven't noticed, I write my first A/N before I start the chapter and the last one when I finish. That's why dates are so strange. So, I have a question for you all, who do you, think the next vampire she talks to is? Tell me and I'll take it into consideration!