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A/N: HEY EVERONE! THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL CHAP! IT'S THE LAST CHAP! Hope you like it!

ON WITH THE STORY!

Chapter 14

I took Patch and ran as fast as I could. I knew he was really trying, but the truth was – with all the injuries he sustained from Kaine – he was slowing me down.

"Nora," Patch said in a breathy voice, "I'm slowing you down. Though I appreciate you coming to save me, it's my job to save you so just go on ahead, I'll catch up." He said, slowing down even more.

I could hear Kaine's angered yells getting closer, just as we'd reached the room where I first entered the warehouse. "No Patch! I came here to save you and THAT'S what I'm gonna do! You wouldn't leave me behind so I'm not leaving you behind! Now come on, hurry!" I yelled at him harshly, pulling him along in a sudden burst of strength.

We had picked up speed and had just made it out of the warehouse when we heard Kaine's furious shouting, "NORA! I WILL HAVE YOU! WE ARE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER FOR ALL ETERNITY! NOTHING WILL STOP ME!" and he burst out of the warehouse's roof, flying towards us at an incredible speed. "And while I'm at it, I'll kill your little lover boy!" he said with a cruel smirk, landing in front of us, the pushing off of the ground to fly towards us – or more specifically, towards Patch.

"WATCH OUT!" I yelled as I jumped at Patch, pushing him forcibly to the ground, face first with me lying on top of his back. Kaine's fingers just barely grasped my hoodie, pulling it hard, making me shrug it off my shoulders, then flew over us.

I rolled off of Patch and crouched beside him, watching as Kaine slowed, and turned to face us, my hoodie in hand. He brought it to his face and inhaled, "Such a sweet scent" he whispered. He then tied it around his waist and turned towards us again. "Well Nora, I suppose if you insist on saving Patch, then you'll just have to die instead." Kaine sneered.

"W-what?" Patch choked out, "I t-thought you said t-that you'd stop at n-nothing to h-ave her."

"Well, it's obvious that she will put up a fight if I try to take her by force, and I don't really want to be stabbed in the back again because, unlike you, I can feel pain. Even though sometimes, it just makes me want more." Kaine said. "So then Nora, prepare yourself because tonight . . . you will die." He then rushed forward again, faster than the last time.

"N-no-r-ra," Patch barely whispered, "R-ru-n Nor-ra, g-et a-way!"

"No Patch, I said I wouldn't leave you behind, and I won't!" I told him stubbornly. I saw horror flash through his eyes as I stood up with my fists in front of me, in an offensive stance.

I saw the smirk on Kaine's face as he got closer. When he was about five meters in front of me, I started to move into an attacking position, but he suddenly sped up and before I knew it, I was floating meters above the ground with one hand over my mouth, and another snaked around my waist.

Kaine had trapped me, he had caught me . . . and I couldn't get free.

Patch's POV

I watched in absolute horror as Kaine grabbed Nora and flew a few meters off the ground, hovering.

Kaine had a very ugly, smug smirk on his face while he looked at me, a glimmer of, something I just couldn't place, in his eyes. Perhaps it was victory.

"Now Patch, I would make her death slow and painful so that you could hear her screams as you lie useless on the ground, but it's Nora, so I'll at least let her death be as swift and painless as a 'tainted demon from hell' can make it." He said, pulling Nora's head to the side, exposing her neck.

'NO!' I shouted in my mind, but it only came out as a whisper.

I saw the cruel smirk in his eyes as he moved his lips to her ear, whispering something to her. I wasn't sure what he whispered, but it couldn't be good if Nora's widened eyes and increased struggling was anything to go by.

I managed to push myself onto my forearms and slowly, tried to crawl towards them – though I knew it was hopeless, as I couldn't fly in my condition, I couldn't just lay there and do nothing!

Kaine then moved his lips to her neck, licking it agonizingly slowly before placing his mouth over it . . . and biting down, hard.

"NO!" I managed to yell, reaching a hand towards Nora as she looked at me with teary, saddened eyes, before they – very slowly – started to close.

He struggles slowed, then stopped completely, with Kaine savoring each drop of blood to flow through her wound, and into his mouth. The sound of him sucking the life out of Nora – the one I love, the one I was supposed to protect – was sickening.

He finished and lifted his head, which had a look of pure bliss on it, and faced me.

"My, my, I would never have imagined that anyone could've tasted sooo~ good." He said with that crooked smirk of his plastered on his face.

I had my hands fisted together, clenching them so tight that my nails bit into my palms, and they started to bleed.

"Nora." I whispered, anger, hurt and sadness all in my voice. I felt tears start to form in my eyes as I looked down at the ground – I couldn't bear to look at Nora's lifeless body, hanging limply from Kaine's arms, anymore.

I heard him land a few feet in front of me. I looked up into his evil eyes, then to Nora, who was motionless and being carried bridal style by Kaine.

"You see what you did?" Kaine questioned. "Nora died because of you." He continued, whereas I just stayed silent. "If you had made her go away, or didn't love her, then she would still be alive." He said kneeling down to look me in the eyes.

"N-no," I started, "Y-you are the o-ne that k-ill-ed her."

"I may have killed her, but only cause she was in love with you. If she wasn't, she would now be a vampiric angel . . . just like me." Kaine replied.

"She would n-ever be like y-ou." I managed to get out.

"Oh yes, she would've been. Once turned, we rely on our more . . . primal instincts, and become more . . . animalistic." Kaine said.

"Then death i-is better than bec-oming anything l-ike you." I struggled to whisper. I could feel all of my strength draining, from my injuries and my emotions.

"Keh, I don't have time to waste talking to the likes of you." Kaine sneered as he stood up, turned around and prepared to take flight to devil-knows-where.

"W-wait!" I barely yelled. He stopped momentarily and turned back towards me. "L-leave her body . . . p-please."

He started laughing and looked at me with mirth filled eyes. "Oh Patch, if I left her body with you, then I wouldn't get the satisfaction of knowing that you will never find her body. This is your punishment for Nora's death." He said as he spread his wings and turned around.

"Goodbye, guardian angel." He said as he took off into the predawn sky, taking Nora's with him.

I finally collapsed onto the ground completely. 'Nora,' I thought, 'I'm so sorry.' I started to cry. 'I promised to protect you, but Kaine was right . . . in the end, it was my fault that you died. It was because I loved you . . .'

I though as I started to slip into unconsciousness. The last thought I had before I let the encroaching darkness consume me was . . .

'I'll never love anyone again.'

A/N: Poor Patch XD PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! THERE WILL BE A SEQUEL AND I WILL BE POSTING IT SOON! It will be a two-shot . . . possibly a three-shot, depends how I feel, so please read it, it will be called 'Three Years Without' PLEASE REVIEW!

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