"What's this?"

"I saw it in the garden. What's this flower called?

Crowley sighed, frustrated. "I can't believe you just went here to ask me about what this flower is. You really have no sense of danger, Yuu."

"Huh?! What are trying to say monster. I can very much defend myself against you. Hmmp."

She says, but she can't even properly struggle when I feed on her.

Crowley quirked his eyebrows. His eyes roving across Yuu's face trying to figure something out. She looked haughty, a bit smug. Her early queasiness when they were together diminished. It bothered Crowley why she was acting like this.

Yuu sat beside him, cupping the flower in her hands. She looked so eager and so innocent staring at the precious flower she held. And Crowley couldn't help but wonder whether or not being vampire meant one could get a little bit distracted looking at a human like this.

When he was human, he never got attracted with that many women. His focus was the crusade, their missions and such, being with women never crossed his mind. Now he was wondering if he met Yuu in the past, would she catch his attention the way she caught it now.

He was staring at her, trying to figure out what she was up to. Yuu turned to him and smiled brightly. She leaned in and smelled the flower.

"It smells so nice! Here smell it for yourself."

Yuu shoved his cupped hands at Crowley. Crowley drew back, frowning.

"Stop it, I can smell it from this distance. You don't need to do that."

Yuu grinned. Then her face went serious.

"Crowley. How does it feel to be a vampire? I still hate your lot. I don't know what you're all up to. I don't know what to think."

"You don't need to bother yourself with that."

"But.."

"Ugh.." Crowley rolled his eyes. He gave up.

"We don't feel human feelings even though we were formerly humans."

"What?! You're formerly human!

"Why do you look so surprised?

"You didn't tell me you were formerly human. It would have been much easier to get along."

Crowley was aghast. He couldnt' fathom Yuu's stupidity. Yuu scooted closer to Crowley.

"Then that would mean, we should be comrades!"

"But I am a vampire now. It doesn't really change anything does it?"

"But.."

"You realized that would mean that those vampires you despised so much would turn your comrades too."

"But since you were formerly humans, why do you do this?"

Crowley craned his neck. he thought: yes, why were they doing this? why do they go to war with the humans.

"It's because of that virus that the vampires spread killing more than half of the human population. We are mortal enemies Yuu."

"But is that all there is to this?"

At that Crowley pondered.

"I don't know. I can't think of anything."

Crowley seriously didn't know. What he did know was that, there is really more to this war between vampires and humans than what it appears to be. He remembered what Ferid told him all those years ago. He remembered how Ferid looked when he accused him of having being, once upon a time, object of affection of a certain vampire, and then after he turned into one, started hating the one who sired him.

He remembered the thing about this michaela factor. He didn't have a single idea about it, but he knew that it played a central part in this whole fiasco. He flitted his eyes in Yuu's direction. He saw her thinking seriously, still cupping the flowers in her hand.

At that moment, Crowley remembered memories he thought he had already forgotten. Those times when he was still alive, and so very human. He and his fellow crusaders had an excursion. The land was barren, it was like a desert, in the place where they were traversing. And he saw this flower sprouting on the ground like hope. He was a soldier who had seen nothing but death, toil, and destruction. They were even one of the harbingers of destruction and misery to places so untouched by the christian faith, and those places the church wished to take back from the moros. He had been having doubts as regards to their objective. He had been questioning his faith as well. Why do they need to kill in the name of God, if God himself forbids them to kill? Love your neighbor as you love yourself, they were taught this proverb: Thou shalt not kill. But why do they kill?

His doubts intensified when he saw that thing, that black monster he saw feeding off on his comrades. And then it was confirmed when he met Ferid. He could still remember those days as if they had happened yesterday. His memories of how he met Ferid, and how he became a vampire. It was true that indeed, he no longer felt the same attachment to this world or to his past unlike before. Now that he became a vampire, he had even forgotten his reasons for living. As a human that was turned into a vampire, he constantly searched for this. He thought that the reason for his life was to kill Ferid-the vampire who killed his comrades; the vampire who made him the monster that he was. But someone else was responsible for this.

"Don't worry, Crowley-kun."

What Ferid said intrigued him. Who was the mastermind of all of this? If it wasn't Ferid, then who? Their so called Father? Or is there a much higher being than him that they were up against?

Looking at Yuu, he never thought he would remember all of these. He didn't particularly care about his livestock. What he wanted was a thrill of a fight. Even though most of the time he just went on errands for Ferid and waited for something to happen. Yuu however, became like that flower in a barren land that sprouted in his dead heart.

Ferid told him about vampires falling in love with humans long ago. If he inferred it right, this was what happened to Ferid. Their Sire fell in love with him and made him a fledgling. Was it to preserve his beauty? Was it to have him accompany him for all eternity? Or was it to curse that Ferid to be forever be tormented along with Him?

Crowley didn't understand what it meant for a vampire to want a human so much that it would want to turn that human into a vampire. Ferid said that the fledgling would be weaker than the sire, they would also come to hate their masters, pleading them to kill them, to turn heaven and hell upside down just to bring their humanity back. Ferid didn't say anything about how siring would feel, since he himself didn't want to partake in spreading the curse of eternity.

But somehow, when Crowley looked at Yuu, he could understand what that want could mean. It was bad. The thrumming in his vampire veins whenever she was near was different. The attention that he would shower her with; The amount of time he spent thinking of her; the want to be needed by her was not normal. He was amused by her, completely taken, despite her naivety, her stupidity. Was this part of Ferid's plan? Did he scheme for this too? Crowley often thought of this. The sensations Crowley would experience rendered the vampire's inability to feel sound like a lie.

"What's going on?" Yuu asked, noticing a change in Crowley.

They looked at each other: Crowley looking into Yuu's green eyes, and Yuu looking into his red ones. Crowley wondered what Yuu saw in his eyes. Crowley was about to reach for her shoulders when he held himself back. It seemed that Yuu noticed it.

Yuu understood that blood was important to the vampires because they feed on it to live. When she was initially in Ferid's custody ,she was afraid all the time that Ferid would suck her blood. Fortunately, Ferid never did. When Crowley took her from him, she was also scared. She didn't know the vampire. Unlike with Ferid, she knew Ferid because she always saw him with Mika. Mika would talk about him sometimes as well. This often irked her off, to the point that she almost always wanted to tell Ferid to spare Mika and take her instead. But fear always got the better of her, so she never tried saving Mika.

Now, feeling bold, feeling that she could be strong like Mika too, she parted her hair and exposed her neck. She was nervous but it couldn't be helped.

"Thirsty?" she said shy.

Crowley's eyebrows shot up. Yuu was offering herself to him. He looked at her puzzled, making the other yell,

"I just thought you were thirsty and I thought you'd want to…" Yuu blabbered flushed. She was very embarrassed.

Crowley sighed. He smiled at her then and reach out to plant his gloved hands on her shoulders. Then, he withdrew them. He wanted to feel her with his bare hands. He took off both of his gloves and put it aside. Yuu observed him doing all of this gingerly, with that face that didn't reveal what he was thinking. They had been getting along for the past months. Ever since he took him from Ferid. Even though she was wary of him, she began to understand him more. In understanding him, he had the inkling that he used to be human even before he told him he was one. And thus, she became attached to him.

Crowley wrapped his hand around Yuu's throat, His thumb running in circles on her flesh in a languid motion. His eyes were focused on her slender neck. She was beginning to mature into a woman, he was very aware of it more than ever, so much that it often drove him crazy just thinking about it. Not that he was interested really, but observing his own reactions to Yuu's development was both amusing and frustrating. Yuu already had that thing girls underwent every month. Times like those were difficult for him, because the scent of her blood would be strong. And her vulnerability would be palpable to not be taken into his arms and just be held like the precious thing that she was. He leaned in and planted a kiss on her neck, completely surprising her.

"Crowley! What are you doing?!" Yuu protested slapping his shoulder.

"You..!"

Crowley withdrew and stared at him confused.

"It would hurt less if I do that. And don't struggle, or you'll only be hurting yourself."

At this, Crowley grabbed the back of Yuu's skull and pulled her to him. Then he clamped his fangs down on her neck and drank.