I had watched him walk away.
Watched him with such a daze of happiness, that I forgot everything for a few seconds.
Until I heard a voice.
"You love him. Don't you."
The tone left no room for argument.
I turned to see him.
To see Zero.
"Zero...I..." I tried to speak to him.
But he held his hand up to stop me.
"No. There's nothing you need to say." He muttered.
He glanced away, but not before I saw the look in his eyes.
"Zero? What's wrong?" I asked, reaching out to him.
He stepped swiftly away from me.
"Nothing. Stop it." He said harshly.
I knew it wasn't blood lust.
I'd seen that before.
This was something different.
I frowned.
"Zero...I'm sorry...that I haven't talked to you in so lon-"
"It's not you!" He snapped at me.
I felt my eyes widen at his anger.
"Then...wh-...what is it?"
I looked at him.
I searched his face, trying to understand.
"It's...it's...nothing..."
He looked away again.
No.
I wasn't going to let him go.
"No Zero. It isn't nothing." I made my tone harsh.
So he would hear the sincerity.
"I care about you. So tell me. Because it's important. You're important."
He looked at me.
I swear he looked shocked.
Just for a second, but I saw it.
Then he smoothed his features over.
"It's...it's him!" He told me, spitting out the last word.
"He thinks he can just have everything he wants! He just...He thinks he can just pick you out from a crowd and you have to be his forever." He shook his head.
"He thinks he doesn't have to work for anything. That everything just drops into place."
I frowned and sighed at him.
Sometimes Zero got things so...so...wrong...
"Zero...that's not-"
"Stop it."
I stopped straight away.
His voice was quiet.
But the force he used to say the words, made me halt my actions straight way.
"Stop defending him. You're just as bad..." He murmured. "I feel like I've completely lost you Yuki..."
Lost me?
Didn't I just say I cared for him?
I felt anger begin to boil within me.
I shook my head violently.
I stood up slowly and looked him in the eye.
Hoping that he wouldn't look away.
"Zero...you haven't lost me. Maybe you just keep pushing me away..."
I turned away.
I really didn't want to stay there with Zero anymore.
The whole thing was strangling my happiness.
And I loved my happiness.
I left him there.
I...didn't want to leave him there.
But...
I needed him to understand that he was so wrong.
Just so wrong.
I pulled Kaname's coat tighter around me.
It was time to end my patrol anyway.
I rushed to my room.
Trying to get away from the tortured atmosphere I had left with Zero.
I sat down on my bed.
I sighed and let my head drop into my hands.
I felt moisture.
But this time...I wasn't crying.
I knew I wasn't.
I pulled my hands away from my face.
What?
What...is that?
This...dark...liquid...
Red...
It dripped from my fingers and onto the floor.
It ran down my arms and stained Kaname's coat.
I stared, wide eyed.
Bl- Blood?
Why was there...Blood here?
I looked around me, trying to find the source of the liquid.
I wasn't hurt so where...
As I looked around, I noticed, to my horror, that the blood was everywhere.
Everywhere.
I moved further onto my bed, trying to move away from the liquid that was spreading from an unknown source.
Why?
Why is it...?
What's happening?
My head felt like it was splitting in two.
Although I didn't want the blood in my hair, I clutched my head.
Agony.
I felt like I was breaking inside.
I'm...coming undone.
I'm...scared.
I'm frightened.
Kaname...please...save me...
I begged silently in my mind for it to stop.
For it to stop and for someone to save me.
Where is it coming from?
Why is it here?
What can I do?
Please...let it stop...
I don't understand.
I glanced up at the room.
As I looked around the blood stained room, I saw something in the once empty corner.
A small child.
A little girl.
She looked around five years old.
She was huddled in on herself.
I could hear her murmuring something.
"Please...help me...I'm scared...the scary vampires are going to eat me..."
I watched as she raised her head to look at me.
"You! You're one of them!" She stared at me in horror.
And then she screamed and I felt like I was shattering.
Shattering from the inside out.
Stop this.
Please make it stop.
The noise stopped.
But it didn't help.
I was alone again.
Alone.
I'm alone.
Kaname...
I'm scared...
I'm scared...
