Most people think that just before they die they see their life passing before their eyes or a white light shining brightly In front of them. Nothing like that happened to me, the waves grew closer as the smell of water was now hitting my senses.

One fact was right, jump of a cliff and it does go in slow motion. Closing my eyes I welcomed the impact that was about to happen.

But it never happened only a slight pressure around my waist and then the wind stopped assaulting my face, the smell of water leaving my nose.

Puzzled my eyes slowly opened as I came face to face with a cave wall, dark, wet and covered in green moss. My shock from falling to my death to being stood up, alive and facing a wall was short lived as a low growl rumbled up from a chest that only now did I realise was behind me.

My head slowly turned around and looked up to the face of a very, angry and scary pissed of vampire.

Acids eyes bore into mine as he throws me to the side causing me to hit another wall at the other end of the cave. Pain shot through my head as I lay limp on the floor.

His voice was so low all the hairs on the back of my neck stood up on end "what the hell did you think you were doing! You stupid female, is being near me that bad you have to jump of a cliff. I knew this would happen, yet I still did it anyway. I don't know who's more stupid me or you at this moment in time" he began muttering to himself as he paced back and forth to quiet for my ears to pick up.

Making myself as small as I could I tried to crawl towards the entrance, as Acid was now punching large holes into the cave walls.

My attempts were cut short as Acid grabbed my legs and dragged me back towards him. Screaming I kicked at his hold as tears began to fall down my face "please Acid, it wasn't like that"

His grip on my feet moved to my hips as he pinned me to the floor with his body grabbing my hair with his hand pulling down, which forced my head back at a rather awkward angle.

My screams of protest were not heard by Acid who for some reason far too angry "Acid stop, please your hurting me"

His hand made me look into his face which was just inches away from my own "Don't you ever scare me like that do you understand female" his eyes closed and he let out a deep breath, letting go of his grip in my hair and placing both his hands flat at each side of my head.

"Never again female do you understand" his voice was softer now as he placed a hand on the wound just above my left eye, which was now bleeding down my face and neck.

"Come on, let me have a look at your head" he got up and held a hand out for me; I ignored his gesture and got up myself.

Stumbling I almost fell back down but Acid caught me and led me to the wall letting me slide down and lean against it. He took a shred of his shirt and walked towards the entrance, a few seconds later reappearing with a wet rag.

I closed my eyes and let him clean the wound which he inflicted "are you not talking to me now" his voice was trying to lighten the mood but still held a trace of, what was that in his eyes...guilt?.

My reply was clear as I just turned my head to the side. Acid was a vampire who made me nervous but now he just scared me.

I remembered something he said back in the testing facility about vampires being cold blooded killers. I couldn't agree more with him.

He finished cleaning my wound and forced me to look at him by grabbing my chin, "are you scared of me" his words were said with no emotion attached, so I gave my honest answer.

"Yes" the words barley left my lips but Acid heard them clear as day and he flung the rag next to me, got up and stormed out the cave. "Don't move till I get back female, you do and I'll know and I'll be the one pushing you off a cliff" he snarled as he left the entrance.

I rested my head against the cave wall and cried. I didn't hold back i let all of my emotions come to the surface and fall down my face.

How did i let my life get like this, where the hell was Acid going?

Sleep was something my head was not letting me do, voices whispering inside my head woke me from my sleep. Silent words floated around my head, telling me things, wanting me to do things.

I wouldn't of course; the last time I did I pissed off a vampire. Without my tablets my depression was getting worse, having a bi-polar vampire friend, stalker, kidnapper, well whatever the hell Acid was, was not helping my mental state.

Getting up I grabbed the side of my head covering my ears trying to stop the thoughts inside my head. I closed my eyes and did what I always did when they got to loud. Play them at their own game.

I started of quiet as my voice grew shouting for them to shut up and leave me alone "get out of my head, leave me alone. You're driving me insane! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"

"Female?" that one spoken confused word had me halting in my battle with my head, as my eyes locked into a pair of red eyes, "What are you doing" his question wasn't one someone would ask a person they found rocking Standing up, holding her head chanting shut up. No his question was one of pure bewilderment.

How do I explain to a vampire about depression? The only thing I could think of was "you wouldn't understand Acid".

He moved so fast his actions were a blur till he was standing In front of me lifting my chin, speaking as softly as I guess Acid could manage "then make me".

God knows how long later I told Acid everything about my childhood too my depression and the faint voices in my head. He would nod after one or two things I said, but he remained silent as I spoke.

"How long have you been off your tablets" his voice held no emotion as he asked me his question

I looked at the floor and began playing with the small rocks covering the ground "since I was taken".

He carried on looking forward as he spoke again "what is your name female".

His question caught me off guard, the realisation dawned on me that i had never told Acid my name. I had almost done, but we were interrupted.

I looked at his face as i revealed my last secret to this vampire "my name is Raven"

He missed and we fell silent, until Acid broke the silence again "tell me female, why did you leave?".

I paused not knowing how to tell acid i saw him kissing a girl, so in end i went for the blunt approach "i saw you kissing the red haired girl, you had no more need for me, so i left"

Acid shocked me as he always does by having a fit of laughter clutching his stomach he managed to say between laughs "female, oh sweet female i was feeding. That, that was not kissing, please give me more credit than that".

Well i felt more stupid now than ever. He was a vampire, feeding from her neck. How i thought he was kissing her was beyond me. My cheeks had gone bright red and i began to pull my coat around my face too hide my embarrassment.

Two hands caught mine as they pulled the coat back away from my face "please don't cover your face female, the human blushing is something I'm getting rather fond of" his voice soft and for once holding a hint of male cockiness as his finger stroked down the side of my face.

Moments like this are what Hollywood films are made of, both looking at each other's eyes, faces inches apart, something in the air...only this wasn't Hollywood. This was reality, as we leaned closer at the last second our brain caught up with our bodies and we pulled apart in an awkward silence.

"I'm just going to grab something for you, not a present, not that i wouldn't get you one..." Acid began mumbling as he chucked a brown parcel at my feet "food, eat it" and with that he left me alone for the second time today, confused and still emotionally unstable, only this time it wasn't the voices in my head i had to control, it was the butterflies in my stomach.