A/N: One-shot written for the prompt 'vampire'. Sebastian is a vampire, desperate to save his dying boyfriend, but Kurt doesn't want to become a vampire. No blood or gore, just conversation. AU. Supernatural. Romance. Soulmates. Vampire!Sebastian, Dying!Kurt Edit*** If you've read this before it's been slightly re-vamped (sorry for the pun) to fit the rest of the chapters.

Death wants to hide. It crawls into dark spaces, away from the light…away from the living. But death need not be so afraid. It can be just as bright, just as beautiful. Some beauty endures, regardless if it lives or dies.

Sebastian looks down at Kurt's face, growing ever paler in the fading light, and smiles.

"In a moment, we'll be together forever, my love," Sebastian sighs, brushing the hair from Kurt's eyes. Kurt blinks weakly, his glassy eyes fighting to focus on Sebastian's burning red ones. Kurt tries to shake his head.

"I…I don't want you to do this…" Kurt objects. "It's my time."

"Shhh." Sebastian hushes Kurt, his smile growing ever wider. "I know you're scared, but it's alright. You'll be happy with me. I promise."

Kurt sighs.

"You're not listening to me," Kurt says, sounding defeated. "You never listen."

Sebastian doesn't want to be angry with his beloved, but Kurt's constant refusal wears on his patience.

"What are you so worried about?" Sebastian hisses, harsher than he intends. "Your soul? You don't believe in God or heaven anyway! So why not stay here with me forever?"

It seems like only yesterday that Sebastian found out what he felt was wonderful news; that Kurt was dying. For Sebastian, it was redemption. The start of a new life for the two of them, that he wouldn't be damned because of one horrible mistake, but then Kurt devastated him by telling him that he didn't want it. He didn't want to be a vampire. Didn't want immortality.

It was like he was saying he didn't want Sebastian.

Sebastian became livid.

"What do you mean you don't want to be a vampire?" Sebastian had roared.

"Sebastian," Kurt said, reaching for a blanket to cover himself with. "Please try and understand..."

"Understand?" Sebastian bellowed. "What is there to understand!? We have an opportunity. Finally an opportunity to be together, and you're going to just throw it all away?"

"It's not an opportunity," Kurt bellowed back with equal fire, not willing to back down from what he fondly referred to as 'his demon boyfriend'. "It's damnation! You said so yourself."

"It was damnation because I wouldn't be able to have you," Sebastian explained, still furious. "But now, I can. We can. We will."

"No, Sebastian," Kurt said, holding firm. "No, I won't allow..."

"Won't allow what?" Sebastian laughed cruelly. "Can you fight me? No, you can't. When you're sick and dying and incapacitated, will you be able to fight me? No!"

"But..."

"End of discussion!" Sebastian grabbed Kurt's wrists and pinned him to the bed, smiling wide and showing every one of his gleaming white teeth and razor sharp fangs. "You are mine, and you will be mine for all eternity."

With that he buried himself deep into Kurt's body, fucking his boyfriend with more venom than he would have normally, but he never said the one thing that truly mattered.

I don't want you to die, to disappear, because there's no way I could exist in this world without you.

Yes, it all seemed like yesterday to a monster with no concept of time, but for Kurt it was almost a year of mundane tests and painful treatments, of hope and heartbreak, of crying alone in the oncologist's office, wishing Sebastian were with him, to hold his hand. There were times when he almost completely broke down that he could feel Sebastian's presence in his mind, helping him stand taller, helping him carry on.

Sebastian made love to Kurt almost every night up until the end, reveling in the taste of Kurt's blood which became increasingly bitter as his disease progressed, believing that despite Kurt's constant protests they would spend eternity forever.

"Sebastian," Kurt mutters weakly, breaking Sebastian from his thoughts. "It's…it's just not natural, Sebastian."

Sebastian can feel Kurt's breathing become slow and faint. He shakes his head.

"And this is natural?"

Sebastian can't help his anger now, can't help it when Kurt seems so willing to throw away everything they have together. "Dying before you've even had the chance to live is natural? Leaving me here alone…that's natural?"

Sebastian feels hot tears threatening to fall, but he refuses to let them.

No. Kurt doesn't know. He doesn't understand. There is too much at stake to give in to petty, stupid, human things…things that lesser beings would consider natural.

"Sebastian," Kurt breathes painfully. "I love you. I do…but please…don't do anything stupid."

Sebastian smiles. Kurt has just given him his loophole.

Don't do anything stupid.

Sitting here and watching Kurt die would be stupid.

Not doing something to save Kurt's life would be stupid.

Anyone would agree.

"Don't worry, my darling," Sebastian says soothingly, "I won't do anything stupid. I promise."

Sebastian kisses Kurt gently, lingering over his lips, waiting for the perfect moment…the moment between the end of life and the beginning of death when Sebastian will make his move.

Maybe Kurt will be angry. Maybe Kurt will even hate him.

Sebastian doesn't care. Kurt has all of eternity to forgive him.