SerenityxEndymion: thank you and I'm glad the emotions came off well.

Guest (1): thanks.

Guest (2): no not short at all. Its going beyond 10 chapters and I still have a few more things to write out for the plot that is actually growing a bit further in my head. This might be easily 15-20 chapters long…might be. And yes damon does hold a love for usagi but his overall selfishness will take over regardless. And thanks for the ending part, I'm really glad that came across well.

SerenityxEndymion: no not really, the difference is diamond in the anime was actually redeemable in the end when he realized he was being used whereas damon is naturally like this. He sees something he wants and he goes for it. Unless it were to take his seat on the counsel (which is the only thing he wants more than her) he'll do it. He sees damon's warning as a real threat but at the same time he's just been brought into a war that could regardless of who, get him killed. He wants to be with the woman that he's falling for no matter what. Sorry to almost make you puke but the uneasiness was suppose to be there. Damon is trying to do everything he can subtly at first to get rid of mamoru so making him ill at ease with his past with usagi was a need to do. obviously mamoru is smarter than that. Enjoy your trip to mexico!

SerenityMorrison: ha! Great, damon isn't meant to be completely liked or hated but a mix that goes towards hate at the end. 😉 and yeah things would have been escalated had damon not been in the picture but 'cock blocking' is sometimes necessary to make sure the initial couple are together and are somewhat close to love and not just blindly screwing each other. Damon as an obstacle wont last for long though and when he figures it out lets just say I cant wait to write that!

OrientalDanceGirl: that's one of the reasons, mans used to getting what he wants so for him in part, the fact that she's not clamoring for his attention kind of has him wanting more. No she didn't. its why I had him take her the way he did or else there would have been an actual attraction that would have gone into 'The Vampire Diaries' territory that I didn't want to do. I think I might have something have him act out but I haven't decided yet.

6 reviews nice! I hope you guys are enjoying the flow of the story and are getting as into it as I am in writing it. Reviews are not only welcomed but encouraged so please read and review!

A vampire's forbidden love ch.8

Usagi POV

We had been at the hospital for hours now. I was watching the other staff members like hawks as he took a surveying tally of the newest victims to 'dog and wolf' attacks. Seriously? Don't they think that somebody in the hospital will notice? I had to compel several people to allow me access to different areas including the security feeds but these Lycan's were smart. The security feeds from anything prior were already gone so if there had been other victims before he got back to work this last Monday we have no idea.

I had a strange feeling that the staff that was in charge of this was altering or even disposing of any evidence that would support the cause for any type of alarm in the increase of these patients coming into the ER. They were controlling what went into the books and what didn't to avoid arousing suspicion. I had to tread carefully to avoid making myself known as well so I spent the first six days of the week looking through camera footage.

It only took so long as there was over a month of multiple camera feeds to search through. Some of it was even replaced with loop feeds that you could barely tell unless you were actually looking for the editing cut in the footage. Being a vampire that looks for this type of thing is wasn't to hard to find it was just going through it all and using my vampiric abilities to find the cuts and loops.

Mamoru just worked his way through the ER as a few more attack victims got brought in this evening. And it was a busy night for a Saturday so it was like the first six days were trial runs to catch up on who could be behind the activity over here. The one thing we as vampires couldn't do was compel the enemy. Due to the virus that Lycanthropy originated from they were essentially immune to being compelled or I'm sure that this war would have been null and void a while back.

I can't imagine it going on if all the vampires had to do was compel them to surrender or something. So I knew exactly who was and wasn't a Lycan. So far I managed to keep my scent as a vampire covered up. It comes in handy to keep a small amount of saffron on you. I had started to use it decades ago but only when needed. It helped to cover our scent from them but it wasn't full proof system.

It only really worked long enough to see if someone was a Lycan before avoiding them altogether to avoid them sniffing out my scent from beneath it. After all in this case I was undercover. I couldn't let them know there was a vampire here or else they might alert a higher up that we were stopping the growth of their army, as it was for now we wanted to have the element of surprise. I wasn't about to take unnecessary risks if I didn't need to.

Working undercover as Mamoru's assistant worked nicely for when it was needed. I mostly stayed in the shadows though. When I finally got done looking through hours of security footage and finding the common patterns that was enabling me to figure out which ones were regular shift differences and which ones were Lycan's. The routines they did and didn't do. It was a lot of investigative work. Luckily for the first half of the week no one with the bites were admitted…at least not to this hospital.

I had asked him to contact contact other hospitals to see if this was happening at multiple locations or just the one. So far nothing so either it really was in just this area or those Lycan's didn't have anyone over there kicking up a fuss like Mamoru over here was. If it was we needed to send out other vampires that could watch over them and eradicate the problem as we were doing so here.

He had received back no responses just yet but there was also one hospital he hadn't heard from so we were on standby for that one. Hopefully we'd hear something by the end of this weekend. I watched as he noted a few new patients that came in. The first ones this week. I couldn't get readily into the curtained off rooms as one of the nurses during each shift that was there had a Lycan on staff.

The one that was currently on duty I could sense her very fast and it caused me to stay further in the shadows. I could smell her very distinctly though and I definitely kept my distance. She was older and would be able to smell my own scent with ease. The others I noticed I could sense from a closer distance but they were only a few years old at best. Older ones like myself could be sense by other older ones with better accuracy. So I steered clear of alerting her to my presence but I had to see those patients to take care of them.

It was the only part of the job I despised. So I after signaling him that I needed access to said patient he occupied the Lycan staff member that was there. She didn't see anything wrong as he had nothing but a human scent to him. He was in the clear. This way I could try to get information from the victim in question. I slid behind the curtain and made sure to avoid disturbing it too much.

I kept the fabric still as I walked further in and saw all the tubes he had around him and frowned at the knowledge. I didn't really do anything in the medical field but I was pretty sure that this many tubes wasn't required for even a wolf bite. "Hello?" I said just loud enough to see if he could be responsive. He was to heavily sedated to probably even know he had a visitor let alone hear me.

I even saw little drool trails. Proof that he was out of it. He was purposely sedated this deeply and definitely too much to be necessary for a simple dog or wolf bite. That's when it occurred to me…this was another reason this was going on so long without detection. I closed my eyes at the new found knowledge. The patients were being so heavily sedated that they couldn't voice up or speak out on what specifically bite them.

These were all pre-determined bites and the staff was keeping them sedated to avoid ratting them out to the doctors that came in for a check-up. I wouldn't get anything verbally out of him unless he was wide awake and I wouldn't get that in the next few minutes. Even with the right drug he wouldn't be able to talk for nearly an hour. I didn't want to make Mamoru's job out there to obvious for them. I didn't want to put him in a position that would draw more attention on himself in here.

I looked for a way to taste the patient's blood. Lycan blood wouldn't do us any harm so I was thankfully for that. I looked for where I could get blood with ease. Taking an arm I bite down gently and the memories of what happened to him popped in my head. Running through the brush as he was attacked from behind. He barely got his hands up in time to protect his face as I briefly saw the face of the Lycan that attacked him.

In wolf form only but I saw those eyes…they looked familiar. Possibly one of the staff here. I knew it wasn't a few of the staff members as they had more distinctive eye colors even for their species. I had to go through the rolodex of confirmed Lycan's working here to be sure and I really wanted to say it was the one that I couldn't communicate with without exposing myself but I wanted to rule the others out first.

I had everything written out and profiles made for every one of them here so that I could place everyone appropriately and systematically. I didn't want to follow the wrong person back and miss out on the right one and end up with more victims in here. I had to look over those profiles again to figure out which staff member it was that could have had access to do this and I had to do it before the footage could be altered if it wasn't already.

These people were good people. Innocent ones and they were being turned into something they would have normally feared and used to build an army for the person or persons in charge. I could relate myself but this wasn't about me. However not knowing who did this irked the hell out of me. As much as we knew about species we didn't know who was responsible for this. We were here to suss it out but we hadn't been able to find anyone that could give us anything regarding a name or anything more.

I was actually tempted to have Rei watch Mamoru for the night while I went to follow one of them back to their residence and see who they spoke to. See if I couldn't get to the bottom of this issue faster. This is the part that I hated. Now that I had what I needed I had to end this poor man's life. I hated this so damned much. I wish we could avoid it in all honesty but the call the Lycan had to the one that sired him was stronger than any humanity left in them.

It over rode their senses and compelled them to do whatever their sires told them to do even if they didn't want to. even if it included killing someone they were to weak to resist the pull. I had known many men and women that were either bitten by lycan's or vampires over the years and many had converted fine but there were also some that couldn't control or handle their own newly acquired abilities.

Diamond was prime example but there were others throughout the years. One case where I met this young girl, she couldn't have been more than 20 and with a bright future ahead of her. That was cut short when a lycan bite her. She was so traumatized by what it did to her that I simply didn't have the heart to kill her. Defying my orders I let her live. I gave her the 'you gotta lay low' speech instead of killing her when I was sent to.

I thought I had done this great thing by giving the chance for life even for a Lycan. Thought maybe if she avoided the genes in her she could learn how to control it or something. I hated it and didn't want to. Things were fine for a few days and I was even smiling that not every Lycan had to die. That not every Lycan was going to attack an innocent, but I got a call later on the third day demanding to know why my kill hadn't been completed.

I was stunned and afraid. Not just for her but for anyone else as well. I arrived at the bar she had illegally gotten into with her fake ID. Everyone was dead. Blood and even some body parts were scattered all over and she was covered in blood and in wolf form. The stench of those dead bodies…that was on me. I carried that guilt day in and day out for the last two decades I couldn't bear it again.

I had tried to reach out to her one more time but she was gone. The wolf form stronger than her human side at that point. I had to kill her that day. I had hoped she could lay low but the exposure she created from my neglect had to be taken care of. I apologized before she turned on me and I shot her in the head. That was the first and only time I ever made that mistake. For several years Damon wouldn't let me forget it however with or without him I wouldn't ever forget it.

I refused to make it again. I hated to have to put someone out of their misery. It required a certain stomach for it…one that I had to build up to over the years but since there was no cure for lycanthropy or vampirism…though I found out over a hundred years later vampirism had a cure if you hadn't gone through the full transition. That was a rough one to handle. Finding that out over a hundred years after I turned was a bit of a hit to me.

For lycanthropy however there was no known cure. Not that we had discovered anyways. So I had to give him a triple dose of insulin. The Lycan in him wouldn't be strong enough just yet to counter the amount the dosage was. A regular human would be dead in an hour at best. He would be dead in a few hours. He would go into a coma-like state, stop breathing and his heart would fail to revive him. And because he's already highly sedated thanks to the staff member no one would be checking on him anytime soon.

I was using the time line here to my advantage but it still made me feel sick. It was killing an innocent person. Something I never truly had the stomach for and I don't think I ever would but I didn't have any other option. I mean what could I do? Let him live and then have to face him yet again at some point while his sire whomever he or she is order them to do something that they don't want to do but are compelled to do and hate themselves for? He could be ordered to kill a group of innocent people.

I couldn't handle that. Granted he isn't that girl but I highly doubtful that what is wanted of him is ice cream and puppy dogs. These lycan's are organizing and they want an army. Thing is no matter how many times you tell yourself its for the greater good there's always a nagging part of you that wishes there was another way to avoid the death that was about to happen. I didn't view all life as a treasure as there were plenty of lycan's over the years that did such horrendous things, and vampires to, Damon for one, that I didn't view all life like that.

This however always reminded me that I wasn't the stone cold vampire I pretended to be, that I would remember the kills, the blood spilled and the feeling it gave me. Coldness. Emptiness. I hated it but I hated to loose multiple lives more. And unfortunately, these poor people were being used as disposable soldiers in a war that not only wasn't there's but one that they were getting pulled into.

They shouldn't have to die for getting caught up in a war that had nothing to do with them. The Lycan's ranks had dwindled over the years. Thanks to us. So to a degree I knew this was our fault but I also knew very few others would see it that way. So when it came to this we had no choice. There wasn't a cure and we couldn't take the risk that he would be able to control it cause even if he did whomever sired him would have him do something worse and then he would hate himself and us for not doing it earlier.

I had already run into that several times over the years. People begged me to kill them that way they didn't turn on their loved ones or anyone else. I refused as I didn't want to have to and more people dead yet it happened anyways. That was my fault and those sins I could never truly get rid of but by doing this now only one had to go versus dozens if not more. It's also why I wanted to get Rei involved tonight on guarding Mamoru that way I could follow the right staff member home and end this before another innocent got hurt.

I hated what I had to do. the bottle of insulin I had was carefully concealed and the syringe was very small. Just enough to hold the dosage and that was it. I pulled the right amount into the syringe and stuck the needle into the IV. I held my breath controlling myself from letting a tear drop for the man, "Gomen asai…" I whispered. Pushing the end down and forcing the insulin into the IV.

"You have no idea how much I don't want to do this…but I can't let anyone else die from what they will make you do…and you'll do it because you will have no choice…I've seen it done before…gomen asai…" I watched it go through the IV as I walked out of the whole section without causing a stir. Once I was in a hallway where there were no cameras or staff I left the tears slip and wiped them away.

"I won't bother asking for forgiveness…I know I don't deserve it for what I've done…but allow him to be with loved ones that he has now…he needs them…" I whispered to whomever was listening before walking away. My second regret in this whole thing was that we couldn't have detected this sooner. Who knew how truly large their army was right now. We could even start to feel the change in the air.

The sense that something big was coming and coming for us specifically. The Lycan's were resolving to exterminate us in Japan and perhaps all over the world. It needed to stop. We needed to save as many vampires and humans as we could. I hated the slogan of kill a few to save a lot but it was a tried and true method that worked. Never would stop hating it but I did understand it to certain degrees…would I agree with it fuck no…would I do what I had to do to ensure the survival of innocents…yes…did this count…for their poor souls I hoped so.

Honestly I wish we could come to a peaceful resolution but I had had many conversations with the hairy species over the years. All of them holding a confounding hatred for my kind. I never once held hatred in my heart…when I found my family to be dead and while I held sorrow for their lost lives and what could have been, I didn't hate Diamond for it. I only felt sorrow for him as well. Well I never held hatred at a person directly…what he did to them before killing them I did hate very much.

He would never have done that if it weren't for what Damon turned him into and it seems like even now I couldn't let that go. Leaving the ER wing I watched the staff member, the short dark -haired woman in her thirties easily. She was checking on the patients. I had hidden away the syringe I used on them and once more closed my guilt up within me. I have had to do a lot over the decades to ensure survival of my species along with myself.

Things that I regret at times as it took a life that didn't need to go and take the lives of many that needed to go…but no matter the situation, there was almost always a tinge of guilt. Like now I felt the guilt of the death I had just caused but like I did it to help prevent more deaths just like himself. I looked about the hallway as I decided that I needed a breather. I went behind the security room again

I was so glad when the shift ended. I had called in Rei to watch over him for a few hours while I did some recon on a lead. Mamoru wasn't to happy about this as he didn't trust Rei to much. I couldn't blame him considering how 'bad cop' she could be but she was one of the best as I was so I didn't doubt her abilities to protect him. Something told me though that it wasn't cause of Rei being there its cause I wasn't.

He accepted it but I knew he disliked it. I didn't put a name to the feeling I had but something said it meant something more than just protection for him. I just didn't know what else it could have been. I waited till she was at the hospital to be his guard going back to his place before I left to check on the Lycan I was to follow. Her shift didn't end for another hour so I waited till she left before subtle following behind her.

She was within 45 minutes of the hospital. Living within Hiroo meant quiet areas which was beneficial for them and us and it was near some of the finer neighborhoods as well. The complex she lived in was at least ten stories and had numerous residents residing within. The place was more high tech than Mamoru's building to. I did have the proper code to get to the rest of the floors only access to the lobby.

I smelled out the guard behind the desk and found him to be human. I compelled him to give up the information on what floor she was on and which apartment. He gave it up without hesitation and after I compelled him to forget he saw me or spoke to me I left the building making sure to avoid the cameras on my way out. Smiling at the knowledge of having the human guard there for future reference I went outside the building and rounded to the side to see where I had access without visibility from people.

Thankfully it was still dark outside and not to many people were out right now. It gave me ample coverage time to go to the side and climb up the building via the space between the buildings. I found the ledges where the windows were to be a great advantage to helping me jump up to her floor. Luckily there was a fire escape on her floor that allowed me a decent perching spot to actively listen while avoid my scent from being carrier through the window. Not everything was sealed to perfection.

Nothing so far and her scent was more distinctive now being here. She's been residing here for months at least to have her scent lingering past the windows. It's was why our estate was far removed from that of the city and neighboring residences. We had added safety measures of course but no Lycan horde would dare try to come at us with a full scale attack…at least not a coordinated one.

This was something that we hadn't ever encountered before. It also made me wonder when they started to take innocent people and make them into Lycan's. For all we knew they started up months ago and we have no clue as to how many more there are. Or this count be a testing stage for them. I just hoped we weren't hitting the tip of the ice berg. Listening in I heard a call being made. Due to cells not having sounds to the buttons hit I couldn't tell what number was dialed but I heard the conversation.

"Night Fox reporting in." she spoke. I could hear a male voice on the other end of the line. I couldn't hear his voice distinctively enough to recognize it but I heard the words spoken, "We have a reported total of 50 new Lycan's in our quarters so far. And that's from last month as well. Why the slow down?" the male asked her. "Sir we had many that didn't survive the mental transition." She sounded a bit defeated and if I wasn't mistaken worried.

"How hard is it to accept becoming a powerful species." It was more of a statement than a question but he pressed, "Any issues with those blood suckers?" he demanded, "None so far but the most recent transition died tonight." I closed my eyes at that before refocusing. "Another case of weakness." He hissed at her. "You must get more people. This idea held merit to go after junkies to build the ranks but their bodies are to weak to handle the transition." That explained the two junkies from the first night.

"Sir all I need is another week to get the last few in." she tried, she was bargaining people's lives for what I'm assuming was avoided death if she failed. "You'll get your week but this time no more junkies. I'm tired of trying to train misfit Lycan's with no sense of respect. We don't have years to train them with this war coming to a close. No…what about the staff?" to that she held a different tone to her voice.

"Sir if I go after the staff there it's going to raise questions I can't answer. Besides we already have half the staff on our side. If I go after any more…sir it's too risky." She tried to reason with him. "WE NEED TO KEEP UP THE SCHEDULE!" he exploded on her. So they have a time frame…good to know. Question is what was it. "Sir I'm well aware of that. However if I turn even one more person at the hospital its shining a spot light on me. I'll buy myself a brown thunderstorm before our timeline." She was annoyed now.

"I don't care if you blow your cover we need more!" Now this guy was being a complete idiot in this regards. Low profile is the key to success. "Okay so blow my cover then what? Production stops. Then we ARE behind the schedule." She surmised to him. "Careful with your tongue around me girl. Just make sure you produce at least another ten by the end of the week or your through." He hung up on her.

"Fucking prick." She muttered as she ended the call. Then she made another call, "It's me…" only now she wasn't in undercover mode. She sounded different, "How is the progress?" she asked, "The female on the other end replied, "We've managed to get more test results in from your new test subjects. The junkies are harder to work with but if you knock them out they're much more receptive." She dare I say it giggled.

"And the results are?" she asked the other female, "Obvious we already knew that older ones could respond faster, heal faster and think better." She took a breath, "Getting bitten from an older Lycan to a younger one does have differing results. The older ones make the transition faster though that to varies on where the subject was bitten. Its why I knew the hospital set up would be perfect." This female on the other end was to chipper to be normal. One could almost hear the lack of sympathy and remorse for her actions.

"In effect, scratches even for an older Lycan take hours to heal but from a newer one, like you've been using some of the staff there when you can't, it takes a day or so to begin to transition. So its definitely more effective for you to be the one to take the bite or scratch the test subjects." She replied. "Good it should help me speed up the quantity. Boss man is on the warpath for more recruits and he's not a fan of the easy targets anymore." She sarcastically responded. The other females response was, "Until we win this war he won't be happy."

I rolled my eyes. They sounded like Rei and myself talking about Damon. I had to get to the bottom of this, "Anyways good luck out there." The female responded just as the other hung up, "Fuck my life right now." She complained as I sat outside waiting for her to go to sleep. I was hopeful that by that point my scent would have dissipated outside and the herb I had to use was covering the rest of me up well.

Taking the chance I stealthily broke inside making sure to avoid making a sound as I got inside the window. Not easy without the right tools. Even though it was locked, the turn style mechanism was easy to overcome with patience and a magnet just in the right place. Plus it was also good that the lock itself wasn't rusted out or anything. Getting inside made me also glad that my boots were mostly tread and gave me very little sound when it came to stepping. I was more so careful of the wood floors.

I didn't want a creak to give me away. Shutting the window to avoid the change in temperature from waking her up I locked it back up to avoid her noticing something was wrong or even off for that matter. Why give her a reason to question things especially right now? Using my night vision I looked around the dark apartment and found nothing of real use. Just regular things lying about the living room.

It wasn't till I found the office space, in another room next to the bedroom that I found a laptop sitting on her desk. No information lying about it so I knew it was on the actual device. Making sure the door was closed and the window was unlocked for easy escape I turned it on and pulled out my own flash drive. It was something I started to carry with me over a decade ago when the bigger spaced drives could hold all the information stored on a computer.

It came in handy for situations similar to this. The computer booted up but was password protected, obviously. Luckily we had some very good teachers that were vampire to show us how to hack. Just the basics though. Seriously your password is 'winthewar'? I questioned mentally. Getting in I pushed the drive into the USB port and started to copy everything. I heard a stirring and listened intently. I had a feeling she was up and trying to sense if there was someone else inside.

With a few tense moments passing by I heard her getting up. The need to take a quick look at her apartment was understandable but not wanted. As it finished copying the files I didn't even bat an eye lash as I shut her computer off and exited through the window of the computer room and jumped down to the ground with practiced ease before darting out from between the buildings just to be safe. Storing the flash drive carefully I went back to the estate first to have our hacker crack anything that was encrypted.

I knew I'd be late in getting back to Mamoru and Rei but this was potentially very important so I had to get it back first. I arrived back at the estate with Damon on my ass, "What are you doing here and why go through the fuss of saying we need that human if you're not going to protect him?" I arched a brow at him, "What crawled up your ass and died?" I stated sarcastically as I walked to our resident hacker down in the basement.

Damon POV

I was stunned to see her back here and was quick with the questions hoping she'd a breakthrough that would take the ban off of Mamoru. I so wanted to rip his throat out. Wanting to know what was on the drive to I held my tongue on her little dig and went with her to the basement to where our hacker was. Getting to his little domain she gave it to him for upload. Wanting to get a closer look she leaned over the chair.

I leaned back to get an ample view of her ass the way it popped out. I realized I hadn't had her for several months now. To long. I wanted her back in bed. Slipping my arm around her waist she fluidly slipped out of the grip and turned towards me, "Let me know if there's any progress with the drive." She thumbed behind her before taking a swift exit. I looked at the hacker, "Its encrypted…it'll take me an hour tops." He confirmed before I rushed out.

I frowned feeling like I was being ditched by her. I went upstairs and found her nowhere in sight and I highly doubt she went outside already so I went up to her room. Never having changed the décor since the 90's it still had this light purple hue to it. "Usagi…" I called out, "Hai." She came back out of the bathroom with a travel kit of toothbrush and amenities. "You pack like you're going to be gone for a while." I was growing worried about her leaving now.

"Well we don't know when this war will end and until Mamoru isn't in any more danger I have to be there to protect him. This night is a one-time thing where I come to collect a few things. If I were moving out trust me you'd know it." She remarks, an edge to her voice. "Don't be cocky with me Usagi. You have a room here for a reason." I told her, "And would you permit Mamoru in here?" she asked me. That was an obvious no and she knew it, "Didn't think so." She knew she had me and I disliked it.

"Beside' it's only going to be for a few weeks. I highly doubt we'll be out for longer than that or that we won't have the progress needed by that time." I conceded her logic but didn't want her to spend to much time with him and without me there. I didn't want to wait a few weeks to have her back in my bed. I tried to touch her again when she weaseled out of it and said, "I have to go." Before grabbing her duffle bag fully of some clothes and a few shoes before heading out the door. Not even bothering to shut it.

Jogging after her I caught her outside, "Usagi!" I called out to her. She turned around, "Nani? I have to get back to Mamoru's, I'm sure Rei is getting tired of babysitting duty. You know how much she hates it." She remarked to me. I walked up to her already noting that she left out the 'san' suffix for his name, something she didn't do often. "Is there something going on between you two?" I asked her, already feeling like there was.

She stiffened but ignored it, "Yeah what's going on is I need to get back. Unless you want to deal with a cranky Rei?" she smirked. Rei was good in bed and eager to please don't get me wrong but Usagi had a point. Rei could get cranky when she had to do something she didn't want to do. Complained about it unless I fucked her. Thing is I didn't want to fuck Rei. Her willingness was nice but I really enjoyed Usagi's slight unwillingness.

I preferred willing but over the years I developed a taste for enjoying ordering her about in the bedroom. Simply put I wanted to fuck Usagi and no one else. Not to mention I sure as hell didn't want him to bed her. "Be sure to be back tomorrow night then. I require your services." I called out to her. Making sure she knew exactly what I wanted. Let Rei be cranky for another night. No skin off my bones.

She merely looked at me curiously as I walked up to her. "I want you in my bed." The demand is subtle and low. I touched the side of her face and granted she was never a fan of my touches but this time she was extra jumpy to be away from it. Like she got around that scientist when he was alive. "Remember our deal…" I warned in lower tones as I trailed a hand down the front of her cat suit. Tempted to pull the zipper with it.

Feeling her breathing as she inhaled sharply. I loved her responsiveness. Hell I wanted her right now and damn it I - "Trust me Damon…" she caught my hand before it could descend further down, "I couldn't ever forget that…" her stare however was hateful as she glared at me in defiance. That defiance that had transitioned into work was now back to being how it was all those years ago. Free and thinking.

I yanked my hand from hers and lightly touched before grabbing her throat. Making sure to put the right amount of pressure for the veiled threat it was, "You'd best to not ever forget it…tomorrow night." I got into her face as she looked at me with disgust. Her hand came on top of mine and tried to remove it. Though she was stronger now with her hundreds of years I had longer on her and she knew it.

She couldn't truly beat me in a strength match for a fight. Though skill wise…possibly. I t was something I refused to admit to out loud but she had become more skilled than me over the years of training. "You know as well as I do that until we have the information needed I can't. Mamoru doesn't trust anyone else and barely trusts Rei. He needs me." She jerked out of my hold and walked away even as I could smell the rebellion festering on her.

"That he does…cause it's the only thing after that ban is lifted that will keep him alive and even you can't cover him forever." Now I was planning on how to dismember the human with as much pleasure as I could put forth into it. "If that little pathetic human thinks he can steal away a mistress of mine then he has another thing coming." I walked with a new feel of determination as I signaled for my other mistress to follow. I had a hard on from looking at Usagi's ass that needed taking care of.

Usagi POV

I was never more happy that I was a vampire. I blurred as fast as I could to get back to Mamoru's apartment. I just had this urge to be next to him all of a sudden. I couldn't explain it. Couldn't grasp it for right now I just knew I needed to be near him. I felt like this war was transitioning behind the bullets as well as in from of them. Plus I just needed to be away from Damon. His attitude lately just had me at a standstill.

Suddenly I didn't feel the need to be cautious regarding defying Damon even though I knew I should be. I shook my head wondering if I was being naïve in this. I knew Mamoru was interested but after that kiss we shared we hadn't shared anything other than that. Not even a conversation that pertained to it since the last one. It fell to the side nulled out for the moment. I was both grateful and disheartened by it.

I had half wished he had fought harder for a chance but I knew better than that. I was the one that told him the negatives. He was right to not bring it up. He was right to not want to get involved. I was right for telling him. So why did it feel so wrong not to be with him? It felt even more wrong to have Damon's touch on me. It always made me dislike him but it seemed more intense with the need to reject his touch lately.

I knew he was checking me out down in the hacker's basement. I knew it, but I ignored it. I didn't want to address it as I knew he'd want to start something up and not only did I not want to but I couldn't. Rei seriously hated to baby sit. She had a short temper that made her invaluable on the field for combat as she just wanted to rush the enemy making her appear more fearless than others.

I got within range of the complex he lived in and saw him standing out on the balcony he had. I glanced up to see him looking at the sky as if he was in deep thought. Seeing him just made me feel better. Made me feel a sense of relief I didn't realize I needed. Walking up to the building I wondered when the Lycan's would become brazen enough to do something more than ransack his place. Luckily, they didn't find anything of value that day and presumably crossed off their suspect list.

We hadn't seen anything that would be cause for alarm for him to not be able to return since then. When there was cause for alarm I held no doubt that Damon's father would let him stay in the manor for safety reasons. That didn't mean though that I didn't fear what Damon himself would try to do. Its why I was also so insistent on going out with Mamoru to his place. I didn't want to run the risk just yet until more information came up that proved Mamoru's placement was helpful.

If I could get that accomplished it would put suspicious eyes on Damon if he ever did come close to trying to hurt him. I was trying to build up his usefulness to avoid him becoming a target after the ban was lifted. That look that Damon had when he ordered me to his bed tomorrow night, unsuccessfully, confirmed it for me. There was a feeling in my gut that told me that if I didn't stay and insist on being at the apartment that something tragic might happen to Mamoru and I couldn't let that happen.

I went into the building and passed Rei in the hall as I got off the elevator, "He's in the shower now." She commented. I nodded and kept going as she said, "I hope you know what you're doing." Her tone was that of concern. I glanced back at her. "Protecting the target." I answered simply. She didn't move as I noticed her 'that's complete bullshit' expression. I sighed, "I'm…" I looked away before looking towards his apartment door.

Was something happening that I thought wasn't anymore? Did he say something to her? "He cares for you…" was her next response. "I'm…working on it…" it was the best I could give her as she said, "I get it…he's attractive…not Damon attractive but he's alright. Just…" I looked back at her as she looked weary herself. Not physically but emotionally. Like she knew more of what was going on than I did. Perhaps she did.

She did spend most of the am with him while I was gone. Who knows what they talked about. I figured to ask him when I got in. "Just don't get our lead on this whole mess killed by fucking him." She said. Her face was that of a warning in remembrance of the last guy. I resisted the urge to let a tear form. Blinking away the memory. "I won't get him killed." I promised as she walked away and I walked to his apartment.