A vampires forbidden love

by max333

After being ripped away from her home Serenity, now Usagi, must figure out how to end the war between the Lycan's and vampires, try not to fall in love with Mamoru, deal with her sire Damon and hope that they don't have to wake up Diamond for the final fight that could expose them all.

11. reactions to be had and taking a stand

SerenityxEndymion: I went over their reactions twice just to make sure I had what I was looking for. Lol

phillynz: yeah she had to realize that things aren't what they once were and now she has options and choices to make. Ones that weren't there before.

Guest (1): yeah I'm just trying to make it workable now. Lol

SerenityMorrison: the turning him was a last minute decision. Yeah Damon will have a fun time with this one. lol and glad you enjoyed it. And while I did think to do that I thought it might be to much alike. I haven't discounted the possibilities but for now its just vampire Mamoru now.

jessielee14: yeah admittedly I had been having a back and forth debate on turning him but ended up doing it anyways. The reactions are next and yes there will be more smut. 😊

OrientalDanceGirl: I was tempted to drag it out a little bit more by having her leave but couldn't go through with it. Damon wont be down for long and ye he is. 😉

6 reviews, nice. Hope you all are ready for the upcoming reactions. I went over these scenes several times wanting to get it right for you guys and I hope I did well so please let me know what you think. Read and review!

A vampires forbidden love ch.11

Usagi POV

I hated that we had to go back to the estate. I wanted to enjoy this comfort of being in his arms without no one to hear us as we made love…repeatedly. I literally felt like a cat in heat I couldn't get enough of him. It seemed as if I wasn't the only one. Mamoru enjoyed testing out the prowess of being a vampire…stamina and all that. I enjoyed being his one and ONLY ever test subject. The vampires outside had no real clue cause as good as our hearing was we couldn't hear anything from inside a building that far away.

Something that came in handy when I was screaming Mamoru's name. At one point the neighbors hit the wall to shut us up but we couldn't be bothered by it. However duty called literally for a report. Discussions previously had came back to mind and I decided we together needed to go back to the estate. Rei was busy watching over that Lycan woman so we were waiting for any type of communication to be had.

Once we had something we could trace it back to the guy running it and hopefully put a stop to the war and innocents lost. I had to give a report which held very little but I also needed to speak in person to Damon's father about Mamoru staying at the estate for safety concerns even though Damon himself was there. Add to the fact that some Lycan's had shown up in the area and we couldn't take the risk anymore and left the apartment we had been staying in…well me not him but you get the picture.

Mamoru packed up a large duffle bag full of nothing but clothes he would need and bathroom essentials. He grabbed his charger and left out the front door with me. I had to smile internally as he had at one point went for condoms when I started to laugh at it. A vampire needing condoms. He chuckled to as he remembered we hadn't used condoms at all so it wasn't needed. We left out with our escort and arrived back safe and sound.

I knew eventually the vampires would sense the change in him but unless Damon's father made a stink about it they wouldn't. in fact when we came back inside the vampires around were granting us a small pathway to get to the office. Most I could see was a mirroring thanks to Mamoru for his help in this war. I guess word was spreading that he was helping to avoid the Lycan army from building its ranks.

This would be good for Mamoru especially if Damon was still going to be in his pissy ass self and try something stupid. It was almost like having extra watch dogs out and about to prevent Damon from making an attempt. This bode well for him and gave me a sense of relief as we walked to the office. Once we reached it I found Damon nearby. "I know he wont be dumb enough to do something in front of others so you can stay out here for a few moments while I speak with his father." I stated.

He nodded and I could tell he was in debate over giving me a 'good luck kiss'. It was written all over his face, "Later…" I promised and walked inside and closed the door. Damon's father was pouring over more paperwork due to the fight and might have to even stay longer than originally planned. "Sir." I bowed my head respectfully. "What news do you have?" he asked, sounded tired. "Nothing much I'm afraid." I really wished I had more to report.

"Rei – chan is watching over our Lycan lead waiting for her to make contact with her man on the other side where we could make more progress on that front. Once that trace gets made we can send a team out that I wish to personally be a part of." I really did. I could have Rei watch him in here while going out on that one…or someone I knew could watch Mamoru and not bow down to letting Damon do anything to him.

"Leaving your charge?" he asked looking up at me. A near questioning gaze on his face. "Hai…" I said, "Just for that fight. Mamoru – san has proven himself to be invaluable to the coven so I believe being here could grant him more insight on not just us but how we operate and the war gaining us even more of an advantage." I remarked before he smiled, "And this has nothing to do with his scent coated on you." Now I felt myself blush scarlet red.

"Gomen?" I asked. Wishing that slight change in my voice wasn't so apparent. "The scent on you is that of human and vampire…so he's a vampire now correct?" how the fuck?! "I…" damn. "And judging by the underlying scent beneath it you two must have bonded on a mated level as well." I hadn't heard nor put much thought into vampires and mating, it wasn't really on the top of my 'to do list' so I wasn't sure if this was a good thing or a bad thing, "I ah…" he put a finger up to stop me from talking.

"You know I love you right…like a daughter…" he stood up and walked around the desk, "And yes I had hoped that Damon could let go of his playboy ways and settle with you…you are my favored among his women…" delicate way of putting that, "But I realized decades ago that it wouldn't happen." I gulped but avoided it being detectable by him. "So instead I invested in you, my dear child, in another manner…" now I was curious. "Sir…?" I questioned but he held up his finger again.

"Damon might not end up being the leader I had tried to raise him to be. He is a leader no doubt but I'm honestly doubting his ability to make the decisions that are necessary for the future of this coven." I was stunned by this. I respected Damon as a leader just not as anything else. "Sir I do have faith and confidence in Damon as a leader." It was painful to say but the truth. He smiled at me, "Oh my dear child…" his hand reached up to touch my chin and for the first time in a LONG time I felt a tinge of actual fatherly respect towards him.

"Damon is a good leader you are correct…" then he moved forward and kissed my forehead, "But you are better…" I was stunned by this. "Sir are you suggesting that I…" I couldn't even finish the words I couldn't even imagine this coming to pass. "Be moved in place of Damon…? Despite your not being of purest of bloodlines? Despite you not being old enough? Despite your new relationship with Mamoru? And despite how you came to be here all those hundreds of years ago?" he asked.

I nodded and felt a wave of energy pass through me. I couldn't tell of it was excitement or nervousness but I felt my whole being light up. Suddenly I wondered if Damon could hear this and if he would make an attempt on me now to for what seemed to be me taking residence on his future throne here and his seat on the counsel. Would he go after Mamoru now just to spite me or would he obey his father still even with this new development. I was barely at the age requirement so what possessed this transition?

Damon POV

I walked down the corridor. I had found out and was rather irritated that Usagi was having a meeting with my father is was a special request not to include ANYONE else. Father approved and did so without hesitation. Something that was bothering me. I had this strangest notion something was going on but I didn't know what. It unnerved me so when I saw Mamoru standing there waiting next to the door actively watching what several were doing in the next room I saw an opportunity that I wasn't about to waste.

"Waiting for her?" I said in a condescending way. His eyes narrowed slightly at me before responding with, "Always and forever." He said it without blinking. Just a happy and you don't scare me one bit all in one. There was something different about him. I walked closer and noticed it. He smelled like HER! He reeked of her scent. I could feel the hairs rising in my skin at the rush of anger I was feeling. The sex was permeated on his form like a shield that said 'fuck you she's mine now'.

I grew red hot mad incredibly fast. I hadn't been this pissed off since I killed that scientist guy she loved. It was like he bathed in her scent all night long. I clenched my fists tightly to avoid killing him on the spot for this. I was royally pissed the fuck off, "Did she not tell you the rules?" I demanded. She was my piece of ass NOT HIS! He looked at me with confidence, "Rules?" he asked with an air of casual arrogance.

Now he was straight up pissing me the fuck off and he knew it. Especially since I was within hearing range of everything and dozens of vampires that could hear anything over here and stop me if I tried anything. He was still to much of a huge help to our cause for me to kill blindly without some kind of support from the other vampires. Plus if I did it now father would kill me for killing our lead.

I stepped forward getting within arms-length range of Mamoru. "If you think for one second that after this war is done with that your going to live think again." He saw my threat was real and said, "We all have to go someday right?" it was like my threats were nothing but air to him. I didn't know what pissed me off more the fact that he didn't seem to care or that he was so verbal about it. I grabbed at his shirt and went to push him when he didn't just seem harder to move but he gripped my arms back and pushed me right back.

Then I saw the mark on his neck. The very noticeable and red bite mark on his neck. The fresh looking one. Vampire bite marks heal fast once they've turned which means that she bit him again recently to make it fresh. Which means they fucked more than once and did it recent enough to warrant the stench of her coating him. "She bit you?" it was a statement rather than a question asked.

I noticed a twinge of a smile before he said, "Something like that yeah…" I shot out my hand to his neck on instinct and was shocked when it was caught in his hand before I even reached his throat, before he twisted it and shoved it back at me sending me a foot or two back. The fuck?! "You're a vampire?!" I snapped on him.

That FUCKING CUNT! "Oh its going to be so much worse now for the both of you now." I was ready to end his life. I was so close to not giving two fucks about what anyone had to say and tearing him to pieces here and now. "I'm going to rip you apart right in front of her then double her sentence from last time. Two decades of her never leaving that room and never saying no to me." I grinned in delight on that.

Mamoru looked at me disgusted before looking at me with a hint of pity. Something that shocked me. "Is that seriously the only way you know how to get a woman to stay with you?" he sounded like he was degrading me. "Take her from family, essentially having free reign and will to rape her repeatedly cause let's face it if it weren't for that deal made she would NEVER have slept with you."

His words enraged me. I went at his neck again only with more speed this time as I was aware he was a newbie. He got a decent grasp on my hand but couldn't shake me completely. "Listen here you pubescent happy meal!" I tightened my hold on him even as he kept trying to pull away at my grip. I had to admit he was feisty but not nearly as strong as me. "You are nothing more than meat to me. Usagi will learn yet AGAIN the hard way not to touch or let others touch her. She's mine." I said dangerously low.

"Usagi and I are none - " he just barely broke the hold I had on him as he jerked my hand around making me let go. It felt a bit num. I looked at him, "Blocking blood flow to certain parts of the hand I guess can still work on a vampire to. You do have blood flow running through you." He answered using his profession to gain the upper hand on me even if only temporary. "When I kill you, I'm going to make sure you feel every horrifying second of it till I see that light leave your eyes." Now he fluttered.

"You really think she wouldn't retaliate this time?" he asked instead. I couldn't respond as she came out of the meeting. Father was still inside. "Come on let's go." She ushered. She didn't even acknowledge me as she walked. Though her face appeared shocked and mystified. That didn't make any sense to me. I walked into the meeting room and asked, "So what was that about?" father looked to me and said, "You know I can't divulge that."

Something told me not to trust him on this. "Father is there something you're not telling me?" I asked. He looked at me, "Son you're well aware of everything you need to be aware of." Then he settled himself behind the desk and said, "Now we have a war to deal with. Usagi is working hard out there with Mamoru to combat their armies in the most neutral way possible without blood being spilt and making sure the war doesn't reach the human world." Once again more praise for her.

"Were vampires we spill the blood." I stated not at all happy that the reason why we had the upper hand was due to her and HIM! It should have been her and me…I damn near growled. I got stunned when father stood up in his chair and stared me down, "Silence!" I held my head higher, "You will do well to remember your place here son. This coven won't be fully yours till I'm gone. So do well to remember NOT to raise your voice to me. You sound like an impertinent foolish child." His tone whenever I was disappointing him.

"And what of Usagi?" I asked, "Does she not get the fatherly tone you bestow upon me in this manner?" I scathingly said. Never once had my father ever struck me with all his strength nor I him. It would start a pissing contest that I would loss in a heartbeat. My father was one of the oldest and strongest of the counsel members himself. Most of them looked to him for guidance throughout the years.

I also respected the man a great deal but it seems I can sometimes let my own emotions get the better of me. Prepared to stand down and accept his decision in the manner I was shocked by his next words, "She has never disappointed me." it was like putting a nail into my coffin. My blood boiled and I wanted so badly to strike out at him but even my own sense of self preservation kept from doing so.

"She's nothing more than my whore!" I spat. Making sure he knew that the woman he gave a bit of fatherly appraisal was also the same one that was a conquest of mine. It was the first time in a decade that he ever slapped me across the face. I reeled back stunned by it as he blurred around the desk and faced me head on. I actually felt fear, "She's much more than that and from what I've sensed recently she's not even that…not anymore." My nostrils flared out in anger. My father had a near smug look to his face.

"I do supposed this is partially my fault. After the death of your mother I wanted things easier on you…" I looked away on that. My mother's death from childhood still fresh in my memory. The Lycan's catching her off guard as she tried to fight wounded and ripping her to pieces. Never had I seen my father more devastated than that day. I knew he had wanted to die that day. To be with her in spirit but he was needed.

He knew it and stayed alive though I suspected he wanted to go into a deep sleep for his remaining days. He didn't want to bear life without her yet he did it anyways. Its one of the great admirable things about him. The man dealt with her death every day and yet seeing me his own true blood child wasn't enough to make him want to stay around. I still remember that look on his face as we mourned her.

For a solid few months each coven had taken the time to mourn the loose of her. Silence reigned upon up for a while before we fell into a new grove of things. My appetite for women increased as my father's appetite for politics did as well. The counsel thought they had staunched the war then. The battle of 1700. From the stories told it was supposed to end it all and instead we merely beat them back and lost a grand counsel member…my mother. They never knew it was only the beginning.

"I just never believed that my letting things go with you would make you so irresponsible at times." As if my short comings were his fault. "Father…" I tried, "Enough!" he snapped. He looked at me dead in the eyes, "Until this war is over with, you will put more focus into it rather than your tireless escapades." Seriously?! "Father with all do respect I'm not going to stop - " he slapped me again.

My ire was lite up higher than before. It seemed we were coming to an impasse. I really wondered now what that meeting with Usagi was about now. Father had never been so quick before to slap me TWICE in one conversation. I was beginning to think things were changing and not for my benefit. This was my coven when he left and it would remain mine for all time, I wasn't letting anyone take it from me but I also wasn't about to be ordered about like a child even from my own father.

"If you so much as defy me even once more on a direct order given I will place this coven in the hands of someone who will give a damn about it." I was beyond pissed, "Who says I don't? I'm always here!" I barked in defense. "Hai…fornicating with your consorts back and forth like a game of leap frog." Father preferred one woman for all time. My mother died and he never took to another.

Thing is as I thought on it over the years I didn't want to ever go through that pain he went through at losing my mother. I could never handle such heartbreak so multiple women to fuck it was. Usagi in this went from a conquest to a consort to warrior to someone I favored over all my women. I did want more from her but that would involve letting my heart get more involved than it was and I couldn't have that. I refused to be weakened by love in that form. As it was when father mourned he buried himself in work.

I refused to let love rule me like that so back to my women…and the woman…Usagi. There was just something about her that made me want to have more but that look of devastation that crossed my father's face would be something to always remember. "Now leave." It was an order and one I needed to follow. Before I exited the doors I asked, "One question father…" he didn't speak as I glanced back, "Would you prefer her to lead this coven in its future or me?" forget the bloodlines and age part I wanted to know how he felt personally.

He didn't answer though. Just looked at me dead. No emotion. No signs of it being me or her, however that was all I needed. "You have work to do." it was like a punch to the gut for me. I began to walk out when he said, "There is progress on the Lycan front where Usagi, Mamoru and Rei have been working." I didn't look back just stood still. My own way of defiance, "I made a deal with Usagi as she feels that Mamoru is valuable as a team member." I could have scoffed at that but the tension was still too high.

"As long as she your second in command for the remainder of your duration here he will remain off limits from any 'accidents'." My head snapped back at him and in a fit of shock and anger I demanded, "How in the hell - " father rose up at me again. "Don't make me remind you again…yes she was already a high-ranking member of this coven but she was never officially made as your second in command. Just assumed." This is bullshit!

I had plans to kill that bastard! "She will serve as your second and no harm will come to him by ANY hand that you command and if there's an accident during a Lycan attack you will lose more than you bargained for." I was beyond pissed that he got to live, "Father he's been a vampire for all of a day he's a liability. I am YOUR SON! Your ONLY flesh and blood!" I know I hadn't been the best but damn it blood should count for something.

"Hai…you are…" he looked sad before hardening his face, "Leave." Was his only response left yet as I exited the door I swore I heard him say under his breath, "But you're not the only child I hold love for…" I wanted to break the walls down. Tear someone's head off. Make a coffee mug out of it and drink their blood. So when I walked down a few more hallways of the mansion we were in I found Usagi's room. I wanted answers and I wanted them now. I barged in expecting her to be half naked ready to bath when I saw him there.

On her bed and going through his own duffle bag filled with clothes from what I could tell. No fucking way was he moving in here! "The hell do you think you're doing?" my voice was low, near threatening even, but Mamoru didn't bat an eye lash. He merely replied, "Looking for – got it." It was a plastic bag full of shampoo and conditioner and other things that men used now a days for their personal use. He went into the bathroom as I decided to go through his bag myself uncaring if he walked back in.

Clothing and other effects. He was staying here for a while I could tell. As he came back out I asked, "So how long is your stay going to be?" he shrugged his shoulders, "Don't know. Till the end of the war I guess." He ventured. I frowned, "And you're in her room because?" I demanded this time, "I'm staying with her." He supplied as she walked out of the bathroom. "Need something?" she asked me. "We need to talk…without him present." I looked at Mamoru with distain. This was going to end right now.

"If it has anything to do with him you might as well say it now." She advised. Advised me…what a notion. "Makes no difference to me. Whether he hears about how much I could care less about him means nothing to me." I smirk as she rolls her eyes, "I think everyone knows about that." She muttered. I ignored the jab, "He can't stay in here. You'd be disobeying my direct orders." I warned her.

Before she could utter a word I walked closer towards her which got his ire risen up. I didn't care though. "We have a deal and I expect you to abide by it regardless of who is 'visiting' this estate." I told her. She looked up at me, the defiance in her bright blue eyes as they began to light up with her vampirism. Like a warning to not push her! I was furious that she was fighting back against me.

She narrowed her eyes at me as my breathing began to increase due to the anger swelling within me. My ire rising up at her, "You know as well as I do that we have far more important things to be dealing with right now rather than your petty jealousies." She stated under her breath. I didn't want her to see that I knew the truth of it. I wasn't letting her get away with her deception of me, not after all this.

I looked back at him. I wanted to slam him into a wall just to see her face as I broke his body and turned him into a pretzel. I got into her face, feeling her breath against my own as I said in the most possessive neutral and warning voice I could without acting on strangling her, "I want you available tonight." I touched her hair delicately as she moved her face pulling the silky strands from my fingers.

My anger was reaching new heights. It was the calm before the storm and she was going to be reaping from the rewards of fucking another male, "Wear something stringy underneath." I smirked seeing the irritated look in her face as if she was preparing to deal with an irrational child and I was anything but. I've already been shut down by my father I wasn't getting shut down by her.

She smacked my hand away from her as if my very touch on her hair was disgusting and she was removing it from her person. He had to have put this in her head. I wanted that prick dead. She didn't normally act so repulsed by me…though thinking on it I probably wouldn't have noticed if she did…not like I paid any attention – why am I giving her reason? I'm going to fuck her whether she likes it or not and whether he likes it or not.

In fact I wanted to beat him to bloody pulp, tie him down and take her in front of him before killing him and then punishing her for the next two decades from her deceit of me. the images in my head danced around with merriment as if I were watching what I wanted to have and do for Christmas. A bit morbid for most out there but just right for me. I wasn't going to lose her not now not ever.

I look her form up and down and see the slight difference. Her leather cat suit is gone and now she has on her dark jeans and a black tank top. It was something less business and more casual. It bothered me. Was this because of him to? "I'm busy tonight. Go to Rei – chan, she'll be happy to take my place." She insisted. I knew the truth of that one but I didn't want Rei I wanted her. It seemed like Usagi was trying to hand me off to Rei like a choir to do.

A choir that Rei would love to do and she'd hate to do. I was merely an annoyance to her and that irritated me. Not that I held any real power over her but it seemed like she was growing so much more rebellious than before. I briefly glanced at the door he was nearby. I itched to snap his neck like a twig as she tried to bypass me. I grabbed her arm, "I don't want her, I want you." I expressed. Did she not understand?

"I know what you want and it's not going to happen." She wrenched her arm free of my grip so I grasped it again and pushed her back against the bathroom door. The push back was hard enough to rattle the door a bit. "The hell it won't." nobody defies me. "You listen here, you will be available tonight whether you like it or not. You'll wear something stringy and easy to rip off." I could feel him coming up behind me so used my left arm to push him back away.

"This doesn't concern you." I told him just as my hand pushed him back, sending him over the corner of the bed and near the door to the room. Not wanting to deal with him right now I turned my back to her and pushed him further out only enough to shut and lock the door on him but no real harm was done. I turned back to face her perturbed expression. "You really are a jealous dick." She snapped.

I walked up to her and made to slap her across the face for her insolence when she blocked my arm and snapped her palm into my own face. The shock of it sent me back a foot as she said, "Don't presume to lecture me or to make demands of me." The rejection of having me was etched all over her as Mamoru pounded on the door to be let back in. "He's quite a nuisance." I noted. Probably debating on breaking it in as well.

Probably could but probably won't. "As I was saying before - " "He's more of a man that you'll ever be." She said it in a growl under her breath as if expressing something important to me. It stopped me in my tracks, "Excuse me?" I asked. "He's more of a man, more of a vampire more of everything you're not and - " I had had enough listening to her rant. I shot my hand around her throat, clenching tightly as I pushed her against the door, making her rise up off her booted feet by several inches.

She was now at my height level now as she grasped at my hands. An automatic defense she had whenever someone put their hands around her throat. Well it was an automatic defense for many people in this situation. She went to go kick out at me when I pushed myself up against her enough to pin her legs down in place against the door. I was well aware of her defensive capabilities…and she knew it.

Her face merely millimeters from my own. I used enough of my strength to enforce that I was in charge and she would not be defying me again even as she grasped at my grip trying to get me to loosen it, "Allow me to lay this out for you one last time…" I began as she tried to pull my hand from her throat. Mamoru still pounding at the door. "What's going to happen is you're going to do exactly as I tell you to." I began.

I couldn't tell her the truth…the reason why I favored her more than the other mistresses I had. I couldn't tell her cause then she'd know I did hold a love for her that went beyond physicality. I couldn't let her know that. Because despite that fact that part of me did fall utterly in love with her I refused to let the same thing that happen to my father happen to me. I refused to fall completely in love and watch that someone I loved beyond my own life die out and fade away from existence.

I was a selfish bastard and I refused to feel that pain. Ever! When that scientist guy got under her skin back in the twenties I used him as an example to her and it worked. This Mamoru guy though…he was different. He had tasted her as I had. He got close enough to do so and gave her more courage to resist me and use logic against me to avoid me. His presence would be the end of anything between her and I and I couldn't let that happen.

This side chick business was all I had to get what I wanted and avoid the feeling of loosing a loved one if she were to perish. I hated her for managing to avoid falling in love with me and I despised her for falling for him…but most of all I hated myself for being to selfish and fearful to let go and accept things. Instead I fucked my mistresses and preferred her over all as she was the only one to never fall for me. You always fall for the ones you can't have…I could never have her heart but I'd be damned if I lost her body.

"Your obligations to our deal have not been fulfilled in too long." I glanced back at the door where he was still trying to get in, "Its time you remember what it feels like to be with me again." I brought my hand up to caress her face. She jerked away from the contact as if she had been burnt by it. I looked at her face. She cringed for a moment at the contact and dare I say it even looked repulsed by it. I hadn't seen that in a really LONG ass time.

It inflicted pain of the heart onto me. I squeezed tighter around her neck. Wanting to her hurt her for hurting me. For making me feel this type of pain. This jealousy. This…love. I didn't want to be in love…I didn't want to ever feel the pain of loss. I knew I would with her. I knew it the moment I took her from her family. I didn't ever think I'd fall for her but I did and I hated her for it. How did she do it when trying so hard to be as far away from me as possible.

I hated her for falling for him so damned fast. I hated her for giving in and making love to him cause we all knew it was love making. Usagi and I just had sex. I hated her for smelling like him even so deeply that it would take a full on cleansed shower to rid his scent from her skin. Most of all I hated her for never loving me back. I applied more pressure to her neck, wanting her to feel a bit of my own pain.

"Now you're going to tell him that he can have his own room, preferably on the other-side of the estate but he will NOT be staying in here." I got closer to her face as she gasped for air now. "I will be the ONLY MAN to stay in this bed with you. The only man to fuck you in it." I sneered at her. Her face turned away from me. I tightened my hold on her. "Am I in anyway unclear?" I refused to let her go.

I loosened up my hand a little bit but only so she could talk, "Fuck you." Was all she was able to get out before heaving in breath as she bent her knee enough inward to nick me in the junk. I backed away but just by a few inches as she used the space as her advantage. Pushing her leg further up between us and pushing me further away from her. It was as if we had begun to engage in a fight and it was a slow progressing one till the other faltered. "You really want to play this game?" I asked her.

She pushed me away with her knee before using her vampirism to get both legs up around my neck and twist us both till we crashed into the bed and the nightstand. My body bounced back with enough force to send me into the vanity across from it. She hit the nightstand as we both came to defensive positions. It was like an automatic reflex and for the first time in a long time I saw her as a true contender that could give me a run for my money. I knew she was skilled but never had we ever actually gone in full force toe to toe.

"I believe I lived out that 'service' to you many lifetimes ago." What? "Even the lifetimes of my family…" I really hated how sentimental she was on that stuff. "You know what SHIT happens to people, get over it!" I snapped at her. But she looked beyond pissed. "You've taken them from me in the same lifetime twice and that will NEVER be something I will forgive you for." Now I was confused.

"The hell are you talking about?" I demanded, "I went looking for them years later to see how they were. All that was left was their graves…" that could mean anything. "Diamond had gone to them…ripped them to pieces…" for that I do understand her words now. She'd never let it go that I turned him. Now that he'd killed her family she placed the blame on me…yet again instead of putting it on him.

"Usagi just because I turned him didn't mean that he wasn't already capable of doing something like that already. The vampirism just gave the nudge he needed to go full on 'ripper' on your family. On that village. I don't control the vampirism. I didn't control him that night. I didn't let him loose. I didn't personally rip you're family apart. I sure as hell didn't do anything to them that would have warranted their death's yet you find any way you can to blame me for EVERYTHING wrong in your life!" I yelled.

The moment highly tense. A tear nearly fell from her eyes, "No you didn't…" she admitted, "But he was the gun used to take out that village and my family. You were the man holding said gun. You may not have given out an order to do everything but you were still the man holding it. You let the safety off and didn't do ENOUGH to stop him." I had wondered if I had done enough those few days.

Didn't mean I didn't. "You knew he was a flight risk, you knew he HATED what you had done to him and me, you knew he would take the first chance he got to get away and you foolishly believed that a new vampire fresh on blood lust could be contained the way you did. He should have had more guards more of something back then and you didn't! That is on you. The people who died in that village, my family, all of that is on YOU!" she seethed.

"You're the one that turned him. You came to my family's home and took me from them. You are responsible for all of it and for the last two hundred plus years I've been your willing sex servant and your unofficial second in command. I never defied you unless it came to the matters of the heart and you ripped away anything I gained some type of love from." She dropped her defense and walked up to me, "So like I said before I believe I've out lived my services to you." Her response was obvious.

Her hatred of me was like a river of uncontainable water. She had merely tolerated me as I had with him. She would get punished severely for this. I needed to make her remember what would happen when she defied me. "I think you need to understand just how much I am going to make you remember how badly you fucked up with him." She stood still, "How you just got him killed in every way and how you're going to be stuck in this room for the next two decades doing whatever I say." I was ready to take her down.

Fuck what every says I'm wanted her now and I wanted him dead! I went to grab her throat prepared to take her by force if necessary now. Beforehand I preferred willingness, but this was to much. The bedroom door then opened to reveal Mamoru there next to a maid having used a key, "Gomen asai, sir…" the maid began before looking to Mamoru, "He was concerned and trying to get in." my ire was still up high but at the same time reality had literally come in. if I did do anything now it would ruin my seat on the counsel.

Making myself calm down further I rolled my eyes at her interruption and dismissed this for now. I would come back to it later on when I wasn't at risk of being caught. "Whatever." I stood up and said, "You know my orders. Follow them or deal with the consequences." I left out of the room glaring at Mamoru hard enough to make him think twice about making love to her in the room tonight. That was OUR place to fuck not theirs. I would be damned if he marked that as his when it was nowhere near being his in any manner.

Usagi POV

I couldn't believe the audacity of him. For the first time ever I was beginning to feel the full extent of his hate towards me. I could see the anger, the rage, the jealousy and pain in his eyes. I could feel it in his strength as he had squeezed my neck tighter. For but a moment I wondered if he'd been angered enough to kill me. He could have, we both knew it. He was unwilling to though. It would mean a hit against his father and against the coven to kill without reason. At least without good reason.

Thing is I also saw another emotion in his eyes…right before the pain was something akin to love. I was so stunned to see it I let him continue to talk without a hit at his person. The pain was real but it was different. I couldn't figure out why but it was. Like something even he himself was unwilling to deal with ever. So when he walked out I saw the defeat in his eyes and I didn't say anything in response.

The maid left and Mamoru closed the door back up, locking the door in his haste to give us some privacy. At least some amount of it. I touched my throat and turned to the vanity to see the bruising left behind by him already fading away. Benefits of vampirism. Disadvantage is I will always remember everything that's ever happened to me. To those I've helped and had to kill, I remember all of it.

Mamoru came up to me, checking to see if I was hurt elsewhere. "Its fine…" I told him in a reassuring manner. "Nani?" he asked, "Damon's jealousy is just a bit much." That was an understatement. "A bit much?" Mamoru asked. I grasped on to his hand, "I think he knows that this…" I gestured between the two of us as I sat him down on the bed. "That it means something to me…to us both…" I explained.

Seeing the confusion on his face I explained further, "I had fallen for that scientist guy and I had a feeling he knew it but I honestly didn't know if he returned the feelings as I did or if it was a love of friendship. That night I was going to tell him the truth of my feelings. I was just to late." I expressed. "I think he did…" Mamoru said stilling me. "I think he loved you as I do…with everything he felt in him and that even though he died he died having loved and known you." It was as if he were him for a moment.

"Arigato…" I somehow knew Mamoru was right. "We have to be more careful now…I want you to begin training here. Rei – chan and I can both help you out there." I told him, "I've done some amount of cross fitness training and some boxing when I was in college. I won't be totally oblivious to it." He tried to lighten the mood. "Good…you'll need it." I smiled and accepted his arms pulling me in closer to him.

"I'm not going anywhere…" he said as he pulled me into his lap. I felt the tension begin to ease away as I felt myself drift off in his lap. The echoes of the large estate and its inhabitants as they began to go into the next shift filtered through my head. Things that needed to be done and things that were getting done. "Neither am I." I murmured. A promise to one another to stay by and not give in and defeat the enemy…though now it felt like it wasn't just enemies of the Lycan variety but of the enemy that lived within these walls to.

I had to protect him and help him protect himself. Even Damon knew I couldn't protect Mamoru indefinitely. I had work to do that I was on order by Damon's father himself. I needed Rei's help to help him get to know himself better as a vampire and learn how to operate as we did and not be afraid of what he was capable of. I pulled out of his duffle bag next to us the thermos of coffee and blood…my blood.

Something to make him comfortable enough to drink it without feeling guilty for it. He took a deep long sip before putting it away. "Soon the headaches will be a thing of the past and you're senses will be honed in upon." He caressed my face as I did his, "Whatever happens I'm all in. I just want to be with you and help end this war. I want you to know what peace feels like." I couldn't help but tear up a bit. "I don't think I've ever known what true peace feels like." He hugged me closer as we took the moment in.

Damon POV

I listened to the two talk inside as I hovered around the locked door. They really did have something special. A bond of sorts. I hated them all the more for it. What I hated more though was the tear that fell from my eyes knowing she loved him and would NEVER love me. I wiped it and the weakness away as I walked towards my red headed mistresses room. She never let me down in the act of wanting me. I could take my anger out on her sexually and she would take it all in with devotion. "Soon Usagi…soon…" I vowed.