A/N: Things seem cut short at the start of this chapter. But don't worry. . .?
"Victor. . ." Yuuri laid his head on Victor's chest and sobbed on him. He didn't listen to what the southern clan leader had just said to him. "Oh. . . Victor. . ."
The vampire's eyes glowed and he started after Yuuri. Right as he pounced on the crying man, he was tackled to the floor. "SON OF A BITCH!"
Yuuri looked up to see what had just happened. "YURI!" he called at the young vampire.
Yuri was on top of the leader pounding him. "YOU. . . WILL. . . NOT. . . TOUCH. . . HIM!" he screamed with every punch he threw.
The leader laid almost defenseless to Yuri's hits. Almost. He reached up and grabbed Yuri's wrists. With a smirk he said, "You're strong." He threw Yuri to the leader straddled Yuri where he laid. "But I'm stronger."
He twisted Yuri's neck and lowered his mouth. Yuri kneed the leader and his stomach. The leader pulled away just long enough so Yuri could get to his feet and compose himself. He looked over to Yuuri and the master who laid in his own pool of cold blood spilling from his neck.
The leader was up on his feet and ran after Yuri. Just when he was about to jump on him, Yuri dodged and karate kicked the leader in his side. The leader reacted by swinging a punch across Yuri's face.
Yuuri wanted to hide his face from the battle, but at the same time he couldn't look away. He watched in silence, keeping a hold of Victor's chest.
The leader grabbed Yuri by his waist and kneed the vampire. Yuri reacted by lifting his leg and kicking the inside of the leader's thigh which threw him off balance. Before he hit the ground, Yuri took his arm and swung him around. The leader's back hit the wall at full force and he slipped to the floor.
Yuri lowered himself to be eye-level with the leader. "Your reign went on too long." he bit into the rival leader's neck. The leader shrieked very briefly, then the room was silent.
The battle in the master suite was over. Yuuri looked back down at Victor and caressed his chest. "Please. . . please be okay, Victor." he murmured to Victor.
Yuri went over to Victor. He felt Victor's neck and put the same palm in the puddle of blood that had dripped from him. "He'll be fine." Yuri assured. "He'll be fine." he repeated.
Yuri opened his mouth and tore open the inside of Victor's arm. He covered the opening with his hand, leaned down, sucked up some of the blood that had left Victor's body. Yuri removed his hand and hovered his fangs over the opening. The blood that Yuri had sucked up dripped into the opening.
"I need something to cover it up." Yuri told Yuuri as soon as the last drop of blood entered Victor's body.
"Uh. . ." Yuuri looked around the room. Without a cloth small enough, Yuuri wriggled out of his shirt and handed it to Yuri. "I'll go put on another one." Yuuri stood and went to his walk-in closet. Yuri ripped the expensive cloth and wrapped it around Victor's arm.
He waited.
Yuuri had returned a moment later and sat down next to his bodyguard. "Will he wake up?" Yuuri's trembling hand rested back on top of Victor's chest.
"Do you like him?" Yuri asked and side-eyed him. "I thought you didn't." Yuuri was silent as he watched his husband.
Victor stirred a little and his eyes weakly blinked open. Yuuri lunged forward and hugged him. "Oh thank you. . . thank you. . ." Victor slowly wrapped his arms around Yuuri.
"I'm okay." his voice was hoarse in response. "Don't fret, Yuuri."
"Master, I'm sorry that I had to kill him." Yuri told Victor. "I didn't want to. I really didn't."
Victor let out a small giggle. "You were threatened, and I asked you to protect Yuuri. You didn't do anything wrong."
Yuri gave him a small smile. "Can you get up?" He pulled Yuuri off of the master and gave a hand.
Victor sat up. He accepted the vampire's hand. "Yes I can." Yuri pulled him up into a standing position.
Yuuri pulled Victor into another hug. "Where do we go from here?" he asked.
Victor paced to the other side of the room where the southern clan leader lay dead. "First, we have to finish this fight." he picked up the vampire bridal style. "Yuuri, my husband. Will you get the door?" Yuuri did as he was asked and all three members in the room make their exit.
They make their way back through the East Wing. Most of the vampires had stopped and stared at the three men and the limp body the tallest's arms.
"Is that?"
"Is he?"
The murmured questions of the rival clan were heard all the way down the hall.
"Warn the others. Your leader is dead." Victor announced to everyone.
Everyone had suddenly dropped who they were beating and scattered. Victor continued down the hall, his clan followed him all the way back down to the South Wing in the foyer. The rivals were making their leave in defeat. Without their leader, they could not go on.
"This isn't the end." one warned the northern clan. "We will come back to avenge the death of our great leader." he took the body of his dead leader from Victor then made his leave.
The entire castle was cleared out of all rival members except for one. He fell to his knees in front of his rivals and let out a few tears. "I'm sorry for what they have done to you."
Victor approached him and picked him up. "Who are you and what do you want from us?" he asked.
"My name is Otabek. I was a member of the southern clan, but I do not belong. I was forced by my will to kill others, come here, and fight you. I don't want to." he said.
"How can we trust you?" Yuri folded his arms and joined the master at his side.
"Please give me a chance with you?" Otabek pleaded. "I promise I'll prove my worth to you."
Yuri gave Victor a look. Victor seemed unsure at first, then he gave Otabek a genuine smile.
"Okay," Yuri's jaw dropped, seeming ready to protest. Victor ignored him. "You'll be monitored twentyfour-seven to prove you will do no wrong to us before we make you an official member of our clan." he dropped Otabek to his feet.
Otabek thanked the master. "I will earn your trust." he gave a look at the man that stood behind them. "Oh. . . is that the human the leader was after?"
Yuuri waved at Otabek. "Hello." he gave the vampire a small smile.
"He's quite nice looking." Otabek said as he waved back.
Victor turned to look at Yuuri. "Yes, I suppose he is." he opened up the space between him and Yuri for the human to join them.
Yuuri extended his hand for Otabek to shake. "My name is Yuuri."
Otabek took and shook his hand. "Otabek."
Victor found Otabek a room and warned the others of his clan about the new arrival. "Keep a close eye on him. All of you."
He took Yuuri up to the master suite. "I'm going to try and get some sleep."
"Okay." Victor took a seat on the couch. "I'll wait for you."
Yuuri went into the closet and quickly got changed into something comfortable. Just as he said, Victor was waiting for him when he came out. His eyes seemed to glaze over in a deep thought. "What are you thinking about?" Yuuri asked, taking a seat next to him. After earlier that day in the office, Yuuri started to feel more comfortable around his master.
"Relaxing for a vampire is not sleeping, but the equivalent to it. We spend long periods where we just sit and regenerate from whatever we did the entire day." Victor said, but he stared at his hands instead of his husband. "We don't have to, but I think after this night, most of us will be relaxing tonight." he finally looked at Yuuri. "I haven't actually slept in many years. May I join you in bed tonight?"
Yuuri gave him a shrug and then a nod. "May I ask why you want to sleep all of a sudden?"
Victor stood up. "It's nothing. I just feel like sleeping." Yuuri followed Victor to the bed. "And you get some sleep too." he said as he snuggled under the covers next to Yuuri.
That night Yuuri hardly got sleep. Victor was acting very strange.
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