Well, This Bloody Sucks

Dead Roses

Laito's distant words swirl inside my head as I carefully pick blood red roses and place them in the basket. They were my mother's favourite flowers and despite the fact that they constantly remind me of my plight they also remind me of her which heavily outweighs the bad.

"You were given up by the very church you put so much faith in."

Shut up inner Laito!

"Miss Eliza?" I turn around to find Kanato. "Please gather those flowers and then follow me. Do not keep me waiting." He asks but I can see the hidden order underneath.

After debating whether or not I should go through with this, I decide that whatever purpose Kanato has would probably be better than my idea to keep them in my room.

"All right."

.oOo.

The smoggy mist clears and I end up seeing gravestones.

I grimace at the sight, I hate graveyards. I refuse to look at my mother's grave; not ten years ago when she died, not every year after that for her memorial and in the situation I'm in, not anytime soon.

"Why are we here, Kanato?" I ask him.

"I'm drawn to the gravestones." He answers. "They possess a profound darkness and the perfume of death and decay lingers among them. I love graves so much. Don't you? They're so cold and quiet; and they're indifferent to terror."

Ok, if that's not a creepy answer, someone needs to tell me what is. Also, I WASN'T EXPECTING AN EFFING MONOLOGUE!

"My mother lies here." He says as I tune back in to reality.

"Oh. She's past away." I regard. After my mother's passing I found that apologies bore no meaning, so I don't say them myself if I hear things like this.

"I'm the one that killed her."

"You did what?" My eyes are wide open now.

"Do you believe that? Although it hardly matters if you do believe, don't you think Teddy?" He turns towards me once more. "If you don't mind, place the flowers on my mother's grave."

"All right." I do just that and then back away. "Would you and Teddy like a moment to yourselves?" I ask.

"No it's fine, you can stay."

Crap I was hoping he would ask me to leave.

I stay regardless not wanting Kanato to get in one of his moods again. Turns out that it was inevitable anyway. He picks up the roses and starts smashing them on his mother's grave.

I am surprised of the fact that he is smashing the flowers he asked me to bring to him onto his mother's grave. But at the same time I'm a bit peeved since now they've lost all of their beauty. Not to mention I could've put them in my room.

I just watch silently at his temper tantrum. Once he finished I ask,

"Did you hate her that much?"

"Huh?!" I turns to me with crazy eyes.

"A child, human or vampire, wouldn't just kill their mother and then abuse their grave even after she's gone. You must've hated her quite a bit."

"You have no idea what my motives are!" He shouts.

"Your right, I don't. But when you display such emotion on your face it's not so hard to see that there is still some part of you that hates her."

"You shut up you worthless mortal!"

"I wonder why? There is a reason behind it Kanato. Kid to kid, we both lost our mothers but by different means. I know what it's like."

He suddenly pounces in rage, discarding Teddy and lands on top of me with his hand grasping my neck.

"You. Do not know. What it feels like for me!" he growls.

He then bites my neck angrily, depleting me of my blood until I almost black out.

"Never question me again." He threatens before disappearing along with Teddy.

.oOo.

I drag myself through the grounds of the mansion a long while later. My senses have almost shut down on me. My eyesight keeps fading in an out of focus and I feel like my ears aren't working properly either.

Seriously, I thought that I saw Subaru talking to some random person with dark hair and a black trench coat about some kind of awakening happening soon. But that stuff has got to be stupid right? I know Subaru and he isn't really the talking type.

I've got to be imagining things.

Yeah, I'm probably imagining things.