the bond in bloody roses

Night Seven

Night Seven:

"There, there my little Hime. Don't cry it was only a scrape. See? Look, it's already healing." A beautiful woman with hip-length, curly, light brown, almost blonde colored, hair knelt in front of the a young child, a girl, with shoulder length dark brown hair. Facial features on both the mother, and child were obscure, making it difficult to distinguish any other features about them. The child whimpered slightly, holding onto the knee that only had dried red marks, the only evidence on her fragile looking body that she had hurt herself at all.

"It still hurts." The child complained through hiccups.

"Be brave. Be a brave little vampire. Don't be such a cry baby. We have bigger things to worry about than a scarped knee, Hime." The girl looked up at a tall man with messy, slightly curly, dark brown hair much like her own hair. The child hiccuped one last time, and nodded slightly. The man smiled at her, and ruffled her hair."You understand why we're asking him to do this right?"

"Uh-huh."The girl wiped at her still crying eyes, only now she seemed to be crying for a different reason.

"We promise to come back for you as soon as we can." Though the words felt empty, the child still couldn't help but let herself hope that they were true.

"Promise?" The child asked, rubbing at her still crying eyes. She looked between her mother and father as the mother picked her up, holding her tightly to her own body, nuzzling her. The father ruffled her hair slightly.

"We promise." The words comforted the child, even if she felt that what they spoke was still a lie. But she still couldn't help but cling to that little something in her that hoped they were telling the truth. The little something in her that still hoped futility that she would be re-united with her family shortly after the separation. It was that same little something in her that dared to hope that allowed her to relax slightly, but the doubt that was still there made her tiny hands clench to her mother's dark red shirt, unwilling to let go even as a third person entered the room...

I awoke with a gasp. A fine sheen of sweat covered my skin, making my night gown stick to my skin, and me seemingly stick to the covers. I looked over at my clock that read 6:45. I had barely slept a little over two hours, and I felt like no rest had been taken at all. I glanced over at my roommate, still surprised to find her sleeping in her bed. I took that rare opportunity to crawl out of bed, and make it to the showers before she got a hold of them, and took all the hot water.

Most of the day, my thoughts remained on my dream that I had had the previous night. My dreams normally didn't feel so realistic, and I certainly did not remember as much detail about them as I did this dream. I woke up like I had a night terror, something I often had as a young child. Even as the day wore on, my muscles still felt tired, strained in a way. It felt like I had spent the entire night doing excersie, the type that you can feel in your muscles for a week. No matter what I did, the soreness didn't go away.

I did not take Takuma's invitation to go to the Moon Dormitory to talk. I wasn't even sure about his sudden interest in me and my life. He seemed to especially want to talk about my family, and that was just something I didn't feel comfortable talking to him about, for the obvious reasons. Besides, he was way too insight, and always seemed to be able to sniff out when something was on my mind, but then again so did Zero, and Yuuki, and pretty much everyone else who was around me. Maybe it wasn't so much that Takuma was insight, but that I was just too easy to read.

Either way, I sure as hell didn't want to go somewhere where I'd be uncomfortable, and besides Zero had made a point the previous night. I'm a vampire hunter. They are vampires, no matter how they act that is still the bottom line. Vampire Hunters were created to kill Vampires. Ok, well those dangerous, but they were all dangerous in their own right. I shouldn't be getting close to any of them. No matter how friendly, and nice they were to anyone. I knew I had to distance myself before it came to a point of no return.