• Azrael paced the room she was in. Back and forth she went. finally she stopped and flopped down on the bed. She was bored out of her mind. Kicking bad habits did NOT go well when you're bored. She feel the need in her rie and closed her eyes. "I can do this." she said murmuring to herself out loud. "I don't necessarily HAVE to give into my bloodlust. It'll pass." Azrael focused on her breathing and slowly drifted off into sleep.

    Azrael looked around the dark alley wondering what she was doing there. She tilted her head and frowned. "I am dreaming." She said aloud to herself marveling at the fact. She hadn't dreamed in a very long time. Azrael took a few more steps carefully analysing her surroundings.

    Azrael rubbed her arms unconsiously and stopped looking down. She was beginning to get cold and that was odd because normally she never felt the cold. She had a nagging sense in the back of her mind that warned her to leave and get out now. Azrael ignored it because what had she to fear?

    She kept walking intending to explore her dream because this was not like her at all and she wasnted to explore the phenomina of it. Azrael sensed a presence enter her dream and she stopped.

    There was a gust of wind and a voice whispered on it. “Azrael, I’m hoooomme.”
    Azrael’s head whipped around and her eyes darted left and right as she looked for the source of the sound. “Who’s there?” she asked already knowing.
    “You know me, Azrael. You know me better than you know yourself.” The voice whispered.
    Azrael wanted to run because she knew what would happen is he touched her again. “What do you want from me?”
    “I want to be free, Azrael. Let me come out for a little while.” The voice said whispered softly behind her.
    Azrael turned so fast she stumbled and fell and was left staring up at him. “You know I can’t do that. You know I won’t.”
    “You will, Azrael you will.” He said smiling.

    Azrael scrambled to get up and started running already knowing she couldn’t out run him. Already knowing you can’t outrun yourself.

    Azrael sat up straight in the bed her eyes wide and a far away blind grey. “Not again,” she whispered not seeing anything in the room.

    He appeared in front of her making he skid to a halt and fall again. He tapped his foot impatiently. “And just where,” he asked, “do you think you’re going?”
    “Away from you.” She answered getting up slowly.
    “Now why would you want to do that?”
    “Because you’re nothing but trouble. Every time I give you leeway someone I love dies.” She said angrily.
    “Oooo, emotion. Anger at that.” He mocked. “You are meant to be alone. All by yourself, I’m just making sure you stay that way.”
    “What if I don’t want to be alone?” she asked backing away from him.
    “Too bad.”

    She turned and tried to run again but he grabbed a handful of her blue hair and yanked her back against him making her cry out in pain.

    Tears were falling down her face now. “I don’t want to be alone anymore. I can’t live alone anymore.”

    He used her hair as a handle and yanked her head to the side and whispered in her ear. “Say my name, Azrael.”
    Azrael’s breathing was harsh. He knew just what to do to turn her on but she wouldn’t, couldn’t give in. “No.”
    He bit her ear and hissed. “Say it.”
    “I will not.”
    His hand snaked around to hold the side of her neck as he bit down on it gently and then harder until he drew blood. “Say it, Azrael.” he whispered with his mind. “Say my name.”

    “Don’t make me do it.” Azrael said sobbing rocking back and forth. “Please don’t make me say it.”

    Azrael was trembling in his arms. “I like you this way. So much more…what’s the word…Alive.”
    She wanted to run. She couldn’t possibly hold out longer if he kept this up. “Let me go.” She whispered.
    “No Azrael.” He whispered harshly in her ear. He fingered the bite marks he made in her neck lightly. “I’m not letting you go until you give me what I want, Azrael.”

    “Never,” she said softly scrambling off the bed and running into the door.

    Azrael pulled away from him, or tried to. “I can’t,” she said. “I’m sorry, but I can’t.”
    He growled in her ear and pushed her to the ground and looked down at her. “Run, Azrael. I want to feel your fear inside me when you try to escape.” He said smiling harshly. “If you make it good I might let you leave.”

    She didn’t give him a chance to change his mind. She got up and ran knowing the lives of the ones she loved and her sanity depended on it.

    Azrael’s hand searched frantically for the doorknob but she couldn’t find it.

    She could feel him behind her. Never too far but never too close either. He was toying with her. Azrael suddenly remembered that this was a dream and the alleyway turned in to a forest. She ran dodging trees left and right. Shifting the forest with her mind to try and lose him. When that didn’t work she jumped up and ran in the trees. Azrael was about to make a jump to another tree when he grabbed her hair and threw her to the ground. She was wincing when she got up but continued to run.

    “Let me out.” She screamed banging on the door. “LET ME OUT!”


    “This bores me.” he said from in front of her.
    Azrael ran into his chest and was about to fall but he caught and held her there. “Let me go,”
    “Give me what I want and I will.” He repeated.
    She shook her head.
    “No?” he questioned. “I’ll take it then.”

    His head lowered to hers and he kissed her. He kissed her sliding his tongue in her mouth making her remember everything they used to be together before she left. Every kiss and every touch they shared all those ages ago.

    “Stop it Gabriel.” She moaned crying. “Stop.”

    “Not exactly what I was hoping for but it’ll do.” He said his eyes glowing a shade of light blue that was positively overflowing with power.
    “Let me go, Gabriel.” She said knowing that once his name was said there was no taking it back; no pretending it hadn’t happened.
    “I’ll let you go for now, Azrael.” He said his finger tracing lines on her cheek. “But I’ll be back and when I come back, someone is dying and I don’t care who.” He dug his nails in her skin and drew blood. "Because people like us don't deserve love. There can only be us and nothing else. That is the harsh reality of our world so I advise you to come back to me the only one who can give you what you need and stop playing with those humans.

    Azrael's eyes darkened slowly and her hand when limp and she let go of the doorknob and started to fall. "I...have...to leave him...to save...him..." she whispered softly before collapsing into a dead faint.