My Immortal Love *Being Rewritten*

Even Immortals Die

I looked blearily up at the ceiling, dazed from the trip to the Afterworld and back. Well, that was interesting.

"Alivia!" Dimitri shouted, his voice effectively snapping me out of my daze.

I shot back up and kept running, until I made it to the main doors. They were wide open, letting all the vampire lords and their fledglings leave. Some looked disappointed, but some looked ecstatic. After all, they had been lucky enough to witness the last competition they would see in awhile between vampire brides.

I'm the last one, I fully realized, feeling sick all of a sudden. I'm going to have to get in bed with Dimitri and-

Stop it, I scolded myself. Don't think about that right now. Don't think about it at all.

I darted past the people, pushing and shoving to get through. Once I was clear outside, I jumped up high into a tree, leaping into the next one and the next one after that to get away faster. I couldn't fly, but this was close enough.

Eventually I decided to stop and look behind me, knowing I would be able to see clearly with my vampire sight. I was just in time to see Dimitri storm out of his castle, scanning the crowd. When he didn't see me, he almost went back inside, but then stopped.

He stiffly turned back around and made eye contact with me, and I was almost a mile away from him.

He disappeared. Not. Good.

I immediately pushed myself harder, leaping farther, trying to put more distance between us, but I didn't know how fast he was. He could be right behind me right now-

I felt someone ram into me and knock me down to the ground, which was yards and yards away.

I crashed into it pretty hard, making a little bit of a crater. It hurt like shit, and nothing hurts when you're a vampire.

I groaned and tried to sit up, and my hair was sharply yanked, making me stand up.

I hissed in pain as Dimitri snarled, totally enraged.

"What the hell was that?" He demanded.

"My crap escape attempt." I said, my teeth clenched from how hard he was pulling on my scalp.

"Do you ever shut up?" He asked me.

"Never." I retorted, a tiny smirk on my face. I was proud that I had thoroughly embarrassed him in front of the most prestige vampires in the world.

Dimitri let me go and walked away a little bit, facing away from me. I stood up, but I didn't dare try to run. It would get me nowhere.

"Alivia, I know what you must be feeling."

"No. You don't." I said lowly. "And you never will. No one can understand how truly, horribly afraid I am of you and what you're going to force me to do."

He turned to look at me, looking at me as if this was news to him. "What?

"I'm terrified of you." I said. "And you caused that yourself."

He only turned away from me again.

"Look," I said, taking a step towards him. "You've put me through too much. All I want is to get away from here-"

"You mean from me." He interrupted angrily.

"Yes." I responded, not bothering trying to lie to him.

"Alivia, let me ask you something." He suddenly was standing right in front of me, too close for my liking.

I took a step back, but he caged me against a tree too fast for me to move out of the way.