The Vampire's seal lll : Love over immortality

The Death Of A Vampire

"Look at me." Marceline begged. I couldn't. "Look at me!" She said this time a little bit louder.

"I can't!" I yelled, my eyes shut tightly.

I couldn't let her see. I wouldn't.

But she still found a way to catch my tears.

"Don't... Don't you dare leave me here..." I said.

The vampire's cold hand reached out and touched my hot face. She made a wry smile, and I made note about how her temperature was always the exact opposite of mine.

I held her head in my lap, and picked up her upper body, wrapping my arms around her weak shoulders. I moved strands of her hair to the side of her face for her so that she could see me more clearly.

Her shining gold eyes faded into a simple bright red.

"You're going to be okay, you'll be fine." I kept saying it over and over, but it didn't change the fact that she was slipping away from me. From the world. But I kept saying those words, kept repeating them like words could save a vampire's life.

But words proved that they themselves could never be enough.

'I'm sorry' could never be enough.

Chuckling, she raised both her hands. She gently placed them on my face, and pulled our heads closer. She brushed my forehead gently against her's.

"Stop talking. It doesn't sound like your trying to convince me." I looked at the vampire as she offered me a small smile.

She's right. I'm trying to convince myself.

Tightly gripping one of her hands placed on my cheek, I looked into her eyes which were dull yet full of color. I always wanted to see them this way. So alive, so... beautiful.

So I swore, "I'll keep you alive, I swear."

"Don't make promises you can't keep..." she whispered as she stared right back into my eyes.

And that made me upset. "Don't you think that for a second, I'm going to let you die! That I'll just stand here and watch you fall, watch you be alone again!"

She didn't need Vale the mind reader to tell her what I was planning. She knew what I had in store.

And it was because she knew that I was planning to use my powers to take her pain away, it was precisely because she knew, that with most of her remaining energy, she snatched her hand away from me.

"Stop pushing me away Marceline! You're not alone! You've always been lost, so don't think I'll even dare to leave you on this lonely destructive path!"

I looked into the vampire's no longer bright, but dull red eyes. She closed her eyes and rested her head back onto my chest before attempting to speak.

"You dumbass. In the end...you really understood nothing from me." She shuddered and gave a lengthly sigh. "I want to die."

She didn't mean it. She couldn't have. All those times we've had together, fighting, bickering, laughing and crying, there was no way in hell she'd be willing to die, and leave all those memories behind.

It was silent for a long moment. I knew Anastasia was watching, still in the area that she was previously in. I looked back behind me and saw Anastasia sitting against a wall, elbow high as it covered her beautiful eyes as she cried.

As she sobbed.

As her nails clenched the floor beneath her. As only flushed pink skin was visible when you tried to look at her face.