Every Rose Has It's Thorn

Every Rose Has It's Thorn Pt 18

Word Count 1,489

Y/N woke up startled Colson needed her, he needed her help. Despite Karen's warning about not the grounds alone she did just that.

Blinded by the sunlight, Y/N ran through the crowded square, trying to save Colson since he thought exposing vampires to all these people would be the only way to get himself killed after the king denied Y/N's request.

She is barreling through the crowd, being hit as they shove back at her, getting angry at her pushy ways. She is knocked hard enough a couple of times that she would have lost her way if it wasn't for the tower that loomed over the square.

Getting angry at the crowd that she is saving, Y/N starts throwing people out of her way as she runs to the tower to stop him. The bubble that clears in front of her makes her pick up her speed, but that same speed causes her to barely make the leap into the fountain that had appeared suddenly in front of her. As she leaps over the ledge on the opposite side, she struggles momentarily with her balance; the cobblestones slick under her wet feet.

When she gathers herself, she can see Colson shedding his shirt, getting ready to step into the sunny plaza.

"Colson, don't!" She screams. Somehow managing to make it to him before he takes the full step out in the sun. She crashes into him, driving him back into the shadows.

"Amazing," he said, his voice full of wonder, slightly amused. "Emma was right."

He sounds bemused as his hand brushes her cheek. He never seems to notice that Y/N is panting, trying to get out of his arms. "I can't believe how quick it was. I didn't feel a thing-they're very good," Colson quietly comments as he holds her closer to him, his lips in her hair.

She is panting, barely catching her breath, relieved that she stopped him from revealing the secret and getting himself killed. However, before she can get off the vampire, he holds her face in his hands as he reverently says, "Death. That hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."

Romeo? Really? How about all that 'I can't play being human' or the one she loved at the time, 'Your mind is a sieve and you will forget all about me.' Y/N is ready to blast him for all this.

And then his lips kiss hers.

Y/N pushes at him, but he doesn't react. Soon, however, he ends the kiss murmuring, "You smell and taste the same as always, so maybe this is hell. I don't care, I'll take it."

She growls at him, "My personal hell maybe."

When he looks at her in shock, she shakes her head, "Nothing. Colson, put back on your shirt, we don't want anyone to notice you!"

He is shaking his head as though he didn't want to believe what she is saying to him. But suddenly he yanks her to the alley wall and stands in front of her, crouching as he growls.

"What do we have here?" A female voice asks with a bit of humor in her voice. Three beings appear from the shadows around them. Surrounding them.

Colson growls out to them. "You will not have her!"

The three laugh at him. They move the fraction needed to show their faces from the hoods. Two, a male and female, you could tell are related to each other but the last male was smirking at the two in front of him.

The female's lips turn up slightly as she raises an eyebrow. "And who do you think you are to deny the king, Colson." The last name is spit out in supreme distaste. Her voice reminds Y/N somewhat of Emma's, with the melody in it, but the accent she faintly speaks with is enough to dispel the illusion.