A/N: And so this is the last chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Please review.

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My Immortal

Chapter 19

"What are we going to do? We have to get her back!" David asked, worriedly.

He'd resulted to pacing.

"But we just can't barge in there," Said Shu. "We have to think this through. If Yuma felt threatened, he'd hurt her and I'm not risking that." He sighed as he rubbed his temples.

And here the evening had started out do perfectly.

"Let me go get her," Said Yui.

"Hell no, sit down." Said Ayato.

"Everleigh is my friend!" The girl protested.

"Yeah, and she's Briar's mom, Shu's fiancé', David's niece, and my friend too. But you're my girl, and you're no good to me or her dead. Now sit down and think of something else." Ayato said.

"I'll go." Shu said as he got to his feet.

"What?" Everyone asked in union.

"I'll go," The boy repeated.

"But… what if you don't come back?" Questioned Yui.

"I will," Promised Shu. "I have to… so in the mean time look after Briar." He turned to his daughter, getting down on one knee before the child. "Daddy will be right back, alright? I love you." He gave her cheek a kiss.

Shu gave his family, his daughter, one last look before taking off.

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Everleigh groaned as she stared up at the ceiling. Her limbs were stiff, her skull was pounding, every inch of her seemed to ache in pain. She glanced down at what was left of her mother's dress, most of the material from the skirt had been shredded from when Yuma dragged her. Her blood stained various spots, settling alongside the fine beadwork.

The gown was ruined, and that seemed to hurt more than any physical pain she was in.

Yuma kneeled down over her, a small blade in his hands.

"You're so beautiful like this." He said. "But you know what I really find attractive in a girl?"

Everleigh didn't answer him.

"Her scream."

Yuma dragged the blade along the length of her arm, slicing it open.

Everleigh bit her lip to the point where It bled to keep from screaming.

Yuma smirked, "Well aren't you strong." There was sarcasm in his voice. "Are you trying to keep from pleasing me? Do you hate me that much? I know you're strong enough to stop me, so why aren't you, hmm? Oh no… I see… you're waiting for Shu to come save you… am I right? Take you back to your daughter? Live happily ever after?"

He moved down to her left thigh, slicing the unmarred flesh.

It took everything in her power to stifle her cry a second time.

"Shu doesn't love you, that fool is incapable of loving anyone. You've seen his brothers, you know it's the truth. You were nothing but a good, convenient fuck to him. He felt obligated to marry you after he knocked you up. That's all you were, that's all you'll ever be if you go back to him. You should just stay here with me. I'll love you, I'll treat you right." Said Yuma.

"And this is treating me right? This is how you show your love?" Everleigh managed to ask.

"This is just a minor bump in the road, I got to discipline you some how."

"I would rather die than be yours."

Yuma growled, dragging the knife harshly down her sternum, slicing the dress in the process. Everleigh screamed aloud in agony, Yuma's dark eyes rolled in delight as an overwhelming scent of her blood filled the air.

"Careful what you wish for," He inhaled deeply. "I just might grant it."

Time seemed to be the only thing that could numb out the pain. Everleigh inhaled against the sharp stabs that pierced every inch of her torso.

She had to hold on.

She need to see her daughter again.

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Shu had little to no troubles finding the Mukami estate. All he had to do was follow the trail of Everleigh's blood and it led him right to them. He found himself dizzy, her blood had always had a certain effect on him. He was weak, and it all but threatened to knock him to his knees.

But he couldn't stop there.

"Everleigh?!" Shu called loudly as he ripped the front door off its hinges.

All around him, littered here and there, were shreds of fabric from Everleigh's wedding dress.

"Everleigh?"

Shu grew even more worried when she didn't answer him, but instead gave a blood chilling cry. He followed the call of his distressed lover, he could almost feel the pain she was in.

"Well, it's about time you joined us." Yuma smirked as Shu appeared in the doorway of the room they were in.

Shu's eyes shifted toward the blooded mess that was Everleigh. It was hard to believe that the remains of her gown had once been a beautiful off white. But now it was stained heavily with crimson, her body covered in deep cuts. Her blood had splattered all over the other boy's clothing and face.

Not that he seemed to mind it all that much.

"What did you do, Edgar?" Shu asked.

"Don't call me that!" Yuma yelled wildly, pointing the knife at him.

"Why…? What did Everleigh do to you?" Asked Shu.

He could tell she was still alive. She was pretty messed up but she was hanging on.

"I just can't stand it when girls like her settle. It just really pisses me off. She can have the world, but instead she make do with someone like you… I've always been jealous of you, Shu. You ran away when we were kids because of what? Your mother wanted the best for you and you were such an ungrateful fuck to notice it? Well at least yours cared about you! Do you think mine did? And here we are all these years later still sitting up on that damn pedestal of yours. It really pisses me off!"

"But why Everleigh? Why do this to her?"

"Because to get to you, I had to go through her. I just couldn't hurt you. No. see, I had to make you suffer. Hurting Everleigh hurts you more than anything because you blame yourself for failing to protect her. Destroying you from the inside out is the best way to handle things nowadays. Only I wasn't expecting her to still be alive once you finally arrived. She's one of a kind, ain't she?" Yuma crouched down beside Everleigh's body, tapping the blood blade against his chin. "Say… you think the princess is strong like her mother?" He wondered aloud.

"Nooo-!" Everleigh cried.

"I wasn't asking you!" Yuma snapped, plunging the knife into the girl's chest and leaving it there.

It stopped Everleigh mid cry.

"Everleigh!" Shu screamed.

"I wasn asking you, Shu." Pointed Yuma. "Now answer my question."

When Shu remained silent, his head hanging low, Yuma erupted in a fit of crazed laughter. "My! Well if you want Everleigh so bad, fine. Here she is… come and claim her."

Shu growled deeply as he threw himself at Yuma, tackling the large boy to the floor. The knife was knocked from his hand by the force but it wasn't like Yuma needed it. He stood well over six feet while Shu was at five-ten, it was obvious who had the upper hand in their struggle. Yuma tossed Shu off of him, getting to his feet.

"You really piss me off!" He snarled, grabbing Shu by his shirt, his nails dug into the boy's neck and shoulders, tossing him across the room.
Shu slammed into the wall, said wall cracking under the impact, before he fell limp to the floor unable to stand.

"You know, I really hate having to act so uncivilized. My adoptive mother would roll over in her grave at this." Yuma wiped traces of blood from his face. "But you people bring out the worst in me."

Shu struggled to move, to get back up and fight, avenge his lover, but the odds were stacked against him. He gave a choked out cry as Yuma kicked him, the notion breaking everything in his chest.

But it wasn't enough to kill him.

No.

Yuma wanted Shu to suffer.

Yuma wanted him to watch as he gave his lover his blood to save her life, as he took her body and made her cry out for him, as he forced her to bare him a child.

Yuma wanted Shu to live in a world of torment and hate just as he had.

But as he turned around, Everleigh was gone.

Nowhere to be found.

There was just a pool of her blood where she once was.

Yuma chuckled, "Everleigh?" He called. "It's time for me to make you mine… for my blood to course through your veins and yours in mine! It's time to die, Everleigh!"

The battered girl jumped down from the ceiling, landing quietly behind the tall boy.

"Not before you." She hissed, her hands wrapping around his thick neck.

In a matter of seconds it was all over.

The large boy's body fell to the floor with a thud, his head hung for a moment longer in her hands before she dropped it. Everleigh staggered over to Shu's side, collapsing beside him.

"Shu?" She gave his body a weak shake.

"Shu?" Her arms gave out, and she fell face forward into the boy's chest.

"Shu…?" She called again.

"Ever…?" His voice was soft.

"Oh thank god…" She sighed.

"Ever… I'm so sorry this happened… to you… this is all my fault." Shu managed to say.

"This isn't your fault, this is mine… I didn't want to hurt you… I didn't want to lose faith in people again…"

"The Edgar I knew died years ago…"

There was a short pause before Everleigh spoke again.

"I bet Briar is mad as hell… you know she hates it when we leave so abruptly." She said, attempting to lighten the mood.

Shu tried to chuckle but couldn't mussel the energy to. "I bet she is." He looked down at her, her head resting on his chest as they lay there, both in far too much pain to do much of any moving just yet.

"I could really go for a burger right now…"

"I could go for those nutella pancakes your uncle makes… and I don't even favor sweets."

Shu's expression softened a little as he stroked Everleigh's face with the back of his hand.

"When I arrived here… I seriously thought he'd killed you."

"Not a chance," The girl huffed.

Everleigh was slightly offended that he thought she'd be killed off so easily. She had a way of getting around certain things after her run-ins with Richter.

"Hey… we gotta get outta here… we never got to say 'I do' and I really want my burger."

Shu chuckled despite the pain, "Alright, alright." He said with a wry smile. "You're not very bright are you?"

Everleigh lifted herself up a bit, bringing her lips to his. She'd realized long ago that her life meant nothing if he wasn't with her. She was whole with him by her side. Shu had been an important part of her life since the moment they first met. He was probably the greatest change to happen in her life, both good and bad.

Their lips parted, and Everleigh's eyes opened to look into Shu's brilliantly blue ones.

"Let's go home."