A/N SO THIS IS IT!! The very last chapter of "two psychos and a rabbit" (( gosh its so sad!!)) here you go guys. Now I'm telling you right this very moment that I'm going to disappear for a few months, but only because I'll be writing my next sailor moon story. So you'll see me soon enough!
The last instalment. drum rooolllllllllllll
Chapter 20
Time slowed in the parlour, Darien's muffled shouts on the outside, and not so muffled shouts inside her head seemed to melt away like water. All that remained was this very real, very important choice.
Darien's life in exchange for her hand in marriage.
Or
Darien's death and most probably followed by her own. The monarchy would be demolished and the rest of the vampires sold into slavery and used until they reached death, or even worse, clear cut death for all of Darien's followers.
Bunny! Darien growled and pulled harder against his restraints, his eyes hard and imploring Bunny.
I'm sorry. I really really am. I love you.
Bunny blocked Darien's bellows as best she could.
Diamond watched the silent interaction between them, he ground his teeth his patience waning.
"Tick tock! Bunny, Tick tock! All you have to do is kneel to me." Diamond snarled and pressed the dagger harder into Darien's throat, a small trickled of blood winding down his throat and mingling with the blood covering his clothes.
Bunny blinked back tears, could she handle being with Diamond again? She shivered and wrapped her arms around herself. There was a darkness that surrounded Diamond's castle; it was a cloud of suffocating helplessness. The cloud seemed to leech to her skin, the whispered memories of the pain and isolation re-entered Bunny's mind the longer she stared at Diamond.
But I love him.
Bunny dropped the silver sword at her side, it clanged when it hit the floor and she fell to her knees after it, Bunny gave one last apologetic look to Darien before bowing her head and letting a single tear fall.
Diamond crowed in victory, he gave a short nod to Seiya who moved forward and kicked the sword away, he savagely snatched Bunny to her feet.
"Let him go! You have me now! J-Just let him go!" Bunny sobbed out in her sorrow.
Darien looked on with a rage fuelled haze settling over his mind. Diamond gave Bunny a condescending look,
"Stupid bitch! You want your boyfriend here let go?" Diamond waved around the silver dagger, and Bunny couldn't take her eyes off it as a droplet of blood swung away from the knife and it came this close to slicing Darien's cheek.
"STOP IT! Just let him go! I'll come quietly!" Bunny sagged in Seiya's grip, her doe eyes filled with tears.
Diamond gave a savage primal look to Bunny.
"Not quite yet, let's have some fun, dearest." Diamond stressed Darien's favourite nickname for her.
Bunny flinched, but made herself watch as Darien was untied by one of Diamond's men.
Darien fell forward out of his seat, the deep gash across his back stood out like a sore thumb, it stretched from shoulder to hip. Bunny's eye widened and a shocked scream left her lips.
"BASTARD! HE'S ALREADY DYING! YOU LYING BASTARD!" Bunny reefed herself Seiya's grip.
Darien?!
Bunny! I told you! Bunny!
A rage took over her mind, it was the same rage that had boiled under her surface when she was back in Darien's office, only this time she was healthy and her anger was predominant.
Bunny turned towards Diamond, her hair darkening and turning a deep dark red. The doors rattled and the paintings on the wall vibrated and fell.
Seiya's reached for Bunny's sword, it had fallen some ten feet behind her, Bunny turned her head slightly, the sword flew across the room and floated a foot from her hand.
Seiya clomped forward to grab the sword back from her, but a small tilt of Bunny's head the sword cut off Seiya's head.
Diamond looked on in horror, Bunny let out a loud shriek, her pain and anger pouring out of her in waves of energy.
Bunny grasped the sword, she swung it around and screamed.
"YOU BASTARD! YOU'VE KILLED HIM!" Bunny's vision blurred with tears and took hold of the sword.
Diamond smirked and drew his own sword.
"Stupid bitch, you really think you can slay me?! I had you cowering in a corner not a month ago! I'm going to take you Bunny! You'll fail here just like Darien failed to protect you! And when you've lost to me I'll use you up and spit you out! You'll be an empty husk!" Diamond laughed madly.
Bunny swung back her sword and sent a hard blow towards Diamond, he parried her move and sent a quick jab back her way.
Bunny moved out of the way, but she was at a disadvantage, she'd never fought with a sword before! And Diamond was much older than her his strength must have been ten times her own.
Diamond dropped his silver dagger where he stood. He got closer to Bunny and sent a blow towards her, their swords crossed and Diamond glared maliciously, he easily disarmed her.
Bunny fell backwards, but her rage tripled, Diamond was thrown backwards into the opposite wall.
Bunny got up and dusted herself off her black eyes pinning Diamond to the wall.
A blinding pain spread through Diamond's back, blood appeared all over Diamond's body, small cuts appeared in his clothing and skin.
Bunny grinned in triumph, her rage fogging her ethics and morals, at this very moment Diamond's pain remedied her own.
This was fun.
Bunny was grinning dementedly her hair was flying around her and as she walked closer to Diamond, he was pressed further into the wall.
But as the pain increased Diamond just laughed.
"You won't kill me! You don't have the guts!" Diamond spat out some blood.
"No, I won't kill you, let have some fun first, dearest" Bunny spat and narrowed her eyes at him.
A series of pops echoed around the near silent parlour, Diamond howled in anguish, his bones detached from their joints and broke of their own accord.
"Try to rape me now! BASTARD!"
Diamond had tears running down his face.
"P-p-please! Stop it! The p-pain! Oh dear god!" Diamond groaned and started to whimper and snivel before her.
"The pain? THE PAIN! YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING THAT'S COMING TO YOU!" Bunny was so far gone in her fury that the touch of a big strong hand on her shoulder didn't even make her turn.
Bunny let her angry tears fall, she watched with some satisfaction as Diamond's body ripped itself to shreds before her very eyes.
"Stop it," a familiar voice reached Bunny through her mad haze.
Stop now, you don't want to stoop to his level. Stop Bunny, stop.
HE'S KILLED DARIEN! HE'S DEAD! Bunny screamed back in pain.
Diamond was unrecognisable now his face was a bloodied mess and his clothes were torn to shreds.
Bunny started crying in earnest, she fell to her knees and Diamond's lifeless body fell to the ground as well.
Her hair turned back to her silver blond and her eyes returned to their sapphire state.
Bunny looked around the ruined room, the curtains were shredded and every portrait in the room was burnt as if by an inferno, the antiques that had sat as dust collectors around the room were smashed to smithereens.
Finally Bunny's eyes landed on Diamond's dagger, the same dagger that had killed Darien.
Bunny reached for it and held it up over her wrist.
My life is nothing without him!
NEVER SAY THAT! A strong voice echoed her head, the same voice that had stopped her from completely annihilating Diamond into dust.
Bunny's head snapped up, she knew that voice!
She snapped her head around and crawled desperately towards Darien's prone figure, she cradled his head.
Dark midnight eyes stared up at her intensely. Bunny bowed her head and sobbed over Darien.
Slowly he lifted himself into a sitting position, the sobbing Bunny threw her arms around his waist.
"You were dead I saw you! But I did it! I hurt him! I've done it!" Bunny's rambling was gobbled and slightly crazy sounding, her voice hysterical and high pitched.
Darien looked into Bunny's eyes; he could see her vampire instincts howling in fury over not being able to kill the object of her rage and pain.
"Darling I'm so proud of you,"
"WHY DIDN'T YOU LET ME FINISH HIM OFF! HE'S DONE NOTHING BUT CAUSE US PAIN!" Bunny's eyes were slightly unfocused and dilated.
"You couldn't have lived with that, don't look Bunny," Darien painstakingly pulled himself to his feet and picked up Bunny's sword along the way. He staggered over to Diamond's still body.
Darien swung back the sword high into the air, Bunny closed her eyes.
The sword swung clean and swift.
Bunny looked on with morbid pleasure at the sight of Diamond's head rolling across the room.
The ramification of the situation hit Bunny all at once, she'd tortured a man half to death.
She'd gotten so angry and upset that she'd destroyed a room and had almost killed herself.
The tears ran hard and fast down Bunny's face, her sobs racking her body and Bunny felt the pain ripping through her.
If she'd finally finished Diamond, if he could never hurt her again, why did she feel so empty?
Strong arms wrapped themselves around Bunny's little frame.
"Shhhh, the first is the hardest. I should have been the one to do it, shh" Darien cooed.
"Darien?" Bunny whispered some time later.
"Yes?"
"Will you bite me? I n-need to feel you and besides that slash on your back won't heal on its own. Please?"
Darien gave Bunny a serious look.
But somewhere in Darien's brain told him that Bunny desperately needed that connection to him. He acquiesced and bent slowly to sink his fangs into Bunny's already bloodied neck.
Bunny shuddered, and promptly passed out cold.
A lonely rocking chair squeaked on the wind, its occupant slumped comfortably with a long forgotten book resting on her tummy. The sun set bathed the room and set it ablaze with oranges, pinks and reds.
Bunny jerked, a whimper left her lips and the book fell to the floor. A fine sheen of sweat settled itself on her forehead and her fists clenched and unclenched sporadically.
Inside Bunny's mind blood was spilt, swords glinted in purple sunlight and Darien lay a thousand times dead all around her. Fear pumped through her veins. The air began to get thicker, it was hot and suffocating. Dark tendrils wrapped around Bunny from behind, closing over her throat and turning her to face…
To face…
"Bunny?" A male voice soothed.
Darien held Bunny tightly, her shaking form calming from his touch.
"Same nightmare?"
"The same."
Darien brushed Bunny's hair away from her face.
"You're beautiful." Bunny smiled softly.
"Yeah………I know." Bunny grinned.
Darien offered Bunny a wicked look; he tugged on her hand and led her out to the balcony. Bunny followed on behind her half-naked husband, the scar on his back was white and stretched from his shoulder to his hip.
Bunny felt the familiar twinge of shame, even Darien himself hated the scar, he hated it when she touched it, he told her it was a badge of disgrace to him, and the scar was a reminder that she had almost destroyed herself to have revenge for him. It served as a reminder that he'd failed her. Darien leaned with his back to her on the balcony.
Bunny grinned sadly and wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, pressing her cheek against his back. Darien stiffened in her embrace, but didn't recoil or push her away.
Bunny pressed small soft kisses to his scar, tracing it all the way down to his hip and back again. Darien hung his head and let her, his fists slowly unclenched and he leaned into Bunny's touch.
"You taste nice," Bunny muttered against his back, "just like sugar."
"Thanks," was the reply, "I sleep with a really sweet woman at night." Darien turned, lifting Bunny onto the banister.
Darien buried his face into her neck; he took in her scent, gently rubbing his cheek against her silky soft neck.
"Now Darien, I know that you don't like talking about it, but what are we going to do with the rebel vampires, it's been years and they can't stay locked up in our dungeons forever, so I figured…"
The rest of Bunny's words were lost to Darien, he started to drop butterfly soft kisses up her neck to her ear, he nipped her and Bunny giggled.
"Are you even listening?"
"Mmm hmm."
I always listen to you dear.
Bunny laughed and threw back her head, Darien took the opportunity to nibble along her jaw line and up to her other ear, and then down the other side of her neck.
Darien stroked his hands over her shoulders and down her back.
"I love you."
"Love….you" Bunny gasped and pulled Darien's head back to her neck.
Darien laughed and wrapped his arms more securely around her waist, hugging her tightly to him.
"My wife," Darien held out his hand to Bunny. She took it and followed him when he pulled her back into his now darkened bedroom.
Darien stripped Bunny of her light flowing sun dress; her pale skin glowed in the twilight. Bunny grinned and lay down on the bed, looking up at Darien who was staring down at her.
"I love you so much Bunny."
Bunny leaned up on her elbows. "Come show me,"
Darien stepped out of his pants, and lay down next to her, he pulled her in tightly to him, caressing one hand down Bunny's hip he gently rubbed the lasting scars from the window Bunny jumped out of years ago. The thin pink lines stood out against Bunny's paper white skin.
Darien was transfixed by the collage of scars adorning Bunny's once perfect porcelain skin.
"I'm sorry Bunny, so sorry for what you've had to live through." Darien let a tear fall.
"We all have scars Darien, but isn't the important thing here that we lived? We lived and now we rule an empire; together Darien, always together."
Darien smiled softly down at Bunny; he kissed her passionately his tongue seeking entrance to her silky mouth. Bunny groaned and wrapped her arms around his shoulders, pushing her body closer to his.
Bunny's nails scrabbled over Darien scar when he entered her heat; she arched her body against his and moaned into his ear. Darien savoured her moving beneath him, he savoured her happiness now, and he savoured her warm smile and love for him every night.
He savoured the feel of her body next to his at night and every day he cherished her patience with him after the war.
Darien cringed in memory; he'd pushed her away while he was recovering from the great slash across his back. He sworn he'd never touch her again, but yet here he was, happier than he'd been in centuries making love to his sweet wife that had stuck with him through the sheer hell Diamond had put them through.
Darien pushed harder into Bunny, his pain coming out in energy and need, faster and faster he stroked, urged on my Bunny's moans, mews and pants.
Bunny placed wet clumsy kisses on his neck and shoulder, her teeth sunk into his neck when she came, the scream was muffled.
Darien roared when he felt Bunny's teeth pierce his neck he felt his life trickling into Bunny's open and hungry soul. Bunny was clenching around him, it was enough to send him over the edge.
One hard thrust later and Darien had come and bit into Bunny's neck in turn, her blood over flowed a little, leaking onto the pristine white satin sheets.
Neither cared, and as Darien flopped onto the bed next to Bunny, he pulled her onto his chest.
He kissed her softly, gently, letting his and her blood mingled on their lips.
Bunny wrapped her arms around him; she'd never been happier or more content. Darien rubbed her arms and traced patterns over her back, never had he been so at peace than at this very moment.
They'd survived.
Survived and won.