<blockquote class="uncited"><div>he slowly walked behind her sitting on the bed, he wasn't sure what came over him...this defied his very nature he slowly and gently wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into his arms resting his head against hers, she smelled divine, she felt soft and warm under his hard body, it felt...right to him</div></blockquote><br/>Violet's eyes widened and her face had a slight shocked expression as he pulled her in. On impulse she wanted to turn and punch him, kick him out of her house; and then, he rested his head on hers and immediately her mood changed. She felt at peace with him, as though nothing could ever ruin this moment for her. She reached her arms up and held onto the ones holding her. She leaned her head in a bit more, she could feel his heart beating, thump-thump thump-thump. A soothing sound, she looked up into his eyes. "How can something that seems so wrong, feel so right?" she asked him in calm voice. She smiled at him, she knew he had to be feeling the same thing. The need to hate each other but the want to love instead. Before she could answer she leaned in towards him and kissed his smooth lips. A simple and yet so passionate kiss.<br/><br/>=====================================<br/><br/><blockquote class="uncited"><div>"you see, your efforts were useless, if you had headed my warning, listened to my mercy, you would not be harmed, your girls would not be dead, and the end result would be the same" Vlad turned away from her and looked at his men, half had fallen most were wounded, but they stood in rank, they stood in line, they did there jobs well, the old woman gasped and tried to plead with him, his grip not tight enough for her to die, but more than uncomfortable, he let out another chuckle at the weak old woman and looked down at Vanessa, the worst part for her, she would live, she would make a full recovery, but she'd have to live with the fact she failed, could her spirit take the blow, only time would tell, and Vlad wanted to find out.</div></blockquote><br/><br/>When he had turned away from her Vanessa stood slowly, she had definitely been weakened, but even the worst soldier should know not to turn their back on an enemy. Very carefully she reached for the knife that was wedged in her boot and took it out. She let it fly, but the soldier that she had hoped was so wrong, was not as thick as she had hoped. He turned back towards her, and the knife couldn't change it's swift path. It sunk, deeper and deeper into the soft breast of the old empress. Straight into her heart, right where his heart had just been moments before.<br/><br/>"No." She said quietly and then she lept forward, she could not feel the physical pains she had suffered, tears blurred her eyes. "No!!" She screamed, she was crying terribly. The soldier had now dropped the woman, as she was dead there was no reason to hold her longer. Vanessa crawled atop her body. "My empress, I'm...I'm..." She wept, her tears falling over the old woman's face.<span style="color: #0080FF">"Vanessa..." the woman barely got the words out, as blood spilled out her mouth. "You...did...right..." she said, now barely breathing.</span>Then as Vanessa thought she could say nothing more when two simple crept out with the last trickle of blood.<span style="color: #0080FF">"mijn kind."</span>She said, only Vanessa could detect the words. They were of a small country where the young child was being kept far away from hear, and far away from that of this army. Vanessa knew what this meant, protect the child. Vanessa's last order, and she would fulfill it. "Yes my lady." But the words were pointless, the empress had already gone. An empty shall sat in her place and Vanessa cried over it, weeping. She no longer cared that there were enemies here, they would leave her alive. There always needed to be one survivor of a battle to tell a story. She no longer cared her army was dead. The only woman she could have ever called a mother laid dead before her, and all she could do was weep. The anger would come she knew, but not now. Not now.