This is part of my other story, Bleeding Heart. But it's NOT a chapter. Well, it MAY be, but I think it may just become a dream/premonition that Alexis has. I'm open to any suggestions and constructive criticism. Tis is a one-shot, so please review!

I looked up into his now red, piercing eyes. They glinted with all the fury he had towards me, the Tenshi, and the world. He gripped my arms tighter and I let out a yelp of pain. I could feel the tension in the clouded midnight air. Everything that he had kept inside, which I had pushed down into him, was getting to be too much. The fragile glass bottle that all of it was contained in, had shattered.

Silent tears ran down my pale cheeks because I knew I was going to die. I was suddenly glad it was raining tonight. Because in the rain, no one can see you cry. I watched as your crimson eyes studied my face with intensity so fierce, I thought it would rip my heart out right then and there.

“Please…” I whispered. I knew no one was going to save me. The only people who could save me now couldn’t come out into the moonlight. They’d be just like Eric was now. “Eric…”

“Al…” I heard the voice of the one person I was longing to see. I knew that as long as Eric was in the direct line of the moonlight, he would kill me. I also knew that he had a strong hold on me; a strength far more superior to my own, that I had no hopes of getting away from him.

Standing in the field, surrounded by trees, even if I screamed no one would hear me. My chance of living was diminutive.

I thought I had started hallucinating from the small amount of venom that had been coursing through my veins when I heard foot steps at the edge of the wooded area to my left.

“Eric!” Trent called out, fearing to take another step. Eric looked over to Trent and Melody slowly. I saw the moon glitter off the blood red tears on his cheeks.

He was crying tears of blood.

It was then that I knew Eric was still there and I though of something. I knew it was corny, and I knew it may never work.

But if I was going to die, I would tell Eric the things that held my heart in a vice grip. He held onto my arms right below the shoulder and he turned, looking down at me; his lips curled back, revealing his fangs which glistened in the moonlight.

I let another round of tears fall down my cheeks as I prepared to tell Eric what I had been trying to tell him for the past few months.

“Eric, I’ve made my decision,” I felt his fingers dig deeper into my skin, ready to rip the flesh and muscles off my human bones. I winced. “Eric,” I couldn’t say his name enough. I felt like I was about to lose him for good. Like I knew he was going to kill me. “I’ve decided to accept my dad’s fang.”

I heard Trent and Melody take in a sharp breath when they heard this. For a few seconds, Eric’s eyes returned to the midnight blue they normally were, but the quickly changed back to the blood-thirsty red.

“Alexis!” Tristan ran up to the edge of the forest across from Trent. “Shoot,” He spit out as soon as he saw Eric.

I looked back up at Eric with pleading eyes. “Don’t do this. Please. Eric, come back,” I was crying so hard that my body was shaking. I wrapped my arms around his waist and leaned my ear to his chest, listening for his heartbeat.

It was there. I sighed in relief, wondering why it wouldn’t be.

He started to growl, starting in waves from his chest and then out from between his clenched teeth. That was his signed that he was trying to regain control.

He lifted me off the ground by my arms, about a foot off the ground. He then threw me to the ground.

I landed on my back. I lay there, too afraid to move. I looked up to see Eric glaring at Melody and I realized she had to have put something in his head to make him more upset than I had by running away.

All of a sudden, Eric started to charge Her. Trent and Melody took a few large steps backwards into the forest and Trent moved in front of Melody. As soon as Eric got out of the direct line of the moonlight, he collapsed and fell forward into Trent’s arms. He bent down and laid Eric on his back on the forest floor.

I tried picked myself up off the ground to run over to him, but a sharp pain in between my eyes forced me back down to the cold ground. I tried again and stumbled over to where Eric was, falling to my knees next tom him. I cupped his cheek in my hand. “Will he be okay?” my voice shook and was barely audible.

I didn’t get an answer before a pair of strong arms lifted me up. The dizziness took over and the trees and darkness morphed together.

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The aching in my arms was a clear sign that I was not dead – heaven shouldn’t be so painful. I pulled back my eye lids to see the familiar hospital room that was in the Coals’ house. The plain, sickly white walls, the dark blue upholstered chairs, the white sheets and blankets that matched the walls. It just made you sick.

“Alexis,” someone breathed my name in a sigh of relief. I rolled my head toward the sound to see Eric sitting in one of the blue chairs, a worried look stuck to his face.

I opened my mouth to ask him the one thing that had been bugging me a for a week or two now, but the IV started to beep and he got up to shut it off. Once that was done, he sat back down and proceeded to remove the needle from my hand.

While he was doing that, I sat up and crossed my legs. I still had on my street clothes – ripped jeans and a tee shirt.

“I’m sorry…I hurt you,” Eric whispered.

“What happened?”

“Moonlight. Remember how I said the moon was what affected us more?” I nodded. “Well, it reverts us to monsters. To uncivil bloodsuckers.”

“So you lost control. Then what are you apologizing for? If anything, I should be apologizing. I shouldn’t have run away.”

“You had every right to,” He whispered. “I would have.”

He was done with the IV by this time and I watched as he stared down at his hands, playing with the needle. I slid off the bed and stood in front of him, pulling him off the chair. I held his hands in mine, feeling the warmth that had nearly diminished before my eyes.

“It was a mistake and a part of me was glad you came after me,”

He raised an eyebrow in worry. “Part?”

“The other part wished you had waited until daylight.” The eyebrow dropped back into place and I wrapped my arms around his neck.

I caught him off guard when I placed my lips carefully on his, but he kissed back. We stood there for a few minutes until I pulled back, gasping for air.

“I love you, Alexis.”

“I love you more,” And with that, I pressed my lips back to his. I heard the door open, but Eric just raised his hand from my waist to flip off whoever it was.