"Are you okay Anti?" I asked softly as we sat on the couch while Mark and Jack watched over Dark.

"Don't worry about me lass. You came to my rescue just in time. I am forever in your debt." I blushed lightly as he bowed his head.

"Don't worry about that...I'm just glad you're okay."

"Lass, the only time I'm not okay is when you're not around...it's such torture." He looked up with a smile and leaned forward to kiss my cheek, ever so softly. 

I heard a low growl and turned around to see that Mark and Jack were holding Dark's hands behind his back. Dark was struggling, his face contorted in anger. Red smoke billowing around, snapping off at Mark and Jack and snaking towards Anti and me. The red smoke wrapped around my wrists and turned into blood red handcuffs, yanking me away from Anti. It dragged me to the side of Dark and more smoke drifted towards Anti, wrapping around his neck and hands, creating a collar and handcuffs, the same color as mine. Anti was lifted above, slowly choking. Then, there was neon green smoke. I blinked in confusion. It slowly made its way to me and cut the handcuffs off. Then it went to Dark and made green handcuffs on him, pushing him back into the wall and pinning him down. The red smoke was getting fainter. I stood up and walked to Dark, pinned against the wall, and slapped him hard. The red smoke vanished completely, letting go of Anti. Anti fell onto the couch and I ran to him.

"Thank you Anti..." I whispered and kissed his lips softly before pulling away.

"WHY DO YOU LOVE HIM?! Why...why do you abandon me..." I turned to Dark to see that he was crying.

I looked at Anti then at Dark. Why were these two after me? I walked to Dark, remembering his speech a few days earlier. About his abandonment. I took a deep breath and knelt next to him. I looked in his eyes and offered him a small smile. He looked away from me, his eyes blood red. I watched as he took a few deep breaths. The green smoke began to fade and red smoke appeared, overcoming the green smoke easily. He looked back at me and his red smoke wrapped itself around my neck and then around my wrists once more. He looked eerily calm as he did this. It turned solid and there was a blood red collar around my neck with a similar chain connecting it to the handcuffs around my wrists. Anti's eyes widened as smoke made it's way to him, wrapping around his neck and pinning him to the wall. Mark and Jack watched with terrified looks and ran to Dark trying to calm him down.

"H-Hey...Dark...Let them go....calm down."

"Y-Yeah lad. D-Don't do anything rash."

"I am completely aware of what I am doing. If you guys wish to join them then continue talking. If not then I suggest you take Y/N to my room and lock her in."

I tried to move away from him, growing terrified of him. He looked at me, showing me his dark red eyes. He then grabbed my hair and pulled me to him growling.

"I've told you darling. I will do anything to make you mine. I will not have that chance ruined by a fucking leprechaun."

"This isn't right Dark! I won't love you like this! Not when you get so jeal-"

"You fucking kissed him in front of me...I refuse to let you abandon me. I'm DONE being abandoned." He grabbed my wrists tightly and I felt a burning sensation but I couldn't cry out, "I will NEVER let you go. Not as long as I'm alive." He looked at Mark and Jack, "Take her to my room...NOW!"

"No! Dark listen to me! You want me to love you, don't you? This isn't what love is!"

He ignored me, "Take her away or I'll torture you just like I will Anti!"

This scared them and they grabbed my arms and were getting ready to take me away when Dark stopped them.

"Don't be gentle...I want her to feel the pain she's caused me."

"Dark...lad, we're not mean people. We can't just hurt her."

"You will if you want to be safe...you don't have to do much. Just drag her away by her hair."

"No!! Don't do that!" Red smoke billowed around me and wrapped around my mouth, creating a silk cloth gag.

Jack and Mark looked at each other and gently tugged my hair. I could tell they didn't want to hurt me. I went along with it and cried in fake pain. I didn't want them to get hurt because of me. They kept 'dragging' me until we got to Dark's room. They brought me to the bed and looked at me with sympathy before walking out, closing the door and locking it. I felt real tears fall down my face as I looked at my wrist which now had a bold printed letter on it. D.

***Dark's POV***

I walked over to Anti and looked up at him calmly, "Thought you could take my girl, did ya?"

He glared at me and I laughed. I tilted my head and he was swung against the right wall. Green smoke slowly appeared but it was a transparent as a ghost. It could do nothing to me. I was dead calm right now and completely focused. I pointed my finger at a chair and it moved underneath Anti. I dropped him into the chair and had my smoke wrap around his wrists and the chair. I had them do the same for his feet as well.

"You fucking idiot. Doing this will only make her fear you. Forget about love you fucking imbecile."

I laughed, "Oh Anti, she will learn to love me if she wishes to not be hurt..."

"She's right! How do you think I fucking got her to kiss me. She thinks you're the bad guy. She sees me as the victim. I let the girl come to me."

"If you think for even one second that she likes you then you're dead wrong."

"Do you think she likes you anymore? After what she's seen you do! And what you did to her. There's no way in hell that the lass still likes you, much less ever love you!"

"ENOUGH!" I screamed and went to the kitchen, grabbing a knife. I came back out to find Jack and Mark sitting on the couch with their heads down.

"You don't have to do this Dark...if you want her to love you, you have to be gentle. We're humans...not demons like you guys. We need nurturing and love to help us develop such strong emotions towards others...not violence." Mark looked at me.

"Yeah...Mark's right lad. We're soft creatures. If you want the lass to love you this isn't the way. I think Anti realized that because he was being really gentle with her and I've never seen him do that to anyone else."

"All of you SHUT UP! This is my girl! I've marked her already! I refuse to let anyone tell me how to control her. If she wants to be safe from pain then she needs to learn to love me. She has to...I WON'T LET HER LEAVE!" I slashed the knife across Anti's chest in anger and he cried out.

"WHAT THE FUCK LADDY?!" He groaned as neon green blood dripped from his wound.

"Dark...when Y/N sees this she won't ever love you...let me take him to a hospital...let me get him fixed up. It'll get him away from her."

I growled but I knew he was right. If I wanted Y/N to love me I couldn't let her see what I did to Anti, "Fine....take him but he better be back by tomorrow morning."

He nodded and I let my smoke disappear. He grabbed Anti and carried him out of the house. I looked at Mark, "I'm going to go talk to her..."

He nodded and I unlocked my room and went inside. I froze immediately. She was curled into a ball on my bed, crying and shaking. There was blood but I couldn't see where it was coming from. I ran closer to her and she backed away at the sight of me. On her wrists were small holes. The handcuffs had grown spikes and cut her when I had gotten mad at Anti and the others. The spikes were quite long and one was protruding from the other side. I couldn't speak. I couldn't move. I couldn't blink. I couldn't breathe. I...was a monster.

A/N

1425 words. Nice record. I plan on trying to update at least twice tomorrow to thank you guys for the 1000 reads. Thank you guys so much. Please do leave a comment or two giving me suggestions or simply expressing how you feel about the story. They mean a lot. Thanks :)