My best friend. (MA15+) (David)

Hunts. Something so simple yet so dangerous. Thana and Lucy were hunting to find Josh, Lucy had been in the Vampire District and had found out from the council Josh had been taken by a rogue vampire who was apparently in alliance with a demon. They had taken him because he wasn't a Rune Hunter and knew that at least one Rune Hunter would of been dispatched. Thana and Lucy had equipped themselves with weapons and had gone and fought their way through the domain. Now they were being hunted. They had fought bloody and hard, and had been struggling to fight their way out. They had made it to under the catacombs in a nearby church and were trying to kill the demon that had its eyes set for Josh. He had already been stung, and didn't have much time.

Thana had blown off her study night with the ever annoying Damon, she had been supposed to tutor him but this had come up and she had left the grounds. With Lestats knowledge. "Lily get to the surface with Josh!" Thana yelled, running with them making sure he was in the middle of her and Lily. Then the demon caught up. The other Rune Hunters had been called, they were all there.




Thana and Lucy froze, it was a minor demon. But a very very strong one. Thana and Lucy looked at each other, it was angry at Thana because she had stabbed it. Thana was down to her hunting knives and Lily had her weapons. Her two swords. Josh was struggling and Thana looked at Lucy and nodded, and more and more demons came. The whole Rune Hunters were there, Jason, Alex,  the fight begun.

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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thana screamed as Josh jumped in front of the demon, saving her. "NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!! JOSH!!!!!!" She yelled, he had saved her by giving his life to the demon. Thana felt a burning on her wrist, their joint rune. "No please no." Thana said, Lucy had killed the demon but it was too late. Josh had been stung. The Demons had won. Josh died in Thana's arms. Lucy, Alex, Jason, Lucy, they were all dead. Her best friend, her brother. He was gone. Later when the ambulance came, Thana had to be dragged away from his body.  An older hunter to drag her away and she knocked him hard in the jaw. "NO! " She said miserably. Yes Hunters lived and died all the time, but Thana and Josh had been Parabati as it was now known. Closer then what was explainable to anyone with words. Plus she was the only living Rune Hunter now, because all of the others were killed. It had been a set up. "Thana I've rung Lestat. He will be here soon." another hunter  told her, it was sad for all Hunters to lose one of their own. But everyone knew Josh and Thana had always done everything together. The other hunters Thana had relied on, they all relied on each other when it came to fights like this, But they were gone. All of them.

Thana and her other Hunters stood around, they were above ground now and the ambulance was taking Josh's body away, away with everyone else's.  "Do they need me to?" No Thana they know who they are .  The council will deal with it. It will be okay. A Hunter  responded, no one dared touching Thana. Lestat wouldn't even be able to.  "HOW THE HELL WILL IT BE OKAY??" She roared, shoving past everyone. The pain Thana was feeling was indescribable. To lose your other half..It was horrible. And to lose your whole kind. Thana didn't cry, she just bottled the emotions up and held Josh's present to her. The small pendant. He had given it to her, it had been hidden in his sock. As soon as Thana and Lucy had arrived he had given it to her. The inscription in Latin, saying "Together Forever." Thana held it in her hands. She stood up. "I'm going back to the Uni. I'll see you later. " Thana said, ignoring the blood on her hands and face. Blood that was hers mixed with blood that wasn't and walked out into the night. Walking back across town and getting more and more hurt with every step she took. Josh was gone. That was all she could think. Thana began walking through the park, the night air cold around her. She didn't have a jacket on, and she was freezing. The blood cracking against her skin. She had just lost her best friend. Her people. She walked in anger and hurt and pain.

David did not know why Thana blew him off but figured she had something more important to do than to tutor him. He sat in the library, taking notes for his English class when Professor Lestat came to him and said Thana needed him he left the library as quickly as possible.

David walked all through the grounds and at the outskirts. He walked around and around but saw no height or hair of her, when he came to a small park David saw her sitting there looking cold and hurt. Dave walked over to her and he took his coat off and draped it around her shoulders, he than sat down next to her and sighed.

" What happened?" He asked her softly.

Thana looked up as she saw David, and took his coat off. " Great just great so you rock up!" She said, standing up and going to move away. She didn't want to speak, she couldn't. She was too hurt and was struggling to hold back tears as it was. Thana the oh so strong fighter just couldn't do it. She had just lost everything .

" I'm sorry I didn't make it tonight now leave me alone ." Thana said, tears already starting to form as she walked. She didn't trust her voice not to betray her either . David wouldn't understand, he would just laugh .He was the party boy, so strong and not caring about anything. Losing her everything, she didn't want David to see her like this. He already knew too much.

David grabbed Thana's upper arm as she went to move away and he pulled her close to him, he wrapped his arms around her tightly and in the process pinned her arms to her sides. " No Lestat came and told me what happened, so I came to see if you were alright, which you clearly aren't." He said as he looked her in the eye's.

David maybe be a party boy but he knew something about losing someone you loved, so he understood why she was near tears. " Look, I don't care if you didn't make it to our study date or not, I just care if you're okay. But looking at you now, you clearly need someone, whether it's to cry on their shoulder or to just want to be held I don't care, i want to be here for you. I get you're tough and you're a fighter and you don't want to come to anyone for help, but you need to lean on someone right now. It's okay to cry, it's okay to yell and scream that whatever happened wasn't fair, it's okay to be angry." He said softly instead of his normal devil may care tone of voice. " I know you can't tell me, but i know you just lost someone you truly cared about, maybe even loved, i've been there. So it takes one to know." He added with a half sad smile.

Thana froze as David grabbed her bare arms and pinned her and hugged her to him. But listened, she didn't fight, and didn't struggle. Instead she burst into tears, and unpinned her arms from him, but not to run away. Instead it was to grab Davids torso and hug into him. She really wasn't okay, not with what had happened.

"T-their dead, their all dead. My, my family is dead. My Parabatith is dead." She said through the tears, Parabatith were very rare. Not many took the rune of Parabati. Thana and Josh had been the first in a hundred years to ask permission for the runes. "All the others, they're ....they're dead and it was my fault!" Thana cried, hysterical from the pain and blaming herself. She fell into his arms, weak and emotionally hurt.

David blinked and was surprised she didn't fight nor did she try and struggle out of his grip, he was taken aback by her hugging him. Usually in movies girls fight and yell before doing this, but David really didn't care. He hugged Thana tightly against his chest. " Shh, it's okay, I'm here." He whispered as he stroked her hair.

David caught her when she collasped against him, he picked her up bridal style and carried her to his room. " I'm so sorry Thana, no, don't you start blaminh yourself. They died the way they wanted to, trying to protect those close, it was not your fault." He told her softly.

Thana's tears soaked Davids shirt as he held her, and cried into his shoulder. Normally she would of fought, and even hurt people. Including Lestat, but for some reason she didn't want to hurt David. She felt....safe ..around him. His stroking of her hair calmed her down, and she curled into his Bridal style hold as she felt herself carried to..wherever it was.


She felt movement and found herself on a bed, but she didn't really care she just cried. Hugged into him and cried, her arm was bleeding from the now burnt rune. "They died for me. It was for me. It was a set up. " She said, crying. Lestat walked into the door and looked at Thana before looking at David and nodding slightly. Then simply walked out, Lestat trusted David enough to look after her. Thana wouldn't let Lestat near, but she let David near which meant she trusted him. Even if she didn't want to admit it.

David continued stroking her hair as he held her, it pained him to see someone he cared about so much hurting this badly. He laid her down on his bed and he sat down next to her and pulled her into his arms and he continued stroking her hair and whispering words of comfort.

David saw her bloodied arm and he pulled away slightly. " Wait one second." He whispered as he got up and got a first aid kit, he grabbed a bandage and began to clean her wound where the rune was. David cleaned it before he dressed it, he looked at her. " They died doing something they wanted to do, they wanted to protect you, no matter if it was set up or not." He said honestly ans he moved a piece of hair behind her ear. He pulled her so she was laying on his chest as she cried, he didn't care if his shirt was soaked in her tears, he wanted to comfort her the best way he possibly could. This seemed to be the only way.

Thana whimpered as he touched her rune, it would forever burn. " B-burn until the day I die. Such is the cost of a lost parabati ." She cried softly, but felt grateful he bandaged it without saying too much. She rested her head on his chest, and couldn't speak. She was too hurt, too emotionally lost.


" T-thank you." Thana whispered, looking up into his beautiful eyes, tired but not wanting to go to sleep. Sleep was for the dead . Sleep was for her friends and parabati . Slowly her breathing stopped being so ragged and slowly Davids shirt became less and less soaked as she stopped crying and eventually fell asleep in the early hours of the morning. Her hand and head on his chest , finally sleeping .

David shook his head and made sure her bandage was good and secure. He looked up at her when she whimpered, his eyes soft and gentle. " I'm sorry if my cleaning it hurts, i don't want it to get infected." He said as he held her closer to him, he noticed his heart hurting as he saw how hurt and upset she was, why did he have these feelings for his best friend?

" You're welcome." He whispered back as he moved a strand of her hair behind her ear and cupped her cheek. He laid down next to her and held her close, when her breathing became less ragged and his shirt became less soaked, he knew she had finally fallen asleep. He watched as she slept, she looked so peaceful, so innocent as though she never saw her friends and family killed a few moments ago, she looked exactly like an angel. David inwardly groaned and leaned his head against his pillow, he sighed quietly as realization dawned on him.

He had fallen in love with his math tutor.

Thana sleeping


Thana woke up after having a strange dream, and found herself on Davids chest and saw his signature smirk before pulling away from him and hitting him with a pillow. "Don't you dare." She said , knowing he would have a quick witted remark and looked over at his clock. "6 am, do you not have anything else to do at 6 am?" She asked before rolling over and pulling a pillow over herself.

Even early in the morning, without a shower and with no makeup on she still managed to look good. Yes she had messy hair and was sleepy but somehow it was still cute and she groaned at the sunlight and her arm. "Tell anyone and I will murder you with a fork."

David didn't sleep a wink he just watched her sleep, when he saw her eyes begin to flutter he smirked. " Rise and shine, sleepy head." He said and when she threw the pillow at him he just moved his head. " You know you were dreaming about me. Explains the drool." He added.

He shrugged when she asked if he had anything better to do at six am. " Not really, but fine i guess you don't want to come and hang out with me. But seeing as it is Saturday and we no classes and nothing better to do." He said with a grin, he couldn't help but think she looked absolutely stunning even without make up and without taking a shower. " Hey now, no need to get violent Ms. Semele."

Thana groaned as he spoke about drooling and threw another pillow at him. "Shut up. Its six am I plan on going back to my bed." She answered, and sleepily sat up. Her arm hurting she looked at it and noticed she had bled through his bandage and noticed blood on the sheets. "I'll get you some new ones." Thana said, but as soon as she tried to stand up her head started pounding and she collapsed. "Woah." she said grabbing on to the bed, lucky she fell on it.

She held her head for a few minutes, trying to get the pounding to stop. "Huh...guess that bit of the myth was true." She mumbled to herself, and rubbed her eyes. "I quit today." Thana told him and laid back down on his bed and pulled the blanket over her. "Try again tomorrow." The truth was her head was hurting with the realisation she was alone, truly alone. She felt miserable and the realisation was hitting her over and over again. She fidgeted with her arm and couldn't help but think of their dead faces.