[Satashi]

Today's "To Make a Mother Proud" will be postponed to bring you Vampire!Fate.

Because Chicken is Happiness.

Spoiler for Vampire!Fate pt.4a:

I knew it all along, but for some reason I didn't believe it. Nanoha's skin was so smooth, so milky-white... She smelt like peaches and her flesh tasted so good... But I just ignored the fact that she was sick. The amount of foreign substances in her blood stream was enough to make me gag and want to throw up.

I was currently in the Roxbury, dancing on the floor while looking around with my eyes to find prey. I had to get rid of that taste, and drink enough to recharge myself. I did lose a lot of blood in that battle, but not enough to make me too terribly weak. I had wanted Nanoha to let me drink from her whenever I felt like it but... I guess sometimes life just hates you.

I never wanted to taste that again.

There! A vampire, the same one I saw when I first took Nanoha out. He was dancing as well, and from what I could tell he was interested in me. With a wry grin, I moved over to him and pressed my back against his front, getting a hand around my waist. I leaned back and whispered into his ear just loud enough to be heard over the music. "Let's not waste time, I want sex."

He laughed and I found myself being guided out of the club quickly. We ran a little while, me keeping my speed at a human's pace. The idiot couldn't even tell I was a vampire as well. Whoever was making these idiots around this town must be pretty stupid to not even teach them anything. The person pulled me into an alley and I grinned. There really was no limit to his idiocy.

I was pushed against a wall and almost laughed when he moved against me. I felt him against my stomach and briefly pondered what he could expect to please with something that small. "Ready, hot stuff?" He asked me.

"Oh yes." I gripped his neck and slipped out of his hold, smalling his forehead against the wall hard enough to make cracks appear. His body went slack in my arms and I sank to the ground, looking around before using my fingernail to sever the largest vein in his neck.

The taste wasn't bad, but wasn't the best. I was thirsty, however, so I drank heavily before he could recover. It didn't take too long for him to start groaning and I pressed him against the wall harder, sucking more. "You.. whore..."

I chose to ignore him, having been called many things before in my life. I wasn't dumb enough to stop drinking to have a verbal chit-chat with my food. His body grew weak and he hunched over, more dead than alive. My stomach was full and I had enough to recover from my earlier battle. I moved to his ear and spoke into it. "I'll let you live. Thanks for the drink." With that, I slammed his head into the wall again and moved away. He would wake later, and would go about his buisness. No mess to clean up, no news to worry about, and no witnesses to deal with...

Okay, maybe one.

I turned and looked at the girl standing in the alleyway. She wore an unbuttoned leather trench coat that was shockingly white. Her clothes were tight over her body, a black top with a golden zig-zag zipper going down the front. A black miniskirt covered her legs that was also accented in gold trim. In her right hands she held a staff with a cross on the end of it, completed by a golden circle hitting all the sides of it. I recognized her from before, as the leader of the group who saved Nanoha and the one who punched her to make her inhale the gas.

"Fate Testarossa." She spoke my current name as she started walking. I noticed she had on white moots that splashed with black and gold as well.

"I like your clothes," I stated, making her pause briefly.

"Ah, thank you?" She recovered and shook her head. "I'm here to kill you."

"Why?"

"Because you are a vampire."

"That's all?" I stood fully and walked towards her. She was a short little thing, and barely came to my breasts. "Why are you killing vampires if you don't know anything about them?"

She tilted her head back and looked up at me seriously. I couldn't detect a single bit of fear in her eyes, despite how cute and innocent looking she was. "You are an abomination. A plauge that needs to be wiped out before it spreads too far."

If she thought she could enrage me and make me lower my guard, she was wrong. "Why?" I asked her simply.

"...Because." She glared at me. "Attack!"

"Why?"

"BECAUSE!" She took a few steps back and held her staff at the ready. "That's what we do!"

"I don't want to fight."

She faltered. "But you're a vampire!"

"So?" I seem to be winning this game.

"So you hurt and kill people for your own gain!"

"No I don't." The girl gripped her staff harder. "Why did your group try and kill the girl who helped you?"

"What?" She blinked.

"Tia. Red head. Uses guns." I narrowed my eyes. "You sent her to kill me, so she would die. Then you went after her blood bank, and tried to kill her! A human!"

"N-no we didn't! Tia was sent on a long term mission in Germany!"

I stayed silent a moment before I realized what was going on. "Oh... I see."

"See? See what!?"

I smirked at her. "They lied to you so you wouldn't know that she was going to be killed. That way you wouldn't lose loyalty to your cause. Very, very clever." She took a step forward to try and threaten me but I stayed where I was standing. "What was your name?"

"Hayate."

"Hayate." I tasted it, liking the way it rolled off my tongue. "Thank you for protecting Nanoha before."

She finally let the tip of her staff fall and she looked at me curiously. "Why... aren't you attack me? Why did you not try and press the fight from before? They told me you were smart but..."

"They are lieing to you." I stated simply. "Not all of us are bad. Not all of us chose this. Not all of us are killers. I stay out of this war for a reason." I looked at her and stared into her eyes. She was...strangely innocent. "Hayate, you clearly don't understand everything of what you do."

"Yes I do!"

"Why then?"

"... BECAUSE!" She lifted her staff again and glared.

"Are you stupid!?" I ran forward the few steps between us and grabbed her staff, moving it away and getting in her face by leaning down. "I could have just killed you." She swallowed but held firm. I could see doubt in her eyes but fear was still not there. "I am going to let go of your weapon." She nodded at me and I did so. She didn't attack me so I smirked. "You're interesting." moved away from her and started walking the way she had come from.

"Hey!" She called out and I turned to look over my shoulder. "I... I didn't hurt her did I?"

I grinned, showing a fang. "Yes. Yes you did. I took care of her, though." She stayed silent a moment so I walked more.

"Fate!" I looked over my shoulder yet again at her. "I... like your outfit too."

I laughed and jumped up, backfliping onto a rooftop and running along it to leap to another. I had a really interesting night tonight.

A.) Nanoha
B.) Fate