The Slayer Chronicles:  Raina

           Until recently I had never been in love.  I had never had that instant moment when you look into someone’s eyes and know that this was it.  This was what you had been looking for all along.  This was forever.

And now I had finally found it.  I had found the person I wanted to spend my forever with.  The only difference between me and other girls, though, is that the love of my life truly can love me forever.  He can love me until the end of time.  For you see, the love of my life is a vampire.

But it is not all passion and romance like they make it out to be in stories.  We have had to hide our relationship from the very beginning because I am no ordinary human.  I am a slayer.  The peacekeepers of the supernatural world, and the mortal enemy of vampires.

At first I believed everything I was told about their kind.  But then I met him . . . and I learned that just as not all people are good, not all vampires are evil.  There is no black and white, only many shades of grey.

            Even now, I watched him with hazy eyes, as he ripped the head off of another vampire, a vampire dead-set on killing me, and I still felt nothing but love for him.  Some looked at him and only saw a monster, but not me.  I saw an angel.  He was my guardian angel . . . of death.

            Scattered drops of rain fell from the sad sky as I stared down at the poor soul who had become nothing but ashes.  Vampire dust . . .

The worst part about loving a vampire was knowing that when you die they cannot join you in the afterlife, because vampires have no afterlife.  Once they are dust their soul is lost forever.  It does not go to heaven or hell, it does not even stay behind in this world, it simply stops existing.  They stop existing.  The only way this vampire in front of me will ever exist from now on is in memories.

I looked up at my beautiful vampire’s frightened eyes.  It would not be long before others approached.

            They say if you kill a vampire without reasonable cause there is only one punishment.  Eternal death.  I cannot lose my love like this.  I cannot let him become nothing but a memory.  I had to find a way to set him free.

My soul is bound

My lust is strong

His blood surrounds

All that is wrong.

My soul is bound

But my eyes still see

That only love will set him free.