Panuleon wrapped his fingers around the metal door handle. He took a steady breath and opened it slowly.

Everyone watched with ready eyes, but there was nobody on the other side.

Panuleon looked up and down the corridor but it was empty. He released the breath he was holding and walked through.

Everyone followed but as soon as the last person walked passed the door, it automatically shut.

Oliver jumped and turned. He tried pushing the door back open but it was locked.

Panuleon sensed danger as him and Corey ran to the other end and tried the door handle.

It was also locked.

The boys looked around the short corridor, what was happening?

Panuleon knew the demons were planning something and if they could find a way out, they should go for it.

"There," Oliver said as he pointed to a vent.

Panuleon ran over and effortlessly pulled the cover off the wall, revealing a little whole leading to darkness.

"I don't think I'll fit," Vinny said as he looked at Oliver. He wouldn't fit either and nor would Panuleon.

Everyone then looked down to Corey.

"Really?" He asked, but he was the only one who was small enough.

Just then, before they could decide anything, unusual holes opened in the top of the walls.

Everyone looked up to see white smoke as it began to pour into the room.

Panic drained the colour from everyone's faces. Was this some sort of drug?

They all backed up against the wall. It was quickly filling the small corridor.

"Corey, get in the vent," Panuleon said.

"What no, It'll stretch past out limit," Corey said as he felt fear rush through him at the thought of leaving his soulmate.

"It might be our only chance," Panuleon said but he was already regretting it.

They had to be together but Oliver was starting to cough on the strange fumes.

They both looked at each other, knowing they didn't want to, but what other option did they have?

Corey's eyes filled with tears.

"I don't want to leave you again," He said, making his voice crack from the emotions he was trying to keep in.

"I know," Panuleon said as he wrapped his arms around him. "But you're our only hope."

He then leant down and pushed his lips to his.

The gas was becoming harder to avoid as Vinny covered his mouth and clung onto Oliver's jumper.

"Be strong, for me" Panuleon whispered.

Corey nodded as he tried his hardest to swallow the lump in his throat.

They then gave each other a look. It was a look that would implant on their eyes and fill their hearts with love and warmth.

They both then ran towards the vent as Corey climbed in.

He turned just as Panuleon picked up the cover.

"I love you," He said as he blinked back his emotions.

"I love you too," Corey said, just as Panuleon put the cover back over the vent.

He felt a tear slip down his cheek as the sorrow re-filled his chest.

He didn't like this. His heart was racing and everything was telling him to get out and to be with his soulmate but he had to do it.

Like Panuleon said, he was their only hope.

So, like the strong willed person he was, he started climbing through the vent.

Oliver buried his face into Vinny's shoulder as he tried to hold his breath.

Vinny watched as Panuleon frowned in discomfort and gripped his chest.

"It's the right thing to do," He said as Panuleon turned towards the vent, changing his mind. "He'll be able to find help, especially if the angels get here"

Vinny was beginning to cough on the fumes as he held his breath.

"Corey won't be able to get that far. The pain will be too much" Panuleon knew his soulmate would try anything he could to save them but he was already missing him. "I need to get him out."

"No, Panuleon," Vinny said as he felt Oliver's knee's begin to buckle. "You told him to be strong, now you do the same."

Vinny coughed more as Oliver collapsed.

He lowered him to the ground and shook him with desperation.

"Oliver?" He asked. Fear was growing in his eyes but it was hard for him to even think. The gas was taking over his senses. "Oliver?"

He was starting to get double vision as Panuleon almost fell to the ground with pain.

He could feel the tense stretch of his bond, pulling on his soul.

Vinny hovered over his soulmate, he barely had the energy to hold himself up but he was trying to fight it, like the stubborn vampire he is.

"Pan- Panuleon" He breathed as he tried blinking back his dizziness. "You'll see him again."

Panuleon was now letting out gentle sobs as he rubbed his chest. He could hear Corey's thoughts and he was telling him to be brave.

that was puncturing his heart but giving him little strengths of motivation.

Vinny then coughed and gasped for fresh air, but there was none.

His mind was all over the place and for some reason, he kept thinking back to when he first met Oliver and all the things they went through within those weeks.

He thought about the psycho Desmond and about his sister. He thought about the night he tasted Oliver's blood and how horrified he was with himself.

He then thought about when John was turned into a Vampire and the night they spent with him in the hospital, thinking he was going to die.

That dreaded night felt like the longest time in history, even though he managed to get some sleep but-

He then remembered his dream.

The white surroundings and that strange person who told Oliver that his dad would survive, but at a price.

That person, his face.

It was so familiar.

As Vinny's body collapsed on top of his soulmates, he could feel his eyes begin to shut.

Panuleon had started to cough as his legs became weak.

He fell to his knees and cried for his soulmate.

Vinny could still see flashes of that dream. Why was that coming back to him?

It was so long ago and he has had thousands of dreams since then, but this was replaying in his mind like it was only just yesterday.

In his dream, he watched how Oliver yelled after the guy and asked what his name was.

The guy turned with a gentle smile and he heard it, clear as day.

"Panuleon"

Vinny then felt a jolt of shock as he managed to flicker his eyes back open.

It was Panuleon who saved Oliver's dad?

His eyes fell on the angel who was struggling to breathe.

All that time ago, before they even knew about the war, Panuleon had come to them in a dream?

Vinny's mind couldn't think too deeply into it, he knew it was a big deal but the fumes were taking over his body and shutting down his senses.

As everything he just remembered slipped away, so did his state of consciousness.

His eyes began to close as he felt his soulmates warm body underneath him. as things began to get blurry and the world around him became silent, he saw a flash of hope.

Something flashed in front of him before his eyes fully closed. It was something that made his heart flicker with aspiration.

He saw Angel wings.