Because I drew your blood. I promised myself I would never do that the moment you told me to meet you at those crossroads.

[It is about causing injury. He does not regret holding her so tight. He only regrets the harm. He's careful as he kisses along the line he has left in her, moving, up, up, up until the scar fades close to her elbow.

Other vampires will look at those lines, look at Alucard's hands, and they will see the word mine. He cannot imagine a worse thing for them to think of something that came from terror and desperation.]