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Yay! First chapter of the real Discovered! :D *SQUEE!*

Okay so this takes place in hunted, about page 270 when Zoey comes in. I started so close to the end because she isn't to reveal herself till after Hunted ends. :P So… here it is! The Fist chapter of Discovered!

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It's time.

I know it is.

Zoey and the others are about to run.

I just know it.

"Stark!!" I shout to the person in front of me.

"Athena, I'm right here. You don't have to shout." He hisses at me... He's been like that a lot.

In case you're wondering, I am at the Tulsa House of Night, where the Head Hag-Bitch herself, Neferet, has raised Kalona, a fallen angel in certain terms, from his earthen imprisonment. She used my boyfriend, Stark, to do so, making him hurt Stevie Rae Johnson, a really cool country chick who I met on my first day here... She's a Red Vampyre, according to Zoey Redbird, whom is Nyx's chosen one (or so people think, when in reality she's only one of two *coughmyselfcough*).

I've learned how to control my 6th Affinity, Time, so I use it pretty freely. A perfect example is right now. Stark wont look at me, therefore I pause time and use it to get in front of him so that he has no choice. So I walk ahead of him a few steps before unfreezing time again...

SMACK!

Ok... bad idea.

I'm on my back now, on the hard wooden floor of the stables, and the back of my head feels like it might have broken open. On top of that (No pun intended) Stark falls as well and lands right on me as he topples to the ground, nearly crushing every bone in my body...

"Athena! Quit th—"

"Stark, look at me." I interrupt him, rubbing the back of my head, trying to make sure I didn't do any damage. He looks at me but he has that distant look in his eye. I roll my eyes finally deciding that there is no real damage and cup his chin in my hand, forcing him to actually look at me. He finally looks at me and our eyes meet, my eyes and his, and I see some of the old him coming back. His eyes softening into the chocolate brown they used to be, at least when he would bring his walls down, otherwise his eyes were always a charcoal looking brownish color.

"Stark... Please... Treat me like you used to, not like one of those other slutty fledglings. I'm not one of them and you know it."

"Athena..." he whispers, as I move my hands to his shoulders. My eyes start to water as I continue.

"I don't care about being here right now, but you're the only reason for it. Otherwise I'd be long gone by now. I would've gone to find Zoey in the tunnels when they were there... Stark you're the one thing that keeps me going right now... Please"—I could feel my hands tightening on his shoulder to where my nails were digging into his skin—"don't treat me like I'm one of those suck and fuck chicks— the ones that you suck their blood, fuck them, then dump them— because I'm not! I'm smarter than that! I know better! And I know you do too!" I scream the last part and shake him trying to make him see my point.

He looks at me with pain filling his eyes as I begin to shake from holding back sobs. I can nearly feel myself give up as I just shake my head and push him off of me so I can go somewhere, anywhere away from him, so that I can cry and feel my pain in silence and peace. But as I begin to get up I feel his arms wrap around my delicate frame pulling me back down into his lap.

"Athena. I don't think of you as one of them. I never have. You'll find out soon enough why I'm acting the way I am, Angel. I'm sorry I make you feel this way but, please don't cry. Be strong for me... Please..." He whispers softly into my ear. I nod, half of me trying to keep the tears back, and the other half acknowledging that I understand.

I turn around in his lap and kiss him. He obviously didn't expect it, because he didn't respond for about two seconds. Pulling away from him after a minute or two, I tell him, "I love you, Stark. And I know how cheesy this'll sound but, you have my heart, and it's yours to keep."

"As do you, Angel. My heart is yours." He smiles at me giving me a quick peck on the lips before we hear someone shouting.

"Alright, I am sick and tired of you freaks and the way you and your daddy and nasty Neferet think you can takeover everything."

I immediately recognize the voice and whisper to Stark (well it's more like a snarl but...), "It's Zoey."

"Angel." He scolds, and then continues in a soft voice, "Why don't you go brush Jules?"

"Because that'd be stupid! I don't wanna leave you with her!" I complain.

"Athena... Please?" He gives me puppy dog eyes and I roll mine. Geez... Duch is sooo going to pay for teaching him that!

"Fine." I answer walking out of his arms. I hear a slight chuckle before he turns back to Zoey. I dodge to the nearest ladder, pausing time as I do, and climb up it onto the rafts so that I can watch the scene about to unfold.

"You know, it's not smart to antagonize them," Stark said as soon as I started time again. "They're normally annoying. Once you ruffle their feathers they're really hard to get along with."

I could feel the anger and jealousy building in me as I watch her turn around and notice him.

"See, that's one of the differences between you and me. You want to get along with them."—Soooo not true—"I don't. So I don't care if I piss them off." She nearly spat at him. I felt like I was about to start a cat fight in here, but I heard Starks warning hiss as she continued her rant, "And you know what? Right now I really don't want to hear anything more about it." She added. The next time she spoke her voice went down a tone, "Did you see that?"

"That? You mean the Raven Mocker?" Stark had genuine curiosity in his voice.

"I mean the disgusting spiders." She growled in frustration.

Starks look of surprise was genuine as well. "There were spiders in the tree? For real?"

She sighed, most likely in exasperation, before saying, "Lately I'm not sure I can tell you what's for real or what's made up around here."

'Amen.' I thought to myself. I had felt the same lately, always lost... I hated it.

"I did see you being pretty pissed off and tossing Fire around like a beach ball." He said, his eyes traveling down to her hands and I followed his eyes and noticed that she was not only shaking but her hands were glowing with the aura of Fire.

She drew in a deep breath and her hands stopped shaking. Then she said in a much calmer voice, "Thank you, Fire. You may depart now. Oh, wait. First could you get rid of some of that ice for me?" She motioned towards the sidewalk between herself and the stable and fire shot from her hand clearing the way. "Thank you, Fire!" She called as the Flame aura disappeared.

She walked the rest of the way to the stable and past Stark, who was—much to my dismay—staring at her. "What?" she asked him. "I was tired of almost falling and breaking my butt." I chuckled silently at her words... I have been that way a lot recently, too.

"You're really something, you know." I growled as he grinned at her with the cutest smile he had... Then he pulled her into his arms and kissed her. My mouth fell open as I watched MY man kissing another woman. A tear silently fell from my eyes, but I knew I had to keep silent. That didn't stop my heart from feeling like it had been ripped from my chest though... More silent tears fell down my face as I watched him kiss her, and her kiss back (Very enthusiastically if I may say).

She shoved him back randomly after a couple of seconds so that he was outside the stable now. She walked in and looked around like she was looking for someone, but sighed in what sounded like relief after obviously finding nothing.

Next she walked into a closet and once Stark entered, closed the door. I silently prayed to Nyx that I could hear what was happening, and I think she heard me because I looked down and saw them from a bird's eye view.

Stark smiled at her with his most sexy smiles and started to walk towards her. She held up her hand to stop him.

"No you stay over there and I'll stay over here. We need to talk and that's not going to happen if you're close to me," she told him.

"Because you can't keep you're hands off me?" I shuddered from thinking that he was actually trying to seduce her... and another silent tear rolled down my cheek.

"Oh, please. I'm managing to keep my hands off you just fine. I'm not one of your pod girls." I was kinda surprised when she used that. That had originally been my term for the other girls.

"Pod girls?"

"You know, from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That's how I think of the girls you bite and mess with their minds so that they're all 'Oooh, that Stark, he's just so hot! Ohmygod, ohmygod, ohmygod!' It's seriously annoying. And by the way if you ever try any of that crap with me, I promise you I will call all five elements and we will kick your butt. Count on it."

"I wouldn't try to do that to you, but that's not saying I wouldn't like to taste you. I totally would." His voice had become seductive again as he tried to step towards her once more.

"No! I'm serious about you staying over there."

"Okay! Okay! What's got your panties in such a bunch?"

She narrowed her eyes at him. "My panties are not in a bunch. All hell happens to be breaking loose around us, in case you hadn't noticed. The House of Night is under the control of something that's probably a demon. Neferet has turned into something that's probably a lot worse than a demon. My friends and I are not safe. I have no idea how to do what I need to do to begin to make this mess right, and to top it all off I'm falling for a guy who's been with a crapload of the girls on campus and used mind control on them." I watched her with widened, watering eyes. One sob managed to make it out of me as I watched the scene unfolding.

"You're falling for me?"

"Yeah, great, isn't it? I already have a vampyre boyfriend and a human guy I've imprinted. As my grandma would say, my dance card is more than full."

This was when I heard another voice.

"Sad isn't it?"

I turned to see Neferet hanging over me and before I could reply or try to retort my world went black.

Sooo... What do you think?!

Athena is sooo emotional. So I'm sorry if she seems like a brat, she really is just worried about losing Stark, since if you read Equaled you'll see that she's been used, abused, and dumped. So I think it's only fair that she's protective of Stark being her's.

Oh something else: The song i listened to while writing this one most was called Just Freak and is from the movie Spectacular!

Review Please! I want to know if you think it's horrible, great, okay, or whatever. Feel free to give suggestions on the story as well. I will always take them into consideration.