Okay to the people who already read this story and its second chapter, yes I'm re-submitting it. And I'm not going to submit any chapters (the second one or otherwise) until the story shows up in the xXx archive. I really hate when I write a story and submit it and it doesn't show up, or when I update one and it says its has X number of chapters but the latest chapter doesn't show up. I know it takes 24 hours but after two days or so and nothing happens…catch my drift? So yeah, that's what I'm doing. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Xander was having a party. He just got back from his six month 'vacation' and his friends were welcoming him home.

"So what happened to you after you got grabbed by the cops?" his best friend J asked and he looked at her.

"They weren't cops." He said taking a sip from his drink.

"Hey if it looks like a duck and acts like a duck." J said and he smiled.

"Then it was a dog in a duck suit, they weren't cops."

"Then what were they?"

"If I told you that I'd have to kill you." He said and winked.

"You're such a bullshitter X." J said laughing and he laughed right along with her. "Okay on a different subject, where'd you go for vacation?"

"Bora Bora."

"Did you have fun?" J said and his face darkened, all humor leaving his eyes. "Guess not."

Xander's gaze became distant as he remembered what happened on Bora Bora. Never a dull moment, his life. The island had been attacked by terrorists and in the fight Yelena had been shot; she died in his arms.

"You're going to be alright, you're going to be okay." He said as he held his hand to the bloody wound in her abdomen, his other arm keeping her propped up.

"Xander." She whispered and he leaned closer so she could whisper in his ear. "Thank you…for everything." She exhaled a shaky breath and went limp in his arms, all light and life leaving her beautiful brown eyes forever. Tears ran down his face and he touched her cheek.

"Yelena?" he asked but there was no answer. He brushed her eyelids down with a pass of his hand and kissed her forehead.

"Xander!" Xander snapped out of the memory to look at J. "You all right?" she asked and he put a hand to his face, finding his cheeks damp. "Guess something real bad happened huh?"

"Yeah, you could say that." He said wiping away tear tracks. Movement caught his eye and he saw a woman wearing a back-less black top, large, bold tribal wings tattooed on her back the design even more stark against her snow-white skin.

Stop it you dickhead! Yelena isn't even cold in the ground and you're already looking at other women! He scolded himself and he tore his eyes away from the eye-catching design, but J caught him looking and grinned.

"You like her? That's Lilith." She said and he looked at her.

"Lilith?"

"Yeah you know, Adam's first wife in Eden, but she got the boot turning into some demon thing." J said and he smirked.

"Never knew you were the religious type J."

"I'm not, but my mom was." She said and he looked back at Lilith and her tattoo.

"So…she live up to her name?"

"Don't know. All everyone knows about her is her name, and that she's originally from Chicago."

"Chicago huh?"

"Yup."

"Wonder if her family knew Al Capone."

"That would be pretty freaky." J said and Lilith's head turned so they got a look at her profile, from the nose up anyway. Her long, obsidian black hair that she had settled in front of her shoulders was blocking the bottom half of her face. He got a glimpse of eerie husky eyes, one ice blue and one light gray, as she turned to look at him in the eyes, sensing their gazes on her. She locked those strange eyes with his and he felt himself being drawn in, sinking into those eyes. It was warm and cozy there. "Damn."

"What?"

"She did it to you too."

"Did what?" Xander forced himself to look away and Lilith blinked slowly.

"Did that freaky eye trick that she does. Your eyes kinda glazed over and you got this small smile on your face."

"No human being is supposed to have those color eyes." Xander said and J shrugged.

"Well they ain't contacts." J said and he looked back at Lilith, she had vanished from the spot and he looked around, not seeing her. "Did the vanishing trick again too."

"Really?" they both jumped and looked behind them, seeing her.

"Shee-it Lilith!" J said and she smiled. "Don't do that!"

"Do what?" Lilith asked innocently.

"Sneak up on people. Just because you're good at it doesn't mean you should. You're gonna give me a heart attack one of these times." J said and Lilith's eyes flicked to Xander, who was watching her intently.

"You look familiar. Do I know you?" she asked.

"You ever watch any Internet Extreme Sports videos?" he asked but she shook her head.

"Don't have a computer."

"Xander Cage." He said holding out his hand and she looked at it, putting her own in it.

"Lilith Adams."

"Nice to meet you Lilith Adams." Xander said and she smiled showing her teeth. The incisors were just a little too long and a little too pointed, not dramatically so just enough so you noticed.

"Nice to meet you Xander Cage." She said and they shook hands. A scantily clad woman walked up and smiled a smile that was supposed to be sexy, but came off looking slutty. She put a hand on his heavily tattooed muscled arm and he looked at her.

"Welcome home Xander." She said and he smiled.

"Thank you Monica." He said and kissed her cheek. Her green eyes flicked to Lilith and her smile faded. The corner of Lilith's mouth perked in a smirk and her eyes flashed dangerously.

"Hello Monica." She said slowly and Monica gulped loudly.

"Lilith." She said, her eyes wide. "Nice seeing you again Xander." She said and walked away quickly, Lilith was watching her like a cat would watch a mouse, her eyes flashing again. The windows suddenly exploded inwards the lights went out.

Not again! I just got the windows replaced! Xander thought as men swung themselves in and started to push people out. The only people left were the agents, Xander and surprisingly, Lilith.

"Guys, its gettin old." He said and there was a gunshot. He looked in time to see Lilith collapse to the floor, a knockout dart in her chest, he knew that he was next. "If I wake up in a diner I'm beatin your asses." There was another gunshot and a sharp pain in his chest. Darkness swept over his mind.

He woke up sitting in a sterile white room, his blurred vision cleared and his eyes focused on a man standing in front of him; half of his face was heavily scarred.

"Gibbons I thought I told you I quit." Xander said trying to rub his head but found his hands cuffed behind him.

"I know what you said X."

"I did the whole agent thing so I wouldn't go to jail. I'm through with it all."

"I know."

"Then why the hell am I here?"

"You helped bring in a known felon."

"Huh?"

"You know her as Lilith."

"What she do?"

"You aren't authorized to know. If you were still an agent I'd tell you, but since you quit…" he ended with a shrug.

"So why take both of us? Why not just her?"

"The NSA needs you back X." Gibbons said.

"Fuck you."

"We are very sorry about what happened to Yelena, but its time to move on Xander."

"You don't have shit on me this time. No grand-theft auto, no reckless endangerment and certainly no fuckin bridge stunt. I've been a good little boy since I got back from the Vacation from Hell so my coming back has to be voluntary. So I say again, fuck you."

"You're absolutely right. We have nothing on you, nothing at all. We'll just have to rely on good old fashioned human nature to get you back."

"What do you mean?" Xander asked suspiciously and Gibbons smiled, taking a remote out of his pocket and pressing a button. A TV against the wall came to life and he was left looking at an identical room only this one held Lilith. She was pacing like a caged animal when the door in her room opened and a man walked through.

"Oh shit not you." She said.

"Time to start your 'sessions' up again Lilith." He said as he as he backed her up against the wall.

"Don't you touch me." She warned but he put his hands on her stomach, pushing her into the wall. He pressed his hips against hers, keeping her pinned and he moved in for a kiss but she turned her head.

"Come on Lilith, you were really starting to enjoy it before you escaped." He said and put raised a hand, grasping her chin and turning her head back, forcing a kiss on her. She really started to struggle then and he hit her, grabbing her top in both his hands and tearing it open, revealing her whole chest.

"Is this your idea of negotiations Gibbons? Me watching her getting raped?" Xander asked furiously.

"Just watch Xander." Gibbons said still looking at the screen. Xander reluctantly turned his eyes back to the screen as the man started to fiddle with the fastening of her black leather pants. She tried to kick him away and he hit her again, laughing. Lilith started to play along, almost smiling.

She's enjoying it? He thought in shock as sounds escaped her throat, and they were not sounds of protest. They lowered onto the floor and she pushed him onto his back, lacing a hand behind his head and they kissed deeply. The man started to moan as she ran her hands under his orderly uniform shirt and over his chest. She started to rock against his body and he panted, she kissed down his throat and settled her lips over the column of his throat.

Her hands came up and started to caress his throat. One of her hands tightened around his throat and he made choking sounds, clawing at her hand. Her hand squeezed and she laced her other hand behind his head. She twisted both hands at the same time and there was a crack as the neck broke.

"Was it good for you too?" she asked the dead man under her and stripped off his shirt, putting it on over her ruined one. She got up off the floor and kicked the body, fixing her pants. "Loser." She muttered and the door opened again, another man walked in, this one had a gun. He shot her with a dart and she went to one knee, but she just shook her head and stood.

"She's built up an immunity." Gibbons said and took his cell phone out of his pocket. "Get a shock team down to cell number thirty-five. Code red, I repeat code red!" He ran from the room and Xander looked back at the screen as she killed this guy too, this time she had locked her jaws over his throat and was cutting off his air supply, like some like of big cat with prey. He choked and tried to pry her off but was failing. The shock team burst into the room and she released him, leaving him to fall to the floor.

"Fire!" a man yelled and they fired, he watched the bullets go through her chest and out her back. He also watched as the wounds closed her skin flowing together like water.

"What the fuck?" he wondered out loud. Her fingernails lengthened becoming claws and she slashed at the shock team, killing each member in turn. She went to the wall and clenched her fist, pulling it back and punching the wall.

He looked over as a fist came through the wall and she grabbed the edges of the hole she made, making it bigger. She crawled through the hole and tumbled down, landing on her feet.

"Hi Xander." She said and went over to him, going behind him and breaking the handcuffs.

"How did you know I was here?" he asked as he stood.

"I could hear you talking."

"A full scale war went on in your room but I heard nothing, so I'm guessing the walls are soundproofed."

"So? You wanna get outta here?"

"Yes."

"So do I so lets go."

"How are we gonna get out? We're in the basement of NSA headquarters."

"The same way I escaped last time. They never change the holding cells in this place." Lilith said as she went over to one corner and yanked up the rug revealing a…

"Trapdoor?"

"Emergency escape tunnel. I'm the only one who knows about these things, they haven't used them in years. So you comin or not? Close the door behind you." she yanked up the door and stepped inside, starting to climb down the ladder. He went after she disappeared into the pitch-blackness, closing the door behind him. He reached the end of the ladder and his foot touched flat surface. He turned around and came face to face with two glowing gold orbs, his whole body freezing. "Oh don't be such a baby. It's how I see in the dark." He heard Lilith say and he sighed, making her chuckle. She took his hand, hooked his fingers in the back waistband of her pants and started to lead him through the tunnel.

"I got one question." Xander said, stopping and forcing her to stop also. "You can see in the dark, your teeth are just a little too pointy and you can grow claws, to name a few. Just what the hell are you?"

"I'll answer all questions later. Let's just concentrate on getting out first. The end is coming up." She said pulling him into walking again.

"How can you tell?"

"I can see the door and I can smell the outside. When I open the hatch you may want to close your eyes, the light will hurt like hell if you go out into it straight from being in this dark for as long as we have."

"How long have we been in here?"

"Three hours."

"No shit, really?"

"Really. Now be quiet." They stopped again and he heard the scrape of metal against metal and a few grunts. Bright sunlight streamed in and he covered his eyes with his hands, squinting. "I warned you."

"It doesn't hurt you?"

"No." they walked out into the bright sunlight coming through treetops.

"Answer my first question now. What are you?"

"If I knew I would tell you, but since I don't…you get the point." Lilith said as they left the tunnel, she closed the hatch behind them and locked it. They started walking through the forest, walking down the mountain when she stopped and put her hand to a tree, doubling over.

"Lilith, you okay?" he asked going to her side and she looked up at him.

"I need food soon, I'm very weak."

"We're almost out of these woods, I can hear a road." He lied and she continued to look at him, only now she was looking at him as if he were food. "Lilith?" she suddenly tackled him to the ground and pinned his arms to the forest floor with her knees on his palms. Her hands stroked his head and neck and he struggled against her but found it useless. She ran her thumb over his bottom lip and bit her bottom lip in want. He could feel her hand caressing his neck and she was soon pushing his head to the side. "Lilith?" Xander asked again and his breath caught as he felt her press her lips into his neck over and over again, nipping at the skin with her teeth. There was a sudden sharp pain and he stiffened, his body tensing up. He felt her teeth break through his skin and soon she was swallowing his blood, drawing more out.

His vision was starting to go black when she withdrew and pressed her lips to his ear.

"I'm sorry Xander, I'm so, so sorry. Forgive me." She whispered into his ear and he passed out.