Disclaimer: I do not own Night World. It came from the wonderful mind of L.J. Smith.
AN: This is my first fic ever, so please leave constructive criticism and compliments. No flames... there is a fine line between criticism and a flame and I happen to know the difference, so atleast try to be decent.
AN II: This picks up a bit after where The Chosen ends.
Rashel Jordan, pressed the buzzer of the brownstone apartment building and waited for a voice to come over the speaker. She hoped anyone would answer so she could leave her information and leave Nyala, that is if she wished to stay, who was currently still unconcious on her back.
Losing a bit of patience Rashel pushed the buzzer again and this time a voice came over the speaker.
"Who's there?" it asked.
"The night has a thousand eyes." she said tersley.
"And the day only one," it said and then continued, "come on up, girl."
The lock opened and she went in. She went up the dark and narrow stairway and up to a scarred wooden door. The very room she had when she had first met Nyala. She could see someone peeking out the peep hole and heard them say her name. She could hear Elliot tell them to let her in and could hear Vicky hissing about leaving her out there. The door came open. Apperently Vicky didn't have as much control as she thought she did in the Lancers.
She could see that Steve had opened the door. That was why the door opened. Steve had the hugest crush on her, so yeah he would defy Vicky for her.
"Rashel, welcome back." he said and then spotted Nyala.
"What happened to her?" Elliot asked before Steve could.
"Let me lie her down and then I'll tell you." she said and they let her through.
Vicky didn't say one word to her but did help her lay Nyala on the sofa they had. When she had been laid out, Rashel rubbed her neck to ease the bunched muscles from carrying her.
"Now what the hell happened to her?" Vicky asked harshly.
She ignored Vicky and turned to Elliot. She didn't owe Vicky any explanations to what had occurred.
"Elliot this is the last time I will come here." she announced.
"Rashel..." Steve voiced and she held up a hand.
"I need Nyala to be awake. She and I just went through Hell. She was so brave and it almost got her killed." Rashel mused thinking of the look Nyala had in her eyes when she set fire to the Enclave.
"Ok." Elliot said and left the room.
Vicky waited a few seconds after he left before she tried to interrogate Rashel.
"Where the hell have you been? What did you do to her?" she hissed.
"You will get your answers when Elliot returns." she answered back.
Vicky sat down and glared at her. Rashel rolled her eyes and ignored her glare. Like that would get her to talk. Steve moved closer to Rashel and placed a hand on her shoulder to give her some support. She looked at him and gave him a silent thanks.
A few minutes later Elliot returned with a brown bottle and a white cloth. He sat down beside Nyala, pouring some of the contents of the brown bottle onto the cloth and waved it under Nyalas' nose. It took several tries but she finally came to. She wasn't calm one bit about coming around took a swing at Elliot. If he had been someone else other than a hunter then she would have knocked him out flat.
Elliot had to pounce on her to get her to realize that she was back with the Lancers. She calmed but when she saw Rashel she was up.
"Did I get them? What happened?" she asked grabbing Rashels' hands tightly.
"You surprised them but I don't know if you killed them. I hope you did." she answered and Nyala dropped her hands.
"Got who?" Elliot asked.
"The vampires." Nyala said and sat back down.
"What Vampires?" Vicky asked and this time Rashel graced her with an answer.
"The Enclave..." she began.
"Oh that." Vicky said sarcastically.
"Yes that. Nyala and I were held prisoner there." she said matter-of-factly.
"Prisoner!" Steve exclaimed.
"Explain." was all Elliot said.
"I told Vicky about an Enclave I had found out about. It was connected to all of the kidnapping reports. I told Vicky that I had rescued a girl from vampires that were chasing her. She had gotten away from them and I hid her. I got her away, calmed down, and got whatever information I could from her. Her name is Daphne Childs. She told me about an underground club called, The Crypt. That was where the vampires would make their picks." she explained and stopped.
Elliot grabbed a notepad and pen and wrote down the necessary information from her statement. He asked the address and she told him and he asked her to continue.
"Daphne was not going to let me go alone. If it wasn't for her I would never have got passed the door of the club..." she said.
"Why didn't you get any back up?" Elliot asked sternly.
"I told Vicky to tell you to give me a call and she told me not to hold my breath. So I didn't even bother and went at it the best I could." she said.
Elliot and Steve were now glaring at Vicky who was glancing elsewhere. Nyala was listening intently to what she didn't know.
"Well anyways I got in. You would not believe who I came face to face with at the club." she said.
"Who?" Elliot asked.
"Lily Redfern and I spoke to her." she said.
"THE Lily Refern. Hunter Redfern's second daughter!" Vicky exclaimed.
"Yes and she was not all I met on this... imprisonment. By time the night was done both Daphne and I were in shackles and being transported to the Enclave for a Bloodfeast. Nyala was already there chained to a bed. She had gotten caught Wednesday night. Well I killed a Werewolf got the girls off the Island and into a boat, they were leaving and I went back to get the vampires throwing the Bloodfeast. I didn't know Nyala had snuck off the boat and was following back to the house." she said.
"I did follow her back. I found the gasoline and started spreading it all over that house. I didn't leave a single peice of that house undrenched except the feast room." Nyala said, confirming what she had said.
"I found the vampires, they were all made vampires. I got caught before I could confront them though." she said and pulled down her collar and showed them the bite Quinn had given her.
"You got bit!" Vicky and Nyala gasped.
"Who did it? Do you know?" Elliot asked.
"Yeah. Quinn." she said.
Silence ensued. Steve came out of the shock first and went for some stakes. Rashel went after him and talked him into listening to the rest.
"Quinn bit me. He told me he was going to make me a vampire. He was the vampire we had caught at the warehouse." she said.
"Well that's what you get for letting him go." Vicky snarled.
"I did and yet I didn't let him go. I was going to kill him before you could torture him. He broke the cuffs you put on him, bent the metal and snapped the wood. I watched him do it. He was going to kill me then but he didn't. Then you showed up and I got in your way and he escaped. Simple as that." she snapped.
"We had Quinn the Dreadful and you helped him escape us?" Elliot asked, calm beginning to leave him.
"Yes. But that isn't important. He let me go and fought with me against the Vampires holding the Bloodfeast. He kept me from getting myself killed by Hunter Redfern. Hunter was the one that called the Vampires together and was holding the Bloodfeast. I found out then that Hunter was the one who had killed my mother, my great-aunt, and had taken Timmy. He turned Timmy and Timmy was there with him. Nyala then set the house ablaze. Quinn saved Nyala and me from the fire. He brought us and the other girls back to shore when we ran into them, they had run out of gas." she said.
"Is that true?" Elliot and Vicky asked Nyala and she nodded.
"Quinn the Dreadful, saved you and Nyala?" Steve asked.
"Yes. He won't hurt me for anything in this world. This is where I am leaving you. This is my good-bye." Rashel told them.
"Rash..." Steve began.
"No. I'm leaving. Nyala would you like to come with me?" she asked.
"Where?" she asked.
"I'm going to Circle Daybreak. Fayth asked me to ask if you would come. She knows what you are going through and she wants to help you. She lost her brother to a vampire. Do you want to come?" she asked.
"Yes. I will." Nyala answered.
"What!" Vicky yelled.
"Come on Nyala. John is waiting for us. He's going to take us to Circle Daybreak." she said and helped Nyala to her feet.
Vicky started yelling crazy nonesense about being a Vampire sympathizer. Steve was very silent and sad looking. Elliot on the other hand walked them to the door.
"Are you sure you want this Rashel? Nyala?" he asked.
"I'm sure." Nyala answered, "I found that not all Vampires are bad."
"Yeah, I have to join. Carol is why you made the Lancers. They killed her, the Vampires did, they killed the love of your life, your soulmate. I have to leave for Quinn, my soulmate. That is why I let him go and that is why he helped us escape. He is waiting for me. Would you do the same if it was Carol?" she said.
Elliot bit his lip and nodded. He would have done anything for her. He turned around and went back in the apartment and shut the door. As they went down the stairs they could hear Vicky's voice as well as Steves' and Elliots' follow them.
They made it outside and there waiting for them, across the street, was a car. In the front seat was Quinn and Rashel knew in the backseat was Timmy. She asked Nyala where she wanted to sit and she wanted to sit in the backseat, said she would rather take her chance with the kid vamp over the other one. Rashel could swear she felt Quinn smile in her head as she took her seat beside him in the front.
"So where are we going?" she asked as they began to pull away.
"Vegas." he said simply and took off like a bullet.
AN: I feel as if it went a little quick. What do you think?