Please Note: I do not own Vampire Academy!
"Ladies, we totally have a winner." Alexia chirped over the thudding music of the dance club.
Shilo sighed. Alexia always picks really pretty guys who wanted to only talk about themselves, but it was her turn as spotter. Shilo and her friends played a strange game, where they would go to the second floor that ran around only the rim of the dance club, and sit in the corner so they could see the door. Then one person was named spotter and would pick a random guy who the spotter thought was attractive, and then send "the hunter" to go convince the guy to join them. Shilo was almost always the hunter, because, even though she was by far the youngest in the group, being 17 in a group of 22-24 year olds, she was the best at "hunting".
Shilo wandered over to the edge where the other girls had already joined Alexia and were giggling and showing interest in the guy she had picked. Shilo peered over the edge; she had never needed the binoculars to see. There a guy who made her breath catch stood. He had long blonde hair that was loose and fell in soft waves slightly past his shoulders. He was wearing a black leather jacket that looked old but well cared for, blue jeans, and a black simple t-shirt. But it wasn't his clothes or hair that made him so amazing, it was his being. He was fit, and had a muscular structure that suggested that he knew how to fight, and a stance that said he knew how to kill. He was Danger with a capital D.
"Please tell me the guy you picked is the one in the leather jacket." Shilo breathed.
"Naturally… wait, are you actually interested in him. Ladies, I have finally found a guy the Shilo thinks is hot." It was true that Shilo had never been interested in the guys picked.
"Well I guys I should go hunting." Shilo announced and left before the teasing could ensue. She first had to make a distraction, because the whole reason that she, a 17 year old who happened to be in college, was able to get into a 21 and up dance club, was because the owner was he legal guardian. Josh was really only 23 but he according to all paper work he was 26. When she was 12 his father, who had been made into her guardian after her father had died, died and since Josh was only 18 he couldn't become her legal guardian. So he falsified paper work so that he was 21 and became her guardian. However, Josh didn't like her being home alone, so she came to the club. He also didn't like her flirting, or associating with guys, so she had to distract him so she could make her move.
She strolled to the far bathroom on the second floor and looked into the mirror. The girl that looked back was tall, as in 5'8". She had dark hair that in this lighting looked black, but in good lighting was actually a dark auburn. She had jade green eyes, thick lips, a light dusting of freckles across her cheekbones, and a pale complexion. Her body type was slender with muscles from years of combat training. Shilo's father had began training her to fight, to survive when she was 5, when he died she was 9 and hated him for leaving her. Josh's father, who was a long time friend of her father, continued her training along with Josh's training. After his father died he continued training with her. She reached into her purse and removed two containers of silly putty. Five minutes later she walked swiftly out of the bathroom while the toilets overflowed behind. Her cell phone went off, telling her it was time for her medication, she hit ignore, she would medicate when she had time.
Shilo went down stairs and quickly found Josh wooing some regulars. "What's up?" he asked as soon as he saw her. He was always on alert it seemed, and especially when he was near her.
"Don't worry, I just thought you should know that the upstairs bathroom is flooded."
"Great. OK I'll handle it. Have you taken your meds?"
"Not yet." She said over her shoulder while heading toward where her friends were. As soon as he was heading to the bathroom in question, she doubled back. She paused at the bar, needed something to calm her nerves. The bartender knew her and supplied her with plenty of drinks that Josh didn't know about.
"Hey sweet heart. The usual?" He always flirted with her, but she knew his heart belonged to his wife. She had actually told him to ask her out, and he did, and now they are happily married and expecting a baby. That was her thing, if she tells someone to do something, they do.
"Yep. Bloody Marry."
"O positive?"
"Naw I want AB negative." She laughed. They always had this game. Shilo was really into vampires and somehow he knew it and teased her about it. She straightened her simple black tank to show more of the c cup cleavage that she had, thanks to extensive working out.
"On the hunt I see."
"Yep the prey is the hottie by the door."
He seemed to look for a while, and finally noticed him because his eyebrows came together with a thoughtful expression. "The leather jacket?"
"That's the one."
"Seems dangerous." He handed her her drink.
"I know, isn't it great." She walked away sipping her drink. She took a dreep breath and approached Mr. Dangerous.
He was looking around for something, and this close she could see he had bright blue eyes. As she neared, he noticed her and at first looked surprised then wary.
"Hi, I noticed you're looking for something and thought I would come over and help you find your girlfriend?" She added the last part as a question.
"I don't have a girlfriend. And I think I found what I was looking for." He gave her an apprazing look and she couldn't help but blush. He certainly was forward.
"Well my name's Shilo. Do you want to join my friend and I for a drink?"
"My name is Chris. Wouldn't you rather go somewhere more quiet?" The suggestion in his voice was clear and she was really considering it. There was something about him that caught her attention.
She shook her head. "No my friends would be pissed. But you want to come with me and hang with us, right?" She had his undivided attention.
"Yes, I want to hang with you and your friends." She went to take his hand to lead him to her friends when she heard Josh, from across the room.
"Shilo! Get the hell away from him!" People seemed alarmed because not only had Josh yelled, but he demeanor had changed and ,oh yeah, he had pulled a gun. People were freaking out and rushing for the exit, everyone left except Josh, the bar tender, Shilo, and Chris.
"Josh, calm down. We were just talking." Shilo spoke like she would a scared horse.
"Yeah and what did he say?" Josh was still aiming the gun at Chris.
"The same thing you have, nothing. Yet." Chris replied in a quiet voice that was twice a scary as Josh's screaming one. Shilo looked at Chris then back to Josh.
"What the hell is going on?"
"He's here to take you away, and I won't allow it. Andrew went though too much for that." Josh replied.
"My father? What are you talking about?"
"He wasn't your father." Chris said, almost sadly.
"Right. And who was he then?"
Despite Josh screaming something about not speaking Chris replied. "He's your kidnapper. He took you from your parents when you were 1. I'm here to bring you back."
"Back where?" Shilo didn't believe what he was saying, but she wanted to get a location out in the open just in case he kidnapped her.
"To Court. To your people."
"What?" Shilo didn't know what was going on, nothing made since.
Josh was still screaming about not telling, and had now approached so that he was only two feet from Chris. He grabbed her arm and pulled her behind him away from Chris.
Chris sighed. "Josh right? If I found you, they can find you."
"That's fine because we are leaving, now." Josh went to move himself and Shilo toward the exit.
"Like that will work? They will find you again, and you will move again. That is no life for her. At court, she would be safe, and could settle and have a home." Chris was calm and sure.
"No. Andrew took her away from that for a reason, I will not let her return to it." He moved more toward the door, but Shilo resisted.
"Look I am here, and I will decide where I am going. Now what the hell is going on?" Josh tried to muscle he to the door, but he wasn't paying any attention and she swept him behind the knee and dropped him to the floor.
"I'll tell you everything, if you agree to at least come with me afterward and meeting someone, after that you can choose to stay or go." Chris suggested and Shilo nodded her agreement. Somehow she knew this was going to be big.