Ok, so I read 'the Nine Lives of Chloe King,' the series, it sucked, I cannot describe to you how much the t.v. series made this flat story riddled-with-things-that-didn't-make-sense into the wonderful story that it has been so far. The girl had a wonderful idea though, the author, she just didn't complete the story in a fit and professional way. Thats all Ill say, no spoilers, speaking of the first book of the first episode and the rest, is completely ignored, so no worries on ruining any surprises when reading the sucky books.

So anyway I needed to get back into the world of the t.v. show and so after watching the show's every episode three times over, came up with this idea. This is not going to be a very long story Im thinking, but then again, I dunno...

Also, it will not always be in Valentina's POV, mostly it will be in Aleks, but each chapter concentrates on a different character's relationship with Chloe, not saying the whole chapter will be that person's POV, just telling you what to look out for.

oh also, please forgive the first upload! It was the half done chapter not the 'good copy' I don't know I guess I forgot to save it in 'Doc Manager' before uploading or something silly me...

Please Read and Enjoy! R&E

Summary

Chloe sat chatting with her friends, Amy and Paul it was the first day off from being guarded, from work, from everything that she had had in a while. She sat back and enjoyed herself, laughed at Amy's absurd joke and relaxed. The pizza as well, was delicious for once, everything was great, she didn't even had a curfew because she was going to sleep over at Amy's.

And then her phone rang with a text.

Chloe tried to ignore it but they could all tell that it was a physical strain.

"Just answer it, it's fine." Amy said, ever the understanding best friend.

Chloe gave a smile to them both and picked the phone up to read the text.

Chloe meet me in the warehouse we took down the assassin in twenty minutes, please do not bring your human friends, Alek and Jasmine are already here but Ill send Alek to get you.

~Valentina

She frowned and showed the message to Amy, who shrugged.

"Probably some boring Mai stuff anyway," Amy said with a loud slurp from her straw.

Chloe texted back,

No Im coming on my own, no need for further hassle

She collected her stuff and allowed Amy to drive her to the warehouse, Paul stayed behind to pay and finish his own meal. When they arrived, Amy looked around, she really wanted to return to Paul, no one was around though. Chloe on the other hand got out of the car and slammed the door.

"Don't worry it's Valentina, I'll be fine," Chloe leaned into the window to speak but then she turned away and went into the warehouse without another look back.

Earlier

Valentina woke tied to a chair, she didn't remember at that moment how she had gotten into the position, was she hunting someone? She decided she would figure that out later, the important thing was to remain calm, which was accomplished easily for her, and the second important thing was to escape.

For this she took in her surroundings, she recognized the area as the warehouse where she had killed the assassin. There was a man she did not recognize walking around, he did not seem to realize that she was awake yet. She used this to her advantage and tried to get out of the chains, only to find she could not reach them, even with her claws.

"Stop that." The man demanded, not quite angrily but more exasperated. She looked up at him but he was not even looking at her, he seemed too busy with a bunch of wires. More people came in, all working on something, setting up cameras everywhere, it seemed their ultimate goal to catch every angle of the warehouse.

Valentina strained her memory, she had gotten up that morning, showered, dressed... it had been afternoon and she had sat at a bus stop listening in to a conversation between two orderlies. But she never did that alone, who had she had guarding her... where was he now? She snorted quite unlike herself, he was dead, obviously. She didn't remember being attacked but that was the last memory she had. Her guard must have gotten careless and noticeable. Typically when she had a look out, the other person would be shopping in a nearby store while discretely watching and typically she had two or three look outs should anything go wrong.

There was a loud bang as the door opened and closed causing them all to look to the newcomer. Valentina was shocked, but only for a moment, after all it wasn't like she hadn't suspected it before.

The head of the order, the king or so he called himself, she snarled but he just tisked.

"Now now be nice," he said coming into the light, "although I don't know what I was expecting really." He walked behind her, beginning to circle her slowly as he spoke. "We haven't seen each other in, how long has it been?"

"Ten years." Valentina answered.

"Since you murdered my wife." He said, although his voice did not raise even the slightest the anger was as clear as a scream.

He was in front of her again this time holding her phone in his hand. "Tell me, does this sound like something you'd say?" he asked. She read the message and her heart skipped a beat. "Judging by your expression it fits perfectly," he said. He quickly gagged her to ensure she could not warn the younger Mia before seeming to dismiss her presence all together. Which was for the better in her opinion, no true leader ever went anywhere with only one phone, that'd be ridiculous! She texted the rest of the pride to stop Chloe who was entering a trap and even gave them her location. She just hoped they were fast enough.

Ten minutes later there was a sound of a car pulling up and then driving off after a moment's silence. All went quiet, she could hear the car driving off all the way to the next street. The creaky door opened and with a jolt the pride leader was fighting with all her might to get free.

"Hello? Valentina?" Chloe called. "Alek, Jasmine?" she called.

At last Valentina managed to get her mouth free. "It's a trap!" Just then Chloe came into the light, as did several Mai through various windows. Chloe looked around and to Valentina's surprise still went to free her, "run!"

Chloe turned around hesitantly, "run, get out of here!" Valentina yelled at her.

Jasmine grabbed her and Chloe ran back the way she had come, grabbed the door and swung it open, Jasmine behind. There was an explosion the likes of which deafened everyone's ears. Both girls were sent flying backwards crashing into computer equipment that had been placed directly in the path.

In an instant Valentina knew something was wrong, knew something horrible had happened, that her life would never be the same again. Someone cut her free, she turned and saw it was the very man that had done all of this, but rather than kill him she ran to the girls. There was fire all around, the orderly members that could quickly deserted the room as planned. Both girls were unconscious. Chloe was on top, probably crushing Jasmine, the brunt of the explosion had been to Chloe, the scene was not pretty but then, not as bad as it could have been. She was bleeding from her abdomen though. Alek was there before Valentina could come out of the shock of the sight, he picked her up, she heard herself say something about 'carefully.'

Beneath Chloe Jasmine lay, her temple had a nasty burn, or at least Valentina thought it was nasty, in truth she had never seen a burn worse then a light scalding so she had no idea, she had seen various other wounds but never burns.

She picked her daughtor up and left the same way Alek had taken Chloe out. The door was gone, the wall to the door was gone and so they walked out where the wall had once been, got into the cars that waited there and drove off. It was half way home that the shock ended and she could think straight. By then her daughter, placed in the back seat, was awake and helping Alek with Chloe, who was also awake, or at least Semi. She didn't know how she had managed to drive as far as she had, she didn't remember a single bit of the drive, had she run any red lights? She had no idea.

"Hold on Chloe, this isn't another life your going to be alright!" Alek kept saying, she could read his lips in her rear view mirror. Her daughter was strangely quiet, almost dazed still, eyes looking at Chloe as though mentally willing Chloe to live.

Meanwhile all Valentina could think of was how she had failed Chloe, she shouldn't have had her number in her phone, and under 'Chloe King' too. The number should have been memorized and that's all.

Next chapter will be up tomorrow at the latest about 6 pm, but I will be out of town so it may be the day after tomorrow.