Title: Stolen by the Night
Author: GenesisX
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Spoilers: Night World
Disclaimer: Night World, its concepts and characters are property of LJ
Smith, I'm just borrowing it for fun. Unrecognised characters and
storylines are mine.
Warnings: some minor sexual references and mild language
Summary: When a popular Daybreak agent disappears the Daybreakers and the
local human community are crushed. The truth of what happened turns out to
be more shocking and closer to home than any of them could have ever
imagined.
Notes: Constructive criticism would be appreciated.
Part 1
Neither of them understood it. Carley and Jonah exchanged glances, looking at each other with distress as they stood in the centre of Adria's deserted room. The place was a mess, and it looked like wherever she had gone, she had left in a hurry, only taking her clothes and some personal items. The window had been closed and locked from the inside and despite the mess it didn't look like there had been any sign that she might have been kidnapped.
Ash Redfern was hovering in the doorway, frowning at the sight of the deserted room. "There's a meeting in Thierry's office."
"Her sketch pad is on the desk. She never goes anywhere without her sketch pad," Jonah said softly as he and Carley left the room. Carley was too numb to even say anything. She and Adria had been best friends since - like - forever! Since they had first met at Kindergarten they had been inseparable. It had been a strange friendship, Carley being from a high ranking lamia family, while Adria had been a werewolf. Carley's parents had been firm Night Worlders, Adria's Daybreak agents. Their parents despised each other and had tried to keep them apart, but hadn't been successful, and as Adria and Carley had grown into teenagers, they had given up trying.
Adria had always been there and now her sudden disappearance had stuck a cord deep inside Carley making her sick with worry. The not knowing was the worst thing in the world. Adria had been happy, she had been living at the Daybreak mansion for the last year, had attended a local high school, was popular with students and teachers, she helped anyone who needed her - be it extra tutoring, she helped on the teen counselling network the school had set up, was in the Nature Club, played on the local baseball team, she always designed the costumes for the school plays.
Why anyone would want to hurt a good person like Adria was greatly disturbing. There was no reason at all that Carley could think for her to up and leave.
In Lord Thierry's office, he himself sat on the desk, his endless dark eyes showing concern, Lady Hannah was with him looking equally worried. Adria's older brother Eli was there as well. He was standing beside Lady Hannah, tall and thin, long blond hair tied back in a ponytail, wearing a white shirt and silver leather pants, hands clasped behind his back. His skin was pasty almost sickly pale, his eyes were a cold glacier green, his thin lips were tight. He simply looked at Carley and Jonah as they came into the office. Ash seemed to have disappeared.
Carley had to force herself not to shudder. Despite the fact Adria was her best friend and one of the nicest people in the world, her older brother had always made Carley feel like there was something unpleasant crawling under her skin.
Jonah was frowning, moving in front of Carley, almost as if he were protecting her. He didn't like Eli much, either.
"Oh for the love of Christ," Eli drawled in a deep voice with a Southern accent. "This is pathetic. I had no idea about what happened so ya'll might as well wipe them looks off your faces."
"They're probably just still in shock over what's happened," Lady Hannah said quickly, throwing an annoyed glare in Jonah's direction. "As Adria's boyfriend and her best friend, it's only natural that they would be so upset. And they're not the only one, even the human community were shocked by her disappearance." Jonah sighed, running his hands through his neat, close cropped light brown hair and shrugging unhappily. His shoulders drooped, his blue eyes were sad. "I'm sorry," he said, staring at his feet, tracing circles on the carpet with a sneakered foot. "Lady Hannah's right."
"Who would want to hurt Adria Everybody loved her!" Carley burst out, unable to keep quiet any longer.
"That's what we intend to find out," Lord Thierry answered.
The magpie hovering on the tree in the branch by the open window in the Daybreak Lord's office. If it had been human, it would have laughed at the sight of the distraught morons racking their brains out inside. It squawked a few times, then flew off. A few miles later it flew into an open garage in an ordinary street in the Vegas suburbs. A soft topped car was sat in the drive, the top down. Seated in the car were a boy dressed in a black Lost Prophets t-shirt and cargo pants with shaggy blue in the driver's seat and beside him a girl in a black and white corset and black leather pants with shoulder length black hair streaked with white.
The boy flipped through the radio channels, while she looked towards the open garage as the automatic door shut. Out the side door another girl emerged, this one short with bouncy blonde curls dressed in a embroidered pink strappy top and jeans. She looked at the blue haired boy with an arched eyebrow. "I don't know what you're thinking Warren, I hope you know what you're doing."
The blue haired boy, Warren, smirked as he finally round a radio station he liked. "Don't worry Dawn, I know exactly what I'm doing." He patted the knee of the girl beside him, then kissed her passionately.
The girl smiled at him, and nodded in agreement. "He does - some of the time."
Dawn grinned. "You should have seen the looks on their faces. Everyone's going mad with worry."
"There was no other way, it was now or never. I was so sickeningly perfect even I was starting to hate me. Warren saved me." She turned to kiss him greedily again, pressing her forehead against his, as if she wanted to merge herself into him, so the two of them could become one body, one being and never have to be in separate boy-girl bodies again.
Dawn's eyes rolled. "Get a room already!" she snorted.
Warren held onto the girl for a minute or so before finally turning away. "We need to be making some serious tracks in getting the hell out of here. My cousin Philadelphia will put us up for the time being. You got his number, right Dawnie?"
Dawn nodded. "Yeah. Be careful."
Warren nodded. "You ready for this, Adria?"
Adria nodded. "Let's get the hell out of here."
Part 1
Neither of them understood it. Carley and Jonah exchanged glances, looking at each other with distress as they stood in the centre of Adria's deserted room. The place was a mess, and it looked like wherever she had gone, she had left in a hurry, only taking her clothes and some personal items. The window had been closed and locked from the inside and despite the mess it didn't look like there had been any sign that she might have been kidnapped.
Ash Redfern was hovering in the doorway, frowning at the sight of the deserted room. "There's a meeting in Thierry's office."
"Her sketch pad is on the desk. She never goes anywhere without her sketch pad," Jonah said softly as he and Carley left the room. Carley was too numb to even say anything. She and Adria had been best friends since - like - forever! Since they had first met at Kindergarten they had been inseparable. It had been a strange friendship, Carley being from a high ranking lamia family, while Adria had been a werewolf. Carley's parents had been firm Night Worlders, Adria's Daybreak agents. Their parents despised each other and had tried to keep them apart, but hadn't been successful, and as Adria and Carley had grown into teenagers, they had given up trying.
Adria had always been there and now her sudden disappearance had stuck a cord deep inside Carley making her sick with worry. The not knowing was the worst thing in the world. Adria had been happy, she had been living at the Daybreak mansion for the last year, had attended a local high school, was popular with students and teachers, she helped anyone who needed her - be it extra tutoring, she helped on the teen counselling network the school had set up, was in the Nature Club, played on the local baseball team, she always designed the costumes for the school plays.
Why anyone would want to hurt a good person like Adria was greatly disturbing. There was no reason at all that Carley could think for her to up and leave.
In Lord Thierry's office, he himself sat on the desk, his endless dark eyes showing concern, Lady Hannah was with him looking equally worried. Adria's older brother Eli was there as well. He was standing beside Lady Hannah, tall and thin, long blond hair tied back in a ponytail, wearing a white shirt and silver leather pants, hands clasped behind his back. His skin was pasty almost sickly pale, his eyes were a cold glacier green, his thin lips were tight. He simply looked at Carley and Jonah as they came into the office. Ash seemed to have disappeared.
Carley had to force herself not to shudder. Despite the fact Adria was her best friend and one of the nicest people in the world, her older brother had always made Carley feel like there was something unpleasant crawling under her skin.
Jonah was frowning, moving in front of Carley, almost as if he were protecting her. He didn't like Eli much, either.
"Oh for the love of Christ," Eli drawled in a deep voice with a Southern accent. "This is pathetic. I had no idea about what happened so ya'll might as well wipe them looks off your faces."
"They're probably just still in shock over what's happened," Lady Hannah said quickly, throwing an annoyed glare in Jonah's direction. "As Adria's boyfriend and her best friend, it's only natural that they would be so upset. And they're not the only one, even the human community were shocked by her disappearance." Jonah sighed, running his hands through his neat, close cropped light brown hair and shrugging unhappily. His shoulders drooped, his blue eyes were sad. "I'm sorry," he said, staring at his feet, tracing circles on the carpet with a sneakered foot. "Lady Hannah's right."
"Who would want to hurt Adria Everybody loved her!" Carley burst out, unable to keep quiet any longer.
"That's what we intend to find out," Lord Thierry answered.
The magpie hovering on the tree in the branch by the open window in the Daybreak Lord's office. If it had been human, it would have laughed at the sight of the distraught morons racking their brains out inside. It squawked a few times, then flew off. A few miles later it flew into an open garage in an ordinary street in the Vegas suburbs. A soft topped car was sat in the drive, the top down. Seated in the car were a boy dressed in a black Lost Prophets t-shirt and cargo pants with shaggy blue in the driver's seat and beside him a girl in a black and white corset and black leather pants with shoulder length black hair streaked with white.
The boy flipped through the radio channels, while she looked towards the open garage as the automatic door shut. Out the side door another girl emerged, this one short with bouncy blonde curls dressed in a embroidered pink strappy top and jeans. She looked at the blue haired boy with an arched eyebrow. "I don't know what you're thinking Warren, I hope you know what you're doing."
The blue haired boy, Warren, smirked as he finally round a radio station he liked. "Don't worry Dawn, I know exactly what I'm doing." He patted the knee of the girl beside him, then kissed her passionately.
The girl smiled at him, and nodded in agreement. "He does - some of the time."
Dawn grinned. "You should have seen the looks on their faces. Everyone's going mad with worry."
"There was no other way, it was now or never. I was so sickeningly perfect even I was starting to hate me. Warren saved me." She turned to kiss him greedily again, pressing her forehead against his, as if she wanted to merge herself into him, so the two of them could become one body, one being and never have to be in separate boy-girl bodies again.
Dawn's eyes rolled. "Get a room already!" she snorted.
Warren held onto the girl for a minute or so before finally turning away. "We need to be making some serious tracks in getting the hell out of here. My cousin Philadelphia will put us up for the time being. You got his number, right Dawnie?"
Dawn nodded. "Yeah. Be careful."
Warren nodded. "You ready for this, Adria?"
Adria nodded. "Let's get the hell out of here."