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Disclaimer! I do not own The Forbidden Games or any of its characters! I'm not L.J Smith no matter how much I wish I was!

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Six months.

It had been six months since six of my friends and I had been dragged into the shadow world for a series of hellish games put on by the one and only Julian.

He is the reason for a lot of changes that I have taken in my life. Some are good changes. I have a new strength and even though I tried to keep it going, I used this strength to end it with Tom. I realized that I didn't have to be just Tom's girlfriend anymore. I could be Jenny Thorton, my own person.

However, some are bad changes. I can't handle the dark anymore. I am too afraid of what lurks there, that the shadow men will come back and finally kill me. The only thing that calms me down is the fact that they can't because Julian sacrificed his life for mine. But that thought brings on a whole different wave of emotion. As much as I wish it weren't true, I still think about Julian, and I don't think about him with fear, I think of him with an almost fond emotion.

I shake my head trying to clear it of all of these unnecessary thoughts, it does me no good to cling to my memory of Julian like this. I reach across my desk to crank the music up and sing along to the catchy lyrics. I sit in my room with my pajama's on, trying to finish up some homework for class tomorrow. It is a typical Tuesday night.

I continue to jam out to my music while attempting to complete my math worksheet, although I'm doing more dancing than work.

"Screw it," I mutter to myself, closing my math book and turning the music up even louder while I dance all around my room like a spaz. It is moments like this that I can almost forget about everything that happened to me. Almost.

I continue the rest of my night routine to a montage of music. Not having to worry about having it up so loud since my parents and Joey are out of town for one of his soccer games. They offered to let me come but I didn't want to get behind in school so they let me stay home.

After my teeth and hair are all brushed, I crawl into bed, turning off the music. I leave a lamp on as I roll over to go to sleep, not feeling comfortable sleeping with it off just yet. I curl up and slowly my eyelids flutter down and sleep starts to claim me.

I am surrounded by darkness. I don't know how many months, or days, or years it has been now. Time seems to stretch on endlessly. I don't know who I am, or what I am doing here. Every second it is the same, nothing changes. I might be losing my sanity, but I'm not quite sure I was sane to begin with. I feel the name of someone on the tip of my tongue but I can't remember.

Suddenly I see light, My whole existence seems to warp around me, turning into something. Images flash in my mind of a beautiful girl with golden hair and pine green eyes. Suddenly it all starts to come back. I am Julian, powerful shadow man. A smirk starts to slide across my lips as my body starts to materialize.

I suddenly gasp as worry starts to claim me. I remember the name. It's Jenny. My Jenny. I don't know if she is okay! I remember dying for her and I would have done it all over again. I remember how she changed me, made me feel less evil. All I had ever known was darkness and she gave me light. What is something happened to her while I couldn't protect her? I have to get to her.

My attention suddenly snaps to the huddling figure covered in a hood who must have carved my name back into the rune stave. I glower down at him, wondering if he is going to cause me any trouble. I flex my hands, feeling ready to release my power after who knows how long I had been wiped from existence.

The figure shudders under my gaze, but does not run. How interesting.

"You have been gone for six months," he whispers in a ragged tone. I narrow my eyes, so much could have happened to Jenny in that time frame. "There is a war going on in the shadow world, my master's side wants your help,"

I clench my jaw and give him a menacing look. "I do not care about this war, now let me pass," I snap.

"I understand that you care little for the shadow world, but your father is the one who wants your assistance. If he won, he would be king, and you would be prince. You would have the power to do whatever you please with that human girl of yours without her ever being threatened by another shadow man," The minion informs me.

I reel back in surprise. My father is the one who originally carved my name into the rune stave. As much as I want nothing to do with this world, the lure of power to keep Jenny safe is irresistible.

"So all I have to do it help fight?" I ponder in a smooth voice. The man nods his still covered head. "Very well, I will help. As long as he swears to never touch my Jenny or any of her friends and agrees to let me be with her whenever I please, which includes right now." I say in a commanding tone, surprised at myself for keeping her friends safe even though my life would be much easier without that Tom dud in it.

"He figured you would lay down these terms, and agrees," he says, sticking out his hand. I give it a quick shake and with that I am off to find what belongs to me.

Coming back to her house is like coming back home, because it practically has been since I had spent so much time watching her all these years. I slide through the dark night and appear in bright room. I look down at her beautiful sleeping figure below me and let out a small wave of power with relief when I see that she is alright.

My small burst of power shuts off the light, leaving me to stare at her beauty in the dark. But I am fine with it, I have never been afraid of the shadows.

I roll over, trying to get into a more comfortable position when suddenly I see a flash of unearthly blue through my half open eyes. I freeze. I know that blue. I would know it anywhere.

"Hello Jenny," A smooth voice like water running down rocks calls. I know that voice. I fly up so that I'm sitting in a cocoon of blankets, ready to sprint in a second. "I'm sorry to be so ungentlemanly about this Jenny, but I must say, I am quiet famished to see you,"

With that Julian's lips are against mine in a hard kiss. At first I just sit there in shock as he slides one hand into my hair and the other behind my back to pull me closer. As he starts to deepen this kiss, I start to kiss him back to. As much I hate to admit it, I missed him. I don't know how he is back, after I saw him die in my arms, but I don't care. Not when his lips and touch are making my whole body ignite with a flame that I haven't felt since I last saw him.

Slowly he pulls away to let me breathe, and as soon as he stops touching me I get my wits about me again. I launch myself from my bed, not knowing why my room is suddenly so dark when I left the light on, but knowing it probably has something to do with the shadow man in my room.

I leap across the room and flick my room light on. Julian stands at my bed with a slight hurt expression as his frosty hair falls into his glowing eyes. He sweeps his lashes down once before slowly making his way over to me, the way a big cat would stalk its prey. I watch him with a tornado of emotions. The shock of seeing him here, the heat of that kiss and how good he looks, the fear that he will put me and my friends back into a game.

"Really Jenny? I thought that you would be past running away from me by now?" He asks with a drawl in that perfect elemental voice of his.

I stand, pinned against my door, my breath haggard, trying to feel around for the handle so I could escape but my hand is finding nothing. Julian slowly moves closer and closer until he stands inches away from me. I resist the urge to touch him as he tips my chin up with a finger so I have to look him in the eyes.

"Didn't you miss me Jenny?" he asks with his typical wolf-like grin.

I stand there, pressing my lips together until an anger floods me. How dare he just come back and mock me after everything that happened? How dare he make me think that he was dead for all these months? How dare he put me and my friends in those games?

Before he has any time to react I am cracking my hand across his cheek hard. "That was for the games," I say hotly.

Yay! First chapter done! Let me know what you think and I hope to update soon!