DISCLAIMER: I'm not Liz Braswell and I'm not ABC Family so I dont own anything! nothing is mine. Enjoy.


Everything flashed by her as she got into the ambulance with Alek. This was just so wrong, it wasn't right. She shouldn't be sitting in an ambulance watching Alek that she had been questioning about him, and her, and the two of them was finally clear to her and now he was almost gone. She saw his lips move and she leaned forward.

"Illyochivch. And Dimitri." He said quietly.

"What?"

"Call them." Chloe pulled out his phone and searched his contacts. She dialed Illyochivch and placed it to her ear."

"Dr. Illyochivch," the man said on the other end.

"Hi, this is Chloe King-"
"The uniter?"

"Um, yeah, so I'm assuming that since you know that you would be…"

"Mai. Yes, What is it that you are calling for?"

"Valentina, Jasmine and Alek, were attacked. Alek told me to call you. We're on our way to the hospital now. "
"I'll be there when you arrive." He hung up and Chloe pulled the phone from her ear and stared at it for a moment. She searched his contacts again and found a Dimitri. She pushed call and waited while it rang.

"Petrov! What can I do for you?"

"This is Chloe."

"So he finally got you…" He laughed a deep full laugh.

"Look Alek is in the hospital, but we had a little accident one that- can't be seen by human eyes."
"Where is the body?" he asked

"The back bedroom of their apartment."

"I'll take care of it, sweetheart. Tell Alek, he's stupid if he dies now."

"Okay-" She didn't really plan on telling him that but she didn't know what she wanted to say. There was so much, too much. She hung up and put the phone back in her pocket. The ambulance came to a stop and the doors were thrown open. Alek, Jasmine, and Valentina were wheeled in. An older man met them at the door and it was a flurry of squeaking wheels, and a trade of information on the three of them. Chloe followed blindly behind everyone.

Chloe felt two hands on her shoulders holding her back. "I'm his fiancé" she told the nurse not even thinking about what she was saying. She had to be with him. She pushed forward resisting the nurses hold and continued to follow, now running to catch up with them. She stood out of the way as nurses and Dr. Illyochivch rushed about cleaning and bandaging wounds. Chloe couldn't breathe, too much was happening, so many machines and so people. A nurse pushed open the door and came over to her. Chloe turned and saw that the woman was talking to her but she couldn't hear a word she was saying. She used the trick Alek had showed her that day, She focused her hearing first on Alek's heart beat blocking everything out, but it wasn't the strong and steady beat that she remembered- that she still dreamed about. It was shallow and slow. She shook her head and tried to listen to the nurse this time.

"Your mother, is outside, Ms. King" Chloe nodded and followed the nurse outside.

"Mom, what are you doing here?" Chloe asked in a daze. She saw Paul and Amy over in the corner talking quietly to each other.

"Amy called me and said that you were here, and I came and- Oh my gosh Chloe, what happened to you?" she asked seeing Chloe's shirt.

"Mom, I have so much to explain, but Alek and- the others, I can't leave them. I don't. I love Alek, and I've been too stupid to tell him." Chloe heard something come crashing through the doors behind her and she turned. All she saw was blonde hair go rushing down the hall on a bed surrounded by doctors. She ran and one of the nurses grabbed her. Chloe struck out with a hand to push the nurse aside. But she found it didn't do anything, she looked up into the woman's face and saw the slit pupils.

"You can't go." The woman said in a thick Russian accent. "Your other friends are alright. You cannot go in to the OR. We will update you."

"But I- I lo-" Chloe stopped and hung her head. She felt her mom put her arm around her shoulder and steer her off. They went into the small chapel there at the hospital and sat down. Chloe just cried for a while, her head on her mom's chest. Chloe looked up and wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Mom, for this to make any sense, you have to let me get all the way through it." Her mom nodded and turned toward her daughter.

"When I turned 16, I began to change- and not just the normal changes. I'm different. I'm part of an ancient race called the Mai. We are descendants of the Egyptian Goddess Bastet. We are part cat, is the only way to describe it. Alek and Jasmine and Valentina are Mai too. They are my protectors, there is a group called the order who try to destroy us and tonight they almost did. That's why we're here, they got Alek and Jasmine and Valentina."
"So that isn't your blood?" Her mom asked referring to her shirt.
"It is. I'm their 'Uniter' I don't what it means, but I have some specific things that only I can do, and one of them is I have nine lives. I was killed tonight, but I'm fine now." Her mom sat there quietly just staring at her daughter.

"We're moving, we aren't staying here." Her mom finally said.

"No! My friends, Alek- I just. I can't leave."
"its not safe for you here! I'm your mother I'm supposed to keep you safe."
"then the safest place for me to be is here, with my pride. Alek and Jasmine would give their lives to save mine, I trust them and I know they are always there." Alek is always there.

"But-" Meredith started.

"I have to stay here, it's part of me." A nurse knocked on the door and poked her head in. Meredith and Chloe both looked over at the door expectantly.

"He's asking for you." She said calmly.

"Tell him. If that's how you really feel, let him know dear." Meredith told her daughter. Chloe nodded and left with the nurse.

"He's dying, dear, I'm sorry. I just thought you should know so you can say what you need to." Chloe inhaled and nodded. She entered the room and crossed straight to Alek.

He reached a hand up to her cheek stroking it gently with his thumb. "Chloe." He was talking clearer now.

"Alek, I can't do this without you." She told him.

"Chloe, just tell me you love me." He told her. She kissed him gently and nodded.

"I do, I love you so much, Alek. I was such a fool. I wish I hadn't waited so long to tell you- show you." She said kissing him again this time harder.

"Show me now, before it really is too late." He whispered. She looked at him questioningly. "I'll be alright." She nodded and crawled up onto the bed with him. She kissed him feeling his strong muscles under her hands. His hands were entangled in her hair. Even with all the turmoil in her heart, she felt completely calm now. His strong arms around her just like his heart beat did every day. She knew this was where she was supposed to be, in his arms, even if it was just one day, one time.