K pov.
"Kaylen? Kaylen! Come on talk to me!" Oliver's voice is what wakes me up his finger's still on my neck where he probably checked for a pulse. I blink hazily and look through blurry eyes up at Jackie and Oliver who look extremely concerned. Riley, Max and Ava must have went after the vampire. I moan putting my hands over my face as the memory come's rushing back at me like a tidal wave. Oh no. I can't believe that just happened. I let a vampire go. He'll probably just kill more people now and it will be all my fault. "Kaylen!" Oliver gently pry's my hand's away from my face. "Are you alright?" He stresses looking at me with wide frantic gray eyes. He must have been really concerned. I can see why I've never been knocked unconscious before. I only was this time because I told the vampire to do it to me. I moan again clenching my eyes shut and trying to burn it from my brain. I have reached a new level of stupidity people.
Oliver seems to give up on getting a response and I'm dimly aware of him lifting me off the damp floor. Great now I'm being man handled like a rag doll. I suddenly remember why I came here in the first place and peel my eyes open. "Ollie, the girl?" I say as loudly as I can cringing when my voice cracks.
He frown's deeply his forehead puckering in concern. Jackie answers before he get's a chance. "She's alive, she doesn't remember anything." Her gentle motherly voice reaches my ear's and she pats my leg lightly. I let out a sigh of relief craning my neck to look at her. Max apparently didn't go after the vampire since he's currently coaxing the confused girl into a standing position.
"Good." I whisper. I'm really happy I got here in time when he dropped her she looked pretty lifeless. I would of been guilty for weeks if she died. That's another reason I never should have let him go, now every person he kill's... Their death will be on my hands.
"What happened?" Oliver suddenly breaks the silence looking down at me with a confused expression.
I struggle for the correct words for a moment. The words that won't get me sent to a mental hospital. "I don't know. I thought I had him and then I was out." I explain, not a total lie. I would have had him if I wasn't so weak, somehow he got into my mind, convinced me to spare his life. Next time I'll be ready. I'll get rid of him. He did seem genuinely concerned about my well being though.. It must have been part of his act.
Oliver let's out a heavy sigh. "I don't think he'll come back around tonight. We'll have to come back tomorrow." A flash of panic runs though me and a gasp escapes my lips. He doesn't have a chance if they find him next time. Oliver's really angry and when he goes into one of his fits of rage there's no stopping him. My best friend mistakes my gasp for fear for myself not for the escaped parasite. I feel a twinge as I think that. For some reason it hurts to insult him. Someone really need's to bash some sense into me. "Don't worry he won't be getting any where near 're not coming." Ollie practically growl's his hold on me tightening.
I frown. "I'll be fine. I can come." I say stubbornly. No way am I not coming I'll have to find some way to stop them from killing him.
"K, you just got your head smashed in your staying in bed for a few days."
"No I'm not." I inform him starting to squirm in his ropy arms. I forgot he was holding me for a moment. "Put me down." I instruct.
He shakes his head his face hardening he can be just as stubborn as me at times so this could be a challenge. "You are not walking."
"Yes I am! Put me down! I'm fine!" I practically screech trying to pry myself out of his grasp. I hate being treated like a child. I can take care of myself.
"No you're not!" He yells voice filled with bewilderment. He's so irritating sometimes.
"Oliver I'm not kidding if you don't put me down right now..." I trail off letting him imagine the worst possible scenario's of me kicking his ass into next week.
"You'll what?" He challenges eyes glinting with amusement.
"I'll kick your ass!" I screech finally managing to get a grip on the pressure point in the middle of his back and pinching tightly. His eyes widen and his arms go limp at his sides leaving me in a tangled heap on the hard floor. Good, I'm free.
He gapes at me with wide eyes like he can't believe I just did that. He should have seen it coming he's known me for year's, he knows I'm violent. "Cheater!" He yells the total opposite of how I thought he would react. That simple word brings me back to our childhood and I smirk a little bit struggling to my feet and ignoring it when the room spins around me disconcertingly.
"Guys let's go!" Max suddenly snaps reminding me that Oliver and I aren't alone. I look over at him and see the girl hanging off his shoulder like she's drunk and mumbling incoherently a dopey smile on her face. His face is scrunched up in disgust and he looks extremely uncomfortable and I find that really amusing. I burst into laughter doubling over and grabbing onto Ollie's bicep for support when I almost tip forward's I don't stop laughing until we're out of the building and halfway to the car and it's only because Ava and Riley come running up to us panting heavily and completely filthy.
"Did you get him?" I almost squeak really hoping they didn't.
"No, he got away!" Ava practically snarls brown eyes filled with anger, probably because her hair is in a huge curly ball around her head it makes her positively livid when someone messes up her hair. She's such a girl. My thoughts are confirmed when she groans and starts trying to tame the mess. To no avail. Sucks for her, but I find myself practically sagging with relief for some reason.
"We followed him all the way through the damn junk yard before we lost him." Riley says irritation clearly distinct with his southern drawl. That explains their dirty appearance. I have to hold back my snicker's. I can just picture it in my head. The vampire gracefully dodging mounds of trash and Riley and Ava dragging each other down into it every time they trip.
"Let's just go." Jackie murmurs tiredly already walking.
"Yeah, we'll get him tomorrow." Oliver adds before wrapping his arm back around me waist and dragging me after Jackie.
It only takes us a few minutes to get to the large black weapon filled van, parked haphazardly in a dank alley and everyone crawls in quickly ready to just get back to the apartment. I end up being the last one outside.
I feel a sudden urge to look behind me so I do and swear I see violet eyes peering at me from the shadows but when I blink their gone. "Special K come on." Oliver says and pulls me into the truck by my wrist as soon as he has my attention. As we drive away I look back again and this time I clearly see him watching us with a puzzling expression. A frown on his handsome face. I quickly look away before someone notices climbing up to the passenger seat so Oliver won't press me for more information.