Chapter 3

"Wait. By 'us' do you mean the fellowship, or us?" He asked, gesturing to the five people around him who sat with varying amounts of shock and fear showing on their faces.

"He's after the six of you." Tasmin replied, her voice cool and calm. The only emotion shown was in her eyes which portrayed the sadness she felt.

"Okay, so how do we stop him?" Rob asked, his voice tight.

"STOP HIM, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? LAST TIME WE TRIED THAT THREE PEOPLE DIED, ONE OF WHICH WAS MY BROTHER, OUR HOUSE WAS NEARLY DESTROYED AND ZETE'S IS STILL OUT THERE!" A young man, Jacob, shouted. Jacob (who was LeShan's brother) was the spitting image of his brother; he had caramel coloured skin, dark eyes that had a slight slant to them and pale shimmery brown hair.

Gabriel jumped up. "So if we're not going to stop him what do you suggest we do?" Gabriel said, sounding annoyed. Kaitlyn grabbed his arm and she pulled him back down to his chair. Once seated she leaned over and whispered.

"Be nice. I know you're worried, but they broke their own rules so that you could live in the house with me," as she finished the corners of her mouth curved up into a smile. Gabriel found her hand and laced his finger with hers.

Gabriel turned to Tasmin and calmly said "Sorry, she's right. I'm worried. So what do you suggest we do?"

Eye's sparkling at the two of them Tasmin replied formally with only a hint of the amusement she felt. "I think we should move to our safe house and I suggest that we go tomorrow. So with that I conclude this meeting so that we can get packed and moving by tomorrow morning." As everyone rose to leave Jacob called above the scraping of chairs and the worried whisper that had broke out.

"Why are we disrupting all our lives if he's after that lot!" he pointed to the group who were all staring at him with shock, as was everyone else.

Tasmin answered and for the first time that morning she let the annoyance she felt thicken her response. "They are one of us, as they have been for the past few months and we protect those who belong to the fellowship. If you don't like it you can stay here, but I hope for your safety that you come with us as I don't think LeShan would be happy if you gave up on those he died to protect." As she spoke several emotions flittered across his face; anger, sadness, shame and finally defeat. After a few seconds he mumbled an apology and left to pack. Slowly people followed and shortly afterwards were upstairs packing in their rooms.

"Are we really going to go with them tomorrow" Lewis asked through the web that Gabriel created when he saved Rob and Kaitlyn from being discovered by Mr Zete's when they snuck into a secret room attempting to find out the truth about the institute that Me Zete's was funding.

"Hell no, I think we should go after him and sort this out once and for all," Gabriel Replied.

"I agree but how are we going to get away without Tasmin finding out?" Rob asked.

"Simple. We leave tonight after everyone's gone to bed." Kaitlyn Supplied.

"Okay, we'll act like we're going along with their plans this afternoon and we'll leave as soon as we can. We could take one of the cars to make it a bit easier for us to find him," Anna said.

All in agreement they broke off their link as much as possible so that they could be with their own thoughts.

After a few minutes of silence Gabriel turned to Kaitlyn, when she looked he pulled her to him hugging her fiercely.

"I know we could go with the fellowship but until he's gone neither you or the rest of us are safe. And well, I would rather fight and get it over with than live in fear for months until he finds us." Gabriel said, his voice muffled by her hair.

Not leaving the stronghold of his arms she tilted her head back to look at his face and said "You don't have to explain. I want this over too." As she rested her head against his shoulder again, barely above a whisper she said "I love you and we'll get though this like we did last time."

"I love you too" Gabriel said as he lent down to kiss her. When they broke apart they continued packing in silence, both absorbed in their own thoughts.