Thanks for the support on this one. It ain't as long as the others but the quartet is something I've had in mind for ages so hope you like this chapter. Remember to review. So- I met Edge today. Wow! Canadian men- Kizarny, him, Christian- are all gorgeous. So he got asked about his return and for fans wanting to know, he hopes to be back before WM26. Got the interesting news about how his girlfriend had to help him in the shower, it was hilarous. Eve was gorgeous. I won one of the Bragging Rights steel chairs. Oh yeah. Also got to see and talk extensively with the crew from home fed, AWF. Guys, if you live in Sydney area or ever come down here, make sure to check them out. That's where I'm training next year. REHAB IS GOING TO BE UPDATED AFTER ONE-SHOTS ARE UP AS I'M ON A EDGEHEAD SPIRAL STILL.

UPDATED MY PROFILE TOO, WITH SOME BIG NEWS, SO GO AND CHECK IT OUT.

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CHAPTER THREE

Adam watched silently as she walked briskly down the streets in the lower slums where last night she'd been attacked and he'd aided her. Jay would kill him if he knew he was doing this- trail a dog but not actually catch it and kill the creature, their sworn enemy. Her. He had a difficult time, as of last night calling one of them dogs, well at least calling her one. She-Wolf. He liked that name on her. She was quite small for a Lupine, in fact she was extremely small. Her rich brown eyes didn't even meet his chest. If that even. Since this mornings little encounter, his mind had been on her the whole day.

Something drew him to the young she-wolf and it was undeniably delicious. Just the thrill of doing something naughty drew Adam like a fish to a worm on a hook. Keeping low and out of her senses, he brought his hands up and stroked his chin. Judging by the way that old crone had been so defensive, the tiny creature was definitely important to them- or at least John. He'd cause a heap of trouble in the past with John which had been the ultimate cause for the war and their peoples. The only difference though was John wished to keep the war going while he wanted to end it. Once and for all. It cause the murders of helpless innocents who got in the path of two ancient households. Vampires had people willing to give their blood, though they sometimes enjoyed a hunt or chase, but a Lupine like John killed someone just for the sheer fun of it. Adam did have some of this human instincts or emotions left, despite they were extremely minimal, he did not kill those who would need to survive; children, mothers, people who mattered. All he killed - when he did - was homeless people, like the man who he'd let the little she-wolf have the night past.

Dangerous situations only hooked Adam even more, and this certainly was a dangerous affair to get meddled up in. If there was a God watching over this world, then he was certainly toying with their people in terrible ways that could result in a bloodbath. Something that they didn't need while both races were prepared to rip the other to shreds so easily at the tiniest of whims.

This night however, Adam kept out of her sight and smell. He simply watched her. Like she was his pray even though she wasn't. He would never kill another she-wolf. One had been enough to spark a feud that was still raging because of her mourning lover and he refused to add any more fuel to the fire.

As he kept close to the young creature, he'd been following since she'd reappeared at sundown, Adam realised he had never seen something quite so interesting. As a human she appeared to be some shy little deer before she turned into a strong-minded young she-wolf when talking. Well- Adam didn't quite know. He'd never liked the appearance of them. They looked almost true to some Hollywood sci-fi flick like Underworld style. But, the silver eyes that swept across the empty street, searching always for prey like an owl hunting a mouse or hare in the pitch black darkness made them seem almost like they were going to fight anything that they first ran through.

She was truly adorable. He could not argue that. The tiny figure and gorgeous face made her almost seem childlike until he saw those full breasts and voluptuous hips.

Oh lady he sighed and shook himself. What was he thinking?

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She sighed, running her fingers across the wood of the door frame. She'd seen this place last night just before she had turned, and remembered the location. It reminded her of some old plantation house. While Blake didn't understand why she felt a little sick at the thought of who might have lived here, but she did know that it reminded her of her life before John, before this, before everything in her life became nothing more than a blur as she watched the centuries pass by slowly and the world changed.

Tentatively stepping into building, she moved through the rooms slowly, looking over all the old abandoned things that the previous occupant had left behind. Pushing a creaking door open, she found herself stepping into a large hall type of room. As she made to climb over some boxes which blocked the other end of the house from her inspection, a creak and crashing sound caught her attention.

Turning sharply as her ears were unable to pick up what was the cause of the noise, she saw a hand close round the wood of the door and stood up on the crate as the person stepped into the room. It was the Blood from yesterday. "You are making it a habit of following me, aren't you?" she inquired, folding her arms across her chest as she watched him.

"Following you? Hardly. I was simply searching for some lunch."

"You're walking out in sunlight?" she asked crudely. "Don't your kind burst into flames if you do that?"

"Kind?" Adam remarked, smirking at her. She was quite the little fireball and he had not even provoked her. "Little She-Wolf, you have a lot to learn about my kind."

"I don't want to know about your kind. You are my enemy. We shouldn't be talking to each other," she shot back at him. Adam pulled a face slightly, pushing his hair back from his face, he took a bold step forward only to have the little creature step backwards.

"You can't go very far there, little wolf."

Blake recoiled back into the crates at her back as much as she could as he advanced. She knew how to fight, but he was clearly much older than she was and her strength would be nothing in comparison to his. It would be like a cub trying to fight a lion. There was little to no chance of her succeeding.

She however had been taught not to give up, under any circumstances. It was not in the nature of a wolf to give up. "No, but my bite is much, much worse than my bark."

One side of Adam's face lifted upwards in a smirk and he stopped. "Mm. That doesn't sound so threatening coming from such a small thing like you." Blake snarled back at him making him chuckle and hold his hands out slightly. "I emplore you, little one. I have not harmed you yet, what makes you think that I still will?"

"Because you're a Blood. Lupine and Bloods do not get along. We shouldn't even be near each other, let alone talking." Adam just lifted one shoulder up slightly and wasn't prepared for when Blake suddenly lunged at him. He caught her wrists in his and spun them round, pushing her down until her back hit the floor. It was incredible how fast both of them moved. The moment Adam had them on the ground, Blake fought against him. "Get off me!"

Adam smirked and used his weight to easily overpower her. "Stay still and I will let you go."

"Get off me!" A sharp groan escaped him when Blake suddenly brought her knee up. Adam rolled off her and Blake crawled away from him. He sneered at her as she remained crouched low, as if ready to jump should he move. Slowly rolling onto his stomach, Adam breathed in deeply. His blood was raging and he was ready to kill her, but curbed his temper, knowing anger would get him nothing but trouble. No one needed to know about him coming near this little wolf. "I told you to get off me."

He glared at her as he got up on his knees and leaned his head back slightly, not noticing the young woman's eyes slowly trail down his stretched and lithe frame. "That was not very nice, I was not hurting you."

She scoffed and watched as he looked at her. "Like I care. Leave me alone."

"I'm curious little wolf-" Adam was cut off suddenly when something suddenly cut his senses. He stood up and moved quicker than Blake could blink. The howl from outside signaled that one of her pack had found her. "I'll see you soon, little one."

Blake dreaded his words and spun when the door opened. John stood there with a look of pure anger on his face. "John? What are you-"

"There was a Blood here," he said, going straight to the point.

She stammered for a reply. "No- no. John I came exploring on my own. No one has been round me at all today. If there was a Blood, I would have run. Straight to you." Was she really saying that? Yep. Was it true? Nope. Blake felt compelled not to tell John about the Blood, whose name she did not even know.

John walked towards her and Blake said something about needing to get back to Mae when she saw the look in his eyes. "Why? Stay with me for a little while. Tell me what it feels like to have your powers now," he replied, backing her into the wall. Blake tried so hard not to shake but it didn't help when he leaned in close to her. "I can feel you. Your heat. Your blood calling to me. It makes me want you so much."

Blake managed to avoid his kiss by quickly ducking away and quickly dashing out of the door he'd come through. She was afraid of his words. Despite knowing for centuries that John had turned her for this main reason. To be his mate, Blake didn't wish for it to be true. "Blake!"

Even though she heard him calling her, Blake wouldn't go back knowing that until this was all over, John would see her as nothing more than just a mate and something that he needed to own and possess.

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Blake looked up as Mae put a bowl down in front of her. "So- you ran into John?" Mae inquired. When she had returned home, Mae had been given every little detail down to the point of where John had almost kissed her.

"Yes," she replied, nodding.

"And the Blood again? Is he following you, Blake? Three meetings in such a short time does seem quite odd, I would have expected him to try and kill you in that first meeting."

Blake lifted one shoulder. "He didn't try and hurt me. It was almost as though he wished to just keep watch, like I was prey for him but not in a sense of food."

Mae looked at the child who she loved but it worried her that Blake was letting such a dangerous creature get so close to her when she knew the dangers of being caught out by John which could lead to the loss of her life should he not be able to control his anger.

"Mae, tell me about them?"

"Who?" she questioned.

"Bloods," Blake answered. "I'm just curious about them. Is what John tells me true?"

Mae sighed heavily, "I cannot answer such a question. My books may indulged on them, their history but I would not dare tell you about them when I myself cannot say what is true and what is not?"

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Adam had watched her run, seen John leave the building before he'd gone back inside. He had hoped that she would come back, Adam was not exactly the type of Blood to follow a woman unless he wanted her for food. This young woman however was a Lupine, not a human and certainly not food. So why was he so intent on following her and having her come back here?

There was something alluring about being close to her. The feel of her soft skin beneath his fingers today had not been what he'd expected. Adam growled soflty while he ran his hands through his hair, remembering those fiery eyes as he had struggled to keep her on the floor. Turning his attention back to watching the house, he saw John and immediately his hands clenched into fists as he growled much deeper this time. It was not a nice growl like the previous one but a much darker one. He was not ready to play nice, especially with this Blood.

Adam's memory had been wiped clean of about one hundred years of his presence that he had lived three hundred years prior and it had only made things ten times worse that this man had something to do with it all.

He looked up at the only thing that still worked in this place and found that if he did not return home soon, he would have to stay here for the day and that was not safe, especially since Bloods knew of this place and it could prove to be his end if he stayed here while sleeping. It was not sleeping to be exact but that was what both he and Jay had taken to calling it so as to seem somewhat normal. He laughed at his own thoughts before getting to his feet and headed out of the old place.