Thanks as always to my reviewers, Danielle Redfern, domox3, x-blackmeadow-x, and Jane, who keep me going.
Wait, Ash, what are you doing?
*Ash pushes Separate Entity away from the keyboard, types something, runs away*
What did you do?
SEPARATE ENTITY DOES NOT OWN NIGHT WORLD!
Fine. Be that way.
Morgead's Point Of View"Jez!" I screamed again, but it was lost in Jez's shriek as the stake pierced her chest. She was lying on the floor, bleeding, screaming, spasms wracking her body.
"Jez!" I cried again. Then telepathically, Jez! Jez, Jez, Jez, Jez . . .
I was hyperaware of the silver cord that linked us, and I tried to reach her through it. I hit a wall. Jez! I tried again.
Claire and Hugh were sobbing. I would have been crying too, but I was trying too hard to reach her.
Over the pandemonium, I could hear Lily's angry yells. "What is wrong with you? Don't you see what's happening to her? Don't you want to save her?"
Yes, I did want to save her. It was the only thing I wanted to do more than I wanted to kill the bitch who put her through this.
Lily leaned over Jez, whose shrieks had been reduced to gasps of pain, and shouted, "Don't you understand? You can stop this right now. I'll have him kill you cleanly–all the pain will be over. All you have to do is tell me who it is."
Jez looked up at her and smiled that faint smile. My heart was twisting into knots.
Lily was still screaming. "How can you be so stupid?" She turned and looked at Pierce. "All right. Get the other vampire down here. Morgead."
Oh, well. I knew that I wasn't going to make it out of here, anyway. At least Jez and I would die together.
Lily went on. "We'll just have to stake your friends one after another until the Wild Power decides to reveal itself."
Pierce grabbed me. I didn't try to fight. I knew it was pointless. He laid me down on the floor beside Jez, and I was shocked by how bad she looked. Her face was pale, and there was so much blood . . .
"Jez, I love you," I whispered. Figures, I found my true love and didn't tell her I loved her until we were both about to die. I was so stubborn. We could have had weeks . . .
"Goddess of Life, receive us; guide us to the other world . . ." Hugh was saying.
Pierce knelt over me, holding a stake and the same hammer Azarius had used. "Do it!" Lily yelled.
And then the world exploded.
I know this is short, but I'm going out of town this week, and I didn't want to leave you hanging in case I couldn't update on Sunday. Also, I couldn't think of another way to end this section.
I hope to update every Sunday as soon as things get back to normal.
Now, the important part: do you want me to fill in what happens from when the time Jez faints to the last scene? I'm going to write it either way, but if nobody wants to read it, I just won't publish it.
Kestrel: Review! Or do you want to start a blood feud?