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"You're sending us after two teenagers?" Clay asked.

"Yes," said Jeremy with a small smile, like he couldn't grasp it himself either. Great. I was going on a road trip with a man that scared me half to death and a woman who scared me about the same. Why couldn't necromancy skip a generation?

I ended up in the back of an SUV with two werewolves that were not the cuddliest werewolves in the bunch. At least I hoped not. It was a little less than an hour to the address that Derek gave us. Even though I asked them if Derek could come they said it was best if he stayed with Jeremy. They said there was a lot to talk about. Jeremy promised he would not hurt Derek while I was gone. What bothered me was that he made sure to say "while you're gone." As if to say that there weren't any guarantees when I came back. And Now I had an hour to think about what exactly that meant.

When we arrived, it was night. Clay and Elena went to check the house and told me to stay in the car. I was going too, really, but when I realized there were no lights on in the house I knew they weren't there. It's just when I saw the pool house in the back of the yard, I just knew that's where Simon and Tori would be.

I slid out of the car and walked cautiously across the yard. When I got to the pool house I slowly opened the door. When I saw Tori I smiled, but when she saw me she screamed. Guess I was a little too quiet, huh?

I saw Simon and Tori sitting on lawn chairs with a few wrappers and soda cans on the ground. When Simon saw me he walked up and gave me a hug. "Where's Derek," he asked. I felt horrible, would he not come if I told him Derek wasn't here?

"You've got to come with me," I said. I saw Elena coming towards us from the house. She had a disapproving look on her face. "Derek's safe, but we've got to go. Where's Andrew?"

"No clue," said Simon as he shrugged his shoulders. Tori quickly grabbed her stuff and so did Simon. They both stopped dead when they saw Elena. Tori shot me a hate glare.

"Tori I didn't rat you out." I said quickly, "They're from the Pack," I explained and Simon seemed like he wanted to know more but I just waved him forward. Now was not the time to talk about what had happened in the last day or so.

He seemed to understand and they both rushed out of the pool house. Elena walked with us as we got to the SUV. She opened the truck and Simon and Tori threw their stuff in the back.

We all turned around as we heard grunting coming from the woods. Elena tensed. "Get in the car and lock the doors," she said with authority. Simon and Tori headed towards the back seat. I closed the trunk and distantly heard something pop.

Little did I know that it was the pulling of a trigger. It hit me in the middle of my upper left arm. We all seemed to freeze for a minute. I'd just been shot. And we heard footsteps coming closer.

Simon grabbed me around the waist and pulled me into a standing position. We quickly threw ourselves into the back seat with Tori and locked the doors. Sadly, that did nothing to stop the footsteps from coming closer. What happened next was so close to giving me a coronary.

Tori flung open the door and did something with her arms and the guy holding the gun flew back and hit a tree, knocking him out. Tori quickly closed the door, locked it and gave me a look. "I'm not an idiot," she said with sarcasm. Well at least she would die sarcastic.

Simon looked at my arm and the blood that kept coming from it with worry. He took of his excess shirt and tied it in a notch above the wound. It caused me to yell out in pain but slowed the bleeding. But it didn't stop it. I was starting breathe heavier and felt the world tipping at the edges.

We heard more approaching steps and Simon hopped into the front seat and turned on the car. He put it into reverse and floored it. He stopped when we heard a sickening thud! I met his eyes in the rearview mirror as he realized what he'd done. "Don't worry," I soothed him, "They're not dead." Of course I didn't know if I was lying or not. I didn't even know if I could determine that but in the rush of the moment, it appeased Simon.

"I don't care!" screamed Tori. "Just get us out of here!" She said as her eyes shot us killer glares.

"But what about Andrew and -" I exclaimed. But Tori cut me off.

"Just park around the corner or something," she rationalized. "Just not here! They'll just keep coming and they have guns!" Like I needed the reminder. Simon seemed to echo my thoughts. He put the car in drive anyways. I couldn't fault Tori. What else were we supposed to do? Tori could use a kick back spell on all of them before they started firing at her.

The car lurched forward and we drove down the street and around the corner. Simon stopped after less than a couple minutes. I was hoping Elena and Clay could still find us. We waited a few more minutes and as the minutes went on, I became more and more tired.

"Chloe!" Simon shouted and I tiredly looked up at him. "You have to stay awake, Chloe," he said with a strain in his voice. We all seemed to stop breathing when we heard a commotion in the woods to our left. We all silently looked over to see what was coming for us. It was like watching an accident happen. You couldn't look away. It was exactly what would happen in a common thriller.

I felt myself breathe when I saw Clay burst through the shrubbery. I never figured that I'd be so happy to see the scary werewolf. Elena came right behind him, holding up an Asian man who I assumed was Andrew. They were less than fifteen minutes away and I breathed a sigh of relief.

I let my head rest against the side door. I just needed a few minutes of rest. I was so tired. I felt someone shaking my left arm harshly. Owww! That hurt. I felt my eyes open and I saw a blur of colors. I heard a man speaking quickly and someone telling me to hold on. I was trying to but it was so hard. And eventually I gave myself up to the comforting darkness. At least there were no ghosts there. Hopefully.

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