Well I am SOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY for the really big delay. I have been kind of lazy to write the new chapter even if I had already finished half of the chapter months ago. But i will try to write more stories now that I have more free time.

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Well on to the story...


Despite my better judgment, my body turned to face my intruders.

I looked them all over quickly, nothing really retaining in my brain, that is until I saw him. As his features sunk into my brain, my attention was centered solely on him and him alone. The black hair framing his face, blue eyes that showed no emotion as they shifted from the body to me and back, his perfect mouth falling into a frown, his physique not quite hidden underneath his clothes, and the slight faltering in his step as if uncertain of which way to go, away from me or toward me?

My eyes slowly narrowed as my heart burst to life, slamming into my ribcage. As if I was nervous, or I was... I gulped as those blue eyes seemed to pierce my soul, trying to uncover my deepest secret.

He looked from me to the body of Jenson on the ground not a couple of feet from me. The man took one brave step forward, his perfect lips opening slightly as if to say something. He reached out his hand to me, palm up. His intentions were clear as daylight.

I was taken by surprise as my own hand twitched at my side, then rose up and over to his hand. Before I could grab his hand though, something shifted slightly under my feet.

No human would have sensed that, but with my more superior senses, I was able to pick up the slight shift. Unfortunately despite my awesome reflexes, my body froze as the earth shifted once more, this time more violently, so much that the man's lean body tensed. The earth shifted once more, knocking me to my knees. The next second I found myself falling down so that I reached his chest, his hips, his legs, and then, nothing but the cliff.

Out of nowhere, a hand thrust forward and grabbed mine, halting my fall. Warmth spread through my body at the contact, overriding the pain I was feeling at the abrupt stop. I looked up and saw that the man was leaning over the cliff, trying with some difficulty to lift me up. Other figures surrounded him, grabbing my arm and pulling me up. I reached up with my other arm and two of the figures grabbed it, pulling me up easier.

A low rumbling filled my ears that caused me to look down. Apparently the cliff couldn't handle a lot of weight because it was slowly giving way. I turned back to up to warn them, but the words stuck in my throat as the next moment, the cliff gave away.

The man and the other figures let go of me and slid along the cliff. I wasn't so lucky. The breaking of the cliff caused me to be propelled a little farther away. My body barely had time to move slightly to the left, my legs preparing for the shock of earth before my fall stopped.

The fall was shorter than I thought as my legs crashed into the earth. My whole body shook at the impact. My legs couldn't take the shock of my whole weight hitting the ground at whatever speed I was going at that I was falling forward onto my knees.

An anguished scream erupted from somewhere as sharp pieces of rock embedded themselves into my knees, tearing the flesh apart. It took me several moments to notice that the scream came from my own mouth.

I gritted my teeth against the pain as I was guided off my knees and onto a rock.

Wait, guided?

I looked up and saw that the blue eyed man was leaning over me, staring at my legs. Well, that explained the heat traveling through my upper body. The man rushed over to my knees and grabbed my leg in a surprisingly gentle hold.

"Victor," he called in a husky voice that sent a shiver through my body. His eyes never left my torn knees.

I couldn't help but smirk as he let out a low string of curse words.

My heart once more picked up as his gorgeous eyes turned their attention to my face. His breath hitched slightly as his eyes ran over my face from what I presumed was my mouth to my eyes.

He gave me a slight smile and said, "It's okay. We'll take care of this."

I knew that he was even a little unsure of his statement.

My attention was shifted from him as a looming figure leaned over me, blocking out the sunlight in my eyes. I turned toward the mass and watched as another man crouched next to me, immediately grabbing my leg. He prodded a piece of rock, moving it. Pain flitted through my body as the rock cut my flesh more. I hissed before I could even notice. The man I presumed was Victor frowned, apologizing to me lightly. Unsurprisingly, he had a deep, booming voice even in a whisper.

I finally decided to check out the damage. Apparently it was worse than I thought. My dress was torn in several places where the rocks undoubtedly pushed against it. The slabs of rock in my knees were pretty big, leaving a bloody mess around them. The blood slowly ran down my legs to group at the edge of my boots. The worst part was that my skin looked as if it healed around the rocks. Upon further inspection, I noticed that that was exactly what happened. A grimace came onto my face at the thought of pulling out the rocks. Well there is a downside to healing fast.

"It's going to hurt a lot to remove the rocks."

I focused back to the figures. They were obviously talking to each other. The blue eyed man nodded curtly, narrowing his eyes. I could practically see the wheels moving in his brain. "Pull them out." Both men turned to me, surprised. I gritted my teeth and said once more, "Pull them out." Victor opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted as the other said, "Just do it. The sooner the better."

Victor nodded and grabbed my leg again. He shot me an apologetic look as he hiked up the skirt of my dress a bit. I was too busy gritting my teeth, preparing myself for the pain to even bother replying. I lost my concentration though when Victor looked at the blue eyed man and said, "Alright then. Richard, grab her shoulders and don't let her move." Richard nodded and walked to stand behind me. He grabbed my shoulders a little tight, but not so much that it hurt me. I was so preoccupied by his close proximity that I screamed tore through me when a piece of the rock was pulled out of my knee fast. Both men tensed, looking at me concerned. I squeezed my eyes shut, biting my lip hard, trying unsuccessfully to ignore the pain.

"Do you want me to continue?" I nodded my head.

I braced myself for the next flash of pain. This time when he pulled the rock out, I barely resisted the urge to scream. Instead my teeth just bit down onto my lip more. The sweet metallic taste of blood filled my mouth.

I ignored it as I placed my hands on the rock next to me, bracing for the next hit. Victor squeezed my calf as he grabbed the edge of a slab and waited a second before pulling it out. My hands closed, crushing the rock into dust. My hands left an obvious path as they grabbed onto the rock harder as Victor moved onto my other knee. Lucky for me, there were only two pieces of rock in my knee.

Someone else came forward and wrapped my recently freed knee with a piece of cloth as Victor concentrated on my other leg. He studied my knee, trying to let me get over the pain.

I nodded at him, encouraging him to continue. Or at least trying to encourage him.

He apparently took the hint be because he moved into action. Victor moved quickly, pulling the pieces out of my knee in succession. My hands crushed the rock further as a new more painful wave hit me. My shoulders were squeezed a little tighter, a hand rubbing soothing circles on my back. My breathing slowly returned to normal as my body lulled into a sense of calmness. Victor moved over and let the other man wrap my other knee as well.

Finally satisfied that I was all bandaged he nodded to me. Or more accurately, to the person behind me. The hand on my back stopped moving and as one, everyone let go of me. I immediately missed the warmth. I mentally slapped myself for even thinking that.

The five men from earlier all stood in front of me, studying me. I pushed my dress back over my knees and moved to stand up.

"No!"

Several hands pushed me gently back onto the rock. I sighed, noticing that they weren't going to let me up, much less walk.

"Please, you were just hurt. You shouldn't be moving much," the man who bandaged my knees said. His voice was soothing, his face slightly concerned. I nodded, not bothering to fight him. Maybe if I just wait, they'll leave me.

"So what are we going to do now Richard?" The question came from the man who looked to be the youngest in the group. Despite the grim situation and the body they found earlier, his eyes still held some laughter. It then just hit me that he was the one who exclaimed his horror-surprise?-earlier.

The blue-eyed man, Richard, stared at me. I squirmed a little under his stare. I turned to look down river. It wasn't like I hadn't had other men stare at me like that before but there was just something about his stare that got my heart beating faster than what was normal for me and for heat to travel through my body.

"Not sure Garfield, but we obviously can't leave her here." Well that went that plan.

"Excuse me."

I turned back to the group of men in front of me. It was the red-head o the far left that spoke next as he looked on at me with a clouded look in his eyes and a slight cocky smile on his face. Immediately suspicion filled me at his smile. "Who exactly are you if you don't mind me asking?" Even his voice sounded cocky.

I raised an eyebrow and moved my hair out of my face.

"Raven."

"And what were you doing here in the forest all alone?"

I resisted the urge to glare at the man, and settled with a roll of my eyes.

"If I wanted you to know what I was doing here than I would have told you."

All the guys seemed surprised by my response. Apparently they, like every other guy that I met and saw my true personality, were surprised by my direct attitude.

"Sorry. But if we may know, what were you doing near that body?"

My body tensed slightly even though I knew that the question was eventually going to rear its head.

I cleared my throat, or was about to when someone else beat me to it. We all turned to the noise and for the first time ever I was actually happy to see Xavier. Okay maybe happy was the wrong word. More like….grateful. Ugh still a bad word.

Xavier looked from the group of men to me still sitting on the rock. His eyes scanned over my body, examining my torn dress, the worried looks on the men, and the bloody slabs not far from me. His mind worked out the situation in a matter of seconds, which surprised me to a new extent.

Xavier pushed through the men, his face turning to one of worry. He dropped down in front of me and grabbed my shoulders. "Dear, are you okay?" I wanted to slap him. His voice sounded too overboard. I nodded my head. Xavier looked down at my torn dress and the visible make shift bandages underneath. He knew as much as I did that my knees were already healed but there was no way that I could walk in front of these men.

"She fell from the cliff."

Xavier turned to look at Richard, who now had a frown on his face, his eyes slightly narrowed.

"What?" Xavier stood up and looked at me once more.

"She fell from the cliff. Her knees were pretty torn up. We were about to take her back to the town and see if they could do something for her."

His voice sounded more lethal. I wasn't the only one who noticed because the other guys gave him looks that ranged from surprise to astonishment.

Xavier nodded his head as he continued to look at me.

"That won't be necessary."

"Excuse me?"

Xavier smiled slightly as he reached down and surprised me by bringing me into his arms. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders in surprise, a little squeak escaping me. I could feel Xavier shaking lightly with the laughter even as his face remained as if nothing happened.

"That won't be necessary. I am grateful that you helped her, but I can take my wife myself."

Richard's glare became more pronounced. "Wife? I don't see a ring on either of you."

Xavier shifted me in his arms.

"Okay, not wife. At least not yet. She's my fiancé. As for her ring, she left it at her house when we decid-why am I bothering to tell you this."

Xavier gave them all a look before walking over without another word. Richard moved forward but was stopped as Victor placed a hand on his shoulder. Richard looked at him before turning back to us. I blinked and said something that I never thought I would say to any.

"Thank you."

Xavier's grip grew tighter, but he just continued to walk, not saying a word to me.

I leaned my head on his and listened to the conversation going on behind me.

"Are we really going to just let him take her? How can we be sure that she is his fiancé?" I frowned. Richard sounded even angrier.

"Well she didn't seem like she was fighting him so maybe he was," said the soothing voice.

Richard let out a deep breath and turned as Victor's voice called his name. "Hey. Look at this rock." There was a moment of silence. "This doesn't make sense. Isn't this the rock she was sitting on?" Another moment of silence. "Don't these tracks look like fingers?" Silence and then a heavy sigh.

"Look I think we should go. If we don't arrive back soon, they will think we skipped town."

"Don't you mean you skipped town Richard," said the cocky voice. There was a throng of laughter as the moment was turned to a cheerful one.

I sighed myself and knew that Xavier had heard the same thing that I had.

After several minutes of walking along the river, Xavier turned around. Richard and his group were nowhere in sight. Xavier jumped over the river and up onto the other cliff.

He walked into the forest and let the trees surround us before dropping me to the ground. I let out an undignified grunt as I picked myself and dusted off my dress. I turned to glare at my so called partner.

"Where were you?" Xavier scoffed and crossed his arms. "Don't start with me. If it wasn't for me, they would have definitely found out what we are."

"Yes, because you left me with the body," I said through clenched teeth.

Xavier shrugged and turned away. The next moment he was gone in a burst of speed.

I looked through the throng of trees, still able to slightly hear the laughter of the men.

Another sigh escaped me. I closed my eyes for a moment and then followed Xavier.

I could feel the make shift bandages loosening and then fall from my knees.

As I felt the warm material leave my knees, exposing them to the cold air traveling through the holes in my dress, one thing came to me. It had barely dawned on me that I had down quite a bit of falling today..


Well once more sorry for the delay. Please review of you want to and I hope it lived up to your expectations and you liked. I will not promise anything but I will TRY REALLY HARD to update within the next two weeks. Until next time.

~Fred