"You know... historically safe houses haven't been all that safe in my experience with you lot," she said as they turned down another street.

David glanced over at her, "You have a better idea?"

After a moment of thought she turned to look at him, smiling a little, "I do actually. We need clean clothes and a car right? I know a place that won't be on whatever coven maps you have."

Arching a brow he watched her pause for a moment to take in their surroundings, howling in the distance alerting them to the fact that the Lycan's were still after them. They didn't have much of a head start at this point and it was a little disturbing that they had been found shortly after he'd made contact with her. Not many knew he'd been coming out here and while it was plausible that he'd been spotted in passing he didn't believe in coincidence.

Eve changed their direction and took the lead as she kept to the side streets, neither of them looked like they should be walking if one were to judge by the blood on their clothes. Their injuries were healed of course but their clothes didn't regenerate the same, giving them a bloody mess look that would draw attention from passing humans.

"Where are you taking us, Eve?"

She glanced over at him and grinned a little, "You don't much care for not being in charge do you?"

David frowned at her and merely shook his head. He couldn't argue with her, he was used to being in charge now but he trusted her with his life. He'd never question her motives, Eve's mind didn't work that way despite everything she'd been through. If nothing else her time in the lab had never developed a scheming sort of mindset. She'd planned her escape purely out of the need to survive but hadn't needed to think about such things. In some ways he was jealous of her, she had been removed from the world enough she didn't react the same way as everyone else. She wasn't looking for plots or malicious designs where he had to watch his back at every turn.

Turning down an ally Eve paused beneath a fire escape ladder that hung about three feet above them, "Race you to the top." And before he could question her she jumped straight up with barely a bent knee. David shook his head as he tipped his head back to see she'd grabbed the fire escape two floors up and was grinning down at him. "What are you waiting for your highness?"

He rolled his eyes at her but couldn't stop the grin that curved his full lips before he jumped, Eve already on the next floor of the tall building they'd taken shelter from. David pulled himself up and jumped a few floors higher. Eve was grinning ear to ear, enjoying the moment as they focused on getting to the top of the building. When he landed beside her a mere second behind her David outright laughed, "You win."

Dusting herself off Eve looked at him for a moment, amusement in her human blue eyes. She was beautiful, the night illuminated by the moon and cast a pale light over her features. This high up the city lights didn't discolor her rosy cheeks as she moved to the opposite side of the building to stop at the edge and look out quietly.

"I'll have to think of a just prize for you."

"Prize?" She looked at him in surprise, unclear on what he meant.

David marveled at her innocence for a moment. She'd just torn apart Lycans and yet she didn't know that when someone won something they usually got a prize. "You won, you earned a prize. I'm just not sure what would be worthy."

Eve looked at him for a long moment in quiet thought before shaking her head, "The prize is... winning is it not? The thrill of the moment?"

With a smile David nodded his head, "That's a good way to look at it. Most people expect some form of prize or reward for winning things these days, it's motivation for some."

"Ah, well I don't have many expectations in general. It was fun, I enjoyed it, that's enough."

To think of things in such simple terms, David had to admire Eve for that. She had very little of the learned attitudes about life, she saw things her own way and didn't bother with a lot of things it would seem. Shaking himself from his thoughts David smiled at her, "I'll think of something. In the meantime, where are we going?"

Eve pointed to a shorter building across from them, "Humans call it... a department store, yes that is what I've heard. I attempted to go once during it's business hours and it was madness, I left with out purchasing anything. But it is closed now and we can find the clothing we need there. Behind it humans park their vehicles and we can take one of those."

Arching a brow at her David smiled, "You never cease to amaze me, Eve. Let's find clean clothes and then see about that car, we should find a place to lay low before setting out for the coven. By now they'll know something is wrong, I should contact someone to let them know we're ok."

"Let's get changed, we smell like blood and I'm sure the Lycans are still looking for us. Contacting the coven can be done on the fly."

The comment caught him off guard, the slang wasn't something he was used to hearing from her. With shake of his head David turned his attention to the building across from them, judged the gap to the roof and took a step back before launching himself into open air for a moment.

They landed almost in unison which only made him grin a little, already he was more than happy with his decision to bring Eve into the fold as it were. He might have other motives driving him as well but as she kept pace with him he had to admit he was seeing more possibilities the longer they were together.

**Apologies for it taking so long and then for this to be a little on the shorter side. But I'm working on the follow up, trying to come up with something good for them.**