I don't own these characters; Disney owns most of them. I own Lee, but I don't own Carmilla.

4: Evoke

Kim had been out with Carmilla earlier in the day, sitting in the park and watching the lake. It was a soothing scene and put Kim at peace for most of the day. She did not even notice the way Carmilla had been leaning on her, mostly because Carmilla was always touching her in someway, so it was rather normal after spending so much time together. After leaving Carmilla's company due to Carmilla feeling a little weak and needing rest, Kim decided to check on her parents since the house was not too far from where Carmilla lived.

The vampire had not been pleased with the vibe she got from the house as she approached. A growl had escaped her lips as she went to the house, feeling in her bones something was seriously wrong. Because of that, she decided it would be best to sneak into the house rather than walk right in. Her nose picked what the problem was before she went in and her mind almost snapped, realizing that Lee was still alive and inside the kitchen with her parents. That bastard had better not touch my mother and father!

She managed to hang onto some piece of herself, knowing it would not bode well for her to forget herself in front of her parents. She slipped inside through a window, coming in as a mist. She once again had to hang on to the pieces of her shattering mind as she saw Lee brandishing a knife in the direction of the good doctors. A roar wanted to escape Kim's mouth as she remembered what Lee had done to the last human that she was close with, how he had come close to taking the most important person in her life from her.

Her fingers twitched, remembering the feel of his blood on her claws. She wanted nothing more than to drive her hand through his chest again, but she held off. She needed to be cautious to make sure that her parents were not injured because of her actions.

Lee's eyes flashed with cold fire as he laid eyes on the vampire. His grip on his sliver blade tightened and he seemed ready to just lunge at her, but something was preventing him from doing so. Something was seriously wrong and he knew that for a fact. He needed to find out, so there were no surprises for their battle.

"How do you walk in the day, beast?" Lee demanded, speaking directly to Kim. It was as if he totally forgot that her parents were standing right there.

"What do you think you're doing in here?" Kim countered, hands flexed, ready to claw Lee to shreds.

"Hunting you. I won't let you walk this globe, feeding off the living. Now, tell me, how the hell it is you walk around in the sun!" Lee demanded once again, his features twisting in a maddening rage.

"I don't owe you any explanations for anything! Now, what the hell are you doing here? Pointing that fucking thing at my parents?" Kim countered, an animalistic snarl tugging at her lips and her mind demanded that she do unspeakable things to this bastard that intruded on her parents and apparently meant to harm them to get to her.

"I don't know what sort of dark magic you're using to walk around in the sun now, but I won't let it go. I won't let you walk this globe as you please, taking lives, feeding off the living as if they were livestock," he declared in a malicious tone. He decided that how she was walking around in the light was irrelevant as long as he ended her right then and there. She would not be able to spread the secret to the other animals and make their plague even worse.

"I'm very much alive in my own right, so you don't have any say in how I walk the globe. Now, step away from my parents before I finish what you started," Kim commanded, a fang flashing as she spoke. Her nature began to boil over, angered by the gall of the pathetic half-breed that dared to threaten what was hers.

"These are not your parents. You forfeited them the night you lost your humanity," Lee informed her.

Kim growled, as that night was not a pleasant memory for her. Dying was not something that she wanted to recall and the fact that he spoke on it as if he was there, as if she chose to be killed and reborn, sickened her. He did not know her or what she went through and the way he pretended he did was just plain disgusting.

"Don't talk like you know a damn thing about anything. You don't know how I suffered. Now, step away from my parents," she ordered again. Her tense fingers twitched, itching to plunge right into Lee's chest.

"I'm not here for your former parents. I'm here for you, monster," Lee reminded the vampire. His ice blue eyes locked on her, frozen, telling her exactly who he wanted and what he wanted to do. But, she knew he had not below going after humans, even if he wanted to pretend otherwise.

"Kim, what does this man want?" Ann inquired, and she used the term "man" loosely because he was acting like a crazed animal in her opinion.

"Mom, Dad, leave right now. Lee's dangerous," Kim replied without taking her eyes off of him. She was not about to let him catch her parents the way that he caught Shego. After all, they could not take the damage like Shego had been able to.

"They're not going anywhere. It's you that needs to leave – this world," Lee declared as his nerves jumped underneath his skin, demanding the cursed blood of his enemy. He dared not move yet. An unknown force seemed to hold him back. Fear, maybe?

"Mom, Dad," Kim said again, her voice little more than a snarl now. She wanted them out of sight, so she would be able to tear Lee limb from limb for his audacity to enter her parents' home, hold them at knifepoint, and mean them any harm, all without having her parents witness what she was capable of.

"What is it, beast? You don't want them to see how you surrendered your humanity in return for an immortal's kiss?" Lee asked, sounding almost smug about it.

His words touched a whole new outrage in the vampire. He seemed to think that she wanted the change that she undergone, as if she had whored herself to Adrian for this curse. Is this what he does with other vampires? Does he just assume everyone welcomes becoming an undead creature of the night that fed on what they used to be? Does he think that justifies killing vampires no matter who they were? She knew for a fact there were vampires out there, like her, struggling with their desires, struggling with memories of turning, wishing they had not been in the wrong place at the wrong time. How dare he lump them in with the filth that thought they were superior to humans and it was all right to treat humans in any manner that struck their fancy!

"I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but I didn't ask for this and there are others out there who are the same, so don't act like you know anything about it!" Kim roared, a vein bulging from her neck from her anger toward him.

"You embrace it now. If you didn't, you would have finished yourself off a long time ago," Lee countered.

Kim's eyes narrowed thanks to his dubious logic. "Is that what you think? Something is seriously wrong with your head."

"Kimmie, what's he talking about?" Ann inquired.

"Just leave now, you guys. I'll explain it all later, I promise. But, right now, I need you to leave. This man is dangerous. He almost killed Shego not too long ago," Kim informed them, hoping that would get them to move now.

Those words seemed to get her parents' attention. They watched Lee as they started to slowly inch their way to the door. Lee did not seem to care about where they were going and kept his eyes locked on Kim. The doctors made it to the door, but they did not leave.

"Mom, Dad, I'll be fine! Just make sure you get to safety," Kim told them, knowing that they ceased moving out of concern for her.

"Kim, be careful," James said. He was not sure what else to say. He could see his daughter would not back down, and he doubted she could just run from Lee anyway. They had a score to settle and all Kim's parents could do was hope that Kim came out on top.

"We can't loose you again," Ann added.

Kim nodded. "You won't," she vowed and her parents finally exited the kitchen.

The vampire and dhampire did not move, though. They eyed each other, both looking like a predator that had cornered its prey. Kim's flexed hand twitched while Lee's knuckles turned white from his grip on his combat knife. Snarls tugged at lips and growls echoed off of the tiled walls.

"Now, tell me, how the hell are you walking around in the day light?" Lee questioned once again. Is it some vampire trick? Magic? Evolution? He could not figure it out, but he wanted to know in case he ran into again and he would be able to come up with a plan against it.

"You tell me what the hell were you doing holding my parents at knifepoint? I thought you only hunted vampires, yet you're in here endangering human lives that you pretend to care about yet again," Kim pointed out.

"Like you care. You're just going to end up eating them sooner or later," Lee stated, as if that was the only way things could end.

"Don't assume how my life is going to go. Now, this could go easy or hard. You could leave and do whatever it is you do with your life or I could end you right here like I wanted to do that first time we met," the redhead informed him. She knew and wanted him to go with that second option. She wanted his blood for what he did to Shego and the fact that he had terrorized her parents.

"I think we both know how this well end, beast. Now, tell me how you walk around in the day light," Lee ordered.

"Come and make me," she dared him, showing her fangs fully now. Having fought him once, she was more than confident in her ability to defeat him again, even though her first victory was driven more by instinct and rage than pure ability.

Lee decided to take her up on that, believing he would find out why she could walk around in the sun later. He marched over to her with determination in his step and a death-grip on his weapon. Kim's muscles tensed and she countered Lee as soon as he attacked.

The dhampire tried to plant his knife in Kim with force that would have brought down a lot of vampires, but he knew that Kim was another story. As he attempted to bring the blade in from below, Kim caught his arm. She snarled and crushed his forearm with her forceful grip. Lee barely noticed, as he did not even grunt from the power holding him.

The vampire-hunter wasted no time doing his own counter. He punched Kim with his free hand, knocking her right on the chin. She was thrown off balance, falling back thanks to his strength. Lee came in with his knife ready, planning to stab Kim in the heart with his silver blade and end yet another bloodsucker. Of course, Kim would never let things go so smoothly for him.

Kim hissed and dipped out of the way before Lee could get her. She turned into a kick, catching him in the ribs. He growled as pain coursed through his body. Damn her and her martial arts' ability, he thought. He was sure she had given herself up to a vampire just because he could not imagine one being crafty enough to bring her down when she was human.

-8-8-8-8-

"I still can't believe you don't know where Kim is. I mean, who just lets a vampire wander around knowing the people are hunting for her?" Ron griped as he followed Shego around Middleton.

"Look, I told you, she's an adult. She does what she wants. Do you know where your wife is twenty-four seven?" Shego countered with a deep growl. Her face was tense and tight to the point it look like her forehead might split open.

That one silenced Ron for the moment, but he had not been staying silent for long that day. Shego knew his annoying pattern of going back to her losing track of Kim came from the fact that he was worried about Kim, but Shego was sick of hearing about it. He made it seem like she misplaced car keys instead of accepting that Kim was a grown woman with a life of her own and allowed to go wherever the hell she wanted. She refused to become Kim's new prison. She promised freedom and that was what she was giving Kim, even if it meant that it would cost her the vampire down the line.

Ron was about to start up again seconds later, but he stopped himself for the first time. He reminded himself that Kim could take care of herself. She probably would not even need their help, he told himself. Kim could do anything, after all. He was sure adding her vampire powers to the mix meant that she could do more than anything.

"Come on, Kim doesn't have any favorite haunts or something?" the blond inquired impatiently.

"I could ask you the same thing," Shego countered with another deep growl, hoping that he would get the hint to stop talking.

"I'll tell you, in my years of spending all my time with Kim, I did learn a few things about where she hung out. What have you been doing with her all this time?"

Shego could not take it anymore. She did not care how worried he was for Kim. She screamed and turned around in a flash. She grabbed Ron by the collar and slammed him into a nearby building. Thankfully, they were on an empty street or someone would have called the police on her considering how violent her actions were.

"You haven't been through half as much as I have with her, so shut the fuck up about it!" Shego hollered. "Now, Princess has a life of her own! She doesn't need me breathing down her neck about shit after we spent all that fucking time being held prisoner and treated like fucking dogs! So, shut the fuck up already and let's just try to find her before that fucker Lee hurts her!"

Ron was surprised by Shego's outburst. It did not hold the same anger that he was used to from her. It was a near murderous rage that reminded him that he was not the only one hurting from Kim possibly being in danger. Hell, Shego might be hurting more than he was, he realized, since he knew that she and Kim saw each other as soul mates. He was well aware that Kim looked at Shego as her world, having a relationship deeper than marriage as far as the vampire was concerned.

Emerald eyes looked around, trying to figure out where to go next. Shit, Princess, where the fuck do you hang out with this bitch Carmilla? Shego asked herself, keeping it all in her mind… along with her panic and sense of dread. She turned away from the blond in her company and just scanned the streets, hoping for some sign of her lover.

"Kim just wanders around Middleton?" Ron asked, wanting to change the subject if only to calm them both down. "People don't recognize her or anything? I mean, you guys could get reported if she just wanders around, right?"

Shego was quiet for a second or two, but then took Ron's bait. "Well, usually, she only goes to her parents' house. She might stop by every few days to check on Wade, but that's about it. Thankfully, you live in Japan and Monique lives in the city, so we don't really have to worry about Kim being spotted there," she explained.

"I was hoping that Kim had cool psychic vampire powers or something," the blonde remarked with a forced laugh.

"No. She says she has a mild hypnotic gaze, but I haven't seen it work… on anything… ever," the former thief quipped. Watching Kim work that "hypnotic gaze" was a comical and sad sight, she thought.

"That's cool…" he muttered.

Shego shook her head. He certainly did not sound as enthused about the powers as she knew he could sound. She ran her hand through her hair and resisted the urge to tear it out. Where the hell is Kim?!

Both of their concerned thoughts were cut off as a cell phone began ringing. Shego turned to Ron because it was him. She did not have one anymore, after all. Ron went into the pockets of his baggy jeans and pulled out his phone. For a moment, he thought that it might be Yori checking up on him, but the caller ID let him know otherwise.

"It's Mr. P," Ron informed Shego before answering the phone. "Yo, Mr. P," he greeted the rocket scientist, trying to sound normal just in case the Possibles did not know that Kim was in trouble yet again. He did not want to worry them yet.

"I'm sorry to call you like this, Ronald, but you're the only one that we can actually get in touch with who can do something. Some man with a knife broke into our house, wanting Kim and then she showed up and they started fighting. We know you're far away and everything, but we were hoping you'd at least know how to get in touch with Shego," James explained in a frantic tone that Ron was definitely not used to hearing from any Possible.

"Shego's with me, Mr. P. We'll be there right away," Ron stated and he ended the call right there. "She's at her parents' house and she's fighting with Lee right now."

"Shit! Did he hurt her parents?" Shego demanded with a scowl as they changed direction and started running toward the Possible home.

"He didn't say anything about them being hurt, but he sounded shaken," Ron answered.

"If he hurts them, Kim will rip his head off no matter what cost," Shego muttered. She wondered if ripping his head off would be enough for him to stay dead since tearing into his chest only slowed him down for a little while from what she could tell.

The pair ran at their top speed to get the Possible home. Neither had time to be amazed that the other was keeping up. They just knew they had to move. They had to be there to help Kim, or stop Kim depending on what happened.

"Kim can take this guy, right? I mean, we're just running like this just in case, right?" Ron asked, even though the urgency in Shego's step answered that question.

"Kim can do anything, remember?" Shego countered.

Ron nodded, but did not feel very reassured. They picked up their pace, counting the seconds in their heads as to how long it was taking them. They prayed for Kim to hang on, a few more minutes, a few more seconds, just hang on. They would be there soon and they would be able to help.

They were quite pleased by the time they hit the Possibles' street, making it there in record time and hoping they were not too late. They bolted to the end of the block where the ranch-style home sat. Everything looked calm, except for the fact that the home owners were standing on the lawn, holding onto each other as if they were lost at sea and staring at the house as if it was land that was drifting away. Ron and Shego wasted no time going up to the frightened doctors.

"Is Kim inside?" Shego demanded.

"Shego," Ron reprimanded her. "You two all right?" he asked the doctors.

"We're fine and, yes, Kim is in the kitchen with a knife-wielding maniac. He wants to kill her," James reported in a breath, terror in his eyes. He hoped they were not about to lose their daughter again.

"Ron, stay here with them," Shego ordered and then she dashed off into the house.

"Doctors P, you're fine here, right?" Ron inquired.

The doctors nodded and that was all the blond ninja needed. He followed Shego into the house. Shego scanned the entrance carefully, not wanting to walk into a trap. The coast was clear. She marched into the kitchen with Ron right behind her. She gasped at the sight that greeted her.

The kitchen was in ruins. The table was broken in half, the countertop was cracked open, the cabinets knocked off of the walls, some of the windows were broken, and blood was everywhere. Kim was on the floor, hissing at Lee, who stood over her, loomed over her, demeaning her with his mere presence. She clutched a blade that was buried deep in her gut. It was a long, glinting, silver dagger.

Kim's eyes were flashed over with rage and her teeth completely elongated, on display for Lee as she growled at him like a threatened cat. There was blood covering her face, oozing from several different places, including her eyes. Her hands were flexed, even though they were planted on the tiled floor. Her chest was heaving as she drew in and released each breath.

Lee glared down at the wounded vampire with recognizable satisfaction in his cold eyes. He had a hand in his jacket, going for another weapon to finish Kim off with. The thought of it sent Shego into a blind rage.

"Get away from her!" Shego roared in a way that Kim certainly was proud of.

The green-skinned woman then released a plasma blast that she was not even aware she could do. The beam flowed from both hands like a vengeful swarm of locusts, colliding with Lee like a holy plague. The force burned him quite like the wrath of heaven, raining fire and brimstone. The hunter was blown back, away from Kim and through the side of the house.

Ron was slacked-jawed from the sight that he just witnessed. He was pretty sure Shego had just killed Lee from the sheer strength of her power. She did not seem to care and fell to Kim's side in an instant.

"Kimmie, Princess, please, tell me you're all right! You can't die on me, damn it! You better be all right!" Shego pled as she wrapped her arms around the redheaded immortal.

"It itches…" Kim moaned. Goddamn it, her stomach was itching! It was infuriating and she wanted to scratch a hole in her belly to make it stop.

Shego moved quickly to relieve her lover's suffering. She yanked the blade out of Kim's belly. The vampire hissed in relief and laughed a little when the twelve-inch dagger was out. Shego then embraced her love, just to assure herself that Kim was all right and not dying.

"Damn, silver itches like fuck now," Kim complained in a low voice.

"Not enough to kill you, though, right?" the former thief begged.

"No, it's not killing me, Shego. It just itched a lot," Kim promised.

"What about the rest of you? You look worse for wear," Ron commented as he shook himself out of his stupor. He kept his eye on Lee, but went over to Kim to make sure his best friend was all right.

"Ron? What're you doing here?" Kim asked as she turned her attention to the blond. Her eyes appeared a little tired, losing the anger she had directed at Lee as she took in the sight of her best friend.

"I was worried about you. That… thing came around my place a few days asking about you. I tried to get in touch with you, but first I had to figure out how and then to find out you guys don't answer any damn thing," Ron huffed.

"You're something else now, aren't you, Ron?" Kim commented with a forced half-smile. She was giving her friend a compliment, the way he tracked them down and broke through their defenses. Ron was definitely a force to be reckoned with.

"I'm more capable than the boy that let you down," the ninja replied, a dejected look washing over his warm brown eyes.

"You didn't let me down, Ron," Kim said with an encouraging smile. He definitely did not let her down with the way his life turned out.

Shego growled without realizing it. She was not interested in watching the best friends share a moment. She cleared her throat to cover up the growl.

"Okay, look, you two can hug and kiss later on. Right now, we have one fucked up vampire hunter laid out and a vampire that needs to get the fuck out of here before he wakes up," Shego pointed out.

"Wakes up? He can't get up from that," Ron pointed out while motioning to the body laid out partially outside of the house. Lee's body was actually smoking thanks to Shego's assault.

"You'd be surprised," Shego said grimly. She remembered when she thought that Kim had killed the bastard. The way that Kim had put her hand in his chest as if it was nothing, all for Shego. It seemed like a lifetime ago. Back when Shego was secure with her place in her universe.

It did not take long for them to find that Shego was very much correct. Ron's jaw practically hit the floor as Lee's body started to move and it was quite clear that he was about to get up. How the hell can he still be alive after Shego laid the smack down on him?!

"You know, I gotta admit, he still makes good goof-ball faces," Shego remarked, speaking about Ron while helping Kim to her feet.

"This isn't the time to be teasing him," the vampire scolded her lover. She then bit back a wince as she climbed to her feet.

"Ron, hold him off while I get Kim out of here," Shego said.

"Not a problem," Ron replied as he went into his pocket. He pulled out what appeared to be a Swiss army knife. It was Shego's turn to face-fault, chin on the floor in disbelief.

"Are you going to uncork a bottle of wine for him in case he's thirsty while he's busy killing Kimmie?" Shego inquired with a craned eyebrow.

"Don't doubt the Ron," the blond quipped as his Swiss army knife transformed into a katana right in his hand. "The Lotus Blade – lightweight, portable, fits right in your pocket."

Shego rolled her eyes. "Come on, Kimmie," she gently urged her love.

"Come on? I want that bastard to stand back up while I'm here, so I can fucking rip his heart out again!" the vampire roared, letting her anger take control again since Lee seemed ready for another round.

"Again? Did you do that before or after he had a fucking knife planted in your fucking stomach?" the raven-haired woman commented.

Kim actually growled at Shego. The noise was met with a hard glare. Ron glanced over at the immobile pair and then turned his attention back to Lee, who was, indeed, getting the hell up.

"Could you two have your little pissing contest later? Get her out of here already, Shego!" Ron commanded. He could not stand the thought of something happening to Kim while he was there, not again.

Shego moved to obey that order as if she was Ron's subordinate, without a snotty word or outraged look. Kim continued to protest, but she was in no real condition to fight Shego off. Lee stood as soon as Shego was able to get Kim out of the kitchen. Lee was about to make a beeline after them, but two steps into his charge, he was blocked. A furious ninja stood between him and his prey; a ninja with a shape-shifting katana and raging blue mystic aura.

"You want Kim, then you have to go through me," Ron declared with steel in his voice.

Lee snarled, showing off the fact that he had a rather impressive set of fangs of his own. Ron was not moved by the teeth, or by the fact that red seemed to be pouring into Lee's eyes from his fury. The blond squared his shoulders and met Lee's eyes with a determined glint shining in his own chocolate orbs. He silently dared Lee to try to go through him. The dhampire did not back down, reaching into his jacket for his own weapon.

The sword that Lee pulled out would have gotten admiration from Ron at any other time. Lee removed a Roman-style thrusting sword from his coat – a Gladius. The thick silver blade shined and Ron caught sight of inscriptions trailing up and down the weapon, but he could not tell what language the inscriptions were. Lee put the sword to his lips and whispered to the blade. The inscriptions began to shine a brilliant sky blue and then Lee aimed the sword at Ron.

"I don't make it a habit to kill humans, but when you side with my enemy, you become my enemy," Lee informed the ninja.

"I don't make it a habit to kill at all, but when you go after my best friend, you definitely become someone I need to stop at any cost," Ron replied. He also figured that if he could keep Lee talking, he could buy Kim some time to get away.

"So be it. You forfeit your right to live since you want to take the side of a vampire," Lee stated and then there was no more talk.

Ron was surprised by the way that Lee came at him, full force, attempting to cut him down with a single blow. Ron narrowly dodged as Lee tried to chop his arm off with his thick sword. Ron had to block the thrusting sword with his own blade as Lee came in for another attack.

"It won't be that easy," Ron proclaimed as he forced Lee back and went into his own attack.

Lee quickly went into his own defensive moves since Ron was graceful and relentless in coming at the vampire-hunter. Ron attacked steadily with his sword and then dropped suddenly, sweeping Lee's feet out from underneath him. Lee fell and Ron stood over him with a glowing hand bathed in cerulean light aimed at the dhampir. Ron did not waste time with witty banter and let loose an energy blast against the bastard that desired to take Kim from him under the guise of being righteous.

Lee watched as a potent energy beam came toward him for the second time that in less than fifteen minutes. The scowl on Ron's face and the gleam in those brown eyes told Lee everything that he needed to know about the power coming at him. It was intended to hurt, maim, and possibly incapacitate. This foolish ninja is beyond serious about protecting that damned vampire, Lee silently noted.

"Is she your lover? Is that why you fight for a monster? Or maybe you want a taste of immortality as well. You want to be damned with her? You wish to be damned with your wretched lover?" Lee pressed.

Ron scoffed. "I love her. She's my best friend. I get the feeling you don't know a damn thing about it."

"She's a monster. Your best friend is dead."

"She's alive and I won't let her down again!"

Ron felt like he would be damned for all time if he let Kim down again. The power that exploded from his palm would make sure that Lee would not get to harm Kim any more than he had already done. Ron was sure of that.

"I'm never going to lose Kim again! Especially not to you," Ron vowed. "Bye," he muttered as he thought his blow was landed, crossing the short distance between him and the hunter.

Lee growled and he surprised Ron by batting the mystic force away with his sword. Ron was stunned for the moment, having never seen anyone slap his energy away when it was at such a level. He was knocked out of his stupor as Lee leaped to his feet and swung his weapon. Ron jumped back just in time to avoid losing his intestines.

"This guy's just a little better than I thought and a lot tougher than I thought," Ron mumbled. "But, I guess I should expect as much from a guy that hunts vampires for a living."

It did not matter how tough Lee was, though. Ron would stand his ground. He was not going to let Lee get the better of him and he would give Kim some time to get away. He would not fail her again. He was not going to let some monster kill her… again. He was more ready to die than to let Lee out of the kitchen.

"I will have the beast's head," Lee informed Ron with a growl.

"As long as I stand, you're not having anything, but some of this," Ron declared and he jumped at Lee.

The men clashed weapons and growled in each other's faces as they got close enough for their noses to touch. They pushed each other back before coming in again to exchange blows. They refused to give up ground to each other.

"Anything for Kim," Ron chanted under his breath. He would do anything for Kim.

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Next time: the conclusion. Who lives, who dies, and who kills?