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Jacqueline slowly added the human blood she had carefully broken down into the mix of her own blood and Brooklyn's. She held her breath and watched as the blood mingled.

It did nothing.

That was good sign.

She pushed back her chair and held in a cheer. It was the first time in the half year that she had been turned and started on a cure that she even had a break through. She cocked her head at Mike who was asleep on the couch.

She turned back to the sample and saw that the cells had merged were still alive. It was time. She added the new cells to a mix of sodium chloride. She then bit her lip as she injected the mixture into the vein that showed through the small patch of skin that had been shaved clean of fur in the crock of her arm.

Jacqueline placed the needle down, rubbed her arm and sat back to wait.

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After two more injections there was no change in shape of body but a change of blood cell. It wasn't much but it was there. Also in that time she had had several visits from Brooklyn. After the first visit he had come by two more times alone, but the following times he had been accompanied by the other two, Broadway and Lexington.

At first Mike had been wary, he had known Jacqueline, but these were actual blood creatures that had only been a myth. But after a few awkward hours all were talking and hanging around like they had been friends for years. Or at least Mike and Broadway were.

Brooklyn was hanging around Jacqueline and Lexington was having a field day over the computers that she had taken from Gen-Tec labs.

"Do you ever get out and just take a break?"

Jacqueline turned from reading a leaflet of past footnotes. Her tired eyes met Brooklyn's black ones. "When you three visit then that's a break."

Brooklyn shook his head. "No, I mean get out and fly, see the city. Get fresh air."

"I've seen the city-"

He heaved a large sigh then a mischievous look crossed his face. Brooklyn grabbed the leaflet and laid it on the table. He grabbed her paws and pulled her to the window. "Come on."

Jacqueline looked over to Mike and was surprised to see him hiding a smile. "Go on. I know you never had gotten out very much before. Have some fun."

She opened her open to possibly tell him that she needed to work that she had no time for 'childish party antics' when Mike shook his head. "Jacqueline, you act like you are in your fifties. Go. Guys," he turned to the gargoyles, "I fully give you permission to kidnap

her tonight."

"You little worm-"

"Jacqueline! You're driving me nuts! Plus," he looked at his watch, " I have a-a date tonight and…."

Jacqueline stopped struggling and sighed, "And you need me out of the way."

"It's not like that!"

"No, but I get it." She opened the window and dived out of it.

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She had taken off full speed. Out of the way. Even when she was human and a child it was always 'get out of the way'. She gritted her teeth and slowed down, pusheing her self-pitying away. She glanced over at Brooklyn who had pulled up beside her, Lexington and Broadway not far behind.

"Jacqueline…he's young. Of course he wants a date…" Brooklyn began.

"Shut up!" she snarled. "If you are insinuating that I am jealous or what then forget it. It's just that ever since I was turned I have become even more invisible. I was just rising with a name for myself when Sevarius changed me. Though I shouldn't be complaining, the others still had a full life ahead of them…"

Lex pulled up then, "There is nothing wrong with feeling like this. You are still human, though in different form. We have had this feeling as well. In fact Brooklyn still cries about it.""I do not cry!"

"Oh yeah," Broadway piped in, " 'Oh, there is no one for me!' or 'Why do they keep running away?' sound about right?"

Jacqueline hid a giggle as Brooklyn let of a roar and chased after his brothers possibly to bat them from the sky. She continued to fly on. They were right. Why sulk around? She could still work on the cure, find Sevarius to get her revenge…but in the mean time, she was 'dead' to her family, the ones she had strived hard to make happy and impress, so why not have some well earned fun?

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"So what do you three usually do?" she asked after Brooklyn delivered some thumps to the other two.

"Well after we do our rounds we usually go and see a movie or…."

"We could eat!" Broadway said as they passed over some restaurants.

But all ears pricked up when there was a thundering rise of music.

"Or we could go to a concert!" Brooklyn yelled over the loud music.

It was decided.

Jacqueline gritted her teeth and followed the three males down to the roof of the Stadium of Manhattan. They open the door to the indoor stadium and walked on the pathway of the lightings. She looked down at the mass of humans and then back up at the other three.

She allowed a smile to cross her face. It looked so odd! Looking at the humans, at what she used to be, then at the gargoyles. It was a gut wrenching difference, yet they weren't so different. They had an order, laws, and family. The only difference was their looks and that they turned to stone.

She was quite overwhelmed by the loud blasting music at first. How could anyone stand listening to this kind of music and scream their lungs out without fearing that they would lose their hearing and their voices? She dropped to her fours and looked down at the crowd. She watched with a scientist's interest and was both amused and repulsed by the crazy antics of the people. Her long tail twitched back and forth as she watched both the humans and the three gargoyles.

Now she stared at Brooklyn and the other gargoyles. They seemed to enjoy the music as much as the screaming people down there. They were so human like it wasn't funny. Who would've thought that creatures like them would act just like young human adults.

Brooklyn walked over to where Jacqueline was crouched. She saw him and stood up.

"You know in all my life I had never been to a concert? And sneaking in like this…well, its just thrilling!" she got out. It was true. She had come from a high class family. New England blue-bloods. Prim and proper that's how she was raised to be. Go to finishing school then find a blue-blood man and get married. But she had been different. She had went on to collage and became a veterinarian much to the disgust of her family.

"Here let's dance?" Brooklyn put a slight plea into his voice. The band had moved on to a slower song and a lot of the humans below them had broken up into pairs and were dancing to the music.

"I would but can't."

He dropped his hand disappointed. "You don't know how?"

Jacqueline let out a laugh, " Are you kidding? I grew up in high society, of course I know how to dance, but…it's my wings. It'll be kind to hard to…dance with them."

Brooklyn looked over her shoulder to her rather large black and gray spotted wings. "You never learned to control them?"

"They serve the propose of flying me to were I need to go. Other then that they are a nuisance." Jacqueline spread them slightly then folded them back against her back with their natural arch over her shoulders.

"Here," he reached over and took a hold of the two long thumbs and gently brought then down over her shoulders and the claws instinctively clasped together. Her wings were now resting on her shoulders, the thumbs clasped together and her wings hung down like a cape.

"Thank you." Jacqueline said softly. Brooklyn still had his hand on her wing claws. The slow song was still playing so Jacqueline brought her hands up, her blue eyes never leaving his black ones and took his hands. Slowly they moved into the dance. It was short but it was enough for Jacqueline. It broke her stiffness, her aloofness. She relaxed and smiled genuinely for the first time in a long time.

The song ended and both became aware of the other two gargoyles staring at them.

"What?" Brooklyn asked as he and Jacqueline stepped back.

"Nothing." Broadway said though he and Lexington were both still grinning.

"Let's move on. I want to go flying." Jacqueline spoke up already moving along the pathway of the lightings and out the indoor stadium. She paused and then took to the air and turned and hovered. She smiled as the other three came out. She then took off as the others followed.

They spent the next few hours playing air tag and other aerial games. Finally they headed back to Mike's apartment. After quick good-byes Jacqueline flew into the large open window unaware of the yellow eye that watched her from across the building.