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Simon POV

I tossed around in my bed restlessly. Anyway I rolled sleep continued to avoid me. I closed my eyes and tried counting sheep. I made it all the way to one hundred and seventy before I gave up on that attempt to sleep. Well this
sucked big time. I had so many problems right now my brain was over thinking everything. Not the part about the S.S.V. That I would handle when the time came. I was fairly confident that I could sweet talk my way out of that problem. The thing that stuck out the most though and truly bugged me was that Emma was off spending the day with Nathan. I could just imagine him sweet talking her.

"OH Mary Ellen what a lovely girl you are. Forget about your sire and run away with me. We can have everything together Mary Ellen." She would be so smartened with him she wouldn't even bother to correct him on the name thing.

"Simon who?" She would ask and together they would laugh and then when one would think things couldn't get any worse he would lean over and run his disgusting vile hand up her thigh and into places I will not mention. Then
they would start kissing and I'm stopping right there or else as soon as they stepped into this apartment tonight Nathan would be a dead vampire. He hadn't done any of those things and unless I found out he did. Then I had no right to be angry. Even if he was currently hanging out with my girl at the moment.

Hell I hadn't even told her I wanted her to be with me in fact all I had done when she had been around was discourage any type of closeness. She probably thought I was batting for the other team if you know what I mean. Not
that there's anything wrong with that because in all truth vampires are very sexual creatures and if the mood hits it's hard to control. So most of us will do anything that walks, talks, Moo's or baa's. Well not me per say but I've heard a couple stories from a few of my vampire buddies.

In frustration I ripped the pillow from behind my head and threw it against the wall. Ha-ha take that society. Okay I was defiantly losing my grip on sanity. Any minute now the nice men with the tight white jackets would come
to take me away and lock me in a cell with padding. I needed to calm down maybe I could try yoga. It was something Emma had been trying to get me into. It helps a person relax she had said to which I had replied how could one relax
when they are bent up like a pretzel? She had flipped me the bird and continued with her yoga tape. Seemed like a quite logical question to me.

My alarm clock choose that minute to go off alerting me that I only had an hour left till the sunset. Well that saved me from having to do yoga. Instead I got up and took a quick shower. After that I went to warm up some blood from the fridge. Though it's not as good that way it works when there's no time to hunt. It's also very expensive when you have to buy it on the black market. So it's not like I make a habit out of drinking it. Not that I'm worried about money since Jack had donated a hefty sum to me when I was turned. I'm a millionaire now thanks to proper investing. Yeah I know I could be living in a mansion instead of a small apartment. But I had grown up when times were tough and you had to survive on very little. So thous I stuck close to my roots as I could.

The microwave wave beeped to let me know the blood was done. Just as I was taking it out the front door opened and I knew Emma and Nathan were here. I dropped the packet onto the floor and raced towards my Emma.

Before she could register my presence I flung myself around her and hugged her like my life depended on it. I had never been more relived in all my life to see someone. Happy she hadn't been hurt the night before. Nathan growled
low but didn't move to separate us. A wise decision on his part, I would have ripped his head off. I was so happy to have her home I missed Jack coming into the room. He cleared his throat loudly and waited until he was sure he had our attention.

"Great now that were all here and accounted for we can get down to saving our asses." I detected a note of annoyance in his voice. He was angry at Emma's childish display last night. I was not certain that he wouldn't demand I punish my unruly childe. Not that I would ever if it came down to a fight I know who's side I'd be on.

"Sorry I ran off Simon." Emma said ignoring Jack's glares. I wonder if she realized ignoring him would make matters worse. Jack had a temper like a rattle snake and could be as mean as one too. He hated disrespect more than anything in the world. Before Nathan or I could stop him he yanked Emma out of my embrace and threw her against the wall with the loudest thud. I think I even heard a few bones snap. He picked her back up and slammed her again.

"Simon, Nathan don't you move." He hissed using his sire bond thing to make me comply. I had thought for sure I had grown out of that whipped fledgling state. I guess I had been wrong and I was powerless to stop him.

You stupid girl. I'm your elder and I will not be ignored. It's your fault we're in this mess in the first place."

He let his fangs grow I had never seen him lose his cool this much. He was angry at being pulled into this mess. I think he was also scared that the S.S.V would kill him. He was not a foolish man after his last encounter with them. They had done something to alter him, because he was absolutely terrified. He was going to kill her right then and there.

I managed to break out of my shock my demon protested that I had ignored my sire's command, but it also demand that I make Jack pay for hurting something it cared about. Which was strange because I thought for sure that demons cared for nothing except pain. I grabbed Jack's arm before he could strike her again. I twisted until his arm was no longer attached to his body. He had dropped Emma and we were now in a fight to the death.

He would go for my throat and I would dodge out of his way, occasionally I would hit him over the head with his severed arm. I never had wanted to fight Jack this badly before. Then again he had never hurt someone I cared so much about. Unfortunately he was older and stronger and he had me pinned to the ground and was snapping his jaws towards my jugular. I knew it would all be over soon. He wouldn't be able to control his demon and he would kill me.

Emma screamed and threw herself on Jack's back. He shook her off and she landed in a heap on the coffee table. It broke into a million little pieces but the worse part was the wood sticking out of Emma's chest right near where her heart was. The smell of her blood distracted him and I was able to push Jack away and sunk down to Emma. A loud scream pierced the room I'm not sure from whom but when I pulled my eyes away from Emma's Nathan stood by himself holding a extra piece of my table next to him was a pile of ashes. He had killed Jack our only link to trying to stop the S.S.V. We were all in a
heap of trouble.

With much care I began to carefully remove the wood from Emma's chest. It was very close to her heart and one wrong move would kill her. She didn't scream or whimper as I worked to free her. She must have a really high pain tolerance or something. Finally after a long grueling half an hour I had all the wood out of her body. I bit into my wrist and held it to her mouth. Nothing happened at all, she didn't even move to bite me.

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