Heh.. If you've noticed M and Jez's chapter sections have been getting shorter, it's because I'm falling in love with Ash and Mary-Lynnette... hehehe.. You know you love him, too. Yes, this one gets an authors note... Why? I don't know. Ooh. Me and my friend are starting an amazing youtube channel.. AshAndBae Aha, I love it when you guys don't ask me to post a new chapter, your just like, POST A NEW CHAPTER! xoxo
"So we have to find a new safe house, put up better wards, and either keep someone there all the time, or Jez can't stay their alone, is that right?" Theirry said.
Morgead nodded. "I won't leave her their anymore. Unless Ian or M ore there, they're going to stay with us now."
"Why don't they get their own place?" he said. M stopped walking around in circles.
"That's an option?"she asked eagerly.
Thierry nodded. "We can get you a place near Jez and Morgead, though, so we have someone close. Like guards, but you get privacy."
"Awesome. Ian should be here soon..."
"Morgead, will you run up and get Ash and Mary-Lynnette? I have a feeling they want their own place, too."
"Can't M do it? I'm waiting for Jez."
"M will rip Ash's stupid fat head off when he slams the door on me." I said.
Morgead sighed and shot up the stairs. Delos walked down the opposite steps a minute later.
"Can me and Maggie have the room Ash has?" He asked Thierry.
"Sure?" he said, more like a question.
"Where's Hannah?" Thea asked, walking in from the kitchen.
"Um, I don't know." he said. He looked at me, "Help me."
I laughed. Blaise came in. "Hey Blaise, how come Hunter Redfern told me you were dead?"
"Um.. because when I left Circle Midnight, I had one of my friends tell everyone I died." she said slowly. "Thierry, where's Thea?"
"Kitchen." I told her. I looked sideways at Thierry. "Ever though of getting an assistant?" I joked.
"Yeah, but no one around here pays any attention. Unlike you. You seem to know everything that's happening around here." he said.
"Oh no. No, Thierry. I can't do that. It's too much." I said, pleading.
"Malina.. C'mon. It won't be too hard, and who else could?"
"Um, why not Keller? Or Galen? Or.. James. Or Poppy."
"Why not you?" he challenged.
"Why not her what?" Ian said, coming up behind me and wrapping his arms around me.
"Be my assistant." Thierry said, the same second that Ash and Morgead came down. Ash wasn't even awake. Mary-Lynnette was walking slowly behind him, though you could tell that she had been awake longer than him.
He slid onto the couch by Thierry. I leaned back against Ian. "Missed you." he whispered.
Mary-Lynnette sat next to him, and he put his arm around her. She looked at me, hard.
He's changed, he's not he person he was, you know. You don't have to hate him.
I stared at her in shock. She sat there next to him smiling at what Thierry was saying like nothing had happened. Ian listened, too, and when Thierry turned to us and told Ian.
I'm being serious. Close your mouth, too. Just be nice. You may not think it matters to him, but it does.
Everyone was talking, and I was the only one who heard her. Ash leaned over and kissed her. He whispered something and she laughed.
"Where's it gonna be?" Ian asked.
"Not sure yet." he said. Ian led me up the stairs to our room.
"Are you okay?" he kicked the door shut.
"Sorta. I'm... kinda regretting leaving my old life behind." I said quietly.
"Old life as in...?"
I sat on the floor and put my head on my knees. "It was insane. I didn't live by anyone's rules. I came and went. I didn't need anyone. No one told me who to like or how to do things. That seems like all it is here... you're the only reason I'm here."
"You're old life doesn't seem too bad... if you really don't like it here that much, we'll leave."
"Ian... you don't need to leave you life for me."
"You are my life."
"Ian... it's not just that. If I go back, I have to become what I was again. I don't know if I want to." I laid back on the bed and closed my eyes. "I was a huntress. I hunted down the top serial killers, all of Hunter's top... If I go back to that, I'll change, Ian. I'll go back to how I was. I'll be a killer again. Killing that dragon was fun, Ian. Killing isn't supposed to be fun for normal people. I'm not normal."
He was smiling. "I know you're not normal. You're mine. What's normal about loving a freak?" he said, leaning down and kissing me.
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"We're getting a house." I said, again.
"Yes, Mary-Lynnette. A house. Spazztastic." he grinned.
"Shut it." I said, smiling anyway. "You aren't funny."
"Your smiling." he countered, stepping in from of me and turned facing me.
"So? That doesn't mean it's funny. It means I'm happy." I went to push him back and he grabbed my wrists.
"It's funny and you know it." he said, holding my wrists at my waist.
"Not funny.. at all.. Stop doing that!" I complained. "I hate it when you make my head go all foggy like that." he leaned down and kissed me, grinning.
"But I cant kiss you in public unless I do that or you get mad at me.." he said, pouting.
"Mad spaz." I grinned.
"You stole my joke... told you it was funny." he leaned down and kissed me and let my wrist go, grabbing one of my hands.
"Yeah yeah yeah." I said softly.
"Are you okay?" he said, and stopped walking. Half a second later he was holding me.
It took a second to catch my breath, by the time I did we were in our room. "Um... what was that?" I asked, my breathing still fast.
"Threshold. Part of my job." he shrugged and set me on the bed, then laid next to me.
"Tomorrow, we're moving into our house.." He said slowly.
"Yes, and..?"
"We'll have much more privacy." he said, and it sounded like he regretted saying what he did. Instead, he leaned over and took my face in his hands. "You know, I think I might really like you, Mary." his lips were twitching slightly.
"I think I might just like you too." I tried not to smile. He grinned and leaned up and kissed me softly. "No, Ash. Seriously? You're leaving?"
"I'm sorry.. but there is this little thing I need, it's called oxygen. And I have to get it from blood, dear."
"Well, me becoming a vampire process seems to have been forgotten." his eyes lit up.
"I thought you didn't want to, that's why I didn't say anything." I rolled me eyes and kissed him slowly.
"Still think I don't want to?" I said after a minute.
"I didn't want to force you-" I kissed him again.
"Shut up." I giggled, the strangest thing popping into my head. "Ash, you're named after plants. Ash. Redfern." I giggled again.
"Damn, I had hoped you'd never put that together." he smiled anyway. His eyes locked on mine. "Are you sure you want to.."
"Ash.. I don't think I've ever been this sure of anything. I want to be a vampire." I flinched slightly at the word.
He studied my face for a minute. "I think it's best we just wait till tomorrow."
I saw the look on his face. "Fine. Bye." I said, sitting up, too fast. My head spun. Ash grabbed my shoulders before I fell forward.
"Are you okay?" he said, he voice edged with worry.
"Yeah... you ask that too much." I said, blinking. I have no clue what that was.
"I'm not going to leave the house. I will be back in ten minutes, okay?" he leaned down and kissed my cheek.
"Okay." I said, grabbing the remote. I flipped the television on. He gave me one last worried look before he left.
I sighed. I was 18. And moving into a house alone with a boy. Man. Old man. Vampire.
My soulmate.
It was completely against how I was raised.
I ground my teeth together. What did Ash have to do? I sighed and tried to concentrate on the t.v., but my eyes kept straying to the computer. I walked over and say down, my fingers hitting the keyboard as soon as the Internet was up.
Five missing reports, all suspected to be connected. I flinched. All together, there was one picture. Of all of us, taken with my camera. I hit the button for "Found."
I typed quickly, hoping Ash wouldn't see. All five missing persons went out on the girls' family's boat. It was reported seen hitting a large rock, but no people looked to be aboard, so coast guard wasn't called. It was in shark waters, and it was during a storm. I'm sorry for your loss.
I hit enter without re-reading it. I just told my mom and dad I was dead. There was no going back now. I heard Ash's footsteps on the stairs, so I erased the history and logged off. I darted to the back door and was on the deck before he came in.
"Hey." he said, putting his arms around my waist and his chin on my shoulder. I sighed softly.
"Hey." I could feel he was more relaxed, at ease more. "Thea?" I said quietly. He straightened up, pulling me against him. I laid my head against his chest, looking out at the desert.
"Yeah." he paused. "How'd you know?"
"Lucky guess." But it wasn't... I hadn't guessed it was Thea's blood in his veins, I knew.
"Mm." he didn't say anything else for a while. "I love you, Mary- Lynnette."
"I love you too." I bit my lip. "Ash... what's going to happen if no one can find the last Wild Power? Or if Hunter does first?"
He didn't say anything for a moment. "Mary-Lynnette.. if what you said is true when It all comes down to the end, me and you are going somewhere. The safest place left in the world. Just us, until things cool down." I could hear the edge in his voice.
"I have this weird feeling that it won't be just us.. But it won't be anyone we know. But it's someone we love."
"What do you mean?" he sat down in a chair, pulling me down with him.
"I don't know exactly." I bit my lip.
"Okay.."
"I'm scared." I whispered.
He kissed the top of my head. "I know. So am I."
We sat silently for a long time. A cold wind started, and I pulled my knees up to my chest and wrapped my arms around them. My feet were on Ash's knees. Normally that would of amused me. He put his arks over mine. I laid my head back. If I looked up, I pretty much would see his ear. I laughed a little.
"What?" he said, his voice sounding slightly happier, but sort of on edge.
"Nothing important." I closed my eyes. Ash kissed my head, just above my ear. For some reason, that made me want to laugh again. The word ear was bringing on hysteria.
"I'm not tired at all." he said. It sounded like it irritated him.
"How could you be.. we slept till noon and all we've done today is talk to Thierry and make out." We both laughed.
"You're supposed to sleep at night."
"Vampires, mythically, aren't."
He laughed once. "I know. So..."
"So what?"
"Wanna do what we did today, minus talking to Thierry?"
I laughed and sat up. I tried to ignore the slightly worried look on his face and kissed him.
