Darius drove Kallie in silence. She kept her head trained on the outside. He could practically feel her unease. He only hoped that it would soon disappear. Kallie had asked once where they were going but only got a 'you'll see' as a reply.

The drive only took a half hour. Through some think woods and kind of never getting out of them. If it wasn't for the huge building and car park they entered, Kallie would have asked herself if this was a kidnapping.

Kallie sat in her seat staring at her surroundings, when again her door was opened for her.

"I do know how to use a door handle, you know?" Kallie said staring at the outstretched hand.

"Yes but I prefer it this way." Darius smiled at her.

Kallie felt like blushing, but pushed it away. She still didn't know where she stood in this life, let alone her need to over look things. He was probably just old and preferred stuff that was similar to his time.

Kallie ignored his hand and stood up. She was met with a helping hand at her back. Kallie flinched at the unexpected contact.

"Sorry." Darius mumbled, removing his hand. He closed the door and led the way towards the building. A few metres from the door Kallie stopped. Darius nearly groaned.

"What's wrong?" He asked turning to face her.

"I know that smell." Well that was one surprise ruined. "What are we doing here? Why is it in the middle of know where?" Or not.

Darius smiled. "You'll see, or not." With that he turned and left her to follow. Normally he would wait for a lady, but he was beginning to doubt she would like that.

"I can't, you know?" Kallie replied, hurrying up behind him.

Darius stayed quite as he entered the building. He paid at the register and followed the signs.

"Are you trying to tease me or something?" Kallie asked. Darius walked through some sliding doors and was greeted with a heat wave. He heard Kallie groan behind him. "I can feel it." She mumbled more to herself.

Darius headed towards the change rooms. He stopped out the front where he would have to leave Kallie for a little while. He pulled something out of the bag and handed to her. "Get changed and then I'll explain."

"No you'll explain right now or I'm not coming out of there and I don't think you'll come in and get me for once." Kallie glared at him.

"Fine." Darius shoved the clothes back in the bag before heading towards the centre of the giant room, stopping just before the floor gave way to a normal, 25 metre sized pool. "What do you see?" He asked Kallie.

"Something I can't do." She retorted.

"No, watch the professionals. Look at the fast lane."

Kallie did as he asked, looking towards the third lane in the pool. She watched as a guy tumbled at the end and pushed off. He started sprinting to the other end. Kallie watched the second clock from the corner of her eye. She was sure he was going faster than possible but had to be sure. She gasp when he hit the other end in 7 seconds flat before tumbling and starting again.

She looked to the medium lane where another girl had left the wall seconds ago. Again Kallie watched the clock. 14 seconds. The speed of a top swimmer, sitting in the medium lane. "They'll be seen." She whispered.

"Did you see any houses as we drove here?" Darius questioned. Kallie's shock was written all over her face as it sunk in.

"You mean only vampi… sorry, immortals know of this place?" Kallie starting taking in her surroundings a bit better.

"Yep."

She turned on him, glaring. The smile on Darius' face quickly vanished.

"What's wrong? I thought you would be pleased." He asked wearily.

"You couldn't have told me this days ago." She nearly yelled but remembered she was in a public place, kind of.

"It hasn't been days…"

"No, but it seems like it. This could have saved you a lot of trouble if you told me within minutes of me waking up. Here I was thinking that's what you wanted." She was hissing at him, trying to keep her voice down.

"Well I didn't know what was wrong with you minutes after you woke up." Kallie hissed again and Darius hurried on, "But I only found out late yesterday when my mother told me." He gave her an apologetic look. "Would it have made that much difference?"

"We'll soon find out." With that she pushed past him back the way they came in. Darius followed her with a frown on his face to the front counter.

"Hi, do you teach here by any chance?" Kallie smiled politely to the women behind the counter, hiding any previous anger.

The women gave Kallie a strange look before answering. "Of course we do." Her face softened with realization. "Ahh you're new."

"Yes." Kellie smiled again. She didn't really like that term 'new'.

"Would you like lesions on how to control your speed, to gain more speed or just to learn how to swim?" The women asked while searching for something below the counter. Maybe a pamphlet.

"Well I guess I'll need the first one, but I was actually wondering if you needed any teachers by an off chance?" Kallie tried peering over the counter, trying to address the women better.

A soft thud was heard as the women hit her head on the top of the counter. "What?" She asked as she showed her face again. She looked slightly surprised.

"Umm, I'm looking for a job." Kallie tried again. She had lost all her anger from before and was starting to feel subconscious.

"Oh, okay. Yes, yes. We can, umm, hang on." The lady rushed from the counter through a side door. She emerged from around a corner and hurried into what looked like an office. She came back smiling and another man following her.

The women smiled at Kallie and said, "This is the manager for the learn to swim program, Garry."

"Nice to meet you." Garry held out his hand.

Kallie smiled back. "Kallie." She answered.

"Am I'm Darius." He said from her side. She had forgotten all about him, for a minute. She nearly sighed, but her mind quickly caught up with the fact that he was staring at Garry. Starring like he was about to tackle him.

Garry laughed. "Well shall we?" He asked before turning at leading the way back into the office.

He gestured to the seats in front of the desk before taking his seat behind it. The office was small was well kept. Filling cabinets on one side and only a computer sitting on the desk. The wall behind him held a window that showed a 50 metre pool surrounded by grass. It also looked cold, as a gust of wind blew over the water, making ripples.

"You'll have to excuse Shellie. She gets excited to see new people, especially one so young. You know she was one of the first to agree to the leisure centre idea. Then she dragged my... ahh... wife into it as well. Now I let the girls have all the fun while I run this place." He laughed again. His eyes kept darting to Darius and Kallie was sure she had seen Darius shake his head slightly when Garry had brought up his wife. Where the two men hiding something.

"My wife, Michelle will be running a class in ten minutes. Our way of interviewing people is to get them in the pool and see how they teach. I you like you are welcome to join her." Kallie forgot all her worries at that.

"Really." She beamed.

Garry laughed again. "Of course, that is if you're ready. As you might, or might not know, not a lot of kids come through these doors. We're lucky if we can make one class a week of students. That also leaves the class levels quite minimal. There are only five levels and the squad for all ages. Then there are the adult classes for those who have never tried swimming and classes for new ones like yourself, which you will be able to get free of charge if you feel ready for the work."

Kallie was nearly bouncing in her seat. She couldn't wait to get in the water. "Why wouldn't I be ready?"

Garry's eyes darted to Darius'again before speaking. "Some think it's too soon and like to adjust to life before getting back out there."

"Nope. I'm good."

Garry laughed again. "Well if you'd like to get changed then I can tell Michelle you'll be joining here, and she meet you in lane one."

Kallie squealed and jumped out of her seat. She stood in front of Darius holding out her hands. She opened and closed them, asking for something. It Darius a while to realise that she was in front of him and wanted something. He'd been so looked on to how Garry was seeing Kallie that he nearly forgot a conversation was going on.

"Darius." Kallie moaned childishly.

God he loved that sound. So much better than her fighting him. "Hmm?" He asked, lost in his thoughts.

"I can't go in the pool until you give me my bathers." She whined again, bouncing on the balls of her feet. Darius smiled at her. Garry laughed again and he felt that unusual feeling rise up in him again.

He handed Kallie her bathers out of the bag as he slowly realised it was jealously he was feeling. Why? Garry hadn't even done anything close to, well, anything with Kallie. Yet Garry was the first guy besides himself that she had talked to since waking up.

Darius sighed.

"You havn't told her much have you?" Garry questioned.

"She won't let me. I'm hoping this will help." Darius remembered Kallie resistance to him before now. Even ignoring the part about the sun.

"Ouch." Garry said. Darius turned to see him watching him with an apologetic face. He had obviously read his mind. "It'll get better when she learns to trust you."

"If she ever trusts me." Darius mumbled. It had seemed so unlikely until today.

"She's your life mate isn't she? Soon you'll be the only one she does trust. And when that time does come I suggest you don't let her down."

Darius frowned at the man. "What's that suppose to mean?"

"It could be as simple as sex or it could be something more. I nearly lost Michelle. Don't you do the same."