Chapter 8, this is going by fast and I hope you like.

"So, there are like Shadow men still after you guys?" Julie asked, crossing her ankles in the air. After her confession everyone started to kind of disperse and leave, not in the exact mood to talk at the moment, leaving Jenny and Julie alone with the left over pizza and pizza boxes. Jenny picked up another greasy plate and nodded to her new friend who was currently sitting upside down on her couch and twisting her ankles over and over in mid air.

"That sucks." Julie commented, looking up at Jenny. "What are we going to do?"

Jenny shrugged. "I don't know; wait until one of them attacks or until we figure out what they want from us."

Julie sighed and rolled over to now she was facing somewhat right side up, her elbows were on the floor but her legs were still in the air, black boots dangling dangerously close to the pale painted walls. "That's a sucky plan."

Jenny rolled her eyes and flopped onto the couch next to Julie. "Well what else can we do?"

"Investigate?" Julie said with a playful grin. "Why exactly would they want you guys now? Why not annoy you back in the past few months you've been back?"

Julie does have a point, Jenny thought, though it seemed extremely odd that now the shadow men had decided to come for her and her friends, what had they been waiting for.

"Unless," Julie said turning to stare at Jenny with a slightly serious gaze. "They aren't doing anything."

Jenny's eye brows rose. "What do you mean?"

"Well," Julie twisted and stood strait in front of Jenny, her eyes wide with the instant idea that had crept into her mischievous little mind. "Why would the shadow men want you now? Why couldn't they just have taken you in the past, maybe they weren't waiting, but someone else couldn't get your attention until now."

"You mean…" Jenny's voice trailed off and shut her eyes, hoping what her friend was implying wasn't true.

"That maybe I wasn't the only one waiting to find you guys again." Julie said seriously. "He might have somehow gotten his name carved back into the rune stave. And if he did, what's to stop him from coming back?"

"But why would he come back?" Jenny demanded, a bit annoyed about Julie's constant questions.

"Maybe there's something that's changed." Julie countered, "Something that may give him hope that he can win, this time and that you and him can be together."

"You think that?" Jenny couldn't even say it, why was Julie implying that she may have feeling for Julia, sure she had been upset when he disappeared but she had Tom now, and all of her friends she was perfectly happy now.

"I'm not saying that you don't love Tom." Julie defended. "But, I've seen something changed between you, I don't know what but it's there and I can defiantly tell it's there. And maybe Julian has seen it too."

"You're crazy." Jenny said bitterly. "And very devious, it's like you can see inside his head."

Julie shrugged and sat down next to Jenny, placing an arm around her shoulders. "Like I said, I did my research, and it isn't like he wouldn't try would he?"

"He might start a new game." Jenny whispered.

Julie nodded stiffly "You never know."

"So now what do we do Sherlock?" Jenny asked, leaning her head to look at the younger girl.

"That's elementary, Watson." Julie said with a grin. "We know exactly what Julian is going to do, but now we must prepare."

The two girls chuckled softly and started writing down everything that they would need to prepare for another one of Julian's games, while outside, someone watched them carefully a smile on his cruel sadistic face.

"You know what you're going to do now, don't you." The small Shadow man to his right asked curiously, his eyes were completely black and his feet hands were clawed and sharpened to fine point on each tip.

"Of course," Replied the shadow man, narrowing his eyes to get a better look at his prey. "I always do."

"Should we do it now?" The small man asked, more animal then man as he crouched down begging for a chance to catch the girl.

"Patience," The younger shadow man commanded, holding out his hand in a gesture to tell the creature to wait. "We're going to need some help first."

"What will we need?" The crouched creature asked. "Will we need more of us? Or will this be your hunt?"

"This hunt is mine." The monster mused, a cunning smile stretching onto his lips, "This hunt is mine."

Dun, Dun, DUN. Cliff hanger, okay so what do you think is going to happen? Is Julian back? Is another game to come? Review and tell me!