Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Josef came home a few minuets later, and he noticed that Mick was sitting on his doorstep with the two other guards, all looking down at the ground. Josef walked up to all of them, he could tell something was wrong.

"So why we all are out here looking like someone died?" Josef asked, looking at the three.

"Ella hit me with a vase," Robert said. "She said she would buy you a new one."

"I got knock out with a fist, a girl hit me, and I didn't know if I should hit her back or not," Phil said.

"And what did she do to you Mick?" Josef asked, looking at Mick.

"She kicked me, in the crouch." Mick said, looking at Josef.

Josef held back a laugh; Ella had managed to take down three vampires all by herself, without getting hurt. One was afraid to even touch her because she was a female. Mick should have seen the kick coming, after all that was where most females aimed, and as for the guy she hit with a vase, well he couldn't really have predicted that one.

"I'm disappointed in all of you. You all just got beaten down by a girl, a one hundred and fifty year old vampire, but a girl none the less. Mick, your situation is unavoidable, because most women know where to aim and no one can prevent that. As for you, she hits you, she's a vampire, you won't kill her, hit her back for Pete's sakes, it's not like she a super delicate flower. And as for you, just watch out for objects people can make into a weapons," Josef said, shaking his head.

"You wouldn't have been able to stop her either," Mick said, looking a Josef.

"Yes I would have,"

"How?"

"I've known her for years; she knows better then to mess with me,"

"Yeah, I actually came over here, because I was going to try to talk to her,"

"You were going to play P.I? Snoop?" Josef asked, looking at Mick.

"Well I wanted to know what the truth was. If Ella doesn't want to tell the truth that's fine, but I would at least love to know her reasons for lying,"

"If she didn't tell you, she's not going to,"

"I didn't get a chance to ask, she was more determined to get out of house then anything else,"

"You can track her based on scent, it's still fresh, and you could still catch her." Josef said, looking at Mick.

"You wanna come with me? Stop her from running or at least kicking me?"

Josef chuckled "Sure, she's less likely to do that with me there,"

"Like it's never happened to you,"

"Not with in recent years it hasn't,"

"Okay, next time I run into Ella, I'll wear a cup,"

"That is a great idea, but you don't play any sports,"

"I could take up… baseball," Mick said, walking towards his car.

"Yeah, it's played during the day, how would that work out for you? Not to mention, baseball players aren't that good really," Josef said, following after Mick.

"You're just mad because you lost some money, you should have betted differently," Mick said, getting into the car.

"You should have given me a heads up about the Yankees," Josef said, also getting in the car.

"Wasn't my call, besides I didn't watch the game, I was preoccupied with Beth,"

"You two were having sex?"

"No,"

"Then it wasn't that important,"

"It was to us,"

"Yes snuggling is high on my list of things to do with women," Josef said, watching Mick drive.

"Yeah well, do you know where Ella is heading by any chance?" Mick said, looking at Josef.

"No, but she did take one of my cars and look my phone can track it," Josef said, looking at his phone.

"Built in GPS that's nice, people can always find you,"

"I didn't have installed for people to find me, it was a theory. If someone ever did steal one of my cars I could always make it personal and kill them,"

"Wow, why would anyone steal a car from you anyways?"

"I'm rich I have nice expensive cars, you tell me. Turn right here." Josef said, looking at his phone.

Ella let out a big sigh she had stolen a car, and she knew Josef too well. He could follow her, so she couldn't exactly go to her original location. She knew exactly what Mick was going to ask her about, without even him saying anything. Yes her getting deported was a big lie, but could she really tell them she was afraid of one big vampire, besides Josef would just offer to take care of Benson for her.

She wanted to do it herself; after all she knew where to get what she needed. She checked on the screen she had hacked to track the car following her. She furrowed her brown; they were a few block away from her. And she was a few block away from where she needed to go, she sighed debating if she should just leave the car and walk the rest of the way. She backed the car into an alleyway and parked it there. Getting out, she decided she could walk the next couple of blocks.

"She finally stopped, in an alleyway. Ella isn't there," Josef said, as Mick and he pulled in to the alleyway.

"We just missed her,"

"Yeah we did, I know what she did. She hack the GPS system on that car, so that she could see where we were. She purposely parked the car here,"

"I think my theory about her hiding something is dead on. Based on pure facts, she left the car here. She doesn't want to be followed, so the question is what is she doing that she wouldn't want someone to know about?" Mick asked.

Mick looked around and noticed Josef had left him standing in the alley by himself. He followed after him, figuring that Josef was on Ella's scent.

"You left me alone talking to myself in an alley can't you at least say something?" Mick asked, after he caught up to Josef.

"No, you were doing your P.I thing; I'm trying not to loose Ella,"

"So what do you think she's doing?"

"Not sure, but if your little theory is right, she's doing something big,"

"So why not tell you?"

"Well I can think of one reason, she doesn't want someone helping her, she wants to do it herself, she isn't asking for help,"

Ella had finally made the few extra blocks she needed to go to get to her supplier, yes she had invested her money in some major sliver, but she was going to get Benson.

"Is that the whole shipment I wanted?" Ella asked.

"I got you a few milligrams of sliver, along with a few stakes and some kerosene. You said you wanted to do it big with out doing to much damage," Ryan said to her.

Ryan was a vampire friend of her's she known him for years, and he always did things in secret and was able to find most thing if you asked him too.

"I also requested that you personal located him did you do that?"

"He's a hard man to find, if you wanted to find him you should have just gone through Josef guy Ryder or that Logan fellow, you know Mick's friend,"

"If I did that Ryan, then everyone would end up knowing the truth, and I can't have it coming out that Ella. The vampire that has a reputation for scaring people, actually left Europe because she's scared of what's going to happened to her. No I can't have that," Ella said, looking at Ryan.

"Right, I forget that's what it is with you,"

Josef and Mick had reached the warehouse a few minuets after Ella had; they had heard the conversation and were quietly watching Ella.

"You know they both followed you,"

"Yeah, I figure that out about 3 blocks back, but I wasn't going to miss this meeting because of Josef and Mick. Besides now I won't have to tell them the reason anymore." Ella said, turning around. "Okay both of you I'm not dumb, show yourselves because then I can tell you what I just did,"

Josef and Mick both came out and looked at Ella.

"You bought sliver? That's never safe," Josef said, giving Ella a look.

"If you had been putting up with Benson sending his men armed with sliver to your office, you'd be investing in it too,"

"Why didn't you just tell me that's what was going on?" Josef asked

"Because, I wasn't looking to become one of your charity cases Josef. I wasn't looking for hand outs or protection. I wanted to be able to do this myself. But, in Europe I tried to defend myself and it fell flat. I just got myself in worst trouble; Benson has been sending his men for months after me. Armed to the tees and I'm not talking just a small arsenal here either. I'm talking big; I did what I could in Europe to get him to leave me alone. He wouldn't. So I left the country, and came here, hoping I'd be able to find myself some peace and quite. Thought Benson would be smart enough not to follow me here. I was wrong, I knew exactly who blew up my house, and it wasn't the freaks that sent out the list. It was him. Go ahead Josef, tease me all you want. But believe it or not I'm scared, because the more I try to be safe the less safe I become,"

"It's a power thing isn't it?" Mick asked, looking at Ella.

"Naturally, Benson is 200 years old, and he's the biggest pain in my ass ever. He doesn't find it fair that a girl of all creatures is running the company especially one that is so young," Ella said, looking around.

"However what Benson fails to note is that I'm the one in change of the whole cooperation. He's wrong by attacking someone who is considerable close to me. That's like personally attacking me, and I can't have that," Josef said.

"This is why I didn't tell you in the first place, you're going to do something about it yourself. I don't want that, I just told you that like five minuets ago, I don't want help I want to do it myself," Ella said, glaring at Josef.

"I never said I was going to do a thing. However, I do wish to see that you are safe and that you succeed," Josef said, looking at her.

"You're going to help me then?" Ella asked looking at Josef.

"You only had to ask,"

There came a chuckle out of the darkness of the warehouse, out stepped a large, male. He had brown hair, and blue eyes, taller then Ella by a lot. He just looked at Ella.

"As touching as this moment is, I'm about to ruin it. Let's face it Ella, you can't hide behind the boss forever," Benson said, looking directly at Ella.

"Why are you bothering her? I thought you were done with these power issues years ago," Josef said, looking at Benson.

"No, see I want to be in charge of both areas, and with Ella around I can't have that, and that just makes me upset," Benson said.

"You send out the list then?" Ella asked, carefully.

"What list?"

"There's a list with vampires going around, you send it for revenge?" Ella asked.

"No, that's not my doing. But I give whoever did it massive props, especially if your now begin hunted," Benson said with a smirk.

"Ah... my name isn't on that list Benson old boy. You wish," Ella said, getting a bit of confidence back.

"Yes, even if you name isn't on the list, your not free of danger," Benson said.

"So you had Ryan betray me? That's sweet really, but now I'll have to kill him too,"

"You can't kill me, you've tried and you've failed. How many more times do you want to go toe to toe Ella? I'm 200 years old; I've got 50 years on you. I think I know what I'm doing better then you. Besides you just hide behind Josef half the time. Yeah, you go out and take care of personal matters. But when it comes down to fighting your own fights you always wuss out," Benson said, getting closer to Ella.

"Yeah, but you always talk," Ella said, pulling a stake out of her pocket.

"No, we can't have you staking me," Benson said, trying to take the stake from Ella.

"No, but I can do this," Ella said, head butting Benson hard.

"Josef you going to let her do this to me?" Benson said, looking at Josef.

"Yes, and you're fired,"

"You can't fire me, I'm a CEO,"

"Yes he can and he just did," Ella said, throwing a nice left hook at him. "Now go away like a dog with your tail between your legs and leave me alone,"

"You want this to go down now Ella, that's fine by me. I was getting tired of waiting," Benson said, giving Ella a harsh kick that sent her flying into a nearby garbage bin.

Mick watched Ella, who stood up and looked over at Benson; he watched her eyes flash sliver and stay there. Ella took off after Benson who had retreated deeper into the warehouse.

"Should we help her?" Mick asked, looking at Josef.

Mick heard a loud crash from the back of the warehouse,

"We should at least follow her. That didn't sound good," Josef said, taking off in the direction Ella went. Mick followed close on his heels.