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Finally it was time to go home for a week. I wouldn't have to worry about fighting to my death, being raped, or contracting some sickness due to consuming too many rotting animal carcasses. Felix would actually have real food ready for me as he always did before he put on the tapes of this week's fights and critiqued my work. It something we had done for as long as I could remember and I used to get very pissed when he would say I had done a certain move wrong. I had been young and cocky, but over time I realized he was showing me my faults in order to help me and keep me alive for as long as he could.

As I waited patiently for him to show up I looked over to Jasper who was sitting on his cot. I realized this would be his first time meeting him his new owner if the owner showed up that is. Sometimes people who purchased fighters would not bother bringing them home on off weeks. They would leave them here not caring what happened to them. Others such as Felix and Jacob's owner Charlie Swan actually gave a rat's ass about what happened to us.

I honestly hoped that the scarred parasite would have an owner who cared. I would hate to see him trapped here for a week with only the guards and other fighters who had nobody which cared for them. I had a terrible feeling that if it turned out to be that way then Jasper would probably get ambushed by the others since he was a new threat. He wouldn't have anyone to back him up and I decided that if no one came for him I would ask Felix if I could stay as well. I would not let him be on his own for an entire week.

"Word of warning Jasper, when the guards come with your owner do not make eye contact until he or she addresses you." I said while walking over to his side of the cell and coming to sit down next to him. Since he had not been raised in captivity I thought I would give him a heads up on how he should act. "They are going to put a bracelet on you which will track where you are at all times. If you try to take it off then little silver needles will penetrate your skin and release liquid silver in to your system to weak you. For my kind they use liquid brass, but the effects are the same. Never speak unless spoken to, never disagree when given a direct order, and always be aware of your surroundings if other fighters or even sex slave supers live in the same area."

Sex slave supers were creatures who never would have made it in the ring. Some of them were either to old, had been injured in a fight they won though the injury was too severe to heal, or they simply did not have a fighting instinct. Humans would buy them off the black market or at auctions and use them for pleasure. Vampires were usually the ones who got sold the quickest. People loved the idea of fucking a vampire and all sex slave supers would have a procedure done where the venom sacks in their teeth had to be removed. It would allow the leech to bite their human in the throes of passion, but as a precaution they had a device implanted under their skin and if they took more than the allowed amount of blood a small amount of liquid silver would be released in to their blood stream. There were always accidents of course where a vampire did not have enough control and ended up crushing their sexual partner, but when that happened it was written off and the leech was resold on the black market. Some people loved the idea of danger.

"It is like being under the rule of Maria all over again." He whispered so low that his lips barely moved and I don't think he had meant for me to hear what he said and so I let it go pretending I had not heard anything. After a moment he turned to look over at me and I knew he was going to ask me something. Whenever he had a question he would give me this odd stare like he wished he could know the answer automatically without having to ask or as if he were trying to read my emotions to get the answer that way. "Does your own treat you well? I have listened to some of the others here talk about how they are abused, tormented, and raped. That does not happen to you does it? If so then I will not allow you to leave with whoever he or she is. You will stay here with me."

His words sounded like an order and usually I would get pissed at another creature trying to tell me what to do, but again I would let it slide. Jasper wasn't exactly normal in my book and he had been raised on the outside. "Felix isn't like the others. If it were not for him I would have been dead a long time ago. He treats me right as far as treatment goes. Never has he raised a hand to me unless he is trying to show me a move and he always makes sure I have the best food and medical treatment when I am home."

"Yet he does not free you?" Jasper questioned and shifted in his seat to set those curious eyes on me.

"He would if he could, but they would kill him and his wife Heidi and young daughter Lauren need him." The words came quickly like a reflex of some kind. He did not understand and I wanted to show him that in his own way Felix was trying to protect me. "The world is different here leech and we all do the best we can to survive. Felix is no different than anyone else trying to survive. If he did release me then I would probably die within a month or be recaptured and sold to someone less caring. In his own way he is doing his best to ensure my safety."

My cellmate nodded before his head snapped in the direction of the footsteps coming from down the hall. We both stood at the same time only he growled deeply in his chest on instinct more than planned out action. I elbowed him in the ribs to shut him up before whoever was heading in this direction could realize the sound was coming from him. Growling at a new owner is not the best first impression one could make and first impressions around here were everything.

A guard stepped out from the shadows cast by the dim lighting in the hall and approached our cell. He pressed a few buttons on the keyboard placed on the outside of the cell. "12-5-1-8 and 10-1-19-16-5-18 your owners are here to bring you home. Step back and press your backs against the far wall as I lock on your tracking bracelets."

We both did as we were instructed and the honey blond held out his hand exactly at the same time I did. We kept our eyes down towards the floor as the clicking of metal met our ears. After a few seconds we were told we could leave and head to the main room of the building where we were kept prisoners. I flipped the guard off as I always did as a way to say 'haha at least you can't torment me this week.' Jasper followed me in silence as we made our way out to where Felix and Jasper's new owner were waiting.

When I saw who had bought my southern undead cellmate I couldn't help, but feel relieved. Vladmir was well known for buying some of the more untamable creatures. I am surprised I hadn't caught on sooner to the fact he could have been the one to buy my vampire almost a friend, but not quite there yet. He always took on the lost causes as wild ones were often referred to as. If I could've hoped for anyone to own the scarred parasite it would have been him. He had often tried to buy me off of Felix since they were best friends, but that never happened. Felix liked oddities and being the only female of my kind made me an oddity. Vladmir had a fondness for fighters with a warrior's spirit and it was pretty obvious the southern vampire had that.

When Vladmir came in to hug me all hell broke loose. I had forgotten that Jasper did not know the two of us to be friends and he must have taken the movements of the older man as hostile. Before I could blink he had lunged and I did the first thing that popped in to my head. I threw myself in front of Vladmir and Felix which caused his stone like body to crash in to mine with a force which literally knocked the wind out of me. I could feel the air leave my lungs as they burned with the need for a fresh breath, yet I pushed my physical pain to the side and use all my upper body strength to push him back and away from the humans.

A vicious snarl filled the air and I growled back baring my teeth as I braced my feet against the floor in case he tried to push forward again. His eyes were black with hunger and the need to kill. I felt my defensive nature immediately make an appearance. Shifters primary function before we had been caught and treated like animals had been to protect humans from vampires and I would be doing that in this moment. We were no longer Leah and Jasper and instead shifter and blood sucker. Enemies with two very different goals and neither of us wanted to back down.

A part of my mind registered that he didn't realize what he was doing. His thirst had taken over and that is what had started to control him. I knew I should try to talk him down even though my first and foremost desire was to rip him to shreds before setting him on fire to make sure the threat had been taken care of. "Jasper if you are in control then listen to me. Whatever you think happened is not what you believe. He was not trying to harm me in any way, shape, or form. Vladmir is my friend and if you do not back down we may be fighting sooner than either of us really want. I may not want to kill you sooner than I have to, but if you give me no choice then I will. I won't hesitate to take you down."

The strangest thing happened in the next instant. Jasper snapped out of his crouch as his black eyes melted back in to the red I had grown accustomed to. All his anger had disappeared as soon as I spoke to him. "I thought he would try to hurt you in the same way Royce tried. I apologize for attacking without reason and I hope I did not hurt you Leah."

"It is not a problem." I stated and motioned behind me to Felix and Vladmir who had been watching with interest. "Felix I would like you to meet my new cellmate and Jasper I would like to introduce you to Vladmir who is your new owner and neighbor to Felix. It looks like we are going to be neighbors both on off weeks and on weeks."

He nodded politely to the two men before stepping forward to greet his owner. "Please accept my apologies for my behavior."

"You have nothing to be sorry for." Vladmir stated before reaching in to one of the deep pockets of his trench coat and pulling out a bag of blood before offering to him. "I like knowing that you have a fighting spirit since it means I made the right choice in choosing you over someone else. I see that you have already met Leah. It appears you two get along and I am pleased to see this since you will be training together and sharing the small cottage behind Felix and I's homes. I am sure she will explain everything to you once we get out of here."

The two of us looked at each other as we walked out. I could feel him staring at me again and I figured that he would want to talk once we were alone. I had to wonder what living with him would be like. Sharing a cell is one thing, but sharing a home is completely another. I just hoped we wouldn't end up killing the other since that was not very good in the trying to help each other survive plan we had going on.

TBC…

AN: I hope that you all liked this chapter. The next chapter will most likely be in Jasper's POV and I thought that would be interesting because Jasper is a vampire and obviously other vampires live with Felix and Vladmir and since vampires are very territorial as I have shown so far, I figured Jasper's POV as he met the other vampires would be very interesting. Let me know what you all think about this. You know I love hearing your thoughts. I am sorry I have not updated a lot, but I have been sick and stressed and doctor's orders are to rest so I post when I can though I rest most of the time.

Please R&R like always!