A/N: I'm actually finding this a little harder than I thought it was going to be. Writing in first person so isn't my thing, going to have to stick with it though. Drop me a review, let me know what you think. Can't help but think I'm flogging a dead horse here, I have so many ideas for this, but they all just seem to suck. Read, review and enjoy!

Chapter Ten

The Doc managed to somehow work his magic, he told Trick that I needed some fresh air, so I was allowed to leave the hospital wing for an hour, but I wasn't allowed to leave the school grounds. As Tamsin and I had been walking towards the small orchard we had at the school, we had got more than a few funny looks from the kids. They knew that I'd been in an 'accident' but they probably didn't expect to see me with the nasty wound on my neck that the Doc had stitched up but that still hadn't healed yet. The kids were so used to me healing quickly that it was probably a bit of a shock to them. Another thing that would have been a bit odd for them was seeing someone who didn't work at the school walking around.

"Hey Bo." Anya shouted running over to us.

"Hey kid." I said, as she jumped at me.

I caught her and she hugged me, then she looked at Tamsin.

"Hi…" she said.

"Hey." Tamsin replied with a little smile.

"Anya this is my friend Tamsin," I said, "Tamsin this is Anya."

"It's nice to meet you." Anya said with a smile.

"Likewise." Tamsin said.

"So, did you kill him?" Anya asked.

"Kill who?" I asked.

"Whoever did that to your neck?" Anya replied, "Bet he's like all dead now right."

"Not yet," I said, honestly, "but soon."

"Do you want me to help?" Anya asked, "I could set his butt on fire."

She held her hands out to the side of her, concentrated a little and small fireballs appeared in the palm of her hands. She was lucky that I still had my arms around her, or I'd have dropped her. Tamsin looked a little bit freaked out by Anya's little display. I was impressed.

"Nicely done kid." I said, "When did you learn to do that?"

"Two days ago." Anya said with a grin, "pretty neat huh."

"Very." I said with a smile.

The school bell rang, letting the kids know that classes were about to start again. I put Anya down, she threw her arms around my waist hugging me, before running off in the direction of the school.

"Anya is a Pyro," I said, "She can form fire in her hands. She's one of our more… gifted kids."

"She seems to like you." Tamsin replied.

"I'm the one who brought her here," I said, "we were called to the hospital after a kid nearly burned their house down by accident, Anya was the kid."

"What about that kid?" Tamsin asked, motioning to Zac who was sitting next to the tree, the colours of his eyes were white.

"Shit…" I said, running over to him and crouching down next to him, "Zac, can you hear me?"

"Something bad is coming Bo," he said, his white eyes continuing to focus directly ahead of him, "death, lots of death. But you will win. You will lose a lot, but you'll win. They know that, that's why they sent her to you. You have to remember what you're fighting for Bo…"

He blinked and looked at me, his eyes back to their normal ice blue.

"What's happening Bo?" he asked.

"Let's get you inside kid…" I said, picking him up.

He wrapped his arms around my neck as I carried him back towards the school.

"What happened?" Tamsin asked.

"Zac is a reader," I replied, "he see's things. When his eyes go white like they did just now he's seeing what is coming. He can't control it yet and he can't remember what he saw. He's usually got one of the other kids with him all the time, so they can let us know when it happens."

I carried Zac to the medical wing, laying him on the bed as the Doc flew in.

"What happened?" he asked.

"We found him sitting by a tree near the orchard," I said, "his eyes were white."

"Do you remember anything Zac?" the Doc asked.

"No," Zac replied, "it was just like I blacked out again for a few seconds."

The Doc shone his light in Zac's eyes and started to give him a general check-up which is what he did every time Zac had a vision.

"What do you think he meant?" Tamsin asked.

"I don't know." I replied.

"What did he see?" The Doc asked.

"I'm not sure," I said, "he said something about something bad coming, a lot of death… he said I'd lose a lot but I'd win…"

"Anything else?" he asked.

"He said they know I'll win which is why they sent her to me…" I said, "He also said I have to remember what I'm fighting for…"

The Doc nodded.

"Sent who?" Tamsin asked.

"No idea…" I replied.

x-x

I was sat on the bench in the orchard when Lauren walked over, the sun was starting to set in the sky casting a warm orange light across everything it touched.

"There you are." She said, walking over to the bench and sitting next to me, "Trick's been looking for you."

"I told him where I was going…" I said.

"He's worried about you Bo." Lauren said, "You haven't fed today, nor have you shown any signs of your hunger…"

"I haven't been hungry," I said, "I don't know why… could have something to do with the fact that the last meal I had was from a human…"

"Trick thinks it might be something more than that," Lauren said, "The Doc rechecked your test results… there's some… changes that we can't explain."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Your white blood cell count is higher than it should be," Lauren replied, "which would suggest that your body is fighting off some kind of infection."

"I don't get sick…" I said.

Lauren didn't say anything.

"What are you saying?" I asked, "That feeding off Tamsin somehow made me sick?"

"We…" she started to say.

"Less of the we shit Lauren," I said, "Do you think she has somehow made me sick?"

"I think we should look into it before jumping to conclusions." She said, "We want to run some more tests…"

I nodded.

"I know that you all think the worst about her," I said, standing up, "but I trust her… I fell asleep on her in the cabin… we were watching a movie and I fell asleep… I never fall asleep in front of people Lauren, you know that. I have to trust someone with the very deepest part of my being before I fall asleep in front of them… if she wanted to hurt me she would have done it then… How could anyone know what was going to happen…"

"Maybe they thought that you'd lose control and bite her anyway…" Lauren said quietly.

"You think this whole thing has been a set up?" I asked, "Like they planned it in some way."

"Maybe…" Lauren said, "Let's go get these tests started."

x-x

The Doc had taken more blood to run tests on. Like I had said to Lauren I don't get sick, I'd never been sick a day in my life, not so much as a sniffle. If my body was fighting an infection I wasn't feeling it, nor was I showing any outward signs.

"Well…" I asked as the Doc came back in.

"Your definitely fighting an infection…" he said, "I can't pinpoint it, it seems to be in your blood…"

"But you don't know what it is…" I said.

"It's killing off your red blood cells Bo," he said, "whatever it is isn't natural…"

"Meaning that someone did this on purpose." I said.

He nodded.

"Do you think I may have…" I said, "Do you think that feeding from Tamsin did this?"

"I wouldn't like to say," he replied, "it's come from some outside source, but I can't be sure if it came from her blood, or from Vicktor nearly ripping your throat out. It could have come from either source. If I could take a blood sample from Tamsin…"

"I can't just ask her to come in here and let you take her blood Doc…" I said.

"I can…" Lauren said from her viewpoint by the wall.

x-x

I looked over at Tamsin, who was currently sitting on a chair waiting for the Doc to take a blood sample.

"I'm sorry about this…" I said.

"Don't worry about it," she said, "we need to know where the infection comes from so they can help you fight it right…"

The Doc took the blood from Tamsin.

"Sorry if that hurt," he said, "my hands are a little unsteady at the moment."

"Didn't feel a thing." She replied with a smile and she pressed the little cotton bud down to stop the bleeding.

As soon as I could smell her blood my eyes changed colour.

"Bo…" Lauren said walking over to me, "you need to feed."

"I'm not hungry…" I replied, blinking, my eyes returning to their normal brown.

"That's new…" The Doc said.

"Not really," I said, "I mean, my eyes usually go red when I smell blood…"

"I took blood from Zac earlier while you were standing here," he said, "and it got no reaction from you whatsoever…"

Lauren took her knife out of its waist holster and drew it slowly across the palm of her hand, the blood starting to drip from the side of her hand.

"Nothing…" I said.

"Nothing at all?" The Doc asked.

"Nothing at all," I replied, "I can smell it, but that's all. No burning at the back of my throat, nothing…"

"What does that mean?" Tamsin asked.

"It means that we might have a bigger problem than we thought." Lauren said, "Doc, hand me that blood test a minute."

The Doc gave Lauren the test tube with Tamsin's blood in it, she opened it and held it under my nose for no more than a second, and my eyes immediately flashed red.

"Oh dear…" The Doc said, "That is not good."

"Does someone want to tell me what's going on?" Tamsin asked.

"You need to leave…" I said, not looking at her.

"Bo, talk to me…" she said, "tell me what's going on."

"I can't," I said, "but you need to leave, now…"

Lauren looked at her.

"I think that'll be for the best," she said, "Just until we understand fully what's going on."

"I need…" I said, getting off the bed, "I need to leave…"

No one tried to stop me. I walked from the room, got to the main doors of the school and I ran. I needed to get out of there, clear my head, so I ran.