Chapter 11 edited
Chapter 11
Kyra slowed down as she reached the bar and moved into the alley way. Jaden was waiting for her just as the sun came up fully over the horizon. The left side of his face swollen, and turning purple.
Kyra flinched as she reached him, her eyes on the bruise. Before he could stop her she brought her right hand up to his face and caressed his bruise. Letting the power in her blood pool into her finger tips then out in to his face she watched as the swelling reduced and the bruise break up.
"I wish you would let me free you." Her voice wavered with the tears that threatened to fall as he removed her hand from his face. He frowned and ran a thumb under her right eye.
"I have to pay for the mistakes I've made in the past and if this is how I do it then so be it. You know that" A tear spilled from her eye as she let his led her from the bar and down the street to Sanctuary.
"I know but I have to ask, I need you here too!" Jaden hugged her to him as they walked.
"Did you have a good night?" He was changing the subject but she would let him this time.
"Yea, but he lives in a house with other dark hunters. I thought they couldn't do that?" She could feel Jaden shrug next to her.
"You know the rules of mystical beings, you can't say never, there is always an exception. Kind of like you kiddo." Kyra snickered.
"Fair enough. This time two of them were waiting for me, and Blade tried to stop me from leaving. I don't think it's a good idea if I see him anymore. I mean it's not safe for him to get messed up in my completely insane life." Jaden patted her shoulder.
"He's a big boy and a hell a powerful Dark Hunter, one of the ones Artemis has kept locked up till recently. I'm sure he can hold his own in your messed up life. If they were waiting for you and he was trying to stop you from leaving, how did you get out?" She could hear the curiosity in his voice but the concern too. She shrunk a little under his arm before admitting in a small voice.
"I drugged him with a tranq I took from Carson's bag, and I went out the wind to avoid the other two." Jaden stilled their walking and turned her to face him. His eyes worried he looked her face over.
"And?" His voice strained.
"I manipulated the air a little to get out the second story window." She wasn't sure but she thought he managed to use curse words in at least 12 languages, four of which were dead ones. His hands tightened on her shoulders and he shook her gently.
"You don't use your powers again unless it's life or death, you understand me!" He was already scanning the crowd around them for a threat.
"Next time you call Nim to you! Have him sneak you out. Got me!" She nodded as she hung her head. He pulled her along the last few yards to Sanctuary.
Two Months later
Blade flinched as he stared down into his beer. Four months of chasing the little slip of a woman who evaded them every time she came back to him. Four months and three more meeting, he was deeper and deeper in this with her. Each time he craved her touch, scent, and taste more than the last when she left.
Each time she let things slip. Her given name was Aadhaya but he got the feeling almost no one called her that, sometimes she didn't respond immediately when he called her by it. She could never stay because her protectors would be tearing the city down by night fall the next day if she didn't return home early in the morning. And she was damned good at slipping his tranqs and evading Ethon or Raden or both. So much so they finally asked Cabeza, Kalidas and Tafari to help cage her in the last time.
The results of that had been as dismal as the times before that. They couldn't follow her in the light, there was no more traces of the unknown power. Cabeza was better at testing and determining power sources but without her doing it again that talent was useless.
He downed his beer and moved on to the street tracking behind Nick a few yards. He was alone for the first part of the night with him and the kid was in his usual foul mood so Blade stayed back to let him blow off steam.
He was only on for a few more hours, after being Nick's tail for a few days in a row he was due for a break. He could feel Chi and Jared not too far off. He would get a break and go back to the house, maybe get some sleep.
