Warnings: See chapter 1

Pairings: See chapter 1

Disclaimer: I do not own these characters but I do own idea and any OC's, I don't Jess Starlightangel101 does.

Chapter 11

He traced the black rose tattoo on his wrist and sighed, looking up into the starry sky he wondered whether things had really changed so much since he had left?

At least the stars haven't changed, he mused as he watched them slowly fade away as dawn was beginning to break.

He couldn't help but wonder if he was doing the right thing, telling her about his darkest secret, about telling her of the monster that lived within.

Kai walked around the coffin, tracing the wood with his index finger as he did so, feeling every groove and line that was etched into the coffin since its birth.

Looking out of the window which was usually covered Kai sighed and walked towards it and watched as the world outside was getting ready to awake while inside here his own world was getting ready to sleep.


Brooklyn entered the room with his head held high, his shoulders squared and his lips pressed together, his hands balled in his jacket pockets.

He stopped as he came to the raised dais where Boris sat smiling sweetly.

Brooklyn stared straight at Boris; aqua green eyes stared with great boldness, suppressing a growl as Brooklyn remembered what Boris had done in the past to Jess he stood, holding his ground.

Boris turned to Brooklyn and climbed down the throne and stood where Brooklyn stood.

"The plan needs to be finalized; you will be at my side when it is executed?"

"Yes sir" responded Brooklyn.

"Good, I will inform you and the rest of the final outlines, for now, no news of this goes out of this room, is that understood?"

"Understood"

Boris smirked and patted Brooklyn on the shoulder, "That's my boy"
Max Tate watched the birds as they came and nested on his windowsill of his room, the house he sat in, in which he shared with Tyson and his older brother.

Max sighed and as he did so the birds fluttered and flew away.

He had left the HQ and had been wondering around all day and night, he was tired and restless as he couldn't get to sleep.

He was worried, about Tyson, about Hilary, about how in the blink of an eye everything just seems to fall apart.

A knock on his bedroom door and Max didn't answer; he was watching the sun rise.

Another knock and someone stepped in, Max heard them come closer towards him and finally a large hand was placed on his shoulder.

"Max, have you slept at all?" a voice asked.

Max shook his head.

"Heero, do you think that Tyson will tell her?"

Heero sighed.

"Max, Tyson I believe is having some trouble with even talking to her; those too have known each other for so long".

Max sighed again, his eyes closed as he felt the slight sun on his face.

"Dawn is my favourite time" said Heero.

"Why's that?"

Heero smiled a knowing smile and tapped the side of his nose, "It's a secret"


Hilary watched as her long time friend and only female friend looked through a pair of denim jeans and looked at there prices.

Hilary hadn't been up to shopping but she needed to get out of the apartment before she lost her mind completely.

Hilary had never been so confused, so torn between her head and her heart.

She turned to look at a stand of perfumes in the department store and sniffed one, nope to lavender like old people.

Mariah was busy choosing a new pink shade of nail polish and did not look to see what Hilary was up too.

Hilary picked another one up, "Crisp Mint".

Hilary lifted the jacket cuff she was wearing and smelt it, the jacket actually belonged to Kai and she had left without returning it.

It smelt of mint like the perfume, and something else, something so fresh and alive, she also smelt the hint of blood but she wasn't too sure about that.

Smelling the perfume she smiled, almost a perfect match.

"Mariah I'm going to get this one" she said as she showed her friend who smiled and nodded and also showed her the new shade she was getting.

The two left the store and headed to the bus stop outside of the mall.

"Hilary where did you get that gorgeous jacket?" asked Mariah as they waited.

"It's Kai's" Hilary answered dreamily.

"Well the mans got good taste I'll give him that…are you sure he's not gay because he is hot" said Mariah.

"Well I doubt some gay guy would kiss me" blushed Hilary.

"You've already kissed!?"

Hilary nodded as her friend stared at her in disbelief, it took Tyson and Hilary two months before they started anything like that and here the shy girl had only known this strange guy for not even a month and already they were kissing?!

"And later he's coming to my place to watch some movie" added Hilary.

"Ok so you've invited him already to your place, Hilary but this pace is a lot faster then usual".

"It's just that I feel so comfortable when I'm with him, I feel warm and safe and calm and you know the funny thing, I feel as if I've known him for ages, like old friends".

Mariah frowned, she herself had only seen this guy once and that was at the fair and he looked so tough and rough, nothing like Tyson.

"Maybe you're like lost soul mates" Mariah joked as the bus arrived.

Hilary laughed and smiled along with her friend as they boarded the bus, unaware of how close they were to the truth.


Kai was starving when he finally woke from the dreamless sleep.

Tala and Bryan had already left to hunt, leaving Kai alone and hungry.

He called Hilary and told her that he would be a bit late for the movie date and she said that it was fine, they had all night.

He had eaten in a while and he was rather surprised by the hunger that was deep within his bowls.

He growled in irritation, damn hunger.

He headed outside, along the roofs, along the alleys and the corners; he kept to the shadows, to the dark.

Kai was a creature of the night, a race as old as time itself; he could not begin to wonder of how they started or how they came to be drinking the blood of humans and animals.

A screech not so far away awoke him from his musings and caused him to stop moving and listen carefully for another scream just like it.

There, he heard it; he turned left and headed to an alley full of dumpsters and rubbish beyond belief.

'Filthy humans' Kai thought as he looked around.

He then saw what was making the noise, a female human was being held by a male, a burly looking man with a certain hunger in his eyes.

Kai growled how much he hated the humans and their certain traits.

With inhuman speed Kai knocked the man out and watched as the female stared at him in awe and terror, she then ran not stopping.

Kai looked down at the man and kicked him as he lay on the ground curled up in a ball, blood from the guy's nose and mouth taunted Kai.

Kai knelt down next to the man and moved his head to reveal a fat neck, Kai placed a finger on the neck to feel the jugular vein thumping hard, Kai could hear it, the rapid beating of the mans heart.

'Human blood was so much better when the human was alive, gave you a certain thrill', concluded Kai as he placed his fangs at the vein and heard the man groan in pain.

Kai growled in response and placed a firm hand over the mans mouth to keep him quiet.

Sinking his teeth into the neck Kai was hit with a million different thoughts and feelings, he could taste the high iron content and that unique taste every human had, Kai felt the man writher as Kai kept his hand over his mouth in order to muffle out the screams.

Suddenly the man twisted and bit Kai hand making Kai yelp in surprise and let go of his victim.

The man wriggled his way to away from Kai who grabbed the cuff of his shirt and pulled him towards him, he was not satisfied.

There was another cry and a light shone on Kai's face, he let go of the man and turned to see that at the end of the alley was the very same woman who had been held captive by the man that was bleeding at Kai's very feet.

There was someone else with the woman, a police officer who was holding up a very strong torch light which made Kai's skin feel hot and burn.

"Dammit" Kai hissed and backed away.

The police officer shouted something at Kai but Kai still moved back slowly and then he began to shoot at Kai, a bullet piercing Kai's thick skin on his shoulder.

'Damn guns' thought Kai, 'Humans have no honor of warfare'.

And he was gone, disappearing into the night air.


Kai sat on the top of a large building, he couldn't believe that he had almost been caught and worse they probably had seen him.

Kai looked up into the sky, if you were in the center of any city you would never be able to see the stars, this saddened Kai as he looked up into the black sky.

He checked the time and decided that he had better be late to see Hilary then to never arrive.

Kai found her apartment with ease, she had text him her address even though he already knew where she lived and always found it without difficulty.

He was let in and walked up the stairs at a semi human pace so not to scare anyone who might open their doors.

Kai knocked and found Hilary standing there waiting, a large smile plastered over her head and hugged him before he could even enter.

He heard her breath in deeply and then moves away.

"What were you doing just now?" he asked as he took a long look around.

"You smell like mint" she said and handed him his other jacket; he nodded and watched as she told him to sit down on the couch.

A small cat suddenly as on his lap purring as it rubbed itself against him; he stroked it and felt it shudder.

"Looks like he likes you, do you want something to drink? Eat?"

"Water please" answered Kai as he watched the small cat.

Hilary was right, animals tended to behave differently around vampires, and every animal had a different reaction.

Hilary brought a large glass of ice cold water with ice inside floating on the top.

Kai drank from it gratefully, he was thirsty.

Hilary sat down next to him on the couch and smiled as she drank a cup of tea, she watched him carefully.

"So we have two movies, Evolution or Underworld?"

Hilary handed him the two DVD boxes and he read the back for the summary, he had not seen a recent movie in years, he preferred the good old stuff but these two looked alright.

"Which would you like to watch" he asked as he handed her Evolution so that he could read about Underworld.

He laughed softly as he read the summary at the back that would be a but of a laugh to watch.

"Well I've seen them both so it's really up to you, have you seen either of them?" she asked.

He shook his head and nudged her with the Underworld box and nodded, "This one, definitely this one" he laughed under his breath and watched as she inserted it in.


"So she actually saw the vampire?" asked Tyson as he looked over at picture of a woman who had supposedly seen a vampire.

"Well the story goes that she was being mugged by baldy over there, and some guy comes and knocks the guy out and she ran away in pure terror afraid he would do something to her, then she came back with a police officer and they both saw baldy on the ground bleeding from the neck and the guy who had saved her glaring at them almost", explained Heero.

"So the guy that saved her was a vampire?" asked Max.

Heero nodded and took out a piece of paper and placed it on the table in the HQ.

"We got her to describe him and this is what turned up"

The piece of paper had a sketch, of a man but not a man, his face was very much defined, and a pair of long fangs was seen, his eyes intense and hungry.

"So how do we know that it's the same vampire from the three rogues?" asked Max.

"The mugger died a few hours ago, he will have the puncture wounds" said Heero.

"He's dead?" Tyson was shocked.

"A vampire has a certain venom that they inject when feeding, this stops the blood from clotting while vampire saliva heals wounds and such" explained Kenny.

"Where's Ray, shouldn't he hear this?" asked Tyson.

"Ray's gone up country for a competition, remember?"


Tyson nodded how he could forget.

Kai could feel his body surge with emotions as he felt Hilary against his body, they were kissing but Kai had not fed completely and kept her at a certain distance.

His lips moved against her neck and he could feel her breath hitch and her blood race, he heard her blood pump and heart pound.

Suddenly the phone began to ring and they stopped, calming down, but Hilary did not moved to answer it.

The answering machine clicked and they heard Hilary speak and then a beep and then, Tyson…

"Hey Hilary, its me, Tyson, listen I know things have been really rocky lately and I know I'm partly to blame but please, hear me out, give me one last chance, please Hilary, come to dinner with me tomorrow, please call me back, Tyson".

They sat in silence, the movie had been put on mute and Hilary flicked it off and sat back looking at her shaky hands.

Kai reached out and took a hold of them and gave them a squeeze.

"You should give him a chance, don't end it on a bad foot" he said and kissed her forehead.

"I need to be going" he stood up and Hilary handed him his jacket so he would forget it.

"You keep it; I have some others I can use"

Hilary nodded and put the jacket on smiling; they hugged and gave final kisses.

"Goodnight Hilary" he said.

"'night Kai"


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