Chapter 11

Runaway

Lily was bored out of her mind. She had been waiting all night for the mansion to quiet down, her mother had come in an hour ago and told her to go to bed, Lily wanted to have some fun though. She figured she'd see the town a bit before settling in for the night. The problem was the mansion was still wide awake as far as she could tell.

She had been using her senses all over and still could only find a few people actually sleeping. With a shrug she decided it was now or never.

Lily walked to her balcony door and stepped out knowing there was no sense in sneaking. If she were caught sneaking she was dead, but if she were seen simply out on her balcony she had an excuse of not being able to sleep and wanting to look at the stars.

She quietly closed the door behind her and sent her mind out. Ash was sound asleep, as was Noah who was on her other side. They were the only two who would present an emediate problem if they saw her jump, no one else would be able to see. She knew the house was guarded though, and those guards would be able to see her as she landed on the ground unshielded by the overhang, so she simply stood still and waited for the two on the roof to turn around.

Lily didn't have to wait long, she felt them turn and walk around the roof. She got her chance and jumped. She landed like a cat, on her feet. Her legs bent to take the impact of her fall, she was only on the second story, she had learned she could fall quite a bit further if she needed to. Lily took quick stock of her situation as she landed and found she had been lucky, the drapes were over the window in front of where she landed.

Without a second glance she ran as fast as her legs could carry her away from the mansion and towards the street. She had an excellent sense of direction and easily found her way to the strip. As she ran house passed in a blur, she was moving to fast for anyone to actually see her. She stopped running about a mile before the strip in a deserted alleyway, this way she wouldn't be seen simply materalizing, and casually walked the rest of the way, she wasn't even breathing hard. She was hungry though.

Lily looked around for her meal, and spotted him only a few feet away from her. He was tall with dirty blond hair. He wore a pair of denim pants that looked like he was sagging and a white wife beater, showing off his nicely muscled body, and he was smiling at her.

"Hey there," he said as he walked to her.

"Hi," she smiled a dazling smile.

"I'm James and this is my friend Kenny," he said, motioning to a guy she hadn't even noticed. His hair was long, reaching his shoulders, and dark red, almost the color of blood she noticed with satisfaction. His eyes were dark green, and they seemed almost surreal. He was nicely built, much like James, and was wearing khaki pants and a loose, black tee shirt.

"I'm Lily."

"What brings you to Vegas, Lily?" James asked, an almost predatory look in his eyes.

"Friends," she said simply.

"Well where are these, friends?" He asked, laying an arm across her shoulders.

"Their at home, I wanted to see the town and they had other things to do."

"You shouldn't see Vegas by yourself, how about we show you around?" James asked. Kenny had an odd look on his face as he watched their exchange.

"I don't know, we should get going," Kenny said.

"We have a while yet," James growled. "Come on, I'll take you some place special."

"Let's go," she murmured, letting him pull her along.

She smirked as they walked, she would have known his thoughts even if she weren't a vampire, he was looking for a good time whether she wanted one or not. His friend, on the other hand, didn't want to go along with James's little plan, he just wanted to go home. She might leave him untouched. James led her through the strip to his car and opened the door for her. She raised an eyebrow at him.

"Well you wanna go don't you?" He asked.

"Sure," she said and got in. Kenny got in the backseat, a miserable look on his face.

He drove for about ten minutes until they came to an apartment complex. It was shabby and run down, and she smiled to herself as she compared it to Thiery's place. His mansion was bigger than the entire complex.

"I thought you were taking me some place special?" She asked as he parked.

"This is special babe, can't see the stars on the strip like you can on the roof," James said.

He got out of the car and pulled her out with him. Kenny got out and followed them as James led her up the stairs of the three story building to the roof. As they walked up the stairs Lily noted broken light fixtures, cracks in walls, and rats. She wondered if the foundation was sturdy enough to support them. The roof had some lawn furniture on it, a few chairs, and a small end table. Lily laid down on one of the lawn chairs and looked up at the sky thinking, oddly enough, of Mary Lennet.

The stars were so bright and lovely, she wished she could simply let go and fly to them. Marry Lenet was so lucky to have found her soulmate, and to have it be Ash. Her thoughts circled around the stars and Mary until they were rudely interupted by James standing over her and in her view.

"You're blocking the stars," she said with a scowl.

"Don't worry baby you can see them later," he said as he laid down on top of her and began kissing her. She sighed, she had really thought the stars were pretty, she wanted to look at them a bit longer.

Lily looked over to see Kenny standing off to one side of the building, not paying attention. She struck. She barely wasted the time to stun him before she began feeding. She had almost wanted to keep him awake to feel the pain, he deserved no better, but she had decided when they were in the car that she didn't want to mess with Kenny and having his friend scream was a sure way to bring him running.

After a few minutes it was over. She retracted her teeth and pushed him onto the cold cement of the roof before standing and brushing herself off. She wiped her mouth off and went to talk to Kenny.

As she approached he turned to look at her, a smile playing on his lips as he noticed his unconscious friend.

"You knocked him out?" He asked. She nodded.

"You should try speaking up to him, especially since you don't agree with what he's doing," she told him matter of factly as she sat on one of the chairs.

"He wouldn't listen to me."

"So drop him."

"He's my brother though," Kenny said, sitting beside her on another chair.

"Ah, well that is a different story then. It can be hard to speak with a brother but if you don't do it more girls could be hurt, it's not fair to them," Lily said. He nodded somberly.

"You want me to take you home?" He asked.

"Back to the strip is fine, I can get home from there," Lily said. They walked down the stairs, leaving James unconscious on the roof. Kenny got in the drivers side and started the car as she got in the passenger.

"So where are you from?" He asked when they were on the road.

"San Francisco," she said without thinking.

"Always wanted to go there, hear it's pretty nice."

"It's alright," she murmured. "You from here?"

"Born and raised, my mother owns that apartment building and my father works at one of the casinos."

"How old are you?" She asked, she was having a good time just talking with him.

"I just turned twenty one, James is twenty three, how old are you?"

"Seventeen," she said with a smile.

Kenny looked at her quickly. "It's a good thing you knocked him out," he murmured. She shrugged. "So are you here with family then?"

"Yeah."

"That why you don't want me to drop you off there?" he asked.

"Basically," she said with a nod. They were at the strip then and Kenny parked the car.

"Sorry about my brother," Kenny said.

"It's fine, I had fun talking with you," she said, getting out of the car when a familiar sense hit her. "Shit," she whispered. Her brothers had found her.

"What is it?" Kenny asked.

"You stupid little bitch," Shiloh said as he reached the car. "What the fuck were you thinking? I'll just run out for a minute, no thought to anyone, not me, or Thiery and Hannah who were worried sick thinking Alder got you." Shiloh grabbed her by the arm and pulled her from the car onto her feet.

"Hey man, calm down," Kenny said as he stepped from his car. The rest of the horde had made it to them by then. Kenny blinked as figures appeared in front of him. "What the hell."

"Damn it Lily," Ash said as he grabbed the arm Shiloh wasn't holding and shook her. "If you wanted to go out why didn't you tell anyone?"

She hardly heard him though, her mind was still stuck on what Shiloh had said. "What do you mean you thought Alder got me?" She whispered.

"He's gone, escaped," Ash said, shaking her again.

"Well you don't have to keep doing that," she cried, pulling out of both of their grasps. "It's not like I would have left if someone would have told me that."

"We didn't want to worry you," Thiery said.

"What the fuck is going on?" Kenny yelled. Everyone turned to look at him, noticing his presence for the first time.

"Who are you?" Ash asked.

"Uh, Kenny."

"Up to your old tricks Lily? Thought you got over that," Noah sneered. She kicked him in the shin.

"He was giving me a ride home," she said innocently.

"From where?" Shiloh asked.

"Uh, well, I was, um-" Lily blushed.

"Lily?" Shiloh asked.

"I was hungry, his brother was a dick," she murmured with a sly smile.

"Course you were hungry, the shit you must have pulled to escape Thiery's land must have drained you," Ash said.

"Actually it was pretty easy, all timing really. After the jump I had to wait for the guards to look away and then I just ran. They couldn't see me."

"That easy? I must up security," Thiery said as he pulled out a cell phone and walked away.

"Guards, security, people escaping, what's going on?" Kenny yelled.

"It doesn't really matter since you're not going to remember any of this," Shiloh said as he walked to Kenny.

"What?" Kenny asked, backing away.

"Be gentle, he was nice to me," Lily said as Shiloh reached out to his mind and simply erased everything that had happened in the last two hours. Kenny fell limp to the ground. Shiloh picked him up and put him in his car just as Thiery returned.

"Security has been raised and the household alerted that Lily was found," he said as he tucked his phone in his pocket. "Everything taken care of here?"

"I erased his memory."

"How much did you erase?" Lily asked suddenly.

"Last couple hours."

"You dope, he had a brother that met me, won't he think it's kind of odd that Kenny doesn't remember me?"

"Didn't think of that," Shiloh murmured.

"Where is this brother? I'll send someone to erase his memory too," Thiery said as he pulled out his phone again.

"Some apartment buildings about ten minutes from here, I think the street was Cherry. Real broken down, almost dilapidated. He's on the roof."

"I know the place," Thiery mumbled and dialed.

"Now what?" Lily asked.

"Back to Thiery's, and if you so much as open those damned balcony doors I swear you will be beaten with a wooden stick," Shiloh growled. Lily laughed.

"Race ya," she said and ran, she heard Shiloh laugh and begin to run after her, followed by Ash and Noah, Thiery she knew was still on the phone but would soon follow. She laughed as she ran in front of them, bypassing busy streets and people that didn't even realize she had passed. She made it back to the mansion a split second before Noah and a full two minutes before Ash, Shiloh, and Thiery who had apparently finished his conversation.

"I win," she yelled as they came into view.

"No fair, you just ate," Ash complained as he stopped in front of her.

"She always wins," Shiloh grumbled.

They laughed and walked into the house only for Lily to be assulted by her mother, father, Kaleb, Josh, and Jason who had just returned from looking themselves.

"You're lucky we don't beat you with a wooden stick," her mother yelled as she hugged her.

"Really Lily, being kidnapped once isn't enough?" Josh scoffed.

"Sorry," she said, escaping up the stairs and into her room where she closed the door on them all. She laid down on her bed and closed her eyes, but for some reason she couldn't get the image of a pair of green eyes under long blood red hair out of her head. She didn't sleep much that night.


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