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Previously On Secrets In The Deadly Night...
"Give me one good reason I shouldn't kill you where you stand?" Ashley hissed.
"Witnesses," he struggled to say
"Not good enough," Ashley replied adding pressure.
"I have a message," he wheezed
"And what's that?" Ashley questioned
"Let go first," Ashley glared before slowly releasing her hold on the boy.
"Nice place you've found here," the boy remarked
"The message," Ashley demanded seething. The boy sighed.
"We've missed you, you know?"
"How nice for you," Ashley replied sarcastically, "I however haven't missed a single one of you," He sighed again before speaking.
"No one knows I'm here if that's what you're worried about. And we've known where you've been for a while we've just been too busy to come and get you," he explained
"Come and get me," she mocked, "you can try,"
"He's returning," the boy stated. Ashley froze.
"What?" She whispered.
"Message received I hope," he said pushing off from the tree and moving in the direction of the academy gates.
"Shit," she muttered.
This Time On Secrets In The Deadly Night...
"They're coming back for me," Ashley relayed to Chris the first moment she got after classes ended.
"James and Henry?" Chris asked confused
"No, the other guy," Ashley clarified.
"Shit," Chris stated.
"Yeah my thoughts exactly," Ashley responded. "But I can only deal with one crisis at a time so the faster we deal with James, the faster we can deal with psycho number two,"
"Yeah okay. What are we doing about James though?" Chris asked. Ashley glanced at Chris.
"Don't know yet, waiting on some information,"
"Information from who?" Chris enquired.
"From you," she stated. "I need to know when the next meeting is. You're of age so hopefully they'll tell you especially if you've been doing your job right and when they do, you tell me. Got it?"
"Got it," Chris replied nodding his head.
"Great, in the meantime we have a job to do,"
"Which is?" Chris asked earning a look from Ashley.
"You know there are humans here. We need to put up barriers to protect them from the others," Ashley said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"No I get that but wouldn't those barriers affect the vampires too?"
"No, not if we get some help," Ashley answered
"From?"
"Some vampires,"
"And what do we need?"
"Blood," Ashley stated condescendingly.
"Whose? Zero?" Chris questioned confused. Ashley frowned.
"No well yes but no," Ashley sighed, "We'll need Zero's but it'll also have to be the head vamp himself," Chris frowned.
"Why would he help us?" Chris asked.
"What? Don't trust me to get the job done?" Ashley said with a smirk before walking towards the moon dorm, Chris following behind.
"No but seriously why would he help?"
"Just trust me on this and if you don't want to come with me that's fine I'll deal with getting the blood we need from the vamps, you gather everything else alright?" Chris looked unsure but eventually sighed before responding.
"Okay fine I'll go get whatever else we need not because I don't trust you to get the job done but only because we're running out of daylight hours and I'm not sure how long it'll take to get what we need," Chris replied walking away from Ashley who watched him as he left before she sighed and moved towards the moon dorm.
"I need blood," Ashley stated barging into Kaname's room. Kaname who looked as if he had only recently woken up turned towards Ashley with an expressionless face.
"What?" He said irritably.
"More specifically yours," Ashley said taking a seat on the sofa.
"Excuse me?" Kaname replied with an undertone of anger lacing his voice. Ashley sighed.
"What's with you today? Since when are you this slow?" Ashley questioned eliciting a glare from Kaname. Ashley got up, moved towards Kaname who was seated at his desk and casually leaned against the table next to where he was sitting.
"Is everything alright?" Ashley asked. Kaname looked at Ashley before replying surprised to see genuine concern in her eyes.
"Everything is fine," Kaname replied with a sigh. "Now what do you want blood for?" Ashley looked away from Kaname before speaking.
"I got a visitor this morning," She stated.
"And how exactly do these visitors of yours keep getting into the school without us realising?"
"By us you mean you," Kaname glared at Ashley.
"Answer the question," Kaname demanded.
"Don't tell me what to do," Ashley said hotly.
"And here I thought we were going to be honest with each other" Kaname drawled.
"I'm asking for your help, isn't that enough?" Kaname blinked in surprise then turned to Ashley and studied her face looking for signs of deception finding none he sighed before responding.
"You mentioned blood," Kaname stated.
"Yeah I kind of need some blood," Ashley explained nervously.
"What for?" Ashley cut him a sideways look watching his reaction carefully.
"So you vamps don't get hurt," she explained carefully moving around the table to sit opposite him. "Look I've got a plan to keep some of them out. It's a temporary solution mind you. I can put up wards at the entrances to campus which will protect the campus from anything nonhuman and the only way you and the rest of the night class won't get hurt is by using your blood when I put up the wards up. Only problem is it'll mean that any vampire can walk on and off campus but for the most part you can sense when they do right?" Kaname watched Ashley carefully his gaze thoughtful, it was unnerving.
"Why would you do that?" Kaname asked ignoring Ashley's question.
"Why wouldn't I? The day class need protection -"
"No I don't mean that," Kaname interrupted. "I mean why wouldn't you just let us suffer. It's clear your no fan of vampires,"
"When did I ever say I wasn't a fan of vampires?" Kaname gave her a pointed look causing Ashley to sigh.
"Look I don't hate vampires okay? Besides this is your guys' home and if it wasn't for me you wouldn't need the extra protection so just shut up and help me help you,"
"What about you?" Ashley blinked confused.
"What about me?"
"Won't you need to use some of your own blood?"
"No," Ashley said slowly. "I'm human the wards designed to protect me anyways," Kaname gave Ashley a 'yeah right' look who responded by shrugging her shoulder unfazed.
"How much do you need?"
"Not much. I'll need some of yours cause the vamps here are under your protection, I'll also need you to get me some of Zero's cause he's an ex-human and then -" Ashley stopped suddenly, signaled for Kaname to be silent before grabbing some paper from the desk and a pen.
'Yuki' she wrote on the paper before passing the paper to Kaname.
'Why?' He wrote in response.
'You know why. Think about it' Ashley wrote. Kaname frowned before nodding.
"Great," Ashley said smiling whilst getting up. "Meet me at the main gates at midnight," she continued before walking out of the room. Kaname frowned watching her leave, when his gaze returned to the piece of paper on his desk he sighed.
Ashley sat on the ground by the main gates, leaning backwards on her arms looking intently up at the dark night sky, more specifically at the bright moon shining down. She frowned before she moved her gaze towards Chris who was casually leaning against a tree near the gates with his eyes closed he looked relaxed but the tight vice- like grip he had on the bag he was holding implied the opposite.
"He's late isn't he?" Ashley asked and whilst she intended it to be a statement, it came out as more of a question. Chris opened his eyes, looked at Ashley for a moment before lifting up his arm and checking his watch.
"Yeah he's late," he replied bluntly, his gaze resting on Ashley again. She sighed and her shoulders slumped slightly, her eyes suddenly focused on the grass around her, she had been so sure that Kaname would show, for the most part she thought she had him figured out especially when it came to Yuki but apparently she was wrong. She frowned and then hit the ground with the palms of her hands in frustration. When she lifted her gaze to look at Chris she was surprised to find that he had moved away from the tree and was standing about a foot away from her, his gaze was focused at the sky but it seemed like he was miles away. The bag that he had been guarding had been dropped between them. Ashley tentatively moved towards the bag and slowly opened it to find eight white crystals inside; she looked up at Chris in surprise before speaking.
"How did you manage to find so many so quickly?" Chris blinked slowly before looking down at Ashley; he stared at her for a few moments, his gaze guarded.
"What did you do?" She asked nervously getting up from where she was sitting on the ground, slowly moving towards him.
"Nothing that wasn't necessary," Chris replied eventually.
"Chris, what the hell have you done?" Anger and accusations laced her voice. "Answer me," Ashley demanded after a few moments of silence, grabbing handfuls of his jacket.
"I made a deal," he whispered so quietly that Ashley would've missed it if she wasn't completely focused on their conversation. She let go of Chris' jackets, hands shaking.
"And the terms?" She asked uncertainly, not really sure whether she wanted to know the answer.
"An audience with you,"
"You had no right!" She whispered fiercely.
"I know and I'm sorry but it was the only way," he said, regret shined in his eyes and laced his voice.
"Who with?" She asked.
"Henry," Ashley sucked in a breath and her hand unconsciously flew to her chest where her old engagement ring was as she had put it on a chain and wore it like a necklace. Chris cocked an eyebrow in response to her movements but made no comment. "What does he want?"
"He says he wants to give you a choice," Chris replied slowly moving towards Ashley before steadying her trembling hands with his own.
"What kind of choice?"
"Well -"
"Shh," Ashley interrupted before he could say anything. Her gaze moved from Chris to their surroundings. "Something's here," she whispered gesturing for Chris to help her find whoever or whatever it was.
A few moments later two figures appeared, walking towards Ashley and Chris. Ashley and Chris had taken up defensive positions until they realised who the figures were.
"What are you doing here?" Ashley asked relaxing her stance.
"What you actually expected me to just give him my blood?" Zero replied roughly. Ashley sighed.
"Whatever. You guys are late," she stated.
"Yes sorry about that. It took some time to even convince Zero to come with me," Kaname answered.
"Can we just get on with this please?" Chris asked moving to pick up the bag of crystals.
"I need the vampire blood and then you guys can go," Ashley stated holding out her hand for vials of blood.
"I don't think so I don't just give my blood away so I'm going to stay," Kaname replied. Ashley rolled her eyes slightly.
"Fine whatever," she said taking out a crystal from Chris' bag and holding it out towards Kaname and Zero. "Just put a few drops of blood on the crystal and then we'll bury them by the gates,"
Kaname and Zero looked at each other, silently willing the other to go first.
"I don't care who goes first just do it or I'll just bury these as is and laugh when you suffer for it," Ashley threatened. Zero sighed before biting into his hand and then clenching it into a fist above the crystal so that the blood from the wound fell onto it. Kaname then did the same before removing a vial of blood from his jacket, Yuki's, and letting a few drops fall onto then crystal.
"Thanks, Chris has got another one. Do the same while I bury this one," Ashley walked towards the gates and quickly buried the crystal to the left of the gates and then after buried the second crystal to the right of the gates.
An hour later all four entrances were protected. Kaname and Zero had gone back towards the school building going to class and to patrol respectively leaving Chris and Ashley to make their way back to the sun dorms.
"Hey Ashley," Chris said as they reached the entrance the girls dormitory.
"Yeah," she replied turning to face him.
"I know you're angry that I used you up get those crystals and I'm so sorry but it was the only way," Ashley sighed.
"Yeah I know. And I'm not angry not really, I just wish I knew what he was up to,"
"For what it's worth I don't think he wants to kill you," Chris said resulting in Ashley giving him an incredulous look. "I think you should just hear him out, there's something about him right now. Honestly I think he's trying to help but I don't think he can bring himself to outright disobey James yet," Chris continued ignoring the look on Ashley's face before turning and walking the short distance to the boys' dorms. Ashley watched him leave contemplating what she had just heard before slowly making her way to her room and her much needed bed.
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