Chapter 10

I know I've been gone ages but better late than never right?

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"The blood is Trey's? How is that possible? I mean it just can't be, if the injured wasn't one of them why didn't they come to us?" I couldn't make sense to this, but I did feel relieved about this, even if I liked Trey, I was so glad that neither of my friends were dead, but then… "Why haven't they contacted us? By now they should have."

"Well, maybe they had but they couldn't." Adrian piped in.

"We have to go back to the crime scene. Look for anything that might help us."

After we got back to the park we walked around the park, until finally, we found what we were looking for.

A little poodle of blood was in one of the rocks nearby, Adrian confirmed that the blood was indeed human; I guess he knew it by the smell I didn't ask.

But then I saw a figure moving between the bushes. I felt a scream get struck in my throat but before it came out I recognized the figure as Trey's bloody body.

"Oh my God, Trey!" I said and kneeled beside him. I could see a huge gash in his right shoulder. As I touched him, Trey groaned softly.

"Adrian!" I instantly yelled; he was beside me in an instant.

Together we moved him to my car and drove to Adrian's apartment, we needed answers and we weren't going to get them if we took him to a hospital. Besides, if things got bad Adrian could heal him enough to drive him to one.

After we reached the apartment we laid him on the couch and I went to the kitchen and got a washcloth. I had some antiseptic in my purse and started to apply it to Trey to clean his wounds while Adrian was in his room. We had agreed that it would be easier for trey to talk to me rather than the two of us; but he would stay close by in case I needed help. Trey had appeared semiconscious when we brought him but he appeared to be awake now.

"Hey Melbourne," Trey suddenly said, making me jump.

"Hey," I told him attempting a weak smile. It troubled me, that someone I had considered my friend had a secret as big as this. Though to be fair I hadn't trusted him with mine either.

"Trey, what happened?" I asked him. He must have seen something in me that made him trust me because after a defeated sigh he told me.

"After you left, the warriors got into a fight, they were debating as to whether they should kill them right then and there or take them and made a public execution. Finally, they had conceded that they would kill the damphir and take the moroi." Trey took a deep breath and look at me as he said: "Sidney, I promise you, I tried to stop them, I really did. I put myself in the way of the gun and him, but they shot me. I don't know what happened after that; they left me there and called me vamp lover, and to hope and see if my 'friends' would help me now."

I knew how hard that must have been to Trey, especially because one of them had been his own father.

I'm not an emotional person, but right then I knew that he needed comfort so I hugged him. It was an awkward hug, mainly because I didn't want to hurt him more and he was lying down. As I separated I looked at him, but now, I knew that I could never feel anything towards him, my heart belonged to another.

"Trey, I'm sorry, but I need you to take me to them, could you do that?" I asked hopefully; he was a bit uneasy but then he nodded.

"Okay, I will. But only you. I won't take anyone else."

"Okay."

"Hell no."

That last phrase hadn't come from me, as I turned around I saw Adrian standing a few meters away from us.

"Adrian," I started but he cut me off.

"Sage, if you think I'm going to let you go alone you're crazy." He stated looking directly to my eyes.

"May I have a word with you?" I asked him and without waiting for an answer I stood up, grabbed him by his sleeve and took him to his bedroom, closing the door firmly behind me.

"Sydney I can't let you go with him alone to how knows where!"

"Look this isn't open to debate, I have to know where they had taken Dimitri and Sonya, they are my friends, and I'm going.

"I won't let you."

"is this because of me going alone or me going with him?" I asked him. he looked away and I realized he must be jealous about the hug he surely saw me give to Trey.

"Hey," I told him cupping his face in my hands, "nothing is happening between me and him okay? I wish… I wish I could tell you why we can't be together but you have to trust me on this." I look at him, willing him to believe me.

"Okay, but you have to promise me two things."

"All right, what are they?"

"Keep yourself safe okay Sage?"

"Fine, I promise. What's the other?"

"When you come back, we'll talk about us." He kissed me softly; as if afraid I would break.

"I promise."

MAJOR SORRY! But I should be doing homework and instead I'm writing so cut me some slack.

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and to the awsome people that had been reading my other stories; I haven't abandoned you, and as son as my life stops looking like a roller coaster I would update more frequently...