That's right, you are not reading that wrong. FINALLY it's here. I am rather proud of this one, so I hope you guys like it.

R (for language and violence)


"Almeida…if you're gonna stand by the window all night and stare at her instead of paying attention, then just go down there and bring her up."

Mason was getting annoyed. They'd only been in the meeting for half an hour and Tony couldn't stop watching his mortal. Not that he could blame him. She was hot and she was walking around downstairs in the lion's den. He didn't think anyone would touch her. After all Tony had marked her. But a vampire was a vampire.

It was still annoying.

Tony glanced over his shoulder at Mason then went back to watching Michelle wander the dance floor with Beth.

"I can hear ya fine from here George. Get on with it."

Mason just sighed and continued. "Anyway, we shouldn't let them get settled. We need someone to try and get into that building. I hear it's like a fortress over there though."

Jack turned to the youngest vampire in the room. "Logan, you think you can hack into their security system and get me in the building?"

"Well, I can tell you if I can't you will have to wait for Chole to get back from vacation."

Jack smiled at the mention of his long time friend. Chole on vacation…now that was something he'd never seen.

Jack looked over at Tony. "Hey, you mind coming with me? Or do you not do dangerous anymore now that you are domesticated?" He snickered a little.

Tony turned away from the glass for the first time that night and faced Jack. "Domesticated? Ya make me sound like I'm a damn cat!"

Everyone in the room gave a small laugh.

"Of course I'll go with you Jack. Nina is as much a threat to me as she is to you. Besides…" He subconsciously ran his hand over the place the knife wound had healed. "I owe her." His eyes flashed blue.

George just smirked. Almeida was one of the most easy going vampires he'd ever met, but he knew you did not cross him. Nina was a formidable opponent to be sure, but he had a feeling she'd see just what her "offspring" was capable of.

Mason stood up from his desk. "Well if that's it gentleman I think we should start our separate tasks and get this ball rolling. The faster we—"

"Wait. Do you feel that?" Tony looked at Jack. If he had been a cat, all the hair on his back would be standing on end.

Jack looked confused for a moment before he got the same exact look as Tony. Standing quickly and moving toward the glass wall, he looked down on the dance floor below, searching.

Tony turned as Jack passed him and started searching the floor as well.

Mason walked over to the two vampires who were frantically scanning the bottom level of his club. "What? What's wrong?"

Jack suddenly went ramrod straight but it was Tony who answered.

"It's Nina. She's here…and I don't see Beth or Michelle anywhere."


Michelle walked around the dance floor with Beth. The place was dark and smoky and the flashing lights were starting to give her a headache. She wished whatever they were doing up there would finish. She kept getting the feeling she was being watched.

"Michelle, let's go back to that corner. I think I see a table." Beth screamed at her over the loud music. They made there way to the far corner of the north end of the club. There was an empty high table near a door that looked like it went to the clubs interior.

"This is much better. The speakers are pointed the other way so we won't become deaf." Beth smiled at Michelle. "Are you ok? I know all of this happened so quick."

Michelle gave her friend a small smile. "I'll be ok. And I uh…can't complain too much." Michelle glanced up at the glass room that currently held the most important person in her life. She could just make out the back of Tony. She knew he was watching from the office upstairs but that isn't what she felt. Someone else was watching her. Watching them.

Beth stood up. "I'm gonna go get us something to drink. I'll be right back." Michelle nodded.

She sat at the table, just people watching. She was playing a game with herself, trying to guess who was mortal and who was vampire. She couldn't really tell the difference. She glanced to her left and caught the eye of a man that seemed to be very interested in her. He was dressed in all black, not unusual really. But, he wasn't just looking her way. He was leering. He was of average height with long blonde hair and had a smug look on his face. Michelle turned away from him. He was giving her the creeps. She looked around some more and glanced back his way, only to see he was gone.

Something touched her right arm and she gasped, turning around quickly to come face to face with the same man who'd been watching her.

"Don't move. Don't even breathe. You know what will happen if you do. Just come with me quietly and I won't hurt you."

Michelle frantically looked around but he pulled her towards the door she had seen earlier. They pushed through and she saw Beth being held by one of the vampires she'd seen at her apartment. Another woman Michelle had never seen before was shackled to a chair with what looked like silver chains. She had blonde hair to her shoulders and she was older, maybe late 40s. She was wearing a necklace with a crescent moon on it.

The vampire threw Michelle at another man in the room and shut the door behind him.

He pointed at the older woman in the chair. "Get her up. If we are going, we need to go now before they notice they're gone."

The man near the woman grabbed her arm and pulled her up while the other two men each took hold of one of their arms and led them to another door at the back.

They made their way out of the room and into a dimly lit hall. They moved further towards the back and Michelle could hear the music of the club dying away. There was nothing she could do. They were being taken and no one had any idea.

The end of the hall had a door with an exit sign above it.

"Wait here, I'll check it out first." The man who had Beth handed her to the man who had Michelle and walked to the door, opening it slowly. He stuck his head out of the crack of the door looking to his left first and then looking to his right…and that's when it happened.

She watched as blue eyes streaked in beside the man's neck as he tilted to the right to see around the door. An arm came out of the darkness and wrapped around his middle, pulling him into a bite he never saw coming. She watched as Tony ripped the man's neck open, spilling blood everywhere.

Tony dropped the vampire to the ground and fiercely kicked the door open, striding towards them purposefully. Blood dripped from his mouth and chin, streaking underneath to his neck. The two vampires left still holding the three women froze for a split second, then turned to move back toward the way they came.

¡Hágame frente! (Face me!)

Michelle heard Tony shout and felt his anger shake the walls. She tried to turn back to see him but the men were pushing and pulling them faster. As she turned to face the way they were going she suddenly saw another pair of eyes come out of the darkness, this time it was Jack. The men stopped, trapped between the two vampires. They looked back and forth, trying to come up with something to get them out of the trap. That's when Nina came out of nowhere. A hallway was behind them and was so dark Michelle hadn't seen it when they'd come past the first time.

"Nehmen Sie sie. I' ll Handgriff dieses." (Take them. I'll handle this.)

The two men pulled at the women and started down the newly discovered hallway. They stopped at a door as one of the men searched for the key. Michelle turned around and saw Nina enter the main hallway.

"Boys boys boys. When will you ever learn? You should have stayed with me when you had the chance. Now I'll just have to kill you."

Jack walked closer and without taking his eyes off her spoke to Tony. "Go after them. I have something to settle here."

Nina turned to Jack, forgetting about Tony and not caring when he made his way behind her.

"Hello Jack. It's been a long time. How's Kim?"

Jack's eyes began to burn bright blue.


Michelle and Beth were being dragged down an alley behind the club. They heard someone bust through the door from the building and turned to see Tony making his way closer. He was so focused on them he never saw the vampire coming up behind him. Michelle had just enough time to scream his name before he was struck.

Tony landed on the hard ground with a sickening crack. His vision swam for a second but he was able to roll over to his back and dodge a swift foot to the mid section. He jumped to his feet and backhanded the vampire sending him into the wall. Blood was seeping into Tony's eyes from the gash on his forehead but he ignored it. Moving faster than Michelle could make out she watched as he grabbed the man by the neck and lifted him off the ground. Never in her life had she seen anything like this. With his other hand Tony jerked the man's head to the side and bit into him, tearing the flesh away violently. She heard a wet scream and then he dropped the body to the ground and turned towards them again.

The two men holding them seemed to study Tony. They expected him to go after them as soon as he had dispatched the other vampire but he just stood there. That's when they saw it.

Michelle was fighting against the man holding her and watched as Tony just stood there.

What the hell is he doing?

The man holding her suddenly went deathly still. Behind Tony she saw it, walking closer to them. Michelle thought she would faint.

Slowly making it's way next to Tony was an 8 ft tall wolf. It was silver all over except for it's head where she could see slight streaks of darker grey. But the one thing that stood out was it's eyes. They were strikingly blue wolf's eyes. She could see blood was already dripping from it's massive claws. It came to a stop on Tony's right side and she saw Mick stop beside it on the other side. He too had blood on him. More vampires must have been inside the club.

Tony bared his teeth and just said "They've got Karen."

The wolf thing narrowed it's eyes at them and pulled it's hands into fists. She watched as it's teeth gleamed in the moonlight and as it started to step forward she saw it was wearing the same necklace she'd seen on the older woman.

Finally the two men broke their daze and started down the alley way again. The street was coming closer and closer. Michelle looked back and saw Tony and Mick making their way to them behind the wolf. The beast, however, was gaining on them quickly and was no longer using the ground but the wall of the building to their right. It was jumping from catwalk to catwalk.

At the end of the alley a white van pulled up and slid the side door open. Michelle, Beth and the older woman were pushed inside and the door closed barely before they took off, tires squealing madly.

"Sit the fuck down and don't move. We were told to take you all alive but that doesn't mean shit to me if you give me trouble." The man who spoke moved to get in the front seat when the roof of the van was tore open.

Screaming, the women went down to the floor when the driver jerked at the force of the impact. Michelle looked up and saw the wolf reach back and tear another hole in the roof of the van, pulling the metal back like a tin can. It reached it's hand in and the vampire that was trying to get to the front seat latched onto it's forearm. The wolf howled from the bite and frantically tried to dislodge the vampire but he wouldn't let go. The wolf yanked it's arm up smashing the vampire's head into the roof finally getting him to let go. It tried again, reaching down inside the van. It grabbed the vampire by the face this time with a large paw and Michelle watched as it squeezed. The vampire gave off muffled screams and blood poured from his ears while he tried to pull at the fingers latched onto his head. The wolf pulled the vampire up towards the hole and she saw it a split second before it happened. A piece of the van's roof had pulled in instead of out and the vampire's head easily slid onto the sharp wreckage, impaling him through the skull. The wolf let go and the man's body slide down into the back of the van with them.

Beth and Michelle worked to grab the older woman and try and make their way to the front of the van but before they could make any head way the driver turned around with a shotgun. He pulled it back aiming for the roof.

"Fucking dirty lycan." And he fired.

They heard another loud howl and then the weight on the roof eased, the metal moaning with relief. The shot had taken the wolf from the top of the van.

That was it. They had no idea where they were being taken.

And no idea what the hell was going on.


Mick pulled up along side the curb and both he and Tony jumped out and made their way to the body of the man lying prone in the middle of the road. He was slowly sitting up, holding onto his left shoulder. He was bleeding from what looked like a gunshot wound and his right forearm bore teeth marks that were also pouring blood. The crescent moon symbol around his neck was a shiny metal red color from the blood coating it.

"I tried. I almost had them but that bastard driving pulled a shotgun on me. He got lucky, caught my shoulder." He was panting trying to catch his breath. He stood up finally and was taller than Mick and Tony both. He was older, maybe early 50s with silver hair in most places, but dark streaks throughout. His eyes though were still a striking blue, only human this time.

Mick placed his hand on his shoulder, his voice shaking and betraying the worry he felt.

"It's ok Bill. You got closer than we did. Now we just have to work on getting them back." Mick looked at Tony. The Latin vampire hadn't said a word. He wasn't even looking at them. He was just standing there staring off after where the van went. The look on his face gave Mick chills. He'd killed before in war and in self defense of himself or Beth. But the look on Tony's face was murder. He wanted blood.

Mick looked at Bill then back at Tony. "God help them when we do."