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Ash and Mary-Lynnette

Chapter 12: Screams...

It was weird; I was at the palace again. Except this time I was on a Romeo and Juliet balcony. For the second time I was in a beautiful gown, it was baby pink, strapless and I felt like a princess in it. The sky was a light pastel purple mixed with yellow and orange, the sunset was magnificent which also meant a million stars would be appearing soon. I leaned forward my hands grasped lightly on the railing in front of me and I took deep breaths of the lightly scented ocean filled air that surrounded me; I was able to see the ocean in the distance and the soft waves it was creating. Everything felt so perfect I had everything, the princess dress, the hair, the castle, however something was missing... and that's when I realized I was missing my prince, everything else was materialistic. Although in this world wasn't my prince planning a wedding with a red head?

I unexpectedly screamed out in pain, my shoulders pushing back as something unbelievably hard hit my back. I spun around and was taken aback seeing the girl, the red headed girl there. Her sword turned backwards, and I comprehended that she hit me with the handle of it.

"You know" her voice was raspy; "that I can hear everything that goes on in there" she said tapping her temple with her index finger. "So first off my name sinceyou were too stupid to figure it out is Kendra. Second off I would never in hell marry that bastard of yours, I was merely messing with your head, given that it was all I could do at the time."

I wanted to take a step back but I was already as far back as I could go, leaning against the railing of the balcony I asked, "What do you want?" my voice strong, I was surprised it didn't sound scared and nervous like how I truly felt.

"You see I can hear that, and I know how scared you are, but that really wasn't a surprise."

I just stared at her in silence, what was I going to do? But this is only a dream, it's only a dream, it's only a dream, I kept telling myself repeatedly.

"It's more real than dreamlike. You don't really think your dim-witted self could have conjured up this place?" she said laughing. "Anyways I think you know what I want... you see your beloved little Ash hurt me and the only way I see it is to hurt him just as bad" she talked inspecting her nails. "And that's where you come in" she said her hard gaze fixed on me.

I want to wake up, this is my dream!

"That's true, but I'm in control here" she said happily.

"So now what? You're just going to... to kill me?" I asked nervously.

"No I can't" she said extending both her hands out and twirling around once, "although I will, when I get bored that is. So, I guess I should tell you what you have to do now?"

"Who the hell do you think you are? I'm not doing anything you say" I told her sternly.

"Aw boo hoo" she said mocking a sad face, "I guess I should just leave then..." but she then became serious, "I don't think you have understood me. You don't have a choice that is if you care about that boy who lives in your house, what was his name? Matt?"

Matt? No... My eyes widened... she meant Mark. "Leave him out of this" I said severely, "it's me you want not him."

"So does that mean you'll be a good little girl and do what I ask of you?"

I looked at her through hateful eyes and nodded stiffly.

"Well first off this is now between you and me, so telling Ash or anyone else... and I don't care if it's your dog. It is out of the question, I consequently will kill your brother."

I swallowed, "okay."

She looked at me closely, "believe me I will and I'll know if you tell anybody" then she continued, "Next you must meet me in the woods, near that hill where you always stupidly look at the stars."

I gritted my teeth, holding back to tell her off.

She laughed tapping her temple as a reminder she could hear me then carried on, "just walk through the woods and you'll see us. And you will come alone, understand?" she asked as if I was mentally impaired.

I rolled my eyes, "Mmhm. Wait how are you doing this? How are you in my dreams?"

"I have my ways" she said smiling. "Oh and just a little heads up, it's not like I'm going to be alone and we're in the forest so if Ash does show up, it wouldn't exactly be the best environment for him, get it?"

"Yeah I do, don't you think it's obvious I wouldn't tell him when you plan to get my brother as a hostage?"

"No I think you're quite stupid but good then... let the games begin" she said turning around to walk away then stopped turning her head to look at me, "but don't put it out of mind that I already have the boy."

I felt my body go into shock, NO! She already has Mark, shit!

Then she turned completely around, facing me and laughed. She closed the space between us in a few short strides holding her long, dangerous sword out to her side. She brought it swiftly down to slash the side of my stomach. I gasped in pain; I looked to see the pink fabric of my dress turning red as the blood seeped through. Before I fell to the ground she every so quickly lifted me with ease and dropped me off the balcony.

I looked up as I was falling to see her perched on the railing as a little red fox watching me plummet to the ground. My never ending horrified screams continued till I hit the water? What how is that possible the ocean was so-so far from the balcony.

It's still a dream my dear came Kendra's petrifying voice, anything's really possible here... I'll be waiting...

I tried to stay above the water but I couldn't the waves were crashing hard continuously so I gasped for air before I went under. The burning the salt water was doing to the wound on my side made the pain unbearable. The water around me was tinted in a light pink and after a while I finally gave in letting the water engulf my body filling my lungs painfully and then I was nowhere surrounded by darkness...

I woke up gasping as if I just came above the water sitting upright. After I processed the nightmare of a reality I jumped out of bed wanting to check on Mark but collapsed to the ground. My hands grasping my side in pain at the exact spot Kendra's blade slit me. I was panting and slowly lifted my shirt to see if anything was there but the skin was untouched thus I painfully got up and walked slowly to Marks room. He wasn't there and that confirmed what I knew I had to do now.

I didn't think about the pain in my side, while I quickly got a piece of paper writing, I couldn't sleep, so I went out star-gazing. Mark's with me, I think I'll take him out after... I love you. - Mary-Lynnette.

I looked at the clock and it was only around 4 in the morning, they won't be down for awhile.

I went into the kitchen left the note and took out one of the silver steak knives; I was wearing my wind breaker, light blue shorts and a white t-shirt so I decided to cut a piece of cloth and tie the knife to my forearm, hiding it under my jacket.

I then slipped out into the night starting my truck and drove to hill I knew so well.

I hurriedly made my way into the forest, hoping that I would come into view of an unharmed Mark. I walked for awhile going deeper and deeper into the forest; the trees towering over me blocked the bright light brought by the stars the night sky held. Damn, I was fucking freezing! I should have changed at least, why would I be so stupid to come out in shorts, which are totally too short. It got entirely to dark for me to see the farther I went, I tripped a few times and stumbled over earthly things constantly. I had to be walking for about twenty minutes, when I finally decided running was the only option if I was ever going to find them and shortly after I saw an enormous burning fire. I picked up my pace running right through the circle of trees that surrounded the bonfire.

I abruptly came to a halt, panting my hands on my knees as I saw Mark unconsciously leaning against one of the trees. I looked around and saw two girls talking to each other, one was petite with shoulder length blonde hair, chewing bubble gum and the other was taller with straight black hair and a razor cut fringe. They stopped whatever conversation they were in the middle of and turned to glare at me, mischief clear in their eyes.

"Cole! Alexander!" the taller girl called out in a bubbly voice, as if she was the blonde, chewing bubble gum.

I walked over to Mark, and bent by his side trying to figure out if he was hurt in anyway, yet he seemed to be fine expect for a cut leading from his nose to ear, which didn't seem so serious at the moment.

There was a booming roar that echoed through the forest and a loud thumping. I watched as an orange and black tiger leaped out from the trees followed by a boy maybe a year or two older than me who had amazingly good looks. He was tall and looked mysterious; he had longish messy black hair and was slightly tanned. I figured he was a vampire, the other being a shapeshifter.

"Cole" yelled the bubbly voiced girl, "stop fooling around and change forms" she said shaking her head making her black fringe sway back and forth.

"Yeah" said the other girl, her voice was normal I guess, nothing all that special, "you guys are gonna be in shit if Kendra finds out you left."

The tiger shifted into a not so tall blonde boy, "Oh shut up, dumb and dumber."

So the blonde one was Cole and the vampire was Alexander then.

"Hey" said Cole looking at me, "the girls here... what a shame" he said walking towards me, "she's hot."

I forced myself not to roll my eyes; I just looked up at him coldly as he stood in front of me.

He squatted down, "Babe isn't it sad that you pissed Kendra off?" he said grinningly, "Something I would have never done."

I looked at the boy named Cole and thought about how he wasn't going to touch me since it was Kendra who wanted to hurt Ash, as a result, me. Where is she anyways?

I looked at him smugly and replied, "To me it seems like you're scared of her and that I think is sad."

Alexander who wasn't far from us laughed a sweet sound, "Cole you better shut up before the girl puts you to shame."

"Your mom should shut up Alexander" said Cole bitterly his pride obviously hurt. What's with guys and your mom jokes? "I don't know who you think you are" Cole continued, "but I wouldn't be acting so smart if I were you."

"It's not an act" I said. Clearly I was losing it, was I seriously provoking the people who were going to kill me? Well I was going to die anyways. "What?" I said when he didn't reply, "tryna cough up a fur ball?" I asked smugly remembering Ash's joke the other night.

Alexander laughed loud and clear then walked to the fire watching as the flames blazed high and intense.

Cole brought his hand up to my neck tightly, hitting my head hard against the bark of the tree. I brought both my hands up trying to pry his hands off my neck. He's grip tightened and his other hand slithered up my naked thigh and moved to grab my ass.

"You know someone as smart as you should know when to shut up" he said tauntingly.

I kicked my legs back and forth, but the more I struggled the tighter his grip got. His other hand was still there gripping my ass and he brought his disgusting mouth near my chest, I tried pushing him off but it was no use, he was too strong. He kept hold of my neck and moved his other hand to retrieve a small blade from his pocket, I watched in horror as he brought it down hard against my wrist opening a deep gash making me bleed tremendously.

I gritted my teeth together, and I felt tears burn in my eyes, then tumble down my cheeks. "GET OFF ME!" I shrieked, and was shocked it was actually audible.

I couldn't get enough air at first however all of a sudden I was able to breathe once more. I barely saw Alexander take Cole by the neck and smack him right into a tree; he was so powerful that Cole's body made an indent in the tree and the blonde boy shudder in revulsion.

"The girl is supposed to be kept untouched and unharmed" snarled Alexander.

"Get your hands off me" Cole sneered.

Alexander dropped Cole and moved to the girls, "go find Kendra, now!" he ordered sharply. He cut his eyes at Cole, "follow them, make sure you get Kendra and tell her to stop wasting our time."

I watched how they took the orders from him whispering, "Yeah he's strong but he's way too soft, I don't see why Kendra doesn't just tell him to fuck off."

"Well I think she will tonight once Cole complains to her. He's not..." the blonde girls voice trailed off as the girls left running while Cole tensely shifted into a tiger then raced off behind them.

Alexander stood silently for a while then swiftly moved to me, I pulled my legs up to my chest and cringed away from him. He was enraged and his eyes were so dark and filled with shadows.

"Are you hurt?" he asked coolly.

"It's nothing" I said trembling, pressing my wrist into my white shirt. Damn, white really? I couldn't be wearing any other colour. I winced in pain as I pressed my wrist harder wanting to stop the bleeding.

He relaxed and then knelt down beside me pulling my arm gently to inspect it, and then turned his head and... stopped breathing. When he looked back I realized how exactly dark his eyes were and figured he mustn't have fed yet.

"That doesn't look like nothing" he said gracefully taking out a cloth from his pocket, unravelling the knife kept there. He slid the knife back in his pocket and folded the cloth before pressing it against my wound.

"Oww" I said when my arm throbbed in pain as he tied the cloth tightly.

He looked up at me through sorrowful eyes, "how old are you?" he asked, then surprised me by carefully brushing away the tears that streaked my face.

"E-eighteen" I stuttered.

He sighed, "You obviously know about the Night World since you aren't going into hysterics by cat-boy and the witch bitches. Plus Kendra said you would come straight to us. So what did you do to her?" he asked curiously.

I looked at him thoughtfully, why did he care?

"Nothing" I mumbled, "I did absolutely nothing."

"Yeah" he laughed, "I'm sure you did nothing. That's why you're here right?" he asked sarcastically.

"I don't care if you don't believe me, it's true... she wants me dead I guess you could say because of the company I'm around" I said shrugging. It didn't feel right bringing up Ash as my soulmate and about how Kendra's just out to get revenge. I need to get out of here, but how? He may be nice but no way in hell was he just going to let me waltz out of here.

"Well isn't that unfortunate, you didn't even do anything. Kendra's just trying to hurt someone close to you?" he asked.

I nodded, "yeah, that's right."

He looked deep into my eyes, "what's your name?"

"Why?" I asked coldly.

"I like to know who we're going to be killing... and most likely when they're done with you, I'll be feeding off you" he said grinning menacing licking his lips.

I looked at him through horror filled eyes; I was staring into the eyes of the guy who was going to suck me dry.

He chuckled, "I'm kidding" he said light-heartedly, "I'm trying to cut off the humans" he said. "However Kendra still is going to kill you."

Great, he wasn't really making this any better. Although he was really cute and he didn't seem all that bad, but I was obviously wrong if he was hanging around with Kendra he has to be bad news.

His proximity to me was so close, our breath was mingling.

"You have to feed soon though" I said looking at him seriously.

"So?" he said like he was getting irritated.

"So, why are you still here?" I asked, maybe if he leaves I can get Mark out of here.

"Because your here."

"What does that mean?" I asked eyebrows raised.

"I don't..." he began then said "do you really think I'm going to leave you here by yourself, to run away that is?" he asked bluntly.

I grinned, so he wasn't stupid enough to do that, but I have to get Mark out of here.

He raised his eyebrows up and down, "yeah I thought as much."

"Why?" I asked, "why are you doing this? Talking to me that is?"

He looked taken back, speechless, as if he himself didn't know why. Until finally when he spoke he didn't answer my question but repeated his previous question, "what is your name?"

"Mary-Lynnette" I automatically answered, "Mary-Lynnette Carter."

"Mary-Lynnette" he whispered thoughtfully. He rose suddenly, "well it was nice knowing you... Mary-Lynnette" he said before backing away and resting against a tree far from me, but still in good view. He rested there as he was there all along.

I heard a massive roar and figured Kendra was near, I watched as the girls ran rapidly into the circle, Cole, tiger form, close behind them.

Then I watched as the tiny red fox pranced in the circle. She stopped then shifted forms, shocking me at seeing the transformation first hand. She stood there her long red hair tied back in a high pony tail, she was in all black, and her green eyes laughed at me as her gaze rested upon me.

"Alexander" she said shocked, "I'm surprised... good job I didn't think the girl would still be here when I came back."

"Whatever Kendra, you're wasting my time" he said uncaringly.

"No" she replied, "you're wasting my time. You're lucky you didn't let the girl go."

He laughed sweetly, "I'm lucky, don't fool yourself Kendra."

She narrowed her eyes in anger, "I am not dealing with you now."

He snorted, and then rested his head back against the tree, his eyes closed.

"Now Mary-Lynnette, you played your part just right, didn't you?" she asked slyly.

I didn't answer her, my heart was racing and I instantly tried making the shield around my mind stronger. Ash couldn't find out where I was, they'd kill him.

"Well I know you didn't tell anyone." she said ticking her fingers one by one, "You came straight here. You kept..."

"Kendra" yelled the black haired girl, "Diana's going."

Kendra didn't shift her gaze away from me, "fine."

"Well anyways why don't we get started" she bent down close to me then stopped, "what the hell is this?" she asked fiercely yanking my arm and sniffing at the cloth Alexander tied, "it-it smells like Alexander."

"It's nothing" I said yanking my arm from her tight grip. "What are you a fucking dog? Oh yeah a fox. Close enough" I said trying to distract her, not wanting to get Alexander in any trouble.

"You care to explain?" she said glaring at Alexander, completely ignoring me.

"You wanted her unharmed, Cole disobeyed. Simple as that, I took care of it" he said with easy composure.

"You know you're getting to be way too fucking much" she said yanking at the cloth making it pull deeper into the cut.

I stood up and gasped, fiddling myself to get the cloth off before she ripped it any further into my arm.

She laughed cruelly at me grabbing a big chuck of my hair and dragging me to the open space near the fire.

"OWWW!" I yelled as she did so.

I heard Cole's deafening roar and I knew it was filled with laughter and amusement.

I wasn't going to let her get away with this so easily, thus I squeezed my hand in a tight fist and brought my fist as hard as I could across her cheek, the impact was hard and I thought painful making her head turned. She slowly turned her head towards me glaring deadly.

"You shouldn't have done that!" she growled.

I tried clearing my mind and thought back to cheer practise with Stella and Lauren and back flipped backwards bringing my leg up to hit her right below her chin making her mouth smash together. I heard her teeth click painfully together as if teeth had actually broken.

She took out her blade and I ran around the circle closer to Alexander, but she was faster and hit me to the ground.

On my hands and knees I tried scrabbling away from her in horror.

"No, no, no" I whispered to myself as she brought the blade down, slicing my leg right down to the bone. "AHHHHH!" I screeched.

An endless stream of tears ran down my cheeks and I wished so bad I could be in the comfort of Ash. I couldn't breathe... the pain was unbearable; I screamed and screamed heart wrenching shrieks of agony.

I was gasping for air, and my head was pounding as if there was a bulldozer inside my head trying to break through. I glanced at my sliced open calf, blood was gushing out of it and my leg was completely red, covered with the blood. The white of my bone was visible and in addition I felt like puking my guts out.

Kendra then picked me up and whipped me against the tree.

There was chaos in my head and I was wondering what the loud buzzing in my head was. Finally I realized the buzzing in my ear were my tormented cries.

"I think you've done enough" I heard Gaby's strained voice.

"Ash" I barely breathed out unconsciously and then a scream arose from my throat again.

"Shut the fuck up Alexander. Aww Mary-Lynnette isn't it just awful; Ash isn't even here to save you. You just had to come and save your poor little brother" she said in a mockingly tone.

I groaned in pain, my heart wrenching sobs of pain made it difficult for me to breathe. Kendra disappeared from my sight and the sound of a familiar voice sounded in my ears. I felt hope that tonight wouldn't be the end; however that was still a very unlikely possibility.

I tried propping myself up on one of my elbows, and I looked at Kendra through my squinted eyes, it took so much effort, and only to see... Oh my God, I could not believe my eyes. I had to be hallucinating. He's-he's with her?! Traitor...


AUTHOR'S NOTE: okay so first off i wanted to say i'm sorry it took me so freaking long to update and this chapter wasn't all that long either.

It's just that well yeah i've been busy with school and life but i've been reading a lot too... so i finished the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead and OmG i absolutely recommend this series if you haven't read it, it's like one of my all time favourite series... it was amazing and i can not wait fot the next installment in the series coming out in may...

EEK I LOVE DIMITRI BELIKOV 3 ...lmfao the guy in Vampire Academy :)

Oh and in addition i finished The Morganville Vampires series (well except the 7th book, Fade Out) and it was actually really good too.

so anywho i'm so freaking sick right now i can't believe it (URGH! i hate it) but i'll try my best to get the next chapter out as soon as possible

Oh Gosh i hope people are still reading and haven't given up hope in me, 'cause seriously i can not believe i haven't written in so long...

OOH Yeah, i wanted to ask too, have any of you guys read, The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series by J.R. Ward ???

if so was it any good, and would you recommend it ?

Oh btw. i know it's random, LOL, but you know what songs i really like right now? Take it Off by Ke$ha (Kesha) and Wedding Dress by Matt Nathanson :)

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