Alright here it is another chapter. I'd say we're about in the middle of the story, but getting closer to the end with each chapter :( If you guys didn't know this my first fanfic so tell me how I'm doing! ;) Review, favorite, follow any of the three would be great. Happy reading!

Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own Strange Angels though I do own this particular story line, the characters aren't mine :(

I got back to my room, stunned. What just happened? Who was he talking to and why would he try to hide it from me. I thought we told each other everything, apparently not.

As I was mulling all this over when another thought came to me that I had just put together. That day in class, he was texting someone and then got a phone call. Could that have been the same person he was just on the phone with? Maybe it wasn't another girl. Maybe it was a friend or someone that became a mother figure for him. That's possible, right? I don't know, but I'm definitely going to find out.

I didn't really want to think about all the possibilities, but thankfully I had something to keep my mind off of it. I was going on another mission today, or night I guess. We were going to night club where there's been a lot of disappearances in the past couple of weeks. We've been scouting it out and just waiting for the right time, which happened to be tonight. As usual I was going in alone at first and the primary and secondary teams would follow.

I was walking into the council room with Nat so we could all prepare for what was to come, though I felt as if I had already fought one battle tonight. She had dressed me in black leather shorts, and when I say shorts I mean they were short. You didn't need to worry about not being able to move in them and a tight black shirt that stopped just under my bust with a long sleeved fishnet top over it. She also gave me black leather thigh high boots. We had argued over this for a good fifteen minutes before I grudgingly gave in. I didn't understand the necessity of fitting in when I was just going to kick some asses anyway. What did it matter if I wore jeans and a T-shirt or what I had on now?

As we came upon the doors I dreaded walking in. I needed a jacket or a robe, anything to cover up, but of course I wasn't that lucky. It was just as awful as I thought it would be, though most of the council looked away and cleared their throat politely, it was impossible to miss their wide eyed expression as I walked in. Just ignore it Dru. If only it were that easy.

"Alright, are we all ready?" I said getting down to business. This would be easy, we did it all the time, but remembering the letter kind of made me uneasy.

"Christophe was just readying the teams, he should be here shortly." Bruce replied handing me a tiny earpiece.

As I was putting it on the doors opened an in walked Christophe looking down at some papers he had in his hand.

"Okay, we have the layout of the building. The teams are ready to proceed as soon as we're finished here." Christophe said looking up from his papers for the first time and immediately looked to me. His expression would have been comical if I didn't feel so self conscious already. His eyes widened in shock and his mouth opened slightly as he gazed at me. I shifted my weight feeling uncomfortable under his intense stare. In his eyes you could see hunger and appreciation, it made my insides tingle…in a good way. Then everything Nat and I had talked about came rushing back to me. How did I feel about him?

"Is there a problem Chris?" I said resorting to sarcasm to diffuse the situation.

He cleared his throat and continued, snapping out of his trance and walking over to lay the papers out on the table. As he did Nat caught my eye and gave me a knowing look. I rolled my eyes in return.

"Alright, when Dru is inside and gives us the signal, the primary team will enter through the main entrance and the secondary team will enter through the alleyway." Christophe said pointing to each entrance. I was fidgeting with my earpiece as it would just not stay on. I can never get them on right. They're very convenient, if your not planning on moving. Christophe could see my struggling and reached over to help me fit it to my ear. His hands lingered for just a second and I could feel the skin heat up the spots he touched. We made brief eye contact before I looked back down to the papers on the table. Get it together Dru-girl. My father's voice chimed in my head. You need to be focused.

"Dru, I'll be instructing you from home base."

"Yeah, if home base means the roof of an unfamiliar building. That definitely screams home to me." I mumbled, knowing he could hear. Though I was fully capable to go on my own, especially with honing my hexing skills, he still felt it was too dangerous for me to go without him.

He smiled crookedly as he continued, ignoring my comment. "The rest of the council will be here, ready to intercede if anything unexpected happens." He finished and then everyone was on the move preparing for their job tonight.

Christophe pulled me aside and started going over weapons with me. "We've placed malika under the table at the far back corner, where you will be sitting, next to the bar." He said as he was pulling out a standard black hand gun. He bent down and gently tucked it in the holster concealed in my right boot. Again I could feel tingling where his skin had made contact with my own and my heart started to beat a little faster.

As he stood up he looked into my eyes, all traces of his usual businesslike mockery gone. "Kochana, everything will be fine. You don't need to worry, I'll be there." He said, a mischievous smile playing on his lips before he turned serious again. "If anything goes wrong you need to get out of there. Don't worry about the others, they can take care of themselves, but lets try to stay close this time shall we?" He said a crease forming between his eye brows, referring to the first time he had acted as "home base". There had been nosferat everywhere and I had gone out a back way not knowing Christophe had been on the roof, ready if anything were to go wrong. That was the night I had made my first kill. "Can you keep yourself safe for me?" He said gravely as if the entire world depended on my answer.

But of course the only thing I was able to do was nod my head weakly as I was too entranced to speak. And with that he grabbed the top of my arms and brought me close while he kissed my forehead before closing the distance altogether, hugging me. All my nerves went away, knowing I would be okay with Christophe by my side.

And so we were off. This was about to be one hell of a night.

Okay so I'm starting to bring some action in for all of you action lovers (I too love a little action here and there). I am hoping to post another chapter later today or tomorrow at the latest so check in and be on the lookout for that.(Or you can add this story to your alerts *wink* *wink*) Hope your enjoying the story so far. Thanks for all you support and happy reading!