Chapter 14

Lost and Found

Kenny was despondent when he saw Lily fly away, litterally. It wasn't so much that she could change into a bird, apparently at will, it was that she wasn't here with him. She was gone. After she left Hannah had wasted no time in shouting the alarm, but it was too late and they both knew it.

Nobody knew where Lily was, Kenny did. She was with that insane guy she had told him about, Alder. When he would say this everyone would shake their heads and mumble, they wouldn't really tell him anything. So now he sat in her room looking at the few things that were hers, he had never missed anyone so much in his life. It was like half of him was gone.

The door burst open and Kenny turned around to see Thiery himself walk in.

"Come with me, I have something that will cheer you up, somewhat," Thiery said.

Kenny watched him for a moment before nodding politely. "Let's go," he said and followed him from the room and down the stairs. Kenny stopped close to the bottom, his jaw hanging open in shock.

"Kenny?" His mother asked. She ran to him and took him in her arms, holding him tight.

"What's going on?" James asked as he looked around the entranceway of Thiery's mansion. His father simply stood watching everything.

"Mom? Is it really you?" Kenny whispered.

"Of course dear who else would it be?" She aked, making him laugh a bit.

He didn't think he would ever see them again. Lily had done this, Lily sent them back; which could only mean one thing. He turned to Thiery and looked soberly at him, "this means she's there, doesn't it?" He asked. Thiery only nodded.

"Who?" James asked.

Kenny ignored him, still speaking to Thiery, "did he send anything back?"

Thiery held out a small piece of paper, Kenny pulled out of his mother's grasp and took it, opening it up. "It basically says to stay away, that she wanted it this way," Thiery whispered.

"Hell Thiery, greetings to you. In return for the gracious gift you sent to me I have given you the family of that redheaded human. I hope you are enjoying them as much as I am enjoying Lily," Kenny's jaw tightened as he read that. "She wanted me to tell you to stay away, she is quite happy with me. We wouldn't want me to get agitated and harm her now would we? If I see anyone that I even vaguely think is from Circle Daybreak she will be hurt.

Sinerely Azheda"

Kenny crumpled the note in his hand.

"I'm sorry," Thiery whispered.

"You don't have anything to be sorry for, it's my fault, all of this," Kenny said. His family had simply been watching their exchange.

"What the hell is going on?" James suddenly burst out. Kenny looked at him, then back at Thiery.

"Do they know anything?" Kenny asked.

"Not really, just the kidnapping and being brought here, other then that they're clueless," Thiery said.

"Probably better that way," Kenny murmured. "Can we speak alone Thiery?"

"Of course, my servant will show you to your rooms, make yourself comfortable and we will be with you shortly," Thiery said, nodding to Nilson who had been waiting in the shadows. Before any of his family could speak Kenny continued down the stairs and into Thiery's study, Thiery followed closely behind he closed the door after them.

"What's going to happen now?" Kenny asked as he began to pace Thiery's study. Thiery went around the desk and sat in his chair.

"Quite a few things can happen, but first and foremost I would like you and your family to continue staying here or possibly at a different safe house," Thiery said.

"Kenny nodded, "it's what Lily wanted," he whispered.

"Next comes what we tell your family, the truth or lies, I myself have always been one for the truth, but they're your family."

"You mean should we tell them that I found my soulmate who just happens to be a vampire, shapeshifting, witch who is going to end up being one of only a handful of people that will save or destroy the world and she has been kidnapped by the very man that kidnapped you?"

Thiery laughed, "I suppose when you put it like that it does sound a little farfetched, but they should be told why we are keeping them here and why the police don't and can't know about any of this."

"You're right, I just don't want to be the one to tell them," Kenny said. Thiery nodded his sympathy.

"If you want I will be with you, Hannah can too of course, and I can bring in Ash and possibly Shiloh to help along the way."

"That would help, especially with Hannah because she's human," Kenny said thoughtfully. Thiery nodded.

"That's what we'll do then. Why don't you go see them, Nilson will tell you where they are, and we'll meet you there in a few minutes." Thiery stood and walked him to the door.

"Thank you for everything," Kenny said as he left to go talk with his family. Thiery only nodded.

Lily was looking through the extensive closet in Azheda's room, still naked, while he looked on in amusement behind her.

She ignored him as she pulled out a beautiful designer dress and looked at it. It was black with darker patterns of black irises all over the dress. The irises were difficult to see, the dress had to be looked at in the right light. With a shrug Lily pulled it over her head and put it on. She walked to Azheda and pulled her hair out of the way.

"Zip me up?" She asked. She felt his fingers on her back and a little shock went up her spine. Goosebumps stood out on her flesh as he continued to caress her back. After a moment he stopped and she felt the zipper go up on the dress. She wasn't sure if she were happy or disappointed that he had stopped.

"Thanks," she whispered, letting her hair drop into place. She turned to face him and saw him watching her again, he did that a lot.

She found though no matter how hard she tried she couldn't read his thoughts through their connectiong, not like she could with Kenny. She could get a vague sense of his feelings, but that was it. She felt a wave of desire hit her and relized belatedly it was his.

"Come sit down," he said, patting the bed. She hesitated, not sure if she wanted to be that close to him. In the blink of an eye he was beside her though. She couldn't help but feel the excitement course through her as he took her in his arms and pulled her close to him.

He was the exact opposite of Kenny and she knew she should hate him, but she couldn't. Where Kenny was good, he was pure evil, even their looks were opposite, Kenny had red hair and green eyes while Azheda had blond hair and brown eyes. She couldn't help but compare them as Azheda leaned in and kissed her.

It was a breathless kiss, his tongue fenced with hers as his fingers played through her hair, she couldn't stop herself from responding to him. Before she knew it she was in his mind.

She had the feeling of a wave of darkness overtaking her, there was almost no light in his mind. She shivered as his memories became clear to her. Azheda smiling as he hunted a human girl in the night, her screams of terror as he killed her and drank her blood. His laughing smile as he stood from her corpse and went to find another.

Lily was horrified, but she couldn't escape however hard she tried. She tried to pull away mentally and physically only to find she was stuck. She had the vague feeling that he was holding her, carrying her to the bed and laying her down with him.

"Don't you like what you see?" He asked with a laugh. She felt sick. She ran from his memories, ignoring the pictures that appeared of his killing, all the death on his hands.

"Let me out," she cried, falling to the cold, hard floor of his mind.

"Don't you want to see more, Lily? Perhaps a different time?" He asked, and she felt like she was being taken back in time, his memories were thousands of years old. Suddenly she was looking at a picture of him wearing nothing and hovering over a girl with long silver hair and eyes, smiling down at her as she moaned underneath him. She looked rather like herself, and Lily stared in shock at the memory.

"What is this?" She asked.

"That was you a few hundred years ago when I found you again," he said as the memory played on. The girl was around seventeen, like Lily, quite pretty, and very obviously human.

She watched as they made love in his memory, but something wasn't quite right, the expression on the girls face was more saddness then pleasure, Lily wondered why.

"Because she was a fool, just like you are," she heard his thought and got the feeling it wasn't meant for her to hear. Lily stood from her spot on the floor and looked around at his mind until she found what she was looking for.

It took a while to locate, but it couldn't hide. A spot of light in the very back cavern of his mind. She ran to it, ignoring him as he shouted at her to stop. She reached it and looked into the light to see a boy, fifteen or sixteen, smiling up at a friend. They were both human and both wore skins of animals.

"That's you, before you were turned," she said in awe as she watched them talking. She began running towards another memory of light.

"Stop it," Azheda growled. She didn't even blink an eyelash as she looked into this one. This memory was a little further in time and she stared in shock at what she saw.

"You're an old soul, you've lived different lives in different times," she said. The memory in front of her was maybe one hundred years after the last one, it was still a cave era but he was different from then. He looked like he did now, and the strangest part was that he was standing next to Kenny, or a man that looked just like Kenny.

"So you know my brother then?" Azheda asked.

"You're brother?" she whispered as she watched them run around and chase after each other, playing some primitive game.

"That was around the time that Maya, once the oldest living vampire in the world, made me into a vampire. She's dead now thanks to Thiery and Hannah of course. When my twin brother and I were born to our clan it was a joyous event, but nobody knew the truth, not even I did until I met you again a few hundred years ago."

"What truth?" She asked. She didn't get her answer though because she was suddenly in her own body again, lying on the bed next to Azheda.

"You don't need to know," he whispered.

"Tell me," Lily said, grabbing him by the arm before he could leave.

Azheda looked down at her and smiled cruelly. "I can be very mean if I don't get things my way," he growled, pulling out of her grasp and grabbing her arms. He pinned her on the bed and laid down on top of her, pinning her with his weight and strength.

She looked up into his dark brown eyes as he held her down, challenging him. She didn't know why but she didn't think he would hurt her or even take her against her will. "So can I," she said as she watched him. He released her suddenly and got off the bed.

"We'll go out later, maybe have some fun," he said, then left. Lily watched him leave wondering what she had gotten herself into.

Thanks to Jess, my new reviewer, and of course to my old reviewer windy, you guys are awesome! I hope this chapter answered your questions if you have any more review and let me know, or even email me.

Thanks, you guys are so awesome! Keep up the reviews!