Jade told Deacon everything about the betrayal of his first man and Blades plan to kill him in the first light of day, when Dreed will open the doors for Blade and his men. Deacon listened silent. When Jade ended he remained silent. Jade watched him close for a few minutes. He lit another cigarette but then seemed to forget about it. It burned out in his hand. He just stared into space. His features were absolute expressionless. Suddenly he shook his head and came back to reality. He threw away the fag and rose to get inside. Bewildered Jade followed him. He poured whiskey into two glasses, added an ice cube at each glass and handed one to Jade without any word. He went back outside. Again Jade was the one to follow.

"Why did you leave me last night?" he finally asked her after sitting down again.

"Wha.. What?" Jade stuttered. "Didn´t you understand what I told you? Blade and Dreed?"

"I understood very well. Why did you leave me?" he repeated.

"I´m not here to argue about that, Deacon. I´m here to warn you, nothing more."

"Good." Deacon took a sip. "Then leave."

"Leave? No, of course not." Jade considered if Deacon was out of his mind. "Why should I leave now? We have to do something, make plans for…"

Deacon looked at her, his gaze cold as ice. "There is no WE, Jade. Dreed is my first man and this is my problem and I´ll solve it alone. You get that? Without you."

Jade slammed her glass on the table beside her. "I don´t think, I get that, Deacon. I risk my ass for you, breaking with Blade, who will probably kill me for ruin his plan. I let Karen down who will help me and is like a big sister to me, and I abandoned all that just for you and you send me away like a stupid silly child?" she screamed full of rage.

Deacon stayed cool. "No, I´m not as callous as you apparently think I am. I´ll give you cover within my means. You can have everything you want from me. I am grateful for your efforts. Perhaps you´ll like to go with Marcus. He would be delighted to have you around, I think."

Jade shivered in anger. "You´re a son of a bitch, Frost. I don´t want nothing of you. Do you hear me, I think you´re a bastard and I hope Blade kills you and no one will mourn about it. I will kill you myself, if you give me the chance."

He shook his head and stood up. "You don´t behave like a slayer, but like a hysterical ´s why I treat you like one. Not very much scary, my dear. And about your feelings… I couldn´t care less. So, please, stop screaming and leave, you bore me."

Jade bit on her lip but didn´t felt the pain. Fighting back her tears she stepped towards him and beat him in his cold face, and then she turned and ran away.

Deacon watched her leaving and slamming the door behind her. For fcks sake, he thought, why am I so cruel to her? She wanted to help and, in fact, there aren´t a lot others who cared about him these times. He´d lost his whole team when Blade ruined this LaMagra thing. Quinn is dead, Rachel´s dead long before and all the others. Yes, they were like sheep. But at least, they had been there. Since Mercury and he had awoken in the temple of night, feeling cold and ill, pain all over their bodies and too hungry too think clearly, things between them changed. Cury was with him as always but more and more she went out on her own. He was feeling lonely sometimes, alone within a crowd. It wasn´t a physical loneliness, but a lack of people who understood him. Jade did. He liked talking to her, arguing with her, and yes, he liked the feeling of her warm, sweet-tasting body.

He went to the balustrade and looked at the shape of the lighted city. Last night he thought she felt the same, but either she never did, or the feeling has got lost in the bright light of day. Perhaps it was his male ego she hurt so much, but it ached deeper than that, it seemed hard to breathe when he was thinking about her. Fine, he said to himself, stop that. She´s gone. Let her go.

Jade left the building and got in one of the caps which waited in front of the club in the ground floor. Tears ran down her cheeks and she whipped it away time and again. She couldn´t get back to the Club where Marcus was waiting for her. Coming back to Marcus without Deacon would raise suspicion. She told the driver an address two blocks away from Blades hideout. She leaned back and tried to think about what she could tell Blade about tonight but her thoughts concentrated on Deacon. Damn it, if he don´t want me, I´ll give a fck about him, Jade decided. She didn´t want to talk about last night. It couldn´t be. It was hopeless to love him. Not only there were too many differences standing between them, he just showed what a benumbed asshole he was.

Blade waited for her in the old industrial building which was their home for the time they stayed here in Detroit. He sat on the kitchen table, cleaning his pump gun.

"Jade, you´re early. What happened?" he greeted her.

She sat down after getting a cup of coffee. "Where is Dreed?" she asked instead of telling what happened. She had to find out what Blade knew about her and Deacon.

"Out. Tell me what happened."

Whistler joined them.

"Huh, yes, I…" she cleared her throat. "Well, I meet Frost in the club, Marcus introduced me. It went all fine. He took me with him in his apartment. Unfortunaly he is very mistrustful. I couldn´t see any security systems and I couldn´t see the code he used to open the door."

"That´s bad. But we know now that there is a code panel, perhaps Whistler could do something to get us inside. What else you noticed?"

"There´s a large room used as living room, with four doors and a terrace." Jade added.

"What´s behind the doors?" Blade asked further.

"I don´t know." Jade answered truthfully. "I just know the second door on the right is… huh, the sleeping chamber." Against her will Jade flushed.

"Well, that´s not much…" Blade said.

"It should be enough for you. I did what you wanted from me." Jade hissed. "What is happening now?"

"We do it tomorrow morning. We have all information we can get."

"Tomorrow, but… that´s fast, isn´t it?" Fck, what could she do? "What do you want me to do?"

"Nothing. That´s too big for you." Blade ordered.

"I thought about going to Karen and her team for a while." Jade noted.

Whistler looked at her. "So you wanna leave?"

"Yeah, just for a while. I need a time out."

Blade nodded in agreement. "Go today. I want you far away tonight. You´re too much involved."

Without a word Jade left the room to get her stuff.