So this chapter was supposed to be up last night, but my account once again would not let me login! Grrr, so I want to give you all a huge SORRY for making you wait. Sorry sorry! OK, so here is Chapter 14, enjoy reading and reviewing! I LURVE you all!

Chapter 14

Kenzi smiled as she walked back into the clubhouse. It was dark outside, she could tell. She was beginning to wonder if she was dead or just kind of in between worlds. That's what it felt like, everyone once in a while she would hear the soft crying of someone, wondering where it came from. Then she would hear the faint sounds of people talking, voices she recognized, but there was one voice that broke through them all, Dyson's voice. His voice was clear and loud to her and it made her warm inside. She had heard those words he'd said to her heard them clearly and her heart ached for him. She knew her body was lying in a hospital bed and her friends where around her, and she wondered how bad off she was.

"Hey there." Kenzi spun around and Dyson was there, standing before her.

"Are you dead?" she asked quickly. He chuckled and shook his head.

"No, not dead, you're not dead either you know." He said stepping toward her. He looked like he's stepped right out of a romance novel, his blue jeans ridding low on his hips, his dark blue shirt unbuttoned and hanging loosely from his body.

"I'm not?" Kenzi asked as he stepped up to her and slid his hands around her waist.

"Not at all, you're just dreaming. Avoiding reality if you will." He said pulling her close. Kenzi smiled, this was what she wanted, she wanted Dyson, and now she knew he wanted her too.

"So you're not real?" Kenzi asked leaning her head against his chest, he sure felt real.

"Not necessarily, I'm real to you though." He said, his hands gently massaging her back.

"I have to go back soon Dyson. I can't leave my friends, I can't leave the real you." She said closing her eyes and resting against him.

"Or you could just stay here with me, forever." He said leaning his head against hers. That would be nice, Kenzi thought. Stay here with the Dyson who wanted to hold her. But wasn't that what the real Dyson wanted too? She had to go back, she needed to go back.

"I had a feeling I would see you again Dyson." Calvin said turning around in his chair to face the snarling wolf.

"Oh, someone's angry." Calvin smiled, but Dyson could tell he was scared; he couldn't control him when he was in his wolf form. Calvin looked to his men, and Dyson took the opportunity, lunging for his throat. Calvin moved quickly and knocked Dyson to the ground but he recovered and leapt back up lunging at Calvin again.

"Easy wolf man." Calvin said dodging Dyson and shoving a chair in front of him.

"Calm down Dyson. We can talk about this." Calvin said snapping his fingers quickly.

Dyson looked to the side and saw another wolf shifter taking its natural form.

"I have a little pet of my own Dyson." Calvin smiled and stepped back as the other wolf came forward with a snarl.

Dyson took his attention off of Calvin as he and the other wolf circled each other, growling and snarling, both showing teeth. Dyson lunged first, snapping his teeth and taking the other wolf backwards. His teeth bared and fought against the other wolf's paws trying to get to his throat. The other wolf was smaller and more agile, it wiggled under Dyson and snapped at his sides, getting skin and jerking. Dyson growled as pain tore through him. He jumped away and turned right back coming for the wolf head on. He surprised the other wolf and wrapped his teeth around his throat squeezing hard. Blood sprayed over Dyson, covering his face and dripping off his chest as the other wolf went limp and fell to the ground. Dyson snarled as his side ached but he turned toward Calvin anyway. Calvin held his hands up and backed away.

"Hey, hey, it's alright. I'll go; I'll come with you to The Ash. No tricks this time." Calvin said quickly.

Dyson growled deep in his chest, it was too late for that. He jumped on the table in front of Calvin and paced the length of the table never taking his eyes off Calvin. His men had left, running away in fear, and they were alone.

"Dyson, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gone after her." he said quickly as Dyson faced him straight forward. No more apologies, no more excuses, Dyson lunged and landed against Calvin, his teeth found their mark, snapping closed around his throat and ripping out. Calvin's scream was short lived and turned into a gurgle as blood filled his throat and poured from his mouth. Dyson licked away the blood covering his mouth and stepped back. Now he needed to get Kenzi back.

Kenzi lay in her bed next to Dyson, her arms wrapped around him, his around her. They were kissing and Kenzi loved every minute of it, but she needed to wake up, she just couldn't force herself to come to. She tried hitting herself, tried it all, but she couldn't wake up.

"Dyson." Kenzi pulled back stopping the kisses.

"mhhm?" he asked looking up at her.

"I have to wake up Dyson. I have to go back." She said to him as he placed kisses over her neck.

"You don't have to." He mumbled as he kissed her collar bone and nipped it gently.

"Yes I do Dyson. How do I go back." She asked quickly.

"We'll figure something out." He said kissing her again. Something touched her hand, she looked down but nothing was there. Someone lifted it and held it tightly.

"You're safe; no one will ever hurt you again." Dyson's voice echoed around the room. Kenzi pulled away from dream Dyson and he disappeared, almost evaporating into thin air.

"Dyson!" Kenzi called out, hoping maybe her body would respond and he could see that she was going to be ok.

"Kenzi, if you can hear me, you have to fight, please fight. Fight for your life, fight for us Kenzi." Dyson said gripping her hand tightly.

Kenzi felt tears come to her eyes; she didn't know how to get back to him.

"I'm trying." She said climbing off the bed and looking around the room trying to find some way to get out. She was going to get back to her family, if it was the last thing she did.

"D, you look like shit." Hale said coming into the room with a cup of water. It was true, he had managed to wash his face, hair, and chest of the blood, however, there was still some traces here and there, and the bites on his side were hurting, they would heal quickly though. Dyson smirked and took the water from him drinking some of it.

"I don't care, it's done. Calvin is dead, Kenzi is safe. Now she just has to fight." He said slowly.

He was sitting in the chair next to the bed, holding her hand; it was his turn to protect her while she healed.

"You really care about her don't you?" Hale asked sitting on the edge of her bed and looking over at Dyson.

"I do, I care very much." Dyson let the words slip through his teeth without stopping them.

Hale clapped his hands together, "I knew it." he said.

Dyson laughed and leaned closer to Kenzi. "She's going to be ok. She's too much of a survivor to just give up." Dyson said letting his hand reach out and trace across her cheek.

"Bo went to get a change of clothes. They're going to move her to the ICU. They are really nice; they are moving her to the biggest room up there so we can stay with her." Hale said.

Dyson nodded and propped himself up on his elbow letting his eyes scan over her making sure her chest was still rising and falling thanks to the machine that ran down her throat. Dyson watched her closely; he had no intentions of leaving this bedside until she woke up.

"Hey guys." Bo said coming into the room, "The Doctor is on his way they're about to move her." Bo said.

They nodded and moved away from the bed as the doctor and nurses came into the room.

Once she was settled in her new room they all took seats. It was more comfortable than the ER that was for sure. Dyson pulled his chair up right next to the bed and took her hand back in his.

"We're all here together now." He said stroking her cheek again. Bo was sitting across from him; Kenzi's other hand resting in her palm.

"Come back when you're ready Kenzi, we'll be here. Just please, come back." Bo said, she smiled through her tears.

Lauren stood behind her, her hands on Bo's shoulders, and Hale sat at the foot of the bed his hand resting on Kenzi's foot.

"We're all here for you lil momma." He said softly.

"Guys, I know it's not an ideal time, but you need to know, the longer she is on this machine, the more damage her body goes through. It keeps her alive, but if her brain is not active, her body is not getting the things it needs." They hadn't even noticed the doctor had come back into the room. They all jumped looking up to him as he spoke.

"You mean she only has a certain amount of time to get back or she dies?" Bo asked looking up.

"Sadly that is exactly what I mean. You need to start thinking about the right time to possibly let her go." He said nodding his head and leaving the room.

Bo dropped her head down next to Kenzi's hand and cried. Hale put his hand on Dyson's back as he felt tears sting his eyes. He hadn't cried in so long, and now he was about to cry, in front of his friends for Kenzi, and it didn't bother him in the least. She couldn't leave, she couldn't just die.

"Come on Kenzi, I know you can do this. I know you're tired, but you've got to fight. Please." Bo cried into the bed and gripped her friend's hand.

"Kenzi, you can't leave." Dyson said slowly. Everyone looked up at him, he had hardly spoken to her in front of them, but there was no other way to do this.

"You know why you can't leave Kenzi, because I love you." He said tightening his grip on her hand. They all sounded like they stopped breathing, just staring down at their friends who were in their own world.

"I love you Kenzi, there's no hiding that anymore. Come back to me." he said softly.

Kenzi's tears fell down her cheeks as the words practically fell from the sky. Dyson was holding her tight and telling her he loved her. She cried out into the empty room.

"Please! I want to live! Let me live! Let me love him back!" she cried and begged out into nothing. No one was there to hear her cries, no one cared. She ran up the staircase of the house and out onto the roof. The night sky was shining and the moon was high up.

"Dyson!" she screamed into the sky. She stepped up to the edge of the roof, her feet dangling off the edge; she looked down at the cold, dark, empty street. She didn't know any other way to leave this world. You leave the real world by dying, so maybe dying in this world would let re enter the real world.

"I love you too." She whispered as she stepped off the edge.