The silence in the room was almost unbearable. No one really knew what to say or do. Thankfully, the silence was broken a moment later as Camille reappeared, carrying her large suitcase.

"So James, tell me what happened to her."

James shrugged. "To be completely honest, I don't know, but I have my suspicions. All this stuff started with one of her friends, turns out it's the faerie, started getting into these arguments with her - seems like you put her and Riley in a room and they're constantly at each other's throats. Two nights ago, before leaving after an argument I actually had to break up, Taelia mentioned something about payback for all those supernatural episodes she knew we'd been watching. From that point on, it was weird - there'd be shadows at the edge of your vision, you'd swear you'd hear whispering. Almost like a ghost, y'know? But then that night she got pushed down the stairs, and early the yesterday morning at like three am, whatever it was had pretty much attacked Riley, it'd trapped her in the shower and - well, she said it had a physical form, at least while it was dark. I went back through all the supernatural monsters-of-the-week like Taelia had alluded to - found out it was a daeva, a type of demon that's often very dangerous when being controlled by someone."

"So you think the faerie summoned a daeva and is using it to make you guys insane. Wow, why would someone do that, you're such nice people," Kendall chimed from where he was sitting, not expecting Riley to be the one to react, as she managed to turn her head to look at him with a glare, though its intensity was undermined by the scream it was accompanied with.

"How bad is she hurt if she sounds like that?" Carlos wondered, having noticed the minute the redhead made any indication of being in pain, James reacted, hands tightening against the back of the chair he sat in, eyes shutting like he wished he could take her place.

"Let's see, Carlos, do you see the stake in her chest?"

"Now now you two, I don't need you guys starting a fight, I've got enough to deal with."

"Wow, I say something sarcastic and now I'm starting a fight. Case you haven't noticed, my fiancee is dying for the second time in a week! I think I'm allowed to be a little freaked out!"

And though she was in pain, Riley managed a smile at the title, to which everyone else in the room had to do a double take at.

"What the-" Carlos.

"You're only like 29!" Logan.

"Her, really?" Kendall.

"Where's the ring, then?" Camille.

James sighed, this wasn't the way he wanted to be explaining it, of course, he'd planned meeting the guys differently all together.

The minute he went to explain it, Camille went to turn Riley's arm over to get at the other half of the burns, but because she thought she had some strength back, she tried to sit up. Before anyone could do anything, Camille flicked her wand and Riley's eyes closed, her body gently laying itself back down on the floor.

"What the hell was that? She just-and then you-"

"Simple charm for bewitched sleep, she's fine, don't worry."

"I get you guys are surprised, but I mean I had the whole thing planned for a good year before all of you guys came into the picture - I was going to do the entire thing in one night, but the jersey came early even though it was intended as a christmas gift, and then-"

"Jersey?"

"Well yeah, I ordered one of those custom jerseys, it's one of the Wild's away game ones, but it's got the number of our anniversary on it, and then my last name. Fits her perfectly. The other half of it was supposed to be going to the game next Tuesday against Montreal and actually propose to her at the game, with the big screen and all that, but things kinda got in the way."

He fell quiet after that, watching as Camille worked, starting with the most obvious damage first, though it wasn't the stake.

"Why not the stake first? That's got to be causing her the most pain." Logan wondered, although he realized why Camille was going in a certain order once she'd started on Riley's burned arm.

"That stake is going to be most stressful injury - right now, I'm focusing on the more minor ones - her arm, hand and then her knee."

"And collarbone, that's why she screamed." James added, running his hands through his hair to keep himself from kneading the back of the chair.

"Collarbone, too? Boy that daeva did a number on her...these burns aren't terrible, but with the way her leg and arm are it's obvious they're dislocated and broken. The only reason her hand has swelled so much is more than likely that's an absolute lack of internal structure, skele-gro's going to come in handy, though that's some nasty stuff. As far as the stake- I'll get to that when I get to it."

"But I just think-"

"James, can I talk to you for a minute? I think we should let Camille work in peace." Logan asked, standing up, motioning for Katie to go over by Kendall. As James got up and followed him down the hallway, the tension in the room seemed to ease some.

When the two were finally out of earshot, Logan turned to him.

"Look, I understand you're upset with what happened to Riley. But she's going to be fine - Camille's handled worse, I promise you. Do you really think the faerie did all that though?"

"What is this, distract me with battle plans now?"

Logan nodded.

"I don't know what else it could've been, we don't get out much. And I mean, Kendall wouldn't send it after us, no of you would. Would you?"

"If I'd wanted you dead I wouldn't've stopped Kendall. I'm just saying, I've met the faerie too and I just think there's something off about her, those kind like to trick and play games - and a daeva playing games with shadows and lives sounds like it's right up her alley, doesn't it?"

"Wait, so you're actually-"

"I'm not offering to help go after her, I'm just playing devil's advocate. Going after her won't make the daeva go away, if anything, it'll make the attacks worse - and next time it might not just be Riley."

James paused, thinking. Riley had been attacked because bracelet the had been taken – who knew what would happen to him if he lost the other half?

"Crazy as this is I think I know a way we can control the daeva after all…I'm just not sure it's the best idea."

"Well what is it?"

James shrugged, glancing down the hall just in time to see several sets of bandages wrapping themselves around Riley's arm, her knee having been set into a brace as the dislocation had been reset and the ligament repaired.

"There's a stronger demon that Riley's heard of. I won't go jumping into that and trying to get it to help, I don't want to get myself killed. I mean, most times, you just have to fight fire with fire."

"There's a demon stronger than these daevas? And you want to get it involved? What if that thing turns on you?"

"I said I'm not going to get it to help, it's just a crazy idea. She'd killed me anyways if I did that."

Both boys turned at the sound of Camille sighing before hearing her call for them.

"Is everythi-" James started, but before he could finish Camille nodded.

"I've fixed most of the damage arm and legwise, that brace is just on her leg until we get the stake out, it'll keep her from injuring herself if she starts thrashing. I've got a compression sleeve on her hand for now; two rounds of skele-gro should repair all the damage there. Her collarbone's only broken in two places – that's nothing," she paused, smiling as she flicked her wand again, pointing it where the fractures had been obvious, a soft, "Episkey!" following.

"You two – I'm gonna need help with the stake. We're waking her up for it, so I can track how severe the injury is. It didn't go all the way through, but it's lodged in there pretty good. She's gonna need blood-" she paused at the immediate look James gave her as he pulled up the arm of his hoodie up his shoulder, "And it can't be yours because you're dead."

"She's dead too, what's it matter?" Kendall added, still regretting that he'd even allowed two vampires into the apartment.

"Just because she's technically dead doesn't mean she can't die again from blood loss, Kendall. You as a vampire hunter should know that. Blood loss, stake and decapitation, that's how you kill them. Speaking of which – you might want to take Katie and go for a walk, this could get gory."

Kendall rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything else, although Katie spoke for the first time since James and Riley had shown up.

"Medical shows are fine, this is nothing. I can handle it."

Camille gave Kendall a look, like he should be trying to convince his younger sister to go for the walk as suggested, but then returned her gaze to the task at hand.

"If she needs blood…I'll do it." Everyone turned to look at Logan.

"Dude, no! You're a- werewolf. We don't know what mixing vampire and that blood'll do! That could kill her if the stake doesn't!" James protested, though he followed when Camille motioned for him to sit on the floor in the space just above Riley's head, so that she could see him if she looked straight up and he leaned in.

"Think about it though – the odds of having the blood of two supernatural creatures in your veins is better than one. She'll be stronger that way."

"Yeah, but-"

"I'm doing you a favor. If you truly want her to live, you'll let me do this. If you're as serious about her as you were about starting the band in the first place –"

"Alright, alright, fine! I just want her better…"

Logan nodded, and Camille called for Carlos to come and help too - keeping Riley still wasn't going to be easy.

An hour later and Katie had agreed to letting Riley rest in her room until she could atleast walk, being shock and fatigue had settled in after the stake had been removed. After stitches and a few layers of bandages however, Camille determined she'd be as good as new in a few days.

Getting Riley to drink from Logan hadn't been as tough as everyone thought it'd be, though she did protest at first at its odd smell. Upon James' reassurance however, she put her lips to his arm and drank.

Sitting up against one of the pillows on Katie's bed where she'd been laying, Riley turned her head slowly, amazed that it didn't hurt anymore. Smiling as she looked around at the pictures in the room, she noticed they were almost all of Kendall and his younger sister. He really does love her…and I'm the reason he almost lost her…

A knock on the door causes her to look up, and she's slightly surprised at the girl in the doorway, holding a glass of water and three small vials.

"Glad to see you're up, James has been pacing the living room for the past half hour now. Drink these – Camille said they'll make your hand better, and replace what blood the feeding didn't."

"Feeding? I was fine." Riley asked, confused as the girl dropped the three vials into Riley's free hand.

"Well yeah, but not after we got the stake out. Than you needed it, and it couldn't be James' because he's dead and Logan volun-"

"But he's a werewolf! I'm a-how-" she stuttered, opening the vials and drinking them, afterwards clearing the glass of water before continuing, "Do you know what that could do to me?!"

"That's the exact reaction James had. Do you want me to tell him know you're awake?"

Riley sighed, beginning to feel really bad after realizing how nice the high schooler was in person.

"Actually Katie…I wanted to talk to you…I need to apologize for something. You might not believe me, but I need to say it. I'm the reason you were attacked – I'm the one that made James go after you."

Brown eyes widen for a moment, and without warning the redhead finds her earlobe being pulled, til she's up and out of bed, having to follow the young girl down the hall.

"Ow ow ow ow let go!"

"Tell him what you just told me." She stated, having pulled Riley out into the living room, right in front of Kendall.

"It's my fault Katie was attacked, I'm the one that made James go after her." Riley admitted, rubbing her ear when the seventeen year old finally let go of it.

Kendall's upper lip twitched, and for a moment she'd thought he was going to snarl, but he only said "Not that I didn't already know that, but it's not like I can try staking you on the spot when it would cost me my life to do so," to which almost on cue she felt James' arms around her.

Lifting her up and turning her around so she wouldn't have to walk, he looked her over, noticing she already looked better than she had that morning.

Looking around the room, Riley realized the others were still there.

"So I need to explain…like I told Katie, I feel terrible for being the reason she got attacked – Kendall I completely understand why you want to kill me still. Logan – you didn't have to do the transfusion, you really didn't and you still did. Camille – I owe you my life, there was no way I'd be standing if it weren't for your healing abilities. And Carlos, I'm sure you helped out this whole time – you kept Kendall from killing me, that's enough."

The four nodded, though Camille crossed her arms.

"I only helped because it was my duty as a healer, you're still a vindictive psychotic problem causing bitch as far as I'm concerned."

Riley went from smiling to bitchface in two seconds, before she felt James kiss her hair and whisper a 'but you're my psychotic bitch,' into her ear, causing her to giggle.

"Here we go again. Now that you're healed, can you leave?"

Riley shrugged, turning to look at Kendall.

"Depends, do you think Big Time Rush will be able to work together again? I'm not talking as a band - more as a few friends trying to save the world."

Kendall was about to argue when James interrupted his train of thought, "I did promise I'd try to make things right for all this. Starting with getting the daevas off our back and figuring out what we're up against."

"Well my visions are absolute destruction, so just imagine the riots if the Flyers won the cup, basically. But with more fire and chaos."

This actually caused all four of the boys to laugh, in the hockey world pretty much no one liked Philadelphia.

Kendall looked at Logan, then Carlos, then Katie.

"Riley did apologize for it, and you already know how bad James felt about the whole thing...atleast give it a shot, big brother."

"But-"

"Kendall, I won't do anything like that ever again, I swear. After watching Riley die almost twice now, I've realized I'll do anything I can to make sure we stay together - means no getting myself killed over being stupid like that was, even if it was her idea. I know you won't trust me, but for the sake of us all possibly ending up dead in the near future, let's try to make this work?" James tried.

Kendall huffed, but looked around the group once more, surprising everyone when the ghost of smile flitted across his lips.

"If Gustavo could turn four dogs from Minnesota into popstars, I guess I can try to make this work."