I've put my trust, in you, pushed as far as I can go, for all this I theres one thing you should know, I've put my trust in you

I've put my trust, in you, pushed as far as I can go, for all this I there's one thing you should know, I've put my trust in you.

  • Linkin Park, In the End

"I need to know if you trust me Tommy," Mang said.

"Of course I do," he told her, unable to pull his eyes away from her. "You're the only one who understands….what I am, and what's happening to me."

"Good," she smiled before she kissed him again. He tensed up, not sure what to do.

"Tommy? You don't have to worry about hurting me," she said. But he still looked nervous. She grabbed his hand and put it on her breast, then kissed him again. "I want you."

He couldn't believe this, even with what he was, and what he looked like right now….she still wanted him. It didn't bother her at all, and now it was starting to not bother him either.

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"No, I haven't seen him today…..why?" Lori asked. It was 10 am and she was sitting in her living room watching TV. Merton had just called panicked to ask Lori if she had heard from Tommy.

"His mom called my house….he didn't come home last night, who knows what the hell he did?! He wasn't exactly in a stable mind set at the time."

"We need to look for him. I'll be over in fifteen minutes," she said hurriedly as she got up off the couch.

"I'll be waiting," Merton told her.

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Tommy woke up and rolled over to find Mang gone. He sat up and looked around the room. He grabbed his shirt off the table. He finished getting dressed and walked out into the living room to find Mang going over what looked like blue prints. He walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Morning," she said as she kept looking at the plans. He let go and walked around to look.

"What's this?" he asked.

"The layout for the syndicate hideout, if were lucky we can get in and out without them ever knowing we were there," she said as she stood up straight and stretched.

"But we don't have to leave till tonight, there security is weakest then," she smiled. "Now what shall we do till then?" she smiled as she ran a finger over his chest.

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"We looked everywhere Lori," Merton said as he looked back up at her.

"He has to be somewhere….he couldn't have just disappeared," she continued as she paced around the lair.

"Unless….." Merton started but stopped.

"He's dead? Is that what you were going to say, well I'm not going to believe that, not yet. For all we know he could call us any minute," she said pointing to the phone, which almost seemed to ring on cue. They both looked at each other, then the phone. Merton walked over and picked it up.

"Hello?" he said.

"Hi Merton," Tommy said flatly. "I need you to call my mom and tell her I'm fine."

"Tommy!! Where are you?!" Merton yelled into the phone. "Are you with her?"

"Does it matter?" he asked.

"You don't even know her," Merton repeated for what seemed the hundredth time.

"Yes I do, Mangiatore Del Lupe, it's Italian," he said sarcastically. "Look it up, she used to go our school, I gotta go, just remember to call my mom." He said before hanging up.

"Tommy…" he said as he was cut off.

"Where is he?" Lori asked.

"With her," Merton said angrily. He then got up and went over to his computer, after grabbing an old year book.

"What are you doing?" Lori asked.

"Getting some more information on this girl," he said as he started to flip through the pages of the year book.

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"Hurry," Mang said in a hushed tone as Tommy pushed her up so she could get into the window, then followed her.

"We have to hurry, we need to get in and out before they realize were here," she reminded him as they started walking through the halls.

"I know," he said.

"Are you gonna change or what?" she asked in an almost annoyed voice.

"I'll be ready if we need it," he snapped back. "Sorry, I'm a little tense."

"It's alright, let's go."

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"Oh shit," Merton said as he stared at his computer. Lori looked surprised at his language then snapped out of it.

"What?" she asked as she walked over to stand behind him.

"I found out who Mangiatore Del Lupe really is. It's not a name, it's Italian for 'Wolf Eater'. There's a web page about it here," he told her.

"What does it say, the easy version," Lori said.

"She's managed to find a way to live forever. Using the strongest, and most pure, werewolves. She tells them she's going to cure or release them, but what she really does is suck all their life energy out. She has an artifact she uses…..but apparently it was stolen a couple years ago," Merton said.

"Who has it now?" Lori asked.

"Umm….." Merton said as he scrolled down the page. "The same people who created this page as a warning……they syndicate," he said as he looked at her.

"How much you wanna bet that's where they are," Lori said angrily with her arms crossed.

"Let's go," Merton said.

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"Sir….we think she's here," one of the syndicates lackeys said to there leader.

"Get more guards for the artifact," he told him.

"Tommy Dawkins is with her." He informed the older werewolf.

"Whatever happens, you can't let her get that artifact….she'll destroy us all with it. We know what happened the last time she ran out of 'Good ones', she moved on to us. It won't happen again." He said. Another on of the syndicates members came running into the room out of breath.

"Merton Dingle, and Lori Baxter just broke in," he gasped out.

"Kill them," he said.

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Mang and Tommy had to duck in a corridor as it seemed the syndicate came on alert. They were running toward the front entrance, and towards the chamber the artifact was in.

"Tommy, you go get the artifact, I'm going to distract them," she said.

"But…." He started but she stopped him with a kiss.

"Trust me," she smiled. He smiled back, then headed off to find the artifact.

Mang knew something was wrong, if the syndicate knew she was here she would have assumed they would have sent most of there guards to the artifact room, but they were sending quite a few to the front door. She followed silently behind them, and came to the second floor landing that looked out on the bottom floor. Tommy's friends were here. She couldn't let them interfere. Lori was fighting off Wolfs, while that Merton fellow was back slumped against a wall by the staircase opening, attempting to stand up.

Mang smiled as she pulled the knife she had hidden in her boot out. She slowly walked down the stairs.

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Lori has seen Merton get thrown against the wall, but she didn't have time to help him right now, there were still two of these guys left. The first one feel easily, but the second on had caught her foot. She managed to twist out of his grasp but he pulled her to him so she elbowed him in the stomach. He bent over in pain, and she hit him in the head. She turned back around to see a red haired woman holding Merton with a knife to his neck.

"I assume your Mangiatore?" Lori said, trying to keep her anger down.

"You're a smart one," she said.

"What do you think your doing?" Lori asked.

"I'm keeping Tommy away from you, the only way to do that is to kill you both." She smiled evilly.

"Mang?" Tommy asked as he walked up behind her, the artifact in one hand, and an injured arm in the other. She spun around with Merton still in her grasp. Tommy stared and opened his mouth to speak, when she smiled evilly again, and stabbed Merton in the chest, letting him fall to the floor. She then grabbed the artifact out of the shocked Tommy's hand and fled.

"NO!!!!" Lori screamed as she ran to Merton. She got on her knees beside him and held his had as he lay there trying to breath as he slowly bleed to death.

"Lo..ri….is…..Tommy….okay?" he asked looking off into space, gasping in pain.

"I'm right here," Tommy said sitting on the ground and taking his other hand.

"I can't see you," he said as he coughed painfully.

"It's gonna be alright," Lori cried.

"I'm so sorry Merton," Tommy said as tears started to fall down his face.

"It's alright…..you didn't know," he said before he coughed painfully again and stopped breathing.

"NO!!!" Lori screamed again as she hugged his now lifeless from. Tommy sat there, dumbfounded. It was his fault. He had been so caught up in his own problems, his own infinitely dumb troubles, that he had let his best friend get killed. He had even slept with her. What the hell was he thinking? He hadn't been he realized. He was looking for an easy way out, and he was to blind to see the lie, and Merton had now paid for his mistake. He set Merton's hand down and slowly stood up.

"Where are you going Tommy?" Lori sniffled.

"I'm gong to kill that bitch."