PART 4
PART 4

Phoenix was a bit quiet on the way back to the mansion. She was worried that on of the Daybreak spies they were talking about was her. But it couldn't be, she thought to herself, I just got here and they can't know about me. I pulled away from Blake early enough so that he didn't know who I was. He can't know, she convinced herself, and if they do know, well I'm dead.

"What are you thinking about?" Star asked Phoenix.

"Nothing." Phoenix said quickly. "I'm just tired."

Star smiled knowingly. "Sure. Don't worry; we know that look very well. Megan and I have both had it before."

Phoenix smiled; taking the excuse that Star gave her. "Am I really that obvious?"

Megan nodded. "But don't worry. Guys are completely oblivious, Blake won't notice a thing."

"Yes he will," Star said. "He'll notice what you look like in that dress. He loved it, I could tell."

"Yeah," Megan laughed. "His eyes practically fell out of his head."

"Thanks." Phoenix said blushing.

"Come on, we're home, tie to get ready." Star said as they pulled up to the house.

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"Are you sure I look okay?" Phoenix asked Star and Megan for the thousandth time.

They rolled their eyes. "Yes we're sure. You look stunning. Everyone will have their eyes on you tonight."

"Well I hope not everyone." Phoenix said, a little worried that everyone might be looking at her.

"Are you girls ready yet?" Thorn said coming into the room. "Wow." He said upon looking at the girls.

Josh who was walking in behind Thorn bumped into him. "God Thorn, walk much." He said walking around him. His reaction was much the same as Thorn's but he was able to talk. "Wow, you girls look great, but it's time to go. Besides Blake's getting impatient, and we know that never ends up good."

"He's right." Megan said picking up her purse. "We better go before he comes up to get us."

They walked down to meet Blake who was waiting in the foyer tapping his foot impatiently on the floor. When he heard them all coming down the stairs, he turned a scowl on them. "What took you so…" He didn't finish his sentence because he saw Phoenix coming down the stairs.

Phoenix laughed again. It was the same reaction she had gotten in the store. "Come on," She said taking his arm. "We're going to be late."

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"Nice house." Phoenix said as they pulled up to a huge mansion.

"Not as big as ours thought." Thorn said with pride in his voice.

"God, please don't get him started." Star said. "They house is the guys pride and joy."

"Not it's not." Thorn denied. "You come first, then the car, then the house."

"Well at least I'm first on the list." Star acknowledged.

Phoenix laughed and it was then that she noticed that Blake was looking at her in a strange way. "What?" She asked at little nervously.

"You look good." He said. "*Too* good."

"Is that all?" Phoenix asked.

Blake scowled at her. "I don't want the men in their ogling what is mine."

Phoenix sighed and rolled her eyes. "Come on let's go." Blake was still a bit reluctant but followed her anyway.

The house was huge, but Thorn was right, it wasn't as big as theirs. And it appeared that the party was in full swing, people were laughing, drinking and dancing. It actually looked like fun.

"Let's dance." Blake whispered into her ear. He pulled her onto the dance floor and pulled her into his arms, giving another male a glare who had been looking at her for too long.

"You're not dancing with me for the fun of it are you?" She said with mock hurt.

"Yes I am." Blake said. "But also because I'm showing all these people that you belong to me."

"Well I'm glad that we're getting that out of the way." Phoenix said sarcastically. Blake just smiled and pulled her closer.

It was about ten minutes later when the music was turned off and someone walked onto the stage with a man bound and gagged being brought up with him, a man she recognised

"What's going on? Who's that?" Phoenix whispered at bit worried.

"That's the spy and Macon. Just watch." Blake said.

"We have found the spy that has been amongst us for some time." The Macon boomed. "We will show Circle Daybreak what we do with their spies."

They're going to kill him, Phoenix thought. She knew the spy, Mark she had even dated him for a while. They're not going to just kill him, she realised, they're going to torcher him.

And that is what they did. For hours that tried to get Mark to talk about Circle Daybreak, and when he wouldn't they would hurt him with various things. Knifes, fire, even mentally. Finally near the end Phoenix couldn't take it anymore and buried her head in Blake's shoulder, it was then that she noticed Star had Magan had done the same thing. Blake held her close to him and whispered in her ear. No matter what happened he wouldn't let her look up.

It was finally over not long after and a great cheer went up as Macon ripped out Mark's throat. And the party continued as if nothing had happened. Even Blake went back to dancing with her, that was until Macon came up to them.

"Blake," He said smiling. "Glad you could make it. Did you like my little show?" He asked smugly.

"It was a little childish for my taste." Blake said shrugging his shoulders.

"Well we can't all be as good as you are." Macon shrugged. "And who might this be?" He asked referring to Phoenix.

"Mine." Blake said possessively. "But apart from that Phoenix Harman, she works with us now."

"Did you like my show?" Macon asked her.

Phoenix knew that this was a sort of test. If she said that she hated it, it would make them suspicious of her. "I agree with Blake. Besides it was a bit bloody for me, and it went on for too long. I'd not have dragged it out for so long." Blake looked at her surprised but didn't say anything.

"But where's the fun in that?" Macon asked innocently. "If you kill them quick. You don't get anything out of them."

"You didn't get anything out of him anyway did you?" Phoenix told his coldly.

"Would you know how to get anything out of a spy if you were given the chance?" Macon asked her dryly.

"Yes." Phoenix said, remembering when they had found a Night World spy and she had questioned him. In less than twenty minutes that had all the information they needed.

"Do you?" Macon asked with raised eyebrows. "How?"

"That's my secret and not for you to know." Phoenix said starting to pull Blake away. "Come on Blake, I'm hungry."

Blake gave a smug look at Macon who was silently fuming. "Looks like not every female is afraid of you Macon. Better be careful." He followed Phoenix. "I'm proud of you."

"Why?" Phoenix asked surprised. "I thought you'd be a bit weird after I practically hid in your shoulder."

Blake shook his head. "No, I'm glad that you did, I was going to pull you away from it anyway."

"Why?" Phoenix asked generally curious.

"Because you don't need to see that kind of thing." Blake said. "You're delicate, a female. It's not something you need to see."

"What?" Phoenix asked raising her eyebrows. "I'm a delicate female. What gives you the-"

"Phoenix!" Megan said as she came up to the couple. "I see Blake has shown you his 'all females must be protected and not see the bad things' side?"

"I guess I have." Phoenix said dryly.

"Don't worry." Star said coming up to them. "Thorn and Josh are the same. They thing it will ruin our delicate minds if we see that."

"And it will." Thorn said coming up to them. "It's not something that you need to see anyway."

"They're like cavemen aren't they?" Megan said.

Phoenix nodded. "It's like they never left the time." She laughed, actually touched that the guys wanted to protect them from harm. "I think it's cute though."

"It is isn't it." Star laughed.

"It's not cute." Josh protested. "It's rugged and manly." The girls just laughed and he sighed at them. "They don't really respect us do they?"

"I think they're secretly planing on tying us down and making us do what they want." Thorn said.

"And where's the downside to that?" Blake said. "I myself would find nothing wrong with that."

They all just laughed and went on with the party. The death of Mark was already forgotten in Phoenix's mind.