Phoenix still hadn't said a word when they got home. She had seemed to retreat into herself.
"Phoenix," Blake said softly. "Are you okay?"
Phoenix looked at him blankly and nodded. "Yeah I am, that's the problem. I'm okay, he's not."
"So you killed a Day Breaker. It's okay; everyone here has killed before. It's not something you should be ashamed of."
"But I killed him. I knew him and I killed him." Phoenix said.
"Yeah," Blake said slowly. "How did you know him?"
Phoenix wouldn't look him in the eye. "I knew him a long time ago. It's no big deal."
"That's not the problem is it." Blake said the reason coming to him. "It's not that you killed him, it's that you don't care that you did. It made you feel good, alive."
"What makes you think that?" Phoenix asked shaking slightly.
"The look in your eyes. When you killed him, you looked happy. Not sad. That's what making you fell guilty, not that you killed him, but that you don't care that you did."
"No that's not true." Phoenix denied turning away from him.
"Yes it is," Blake, said grapping her shoulders, and turning her around to face him. "Don't feel that way though, we've all killed."
"You have, I haven't. I should feel guilty, why don't I feel guilty?" Phoenix said crying. "I should feel guilty," She mumbled into his shoulder.
"Is she alright?" Megan said coming up to them.
Blake shook his head. "I'm going to put her to bed, then we're all going to talk." He picked Phoenix up in his arms and took her to his room. When he was there, he laid her on the bed and undressed her putting her under the covers and putting her to sleep with a hypnotic suggestion. When he was asleep he looked down at her. She looked so peaceful lying there, with her hair spread out on the pillow. In her sleep it seemed that nothing touched her, but he knew that what she did was really bothering her. Blake left the room, closing the door quietly. When he got into the kitchen, the others were there waiting for him, as well as another person.
"Macon," Blake said shortly, nodding in his direction.
"Is your woman asleep?" Macon asked.
"Phoenix," Star said. "She has a name."
Macon just snorted. "Yes she's asleep," Blake said.
"How is she?" Megan asked in concern. Most people thought that all of the Night Worlder's were petty and cruel. Where that might be true with some of them, it wasn't with this group. They could have their moments with other people, but they looked after eachother. And everyone knew that they guys were dangerously protective of the girls.
"She'll be okay I think." Blake said shrugging.
"What a weakling," Macon said. "Can't even handle killing one pathetic little Day Breaker." Everyone in the Night World knew how much Macon hated the Daybreakers, they had tried to kill him lots of times, and it was begging to annoy him.
Blake put his hands around Macon's throat and began to choke him. "She handled it well, it's not that she killed him that freaked her out. It was the fact that she didn't fell guilty about it." He released his hold on Macon, ho rubbed his throat
"Why should she feel guilty?" Thorn asked confused.
Blake shrugged. "I don't really know. The guy knew her. Maybe it was because of that."
"He knew her?" Macon perked up "Why would a Day Breaker know her?"
Blake shrugged again, "I don't know, but I'm going to find out. She did seem pretty upset when she saw him, though."
"Maybe he was an old boyfriend." Megan suggested.
"I don't know," Josh said. "I did a little checking up on Phoenix…"
"You checked up on my soulmate?" Blake was angry.
"Yeah." Josh said carelessly. "But I didn't find much."
"How could you not find much?" Macon asked. "There had to be some stuff on her. Who she worked for last, her background."
Josh shook his head. "Nothing on who she worked for last, very little on her background. But there was something in her background that disturbed me."
"And what was that?" Blake asked through clenched teeth.
"Her parents." Josh said. "Her father was one of the best Night Worlder's there was. Followed every rule to the letter. But he was a bit of a wild child, he had girls al over the place. Then he meets his soulmate. A timid creature, shy but gorgeous. They hit it off pretty well and she joined the Night World for him."
"What do you mean 'joined the Night World'?" Thorn asked.
"She was a Daybreaker. But her soulmate felt darkness in her, a darkness that was waiting to be released, but she wouldn't let it. She kept it bottled up for as long as she could. But she stayed with him, in the Night World, but not really helping them in any way."
"But wouldn't the elders have objected to that?" Macon asked surprised.
"Why should they be? It's not like they were with Daybreak. She just didn't help them." Josh explained.
"I can't imagine that council letting that happen." Macon growled.
"Well they didn't have much choice." Josh said. "They were stronger then the council. Had more power."
"How?" Star asked.
"My father was a dragon." Phoenix said from the doorway.
