PART 10
"Why did you lie to me?" Phoenix asked Thierry softy. She had arrived back at the Daybreak house not long before and had gone straight to Thierry's office.
"I didn't lie to you Phoenix. We didn't;' have the information before you left, and we couldn't tell you after we got it because it was too dangerous." Thierry explained.
"Too dangerous! My god Thierry, I killed tonight! Twice! All because of this information. My soulmate found out I was a spy and told me that if he ever saw me again he'd kill me. In a matter of hours my whole life was destroyed. Nothing you can say or do is going to change that." Phoenix picked up her bags and went to go up to her room.
"Phoenix wait," Thierry said. "Your powers, are you alright with controlling them or do you think you need help?"
"I'll take care of myself Thierry, I always have." Phoenix left the room and went upstairs where she cried herself to sleep. And that's what she did every time she went to bed for the next two weeks.
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"Thierry, I'm worried about Phoenix." Hannah said to him one morning after she had seen Phoenix in the hallway. "She looked terrible. She's lost more weight that she can afford to, and she's withdrawing from us. If we don't do something soon, we're going to loose her. I don't want that to happen Thierry."
"I know, we're doing everything we can. She just needs time."
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As she had done every night practically her whole life, Phoenix went for a walk in the park. She loved it at this time of night, there was practically no one there and she was able to think. She heard footsteps behind her and slowed down, trying to sense who it was. "Hello Thorn," she said turning around to face him.
"Hi Phoenix," he responded calmly, "What are you doing here at this time of night? It's dangerous for a girl like you."
Phoenix turned around and resumed walking. She could hear Thorn following her. She found a relatively isolated bench and sat down on it. "Why should you care?" She responded to his question. "I would think you would be glad if something happened to me."
Thorn sat down beside her, but surprise her with his answer. "I would have been a while ago, but with Star and Megan down our necks, they've explained everything to us," he paused, "Well to Josh and me anyway. Blake refuses to listen to them. He thinks that they're lying."
"What are you doing here Thorn?" Phoenix asked trying to keep her voice steady, even though she felt like she was going to cry.
"I came to see how you were doing. Star and Megan are worried about you. They think you might do something rash."
"They think I'll try and kill myself." Phoenix said.
"Yeah, they were worried about that. Listen Phoenix, Blake'll come around, he just needs some time." Thorn said placing his hand on her shoulder. "Give him some time."
"How much time does he need? A year, two, a whole damn century!" Phoenix yelled, then calmed down. "Face it, he hates me and he's not going to come around. I just have to live with the fact my soulmate hates me. And I do plan on living Thorn. I'm staying alive unless something happens that's beyond my control." She stood up and prepared to leave. "Tell Star and Megan not to worry about me. And give up with Blake. From what I've seen of his mind, he won't forgive me for what I did."
"Yes he will," Thorn said determined. "I don't care if I have to lock you two in a room, he'll forgive you and you're going to get back together."
Phoenix just smiled and walked away.
"In fact, that's exactly what I'm going to do." Thorn said to himself.
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Phoenix was sleeping peacefully for the first time and a while, when she was jerked awake by someone tying her hands and feet together. Before she could cry out she was blindfolded and gagged.
Her assailants took her outside the house and placed her in a car. They seemed to drive forever but they finally reached their destination. She was picked up and taken into what she presumed was a house. She was then placed on her feet and her hands were untied, the door behind her was quickly slammed shut and she heard the lock click.
Phoenix undid her blindfold, gag and feet and turned around. She was in a large room. It seemed to be a bedroom because it held all the things one would contain, including bathroom. One thing that shocked her the most was the bed, or rather what was in the bed.
Blake.
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"Do you think they'll be okay?" Star asked Thorn nervously. "I'm worried about what might happen."
"Don't' worry. Josh and Megan put up spells so if anything violent happened we'd find out before it gets bad."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I am Star. Don't worry."
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"Oh my god." Phoenix said moving as far away for the bed as she could get. It took her a minute to realise that he was unconscious. Hie breathing was even and there was a large bump on his forehead.
Phoenix slid down the wall behind her, drawing her knees up to her chest. She knew who did this and hoped that it wasn't going to get her killed. She felt her eyes well up with tears, but refused to shed them. All she had been doing lately was crying, and it had to stop. She wasn't going to cry over something she couldn't control.
Blake stirred on the bed and groaned. Phoenix ran over to him, not thinking and ran her hands over his head trying to calm him down. Blake opened his eyes and smiled for a minute, then he seemed to remember what happened because his eyes grew cold and her threw Phoenix across the room snarling, "Get away from me!"
Phoenix hit the wall with a thud, and slid down the wall into the same position she had been in before Blake had woken up. "Nice to see you too." She muttered.
"What am I doing here? What are you doing here?" Blake growled walking to the door and trying to open it. When he found it locked her turned back to Phoenix, angrier. "This better not be some scheme you made up in hopes of getting us back together. Because if it is, it won't work. I don't date people who betray me."
"It wasn't me," Phoenix murmured, not looking at him. "And for your information I don't want to be here anymore than you do. So maybe if we yell enough, whoever has us will let us out. Then I can leave and you can go back to whatever it is you do."
"Well if you want to know the answer to that, it's cheerfully planning your death." Blake snarled not even looking at her, and continued banging on the door.
Phoenix was glad he couldn't see her because his words hurt her deeply and she felt tears well up in her eyes and run down her cheeks. "That might not be such a bad thing." She said quietly so her wouldn't hear her.
"What?" Blake asked impatiently, he had heard what she said and it made his heart ache. Stop it, he thought, she betrayed you. You're not meant to feel sad just because she says dying wouldn't be a bad thing. You should be happy about that. But he wasn't, it didn't make him happy at all, and that fact alone made him angry.
After about ten minutes of banging on the door h gave up. He went back to the bed he had woken up on and tried to gather his thoughts. Someone had purposely done this, and he was fairly certain her knew who. His housemates had been pestering him these past few weeks, saying that Phoenix was innocent. Some part of him wanted to believe that she was innocent, but another part pf him said that she was lying. He didn't know which to believe. He really wanted her to be innocent but there was so much saying that she was lying.
"I don't care if you believe me or not." Phoenix said as if she had been reading his thoughts. "It doesn't matter anymore anyway."
"Why doesn't it matter?" Blake asked intrigued by her words.
"Because you're my soulmate, you're meant to trust me and love me no matter what. When you said that you'd kill me if you saw me again, that made me question our relationship."
"Well you lied to me. What was I supposed to do?" Blake demanded. "We all trusted you, we thought you were working with us. But you weren't, you work for Circle Daybreak. Nothing you can say is going to change that."
Phoenix jumped up from where she was sitting. "God you really are an asshole aren't you. All you care about is what I did to you. Did it ever occur to you what it did to me? Do you know what I went through when I found out you were my soulmate? I wanted to tell you so much, but I thought that you'd kill me, and I guess that I was right. The others listened to what I had to say, they hears my side of the story. You didn't. You just jumped up and the assumed the worst. Well guess what buddy! I don't need that. And I don't need you anymore." Phoenix was pacing without realising it and her eyes were glowing amber.
Blake watched her pace, surprised at her outburst. He knew that she had it in her, he just didn't know she'd show it at the moment. He made a noise like a hissing cat, "Calm down kitten. No need to get you panties in a twist."
"Don't worry, you don't have any affect on my panties what so ever." Phoenix snapped. "And don't call me kitten."
Blake just smiled. He found that he liked teasing Phoenix. "No I'm better and taking panties off rather than getting them into a twist." He said roguishly.
Phoenix looked at him shocked. "Well don't think you're going to be doing that either." She shook her head. "You hate me remember? Why are you doing this?"
"Because all of a sudden what Star and Megan said has made sense to me. And well, someone locked us in a bedroom together. What do you think they intended us to do? And I'm not one to pass up a god opportunity."
Blake started to walked towards Phoenix and she backed away holding up her hands as if to protect herself. "Blake don't, stop right there! Don't come any closer. Blake stop!"
Blake just kept walking across the room, backing Phoenix into a corner. He remembered that when they first met he had backed her into a corner. He smiled, history seemed to repeat itself. But there was one thing he wasn't going to allow to repeat. She wasn't going to leave. He was going to turn her into a vampire and then she would join the Night World. Who cared about what she did before; it's what she's doing now that matters. And Blake knew that she had a dark side in her, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to kill that Daybreaker. His smile got wider; yes he was very happy that his friends had locked Phoenix and him up. It gave him a chance to do this.
Phoenix saw the look in his eyes and was scared. She didn't know what he was going to do, but she was sure that she wasn't going to like it. She tried to play her last card again, to get him to remember he hated her. "Blake stop this! You don't know what you're doing. Remember you hate me, I'm a Daybreaker and I betrayed you. Remember you said you'd kill me if you ever saw me again."
Blake placed his hands on either side of her head; he leaned in to tell her, "Phoenix, I was drunk, I wasn't thinking clearly. All I saw was that you worked for Circle Daybreak. I didn't look any deeper than that. But know I'm remembering other things. Like the fact you killed that guy and didn't feel guilty about it. The way you killed Macon. I saw it then and I see it now. You have a dark side Phoenix, and I plan on being the one to bring it out."
"And how do you plan on doing that? I mean I'm not going to be cooperative about it, so I think it's going to be a bit difficult for you." Phoenix snarled at him, unhappy with what he had said. It really got to her, the fact that most of it was true was the main thing.
Blake smiled again. "It's actually going to be very easy. All I have to do is bring out a part of you that you've kept buried. It won't be difficult at all."
"You're welcome to try, but don't think that it'll work." Phoenix snapped at him.
"Oh it'll work, just give me some time." Blake said and pulled her forward for a deep kiss. ~You're mine and I don't plan on letting you go. ~ He whispered into her mind.
TBC
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