PART 12
"Yes," Phoenix said looking him directly in the eye. "IF you wanted to stay with the Night World, then I would stay with you. It wouldn't be easy, but I think I'd be able to do it. I'd just need some time to adapt."
Blake's eyes widened a fraction. "You'd really stay with me if I me if I wanted to stay with the Night World?"
Phoenix nodded. "Would you stay with me if I didn't?"
"Yeah," Blake nodded. He walked over to her and pulled her into his arms, leaning his forehead against hers. "You're my soulmate, I couldn't leave you. I don't want to leave you."
Phoenix closed her eyes. "So what are we going to do? Night World or Daybreak?" She opened her eyes and looked at him. "We need to make a decision Blake, we have to choose. But remember the Night World council might not want me. I have killed a lot of Night Worlder's. They might just kill me in revenge."
"Daybreak might think the same of me." Blake answered back.
Phoenix shook her head. "They won't. Daybreak would accept you because they would really believe in you. Look at Quinn, he was a real bad ass and he joined. Now he's one of the most trusted people in there. They give people chances."
Blake sighed and pulled away from Phoenix. He walked to the door and just stared at it. "I don't know, Phoenix. All my life I've worked for the Night World, doing what I was told and enjoying it. Now you want me to join with Daybreak, everything I've been taught to hate and destroy."
"Why do you hate them?" Phoenix asked quietly.
"Becauseā¦" Blake stopped and looked at her strangely. "I don't really know. I just hate them."
"Because that's what you were told to do. They aren't really you're feelings, Blake. Thierry told me that he's heard that the Night World have been brainwashing their people, telling them to hate Circle Daybreak. But Daybreak is the best thing there is. They're trying to make everyone equal. Make the world safe for everyone. Thierry wants everyone, human or not, to be able to live together, without fear. What's so bad about that?"
Blake moved away from the door and sat down on the bed, putting his head in his hands. "Nothing's wrong with that, it's a good thing." He looked at her, his eyes sad. "Why would the Night World do that to us? They're controlling everyone, to believe what they want us to believe."
Phoenix moved to sit beside him. She pulled his head to rest on her shoulder. "Because they like to be in control. They don't like knowing that people could just get up and leave, it scares them. They're afraid of being left all alone with no power."
They were so involved with their conversation that they didn't hear the door open. "She's right, Blake." Thorn said from the doorway. "We need to get out before they doing something else."
"As much as I might not want to, or any of us for that matter, but we need to go to Daybreak. We need to stop the Night World doing this." Star said, leaning on Thorn. "They need to be able to think for themselves."
"Where are Josh and Megan?" Blake asked. "They need to be in on this as well."
"We're already here." Josh said walking into the room. "Thorn called us before. So we're going to Daybreak." He smiled slightly. "I've have some family there, it'll be good to see them."
Phoenix smiled as well. "I know that they want to see you, they miss you." Josh smiled back at her.
Blake stood up from the bed, beginning to pace. "Okay, fist we need to go back to the house and get out things. We have to be as quick as possible without causing too much attention. They might be watching the house; in fact it's probably highly likely that they're watching the house. Where are the closest Night World people to us?" Blake asked Thorn.
Thorn thought for a moment. "Ten minutes away. That's at the fastest they could come."
"Great," Blake said resuming his pacing. "Okay, Phoenix, you go to the garage and get one of the cars, preferably one with a big trunk so we can put as much stuff in as possible. Megan you get another car. Josh, Star and Thorn we'll all pack our stuff. Get as much stuff as you can because I want to be out of there in five minutes. Don't forget to get any money that you might have lying around. Any questions?" When no one answered he want on. "Alright, let's go."
Thorn led the way because Phoenix and Blake didn't know where they were. They all piled into two cars and drove to the mansion. Megan and Phoenix went into the garage and got the cars, driving them around to the front while the others went inside to pack.
Thank god for vampire speed, Blake thought as he packed all his things into any bag that he could find. In the other rooms he could hear Josh, Thorn and Star doing the same. He finished his packing in two minutes and went to help Josh, because he had to pack for two. With all of their stuff packed they ran downstairs, threw all of the stuff in the trunks and backseat and drove off.
"Did you get everything?" Phoenix asked as she drove down the street.
"Everything we could yeah," Blake answered. "Take the shortest way to Thierry's. I don't want to be on the road fore too long."
"No problem." Phoenix said steeping hard on the pedal. "We should be there in about five minutes."
Blake and the others looked around, checking for anything that might look like the Night World. They were almost there and nothing had happened. When they all saw the gates to the mansion, they held their breath. Hoping that nothing would happen.
Phoenix picked up her cell phone and dialled the house. "Lupe? It's Phoenix, open to gate right now, we're coming in."
Lupe, knowing to not ask any unnecessary questions hung up the phone and opened the gate. "Phoenix is back!" She called through the house. "And it looks like she brought company." She walked outside to meet the two cars that came screeching to a halt right at the front doors. Lupe closed the gates with a remote control and smiled down at Phoenix. "Welcome home."
Phoenix smiled back and got out of the car, giving Lupe and hug then going to the trunk to help with the bags. "Hey Lupe, can you get Thierry to meet us in his office?"
"Sure," Lupe said running back into the house to find Thierry.
The others were looking at the mansion in awe. It looked so much bigger with light surrounding it. "Come on," Phoenix said taking some of the bags inside. "We need to talk to Thierry."
"You know, if working for Daybreak means I can live here, I should have moved in a long time ago." Thorn said when he walked into the house. "This place is huge."
"You get used to it." Phoenix said walking through the house and around so many corners that the others were already lost. "We give new people maps, because they get lost. But other than that, it's a really nice place to live."
"I'll bet it is." Blake said looking around. This place was about double the size of theirs and he thought that was too big. But a lot more people live here, Blake thought, it needs to be bigger.
Phoenix stopped out side one of the rooms and threw the bags in there. "Put you're stuff in here and we'll go see Thierry."
She took them through more turns of the house until they came to two large double doors that went from floor to ceiling. "Thierry?" Phoenix knocked on the door. "Can we come in?"
The door opened for them and Phoenix looked to see Hannah there with Thierry sitting at his desk. "Hello Phoenix," Hannah said, looking behind her at the five people standing there. "Your life got a bit interesting all of a sudden didn't it?"
"You have no idea." Phoenix laughed and stepped into the room, pulling Blake behind her. "Thierry we need to talk."
"I can see that." He said. "I can also see that we have some new members." He nodded to the others. "Welcome. Blake, I haven't seen you in a while, but that's understandable, because the lat time I saw you, you tried to kill me."
Blake smiled sheepishly. "Sorry about that. I was just following orders."
Thierry smiled back. "That's okay, but I was under the impression that you didn't take orders."
"I don't anymore. After that night, I decided that I was going to do what I wanted, not what they wanted me to do. I control my life. So don't think you can give me orders either."
"I won't," Thierry said. "I don't give orders, I make requests."
Phoenix laughed. "You didn't request me to be a spy, you ordered me."
Thierry laughed as well. "I know, but you were the only person I felt would be able to handle the situation. And by the looks of it you did very well. You should be proud of yourself, Phoenix."
"I'm proud of her." Blake said putting his arm around her shoulders.
Thierry smiled at the two of them. "Now we need to get down to business. By the looks of things, you had decided to join Circle Daybreak. Why?"
"Because of the Night World," Blake started to explain. "We don't like the way they operate. Phoenix told us that they were brainwashing us to do what they wanted, to hate the Daybreakers. I don't like being controlled. So we packed our bags and came here."
Thierry nodded. "We have been getting reports that the Night World Council has employed powerful telepaths to brainwash their members. The Council likes to be in control of everything."
"Phoenix explained all of that to us." Blake said. "She's also told us a lot about you and all the work you do. We're tired of hiding. We don't want to hide from humans just because we're not like them. But we don't want them to fear us because of what we are either."
"Good," Thierry said. "I must tell you though, that if you join us, you will be betraying the Night World, and they will but out bounty's for your heads. Are you prepared to take that risk?"
Blake, Thorn, Star, Josh and Megan all nodded. "We knew that's the way it would be as soon as we made the decision." Thorn said. "But we're willing to do it in order to not be controlled."
"Okay then. Welcome to Circle Daybreak." He walked up to each of them and shook their hands. "We're glad to have people with your skill and knowledge. Phoenix will show you to your rooms and you better get some rest, there's going to be a lot of people that want to meet you tomorrow."
"Thankyou Thierry," Phoenix said hugging him and kissing him on the cheek. She turned back to the door. "Follow me you guys." She walked back into the room that held their bags and took five maps from a draw. "Okay, this is a map of the whole house, with facilities and everything." She took out a pen and made markings on all of them. She handed two of them to Megan and Josh. "This is your room." She handed another two to Star and Thorn. "And this is your room." She handed to final one to Blake. "And this is your room. They're all close together so you can see eachother and help if you get lost. There are also phone all over the place, so if you get lost just press eight and there'll be someone there to tell you what to do. Don't feel embarrassed about calling, people to do it all the time."
"Where's your room?" Star asked looking at the map, her eyes widening.
"With Blake." She pointed to a place on the map, near where she had marked Star's room. "Okay, are there any questions before we go to your rooms?"
"Nope," Thorn grinned. "Just take us to our rooms and we'll find everything else with no troubles."
"I doubt that." Phoenix said picking up some of the bags and walking down the hall. They walked up three flights of stairs before they reached the first room. "Thorn and Star, this is you. You have a view of the pool, and the stairs across the hall lead down to it. Have a nice night." She walked out of the room, across the hall and past a few more doors. "Megan and Josh, this is your room. You have to same view and the others so the stairs lead down to the pool. Night, I'll see you in the morning."
"Which one's your room?" Megan asked looking into the hall.
"The one at the end of the hall." She pointed to two large double doors. She shut Megan and Josh's door and walked down to hers. "And this is our room." She opened the doors and let Blake enter first.
"Wow," Blake said looking around. The room was at least double the size of his with a huge walk-in closest and full bathroom.
"Do you like it?" Phoenix said sitting down of the bed.
"I love it." Blake said walking over to sit beside her. "I don't think we ever need to leave. You've got a fridge and everything."
Phoenix laughed. "When I first moved in here, there was no one in this wing of the house, so I claimed this room. I added all the furniture and the entertainment centre. I have actually stayed in the room for three days without leaving it once. But Poppy pointed out to me that it wasn't good for my health."
Blake laughed as well. "Where does that door lead?" He asked pointing to a closed door.
"Down to the pool." Phoenix smiled. "This room can access practically every room in the house. It's great."
"You mean we can go and have midnight swims?" Blake said pressing her back on the bed. "I think we'll make full use of that."
Phoenix laughed, then moaned when Blake's lips found her neck. "Well, you have to book the room, because other people use it as well."
"Are you serious? We have to book the pool because other people use it? That's just too funny."
"But it's true. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm very tired so I'm going to bed. Goodnight." Phoenix kissed him softly of the lips and went to get ready for bed.
TBC
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