To Ruby-servantof-eli I have not lost my muse, I have just been so busy this week I have had like no time on my computer. This story is going somewhere trust me. All the shit will hit the fan within the next 3 chapters, including this one.

And thank you all for your reviews.

Chapter 13

Lexus gets out of the cab with her bag and she pays the driver. She turns around and looks up at the huge mansion belonging to the elders. She walks up to the front door and knocks. The door opens to reveal Yelen.

"Hello Lexus, we are glad you came back." She says as she steps back to allow Lexus into the house.

"Yeah it's all fine and dandy. Why am I back here?" snaps Lexus as she walks into the house and looks up at Yelen.

"We heard about Alas and we are pleased, but we have also learned that Lux failed to kill her target."

"I take it you mean Bobby."

"How did you know?" asks Xander as he walks out of a room on Yelen's right and looks at Lexus.

"And I bet that the next target after Bobby is Tima Solar, am I right?" asks Lexus but she sees from the looks on Yelen and Xander's faces that she is right. "I'm tired I want to sleep."

"Fine Sara will show you to your room." Says Yelen as a small girl of eighteen steps out into the entryway and looks at the three.

"Thanks. You know where to find me if you need me." Says Lexus as she follows Sara to the stairs.

Bobby sits in the chair as Joe works on his tattoo, Sora is hovering over them watching and telling Joe which tattoo to give. Every now and then Sora gently brushes her fingertips over Bobby's shoulder and upper arms to get him to relax and to flirt a little as well.

"Done." Says Joe as he puts away his stuff and smiles at his work.

Bobby gets up and looks into the mirror and sees his tattoo in the same spot at Sora's and he has the same one. He looks at Sora, "Is this right?"

She nods and smiles, "Yup you are now one of us."

"Well Sora I'm sure you must have to get back to the house, I've heard of the grounding and not many are happy about it." Says Joe as he walks out to the front of the store.

"No we don't Dad gave us permission. We have to show my cousin around town." Says Sora as she points to Lux sitting in a chair looking through a book of tattoos.

Joe looks at the girl and his mouth drops open, "You're the daughter of Fóo and Aaron."

Lux looks up and her eyes narrow at the man who mentioned her parents name. "How do you know my parents?" she snarls as she stands up.

"Because you look like them. Plain and simple. Anyways see ya around Sora." Says Joe as he watches Lux carefully.

Sora smiles brightly, "Sure thing Joe." She heads for the door pulling Lux along after her. Once outside Sora snaps, "What the hell was that about Lux?"

"I don't like people mentioning my parents. Listen if you want to go back to the house I'll understand, you see I can stay out seeing as I'm not a Black Heart yet." Says Lux as she looks around the street.

"Nice Lux, my dad will come looking for you if we came back without you. He's not one for leaving a person laying around."

"Hmm, you know I just want to go home." Says Lux as she looks at Sora and smiles.

Sora groans and heads for her car.

Lexus walks down the hall and as she walks by a door she can hear Yelen and Xander talking, she hears her name so she stops and listens.

"Xander the girl has to die. The whole group of them do. Lexus can't know she will try to stop it and we can't have that happen." Says Yelen.

Lexus gasps and listens some more.

"I know Yelen but it seems like such a waste to kill a bunch of teens. Isn't there some other way around this?"

"You know damn well we can't get around it. It's something we just have to do. I hate to do this as well but we have too."

Lexus leaves, walking back to her room to grab her bag of clothes to head back home to warn her friends and family.

Nick walks into the Starlight Café and sees Tima sitting in a booth at the back. The café was lit only by candles and they were only on certain tables and they were on the counter as well. Tima's face was a mixture of light and shadows from the candle that sat on the table right in front of her. Nick smiles and walks up to the counter and orders an iced cap and a chocolate chip muffin, he paid for his things and walked over to Tima and sat across from her in the booth.

"Hey I got you a muffin." Says Nick with a smile as he lays the big muffin in front of Tima.

Tima smiles and looks up at Nick, "I'm glad you could come out."

"It took a little talking, my parents and their friends are really paranoid lately." Replies Nick as he takes a drink.

Tima giggles as she watches Nick put his drink down and she sees he has an iced cap moustache. She takes her napkin and leans across the table and wipes it away. She sits back down and starts to pick at the muffin, "Nick I have liked you for a long time now."

"Same here Tima. Ever since I saw you on your first day of school at the start of this year. So where are you from excatly?"

"America. My parents are from here but they moved to America when my mom was pregnant with me. They wanted to come back so we did."

"So that explains your clothes." Chuckles Nick.

"Actually I make my own. And you don't like them?" she asks shyly as she looks down at her black leather mini-skirt and her deep violet corset top that holds up her breasts quite nicely.

"I like your clothes but it's not what a lot of people wear around here."

"I've seen the Black Hearts wearing clothes like this." Says Tima as she looks at Nick to see his eyes grow wide.

"You've seen Black Hearts?"

Tima nods slowly, "Yeah, there was one woman who looked like Sora but with green eyes and a man with her who acts like Sora with the same color eyes as Sora. Were they her parents?"

"I wouldn't know. When did you see them?"

"At a club one night. My father owns a few clubs around here so I hang out at them sometimes."

"Oh, So what do you want to do today?" asks Nick as he drinks the rest of his drink.

"I'm not sure, we can go to the arcade and see if you can beat me at the games." Says Tima with a soft smile.

"Sure thing."

Nick and Tima walk outside and see it's begun to rain pretty hard, luckily Nick had parked right in front of the café so he pulled out his keys and looks at Tima, "Need a lift?"

She looks at Nick with wide eyes, "Are you serious? You can't drive."

"Yes I can. Come on just get in." he says as he mentally thanks himself for parking with the drivers door on the street side.

Tima runs and jumps in the car and Nick walks around to the other side and gets in. He starts the car and looks at Tima and sees she is shivering. He looks in the backseat and grabs his sweater and hands it to her as he turns the heat on in the car.

"Oh I can't get your sweater wet." Says Tima as she mentally smacks herself for not wearing more clothing.

"It's only a sweater Tima. I don't want you to get sick. Why don't we just go back to my place? We have a games room with some arcade games."

Tima takes the sweater and pulls it on over her head, "Ok, if your parents won't mind."

Nick smiles and pulls into traffic and calls Li to tell him he's bringing a guest home.