Title: A Caress of Flame Part II

Author: Courtney, although the original 'A Caress of Flame' was by none other than Aslyin.

~Chapter Six~

"So, where to Luv?" St. John asked his brunette companion. "How about New Orleans?" she asked. "Why there?" he asked with a frown. "Because I've never been there, and I really wanna see it," she said with a slight pout. "You win," he said with a sigh. "Thank you," she said as she practically threw herself on him to give him a hug.

~Four Days Later~

After two days of riding nasty, sweaty, stench filled buses, they finally reached their destination. "Finally," John said with a long annoyed sigh. "Oh at least now you cans ay that you rode a bus across the country.not many people can actually say that," she said with a thoughtful look on her tanned face. "No one cares about that," he said with a look on his face that said that he really didn't understand her insanely optimistic logic.

"Let's find a hotel quickly so that we can walk around and go sightseeing!" she said with such excitement in her voice that he reasoned to himself that four days on a rank bus was worth it.

"How old are you?" Amara asked finally realizing that she had no idea how old her companion was. "Nineteen, Luv, how 'bout you?" he asked smirking at her shocked face. "Fifteen.and a half," she said. "Only four years different, still illegal but not enough to be grossly so," he murmured to himself. "What's illegal?!" she asked with a shocked expression on her face. "Shaggin' you, o'course," he said with a look that basically asked her how she had not known that.

"Why, how dare you!" she screeched. "I'm just joshin', Luv," he said with a grin.

"Indeed," she said as she walked ahead of him. "Not the smartest of things to say, Johnny boy," he said to himself.

By the time they had found a suitable hotel and unpacked their limited possessions night had fallen. "Come on, let's go to a club, at least you can useful for something," she said. "I resent that!" he said with a hurt expression on his face. "I'm "just joshin'" as you would say," she said as she smirked and exited their room.

"Wait up, 'Mara!" he said as he ran outside after her. By the time he had caught up with her she was already outside, and to his surprise.she wasn't alone. "Luv, you made new friends already!" he exclaimed with a smile. "You must've really improved your social skills in the past four days, eh?" he asked jokingly. His face turned more serious as he noticed the frightened look on her face.

He finally noticed that the person in the front of the group was a blonde woman that was holding two daggers, one in each hand, one aimed at each of them.

TBC.

A/N: Okay that's the end of this chapter, but I'm half way done with Chapter Seven. The next chapter will involve some familiar characters.you'll just have to wait to see which ones ;)!!

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