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Not Too Late For Love
Chapter Thirteen: Pink Haze and Gold Lightening
Kaitlin stared at Red Fern. "What are you doing here?" Kaitlin said, "I own this bunker my precious." Red Fern grinned at her apparent loss for words. Oh, was she in trouble.
"I am well aware of that Red Fern." She said unable to keep the scorn out of her voice. "Then surely the answer to your question is obvious Princess." He said slowly smiling as if taking to a six year old.
But Kaitlin was well aware of what he was doing. Oh, no. He was not going to get her that way. He would go jump on a wooden stake before she told him what he obviously wanted to know.
"Princess?" She scoffed "Please, have I done something right? The last time you called me that was when I was six years old!" she looked at him steadily and said "am I suddenly in favour?"
She shook her head "Whatever, I don't care whether I am or not. What I meant was that you are Red Fern. You're never in the line of fire. You let everyone else do that bit for you."
"The great Red Fern after all does no do combat." She said looking him straight in the eye.
"Oh so true." Red Fern laughed "But then I don't think I'm in any danger here. And I'm on the winning side. I have you." The arrogance in his voice baited Kaitlin into saying something she wasn't exactly sure was a good idea.
"Not by choice you don't."
"But I have you all the same." Red Fern said. He was right. He did have her. She cursed.
Red Fern smiled. She hadn't lost any of her spunk. She'd always been stand offish with him. She wasn't easily cowed like a lot of the people who worked for him were.
She knew she was in great danger but she was still adamant to fight her captivity. She reluctantly amazed him and he had to grudgingly give her points for her courage.
He would never tell her that of course.
"What no sliver manacles?" Kaitlin said sarcastically rubbing her wrists that were scarred with huge welts where the sliver had reacted with her skin.
"No Precious. There is no need for that I don't think."
Just then an alarm started to sound and Kaitlin knew right away that Daybreak had done the unthinkable and come in after her and Nilsson. They had found them. Kaitlin couldn't believe it. They'd got in!
She looked at Red Fern and he looked startled that his seemingly perfect security had been undermined. He read her expression before she could clear it.
"They'll never find you here dearest." He smiled. "Maybe not." Kaitlin conceded "But they'll blow this place apart that's good enough for me." Red Fern said nothing but Kaitlin could feel the anger coming off him in waves.
Kaitlin wondered if he would strike her. After all it wouldn't be the first time. She still winced with some of the blows she had received from him or on his orders.
Then there was a banging on the door urgent and insistent and Kaitlin terrified by what it could mean backed herself into a corner as far away from the door was she could get. She was furious with herself but she knew she was in danger.
She didn't want to die yet.
Red Fern turned and saw her and nodded as if satisfied she wouldn't interfere or escape which hadn't been far from her mind but she knew she couldn't get far. Especially since she was in the room with Red Fern.
He turned to the door and opened it. Whoever was outside he didn't like, or didn't want to see at that particular moment because his face was a mask of thunder and then he shoved them out and stepped out the room and shut the door behind them.
Kaitlin was intrigued whomever could get a reaction from Red Fern such as that one had to be important and then she was annoyed because it seemed like there was yet another plot to use her and so she decided she had had enough.
She concentrated hard. She thought maybe she would be able to hear what they were saying. She was sick if being in the dark. She needed to know what was going on.
The next thing she knew she was floating. Oh…my…god! She panicked. I'm dead!" She thought, "I'm dead!" It certainly looked like it too because she looked down and her body was on the floor where she had been stood.
Oh…my…god. She thought. Then she floated through the closed door and saw Red Fern and understood. She'd astral projected! She had wanted to be in two places at once and she was.
She felt like screaming, and bouncing around on the spot in triumph and then she remembered why she was there and knew that congratulations were for later. She turned her attention to engaging into the best tried and true tactic of spying:
Eavesdropping.
"You got into Daybreak?" Red Fern was asking, "Sure, it wasn't easy but I got in." "Well what did you find out?" Red Fern said impatiently "Now man! I need this information!" "Nothing much!" The speaker said, "The place is like Fort Knox! I'm in one of the smaller cells in England." Kaitlin gasped. That stupid prick was a mole.
There was a mole in Daybreak!
"Do you know who the leader of Circle Daybreak is?" Red Fern asked, "I need something to bait Kaitlin with."
Kaitlin wasn't impressed with this news not in the slightest. So that's what this was all about? Using her for their own means? That's what all this was about. If they couldn't get her to join them they'd bait or break her.
Well to hell with them she wasn't doing it.
"Nope. Nada. Nothing. Daybreak give nothing away until they are totally sure of my alliances. I'm trying I managed to get the keys and find Ash's soulmate didn't I? I even planted the transmitter on Kaitlin." The creep said defensively
Red Fern relented slightly "Yes that was a stroke of genius on your part. But I need more. I need to break them. Can you get it?" He said only everyone knew it wasn't a question and no wasn't a choice.
Kaitlin gritted her teeth and clenched her fists. Fury was making it hard to breathe.
She looked at the figure whose face she couldn't see. She needed to be able to tell Daybreak everything when she got back because Red Fern had just unwittingly given her yet another reason to live through this. She would recognise his voice again. She wasn't sure of the accent. But it was distinctive and those boots. They were biker boots and by the looks of things he loved them. She committed them to memory.
She'd meet that bastard again and the next time she'd make him know what he'd made her go through.
"Sure thing boss." The creep saluted and then there was a burst of gunfire and both of them looked down the corridor. "Get out of here man!" Red Fern said, "They're getting closer. Get me the information." The mole nodded and transformed into massive black bird.
It flew right at Kaitlin and Kaitlin screamed it flew straight through her. She shut her eyes and when she opened them she was back inside her cell. She looked round and saw the door beginning to open and she scrambled to her feet and backed into the corner as if she had been terrified of some unknown danger.
She thought of the mole and knew that the next time they met she would make him pay. He had made her lose so much and nearly caused the death of many of her friends. Yes, she thought the next time they met she'd make him pay.
Nilsson, Galen, Ash, Keller and Lupe spun round. The speaker was Angie Drake. Nilsson recognised her immediately and snarled running at her and throwing her against the wall. "You!" He screamed in her face. Angie didn't put up any fight at all.
"Nilsson!" Galen yelled but Nilsson was beyond reasoning. He was going to commit murder. The shifter in front if him was one of the reasons Kaitlin was in the mess she was now and that was something he still couldn't believe.
Angie had acted as her mother for 17 years!
"Where is she?" He snarled his fingers closing heavily on Angie's throat and she gasped for breath. "Nilsson let her go!" Lupe said running over to her friend. "Where is she?" Nilsson demanded again ignoring Lupe. "If you let go of me I'll tell you." Angie rasped. Nilsson let go of her with so much force that Angie stumbled. "Why should we trust you? You sold her out. You would have been happy to let her sit in that room and rot."
Galen, Keller, Ash and Lupe glanced at each other. They didn't have a clue what Nilsson was talking about, they knew it was important but none of them had seen him in a mood like this one and so didn't dare ask him. But they feared for Angie's welfare under his wrath.
"Nilsson," She said "Look I know what I did was wrong, but this isn't about me its about her. I need to help her because if I don't she'll die."
Nilsson stopped dead and stared at Angie. "WHAT?" He snarled, "She's with him." Angie whispered Nilsson stopped dead. "Oh god. He'll kill her." "Nilsson who is he?" Galen demanded but Nilsson didn't seem to hear him. "Nilsson!" Galen said again.
"Galen!" Keller warned Galen turned to see his soulmate looking at him intently and she said, "He's searching for her. Feel." Galen closed his eyes and immediately feels Nilsson has his senses cast out. Nilsson can feel the soulmate connection humming as he pulls on it looking for a response.
Nilsson's eyes fly open and he looks wild. He turns to Angie. "Get us to her and I'll get you to Daybreak. If you deflect you can be debriefed and protected but get me to Kaitlin first. Now." Angie gulps and nods.
"This way."
She leads them down a mind numbing series of corridors draws back getting out of the way of their fire as they take on the guards. Nilsson is beyond reasoning. No one would stop him getting to Kaitlin.
The remaining Daybreakers have never seen him act this way before. Sure they knew he was an Ice Man but now he was living past that reputation. He was outwardly calm picking off his targets with a deadly accuracy. None of the soldiers that aimed at them met their mark.
The others fanned out behind him. They could feel the power coming off him in heated waves. The Night World soldiers fell as they came against him. And still the four Daybreakers battled on Angie yelling directions in his ears.
One solider in particular must have recognised her and came driving at her and she changed in a flash. She changed as she leaped and in her place was a screaming hawk. She swooped at her attacker her claws going straight for his eyes.
The solider yelled and dropped to the floor. The Four Daybreakers moved as a unit. Nothing was going to stop them getting to Kaitlin. She was going to get out with them.
Even if they had to prise her from the Night World's grasp. Only Nilsson knew that this was probably going to be the case.
Still, Red Fern was not keeping her.
Nilsson ran on.
Kaitlin stared up at Red Fern from her position on the floor the gunfire echoing inside her head. She could not let him know she had found out.
Her gaze hardened and she forced herself to keep eye contact with the person she had hoped she would never have to meet again. His eyes flashed gold and Kaitlin knew he was angry.
He advanced on her but she didn't flinch. To flinch was to let him win. She couldn't let that happen.
She would not let that happen.
He struck her and the blow made her ears ring and her vision blur. "You will learn my precious that you belong to me now. And you will learn that I don't like being challenged."
Kaitlin laughed spitting blood onto the floor. She coughed and spat again. "But that's my life's purpose to challenge you." She spat. Her contempt for the being in front of her had gone off the scale.
She hated and despised him.
He wanted to hurt everything she had ever loved. He wanted to kill the only true happiness and freedom she had ever had. Well he just wasn't going too.
She had thought he loved her once. Tears came to her eyes. That he could do that to one he had raised as his own daughter floored her and then she hated herself for caring.
Again.
"How could you pretend to love me? And then hate me now. You could kill me in one strike."
The tears fell down her face. Pain and anguish filled her being and then she was furious that she should show such emotion to one she now considered her greatest enemy.
Red Fern stared down at her and she thought she saw a flicker of something like regret in his eyes but then it was gone and she knew she had been wrong.
"Kaitlin I only loved you because I had too." He said looking down at her. She narrowed her eyes and nodded. "So was there a time when you loved me at all father?" She said it so sarcastically and so full of hatred that Red Fern found himself taking a step back.
He shook it off and said "Never."
She nodded and he found her lack of response alarming. He had expected something from her. Her expression was blank and he found himself squirming with uncomfort.
He tried to dispel his uneasiness by trying to get near her and she screamed loudly with her voice and with her inner voice that she used both like a battering ram.
" I HATE YOU! STAY AWAY FROM ME! DON'T COME ANYWHERE NEAR ME! I HATE YOU!"
Red Fern stepped backwards away from her. He had never been scared of anything. He was Lord of the Night World and since his mother had disappeared, whispered killed by Daybreak, yet another reason to break them, he had had become the most feared of all Night Worlders.
But looking at the girl before him.
The girl he had once called his own daughter he felt the first trickle of fear in over five centuries.
There was power coming off her in waves and he knew she was as powerful as he had suspected but he had also underestimated her character. Watching her grow he had seen an isolated teen who was easy to manipulate.
One who loved her parents and brother and got lost in her own world a little too often. But the girl before him wasn't Kaitlin Drake.
She had changed. She had always been powerful and independent but now she was all that and fearless. And she hated him with the passion he had seen her use for so much good that had made him scoff.
Now he looked at her eyes flashing red and dangerous and he knew he would not get her anywhere she did not wish to go.
He could not go near her.
She looked up and smiled. What was worse she knew. Gunfire ripped through the bunker and screams rent the air. Kaitlin's grin grew wider because she knew as he did that Daybreak had broken his defences.
The soldiers had broken. He was alone and what was more. They were coming right for him. He stood in their way blocking Kaitlin from their grasp. He was the reason she had been kept from them in the first place. It was then Red Fern realised just how much danger he was in.
Lots.
They came to another folk and Nilsson knew that Kaitlin knew that they were near and was trying to show him the way by pulling him to her. He was trying to help her.
She was hurt and he wanted nothing more to get to her as quick as he was able. But at the fork he stopped. He knew he needed to go left. But there was someone he knew he couldn't take with him.
"Angie you need to leave." The other Daybreakers stared at him. "What?" Angie voiced their thoughts "Nilsson I can't leave you need my help." "Kaitlin has her own brand of help. I can find her from here. Besides you wouldn't survive a confrontation with him you know his law for traitors."
She gulped and nodded. "So you know what I'm asking you. If you leave you can escape while we hold their attention and you can get to Daybreak and you can have our protection."
She nodded again. "Nilsson she can't go by herself!" Galen yelled "I would make her if I could. She deserves it."
"Nilsson!" Lupe gasped
"No he's right." Angie said speaking to the group. "I deserve everything he has to throw at me." She glanced at Nilsson. "It must have been something to get him this worked up." Ash observed taking the opportunity to reload his gun.
Keller came tearing back along the corridor from her scouting mission her black hair flying. "Left. We must go left." Nilsson nodded. "I know where to go from here." He turned to Galen "You feel her too don't you?" Galen nodded looking dazed and then Nilsson heard it.
"I HATE YOU! STAY AWAY FROM ME! DON'T COME ANYWHERE NEAR ME! I HATE YOU!"
Kaitlin's words came thundering into his head and he knew they had to hurry. The amount of power she had put into those words had to be sending her emotions into over drive.
Her powers would be showing now.
He turned his attentions briefly to Angie. Although his heart was already running down the corridor. "Ash, Lupe you're to get Angie out of here. Get her to Daybreak understand?" "Nilsson!" Galen said, "We're here to find Kaitlin that's our mission. Nilsson spun round and snapped, "I can send you and Keller would that suit you better?"
Galen was about to answer when Angie transformed and screamed diving on another solider. "Look I assume you want to get to Kaitlin?" Nilsson snapped at Galen his patience wearing thin.
"YES!" Galen snapped his temper hardly in check.
"Then you need to stay here. Angie will go with Ash and Lupe. The fewer there are of us when we break that room open the better it is." He turned to Ash and Lupe.
"Understand?" Ash and Lupe nodded.
It was clear the last thing they wished to do was leave Kaitlin but they understood the importance of getting Angie out of there. They were wary of her. Nilsson's open hostility towards her had them on edge but he obviously believed she had deflected so now their mission had changed.
They had to get her out of there.
Angie transformed into her human form again and said, "Give me a gun!" Lupe passed her a spare and everyone reloaded. Ash and Lupe nodded to Nilsson, Keller and Galen "Bring her back." They said together.
"We will." Keller and Galen said together "I'm not leaving until I do." Nilsson said and the promise was steely in his eyes. They knew it was true.
With one last nod Angie, Lupe and Ash disappeared down the right fork while Keller, Galen and Nilsson turned their attentions to the left.
They would go left.
For Kaitlin.
Kaitlin had hauled herself to her feet and was staring at Red Fern with so much hostility her earlier fear left her. She had no room left for fear all she could feel was anger.
She felt the power now. It was coursing through her veins and she would use it. On him. She didn't care any more and what was more she knew that looking at her Red Fern knew it too.
"Get out of my way." She whispered, she had decided that she wasn't staying here a moment longer. She wanted to return to her family and she couldn't stand to be in Red Fern's presence a moment longer.
She hated him with everything she had. And she wanted to be out. She was sick of being locked up like a caged animal.
Gunfire echoed through the building and Kaitlin heard Nilsson's voice. Her heart soared. He was ok! He was coming for her.
She took a step towards him and said, "You're going to die Red Fern." "If I am then you're coming with me Princess." He spat and Kaitlin felt the power coming off him.
White light emitted from his hands and like gold lightening streaked towards her. Automatically she held up her hands to protect her body and screamed, as the room around her grew gold with the flames of an explosion.
"Nilsson!"
Nilsson led Keller and Galen knowing that their time was running out. Red Fern's power was radiating through the Bunker. He wanted to escape and kill Kaitlin. Nilsson became desperate.
He was momentarily relieved when he heard Ash's mental voice. "We're out. We've stolen a car. See you back at Daybreak." Ash and Lupe were safe.
But they still hadn't found Kaitlin.
He charged into the final corridor as an explosion ripped through it "Down!" Nilsson yelled diving for the floor as hot air scolded the back of his neck and face.
"Nilsson!" He heard her scream "Kaitlin!" He screamed with his thoughts. He knew that she had been right at the centre of the blaze. There was no answer. The flames had barely died and he was on his feet kicking in the rest of the door.
Red Fern was nowhere to be found. Kaitlin was on her back.
She wasn't moving.
He ran to her.
Her gold hair was matted with soot and ash and her face was smeared with grime.
"Kaitlin?" He whispered he pulled her close searching for their link. Their connection. It was humming. She was alive. "Nilsson?" She whispered, "I'm here sweetheart." He smiled. It was then he noticed her hands. They were scorched raw.
"You stupid-" He couldn't be mad at her he was so pleased she was alive. "I had to Nilsson." She whispered
At that moment there were hurried footsteps and Galen and Keller burst into the room. "Kaitlin!" Galen yelled running to his sister. "Oh my god! I thought I'd never see you again!" He helped Nilsson pull her to her feet.
Nilsson knew that he wouldn't ever be able to let her go. She smiled and kissed her brother and then her head fell onto Nilsson's chest and she buried her face in his chest. He held her close and felt her shoulders shake with silent sobs.
He held her and pulled her close and wiped away the tears that made clear streaks in the grime and kissed and kissed her.
He felt her stiffen and pulled away. Her eyes were blood red. That meant the Wild Power was close to the surface. "Run." She whispered.
"What?"
Galen and Keller said together. "Do you trust me?" She asked them. Nilsson didn't bother answering he knew she knew he trusted her. "Yes." Galen and Keller said without hesitation.
"THEN RUN!" She yelled. She tore out into the corridor pulling Nilsson with her. Galen and Keller tore after her and what sounded like thunder ripped through the building.
A fire ball appeared at the end of the corridor and Kaitlin not looking back screamed "Don't look back guys, don't look back. Run!"
It was then that Galen realised where they were they were three stories up and the corridor was a dead end apart from a window. Nilsson shot bullets at the window and the glass shattered.
Kaitlin and Nilsson pulled Keller and Galen faster and they yelled, "JUMP!"
All four of the Daybreakers propelled themselves through the broken window and into open air. Galen looked down as they began to fall. Below then was solid ice.
They were going to die.
"Kaitlin!" He yelled
Kaitlin saw the ground coming up to meet them and somehow felt the power rise to the surface within her.
She felt it wind round her arms and erupt from her hands like a star being born and gold lightening and flames shot out from her palms and hit the snow and ice below her. She could feel the intensity beneath her fingers.
"Oh my god!" Keller screamed
The ice broke beneath the heat of Kaitlin's firestorm and they plunged into its freezing depths.
Above them the bunker blew up leaving no trace of its existence or anyone still within it.
Ok i know, i've done the cliff hanger thing again but it seemed like the best place to stop
Especially since i'm nearly done. Yes you heard me. We're nearly at the end of the story.
Don't worry you haven't heard the last of Kaitlin and Nilsson but their part in the story is nearly over unless u wish me to do another chapter or so. I have an idea to extend it but other than that you'll be hearing the rest of their journey through the eyes of others.
Chapter Fourteen willbehere shortly
Cya laterxxx