Title: Acquaintances

Genre: General and Romance

Rating: T

Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing, and these characters are not mine, except the one I created.

A/N: Ok, as you will notice, this fiction takes place DURING the movie, and for me to do that and mix in another character, it requires me to change a few things, not many, but enough for this to turn out good.

Acquaintances

Chapter 7

" King! King! KING!"

" Just a little…louder"

"KING!"

" I already bit you!"

Giggles were heard from King, little childish ones as if someone was tickling him senseless. That, or something else completely as Abby tried to wake King up again.

" KING!" Abby slapped his forehead, and then his cheek after he was barely awake.

"Hey! Grown boy with feelings here!" King mumbled as he sat straight up from his slumped position on the chair next to the hospital bed. He guessed he had been sleeping for a while now because when he looked over to Audrey, she was soundly asleep as well. That, and the clock on the wall read 3:14 A.M.

Blade was seated by the far side of the room, watching the display before him. His jaw was set, as Blade's jaw would be set, tight and teeth grinding against each other in annoyance. His sunglass clad eyes, even though he was in a building, a DARK building, remained on and hide his eyes. If they were off now, you would only see what you always see when Blade was anywhere near King, anger, annoyance, and the urge to kill the slender man. He ducked out of the room, seeing all he had to see and barely caring if the vampire had woken up since they had left her there with King.

" Where's Blade going?" King asked as he watched Blade exit the room.

" I don't know…what were you talking about biting?" Abby asked King as she looked at him weirdly.

" Hey! Did you know Audrey woke up?" King asked, changing the subject, and Abby, being Abby, picked up on it.

" What? Who's Audrey and why are you watching the Style Network?" Abby seemed exasperated and irritated, something must have happened while Blade and she were out. King, however, did not notice much, or rather, left it alone for fear of being socked in the head.

" Well, If you must know babe, Audrey is the vampire and SHE wanted to watch the Style Network. Any more questions Mrs. Lawyer?"

" Yes, did anything good happen, like any critical information?" Abby asked, walking around to see the vampire sleeping soundly on the bed.

" No, she seems normal enough but I don't think she remembers much." King watched as Abby watched Audrey.

" Did she wake up ok?"

"Yup."

"OK…I'm going to change and I'll be back in a bit. Please wake her up for me."

Abby walked out of the room and King notice the various scratches and bruises that were forming on her arms and the torn patch of cloth around her thighs. Shaking his head, King wondered why he wasn't going out with them since they found Blade. He knew for a fact that Blade hated the shit out of him, but it wasn't like he was useless. King could fight, if not better, than Abby…when he was motivated, and he could sure as hell take out a few vamps in one night.

" Maybe I should get a sword…or two, that'll shut him up." He heard grunting and then the hospital bed squeaked as Audrey woke up. " Oh…right, hot vampire waking."

He heard grunting and then the hospital bed squeaked as Audrey woke up.

" Hey, King…right?" King looked over just as Audrey proceed to stretch her arms over her head, giving him a little peak at her flat stomach.

" Yeah, I was gonna wake you up, but it looks like you were a step ahead of me." She chuckled and shook her head at him.

" No, but that guy…Blade has to fuel out some frustration, he has very heavy foot steps." It was his turn

to laugh, she didn't know how right she was.

" Ok, um, Abby's here, and she'll ask you some questions and then…well, it all depends on you really. If not, chains and persuation mainly dealing with your life are involved. Uh, if I was in your position, which I was, I'd go with the living and no…chains"

King ended his ranting when he saw the weird look she was throwing at him, and that Abby had made her presence know by slapping him on the back of the head.

" King, shut up will you?" Abby turned and addressed Audrey.

"Audrey, right? What's your last name?"

" Knight, with a K" She replied.

" Ok, you've been collected and taken here because we saw that you belonged to Drake. First things first, we need your confirmation to go ahead and go on with your transformation, we will not want to do anything that you might try to…correct, later. Sommerfield will come in and start the process. You are very important, we wont lie, you were possibly held within Drakes hold long enough to tell us important information. All in all, you will transfer back to your human status again, being able to eat and go in the sun as many a times as you may wish. You will have a place here at the honeycomb hideout as you may wish to stay so we could be within better reach of you. We will train you, also up to you, and you will go with us when he may have a lead on Drake. It is possible that you will come to see him again, but I promise you will be trained enough to not be fearful of him. Sommerfield will explain some things to you, if you have any questions. Anything you might need to ask other than what I just told you?"

Audrey looked at Abby closely as she talked, taking in the fact that this girl was very confident but also very apprehensive of her at the same time. She wondered if she would still hold the mark that Drake had left on her like King sported his. She couldn't really lower her pants like him though, but that was alright with her, he could handle that himself. She looked over at King who was just watched Abby while she talked as well, seeing that he alternated looking at Abby and then her to see what her reaction was.

Maybe she should go on with the transformation, being able to taste something other than the retched blood was something she would relish in, and being able to get rid of her none existent tan would also come as a small miracle on her part. What worried her most his that Drake wouldn't really talk to her at all, just have that weird women…what was her name…Daca? Derca? Dane, well, whatever. She had been annoying as hell, always demanding things. Drake would leave her in her room with enough food for a month and come back in a few days, looking annoyed and exhausted, if that was even possible for him. It always looked like he was well fed and ready to take on anything. Dane, or Danac was always around and the thought of another woman seeing her in her shriveled up state as she would refuse to feed was very intimidating. Although Audrey suspected that D…the bitch didn't even know she was there.

Audrey shooed away her thoughts as Abby stopped taking, amazingly her vision had gotten cloudy as she was thinking and she had to shake her head to get it back to her original clarity. She opened her eyes and saw Abby frowning at her, arms crossed in front of her and King shaking his head. What the hell was wrong with them now?

" So, is that a no? Do you wish to do this another way?" Abby asked, apparently pissed off.

Audrey shook her head at her and smirked, something she picked up from Drake, as bad as it was. It was a smirk he gave her, and only her ( she noted with a smile), that came out whenever she gave in.

" No, I spaced out and I needed to clear my head, I would love to help you, but…I don't really know much. I have a few questions but I'll leave that for your friend. "

" And, I'm in no way afraid of him." Audrey added with a confident air.

Abby nodded and mumbled that she was going to go and find Sommerfield and told King to stay there with her.

" What were you think about?" King asked, and watched as Audrey gave him a small smile.

" Nothing much, since I was awake when your friends came in, I did hear something rather…interesting…what were you dreaming about.?"

King smiled knowingly and decided to play the cool part. He smirked at her and approached the hospital bed slowly.

" Well, wouldn't you like to know?" King laughed as she stuck her tongue out at him and he tried to not catch it. It was ridiculous how he had taken to this vampire, and he thought they would turn him off altogether, but somehow, the woman sitting in front of him with the thin tank top was doing the complete opposite

" I have a feeling that I don't actually."

" You know…" King started and Sommerfield and Abby walked in, Abby carrying various tools and needles while Sommerfield threw on some gloves.

" Well, I'm Sommerfield…" She smiled as Audrey said a quick 'hello' and continued. " Abby here will help me attach somethings to you, don't worry, it wont hurt too much. Some of the procedures are very simple, and will probably take a few minutes. Others tend to take a few days to complete. They first thing that will take place will be the reversal of your melanin molecules, they will go through a series of changes, and will restore themselves so that you will be able to go into the sun again. Your eyesight will be restored to its previous condition. If you had bad eyesight before, you will probably need to see your eye doctor after. Your canines will sink into your gums and also restore themselves…" Visual shudder from Audrey there , and since Sommerfield didn't see it, she continued. " Those are short term and finish within seconds. The day long procedures include your cells and other molecules in your stomach and overall body will need to transfer themselves back. We will accomplish this with various vaccines and medicines that I have come up with."

" Of course, you can see why you have to wait a few days before being active in any way, you will probably take a day or two to heal, other than that your set. Any questions?"

Audrey took a breath and took it all in, and nodded.

" I understand, I'll leave any questions for later."

" Ok, King, you may leave now." Sommerfield said while asking Abby to commence prepping up Audrey. This , King was very grateful for.

" Fine, throw me away like a used condom!" King said, and dramatically left the room, but not before hearing Abby tell him to wait for her outside the hall.

Outside the hall…

" King, just to let you know, we'll be going on a mission to go see someone we think is connected to Drake two days from now…and yes your coming with us." Abby added as she saw that King was about to complain.

" It's about time!" King said and shut up as he saw the look Abby was giving him.

" Yes well, we'll need you to train her, I'll be busy and Blade…is Blade and she seems to have taken a like to you."

"What happened today that you were so cranky that you nearly slapped the shit out of me?" King asked, and Abby looked down again, studying the bare floor.

" Nothing, you know how I get when we don't make as much progress as I hope for. All we got is this lead and that's about it. I'm afraid we wont be in time and we'll be gone before we can even say Drake."

King shook his head at her and took her in for a hug. Abby hesitated before hugging him back slowly.

" Don't worry Abs, everything will be fine." King said with a smile as he placed his chin and her head.

" Lets go see if Zoey wants a hot fudge Sunday… and by Zoey…I mean me." Abby laughed and slapped his biceps but was cut of by a silent scream.

King winced and Abby shook her head slightly while moving in the direction of the kitchen. King followed her closely, his canines hurting slightly but all was erased as he thought about the fudge and ice cream he was going to eat.

In the room, Sommerfield could almost hear as Audrey's canines shrunk back into her gums, and had to hold her hands to her ears as she started screaming. When she stopped, Sommerfield clicked into her computer the next steps and listened as Audrey's breath became regular. She left the room as the last steps of the transformation took place.

Tomorrow, Audrey would feel like shit, Sommerfield thought, but now, now she would lead herself towards the kitchen were giggles could be heard coming from Abby as King did God only knows what with whatever he was eating.

"He'll never grow up." Sommerfield thought " Maybe she will help him."

Sommerfield thought

She entered the kitchen and sat herself down.

" Hot fudge Summer?" King asked.

" Nope…no chance in hell."

Authors Notes: Ok, thanks for those who reviewed Delauro, nikki-da-latina, and rebelwilla. You guys keep locked for chapter 8 because I will try to finish this before school starts because the shit load of homework I get throws me into the wee hours of the night. So, please, If you have any suggestions, comments…REVIEWS, lol, please feel free to leave them. Sorry this took so long but I got my lazy bum up because I realize that I cant keep you guys waiting. PLEASE TELL ME IF I SHOULD UP THE RATING BECAUSE IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED IT DOES GET A LITTLE SHALL WE SAY…NAUGHTY? Please leave your opinion on that…thanx very much.