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A/N: All right everyone, here's the scoop. My Christmas vacation officially begins on Tuesday, Dec. 22nd. I am going to try and update this story as much as I can in an effort to get it done. I am also thinking of starting a sequel of sorts to Someday. So, everyone who read Someday will be jumping up and down at the continuing of that story. The catch to this whole thing is that I don't know if I'm going to get it all accomplished because I have about 10 other things I want to get finished in my two week break, so we'll just have to see how it plays out.
Amy and I were sitting in the waiting room of the neurologist's office, waiting for the results of my CAT scan to come back when the headache hit me again. I had only been released from the hospital 5 days earlier, and I had been getting horrible headaches on each of the five days. The doctor had warned me about them, and gave me medicine, which helped, but I hated taking pills. I wasn't exactly surprised to feel the headache pop up again.
"You should take your pills, Chris." Amy told me. My head was pounding. I figured it would be best just to keep my mouth shut instead of argue with her. Luckily, I didn't even have to wait for a response from her, since we were paged to go see the doctor. I let her lead me through the halls since my head was still killing me. Before long, we were shaking hands with the doctor and sitting down again. My headache managed to recede a bit.
"Well, Chris you took quite a blow to the head in that match, and you're lucky to be alive." The doctor said. I nodded. Blah, blah, blah…I've heard this all before from the other doctor who gave me the stitches, I don't think I need to hear it again. I thought.
"The CAT scan didn't show any tumors or cancerous cells of any kind." He continued.
"But…?" I started for him. Doctors always have this way of dragging things out, and with a headache, I didn't want to be here for long.
"But the scan showed something most interesting. Something that I have only seen one other time in my career." My breath caught in my throat when I heard him say that. I had heard that doctors had discovered what they had called a mutated human by a CAT scan, and if my memory served me correctly, at this hospital. Should've requested another hospital. I thought.
"What was so interesting?" I dared to ask.
"Well, it appears that your head was hit so hard that your skull did crack, but quickly fixed itself. However, when it repaired itself, it pinched part of your brain in the crack, which would explain the terrible headaches and any other abnormality you've been experiencing." I nodded. So my brain is caught in a crack of my skull that my vampire senses regenerated. Sounds wonderful. Now, he's going to ask to do more tests to figure out how I healed myself.
"If you don't mind, I would like to run a few more tests to figure out how exactly your skull repaired itself, and to possibly get your brain away from the crack." The doctor said.
"Thanks doc, but no thanks. I don't like tests and the headaches aren't all that bad." I lied. "I think I'll just take my medicine and be on my way." I said. I turned to Amy. She gave me a look, but got up and thanked the doctor for his help before following me out the door.
"Running the tests might not have been all that bad of an idea, if you're going to have to live with that forever." Amy said to me, once we got back to the car. I buckled up as she started the car.
"Great idea!" I said sarcastically. "Let's have them do tests and figure out how I regenerate and do about 500 other things. Shit, why not save them the time and just tell them I'm a vampire! I guess that would take the fun out of their discovery, though, wouldn't it?" She sighed in anger and turned the car back off.
"If you're going to be an ass about this, then you can just get out of the car and walk home." She said.
"I'm not trying to piss you off. I'm trying to make you see that I can't just let them run tests. They're not entirely stupid, they'll figure out something is wrong with me, and then I'll never get rid of them." I said.
"I know that, but don't you think that letting them fix it would be a lot more helpful than living with it forever?" She asked.
"It would, but they won't stop at simply 'fixing it'. They always want to know more." I said. "Trust me, I've been down that road before and I am not going back." She shook her head and started the car as I got lost in my thoughts.
"Bring out the witch!!! Bring her out, or we'll burn her out!!" the townspeople shouted in unison from outside. I turned to Anna, who was busy trying to save her research.
"Anna, dear, I don't know how much longer they're going to tolerate being locked out. We might want to think about, oh I don't know, finding a way the hell out of here!" I yelled.
"I can't leave the information!! Not when I worked so hard to get it!" she yelled back, running around the lab.
"Then grab it and let's go! They're not going to wait around forever with those torches, you know." I said.
"I know; I'm just looking for your test results. There was something I wanted to show you." She said, still frantically searching.
"Bring her out!! Bring out the witch!!" the townspeople were screaming. People had begun to bang on the doors to the lab.
"Forget it, let's go!!" I yelled. I ran over to her and grabbed her hand. I ran to the window and looked down. The whole town was outside holding torches.
"How are we going to get out? We're on the second floor!" she yelled. I was still looking through the window when they threw the torches against the building, which quickly caught fire. I ran to the other window across the lab, never releasing her hand. There were other buildings on this side of the lab. I looked out and tried to guess the distance to the roof of the next building. I turned to her.
"Do you trust me?" I asked her.
"Yes…" she said hesitantly. I reached up and smashed the window with my elbow.
"Loop your arms around my neck and hop on my back then." I told her. She gave me a shocked look for using such terminology, but did as had instructed. I climbed up to the window ledge easily.
"Hold on." I told her, and she tightened her grip before I leapt from the window to the roof of the building. I fell to my knees when I landed and she immediately let go.
"Are you alright?" she asked. I nodded and stood.
"Fine." I said, and grabbed her hand.
We started running to the other end of the roof, and came to another gap. I held her in front of me and simply tossed her across this time. Satisfied that she was okay, I leapt across myself.
"The witch and wizard are leaving!!" One of the townspeople shouted. "They're flying away!!"
"So I'm a wizard now?" I asked her.
"Just like I'm a witch." She said, shrugging. We had come to the end of the line of buildings and I was quickly debating how to get her down.
"If I go down first, can you jump down to meet me?" I asked her. Her eyes went wide. "I'll catch you. I'm not going to let you die here, I promise." She nodded, and I hopped the twenty something feet to the ground, landing perfectly on my feet.
"Jump, Anna!!" I yelled. She stood on the edge, and I could hear the townspeople running this way. She had tears in her eyes. "Anna!!" I yelled.
"I can't Khalon." She sobbed. "I can't do it."
"Yes you can! Jump, Anna!!" She shook her head and started to cry. I heard a gunshot sound in the distance and watched in horror as a stain of red started to form on the bodice of her dress. She looked down in shock, and finally lost her balance on the edge, falling towards me. I caught her and quickly lowered her to the ground. She was still in shock from being shot. I grabbed her hand and desperately tried to keep her from bleeding to death, even though I knew that she would despite my efforts. She raised a hand to my cheek, and it wasn't until then that I realized that I was crying as well.
"God Anna," I whispered, as the townspeople's shouts grew louder. She gripped my hand tightly.
"I……love……you……" she gasped between breaths. My heart was breaking.
"You're not going to die." I said to her. "Don't talk like we're never going to see each other again. You're going to be fine." I said. She shook her head. I knew I could save her. I could make her a vampire. I could save her, and we could be together. I started to lean towards her neck when the world around me suddenly went black.
My eyes snapped open and I looked over to see that Amy was staring at me again.
"You okay?" she asked me. I nodded.
"Yeah…" I said trailing off. "I think so."
"We're home." She said, the concern never leaving her face.
"Okay." I said, opening the door to get out.
"Khalon…" the voice in my head whispered. I figured my face must've dropped about three shades from the look on Amy's face. "I will meet you again very soon, Khalon. We will finish what you started… Very soon…" It whispered. It might've kept going after that, I wasn't sure. After hearing that Jaeger was going to seek me out, I did what every person who knew him would do.
I passed out.