Ah. Suppose I'll write one more chapter before I go to bed..

Person who didn't leave their name but emailed me: okay, this is what happened to Gillian. It isn't very good, because I wasn't going to actually write about Gillian until they found her, but I thought I might as well anyway, since you were asking. And Yes, I'm very sorry about Ash. I'll write a non-killing Ash version later if everyone prefers.

Chapter 13.

Gillian wasn't sure where she was going, but an overwhelming sense told her to leave the club, it resounded in her brain, a little like a vision but more…fuzzy. She looked around for Morgead, or Poppy. Winnie. Anyone. But she didn't see them, knowing that this vision could be something important, she made her way through the masses of evil towards the door, an ugly werewolf leered at her, and she made it perfectly clear by the smirk on her face what she'd do if he got within three metres of her. He backed off.

The door was within her sights now, she tugged it open and found herself in the hallway. Again, her inner-voice was telling her to leave. Get out. And walk down the street and around the corner. She wondered if this was some kind of witch trick, if she was being bewitched into doing things against her own will, but she didn't wonder for long.

Even if she had wanted to stop herself, she wouldn't have been able to.

Around the corner, she turned, and came across a blue Toyota, she looked at it uncomprehendingly, until a voice whispered inside her brain the keys are inside, you're gonna need the car to find Keller.

Momentarily, she allowed herself to think Angel? But it wasn't Angel, it was her, her own witch powers, telling her where to go. Maybe I should wait for the others…but she didn't want to lose this chance, so she slipped inside the car to find the keys there.

Why would anyone be stupid enough to leave their keys inside their car? Had it just been an accident? Or had it been fate? Had someone put the car there so she'd be stupid enough to drive right into a trap? Or…

Just drive, Gillian.

She drove. Letting her mind lead her.

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Jez Redfern was sitting at her dresser in her own room when she heard the scream. Thierry had let her and Delos go after a good berating of 'this is why you wild powers cannot leave the head quarters!' she had nodded and 'uh-huh'ed and 'Yes Sir!'d but she hadn't heard a word. He'd gone over the whole thing before with her.

Unfortunately, she hadn't listened then either.

Now, she didn't even have the fun of trying to think up ways to get out of the mansion, because everyone was coming back and the fun was over. For a while. She was sorry for Ash and Blaise and the others, but she knew that if she and Delos had been there, all that would have been avoided.

But you weren't there, she told herself, pulling a brush wildly through her red waves, because Thierry wont let you out of this freakin' mansion. You're like a caged animal at the zoo, oh…here's the wild power! She's a special, you-only-see-once kind of creature, so we have to keep her locked up so she wont run away.

She started to wish she was only a normal half-breed, or normal as a half breed could be anyway, so that she could join in the fighting. She set her brush aside on the dressed and pulled her hair back from her face.

"Aaaggghhh!"

She reached for her wooden stake, which she had placed the brush next to, and was to the door in a split second. Maybe it was only Maggie, she screamed awful loud sometimes when Delos tickled her, or it could have been…

She changed her mind, the scream had been a terrified scream. She opened the door and threw herself out, slicing at the flesh on her own wrist with her stake as she ran. The high-pitched wail continued, and she started to realise what Keller's team had been talking about when they said 'volume torture' in all of their conversations involving Illiana.

It was Illiana's scream, and Jez felt that she'd rather have been staked again at the hands of Lilly Redfern than to listen to this.

Her room was on the middle floor, all the Wild Power's were. Thierry thought it would be better that way so that to attack them, the enemy would have to get through half the floors first, whether they came from the floor or from the skies.

And now, as she looked down, a recognisably vampiric figure was dragging a young girl over his shoulders across to the door, enduring that ear-piercing wail. Not even vampires were that tough.

He must be deaf.

But how had he gotten through half the floors and grabbed Illiana before anyone had even noticed? Poor security systems on Thierry's part, she thought solemnly, if they hadn't wanted to seduce her to the enemy side, then they could have just killed her and we'd be down a Wild Power…and he says it's dangerous to go outside?

Oh well, it called for only one thing. Jez grabbed the banister just as Delos and Maggie came out of their room and witnessed it. She gave them a smile, a wave, then threw herself down…down…down…to the ground floor. She had gotten her vampire powers back, decided she'd be a better aid to the final battle – and to Daybreak – if she was a vampire rather than human. Now, she landed on both feet on the floor. Like a cat…

Down there, the piercing noise was unbearable, and Jez wanted desperately to cover her ears with her hands, but she needed them to fight, (her hands, not her ears.) the stake was firmly in one of them, and now she pounced. Illiana screamed and Jez gritted her teeth, "calm down, girl, it's me."

The vampire turned, now modelling a rather deep cut in his shoulder where Jez had pounced. Jez grabbed Illiana and pulled her back, pushing her towards the stairs. In that time, the vampire swiped Jez into him and held his own stake at her throat, "tell me where Galen Drache is, and I might not kill you."

"Oh great move, buddy," she told him snottily, "try to bargain with a Wild Power." She had wanted to take him with stakes and melee, but if he wanted to play dirty, she was willing to. She had already cut herself, the blood was running, and now the blue fire flowed through her veins and landed onto him, it spurred through him. And somehow this time, she managed to control it without destroying Thierry's house.