Thanks to those that have reviewed and sorry that I have not updated in such a long time . . . Once again, many thanks and any character that may sound familiar to you in this story are not mine but Amelia's.

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I stood there, sure to not let him know how much he had hurt me. Pride stood in the way and I liked it that way.

"Aisha?" he said in an almost fearful tone of voice. Aubrey afraid? He was only surprised to see that I had not died as he and everyone else thought.

I only laughed. "You did not forget about me after all. I have heard many things about you. You have come a long way." I meant what I said to him. Aubrey had changed far too much and I did not like that. I could feel Jessica stare at me as if I were sprouting another head and as I looked at her, I laughed silently. The fact that they were together, maddened me but I was too proud to give them the pleasure of seeing me upset. Besides, she had no idea about my past at all; barely anyone knew who I was and I liked that.

"What are you doing here? Why did you help Ash?" Aubrey sounded irritated and that he was not very happy since his tone of voice when was not so pleasant. He was regaining his confidence.

"Can I not help the younger ones of our kind? That is a shame Aubrey!" I exclaimed. "It is a shame that you no longer accept any of my favors. Especially when I saved you first fledgling, as many of you here call your children." I hated the word fledgling for I believed that when you gave someone your blood they became your child, and I would never call my child a fledgling. I stared at them both for a moment and then turned to walk out of Las Noches.

Aubrey spoke up once again "You were always the one to turn away from things, weren't you?"

I was stung by this remark but I turned and gave him a cold, hard stare. "Please do not tell me that you hold such a grudge now! If I remember correctly, you were the one who left. Besides, "I said as I looked at the crowd of mortals and immortals alike that were crowed around us, trying to see what was going on, "I suggest that we do not talk about the past right now. Besides, my business is not with you, it is Silver I must speak to."

Aubrey sighed and then looked at me before he answered, "Then stay. He will come; I have no doubt about that. I myself need to talk to him."

I only looked around and nodded in agreement. I would stay for Silver and after my business was done, I would leave as soon as I could. Sahaid had allowed me to come unescorted but I would not abuse his trust in me. I walked around as I waited for Silver, noticing little details such as the mirror walls that were shattered by Risika or the craze the surrounded the night club.

"I thought that I was the only one who had such a feud with Aubrey." Risika's silky voice spoke to me. I turned to look at her, noticing her tiger striped hair and her beautiful grace. She and I had much in common and I had wanted to meet her ever since I had heard of her bringing Aubrey to her power. Something in her reminded me of my old self, maybe it was her pain.

"Is it obvious that he and I are not on good terms?" I asked, amused by what others thought.

"I have access to his mind and I know what he felt when he saw you. He thought you dead; everyone did." She said simply but a slight smile crept in her mouth.

I looked at her and smiled too. She was so much like me and the fact that Aubrey tried to kill her warned me that maybe we would try to kill each other too. I only wished that Aubrey and I would not end up in a war as he did with Risika. I held resentment toward him but not enough to kill him mercilessly. I still held love for him.

"Look there," Risika nodded off to where the black-haired girl stood behind the bar. "Silver has come."

I left to go to Silver who already was sitting on the black polished tables with Aubrey at his right. I took my seat on Silver's left. Jessica sat across Silver but she was giving me a cautious and warning look.

"Silver," I said to him. "I came to her becasye you asked me to. I want to know why you went through all that trouble to find me."

Silver answered simply, "This is about Julia. She is now a great threat to us. She will not understand that humans need to live and not be treated as her slaves." The name Julia made me lose my thought of concentration but I managed to keep on listening.

"Julia? Who is she?" Jessica was the first to speak up at the mention of Julia, the one who managed to snare Aubrey.

"Does she still have that silly notion that we are better than mortals?" Aubrey chuckled. "She was always with her childlike dreams."

"This time it is not so. I have called you both here to help me locate her. She is nowhere to be found! Yet I know she is still alive. You and Aisha are the most powerful that can help me right now and that I can trust. I cannot surely pair you with Risika since you would probably kill each other before you ever start your search."

A violent spasm of pain hit me in my chest and I knew that I was being summoned by Sahaid. I knew that things were not going to be good for that type if calling was one of the worst ways to call for someone. "So now we are to work together?" I said as I recovered and ignored his summons, probably the first contradiction that I had ever given him in our years together. "If we do not? If we kill each other, just as if Risika were here?"

"I assure you that you killing each other will not happen." He smiled at me faintly . . .

"What if I cannot do this?" I asked again. Then, the summons hit me again, harder than the first time. I was trying to conceal it but if it kept on going I would not be able to conceal it anymore.

Silver looked worried when he noticed that something strange was happening but he decided to go on. "You will have to. Whatever would be in your way, you have to power to get it out."

"Silver, why can't you go look for her?" Aubrey spoke out.

"I simply have too much to do already. I have to protect my line. I am not like Ather, who expects her fledglings to protect her. It is rather the opposite.

"Silver, what will I do?" Jessica burst in. I too was wondering why Silver had included her but then again I realized that she too was a very powerful vampire, no matter how young she was still.

"Your dreams may help us locate her and if we succeed you will not ever fear the wrath of the others like Fala."

"She does not have to fear anything for I am with her." Aubrey spoke out defensively.

"Since when do you care about what happens to you fledglings?" I shot back at Aubrey. The summons and the fact that Aubrey was being so protective with Jessica sent me over the edge. I cursed him in my ancient Sunirian language and then we both were quarreling in an ancient tongue.

"Aubrey! Aisha! We are not here to fight; we are here to discuss the fate of vampires all over. With Julia in control of our realms, she can easily access the others. We need strong allies who must get along!" Silver said tiredly.

I nodded, trying to control my anger and then I shot a fierce look at Aubrey. So arrogant! My anger was soon replaced by Sahaid's calling once again, this time more stronger and powerful than before.

"I must go." I said to them before I disappeared back into Ardid and back to Sahaid .