The Second Chapter is here

Yes much to my dismay i still don't own the Night World i wish...

Enjoy...

Eclipse At Dawn

Chapter two: Rejoining Daybreak

Lupe fought against a yawn that threatened to steal the last of her concentration. They had taken the first plane out of Las Vegas and flown across the continent to Washington D.C then on another plane to Heathrow airport.

Now Danny was driving north with Mary K. holding a map and navigating. Shell, Toby and Lupe were sat behind in the seven-seater car. Shell and Toby were establishing their covers. Sure they would know that they were from another Cell but they were maintaining that they had come from an English cell.

For Lupe, Toby, Shell and Danny it would be easy to change their accents to suit the local accent. Mary K. was just going to say that she had moved from America because she had been a target of the Vampire Enclave there. One she had escaped by coming to live in England and now she had Danny.

Because it wasn't going to be possible to hide the fact that four out of the five of them were soulmates. Especially since many of the others in the cell were soulmate couples themselves.

The investigation was deep operations and only the leader Xavier Henry and his soulmate Cammie had been informed. They would provide all the information they needed and be their informants.

The only reason they had been cleared themselves was because they each had a soulmate and Xavier hated the Night World with everything he had and helped Thierry set up Daybreak in England. Both of them were good friends and when he had been informed Xavier had blown his top.

Xavier had nearly caused an Earthquake he was so angry especially since his cell was the one that looked to have been infiltrated. Thierry had spoke to him at length detailing what he planned to do and how he knew.

Xavier had opted that the plan was the quickest and safest way to get to the bottom of this and had welcomed the concept of five of Thierry's Daybreakers to join him for a while.

Lupe herself was making herself memorise everything in the file on Xavier's Daybreakers. Who they were what they had access too She remembered all the faces.

Especially those of the five new recruits. She looked at them again. Tina Hanson, Faye Clarkson, Liam Johnson, Chris Power and Tristan Nova. Accroding to this Tina and Chris were the shifters while Faye and Tristan were Vampires and Liam was a werewolf.

The five recruits had been about to be initiated and given more access but a top secret leader only SOS had gone out to all the cells in England and the recruits had been unknowingly put on ice.

No one had been told why. No one wanted anyone to be suspicious of the fact Daybreak where onto them. Lupe would find them if it was the last thing she did.

"We're coming up the Daybreak Cell now." Mary K. called from the front. Lupe looked up and passed the file forward so that all the others could refresh their memory once more before they went inside the Cell. It would be dangerous to take the files with them, which was why they were going to be operating from memory. The only problems that might occur were from Mary K. But Lupe had seen her in action before and knew that she should not be underestimated. Mary K. could lie so well some witches had problems seeing through them and she had her soulmate link if anything went wrong.

The files were passed round as everyone made certain they knew who they were after and what their covers were before they were handed back to Lupe who hid them in a hollow compartment beneath her seat.

They would have some explaining to do if anyone else but Xavier or Cammie found them since only Xavier and Cammie were aware of their mission.

A lot depended on it. Lupe only hope she could pull it off. She had never failed before but this suddenly seemed like climbing Mount Everest without any hope of reaching the peak.

Danny made a sharp left off the motorway and onto a slip road that took them down into the bottom of a sheer valley. They pulled round a hairpin bend and up a dirt road that was hidden unless you were looking for it.

The site of the Daybreak building got top marks in Lupe's opinion. It was well-hidden form humans who may come upon it by mistake and also made it hard for Night Worlders to come upon it because the dense forest surrounding it absorbed the magic and intense waves of energy the training Daybreakers were prone to letting lose.

The people carrier bounced in and out of potholes as it made its way up the track leading to the building. Lupe and the others were pleased to get out the car by the time they reached the roads end.

They had phoned ahead and most of the Daybreakers were out on training or a few were out on missions the only people at the base were Xavier and Cammie who must have heard the car pull up as the door to the building opened and a two tall figures stepped out into the light.

Xavier had the air of power that Lupe had only ever seen in Thierry. Xavier Henry was a lamia. One of the younger families in the scheme of things but one of the oldest residing in England. That meant, like Thierry he had a lot of power that was useful for Daybreak.

No one knew exactly why he had chosen to side with Daybreak but one thing was obvious; he was a damned good leader. And the agents he commanded trusted him with their lives.

Cammie Jones Lupe noted straight away was human. Ahh. Hence the reason for Xavier's change of heart. It was amazing the effects a simple thing like getting a soulmate could do to one's perspective.

But Lupe knew that Xavier had been more liberal in his views before Cammie. Having a soulmate in Xavier's opinion just made his opinions appear even more correct.

Lupe lead her team up to meet their new "boss." "Xavier Henry? Cammie Jones? I'm Lupe Acevedo." She and Xavier shook hands and his gold eyes eyed her with suppressed tension. "I'm pleased to meet you. All of you." He added looking at them all "I just wish this was under different circumstances. Please come in. We can keep introductions until we are inside. We don't know who might be watching." His British accent was more profound as he said this. He glanced around and led them inside.

Once inside Cammie shut the door and activated the alarm. Lupe looked at her. "It makes sure that we're aware of anyone approaching the building. The entrance though it is well hidden is rigged with motion sensors. That was why we were able to meet you out front.

"Impressive." Shell said.

Xavier smiled. Lupe said "That's Shell, Danny, Thomas, and Mary K." She said pointing each of them out. Xavier nodded. "We better get this over with before my agents get back." The fury that there was a mole in his organisation was apparent to Lupe but she noticed that both he and Cammie could hide it well.

He led them through the building and into a small cubbyhole at the back. "Daybreak's nerve centre." He said motioning around. Lupe gasped. She had thought it would be tiny but it opened up. It was neat and airy but Lupe had never seen that amount of electronics in one place. Xavier smiled at their reactions.

Danny looked like he was a kid in a candy store he was the resident computer brain of the group and he walked round as though in a daze. "Wow." He breathed.

Cammie motioned them over. "These are the forms for new members. Records of new members. Are you going to use your names?" They nodded "No one knows who is a Daybreaker and who isn't the mole doesn't even know who the leader of Daybreak is so they won't know individual Daybreakers are. We'll be ok to use our names and it makes us less likely to slip up."

The others agreed.

And with that they became Daybreakers all over again. They had rejoined Daybreak.