Sorry about the uberlong wait; writer's block. An intense case of it. Probably doesn't help that I am writing 3 stories at once here, different fandoms. So I have to go with which ever one is talking to me at the moment. And this one didn't want to talk to me for a while. But good news, tonight it was in my ear whispering sweet nothings, like answering one major question: Who? enjoy, and comments are appreciated :)

Chapter 16

Ryan sat in the recliner inside the woman's hotel suite. What was he doing there? His girlfriend was off with some punk, and he is in some older lady's hotel suite? Talk about the Lifetime movie special of the week… not that he watched them or anything.

"So, um…Miss…. What'd you say your name was again?" Ryan asked as the auburn- haired lady came into the room with some sodas.

She looked up, surprised. "Oh how silly of me, I completely forgot to tell you. Memory gets fickle with age. Little things slip your mind, though the bigger things always remain." She held out a hand in formal greeting. "My name is Audrey Meyers, pleased to make you acquaintance, Ryan."

"Ok, that's nice Ms. Meyers," he eyed her finger with no wedding ring, and wondered how likely it would be to be the one man raped by a woman. Of course he'd be able to fight her off and all, and was far from worried about that ever happening to him, but still she looked to be in her forties. Something was really strange about this whole situation. He cleared his throat, "But how do you know me and why did you come to my house this morning to show me proof my girlfriend is cheating on me, and most of all, what does this have to do with you?"

Audrey sighed, feigning pity for the young man's concerns. "Well, it is the boy that is with your girlfriend that is the concern. I am an agent for government, and that particular young man is a highly dangerous escapee from a mental facility. We don't wish to alarm the public by announcing his escape and all, mostly sense he has just attached himself to Miss Rebekah Lawley."

"Why Rebekah and nobody else? I know she is gorgeous and sweet, but seriously why single out one girl."

Audrey pulled a folder out of the desk nearby. "He didn't just randomly single her out." She pulled a photo out of the folder and placed it down in front of him. He was staring at a picture of Rebekah. "Okay, so you have a picture of her. What does that prove?"

Audrey rolled her eyes and pulled out the newspaper clipping that was also in the folder. The headline read June 5, 1980, but it had the same picture of Rebekah. It couldn't be possible, Rebekah wasn't even born until 1984. Ryan glanced up at Audrey in confusion.

Striking similarity, don't you think. He is after Rebekah because she looks like this woman, Jennifer Thornton, God rest her soul."

"Why?" Ryan asked, still in shock over the whole situation.

"Why? Because he is insane. He played games with Thornton and in the end, when she wasn't impressed with him, he killed her, her boyfriend, cousin, and three of her friends. Only one of her friends that were subject to his little games survived."

"Oh really, and who would that be?" Ryan said feeling nauseas.

"That would be me." Audrey said, sitting on the table across from him with a grin.

Rebekah was unsure when she had fallen asleep, but when she woke she was in her bed - curled against Julian. And what made it even better was that she was curled against a very naked Julian. With his eyes closed he really did look like a angel. He was so gorgeous that she still could not find the right words to describe the man.

Julian's eyes opened and his lips quirked into a smile at seeing her gazing at him with happiness. The fact that she really did need to get out of bed and get things done, such as study, broke her heart.

Julian couldn't describe the emotions flowing through his veins. She was everything he knew she would be and more. She was light, precious radiating light, and she warmed his heart in a way he thought was never even possible. She would not die this time. He would not allow it.

It had come to him suddenly, the pieces he couldn't place together. He had suspected it was Audrey for a while now, but now that he thought on it the only person he hadn't sensed was Audrey. Jenny had been Christine, and was now Rebekah. Ryan had been both Tom and Raoul. Ashley had been Meg and Summer. Audrey was Carlotta. He suddenly recalled the way the girl could use various languages and pick up the accents. She must have moved out of the country and picked up an accent permanely now.

He was actually embarrassed that he hadn't really figured ot before, it was completley simple. But looking at Rebekah now, knowing that without his little excursions they might not have shared this day... It was worth his bad judgements.

Julian had to tell Rebekah what he had been able to confirm, but it could wait another hour, surely. He was going to enjoy basking in light at least one more time before worrying about that conniving woman who couldn't leave well alone.

"Julian. He calls himself Julian, but whether or not that is his actual name is unknown. We have not been able to accurately identify the man either. He has no record, no anything but that one name."

"He didn't look older than twenty-one." Ryan said, skeptically, still leaning back in the chair where he had been effectively sulking for the past twenty minutes.

"Not all of us age badly." Audrey said in a clipped tone. Truth is, once Rebekah tires of Julian's attention she will be a goner.

"It says in the article that Jennifer shot all her friends, but her boyfriend managed to gut her before dying himself. There is no mention of Julian anywhere in this article."

Audrey snatched it from him. "Of course there isn't. This was before they discovered the truth. I was in the hospital being treated for shock, and couldn't say a word about a boy named Julian till I came out of it."

Ryan was still skeptical, but what could he do. If this dude was trouble and he was with Rebekah…

"What do you need me to do?"

"Firstly, don't make it known that you know. Next Friday offer to take her to her play but go somewhere else. Take her somewhere safe, as a date. Tell me when you pick the location so I can ensure that there are officers near by to keep you safe."

"And until then?"

"Stay with her as often as possible. He will not show his face if you are with her. He will stay hidden."

"He's a coward then?"

Audrey threw her head back and laughed. "Julian? A coward? If only you should be so lucky."