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A/N See I told you you would get a prize! YAY thanks as always to my fans. I don't know what I would do with out you guys pushing me. This is so awesome, half the time I am quiet amazed when I read these things over. I'm shocked to think that I wrote something that I don't remember writing.

And now on with the show.

Chapter 16:

Kaye felt someone's cool fingers on her forehead. She opened her eyes and saw a white masked face looking down at her. She blinked thinking that she must be dreaming again. She saw that the eyes were kind and the person to whom those eyes belonged began to hum a little tune to her. She smiled and relaxed and passed once again into oblivion.

Over the next few hours she awoke many times and had only scattered memories of her awakenings.

Nikolas was beside her holding her hand and stroking her cheek. She said the first thing that came into her head. "Ow" and fell back asleep.

The next time she woke she saw a doctor standing over her. He looked worried and but his hands were surprisingly gentle as he felt her gut. It hurt when he touched it and he saw so.

After that it was strange to awaken the next time. There was sun light passing through the cheap sanitized curtains. She shielded her eyes against the light and gasped as an excruciating pain shot through her gut. Someone tutted to her left, it was a nurse, and she was smiling down at her."

"Poor dear," her voice was soft and had a British accent that was very melodic. "Don't try to move or you'll end up ripping out those stitches. You can't be more than a girl and they still got you into an awful lot of trouble didn't they?"

Kaye sat there confused having no idea what she was talking about. She shook her head and looked around. "Where is Nikolas?"

"That handsome young man who never leaves your side?" She smiled again, "he said he had to leave, every night he comes back and doesn't move, several times when you came too he would talk to you for hours even if you had fallen back to sleep. He was so worried." She began to check Kaye's vital signs as she spoke.

"How long have I been here precisely, and what is wrong with me. I passed out and I can't remember anything after that." Kaye pretended to be a little confused though she was still haunted by the vision of Risika in her mind.

"Well you came in here with a minor concussion and you had a lot of internal bleeding. The doctors had to open you up three times to stop it all. So in all I think you've been here a grand total of a week maybe. I don't think that Nikolas fellow has missed a night by your side. I wonder when he sleeps." The last statement was more of a thought than a question to Kaye.

She had tried to sit up again but got that stab of pain. "Oh holy mother fucking shit I ache all over."

The nurse put a tray of food next to her bed and kept on smiling. Then she checked the IV being put into her from a tube and a bag about 1 and ½ feet above her. Kaye hated needles so she avoided looking at them.

"Well eat up and then try to get some more rest maybe your love will be back when you awaken." She left still smiling and winked.

Kaye looked at the food and began to wolf it down with vigor. It was so good compared to the bread and dirty water she was being feed the other day. She drank the ginger ale down before she knew it. Sleep took her again, but this time it was natural and calm, not the nightmare sleep she had had for ages or so it seemed.

Nikolas came as the sun had set and he went to Kaye's room again nodding to the duty nurses. "Ladies" he smiled and sat down at his chair besides Kaye's bed. He put her hand in his and began to tell her a long elaborate tale that many of the nurses thought of as a tale to make her come too. He told her of a great vampire named Siete and all his children of darkness.

Kaye lay there her eyes closed somewhere between asleep and awake listening. She decided to wait until he was done to open her eyes.

The tale finished after over an hour of his monologing. She opened her eyes slowly and smiled up at him. "Well aren't we long winded?"

He smiled and kissed her cheek. "My little soldier, I'm glad that you're alright."

At his kiss she glowed all over. She waved a hand gently at her surroundings. Nikolas caught sight of her marks and smiled, she was his.

"As well as can be expected considering I'm the place that I hate the most."

"What's wrong don't like doctors?"

"No don't like needles."

Nikolas laughed and held her hand again. "You are one extraordinary girl."

'I know" She smirked and winked at him. They spent the next five hours talking and just looking at each other. But Kaye had the strangest feeling that she had forgotten some one and that person was desperately trying to find her.

Risika smacked Jaguar again and held him by the hair on the back of his head. "You get up off your filthy stupid slow ass and go find her or so help me I will kill you where you stand and set Nikolas and Kaye up for a date.

"Fine Fine FINE!" He got up a little groggily and went to the door. "Oh and Risika if you find Fala keep her alive for me and Kaye will you?"

'Spoil sport." She mumbled

Meanwhile some four thousand miles away Fala was making like Nero and burning Rome.

A/N OOOO I love to tease you! Have fun all I go see Julius Caesar tomorrow with my friend Emma and then next week we see Peter Pan. I'm soo excited I can't write anything sad or evil when I'm this excited. Sorry. Use your imagination and tell me (in a brief sum up) what you think is going to happen next. I already know but I want to know what yall think! Thanks

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