A/N LOL I meant bike as in a motor bike but I like your idea much better Drowning in Darkness. As always Review but please I want to know what ppl think is going to happen. It makes me see what ppl are getting from my words and if I need to change anything.

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Chapter 17

Kaye sat up slowly, the night had passed into day once again and sun shone through the plastic curtains. The sun hit her face making her squint. Looking around while shading her eyes she saw that there was food on the little bedside table. She grabbed the orange juice and gulped it down not spilling a drop. The rest of the meal was toast, two scrambled powdered eggs and a few pats of butter and jam. Even the powdered eggs tasted good to her dead taste buds.

The duty nurse came in to take the dishes away just as she was finishing off the toast. She checked all the tubes that were in Kaye and wrote something down on her chart. She began to remove all the tubes save for the IV. Smiling again she went out again. Before she could close the door Kaye called after her.

"Can I go explore?" She was itching to get out of this bed

She looked thoughtful for a moment then decided that it was a good idea. "Alright just make sure that you don't over exert yourself."

Kaye smiled back at her and began to climb out of bed. She didn't get too far before realizing that she would have to take her IV with her. Since it was on wheels that wasn't such a major issue. She wheeled the metal pole along with her and began to explore the hospital.

No one paid her much attention, the doctors smiled at her and the nurses told her to be careful on the cold floors. Also one male nurse gave her a robe to cover herself up with; the bed gowns didn't seem to have full coverage. Fortunately for he the robe covered everything. She was considerably warmer too.

She took the elevator to the bottom floor and began to circulate the building. There was a psyche ward, a children's ward, and a gynecology area. She stayed clear of them but she found one place that she could not look away from.

Jaguar got off his butt and walked to the door. Turning back to Risika he smiled. "You know that you are welcome to have a slave real cheep from my place now if you want."

"Sorry I don't partake in the buying and selling of humans just because they are inferior. That is for the stupid ones like you and Jeshikah to do. But leave me out of it. I have several words to speak with Fala at the moment though." She disappeared

"I told you to save her for me!" He yelled

Since when have I ever listened to my peers? Her mind voice was mocking.

Jaguar shook his head and hoped that there would be something of Fala left when Risika got through with her.

He transformed into a Jaguar and raced through the crowded streets of Concord Mass. The humans neither saw him nor cared. He was moving faster that the wind and he didn't make contact with anyone. He was searching the planet piece by piece looking for Kaye. She had to be somewhere he just needed to know where to look. He found her aura in a hospital outside the Hartford area of Connecticut. It was strange but then again Connecticut would have been the last place he looked.

He changed back and waited in an old sewer until the cloak of darkness could protect him.

Nikolas found Kaye staring in at the little babies in the maternity ward. There were about twenty of them in this little room. Some in little blue outfits and some in little pink ones. They were so tiny and their little fists were balled and they were kicking and screaming.

Kaye stood there looking in at all the little babies and was suddenly caught up in whirl whin of emotion. She began to see times that were so unlike these. Her mind began to play these memories as if they were black and white movies on a giant screen:

Her father beckoned her forward too look in on her new baby sister. She was so small and she looked a little like a raisin. And the five year old said so.

Her sister was lying in her arms and bleeding from a wound at the head and one in the side. Her father rushed over in his army getup and tugged the baby from her hands and threw his living daughter into a truck while holding his dead baby in his hands. There was fire everywhere, and a sudden explosion threw the car forward and she saw her father fly thirty feet into the air.

Her mother came home smelling of drink and something else far dirtier. Her mother had some younger man on her arm. He had smirked at her and showed her a gun while her mother was looking the other way. He had shot her that night and tried to kill Kaye too. But missed and Kaye ran away.

Child services had found her a new set of parents and these were nice people and they even looked a little like her parents but they were better at taking care of her. She was happy for a while until that Christmas party.

A hand on her shoulder woke her from her memories. She turned to see the concerned face of a nurse look at her. The nurse pulled her away from the window and placed her in the arms of a stranger.

She felt strong arms enclose her and she smiled, "Nikolas"

"Wrong" the voice was deep and husky. It triggered another memory attack but this one was pleasant. Jaguar!

She looked up at him and she broke out crying. She held on to him tight, he held her being wary of her IV tubes but he held her tight none the less. It felt great to have hr in his arms again. He couldn't stop thinking about how lovely her hair smelled.

When she had finally stopped crying he kissed her lips softly. "Gods I've missed you. What happened I was so worried."

She laughed and shook her head, "Nikolas was taking care of me." Even though she was in Jaguar's arms she still felt a pang when she thought of Nikolas. She looked down at her arms with his name on it.

Jaguar followed her gaze and hissed. "HE REALLY DID MARK YOU!" His anger made the entire ward look over. She began to pull him away to make him calm down.

"You are a blithering idiot, people in the hospital need peace and quite. NOW SHUT UP!" She slapped him, not with enough strength to do anything because she had none.

"But he has marked you which means that you mean something to him. And he means something to you doesn't he?"

She ignored the question until she got to her dark rooms. She turned on the light and smiled.

"What was the question?"

"Nikolas means something to you doesn't he?" Jaguar was afraid of the answer.

"Would that be so bad Jaguar? I mean you are the one who keeps humans as Slaves and pets after all." said a drawling voice from the corner.

"WHAT!" Kaye shrieked at Jaguar