Disclaimer I do not own any of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes stories/characters etcetera.

A/N I just want to say thank you to all my fans who love my writing for what it is and for letting me follow my own heart. JenniferLongo welcome to Have a nice summer everyone.

I have just one thing to say:

Grandmother: Luxor, nexor, burst and burn!
Debbie: What is she doing?
Grandmother: Just a curse. Have a nice day. (Blows kiss)

(Thank you Grandma Addams From Addams Family Values)

Chapter 20

"Those marks of yours shouldn't have lasted." He growled

"Whoa there sunny boy, don't you go pinning this one on me! I'm not the one who spent valuable time fighting Risi-Fala when you could have been saving your lady love. Another thing are you sure you love her?" Nikolas's voice was challenging and inquisitive at the same time.

"What do you mean? Of course I feel for her, she is so beautifu..."

"No, NO NO I don't mean do you feel for her or if she is beautiful. I mean do you LOVE HER? Love like that feeling in the pit of your stomach that will make you do anything. Like jumping out of a plane with out a parachute but you know you'll live to see another day because she makes you feel like you can fly."

"How do you know exactly what it's like?"

'Because I've felt it before and maybe I feel it again."

Jaguar's eyebrows rose and he stared at Nikolas. "You love her don't you?"

"Not that it makes much difference to you." Nikolas kept his face blank and his body screamed guarded.

"What ever but you were not supposed to hurt her."

"And it comes back to me," Nikolas turned again to face Jaguar with a glare in his eye and his dagger ready to slit Jaguars throat. "This isn't about ma Jaguar this is about you and Kaye and how she feels about you being a little leech that refuses to go away. Another thing did you hear the way she screamed at you when she found out that you sold slaves? I cant wait to hear her yell when she hears what kind of things you do to these poor humans."

"You wouldn't dare."

"I would and I do." Again there came that challenging voice.

"You leave her alone it's me she wants she's just a little drugged up from the pain meds." Jaguar was so frantic he began rationalizing.

"Oh yeah that makes a hell of a lot of sense. And it also explains her tears and anguish and all that pain that was visible in her eyes. And fool could have see she hadn't been drugged yet. If your lucky she might just drive a stake through your heart. But other than that I wouldn't get your hopes up for anything more." Nikolas turned his back on Jaguar and began to walk away.

"Just where in the Hell do you think you're going?" Jaguar yelled after him.

"Unlike yourself I have not been banished from Kaye's site I may go see her if I please. You however should stay away if you want to keep all your digits. Or the blood that swims in your veins." Nikolas held a hint of a threat and he disappeared.

Jaguar stood there yelling with rage and screamed into the night. No one heard his screams but the earth trembled with the force. He too disappeared but to somewhere a little more productive.

Kaye sat up in bed. They had just removed her IV and told her she could go home in the morning. They offered to call her parents but she shook her head and said that she would find her own way home in the morning. The night fell and she was surrounded in darkness. She had kept the light off knowing that if she turned it on she would scream. The light seemed to hurt her more these days. Also she found that she was much more comfortable in darkness. She felt completely at home and the darkness was like a long lost friend that had just come home. She hugged it closer to her with her mind allowing the darkness to fill her lungs and mind a heart. It was safer here in this small secret world of hers.

"Wow you really know how to make a vampire feel wanted." A voice whispered in her ear. The voice was soft and gentle. It filled her entire body with warmth and her heart did flip flops in her chest. She turned on her toes and looked up into the face of Nikolas. He was smiling down at her with his sharp teeth glinting. His face was only a few centimeters away from hers.

"Well its how I feel now. The darkness is so much more comfortable than it was for some odd reason." She smirked flirting with him.

"I can imagine. But I must say that you wear darkness well. You wrap it around you like a cloak that forms to your body to fit every curve." His hands slid to the small of her back and he pulled her closer to him.

"Well you don't look half bad your self." Her arms snaked around his neck. She kissed him gently at first, then the kisses became more passionate and hasty.

"A little fast aren't we?" Nikolas's voice was barely audible when they stopped for air.

"Shut up!" she whispered and Pulled him towards her bed and she curled up on it. She waited for him to join her. Nikolas sat on the bed then stretched out and snaked himself around her so that they were practically joined front and back. He kissed her head then gestured with his hand and the door closed leaving them in darkness.