Eddward comes in and out of consciousness hearing footsteps unroll. Finally he is thrown on what feels like a metal slab and strapped down with chains. His mouth is forced open and some metallic tasting liquid is forced down his throat. His whole torso begins to burn and he screams in pain before losing consciousness again.

Kevin laid down to try to sleep... He had a really bad feeling and it was leaving this big ball of worry in his gut and it wouldn't go away. He tried to get some rest... The fitful night of sleep that he got did nothing to ease his frazzled nerves. He woke up many times, was tossing and turning. Finally he just gave up and waited for nightfall. Once night came, he took off like a shot. 'Eddward is fine... He knows how to take care of himself.' Kevin chanted to himself. He ran to the small thicket that he dropped the vampire off at last night.

"Edd? Edd, are yo-?" He was gone... A trail of blood was the only thing that was left. He knew he had to find Eddward and get him back home. He followed the trail quickly, not knowing where he was going but knowing it wasn't good.

Kevin quickly took up following the blood trail. He had to get Edd back... He is growing increasingly worried and agitated.

A blue haired girl dressed in combat boots, black cargo pants, and a tank top was flitting through the trees searching for any sign of her friend when she picks up on his scent. She smiles and starts heading towards it.

Kevin hears movement through the trees and got excited. Maybe Edd was alright after all...! He sniffed the air and made a face. It was a vampire but it didn't smell like Edd's scent at all. His hackles went up and a low growl made its way through his throat.

Marie hears the growl and freezes before realizing that her friend scent was on the wolf. She flits forward and drops from the trees and looks around, not seeing Eddward. She sighs and cocks a hip "Well, you smell like him, what's up with that?" Marie asks more to herself.

"What's it to you?" Kevin braced himself for an attack.

"Where is he? Did you kill him?!" She asks baring her fangs.

"And again, I'll reiterate, what's it to you, blood sucker?" Kevin bared his fangs and claws.

"He happens to be my friend, you flea for brains mongrel!" she growls at him.

He vaguely remembered Eddward saying something about a friend helping him when everything with 'Pumpkin' went down... Was this that friend? "How long have you known him?"

"Longer than you've been alive, little wolf" she says annoyed "Now I'll ask again, where is Eddward?"

"If I knew, I'd still not tell you. I don't know who you are. So fly away, little bat, no one needs you here." Kevin turns and takes off again.

Marie hisses and flits after him, tackling him and pinning him to the ground, holding his throat.

"I won't ask again, Wolf… Where is my friend and why in the hell do you smell like him?"

"Clearly I don't fucking know! I said that already!" Kevin struggled and slashed with claws, bringing blood to the vampire's chest. "Get OFF me!"

"No you didn't" she says, back handing him roughly. "I see he hasn't shown you how to treat a woman" she scoffs, looking at her shredded tank top as she stands.

"Where is there a fucking woman?" Kevin sassed.

"Looked in a mirror lately, sweet heart?" Marie asks "Why do you smell so strongly of him?"

"Maybe because I lie wrapped around him every night!?" Kevin growled "Now if you'd excuse me..."

Marie freezes "You wanna run that by me again, Red?"

Kevin glared at her and sighed "I smell like him because we have been together for the better part of a week. Is there anything else you'd like to know? I have other shit to do..."

"What do you mean by together exactly?" she asks suspiciously.

"What do I mean? Jesus Christ... We fuck! We have some sort of a relationship! Do I need to be clearer?" Kevin growled.

Marie's face darkens "Listen, I don't know your intentions with him but you should run while you can" she says crossing her arms.

" 'My intentions'? Fuck you! I'm not leaving him, so back off!" Kevin was getting increasingly jealous and angry.

"I'm saying this as a friend, people that get close to him in that way usually end up dead" Marie hisses.

"Well that sucks for them. I'm not that easy to kill" Kevin shrugs and turns to walk away again following the blood trail.

Marie notices he is following something "What are you doing…? Wait a minute, if you are intimate with Eddward, why isn't he with you right now? When he takes a mate, which I suspect he views you as such…" she says with a look of disgust "…he sticks by them, even risking his life at times to do so. So why isn't he with you?" she questions.

"We were out hunting and we bit off more than we could chew, I guess. I was taking him home when we got trapped. He told me to leave him hidden and get out to the house. I didn't want to but having a fight surrounded by hunters isn't the place to have that conversation. I came back in the morning and he was gone. I'm following his blood trail now. Is that satisfactory for you?"

"No it's not 'satisfactory' to me! What do you mean 'gone' you fucking mutt?" Marie seethes. "You just fucking left him there? Why were you taking him home? Did he get injured?!"

"Of course he got injured! If he was able to fight then we wouldn't be in this situation! I left him here because he ordered me to!"

"And you listened to him?! You know he is fucking suicidal right?!" she yelled at him.

"Look, don't fucking start with me! You don't know what we went through that night! If I could have gotten him home I fucking WOULD HAVE!" Kevin snapped.

"Listen, you flea bitten mongrel! Don't fucking get an attitude with me! You are the one that lost him! It's all your fucking fault, not mine! Just go back home and I'll find him. You've helped enough by losing him!" Marie scoffs finding the blood trail, she starts running through the forest following it.

'Who the hell does she think she is?!' Kevin took off after her and following the blood. He was pissed, Edd never mentioned this woman!

"Go back, as much as I don't like you, if Eddward knew I let you come along, he would rip my head off… Literally!" she says after noticing the wolf was following her.

"No! Fuck off! I'm tired of him and you, now, treating me like I can't do shit! I'm coming and that's it!"

"No manners..." She mutters continuing forward.

"Just tell him it was all my idea" Kevin sassed.

"Oh yes, that will keep my head on my shoulders. Honestly, I don't know what the hell he is thinking! First a human, now a wolf... Why can't he settle down with a nice vampire?" she says miserably.

Kevin ignored that last statement. If this man-woman can help him get Edd back, he would work with her. If Edd wanted to kill her afterwards, it was no skin off his nose.

Marie stops at the edge of a man made clearing, staring at a building in the center of it. "I don't like the look of this..." Marie mutters.

"Did you just now realize something was wrong?" Kevin rolled his eyes and started to walk around the clearings edge in order to try to find a way inside.

Marie circles the opposite way with them meeting on the other side "It's near dawn… We have to find somewhere to hunker down and rest. We can't go charging in there tonight and I need to think" she says crossing her arms "Unless you got somethin'" she scoffs.

"No, this place is locked down like Fort Knox. Let's find a place to rest." Kevin back tracked and found a thicket for big enough for two, maybe three, people. But it was good enough for right now. They'd be well hidden while they rested.

Marie lays down "By the way, my name is Marie… Might as well tell you if we are gonna work together" she says.

Kevin looks at her and transforms into his human form "I'm Kevin. I hope you don't slow me down."

"I should be saying that to you..." Marie says shutting her eyes "oh and Kevin?"

"Hmm?"

"You owe me a new fucking shirt." She says falling to sleep not caring about the response. Come mid-day, Marie wakes up to the sound of screaming.