Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
all your life
you were only waiting for this moment to be free
-Blackbird by The Beatles-

Chapter Two

When the doctor came down the stairs Josef jumped up to meet her.

"How is she?"

She smiled at him. "She'll be okay...luckily they missed all her vital organs, the worst thing is the blood loss, but she'll be fine..."

Josef took a sigh of relief.

"She's asking for you..." Josef gave the doctor a weird look. "Not by name, she keeps asking for the man who saved her..."

Josef turned to Mick, he knew by the look on Josef's face what he was about to ask.

"Mick...you're a lot better at these things, you wanna take this one?"

Mick shook his head. "Nope, I think you need to handle this."

Josef rolled his eyes. "You're such a bastard."

He walked past the doctor and up the stairs. When he entered the dimly lit room he finally had his first good look at the girl. She was young, maybe 20 at the most. Her hair jet black hair had blood in it. Her light green eyes stared up at him.

He just stared at her, not exactly sure what to say. So he asked the only question that came to mind. "What's your name?"

She took a few deeps breaths. "Jamari Sanders..."

He nodded...Okay...now he was attached...

"It would probably be best if you got some rest..." He turned and started walking towards the door.

"You never told me your name..."

He stopped and turned back to look at her. It must of been a mixture of the blood in the room and how frail she looked lying there, he suddenly wanted to touch her. It took everything he had to keep his feet planted where he was.

"Josef Konstantin."

She smiled at him. Even with her hair sticking to her face, and the dark circles under her eyes, she was strikingly beautiful.

"Thank you Josef."

He didn't know how to respond, so he just nodded and walked out.

"The doctor said you'll be able to bring her to your house tomorrow..."

Josef nodded and took the glass of blood Mick was offering him. He sat down on the couch and pulled out his cell phone.

"Ryder, I need you to find out all you can on Jamari Sanders." He didn't even wait for a response he just hung up.

"Jamari...that's a weird name..." Mick said as he sat in the chair across from Josef.

"What ever happened to good old fashioned names like Elizabeth?"

Mick shrugged. "So how is she?"

"She seems fine..."

"So what are you going to do with her?"

Josef narrowed his eyes at Mick. "You sound like you're talking about an animal or something..."

"Stop avoiding the question."

Josef sighed. "I'll keep her at the house until she gets better, once she's healed she'll be gone."

"And you're completely fine with that?"

Josef nodded. "Why wouldn't I be?"

Mick shrugged. "No reason, as long as you don't get attached."

"I'm not attached."

"Yet..."

"I wont get attached Mick ,now shut up."

"Fine, I'll drop it, but I don't think things are going to go a smoothly as you seem to think."

Mick stood up, grabbed his coat and walked towards the door.

"Where are you going?"

"To Beth's, it's either me go over there or her come here..."

Josef nodded and smirked. "Have fun."

-5 Hours Later-

She was sleeping, he could see her chest rising underneath the sheets.

Josef knew Mick was right, this situation isn't going to go as smoothly as he would like, because he was attached, and he's not going to want to give her up in the end.

She moved in her sleep, and her left arm was visible. He could see a small tattoo on her wrist, words written in a small script. He leaned closer to see what it was.

"Girl Anachronism

Her voice made him jump. She gave a small laugh.

He looked down to her. "What does it mean?"

She smiled. "I was born a month early, the same month that my mom was supposed to go to Italy for a work conference. I've been told my whole life that I'm always at the wrong place at the wrong time, obviously, tonight was a perfect example..."

Josef nodded. "Anachronism to be in the wrong place...am I right?"

Jamari smiled again. "Pretty much..."

"So is that all this was tonight? Wrong place at the wrong time?"

"That and the fact that I'm a total idiot...I guess this is what I get for walking around LA at night, alone."

"That doesn't make you an idiot...ignorant maybe, but not an idiot..."

She smiled at him. "I don't think that's much better personally..."

He sighed. "Is there anyone I should call? Your family or anything?"

She shook her head. "My family is in New York, I'm not exactly close to them..."

He nodded. "What about a friend?"

"What? Trying to get rid of me?"

He laughed. "No, but I don't want your friends to file a missing persons report, then you be found with me, it wouldn't exactly look good..."

She sighed. "My two best friends are out of town right now, so they wouldn't be able to do anything for me anyway, so what's the point of calling them and worrying them?"

He leaned against the bedside table. "Good point..."

"But I can promise you this, as soon as I can walk, I'll be out of here, and you wont ever have to worry about dealing with me again."

"You say it as if I mind you being here..."

"I'm not stupid, you had every intention of leaving me there, you only helped because you couldn't leave me there after I spoke to you...I spoke to you, that made me seem real, made me seem human, and you couldn't just leave another human there to rot."

"You know for being near death only a few hours ago you seem to be speaking rather clear."

She gave him a small smile. "The human body is amazing, is it not?"

"You also seem to be handling this well, to well if you ask me. Any sane person would be freaking out right now."

"I never claimed to be sane Mr. Konstantin."

"Obviously."

She laughed, then grimaced and put her hand on her stomach. "Please, don't make me laugh to hard."

"I wasn't trying to."

"Good looking and sarcastic, what are the odds?"

"You know, I'm starting to think I liked you better when you were unconscious."

"Well it's better for me to be annoying than for me to be dead right?"

"Doesn't matter to me really."

She smiled. "That's a lie, you love me and you know it."

He laughed, it would have been impossible not to. Here she was, lying in a bed, after nearly dying, and still cracking jokes.

"You're a very interesting person Jamari."

She smiled. "I try to be, cause I mean, where's the fun in being boring?" She moved a bit, and he could see the pain in her face.

"I think you need to get back to sleep."

"Okay, but only if you promise not to look at anymore of my tattoos, the other ones aren't exactly in a places you can see when my clothes are on."

He laughed. "Oh yea, that's a great way to keep me from trying to find them."

"Forbidden fruit, the more you know you shouldn't the more you want to."

He smiled at her one last time before turning and walking to the door. Jamari was possibly one of the weirdest girls he'd ever met.

And he liked it.