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I had nearly finished the bottle before I could even remember taking a drink. "Stail," I blinked and glanced up at Damien's laughing eyes.

"You look as if I'm about to call in a slayer," he laughed a few times. His eyes suddenly went wide as the room began to fade into darkness. It felt like I was being pulled away from my physical body.

"Dame, look away," a hand come into my vision as his brown eyes dissapeared behind it. "That's the last thing we need."

"Hm?" Everything came back into focus but my head felt like it was a mile above my shoulders. "What the hell just happened?"

"Later. D, Damien, come on snap out of it," I looked to see Crystal shaking him, his eyes said everything. He wasn't seeing her or anything else for that matter. "Damien," the force in her voice caught my attention. "Look at me." There was a command in it. I could hear it, almost feel it. His head turned to her, his eyes didn't focus, "I said look at me not through me."

"Mind if I try?" She looked at me, I snapped my fingers. Damien blinked, hw still had a far away look but his eyes focused on Crystal. "Are you alright?" His eyes swept over me, carefull not to stap at mine.

"Yes," he just blinked a few times and took a deep breathe. "Thank you, for stopping me," he seemed to force a smile at Crystal and got up, heading for the stairs. "I need to see Claudia," Crystal's eyes flew to me the moment he had said it, they were too wide.

Once he was gone, her eyes turned cold, "What did you do to him?"

"I could ask him the same thing. What exactly happened? Everything went black," she blinked at me a few times.

"He... fell into... your memories?" How old are you? I've seen him fall before, but that's never happened before."

"You had better check on him before the shock sets in. If what you say is true, he may do something drastic to make it stop. I have too many memories for a Human to bare." I smiled sweetly as she dissapeared in a burst of speed.

"What did you do to him?" Crow seemed to appear as he pulled back the hood of my cloak.

"Nothing, my little camillion, nothing at all." I headed up the stairs, Crow on my heels. "As of yet."

"Daddy! What's gotten into you?" I heard Claudia's giggles as Damien picked her up and spun around.

"We're leaving," he looked back at me as a sudden explosion of feathers lifted them off the ground, soaring away from me.

"But it's the middle of the day!!" Crystal yelled after them. "Bird brain," she mumbled and shook her head. "What did he see to make him fear for Claudia? To risk exposing his abilities?"

"I was never Human. Why would I know what would make them fear for their young?" I smirked at her, "Though he is the wises one I've come across. He knew to run from something that could endanger him." 'Which of my memories had he seen? Or had he seen everything? Could I wipe them from his memory?'

"Why? Does it matter? You are lucky you're even standing there. If I hadn't stopped him, you would be the one that was human." I blinked at her, she smirked, "Ask Kage, better yet Jake. Kage's still... touchy on the subject. I'm going after him, maybe I can keep this underwraps." She rushed off, I didn't try to keep up with her speed.

I stood there, perfectly still, trying to understand what she just said, "Me? Human?" Laughter caused me to look at the house, Jake was laying on the roof.

"Believe it or not, yes. D's got this odd ability to... Switch with people. It's really creepy," he sat up and looked down at me, "Everything falls away until there's nothing left but his laughing eyes. Then you blink and you're looking back at yourself."

"Did that body thief strike again?"

"No Kage, he didn't," Jake smiled and dropped to the ground as Kage came through the front door. "Still going to kill him?"

"Of course," she gave a sneer and turned away, "Just as soon as Claudia's grown up. Until then, he's my target and no one else gets to kill him," she gave me a look as if to say 'Don't even think about it.'

"You would make a hell of a hunter, too bad you're Human."

Jake looked away, "We're not claiming her." Kage shook her head and smiled, "She's too..."

"Insane? Suicidal? Destructive?" Kage smirked as she provided a few endings.

"Bloodthirsty," Jake shook his head.

"Thank you. That's one of the kindest things you guys have called me," she gave a smile that was pure innoscence and I had to surpress a shutter.

"You forgot desceptive."

"Meh," Jake shrugged a shoulder, "You get use to it."

"Kage gave him a startled look, "You do? Could've fooled me." She glanced off in the direction Crystal and Damien had went in, "I'd give 'um 'til... the kids get back."

"Three.. four hours? Why not, it'd give me a break," he stretched and headed toward the house. "You two, stay out of trouble. The last thing I need is to rebuild the whole damn house this time."

"You ruin all my fun," Kage smiled after him. "Fine, if I can't spar, I'll go exercise. If you hear gunfire,"

"I know Kage," Jake waved back at her.

"I was saying it so they didn't get jumpy. The last thing I need is interruptions," she gave us a half wave and started jogging off.

"The pond's cold this time of year," Jake called.

"Never stopped me before! Be back by dark!!"

"Yeah, like that's going to happen. Oh, before I forget," Jake turned a smirk on me, "Rach and Michael want to know if they could get some...ah... samples from you... To see what similarities you two share."

"Blood. I haven't fed enough to have any," I smiled at the odd thought I could see in his head. "Ah, a pound of flesh. If it doesn't crawl back to me, you're welcome to it."

Author's corner

This IS the author this time... .Sorry I know I'm a disappointment... Jake's too bussy nappin' to talk to you guys... I haven't gotten ANY reviews since my dear friend Tristan has been unable to get to a comp... poor Tristan how I miss the review... AT LEAST I WOULD GET SOME IDEA THEN ... oh well... Kage's been whispering about a special someone she wishes to meet... but there are quite a few chapters left before I even HINT on who it is... But come on ... GUESS!!! I dare you... NO ONE SHALL KNOW UNTIL I WISH IT... MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Sorry... temp. insanity... Oh what am I saying... with characters like these I'm ALREADY insane. That's all for now...