Chapter 2: Home

As Bianca shimmered out of the woods, she was trying to come up with a story of how the demon got away from her. What was she going to say? That a kid helped him escape of her? She was dreading the consequences. Her mind was racing and the kid's face wouldn't leave her mind. That's when she heard a voice calling her name in her head. She wanted to hide so they wouldn't find her but she knew she wouldn't be able to fight it off for long. Phoenixes always find each other and some of them are so blinded by power to protect their family members. One day she would get away from all of this, but that day had yet to come.

Chris sat down against a tree for a while. He had been too long in the woods looking for the time portal that was impossibly to find. He knew it was hopeless to continue his search especially at night. He couldn't see a thing, finding a time portal was something he could forget about. He would have to find an other way to get back. It was getting cold in the forest and he didn't want to stay there at night not knowing what kind of beasts were handing around there. He had to get back to the city and find a place to stay for the night again.

After some time Bianca shimmered off in the woods again, to the last spot she had seen her bounty, she had a bruise near her left eyebrow but she didn't seem to care about it. Pain was weakness and she was anything but! She took a couple of steps in the woods hoping she'd find the tracks of the demon she was looking for when she saw a figure moving. Thinking it might have been the demon, she quietly walked up behind him and jumped on him pinning him to the ground and turning him on his back while conjuring her athame. She was about to stab him when she saw his face.

"What the..?" Chris said when he saw the athame coming at him and closed his eyes in fear, opening then again when he realised nothing had happened. "Oh, you again" she rolled her eyes in disappointment as she saw him underneath her. He heard her voice looking at her face recognising it immediately. "Yes me again...could you like point that knife elsewhere? It's not polite to someone you don't even know" She huffed slightly and put the athame at her boot and got off him. He was glad when she put the athame away he always had a big fear for then he never understood why, he just did.

"What you still doing here anyway?" she asked him solemnly putting her boot on his chest, not letting him move. She was kind of interrogating him with no emotion coming off her. Who was he and why was he still around? She felt the urge to kill him and get over with but she felt like he had a part to play in this whole story. But, of course he had... He gained her a special treatment from the headquarters. Rage built up in her again and fairly pressed her high heel boot on his chest as he was still on the ground. She watched his reactions.. He couldn't be that bad.. besides, he was only just a kid or was he?

He looked up at her twitching when he felt her boot against his chest. "I was just about to go..." he said wishing he had gone sooner and avoid all this trouble.

She squinted her eyes a bit looking suspiciously at him "still.. that didn't answer my question!" she said in her hard cold shiny voice and wasn't about to let him move until he would answer her. Not until she saw the look in his eyes. He seemed like he wouldn't hurt her but she knew better than to trust and angelic face and that changed her mind again "answer me.." she spoke strictly towards him trying to control her rage and not push her boot harder.

"ouch..do you mind? I kinda need air to tell answer you." He didn't really feel threatened by her cold expression or body language not even her voice scared him, he had been in situations like this before but those times Wyatt had been there to help him out. This time was different, he was all alone and he knew she could kill him and he didn't have anyone to save him now. And he didn't know what would happen if you died outside of your own time. Still that didn't scare him something about her made him feel like she wouldn't hurt him as long as he played her game. "I was just sitting here and thinking about home."

Her expression slightly softened as he said the key word "Home.." she mumbled. This word was hurting her. One of the very few things that could hurt her any more. She slowly removed her foot off him and stared a bit at him studying his reactions "and where might that home of yours be?" she asked him more calmly than before, not having the interrogating attitude she had moments ago.

He saw her expression change and wondered how that had happened. When she removed her foot off him he got up and looked at her more closely seeing a different expression in her eyes, he couldn't put a finger on what it was. "Far away..." he said not knowing to give a better answer to that question. He looked her over thinking she must be some upper level demon the leather explained that much.

She looked away for a moment taking a breath and then looked back at the boy who was standing in front of her. He hadn't tried to run away yet. "I 'll make you a deal" she said out of the blue and smirked slightly, "you help me with my demon and I will help you get home" she suggested with pure intentions, not wanting anything from him, just his help to find the demon he had lost her. "so?" she asked slightly impatiently "what ya say?"

He smiled slightly when she smirked a bit he thought it made her look sexy in a way. He wondered why she suggested that seeing how dangerous she looked and acted he thought finding a demon like that wouldn't be such a problem for her. Besides could she really help him get home if she heard where his home was, and would she or was it a trick to get what she wanted and then finish him off. He didn't know but he didn't want to let her go away again either, something in him told him he had to stay with her. "Okay..I'll help you...but I don't think I can be of much help."

Bianca nodded her head slightly and if the moonlight wasn't playing up upon them, some people would swear she had smiled. She looked into his eyes. She hadn't noticed before they were pure deep green. She mentally slapped herself to focus back on the demon. She put a lock of her hair behind her ear forgetting that it was covering her bruise. "As long as you 're close to me, the headquarters can't sense me easily" she smirked to her own idea. "you don't really have to do much, just stay close"

He looked and when she looked into his eyes he saw something that he hadn't seen in her before. It looked as if she felt the same way as he did. A feeling he couldn't explain all he knew is that it was a good feeling and that he needed to stay with her. When she moved her hair behind her ear he saw the bruise. "You know I have no idea what you are talking about..." The headquarters...he never knew demons had that he didn't even know if she was a demon for sure. "How did you get that bruise? you didn't have it before..."

Bianca gently shook her head "The less you know about me, the better" she spoke as a reply to him wandering about the headquarters. Damn! The bruise! She had forgotten about it.. "What? That's nothing.." she said a bit nervously without letting it show though and put her hair back over the bruise and quickly changed the subject looking up in the sky "It's going to dawn in a couple of hours, come on I am running out of time..." she said looking around watchfully as she knew the headquarters would find her and punish her if she wouldn't find the demon in time but she needed Chris for that, to block her signal from them just in case. She grabbed his hand and shimmered them to another place on the park further in the woods.