Disclaimer: show me how it ends, it's alright… Stephenie Meyer (you see I say that because I'm not her)

Disclaimer Deuce: Okay so this one is smaller but someone told me to post it since I haven't posted in a while it was going to be half of the second one I'm almost done with it but now I can post this right now.

Evelyn's POV

I sat across the room from Alexis, watching her with a mixture of concern and disappointment. She refused to feed. Her condition was fading because of it. regardless of the consequences to herself she refused to feed. I found it curious her attachment to her humanity. It wasn't like a newborn. Ulrich was the only one who could even compare to her restraint and it was laughable. Ulrich tried, but she succeeded. I had already called Felix, he seemed short with me. He wasn't in the mood to forgive and move on. It could be attributed to the betrayal he felt. I didn't blame him I didn't even say I was done with Demetri, why would he forgive me? I didn't want to see Felix, he always left me in a state of wanting. I knew I was in the wrong but it didn't make it any easier. I thought I could replace Felix with Demetri but I was wrong. As much as I wanted to deny it they were there, and slowly burning inside my stomach until we met.

I watched Alexis who was sitting on her bed clutching her knees to her chest. Her head snapped up to the door and a quiet growl escaped her throat. I heard a soft knock and stood up. That must be her meal. I thought to myself. I opened the door but standing there was Demetri instead. My mood turned fowl quickly. I pushed him out the door not to softly and closed the door behind me.

"What do you want?" I said angrily. I only kept Demetri around as a block against Felix, honestly now I couldn't take how petty he'd become.

"I missed you, I wanted to see how you're doing." He said moving closer to me. He took my hand in his and lifted it to his face he was about to kiss it, but he smelt something that stopped him. it was faint but at that distance he could smell it. He looked very angry, betrayed.

"How could you?" he said accusing me. I didn't know what he meant, but I was guessing it had to do with Felix. Anger flared inside of me, I hadn't done anything reprehensible, no matter how much that fact frustrated me.

"How could I what?" I said prying my hand from his.

"Felix, I smell his scent on you! You were with him." He said raising his voice.

"I went to see him. Someone had to clean up your messes, since obviously you won't fix your own problems!" I said stabbing the air between us with my index finger, I wasn't stupid enough to actually strike him though. I actually trusted Felix's control much more than Demetris.

"Secondly, you don't dictate who I can and can't see. That is none of your concern, or business!" I exclaimed before turning back to the door. He grabbed my arm. I turned to him and lifted my hand to strike him, but once again thought better of it. His expression had gone through a complete transformation.

"Please, don't go. I'm sorry, I just can't handle the thought of him anywhere near you." He said with begging eyes. When did he get so insecure? I see why, Felix has been able to stop any and every attempt to sabotage him. Really, Demetri was second best… that's why he's held on to me so tight, it's the one thing he's beating Felix at.

"Demetri." I said with my voice fading off. I slightly pitied him for his situation. He closed the distance between us and forced his lips against mine. It took me a moment to register what was happening and push him away.

"This isn't the time or the place." I said shortly, I stepped back.

"Eve, please I need this right now." He begged. My anger flared up.

"I've done plenty for you, cleaning up after you… and don't call me Eve!" I said opening then slamming the door to Alexis's cell behind me.

I stopped myself from saying anything. I took a moment to relax. I looked up at Alexis who was grinning at me.

"Boy problems?" she said with a hint of excitement in her voice. I was surprised, she was a newborn who hadn't fed and she was listening carefully and even excited. She defied everything I'd learned about newborns, she was completely docile.

"I suppose you could say that." I answer. I didn't like to think of him like that, that meant an emotional vested interest, I didn't want that and I didn't have that with Demetri

"Was that your… boyfriend?" she asked teasing me.

"Demetri? Well I don't like to think of him like that, but he's the closest thing I've had to a boyfriend in a long time… I guess." I said sitting down on the chair

"Who's Felix? And why doesn't Demetri want you anywhere near him?" She asked smiling mischievously at me. I was very embarrassed, I was glad I couldn't blush anymore. Even the mention of him made me 'blush'. Why?

"You're trying to blush right now? I can tell." She said teasing me. She giggled at my response.

"He's a friend… from the past… an old friend." I said trailing off. I tried to sound convincing but I knew I couldn't fool her.

"Sure he is… and I'm the Queen of England." She said still grinning.

"There is definitely something more to it, and you can't hide it! You were so defensive when he accused you of seeing him… you liked Felix… a lot." She said giggling again. Realization dawned on my face, she heard the whole conversation.

"Sounds like you still like him, Ms. Evelyn." She said teasing me. I felt embarrassment and a slight tug inside my stomach. My thoughts turned to Felix, the place I didn't want them to be. I missed him. my thoughts were interrupted by a knocking at the door. Alexis cowered back in to the corner with a pained expression on her face. Sounds like lunch is here. I opened the door and a big man with a sick smile walked in. He looked at me up and down my body then turned to Alexis. I wanted to punish him myself but he was Alexis's meal. She must have figured out what he was thinking when he licked his lips smiling at her. There was no way she could feel bad about killing this freak.

"Alexis, you're going to have to do it some time." I said before walking out and closing the door behind me.

Unknown POV

"You will kill him, leave no trace." I said confidently. The four people standing in front of me nodded.

"What about payment?" the middle one who was acting as if their leader. I smiled.

"You get everything in full before the hit, here…" I said tossing four bags of cash at them. They caught them and opened them.

"American Dollars and coins?" I nodded.

"If you take the money and run you will be hunted, and killed and everyone who has ever meant anything to you or your family will suffer the same fate." The leader once again nodded. they made their way to the door and the leader turned around.

"I don't work for someone whose identity I don't know." I had to calm myself down. He played right in to my hand.

"Cullen."

Ivan's POV

"You are going with me on a mission, it will be easy for you. But that is what doing contracts for humans is." Abhash said speaking to me. I nodded, I didn't talk back to him he had struck me every time I did, he didn't squabble with being polite or nice, I respected him for that.

"You are my student now, this job is within your ability range now, but it wasn't days after you turned. You will display restraint during this mission, stealth, and you will kill the target as specified, if you fail this mission, you will never come with me on another mission, I will not train you anymore. Am I understood?" he said harshly at me. He stood with confidence even though I was a foot taller than him. I took his response in silence.

"Do I make myself clear!" he said loudly. Immediately I straightened up.

"Yes, Abhash, you do." We never used formal titles, this wasn't military, he found the idea of calling him sir, absurd, so I never did. The only person I held in higher regard then him was Felix. Felix didn't take shit, and he could back it up. He was self made, wasn't a strong fighter because some ridiculous power. I would be like Felix, I would be better than Felix.

"Your target is Abdul-Muqtadir. He's a corrupt overseer of the region. He sells children of his community as slaves to sheiks. He funnels cash in to-" he said before interrupting Abhash.

"Yeah yeah, I get it, bad guy." Abhash moved quickly and pulled my knee out from behind lowering me down to one knee and then spun and connected with the side of his hand on my temple. I was shaky to get up and it made me angry, but I didn't speak. He stared at me without saying a word for ten more seconds before continuing.

"Because of the political distrust in the area and uprisings taking place, this must be taken care of with the utmost of care." He said staring at me. I nodded.

"You will kill him with a invisible sedative, and a pillow, each night he takes a cold drink of water before he goes to bed, he leaves a glass full of water on his kitchen counter, uses the bathroom, then takes the drink before going to bed. The sedative takes an hour to take toll. You will stay silent and when he's asleep and the sedative has taken hold you will take his pillow, put it over his face and restrict all breathing. Do not push the pillow too hard, any signs of struggle, or marks will lead to an investigation." I nodded. I didn't like these cowards tactics. I would kill this man with my bare hands.

"At no point during this trip you will suck blood, if you do, your services will never be in need again, and I won't train you anymore. The most difficult part of this mission for you will be restraint. Not sucking his blood or anyone else's blood." I nodded, I knew this would be the most difficult part.

"The sedative will not show up on any toxic screening. Your escape will be his back window, you will jump across the distance of the street, landing in an open window, you will head north quickly, but casually." I nodded. So my vampire abilities will be used for this. I thought to myself. He reached in to my sleeve and grabbed a small button.

"If anything doesn't go according to plan, more than a bad patrol, you will press this button. It will contact me and I will come to you. You WILL NOT try to fix the problem yourself, if anything doesn't go according to plan you will press the button, if you don't, even if you succeed, I will personally kill you putting you through a pain only second to your transformation." He said seriously. I nodded.

"You are an extension of me, as my assassin. Your failure is my failure… Don't fail me." He said coldly at me. I harbored no misconception that he cared about me, just cared about my results.

"Good… now let's go."

Ulrich's POV

Our long travel back to Volterra had been without conversation, and that bugged me. I'd alleviate that.

"So… You and Evelyn huh?" I said tossing it out there as if searching the waters. He didn't respond.

"You two must have quite a history." I said again with no response. I was trying not to laugh. This wasn't his area of expertise. To be honest it wasn't mine either but I'd keep poking fun at him.

"I'm just curious what went down to cause the chaos that's been surrounding you two." I said prodding him again, this time he did respond.

"You know, you gossip like a little school girl." Felix said not looking at me, and this time I did laugh.

"Well I have nothing else to talk about. And we haven't said anything on the whole way back. If you two didn't have a history you wouldn't be avoiding her like the black plague." He sighed at me as we slowed down seeing the edge of Volterra in the distance. It was a sunny day so we both had tight hoods up past our faces and long sleeved cloaks. We moved carefully making sure nothing bumped our heads to knock the hoods away.

"Yes, we had a history, a long time ago… it's the past and we've both moved on." Felix said trying to end the conversation. I rolled my eyes.

"Doesn't seem like you're okay with that." He stopped in front of me grabbing my hood to hold it in place before using a palm strike to my chest. I bent down but he made sure my hood didn't open.

"What do you want to hear? That I'm not happy with how it went? I'm not happy with how it went, it's just easier to avoid her now. She's made clear her intentions to use Demetri to… you know what, just never mind." I stood back up.

"I never understood why Demetri did that to me… it was to get to you?" Felix nodded. I swore under my breath. I thought through my head. This whole competition, everything was connected to her, at least for Felix and Demetri.

"That complicates things…" I said. He nodded. we continued in to Volterra.

"You'll need to talk to her eventually." He said. We weren't even in the gates yet and in the shadow of the town I saw Evelyn leaning up against the outside of the town.

"Sooner than later I guess."

Okay so that's a horrible ending point, not really a cliffhanger but oh well… That's all for this chapter, review and I'll post the next one.