"Here?" I asked, as Kat, Bishop, and I pulled up infront of a small, run down little house. It was still on the outskirts of town. "Why don't you leave Morganville?"

"We can't leave." Kat said, looking at me as if I was a moron. "There's wards up all around the city. We leave, they realize Bishop isn't as dead as they had believed."

I nodded, finally understanding.

"We won't be staying here long. Just until I get well enough to pull a full force attack on Amelie. And until my army is complete." Bishop said. He looked better now, not so... dead. Probably because of the person he ate.

Well, not exactly ate. Just... you know, killed. Drained. Whatever. And yes, it was as freaky as it sounds.

I had the pleasure of watching the whole thing. Kat brought the man in, he was probably in about his thirties or fourties. He squirmed and fought Kat, but it was a feble attempt. Kat had passed the guy to Bishop, who tipped the guys head gently to the side and then opened his mouth and bit him.

I screamed and ran at Bishop and the man, but Kat reached out and pulled me back, slamming me against the wall. I watched in silence as the man struggled, then eventually went lip. It wasn't as frightening once the guy was dead. Bishop dropped him to the floor and he peacefully lay there, his eyes closed.

Death was probably better than living with Kat and Bishop here, anyways. They seemed like the kind of cruel people who would have tortured him just for the fun of it.

"Now, be a good little girl and go inside." Kat said, pushing me through the door. "You're expendable. We're not."

Bishop grabbed my shirt and pulled me back outside.

"You go in first and survey the place, Kat." Bishop said, giving her a hard, demanding look. "She may be a foolish child, but she is much less expendable than you are."

"Excuse me?" Kat asked. She didn't look angry, just insulted. "She is not more important than me! I was the one who brought you back. I was the one who was your faithful servant. What has she ever done for you?"

"You didn't bring me back. You can't. And should I fail, this girl will be the only one who can bring me back. So don't, for even a second, think that you are more faluable than her." Bishop said, and then he gave me a smile. "We'll go inside in a moment, Emma."

"All clear." Kat yelled. She sounded peeved.

Bishop entered the small house then, with me in tow.

"Where is he?" I asked the second I entered. I looked inside the first door I saw. "Tell me!"

"We'll let you see him, in time." Bishop said. "But for now, I cannot trust you. You have done me a great deed but I am aware that you weren't willing. When you show me your loyalty I will allow you to see him, but I will not, under any circumstances, free him."

"Ever?" I asked, my eyes widening.

Bishop nodded. "The second I release that boy I release my hold on you. I cannot afford for that to happen."

"What if I don't care what you do to him?"I said suddenly. It was a bluff, but I had to try.

"Has anyone ever told you that you're a terrible liar?" Bishop asked. "Your feelings for this boy show all over your face."

Jason would the rest of his life in a prison. Maybe not an actual prison, but that was probably a possiblity as well. Who knows where they had him? And he would never get to see Eve again, or maybe even the sun again. And it was all my fault.

All of it.

"Kat. You and the girl go into town. We'll need some things, given her humanity. Food. Drinks. Clothing."

"I don't have any clothes. Not really, just this." I said, looking down at the now bloody dress. I looked up at Kat. Suddenly, all the rage I had kept in for days, since Barrel hit me, my mom died and Jason... left me. I slapped her, hard. "You bitch! I loved this dress!"

I had, now that I seen it ruined. I may not have been very interested in it before, but now that my emotions were back full swing, I was furious.

"You little-"

"Calm down, Kat." Bishop said calmly, lifting his hand as if ordering her to stop. She did.

"I can't just hit her?" Kat asked angrily. She took a step towards me, hand raised. I just stared her down. "It won't kill her, she'll still be able to fufill her duties."

"Yes, but in order for people not to notice her absense, we need her to go to work, if she has a job, and attend school." Bishop said. "People will ask questions if she's got bruises."

"No, probably not." I said. I realized that if I gave Kat the chance to hit me, she would. But I didn't care. I wanted her to hit me. That way I could have a justified reason for kicking the shit out of her. "People are used to me having bruises. At least, the ones who would notice the bruses. And there's a fault in your little plan. Unless you let me go home, my mother will notice me missing."

"Don't lie, child. It will only anger me farther." Kat said, giving me a cruel smile. "You think that just because I'm a vampire that I don't watch the news?"

I stiffened. There went the only plan I had. I clenched my jaw to keep from yelling at her.

"Let's go shopping." Kat said. She grabbed a small purse off the coat hanger in the front of the little house.

It had been days. Days of me living with Bishop and Kat. Two other vampires had stopped by. Normally they would have scared me, but after the first day, my emotions disapeared again. I stopped feeling and just did what I was told. I was a good little lap dog, but it wasn't as if I had a choice. If I disbehaved, or showed any sign of informing someone about my situation, Jason would be dead. I couldn't lose him, too, even if I never really had him in the first place.

The two vampires had eyed me, looking at me like I was lunch. It was creepy. Instead of shying away from them, though, I stared them down, almost beconing them to try something.

I had work today. I was dressed in clothes. I didn't really know if they matched or not, I hadn't paid any attention. Why would it matter? Why decorate a shell if there's nothing inside to appreciate it? They could have put me in a plastic bag for all I cared.

I walked to the car with kat in tow. She opened the front door and I got in the back. I was never allowed to drive. She thought I was risk trying to drive into a building or something.

We arrived at Common Grounds. Oliver was there today, which meant that Kat would spend her time in the car, instead of in the front room watching me. She said Oliver couldn't know about it. He knew she was in town, but if he knew that she was hanging around with a human he would get suspicious.

"Hello, Emma." Oliver said as I walked in. Kat had informed me that the only reason he was so nice to me was because I looked like Amelie, before she turned all professional. She said that before Amelie was a little wild, though she was always controlled as well.

I nodded to him and plastered a fake smile on my face as my first cosutmer walked in. I wasn't paying attention to what she was chattering on about. My eyes were busy looking outside as a guy dressed in all black and a leather jacket walked by. I could only see the side of his face, but I knew.

I jumped over the counter, running out the door and leaving Oliver's shouts behind me.

I was almost to Jason when Kat jumped out of the car and grabbed my wrist. I stared down at her, anger bubbling over inside me.

"You lied." I stated. "You don't have Jason."

"I never said I did." She said, and for a sudden looked puzzled. "Oh, I get it. Richard was the guy on side."

"What?" I asked, my turn to be confused. "You have... you have Richard?"

"Yes, but it seems that he's not the one I need. Get in the car." She said, and opened the door and pushed me in. "This will only take a second."

I didn't sit. I knew I had to be careful. I couldn't disobey Bishop still, because even though they didn't have Jason, they did have Richard. Richard meant something to me too, and I still had to keep him safe. But I couldn't let her have Jason too.

"Jason!" I yelled. Kat wasn't near enough to him yet, but at her speed, she'd be on him in less than thirty seconds.

Jason turned around and spotted me. For a second his face seemed to light up, but then his mouth dropped into an angry frown and he started to turn around. "Jason, run!" I shouted, running towards Kat. How had he not noticed her, coming for him?

Suddenly he did, and he took of at a quick run. He was faster than I expected. Yet human speed was nothing compared to that of a vampire, and Kat was on him in seconds.

"Leave him alone!" I yelled, catching up to the two of them. I jumped on Kat and attempted to attack her.

Weirdly enough, even though we were in the middle of the sidewalk in the bright of day, no one stopped to help. Not one person. They all just kept their eyes down and crossed the road before they got to close to us.

Kat turned around and back handed me, hard. I fell flat on my back. But I sprang right back up and started attacking her again. Jason was struggling beneath her.

"Let him go! I don't care about him! If you think that he is going to make me obey you, you're wrong. He means nothing." I said, keeping my voice low and flat, the way it had been for days. Resigned.

"Really?" She asked. "We'll see."

And then suddenly I was thrown off her and she picked Jason up, though he struggled. She threw him in the car, the front seat, and then grabbed me and put me in the back.

"What the hell is going on?" Jason asked. Kat had locked the doors. "Emma?"

I didn't look at him. I couldn't. It hurt too much. And plus, if I could convince Kat that I really dind't care about him at all she'd release him. Right?

She drove the car towards the small house. When we pulled up infront, she didn't let us out.

"So you really don't care about him?" Kat asked. I nodded. She gave Jason a cruel smile. " Give me your arm."

Jason didn't move. Kat grabbed it. "You really should have just obeyed, now things are going to get even worse." She said, and her smile switched to one filled with cruelty. She dug her finger nails into his arm. Blood seeped from the wounds.

I didn't react. Not on the outside, at least. On the inside, I was screaming. Jason's eyes widened in pain, but he never cried out. He sat there with an angry look on his face, as if he was comtemplating cutting Kat up into little peices.

"Nothing?" She asked. "Your lies aren't really helping him, Emma." And then she bit him.

The rage inside me was like nothing I'd ever felt before. Jason was mine and she was not going to take a single sip of his blood. I jumped at her. The car was a small place to be fighting, but I didn't care.

My nails sliced down Kat's face, a trail of blood left in the path of them. "Run!" I growled at Jason.

He tried the handle on the door. "It's locked!" He yelled.

That was the last thing I remembered, before Kat kicked me in the face so hard that I saw stars, then passed out.