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Valkyrie loved spending time with her parents but the best thing about it was when she could forget about the darkness within and when she could enjoy being a normal 16 yr old. But today she would have to do something important. When she woke up she had a searing pain on her neck. She put her fingers over it and felt two small lumps. Oh god, she thought great, now this will really make my talk with Caelan much better won't it she got out of bed and pulled on her black clothes she was just about the leave the house through her window when she heard a baby crying. She sighed; having two new babies in the house was tiring they were always crying. She went across the hall into Gordon and Amelia's room. Amelia was crying Valkyrie picked her up and hushed her swaying back and forth patting her. Amelia began to quiet down and started gurgling Valkyrie smiled. Her younger sister was so cute. She heard a faint pop behind her and turned to see Fletcher standing there with a smug grin on his face holding two tickets in his hand.

"Well, well, well." He said noticing the wriggling bundle in her hands. "The children have awoken dear." He said sacasticly as he planted a kiss on her cheek.

Valkyrie smirked "get outta here" she said shooing him out

"Hey" he said injured "I just came to ask did you want to go see something tonight I have tickets." He said flashing them in her face.

"Sure whatever just go before my parents see you." She said. Fletcher saluted her, turned and teleported. Valkyrie sighed she put the now quiet Amelia back into her cot and went down stairs. She left via the front down and began the long trek to Caelan's place her neck stinging and burning all the while.

Caelan sat in the small room that contained a bed and a chair. He watched Vanity sleep as she took regular deep breaths of air and then exhaled. A couple of time during the night she had begun to move around, tossing and turning. Caelan had been a bit worried the first time but then realised it was just a night mare. He had injected the fluid used by dusk into him that evening which had prevented his transformation. He had proved that he could stay in the human façade without harming someone.

Vanity tossed again and then cried out in pain. Her eyes flew open and she was breathing heavily panting almost.

"It hurts." She wheezed and tried to hug her knees towards her she gasped and clutched her chest. Caelan stood up and came into view his face confused.

"Are you okay?" he asked Vanity shook her head eyes wide. "What's wrong?" He asked his voice rising in volume.

"I...t... hur…ts" as managed to gasp out.

"Where? Vanity where does it hurt?" Caelan asked holding her still as she tried to toss and turn. Vanity placed a hand to her side. "Here" she whispered.

Caelan moved her hand out of the way and slowly went to go and lift her shirt. She tried to stop him but he whispered softly "please just let me look, I need to know what's wrong." She let her hand fall and laid still. What Caelan saw angered him? There were deep gashes in her side as though someone had gotten a blade and run it down a few times. But Caelan knew that it wasn't a knife that had done this. It was someone's hand, or he corrected himself something's hand. Dusk would pay.

She moaned and He hushed her pushing back the hair that fell onto her eyes. He looked at the wounds again. God he thought why she didn't tell me about these earlier. When they had left the house previously he had helped vanity to walk but she soon became exhausted and had passed out. He had brought her back to his cage and placed her on the bed in the second room, he had spent the past few days and nights watching her worried.

The wounds were deep and probably infected judging by the green puss that was around the openings he sighed "okay I don't really know how I'm going to do this." He took out a pen knife from his pocket.

Vanity's eyes widened. "What... what are you going to d ...o w…ith that?" She asked looking scared. Caelan noticed the terrified look on her face. "Don't worry it's not for you." He said. He put the tip of the knife to his thumb to draw blood "this may hurt bit." He said. Then he smeared it over the wounds on Vanity's body. She winced in pain as the connection stung her skin. She arched her back gripping the sheets and clenching her teeth. She was breathing heavily. One minute she would relax and the next she would be on edge again. Caelan took hold of her hand and sat there stroking it and trying to sooth the pain.

It was hard for him to watch her as she tossed and turned about in pain. Images flashed though his head of when he had seen Vanity's crumpled body on the floor in the steel room. The bruises and cuts that had been inflicted on her by dusk and Regan. She moaned and whimpered as the pain slowly began to recede but then all of a sudden it started again, she squeezed his hand so hard he was almost afraid it would break in two.

"It stings." She said closing her eyes and tossing about. "Make it stop!" She almost screamed as the pain became too much. She began crying trying to huddle into a ball. He watched her in shock in less than a minute she had changed from being a normal person in pain to a tormented toddler almost. He felt guilty there was nothing here before him to say that he wasn't just as bad as them for inflicting pain on someone he barely knew. It was a terrifying site. He sat and waited as Vanity still moaning and squeezing his hand slowly began to return back to normal. His shoulders sagged. He was a monster.

Valkyrie arrived at the factory door. The throbbing in her neck became even more pronounced she could swear that the two lumps had swollen to the size of oranges. She knocked on the steel door and waited patiently. A few minutes passed and then she heard the bolt being slid back and the door opened. An exhausted looking Caelan stood there he raised his eyebrows shocked at her.

"Um, Valkyrie." His eyes flickered to her neck and then back to her face. He suddenly turned stern. "What do you want?" He sneered

"Caelan, why did you do it?" Valkyrie asked.

Caelan looked up shocked he had accepted her to go ahead and vent at him but she had simply asked him a question. "Um, I don't know." He said lost for words. "You were dying. I needed to stop that happening."

"So you were trying to save me?" She asked

He nodded. "I was, but then." he shrugged his shoulders. "I got a bit carried away… and… well…" he bit his lip.

Valkyrie looked at his embarrassed figure. She smiled slightly and placed a hand on his arm. "It's okay, I forgive you." He looked up relief over his face. Suddenly Valkyrie's happy expression fell as she remembered. "You got shot." She said panicking. "Are you okay?" She began to check his arms.

He laughed. "Yes I'm fine. I was well taken care of." He said smiling.

"By who?" Valkyrie asked puzzled.

"Vanity," he said. "She found me in the woods bleeding and well she wouldn't take no for an answer so she helped me."

"Vanity?" Valkyrie said puzzled. "I haven't seen her for days."

"She's here she spent the last few days and nights here." Caelan said nervously anticipating what he knew was to come.

"What!" Valkyrie yelled at him. "Why was she here? I swear Caelan if you've done anything to her…" Caelan held up a hand to silence her

"I haven't done anything to her okay. I found her at some house where Dusk and that Regan fellow where and they had been torturing her okay. I saved her life. She's fine she's resting in the back room, healing okay."

"Dusk and Regan you say?" Valkyrie asked

"Yes" Caelan nodded

"I have to go tell skull." She said and she quickly said good bye and ran off. Caelan watched her go for a while and then turned back inside. He locked the door.

"Caelan." He heard Vanity's weak voice call from behind him he turned. She stood there hunched over in pain it must have taken her ages to muster the strength to walk this far. Her hand was at her side blood had seeped through and was on her clothes. Her eyes were wide and she was swaying slowly unsteady... She stopped took a deep breath and then spoke. "He knows.''

She closed her eyes as the nausea enveloped her and began to sway even more. Calean knew what was going to happen next. Her eyes opened and rolled back into her head and she passed out falling into Caelan's arms as he ran forward to catch her.

Merci.

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