I don't own anything... but my birthday is in 10 days!
Dylan POV
"Where is she?" I held Jez in a choke hold for almost ten seconds before Morgead through me across the room.
"I can't tell you! I don't know!" She screamed from across the room as I stood up.
"What is going on?" Thierry roared. Handing him the note I ran up to our room to look for clues.
Everything was normal, just the way I left it days ago. Except a few things missing. Her suitcase, some clothes, bathroom things and the picture of her parents and her that used to sit on the night stand.
I ran back down stairs and asked Thierry to check the safe. He did suddenly realizing what I was thinking.
"Its gone." Jez said. I glared at her some more.
"Why did she leave?" I growled at her.
"She had too. I can't tell you why. Im sorry." Jez was looking away so she wouldn't make eye contact with me.
A hand on my arm told me Keller was standing there trying to comfort me.
"Her bag is gone. Do you want to send a search group?" Thierry was asking me now because it was my choice. I looked at all the faces in the room. They all understood because they all had soulmates, I nodded and looked down at my hands.
"Let her go. You don't understand why she left, you can't go chasing her if she doesn't want to be found! Dylan you are a wild power. We need you here." Jez was franticly trying to stop me from going.
"She's right. Keller and I could go." Rashel volunteered and her soulmate Quinn tried to say he should go to but she wanted him to stay. "We will be fine by ourselves."
"That sounds like the best plan. You two leave immediately, call to check in when you can." Thierry had set his mind to it and I had to agree that I couldn't just leave.
Sitting on the couch I buried my face in my hands and tried to keep the tears in. Why? Why would she leave? How could she do this to me? My heart felt like I was being stabbed and I sent the pain into the bond. I wanted her to know that this was killing me.
Kim POV
Sleep was hard. Even if I was exhausted, between the pain Dylan was sending through the bond and the nightmares about our baby, I couldn't sleep.
Standing up I put on my boots and jacket and went outside. The hotel was on the edge of town near the woods. I walked slowly through the parking lot scanning for danger and then into the woods. They were quiet and peaceful, just what I wanted.
Farther in I took off my Jacket and shirt so I was only in my bra pants and boots, all made from shape shifter fur. I let my body flow into liquid and for a millisecond I felt free, then I was changing into the shape of a cat. A very large cat. A lion actually, with golden fur and huge paws with massive claws.
I ran as fast and hard as I could. I ran around the woods, not hunting but just running.
A few hours later it was almost sunrise and I went back to my clothes. Back in the hotel room I showered and brushed my hair. My black hair, I was still not used to it.
I used the phone in the hotel room to call Jez's cell.
"Hey." She asked before the second ring was done.
"How is he?" My voice was almost steady.
"Bad. Two going to find something." She was trying not to say to much.
"Are you in the room with him?"
"Yes." There was a yell and then the phone got dropped.
"Sam?" Dylan's voice was so sad and so sweet it took all my strength to hang up.
My hand was resting on my stomach. Feeling for life, wondering if I could do this a lone.
I went to the doctor's appointment and found out everything was fine. The doctor gave me some vitamins to take and then I left town not knowing where to go.
Driving a lone was no fun but I couldn't exactly take a friend. At the next town I found a phone booth and dialed Keller's number. She was my mentor after all. I trusted her.
"Yo." SHe was distracted as if trying to do something else. Probably looking for me.
"Kel it's me." She yelped and I heard the breaks of a car slamming. "Listen. You can't find me. You have to go back and not let anyone look for me."
"No! Dyl needs you and how could you leave him?"
"Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do. If you find me, we will all be in danger. Go home."
"Why? What is going on?"
"I have to do this for me and the-" I stopped myself from saying baby. "I have to. Don't look for me." I hung up and climbed back in the car and kept driving.
Finally a place came to mind when I saw the sign for California.
An hour later I pull into the driveway of a small blue house. I haven't seen the house in years but it hasn't changed at all.
The women that answers the door is in her late forties and has red curly hair. Her face looks worn and tired, she smiles when she sees me.
"Sam!" I hug her back and my smile is genuine.
"Gale! I've missed you so much." Gale was my foster mom when I was twelve, she was the only one I really liked but she couldn't afford to have me stay anymore after her husband died.
"Come have some hot cocoa!" Gale drags me into the small kitchen and starts the hot water. "What's wrong dear?'' She always could read my mind and now that I was almost an adult was no exception.
"I need a place to stay. I was wondering if I could stay here a few days until I found a place of my own."
"Of course! Why don't you just live here? I could use some help around the house." She looked absolutely delighted.
"I would love to but I don't want to intrude..." She shook her head and laughed. "Okay and I will pay rent and help with groceries."
"Okay if you must. You cane have your old room back, this will be just splendid. My dear why the sudden change though?" She poured me a cup and handed it to me before sitting across from me at the table.
"Well I'm pregnant and I needed to start over. This is a wonderful town, it's small and safe and everyone knows each other."
"Oh! A baby! I'm so happy for you!" She doesn't ask about the dad because she knows that if I want to tell her I will. Gale just works that way.
I put my suitcase in my old room and sit on the bed looking around. The walls are still light purple and the small window across from the bed has white lace curtains. All the furniture is white, the bed, the dresser and the small desk. I unpack and put my bag with my fake ids and money in the back of the closet.
Being Sam again was dangerous but I had to be somewhere safe where I could have my baby. Gale was a very nice woman and this was a nice town. It was the perfect place to have a child and raise it.