Everything tasted of blood when Hailey finally came to. She lay against a building slumped over with her mouth open attempting to swallow. She badly needed water and yet even with her dry throat she could still taste the putrid flavour of blood.

Glancing around she noticed it was night time, or at least it soon would be. She couldn't remember anything other than pushing past Ellis and attacking the witch. Hailey began to inhaled sharply, she didn't know what she had done; her memory had erased itself. Her head made contact with the wall and she clutched her chest. She tried to remember what had happened desperately and it was beginning to freak her out. Hailey kick a legged out in frustration and began to hyperventilate. Raking through her mind Hailey kept striving to pull the memories that just weren't there. Simultaneously she felt as if she were drowning and dying.

"ELLIS!" she screamed through her dry mouth, "HELP!" she managed a very sharp and harbinger breath, " HELP! ANYONE!"

Again she tried to breath but her lungs would not take, she began to sweat and could feel every rapid heartbeat course through her ears. It was hard to see, she felt out of body and out of her mind, it was so surreal she barely recognized Ellis as he emerged from his hiding place, gun in hand.

"Holey shit you're alive."

Hailey looked up to see Ellis who'd quickly run out from behind some thick hedges, he held his shotgun aiming at her. Hailey careened to the floor coughing for breath. Ellis pulled the gun back and away from her; finally he dropped the weapon all together and kneeled at her side pulling her body against his. He brushed away hair from her face with a terrified look in his own eyes.

"I-I'm having-g a pan-ic attack," she stuttered before clutching onto his shirt almost ripping it from him, "I n-need water."

Ellis grabbed the last few water bottles and helped Hailey drink them, she began to calm down. Her body stopped having spasms, and she took deeper breaths. Ellis held her close and attempted to hide the long scratch marks on his arms. They were deep and carved into his flesh like valleys with red running rivers. She touched them receiving a cringing hiss from Ellis.

"I'd tell ya how I got these but you probably wouldn't believe me," His voice dropped into a strange tone.

Looking at them again Hailey cringed herself, they were deep and obviously not self inflicted. She looked up into Ellis's eyes and there she saw what he was hiding.

"What the fuck happened?" Hailey said quietly, she was far too confused to pussyfoot around anything.

"Shit," defeatedly answered, he knew he'd have to give her answers, "Well, I've never seen anyone strangle a witch before on account nobody gets too far with the bitch, but hell you just ripped her limb to limb after she stopped screaming," Ellis seemed more impressed than frightened, "I tried to pull you off 'er, I mean she was pretty much nothin' left and all...-."

Hailey cut in,

"Is that how I gave you those?"

"Well, not quite," Ellis said slyly, he bit his lip and looked away from Hailey.

"What," she asked without question, more of an order.

She revisited the wounds on his arms; they looked passionate but not angry. He had very little defensive wounds almost as if he'd let her attack him. The motive behind this made no sense to Hailey, but then again she felt like an animal now. She'd attacked a witch and destroyed her, and then came back to human consciousness. Was she really turning into one of them, or a strange hybrid?

"Ellis," she spoke softly, "I can hardly believe what I did, but I did it anyways. What did I do to you? It couldn't possibly stranger."

Again Ellis bit his lip in attempts to shut himself up, he was more embarrassed than anything.

"You see," he cleared his throat, "After I pulled you off the witch, you kinda started lookin' me up 'n down... I thought maybe you were realizing me as a friend," He held his tongue, he was self-conscious to reveal the conclusion; he rubbed his face before pulling up his bull riders shirt.

Claw marks that lay deep and were beginning to scab over, all pointed to one thing. In her strange triggered rage or evolution to a special infected she had removed Ellis's pants.

"I did what?" Hailey whispered, she couldn't believe or recall why or when she did this.

"I never really been dominated by a woman before," Ellis said sheepishly, "but you held me down and--."

"I get the picture," Hailey shook her head.

"I don't know why you did it," Ellis spoke with a very kind tone, "It didn't really hurt, but after we um finished you went beside this building and collapsed," He peered out from underneath his hat, "I thought you might've of died or something."

"Why'd you stay then?" Hailey whispered through a hard stare.

"Because you're all I got left."

A/N: Another short one. : ( Sorry. REVIEW please.

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