I'm so sorry for the long delay.. I had study-week, which I had to study for a week before it, and well yeah, it's vacation now, so I'm gonna write ^^ (cuzz no matter how much I say I hate school, I have days in my vacation I'm REALLY bored)

Anyway, thank you my reviewers ^^

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Chapter 8

Eva grinned and pulled a bush away quickly. "Found you!" She said, and Rosalie screeched while Zack made a run for the wall you can tick yourself free on. Eva drove after him, but let him win.

"I won!" he yelled happily, and the other children sighed. "He always wins, you know." One of the children said.

Eva smiled. "He's the fastest."

Zack puffed his chest out and smiled proudly. "No one can ever beat me!"

She ruffled his hair, and waved her goodbye to the kids since it was time to go for her.

The doors to the orphanage closed because it was lunch-time, and Eva straightened her jacket. It was getting cold with the end of November entering.

Eva grimaced. A month ago, she'd broke with her group. She grimaced even more. And that was the last time she'd seen Aikka too.

Typical boys.

Walking over to the street she lived in, Eva looked around at the Croggs.

Nothing had changed.. yet there had.

Eva had been observing the Croggs in her street and close to her street carefully, awaiting any signs of trouble or her dad. She knew that if a child was left behind, it'd be killed.

And since she was 16 and not 18, she'd still be under the child section. Thankfully, there were only 3 Croggs in her streets, and the houses were small, so they didn't expected her to live alone.

At least Eva hoped so, as she waved to someone she knew.

The entrance to her house was the same as all the others, so maybe they didn't even knew which house was the Wei-residence.

They'd have to search it up, probably.

Walking past the Croggs she got out the key to her house, but put it away again.

Eva glanced at the Croggs standing for the door of Mrs Beks.

After a few seconds, Eva knew she must've drawn attention and continued walking down the streets, until she randomly sat down on a stairs to a door to someone's house, so it would seem she was waiting for the person to come home.

Behind her, the door opened. "You're looking for someone?"

Eva turned around and widened her eyes veeery lightly. She'd never seen HIM around!

Not saying anything back, Eva helplessly stared into dark blue eyes, who belonged to a boy her age (probably 18) with pitch black hair.

Boy, he looked good!!

"I.. I.. err.." she stumbled to her feet. He smiled friendly at her. Eva blinked. "I'm sorry! I just.. sat here because.."

"You were obviously observing the Croggs."

"I.. well.. yes."

He grinned now, and Eva couldn't help but to smile back. "That's a dangerous thing to do, you know? Especially when they are going to capture someone."

Eva's happy face turned into a worried one. "Capture? They're trying to capture the woman there?"

He nodded, thinking about something. "At least I think so. They don't come to someone's door normally."

She blinked and looked behind her, where the Croggs were still banging Mrs Beks' door. If she didn't open, they'd barge in.

"But, why would they capture Mrs Beks! She's and old woman, sure she hasn't done anything?"

"Maybe she hasn't paid her rent? We shouldn't pay to much attention to it though.. They're looking at you. You should go."

She resisted the urge to look behind her.

"By the way, my name is Nathan."

"Eva."

Nathan smiled at her as Eva waved at him, and took off to the next street. She'd go home later.

She smiled. She'd never seen him before, but then again, there are more people in her street she hasn't seen before. Eva blushed lightly. How could've she not noticed him. She wasn't much of a girly-girl, but he was.. really.. beautiful? Eva never used the word with a guy.

Her smile disappeared as snow for the sun when she thought of Aikka. Well.. they didn't had anything right? He just abandoned her since.. that day.

After 2 hours, Eva went to her street again, to go home. She couldn't wait much longer, in a half an hour it'd be 10 o'clock. The Croggs weren't at the door of her neighbour anymore, but then again, the door wasn't there anymore too.

Opening her own door, Eva quickly got in and shut it, running upstairs to discard her clothes and to jump into something comfortable, warm clothes she did not wanted to be seen with.

Pulling on long socks and ran down the stairs again, to make some tea. She hated cold. Especially in the war. She loved the winter when she was small, but ever since the Croggs practically ruled Earth, the heat couldn't go high. Which was good for in the summer.. but in the winter, nope.

After a while, Eva sat down on the couch with a steaming hot cup of tea in her hands, which she put on the table fast, and turned on the television.

Always propaganda. Never news of those who had been captured, not even illegal television, secretly made by the rebels. Of course they wouldn't do anything illegal, that'd be more dangerous.

Pulling her sleeves over her hands, Eva pulled her legs op un the couch and rested her chin on her knees.

Maybe she should take up a hobby.

Go collect postage stamps. Play random games. Make fun of every Crogg. Learn Japanese.

She grinned. She'd try that for 3 days, then she'd be annoyed for the other day, and she'd quit.

Eva put the sound of the television a bit softer. She hasn't seen her dad for 2 months now.. maybe he already was dead.

If that was the case, Eva would rather move out of this house and go to another city.

And she couldn't just go to the dungeons and ask if Don Wei was still alive. They'd never tell her anything.

Though, she could ask Aikka to look..

When she'd see him, then.

As if her thoughts were heard, she heard a beetle screech softly. She huffed and opened her back door, to the opening to the small forest which would end into valleys.

He grinned at her, probably because of her attire, but Eva's dagger glare sure made an end to it.

"You sure made a break for a long time." Eva said casually, stepping aside and Aikka stepped in, out from the cold.

Though he probably wouldn't feel the cold, since he was a vampire and all.

Closing the door to lock out the winter breezes, Eva waved sweetly at G'dar who was off to search a place to rest for a while. Walking back to the room, sitting on the couch in the same way she was sitting before.

"I'm sorry that I haven't seen you for such a long time, but there were some problematic business."

"Yeah, stuff only to be heard for royals and Croggs. Get it." She said gruffly, sipping her tea.

He frowned. "I take it your angry?"

"Pfff, not at all. It's normal, right?"

"Well.. I'm sorry."

She returned to look at the television blankly. "Oh, I've been okay. Met up with some friends, played with the kids on the orphanage, met a.." She stopped and he looked at her questioningly. "an old friend." She lied flawlessly, quickly taking a big sip from her tea.

"Are the kids okay?"

Eva always talked about the kids at the orphanage when she had nothing else to say, or if Aikka was meditating again, and even though Eva always thought he didn't listened, he did listen.

She nodded. "They're fine. A bit unstable to the weather though."

He smiled. "Poor humans."

She glared up at him. "What, humans. Just because YOU don't have any blood to pump your heart doesn't mean you have to be like this to humans."

"You're still angry."

"I'M NOT."

Eva buried her face in the small hole between her knees and her chest, and didn't moved an inch when she felt him sit next to her.

"I'm sorry Eva. I would tell you, really, but I cant. You know that."

"Hmpf."

She'd let out a defeated sigh when he pulled her against his chest, and hold her close. She'd never been able to resist a hug, unless it's from an enemy. And of course, she'd wouldn't be able to resist any touch of him..

She opened her eyes. "Was it really a political business or was it your own private reason?" She'd asked as a double question and she knew he found out why she was upset.

"Political, yes. I think I even let them startled when I returned again, I just couldn't stand a month without your face." He flattered and Eva pouted. "That's not gonna work."

He grinned his fangs bare and Eva huffed at him. "I'm going to bed."

"Oh, inviting."

"I'm still angry with you."

Eva walked down the market with Nathan. "If I could ask one rude thing, would you answer?" He asked. Eva grinned up at him. "Depends on what you are asking."

He leaned in a little closer. "Are you a rebel?"

Eva smiled knowingly at him. "Maybe."

"I take that as a yes?"

"Maybe."

He grinned. "So it's a yes. I knew it. There is something with the way you observe everything, the way you walk when you're around Croggs."

Eva frowned. "Is it really that obvious?"

"Only when you're watching."

She sighed. The last thing she wanted know was any suspicion of being a rebel.

"I wont tell anyone though."

"Thanks. You're not a rebel, you want to be one?" She asked him. He shook his head. "Though I'm firmly against the believes of Croggs and Nourasions, I'm not fit to be a rebel."

"You're very smart though." This was true, Eva had asked him questions many times and he always had a good, thoughtful answer to it, though he didn't even needed to consider an answer.

He smiled shyly, which was unbelievably cute and Eva felt the need to touch his cheek, even though she didn't.

"Thanks, but I'd rather just live through this war."

She smiled. "We all want that."

"So, you're part of a group?"

Eva looked at the humans before her. "No. I was a member of a group, but I decided to leave after some personal problems."

He nodded in understanding.

"But, how do you get the supplies every now and then?" He required curious. Eva grinned. "I get them for free, I'm popular with some stores."

She said, mimicking shooting a gun with her left hand and Nathan chuckled.

After a half an hour of just randomly walking through the market, Eva stopped to look at some news papers. One took all her attention though, and she picked it up. Nathan curiously glanced at it.

"If you wanna read you need to buy." Eva looked up at the salesmen and glared at him while picking some money from her pocket. Before she gave it to him, Nathan already tossed him a coin and pulled her away. "That's a paper that shouldn't be in there." He said to her. Eva tugged her arm loose and stood still again, looking over the newspaper.

"I never knew that Russia and South-Africa weren't taken by the Croggs? How did they manage that! Surely America had a stronger army?" She asked, dumbfounded.

Nathan thought for a second. "Maybe they've got allies or something.."

Eva folded up the newspaper and put in the pocket of her jacket.

"Oh wait." Nathan said and he reached for her hair, pulling out a leaf. Eva smiled, but her eyes wandered of to someone behind Nathan.

Aikka was glaring with dark eyes -1- towards them, or more likely, the boy in front of her.

She sighed.

Typical boys.

-1- this isn't referring to some way of looking, but it's a sign that he's vamping over something that hasn't got anything to do with blood. Imagine his clear blue eyes got darker!

A/N: Sorry for any grammar/spelling mistakes!

R&R!