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" B, you can't let her go out with them." Scud pleaded with Blade as they walked through the warehouse. " Alex isn't safe alone with them."

" It's not your call. She asked to go." Blade said without looking at him.

" Yeah but if she asked you if she could jump off the warehouse roof, would you let her?" Scud asked.

" She's a grown up. She can take care of herself." Blade said. Scud sighed and walked away. He saw Alexcia getting ready by herself at a table and decided to try and reason with her. He quicken his steps to reach her faster.

" Alex, come on, you can't go with them." Scud said when he reached her.

" Let's see what my options are, either go into a dark tunnel with vampires, my brother Blade, and my dad or stay locked up in a warehouse with vampire trash. Yeah, I'd rather be with them." She snapped without looking at him.

" So I'm vampire trash now? A few days ago I was your almost boyfriend and now I'm trash?" He asked. She frowned as she looked at him.

" As much as I hate the vampires, they never lied to us. They have been up front and honest with who they are and what they are. You, on the other hand, have lied the entire time I have known you. You have lied about who and what you are. I know what I can expect from them. I don't know what to expect from you." She said.

" Come on, that's not fair. You know me, you know what to expect."

" Um, no, I don't and that's the problem. See the guy I thought you were, you turned out not to be. I'm going with them and you are staying here." She snapped. " You need to start thinking about how you're going to tell Blade and dad what you are because if you don't, in 24 hours, I'm going to tell them. Now how do you think my big, bad brother is going to react when he finds out you tricked me to get into my pants?"

" I never tricked you. You came to me willingly and you know it." Scud said. " You're making it sound like I raped you." Alexcia shook her head.

" I went to bed with someone but you are not the man I went to bed with. You are not the one I started to really care for. Now get the fuck out of my way." She snapped before she started to walk away. He grabbed her arm and pulled her to him.

" Please don't go. I'm sorry. I should have told you. I didn't just want in your pants. I care about you and what happens to you, you have to know what." He said, his eyes pleading with her to believe him. Alexcia shook her head.

" It's too late for that." She said.

" What if I had told you, then what? What if I said I had made a mistake and taken up with them but I wanted out? What would you have done?" He snapped.

" I would have taken you to Blade and we would have figured something out to help you but you never gave me that chance."

" And why would you have done that?" He asked. Alexcia shook her head and tried to pull away but Scud held on tight. " Why?" He asked. Alexcia took a shaky breath.

" Because I want to be with you." She said. Scud pulled her to him and hugged her.

" Then help me, help me tell Blade so we can be together." He said. She shook her head again and moved away from him.

" It's too late for that. I'm sorry." She said before she hurried away.

" Alex!" He called out to her but she didn't stop and she didn't look back.

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Scud paced through the warehouse, feeling like he was on pins and needles. He had watched them leave the warehouse helplessly. She wasn't going to listen him and neither was Blade. He couldn't seem to concentrate on his work. He bit his nails, readjusted his bandanna, walked the floors, and laid in his bed. Nothing would settle his stomach. He hated that she was out there with them. He knew what Chupa wanted. That vampire had had his eye on her since they met and he knew Chupa wasn't above rape. He always knew Reinhardt wasn't above holding Alexcia down so Chupa could rape and bite her.

It was a little after one in the morning when the garage door started to open. Scud looked up from the counter and felt the tense he had been carrying around leave him. Finally she was home. He could talk to Blade, beg forgiveness, get help and then she'd want to be with him again. He walked around the counter but noticed the looked on Blade's and Whistler's face. Something was wrong.

" What happen?" Scud asked when the two men got out of the car. " Where's Alex?"

" Mother fucking vampires took her." Whistler snapped as he hurried past Scud.

" What do you mean they took her?" Scud asked in a panic.

" What's hard to understand about that?" Whistler yelled. " They kidnapped her." Scud was watching as Whistler started going through his weapons. He didn't notice or hear Blade charging up to him. Blade grabbed Scud by the throat and pushed him against the counter. Scud grabbed Blade's arms.

" Did you know? Did you know they were planning on taking her?" Blade spit out.

" What? No, how could I know?" Scud yelled the best he could as he struggled to breath.

" Mother fucker, you think I haven't known about you this whole time?" Blade leaned closer to Scud's face. " I have known about you since they turned you." He whispered. Scud's eyes went wide.

" I didn't know, I swear. I was going to tell you, tonight." He said. Blade let him go and move away to gather his weapons.

" That's rich. The night they take my daughter you decide to come clean." Whistler snapped.

" Let me go help, please. I can get her back." Scud pleaded.

" Oh you're coming alright." Blade started. " You will get her back but know this, if you don't, I will kill you. If they hurt her or change her, I will beat you to death. When we bring her back, I will tell the vampire you betrayed them and they will kill you. They will make it so bad that you will wish that I had beat you to death. Get the fuck in the car while we get ready."

Scud shook his head but did as Blade ordered. He hadn't known they were going to take her. That had never been in the plan but it made sense to him. The vampires wanted to hurt Blade. They hadn't hurt him through the old man so they had decided to hurt him through his sister and Scud had let them. He was going to find her, he was going to save her and when he did, he'd kill whatever vampires he could to prove himself to Blade He was not going down without a fight.