Chapter two, this is starting to get really fun to write. Not much to say... Review? :)

:)Natalie

Braiden Redfern pulled up to the curve that was in front of Asha's house. He was breathing heavily and shaking so hard he almost went into their yard, which was odd for a half blood Vampire to do. Especially the son of a Blue Fire Named Delos. Braiden took to his Heritage gratefully. Loving to have a place to belong in the world.

The only thing he didn't like was the fact that his parents were probably finding that he was missing by now. He had told them about Asha, her beauty in the dreams that no one could explain. But when he had uttered her name after constant surveillance and questioning, he was forbidden to find her. Though the millennium had changed the world, money and power disputes were terrible. The lands that were separated by ocean were fighting for main control of the unsegregated world, and everyone was losing. Oh, you didn't see signs of it on an everyday basis, Vampires knew how to keep it private and underground. His parents where top of the government of the Americas. Though they were not called that now, his father changed it to Derica.

When he had told them his Soulmate, the one he had dreams about was the one and only Asha Redfern, daughter of the most powerful delegate in the world—and top of government of what used to be Russia, Europe, India, and everything over there (Now called Rasha)—Mary-Lynnette Redfern, he was locked into his room. Never to see her. Her beauty, her bravery, her color changing eyes that, even in his dreams, baffled him with their depth. Her ash blond hair that reached to mid-thigh like a sheild between her and the world. Braiden wanted nothing more than to knot his hand in her golden sheild and hold her to him forever, never letting go, never having to.

Now, here he was picking her up from her house, because she was in danger. Unspeakable danger. At the thought his hands started to shake again, without further a due, he jumped out of his truck and ran to the front door. Sure that Mary-Lynnette or her husband Ash would not recognize him as Delos's son, he knocked.

Here we go, Braiden thought to himself

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Asha slept late that morning, but Braiden didn't return to her dreams. She tried to call to him, tried to get herself back to the field and the park, nothing. Uninterested in the beach dream with Gaurad Butler, she woke herself up and sat up in her messy bed. She had thought about Braiden all night, as she was trying to get back into sleep. He said he was coming to get her, but she couldn't leave her parents? That's not something she was comfortable with just yet.

She jumped out of bed and walked out to the front room, sniffing for the normal smell of breakfast, but finding none, "Hello?" she called, looking around the clean room for traces, none.

"Mom? Dad?" she called as she walked to their room, finding nothing as well she went to the backyard and the kitchen and garage. Finally she sat on the couch with the phone ready to call their cell phones, but their was a knock before she got to press a button.

"Hello?" Asha called again as she got up and walked to the door, there wasn't a sound, "Hello?" She desperately wished she had drank some blood before leaving the kitchen, she needed strength. Her parents being gone caused paranoia, "Who's at the door?" she yelled louder.

"Asha?" She heard and new instantly, with tears threatening to come, who it was, she opened the door and fell into the arms of Braiden. She didn't focus on anything but the feeling of being in his strong arms, "Asha, what's going on? What's wrong, Asha?"

"My parents are gone. I don't know where they are!"

"Get in my car," he said pulling her out of the house, "Hurry."

"What about my house?" She asked as he half carried her in her pajamas, "My parents? My clothes? When will we be back?"

"I don't know, Angel, just let me get you to safety."

She scoffed, "What's wrong? Why are we leaving?"

"They're's someone in your house, okay?" He whispered in her ear, his voice mad as he put her in the car and jumped into his side, before she could say another word, he was driving. Away from all she knew.

"There was not," she whispered.

"Yes, there was," Braiden sighed, "I'm sorry I forced you to leave. I have to protect you."

"From what?" she demanded, staring at her lap, she did not like being told what to do, and she was mad, but a calm and calculating mad, "I'm Asha, by the way."

"I'm Braiden," he said, surprised he forgot his manners, he watched her till she looked up at him, neon yellow eyes meeting calm blue verging on green ones.

"I know who you are," she said, "I'm not your angel, is why I said it." sarcasm started to lace her voice again, going back to what was normal, she needed normal, "So, I see my soulmate has the hero complex, huh? Well, I hope you like a challenge. I am a hero complex myself, and I don't like to be out-heroed."

"Sorry to disappoint," he cocked an eyebrow at her, making her instantly jealous, she wished she could do that! She turned her head away from him, but she felt the calming presence of his fingers twining into her's.

"You might be forgiven," she relaxed into her chair, "So, where are we going, anyways?"

"The old seattle in Derica," he said, softly, his eyes still on the road.

"Hm, not much of a tanning spot," she sighed, hating tanning.

"You didn't strike me as the tanning sort," he laughed, she gasped as he threw his head back, he was so much more beautiful in person. His yellow eyes shined brighter than the sun in the Sahara and she couldn't help but smile at the whimsical sound of it. Beautiful and care free and calming. After a minute he looked at her, "I'm sorry... that I took you without permission, I feel terrible."

"You are not forgiven," But her actions gave away how she truly felt about being with him at that moment, because she kissed his shoulder and leaned in, falling asleep almost instantly.

She barely knew him, but she loved him.

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Braiden was in the car with the girl of his dreams, his for real dreams, and she was for real on his shoulder sleeping curled up like a cat. Her hair covered her like a blanket, and he had that urge to wake her up from her sleep with a kiss. His skin was already hot where she was leaning on him and he knew if he had wore a tee shirt, instead of the long sleeved one that he had thrown on in his haste, he would feel the soulmate sparks that everyone had told him about, that he knew his parents had felt.

He barely knew her, but he loved her.

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Nemi was sitting in the bed of Braiden Redfern's pick up truck , invisable. She smiled as the young love was coming along nicely. Soon, when they connected into one and it was sure that they were soulmate's then she would attack.

She smiled a deadly smile, her teeth were slightly rotted, but they were going back to normal slowly as she regained her youthful look. Her rainbow eyes flashed with vengence.

As long as she remembered, she hated the Redferns. More than life itself, did she hate them. When Maya, Nemi's sister, put her in that vault because she was scared she would take over as the best and first vampire in the world, she vowed to kill her heir, and her heir, the only other girl to get the rainbow eyes like them, was right in front of her. But not yet. She had to make sure she was getting an eye for an eye. She was going to rule, and if this little girl was to rule all of the world with this boy, than she was going to change that.

No one ever, ever upped Nemisis Redfern, and got away with it.

Never.