Okay. Haven't updated in an extremely long time, but I'm on a semi-vacation/family trip in Puerto Rico wih my bf's family and just found a place where they have wifi. So...here you go!

Kalona's POV

So she left anyway. Angel had been gone all day and had yet to return. He would go out looking for her, but he didn't know where to start. With Angel, anything is possible and she could be anywhere. What was so special about these humans that could make her leave him and stay away so long? He's an all powerful immortal warrior and they're just incompetent mortals who have nothing to offer her that Kalona couldn't easily give her without much effort. It was obvious. And she knew it. So, why did she fight him every chance she got? Did she not want the world or everything her heart desired? Did she not want to rule over mortals and vampyres alike at the immortal's side? And, it was even more unlikely their situation because Kalona had never wanted anyone or anything more in his immortal life than he wanted Angel. She was the sole purpose that he even still stood sane. He wanted her approval, her faith, her in general. And that is one thing that Kalona would never admit, for it would then cost him his power. Kalona flew through the night sky towards the House of Night, where he spent most of his nights as the new sword master since the old one, Dragon Lankford, was killed by Neferet's vessel, Aurox, while trying to save Rephaim. As a sign of his gratefulness for saving his son, Kalona took up Dragon's job and planned to keep it alive. He landed outside of the school building and walked in, greeting a few of his students and a few girls he knew not the name of and were not in his class, but seemed to always find some reason to talk to him. He went to Thanatos' classroom. Thanatos was the new principal of the House of Night due to Neferet's taking of Darkness as her consort. She stood in the room at a large desk preparing for her morning classes. She looked up at Kalona as he entered the room.

"Kalona. Merry meet, sword master. What can I do for you?" He fisted his heart and bowed, giving her the respected greeting. Stevie Rae poked her head into the room and smiled.

"Merry meet, Thanatos, Kalona. I hope we're not interrupting. Can we talk to you two for a minute?"

"Of course. Come in, Stevie Rae." She entered with Rephaim right behind her. Rephaim sat in a seat and Stevie Rae looked at him in question, a little nervous.

"Are you sure?" she whispered to him.

"Yes. Go ahead." She sighed and crossed her eyes before looking at the two waiting vampyres.

"Okay, so…Thanatos, you know about Angel, don't you?"

"Yes, you have told me a few things." Kalona furrowed his eyebrows and looked at Stevie Rae.

"You told her about Angel?"

"Well, yeah. She's kinda a big part of your life and you're a big part of Rephaim's and he's a big part of mine, so that makes both you and Angel a big part of my life. Anyways, um, so… Rephaim and I both agree that Angel needs to know about all of this that's going on here at the House of Night."

"She does not know of us?" Thanatos asked. Stevie Rae and Rephaim both shook their heads and Thanatos looked at Kalona.

"She is still human no matter what our situation is. It's not necessary for her to know of the House of Night. She has not been marked, she is not immortal─"

"But Nyx has in fact chosen her in a way. She came to her in a dream," Stevie Rae clarified. He looked at her then at Rephaim and back.

"I did not know this."

"Well, there are a lot of secrets being held around here, aren't there?" Thanatos pointed out. "It seems to me that there is a lot to be cleared."

"Exactly my point of bringing this up, Thanatos. I think, not only should Angel know about all this, but she should also join it. Rephaim and I think she should join the House of Night. Nyx has chosen her, she just hasn't given her a visual mark."

"Good point. But I believe everything needs to be cleared out first before we make any vast decisions in the girl's life. Kalona, I do believe that the girl should know of your nightly whereabouts since it may have an effect on her." Kalona nodded, not sure how this would all play out.

"I think you should bring Angel here and we'll all explain everything to her tomorrow and then she can make a decision of her own," Stevie Rae said, glancing at Rephaim then back at Kalona and Thanatos.

"I agree. We cannot simply decide on her life," Thanatos added. They all looked at Kalona, who watched Rephaim. His son nodded once and Kalona followed suit.

"I will bring Angel here tomorrow and we shall explain everything." Stevie Rae smiled and looked at Rephaim before nodding.

"Great! This is going to be perfect. Now we won't have to hide anything from her anymore. She has become like a sister to me. It's weird keeping secrets from her. Plus, I can tell that it's more to your relationship with her than you're letting on. And I know you don't really believe in love and all, but I think you love her." At that moment, Zoey entered the room along with her warrior/consort, Stark, all the other red vampyres, Neferet's vessel, Aurox, and a few of Zoey's friends. Shaunee, the one who actually helped Kalona and Rephaim's relationship, smirked at him as she passed. They all took their seats except Zoey and Stark. Zoey stood by Stevie Rae, looking between Kalona, Rephaim, Stevie Rae and Thanatos in question and Stark planted himself by her on guard.

"What's going on?" she asked as she stared at Kalona. It was strange. He stared back at her, but felt nothing. No pull. No infatuation. No lust. No desire. No nothing. And he had an idea as to why. As if on cue, an image of Angel popped into his mind and he turned to Thanatos.

"I must leave, but I will be back before my classes. I do not have any immediate classes─" He felt a pang in his chest and suddenly there was screaming out in the hall. Before he could wonder what was going on, Angel's guard dog ran into the room and looked straight into Kalona's eyes. Then the vision started.

Angel was walking down an alley with some boy, smiling a little and swaying like she was intoxicated.

"What do you wanna do now?" she asked the boy before bringing a glass bottle of what Kalona guessed was the reason for her slurred words and swaying. The boy looked at her and caught her as she tripped a little before smiling devilishly.

"You." Then he pushed her up against the alley wall forcefully and pinned her wrists to the wall before commencing to kissing her neck.

"Wait, stop it. I don't─−I don't want this. Stop. Drake, stop!" He covered her mouth and put a blade up to her throat.

"If you don't shut up, I'll have to use this. And I really don't want to, Angel. At least not yet." She whimpered, but didn't make any motion to get free. "Now are you gonna be a good girl and not fight back?" She nodded slowly and he grinned. "Good." The vision ended and Kalona looked at Rephaim, who had seen everything that had taken place and Stevie Rae had seen it through Rephaim's mind.

"We have to go. Now," Stevie Rae said as she grabbed Rephaim's arm.

"What's going on? And who's dog is that?" Zoey asked as she stared at the dog. "Stevie Rae?"

"Thanatos, we have to go now," she repeated.

"Go. I can tell it's something drastic. Just please take that dog with you. He'll scare the cats and the students half to death." Kalona walked out with Rephaim and Stevie Rae followed.

"No, Stevie Rae. You stay here. I'll go with my father," Rephaim said.

"What? No way am I letting you─"

"Please. I don't want anything to happen to you. He's not very sane right now and he won't be paying attention to who he's hurting. I'm immune to anything he can throw my way, but you he can still hurt. You have to stay here." She obeyed and murmured unintelligible words of affection before letting him go. Kalona burst out the building and immediately took flight with Rephaim right behind him. They took to the skies, scanning the ground for Angel, the thought of her in pain causing Kalona's sanity and rage to intermix and swirl into something greater and more feral and fearful.

Angel's POV

"Drake, please stop it," I begged harder, beginning to cry. He was gripping at the edge of my shirt while kissing me. I don't even know this guy, but he was feeling nice enough to get me drink after drink, bottle after bottle at Urcy or Ursula's party. Now I see why Lira and Blaine tried to make me stop and keep me from leaving. I feel bad that I blew them off so harshly now. He ran the blade of his knife across my stomach lightly and I shivered from the cold metal. How did I always end up in these situations? Everything was normal and fine. I went to the beach, then I went to Lira's house and dressed for the party then we went there and somehow I ended up with drink after drink and next thing I know I have an entire bottle in my hand and then it's bottle after bottle and now this. Wait…bottle! I'm still holding the bottle. I bit down on his lip hard and he snatched back in pain then I smashed the bottle onto his head. He fell back and I ran as fast as I could. I came to a fence and started climbing it, but, being I'm completely wasted, my foot coordination isn't ideal. Drake grabbed my hair and yanked me from the fence to the ground before picking me up by my throat and slamming my back against the alley wall. I yelped out in pain and the blade was at my throat again.

"That was pretty stupid, Angel. Brave, but stupid." He dragged the blade down the front of my shirt to rip it open and I screamed as it cut me. Then both Drake and the blade were gone and I was on the ground choking for air. I looked up and saw Kalona holding a sword and Drake on the ground backing away from Kalona then I saw Rephaim. I stood and ran to him and gripped the front of his tee shirt before burying my face in his chest and crying. He hugged me and tried to calm me down. I don't know what happened, but the next thing I knew, Drake was sliced in several places across his chest and face and screaming in pain as nasty sticky laces of darkness oozed across his body, entering and exiting, killing him slowly and painfully. I looked at Kalona who was wiping his sword with a piece of Drake's shirt. He tossed it to the ground and looked at me. I released Rephaim and ran and wrapped my arms around Kalona, crying harder than ever.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left and I should've stayed home." He shushed me and looked at Rephaim.

"You go back. Tell Thanatos I can't make it tonight. Get someone else to cover." Rephaim obeyed and left. Kalona lifted me up and started flying towards home. When we got there, I leaped from his arms and ran straight for the bathroom, feeling all the alcohol coming back up. I shut and locked my door before running to my bathroom and doing the same thing, making it to the toilet just in time for me to puke up one of the several bottles of Devil Springs Vodka and Everclear. Kalona knocked on the bedroom door and started turning the knob. "Angel? Open the door." He somehow got that door open and started doing the same to the bathroom door.

"Go away!" I said over a cough of more vomit. "I'll be out in a minute. Just don't come in here."

"Angel, what's going on? Why won't you open the door?"

"Just−─" I was cut off by more vomit. "Kalona, I'll be out in a minute. Just go away." I heard him sigh and leave. Once I was done, I brushed my teeth 5 times and showered for an hour and a half before I finally walked out the bathroom. I searched for a smidge of cotton, but everything was silk, satin and a bunch of other fancy shit. I slammed the drawer and found my brother's varsity fùtbol sweatshirt that he'd gave to me to wear to his games. The thing was too small for him but it was humongous on me. The life of tiny people. Well, it'd come in handy. It reminded me of my brother, who I missed like crazy. I walked out to Kalona's room, but he wasn't there. He was standing out on his patio again, with no shirt on, but his wings were back, which was kinda a reminder that this dude is crazy evil. Then something attracted my attention down by his legs. There were slithers of darkness swirling around his entire frame. They were the same things that were oozing over Drake. I shivered at the memory then started walking towards Kalona, but stopped. I didn't like the look of those darkness things. "Ka─−Kalona." His body tensed, but he didn't turn around. That's weird. "Are you…feeling okay? There's like…darkness swirling around y−─"

"Who was that boy?" he asked, his voice dark. Is he mad?

"What?"

"Who was the boy, Angel?"

"Um…I don't know. His name was Drake, but I don't know−─"

"You don't know? You left with this boy and you don't even know who he is?" He still hadn't turned around. What's going on?

"Well, I wasn't with him. I was with my friend Lira and I got really drunk and I somehow ended up with him and−─"

"He tried to take you away from me." I laughed a little at how jealous he sounded.

"Kalona, I doubt that's what he was doing. No one really even knows about you existing except Rephaim and Stevie Rae and all of the others like them. I'm pretty sure I'm the only human that knows about you−─" He turned around then and was suddenly in front of me. Whoa. His eyes were blazing with anger and the dark swirls were still there, growing.

"Do you think this is humorous? Do you find this amusing? You're not taking me seriously."

"Well, no because you're acting like you're jealous and it's stupid."

"My anger is stupid to you? My anger is amusing?" His voice and eyes grew darker and the swirls grew more. I backed up a little.

"Well, yeah, because I kinda almost got raped and died and the only thing you can think of is who the guy was that did it and how jealous you are. You killed him, it's over. That's all that matters, right?"

"No. That is not all that matters."

"Well, it's all that matters to me. So, can you stop because you're starting to scare me."

"Maybe that's what you need. A scare will show you that this is not a game. That this is serious. Maybe you'll take me seriously."

"Okay, Kalona, you're really starting to freak me out. I'm gonna go and let you cal down some." I turned to walk away, but he grabbed my arm. Tight. I winced and looked at him. his eyes weren't amber anymore. They'd gone completely black and he looked really scary. Something sliced into my arm and I looked down and saw the slivers rolling up my arm, slicing it and making me bleed. Were they drinking my blood?

"No. You chose that fool over me. You tried to leave me."

"What? Kalona, stop it." I struggled to get out of his grip, but he tightened it. I heard one of my bones start to crack and cried out in pain. "Kalona, let me go! You're hurting me!" The bone rushing mixed with the sliver cutting me made matters worse.

"You tried to leave me for him."

"No! I didn't try to leave, you!"

"Stop lying to me!" his voice boomed in anger. The pain got worse and I was getting really weak.

"I'm not lying! Kalona, stop it!"

"ANGEL!" he screamed as he seized my other wrist just as tight and more tendrils led up my arm as his darkness still swirled around him. they were moving on the ground towards my feet and began cutting and searing my legs, too. Hot tears started falling down my face at the pain.

"Kalona, please stop it! What are you doing? What's happening?" He ignored me and I saw drops of my blood hit the floor, staining it. I tried to scream, but his grip had tightened more and the pain cut off my scream. More blood flowed from me and pooled around us on the floor. I was going to die. He's going to kill me. He's gone crazy and now he's going to kill me. He even looked crazy. He was smiling. I crumbled against him, not having the strength to hold myself up anymore. "Kalona, please…stop. You're…killing…me," I barely whispered, not even having the energy to speak anymore.

"Tell me you love me! Tell me you'll never leave me!" What the hell is going on? Is this who he really is? I didn't speak. I couldn't even move. Then he wasn't holding me anymore and I crashed to the floor. I looked up and saw Blu growling at him, stepping close slowly. Then I blacked out.

Alrighty then. R&R, por favor. xoxo *Starr*