Nightmare looked up from his paperwork he had been staring at for the past few minutes until Gray sighed, "Lord Nightmare, please finish your paperwork."
The incubus pouted and stared at his assistant, "But shouldn't Kara be back by now? What's taking her so long?"
Gray shook his head, "Maybe she lost track of time with Rin."
The silver haired man began to whine until he felt a chill hit him. His eye narrowed and pointed to the exit, "Go check the front of the tower." Gray went to say something but the look he got made him decide it was better to follow orders. When he was alone, Nightmare rested his head on the desk and closed his eye.
Kara looked around the black landscape and sighed. She had been there ever since she was knocked out and was trying to think of a plan for when she woke up. At first, she was scared until a calm feeling hit her and she sat down, falling on her back and watching the dark grey swirls like she was cloud watching.
"Kara!"
She sat up only to be tackled into a hug. She pushed the object away until she noticed it was Nightmare and smiled in relief, "Thank god it's you Nightmare. I've been here for a while and was getting bored."
He sat across from her with a worried expression, "What happened?"
"We had finished shopping and I was almost back when someone covered my mouth and pulled me back to where another guy was, then I got knocked out," she huffed and felt the back of her head for any lumps. "I couldn't see their faces or anything like that but I heard them talking about some old warehouse or something like that."
Nightmare paled then sent a comforting smile, "How about I change the scenery? What would you like?" She thought for a minute then blinked as everything shifted into a large grassy meadow. They were under a weeping willow that was next to a clear pond. Flowers danced in the field from the warm spring breeze and lazy fluffy white clouds floated through the clear blue sky. Kara looked around with a happy smile, then took her shoes off and dipped her feet in the cool water. Nightmare chuckled at her then stood up, "I think I know where that warehouse is. We'll get you."
She went to say something but the area shuddered and looked up at Nightmare worried, "What's going on?"
He blanched, "You're waking up. Whatever you do, don't close you mind off. We're coming."
Kara gasped as she was struck on the face by a firm hand. She looked around but couldn't see much as she locked eyes with the one that had hit her. He was bulky and seemed to tower over her form that was strapped down to a chair until a hanging light. The faceless squatted down to look her in the eyes, "What do you think those role holders in the Clock Tower will give for you to be returned?" He grinned and stood back up as he walked around, "Think they'd give up their positions?"
She heard another off to the side laugh as she stiffened and glared, "Don't be stupid." Her head snapped to the side from the blow then spit out the blood that had gathered from her busted lip, "They're not going to give you anything other than kicking your ass."
She heard footsteps coming closer and turned her head in time to see the other man walk into the light with a syringe filled with something clear. Her eyes widened and tried to get free when she was suddenly held still and the stinging bite of the needle in her arm. Her eyesight began to swim as she fought to keep focused but all she could hear were chuckles. She looked around the room and whimpered. Nightmare, where are you?
The sight that greeted Nightmare and Gray made their blood run cold. Kara's arms were tied up behind her back while her legs were being held down by one of the faceless. She gritted her teeth as the other faceless began to run his nasty hands up her shirt. Nightmare sent Gray a hard look as they heard one of the men speak, "See? We told you no one would come for you girl. Now," he grinned, "we're gonna have some fun with you for all the trouble you've caused us."
Kara chuckled dangerously low as she spat some blood from her mouth, "Don't underestimate them." Her eyes snapped open and glared fiercely at him, "Nightmare will come!"
She curled up into herself from the forceful kick to her stomach. Gray looked at Nightmare in shock. The faceless growled, "Ya know, you've been saying that for the past hour straight." He knelt down and lifted her head up by her chin and grinned, "Maybe we should shut you up permanently."
She chuckled again then kicked her foot up and nailed the other faceless between the legs as she head butted the one in front of her, "Nightmare!"
"Why you!" the faceless growled only to notice his counterpart grunt and see the dagger stuck out of his chest. He turned back to his prey only to see she wasn't there.
He whirled around as a sound behind him caught his attention to see the silver haired incubus holding Kara possessively while Gray glared with his daggers help up, a gleam in his topaz eyes, "Take Kara home. I'll be there shortly Master Nightmare."
Said man nodded and left the building, still having a death grip on Kara afraid she'd disappear. She huddled closer for warmth and sighed finally relaxing as her eyes briefly locked onto his eye before the blue was covered by soft long lashes, "I knew you guys would show up."
He smiled as he kept walking, pulling her up closer, "You can rest now. No one's going to hurt you Kara." She nodded with a smile and slowly drifted off with a sigh.