Spirit Wolf Megan - well, since you asked so nicely…here is another chapter just for you. I even made it the longest yet...

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"If Marsilia is making threats then you should take them more seriously Mercedes," Wulfe said stepping out from his hiding place. He looked down the street as if watching for someone before shrugging it off as unimportant.

"Whatever this is about I really don't care Wulfe," Mercy said as she felt Jesse step behind her.

"Knowledge," Wulfe replied calmly as he circled the pair. When he saw the confused expressions on their faces he had to laugh. "You know too much now, I have to do something about it. If it makes you feel any better then I'll tell you that I don't intend to harm you unless of course you do something stupid like… trying to escape." His eyes were glowing a bright red like Christmas lights and Wulfe knew the effect must be disconcerting.

Mercy pushed Jesse back a bit further and mirrored the Wizard's movements. She smiled as Wulfe stopped directly in front of her, being very careful not to look at the figure behind him that had briefly shown itself. "I won't have to try and escape because you'll never get me in the first place."

Wulfe whirled around as he noticed the human girl looking at something over his shoulder. He had dismissed them out of hand as not being a threat. Stupid, the human was of course no threat to a vampire but he should have remembered how dangerous a walker could be when cornered. He'd killed enough of them that he should have known better.

Mercy stepped forward, having seen the blatantly obvious opening but a look from Stefan stopped her. How he had known where they were much less that they had been in trouble she didn't know and probably wouldn't like the answer.

"Leave them alone Wulfe," Stefan said wearily. "You know I cannot let you harm them…either of them," he added.

"I will not stop, Soldier, they have a dangerous amount of knowledge," Wulfe replied calmly. He knew Stefan wouldn't move against him for what he had done so far.

"Then I will have to make sure that you cannot find the opportunity to harm them," was Stefan's cold reply. They just stood there facing each other. Wulfe looking like a kid who'd got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. "Just leave Wulfe, you owe me that much at least," Stefan said, braking the silence first.

Jesse had come out from behind her friend and was staring openly at the two vampires having their polite argument. The only vampire she had ever seen had been Stefan, but that was just after he'd been dumped in Mercy's place looking more than half dead and brought over to Adam's house. He had been in one of the pack's cages then and had looked almost harmless. He didn't look that way anymore.

Stefan glanced over Wulfe's shoulder to look at the girls. Mercy was glaring and looked like she wanted to kick somebody and he didn't have to stretch his imagination to know who she wanted to kick. Mercy would not be please with the answers to the questions he knew she would ask. After all, Mercy was a very dependant woman and likely would react badly to the knowledge that he had been stalking her ever since they'd parted ways at the garage…even if it was with her best interests in mind.

The other girl, the Alpha's daughter if he recalled correctly looked torn between curiosity, wonder and a strong desire to either back him up or run. He couldn't tell which emotion was winning and found himself amused by the human's confused emotions. Obviously the girl was not used to being threatened or helpless.

Wulfe sighed dramatically, "I suppose I have no choice to retreat now. Although I will eventually succeed in catching them, without you around to play at being a hero." The wizard turned his back to the group and deliberately walked at a human's pace away from them. "After all, I am outnumbered for the moment."

Stefan watched him leave and wondered what kind of trouble was likely to be stirred up in the next few nights. He returned his attention to the girls once Wulfe was out of sight. "We need to talk Mercy, and since I don't think your friend should be alone tonight with the Wizard prowling around then she should come with us too."

Mercy glared at him but realized that now was not the time or place to demand answers.

Jesse was surprised that she had been included instead of being shipped back to her father's house to be 'protected'. That alone was enough to cheer her up and she hoped this would be as interesting a night as the beginning had been.

Rayvn curled herself into her car seat to read and re-read the note. It wasn't much, just an address, a few simple directions, and a phone number. So it didn't take long to read at all, so why was she so nervous? It was completely unlike her, hell, she'd even been described as being reckless or insane. But as soon as her friends realized she wasn't human they would start to avoid her so she hadn't had anyone in a long time that could be trusted.

She picked up her disposable phone and studied it, wasn't this exactly as she wanted? She had come to Tri-cities so that she could learn more about what she was from the only other walker she'd ever heard of before. So why was she even debating whether or not to go to this meeting if it was what she had wanted? Where did her leap-first-look-later attitude go?