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**Amelie**

I insist, against the protests of my guards that I ride with the prisoners to the jail while Oliver straightened up the house. I could not risk either of them escaping. The trip begins as expected, with Jason skulking in the back while Shane throws what he believes to be witty insults at us. As we are crossing a deserted street, filled with warehouses, it happens.

A nondescript black car pulls out directly in front of, parking lengthwise across the street. My driver swears and attempts to break and swerve simultaneously, but I see that the collision is inevitable and I brace myself. In the rearview mirror, I can see Shane and Jason" grins.

We hit with brutal force, the front of our vehicle colliding with the side of theirs. Glass flies and shots are fired. A bullet hits my shoulder with a stinging pain but I hardly flinch as I rip it out of my torn flesh. Stupid humans, they weren't even using silver.

I kick my door off its hinges as it refuses to open to see, as I had thought, four humans firing guns at our car. Apparently, the riot was not yet over.

"Stay with the prisoners!" I shout at the driver. I could easily dispatch of them all. One begins firing directly at me, but I dodge all of his pathetic bullets. I see and smell the fear in him as I continue walking forward, unharmed. I casually knock the gun out of his hands and it clatters to the ground, harmless. He gives a weak attempt at protecting himself before I grab his head and swiftly twist till I hear a satisfying crack and he drops to the ground, eyes wide and unseeing.

Two of them manage to open the back door and I see them roughly rip Shane and Jason out of the car as I shoot another man with his own weapon.

They kneel over Shane, wielding silver stakes, but they are too distracted to remember me. They've already impaled the driver, with one silver stake through his neck and another through his chest. I briefly consider allowing them to end Shane before I ended them, it would certainly solve a very large problem, but it would also create many new ones.

Just as one, a burly man that probably was an accountant to most of the town, is about to plunge the stake in, I kick out, hitting his head and making it twist at an unnatural angle, before he drops, dead. I quickly snap the neck of his remaining companion before ripping the two stakes out of my fallen guard.

"Wow Amelie, I didn't know you cared." Shane says through teeth stained with blood from his assailant's abuse, as I shove him back into the car.

"I don't. I do not wish to have the wrath of Claire and the rest of your former friends if I let you be killed or do it myself." The cocky grin drops an instant and I see true remorse and pain in his face, but the façade is quickly built again.

"She should forget about me."

"I agree, but she seems to believe that there is still good in you."

"Never gives up does she." Shane says ruefully.

"No, she most certainly does not." I say, slamming the door shut. I look around for Jason.

"Looks like you didn't win after all, huh Ice Queen?" Shane says with a smirk.

I swear under my breath and retrieve the two stakes from where the guard still lays motionless. Ignoring the burn of the silver, I race off into the maze of warehouses. Jason's time was up.

I find him in the second one I search, cowering in a back room, a trail of blood making him easy to find. His eyes widen with fear and he begins to tremble.

"Please, I promise I'll stop. I—I'll become an upstanding citizen."

"You are the most pathetic and useless creature that ever lived," I say letting some of my power loose and I see him wince with the force of it.

"You think that I will give you another chance? You believe that after all of your betrayals that I would even consider sparing your life?" I roar, and he covers his ears from the intensity. "You think that you can get away with changing sides whenever you choose? No, your time is up."

"P-please!" He begs. "I'm too young to die! I've made mistakes but I've learned!"

"Don't they always say that? No Jason Rosser, death has come knocking. Pray to your God and ask for forgiveness if he could spare any for you. Do you have any last words?"

"Can you—can you tell Eve that I'm sorry? For all of it. And that I know it's not her fault I got so screwed up, it's completely mine and I don't blame her. Tell her that I love and that my mother can burn in hell with me."

"I will." I say sincerely. I almost pitied this miserable creature. He had been abused, by his parents, my people and this town. Maybe if he had lived any where else, he could have been a good person. I step closer towards him and he closes his eyes, I see him mouthing a prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep", most likely it's the only one he knows.

I reach out and snap his neck, just as the "Amen," passes his lips. It won't kill him, but he will be unconscious and unaware of the pain of a stake plunging into his chest.

I carry the body back to the car and put him and my guard into it. This town has known far too many deaths. This needed to end.