"Hello?" Leo's voice came through over the phone.

"Where are you?" Dakota asked. "Everyone has been searching for you all day."

"Dakota?"

"No, it's the Easter bunny, who do you think?" he snapped and heard a weak laugh that turned into a cough. "Are you okay?"

"I'm okay…"

"Miss Taylor, we told you no phones. You are not well."

"Will you shut up?" Dakota heard Leo snap before she started coughing again. "Dakota will you tell everybody that I took a small trip out of state?"

"What's wrong?"

"I got in an accident last night…"

"What clinic?"

"Dakota…"

"What clinic?" Dakota snapped.

"Dr. Benson's, what are you doing?"

"I'm coming to you." Then he hung up and ran to his car and drove over to the clinic as fast as he could without being caught.

"May I help you?" a female nurse smiled coming into view.

"I need to see Leo Taylor," he spoke urgently.

"I'm sorry sir…"

"She needs me!"

"Sir, you are not family…"

"What's your name son?" a man came into view.

"Dakota Nelson," I spoke calming down some.

"She's just started asking for you. I'll take you to her, just be careful. She's very fragile right now. She has a huge cut along her thigh and abdomen," the man spoke as they walked down the hall and he pointed to a room before walking back to the main room.

Dakota took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

"Come in," Leo's voice reached him and he opened the door and came in. "Dakota…? You weren't kidding that you were coming." She smiled and he came and sat next to her.

"Why does no one know you were here?"

"Jack knows and I told him to keep quiet. I don't need the world freaking out over me just because I was attacked. Those guys came back," she whispered. "They made several cars run into me. Why did they come back?"

"I don't know," Dakota whispered back. "I wish I did. I will need to call my father and tell him that you know about our secret and that attack on Friday. If they came twice already then I know that they will come back again. They seem keen on getting you injured, what do they want?"

"They were saying something about how I was the key to find something," she whispered before coughing, "but why would they be trying to kill me?"

"I don't know but I do know that you cannot go anywhere alone with them out there," Dakota spoke then fell silent as there was a knock on the door and a male nurse came in. He smelled fresh blood on him and the hairs on his neck stood up.

"Oh my, I didn't know you had a visitor Miss Taylor. I'm sorry sir but you need to leave so I can change her bandages," the man spoke calmly.

"Dr. Benson just changed them right before he came in minutes ago," Leo frowned, "and he is not going anywhere."

"Oh my," he frowned looking at a clipboard in his hands. "I fear that I picked up the clipboard from earlier this morning. Forgive me." Then he left.

"They know I'm here," she whimpered.

"I'm calling my father," Dakota spoke and pulled out his phone, dialing the number.

"Hello Dakota, why are you calling me during school?"

"We have a dilemma," Dakota spoke. "Vampires are after Leo. She has had two encounters with them, one the night we took her out to dinner and just last night after I told her what we are. They think she is the key to find something, but we don't know what it is."

"Are you with her right now?"

"Yes."

"Let me talk to her."

Dakota handed her the phone and she frowned as she looked at him before taking it.

"Hello?" With Dakota's hearing, he could hear everything.

"Leo, you must listen closely to me. You must stay with one of our family at all times. Most times vampires only try getting to someone once then give up if it fails. These ones are different. Now I know you are an amazing artist and I hope you could draw these vampires that are after you. Can you do that?"

"Yes sir," Leo kept her eyes on Dakota.

"Now I will talk to Jack and convince him to either have one of the boys stay at your house or you come to ours once you recover enough. Jack told me about your accident, be careful Leo."

"Yes sir, I will and stay close to one of you mutts at all times," she whispered and her eyes looked away from Dakota and he frowned.

"Good girl, I'll talk to you two soon." Then the line went dead.

Leo handed him the phone back and closed her eyes.

"Leo we need to talk," Dakota whispered and I locked my emotions before opening my eyes to look at him. "I am sorry for what I said Saturday in the orchards. I guess my icicle act went a little too far. I lied to Dylan just so I could keep an eye on you. When you repeated last night what I had told you then, I felt your words cut into me. Last night, I couldn't sleep at all and when no one had seen you today, I started to freak out."

I blinked in surprise and wanted to smile at how fast he had caught on then looked away from him. "You know now what I felt. I still don't know why I acted that way when you said them."

"Do you feel something for me Leo?" he asked, standing up and made me look at him. "I didn't realize it 'til recently that I care for you a lot and that is why my beast has acted up so many times. I've become very protective of you."

I felt my eyes widen in surprise and I smiled. He slid his hand to cup my cheek and kissed my brow gently. I placed my hand on top of his and closed my eyes, silently revering in the feel of his touch. I heard a knock on the door and Dakota moved his hand to wrap it through my fingers and lowered our intertwined hands to the bed by my waist.

"Leo, a Lieutenant Andrew Nelson called saying he was moving you to his personal clinic, do you know who that is?" Dr. Benson came in confused.

"That is my father," Dakota spoke and he nodded.

"There are five men here to move you to an ambulance that is waiting since your condition does not allow you to get out of bed." I nodded and the men came in, all of them wearing black scrubs.

They nodded to Dakota then shifted me onto a stretcher and moved me to a mobile ambulance bed. Two of the men, disconnected the wires and put some different wires on my chest for their EKG machine while another grabbed the IV bag and laid it on my stomach. Dakota stayed by my head as the men wheeled the bed out to the ambulance and loaded me in. Dakota sat next to me and held my hand again.

"We'll explain things once we get to your house Dakota," a female came into view and sat on my other side as the doors closed and we were off. "We sensed several of them at this clinic and wanted to move her as soon as possible."

"Understandable," Dakota replied as he squeezed my hand.

"Miss Taylor, we're sorry for all the confusion. Master Nelson is working overtime to try and figure out why they keep attacking you, but so far there are no answers. Your father is the only one who knows where you'll be, everyone else has been told that you went on vacation and your phone has no service."

"Alright," I whispered.

The woman hung my IV bag up and proceeded to check my wounds, taking care to so only the necessary amount of skin. Then soon, I felt the ambulance slow down and it went dark. Dakota squeezed my hand when the machine started to beep faster with my heart.

"We are just talking a few tunnels that lead to the house. The entrances are heavily guarded and also camouflaged very well," the woman spoke. "The only contact that you will have is with the immediate family. They will get contact to your father when needed. Your phone has been returned to your father as well as all possessions that you had with you that were not damaged. We'll have clothes at the house for you."

"Thank you," I smiled as the ambulance stopped and the doors opened.

They moved me to a room in what I assumed was a few levels below ground and was full equipped with medical equipment and medicine. I was moved to a large bed and shifted off the stretcher. I shifted onto a few pillows and sighed as the woman hung my IV bag above my head. Dakota sat next to me as the woman pulled off the bandage on my abdomen, making me hiss in pain. She didn't even look at me as she cleaned it and put some ointment on the stitched wound then bandaged it and moved the blankets to do the same thing to my leg then she left.