Scud's P.O.V

When I got out of my shocked state, the door opened and I jumped a little. When I saw it was Whistler, I let out a breath, but it caught in my throat. Lying in his arms lies an unconscious Chelsea. "Oh god." He passed her to me, and I held onto her as if my life depended on it. Day light came a little while later and we were waiting for Blade.

I wouldn't let go of my best friend. I couldn't, even if I tried. I love her, I proved that when I kissed her earlier. She's right; I have to tell them about us being familiar's, we didn't have a choice. We needed the medicine, she was close to dying. We lie to them, telling them we knew nothing. I kissed her forehead, "Come on, baby wake up."

"C'mon, dick wad, let's go see how everyone else is holding up." Whistler suggested, I shook my head, "No, I want to be here when she wakes up." Whistler went in the back and came back to have a napkin from my doughnut box, and wiped her nose, that was covered in blood. "She's going to be out for a while, Scud. Probably a couple of days. Did she pass out before? Like while using her power that much?" I shook my head, "Then it's probably gonna be about two to three days." I nodded, and put her in the back. I kissed her forehead, and left with Whistler to go into the building.

I was beyond pissed, when we got to Blade and the Blood Pack, "We're in trouble." Correction, you are. "This motherfucker left his post. He just disappeared." He looked over at me and shook his head, "Where were you? And where's Chelsea?" I looked down and kick the floor, "She got out of the van, she used most of her energy, then passed out. She's in the van." I explained, while Whistler was looking at Blade saying, "Ran into a little Reaper action myself." Chupa walked up to him and glared at him "Oh yeah? How little? We lost a man. Priest. You want me to carve his name on your chest?" Whistler just looked at Chupa, and nodded his head in the direction we came from, "Let me show you."

We were down in the sewers. A reaper was stuck on the ground, with a rock on his arm. He looked pretty weak, "Saw him moving in the alley and followed it down. Found it just like this. I think they came through here. It was trying to crawl back in the culvert. Caught his arm. Been gnawing at it like a coyote." The reaper turned it's head and hissed at us, with it's chin open. "Little Boy Blue." Reinhardt said while pointing the UV light at it. Nyssa held up two fingers, stopping him from his actions. "He's already dying. I need to examine it as quickly as possible." She said, Blade looked at her then back at us. "Okay look for a lever. Let's open it." I licked my lips, a nervous habit of mine.

We were able to open the hole up, (A/N: Not in that way you sick fucks.) and Blade went down. While we were waiting, I thought about Chelsea. Hoping she was okay, I've known her since I was eight, and I started feeling something around her when I was twenty five. I couldn't help but smile. My lips on hers felt amazing. I was on cloud 9. When she wakes up I'm not letting her out of my sight. Before she does, I'm going to tell Blade that we're familiars. I'm going to do it. Tonight.

Nyssa was doing an autopsy on the dead reaper. Everyone gathered around, except Chelsea. Nyssa grabbed a flashlight, putting it by it's face, "Open the mouth, Scud." I made a disgusted face, 'I wish Chelsea was awake, she would do it no problem.' Nyssa told me again, but with more authority. I looked at Blade with pleading eyes, "B, come on." Blade just looked at me, "Sissy." I huffed, and opened it with much hesitation. Nyssa had a pair of tweezers, and put them by the tongue, "Only the tongue carries the virus. It is injected through these barbs. It has bifurcated masseter muscles. Overdeveloped allowing a much stronger bite. The jaw structure remains the same. But there's no mandible bone. Squeeze that tooth, Scud." God dammit! I grabbed the tooth and cringed. This fucking sucked. I squeezed the tooth and some, goo landed on Nyssa's finger. She smelled it and pulled her finger back, "Neurotoxin. Probably paralyzes their victim while they feed." She then started to cut the sucker open. "Garlic don't work. Silver, that don't work. We gotta go to the sunlight, though right?" Nyssa shook her head, "That's deadly to us, too. So let's see what else we can find." She cut the thing up even more, making a slurping noise. Chelsea would hate this.

Everyone else left. Except for Blade, Nyssa, Reinhardt, and I stayed. "These things are as different from us as we are from you." She said while ripping off a part of the chest. Reinhardt whistled, and Nyssa pointed to the heart, that's covered in bones, "Look at that. The heart is encased in bone. Only the side is vulnerable." I jumped up not expecting a new voice, "Why can't we just stab or shoot the side?" Everyone looked at Chelsea with shocked expressions. I wanted to run over to her, but I know how she is with PDA.

Nyssa nodded, "We could. But it's arms are in the way." She was pushing some organs around, "Good luck getting a stake through that." Whistler said, not even taking his eyes off the creature. "Pull a leg off a spider, it keeps moving on its own, essentially trying to walk without a body attached to it." She took out a knife and sliced her finger, "What the fuck are you doing?" I asked her. "Hard-wired. Right?" the blood dripped into the stomach. And the body responded immediately. I jumped back a bit and gasped, Chelsea let out a little yelp, and latched her hand on my bicep. "What the fuck is that?" I asked while pointing to the thing. "Brain's dead. Body's still trying to feed. We got six hours before sunrise. Be ready by then." Blade then walked away, and I followed him. I'm going to tell him. Asad, Reinhardt followed. Dammit.

Chelsea's P.O.V

Blade left with everyone following except Nyssa and I. She looked at me. We're good friends. She knew we had no choice. She found me on the verge of death. "So, have you told him about, you know?" I shook my head. "No, Scud's going to do it. We feel guilty, Nyssa. He saved our lives. And telling your dad things, is how we repay him." She put a hand on my shoulder, "But you have told him nothing useful. Just saying he's in his room when he's here." I nodded my head. "I still feel like an ass." Nyssa side hugged me and left to join everyone else, I stayed looking at the reaper.

Five minutes later Blade and Josh comes downstairs. Blade stormed right up to me and grabbed me by my arm roughly, "Why didn't you tell me?" I looked at Blade with tears in my eyes, and looked down. Taking a deep breath, "If we said anything, he would kill us, and stop giving me medicine. Josh didn't want to risk anything. We haven't told him anything. Just that yo stay in your room while you're here." He let go of my arm and I rubbed it. "She was dying, B! We needed it. Hell, she still does sometimes." Josh told him. I had tears running down my face, "We don't want to be with them anymore. When you saved us, we just wanted out. Trust me when I say this, B: We feel guilty. We're on your side. You guys are gonna kick some reaper ass." He was breathing heavily and walked away. Josh walked over and hugged me, while I sobbed into his shoulder. All we can do is hope that he won't kick us out, and that he'll believe us.