CHAPTER 14

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Michelle looked terrified as she stepped up to Mark Spiegel's front door and prepared to knock on it. She hesitated for several minutes because she really didn't know what to say or do. She had to do this though. Mark was a suspect, and she had to see if he might say something to incriminate himself. Besides that, she had to learn more about being human if she wanted to actually live as one.

She decided to just go through with it. She knocked on the door and waited. She shook with nervousness as she waited for Mark to come to the door.

After what seemed to Michelle to be an eternity, Mark came to the door and let her in. She smiled nervously at him as he admitted, "I'm so glad that you came. I thought from the way that you acted that you might not show up."

"Whatever made you think that?" Michelle said as she almost tripped over the couch on her way through the living room.

"The way you keep acting incredibly nervous around me maybe?" Mark said with a grin.

"I'm sorry. I am nervous. I'll try and do better," Michelle apologized.

"Don't worry about it. Just calm down and try to enjoy the night. I don't bite," Mark told her with a small chuckle.

"I'll try. I have a confession to make. I've never actually been on a date before," Michelle admitted.

"I find that hard to believe," Mark said with a grin.

Michelle was attempting to sit down in a chair but somehow knocked over a lamp and smashed it into a million pieces on her way there.

"I'm so sorry! I hope that didn't cost a lot," Michelle said with a grimace.

"Maybe I do believe it now," Mark said to himself.

The rest of their time together went without incident, mostly because Michelle had finally managed to sit down, until Mark suggested that they go outside and eat on his patio. He cooked some hamburgers on a grill, and the two of them talked together for a while. Michelle found herself beginning to like the man and feel less nervous around him. Maybe this night wouldn't be so bad after all she thought to herself.

That was when she heard a noise coming from behind the fence surrounding the patio area. It was a ripping noise like someone was tearing something apart. Michelle soon realized that it was the fence being torn apart as a Daemon came charging through it and straight at the two of them!

Both of them ran inside the house to get away from it while Michelle quickly sent a text message to Donna and the others. Oddly enough, she had taken to cell phones and other Earth technology much quicker than she had to human social relationships. They were much less complex for her to figure out.

Donna's TARDIS arrived in less than a minute just outside of Mark's house. Donna and Ileana could hear the house being torn apart the second that they arrived. Victoria was being kept in a secure facility at UNIT headquarters for the night because she had changed into a werewolf as night fell. Michelle quickly opened the front door and let them in. They could see a Daemon chasing Mark down the hall as he screamed at the top of his lungs.

"It's just like something out of a cartoon," Donna commented wryly as they watched the Daemon chase Mark all around the house from room to room.

"This isn't funny. Do something," Michelle said sternly.

"Why didn't you do something?" Donna asked her curiously.

Michelle looked at her with a blank look for a minute, and then she hit herself in the head.

"I am such an idiot! I complete forgot about my powers!" Michelle said with a groan.

"How could you possibly forget about something like that?" Ileana asked her amused.

"I don't know. I just did," Michelle said embarrassed.

"I knew that you were incredibly nervous to be coming over here; but that is just ridiculous, Mirror Girl!" Donna said with a chuckle.

"I think that it's because for a while tonight I actually forgot who I was. I actually believed for a while that I was human. For a short time, I actually was just an ordinary girl named Michelle. I liked it. Being her," Michelle said in a faraway voice.

"See, I told you you'd like it. I'm so happy for you," Donna said with a big smile on her face.

"I'm sorry to interrupt your very important conversation, but can someone please help me?!" Mark yelled at the three of them as he went running past them with the Daemon fast behind him.

"Sorry!" Ileana yelled back at him.

They had been so wrapped up in their conversation that they had totally forgotten about him being in mortal danger. They immediately went after the Daemon as they attempted to keep Mark from becoming its first fatality.

Meanwhile, Martha was at UNIT HQ working late and secretly worrying about Victoria escaping while she was being held her. She was taken by surprise when a burst of golden light appeared out of nowhere a few feet away from her. At first, she was alarmed by the light's sudden appearance until she realized what was going on.

It was Rose of course. She was paying Martha a late night visit. She wasn't alone either. She had a woman and a child with her.

"Hello, Martha. I have two new recruits for your team. Well, one of them can help you anyway. Meet Katherine and her daughter, Amanda," Rose said with a wide grin.

Martha noticed that Katherine looked extremely pale, and her mind immediately flashed to Ileana as she had a sudden suspicion about her newest arrival.

"Rose, is Katherine a . . ." Martha started to ask before Rose quickly interrupted her.

"Vampire? Yep. Don't worry though. She's like Ileana. She doesn't attack people. She drinks animal blood. She's very nice, and I think she'll fit right in here. Her daughter, Amanda, is human by the way. She adopted her when her parents were killed," Rose explained.

"You're taking care of a human child?" Martha asked Katherine in amazement.

"Are you looking to cause trouble? She's good to me, and she's never once tried to hurt me except when she was temporarily turned evil by Dracula. That wasn't her fault," Amanda said in defiance as she defended her adoptive mother.

"It's a long story. I'm okay now though. That won't ever happen again I can assure you," Katherine said with a warm smile.

Martha nervously laughed.

Oh, great. We're going to have another vampire around. I've only just gotten used to Ileana she thought to herself.

"Can you find room for them on your team? Katherine could really help out, and Amanda is very smart for her age. They don't have anywhere else to go. Could you help them as a favor to me? Both of them already know Ileana. She'll vouch for them," Rose pleaded.

"Why not? You can never have enough vampires," Martha relented with a small smile.

Next: The new recruits will have to wait a little while longer to join the team as Donna, Ileana, and Michelle still have to solve the whole Daemon situation first. The three of them take on the Daemon in Mark's house, and they finally learn just who is the one summoning the Daemons to Earth and why.