(A/N): Hey Guys! So, I know I haven't updated this story in a while, so, Happy New Years!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine, Nicholai, Shari, Brooke, Mia and Jonothan.

Elaine

It had been a week since I had been attacked by Jonothan, and Leo, Shari and Mr Ellwood had been taking watches in turn to make sure that my family and I weren't left in danger.

The threat was almost certainly gone by now, but even without knowing what had happened, my brother, Jaygar, was still suspicious of one person in particular: Leo.

Even though Leo had actually been the one to save my life, I couldn't exactly tell Jay that, now could I?

Every time I mentioned Leo, or even one of our other friends, he gave me a dirty, distrusting look, that never failed to make me wince. Did he really believe that Leo could do something like...this? Well, I guess he could, but he wouldn't, no way in hell.

Unless I was in mortal danger and it was the only way out... I cringed, imagining, for a second, that it had been Leo who had cut open my throat with jagged fangs, suckling at the blood, leaving me with a stinging throb that rang through my whole body.

It had stayed with me for the first few days, but by now it was almost completely gone, only a slight headache in the place of the pain.

But...you know how, after you find something new out about a person that it dawns on you, suddenly and in snippets, why they did something or how they reacted to something?

Well, it dawned on me, just as I was about to take a shower, that Leo was outside my house right now, and not only could he have heard every single bad thing Jay had said about him over the past few days, he could probably see me, right now, using his blood sensor, and that made my cheeks flush.

"What's the matter?" A voice asked, and I jumped slightly, my eyes fluttering closed for a second as fear jolted through my veins before I recognised the voice.

"Nothing Leo, it's nothing." I whispered, drawing my bathrobe closer to myself before turning to face him as he leaned through the bathroom window, blue, blue eyes fully focused on my face.

"Are you sure?" He asked hesitantly, observing the blush still staining my cheeks, and I bit my lip as I nodded quickly.

"Yes, now get out, I need to shower!" I hissed quietly, and he chuckled before disappearing from the open window, which I raced to pull closed, scanning the ground outside for him, only to find nothing.

I moved away from the window, pushing off my robe, leaving me in only my undergarments before turning the shower on hot.

After holding my hand under the water for a few minutes, I shed my remaining clothes and moved into the path of the jet.

The hot water coursed down my back, and I squeezed some shampoo into my hand, moving to place it in my hair before I was shocked into dropping it as I heard the dull thud of something heavy hitting the bathroom window.

As my head snapped up, my eyes widened at the sight of something pressed up against the window, which, by the colour, appeared to be the back of Leo's shirt, held fast by something, or someone.

I didn't turn off the shower, not wanting to alert them that I knew, even though they most likely already did, and quickly reached for my bath robe, pulling it on and tying it quickly before moving slowly, cautiously over to the window, trying to hear what was being said.

I paused, about a foot away and off to the side, my view blocked by Leo's back, pressed firm as it was against the glass.

Then for a split second, a sliver of light shone through, before it disappeared again, and the window shattered with the force of Leo being shoved, rather roughly, through it.

"Leo!" I exclaimed quietly, worried but not quite wanting my brother, or mother to know that he was here, even though I could already hear them pushing their chairs back in the kitchen, probably on their way up here.

"Ugh..." He groaned, and I noticed the red staining his shirt, a stain growing bigger as I also saw the large shard of glass sticking out from his side.

"Leo..." I whispered, and his eyes found mine before he pushed himself to his feet.

"I'll be fine." He groaned, before staggering over to the window and jumping out once again.

"Elaine! Izzy! Izzy!" I recognised my brother's voice, filled with terror as he banged a fist on the bathroom door, the knob jiggling as he obviously tried to wrench it open at the same time.

"I-" My voice shook, and I fought to control myself even as my body did the same. "I'm fine!" There was a moment of silence filled with, I could tell, disbelief. "I threw something and hit the window by mistake!" It was a bad lie, I knew it, considering there was blood, Leo's blood, splattering the tiled floor, and I felt sick to my stomach that he had gotten hurt because of me. With quick thinking, I grabbed my bath towel and mopped up the blood as best I could, before throwing it into the still running shower, where tendrils of muddy red flowed down the drain.

"Izzy..." Jay murmured through the door, and I winced.

"I'm fine Jay, don't worry." He was going to worry either way, I knew that, just like how I was going to worry about Leo now that I had seen him with a great big shard of glass sticking out of his side.

He could die, and yet he had still gotten up, still went to defend me and my family, and Jay had the nerve to accuse him of trying to hurt me? It was just so...it was all so wrong!

(A/N): What did you think?