I was out in Chicago, it was a nice summer evening, leaning against a big oak tree in the backyard, wondering if I should get out my Mimosa and go for a little jog in the woods. Bran had gone back to Montana the day before and Adam was having another crisis with his business. Samuel was back on my blood tests, trying to determine if I was going to get heat at some point. I had heard Bran and Samuel discussing my heat and Bran left precisely because there was no indication that it was even close. The whole idea felt strange and distant. Damon, well he was always going somewhere I don't know where, but I heard he would be gone for a couple of days again.

Samuel and Adam had been my caregivers, nurses, even. Although both were exquisitely handsome and Adam even perfect I hadn't thought of either of them even that way except at the party for a couple of kisses but after that, Adam had been cool, distant, I knew Damon was mad about the kissing. But the truth was that I was the one who started it. I stopped myself from thinking about anyone in that way, not Adam or Samuel or even Bran. But Salvatore. The lust and Salvatore someone in that thought scared me so much because I knew it was going to change my world completely. Although Samuel said my low weight at the moment at a whopping 41 kilos kept the heat at bay. Only when I was rehabilitated would the heat come into play? who it would be with was still an open question, though Damon had spoken to me in a low seductive voice and let his fingers caress me in a very arousing way. I usually had been running away from these situations and keeping my legs tightly together. And we had kissed and I had relieved him once in the shower. I started to walk along the edge of the woods when all of a sudden some force pressed me against the trunk of a tree. I couldn't move. Out of the shadows stepped a teenage boy, well this creature whatever it was looked like a teenage boy but was not human.

The boy moved his hand slightly and another man stepped out of the shadows. He was wearing a suit and he walked towards me. Then the man took a syringe with a needle from his breast pocket and pressed the plunger until a drop of liquid came out then the man plunged the syringe directly into my heart, and pressed the plunger to the bottom. Reality became blurred I didn't know who I was or where I was. The boy came closer and whispered. " Run, and forget, with every step you forget who you are, what you are, when you've run so long you forget everything then you can only stop. Run and forget." I turned around and started walking, then jogging, and finally running.

Adam watched from the window as Mimi wandered outside. He knew that work matters sometimes took his attention completely but for some reason, the hairs on the back of Adam's neck stood up, he silently opened the large glass doors and walked to the edge of the woods. He saw and heard everything, he immediately informed Samuel and pounced on Mimi. He caught up with her easily. Samuel took some velvet concentrate in a syringe. He knew this would be most effective in keeping Mimi asleep. Mimi was supposed to be resistant to magic, but the creature had been a wizard vampire. Samuel quickly ran to Adam who held the struggling Mimi tightly in his grasp. He plunged the syringe directly into her heart.

I ran as fast as I could and suddenly something big and strong caught me. I tried to struggle, but it was no use. Then another figure came, hurt me a little, and then I fell asleep. When I woke up I was tied to the bed. I had to run and forget. Men kept coming to look at me and then my chest always hurt and I fell asleep.

At Medbay Samuel took many blood tests and found a foreign compound in Mimi's blood. It was vervain-based, so vampires would be of no use here. Samuel said, " We just have to wait for the substance to clear from her system, until then I recommend keeping her pretty much asleep." Adam nodded. He hated it when anything happened to Mimi. Whenever the cleaners poisoned or someone really in their own yard would now attack her. It was a week before the substance was out of Mimi's system.

Samuel asked when Adam muttered about cleaners. "What's your problem with cleaners? Didn't we have cleaners in the beginning, where did they go?" Adam said. " Back in the early days when Mimi was downstairs asleep a lot of the time. The cleaner came and put a mask over Mimi's face and opened a container of pure silver powder. Mimi had been put to sleep so she couldn't be careful, and woke up with a bad case of silver poisoning. There wasn't that much and Dresden got it all out, but that's why I kept Mimi asleep when you wondered. I didn't bother to bother you. I killed that maid, surprised her in the act itself." Adam explained. Samuel watched for a moment and said " Oh, I get it now, Adam your headlights are on, try to calm down." Adam took a deep breath and calmed down. No one would benefit from agitating, least of all Mimi.

I woke up tied up. "I'm in the medbay downstairs," I observed, trying to remember what had happened, but my memories were hazy at best. Samuel came into the room. I said, "What's going on, why am I downstairs and tied up?" Samuel asked, back " Do you want to run and forget?" I didn't understand and I furrowed my brow. Samuel said, "I think you're all right now." Samuel untied me and explained what had happened. " That young boy is a vampire wizard named Wulfe, Nicholas and Elias weren't sure whose side Wulfe was on in the As, but at least for now, he seems to be working for a pharmaceutical company. He's one to watch out for."

Damon was on the other side of the bed looking at me with genuine concern, not the way he's been looking at me, like a doctor, but Damon was looking at me like he already had very real feelings for me. It was scary and wonderful at the same time. Let's just say that after this episode I was under very close surveillance again for a while. I didn't go anywhere by myself. not even out. Damon said to me after it had been a few weeks " Baby, you know what, I don't want you to ever run away from me. You're gonna be my wife someday. Believe that baby." After this statement I was completely silent and couldn't get a word out of my mouth as Damon walked away. Oh, a wife..

We were in iowa, Adam, Damon, Bran, and Samuel had an alpha meeting later and I would go to the house by myself after the opera. Adam assured me they would come later, but they would. The opera was as operas go, theatrical, impressive, and boring. I prefer a good musical but the opera was the spice of the evening, with all the alphas and their spouses gathering once a year to see Carmen, and then the alphas discussing pack matters and the women talking amongst themselves. Damon, Adam, and Bran thought it wise not to go with the women but to take a taxi and head back to the house to wait. So after the opera ended I called myself a taxi and jumped in, gave the address and thought my own thoughts the whole way. For some reason, I was exhausted by the time we got to the house. I paid for the taxi and went inside. I set the security system and rushed upstairs. I managed to change out of my dress and put on one of my nightgowns, collapsing wearily into bed.

Wulfe waited patiently. His mask had worked brilliantly and this subject hadn't noticed anything. The fatigue spell plus the gas that wulfe had been pushing into the back seat all the way would ensure that the treat would be ready to eat. ever since wulfe had gotten out of the drug company's control, he had been on the hunt. And this was going to be so tasty. He would enjoy drinking this one down when he finally finished it. wulfe watched as the lights came on upstairs and he could see from the silhouette the victim changing his clothes. Then the lights went out. Now it was time to strike.

I had just fallen asleep when I awoke to the feeling that there was something else in the room. I opened my eyes to find a teenage vampire wizard sitting on the edge of my bed. " Don't fight back, or even try to scream, you can't" He said in an icy voice. Then he raised my wrist to his lips and bit. I felt it. He drank greedily. "Mm mm mmmm," he said, " Oh, so tasty." He lowered my hand and placed a container under my wrist, into which my blood dripped. He did the same to my other wrist. Then he laid down beside me, He brushed my neck and with lightning speed, he sank his teeth into my carotid artery and began to drink. He drank for a minute, licking until the wounds closed. Every now and then he would take my wrist and sip or pour from a vessel into a crystal glass and drink my blood from it. Then again he might make a sudden attack on my neck. I wondered when Damon, Adam, and Bran would come back. He got up from the bed and made a gesture, my legs lifted vertically upwards. He looked at me "I want to drink every drop of your blood, every drop." I was stiff with horror. I couldn't get out from under the spell I was somewhat tired and after an hour I could feel my heart working hard.

Wulfe announced in his chilling voice how much blood I had left in me. "I'd say a liter, no, wait a minute," He took my wrist in his hand again and ate voraciously. The blood wasn't coming so frantically anymore. "I'll correct about 8 deciliters." he looked at me coldly. "I know you can't die. " Then he again sank his teeth into my neck which was already very mangled. It seemed that the more he drank my blood, the more rabidly hungry he became. " Half a liter or less " he murmured in my ear. The front door opened. He sank his teeth again, now on the other side of my neck, and drank, I felt my heart slow down and slow down. Finally, he left, opened the window, and jumped down. Adam came up. "Are you awake yet, Mimi?" he called. I managed to drop the glass from the bedside table and Adam stormed into the room. " Oh my god what has happened to you! Samuel come up here and quick."

Adam screamed in distress. Mimi was white as a sheet, and Adam could barely hear a heartbeat. Mimi's neck and wrists were torn open and there was blood on the bedding. From the bedside table, Mimi had dropped a crystal glass, which was bloody. I whispered " Wulfe, Wulfe did this. "Damon rushed to my side "Baby, Baby hold on." Samuel rushed into the room, and with one look he saw what had happened. Damon looked at Samuel with a wild look on his face. Samuel sighed and he said calmly. "Adam take Mimi in your arms and bring her downstairs to the medbay, we need to do an emergency blood transfusion. Just wrap her in a sheet and come on. Damon go after wulfe, you're not much use right now." Damon obeyed and rushed downstairs and out the door. Samuel trotted down the stairs two at a time and headed for the medbay.

He grabbed some blood from the fridge and set it to warm, a transfusion hose and an IV pump, and fluids. Samuel only had three bags of Mimi's blood on hand, it would help get her through the worst of it and then once hydrated Mimi should recover. Adam brought a limp wrap and placed Mimi on the operating table. In the bright light, Mimi looked even paler, if that was still possible. Samuel put the first bag into the infusion pump and blood transfusion tube then he let the blood drain until it filled the whole tube. He took a large cannula and looked for a vein in Mimi. He managed to hit the clavicular vein and got the central venous cannula in place. He hooked the transfusion tube to the cannula and let the blood start flowing. He went to the other side and from there cannulated from Mimi's elbow where he attached fluids to come in. He let them flow quite fully. He covered Mimi warmly and sat down in a chair to watch. Mimi moved. Adam stroked her hair and soothed her. Samuel cursed himself for not having gotten the blood on Damon. It would probably be best for Mimi.

I felt Adam scoop me out of bed and take me downstairs. I kept my eyes closed because the light was blinding me so badly. I felt Samuel poking my veins and I felt the warm blood start to slowly drip into me. I also felt him put something in one hand to drip and I was already a little more refreshed. I tried to turn my head away from the light. Adam was stroking and soothing me. Eventually, I was able to mutter. "Turn that fucking light off." Adam laughed and turned the light away from my eyes. I was grateful.

Samuel took some sedatives from the cupboard and showed Adam. Adam nodded. Samuel drew enough from the syringe and pushed the syringe into one of the little drip bags which he carefully mixed up and then put on a full drip. Mimi would be asleep in a few minutes. Adam noticed as Mimi's breathing calmed down and she limped slightly as she fell asleep. Samuel said." The biggest danger is over, she'll be fine. Now she needs sleep and these all need to drip." Mimi still had a bad habit of pulling out all the cannulas and drip tubes and twisting them. Mimi would need all the fluids he could put in her.

Adam asked, " Are either of us a suitable blood donor?" Samuel looked for a moment and said "I don't know, I can certainly test. As I said I can give him just over a liter of blood, he'll be fine, but it will give him symptoms. The best donor would probably have been Damon, but I've got him chasing wulfe now. As Mimi's normal blood volume is up there around 20 liters. "Samuel took a tube of blood from both of them and put it in the machine. After half an hour Samuel said. " You're going to be a donor. "Samuel pulled a chair up close to Mimi and said to Adam, 'Go sit over there. "He cannulated a vein from Adam's elbow and put it in a 5-liter collection bag. After 10 minutes he took the finished bag and put it on Mimi. He told Adam to hand over two more full bags.

From there, he dripped another into Mimi. Eventually, Mimi was a much better color and Samuel had Adam carry Mimi back to the bedroom to rest. When I woke up Damon was asleep in the chair next to me. He woke up and said " Baby, you need to stop doing this stuff you know. I can't stand it when something always happens to you, I swear to God you won't be alone for a minute." And yet Damon had to leave again, wherever he was going the next day.