[sakari09]

We got “home” in record time thanks to Mr. Lead-Foot, who sat in the driver’s seat. He was still acting pissy about the whole court deal…I don’t know why. If they took me away, then I’d be under better protection than he could give; yet somehow…I prefer Will to some court hags anyway. If push came to shove, I could always go through the whole human-to-vampire process. I’d be better off as a vampire than a human if I stayed with Will.
I pondered this while Will went through his cabinets for some chow. When he had come back from the kitchen search to the living room, where I was sitting, he looked exhausted.
“I’m out of canned stuff…I’m sorry. I’ll have to get something fresh.” He explained going for his trench coat hanging in the corner of the room by the front door.
I gave him a cynical look, “I’m not eating Bambi, fresh from the woods. You’ll have to go for Thumper if you want to fill my hunger.”
He shrugged, “Whatever you want, or in these woods, whatever is available. Things have started getting smart and running away.” Will had his hand on the door when he turned around to look at me with a weary expression, “You’ll be alright for five minutes alone right?”
I waved my hand for him to go, “I’ll be seeing you back with food for the table my love.”
He left without another word. I could count on him being back in five minutes but it still worried the hell out of me when I was alone now. I had no clue what the Order would send after me next or what already lurked out in the woods waiting for the opportune moment to strike me down.
I shook my head and got up to go and put on my nightclothes. Will had probably went to Gran and got me more from my room. I could practically see the look on his face as he went through my dresser. Guys have no idea of the real world of women.
The staircase seemed longer than usual to climb as I was making my way to the room I was borrowing for the moment. A feeling of unease came across my senses as I reached for the doorknob. It turned loosely by someone on the other side.
“What the—hey!” I tried desperately to make as much noise for Will but if failed unpleasantly because the moment I tried to scream his name a white cloth came across my face. I saw black after that.
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My memory was vague from the time I was carried out of the house and thrown into some kind of van. The ride had been bumpy, so I knew that we were taking an unpaved road out of civilization.
I finally came to in the back of the van. It was still moving, but the bumps were getting fewer, so I didn’t hit my head as much on the steel floor. I had a cloth tied around my mouth and, what felt like duck tape, around my wrists. Surprisingly they didn’t tie my legs so I pushed myself up against the sidewall to my left. That’s when I noticed that I wasn’t alone; someone else was in there with me, breathing hard and uneven.
It didn’t take me long to realize that Will had been caught too. It had become easier for me to sense when he was close by after he bit me back in the guest bedroom.
He was bound the same way they had me, but instead of using tape and cloth, they had wrapped him with chain. From the way he was breathing and the scorch marks on his skin, it wasn’t an ordinary metal.
“Will…can you hear me?” I asked in a whisper.
He jumped and threw himself against the furthest place from me.
I heard male voices of the people up front, “Hey! What the hell do you think you’re doing man! We’re not supposed to have them flailing around like that!”
“I’m not driving that damn bad Kiel! Shut the hell up. They’re durable enough anyway.”
“Maybe the guy is but the girl is still human. Take it easy…I don’t want my ass handed to me on a platter when we get home.”
When they said “home”, I couldn’t help but shiver. My gut was telling me to hurry and find a way out of this van. Will was still drifting in and out of consciousness so I’d have to get him fully awake first.
I didn’t have a club, so crashing it against his skull wasn’t one of my options; and I knew that tapping him on the shoulder wouldn’t get him up. I didn’t have much left to do, except for one thing…make myself bleed.
Geez…what a pain…I thought looking for something to slice my finger with.
It was then that my eyes caught on something metal at the back door of the van. I scooted closer to find a slashed aluminum can. I thanked whatever gods may have been in heaven and made my way cutting at the cloth that bound my hands. It was fairly easy because it was made of something like silk; it was hard to tell in the dark.
After getting the cloth out of my mouth, I picked my ring finger on my left hand to cut open. I’d sliced it so many times before, I wouldn’t feel anything this go around. Will moaned in what seemed to be approval when the aluminum sliced like butter through my skin and he threw himself the short distance between us to get to my finger.
“I smell it!” He said in a guttural voice that made my stomach lurch, “Give it to me!” he broke through the chains with ease and threw me onto the steel van floor.
“Will! I can’t breathe! Snap out of it!” I screamed hearing something crunch on my right side.
He wasn’t listening to his head, I could tell now that he was only going by his instincts and that meant the end of me if I didn’t do something fast. I built up enough air to let out a scream but it didn’t come quick enough because suddenly the van doors opened, illuminating everything.
“Get him off of her Kiel!” yelled one of our taxi drivers. I couldn’t make out his face from the sun blinding me but he was tall, I knew that much.
Will turned toward them and snarled. I shivered and blacked out again like the big sissy that I was.