The Key Chapter One: Dreams, a night world series fanfic

This is the squeal to Not Too Late For Love hope you guys like it

Disclaimer: I dont own the Night World but i do own Kaitlin and the plot.

The Key

Chapter One: Dreams

Kaitlin stared up at Red Fern from her position on the floor the gunfire echoing inside her head. She could not let him know she had found out.

Her gaze hardened and she forced herself to keep eye contact with the person she had hoped she would never have to meet again. His eyes flashed gold and Kaitlin knew he was angry.

He advanced on her but she didn't flinch. To flinch was to let him win. She couldn't let that happen.

She would not let that happen.

He struck her and the blow made her ears ring and her vision blur. "You will learn my precious that you belong to me now. And you will learn that I don't like being challenged."

Kaitlin laughed spitting blood onto the floor. She coughed and spat again. "But that's my life's purpose to challenge you." She spat. Her contempt for the being in front of her had gone off the scale.

She hated and despised him.

He wanted to hurt everything she had ever loved. He wanted to kill the only true happiness and freedom she had ever had. Well he just wasn't going too.

She had thought he loved her once. Tears came to her eyes. That he could do that to one he had raised as his own daughter floored her and then she hated herself for caring.

Again.

"How could you pretend to love me? And then hate me now. You could kill me in one strike."

The tears fell down her face. Pain and anguish filled her being and then she was furious that she should show such emotion to one she now considered her greatest enemy.

Red Fern stared down at her and she thought she saw a flicker of something like regret in his eyes but then it was gone and she knew she had been wrong.

"Kaitlin I only loved you because I had too." He said looking down at her. She narrowed her eyes and nodded. "So was there a time when you loved me at all father?" She said it so sarcastically and so full of hatred that Red Fern found himself taking a step back.

He shook it off and said "Never."

Kaitlin hated that she was trapped. How could she have cared?

She was so stupid. How could she have believed he'd have cared? Kaitlin just wanted to go home where she knew people loved her.

She didn't want to be here anymore. She wanted Nilsson. She wanted to be with those that loved her and not those that hated her.

And she knew now that Red Fern hated her.

But his hate did not match her own. She hated him with everything she had. She didn't know it was possible to hate someone as much as she hated him in those moments.

It made her reckless and it made her fearless. She didn't care. She just wanted to be away from him.

She would not let him use her to let the dark win over the Light. The Light would triumph it had to. She had seen the devastation of the dark…

The Dark couldn't win. She wouldn't let it. Even if it meant she was the last being between the Light and the Dark she wouldn't let it win.

With the dark there could only be death and devastation. Both the Day Word and the Night World would be wiped out.

Allow the Night World seemed so unaware of this it was sometimes funny. The Night World Council was following the word of this stupid prick in front of her without even knowing what the Darkness would mean.

She hated him.

She looked at him seeing for the first time what he truly was without any of the masks.

A cruel monster that wanted nothing more than death and destruction. She really did hate him and in that moment she realised just how much she hated him. It was irrational hate unlike anything she had ever known.

"Out. Of. My. Way." Kaitlin snarled at Red Fern. She paused between her words hoping to emphasise the fact that either he moved or she was going to go threw him.

And right at that moment either option looked good.

Red Fern took an involuntary step backward and Kaitlin saw her chance. She made to run past him but she was stopped cold by the fury she felt coming off him.

Without warning he held up his hand and the power rose within him and she had a moment warning before he shot a fiery beam out from his hand.

The fire came right at her and she threw her hands up to protect herself, to stop the full force of the blast hitting her and she watched as the room grew hot and alive with gold flame.

"NILLSSON!"

She screamed. Her hands were growing hot, burning holding back the fireball. She ignored the pain and gritted her teeth. She pushed. With a scream she threw the fireball, the heat, the power off her.

She let go and it threw her clear. There was a roar as the walls cracked under the pressure. Then she blacked out.

She opened her eyes and gasped. "No" She moaned. She wanted to scream "Not again!" But the words dried up in her throat as she look in the scene before her.

She was stood outside a playground that was surrounded by fencing. The sound of children laughing filled her senses.

Adults were watching over their children pushing them in the swings, waiting for them at the bottom of the slide.

Kaitlin could feel the atmosphere.

There was danger here. She could feel it. Those children were not safe. She had to help them.

The day was perfect and clear. Bight blue sky without a cloud to mar the perfection. Blazing hot sunshine that meant everyone took advantage of the sun.

There was so many people couldn't they feel it?

Kaitlin looked around her trying to dispel the sense of dread in her being. There was something wrong.

She ran to the fence and started screaming. She was screaming and screaming but her words came out distorted and barely above a whisper.

They couldn't hear her.

"Run!"

She screamed over and over and over but they carried on playing, smiling and laughing unaware of the danger heading straight for them.

It came like a wave.

A Wave of black festering hate. It rolled towards her with the look of a storm; it wiped out everything she had ever believed in, everything she had ever loved about the world.

It passed over trees and plants and they burst into flames. The air began to fill with screams.

Screams of pain

Screams of helplessness

And screams of absoulute terror.

Kaitlin could hear them all in her head and she willed them to stop. "Stop, please stop." She moaned

She held her head in her hands sinking to the floor in agony. Her eyes started to stream from the pressure and through her tears she saw the wave coming right for her.

It reached her and threw her up against the fence. She screamed as it passed over her.

Pain unlike she had ever known mixed with the screams of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.

Her last sight was of the swings burn and incinerate behind her….

Kaitlin screamed sitting upright in bed.

Arms threw themselves around her and she stiffened. The dream was still with her and she struggled.

"No!" She screamed "No! Leave me alone!"

"Shhh. Kait, its me."

She knew that voice.

She turned and saw Nilsson.

Relief unlike she had never known crashed over her and she threw herself into his arms.

He closed her in his embrace running a hand through her hair whispering words in her ear.

"Its okay Brave Heart I'm here. It's all over now. I'm here. You're safe." She sobbed into her chest.

Nilsson was her soulmate and beside her twin Galen, Nilsson as the only one Kaitlin would ever let see her like this.

After everything she had been through the one fear she had was that people would find her weak.

Kaitlin Drake, or Aurora Drache as Circle Daybreak knew her, as was the Fourth Wild Power. She had been in the mortal world for seventeen years locked away by Red Fern.

Red Fern was the son of Maya the first ever Vampire and as part of his conquest to see the vampires on top once the Millennium Battle came around he had kidnapped Kaitlin and pretended to be her father.

She had mistakenly activated the portal between her world and the Night World and come through. Nilsson had rescued her and they had realised they were Soulmates and even when Kaitlin had been recaptured Nilsson had refused to leave her.

For that Kaitlin would be forever grateful.

She had managed to clear her tears, or just about when the door was flung open and a figure flew to the bed.

Kaitlin knew whom it would be before she even pulled away from her soulmate. The only person that had ever seen her hysterical.

Her twin brother Galen Drache.

A less widely known fact about Kaitlin was that she was the missing daughter of the head Shifters of The First House.

Making her the Princess of all Shapeshifters. A fact that for her safety both Daybreak and the First House had kept quiet.

Now after her ordeal of first coming here six months ago was over her powers still grew everyday but with her powers came the vivid and horrific nightmares that she suffered almost every night without fail.

Galen drew her into his embrace and held her close. She still hadn't got used to the fact she had a twin who knew when she was in pain or frightened. But Galen always seemed to know.

The only one that could read her better was Nilsson and after everything they had been through together this no longer surprised her.

"Kaitlin another dream?" A voice asked from the doorway. Kaitlin turned and faced the Lord of the Night World Thierry. Knowing Thierry though this was not a question.

Another Night Person who knew too much.

"Yes." She said rubbing her eyes. "They're getting worse." Nilsson had his arms around her waist and Galen was holding her hand. She had never felt more protected or more loved but it still didn't take away the terror.

"The Wave. It's what I have to stop." Kaitlin whispered. "The Dark Wave full of things not of this world."

"It has to be banished. It has to be stopped. So much death, so much pain." A lonely tear fell down her face.

She looked at all those assembled in her room. "If the Dark Wave is unleashed then the World will die."