DEVILS TEA PARTY: RUNNING

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-QUINN POV-

THE first thing that happened was the rest of the already melting ice dripped away. The girl gasped and her legs collapsed, I caught her and held her to my uncomfortably warm heart.

The room fell away, and her mind took its place. I could feel her shock and awe. And she could feel mine. Its telepathy, she realized dimly, maybe it's a trick.

But we both knew that it wasn't, that I had no more an idea then she did.

And then I did, I had an idea, I knew what it was, the soulmate principle.

I felt her vulnerability and she froze, trying to shut down but I was already inside. She began to panic.

"Its alright." I told her, because there was really nothing else I could do. To my surprise, she was reassured.

I relaxed my last reserve. She was so hurt inside, she had fought against herself so hard over me. She knew kill me, because I would have killed her, but more then that, she felt guilty, because apparently I would kill more people like Nyala's sister. Who was Nyala?

I lowered us down to the floor and held her by her delicate shoulders. I had to see her face, to see if she was possibly as beautiful on the outside as she was in the inside.

I lifted on arm and began to unravel her scarf. To my intense surprise, she let me.

A new emotion rose to the surface of her mind. She wanted me to see her, who she really was. I wanted that too, more then anything else.

"John." She said and pleasure filled me as she said my name. But it reminded me. I didn't know her name.

"You didn't tell me your name." I pointed out, keeping my attention on the soft scarf.

She's trusting me. I realized with a shock. If I wanted to, I could expose everything about her. Her face, her name, her scent…not that I wanted to, but still it was a lot of power over her.

I reached for the last wrap of scarf, when light flooded the basement. The girl gasped and re-wrapped her face. I winced from the harsh light and my stupidity. She had probably set me up, my mind screamed that she had. But my heart said otherwise.

If it was Lily or Ivan, I would literally kill them. We both jumped up to face the threat, shoulder to shoulder.

It was the idiot Vampire Annoyers. I could have taken most of them all by myself, but they brought reinforcements. I couldn't save Dove, but I could save this girl. I tried to push her behind me. But she was stronger then her slight shape suggested.

And I couldn't reach her thoughts anymore. It made me feel empty, like I always did, only it wasn't very comfortable anymore.

A sneaky voice, full of outrage piped up. "How did he get loose? What are you to doing?" it was the first Vampire Annoyer.

"The Big E sent us some backup," she said. The Big E, I knew who that was. He was the head lancer.

The girl nudged me with her shoulder. "Get out of here, there should be another stairway on the other side of the room. When you run for it, I'll get in their way." She whispered so low only a vampire could here it, and the scarf covered her lips so they couldn't be read. She really was smart.

But I wasn't going to go. I was too angry. How had I missed these vermin? Where had my zanshin gone?

"What did he do to you?" the other male lancer asked the Celler Girl. I was greatly annoyed at the slightly possessive tone he used when he talked to her. I didn't think she even realized that he liked her.

"What's she been doing with him, that's the question," the vermin girl snapped back, obviously as angry as I was about the vermins attraction to my soulmate. And that's what she was, I realized with a cold feeling, just like Ash.

"Remember, everybody, we want him alive." The vermin girl said coldly, snapping me back into reality.

"Go." The girl, my soulmate snapped, I glared at her, she couldn't truly expect to run from vermin, could she? "Don't you realize what they want to do with you?" oh, she meant the torture thing, well, she wouldn't be any better if I left her here.

I turned so the vermin couldn't see my face. "They're not exactly overjoyed with you either." I snarled.

"I can take care of myself." She was shaking, not with fear, she was never scared. Or if she was, she never showed it. "Just leave. Go!" she hissed at me.

I hated running away, HATED it, especially from vermin. Especially when I had to except Her help, and put Her in danger. But I had no choice.

I glared at her, then turned and ran away.

Flashlights were thrown in the confusion she was making, and as I ran away, I was shaking with laughter. But then I sobered up, because I didn't know what they would do to her.

Then it hit me, why did I care for a vermin? Had I truly wanted to protect a stupid, ugly, coward, human?

But she wasn't stupid or ugly, and she was way too brave for her own good. But that didn't matter, she was part of the species that killed Dove. With a pang, I realized that was the first time I had thought of Dove since Cellar Girls and I had our conversation.

A truck swung around the corner. I recognized Ivan driving the latest round of vermin to the docks, good, they were vermin in my mind again. All but her. I jumped on the back and slid in the window.

Lily stared at me with a tazer pointed at me. I smirked, "Not in front of the kids, Lily. You might scare them." I gestured to the dazed girls. I had lured half of them in, none of them were half as beautiful as Her.

I noticed a brand new one, one that smelled vaguely familiar, with a hint of frozen lavender. "Who's this?" I slapped her cheek gently.

Lily grimaced. "Ivan found her, she was rambling on about the Cat, or some such nonsense." She said with comtempt in her cold voice.

The u-haul swung around a corner lightening fast and the fault door swung on its rusted hinges. And a little bunny of a girl, I think her name was Daphy, with flyaway hair launched passed me and out of the truck.

"Grab her Quinn!" Lily squealed, clawing my arm like the maniac she was. I pealed her hands off me, one finger at a time and threw myself toward the gaping doors, but then I saw Her, the girl from the cellar, The Cat. And the bunny girl ran strait toward her.

That was when I knew we had lost her. The Cat had her claws in the bunny and I wouldn't be able to tear her away unless by some unholy miracle.

But one thing was sure, the next time I saw Her, I would have to murder Her.

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