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dirt and blood, and my sword clattered
to the ground to my right.
A snarl escaped me as I turned on him,
reaching for my sword and holding it before me. My fangs made their
appearance as my eyes began to change.
    “ What the hell Shade?” he
asked, jumping back, clearly confused by my odd
behavior.
I turned back to Dimitri and grabbed him,
shouldering his weight. I would not leave him and I could not kill
him. Damn my promises and damn the priorities.
I pulled him up and dragged his limp body
back towards the truck. I didn’t know why I did this, at the time.
I was not thinking clearly. I was dragging a vamp toward the other
hunters, where there were wounded. It was probably one of my worst
hare brained ideas ever. Yet I rolled with the punches and followed
my instincts. Never been wrong yet, I was still unfortunately
kicking and screaming.
Ash gave me a stupefied look, but then after
a moment he took Dimitri’s other arm, and helped me carry him. At
first I almost snarled again, but I caught myself. Ash was only
helping.
A devastating and stifling sensation floated
over me as I completely realized the seriousness of my current
situation. I was holding a newborn vamp, someone who was once of
the dearest of all people to me, and taking him back to the base
with me. It was a blatant and truly serious act of treason, and
betrayal, as well as stupidity. Would I get away with it? Could I?
Did I want to? What was I going to do when I got there?
When we reached the others, they looked at
me as if I’d lost my mind, which was a very good possibility
sensing I was doing my best to save my lover turned blood
sucker.
I loaded Dimitri into the back of my truck
and crawled in beside him, wanting to cradle him and mourn but
fearing for the lives of my comrades I ignored that emotion and
kept alert. I pulled a blade from my jacket and hesitated. After a
moment I stuck it to Dimitri’s throat, ignoring the way it made me
want to cringe, and the way it broke my heart into smaller and
unrecognizable pieces.
    “ Drive!” I shouted out the
door as I closed it.
Everyone hesitated as I stared them down. I
left no room for doubt, I meant business. No one would disobey the
strongest and most lethal warrior they had left.
Santos jumped into the driver’s seat, after
giving me a disturbing look. Ash cursed but joined him in the
front. He turned and aimed his gun at Dimitri. As I opened my mouth
Ash cut me off.
    “ Growl at me and I shoot
him. I don’t care if you two are lovers or friends I’ll kill him.
I’m only doing this because I love you. I hope you know what you
are doing because I sure as hell don’t.”
I kept the snarl reigned in, just barely.
Part of me wanted to take off his damned head just like the vamps I
left behind.
Back at the base, we had a moment’s issue of
security clearance.
When I snarled, revealing my fangs, they
hesitated. Commander Ian approved me to go through, which I’m sure
got more of a response than my show of fang.
Once inside we pulled up to the jail and I
dragged Dimitri out who was starting to wake up.
I dug my blade into his neck, next to his
jugular, so he felt it. He tensed and then began walking on his
own. From what I knew about newborns, the first few moments of
waking up as a vamp, was disorienting but the closest they came to
being their previous self.
The others at the base cried out, ran away,
and gave me looks of pure disbelief. I was dragging one of their
worst nightmares into the compound, and it was someone they knew,
someone they had come to depend on or care about.
Their looks of fear and suspicion weighed on
my heart, but I was going with my gut, and it told me to keep
walking. To keep going through with this, whether it killed me or
not.
When anyone came near us, Dimitri snarled. I
ordered them back, for their safety as well as ours.
I locked us both inside the jail cell,
before I removed the blade, and put my back to the bars. Dimitri
hesitated, looked at me, and then slipped into