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and he knows that I’ll do what I need to do so that
     I become one of the fallen and then, we’ll be together for eternity.  
    I don’t feel well.  I remember… even in the illusion, I remember the one I healed.
      I look at my hair, expecting it to be blonde and my healing that man to have been
     the actual illusion.  I’m relieved when I see that my hair is blonde, but as I watch
     it, my hair slowly darkens.  
    I feel terrified and confused.  When I look back at Hunter, it is no longer Hunter
     who I see.  The one in front of me is Tucker.  I remember him from when I first arrived
     at the academy and I remember that somehow, he can make himself look like other people.
      I now know he’s actually a demon and I don’t understand how he was at the Academy
     before.  I step away from him and run away.  He calls after me, but I keep running.
      I run and run, until everything goes dark.  Then my eyes open and I see Samael sleeping
     by my side.  
    The demon stands next to the mattress.  I abruptly get up and even though I feel dizzy,
     I manage to stand in front of him.  
      “Oh good.  Now that you’re awake, get him back here.  I’ll be back tomorrow and
     I need both of you.  
    The demon leaves and I call Samael, I move him around, and nothing.  I have no clue
     how to wake him up other than to go into his head and bring him back from his illusion.  
    Ugh.  I don’t want to do this, but I don’t want him defenseless if the demon comes
     back.  
    I easily slip into his mind.  
    I know right away that there is something wrong.  My illusion was mostly a happy one;
     his is dark.  He’s in the human world, at a school, but hiding.  He’s watching a girl
     and it’s not until I get close to him that I realize he’s warding her, keeping her
     from being haunted by her worst nightmare.    
    My abilities go into overdrive and I subconsciously do something I never did before.
      I project myself into his vision and I slowly approach him.  
    “Samael?”  
    He slowly turns around and gives me a confused look.  
    “Why are you here?” he asks.  
    “This is not real.  I came to take you back.”  
    He looks back at her, “But I can’t leave her unprotected.”  
    There is something fragile about the way he looks.  I lower my tone.  “She’s not real,
     Samael.  None of this is.”  
    He looks saddened.  He nods and looks at her one more time then we start to walk away,
     side by side, into the darkness.  

TEN  
    HUNTER  
    Xavier makes me promise that I will take a night off from hunting demons and go see
     Kim and the rest Kayla’s family.  I avoided this for as long as I could, but he says
     Kim asked me to go see her and well, I need a break.  He’s been saying that for a
     while now.  It seems that with time, what happened became less significant and they
     lost hope, Xavier included.  I’m now the only one looking for ways to get to her,
     and I look for it nonstop.    
    I try to argue and say I shouldn’t be around humans, after all, they will notice I’m
     still the same.  As an immortal, I stopped aging when I was around 18.  Well, I stopped
     aging but that doesn’t mean I haven’t changed.  Looking in the mirror I can see that
     these years I have spent hunting demons changed my body.  I look stronger… at least
     on the outside. But Kayla’s parents know the truth and they guaranteed that no one
     else would be around.  
    ***  
    I take a deep breath before going into their house.  I keep thinking about the times
     I saw Kayla and how this was the place where she was taken from.  I knock on the door
     and her dad opens it.  I can see he is not happy about my visit.  Seeing me brings
     back memories, but at least he hasn’t forgotten her.  It’s nice knowing that her absence
     hurts more than just me.    
    “Hunter, come on in,” he says.  
    I walk in and her mom comes to say hi.  I’m a little shocked by how much she