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alone with these two. The chimera’s pet and my crazy scientist... I didn’t want to ask, but I hoped Reaver’s... ‘emergence’ would happen sooner rather than later.
    “I think Reaver’s boy should just sit on the couch and watch a movie.” Jade’s tone was on the verge of mocking, for a brief moment I felt like taking a swing at him. “It looks like he’s about to go Freddie Krueger on all of us.”
    I guess I was pretty transparent.
    “Hah! I know who that is!” Perish said gleefully. I heard him start to walk down the hallway. I thought Jade had gone with him, but I felt a hand on my shoulder.
    “Snap out of it, kid. You and Reaver are safer here than you were in Aras; Elish doesn’t fuck around with these hidden bases.”
    I didn’t turn away from the now lowered platform. I felt queasy, and tightly coiled like a spring. I had no idea how I hadn’t lost my mind yet.
    “Okay, well, I need to close this door... we’re letting the heat out. You can stay right there though if you want.”
    “I... I...” I broke my gaze from the garage and took a few steps back. “I want my Magnum...” My hands went to my belt but it was gone. Jade had taken it when Elish had grabbed me, probably knew I was on the edge of shooting both of them.
    The pet stared at me for moment, the door to the garage closing with a click. “Well, I don’t think that’s the greatest of plans, you’re a bit serial killer right now. None of us have guns –”
    “You have those teeth.” I took another step away from him, in the distance another door closed. Perish was bringing Reaver somewhere but where? I wanted to be with him. “I... I need something... to...”
    I was all alone with them... alone with Perish who had once wanted nothing more than to have sex with me, and this pet who had once told me I would ‘taste good’. Those impressions alone made the acid rise to my throat. Without Reno or even Elish here to put down some authority on these two I felt extremely vulnerable. They could do anything they wanted to me right now.
    I wanted to go home... back to Reaver’s basement, back to my cat.
    “Killian... you don’t need anything,” Jade said slowly. “Elish brought you two here to keep you from Silas. You couldn’t be any more safer –” The pet looked behind him and I think in that moment he also wished his master was here. “Why don’t you sit on the couch, I’ll give you a knife or something if it’ll make you feel safe, and you can have something to eat and drink.”
    Whenever he opened his mouth I saw the flashes of metal. He had implants in his canines to make them sharp, cat-like almost, and behind them I could see smaller ones laid out in his mouth. Even with a knife that cicaro was a weapon himself. He could rip my throat out in a second...
    Though I wanted to huddle up next to this door until Reaver woke up, I knew I had to eventually move.
    “Okay, why don’t you go have a shower then? Get the ash and blood off of you. The door locks, all the doors in this place lock. How does that sound?”
    I kept staring at those teeth, but with a defeated sigh I gave him a small nod. “Yeah, I can do that.”
    Jade nodded and gave me a wide berth as I walked past him down the hall; I guess he didn’t want to spook me. I walked into the living room and looked around. Everything was clean and decorated with new unblemished furniture.
    I found the bathroom and walked in, before making sure the door could lock. I tested the handle a few times before, with a forlorn sigh, I started to undress.
    My mind was going to explode at any second... and I didn’t know what was going to happen when it did. I needed something to help me through these events; I needed something to calm me down.
    And there was only one thing I had available to me right now.
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 2
     
    Jade
     
     
     
     
     
    I sat down on the couch and brushed my bangs away; the sweat dampening my hair was enough to get them to stay