The Hunted

Kristine had been in hiding for years, three hundred years to be exact. From what? Well it was from the vampire that Kristine had used to make herself a vampire. He had not been very happy about it, as a matter of fact he had slaughtered her whole family just to try and drag her out of hiding. All that did was make her hide more, and she rarely stayed in a place long, but she made the mistake of getting comfortable at AETU making it easy for her to be tracked down.

The day that she had nearly attacked Vanessa, Kris had sworn she saw him so she had been on edge but didn't tell anyone. She didn't want to risk telling anyone the truth about her past, well Evelyn knew but that was because that was her boss.

Still, Kristine thought that she was safe here so she let her guard down and that is where mistakes were made because now he was here and Kristine was well... defenseless.

[Only admins are allowed to see this link] slammed the redhead up against the tower wall knocking the wind out of her as he pinned her against the wall by the neck and squeezed it tightly. She didn't need to breathe but that didn't stop her from struggling to try as her hands wrapped around his wrists trying to break him off.

The younger vampire didn't stand a chance against him, he was nearly 3 times her age but she still tried to get away. 'I am so glad I found you.' He spoke with venom in his words and then suddenly threw the girl across the room with ease. She hit the wall and fell to the ground hitting each with a painful thud before she started whimpering from the pain.

Xander didn't stop there he came up to her quickly and delivered a powerful kick to her chest, which pushed her into the wall again, and broke a few ribs in the process, causing her to cry out in pain. It also caused her to taste blood in her mouth which she spit out onto the floor before she curled up holding her ribs.

The male vampire towered over her as he looked at the weak create on the ground. He knelt down brushing some of the hair from her face. 'Ah my little abomination we are going to have so much fun this evening, you are going to wish for true death, but that will have to wait, I have three hundred to make up for.' He spoke to her before gripping her by the hair and brought her head up before slamming against the ground, causing a gash to form and start bleeding.

Kristine had tears rolling down her face as she pleaded with him to stop. He just laugh and pulled her up to her feet by her hair. 'You should have thought about that before you took what didn't belong to you.' He threw her across the room again, but he had kept some grip on her hair so when she was thrown hair was ripped from her scalp. Oh was he having fun.

'I picked this place just for you, I knew it would give us some privacy.' He dropped the clump of red hair to the ground, shaking his hand to make sure all the hair would fall.

He then walked over and continued his assault on Kristine. He wanted to break every bone in that vampiric body, over and over again until she could no longer heal herself, and then he would start over.

Kristine knew that she was in a losing battle, but that didn't stop her from trying to create a distance between them every chance she got. She never managed to get that far, he was faster and stronger and she was hurt which made moving most difficult, but she wanted to at least try.

At one point she had managed to pull herself up onto her knees and tried to get to the tower stairs when a sharp pain coursed through her as Xander's foot slammed down on her back snapping her spine with ease. 'You are not going anywhere.' He spoke as he grabbed her by the hair again and pulled her head back. The redhead was about to pass out at this point, her and pain weren't the best of friends but she knew she had to stay conscious or she'd likely not make it through this, not that she had much hope in the later anyways.

He dragged Kristine back away from the door by her hair, causing her to cry more as she used her hands to claw at his hand, just trying to get free from his grip. She was still pleading with him to stop, but her pleas were falling on deaf ears it would seem.

Once they were away from the door again, He grabbed Kristine by the jaw and picked her up. 'I've grown quite tired of hearing you speak.' He spoke as he looked into her eyes. Kristine's eyes grew larger with fear as his other hand came to rest on the back of her head the other still on her jaw. Her head shook violently, pleading for him not to do what she thought he was going to do, but it did nothing to stop him. A simple flick of his wrist snapped Kristine jaw causing her to give a muffled scream of pain.

Kristie's eyes struggled to stay open at that point, she couldn't feel her legs, her jaw was broke so she couldn't speak and to make matters worse he didn't seem ready to stop anytime soon.

Right about that time another voice entered the room and Kristine could barely make out who it was. She made muffled sounds as Xander looked back to the other vampire and smirked and Kristine frantically tried to keep his attention on her and not the other person. 'This has nothing to do with you.' He spoke to the woman and turned his attention back to Kristine. She wasn't broken enough for him.

Because his back was turned to the new woman, she wouldn't be able to see the devilish smirk on his face as he was told to release Kristine. His glance went to the window and then back to the girl, which caused Kristine to go stiff and shake her head. Her eyes screamed no, please no, but he just laughed. 'If you insist.' He spoke before launching the redhead out the stain glass window. With as high up as they were, he knew it would succeed in breaking more of the vampire.

He gave a slight chuckle as he heard the redhead make impact with the ground below and made an opps type face as he turned to look at the blonde 'I do apologize, I seem to have forgotten my own strength.' He grinned and brushes his hands down his suit and simply went to walk out, his business was with the redhead not the blonde.

Laying on the ground in a twisted mangled heap, Kristine was barely conscious. For a brief moment after the impact a soft choking sound came from the redhead's throat as blood pooled in her mouth. She may have been vampire, but that didn't make getting injured any less painful, if anything it made things more painful, at least for Kristine, if only because the her body could take on more damage before she would pass out. That was very much the case here.

As she laid there, she tried looking to the window she had been thrown from. Her greatest fear was that whoever had come into the tower room would end up beside her on the ground.

The last thing Kristine remembered was the cool warmth of tears the began to slide down her cheeks before her head rolled to the side and she passed out. The shock of the impact had finally taken hold, but the redhead knew she'd wake up if only because of her being a vampire.

Xander was a cocky sort, that showed when he went to walk away from the blood vampire. Even when she has a grip on him, the man didn't show any fear and just gave a muffled laugh. His business here wasn't over, and it wouldn't be until Kristine got what was coming for her, and that showed in his eyes.

He went to tell the Elder vampire that he'd be back, and she could count on that, but his vocal cords were ripped out before he could. As his hands moved to his bleeding throat he glared at the woman, and a smirked creased over his lips. Oh, Xander was far from done here and with Kristine having a body guard Xander would just have to step up his game.

For now he had to wait till his throat healed but he would track Kristine down again soon enough.

Kristine on the other hand was unaware that Castielle had saved her from Xander's wrath at least for the time being. She would forever be in Castielle debt for stepping in like that.

With the extent of Kristine's injuries, it took several hours for the redhead to come to. Even with assistance of Castielle 's blood, Kristine's body was not fully healed, but now that she was conscious, the witch turned vampire's healing power kicked in and more of the injuries started healing.

As she woke up, Kristine was panic stricken and her eyes shot open to where she was or more importantly who she was with. Her vision was still rather blurry as she looked around, and the moment she went to move her head a searing pain shot through her body causing her to whimper. There wasn't a part of her body that didn't hurt, so she tried her best not to move.

Having done her rounds of the Female Dorms, Elizabeth was just having a check around to be sure that no-one was out of bed when they shouldn't of been, when her ears picked up the sound of glass so picked up her pace quite easily, even in heels and a suit which had a rather restricting skirt.

Having seen Kristine in the arms of Castielle.... Ms. Montisque she corrected herself, Elizabeth caught up with them. "Goodness... What happened here?" She asked as she opened the door for Castielle to make things a little easier for her before arranging the pillows a little to make the blood go down easier.

Examining Kristine's body, the Angel Fae saw the Witch-turned-vampire wake up and placed a finger just over her lips. "It's alright dear...... You're among friends.... Stay still....." She whispered softly and yet with her lips slightly exaggerating their movements so that Kristine could at least have a good chance of figuring out what she was saying. Her soft Canadian accent mixed with Victorian England seemingly echoed her open compassion and maternal warmth as she looked over Kristine to see what needed the most amount of Healing.

Kristine was thankful that she didn't have to breathe because that would cause her to be in even more pain then she was in at that moment. She was still panic stricken though, because she didn't know if Xander was still around. It wasn't until the voice of a female spoke up that Kristine started to be able to relax. That didn't stop her from groaning anytime a sharp pain coursed through her. Unlucky for the vampire all this pain had to pass, no pain killer would help, so it was of no surprise that the redhead had tears coming from the corners of her eyes.

"Xander." Kristine spoke in her pain as she was asked who the man was.

She was surprised she could think at all, the pain she felt was intense and she wanted it to go away and slowly it was. The redhead knew there was a lot of damage done, from both being tossed out the window and the assault from Xander. Bones were broken, tissue torn, if it was anyone else but a vampire Kristine knew the chances of survival would have been slim from blood loss alone.

Speaking of blood, Kristine had a strange new taste of copper in her mouth, it wasn't like what came from a bag, or even the blood that the redhead had created herself... it was strange.. yet tasteful.

"He... I.." She had to stop as a pain coursed through her and while she tried not to move, her body jerked from time to time as bones were set back in place from the use of her healing abilities bringing everything back to normal. "copied... his... dna" She tried to keep her words short, talking still hurt with her jaw not being fully healed.

As the bones in her back began to reset, Kristine let out a painful scream, she could heard the sound of the bones cracking and popping back into place. It was when she stopped her own magic but the healing didn't stop there and that's when Kristine realized she wasn't the only one healing her body.

As more of the bones popped back into place Kristine cried for the pain to stop, pleaded even, because it was almost to much to bare. Her body began to shake as she started going into shock, it wasn't like the shock would actually kill her but the pain was starting to get to her, especially seeing as she had to endure every bit of it unlike mortal who could take pain meds.

Elizabeth nodded as she heard Castielle's answer as she let her excuse herself in order to change as she watched over Kristine.

Seeing her difficulty to speak, Elizabeth placed a gentle hand on her jaw. "I'm going to help heal your jaw.... You will feel a strange tingling and warmth, but try not to move.... Do you understand?" She stated, letting Kristine know what she was going to do to get her consent. Through her years, Elizabeth found that she needed to ask people if they wanted her to heal them or not; but she always let them knew anyway as not many have ever been through a healing process.

Focussing her energy through her hand, Elizabeth sighed whilst shutting her green eyes in order to concentrate before pouring out her compassion through her hand that was touching Kristine's jaw, a gentle white light emanating from the hand as it connected with skin whilst the compassion pulsed gently through to Kristine's bones and started to mend them, like a Mother were guiding her child in the right direction to a destination.

Once she felt sure that the jaw was set enough, Elizabeth focussed her energy through the rest of Kristine's body so that the bones would be in the right position, knowing that this was the Nurse who could heal anyway so Elizabeth gave a hand. Most of the sounds that were external were being drowned out from Elizabeth's healing, such things often happened with something so serious.

A scream tore her from it though as her emerald eys snapped open with a gasp as she pulled her hand away as much as she could without giving more pain. "I... I am so sorry..." She panted, her skin a little paler than usual as she felt a warm trickle near her neck and pressed her hand on it before drawing it back and saw the red on it. "Oh.... Blast..." She sighed softly before finding a towel or something to press against her neck whilst she got her energy back to heal her old wound. 'Was that the wound I got from a gun in the First World War.... No, t'was when someone slashed me when I took a wander in Africa just before the First Boer War...' She thought to herself a shake of her head as she sat down to stop the dizzying spell that hit her.

Kristine was not the sort the was used to being helped. She normally hid in the shadows avoiding eye contact with everyone and just did her job. Not many knew much about her, all anyone ever cared to know was that she was the freak that had turned herself into a vampire. This was the sad truth that Kristine had come to understand and for that reason she wasn't the sort to seek out any sort of friendships here.

Having two people watching over her was strange but oddly comforting at the same time. She wasn't blinded by the help though, if anything the redhead told herself that once she was able to get back on her feet she would go back to being that invisible vampire at the nurses station.

Kristine was thankful when Elizabeth had stopped what she was doing. The bones had all been set back now it was just a matter of her muscles mending and she would be good to go.

As she laid there and the smell of blood hit her noe the redhead was almost drooling at the mouth. She had this intense urge to rip into Elizabeth's neck and drain her of her blood, this was a feeling Kristine had never felt before. Her ability made it easy to avoid blood lust in the past, quick tap in of her powers tricked her brain into thinking she had fed but more often then not Kristine had just conjured blood in her stomach and problem solved.

She tried doing that here, but it wasn't working, something was different this time and it wasn't until the new scent of blood mixed with Elizabeth's that Kristine knew what was wrong... She'd had Castielle's blood before.

Kristine's eyes grew a dark red a she laid there fighting back the urge to leap and take what she wanted. A growl escaped her and she shook her head no to the glass beig give to her. It wasn't the blood Kristine was used to, it actually came from someone and not made up and the redhead didn't want to drink it.

Despite all the pain and not wanting to move soon the smell of the blood started to become to much and Kristine quickly removed herself from the couch and into a corner far away from the blood. "Keep that away from me." She growled as her hands gripped at the stone walls. She felt like she was on the edge of a clif or something about to jump, and without knowing what she was doing Kristine went for Elizabeth, the vampire as hungry for real blood.

Elizabeth smiled softly, "Fret naught about me, Ms Montisque.... Though I thank you for your concern..... This wound is only minor and is, something of a warning point for me so I know when I'm starting to overstep my boundaries..." She replied as she winced a little, feeling part of the wound that was hidden from view was also open, though thankfully it wasn't all open otherwise it would be down her whole back in a diagonal.

Seeing Kristine refuse the blood, Elizabeth grew worried so shut her eyes and focussed on her own healing. Sighing slightly, she tapped into one of her memories where she felt the most compassion and let envelope her being. With the towel soaking up the blood. It also provided some cover as her pale skin knitted itself together seamlessly till Elizabeth brought away the towel and the only sign of a wound that was there was a pale line.

Somehow, Elizabeth took the right moment to open her eyes when she saw Kristine go for her so swiftly moved out of the chair with a push from the balls of her feet before stopping a few metres away. Her [Only admins are allowed to see this link] dangling in front of her shirt as she watched Kristine with precision. It was if she had been in something not akin to this once before.

Kristine gave a hiss as she forced to the ground by her throat, her primal side wanted the blood more then it cared to listen to anything the elder vampire had to say. She struggled against Castielle's hand until their eyes locked. Kristine was by no means a dominate person, she was submissive and that showed as her vampiric features were replaced by her normal timid ones. Her hands released Castielle's wrist and shook.

What had happened to her? This wasn't the woman that Kristine prided herself in being. She had just tried to rip out the throat of someone who was just trying to help her. "I'm sorry." Kristine spoke as tears filled her eyes. She didn't know what else to say, it wasn't like her to lose control with this. She was like a spokesperson of blood control until now. She was around open wounds everyday, she never once got the urge to bite anyone and here she had just tried to actually hurt someone.

The redhead gave a soft nod as she was told to drink Castielle's blood. She didn't want to feel that urge to kill like she had just felt moments ago. It wasn't her and Kristine would do anything to insure that it wouldn't happen again.

As she was pulled off the floor Kristine flinched, and she went to look at Elizabeth but like a child scorn she simply looked down. Her gazed stayed on her lap aside from the brief moment where she looked up and took hold of the cup that was held out to her. Her eyes starred down at the contents of the cups, it wasn't the blood she was used to, the smell was wrong, but if it would stop her from going after Elizabeth again then...

Kristine brought the cup up to her lips, her hands trembled as she did. She closed her eyes and began to drink the contents of the glass. The taste made her gag at first, but once she got that first sip down, it wasn't so bad.

Elizabeth watched Kristine and Castielle very carefully so when Castielle asked her question, Elizabeth nodded. "Yes... I've managed to heal it, though the scent of blood may linger for a little while." She stated as she remained still with her knees bent, ready to move again if need be. If push came to shove, she had a couple of defensive positions that could help her out as well as her wings but she hoped that such actions wouldn't be necessary; she really didn't want to bring more pain to Kristine.

Watching the Vampires eyes return to normal, Elizabeth let out a soft sigh. Although she was willing to give blood to vampires, she did not usually have the problem of handling those who experienced blood lust for the first time, especially in such a situation such as this.

Seeing her not look at her, Elizabeth felt a little saddened. Kristine seemed shameful for what she nearly did; mind from Castielle's words, Kristine was a bit of an unusual case as the Angel relaxed her stance and rolled her shoulders back a little before returning her locket to it's rightful place beneath her shirt though her own expression was somewhat pained, just not physically as she watched the two vampires.

Kristine took small sips from the glass, so that she could maintain control of herself. It was hard to do because once she got past the taste her body seemed to want to drain the cup dry. She managed not to chug it down, and once she was finished she held the cup in her lap to give her something to focus on.

The redheaded vampire was starting to feel better, stronger even, thanks to the blood that she had been given. "Thank you." She spoke softly, but was having a hard time looking at either of them. Kristine was more then ashamed of herself for what she had almost done to Elizabeth.

"I'll replace anything he broke." She muttered softly, feeling that it was her responsibility to see to the cost of any of the repairs that needed doing. As she spoke her fingers fiddled with the cup in her hands.

Elizabeth sighed softly as she saw, and almost seemed to have been able to feel, Kristine's pain so she easily walked towards and sat by the seemingly younger woman and put one of her hands against Kristine's arm and rubbed it gently before speaking just as gently, "It is alright Kristine.... He is gone now, and we shall do what what we can to help you....." She stated as she gently lifted the Vampire's head so that their eyes were connected. There Kristine would easily see that Elizabeth understood what Kristine and had already forgiven her by the warmth and compassion that just shone through her eyes and voice as she smiled.

"We all have parts of ourselves that we rather did not exist.... But they do for a reason....." The Angel stated as she tenderly caressed the Vampire's cheek as she would one of her own children. It was something she could not exactly help herself but it was a way that she connected with people.

Kristine just tried to keep her focus on the cup and not the woman who sat down beside her. She wasn't all that used to people being near her unless she was tending to them and she especially wasn't used to people touching her. When Elizabeth place a hand on the redhead's arm the vampire went stiff as she tried her best not to freak out but Kristine could feel the woman's pulse through her finger tips.

The redhead just kept telling herself to breathe but the moment her eyes locked with Elizabeth's, the vampire felt an intense hunger run through her again. Why was this happening to her? She was never liked this around people she could handle herself around all the blood and gore that came into the nurse's station but she couldn't handle someone so much as touching her right now.

Once the other went to caress her cheek, Kristine dropped the cup and pushed herself of the couch quickly, with a hiss. She didn't want to bite Elizabeth but there was another part of her wanted to rip into the woman's throat and drain her dry. The redhead didn't like this feeling at all, this lack of control.

With the threat of attacking Elizabeth a very real possibility, Kristine felt like she needed to get the hell out of there so she went for the door. Kristine went to do what she did best when things got to stressful or she did something that was scaring herself... she went to hide.

Elizabeth saw Kristine's reaction and stood up when she tried to leave, "You cannot run and hide from everything Kristine..... That is why Xander finds you so easily.... You are becoming too predictable, and such a thing will not help you for much longer....." She stated as she watched her. "The Blood Lust will come back.... And you must learn to control it in order to survive, it will not simply go away..... I can help with that....." She added, simply staying still for it was true that she had helped with Vampires before.

Her healing ability was imbued into her blood so it was often used in some of the blood transfusions but also a few of the blood bags, but only in small amounts; it was very rare that people actually knew that it was some of her Angelic blood that they were intaking from her donations. Plus during her time as a student, she had a dorm-mate for a Vampire therefore in extreme cases, Elizabeth used to let her feed off of her in small amounts in order to survive and then hunt properly later.

And thus the Angel waited for her words to sink in. Kristine needed to learn to trust other people, but also herself which would take time... But she and Castielle certainly would have their hands full with this one if she chose to accept their help.

Kristine had to run, because staying in this room was to hard, there was far to much temptation. All she wanted to do was go back to her office, lock the door and forget that any of this happened. That was quickly made clear that she wasn't going to be leaving this room as the firm hand wrapped around her arm and pulled her back.

This was not the way she had planned on spending her night, but that didn't matter now because she was acting like some blood thirsty lunatic. "Ow, you're hurting me." Kristine whimpered, she never did well with pain even small bits.

"This is the first time he has found me." She spoke trying to get her arm back.

For over three hundred years Kristine managed to keep a low profile, and had been able to hide from Xander, and now that he was here.. Well Kristine felt like he was trying to turn her into a monster like him. "Please let me go." The redhead pleaded with Castielle. The sound of Elizabeth's heart beat started to echo in Kristine's ear and the vampire wanted it to go away.

"Why is this happening to me?" Kristine asked as kept trying to get Castielle's grip to loosen up a bit. The redhead just wanted out of this room away from temptation because the smell alone coming off of Elizabeth was almost to much to bare let alone the pulse and everything else. "Why does she smell so different?" Kristine was talking about Elizabeth, and the fact that her fae blood smelt it would taste like heaven in her mouth.

Hearing Cassie's response, in the end Elizabeth could do nothing but to agree with the four thousand year old Vampire so she simply inclined her head in concurance and respect as she watched the two vampires whilst hearing the rest of Castielle's words.

Seeing Kristine starting to plead, Elizabeth had a sudden chilling thought and started to move towards the door. "Perhaps it would be better if I excused myself for this evening to freshen myself up before checking on the students...." She stated, taking small steps to not seem rude but enough to distance herself from Kristine.

If she had been drinking from Blood Bags, then it was little wonder that the scent of the Angel's blood was making her this way..... But, only .5 percent of her blood was supposed to be used per bag, so it made little sense for a Vampire to be so needy for a type of blood that was so minimal compared with the animal blood that it was mixed with half of the time, and the other half being from many Humans.