• Namine.

    I don't know what it is about the night that I love. It could be the way that I can slip from tree to tree without so much as a rustle from the lush green leaves. It could also be the quiet excitement of the silent kill, but whatever it was, it was why I was so good at what I did.
    I felt at home with the Organization. Ever since they found me in the alley with my parents both dead at my feet and covered in blood, they knew what I was and they used it to their advantage, whether it was slaying a fellow demon or silently killing a man that knew too much.
    I smiled as I looked over the city. Standing on top of the church with the stone gargoyles, I felt at home, like I belonged here. I heard the scrape of a stiletto heel and turned to find Alec leaning casually against the gargoyle furthest from me.
    Her bright eyes, the eyes of a child, looked at me as they took in the scene before her and she smiled at me, “What are you looking for Namine?” she looked at me with a suspicious look on her face.
    “Shouldn't you be at the base? Brad is looking for you, he says he has a new assignment that he wants you to take a look at. Oh! And he is really mad that you ran off.” Her eyes glazed over as she pictured the face of our, always angry, boss and took a step back and shivered into her leather coat.
    The whole black leather coat and leather, black, stiletto boots weren't really the preferred outfit that we were meant to wear but being the outsiders that we were Alec and I made the example of standing out.
    I looked away with a smile at her childishness and scanned the city lights of the buildings and apartments until I found what I was looking for. A boy, about 17, with black hair and grass-green eyes.
    I heard Alec take a step closer and saw her out of the corner of my eye as she looked at me with a certain level of concentration that she never usually portrayed.
    “Man, you should really see you eyes while you do that. They look amaz.......”
    I held up a single finger to silence her. He had seen me. Those green eyes showed the fear that I didn't want to see from him as he stared at me. I was going to have to move fast before he found his way up here.
    I silently moved away from the edge and slipped into the shadows, leaving Alec standing there with her mouth half open, but not before he saw my face and before I heard Alec say, “Ah. I get it know.”

    Edward.

    That was the last call of the night and I was finally finished with my homework. Boy if the teachers tell me I'm not allowed to go to the warehouse near the port then I'm gonna go nuts.
    I leaned back in my chair and sighed with content. I looked around my apartment and saw that my room was really plain compared to the other boys in my class, with all their posters of girls and cars.
    I suddenly got the feeling of someone staring at me from the dark abyss and turned to look at the church. s**t that thing was scary. It always gave me the creeps. I stood up and walked over to the window and leaned my left arm against the top of the window and leaned my head against it as I stared down onto the street at the people walking by and saw a girl in a red plaid skirt and leather jacket stumble in the apartment building with a blonde haired boy that I recognized as Jakob from school, he was the only other boy in my class that lived on his own, I could tell they were drunk but I ignored them. I had gotten the feeling again.
    I looked up to the roof and straight into a pair of blood-red eyes staring at me from the darkness that swallowed any hopes that I might have gotten away from the Organization.
    I had a thought and my mind flashed back to a party that I had been to two weeks ago. I had seen those same eyes as I stared over the bathroom sink after throwing up half of my dinner after drinking too much with my friends. It was the same girl.
    She leaned forward and I saw that she was wearing a black coat and was watching me from under black bangs. She was talking to someone for the moon lit up the roof and showed a blonde, wearing the same outfit, leaning against one of the gargoyles talking. But I didn't notice her, all I could concentrate on was the eyes that seem to stare into my soul and see my deepest fears and desires.
    I blinked and she was gone. She disappeared and took any hopes of escaping with her. I had to act fast, but before I could go I noticed the blonde still standing there. She turned and looked straight at me. She smiled and I could read her lips as she said, “Ah. I get it know.” and then she too disappeared out of the moonlight.
    I quickly turned and hurried out of the room as fast as my feet would let me, grabbing a blue sweat jacket as I walked out of the door. I opted for taking the stairs instead of the elevator because it was usually slow and filled to the brim with drunk people trying to get home before the doorman locked up for the night.
    I hurried down the four flight of stairs and burst through the doors into the night air and took a deep breath and started walking down the street. I turned back to apartments that had turned into my home for the past six months. I sighed as I realized that I had to leave, yet another home to escape the assassins. They weren't gonna stop.
    I crossed the street and ran up the front steps of the church and pushed my way through the rusted-up doors. I quickly made my way through the pews and down the aisle until I saw that the girls weren't there and that there was no way that they could make there way up to the roof and down again as fast as they did.
    I stopped as I reached the alter and saw in a sliver of moonlight that had made it's way through the colored glass. It was it was something small, silver and shiny and as I walked over to where it was I bent over the bench and saw that it was a necklace with a silver chain and a small silver heart. I picked it up and found that in it's center a black hole threatened to swallow up the whole earth and I realized that I held the girl's whole heart and soul in the middle of my hand.

    Namine.

    I walked through the door and said to myself, “s**t! That stupid p***k has my necklace.” I walked through the boxes that were stacked in the warehouse and found Alec sitting amongst them. The boxes were all filled with guns and other various weapons that time had forgotten.
    I know because Alec and I had gotten curious one time and opened one and as we picked up a handgun it crumbled and turned into dust and blew into the air as a gust of wind found us through the door.
    I envied her. She looked so at home with all these humans, and sitting there she looked almost like one, even though she carried the spirit of a sand demon in her soul and sand ran through her veins, she was more human then most of the people that trained at the Organization. Even me. And while sitting there flicking through her magazine, she looked like she actually wanted to be posted here, in this backwater city, in this old abandoned warehouse.
    She was lounging on and against six boxes, with her feet propped up on two because I could see her black, buckled stilettos in a beam of light that had peeked through the boarded up windows as if saying hello to the darkened room.
    She looked up at me with those pale-blue eyes and smiled at my comment that she heard me say as I entered the room. She looked back down to her magazine and flicked a page before saying, “I wonder if I could get the Organization to find me some contacts just like yours. Like the same color and everything.” she said mainly to herself.
    I walked over to where she was sitting and hit her feet until she moved them so I could sit down. “Can I ask you a serious question Alec?” I looked at her and waited for her answer with baited breath.
    “Yeah, sure.” She looked at me and put her magazine down on the floor and looked at me. All the jokes and childishness left her face and was replaced by a serious face that I had never seen before.
    “Ummm...... ok.........Do you....do..” I stopped, I didn't know how to ask the question. I was scared that she would laugh at me but I was also scared that she would say yes so I tried again.
    “Umm...... do you think...I'm a bad person? Like evil?” I looked down at my feet and heard Alec stand up and sit crossed legged at my feet. She looked at my face from under my hair and pulled a face and I couldn't help but laugh.
    “Don't worry Namine. Your not a bad person. Kind of disturbed, but not evil.” I let out a breath and bent down to hug her.
    “Thanks Alec.” We both looked at each other and laughed and I realized all that worrying about the question was all a wasted effort.
    “So, who were you chasing last night?” she stood up and walked over to the wall and leaned against it and looked at me, all seriousness gone, but before she could say more or before I could answer. The door opened and Brad walked in carrying a manila envelope and I could tell he was mad.
    “Where have you been Namine?” he cried out angrily. He took a step towards me but I shrunk away from him a stepped out of his reached. But not before I could grab the envelope from his grasp and opened it.
    “What is this?” I asked as I stared at the smiling school photo staring back at me. The paper underneath the photo said Sora but I the face from last night popped into my head and I couldn't fit them together.
    “This is you next assignment Namine. I want him dead within the next week.” He looked at me and then Alec. He gave us a look that said do it or face my wrath and I didn't really want to face that this week.
    He turned around and walked to the door but before he closed it he turned and looked at me with an expression that said sorry and said, “Namine, I know what this is doing to you but honestly your already more damaged then you could ever think and I'm sure one more disappointment couldn't hurt.” and with that he walked out the door and closed it behind him.
    Alec looked at me and gave me a look thats said, what the hell is he talking about? But I just shook my head and said, “Sorry, but don't worry about it.” I walked over to her and whispered so that she wont be so suspicious, “Honestly? I have no idea what that guy is ever saying.” and turned around and sat on another box. Alec came over and sat next to me.
    “Man, I hate being a demon. Don't you hate it Namine? I mean your a vampire. You're the most different,” she looked me right in the eye and said as a whisper, “ and the most dangerous too.” She started to talk normal again.
    “Why does he have to give us the hardest bounties?” Bounties. Why does everything that comes out of her mouth sound different? I mean, when I say bounties or assignments it's like I'm saying a bad word, but when she says it. That's another story, it sounds like something that is normal and that everybody does it everyday.
    “I don't know Alec. I just don't know.” I looked back down at my lap where the photo of my brother and felt sick.

    I didn't want to have to kill him now that I have finally found him. I looked up at the sun coming through the window and thought, and he isn't gonna die. Not even if the Organization send countless assassins after him.

    He wasn't gonna die. I won't let him.



    To Be Continued.........