Leah and I sat in my Audi on stakeout duty while we waited for the rest of the team to catch up to us.

It's not like I intended to speed excessively on our way here, but the thought of Audrey in trouble was like a brick on my accelerator. So now we're watching the entrance to the drones hideout.

The hideout appeared to be a cabin in a lightly wooded, but not well traversed area just outside of the suburbs. However, we both knew that the cabin was in fact just the entrance to their fortress. The rest of the complex being underground.

We'd parked in the parking area at the start of a local walking trail to avoid suspicion. We had binoculars to see the cabin.

Sitting in a sexy, sleek black car, using binoculars to peek on the bad guys, not going to lie, I kind of felt like John Wick.

Somehow I'd thought that the cabin would be crawling with drones like a bees nest. However only a single person had left the cabin and no one had entered in the entire time we were watching.

We heard the cruiser carrying the rest of the team pull up beside us and we all got out quietly and got started.

We'd all agreed to the plan beforehand, it really was quite simple. Quietly infiltrate the cabin and gain access to the underground facility. Once inside, be stealthy and locate Audrey before retrieving her and quietly exiting the facility. Thankfully, a drones hearing is only slightly better than a humans, unlike a vampires which is super sensitive

It was a simple enough plan, except none of us had any idea of the layout of the facility beyond the outer walls of the cabin.

We approached the cabin. When we arrived, one of the hunters picked the rather simple lock and we entered to find the building deserted. So far so good.

A quick look around showed us a normal cabin someone owned for a retreat, except for the modern elevator built into the center that you wouldn't be able to see from outside.

Leah hit the button and put her eye to the device that lit up. We already knew that only a drone eye could active the elevator and hoped that Leah's eyes would do.

Luckily the device seemed to accept the glowing rings in Leah's eyes before the door hissed open.

We entered the elevator to find that there were 4 levels as well as the cabin level that the lift could reach. "May as well start at the dungeon on the bottom floor." I thought as I hit the button marked B4. I've never seen a dungeon on a rooftop.

We exited the elevator into a long white corridor. Not dissimilar to the one that was directly outside of my cell in the hunters encampment.

There were doors placed along both sides of the corridor. Which a quick hand single, we agreed to split up and check the rooms in either direction. The team of the five hunters took the right hand side of the corridor while Leah and I took the left.

It may seem unfair for our party to be split 2-5 but let's face it, I'm a freakin vampire, a bad ass one I might add, and more than make up for the lack of numbers in our group.

The first room we looked into was a torture chamber. I felt sick within seconds of looking into the deserted room and had to shut the door. The second room we tried looked like something out of a mad scientists dream. There were chemical concoctions and sciency looking machines everywhere. The third room seemed to be some sort of storage room. We were yet to find a dungeon or holding cell.

There was only one room left to try but I heard a thump sound with my vampire hearing and signalled to Leah to turn around. We had to check up on our group.

When we got back to the elevator we discovered that there was no sign of our group and I figured that they'd entered one of the rooms. We cautiously approached the first and second room to find more storage rooms.

As I open the door to the third room I endured a blast of air to the face that smelt acidic. Leah got hit with the blast as well.

I looked down to find our five team members unconscious on the ground. I realized a second before it took effect that it was knock out gas. I REALLY need to stop getting knocked unconscious by drugs... slightly buzzed through my head as Leah and I hit the floor.

I woke up in a daze. Everything felt heavy, including my eyelids. I tried to move and discovered that I was chained to the ground. Not that I'd be able to go very far with my body being so heavy anyway.

"Do you like it?" I heard a hauntingly familiar voice taunt me. "I've injected you with dead blood. It makes it hard to do anything for a vampire such as yourself."

I opened my eyes to see a messed up Jake staring at me, the hatred in his eyes not contained at all. He had scars all over, and I mean ALL over, his face where his jaw was surgically reattached.

A quick look around told me at Leah was chained next to me and Jamie Lawson was guarding the door. The five hunters were nowhere to be seen.

I felt a hand grab my hair and pull my face up to Jake's as he got threateningly close to me. Apparently there is another person in the room I hadn't identified yet.

"Did you really think you could just sneak in here? You may be an Original vampire, as I found out to my disgust, but you're a stupid one. You should have flooded this place with drones."

"It's not my style." I bit back as best I could while I was still exhausted from the dead blood. "But I'd much rather rip people's jaws off with my bare hands. It's more fun that way you see. I can show you again if you'd like."

Jake became furious at this comment and I looked at Jamie, hoping he'd help us. But his eyes showed indifference to what was happening, like he didn't care.

"Don't worry you little bitch." Jake spat at me. "I've got something real special in store for you to watch before I kill you slowly. But this time you can't shock us all with your recovery." Jake was sneering by the end of his sentence.

"Would you to the honors to her beloved Leah?" Jake said to whoever was holding me by my hair as they let go.

I was trying to think of a way out of this situation when familiar dark brown hair entered my vision, making my heart sink even lower.

Audrey looked directly at me so I could see that her eyes were blood red and the glowing ring around the outside of her eyes indicating that we were too late. Audrey was a drone. Now merely a puppet driven corpse remained.

"Do you like the newest addition to our workforce?" Jake purred at me. For once, I really had no answer.

My emotions were out of control, particularly anger, just like the night Jake first attacked us. But this time I had dead man's blood in me so I couldn't avenge Audrey.

Audrey didn't wait for any more instructions as she picked up a long, thin and very sharp knife and heading over to Leah. Jamie even came down from his guard post to watch the show.

Audrey picked an unconscious Leah up by her hair and positioned the knife next to her mouth before looking at Jake for the instruction to proceed.

However Jake was no longer moving, let alone giving his taunting orders. There was an extremely thin blade entering his head through his eyeball. Jake just stood there and started to shake as the blade had obviously cut up part of his brain.

The next second there was a loud thump as Audrey collapsed, an iron bar to her temple knocking her unconscious. All pretenses of indifference gone from his face, replaced by fear and exhilaration. Jamie quickly dropped the baseball bat and rushed over to me to undo my chains.

Once I was free he helped me into a sitting position and cupped my face. From this vantage point I could clearly see the glowing green rings in his eyes.

"I need you to listen to me very carefully if we want to make it out of here alive. This place is crawling with drones that are waiting to kill you if something goes wrong in here." Jamie said. "But first things first, Leah will die shortly due to the poison Jake gave her as a secondary measure to ensure her death if we don't do something quickly."

This was all a lot to take in considering my mind still had a blanket of sleep over it.

"I want you to focus on Leah." Jamie instructed. "Imagine her healing and focus on it. A sort of pressure should build in your head. Keep focusing on her healing until you can't take the mental pressure anymore."

I did what Jamie said and found that there really was a pressure building in my head.

"Once it's at its peak you need to mentally push all that pressure over to Leah, you'll need to be touching her to do it." Jamie said as he helped me over to Leah.

I did as he asked and felt the pressure and power flow into Leah, I also discovered that I also had to maintain that energy in her or it quickly dissipated.

Leah suddenly woke up with a start, her normally only thin band of green in her eyes were expanded in an intense green glow. All the marks on her skin were fading like they do on my skin.

"Thank god we made it in time." Jamie stated. "But now we have the harder task of getting out of here alive." As I relaxed the pressure on Leah and her eyes went back to a thin band.