[ 11 ] 2013 

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"You're too nice for your own good. But...I think I can do something to help Barbie Boy."

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A girl with strawberry blonde hair strolled into the hospital cafeteria. Despite the fact that there were plenty other empty seats, she sat directly across from the girl in Harley Quinn's body. Immediately, the blonde snarled at the young woman who dared to sit with her, "Do I know you?" Kylie eyed the strawberry blonde appearance of Dempsey with disdain.

"Uh, yeah." Dempsey said, as if it were obvious. "Your name is Harley Quinn."

Kylie stiffened in her seat. She had no way of knowing if this was true or not. She herself knew nothing about Harley Quinn. But since the bright eyed young woman seemed to know her, Kylie decided to play along. "Yes...what was your name again?"

"Aimee Johannsson." Dempsey made a horrid attempt at giving a fake name. From behind Kylie, she saw Paúl approaching them. On his face was an amused smile when she had to give Kylie a fake name.

The nineteen year old hunter reached out to touch Kylie on the shoulder. Dempsey saw how the girl across from her slumped forward, her head falling against the table. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head, showing only haunting white eyeballs. As the effect of Paúl's gift took effect on her, she shot her head up, regaining consciousness to find she was in Luke's room at the hospital.

An evil grin spread onto her face when she saw the blonde haired boy lying in a hospital bed unconscious. She didn't know how she got there. All she knew was that she needed to take advantage of the fact that they were alone in the room.

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"I died...?" Luke's words came out in a shakey breath.

"I won't let that happen, okay?" She began to make promises she wasn't sure if she could keep. But Harley knew this was happening because Kylie was jealous over nothing. Harley felt like it was her fault all that was happening to Luke. "You're going to live, I promise."

Her hand reached to pat him on the shoulder, but he wanted more from her. His arms sought to wrap her into an embrace. Both were surprised to find that in his flickering image was a connection back to the real world. Harley's hand went right through him like he was made of air. Luke closed his ocean blue eyes and spoke of what he saw. "I see the hospital room. There are doctors running around everywhere, trying to help me."

"You have to wake up." Harley urged. "You have a chance."

"How?" He opened his eyes to look at her. There was fear in them, fear of dying. Fear of the unknown.

She ran a hand through her golden blonde hair in frustration. "I don't know. I don't know. But we have to do something. You can't just die. Its too soon."

The seconds felt like centuries as they passed and Harley didn't know how she could help Luke. She wasn't like Calum. She grew up in a normal family, or so she thought, and she grew up never knowing of her abilities. Calum knew everything there was to know, and anything he didn't know was probably in some book at his grandfather's old house. 

Harley didn't know how, but she needed to help Luke live.

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Paúl Medina and Dempsey Johannsson had a hard time getting Kylie back to the car without getting seen by anyone. The soul using Harley Quinn's body was currently in a delusional state of the mind in which she thought she was in the hospital room with Luke, which was her objective. But that was all an illusion created by Paúl. What was real was that they were headed, with her, back to their house where Calum and Ashton would be waiting for them.

They parked in the driveway, finding two boys were already there waiting for them. Paúl stepped out of the car and opened one of the back doors to reach for the unconscious girl in the back seat.

He picked her up easily and carried her bridal style towards the front door while Dempsey went around to close the car door before following after them. Ashton's face contorted in concern at the sight of her. "You didn't...kill her. Did you?" He asked.

"No! She's just unconscious." Paúl responded with a hint of outrage in his accented voice. "This host body belongs to the boss' daughter. Do you think I have a death wish?"

Calum stepped in front of the hunter and stuck his arms out in front of him, as if trying to take Harley in his arms. "I've got her, mate." He said. Paúl rolled his eyes at the raven haired boy, but left her in his arms and went to open the front door.

Dempsey led the boys into the livingroom and Calum set the unconscious body of Harley Quinn down on one of the couches. He sat next to her with Ashton standing up in front of them. On his face was a look of worry that seemed permanent on his face ever since everything with Harley happened. Time was passing so slowly for all of them. It felt like weeks had passed when in reality all the events had taken place in a span of about twenty four hours.

"What now?" Calum asked the hunters who were in the nearby kitchen. 

Once knowing they had things undercontrol, they went to prepare something to eat for everyone. Sometimes work was difficult that way. They would work for hours on end to return home drained and hungry. 

Dempsey was making scrambled eggs in a skillet and Paúl was cooking chilaquiles in another which were composed of corn tortillas cut up into small pieces and chile sauce. The aroma of warm food filled the house and the hunter informed them, "First we eat, then we get the boss' daughter back. The girl needs to be awake when you take her soul to the dark realm." An amused smile appeared on his face when he said, "I hope you Aussies can handle Mexican food. We're known for being able to handle heat."

"Yeah." Ashton remembered fondly. "When I was alive, I was friends with a boy named Bobby. He was of Spaniard and Mexican parents, born in Australia. And he was always eating spicy food."

"Bring it on." Calum challenged. "I can handle a bit of chili."

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Luke and Harley heard noises coming from one end of the dark hallway. That meant someone was joining them. She hoped it was Calum and then he could help her get Luke back into his body. Harley jumped slightly when she heard the yelling of a young woman coming from the far end where she had heard the noises at first. Luke seemed to recognize the voice the moment he heard it. His face went completely pale as he got out one word. "Kylie."

On the side wall Harley turned to see the timer flashing.

05:00:00.

Time began to count down and she knew they only had five minutes with Kylie's soul now in the hallway before they would all be sucked into any random door. 

"Let go of me!" Kylie yelled.

Someone else was there with her. The screams of the former cheerleader filled the space in the hall and got louder as both made their way towards Luke and Harley. When they were just close enough for them to see each other, Harley saw it was Calum who was there. His hand gripped the top of Kylie's arm like a vice and he was half dragging her down the hallway. "No." Calum told her. "We're getting rid of you now because you're just a fucking annoying bitch and a slag."

"You would know." Kylie spat angrily.

04:26:07.

"Calum, we're running out of time." Harley reminded him.

The raven haired boy nodded and went to the first door she saw. Harley wanted to stop him. The natural order of life dictated that a soul needed to chose a door on their own. He opened a door without hesitating and pushed the girl inside, shutting the door behind her. Knowing what Harley was thinking, he told her, "It doesn't matter which door she chooses. That bitch is going to hell."

03:59:02.

"Okay fine." Harley sighed. "Now we need to help Luke."

"That depends on him." Calum informed her. "You see him flickering like that? Its because he's in between life and death. He needs to wake up on his own. What we need to do is find a door with old symbols on it. That will get you back into your body again."

"Are you sure you can't do anything to help Luke?" She insisted.

Calum rolled his eyes at her. "You're too nice for your own good. But...I think I can do something to help Barbie Boy."

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an extra long update cause its been two weeks since the last one.

i know i promised an update sooner, but i've been really busy with school. this is my last week and i need to get done everything i havent already finished if i want to get good grades.

by next wednesday i'll be free for one month.

so you can expect more updates!

thank you all so much for reading and supporting. it means a lot to me because i know i haven't been the best at updating and i really hope you can all forgive me.

i know i said if my book (MITM) reached 1M reads, i would find a way to have a printed copy made to raffle off to someone. i'm really working on that, don't think i've forgotten ^.^ and well, that's all i have to say for today. i don't have a question of the day, only letting you know there will be more plot twists to come.

i love you.

-clary xx