A/N: I just updated, but hey, why not two in a day-I might even go for three? I haven't got anything to do and I'm about thirty chapters behind on updating! Xx -Melissa

26.

*Addison*

"You're crazy, you know that, right?" Isaac hesitantly rose to his feet. He pointed at my pistol, "What is that?"

I glanced up from screwing on a silencer, "It'll give us the edge. It's all about surprise with these asshats."

Derek opened up my room door, Isaac swinging on his coat as he went into the hall. "Any plan about exactly what to do?"

I put my holy water flask inside of my jacket after putting my locked gun in the back of my jeans under my shirt. "I'll figure it out."

"That's reassuring," Isaac mumbled, shoving his hands in his pockets.

Leaving my near dead cell phone in it's charger, I rolled my eyes and switched off my lights. "Let's just go."

"Is it safe to take my car?" Derek asked, waiting with Isaac as I locked up the front door of my house.

I hid the key in it's original place before shaking my head. "It would give us away. We'll have to go on foot." I looked up to Derek, "Lead the way."

Although the trek to the location wasn't long, the silence made it worse. Isaac kept to me, but Derek stayed about a foot infront of us. By the way he stiffly held himself, there was clearly a bad memory sitting on him. 

"Here." Derek stopped, an edge of a house just beyond the thick trees in a small clearing.

"Holy shit." Isaac's eyes widened, the house we'd never seen before sitting in all it's glory as if it belonged there.

"Not exactly holy." I narrowed my eyes, focusing in. "Two guys outside the door. One looking out each window." I checked my watch then the left top window. "Every thirty seconds."

"That's not exactly easy to get by." Derek commented, tapping me as he grew quiet. "Addi."

I looked over to my left, a guy watching us wih his head cocked. "Christo." I quietly said, waiting.

The man growled violetnly, his eyes burning a dead black. "You must be Addison."

I grinned, only replying with a quick exorcism. In under a minute, he fell cooly onto the forest floor.

Isaac barely blinked, "Did you just kill that guy?"

I walked over and crouched down beside him. Taking a pulse, I shook my head. "No, he's alive." I leaned over a bit more, "Go back home. You'll wake up in five minutes. This never happened. You went out for a walk and that's all."

"What'd you say to him?" Isaac asked as I stood back up. "Addison."

"I just told him to leave." I waved it off. "It probably won't even work."

Isaac meerly gave me a funny look, but Derek stared at me as if he knew I had just lied.

"Let's go." I looked away from Derek and stepped over the man's body. "We need to scope out the back."

Rounding the house, I found myself keeping my knife in hand. It was almost like I could sense something about to go wrong.

Derek perked up his ears as we came across a path wide enough for a car. "A car's coming, hurry." Making sure I was right with him, we ran across the open area with his hand wrapped around mine.

"Shit." I muttered, not seeing Isaac behind us where I thought he was. Even though he was close, it was too late. "Stay here."

The car jerked to a stop, sending me running out after Isaac.

"Hey, kid!"

"John!" I had already stached away my knife so I looked relatively harmless. "The car is this way, babe!" I turned to the two guys walking up to us. "I am so sorry he was in your way." I kicked Isaac's leg lightly, mentally telling him to go to the woods. 

"I'll go start it up." Isaac said, kissing the top of my head to play along. "Sorry guys." 

"This is private property, kid. What's your name?"

"Addison."

The fuller of the two's eyes widened. "Mitch, call the boss."

I whipped out my gun and shot Mitch squarely in the head, making his phone clatter to the forest floor. "I'm sorry, but I can't have that." As Mitch struggled to move, I replaced my gun with my knife, jamming it into the man who gave Mitch the orders.

"Oh, God." Mitch cried, watching as I released the knife from the chest and his body tumble to the ground. "Barry?"

Wiping off the blood on Mitch's sleeve, I pointed it at him. "Should I make you like him or would you like to help me out?"

"I'd rather die-"

"Your choice." I gave no hesitance and quickly took the life away from him, an orange surging through before he fell. Catching him, I lifted him and managed to get him into the drivers' seat.

"What the Hell are you doing?" Derek ran out to me, Isaac following after him. 

I shut the door on Mitch and came around to Barry's body. "Sending a message."

"I didn't sign up for thi-"

"You're here, Isaac." I hiked up the front of the body and dragged him to the passengers' side. "I didn't sign up for anything either, but this has to be done. That's how it works." 

Derek quietly came up to the body and finished getting him into the car for me.

"What do we do now? Two dead guys in a car." Isaac, sounding flustered, was clearly bothered by me being the one who killed them. 

"Push the car up towards the house so they find them. That's what we do."

"Isaac, come on." Derek said, swaying Isaac to help due to the overpowering fact of him being Derek's beta.

Shoving it enough, we escaped back into the woods as the car rolled up to the house. I moved us further around the back of the house.

"See anything?" I asked quietly, the two of them seeming to pick up on something. 

"Six people on the main floor, two in the middle and the others at windows." Derek added, a burning red glimmering from his eyes.

"Why the center of the floors?" I asked softly, checking my magazine.

"The nematon, that's what they built this place over."

A light flickered on in my head. "Then I know we can get in." I spotted wooden doors in the ground just outside of the house. "I can swing it. I'll get in and check it out." 

Derek grabbed my hand, "Addison, they b-"

"Let me do this, please, Derek." I quickly kissed his cheek before squeezing Isaac's shoulder. "I'll be okay." Pulling out my gun, I gripped it tightly as I timed my run to keep from being seen by the guards at the windows.

I'd lied about the bullets. They can kill demons. Blessed by the angel of the church, they would work to take out the bastards.

I couldn't risk the chance of the demons screaming up a warning while they were stuck in place. I have to kill them all to stay alive myself.

Moving from being flat against the house to stay out of sight, I kicked up and opened the doors to the root cellar of the nematon. The stairs down had been removed, so I jumped straight in without hesitation.

Then the gun fire started.

*Isaac*

I shut my eyes as Addison squeezed my shoulder, knowing that tone in her voice. I wouldn't have noticed if she hadn't told me her trips out of town were hunts. I'd get a call from her, usually at nightfall. There was always something in her voice during those calls, it was like a back up goodbye. In case she didn't make it out, she'd at least told someone goodbye and that she loved them.

"I'll be okay." She said to Derek and I, but the whiteness of her knuckles around her 45 said otherwise. 

Watching as she ran to the house, I held my breath as she kicked open the doors and jumped out of sight. 

"Do you hear anything?" I asked feverishly, an unbareable silence showing no sign of Addi still fighting.

Derek shook his head grimly, "With her necklace and gun silencer, we can't hear her." He hesitated, "Like she planned it that way."

"Well yeah, so the demons couldn't hear her show up, right?" I lifted an eyebrow, watching Derek's expression. "Right?"

"Not  what I meant." Derek's eyes whipped up to the second floor. "There."

A guard opening the curtains was yanked back, the dim room illuminating twice as the other window watcher was snatched back. 

"Come on," Derek jumped up, both of us running into the house. 

"Derek," I gaped, seeing bodies lying around. I checked the pulse on one of the people carelessly on the wood floor. "He's dead." I looked up to Derek. "She must've used the knife, right?"

Derek took in a breath, shutting his eyes as he pulled Addison's demon knife from his jacket. "She gave it to me."

I glanced back down, soon finding a bullet hole through his chest that was hiding under his jacket. "She's got something else that kills demons."

"Upstairs." Derek ran over to the stairs, "Now," He urged, both of us shooting to the top floor.

Addison stood with a gun pointed at two people kneeling at the center of the room. Both flicked their eyes to black upon our arrival.

"I'm flattered you felt the need to bring your pets." Mathis grinned, winking over the Derek and I. "Hi lads. Did you see the mess your girlfriend left downstairs? Truely awful." He returned his eyes to Addison, "I bet you loved every second of it."

"Now, now, Mathis." A ginger man, of about 40, looked over to Mathis with a disapproving glare. "Don't make her have you join your brother."

"Yeah, Math, the leviathan love demons. They'd tear you apart in seconds." Addison ignored Derek and I entirely. "You should listen to your daddy."

I exchanged a look with Derek, both of us nervous to see how this would turn out.

Mathis rolled his eyes, "Oh please, she knows deep down I gave her the coordinates to here."

Mathis' father jerked his head to Mathis with wide eyes, "What did you do, Mathis?" 

"Honestly, you're soo dim, Addison. You walked straight into this one. I suppose that you know we built this place over the nematon, right? Well, surprise, all of those people you slaughtered in here, they'll flip on the switch of the nematon. They were all virgins, Ads, and now, it'll be entirely your fault when beasts and magic of all kinds come and ravage your precious town."

Addison darkly grinned. "Good."