’ I could feel my cheeks turning red as I thought what the hell, so I told him yes before I chickened out. I asked him where we were going, he just ...aid it would be a surprise and I should dress nice but comfortable. He leaned down and kissed me a long slow kiss right on the lips, I felt my heart flutter but I held the kiss not wanting it to stop. When he finally pulled away, I brushed the back of my fingers across his cheek. I asked him to do me one favor, and he looked down at me with a smile. I was promised the compound would be clean of snow and ready to go.The rapid response team was in their last week. The state department was coming back today to finish up their presentation. Then four days were left to finish out the training. Then they would get to spend the weekend at home.I carried two framed blow-ups of my family, the five of us surrounding Jenny holding the boys and then another of me holding the boys. I placed them on my desk.The meetings that were postponed on Friday. Touching her lips a small tear came from one eye. Then a smile lit up her face as she turned to attend to what she was cooking. For the next few days I planned watching every thing the sub-council member did. Finally almost a week later I got Naci who had been practicing a few things I had shown her. I had also worked on her defenses and levels. Though only two higher she was a lot higher than most I had met and seen. "We are going to have to do this quick. After we take him I'm quite sure. Hey, wake up." The man was touching me, washing my face with some water from a plastic bottle and wiping at me with some cloth.I blinked at him and I had a headache. I couldn't have been asleep very long, I didn't think. I reached for my temple and there was a large cut on the side of my head, just under my hair where it started growing. The wound was still open and wet and I looked at my fingers, seeing them red and sticky with blood. Some fifteen or twenty feet away, the hunter was sitting on.