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impatience.
    She waited on his response to this, it may not be important to him but her old wreck was hers and she did need it for work.
    “Sorry but you won’t be going to work, not tomorrow and probably not for a while. My orders are to get you to Headquarters as soon as possible. So I am taking …”
    She cut him off mid-sentence.
    “What? No no no, I need to go to work, I can’t just not go, I need my salary to survive, I’m not rich, I can’t lose my job!” Her voice rose until she was nearly shouting.
    “ Alexina, please calm down. You are in danger and not the sort of danger you can call the local police to take care of. You have to come with me. You WILL be coming with me. I WILL keep you safe, I have to,” he retaliated. His tone was forceful and one that usually got no arguments, from anyone.
    “ Why?” she cried.
    “ Why what?” Zach asked.
    “ You said, ‘I will keep you safe, I have to’, why?”
    “ Because I do,” was all he could come up with.
    *****
    Zach was bewildered as he tried to sort through the conversation and his visceral reaction to Alexina. He was confused as he had really never felt like this before, and his ‘before’ was a very, very long time.
    He had had what he called little dalliances with other Supers. Usually she-Wolves as they were highly sexed and he loved their stamina. However, he had not once ever fallen in love. Or felt more than a passing attraction for any female, Super or human, so he was unfamiliar with the reaction to this female that he was feeling.
    For goodness’ sake, he told himself, he had only just met this woman. What was so special about her? He didn’t know.
    *****
    Alex was very quiet as she tried to get all this into her brain and process what was happening. Okay so he had said she was in danger – from what and why?
    She tried to think of ever coming into contact with anything or anyone ‘Super’, as Zach called it, that may have led to this. But no, she just knew that she hadn’t.
    So, what? Did he expect her to just GO with him?
    Apparently so. Would she? When she thought about this man, Zach he had said was his name, she didn’t know him, but she was absolutely certain that he had saved her life in the woods.
    She had no idea what was there but she had known in her gut it was there to hurt her. So, would she go with him? Hell yes. Well after she had spoken to her Aunt Mary that was.
    She didn’t want to, at worst die, at best be hurt. So she would go with him and try to find out as quickly as possible how to stop this ‘thing’ and then get back to her normal, boring job working in IT in a bank.
    “So Batman, where are we going?” She tried to make a joke of it as she was actually terrified and trying desperately not to show that to this stranger.
    She was a bit of a control freak and at this moment she was in control of nothing, so that scared her. Scared her a lot.
    “ Batman? I am not a Batman, I am a Vampire, did you not understand?”
    She laughed, actually laughed, it was a lovely sound. “Yea I understood you, it’s just a saying, you know, Batman from the comics? Batman and Robin? No? You don’t get it do you?” She looked at his befuddled expression. Nope he didn’t get it, he was a strange one.
    Then she laughed all the more as she thought – a strange one? Yes of course he was, he was a feckin’ Vampire.
    When she had stopped laughing Zach responded. "Of course I know of the comics and I think I've even seen one of those Batman movies but I don't understand why you brought it up, so sorry no I didn't get that, but the answer to your question on where we are going is quite simply – to a safe place. Until I can make arrangements for the jet to be ready. Once it is I will take you to Headquarters to see what the next step is.”
    Alex just stared at him with her mouth hanging open. Jet? Did he just say jet? You have GOT to be kidding, she thought. He was getting a jet?
    “ Uhm did you just say jet? As in