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but she was enjoying the mystery of looking at him and not knowing. She wondered if he was thinking of his dreams, of her, or if he was still troubling himself with the many victims the Rogue was scattering all over the city.
    She watched him for the longest, lost in his own thought. He lifted his head and looked in the mirror again. His eyes already looked clearer. He sighed, then she followed him back out of the bathroom and down the short hallway.
    The buzzer sounded at the door and she hopped up on the counter and sat Indian-style as Mitch talked to Brad through the speaker, unlocked and opened the door, then walked back to the living room, to find his wallet, no doubt. Brad came in and set the pizza box beside her on the counter. He didn't look at her as she smelled the meat and cheese wafting through the cardboard. She liked pizza, but she wished he would order Mexican more often. She could go get it herself, but it wouldn't be in his apartment for her to sample later that night.
    He came back with money and they talked about going to some game on Saturday. She had never thought much about sports, but she thought they were talking about football. There wouldn't be an empty seat near him, maybe none at all. She could go out in the sun as long as she was invisible, but maybe she would visit her family Saturday and let Mitch go to the game alone. Or maybe she could try tracking down the killer again. He always stayed just out of her reach. If she could find him, she would turn him over to the Elders. She wasn't allowed to protect humans. It didn't matter if there was a Rogue vampire slaughtering them all. Humans couldn't know about her kind. And they wouldn't see Mitch as an exception.
    If she got caught protecting a human, the punishment would be almost as bad as a Rogue would get. She didn't want to think what they would do if they found out she had been camping out in a mortal's apartment for the last four weeks. Invisible or not, it wouldn't matter to them.
    So this was the only way, through his dreams, and even that would get her into a lot of trouble.
    She watched as Brad walked out and closed the door, then Mitch as he securely locked it. If he only knew that there was a vampire locked in here with him. She shook her head. He would bust through the locked door, screaming.
    He inhaled the first piece of pizza as he always did. He appeared to be lost in thought. He seemed almost sad, but just before she probed his brain to find out exactly what it was he was thinking, he shook his head, grabbed another piece of pizza and then went to the recliner to sit down.
    She moved back to the arm of the couch and watched him as he got annoyed that the TV wouldn't work. She had to cover her mouth to stifle a laugh as he threw the remote past her. He only brooded for a minute before getting up and grabbing more pizza. He washed the fifth piece down with a glass of water then shoved the pizza box in the fridge.
    He closed the fridge door and rose up quickly. He was looking at her. She stayed very still, even though she knew he couldn't possibly see her. She made sure not to breathe at all, which wasn't a problem for her; she didn't have to breathe to live. Breathing was natural, so she did most of the time. He shook his head and laughed. She smiled and put her hand over her racing heart.
    He walked back to the bathroom and reached for the button on his slacks. Her heart started to race faster, because she knew what he was about to do. She felt like a peeping tom, well… okay, if you think about it, she was doing this for all the right reasons. Why couldn't she enjoy her task? The Elders had sent her to find the Rogue, subdue him, and turn him over to them. She was trying to do that, sort of.
    He kicked out of his slacks and pulled his black socks off. He was completely nude standing before her now, and she yearned to reach out and touch that wonderful body of his. He was about six-one or six-two. He wasn't over muscular, but every