Will do. Desiree sent in return before going silent. It wasn't anything that was too suprrising, though. She did say that she wanted to have a shwoer and such first.

time passed, and at about the forty-five minute mark, Jaden noticed that he hadn't heard anything from Desiree. when he texted her, hoping to get something or other, find out what was causing her to run late, he was met with silence. Complete silence. He tried calling her, again... silence.

So he tried again. Didn't get anything.

"Fuck it."he growled before throwing caution to the wind and using a portal to get out of there. He made his way to the door of Desiree's apartment, to find it open. When he stepped in, he found the place a disaster, and he could smell blood quite clearly.

However, looking around? No one was in there.

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He couldn't find her. Couldn't find anyone. However, he did find the dagger that he'd been acquainted with the night before. That gave him all the information that he needed, in regards to actually figuring out what happened.

However, neither of the people were there.

He tried to find Desiree, tried to find her attacked, but neither could be found. He tried to get the scent of one of their bloods, but they were so well mixed, that didn't work either.

He searched the apartment, around the apartment, outside a couple blocks, hard.

He couldn't find Desiree.

When he went home. As he appeared inside his apartment, he heard his buzzer. It was buzzing, repeatedly.

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"It... it's Desiree." He heard her voice, and while it didn't sound quite right and could be someone that was imitating her, the question was whether or not he could actually risk that it wasn't her.

She sounded like she'd been beaten and battered, but at the same time, that was something that would make it easier to imitate her voice.

For all he knew, this was her brother, or mother, trying to find him to hopefully find Desiree.

Did he dare to take that chance?

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"... my b-brother stopped by." Dsiree stated, venom to her voice, more than he likely would have thought that she could have.

"P-please... I... just..." She started, shaking her head to try and clear it - not that he could see.

"I... n-nevermind. I'll j-just go." She added before the 'line' went dead. She'd canceled the communication, obviously. likely was making her way to the door out, as well. He knew she wouldn't be using her mana as it was barriered from such a thing in there.

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Sure enough, he found Desiree as she was leaving, a hand on the wall, with a rather heavy coat on. It was early autumn, it wasn't very cold at all, yet she had way too much weight on her. She had to be melting, had to be.

He could smell blood, too. A Lot of it at that. It wasn't hard to guess to that the reason why she was wearing the layers was because of the fact that she was trying to hide the blood, the wounds, whatever damage she'd sustained.

"Wh-what?" She asked, stuttering on something he hadn't really heard from her yet.

"Wh-why? I ... I h-have t-t-to go. I c-c-c-c-c-ca-can't p-put you in d-d-danger."

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Desiree didn't say anything, but he heard her sigh.

"I...." She started before shaking her head lightly, barely.

"I... I sh-shouldn't. You... B-blood... I ... I know wh-what you are, r-r-r-remember..." She added. It was was easy enough for him to believe that it was for her own protection, but her intonation, the way she said it, yeah. She sounded scared, but... scared FOR him, not of him.

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"I..." She started before falling silent. It wasn't easy to tell why, but as he stepped in front of her, he saw it. Her face was bloodied, extremely, and was dripping down. Her hair was a bloodied disaster, she was drastically pale, the blood he knew was coming from her torso wasn't even the half of it.

"I c-can't..." She started, trying to get whatever she wanted to say, out. Sadly, she wasn't able to, as Jaden had needed to move fast to catch her.

She was still alive, just didn't have the strength to stay on her feet now, thanks to the obvious blood loss.

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Sydney didn't say anything for a few seconds before the line when dead. A matter of thirty seconds later, she appeared in the room, a small medkit with her.

"I can stitch what I can, but I'm not the one you should have called." she told him as she stepped up to Desiree and started to take stock of the damage.

"Rene, being an actual medic, would have been better." she added as she started to apply a compress to Desiree face, hoping to get the blood flow to stem. She couldn't even seen the damage with all the blood.

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"I can get her out of the woods, not a problem there." Sydney assured him.

"However, I also know that if there's more than just stitches needed, I really cannot do much, I'm sure."She added after another second.

"Please, call him. I'm not sure what all it is that is actually needed here, barring the blood flow being stopped, of course."

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"Certainly seems that way." Sydney agreed after a moment or two, and with a heavy sigh.

"I'm reasonably certain that she will survive, however, we will have to wait and see what Rene says. I'm reasonably certain she will survive, mind." She added.

"Just not sure what Rene is going to want to do with or for her."

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