Sixteen

Ada allowed herself to be pulled into the house by the man she knew all too well. Despite her better judgement, she also let him continue to hold her hand, cold skin against even colder flesh. The two of them stopped in the doorway as David shut the door and quickly walked past them, knowing his place in the house full well and leaving Ada and the second man all alone. Ada avoided his burning gaze by watching David walk away but when he was out of sight, she had no real reason not to look at him.



"I don\'t get a hello Ada?" The man asked, his voice low and just slightly amused. He was smirking at her as looked down into her violet eyes. Ada let a fake smile slide onto her pretty face as she looked up at his face, her insides clenching, she had thought about this moment for sometime now. The moment when the two of them would be face to face once again.



"Why hello, Caiden, whatever are you doing here?" She said, her light voice laced with sarcasm. The man named Caiden didn\'t looked amused and she hadn\'t expected him too, she barely understood why she was coping an attitude.



"Heh, I think that\'s my line Ada." Caiden said as he grinned down at her.



Ada found herself drinking in Caiden. He was a very handsome man, with slightly shaggy, inky black hair, deep, deep brown eyes, and full lips. He was also tall, slim yet tight and muscular and he looked to be about twenty years old. Ada came back to her own thoughts, a now awkward silence settling between them but she could think of nothing to say to the man, at least nothing she wanted to say to him.



"What are you doing back here Ada?" Caiden asked the question that she knew was on all their minds, everyone who had seen her at least. His voice was serious now as he finally broke the silence between them. Ada wished she had thought of something to say first.



"I am part of this clan. I belong here." She insisted but even to her the anwser seemed weak and unable to explain her lengthy abscence fully.



"Funny, that\'s not the attitude you had when you left." Caiden replies, Ada knew he had all the right in the world to be upset with her but still she wished he wouldn\'t be and she found herself missing the Caiden that had been here when she had left.



"Can-Can we talk about this later Caiden? I kinda just want to get settled again." It was true upon re-entering her long time home she had felt oddly unwelcomed, an aire of hostility, the whole house feeling foreign to her. It almost scared her to think that maybe she wouldn\'t have a place here anymore. Caiden nodded and seemed to lay off her, at least for the time being.



"I assume you want to see Beckett?" Caiden asked, Ada nodded though she could swear she felt her heart stop. She really didn\'t want to see him. Not yet.



"Yeah, I probably should." Ada said, as she attempted to keep the uneasiness from her voice.



"He\'ll be so interested to know that you\'ve returned Ada." Caiden said softly, that amused tone slipping back into his voice as he stroked her hand, her hand that he still held within his own. Ada looked down at their entwined hands as she spoke.



"Yeah, well hopefully he won\'t kill me on sight." She told him as she slipped her cool hand from his. Caiden gave her a surprised look, arched an eyebrow as if he didn\'t believe the words that had left her mouth.



"He would never kill you Ada, you\'re one of his best." Caiden was trying to reassure her, a paranoid feeling slunk into her stomach and she thought that Caiden was being far too nice and understanding for her liking.



"That was before I left." Ada points out. Caiden said nothing and tore his gaze away from her for the first time since her return. It was all she needed, that simple act was all she needed to know that Beckett had been furious at her for leaving. Sure, he might not kill her but injure her enough so, she\'ll never attempt another escape? That seemed likely and coming back suddenly seemed like a huge mistake.



"It\'s been about a month and half since you left. I\'ll tell you, Beckett was none too pleased to find you\'d gone." The man told her. Ada thought that maybe Caiden was waiting for some reason, some explanation as to why she left but she wasn\'t planning on giving him one, at least not yet.



"I-I was hoping I guess." Ada began and Caiden looked her way "That when I came back it would all be the same."



"I thought that\'s why you left in the first place? Because it all felt the same?" He asked, she blew off his question because all that mattered right now was seeing Beckett once again.



"Come on" He began "Let\'s go see Beckett." Once again Caiden claimed Ada\'s hand in his own and lead her from the doorway, lead her to the left through the kitchen, where many of their fellow vampires sat.



An instant rash of harsh whispering errupted in the room, Ada trying her best to ignore it. "Holy shit it\'s Ada!" One of them cried but Ada paid no mind. She had already expected this reaction, besides she was far too busy trying to think of what she would say to Beckett upon seeing him once again. Caiden led her from the kitchen, through a dinning room, from the dinning room through one of the many closed doors in the back hall. The one door in paticular that lead to Beckett\'s room.



They moved down the small hallway incased in darkness since Caiden had shut the door. From the small hallway there were three other doors, the one they had just come from, one to the left, that led to no doubt more hidden rooms and doors. The one door that layed straight ahead of them, this room belonged to Beckett.



Caiden and Ada moved to the door, Caiden stopping her before he opened it.



"Listen Ada, I\'m going to go in first and tell him that you\'re here so, don\'t move or do anything until I say so." He told her and as much as she hated taking orders from him she nodded, because her annoyance with him was nothing compared to her fear of an angry Beckett. Caiden gave her a smile, a real one this time and patted her face gently before knocking on the door. Ada moved to the side as to not be seen prematurely by Beckett.



"Who is it?" The silky smooth voice of Beckett asked, Ada\'s heart, her whole body freezing just at his voice.



"It\'s Caiden." The dark haired man said, his gaze flickering back to Ada. The girl returned his smile as she felt the resurgence of feelings, feelings that she had tucked away nearly two months ago.



"Come in." Beckett said, his voice so smooth and full of power. Ada remembered that Caiden was one of Beckett\'s favorite \'children\', Ada herself had been one but she wasn\'t sure if that rank existed any longer. Caiden slipped into the room and closed the door, leaving Ada behind in the darkness. The dark haired girl pressed herself against the wooden door, quiet and desperate to hear every word spoken between the two men. Though she was disappointed to find that she could not hear much of anything.



Ada did managed to catch her name here and there and she listened for any huge angry yells to be issued, relaxing when there was nothing, nothing but silence. The girl didn\'t think that there would be, that just wasn\'t Beckett\'s way. Ada waited a good three minutes before the door reopened and Caiden came back out a small smile on his face.



"Beckett wishes to see you now." He told her, his hand coming to rest on her shoulder. Ada nodded, voice locked up tight in her throat, Caiden\'s hand slipping off of her as she passed him by. It was a simple act, one to calm her nerves but she knew nothing in this world could keep her calm right now. Ada slid gracefully into the room and came face to face with one of the strongest vampires in the world.



The vampire named Beckett.