They Will Never Learn

"Were you following me?" Kendra challenged.

"Obviously, and where is that thing? I felt him, there is no mistaking his energy. Are you in league with him? He should be destroyed." Kendra could see the greedy look in his eyes. He was obviously wanting the energy that Xerxes had. He was an invaluable find to one like him.

"I was with that old man. I was interested in the crystal that he was carrying so I followed him here. I felt the energy too, but it isn't anything helpful." She said and suddenly felt very protective toward those inside, toward Xerxes. In her opinion they were worth far more than Jin could ever be. She wasn't going to say anything.

Jin looked in the window there and saw the stone. She knew that looking at it he knew what the energy was from. He looked back at her and seemed far more calm all of a sudden. Though he looked skyward and around them for a moment.

"I felt the sudden surge back at that club." Jin stated and Kendra already had the lie forming in her mind to tell him. It was easy, and answered him.

"I did too, that's why I left." She said. She couldn't help but be annoyed at Jin, pissed actually. If he hadn't been following her she could have had a far better time than right now. Damn it, why couldn't she just have a bit of time for herself?

"We need to get back. Clearly he isn't going to seek you out at the moment as the night is half over." Jin said. Well how wrong he was, and if he'd just been gone a bit longer she'd be far more happy.

"Clearly." She said following Jin as he moved down the road. She gazed up at the sky and there were a good amount of stars out. She smiled liking the feel of them right now. It felt like something was going right in the world, she couldn't explain it. The heavens were alive tonight.

"You seem in a good mood." Jin said looking over his shoulder. She kept a distance between them should he try to come at her. You could never trust a demon. that was fact. She hated that they were working with him.

"Am I not allowed to be? Does it bother you?" She said knowing that demons loved negative emotions. It fed them to some extent, they loved manipulation and fear. Her positive mood was probably irritating to him.

"I hate happy emotions." He said. "So yes." They moved on in silence and within a short while found themselves back where they were staying. She noted that they had put in a bit more security, more cameras and posts.

She gave Niki a smile as she saw him leaning against a wall watching down toward the city. He just gave her a nod of acknowledgement. She saw how he was watching Jin. She clearly wasn't the only one that wanted to kill the demon. There was a good amount of snow on the ground now. It crunched under their feet as they came up. Niki just inclined his head toward her and looked at the sky.

They moved into the house and heard others talking in a different room. They moved into it taking up a spot near the back. Riley and Lang had devised some kind of outing for tonight and neither of them knew what it was. Clearly they had been out in the city. Though Riley filled them in as they stopped.

"Our small group will go up and it will be a few days hike and a few more in the field. We will only have what we can carry and have to be ready for bad weather. We will still need the post watching and a constant update as we get closer." Lang said and Kendra had a suddenly bad feeling about this.

"Where are the others going?" She asked and they looked at her and then to Jin.

"Good you are back. Jin will be coming with. We need to determine this thing's strength and how protected its layer is." They were just asking for it weren't they?

"You're going to the mountain?" She said, seeming shocked. "That suicidal, what if they see you they'll kill you."

"We aren't climbing, just mapping is all." Riley said.

"No, that's completely stupid, you know what he said, if he finds you there…"

"Then we will either kill him or die I guess. It doesn't matter as you aren't going with. You can't be counted on to keep a clear head of the side you are on." Riley said and Jin gave a smirk.

"Not such a happy emotion now." He mumbled and only she heard. She wanted to turn and knee him right in the crotch. How'd he like that?

"Fuck you." She mumbled back. Jin just had a darker smile. The first chance she got she was killing him.

"Team one you have the clear to go to the viewing site now. Team two we leave in five." Riley said.

"Who's staying here to watch? What if this place is attacked while most are gone?" Kendra asked. It was Lang who answered.

"You will be here, and so will Niki. Carson, and of course the doctors." Yeah because they were such a help if fighting broke out. That left three who were skilled enough to fight off those who were supernatural.

Everyone was moving to leave. Kendra stayed back moving over to Lang who was left in the room putting some papers away. She stopped in front of him and crossed her arms.

"Even if he doesn't do anything this time, he'll know you were there. He could just wait for you to come back here to take care of you." She warned him.

"This is a war, casualties will happen. You try the friendly approach, we try the aggressive. There always has to be the good cop to the bad." Lang was a fool, just as much as Riley was.

"You can't win being the good cop if the other is always beating down your witness. You aren't attempting to climb are you?"

"No." She felt relief. They couldn't go up there. Once more she just felt protective about it.

"As of right now we just need to map the best route, look for other ways in." She eyed him.

"I go on record saying this is quite possibly the worst idea yet."

"It's the most dangerous one, but take the enemy's home and it gets harder for them. We will destroy him if he can't be taken alive." Lang said and moved dismissing her. She wished she could either knock some sense into someone or talk to Xerxes to make sure he didn't do something to crazy. She didn't doubt he would kill them if he found them near his home.

She moved going upstairs and listened while the others left and just shook her head. She changed her clothes to a soft pair of pants and a t- shirt. She didn't really want to think anymore. Just wanted to be left alone to her own thoughts. Upset at the turn of the evening.

Kendra sat on her bed, she was tired at the moment and it was nearing dawn. She didn't hear anyone in the house moving around. Down the hall she heard snoring and knew that one if not all of the doctors were sleeping. Niki was still out somewhere and wouldn't come in until dawn broke. She wasn't sure where he stayed. He was vampire after all.

She fell back on her bed and looked up at the ceiling thinking. She knew that her side in this 'war' as Lang put it, was shifting. She wasn't really on their side anymore. Kendra saw herself as separate from them. Not to mention the fact that she was infatuated with the enemy now. She nearly slept with the enemy and honestly if given the opportunity she would. Honestly she hoped he came like he said he would.

She knew it, knew it like the sun would rise in the east. Her mind kept wandering to him, to the things she would want, or desired. It annoyed her that she had been unable to obtain them. She wondered just how she could get them. Kendra guessed that she should be a little ashamed at the thoughts but she wasn't. She was a grown woman, she could want what she wanted. Lord knew the humans wouldn't give her what she needed.

Kendra moved laying face down on the bed gripping her pillow and closing her eyes. She managed to fall into a light sleep. She slept like all humans did, though she didn't need as much sleep as they did unless she was injured. That went without saying, everything needed down time after being injured. She let her mind drift and her sleep went a little deeper.