[Evil Tink]

Artemis let out a frantic sigh, hurrying down the street. While she could easily drop the two creeps at her tail, she had an image to keep up. After all, a petite woman of 5'4" could not normally beat two 6'+ men to the ground. She pushed her glasses up, as they had slid, then glanced behind her. She groaned, moving her hand so her hair didn't cover her eyes as she moved. They were closing in. She wouldn't run, not yet.

With the sun slowly setting, not many people were out that could help, and even those who were around didn't seem to notice her in her frantic daze. Ah well, if worse came to worse before she got to William, she would lead them back into an ally and snap their necks.

Humans as a whole were greatly unaware of the danger that lurked around the night. Vampires, of course. Now, there were no where near as many vampires as there were humans, but that was how things worked. If there were too many vampires, the humans would end up disappearing all together unable to supply their needs.

While quite a few vampires cursed their immortal, blood sucking lives; Artemis embraced hers. It had gotten her through many sticky situations in this dangerous human world. She remembered way back when when humans were so much gentler. You could leave your door unlocked, and even allow your kids out at night. Nowadays, you only did that if you had a death wish or wanted to kill your child without anyone knowing it was you.

The largest downside to the human's added aggression, was that it made most vampires equally aggressive. This posed many problems, and now, few well trained humans were placed in almost every city to hunt her and her kind. Thankfully for her, the two men chasing her now were not Slayers. Just poor dumb asses thinking they can have a bit of fun tonight.

She quickly looked back to where she was going, her eyes scanning the street many feet before she was ready to cross it. She could already see William, just about 30 yards away. Now she began to run. She bolted across the street, but did not notice the little black sports car speeding down the street.

"Holy shit!" She quickly bent her knees, jumping forward as she heard it approaching. She just barely skirted over the hood, her little black shoes gently rubbing on it's hood. She landed safely on the other side of the car, hurrying over to William.

While she was posing as a human, she was well known for her little antics around school, and knew William would barely note her jumping a car hood. Now he was only a few yards away and the men were bolting across the street after the car had sped away, the driver unsure of what happened but decided to not stick around.

"William!" She quickly pulled him from the bench, seeing his eyes were closed. She knew he was awake, but yanked him up anyway then hid behind him, pointing to the two men that were now standing about 5 yards away. It was apparent one had a gun, the other a knife. "I hope you can fight..at least a bit?"