Blood Is Thicker (Minewet Vampire/Bloodslave AU)

Chapter 14

As Minho collapsed, Newt felt his heart literally stop. He dashed forward and went to the vampire's side, rapidly trying to cover the wound to prevent the larger male from losing too much blood.

Newt knew it had to be the Right Arm up at the top of the rocky wall beside them. The key word! Why hadn't he remembered to yell the key word?!

So while he kept pressure on the wound in Minho's chest, and suddenly felt the warmth of a few tears of fear go down his face, he held up one hand to hopefully show the Slayers to stop, then yelled out the code as loud as he could, "Paladin!"

It appeared the people atop the canyon-like wall were just about to shoot again, but then paused. So Newt shouted the word one more time for good measure, but not quite as loud or desperate, "Paladin!"

Newt saw the people raise their guns up and away from firing at them anymore, then disappear, seemingly coming down to help. With this, the blond looked down at Minho, who was breathing heavily and laying on Newt's lap a bit, shaking ever so slightly. The bullet had missed the vampire's heart, and didn't appear to have hit anything too vital, so thanks to his enhanced abilities from the disease in his blood, he would be fine if he was taken well care of.

Newt still held pressure on the small wound, looking into Minho's thin, dark eyes, "You're going to be okay." He said, his voice holding a slight tremor. "I promise you'll be fine."

"Thought you said I wouldn't get hurt..." Minho groaned and attempted a laugh but it was short lived, the pain cutting it off and he squeezed his eyes shut.

"I'm sorry..." He knew Minho was only being sarcastic, but he still felt bad.

Just then some people, obviously Right Arm, were running over and looked at the male, "Who the hell are you? You ain't a Slayer I've seen before. Why do you have a vampire with you? Are you insane?"

"I'm Newt from Camp Glade. I was taken as a Bloodslave and he freed me. You can trust him I swear, but now he needs help, please." Newt tried to explain as quickly as possible. "I can tell you everything later just...please."

The few people looked at each other but their faces were unreadable, but eventually one nodded and they reached down to help Minho up.

The Slayers lead them around a small area that looked too dangerous to cross but turned out to not be so hard at all. Then they rounded another large wall and there revealed a camp tucked in the top of the mountain.

Newt was a little surprised that they were actually that close. It was cleverly hidden and not too big. It was definitely nothing compared to Camp Glade, but it was his new home now. The Slayer watched as Minho was helped into a blue tent, indicating it was a medical tent. He knew Minho would be fine and the Slayers would take decent care of him for now. Humans weren't as much of monsters as Vampires, had the situation been reversed. He'll be fine... Newt told himself a couple times since his heart was still racing a little.

"Newt, is that you?" A voice came from behind him and pulled him from his thoughts. He quickly turned around and saw a familiar face for once. It was Vince. One of the men who had found him and his sister hiding in those woods in the Dark Days. His hair was graying a little now and he had a beard. It almost made him unrecognizable, but Newt couldn't forget the face of someone who saved he and Eve's lives.

A small smile came over Newt's face and he turned to him, "Yeah it's me." He nodded.

Vince came over and shook his hand firmly, "Thomas had told me you were dragged off. Thought you'd be dead. You sure proved me wrong." He smiled back.

Newt gave a chuckle, "I tend to do that a lot don't I?" The blond received a ruffling of his already disheveled hair, since Vince had almost been like a dad to him for a while.

"It's good to see you kid."

"Newt!" Yet another familiar voice came from a different direction. When the Slayer turned, he spotted Thomas jogging to him.

Seeing the brunet alive and well made him smile again, "Tommy!" He called back and they collided into a tight hug.

"Oh my god...When they told me you were here I didn't actually believe them at first..!" Thomas laughed as he pulled away, but kept his hands on him, "I can't believe you're alive. I thought you were long dead by now." He shook his head in disbelief.

"It's good to see you too, Tommy." Newt replied and gave an affectionate couple of pats, "Really bloody great."

"They haven't told Eve you're here yet...Ready to see her?"

Newt's heart skipped a beat and his smile grew. Tears of joy filled his eyes just at the thought of seeing his little girl again. "Do you even have to ask?"

Thomas let go of Newt and motioned for the blond to follow, and they quickly went to the other side of the camp. There, it was all just plain tents and small shelters and tiny fires scattered here and there to keep warm by. "Come on." Thomas gestured again and kept going. They made their way through the camp and finally made it to one area where training dummies were set up. A group of kids and young teenagers were all practicing and standing around, helping each other out or just chatting.

"Hey, Evelyn!" Thomas called to the group as they got close.

Then Newt saw her. Those blonde curls whipped around and blue eyes like their mother's looked around to find who was calling her name. She had gotten a little taller and more developed. She was really there. His little sister Evelyn was standing right there.

"Look who showed up to re-join us." Thomas added, then stepped aside so the young teen could see her brother. Her eyes went over to him, stared hard for a couple seconds as though trying to determine who else it could possibly be. But she came to the realization her eyes weren't playing terrible tricks on her. That was him. That was her brother that she had watched be dragged away to his death. Tears immediately filled her eyes too and she dropped the bow and arrows in her hands then dashed forward to him, not even able to say anything yet. Newt went forward too as a smile broke out over his face and he held out his arms for her. Eve called out his name because she couldn't help it and leapt into his open arms, wrapping her own around his neck tightly. Then came the tears from both of them. Of course the tears were of happiness of seeing one another alive, and Eve was actually sobbing loudly while they both went down to their knees from the overwhelmingness of it all.

Newt held her as tight as he possibly could, unable to put into coherable thoughts or a specific feeling how amazing this was. After being held captive and tortured for 6 months, and fighting every single day of it just to get to this very moment could never be put into words. He cried a lot as well, running a hand down her long hair as a soothing thing he had always done just out of instinct.

"Y-You're a h-horrible bro-ther." She hiccuped but didn't move or loosen her grip one bit.

Newt let out a breathy laugh and slowly pulled away to look her in the eyes as he began wiping her tears. "I know. I'm so sorry it took so long. I promise I won't make you wait like that again." He said, a couple more laughs of ecstasy coming out in his words.

Eve let out a few more sobs of joy and the remaining ones of hurt she had felt of losing her guardian, then took a deep, shaky breath. "H-ow are y-you alive? We watch-ed you get dragged away." She began, trying to calm herself down.

"That is a very long story..." Newt answered with a smile and gently brushed her desert-colored locks from her face.

"Well I want to hear it." She pressed, sounding like she almost didn't believe like her sibling was right in front of her.

Newt gave a soft laugh and got them both back up to their feet, holding Eve's hands still. Thomas came over and placed a hand on Newt's shoulder, "Not gonna lie I want to hear it too. I don't think you realize how rare someone gets captured, makes it out alive and manages to get all the way here alone."

Yet another gentle grin came over Newt's lips, "That's the thing...I wasn't alone."

((A/N- so yeah I can't apologize enough for the inactivity and not updating any of my fics in forever and this chapter being so short. It just didn't feel right going any further than this point until the next chap. My parents are more strict than ever about my free time for whatever reason so breaks and time to write are very little if at all. Life just gets in the way you know? I still love every single one of you and appreciate your reading and support/feedback. And no this is not the end of the fic. But it is getting surprisingly close. XOXO))