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Ashley didn'tminute She pushed the lid off the shoebox once rab the hand inside It could've been anyone's hand, and she was trying to convince herself of this when she flipped it over and saw the faded blue ink where Brandon made his to do list on a daily basis

Until this er hadn't felt real It had seemed simple to her She'd help Jonny as a means to help Brandon No one would hurt either of them, because of Xander

Jonny and Xander both had warned her it wasn't a ga with Xander's clai consequences to every choice Those consequences, the danger, the idea one or both of theht die before she reached hi without help … these realities hadn't felt real before she discovered the evidence that she was in over her head

How stupid aht

Brandon was in the kind of danger she wasn't able to protect him from And maybe no one else could, either

With calmness she didn't feel, Ashley replaced the lids of both boxes and slid the hands It hadn't yet clicked she held her brother's hand or that his eye had been staring lifelessly up at her

"Hey!" the shout of a vamp from the entrance of the entertainhts and back into her danger

Because she was in danger Just like Brandon This wasn't another night beating up vaainst someone she didn't even know anyht in the ame There was a chance one of the people she lovedto survive this Brandon was being sawed into pieces for reasons she couldn't begin to guess

This time when Ashley drew her knives, she could think of only one thing:her brother pay for it

The sound of Hector scuffling with vamps distracted her briefly before she launched at the two h the entertainment room towards her Ashley drew a breath Her hands shook from emotion she wasn't able to feel at the moment but which she kneould be as powerful as one of her seizures when it hit

Her attack on the vaed yet acutely aware of everything, she didn't try to refrain fro as she usually did She let her instincts control her weapons and closed her eyes to the spray of blood Its warmth soaked her, before she had even made it out of the entertainment room