Kay nodded when he said he would sort it out, and left the room heading straight upstairs and to the guest room to check on Serena. Reaching the room, she saw Serena was sleeping soundly and the way she was bundled up under the duvet made her smile as it made Serena look so young and innocent, even despite how weak she was. Sneaking inside, she just went to make sure Serena really was okay, satisified she headed back out and downstairs again, but not before snapping a quick photo and after getting Josh's number off Serena's phone, sent him the photo.

By the time she got back downstairs she found John on the floor and not on the sofa bed, making her rush over and squat down beside him, "hey, talk to me....you're clearly not okay" she said to him, placing a hand on his back. "You don't have to shut me out John, we're a team remember" she added softly.

John looked up and said “I was okay…moving around just made my head spin…I think those vines did more damage then I thought…” he tried to get up but his leg wouldn’t hold him and he fell back down again.

"Lets get some rest then and hopefully you'll feel better in the morning" Kay replied, letting him go to get up first but when he fell back down, she got up and helped him onto his feet and guided him to the edge of the bed, aiding him in sitting down. "It's okay to ask for help you know" she smiled at him as she walked to the other side of the sofa bed, changing out of her hoodie and leggings as she went, staying in her vest and panties to get under the duvet and laying down.

"I really do hope you and Serena start to feel back to normal by the morning, I hate seeing you both like this" she told him honestly.

John groaned as he laid down and nodded. “Agreed. Remind me when we get home to look into those vine things…I’ve never seen anything like that and I want to figure out where they came from…”

John wanting to research more about the vines that attacked him and Serena didn't surprise Kay in the slightest, she was almost expecting him to mention at some point about wanting to do some digging about them. "Sure" she replied, rolling onto her side and scooting over to John more. "and before you ask Serena is fine, she's fast asleep curled up in the bed" she added.

John nodded and said “good…I bet the same thing is affecting her as me. Those bugers took a lot out of us…and getting hit twice is bad enough…” he rubbed his face and said “sorry about all of this”

Kay was thinking the same thing as John was, "don't be sorry John, it's okay, honestly" she replied to him, draping one arm over him. "we're all going to be okay, you don't have to apologise to me, there's nothing to be sorry about" she added.

John sighed and said “I feel like I should have done more…you and Serena haven’t been in the dark world as long as me…I should hav been able to fight back…not let a dumb bullet hole stop me…” he looked away from her, anger and guilt burning thru him.

As John spoke, Kay listened and looked up at him as she did so. She wanted to pay full attention to him as he spoke and seemed to actually open up a little bit. When he finished talking, she propped herself up onto her elbow and used her free hand to turn his head to face her so he had to look at her. "if you had done more you would have bled out and been in a worse place than you are now. I wouldn't have been able to deal with that or been happy having you in the fight in that state. You have no idea how worried I was when you said you'd been shot." she told him.

" please... Please don't feel guilty or angry at yourself over this John. What's done is done. I almost lost you at the hospital, I couldn't risk losing you here as well.. And I know its early days, and this whole...worrying about another person's life that's not family, over mine is all new to me. But hey, I'm well and truly letting myself care about you. Hell, if I had to make those decisions all over again I'd make the same damn decisions. You being here kept Sam safe, and that means the utter world to me" she explained.

John sighed and nodded, taking her hand and kissing it. “Your right…I guess I just like being the white knight for once…but you were amazing today…you know that right?” He smiled weakly flinched at his leg a little as he moved slightly. “Dang it..the bullet might have hit the bone…not bad just sore still…”

She mailed when he kissed her hand and nodded softly at his words before blushing ever so slightly at his praise. "I just did what was right to do" she replied, leaning in and pecking his lips. At his flinching, she placed her hand on where it was sore and tried to relieve him of some of the pain. "it could be phantom pain from knowing you were shot there. I didn't feel it having hit the bone when I healed you." she said. "it'll probably be gone by the morning" she added.

John nodded and said “that makes sense…” he sighed and closed his eyes a moment. “Do you know why that freak went after Serena? Maybe Fee has ideas?”

Kay shook her head, "I don't but Fee might. She was a lot more involved in retrieving Serena and hearing what this creep said and did. When she takes over I lose sense of time and don't have any idea of what she's doing with my body" she explained to him. She hated that that that was the situation between her and Fee as she always felt so disorientated when she came back to the foreground, however some of the things that she knew Fee could be capable of, she was almost glad she had no idea what she did.

"Kay let me talk with him" Fee said in her head, making Kay close her own eyes as Fee spoke, before reopening them and looking back at her. "Fee wishes to speak with you, I'm guessing about what you asked" she told him. She gave John time to reply before letting Fee come through, as shown through the change in her eyes as per usual. Gone were her grey blue eyes, and showing were the golden pupil-less ones. "I can't tell you much about the insignificant mortal who took Serena and the boy. But what I can tell you is that he kept talking about how they were to be the newly ressurrected god and goddess. He was convinced they were them. I must apologise however that I did not give him much time to explain further for he was crazed and he had started the spell which I had to stop. By doing so, Bane had to focus on saving Serena and the boy or they would have been killed with the crazed mage. He did know of myself and Kay being the 'fire one' as he put it though. This worries me if I am to be truthful with you. It seems word has gotten further out there about Kay than I am comfortable with" Fee explained.

John nodded and said “alright.” John listened to her closely then asked slowly “so…someone fed him the trash about the spell. So what was the spell meant to do I wonder…we know it was to bring something from another world…but who?”

He closed his eyes a moment to focus then his eyes opened. “Hold on…what if…Serena was attacked as she received her powers…was that at the same time you appeared in Kay? Or I mean when Kay started to be attacked as well? Was it at the same time?”

Fee let John take in the information she was telling him before he started seeming to speak his many thoughts out loud in an almost jumbled mess. "I have always been with Kay, just dormant for a lot of her adolescent life. But the beginnings of the attacks started two and a half years ago if I recall correctly, was this when Serena began being attacked?" Fee asked John curiously.

She did think if that was the case then it was too much of a coincidence to be as such. She also couldn't help but think that something darker was coming not just for Serena, but for Kay and she worried that it was going to be something she would not be able to keep Kay safe from. It was bad enough demons were after Kay, the idea of something darker than that coming for her wasn't something she wanted to think about, but feared they would have to.

John nodded and said “that lines up with what Serena told us…I fear something bigger at play here. We need to get the girls home tomorrow so I can start figuring this all out…” he looked at Fee and added “thank you…for helping today. I know Kay is your main priority so you coming in to save Serena…it means a lot.”

Fee agreed with his words, they did need to figure it out and keep the girls safe as quickly as possible. "I agree wholeheartedly and you are most welcome John Constantine. Serena helped Kay before your arrival, so it is the least I could do in return. I shall let you have Kay back now" she replied, letting her conscious slip back into Kay's soul once more, her eyes changing from Fee's back to Kay's.

"did you get what you needed from her?" Kay asked him, as she tried to re-adjust to where she was and who she was with. With a few blinks, she got her reset to her surroundings and once more, laid down and snuggled into John slightly.

John nodded and said “yes, we have a theory this might link to your bond with Serena. You both started showing your powers at the same time…” he laid down and said “I’ll get to work on this when we get back to the house tomorrow…”

Kay was glad that with Fee's information he could come up with some kind of theory. "Okay" she replied, her voice becoming a mumble as tiredness began to creep onto her. She had done so much and exerted her body more than she had done for quite a few days by this point and it was now catching up on her, her eyes beginning to flutter closed. "I'm just glad you're both okay and still with me, I don't want to lose either of you" she yawned.

It wasn't long after that when she actually fell asleep, using John as her pillow and not her actual pillow. She didn't have any nightmares yet again which was subconsciously a welcome thing for her. It really did seem that when she was beside John, her night terrors just disappeared and her mind and soul was able to sleep relatively peacefully. It also helped that Serena seemed to be sleeping soundly and calmly as well upstairs. The peaceful night swept through the whole house, right through to morning.

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By the morning Kay woke up, not on John, but still beside him and facing him. Seeing him there made her smile as she turned onto her back to stretch her limbs and yawn before curling back up again.

John watched her sleep a while before he was able to fall asleep. Finally at dawn he passed out from the sure strain of everything and was breathing faintly next to her as she woke.

Serena luckily had been able to sleep thru the night for once, the weakness slowly wearing off with the much needed rest.