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This is a co-written fanfiction by artimisluna and vinesonwroughtironbars. This is our first time writing together. We are both writing novels of our own and artimisluna started out as a fan of vinesonwroughtironbars when she read the story The Trouble With Erik. So please support us together and as separate writers of our own stories. Otherwise, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

Disclaimer: We do not own the characters. They unfortunately belong to P.C. and Kristen Cast. Though we are exercising our free will and creative juices by put their lovely characters into our own sticky situations.

Chapter One

The Exchange

In a moment everything can change. A life can cease to exist in a single moment and a heart can stop beating. A single moment is all that it takes for a soul to begin its journey upwards or downwards. Those of us that are lucky enough to intervene could be seen as lifesavers, but that wasn't how Zoey saw herself at the current moment. It was her fault that Heath was even in this situation. That's what she told herself.

"Stop!" She yelled as she ran forward.

She tumbled towards Kalona who had Heath trapped in his deathly grip.

"Let him go! Don't you dare hurt him!" She cried as she slammed her fists against Kalona's chest.

Quite amused, Kalona gazed down at the feisty girl who was currently assaulting his chest. As if she could do any damage to him.

"Calm down, Love. What is this human to you anyway?"

Dumbstruck, she thought for a moment before grabbing at Heath. Kalona moved him from her grasp.

"Now, Love. Don't be difficult."

His words mocked her. He spoke to her as if she were a child, and a child she was not.

"Release him!" She ordered him.

A smirk stretched across Kalona's face. It was not a playful smirk. It was one full of dark intentions.

"I would not order me if I were you." The fallen angel bellowed.

The look in Kalona's eyes made Zoey stop moving. He was serious.

"What will it take to get you to release him?" Zoey asked as she straightened her shoulders.

She would stand strong, and not let her weakness show. Physically, even with the help of the elements, she wasn't sure if she could defeat him, at least not alone. Her friends were nowhere to be found. Stark was missing. She had upset him. Kalona paused to think for a moment before responding. A wicked grin was stretched across his face. He knew that he would win.

"Your company."

The sound of footsteps pounding against the stone floor echoed throughout the space in which they stood.

"What about my company?" Zoey asked as she closed her eyes.

She searched her mind for some answer. She sent a silent prayer Nyx in hope that she would hear her, for she needed her goddess now more than ever.

"I crave it." Kalona answered in a husky tone.

A shiver ran down Zoey's spine, for she knew nothing of the near future. The result of this game was undetermined and could not be for told.

"Where would we go?" She questioned as she looked at him with eyes of a pleading child.

Kalona did not want her to lose this fight so quickly. The woman before him looked so defeated, that it was heart breaking.

"Away. Your life is worth much more than his. Why would you even consider giving yourself up for a human."

"Because, unlike you I have a heart. I care for others. Heath was only trying to protect me, but he's the one that needs to be protected. He risked his life for me, and so my life shall be risked for his."

Kalona could not understand his reasoning, for he saw the world in ranks of power. Though he could feel and he was capable of love. All senses of emotional interference were locked away in an iron bar cage that it could not escape unless he wished it to.

"This is what you wish, Love? The trade of your life for his? You will be mine to control and he will go free."

She replied with a simple nod of her head.

The fallen angel released the human boy and then extended his hand to Zoey. Reluctantly, she placed her hand in his. His wings surrounded them, and they were hidden away from the cruel world. Being held in his cold, burning arms, Zoey had to wonder if what she did was the right thing. After all, Aphrodite herself had a vision of Zoey with Kalona as he burned all who were mortal. But then she thought again. Heath was everything to her. He was her life. The only one who truly understood her. She had to save him. She loved him. Even if it meant giving up her dreams and freedom to the one who would take them without question.

"Do not fret, My Love." Kalona said in a soothing, yet husky voice.

"I'm not your love. Nor will I ever be."

"Dearest, do not speak so coldly to me. I promise you, I'll be the one to love and take care of you from now on. Nothing will ever tear us apart ever again."

And with that, Zoey lost herself into the darkness that clouded around her eyes and fainted into the arms of the fallen immortal who finally had her at long last.

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