Mark
When I open my eyes, I feel my whole body burning up. I don't know what woke me up, Ava is back in her human form lying on me. I close my eyes, thinking of going back to sleep, then I hear the noise again. I know at once that it's John's thugs looking for me. I grab the gun and check, I only have five darts. From the response I got from the guy I shot, the effects must be pretty bad, but they deserve it, they have been dosing Ava with that awful stuff for a while now. And even if for the shifters it seems mostly like an inconvenience, it's dangerous, and force them into a position they don't want to be in.
I gently roll Ava away from me, and try to stand up, but it proves to be more than I can manage. So I try to cover Ava's position and then I crawl away. I remember to take the gun
