The wind whistled through the small cracks in the ceiling and walls of the house creating a very eerie sound, much like that of a woman's screams, as Mathias laid there silently wishing that sleep would wash over him and deliver him into the peaceful serenity of rest he was longing so desperately for. Dust particles drifted through the air on the wind currents that blew in making the room smell distinctly of mothballs and dirt. Mathias had only wanted to be able to rest for once but the on going storm and muskiness of the house was keeping him conscious once more, making him able to hear ever creak of the wood and causing his nose to stuff and him sniffle trying to breathe the air. He quietly pondered on what events had brought him to this place of which it was near impossible to recieve any sleep whatsoever. Was it the fight he had gotten into the week before that had caused his guardian Mr. Wortherly to send him here? Was it that he wasn't keeping up with the chores as diligently as Mr. Wortherly would have liked? Or was it simply because he was reaching the vital age of 18 and was shipped off early because he was much too difficult to handle? Mathias wasn't sure but as he looked on silently into the pitch black darkness of the room in which he now lay waiting for sleep he could've sworn he heard a scream of distress in the distance. 'Perhaps its just the house again.' He thought as he finally found himself slowly drifting off into the sleep that had for the past week eluded him completely.

She could hear footsteps behind her as she moved quietly but as swiftly as possible through the wooded area. She wasn't sure but she thought someone might actually be chasing after her for some reason. What is it that she could have done to cause that? Had she been trespassing? Did she walk through a crime scene or draw unwanted attention to herself on her nightly jog? She hadn't the time to go through all the possibilities because the sounds were drawing closer even though she had been leagues ahead of the steps before and had been running her hardest to evade them. Her heart pounded in her ears and her breath came in short gasps as she tried to push on further not wanting find out who or what was following behind her so diligently. As she rounded around a bend of trees a protruding root caught her ankle and sent her sprawling out across the cold forest floor. She hissed in pain trying not to make any sort of noise in discomfort as she clutched her injured and bleeding ankle. The footsteps behind her had slowed as if they knew she too had stopped. She held her breath and waited for more noise signaling the location of her pursuer but heard nothing. She looked about the forest into the shadows trying to detect any sort of presence at all and just as she let out a small breath of relief, a set of teeth clamped down on her neck causing her to let out a shrill scream of both fright and pain.

Mathias awoke to the sound of someone pounding on the front door as if their life depended on it. Swinging his feet down to the floor he ran to the door and flung it open only to have someone fall ontop of him. He rolled out from under the figure turning the person over as he did so. The person in question was a female that couldn't have been more than his age covered in blood and her hair curtaining over her most of her face. He was shocked but very curious to know what the hell happened to this girl that could've have covered her form in blood and sent her running to this place at this hour. She stirred slightly but was barely breathing as he picked her up and laid her across the couch propping her up on some decorative pillows and then quickly making his way to the kitchen to fetch some water and towels to clean her up with. When he returned she had not moved but the color from her face was slowly draining as if she were dying right in front of him. He rushed to her side and began cleaning off all the blood from her face and neck, as he cleaned her off he noticed that there weren't any wounds...but that was impossible..the blood had to be hers unless she had killed someone or been around someone who had been very badly injured right? Her eyelids flew open and she sat up with a start knocking Mathias to the floor and spilling the bloody water all over the floor. She looked frightened and confused as though she didn't know where she was or how she had got there. "It's okay. It's okay. You're safe now." Mathias told her holding his hand up towards her in a reassuring manner. "What happened to you?" He asked as she panted looking around still trying to figure out what the hell was going on. "I-I don't remember..I was running from someone and then I fell...I don't remember what happened after that." She said in a soft shaky voice. Mathias watched her a kind smile spreading across his face. "I'm Mathias. What's your name?" She just stared at him her eyes tearing up slowly as she covered her mouth and shook her head. Mathias crawled over to her and wrapped his arms around her comfortingly as she cried into his shoulder. He stroked her hair soothingly just letting her cry to her heart's content before she got quiet all of a sudden. Just as Mathias was about to pull away to look at her he felt two sharp wisps of pain that made him gasp before he fell unconscious with the sound of gentle gulping filling his ears as the darkness took over.

10 years later...

Anna sat up in bed covered in sweat the same night terror of a cabin in the woods, some sort of chase and the taste of blood in her mouth plaguing her mind. She gasped trying to catch her breath as she wiped the beads of sweat and matted hair from her forehead. "Jesus...will I ever find out the meaning behind that dream or will it just always be there?" "I don't know." A voice spoke from beside her making her jump. "Holy shit! Max! What the fuck are you doing in here?" She asked glaring at the dark haired male that was leaning against her head board with an evil grin on his face. "Watching you struggle." He said with a dark chuckle. "Get the fuck out of my room you ass!" She snarled throwing a shoe at him. He dodged with a laugh. "Missed me!" He then took off out the door before she could find anything else to try and pelt him with. Anna shook her head with a huff and decided to start her day rather than going back to sleep fearful that the dream might come back. She made her way to the bathroom and looked herself over in the mirror. Her skin was frightfully pale as it had been ever since she can remember which by her knowledge hasn't been that long since she can only remember as far back as the day she woke up in a church yard cemetary somewhere in Ireland. Her long chocolate silk was tangled and unruly atop her head and her splendidly color shifting eyes had deep dark circles under them as though she hadn't slept in months. She took out her toothbrush and began to brush her teeth inspecting her features in the mirror as she did so. She had relatively attractive features other than the two silvery scars on her neck that looked alot like she had gotten mauled with a two pronged fork. Her lips were full and her cheeks had hidden dimples that only came out when she smiled which didn't happen often. She finished her morning routine and headed downstairs where Max was making hotpockets in the microwave. "You know those can kill you right?" Anna asked raising a brow. Max shrugged a bit "Better them than a rogue vampire right?" Anna shivered at that word. She wasn't sure why that word disturbed her so much but she had a gut feeling that it had something to do with the dream she'd been having since the night of the cemetary. "Max hurry up we have school." She shot at him sternly making her way past him to scrounge up some sort of breakfast for herself. "Why go to school?" He asked leaning back in one of the dining room chairs to where two legs were lifted off the floor. "Because we have to." Anna said dismissively as she pushed a couple of poptarts down into the toaster. "Says who? We don't have parents besides, I think we'd do a pretty kick ass job without education." "Doing what Max? Working fast food? Babysitting? What do you suggest?" He looked at her with a smirk. "Vampire hunting." Anna scoffed a bit and placed the warm tarts onto a plate. "How do you suppose we do that? Walk up to random strangers and ask if they're a vampire and then slay them on the spot?" "No dumbass we go to the society and ask to join." He said with a glare before munching on his hotpocket. "Max...The society doesn't have time to teach a couple of kids like us how to hunt vampires and who knows if they even exist? Have you ever seen one?" She asked crossing her arms and leaning against the counter. "They are real Anna. I know it and so do you." Anna shook her head and turned away from the conversation to finish making her breakfast but the nagging feeling that he was right was creeping into her mind and making it impossible for her to think straight. "What if they don't accept us? Huh? What do we do then train ourselves and go on missions on our own?" Max sighed apparently full and looked at her with a smirk. "You got a better idea? I mean come on. You and I both have no memory of what happened to us all we know is our names and that we have matching scars that could quite possibly be fang marks." Anna subconsciously touched her neck before dropping her arm back to her side. "Okay let's say they do exist? Who's to say that they're evil?" Max blinked some but kept a straight and serious face. "Anna...They kill people..they could've killed us. And what if they had something to do with why we don't have a family or why we can't remember anything? I don't know about you but I want some answers and school..is not going to give me that." He then rose from the table tossing his plate in the sink and exiting through the front door slamming it behind him. "Dammit Max..."