No Rest for the Wicked

by That Girl55

He couldn't die, not for real anyways. But, metaphorically speaking, he'd die for her in a heartbeat. -Michael has a sister, who's finally coming to stay with Lucy and Max and their vampire family. And then she meets David...is it possible to fall in love with someone, something, you'd never allow yourself to become?- Title credit goes to Cage the elephant.

1. Chapter 1

This takes place in 2013, by the way, and goes as if Lucy had said yes to Max's plans, and they are currently married. Michael is now a full vampire, as is Lucy, but Sam remains human.

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*Taylor POV*

It was July and a horrible month for hitchhiking.

I sighed, sitting down beside the road in the desert somewhere between my hometown of Phoenix, Arizona and Santa Carla, California. None of this would have happened if it hadn't been for that stupid party, where my idiot self got drunk enough to oversleep.

The rest of my family had taken off for Grandpa's house about two months ago, and I stayed behind to finish up cosmetology school. At first it was fine, I was eighteen years old and getting my first taste of freedom, for pete's sake, while still living on my mother's money. I sighed, pulling out the last letter Sam had sent me, the one containing their new address.

That's right, in the two months I had been gone my favorite big brother Michael, who at first wrote nonstop, seemed to forget about me and my mother, who was distraught over dad and her's divorce just days up until their departure, had found a new husband.

I sat there in silence, looking over the address and trying to imagine the life I was about to walk into, when my phone rang.

"Hello?" I said, fairly surprised there was cell reception out here.

"Taylor, it's Michael. Where the hell are you?"

"Oh now you want to know where I am," I said, and with a sudden burst of energy I stood up, grabbing my backpack as I continued down the empty road. "You didn't give two fucks where I was back in Phoenix, apparently."

"Taylor, look, I-"

"Taylor Emerson, this is your mother. Why weren't you on the plane? Where are you!"

"Funny story, mom...I missed the plane."

"What do you mean you missed the plane! Where-"

"I'm halfway to Santa Carla, don't worry."

"You don't have a car." I heard Sam say in the background.

"Am I on speaker phone?" i said, feigning shock. How like my family to do this!

"TAYLOR ANNMARIE EMERSON DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME YOU'RE HITCHHIKING TO SANTA CARLA."

"No mom, I'm walking." I said simply, sticking my thumb out in the road as the first car i had seen for miles passed me. Abruptly, he stopped. "Got to go, mom, I've got a ride."