A new take on the Lost Boys. The Emerson's, Star and Laddie never happened. I'm also changing the time line up a bit.

Council = pseudo governing body of supernatural beings (mostly of witches and on the east coast)

Hybrid = the witch mate of a vampire bitten and turned into basically a half vampire/half witch lengthening the witch's life so that they can stay with their mate for eternity

Foreword

Summer vacation thirteen years ago: My cousin Cora and I walked along the beach trying to find some place secluded to practice our magic. I may have been on vacation but we still had to practice what good is a witch who couldn't do magic? We found a secluded place near some bluffs. Cora had lived in Santa Carla since she was ten but had never been here. "You are so lucky that aunt Beth decided to get away from the council." "Anything would be better than Ohio." "Well I won't be there much longer South Carolina is where I'm going home to when I leave here." We shut up then and started working on our spells. That's what we told our parents anyway. For the most part we just used our powers to make elaborate sand castles and my favorite I made huge water spouts in the ocean defiantly not something I could do in Ohio. The first thing we did was build a fire pit just to see who could light the best fire. After the sun set we built the fire up and just chilled. It was the first time since I had gotten there that we had any time together we talked about what it was going to be like when I moved to a new state and what it was going to be like starting junior high. Suddenly four guys who looked too be about ten or so years older than us appeared on the other side of our bon fire. I knew that they weren't any more human than Cora and I just in a different way. "What do we have here boys a couple of appetizers?" Tapping into my power, I threw a wall of fire between us and the guys. Cora said "Yeah I don't think so fang face." "Ok Ok just don't roast us." No one hurts the little witches." A man who had hair so blonde it was almost white. The platinum blonde was staring at Cora. I was so busy holding up the fire wall that I hadn't taken a good look at the guys. I slowly lowered the firewall. I looked at the four men three blondes and one with brown almost black hair all of them were pale but the one with the brown hair was darker telling of a native American heritage like mine he must have been about half where as I was only about a quarter. I took all this in realizing we were staring at each other. We were connected somehow I just didn't know how yet. We spent some time with them now that we all knew that we weren't a threat to each other we had become fast friends.

That night when Cora and I got back to her house we didn't tell our mother's or my dad we were pretty sure they would have flipped out to know that their twelve-year-old daughters where hanging out with the local vampire pack or that they had ridden on their motorcycles. That was the first time Cora and I had met the Lost Boys.

Four years later when my mom died my father sent me to California to visit my cousin. He wanted me to get away for my sanity. What he didn't know was that I went straight from the airport to the Lost boy's cave. I didn't know why at the time but I needed to be with Dwayne. Dwayne found me three hours before sunset curled up on the worn couch in the front of the cave. I spent the whole time I was there with the Lost Boys, well Dwayne. (I had found out when my mother was sick that we were mates. He had felt my emotions all the way across the country. I had been sitting in my mother's hospital room late one night and I heard his voice in my head. He wanted to make sure I was ok. I was so freaked out at first. He explained it to me and told me about Cora being David's mate. He was telling her about it that day. They hadn't told us when we first met them because we were so young. Seventeen is a lot different than thirteen.)

He picked me up grabbed my bag and took me back to his room. I lay wrapped in his arms and cried myself out and finally fell asleep until well after dark.

Chapter 1

I rode up the coast just outside of Santa Carla, as the setting sun reflected off the bracelet on my left wrist. That thing had to go. Six months to the day that my father was executed by the council and my powers were blocked from me. It had taken me six months to get from South Carolina to California. I had to get this damn thing off it was killing me. That's the thing when you use this kind of hex to block someone's magic it slowly kills them. I didn't think I had very much time left it was blocking my magic but also draining my life force as well. I don't know how I was staying on my bike at this point.

Just as the sun set I parked my bike near what looked like a cave. Really it was the remains of hotel that was taken out by the big earth quake that hit San Francisco in the early 1900's. I looked up and see five people coming toward me. If my powers had been working I would have felt that it was four vampires and one witch. My cousin and the Lost Boys. Like the moron I am I tried to get off my bike on my own. Before I got anywhere near the ground I was in Dwayne's arms. "Thank god." He whispered and held me close. "Get Cara over to the beach." Cora said. Dwayne carried me like I weighed nothing to the soft sand. In the background I heard David tell Marko and Paul to move my bike and take my stuff into the cave.

Dwayne very gently set me down on the sand facing the ocean and took my jacket off. Cora had him hold my left arm up David stood behind her just in case something happened he was going to move her away from me. We didn't know what was going to happen that's why we were out here. This was decided in a very long and irritating phone conversation two nights before when I stopped for the last time. "Ok on three." She said. "One two three." Dwayne said. And snap went the spelled metal cutters and the hexed bracelet fell off my wrist and into the sand next to me. David pulled Cora back and Dwayne backed away from me like I was nuclear waste. After a second I doubled over and clutched my stomach on reflex as my power suddenly slammed back into me from where ever it had gone when they put that bracelet on me six months ago. I could finally feel again. I started giggling like a mad woman. "Can you hear me?" Dwayne asked after a few seconds of crazy Cara giggles. I nodded tiredly and wrapped my arms around him for a second. I was so tired it was all I could do not to fall over. I looked down in the sand where the bracelet had fallen when Cora cut it off of me. I picked it up it started spinning in my hand then shot off over the ocean. And that's the last thing I remember from that night.

I don't know how many hours or days later; I woke up in a huge bed in one of the old hotel rooms. There were a few candles lit so I could see. I was in my tee shirt and boy shorts my jeans were across the room on a chair. I tried to get up but there was an arm wrapped around me so tight I'm surprised I could even breath. "babe." I tried Dwayne growled but let me up. I slowly and painfully went to the adjoining bathroom and did what I had to do. Yay they boys figured out how to make the bathroom's work. On the vanity there was a basket that had all my favorite shower stuff in it. Gods bless my cousin. Before I could even ask Dwayne came in with a huge bath sheet and a smaller towel for my hair. "Are you going to be ok? I need to go out for a while. I've been here with you for three days I need to feed." "I'll be fine I just really need to shower and move around some. I'm so stiff from the long ride and then sleeping for three days. Wait three days really?" "Yeah I tried to wake you up a few times but you were dead to the world. Cora said that you needed to sleep that the hex had been draining your life force as it blocked your magic." I sighed "Well that's just peachy fucking keen. They have now taken me away from you for ten years, my father and six months and three fucking days from my life.' Well I'm done they can't have anything else from me. If they try I will take them all down. I thought to myself. As Dwayne turned to leave I grabbed him and kissed him. Oh God how I've missed him.

I took the longest shower I have ever taken. I was still stiff and sore but I was clean. I got dressed and went out to the main area of the cave. Before I was even to the middle of the cave I was tackle hugged by Marco and Paul. "Oh my god guys I can't breathe!" "Sorry sorry. Cora said you would be sore from everything you had to go thru." Marko said. "We got you food! Your favorite gyros frozen coke and funnel cake." Paul shouted. They both took a hand each and lead me to the couch. A new couch a very nice new couch. It was leather. They must be scavenging in a nicer dumpster now. I took a drink of my frozen happiness and looked up at the two blondes. "Where is David and Cora?" "David went to pick her up from work her car broke down." I nodded and started in on my boardwalk feast. I woofed the food they had brought me down like it was nothing. This is why you should eat more than once every three days." Marko said. I started laughing and couldn't stop. It was the first time I had had anything to laugh at in a long time. "It's good to hear you laugh finally." I shivered at the feel of Dwayne's mind against mine. I looked up to see him at the top of the rickety stairs followed closely by David and Cora.

Cora ran down the stairs and sat down next to me and hugged me. We both started crying. "I'm so sorry Cara." I just sat there I didn't want to talk about the last five years especially the last six months of it. That is after I did one last thing. "Cora where is that trunk I sent you after dad…. Um died." "Marko go get that trunk for Cara." David said. Marko ran out of the lobby and appeared a few minutes later with my great grandmother's trunk. I pulled the key out of my jeans pocket and opened it. Wrapped in an old blanket was a cookie tin. "This was all that was left of him. They burned him like it was the dark ages or something." I was trying not to cry but I was so sad and angry I couldn't stop the angry and sad tears from falling. I put my jacket on and took the cookie tin and walked out of the cave and to the bluff overlooking the ocean everyone else following me at a distance. I knelt and said a silent prayer to the gods and opened the tin and carefully turned my father's ashes out into the ocean. I put the lid back on the tin and held it up "I don't want to see this again." Someone took it from me I'm not sure who I didn't really care at that point. Everyone left the bluff leaving me to my mourning I sat there near the edge crying for a few minutes before my fear of heights made me crawl back a few feet. I lit a smoke up and just sat there watching the waves in the light of a full moon and tears fell down my face.

After about an hour Dwayne came back out. He didn't say anything he just sat down beside me and put his arm around me. I was all cried out by this time. I lay my head on his shoulder and sighed. "After tonight I'm done crying. Its time I started living my life now that I've gotten away from the council." I tried to stand up but my legs had fallen asleep I fell and ended up in Dwayne's lap. We started laughing and couldn't stop. He picked me up and carried me back inside.