This is my first fan fiction so I hope you like it! Criticism is welcome! L.J. Smith owns the Night World Series, not me, sadly. But the character: Alexis is mine!

__________________________________________________________________

Alexis crouched on the floor, wiping her forehead. How could this have happened to her?! How?!

The vampire was slinking around her home, sniffing delicately as she hid behind the curtains of the large front window. This vampire had been sneaking around her neighbourhood for a while, searching for her, obviously. There was no other night person around for him to search for, no odd humans. She had been watching him carefully as he had searched for her, and had kept her guard up for days.

So it had amazed her that he was able to find her, and catch her off guard.

The vampires had been searching for werewolves and shapeshifters for a little while now. Luckily, the shapeshifters had gotten a quick warning and they had all gone into hiding . . . or most of them, anyways.

Alexis shook her head slightly, almost feeling embarrassed. Apparently this town still had a bit of the Night World in it, or else she wouldn't have been found.

Suddenly the vampire's soft footsteps paused, and Alexis strained her cougar ears to tell what was happening, and quietly began to change. She stopped changing halfway through, her body coated in the tawny coloured fur of her cougar form. A tail – slightly shorter than her full cougar form's tail – swished lightly back in forth in agitation and anticipation. Agitation because he had found her, and anticipation because this would start a new game. She smirked grimly, remembering the last game.

The witch had been tailing her, and eventually found her. Alexis had toyed around with the witch for awhile, before she had simply finished the job by delivering the typical death bite of a cougar to the back of the neck.

Alexis shook herself mentally, cursing herself for losing her focus. It wasn't like her to forget when an enemy was around. She liked to play dangerous games, and that involved keeping her guard up.

But the sound of the vampire's footsteps became audible again, and Alexis's tail stopped moving, and her breath caught. The footsteps were moving towards her. Carefully - and quietly - she backed up until she was brushing against the front window.

Suddenly, the vampire swept the curtain back and lunged for her blindly. She snarled and transformed all the way, until she was entirely cougar, and tore at the vampire's face as he tore at her belly. She growled angrily, in slight pain, and whirled around to jump through the window before the vampire could get her. The window shattered around her, slicing through her fur and drawing blood. She clenched her teeth and ground them together as she sprinted to the forest behind the houses across the street.

Behind her she could hear the vampire cursing as he stepped through the broken window onto the glass strewn lawn. She smiled to herself, but kept sprinting towards the forest, and then disappeared into it.

As she neared being about a mile in, a white blur knocked her to the side and dazed her. Caught off guard, she lay on the ground blankly, too dizzy to do anything. The animal - she couldn't tell what it was, her eyes were watering so badly - pinned her down and clamped its jaws around her neck.

___________________________________________________________________________________

Ooh suspensful! Well not really. But thanks for reading! Review if you'd like!