Summary: Eli was just a normal girl from Whitechapel… or so everyone thought. She's the younger sister of Sarah, and the blackmail used against Sarah by her boyfriend, Jesse. Either she drank human blood, or Eli would be turned. Needless to say, Sarah is still a fledgling and Eli has trust issues.

Prologue

Walking alone down a strangely empty street at night isn't exactly smart. It's downright stupid. It's even more stupid thinking back to it now that I know the secrets of the town I've called my home for 15 years.

Whitechapel is a tiny little town somewhere in Ontario, Canada that practically no one knows about. Though, I don't know how anyone would want to after hearing all the stories about what goes on around here. Vampires, werewolves, witches, zombies, those evil little leprechauns that like to hide in dark places and bite people; we've had them all. Fortunately, the people in this town are extremely oblivious – or very accepting – otherwise no one would come here ever again, and the people who do live here would high tail it out of here.

The supernatural has been in control of this tiny little town for centuries, even back when it was known as Black's Church. Reverend Black, now known as my older sister's boyfriend, Jesse – talk about 'ew' – was a vampire who murdered a lot of the town's people. Well, the town had their own back and murdered his flock, but what they didn't know was that he was still alive. Maybe if he had died, my sister and I would be human and I wouldn't have so many issues with trusting her.

Sarah is only a year older than me. All our lives we've protected each other, so I really have no reason not to trust her. But the one thing I couldn't protect her from was the bite of death from her boyfriend. She's known as a fledgling, meaning she's a vampire with a mortal body and only some vampire powers. She'll stay a fledgling until she either drinks human blood or her mortal body dies. Well, the first option is out of the question to her, and she doesn't want the second to happen either, so she's come up with a third: find a cure.

Jesse wasn't too happy with that and so he decided to blackmail her… using me. Her choices were to drink human blood, or watch me be turned into a vampire. Either way it was a lose/lose situation for her. If she drank human blood, she'd live forever with her evil boyfriend who is way too old for her, and if she didn't, she'd lose her little sister. She didn't drink human blood, I'm a vampire, and now I have to live – for lack of a better word – knowing that she cares more about herself than the only family that actually cares about her since our parents are too busy working or sleeping to really remember they have two kids.

The only person I really trust is Sarah's best friend, Erica, but that doesn't mean she knows about our bloody-issue. I don't have any friends of my own, and I was bullied for so long for being the geeky sister of Miss Hot-and-Popular, so no one would want to be my friend. Now that I'm hot, they've all moved on to bullying Erica more, which really sucks for her and makes me feel guilty even though it's technically not my fault. I'll help her when I can, but there are some times when her bullies do something that makes me want to drain them dry, and that's when I know I have to let Sarah handle it.

I am a full vampire. Unlike my sister, I don't want to become human again, since my human life sucked horribly. Just because I've accepted who I am now, doesn't mean I follow Jesse's evil ways. He sort of makes me, so I don't have a choice. One disobeying has made him angry enough; he doesn't need two, much less two from the same family.

"Eli," I turned around to see Gord behind me.

"What, Gord?" I asked, irritably and crossed my arms over my chest.

"Jesse wants to speak to you," He told me. I went to open my mouth and give a snarky reply back but he cut me off. "now." And he grabbed my arm and flew up into the night sky, pulling me with him.

Jesse's mansion was nice, I'll give him that, but it gave me the creeps.

"Ahh, Eli, how nice of you to drop by." Jesse smirked once we made it into his study.

"What do you want now, Jesse? I'm so not in the mood for this." I snapped.

"Touchy, touchy."

I growled in my throat and glared.

"Fine, straight to the point, than." His smirk dropped and his face turned serious. "Any news on Sarah?"

"Still a fledgling." I reply. "If she wants to die eventually, who are you to stop her?"

"If she wanted to die, she'd ask me to kill her." He practically growled, turning his back to me to look out his windows.

"No," I disagreed. "Because she knows you wouldn't."

He turned back.

"Go ahead," I challenge. "Tell me I'm wrong, because you know I'm right."

He glared. "You're dismissed." He said simply and waved his arm for Gord, who stood by the wall behind me, to drag me out of the study.

"Why do you have to pull his hair like that?" He asked when we got down to the first floor. He'd always had a soft spot for me, being the youngest in Jesse's "flock".

"He's turned me against my sister, and still thinks I'm going to join him on the dark side." I glowered. "Well, news flash, this is Whitechapel, not Black's Church, anymore. He can't control my sister and he certainly can't control me."

At the entrance to the house, he released my arm and turned me towards him. "Just don't do anything rash, Eli." He hissed to me quietly before opening the door and pushing me out.

I said he had a soft spot, meaning he cared, but that doesn't mean he wasn't still rough with me. I'm a vampire, not a china doll.

A/N: So what'd you guys think? Leave a review to tell me, 'cause I'd really like to know… and by like I mean need. This took me about 2 hours to write, including the time it took to create the cover – which sucks horribly – and the research I've done.

By the way, this takes place before Benny, Ethan, and Rory go into their freshman year and Eli is a sophomore while Erica and Sarah are juniors. Thank you, Wikia! Also, this is a Rory/Oc story because I don't think he gets as much love as he should.

Kaybye!

-Kris(: