Author's Note: I read The Summoning and The Awakening and I loved them! Since it's going to be a while until The Reckoning is released, I decided to write a fanfic. I don't know if it's any good, but I'm having fun writing it. Just so you know, these are not my opinions of the characters, they're the character Vera's. So, please leave a review so I can fix any mistakes I've made! I'm trying to keep it as close to the book I can, I just added another character.

Disclaimer: I do not own, nor have I written, any of the books from the Darkest Powers series.

Breakfast Lyle House. It looks like an overly decorated dollhouse to me. I know why I'm here, I'd figured them out practically the first day I'd gotten here.

My plan: get out…how though, I hadn't figured out yet.

I made fast friends with two of the "patients" Simon and Derek. No, not because I'm attracted to either of them, but because everyone else here is so clueless.

Simon is okay. He's gotten pretty good at using his powers. Derek, well, he kind of fails at being a werewolf in my opinion. Although we were friends, we were really good at getting on each other's nerves. He says that we're not supposed to Change until we're older. That may be true, but I've been Changing for a few years now.

Apparently some new girl came some time yesterday named Chloe. I'm roughly seven months older than her, but you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at us. I'm your average brown-haired, blue-eyed fifteen-year-old. She's a little blond with stupid red streaks in her hair. I think they're supposed to make her look older, but she still looks twelve.

The nurses came around with our pills when we started eating. We all dutifully held out our hands to receive them. Chloe just stared at them like she didn't know what they were.

I never really took my pills. I'd tuck them under my tongue and when it was safe, hide them in the food I didn't finish. The nurses trusted me, who knows why, so they never checked if I was taking them.

As we leave the dining room to go get dressed, we are all interrupted by a not-so-unexpected argument between Rae and Tori.

Tori called Rae, and she replied with "Yes Victoria?" Tori stepped down a couple more stairs. She asked Rae about the laundry because she wanted to wear her new shirt. Rae made a good point in saying that washing a brand new shirt didn't make any sense. Tori believed it was gross because "other people tried it on." I'd smelled the shirt the first time she'd shown it off to everyone, and no one had tried it on before her.

I ignored the rest of their spat and trooped up to my room.

It never took me long to pick out an outfit. I put on a pale yellow T-shirt and some small blue shorts. But when I looked at myself in the mirror, I shuddered. I looked just like the walls. Just add flowers and I'd disappear. I traded my yellow shirt for a green one. A little iffy, but better. I glanced at the little clock I had. It's almost nine, so I should get to class.

I didn't really go to much school before Lyle House. I'm not dumb, I just never really went to school. Mostly I'd been taught by the other werewolves I grew up around. There were three others: Jill, Bob, and Teresa. Teresa was my mom.

I blinked away a tear and hurried to the classroom.