BeBe: Kays, so I only did this because of a dare my friend, Rina told me to do.
Rina's Dare; Write a Night World Story about a character that everyone hates, and see if you can change it around. If, just for the story.
But you see, I had a problem, all of the people in the Night World that everyone hates is dead! So, I decided to take the one I could respect the most, up to a point, and bring him back to life.
I picked Pierce.
In this story Pierce escaped Jez's blue fire, just for the sake of it.
Please, since it was a dare, no flames!


The blood was something Ashlyn could ignore. The pain on the other hand, she could not.

Her brother rubbed his hand up and down her back. That was one thing she liked about Tony. He knew when it was time to stop being a brother, and time to start being well, a brother. When it was time to stop being annoying and to start seeing everything as a threat to his sister.

Ashlyn cringed and moaned as a flash of pain shot through her stomach. Tanya, Tony's twin sister quivered down at the foot of the bed. She was scared that she would have to go through all this too when she got to Ashlyn's age.

She reached down to touch Tanya's hand, trying to comfort her. But pain seemed to shoot from her stomach, up to her chest, and down her arms to the tips of her fingers. Her hand curled into a fist and went to her stomach.

Subcontiously she was wondering how long she would have to get ready to get to school. By the time that the pills will kick in, about a half hour. She really didn't care anymore if she got a computer. She just wanted the pain to go away....

Slowly, the pain began to ebb away. Ashlyn counted the seconds that ticked by until it was fintally gone. This was the worst time of the month, for her anyway. The first day of her period. The second day was always worse though. But she still found a way to live through it. She had to.

Ashlyn then ushered the two ten-year-olds out of the room so she could get dressed.


She rested her head in her hands as her mom pulled up to Tanya and Tony's school. There were just times when she felt like there was more to life then people thought. And it seemed like she should be a part of it. As if, there was a part of her that was missing. Like their was something bigger and better that she should be doing.

But what could it possibly be?

"Ashlyn! Bye!" Tanya was yelling, waving her hand from where she stood, five feet away from the car.

Ashlyn smiled softly. Going back to hide her face in her short brownish, blond-witha tint of red, hair. Her light blue eyes were just barely showing. She never was that comfortable being around people who weren't as old as her. Then agian, she didn't do too well with socializing with the people who were as old as her. Family and friends were about it.

The ride to Jefferson Middle School-her school-was silent except fo her the few complaints about 'stupid woman drivers' from her day. He wasn't sexist or anything, he just hated bad drivers and, Ashlyn had to admit, alot of them turned out to be women.

"Do you have everything you need?" her mom turned around just as they were pulling into the parking lot for the school.

Ashlyn rolled her eyes begind her glasses and clutched her purple 'Princess' shoulder bag to her chest. The force made Ton'ys rain jacked slide up her stomach. Tony was big for a 10-year-old, and Ashlyn was small for a 13-year-old, which meant that his clothes fit her amlost perfectly. And this jacket was nearly 2 sizes too big for him.

Well, you get the picture.

"Yes I do."

Her father turned around, looking over his seat. Ashlyn caught just a glimpse of his gold-green eyes.

"Feeling bloated?" Ashlyn slapped him across the head, before getting out and storming across the street.

She stopped for a second to glance up at the building. For as long as she could rememer, she had always saw school as like being in a lamb in a lions' den with a whole bunch of sleeping lions. If you were silent, and light on your feet, you just might make it out alive.

And that's how she survived. Staying in the shadowns, only taking when called on or when it suited her. Never drawing any attention to herself. Of course, she made sure she was never completely unnoticed. Making sure that people knew she was there, yet staying silent enough that they really didn't care about talking to her.

Ashlyn sighed and stepped into the lions' den.


BeBe: I feel that I should explain why Ashlyn is so young. In Daughters Of Darkness, Rowan had said that it was possible that ones soulmate could be completely the wrong age for them as well. But that never seemed to happen, so I wondered what would happen if it did? And then Ashlyn was born.
I just realized that Ashlyn could be like the shipping for Ash and Mary-Lynnette. Let me please tell you that, that was not what I had in mind. I was forced to watch Barbie and The Twelve Dancing Princesses with my cousin-who's six-and the oldest sister's name was Ashlyn, so I just fell inlove with the name.
If you do not like the idea of the story, do not read, do not take out your anger by writing flames because I only did this on a dare like I said.