I do not own Night World, it belongs to L. J. Smith. The characters are also hers.

"Hey Ash, when are we going to meet that soulmate of yours?" James asked his cousin.

"After I go back for her, if she wishes it, I'll bring her back her." Ash replied not looking up from his book. Just then the opening theme song to Pride and Prejudice started playing. Taking his phone out of his back pocket, Ash answered it without looking at the caller ID.
"Hello?...
Hi, what's up?...
No...
Yeah...
I was planning to in 2 months...
I know, I just thought I would give her time to think about what she wants...
And?...
What's that?...
Why are you telling me this?...
Wow. Sounds like fun...
Forget it! I'm not bring them! And you're not coming either!...
No! You can't tell her! I thought it was gonna be a surprise?!...
Don't be so selfish!...
Fine! You can come...
Fine. I'll get the others to come too. But at least give us some time alone first...
A week?...
A DAY! You've got to be kidding me! Give us more time! I haven't seen her in a year!...
Fine! Three days it is. Bye."

"Who was that?" Quinn asked walking into the room with his soulmate Rashel.

"Kestrel."

"What did she want?" Jez asked following Quinn into the room along with the rest of the Daybreakers.

"Hey guys, I'm home!" Mary-Lynnette yelled into the farm house. Mare and her brother Mark had moved in with Kestrel, Rowan and Jade Redfern after their father and step-mother decided to move to Europe, the had wanted Mare and Mark to move with them, but they were able to convince them to let them move in with the Redfern sisters. Mare called for her brother and blood-tied sisters, but no answer came. Seeing a note on the bench left by Rowan, Mare read it.

Mare,

Mark and us girls have gone
out, we'll be back later.
There is a surprise waiting
for you in your room.
Hope you like it.

Rowan.

Mare made her way up to her room. When she opened the door she found a young, lanky, elegant man with ash-blonde hair and cleancut features fast asleep on her bed. He was laying on his side with his arms out stretched in front of him, legs slightly bent. He was on top of the covers, he wore the same shirt he had worn when they had first met, but this time with black unripped skinny jeans. She crawled onto her bed and laid down next to him, putting her head on his out-stretched arm. Mary-Lynnette fall asleep without realising it, she had a long day at school, with an early class and 2 after school classes. She then awoke with someone kissing her lightly on the neck, Mare's eyes fluttered open, she had her back to the kisser, yet his arms were wrapped protectively around her, pulling her close to him. As she rolled over to face him, he shifted so he was now laying on his back, she looked into his slightly tilted wicked, ever changing eyes before laying her head onto his chest.

"Sorry M'lin, did I wake you?" Ash asked as he started to stroke her hair.

"No." Mare didn't want to admit that it was his kiss and the zap from the soulmate connection that woke her.

'You forget that I can read your mind, well, I guess it's more hearing it.' Ash responded in her mind.

"Ok, you might have woken me slightly, but I could have gone back to sleep, if I had really wanted to." Mare replied tilting her head so she could kiss Ash's collarbone.

"I know sweetheart, but you've had a long day, you should sleep." Ash said before shifting so he could leave the bed and let Mare sleep.

Just as Ash was off the bed and had turned to kiss Mare did she grab onto Ash's shirt with a firm grip and said, "I can sleep tonight, I haven't seen you in almost a year."

Ash climbed on top of her, wearing his disarming lazy grin, he peeled her hand off his shirt and pinning both her hands above her head, using only one hand to hold her hands there. The other hand took a hold of Mare's chin and tilted her head so he had perfect access to her neck, then he began to kiss her pulse point. Speaking into her neck Ash said, "I have missed you dearly, but I need to go feed before I really attack your neck." To prove his point, Ash gently licked her pulse point then proceed to playfully bite and suck on her neck, before getting off her and walking out the bedroom door.

"You just gave me a hickey didn't you?" Mare glared at Ash's retreating form before running after him. Ash jumped over the stairs, landing elegantly, just like a cat, as he turned he smirked at Mare's glare. "You are the laziest person I know, yet you jumped down the stairs?"

"Quickest way to get away from you, and yes sweetheart, you do have a hickey on your neck." Ash just laughed as he opened the front door to walk out, but suddenly he stopped, he looked like he had forgotten something. At vampire speed Ash ran up the stairs and wrapped an arm around Mare's waist and his other hand had snaked it's way around the back of Mary-Lynnette's neck. Ash crushed his lips against Mare's, it only took her a second to respond by wrapping both her arms around Ash's neck. Pulling away after a minute, Ash released himself from Mary-Lynnette's hold and gently rubbed his nose against her's before running to the door, stopping to turn and wink at her and then leave for hunting.

Mare waited for a couple of hours till Ash got back from hunting. She heard the door open, but didn't turn to greet Ash, she was busying doing her extra credit homework. Ash came up behind her and kissed her lightly on the hickey he had given her before he had left for hunting. "M'lin you're not still angry with me are you?"

"When was I angry with you?"

"When I gave you that little love bite."

"That was not a little love bite."

"Yes it was, my big love bites include blood and fangs." Ash the ran said fangs against the hickey he had given Mare earlier.

"Are you going to give me a big love bite?"

"Not today Love." Ash murmured against Mare's neck before kissing it then walking around her and the table taking a seat across from her. "We must talk now. Kestrel told me about how you study the country Australia and some of their traditions."

"I studied their culture basically."

"Yeah, yeah, anyway, apparently after their Year 12s finish school they go on a trip with other Year 12."

"Schoolies."

"Yeah, that. Anyway, Kestrel told me you liked the idea if it so I thought it would be a good idea to rent a beach house and have a schoolies event kind of thing." Ash didn't get a chance to finish telling her everything before Mare had ran around the table and jumped onto his lap to kiss him hard and passionately. He adjusted her so she was straddling his lap, then wrapped his arms tightly around her and pulled her against him.

"What beach are we going to?" Mare asked as she took a breath from kissing Ash.

"Well if you're patient enough to wait until November then we can go to one of the beaches in Australia." Ash didn't get a chance to tell her about who was joining them as Mare attacked him with kisses again.

Pulling away Ash took a breath and said, "M'lin, some of my friends and family really want to meet you and Kestrel, Rowan, Jade and Mark really want to come too but it's all up to you."

"Schoolies is a finished school forever thing, so Kestrel, Mark and Jade can't come, they can go once they finish and Rowan won't leave them alone here so it looks like it will just be us and your friends."

"Actually, most are my cousins and their soulmates." Ash said smirking.

"Ok, tell me their names."

"Not everyone in Circle Daybreak could come, like Thierry and Hannah, they have to stay and run the place, so we have my cousin James, lamia and his soulmate Poppy a made vampire who was actually turned by James because she was going to die of cancer, Quinn and his soulmate Rashel, and before you ask it is the same Quinn who checked up on us last year but like me he changed for his soulmate who just happens to be the best vampire hunter ever, Quinn is a made vampire by the way. My cousin Thea, a witch and her human soulmate Eric, my cousin Blaise, a witch and she has no soulmate, my cousin Jez, she is half human and half vampire and a wild power, I'll explain what that is later, and her soulmate Morgead a lamia. David, a human, he is coming for human support but his soulmate, a witch is unable to come. My... I'm not sure if he is a cousin or a uncle, but his name is Delos, he is a lamia and he is wild power, and his soulmate Maggie who is human. Keller, a shapeshifter, she shifts into a panther, her soulmate is also a shapeshifter but he has very important matters to attend to so he can't come. I think that is it, James, Poppy, Quinn, Rashel, Thea, Eric, Blaise, Jez, Morgead, David, Delos, Maggie, Keller, oh I forgot Iliana, she is a witch, she is also a wild power and a real pain, a few like and a few don't. You'll see why. I'll let you make your own decision on everyone."