Chapter 1
"Annie! Are you coming or not?" Jose asked her younger sister in frustration as she paced around the stairwell
"No Just go without me, I'm just looking over some work notes, I'll be out in ten-twenty minuets max" Anna-Ray lied as she flicked through the pages of her father John-Luke long forgotten Journal until she landed on page 64.
'November the 3rd 2002
Today was father's funeral; I'm saddened to admit having shed tears as i watched him being lowered to the ground squashed between Aunt Lola and Aunt Tracy.
Father would have been disappointed to see me cry, he always said that the most important quality a person must learn was to disguise ones true feelings, he also told long, confusing and somewhat pointless story that always ended at the topic of embracing death because in this immortal ridden world a quick death was like "a gift from the heavens".
I found it impossible to think of fathers passing as a gift as i watched countless of neighbours; relatives and friends stare with sad dull looks offering quiet but common phrases like "sorry for your loss" and "he was a great man" which were both largely incorrect, the neighbourhood had never truly bonded with father the way only a child could they labelled him as paranoid and uneducated and after just an earful of his beliefs in the supernatural they would wordlessly confirm that he was indeed 'crazy'. And let's face it father was kind and compassionate but "great" was just not the right word to describe a hard-headed 59 year old
-John
November the 4th 2002
The investigation on father's death has been dropped; the news lady said it was "a tragic ending to a horrific animal attack"
-John
November the 5th 2002
The investigator who'd been analysing fathers body has now confirmed blood loss in his body but dismissed this detail as well as the fanglike teeth prints on his shoulder as further proof that the death was caused by the wild animals that have been reported around father's death place; Mystic Falls.
No one had bothered to inform me that father had died in Mystic falls; it's almost as if they assumed I'd automatically link his death with is belief of the supernatural forces that seemed somewhat attached to mystic falls, but what if...?
-John
November the 29th 2002
I've managed to get the exact location of father's murder as well the other "animal attacks" dotted around mystic falls; I'm on the train heading for the crime scene as I write this entry'
John-Luke never did finish that last entry the officer who found his separated limbs reported to have spotted a silver book by a nearby tree. After a third search the book was recovered and sent back to John-Luke's less than pleased family, before finally ending its journey in Anna-Rays curious hands.