DISCLAIMER: All the characters belong to L.J. Smith, I own nothing more than the plot. The song (If I am James Dean, you're Audrey Hepburn) is of course not mine as much as I wish it was, the rights go to Sleeping with Sirens and the respective owners.

Your forever is all that I need

As little five year old Jenny sauntered into her grandpa's basement in her summer clothes that consisted of shorts, a thin flowing shirt that had prints of flowers and her sandals smacking loudly against each step as she went lower into the basement. Jenny was looking for her grandpa who'd promised to take her and her cousin Zack out for ice cream. But as she looked around the basement her little head turning from side to side in what seemed to be a golden halo around her head, but she didn't find her grandpa, she looked around nervously in every corner with hopes of finding him, she knew she should stay away from the basement if her grandpa wasn't around. But she'd checked the entire house and didn't find him, he had to be down here, she thought to herself as a pout appeared on her face.

After all it was normal for her to walk down here, but she'd never been all alone, he'd always told her and Zach not to go down there alone, but this should be an exception her grandpa had to be here so she wasn't really alone. But where, where was her grandpa? The door that lead to the basement had been open, which was unlikely as it was always locked unless he was down here. She looked around more closely at the things that hung around the room, she'd always been interested in all the exotic looking things that crowded the room but he'd always told her not to touch. Jenny's grandpa had always said that when Zach and her were older he'd teach them about all the items. Her green eyes burned with determination as she looked around, intent on finding at least one clue that would tell her where he'd gone. But as her eyes looked around the room she seemed to return her focus on her grandpa's things, he'd had travelled a lot and as Jenny knew most of his prized possessions from those trips were all in that single room.

But what caught her attention the most after looking around was the bookshelf, it was moved slightly from its usual spot right against the wall. Jenny inched closer to the door slowly, with the rising hope in her that her grandpa might be there hiding from her. But what she found was a door, how could there be a door? Little Jenny wondered, maybe he's back there waiting for me, with a surprise. After all why else would he be hiding? As Jenny took another step close to the door she noticed the weird-looking-letter carvings at the top, even the color seemed odd to her, like a rusted red, not the usual bright cherry red she was used to. Jenny finally pushed all the weird details out of her mind and reached out for the door, the doorknob moved freely in her hand it wasn't locked either. Her grandpa should be in there she assumed as she pulled on the door, but it was hard to move.

Could it be stuck and that was why her grandpa wasn't around?

Could he be in there thinking no one would find him? That thought was what ultimately pushed little Jenny to pull at the door with all her strength until she had it open a slit, and then it was blown back pushing her. The door slammed against the wall with a loud thud as little Jenny landed on her butt, a few feet behind where she'd been standing. She sat there in shock, staring mouth agape at what was behind the threshold of the door. It was dark, and she could feel the cold emanating from there, after her eyes adjusted she could actually see the snow in there. It was as if there was a huge snow storm going on in there, but how could that be when it was nice and sunny outside? Could it really be possible?

Jenny jumped up hurriedly to go look for her grandpa, what if he was in there cold and lost? Against her better judgement she ran in there at full speed, the wind was blowing and she felt the cold biting at her exposed skin, soon enough she felt as the snow flakes that had fallen on her began to melt with her warmth, she was still running a bit slower, as she realized she had no direction and she didn't even know which way was back. Eventually she saw a shape, amongst all the snow it had to be her grandpa! She ran with renewed speed towards the shape she'd seen but as she got closer she noticed it couldn't be a person. From afar yes, it had seem as if it was the shape of her grandpa, a tall human figure but as she came closer she was sure that wasn't a person. It was misshapen.

Could it all just be her mind though? After all what else could be there right? She hadn't seen anything the whole time she'd been running that wasn't snow, absolutely no other shapes that stood out, it had to be her grandpa. So Jenny, ran and when she was no more than ten feet away from the shape she knew she'd been wrong. It wasn't her grandpa, it was a monster, misshapen and with gray skin that seemed to have scales in certain parts, it seemed to be almost bald with patched of hair on top of its head, she'd never seen anyone with hair like that. It was horrible, Jenny at the age of five had never even seen a Halloween costume as horrible as that, even zombies spooked her, but this was much worse. It was real.

Jenny hadn't felt the cold as much as she did when she looked at the monster in front of her, it might have to do with the fact that she hadn't been still until the shock had paralyzed her in place, right behind the weird creature that was doing who knows what. She looked down to see her exposed skin on her legs was turning a funny color that she couldn't make out very well in the dimness of the snow storm and then her teeth began to chatter with the unbearable cold that seemed to hit her all at once, that same cold that was slowly seeping all the way into her bones. Where was her grandpa?

"Jenny!" Came a blood curling scream that was carried from not too far in the snow storm and almost sounded like a whisper to her, but at that moment the horrible creature turned around obviously having heard the scream as much as Jenny herself. It's eyes were nothing like its body, they were a beautiful shiny golden color from what Jenny could make out through the snow. How was that even possible she wondered, but that was quickly gone from her mind as she saw it's smile. It showed perfect white teeth that came down to a point, almost like that of a predator and if she hadn't already been cold this completely froze her spine, goosebumps were raised on her arms and she couldn't help but yell out in horror.

"Jenny, how could you! Why did you open the door? Run Jenny, RUN!" Her grandpa had reached her and was urgently pulling at her wrist but when no answer came from her he resorted to picking her up and threw little Jenny right over his shoulder, as that happened the creature let out a low growl between his teeth and that simply caused Jenny to let out another scream. Her grandpa was running as fast as he could as he carried the little girl on his back. Soon enough there seemed to be a pursuit of several creatures after Jenny and her grandpa this didn't make her scream any more instead she began to cry and whimper as her grandpa began to run out of breath. He kept running nonetheless.

When they were about twenty feet from the threshold of the door that led back to the basement the creatures had reached them. They varied in colors, size, teeth type, but no matter what they were all creepy looking, the tears were still coming down Jenny's face but she couldn't make herself utter any kind of sound, they would hear her. They were already trying to get a hold of both her and her grandpa reaching out with their misshapen hands more and more, closer and closer each attempt until they finally a white hand came out and pulled at her grandpa's leg and they automatically stumbled forward with her grandpa falling right on his face, but he made one last attempt to save Jenny as he threw her and she landed about five feet from the sprawled out form of her grandpa as he began to be pulled back by the monsters.

Jenny sat there without being able to move, completely in shock, whimpering as her grandpa looked back at her, he mouthed the words: run, get out. But she couldn't just leave him could she? Instead she began sobbing, and that was when it happened. One of the monsters looked her way, a smile like that of a wolf spreading across his scaly lips as he turned towards her. "Come here." His voice was like breaking ice, even a little more raspy than that and there was an undertone that made her flesh crawl just at the sound of it, there was just something so very wrong with the natural sound of his voice.

"NO! Let her go! You have me!"

"Old man, did you really think we wouldn't take you first chance we got? You weren't supposed to tell anyone else, your deal did not cover that. But you did more than that, you brought her." The same creature was the one who was talking back to her grandpa although Jenny couldn't even see where he was, there were too many of them in between Jenny's eyesight and her grandpa.

"She doesn't have enough meat on her body." Another voice complained and Jenny shuddered, she'd always been smaller than kids her age.

"NOOOO! Let her go!"

"You have nothing to bargain with old man." The first creature countered, his eyes had never left Jenny and the sobs were coming faster and faster, she began to freak out he was creeping her out. Just as the creature began to take a step towards Jenny's direction and she scrambled backwards ever closer to the door a strong gust pushed towards the direction of the creatures and where her grandpa had been.

"He may not be able to bargain for her, but I claim her." Another voice said directly from behind her, this one however didn't sound raspy. It sounded more like the voice of a boy, a voice that was almost like water falling over rocks, and ever so sweet that even Jenny looked behind her and immediately she stopped crying.

Right behind her stood a boy, he looked about seven years old and was wearing dark pants and a dark t-shirt. His hair looked white, but not in the way that it does in old people it was lighter than a platinum blond but had no golden tone to it and looked completely natural, it was cropped close at the sides and seemed to fall over his forehead to cover part of his eyes. His eyes, the most shocking part of him, as they were big and impossibly blue, if it wasn't because Jenny was certain that she'd never seen a blue like that one she would of have said that was her favorite color. But there was something about those eyes, that unsettled her deep down it was the mischief and the malice that no normal child at that age would have, it was wisdom past the years he appeared to be.

"Just let him take her. She doesn't have enough meat and besides it only means there is more for us." Another voice claimed but the creature who had been eyeing Jenny seemed unbearably unhappy with the arrangement.

"I want her!" The creature growled but the boy didn't seem to be worried.

"I claimed her. You're late and unless you want trouble you'll know what's best for you." The boy with the white hair smiled at the creature and somehow that made Jenny feel anxious, but how could this boy stand up to the monsters?

"Let them go Eleazar, you know that even if he is younger he is still more powerful than you." Another voice countered and the boy smiled as the other creature turned back towards the rest who now seemed to be fighting over something that was where they had dragged her grandpa, they must of taken him far away by now as he hadn't said anything more Jenny assumed.

The boy triumphant took a few steps closer to Jenny and she looked up at him not completely trusting him. He reached out his hand towards her as if he was offering to help her up and even though she didn't know him she owed him, he'd scared away the monsters. When she stood up he frowned as he looked down at her legs and noticed how her teeth were chattering, he quickly took her into her arms as if he were both hugging her and protecting her. "Close your eyes." He whispered lightly into her ear and just as she did a falling sensation over came her and Jenny couldn't help it but wrap her arms around the bigger boy.

Eventually the feeling of falling subsided and the feeling of being outside in a snow storm was gone too. "You can open your eyes now." The boy said in that voice of his that made Jenny feel safe. She opened her eyes slowly to realize she was still in his arms, she looked up at him and noticed the impossibly blue eyes of him were looking straight at her, Jenny didn't know why but that made her blush and she looked away quickly and tried to untangle herself but all she did was fall on her butt for the million time that day.

The boy immediately got down to check her over with a worried look on his face much like that of a grown up, she couldn't help it but start laughing hysterically which made the boy glance up at her. "Are you okay?" He muttered worriedly, to which Jenny simply nodded. "Then why are you laughing?" He questioned confused.

"Because, you're almost like my dad when I fall." She laughed again at the thought and the boy seemed to find it shocking but eventually he too was sitting on the floor laughing along with Jenny. Eventually as the laughter calmed down she realized she didn't know the name of this boy.

"I'm jenny." She finally said as she stuck out her hand to the bigger boy.

"You can call me Julian." With that he took in her hand and a smile spread across both of their faces. They were officially friends.

A/N: This is my first story ever, so please review and tell me what you think!

Again, in this story I decided to change things to make it more fitting, so if you have any comments on why I made Julian appear as a child review(: I will answer all your questions.

I am aiming to update at least once a week, but I suppose if I get enough reviews that may change in the future. (Oh, and sorry for any mistakes I'm still figuring out all of the site!)