Chapter 1

I don't believe this of all things to worry about this has got to be the worst. This is just ridiculous. Here I am waiting for something to pick me up but there is nothing here. My name is Katerine, but I prefer everyone call me Kat. I have long violet ringlets cascading down my back, and yes violet is my natural hair color. I have shy sky blue eyes hidden underneath light violet lashes, an hour glass shaped figure, a tiny waist line, everyone who I come in contact with swears I'm the most beautiful things they've seen. I have pale laminating milky white skin, that's to perfect to be human.

Beings I was born a vampire I'm what you would call a pure blood, and because of that my heart beats, not much but enough. I have all the strengths that a vampire has and none of their weaknesses except one, the need to feed on human blood. When I turned sixteen the woman who raised me told me what I was. What a birthday present, Huh? Anyway I did as much research as I could about my kind, mainly how to kill them. The answer I found out from personal experience, silver blade twisted through the heart, or decapitation. Sunlight no way, garlic not a chance, wooden stake yea right, if you want them to laugh at you.

So now you know all about me and why I'm here. Wait I feel something, I feel power and a lot of it, this one is a master. I scan the room sending my senses out; there at the shadowed booth in the back corner. I order another drink and walk over to him. "hi I'm Kat." I said to the vampire master. He looked up at me and smiled. "Hi I'm Blade." The vampire introduced himself. There was something about him, something that didn't scream dangerous or deadly in any way. It's hard to explain. He looked me up and down admiring what he saw. "Won't you sit with me?" He asked, "I love to be in the company of a beautiful lady, especially one as beautiful as you, Kat." Blade finally ended his sentence.

I sat down everything screaming in me that I know him. As he started to talk to me pains in my head started like needles being pushed through my brain. I didn't let it show though. We sat and talked for hours like we were old friends that were getting reacquainted. There was still something about him that felt like I should know him. I didn't know what to make of all this. "I have to go home now." I finally said my voice filled with reluctance. I was trying to lead him out of the club and somewhere where no one would see the body after I killed him, hey I still had a job to do.
"I'll walk you out." Blade said to me. I gave him my sweetest, nicest, most innocent smile, one that I have mastered over the years.

"Thank you." I replied. We walked out the door together arms interlocked with each other. He politely and gracefully led me out of the bar. We walked out of the club and into the parking lot, "so where's your car?" I asked my hand running sensually down his arm. "All I have is my bike." Blade stated as he pointed to a Kawashi ninja. I sighed in order for me to kill him I'd have to take my car. Normally when I get picked up by a vampire we left in his car so that away I could take him by surprise and shove a silver blade through his heart and twist simple as that.

"Well we could take my car, but don't laugh at it." I said, I started to hand him the keys, "you wanna drive?" I asked, he nodded his head we got into my car and he drove off. He stopped at a secluded place I was looking around making sure no one would see this because technically it was murder. Just as I turned back around his fist connected with the side of my head. Everything was pitch black.

When I awoke which I would have thought would have been several minutes latter it was pitch dark out in the room I was in. I didn't need any light to see, "Who are you, who do you work for?" A man's voice came out of the distance.
"My name is Kat and I work for no one." I answered him. By the look on his face he didn't believe me. But I was telling the truth, he came closer any closer and he could kiss me. In a way it made me uncomfortable, but it also made me want him more. He had me chained to a wall, by the fell of it it was a cave wall. "I don't believe you, I can smell the scent of a vampire in you, Who do you work for?" He asked me yet again, but this time he slapped me for affect, his eyes no longer their hazel color, but glowing emerald green.

"I told you I don't work for anyone. The reason you smell vampire in me is because that's what I am." I almost yelled at him the reason why. "That can't be your heartbeats." Blade said to me. I gave a wicked smile. "Yes my heart beats; because I was born a vampire my father and mother are two of the oldest vampires." I said. Dammit Kat Why did you just say that? That's personal he don't need to know who your parents are. I mentally yelled at myself.
"Tell me who are you mother and father?" Blade asked of me. I looked at him and then around the room trying to ignore his question, "come on luv haven't got all night." Blade said.

I returned my gaze to his letting my emerald green eyes shine forth. Perhaps if I showed him my eyes I wouldn't have to tell him my father's name. He started at me surprisingly, "that can't be there has never been a vampire born only changed." He said in awe. I toned down my eyes, "tell me who is you father and mother?" He demanded of me yet again. I continued to stare at him, "come on luv like I said haven't got all night." He added. I tried to ignore his question but his eyes remained on mine.

"Vlad Tepesh, aka Vlad the Impaler is my father." I finally answered him. Somewhat proud, yet hurt as well, they got rid of me when I was born. "I know Vlad Tepesh, and his wife Areulla, they never spoke of having a daughter." Blade said. He pulled out a cell phone and dialed a number, "wait a minute Kitten while we check on your lineage." He said. As he put the phone to his ear, "Hey Tepesh how are ya doing? How's Areulla? That's great….Listen I have a young girl chained up here she says she's you daughter." There was a pause, "Oh okay, she says her name is Kat." In the background I could hear a woman screaming, "okay I'll bring her by." He hung up the phone and unchained me, "we're going to meet your parents." Blade said. I jumped off the rock he had me on an evil smile tugging my lips.
"Good I've been hunting for them." I answered back.

We started to the mouth of the cave when we both heard something. We looked at each other and I rolled over to get my one and only weapon, my wicked looking silver dagger. Blade tossed me a few silver knives, I tucked them in my belt loops. We continued to walk to the mouth of the cave. I saw a flash of green eyes and got my dagger ready. I walked closer and he tried to attack me but I was ready I twisted my daggers in his heart and pulled out one of my knives that Blade tossed me. Another vampire came up to me, I kicked his legs out from under him when he landed I was there with a silver blade twisted through his heard.

I looked behind me Blade was fighting two vampires with a third sneaking up behind him. I ran over and jumped over Blade and the two vampires he was fighting, I flipped and kicked the bastard he landed on the cave floor with me on top of him one leg on each of his sides his arms pinned beneath me. I plunged my knife in his heart and twisted it for good measure. I stood up off of the withering corpse. Blade looked behind him at me for a fraction of a second and smiled, then finished the two he was fighting. I looked around between Blade and I we defeated everyone one of them. Blade looked at the dagger, and knife in my hand, then the knives in my belt loops I looked down, "I'll make a deal with you. If I beat you in a fair fight you release me, you beat me you can do whatever with me." I mentioned to him. He gave me a look.

"Are you sure about that Kitten? Your good I'll admit, but good enough for a master like me." Blade said to me, "If I beat you in a fair fight then I'll train you to fight better than you do now, but you have to go on jobs with me." I gave him a questioning look, "I'm a hit man, A hired gun you could say." He added seeing the look on my face. That explained the weapons. I thought to myself. "Alright either way I'll win; I'll get trained better than what I've taught myself, and I'll get to kill the evil of our kind." I answered him. He gave me an evil smile. "Ready?" He asked. Was he serious here now? No way. He came at me to hit me but I ducked his hit. When I looked at him he was there trying to kick me. I back flipped and landed on the wall and stayed there for a few minutes, "How did you do that?" Blade asked of me. I smiled wickedly.

"Pure blood remember I can do things that others can't." I replied. He smiled at me. "If I didn't know any better Kitten I'd say you were up there because this one fight you might not win." He said to me. I smiled evilly and kicked myself off of the wall and toward him. I knocked him off his feet about to plunge a steel blade in him when he flipped me over. "Never fall for tricks like that Kitten, number one rule of fighting; fight dirty, you have strength you have speed use them." He said. I knew what he was saying was a training thing. "Anything else you would like to tell me?" I asked. Blade stood up. "If I teach you everything I know you'll be able to master all the evil of our kind." Blade said. I scoffed.

"All our kind is evil." I retorted. He shook his head. "No Kitten not all our kind is evil." He said, "Most of us just take a few drops when we feed. Not enough to even weakening them." Blade said. I started at him strangely if that was true than everything I was told growing up was a lie. I'll sort out this information latter when I wasn't around this vampire. Blade took my moment of distraction at this information as an opportune moment. He had me on the cave floor with a steel blade in my heart.

"Ow." I said, "Knife in the heart really does hurt." I added. He pulled the knife out of my chest, "now kindly get off of me." I demanded. He got off of me and helped me up. I stood there and looked at Blade. "I won Kitten so that means I'm going to train you and you have to go on jobs with me." Blade said, "We'll start tomorrow. Go home and get some rest." Blade finished his sentence. I looked down at the cave floor, "what's the matter Kitten?" I looked up at him.
"Nothing." I answered, "Where's my car?" I asked. Blade looked at me funny like. "It's down the road a little ways, why with you speed you, could be home in no time." Blade answered. I looked back down at the cave floor, Blade handed me my keys I took them and ran off out of the cave, "Be here at dusk tomorrow." Blade called out. I held out my hand to show I heard him. I got into my car and just sat there. Home the word rang in my head. If only I had a home. I thought to myself.

I started my car and took off toward town. I stopped at a wal-mart supercenter they're open twenty four hours a day seven days a week. I stopped my car and went inside the store to grab someone for a quick bit to eat. I led the man out of the store and in a back corner I sensually bit into his neck, I drank alittle. Then green eyed him and tell him to go home and stay there. I walked back to my car and went to lay down, when I saw him. How did he get in my car. "What are you doing here?" I asked of him. He smiled softly. "Just thought I would see what you were up to." He said. "Look I'm fine I had to stop and get a quick bit to eat, now I'm on my home okay." I said to him. The man gave a deeper smile. "Who are you kidding Kitten, you don't have a home to go to do you, that's why you were going to lay on the seat for some sleep. Why didn't you tell me?" he asked. I looked down at the steering wheel ashamed that he had learned this news.

"Because it's my problem, I've been out on my own since I was sixteen, the woman who raised me told me what I was then, and kicked me out. She didn't want to stay under the same roof as a pure blooded vampire she said that she was afraid for own life. I couldn't get a job so I just made due, no one seemed to care when I would ask for help, rather it be a shelter, or a spare room, so I just slept in my car and killed out kind." I answered. Blade shook his head slowly.

"Kitten you could have told me before you left the cave. I have more than enough money to put you up somewhere, somewhere where you'll be safe. Come one tell me what is one of the things you've always wanted that you couldn't have." Blade said to me I looked up at him and then looked away ashamed to admit it. "I have always wanted to meet my parents and find out why they didn't raise me. I have always wanted to be part of a family, one that is loving and caring." I said and pink tears stained my cheeks, "growing up I saw all these kids with parents who love them, and care for them, all the while I knew that mine didn't care, or love me, if they did I would have been raised by them and not the woman that raised me, the woman that raised me made me her slave until I reached the age of sixteen, she told me what I was, and if I wanted to remain in her house then I would start sleeping with men for money.

"I refused so she hit me and told me that she wanted me out of her house claiming to me that the reason was because she was scared for her life, I knew better, I could read her mind she wanted me to lie on my back and entertain some of her gentlemen friends and give her the money for it." I went on saying the whole time looking out at the sky. I never said that to anyone, why is it that I can talk to him about it? I still had pink tears streaming down my cheeks. In a flash Blade had switched places with me and I was in the passenger seat. He started the engine to my car and we left the Wal-mart parking lot, "where are you taking me?" I asked. He looked at me from the corner of his eyes.

"Back to the cave, you are in no condition to be alone to night. In the morning at a decent hour you and I will go apartment hunting so you'll have a place to call home, or would you like me to buy you a home, take your pick I can do either." Blade answered my question and there was no pity in his voice or his eyes, there was sympathy. Caring in fact, something that I thought I would never hear from anyone. "You don't have to do that Blade, we just met, I'm twenty two now, I've learned to survive on my own, and without a home, you don't have to put your credit on line for me." I said to him. Blade stopped the car at the stop light and looked at me.

"It has nothing to do with my credit Kitten, I can pay for a apartment for you three years or more in advance, or I can buy you a house when there will be no mortgage payments." Blade said his eyes on me. They were caring yet horrified by my story, the story of my life, "don't decide tonight Kitten, when we get back to the cave I want you to sleep on the bed in the back of the cave, I'll sleep on the couch." Blade added. I looked at him. He was the first one to show kindness, and I had tried to kill him earlier.

"Blade, you're right I'm in no condition to be alone tonight, and it is your cave, please you can sleep on the bed, even if it's with me." I said to him, "but don't expect anything more than that." I added. Blade gave a weak smile. "I wouldn't dream of it Kitten." Blade said. He stopped a few miles away from the cave and we got out and went to the cave. He showed me to the bed and I laid on it it was so soft, like a cloud, something that I have never before been on. He tossed me on of his shirts knowing that it would be long enough for me to sleep in. I put it on and laid down under the blankets, Blade changed and he tow laid down next to me.

"Blade." I whispered. I could feel him smile at me as he lay beside me, "thank you so much. You're the first person who has actually cared about my life, about me." I said to him. Blade kissed my brow. "You're welcome Kitten." Blade said and then laid his head on the pillow, "good night, sleep well." He added. I gave a half smile. "Good night." I sighed and I was out.

I awoke the next morning I didn't know what time it was or anything but I knew that that was the best sleep of my life, I didn't know that a bed could feel so soft, so inviting. I sat up expecting to see Blade beside me but he wasn't. I put my clothes on from last night and went out of that room. Blade wasn't in the other one either. Hmm, well I'll just here on the couch and wait for him. I thought to myself. I sat down and waited. Eventually a figure came in the entrance; it didn't feel like Blade, I grabbed my silver dagger to be prepared.

I didn't know what his gifts were so all I could do was be prepared. I slide behind a cave wall and waited for him to come closer so that I could see who it was. He came closer and it was someone I didn't know I waited until he turned around so that I could be behind him and have the element of surprise. I ran up to him and tackled him, I pressed my dagger into his back enough for him to feel it, "make one fucking twitch and I will ram this silver dagger in you heart and kill you, now who are you?" I asked. He tried to turn around.

"My name is Bryan I'm a friend of Blade's he asked me to met him here, though he didn't say you would be here." The vampire answered. "I don't believe you so we're going to stay like this until Blade comes back to conform this." I growled at him, "and if he isn't back by nightfall, then you'll be meeting you demon brothers in hell." I added. That made him gulp he was silently praying that Blade would return soon. Twenty minutes latter and I could feel Blade walking on to the scene but I didn't let the vampire up. "What is going on here? Kitten what are you doing?" Blade asked. I looked up at him. "He scnuk in here and I pinned him down, he says he's a friend of yours and I told him we'll wait and see when you come back. I also told him if you weren't back by nightfall then he would join his fellow demon brothers in hell." I answered Blade's question. Blade started to laugh. He bent down to where the vampire's face was in the dirt.

"Hey Bryan still think that a woman can't beat your arse?" Blade asked. I looked down at the vampire, "Kitten you can let him go he speaks the truth, he's my good friend Bryan, I asked him to come here, I was hoping to be back before he got here." Blade added. I got up off the vampire he got up and shook himself off, "Bryan this is Kater….I mean Kat, Kitten this is my best friend Bryan." Blade made the introductions, I sheathed my dagger back in the hoister. "I'm sorry for my actions, please forgive me." I said softly, thinking that possibly Blade might be mad at me for doing this to his best friend.

"It's quite alright Kat; I would have done the same if I were you. You didn't know me from Adam, and you thought I was someone that would hurt you." Bryan said. I gave a weak smile. Blade on the other hand laughed I was shocked to see him laugh at the scene he had walked in on. I started to laugh at what that must have looked liked when he walked in and saw this scene.

"Bryan I asked you here to help me. I told Kat's parents that I'd bring her to them, but could you go to them and ask them if I could have sometime before I bring to them, I'm trying to train her what I know." Blade asked. Bryan looked at Kat. "Who are you're parents Kat?" Bryan asked. I stood there it hurt to say who they were, that I didn't know them, but I had to. Just as I was about to answer however, Blade answered instead. "Her father is Count Vlad Tepesh, her mother Countess Areulla Tepesh." Blade answered, "it's kind of a sore subject right now." Blade whispered. Bryan nodded his head.