I could see Vlad was in pain. Dad was at his side and Jono was at mine. Then Bertrand was just standing there, staring.

"Don't just stand there, help us!" Vlad shouted at him. Bertrand snapped out of it. He helped Vlad up, ignoring the fact that i'm here. Jono helped me to my feet and held me up until we got to the training room. He carefully placed me next to Vlad on the sofa. Bertrand was thinking to himself and dad was pacing.

"Well?!" dad yelled, but that just made the headache worse.

"I need some time to work on them, they seem to have a connection." he answered turning to dad. Dad nodded and walked out of the room with Jono. "Can you do that again for me?" he asked. That's when I recognized him.

"You!" I yelled getting angry. Vlad looked confused, but Bertrand he knew what I was talking about.

"Do you mind filling me in." Vlad said

"Before I do, who is she?" he asked.

"She's my twin." Vlad said.

"Well I caught her feeding off a breather."

"Like I said I didn't know there was a ceasefire." I said getting up, my head no longer hurt.

"Of course you didn't." he said sarcastically.

"Mum didn't tell me." I said

"That explains quite a lot actually." Vlad said getting up as well.

"Fine, just show me how you did that." Bertrand said not convinced.

"I cant, I don't know how to do it." I said sighing. It was silent for a minute.

"That makes sense, considering you have been living with that rat of a woman." Vlad said.

"And you have only been a vampire for a year and a bit." Bertrand said.

"Why don't you train her?" I laughed,

"Sure I'm fine with that, as long as you don't mind your tutor to be reduced to a pile of ashes." I said sarcastically. Bertrand hissed at me showing his fangs. "You really think they scare me? I've been living with the hairiest werewolf known to existence. Do. Your. Worst." I smirked.

"I will." he muttered.

"Bring it on." I said. I must of sounded like Ingrid.

"I'll take that as a yes then." Vlad said walking out of the training room.

"So, 'Bertrand', what shall we start with." I said looking round the room. He gave me the death glare and I smiled sarcastically.

"If you think i'm going to treat you fairly because you're a girl, then you've got another thing coming." he said looking me in the eye.

"Good beacuse I dont fight like a girl." I smirked and stepped back.

"Ladies first." he said smirking.

"Such a gentleman." I said sarky. I threw a punch at him but he grabbed my fist and pushed it down. He smirked. He came into personal space and picked me up by the scruff of the neck and through me onto the wall. I hit my head and back. It did hurt but I wasn't going to let him know that, was I? I slid down the wall and onto the floor. He sneered and walked over to me. He crouched down and lifted my chin with his index finger. He smirked. I smirked inside and kicked him in the balls. He rolled backwards onto his back and groaned in pain. I got up and grabbed his collar. I pulled him to his feet and looked him coldly in the eye. I could see the pain in his eyes. "I'm stronger than Vlad." I said dropping him. He fell to his knees with a bang. I sneered at him. If he thinks he can mess with a Dracula, then he has another thing coming. He got up slowly and stepped back.

"Of course this is an unfair advantage. I mean i'm a male, you're just a puny little female." he said giving me a piercing glare with those bright blue eyes of his. I was getting angry, if there was one thing that made me absolutely crazy was sexism. I could see that he knew I was getting angry. "And the count just see's you as he see's Ingrid, useless, worthless..." he trailed off. That was enough. I was in so much rage my hands was blue in flames. The look on Bertrand's face was hilarious. He was scared straight, and so he should. He insulted me and he was going to pay.

"You are so gonna regret that." I said sternly. He stepped back until he reached the wall. I felt something touch my leg. I turned around and it was Wolfie. He looked up at my face, I felt sorry for him, being a hy-breed. I calmed down for him and Bertrand walked over to me.

"Don't show your weakness." he said putting a hand on my shoulder and for some reason that made me calm down just that little bit more, but I shrugged him off and crouched down to Wolfie. I smiled at him and he hugged me. He was one of the few things that made me happy. He was happy to see me and I was happy to see him.

"How are you?" I asked him releasing him from the hug and standing up. He smiled and said,

"Fine, hows mum?" I twitched at the mention of mum.

"Fine, she's fine" I said trying not to sound angry. He nodded and scurried off. I turned to Bertrand. "You tell anyone and I will feed you garlic snails." I said pushing him back. He smiled and walked over to the punching bag.

"Punch it." he said. I walked over to him and started to punch it. Hard. "Slow down." he said putting a hand on my shoulder. For some reason, he seamed to calm me down. He made me feel safe. I threw one, single, hard punch and the bag flew off the chain and hit the book case. My reaction was a simple smirk.

"I guess I don't know my own strength." I shrugged and went over to the book case and picked up a book. It read,

The art of shape shifting.

I looked up at him. "A shape shifter ay." he zoomed over and snatched it off me.

"That is confidential." he said looking into my eyes.

"Fine keep ya knickers on." I said picking up another one.

Bertrand De Fortunessa

"You have a diary?" I said in a mocking tone. He didn't snatch this one off of me.

"Open it." he said and started to tidy the stuff up.

"So you think Malik is the bad apple, do to speak?" I said closing the book and putting it into the fixed bookcase. He nodded. "I agree with you there. I mean he just left his mind wide open to read." I said sitting down on the chair.

"You read minds without using power?" he asked coming over to me.

"Yeah, always have done, even before I was 16." I said shrugging it off. He thought for a minute.

"How long have you known about your siblings?"

"Mum told me when I was 12."

"How long have you been able to read minds?"

"About 6 maybe 7 years." it was silent. "I'ts nothing to worry about is it?" he shook his head violently.

"Oh no, I was just thinking about something." I smiled

"I know."

"You just read my mind didn't you?" I nodded. "I think you and Vlad have a... twinstinct, if that makes seance." I nodded. I sighed and said,

"So Bertie-"

"Bertrand." he groaned.

"yeah whatever, anyway, tell me about this place."

"well, I came here to open the predictive enpaver-"

"The what now?"

"I'ts a book that was meant to hold great power, but instead, a power mad maniac previous chosen one came out and made a fool out of Vlad." I smiled." then Vlad introduced the re-vamp course and that's when Malik came in. Vlad despises him in every way possible, and I have a sneaking suspicion that he hasn't told us the whole story."

"You got that right." he carried on but my mind and eyes drifted to the corner of the room where was an invisible thing hovering there watching us. It was like a ripple in the air, it was strange. I quickly put my hand over his mouth clamping it shut.

Shut the hell up, something is in here! I mentally yelled at him. He shut up and frowned.

"Lets go upstairs," I said glaring at him.

"Yeah, lets go." he said confused. We got up and walked out of the room. I glanced over to the spot where I had saw that thing and it was gone. Okay I have to admit it, at this point I was a little scared and I think Bertrand picked up on that. "Are you ok?" he asked. Just as he said that I felt a wave of dizziness and nausea wash over me. I grabbed him for support as I fell to the ground. As I did I saw it watching me.

"Its... behind you." I said with my last ounce of energy. He ignored me and grabbed me and carried me bridal style into the drawing room. That is when I passed out.

I woke up in a coffin with a pounding headache. I groaned and in less then a second Vlad and Bertrand was towering over me. I tried to sit up but my head pounded and I leaned back again.

"Are you ok?" Vlad asked.

"Do I look ok?!" I snapped and he looked hurt. I sighed and said, " sorry, i'm just in pain." I said.

"I know you are, I can feel it." he said. I frowned.

"You two have a mental and physical connection. If one of you is in pain then the other one is." Bertrand said. I nodded and tried to sit up again. I was fine. "That is a good thing and a bad thing, it can be used against you." I nodded and tried to stand up. I was dizzy and nearly fell over, but both of them caught me.

"Why did I pass out?" I asked standing back up again.

"We don't know." Vlad said holding me up. I looked at Bertrand who was thinking.

"What was behind me when you passed out?" Bertrand asked sitting me down on the chair with help from Vlad. I thought back to when it happened.

"I dont know, but it was like a ripple in the air, like a person, but they were invisible." I tried to explain what I had seen. He nodded and went into deep thought. I tried to stand up again and this time I was less dizzy but not dizzy free. I sat down again and turned to Vlad.

"I guess we gonna be more than just twins then." I said and he smiled. He was thinking about someone called Erin. "Erin?" he snapped his head up and said,

"How did you know?" he asked.

"She has a rare ability that makes her able to read minds without using a drop of energy, and being around her twin has made her and you stronger mentally and physically." Bertrand said coming over to me and carried on. "The connection between you two is the strongest i've seen. And now you're close to each other, i'ts even stronger if that's possible." he said pinching my arm.

"Oww!" me and Vlad said at the same time. I punched him in the arm and smiled.

"You asked for it." I said.

"Did I say punch me in the arm?" he said and I punched him again.

"Yeah, you did." I smiled and he smiled back. Life here was gonna be great.

Later on dad forced me to teach the scraps with Bertrand. I hated him to the bones and that wasn't going to change.

I sat down on the chair in the class and waited for the scraps to come in. Bertrand waited until they were all sitting down and looking at him. Malik waved at me and I smiled back.

"Today we are learning about the dangers of drinking blood from young teenagers." there was groans from almost everyone. I smiled at them, just thankful I wasn't on the streets. Bertrand turned to me and asked me to take over. I stood up and scanned the room for people that wasn't listening. Malik. I walked over to his desk and slammed my fist down on his desk and he snapped out of it. The rest of them hissed at me and I hissed back ten times louder.

"How are we doing darling brother." I said sarcastically. The face on the others was hysterical.

"Brother?" the one next to him said.

"yes, she is my little sister." Malik hissed at him.

"Anyway i'm going to tell you about the history of vampires." They groaned again. "Oh shut up. A history lesson is better than living with a... werewolf." I shuttered at the use of werewolf. I'm not being horrible to Wolfie. He chuckled. I started to talk about the early vampires and how only few are still alive.

After a while Vlad came in with the blood trolley. They went to rush over to the trolley but I stopped them using my power. Bertrand and Vlad looked surprised that I could do this and so was I.

"Ok slowly you can have your blood. Slowly." I said releasing them. They listened in fear I would do it again. I walked over to Vlad who had blood on his breath. "I wont tell anyone." I whispered to him and smiled. He looked at my with those sad eye's and wondered how he could be my twin. I was the total opposite of him. He was soft and caring and I was violent and evil, much like Ingrid. I am most like her. silent but deadly.

"Thanks." he said simply.

"Although I would recommend brushing your fangs." I said walking out of the room and up into the quarters. I was walking down the hallway when I heard Malik talking to himself. Just like in Bertrand's notes. I stopped and placed my ear against the wall.

"Bertrand is onto us and the girl can see me. She has great power, more than me, but she is a threat. She may seem against the count, but in her stone, cold, dead, evil heart, she does love him, and even the hy-breed." Someone said to Malik. By now I would of ran in there and kick his sorry ass, but I was snooping and was getting information.

Bertrand get here now. I mentally called him. Within seconds he was here next to me. He was going to speek but I covered his mouth. Listen. He nodded and put his head against the wall. I did the same.

"We need to get rid of Bertrand and Vanessa. Now you have wormed your way into the house, you can use this as an advantage."

"And how am I going to do that, mother?" he asked.

"mother?" me and Bertrand mouthed.

"Were being watched." she said and we immediately disappeared to the drawing room where miss Macaulay and dad was talking. Luckily we were behind her and we went to the training room where Vlad was punching the punching bag.

"Don't do what I did, whatever you do." I said walking over to him. "Bertrand would you like to repeat what we have just heard?" I said sitting down on the chair. Vlad frowned.

"We heard Malik talking to his mother, who is planning on getting rid of me and Vanessa." he explained. Vlad didn't believe us.

"And why should I believe you?" he said looking into my eyes.

"She's your twin and I thought you trusted me." Bertrand said sounding hurt. And for some reason, this hurt me.

"Well you did try and dust my sister, lock my girlfriend on the balcony and make me look like an idiot in front of every body." he said. I had to ask.

"What did you do?" this sounded interesting.

"He made me release this deranged previous chosen one." Vlad said looking over my shoulder. I turned to where he was looking. It was here. I tapped Bertrand on the shoulder and he turned to where we all looking.

"Do you see it?" I asked them.

"Yep." Vlad said worried.

"see what?" Bertrand said confused.

"That thing over there." I said pointing at... it.

"I cant see anything." he said squinting his eyes.

"You know that shape shifter you wrote in your d- book?" I said not taking my eye off of it.

"Yes."

"that's it there." Vlad finished for me pointing at it.

"How can you see it?" Bertrand asked not moving.

"I'm not sure, how are you seeing it V?" he asked.

"I don't know, Bertrand do you have anything on this?"

"No, I don't, maybe we should go." he said taking a step back.

"Yeah, lets." I said and we all went our separate ways. I went to my room and started to unpack everything. I still had to get the rest of my clothes from mum's, but this will do for now. Someone came into my room. They didn't speak but I knew they were there. I carried on unpacking my stuff and listened to them slowly walk into my room. Slow quiet footsteps coming behind me. Just at the last minute I turned around and it was Vlad. I was relieved at first, but he wouldn't sneak in, he would knock and wait for a reply. Something was wrong.

"What do you want?" I said annoyed

"What do you know about Bertrand?" I frowned. Shouldn't he know this?

"What do you mean?"

"His weakness's his strengths... Him all together."

"I've been here for less than a day and you think I know someone just like that." I said clicking my fingers. "I'm going." I said before walking downstairs. I was concerned for his and Bertrand's safety more then mine for some reason. I walked into the training room where dad, Vlad, Malik, Ingrid and Bertrand was talking quietly about something. Then I heard my name mentioned.

"Shh, she's coming." Vlad whispered.

"Talking about me are we? well come on then do tell." I said folding my arms. Vlad sighed.

"Dad thinks you're the shape shifter." he muttered.

"And how exactly does that work out. I've been here for less then a day-"

"Actually, you've been here for a week, you were unconscious for a while." Bertrand said looking into my eyes with his blue ones. I felt different around him, for some reason. I'd never felt like this about anyone before, so why him?

"What! how bad was I?!" I yelled at him. "How did I faint?!"

"Bertrand thinks it was the shape shifter." Vlad whispered looking at the ground.

"So you don't think I'm the shape shifter?" I asked looking calmly into his eyes. He shook his head.

"No, it cant be you, We've had trouble with it before you came here, so how can it be you?" he said locking eye contact.

"She could of been here before, spying on us." dad said. I snapped my head at him and hissed at him.

"You are one vile, sick, garlic eating, sun loving man." I said coldly.

"What have I done to you."

"Stupid question." me and Ingrid said at the same time.

"You sent me to live with a werewolf for my entire life." I said coldly.

"You treated me like the back end of a slayer." Ingrid said more coldly than me.

"You hid the fact that they had a sister."

"And you have the cheek to ask 'what have I done wrong?'"

"Well it is dad." Vlad said.

"So, I bet even a breather would treat his family better then him." I said

"THAT IS IT!" dad yelled at us (me and Ingrid.)

"What ya gonna do, throw a fire ball at me? You will get dusted for killing a vampire. Not to mention both of your sons will disown you." I said looking coldly into his eyes. Hate ran through his. At that moment in time, my stomach desided that it would make me throw up. I did all over dad's shoe's and then fell backwards into Bertrand's arms.