Chapter 2- Mistakes and Regret

A dark-skinned vampire sat up in the tree as he watched the were wolf limp into the forest. He turned his head as he noticed the wolf dragging something behind him.

"Tom Tom!" the vampire shouted jumping off the tree.

"Not now Lafayette," he groaned, Thomas dropped what he carried behind him. "Its been a long night."

Lafayette walked up to Thomas, "you smell weird."

"Its most likely not me you're smelling," Thomas stated gesturing behind him. Lafayette leaned over, giving a slight gasp when he saw the limp and blood soaked body.

"Is that a-"

"Yes," Thomas sighed as he pulled his blood-soaked shirt off. He paused noticing something hiding behind the trees. "John Laurens get your ass out here, I can see you!"

Slowly the freckle faces were wolf emerged from out from behind the thick trees. "what is that?"

"I think it's a human," Lafayette replied, he leaned in closer giving the body another sniff, "but I'm not sure."

"Of course, it's a human!" Thomas exclaimed, "I dragged it out of the village myself!" Thomas gasped quickly realizing what he said. He scrunched his face as the two other creatures stared at him in shock.

"You found the humans' village?" John said slowly.

"How?" Lafayette shouted.

"That not important, I have a problem and it's lying right there," Thomas shouted gestured to the body.

John sighed rolling his eyes, "calm down would you." He walked over to the body, he dropped to his knees leaning over it. He slowly got closer until their faces were almost touching.

"What happened?" Lafayette asked.

Thomas sighed, "just wanted to sneak into the village, kill one of them hoping that maybe they'll stop. But it didn't work, I shoved a fucking knife in their chest."

"Ouch," Lafayette commented.

"Basturd deserved it," Thomas sneered, "the human stabbed me with the same knife."

John slowly turned his head, "seriously? You took a knife that was soaked in your blood and stabbed the human with it?"

"Yeah so what?" Thomas shrugged.

John breathed ready to tell him when a low groan stopped him. The three creatures held their breath as they stared at the human.

"Fuck," the human mumbled as he began to open his eyes.

"He's gone, nobody knows where he is!" Philip sobbed.

Aaron Burr, a fellow hunter and somebody that Alex would call his friend, slowly pat Philip's head as the young boy soaked his shirt in tears. "I'm sure he's fine, Alexander probably just ran off to hunt more creatures.

Philip quickly lifted his head off him, clearly offended by Aaron's disinterested toned. "His tent is covered in blood," Philip argued, "and they think that some of it is werewolf blood."

"I'm sure that's not true,' Aaron reassured, "none of the creature can fine the village, and even if they did there are always hunters guarding the boarders.

Philip took a deep sigh as he stood up. He turned away staring in the distance. "I'm going to find him."

"You're a child," Aaron stated. Philip didn't respond, remaining silent. Aaron sighed, standing up and walking away.

Eliza took a deep breath as she stared at the body they dropped in front of her.

"Where is she?" John asked.

"Who?" Eliza asked.

"Maria Reynolds, Maria the witch," John stated, "you know. Your girlfriend."

Eliza's eyes widen as her face burned red, "how do you know?"

John widely smirked, "Peggy loves talking about you two."

Eliza held a cold smile, "I'll kill her," she sneered through her teeth.

"Yeah, yeah," John pushed, "come on."

Eliza sighed, "Maria!" She shouted causing John and Thomas to flinch.

"Yes," a soft voice replied. John, Thomas, and Lafayette turned to see a timid, tan girl dressed in multiple shades in red and a witch like hat. Eliza's only responds was her pointing to the body. Maria timid expression slowly turned to anger as she approached the body. The four creatures stood silently until she surprised them by starting to stomp on the face of the human.

"Maria!" Eliza exclaimed pulling her away from the body.

"My god," Thomas mumbled.

"Sorry," Eliza apologized, "She really doesn't like any of the humans.

"Well not everybody can sell out to the humans," Thomas commented.

Eliza glared, then turned to John. "Okay now what do you want?"

"Thomas is a fucking idiot who stabbed a human with a knife cover in his blood," John explained causing Thomas to growl at him.

"Okay," Maria mumbled asking John to continue.

"and now he wants to know why the human isn't dead."

Eliza and Maria exchanged looks, "cross contamination," they stated in unison.

"What?" Thomas questioned.

"He's not dead because you infected his blood with yours, and I'm going to assume he's now slowly dying, because your blood is causing his body to slowly shut down," Maria explained.

"Okay," Thomas said slowly.

"Maybe you should just go dump the human back in the village," Lafayette suggested.

"Wait, you took Alexander from the village," Eliza stated in surprised.

"Alexander?" Maria questioned.

Eliza gave an awkward cough turning away from Maria. "Jefferson just take him back okay."

"What!" Thomas exclaimed, "why me?"

"Because it's all your fault!" Eliza exclaimed startling everybody. She then grabbed Maria by the hand running off.

Thomas' ears twitched as the human, who be carried on his back, breathed down his neck. "Damn it Eliza," Thomas mumble as he shifted his shoulders to pull Alex higher on his back.

"S-sorry," Alex mumbled into Thomas' back.

He stopped, looking over his shoulder, to see him shifting and groaning making it harder for Thomas to hold him. "Stupid humans, we wouldn't have this problem if you would've just kept to yourselves," Thomas groaned. He stopped as the village came into view. Thomas bit his lip, staring up at the borders of the village, it looked as if they doubled the guards.

"Philip! Philip!" A thin, short, dark skinned girl shouted as she ran up to Philip.

"Theodosia," Philip called as she reached him.

"They found him!" Theodosia announced.

"What?" Philip mumbled. Theodosia rolled her eyes quickly grabbing Philip's hand running off with him.

"Alexander!" Philip exclaimed as he rushed into the tent. He froze in the doorway as he stared at Alex lying lifeless in the bed. Theodosia walked in to see Philip kneeling at the side of the bed holding Alex's arm. Watching him mumbled, rubbing his face into his arm. She wanted to smile but something concerned her, and she felt like it had something to do with the man lying in front of her.

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