Disclaimer: I do not own My Babysitter's A Vampire nor do I own any other movies, tv shows, video games, or songs mentioned in this story. I only own my OC Clare.
Thank you everyone! You're all so sweet! Special shout outs to the first reviewers: EmmALewisS,MarauderGirl13, Lilmissy235, and Sandy2417 (And to the guest!). I love getting reviews, they really make my day. I'll try to post at least once a week maybe twice if I get time since it's my senior year I'm pretty busy right now. Hopefully that'll change as the year progresses. It was spirit week and because I have lots of school spirit, I've only been working on this little by little but next week everything will mellow out. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter! There's lots of Benny/OC going on here. So here's the story!
I was up in my room finishing up some homework when I get a notification that Benny wants to video chat with me. "Hey, babe. So I was thinking, at the first sign of Ethan's babysitter we head over there and save him from his "protesting" and wallowing in his room."
"You just want to go to check out the hot sitter." Rolling my eyes I log off and go back to my work. I don't even get the pen on the paper when I get a notification from Benny on my screen again, "What? Benny I've got to finish this creative writing assignment and you're annoying me."
"Clare O'Hera how dare you. After everything we've been through? After the love we share-"
I shut off the chatter app and sighed, love we share? It took about five minutes before I see Benny knocking on my window. When we were kids we got my dad to build this wall of flowers that lead right up to my window and a couple years ago Benny and I put an actual ladder underneath the flowers so he could climb up when he wanted to (hey, this was before I started to like Benny like that…). Our houses were right next to each other, while Ethan's house is across the street.
"Come on," he says as he climbs into my room, "what's up? You never screen my calls. Did something happen with that Jesse guy? Because if he hurt you I swear on my Star Wars collection –"
"Hey, hey, hey stop. Don't worry about it. Nothing happened. I mean it, seriously, nothing happened. He told me that he made a mistake. That we aren't similar and that it was better we found out now." I rolled my eyes and packed up my bag for Monday. "He was a cute guy who totally had no interest in me after a really strange conversation. He was nice and brought me home and is just another guy on the list of people who don't like me like that."
"I-I'm sorry. What? So you just hung out in his 'super cool car' and had a 'moment' and was dazzled by his 'mysteriousness' and he just…just put you aside like you meant nothing? Nothing?" He started getting really into his rant and threw his hands up while pacing the room, "I don't understand. No. Clare listen to me," he grabbed me by the shoulders, "You could never be a mistake. Whatever that guy said doesn't matter."
"Benny!" I laugh and give him a hug, "You know you're the sweetest guy in the whole world? It's okay; forget about Jesse, we probably wouldn't have had anything in common except drama. I mean it's not like us." My eyes shoot open when I realize what I just said. We're still hugging when I try to pull away but he wouldn't let me.
"Ya, I mean we have like so much in common and you know but we don't have everything in common. Our relationship-no, you are so important to me I just want to know that you know that right? I know I don't sound like myself." He pulls away a little to look at my face.
I probably looked confused to him, "Benny…what…? You're important to me too." I shake my head and put my hand on his cheek, "Now, come on. Lets go to Ethan's. I'm sure he's made a big fool out of himself already."
Benny was acting really weird…I wonder what that was all about.
"Knock on the door, don't just walk in!"
"Oh please! We've known Ethan for how long? Come on Benny, what's the worst he can do? Shove and umbrella in our faces?" I knock on the door then start to open it as Benny rolls his eyes and fiddles with the movie, chips, and fake vampire teeth.
"Alright we've got pop, chips, and the first season of The Bloodsucker Diaries. Who—" Benny starts to say but drifts off as we both see Sarah holding an umbrella at us like it was a weapon.
"Well that's ironic." I raise my eyebrow and give a small smile at Sarah.
Sarah looks at the both of us in confusion then asks Ethan where his bathroom is. As he tells her Benny and I look at each other. Rolling my eyes I grab the vampire teeth out of his mouth and grab the chips walking towards the kitchen.
"Dude…Isn't that your robo-babe from school?"
"Yes, I guess Erica couldn't come, so she sent her instead." I blocked Ethan and Benny out as I moved to the door and stood by Jane listening to Sarah call Erica. Jane and I look at each other in worry, Sarah sounded really upset about something. I move away not wanted to get caught eavesdropping and walk in on Ethan saying, "It's Fudgsicle!"
"Nice job, by the way." I say and look at Benny, "I'm starving."
Nodding he says, "Let's order some 'zaa." He sighs after pressing a number on speed dial and pulls me to stand next to him as Ethan moves toward Jane, "Hey, it's me. Give me the usual and supersize that puppy." Looking at me he grabs my hand and looks at my wrist, "I'm next door, no not Clare's house. Yeah, across the street, it's, uh, exactly 7:19, and you have 30 minutes or it's free."
Bringing the phone down to my height we both yelled out, "Engage!" before hanging up. We smile at each other when Ethan wakes up to us, "Alright you guys, this new Galactica spin-off is on tonight, and we should totally…" I trail off as Benny nudges me to look at Ethan. "Okay, what's up?"
"Ethan before you say anything…Clare let me just tell you that what you just said…so hot!" Benny shakes his head and I laugh, I can't believe he really just said that! He has been acting so strange…
"You both are such dorks, look I just saw Sarah and she was…she was in front of the mirror, but…not in it!"
"Okay, hold up. How much aftershave did you drink?" Benny says leaning in closer throwing his arm around me and chuckles at Ethan.
"Dude, I'm serious! Her reflection was all wonky. She's not normal, okay? She's like a…" Sarah walks in cutting Ethan off by asking if we really need a sitter.
"Depends on what you mean by 'need'." Benny looks at me and winks, smirking.
Ethan just looks at Sarah and walks her to the side door saying that his mom just likes to humiliate him. Sarah looks relived and said something about finding Erica. Benny looks at Ethan like he's crazy when he says he should go with her for protection.
I'm laughing when I say, "Ethan, I's be more protection for her than you would be!" I turn back to Benny as he grabs me and sets me up on the counter. He may not seem it but he's actually pretty strong…and tall, Benny's really tall. I think he's 6" where I'm pretty average if not a little short at 5"4 almost 5"5.
As I'm sitting there and we're quietly talking about which comic book is the best I start to play with his hair. It's always been so soft and I've always loved playing with it. I can see him start to smile and say, "Remember the first time you finally let me play with your hair?"
"I only agreed because you kept begging me to. Do you remember what you first did when I let you?" He grabs my left hand and grins.
"I was not begging! And yes, I said 'your hair looks sexy pushed back'."
"I still can't believe you quoted Mean Girls."
"I still can't believe you knew what Mean Girls was!" We were laughing as Ethan walks up to us looking freaked out.
"I'm tell you guys, I just saw something. Okay, she's not normal, and I'm going to find out what's going on." Ethan grabs his jacket and heads towards the side door.
"Fine. Undercover brothers on a mission, I like it…but…aren't you forgetting something?" Benny says walking behind him.
He turns Ethan just as Jane and I both say, "Yeah, what are you forgetting."
"Maybe I should call my grandma. I mean you're coming with us right Clare? I mean you're the third musketeer. We need you with us." Benny gets his phone out.
It only takes a couple minutes for Benny's grandma to come in through the side door. I grab my jacket and wait for Benny to give her instructions for the pizza while Ethan promises we'll be right back. "I hate being eight." Jane says as we leave, I feel bad for her. Ethan's not the best big brother in the world but he's her family.
"Hey Jane how about I play your game when we get back?" Before I could even finish Jane was nodding her head so fast she looked like one of those bobble-head toys. I smile and wave as we leave through the side door and firmly shut it behind me.
We've walked at least a block with Ethan speed walking, when Benny drops something from his bag and goes to pick it up. "What is all that stuff?" Ethan asks impatiently.
"Digicams with night vision infrared." Benny scoffs and rolls his eyes at Ethan, "You can't possibly expect us to investigate the supernatural realm without the proper equipment!"
"Fine! Just keep it on the down-low. Okay? She already thinks I'm a perv."
Now I'm the one scoffing at Ethan, "Seriously Ethan, Sarah couldn't think about you any less. You care about what people think about you way too much. I mean have you even considered the fact that maybe nobody really cares about social status or being popular? Some people are just naturally interesting and fun to be around and others…well others like our dear friend, um, Rory, are the exact opposite." Now don't get me wrong I like that Rory kid, we've got some stuff in common and that's cool but it's very doubtful he'd become super popular.
For some reason Ethan seemed to be ignoring me a lot this past week…you know he still hasn't even apologized to me. Benny looks at me then back at Ethan and says; "You said her reflection wasn't all there, right?" He continues on when Ethan agrees, "Here's a thought: What if this is some publicity stunt thing for that stupid Dusk movie?" Benny stops walking and starts to point his finger around and spins a little, screaming, "If this is a 'punk', I knew it all along!"
Ethan shushes Benny and we head towards town, it's been almost a half hour when I finally say, "This is so hopeless, we've lost her. We should just go back and eat something because you know what Ethan? I'm starving!"
"Must. Have. Pizza." Benny nods in agreement, wait a second when did he put on those goggles?
A loud sound cuts Ethan off, I start to move towards the alley but Benny pulls me to stand a little behind him. As he turns on his night vision on the camera he starts to look really freaked out. He stops Ethan when he moves forward and says, "We should leave. We should leave right now."
Ethan grabs the camera from his hands and I scoot closer to see the screen. Holy mother of hell, is that…? Sarah oh my god, oh my lord. Sarah's a freaking VAMPIRE?! She's sucking the life out of that poor rat oh my god!
Ethan and Benny start screaming and Sarah growls at us, Ethan runs away but Benny and I are still standing there and Benny just kept screaming. Me on the other hand, I'm frozen in shock with my eyes wide and heart pounding. I couldn't breathe, I can still hear Benny screaming when Ethan comes back and pulls us to start running.
Ethan yells, "We are so dead!" while we're running and I would have laughed when Benny yelled, "Speak for yourself! Skinny couple coming through!" he grabs my hand and yells out, "Warp nine!" and pulling me to run faster.
I hear Ethan yelling something about his vampire babysitter when I say, "Benny remember Halo Level Three? The battle plan you sent?"
"Evasive maneuvers. Alpha phi strike delta six. Engage!" Benny and I do all the moves but I stop before falling over the big planter in the middle of the side walk when I see Ethan just run straight for us, missing all the steps for the pattern. Benny says the same thing and Ethan replies by saying he sometimes just skims Benny's emails.
Sarah walks up as Ethan helps Benny up off the for asking, "What's your problem?"
"Hold up! If you eat us, that would so not be cool." God Ethan could you have been any lamer?
"If I wanted to eat you I would have done it by now."
"See? She's going to eat us! We're doomed!" Benny yelled pointing at Sarah, "Run! Clare, run!"
"No, no, no. I just want to talk to you guys!" she sighs when Ethan hold up two branches in the position of a cross and calls her a demon. "Guys, whatever you saw, it's not what it looks like."
"Really Sarah? So you're not a vampire who eats animals and drinks their blood?" I ask trying to take a step closer but Benny wouldn't let me. "Benny let go, like she said, if she was going to eat us she would have by now."
"I'm warning you, I had garlic bread for lunch and I am not afraid to use my breath." Benny starts to breath out towards Sarah when I shut his jaw and shake my head at him.
"Will you two just shut up and listen? I'm just a normal girl," Sarah turns to look at me, "At least I was until I got bit by my crummy ex-boyfriend. I'm technically still a fledgling until I drink human blood, which I really don't want to do, so…I have to figure out how to stop this thing before my mortal body dies or at least stop it from happening to more people like Erica." She looks down then back up at me moving closer, "And you Clare, I've been trying to keep you off their radar but that first day you just bumped into Jesse and he had his sights set on you. I don't know what happened but be grateful that he didn't want anything more from you."
"So you're sure this isn't some stupid thing for that Dusk movie?" Benny asks looking hopeful.
Sarah just gives a sad smile and tells us she'll walk us home before going to find Erica before anything bad happens to her.
As we walk in Jane says, "About time! I'm so bored, Grandma passed out five songs ago, and she had, like, zero boom-boom-pow. Can we pleeease play now?" Jane asks me.
I look at everyone and then nod at her, "Sure why not, Benny that pizza guy is so late and I'm starving." I look at Benny when Sarah starts walking away and talking to the boys. I look back over to Jane and smile, "Lets do Rich Girl by Gwen Stefani first." Before we could start the doorbell rings.
Benny gets to the door first and says, "Sorry dude but I'm just dying for a bite!"
"So am I." I look over at the pizza guy and see that Benny had invited him in and was looking at us with his vampire teeth and creepy yellow eyes like we were food. This time we all start to scream and I push Jane behind me when Ethan and the vampire pizza guy say it's just a game, then he says the first person who says where Sarah is first spends less time screaming.
"Can I play too?" Sarah asks jumping in front of us all. Benny and Ethan both scream out, "Yes!"
As Sarah and the delivery boy banter Benny takes the pizza from me and says, "You know can I just grab a slice before you do your whole vampire trash talk thing?" He looks at Ethan and I and says, "Well if I'm going to have a last meal, I want it to be the Italiano Deluxe."
"Right, haha, the Italiano Deluxe…with extra garlic!" Ethan says as Benny screams rushing the vampire and shoving the pizza in his face. We all rush up stairs and into Ethan's room. I rush towards his desk as they argue about whose winning, when I find something useful and I see my aluminum baseball bat I left over the last time I was here. I hear Benny and Ethan arguing and the Jane threaten to tell her mom. I turn back around to see Ethan take the phone and say thank you, when he agreed to make her bed for a week. I rushed over to Benny, still holding the bat and leaned against the door. As we heard someone coming up Ethan and Benny pushed the bed over to cover the door.
"Let me in, hurry!" Sarah yells. Benny and Ethan groan and move the bed aside and I opened the door. When she was inside we all leaned on the door, hoping our combined weight would be enough to keep the vampire out. "What do you have for weapons?" I showed her my bat and she nodded but when Ethan handed her his trophy she exclaimed in disbelief, "A debating trophy?"
"It's the pointiest!" he yells when I scoff.
"Hey, hey, hey, we can make a stake out of this." Benny says holding up Ethan's signed hockey stick.
Ethan objects that its signed and they start to struggle for the stick when Benny says, "Ryan Seacrest!? Really?"
After setting it down Ethan comes back with some pencils, "These, these are perfect! Sharp and wooden."
"Ethan?! No, just stop, if we were being attacked by vampire squirrels then maybe you'd have a shot. And I'd be betting on the squirrels!" I yell out. Benny grabs and moves me away from the door when Sarah shouts out that he's coming.
"Did anybody ever tell you that you are a really crummy babysitter?" Ethan says. After Sarah had exclaimed that she's new at this, Ethan's phone started to ring and he picked it up.
"Ethan what are you doing? We're kind of in a situation here?" I point to the door when the vampire calls out Sarah's name and slams into the door. I hold the bat ready and listen to Ethan's side of the conversation when he hands the phone to Sarah. Ethan and I rush to the door to make sure it doesn't open and I get squished in between him and Benny.
I hear Sarah say, "Keep it down you guys!" When the vampires hand shots through the door and makes a grab for me. Benny pulls me behind him when Sarah stakes the reaching hand with the debating trophy. We all rush out the window as Sarah helps and start to run across the lawn when we're stopped by the delivery boy again.
"Wait!" Benny yells, "Clare if this is the last moment we live then I have to tell you!" he grabs my arms and looks me in the eye when he says, "I took one of your shirts and used it in a YouTube video of me singing to the Spice Girls!"
We all just pause for a minute before Sarah comes out of nowhere and shoves the guy to the ground and stakes him in the heart. "Okay, she may be a lousy babysitter…but that was the bomb!" I yell out looking at a smirking Sarah. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding and grabbed Benny's hand before he could move away from me. "What do you mean you were singing to the spice girls in my shirt?"
I walk back to the tv room after grabbing some water and hear Benny say, "Yeah, Grandma's got the magic touch. When I was six and scared of robots, she-"
I cut him off, "Sarah don't you have to find Erica? Are you sure that the pizza guy is gone? Like he's not going to come back and use us as a midnight snack is he?"
"No, he's in some sort of limbo for but don't worry, he won't be back here." Sarah opens the door as Benny walks back.
He holds up the pizza and says, "Found a survivor." She walks out but not before warning us to stay inside and stay safe.
Right after she leaves Benny gets a call and decides to answer it handing me his pizza. Wrong choice, I think as I take a huge bite out of it and go to sit down on one of the kitchen chairs. I hear Ethan ask if they missed another Mathletes event when Rory, I believe, says he's actually at a party with seniors and most to all the drama club is there and that his Dusker babe is there as well. At that I look up and hand Benny his half of the pizza and look at the picture Rory sent. Oh my gosh, that's Erica.
"Rory listen to me-" he cuts me off saying that he has to go because of some conga line.
Benny whistles and takes a bite out of the pizza. When he looks at Ethan's face he points and says, "Don't say it. Don't, 'cause if you say it, we'll have to go find that dufus, and I for one do not want to crash a vampire dinner party."
"Come on," then he looks at me and says, "Rory's our friend."
"Fine, I'll come. Clare?"
"No, Clare should stay here. It's dangerous." Ethan says quickly.
"Excuse you? No, heck no. You are not leaving me here; I am just as strong as you are. Probably even stronger than you Ethan and I am not letting Benny go with you if I am not there. That's that."
They both looked shocked and I see Benny smiling, Ethan nods his head. They both go out to get Benny's grandma's car and I grab the bat from upstairs. When I get to the car I see them finishing up with some long light bulbs and Benny smiles at me. When Ethan tries to move towards the passenger seat Benny calls out, "Sorry buddy, when this little lady is with she sits next to me." He looked at me and winked when I started to giggle.
We were driving in silence for about ten minutes, Benny and I holding hands (he has one on the wheel don't worry), when we see Sarah along the way. She decides that we're all crazy and lets us take her with us to a Vampire dinner party, where we could all very likely be their next meal.