I'm here with the sequel, as promised to the lovely reviewer's who have also put me on story alert – that's sweet as. Chapter dedication goes to GivenPeace13 and The Gryffindoor Drummer for both making me write this, I enjoyed it immensely. Please feel free to leave a nice juicy review everyone – I love feedback.

Disclaimer: If I owned the Night World Series, Strange Fate would have been released by now. Yes…I'm still pretty sore about it not being released when they said it would.

Chapter Two – Change of Blood, Change of Mind

What is wrong with you? A voice sounded in Hannah's mind. Are you going to le this be the end? It was Hana of the three rivers.

Give him your blood…it could change him. No it won't, Hannah answered back – there's no way a vampire can be turned…he had lost so much blood…

How do you know? Have you ever tried it? The crystal voice argued.

She couldn't answer, not truthfully anyway. She did what Hana of the three rivers asked. She reached into Thierry's pocket and pulled out the silver dagger he kept for protection against werewolves. Tears still streaming, she braced herself for the pain she was going to feel. She no longer cared anymore, for it was nothing compared to the pain she was feeling right now.

Hannah sliced open her wrist deeply for a fast, constant blood flow. He reached for Thierry's face and parted his lips; she let the blood flow steadily into his mouth and at the same time a weakness within herself. But it didn't matter if she died, because she would come back. It only mattered that Thierry lived.

As she let the blood flow, she gently pulled out the stake. As time passed, Hannah could no longer grasp how much blood she had given. She was getting weaker and weaker…finally she collapsed with weakness on to Thierry's chest and light faded from her mind. Her fading thought was a hope that she had given enough.

When Thierry Descouedres faded back to consciousness he felt different. There was no way to explain it. He drowsily opened his eyes only to find he couldn't get up. There was a weight on him. He struggled weakly to life it off and realized it was Hannah. His blood went cold because her form was lifeless. He struggled again and was able to get out from under her. She was dead white and without knowing how – he knew she wouldn't open her eyes.

Grief overwhelmed him but he knew it would pass somewhat. Hannah would come back, whether it be in fifty or even one hundred years he would have to wait. The thought didn't stop the sadness or the tears that spilled. So many questions entered his head. How had it happened? She was barely eighteen. Forcing himself, Thierry checked over Hannah but he couldn't sense straight away what had drained her life. His heart cracked in two when he found her wrist

His senses were dull, inferior to what they had been. He was no longer aware of his surroundings and the predatory instinct was gone. The hunger that was at the back of any vampire's mind has long vanished.

It couldn't be, he thought. It wasn't physically, humanly, Night Worldy possible. He couldn't be a human. But he hadn't felt this way in thousands of years. Weak, senses dulled and hunger – but not for blood, for food and water. But all that stuff didn't matter because without Hannah he was nothing anyway. He was only a shell of his former self.

He cried in pain, in fear over Hannah's form because though Hannah was an Old Soul, Thierry Descouedres was well aware that he wasn't.

She had died again to change him over. He didn't think it possible; vampire blood was so much more powerful. He had drained people before of every drop of their blood. He remembered vividly, the look of pain in people's eyes. Hana's village. Thierry screwed his face in frustration, trying to comprehend how it had happened. Then it came to him; if it wasn't his blood it must have been Hannah's. Perhaps the blood of an Old Soul had more power than he or anyone else might have thought. She could will her blood to be a powerful healing agent, for he wasn't lamia. Maybe all the Old Souls could do it and the reason why it hadn't worked when Maya had tried draining her? Hannah hadn't willed it to do so. The Old Powers were rising he knew but no one could know it meant new powers for Old Souls too for they were considered humans.

But with the millennium dawning, anything was possible.

Thierry's mind reeled back however, to the pain he was trying to block. That Hannah was dead came back in haunting floods because as a human, he would never live to see her again…unless…

To his human self he was still nineteen. It was like the millenniums gone by had not happened to his body. There was still time, still a chance to change back. If only his body would survive through the change. He was older, it was true but if his body didn't make it, at least he'd tried. It wasn't worth living a life, even a human life without Hannah by his side. There was still time. He would have to find a vampire to change him. The only question was who? He needed someone with potent vampire blood. Frankly, he needed a Redfern.

Jade, Kestrel and Rowan had finally been convinced to join Circle Daybreak. Jade being the easiest to convince because Mark had joined after refusing to let Mary-Lynette join alone, even if she had Ash with her. It was really only Kestrel who had been unwilling to leave the farm; she would have been happy to stay and hunt peacefully on her own. At the moment she was grumpily helping Rowan and Jade unpack their clothing. If looks could kill though, the clothing would have been set alight with her angry yellow glare.

The door randomly flew open and none other than Thierry Descouedres stumbled through the door. It shocked the three Redfern girls to the core. They had never seen a vampire so tired and out of control and sync with their body. In fact, no vampire would lose control like this, not even an inch from death. There was another thing – he didn't smell Night World, he smelt '

'Lord Thierry!' Rowan gasped. 'You smell…human!'

Thierry tried and failed to recompose himself. 'I know' he said breathing deeply, 'I am human'.

'But that's impossible!' Jade squealed with a snort. 'Vampires don't become human'-

'They can' Thierry cut across her, 'If they're made and drink the blood of an Old Soul. The Old Powers are rising and apparently that means Old Souls too. I'd be dead right now if Hannah hadn't changed me back…' Thierry hesitated, '…At the cost of her life'

A shameful tear slid down his face and he could see the shock and sadness in all of the girl's eyes. Rowan looked as though she was going to cry. Her eyes were shining and glistening.

'What are you going to do?' Rowan asked. Her voice was steady, her vampire shielding of emotions was starting to kick in.

'I need Hannah, I need to be a vampire again and I need a Redfern to change me back'

Rowan had lost any words she was going to say. Jade had clenched her hands nervously, green eyes drenched in concern. Kestrel however, spoke for the first time.

'I'll do it', Kestrel said with a shrug, 'Besides, I'm hungry'

Thierry saw the hunger in her face and it more than frightened him. It instilled a fear in him he hadn't felt since Maya had forcibly turned him. But what choice did he have? Kestrel was beautifully ferocious and Night World enough to take the blood he needed to get rid of. And she was a Redfern; there was more chance of survival being turned from a direct descendant of Maya – the blood was just that more potent. He would surrender himself to Kestrel, the second time in thousands of years. But for the first time, he would do it willingly.

Author's Notes

Well there is the first part of the sequel. I have one more chapter to write, which I have already started on. I have been playing around with chapter names and have come up with two that I really like.

Please review and I might give this story a happy ending. I haven't really decided on what I will do with it but it will probably be up in the next few weeks or so, I'm just finishing off the last few weeks of high school.

By the way, if you have any questions about the chapter or just plainly want to abuse me, (coz some people are just weird like that) feel free to use the link on my profile

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