A/N: Hope this is fast enough for you. This chapter is mostly Leonard centric because I think Leo is awesome and people need to get to know him. If you notice any error's could you point them out? I would much apreciate it. Thanks.

Chapter 2

"Mom, my shirt is too tight! What size is this damn thing?" Emily called to Cecile poking her head out of her room.

"It's a six; I thought you liked revealing clothes." She called back from somewhere downstairs. Emily shook her head in amusement.

"As much as I like being a tease, even I know that behaviour is inappropriate for a classroom." She said pointedly, stepping into the hallway. Emily ran down the hall to Cecile and Nathaniel's room. "I'm just going to borrow one of dad's shirts, okay?" she asked as she entered her parent's room and rummaged through their closet.

"That's fine Millie. I'll go shopping today and get you something more appropriate if you like." She heard her mom call back.

"Would that require my car?" Emily questioned, halting her search for a suitable school shirt to go with Spenser's uniform, her head turning in the direction she could best hear her mother. No way in hell was she leaving her car anywhere that she couldn't get to it without exposing the family for what they are.

Leonard had overheard the conversation and joined in at this point "Don't worry about it, Millie; I'll get a lift with you today, mom can use my car."

On hearing her brother's kind offer she relaxed and continued on her quest to find one of her dad's white shirts. "Thanks Leo." She called back finally producing a suitable shirt for her school attire. Emily heard Cecile's light chuckle as she ran back to her own room to finish dressing. It was well known within the household that Emily was overprotective when it came to her car. She would let them drive it, of course, but only when she was in her precious Road Runner with them.

Leonard was waiting downstairs when Emily was finally ready to go. He gave her a discerning smirk as she ran down the stairs and stopped at the bottom. When it came to work Emily meant business and when it came to school she was only vaguely more relaxed about it. She knew how to dress classy when need be, but would usually grunge it down a bit when it wasn't absolutely necessary for her to look like an uptight prude. She refused to tuck her shirt into her skirt for school and wore her trademark knee-high boots no matter what the dress code for school shoes actually was. In retrospect, she also refused to tamper with the most important pieces of the uniform and left her skirt long rather than turning it into another mini skirt like other girls who liked to tease men.

A greater part of the time when you meet Emily on the street, in a club or in a bar she looks like the poster child for teen slut. But when she's at school or working, Emily unashamedly declines the opportunity to look like a walking sexual innuendo. "How long have you been waiting?" she asked strolling over to the door slinging her bag over one shoulder.

"Five minutes." Leo replied following his sister out to her car in the same fashion.

"Oh god, did I really take that long?" she implored ruefully. Taking a long time to get ready for anything was a typical teenaged girly thing to do. Technically five minutes isn't all that long but when you move as fast as a vampire does, five minutes can seem like forever. Leo simply shrugged and nodded as the pair climbed into Emily's Plymouth and took off for school.

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"I didn't even get her number." Reid told Tyler for the sixth time in the last three days. The playboy was still majorly pissed that he didn't get the girl and Tyler still felt a slight pang of jealousy every time the event was mentioned. It hadn't taken him long to discover that her name had been Emily as Reid couldn't stop talking about her.

"Dude seriously, would you please shut up!" Pogue called over his shoulder as the group made their way to the first class of the Monday. "I'm really sick of hearing about it. You've been going on about it the whole weekend."

After a while Caleb had decided to ignore Reid's irritable state knowing that he would get over the loss as soon as he found another girl to chase. Besides, Caleb had his own woman to worry about, or more accurately dote upon - either way, hearing over and over of how the playboy was cheated out of his shot at a mint piece of ass was not Caleb's concern and neither was asking him to get over it.

They made it to the class with five minutes to spare and spread out to take their seats. While they were waiting for class to begin everyone chatted quietly with their friends and had already begun making plans for the next weekend. The short amount of time passed quickly. The English literacy professor walked over to the door with barely thirty seconds to spare and kept his eyes on his wrist watch as he waited for eight o'clock to hit. He kept his hand on the door as he waited. The whole class watched the clock and when it got to ten seconds they all started the countdown until the slamming of the door. Professor Worthington was strict for the most part, but he still liked his students to have little fun as long as it wasn't disturbing the class.

In unison the class counted backwards. Just as they hit the five second mark, a tall pale boy with messy blood red hair strolled through the door. And just like that, the room was noiseless; enough so that you could hear a pin drop.

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Leo looked up at his new class mates and noticed that everyone, every single student in the room, was staring at him. He felt like laughing at their wide eyed expressions but instead he just smiled. "Uh, is this Senior English Literacy?" He asked turning to the teacher as he slammed the door closed.

"Yes, you're in the right place." The old man replied staring at Leonard with intense scrutiny. Leo allowed the man to look him over for a moment feeling completely comfortable with the situation.

He smiled at the man and offered him a hand shake. "Good morning. I hope I don't seem rude in assuming that you're Professor Worthington." He said as the man took his hand.

"No, you are correct." The man said still look mildly confused. "I was not made aware that we would be gaining a new student." He said flatly.

Leo pulled some papers from his bag "I'm supposed to give these to you. Apparently my father only remembered he was supposed to sign us up for classes when he arrived at work this morning." He said with an impish smile. "I swear he would lose his head if it weren't screwed on." The man took the papers and scanned them for a moment.

He looked up quickly when he realized who the boy was. "You're Professor Logan's son?" He inquired.

"Yes sir, Leonard Logan at your service." He affirmed playfully with a short nod. Professor Worthington gave a small smile in reply and called to one of his students to raise their hand so Leonard would know where to sit.

Nathaniel hadn't really forgotten to enrol his kids. The family had agreed that it would best for them to start their new lives in Ipswich with a common human error so people would not instantly become suspicious. And besides, if the provost had refused their children entry on the basis that the notice was too short, the Logan family could have easily bribed him with a large donation. Fortunately that had not been the case and Provost Higgins was all too happy to help out claiming that the school would be lucky to have such fine students.

Leonard had been directed to sit next to a girl by the name of Keira Snider. He looked up to see a girl waving him over almost too excitedly. She had sharp features sporting a smug smile and frizzy ginger hair. Leo thought her plain - by no means unattractive, but plain none the less. He sat and introduced himself, ever the gentleman, by taking her hand and placing a courteous kiss on her knuckle. She blushed and pulled her hand away.

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Though Reid already had a building hostility toward Leonard, even he had to admit the guy was one hell of a charmer. He turned to Tyler and gave him a knowing smirk. It was obvious that if this guy was here then Emily was undoubtedly enrolled here as well. He turned back to face the front and watched as Leonard was directed to a seat. When Leonard placed a light kiss atop Keira's hand Reid had to suppress a gag.

Again Reid turned his attentions to Professor Worthington but quickly became bored with the subject, gradually redirecting his attentiveness to doodling on his work book. The class was currently studying the works of Dean Koontz – not that Reid gave shit. He would do the work eventually of course but he still couldn't be bothered paying attention to the boring lectures and the drawn out project explanations.

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The class passed annoyingly slow for Leonard. So did the history class that came next and the advanced chemistry class after that. Finally lunch time rolled around and all through the halls of Spenser Leo could hear shouted remarks and whispered conversations as he made his way to meet up with his sister. He caught a whiff of her distinguished aroma over the numerous other smells, not all of which were pleasing to the nose, as he neared the cafeteria – the very scent that marked them for what they were.

"There you are." He said as he shuffled closer through the horde of famished students. "I saw your boyfriend earlier. He kept glaring at me." Leo told her with an amused smile.

"Oh ha, you're so funny." Emily replied sarcastically. "At least you only had one person staring at you. I swear some of these people need to get off the hormones, the whole room smelled like sex."

Leo laughed at her comment and whispered "This is high school, Millie; you know what it smells like. We are dealing with a bunch of teenagers you know." He had a quick look around, noticing a few admiring glances along with some vaguely hostile ones, and smiled inwardly. Humans can be so predictable sometimes. He grabbed Emily's wrist and dragged her into the lunch room whispering "Come on, let's go act like people."

"We are people, Leonard." She stressed her point by adding, "Not necessarily human people, but we're still people."

Leo chuckled and pulled her into the lunch line beside him. They each grabbed a tray and put various items of human food on them as the line shuffled down, then made their way to an empty table as far from the other students as the dining hall would allow.

Leo and Emily sat laughing and chatting, acting as best they could like normal teens, in an attempt to reduce the other student's natural fear of them. Being vampires the pair could hear every conversation in the room so half the time they weren't even laughing at their own jokes. They had been enjoying their lunch break peacefully for the last ten minutes when one of the worst scenario's known to the actively social vampire had to pop up; a break up.

Emily noticed the noise first. She could clearly hear the sounds of a dying relationship out in the hallway. She alerted Leonard to the commotion as he had been listening to a group of girls gushing over him and found it amusing. Leo recognized the female's voice right away. It was Keira Snider.

"You're fucking kidding me right?" a male voice growled in spite.

Keira calmly replied "Do I look like I'm kidding?"

"You can't seriously be leaving me for that red headed freak!" the guy shouted, this time loud enough for the rest of Spenser's dining student's to overhear. The guy added as an afterthought "He's not going to want an ugly slut like you anyway."

Emily got a foul look on her face, almost like she had taken a bite of the sandwich in front of her, and said "That was harsh. That guy sounds like a dick head."

"Well you wanted me!" Keira scream indignantly.

They heard the guy laugh almost menacingly at her "Yeah, I wanted you because you're easy. I don't even know why I bothered with a stupid cunt like you." He spat back.

If Leo hadn't been a vampire he wouldn't have caught the low mewling growl that escaped Emily's lips. If he hadn't been her brother he wouldn't have known what Emily was about to do. If he hadn't been everything he was; he wouldn't have been able to stop her from exposing herself and him for what they are. Quick as a flash Leo's hand grabbed a hold of Emily's right bicep and held her in place. The murderous look in her eyes told him everything he needed to know. Emily was going to rip the guy's throat out.

"No!" He growled in her ear but she still struggled inconspicuously to loosen his grip on her arm. "Don't you dare, Millie calm the fuck down!"

"Did you hear what that mongrel just called her?" she growled back.

Emily was still trying to struggle free of her brothers grip when she heard the most priceless comeback of her lifetime.

"It's better than being a soft cock. At least a cunt is useful." With that Emily stoped struggling and her eyes went wide in shock. They listened as the couple started for the dining hall. Moments later an upset Keira Snider and an angry ex-boyfriend burst through the cafeteria door. He stood at the entrance for a moment wildly scanning the dining hall with his eyes. Needles to say he spotted who he was looking for and marched over to the Logan's chosen table looking extremely aggravated.

Leonards gaze shifted to Emily before anyone noticed either of them had been looking and they pretended to be deep in conversation. They quickly came up with an easy topic.

"Oh yeah, I met this really nice red head. I think she said her name was Keira." Leonardo told his sister with a small smile playing on his lips. Leo could be a hell of a tease too at times, but in a different sense.

"Oh, really? What did you think of her?" Emily asked giving her response in the fake conversation and pretending to be intrigued.

"Mm, she seemed nice, like I said; I mean I would probably date her. Sure she isn't exactly the best looking chick you'll ever meet, she was pretty in her own way. I don't know, I don't really know her all that well so she could turn out to be a major bitch." He said not knowing how true that statement really was.

"Hey faggot!" The scorned ex-boyfriend growled from beside them. Keira had followed him to where they had situated themselves and now sported a meek smile and a light blush. She looked like a five year old who had just been complimented.

Leo ignored the boy and Emily helped by trying to continue the conversation. "You never know about those things 'till you try it out. Hey, do you have dad today?"

Leo took on a thoughtful look. "Um... I'm not sure. I think so."

"Hey," The guy grabbed Leo's shoulder and tried to turn him around, "faggot!"

Leonard narrowed his eyes dangerously at the boy as he turned in his seat. "I'm sorry, were you speaking to me?" He asked in a pleasant tone that was clearly forced. Leo's face remained poisonous.

"Yeah I'm talking to you, fag. Get the fuck up." Clearly this boy was not very perceptive on any level. Any other person would have immediately realized that they had just given themselves a death sentence and started trying to run at this point. Leo wouldn't actually kill the guy but most humans have a subconscious fear of a vampire's presence which turns into a conscious urge to run when said vampire becomes hostile. Keira on the other hand could feel the hostility and was slowly backing away from the area.

Leo rose from his seat, slowly pulling up to his full height of five-foot-eleven. Emily could see his hands twitching from the effort of keeping himself from taking a defence stance. She couldn't blame her brother for wanting to crouch and hiss at the boy.

Oh crap, Emily thought fearing the two worst possible outcomes of this confrontation. It was either scare the living fuck out of the entire student body or shred a boy and scare the living fuck out of the entire student body.

Emily moved to stand up but was stopped when she noticed Reid walking up behind the boy glaring daggers into his back. Reid stepped around the other guy and turned to face him. "Is there a problem, Abbot?" He sneered.

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Reid watched as Aaron stormed through the dining hall toward the new guy. As much as he hated to admit it, Leonard hadn't really done anything wrong by him. And he hated Abbot more. He was ready to dismiss the thought of going over and taunting Abbot about his girlfriend and their little spat when he noticed Emily. She looked scared.

Even though Emily had blown him off and tried to push him over he still wanted to get in with her. Reid figured that if he played nice with her brother and apologized maybe she would forgive him for making an ass out of himself.

He got up from the table, unceremoniously pushing his chair back, and headed over to Emily and Leonard. "Reid! Where the hell are you going?" Pogue called to him.

The playboy turned and walked backwards giving the other sons his signature smirk, replying simply that he was going to help. He turned back to the scene that was fast escalating. As he neared the small group he glared daggers at Abbots back. He stepped around the obnoxious boy and asked "Is there a problem, Abbot?"

"It's none of your business, Garwin." Aaron sneered back.

Reid casually raised his elbow and leaned on Leonard's shoulder. "You know, you would be absolutely right about that; except that if you start a fight in here you'd be disturbing my lunch hour, not to mention the fact that you're picking a fight with a good friend of mine." He lied assuming Leonard would play along.

Leo had no idea what was going on, but either way he didn't mind. The cocky blonde was saving them from exposure after all; not that Reid actually knew that but Leo was grateful none the less.

Aaron seemed to be weighing his options for a moment. He glanced around to see the other three sons standing at the ready just in case they were needed. He turned back to Leo and sneered "Whatever, you can have the bitch." Before turning on his heel and leaving the cafeteria.

Leo relaxed slightly. He turned to Reid and gave him a genuine smile. "Thanks man."

"No problem, Aaron's a dick." Reid said returning the smile. He hesitated a moment then offered Leo his hand. "Think of this as an apology for Friday night. I'm Reid by the way."

Leo laughed and grasped the presented limb with a firm hand. "Nice to meet you Reid, I'm Leonard. And you really don't need to apologize for the other night. It's not the first time I've been attacked over Emily."

"Really." He asked sounding intrigued. He eyed her mischievously and she winked at him in response. Oh no of course it wouldn't have been the first time. Reid could see it now that she was in a better light. Right then he realized that Emily was a colossal tease; she thrived on the attention of any male she set her sights on but would never give it up. Still that thought wouldn't stop the playboy from trying.

"Yeah, but I don't mind." Leo said. "I mean; what's a brother for if not to keep their baby sister out of trouble?" Emily chuckled at his remark. Technically Emily is the oldest of the pair; she was born twenty-six years before him. He was just turned at an older human age than her.

Reid eyed her for a moment trying to decide if she was worth his effort. She looked up at him and he could have smacked himself. Of course she's worth it you moron, she's fucking gorgeous! He thought. He turned back to Leo and asked "So what was that about anyway?" when Leo just looked confused Reid clarified "That thing with Abbot."

"Oh right. Um I'm not really sure." He lied. "That was the first time I met the guy... it might have had something to do with Keira Snider though."

"She wants you." Emily stated flatly.

"Eww." Reid commented, with a foul look. "Suck's to be you; Keira Snider's the biggest bitch at Spenser."

Leo looked vaguely surprised at that information. "Really? She seemed okay to me." He said looking around the dining hall in search of the girl in question.

"Ugh, dude – unless you want regurgitated food all over you – don't ever say that again." Reid warned. They invited Reid to sit and he accepted. He grabbed his lunch and spent the remaining part of his lunch hour sitting with them, chatting to Leonard.

Finally the lunch hour ended. Reid, Emily and Leonard left the dining hall a couple minutes beforehand because Reid wanted to walk Emily to her class, but he and Leo were too wrapped up in their conversation so they decide to all go together. They dropped Emily at the door of her class just as the bell went and then quickly headed to their Senior Numeracy class. As the two boys walked through the door Reid patted Leo on the back lightly and admitted "You're an alright guy, you know that?"

"Thanks man, you're not so bad yourself." Leo replied with that charming flashy smile that always won people over.

Despite the fact that Reid had initially intended to use Leonard to get closer to Emily, he could now easily see them becoming good mates. He led Leo to a seat up the back where he and Tyler always sat and their conversation continued.

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Leonard quickly found Reid easy to get along with. He too had noticed an odd smell about the boy but passed it off as nothing. He had hinted to Emily during lunch that he smelled something strange and she had discreetly hinted that she could smell it too so they both shrugged it off. Maybe it was just his odour. Even though they did just blow it off, the scent still gave Leo a subconscious feeling that this boy was not to be messed with.

A short time later another boy made his way up to them. He had shiny brown hair and bright blue eyes. Leo hadn't noticed the boy at first but then he smelt a similar odour to Reid's wafting from the other direction. He stiffened in his seat and looked between the two potent smelling teens. Reid greeted the boy and introduced them. "Tyler, hey man."

The boy took a seat "What the hell happened at lunch? You just left." He asked Reid sceptically.

"I was busy making friends." Reid replied leaning casually on his desk and nodding toward Leonard "Tyler, this is Leo. Leo, Tyler."

At this point they had to stop speaking as class had begun. Leo nodded to Tyler in silent greeting and Tyler returned the gestured before both boys turned their attention to the front. He already knew the reaction Nathaniel got from his students but it never ceased to amuse Leo that every girl in the room would blush, whisper, smile and wriggle around in their seats the moment the man entered the room.

He almost laughed out loud when he recalled how a few of the girls in previous schools had acted to try and Mr. Logan's attention. Once or twice a girl had cornered the man after class and thrown herself at him. Nathaniel never found it funny at all. Leo knew that if vampires could blush then Nate would be permanently red from embarrassment. Even so, Nathaniel would never quit being a teacher. Teaching was his passion and that wouldn't ever change.

Leo realised that Tyler and Reid's scent had been lingering around him from the moment he entered Spenser's halls, it just wasn't as distinguishable until they were right next to you. He caught his father's attention and hinted that he should take a good whiff of the air. Leo watched as Nate turned to the black board and took a deep breath.

Nathaniel paused for a moment then whispered "Yeah, I smell it too. We'll talk about it at home." and continued his teaching.

When Nate turned away from the blackboard he looked up at Leo. Leonard dipped his head slightly confirming that he had heard his father and they continued with their day. When the day finally ended Leo headed out to Emily's car. Reid caught him up and asked if the Logan's had any plans for the weekend. When Leo said no the blonde adamantly suggested that they host a party. Leonard told him that he'd ask but he doubted it would happen.

He walked out to Spenser's parking lot to find Emily's car surrounded by other students. As he neared the small crowd he noticed that someone close by also had a similar smell to that of Reid and Tyler; the almost intimidating smell of power. Leonard circled the crowd for a short time and managed to pinpoint the aroma. It was coming from a tall boy with longish light brown hair.

There is definitely something wrong here, he thought suspiciously as he pushed through the throng of students and climbed into the car – his eyes never leaving the boy with the long hair. The boy noticed Leo watching him and his face twisted in confusion.

"Finally, where the hell have you been? I've been sitting here with these idiots for ten minutes!" Emily scolded.

"Just drive Millie." He told her, his eyes still on the boy.

A/N: If anything in this chapter didn't make sense please ask and I will explain.