Thank you to TeamEthanMorgan for the last name help...anyway, the chapters will switch back and forth between Ethan and Sarah and Whitechapel...so this one is a Ethan/Sarah one.

"C'mon, start!" Sarah growled at the car as the engine finally roared to life after a few minutes of "coaxing". She took a few seconds to glance at Ethan in the passenger seat "How are you feeling?"

"I'm a monster aren't I?" he sighed.

"All vampires are monsters." Sarah responded.

"But I had a vision about drinking my baby sister's blood."

"It was just a vision Ethan." Sarah placed her hand on Ethan's knee in what was supposed to be a comforting.

"It wasn't just a vision, my visions predict the future."

"Visions can be misinterpreted...remember when you thought I was going to run away with Jesse because of that vision you had?"

"I don't think I can misinterpret drinking Jane's blood." Ethan growled gritting his teeth and pushing Sarah's hand off of his knee. He began to reach for the door knob "You really should reconsider coming with me."

There was a clicking noise as the door locked. "My mind is already made up. You're not doing something this stupid...alone."

A silent stare off followed which ended with Sarah putting the car into gear "I'm just as scared as you are you know."

Ethan didn't answer and Sarah had a feeling that if anything happened to her as a result of their actions he would never stop blaming himself.

For almost fifteen minutes neither of them spoke until Sarah decided that she couldn't take the silence anymore. "You know I don't really like night. It's silly because vampires have perfect eyesight at night. My point is unless you actually talk to me I could have this huge panic attack."

She could hear him shift in his seat and clear his throat "what do you want to talk about?"

"I don't know, what do you nerds talk about anyway?" Sarah briefly wondered if she'd regret suggesting a nerdy topic but her main concern was to make sure Ethan's mind wasn't on the vision which would be tricky since it was the only reason they were currently running away. It seemed to work, at least for another hour or so.

They were supposed to drive until dawn and Sarah knew that, but even vampires could suffer from a lack of sleep and by how Ethan was slumped against the window looking dead since vampires didn't breathe Sarah had a feeling he had succumbed to the urges. She knew that she was herself close to falling asleep. So, at one-thirty in the morning Sarah pulled into the parking lot of a Vancouver motel.

Getting a room was going to be tricky, of course whoever was behind the desk would have questions. That was why Sarah left Ethan sleeping in the car. He would never be able to pass as older than his human age. "I'll be back in a few minutes." she whispered stopping to give him a kiss on the forehead.

The guy behind the desk in the lobby looked bored, that is until he saw Sarah then he looked suspicious. Of course the questions came "Aren't you a little young to be..."

Time for a little white lie "I'm twenty-three."

He actually seemed to buy the lie, and it made Sarah sick when she realized that he was now looking at her very differently.

"I need a room, for two. I can pay cash." she tried to keep the conversation clipped and serious.

Five minutes later she had the key. After she had pulled the car up to the door of the motel room. "C'mon, I'm not carrying you."

"Where are we?" he was definitely dazed.

"Vancouver, at some cheap motel."

"Why?"

"Because I'm too tired to drive farther."

"I'm sorry, I should have figured that out from how tired I am...and" Ethan began feeling guilty for having expected Sarah to drive the whole night.

Sarah answered with a yawn as she unlocked "Don't beat yourself up. You had more important things to worry about." Sarah immediately growled under her breath when she saw the room. "I thought I specifically told the guy at the front desk that I needed a room for two."

"You could always go back and complain to him." Ethan suggested.

"I'd probably end up making a meal out of him."

"Why would you make a meal out of him?"

Sarah shot Ethan a glare and hissed at him.

"On second thought you can make a meal out of whoever you want to."

Sarah stepped into the room with Ethan close behind "I guess this is our temporary home until we find somewhere else...I'm changing in the bathroom."

Once she had closed the bathroom door Sarah collapsed on the floor. It wasn't the first time she had cried within the past twenty-four hours and she had a feeling it wouldn't be the last. She realized that she might never see her family or friends again. Yet she couldn't really blame Ethan, she'd been the one that hadn't wanted him to run away alone.

Outside in the room, Ethan could hear the soft sobbing coming from the bathroom. She hadn't locked the door, but he wasn't sure if she'd be angry to be barged in on and might even attack him to cover up her emotions. He took a few steps towards the bathroom door before pausing for a few seconds. That's when he decided he'd made up his mind.

Sarah looked up as the bathroom door opened. If she hadn't been so stressed and saddened she probably would have ended up either admiring the view or laughing. Ethan apparently had been so urgently concerned for her that he'd forgot to finish changing his clothes and was now shirtless. Instead she didn't even bother to try to fight him as he pulled her close to his chest in a comforting hug.

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