Disclaimer: I don't own Night World, the amazing L. J. Smith does.

Dangerous Love

Chapter 2: Secret betrayer

Alex

Alex sat on his bed, looking at a picture in his hand. The picture showed him himself and Josie looking at each other with so much love and joy in their eyes. He missed that time, and that's why he sent five of his best and most cruel men after her this afternoon, but now he saw his mistake. She would never come with somebody like them at her own free will. Alex understood that well. As expected they didn't come back with her, they came back empty-handed. Alex was angry. Not on them, but at himself. He could still remember the moment he called her, three days after he was made a vampire. It was on a Wednesday and he knew that Josie was worried. They were supposed to have met on Monday. It was her mom that answered the phone and he made his voice dark and told her he was a friend of Josie and that he needed to talk to her. A minute or so after, he heard Josie's voice. "Hello?" she said without any emotion attached to her voice. Alex was shocked and didn't say anything. After another "Hello?" from her in the same tone, he ended the conversation. He couldn't take it, hearing her voice like that. She was obvious in pain.

Now, three years later, Alex could still remember how broken and sad she had sounded. He wanted to comfort her and cuddle her, but most of all he wanted her. The best thing he could imagine this moment was to hold her, kiss her and feel her body against his… Two hard knocks on his door interrupted his fantasy before it got to rough. "Alex, are you off into your own world again?" The flirty voice to Susan Smith said. No, not said, purred, Alex corrected himself. He glanced toward the door. There she stood with her hand on her hips and a little smile on her lips. "Hi Susan," Alex said coolly. Susan laughed, pretending not to hear Alex's coldness. "Oh, Alex. My father is… a little worried about you," she said, while putting her right hand on his thigh. Alex kept his face expressionless, but grabbed her right arm and threw it away from him. "I don't understand why. Is it forbidden to get a pet now?" he said, while Susan looked questionable at him. He groaned. "Today I sent Deon and four other to get me a human. That's what this is about right? Well, I want a pet and I want it to be her." Alex smiled. Susan just kept looking at him, before she smiled herself. "Your friend is here," she finally said, got up from the bed and went to stand in the doorway. "My father told me to tell you that he wanted to talk to you after talking to her," she said and laughed as she walked out of sight. Alex sat a while on his bed with a smile tugging at his lips. She's soon mine, he thought as he went downstairs. "Hi Alex, she has arrived at the headquarter. I think it will be easy to get her to leave," said a girl with dark hair and so light blue eyes that they were almost gray. She sat at Rick's lap with a smile at her lips. "Anna, what a pleasure," Alex said. He walked to stand in front of her. "Are you sure you can get her to leave?" Anna laughed. "If I'm sure? And I thought you knew me." She gave him another smile. Alex could feel his own lips turn upwards. "Well, if that's the case then why don't we go through the details?" They smiled to each other now, both in a creepy way.

Josie

When they all were in Circle Daybreak's living room and all of them were feeling comfortable, they started talking. Fredrick coughed before starting. "Um, I don't know where to start," he said a little embarrassed. He pulled his hand through his hair. "We can start with telling you about the Night World, I guess." Josie looked curiously at him. "What's that?" she asked when he didn't go on. "It's… kind of an organization consisting of... um, I'm not really good at describing things," he said apologetic. Someone groaned beside Josie. "Let me do it," Anna said impatiently. "The Night World is an organization consisting of legendary creatures. To you that is," she added and smiled a false smile. "I am a werewolf, Fredrick over there is a witch and Nixie is his fiancée, also a witch," she went on. "There are vampires too. Lamia, which is a born vampire, can have kids and age if they want, and then we have the made vampires which can't age or have children. And your ex… or whatever he is," she laughed mockingly. "He is a made vampire. Johan over there," she nodded toward a boy with brown hair. "He is a shapeshifter. A cheetah." Then she smiled cruelly. "Go cheetah girls!" she yelled and then fell over herself in laughter. Josie just stared at her, then at Nixie, then at Fredrick and ended at Johan. Her jaw had dropped. "Anna! Go play in the traffic," Nixie said, her eyes flashing with anger. Still laughing, Anna walked out of the room and soon they heard a door slam shut. "I thought she would never leave," Fredrick said. Then he smiled shyly to Josie. "That didn't go as planned," he murmured. "Josie," Nixie said. "Are you ok?" Josie turned her head slowly toward Nixie with wide eyes. She nodded a few times before looking at the other people in the group. "Is it true?" she asked weakly. She saw them exchange looks, than all of them smiled apologetic at her. "Yeah…" Nixie said softly. Josie swallowed noisily. Then she looked at Nixie again. Her green-blue eyes were sad. Josie tried to smile at her, but noticed that her lips weren't working. "Tell me the rest," she said instead. They told her more about it. An hour or so later they said something that hurt deep into Josie's soul. "Josie, there is something you should know. It's about Alex," Fredrick said quietly. Josie looked at him steadily. "Go on," she ordered. He obeyed her. "He… he isn't very nice, now. I'm sure he was as human, but he isn't a human anymore." He paused before continuing, letting this settle into Josie's mind. "He is one of the most powerful vampires that have ever existed. And that is because he has killed. A lot. Vampires get Power through blood and killing, and that's what Alex has done, collected Power." Josie was shaking her head in denial. It took some time to convince her that this was true, and when they had managed to do that, it was very late. They made fish and chips, but Josie didn't eat any of it. She just weren't hungry. When she was in her new room, she didn't sleep. Instead she went to her window and she sat there staring out into the night…

I didn't know how to end this, but I hope it was ok that I ended it like this. I just had English exam today, but was done 11.30 AM (or something), so I went home and completed this chapter. Now I'm waiting on my friend, the plan is to go to a Tivoli. Can't wait!

Thank You for Reading! :D